Tale of the Holy Crow
This tale was told to Maxim by Shōtei, Gichō of the Rokkaku.
According to the Buddha-touched Monk's account, she met a man from Albion when she was a young girl playing on the coast near Ōmi Province's border. She described him as incredibly vast, as large as the sea, but gentle. Each unable to speak the other's language, they communicated with drawings in the sand and mud. From these, she gathered that his name was something like "Holy Crow," and that he was merely passing by Japan on his way somewhere else.
Such a fantastical description reminded Maxim of the myths he'd heard as a child of Cewri. These ancient giants had carved out the beginnings of civilization upon the Island of Albion before the first human foot had ever stepped upon its soil. They were largely unknown in the present era, although there was a legend about a Cewri head buried beneath Camelot, pointed across the sea to ward off the French.
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