The Empire’s Glory MegaGame includes the following Events:
- Winter Court: Kyuden Gotei
- The 2010 Kotei MegaGame (Plague War)
- The Events of the After-Kotei Season (July 2010 to Topaz Championships in January 2011)

Over the course of the MegaGame, the Clans of Rokugan and the Empire itself have the opportunity to earn Honor and Glory points through a wide array of events in order to cure the Plague that affects the land and fend off the armies of Kali-Ma.

Glory Points are earned through Tournament play, barring rare exceptions.
Honor Points are earned through Winter Court, the Kotei MegaGame, and the various events that will happen in the after Kotei season (an annoucement will be forthcoming regarding those).

Discuss the announcement of the Points targets in our Forums

The Kotei Season is going to be simulated through a Map of Rokugan that will feature all the Icons that will help you, the players, understand and face the Threats laid forth Rokugan. If you have any questions pertaining to the elements presented below, check our Forums and we’ll answer them.

The Map:
The Map has 69 provinces, each having a code name associated to them. Provinces marked as P1 etc… are called Other Provinces. Provinces not marked as P1 etc… are called Home Provinces. Each Clan in the Game has 3 Home Provinces, which use the usual nomenclature for the Clans (CB for Crab, CN for Crane, DG for Dragon, LN for Lion, MN for Mantis, PX for Phoenix, SC for Scorpion, SP for Spider and UN for Unicorn).

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The machinations of the Spider against the Destroyers are laid bare as their lord and master confronts his opposite number among the ranks of Kali-Ma’s forces.

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Rokugan is facing its first Empire-wide threat since the Divine Empress took the throne. In the south, strange four-armed beings known as the Destroyers have joined with familiar Shadowlands threats to tear down the Great Wall of Kaiu and pour into the breach. The Army of Dark Fire continues to harass the northern clans, bringing deadly new tactics after its previous failure to reach Toshi Ranbo. All over the Empire, tainted air carries the plague, creating mindless zombies who carry the disease to new victims. Already, whole provinces have been put to the torch in an effort to combat the plague, with the loss of the entire Horiuchi family one of the first casualties. At the heart of all of this, Kali-Ma stretches her arms to blot out the Empire.

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The official Kotei 2010 page is now live, and will grow over the next weeks to contain all you need to know about the 2010 Kotei season, including how you will participate in one of the perilous times in the Empire. The Kotei season will have major impact on the new mega-game, the overview of which is in the latest Imperial Herald, in transit to Assembly members right now!

Each Kotei season brings new excitement and new challenges for the L5R Team. Play groups and Tournament Organizers come and go and every year the Kotei map changes. In the past we have let those changes happen. If we had a hole in the map, because an area lacked an application, we let it go hoping someone would fill it the next year. This year, we are taking a much more active role. While we are excited about the larger than usual number of applications we recieved and applications in new areas we have never before covered, we are concerned about the following four areas that we have not recieved acceptable applications from.

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The 2010 application for Kotei Tournaments is now available for download. All interested Tournament Organizers and teams are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible. The deadline for applications is October 26, 2009. All other pertinent dates and information are within the application. We look forward to an exciting Kotei season during the 15th Anniversary of Legend of the Five Rings! Submit applications directly to Mike Colson: mcolson@alderac.com.