Bayushi was one of the ten Kami who fell to the Mortal Realm from the Celestial Heavens and founded the Empire of Rokugan, the twin brother of the Kami Shiba, and the founder of the oft-maligned Scorpion Clan. When Bayushi thought that he had lost his lover Shosuro forever, he bound his spirit into the Sleeping Lake beneath the Bayushi family palace, there to wait until he might be with her once more.