With the fall of the hojo shogunate at the hands of the Mongols, A vicious reprisal was lead against the hojo dynasty leading to the massacre of every last man, woman and child, along with the burning to the ground of Izu city. The clan was believed to be wiped out. However a single survivor of the genocide against the hojo lived, Hojo Ikue was visiting her mother's family in southern Izu and was able to disguise herself as a simple peasant. Hojo Ikue spent 7 years in hiding under a false name during which time she fell in love with a humble family retainer more skilled with the hammer than the sword bearing him 3 sons Daishin, Fuyuki and Hidemasa and a daughter Michiko. In the 7th year of her exile among the peasants she was recognised by one of her father's forma retainers whilst he was living of the land trying to disrupt the efforts of the Mongols to assert dominance over Izu province. Upon seeing that there was still a legitimate hojo dynasty still remaining even if it was a remnant of its former glory. Using Hojo Ikue as a figure head he gathered what few hojo retainers were left and encamped with them in the ruins of Izu city leading guerrilla raids against the occupying Mongolians. It is said that the ancestors of the Hojo marched to war alongside their descendants, the warriors faces as white as their funeral ashes. This lead to a demoralising effect running through the occupying forces.
When the time came for a more organised insurrection against the Mongols hojo Daishin marched an army through the Izu City, the warriors of the Hojo supplementing their numbers with new blood, their faces still dirty from the roads and fields they once wandered.
family tree Hojo Ikue age 40 married hojo ichigo age 42
sons
Daishin age 23, Fuyuki age 18 and Hidemasa age 17
daughter
Michiko age 20
Soo lets see, I have Goku, Itachi Uchiha, Neji Hyuga, Mance Rayder with the genius of cesar, captn bluebear, rumo, arberius verginix, whitebeard, Mr crocodile, the seguleh, tehol beddict, silchas ruin, cohen the barbarian, the librarian, Julius root, Randall Flagg, tanea, kogoro mori, satoru nakata and if course the crew of the black lagoon.
Japan is so fucked.
Soo lets see, I have Goku, Itachi 'Only Good One' Uchiha, Neji Hyuga, Mance Rayder with the genius of cesar, captn bluebear, rumo, arberius verginix, whitebeard, Mr crocodile, the seguleh, tehol beddict, silchas ruin, cohen the barbarian, the librarian, Julius root, Randall Flagg, tanea, kogoro mori, satoru nakata and if course the crew of the black lagoon.
Japan is so fucked.
Don't diss Madara.
He was such a fun villain to root for to wipe all the unlikable protagonists out.even though I was reading naruto without illusion by that point I still managed to get angry when they killed his entire character
Don't diss Madara.
He was such a fun villain to root for to wipe all the unlikable protagonists out.even though I was reading naruto without illusion by that point I still managed to get angry when they killed his entire character
I will agree on that. Madara was one of the good ones. He wanted to make his version of world peace, through putting everyone in an endless illusion. Better then Obito 'Start a Genocide and other stuff so I can see a girl who never say me anything more then a friend' Kaguya 'God-Complex strikes again', Nagato 'God-Complex plus a really stupid plan'
Danzo was a good villain as he shows how not even Konoha is always good, and Orochimaru cause he was the no moral scientist. I hated that they redeemed him. You don't forgive a man who experimented on children! Or forgive someone who did genocide for a really stupid reason!
After trawling through Wikipedia to try and understand how pre-1947 Japanese marriage and succession laws work, I have come to the conclusion that they don't.
I would like to ask if I can simplify things via Monghol Ex Machina. You know, you're the Khagan, you massacre all the cadet branches because nope, don't need any pretenders to my puppet's throne running away to join the Shogun, you marry the puppet to a nice Monghol girl because you have to provide for your youngest, ugliest daughters too, and there's that Gordian knot done and dusted and there's me free to focus on being the Phantom of the Opera and feeding people to the hounds instead of trying to figure out if the claim of a son by an aunt-cousin wife trumps a son by a half-sister wife and other questions that only come up in the Japanese Imperial Family or certain ASOIAF fanfics.
@Wade Garrett you care correct on that. I actually was going to suggest some of the clans that historically have married into the imperial family, but are not cadet branches, and sometimes have been clans which have foreign origins.
