Before the founding of Shudan and the Hotskuai
Xue Luoyang is banished from the Jade Empire and travels south of the Redwind, where he spends two decades unifying cities and towns into a single kingdom. Other wizards continue to flee the Jade Empire to join his effort.
Years during the primary reign of the Hotsukai
Xue Luoyang declares himself Hotsukai.
In the year H89 Hai Masterbrooke commissions the construction of a tower where he could work in isolation, further inland from the lake, up the Hogawa River. In the year that follows a very small village forms between the construction project and the river. Construction is not finished until H97, during which time the small village grows into a settlement called Dokage.
Hai Masterbrooke leaves control of Sukorak to Horbrar Vusk.
Horbrar Vusk leaves control of Sukorak to Nalen Highvale.
Nalen Highvale leaves control of Sukorak to Glan Nightshade.
Senno, the god of war, seeking to increase followers by introducing more conflict across the land, tricks and imprisons Manna, goddess of magic. Without Manna to stabilize mana throughout the material plane, it began to collect unevenly. In places with an excess of mana, magic became dangerously unstable and explosively overpowered. In other places magic was weakened or impossible to use entirely.
The years immediately following The Break.
Immediately following The Break almost all attention within Shudan turns towards rectifying the mana instability. In B2 magic becomes increasingly unreliable and the Hotsukai loses the ability to lead with shear power. This causes a loss of confidence and respect in the position. Conflicts become increasingly common. In the years that follow cultural respect for magic fades throughout Shudan. In B6 revolts erupt. The Hotsukai is attacked and in defending himself his unstable magic destroys a small portion of Zonyashi. Magic users are becoming pariahs in many places. In B7 internal revolts continue, and skirmishes with the yokai to the east begin erupting in earnest. By B9 there is an official eastern warfront.
The Hotsukai, seeking to end the conflict with the yokai, attempts to set up a magical barrier between the two kingdoms by bolstering his power with an unprecedented pocket of dense mana. In an uncontrolled chain reaction a tear in the material plane destroys most of the troops on either side of the border and creates a large pocket of lifelessness that would come to be called the Fade. The Hotsukai himself is also destroyed. A small group of elite Shudan warriors led by the barbarian Ono is cut off behind enemy lines on the eastern side of The Fade.
The Mahoryo are officially disbanded. Non magical military takes over the Zonyashi. Small armies of yokai begin to enter Shudan via Mirin’s Pass north of The Fade. At first they are able to quickly cut through Shudan, taking over small villages and cities which lack central leadership and communication since the death of the Hotsukai.
Ono and his soldiers enter Shudan from Mirin’s Pass and begin freeing settlements which remained under yokai control. The yokai soldiers still fighting farther west are quickly defeated, no longer able to sustain their campaign without supplies or reinforcements from the east. Ono is given the name Eastwind to symbolize his ride from the east to defeat the invaders. After attention turns away from defending Shudan, high ranking military and noble families begin to squabble about leadership of the country.
Years during the primary reign of the Shudan Sogunate.
Ono assumes leadership in Zonyashi and eventually all of Shudan, founding the Shogunate of Shudan.
Glan Nightshade dies somewhere around the age of 80. It's not certain because no one was around to document it. The village of Dokage is not growing like it used to, but it does survive. Sukorak stands vacant.
Kansa brings a small group of warriors to the east via Mirin's Pass to meet with a group of likeminded yokai.
Ono Eastwind dies and there is debate and internal conflcit for two months about who will replace him.
Kansa leads a raid on the Divine Realm and frees Manna from Coldreach Bastion, stabilizing mana again, and at least partially redeeming Shudan in the eyes of the yokai. In parts of the country magic is still respected culturally, but it will never be what it once was.
Kansa returns from the east. She is hailed as the new Eastwind and becomes the second shogun of Shudan.
Kansa establishes a military outpost/embassy/trading center just part the northern tip of The Fade near Mirin's Pass to help encourage rebuilding relations with the Mori yokai.
Kansa begins dealing with increased raiding from the Pannoowan in the west. In the coming years, an officer named Kanagi Remingale is very successful in forming peaceful relationships with Pannoowan tribes in the area and de-escalating raids and violence.
Kansa steps down as shogun and names Kanagi Remingale as her replacement. Kansa mentors Kanagi for the next couple of years.
Kansa dies, willing Manastorm to Ota Amari, the High Shield of Nanganato. Kanagi keeps the prominent Remingale family name and adopts the title of Eastwind instead, becoming known as Kanagi Remingale the Eastwind. Kanagi appoints his older sister Yanoko the new daimyo of the west.
