The Way of the Phoenix

The Way of the Phoenix was the first source book for the Phoenix Clan in the Legend of the Five Rings roleplaying game and the seventh in the Way of the Clan series. The supplement supports the first edition roleplaying game. It was published in 1998.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Mystic Phoenix (page 8)

• The Journals of Ide Amu
• Letter from Hiruma Toju
• Observations of Agasha Tamori

Chapter 2: The Histories of the Phoenix (page 20)

• The Jade Champion
• Isawa family
  • History
  • The Kami on His Knees
  • Gisei Toshi
  • Defenders of the Realm
  • Isawa Traditionalism
• The Isawa Shugenja
  • The Role of Shugenja
  • Shugenja and War
  • Maho
    • The Dark Way
    • The Magic of the Nameless Ones
    • Roleplaying a Maho-tsukai
• The Council of Five
  • Position of the Council
  • Isawa Dairya
  • The Isawa Masters
• Festivals
• The Isawa Libraries
• The Worship of the Fortunes
  • The Nature of the Kami
• Ancestor Worship
  • Beliefs
  • Mythology
  • The Gods of the Underworld
  • The Religion
  • The Bushi
  • The Peasants
  • The Ancestors Shrine
• The Shiba family
  • History
    • The Phoenix Dream
    • Shiba's Death
  • The Shiba Bushi
  • Shiba's Wife, Tsamaru
  • The Champion
• Shiba and Fu Leng
• Prominent Phoenix Battles
  • The Battle of Sleeping River
  • The Five Nights of Shame
  • Battle of the Broken Daisho
  • Battle at Fate Gorge
  • Battle of the Sun Princess
• Path of Man
• The Asako family
  • Asako's Life
  • The Great Secret
  • The New Way
  • The Asako Today
  • The Mysteries of the Asako
  • The Asako Secret