Legend of the Five Rings is full of high action and adventure, set in a mythical Eastern world. The Crane continues the epic story begun in The Scorpion. This series of novels chronicles the ongoing Clan War, a story told through the Legend of the Five Rings trading card game, as well as these popular books. The Crane Clan champion has everything a young samurai could want-power, riches, glory, and honor-until he seeks an audience with the Scorpion empress, as beautiful as she is deadly. Though a master of courtly politics, he loses everything.