Actually, after some consultation with a kind soul who possesses mercy and patience like unto that of God, for it surpasseth all understanding ( @Mina ) I think I have my head wrapped around this Emperor-ness thing, at least enough to get to get by on until when/if I hard crash the "Today the Shogun announced Emperor Kiguri will be retiring to a quiet monastery in the country to meditate on Zen, his fourth cousin twice removed Bob was crowned Emperor in a very nice ceremony, after which he made a speech by reading off the cue cards the Shogun held up" fail state.
Actually, after some consultation with a kind soul who possesses mercy and patience like unto that of God, for it surpasseth all understanding ( @Mina ) I think I have my head wrapped around this Emperor-ness thing, at least enough to get to get by on until when/if I hard crash the "Today the Shogun announced Emperor Kiguri will be retiring to a quiet monastery in the country to meditate on Zen, his fourth cousin twice removed Bob was crowned Emperor in a very nice ceremony, after which he made a speech by reading off the cue cards the Shogun held up" fail state.
If that happens, it's because you numbskulls weren't man enough to take the Shogun down even though he promised to fight shirtless and on his own against all the baddest, rudest dudes you can muster. :lol
If that happens, it's because you numbskulls weren't man enough to take the Shogun down even though he promised to fight shirtless and on his own against all the baddest, rudest dudes you can muster. :lol
Here are my suggestions for npc's that would be within the territory I control, or in southern Honshu. The Kin, O, and So clans. I was also going to include the Maki, Hine and Watanabe clans as historical nobles that would have been resettled by the Mongles in the region.
The Domain of the Genji no Kuranokaze - Gifuayuchi
1612
Current Ruler: Genji no Kuranokaze Ayeka, the " Dark Wind" of the Domain of Gifuayuchi
(29 years)
Expected Heir: Either her niece Genji no Ryokou or her nephew Genji no Ryutaro, twin children of her deceased sister Keiko and the martyred Daimyo of Mikawa province Hojo Ryoma (8 years)
Type of Government: Feudal Clanbased Charismatic Mllitary Authority, acting in the name of the 'rightful govermen'
Capital :The new Castle town of Kazenoshiro (near the old Capital of Owari) /the new city of Gifu.
When the Genpei war was lost, the most puzzling secret of all was: where was Tomoe Gozen, the Onna-Bugeisha, the most famous female warrior in Japan, now that her Lord was dead ?
Most assumed she either had followed her master into death or taken religious orders -there was a nun in a certain temple....
In fact, none of this happened. It might have been planned, true, but one thing stopped it from happening.
The LadynTomoe was pregnant with Twins.
Descendants of hernlord.
Her last obligation.
So she went into the high mountains, had their children in a deep Mountain village often plagued by bandits and worse... before she came.
Her children married minor samurai noblillity of the region while the Lady Tomoe remained in her mountain sanctuary and wrote a manual of Bugei she simply called 'the sword." She trained three generations of her descendants and died at the incredible age of 102 in the year of 1254 westren count.... leaving a small teadition and her scrolls.
THEN CAME THE MONGOLS.
The descendans of Tomoe fought them. First surrepiteouslty, then openly 8n revolt as well and as good as they could.
But eventually, only two young girls and an old retainer were left of them, fleeing deeper and deeper in to the mountains after an futile tax revolt against mongol overlords... where our story would have ended.. were it not for a mysterious hermit called Karasu-sensei who found them and led them back to the secret refuge of her ancestress, where the old hermit trained the younger , more tomboyish Ayeka the secrets hidden in the scroll.
With the Mongol rule weakening, the traditional restraints on women (which never were that strong as later sources claimed) doing the same the young warrior managed to gain a following that grew and grew...
'Restore order, drive out the tyrants, bring justice and peace!" Were the demands of Shiro, Akemi , Aoi... and Kuranokaze, the 'Four Wind Generals'
(The former Miko Toki Reiko, mistress of the bow ; A Naginata wielding former yojimbo called Ginako and the wandering Koga Ninja Jiyubei... and Ayeka herself)
They took their part in the liberation, they fought for gates , then roadblock and then... castles...
And now, more inadvertently than by design, as the dust clears and the national uprising turns into a Go game with provinces as fields and castles and armies as pie es, the Four Wind Generals are pressed with the dilemma who to support and why in the absence of bandits and mongols....
Territory: The province Owari, large parts of Mino and Mikawa province