The series consists of five books which span the life of the hero, Takeo, who is born into a reviled sect known as the Hidden. He also carries in his blood an inheritance from the Tribe, a group of families of spies and assassins who still possess supernatural powers (far-seeing, far-hearing, speed of movement, invisibility) and from the Otori clan into which he is eventually adopted by its dispossessed leader, Otori Shigeru. | The series consists of five books which span the life of the hero, Takeo, who is born into a reviled sect known as the Hidden. He also carries in his blood an inheritance from the Tribe, a group of families of spies and assassins who still possess supernatural powers (far-seeing, far-hearing, speed of movement, invisibility) and from the Otori clan into which he is eventually adopted by its dispossessed leader, Otori Shigeru. |