[Hermes]

okay. Kami banished one of em that went evil. They thought he as destroyed forever, but he came back. A bunch of them fought him, etc. The kami were eventually all killed in their mortal form some way or another, but had by then created family lines, and had clans around them. The Mantis came about because of the Thunder Dragon, but he actually gave up his divinity to a man, because the guy was that freaking awesome. Daigotsu, the celestial and father of the Spider clan, is not a kami, just a man who ascended in power so much he became equal to the Kami.

Then Kali Ma happened, the destroyer, she came and tried to kill everyone, almost succeeded, was pushed back. Also the Khan betrayed the clans, so the Unicorn are not very trusted. At the end of it, they found that the portal through which many were coming from was in Scorpion territory, and so the Scorpion and the Crab worked together to build a wall around it and seal it off from the rest of Rokugan.

There's a bunch of really awesome, detailed story that is missing from that but yeah.

okay.

Now just read the clan rundowns.