Hokuya is abandoned as Shudan learns that The Fade is expanding. Kanagi appoints his younger cousin Kurisu as the new daimyo of the east.
Hidehira Atsutane is appointed as the regent in charge of Nanganato. In the following years he oversees construction of guest housing run by the Order of Hiega and small embassies in Nanganato.
After three years of declining health, Kanagi dies at the age of 72.
Keikan Remingale, first born of Kanagi Remingale, who has been slowly taking over his father's resonsibilities for the past three years during Kanagi's declining health, is officially appointed as the 3rd shogun. He adopts the title of Keikan Remingale of the Eastwind.
By S115 it is not uncommon to find former Pannoowan tribe members living in most western settlements and all major cities throughout Shudan.
Lorcam Sunstrike, the most powerful wizard to appear in Shudan for over a century, enters the abandoned Sukorak. He creates the title of Inferno for the master of the tower and claims the title for himself. In the years that follow powerful wizards from all over Shudan travel to Sukorak to train under Sunstrike, who sees them more as followers than as students. He gives them tasks and sends them on errands more than he instructrs. One such wizard is Virth Whiteblaze, who is a smith by hobby and has a special talent for crafting magical items. He becomes a favorite of Sunstrike. By S199 Whiteblaze takes over the role of instructor to the other wizards in Sukorak, including a young Silia Lai (age 14). Never in the past or future is the tower occupied to the capacity that it is now, with young students and older followers of Sunstrike.
By S200 the Fade has expanded far enough to make Mirin's Pass impassable.
Lorcam Sunstrike dies at the age of 99. Virth Whiteblaze becomes the 2nd Inferno of Sukorak.
Virth Whiteblaze dies at the age of 89, leaving control of the tower to Silia Lai who becomes the 3rd Inferno of Sukorak.
Assassins ambush Mitsui Atsutane outside of Shimaho while he is escorting his great-grandchildren Yoshi, Yazzi, and Amisaki. Yoshi and Yazzi are killed. Mitsui dies in order to save Amisaki, who becomes the sole survivor of the incident. There is debate as to whether the target of the assassins was Mitsui himself, or the children who were in line to take over the head branch of the clan. Some pointed fingers at the disgruntled Yukiko Atsutane and her ambitious daughter Yokono Atsutane, but no evidence was ever discovered.
Seemingly overnight, undead fiends began pouring out of the Redwind Mountains quickly overtaking Sanwen and converting most of the population into more undead which began to spread throughout Hiro-On. Many powerful wizards gave their lives to slow the invasion until reinforcements from the Order of Hiega arrived from Nanganato and Zonyashi. Osai Highshield eventually led the forces which erradicated the undead scourge before it chould spread further into Shudan. (Additional Information)
Workers responsible for the ongoing renovations of the Crown Hall in Ganeshuku were using a pair of the Lifeforged to move heavy material on the roof of the building when an accident sent the two crashing down to the street below. Neither were destroyed, but both were severely damaged. Although their creator, Soshu Lifeforger, had assured the Atsutane Clan that Lifeforged were more stable than primitive golems, this pair proceded to go berserk and start attacking anyone nearby. Other Lifeforged jumped in to quell the chaos, but after taking sufficient damage they proceeded to go berserk as well. By the time the South Guard were able to put a stop to them, nearly a dozen lives had been lost, dozens more had been injured, and immeasurable damage had been done to all of the buildings in the vicinity. City officials decided to round up the remaining Lifeforged and retire them permanently, but a small handfull seemed to have disappeared in the aftermath. Soshu himself was also nowhere to be found.
In the earliest hours of the morning the Order of the Seeking Fox and other guests of the White Moon were attacked by several fiendish hounds and a more powerful flying creature. The Seeking Fox defeated the hounds, though more than a dozen others in the inn died in the process. Everyone was forced to flee from the flying creature, which was eventually banished back to the Infernal Realm by the Crimson Dawn. In the late hours of the evening, Naoki Naoko incited a riot outside of the Temple of the Dark Goddess which led to the death of several of those in attendance while the temple itself was burned to the ground.
Near the conclusion of the first night of the Festival of Manna, a series of portals were opened in the outskirts of Nanganato. Creatures from the portals entered the city and attacked festival goers. Many were killed and many more were injured. In the aftermath of the event, a handful of people were missing and presumed to have been abducted during the attack. All of these people were known magic users.
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