The Betrayal of Daimyo Meiyoari Taki, at The Forsaken Swamp of Dai Higeki

"When the world burned the guilds called it justice. I watched the aftermath, the fear of the people. I am not a supporter of war and have always been a man of peace, it is events like these that guarantee my path away from violence." -Fang the Boundless
"Tylia has been assailed many times but through each it has survived and grown stronger, one mad-man trying to impose his God onto the people would have set a precedent that would have allowed foul cults to spring up. Sometimes death is necessary, sometimes people must be reminded that to hold a nation there are those that are willing to bear that weight. Lord Isao Takehiko was one such man and though he served the Syn Guild I know the spirit of light burnt brightly in his soul."- May he forever rest in peace an exert of Kiatt the Golden's speech on the late Iaso Takehiko.
"I watched a great man die for me, for the hope Tylia could be better. I wished he was right but mortals will break one's heart again and again and again.  Tylia owes a great debt for a good man's life." - Peacecraft as seen in conversation with The Eternal King by the Seer Shlain.
"When death comes to a place it marks it. This can lie light and open for all to see or it can be buried. A Swamp by its very nature sucks things down obscures them. I have felt the land and have had it checked. It remembers and it roils against its forgetting. Tylia is a place built on strife like all places where civilisation grasps for power. Thanks to that we need people like me in the world and that is a true tragedy." - Talon Kart in discussion to Kiss-lightly from the treaties on the scars of the world by Suzette Sarcereme 
"To answer your question, I have been to the place. It has a deep memory and an unsettled surface. I would not attempt an exorcism. I remind you that just because something is buried does not mean it is foul. Whatever the guilds did involved bloodshed but it does not mean atrocity and to proclaim it as such is a quick way to prove misunderstanding the ways the world scars. A scar is healing, it shows the people of the land have started to recover. It may remain but it just donates hurt once occurred here. It is no different to any hard fought battle. I understand Kiss-Lightly's point on the nature of new birth of the land and admit she will have a greater understanding than me on that but for scars, for wounds and for... regrettable actions I am an expert in the three. I will not call what the people did there an atrocity when events like the rape of Ferrin and the Castigation of the sea and sky exist. Look to the true monsters like the Assail and you will see wounds that will never heal." Seeker Panzill, in conversation, from the treaties on the scars of the world by Suzette Sarcereme

Summary

As written by the great scholar Tachikoma Suzuhara. The Betrayal was a 8 year schism of a rank 3 of the Sun-Touched guild. The reason was the expansion of beliefs in the Sun-Touched to include other good and positive Gods. This brought displeasure from traditionalist sources in the Sun-Touched whose Triumvirate of The Angel, The Controller and the Starforge were the right and hallowed path and the deviation from this path was to accrue a dept to the soul that could not be forgiven. There were discussions and a look to expand the God's worshiped in place but the Daimyo was revealed to have been manipulated by a siren of the Trieltan nations. In her declared execution ratified by the Syn and Goldmender Guilds. The Daimyo attacked and murdered Rank 2 of the Sun Touched Eianno Hikari. Through his progress on the expansion of belief in Tylia he razed popular support and foreign aid from the Church-State of Vilgefortz and the disparate Crusading orders of Rineholm especially among Peacecraft's worshipers. This lead to the battle of the Forsaken Swamp also remembered as the filling of the pool of souls. A combined guild force unleashed a remarkable attack on all of the apostate swamps finally dredging them of bandit, warlord and traitor alike with the Syn guild and Sun-Touched assault of the castle Dai-Higeki being the culmination of the theatre's front. This included the rightful slaying and execution of the children of the Daimyo, the immortal battle of the ideas of tradition and liberty in the battle between Lord Isao Takehiko and Gongun the Flame Mirror, the flight of the concubine Reido the black scarab and the burning of the castle before its eventual replacement with a shrine of redemption in the honour of the Guilded forces that died that day.

Historical Basis

The event is a known historical event with many who survived but little of record taken.
Daimyo Meyoari Taki was a rank 'san' in the Sun-Touched who rebelled against all the guilds of Tylia and pledged themself to Peacecraft. This brough a great schism in the ranks and the making of great names. There many events that happened but one of the most difficult events that scarred the Tylian psyche but proved the battle to immortalise the rivalry between Lord Isao Takehiko the stoic and honourable monk protecting Tylian Heritage and Gongun the Flame Mirror the great distortion of Tylian honour and the path they follow. All recordings are light on actual tangible recordings such as casualties more speaking of the spiritual effect it has had on the Great Nation of Tylia. 
There were a number of supressed sources that suggest less than savoury methods employed by the guilds and the brutal chaos of the battle with all survivors being either cowards, murderers or the forgotten. This is not an official history supported by any survivors of the event and many have stated it as disgusting to use the tragedy of the times to build resentment against Tylia and it's cultural honour. However it said Fang the boundless, the keeper of forgotten pasts supports this more brutal and dishonoured set of events.

Spread

The legend has grown but is still small and nationalised due to it happening in the recent past, however with the passing of the bastion of tradition Isao Takehiko it is likely to grow greater and greater especially with the great man's death facing the enemies of Tylian Hegemony once more.

Cultural Reception

The battle is a bitter memory and the people of those swamps remember the pains and perceived abuses they were put through. The Swamps remain a hotbed of dissatisfaction and Guildless activity. It is also said that it is one of the events that lead to the founding of the current modern Guildless movement.

In Literature

There are only a few books around the subject: The Pool of Souls by Kazani Imai, The Swamp of Souls by Heriko Uzina and the most famous historical record by Tachikoma Suzuhara. Poetry of the event has been taken much further and is a specialist point of survivor of the even and renowned warrior poet of the Sun-Touched, Sanna Sunshei the Light of the Stars.

In Art

Only one piece of painted form was created of the event by then silkweaver master Mitsuru Deidana before her suicide at it's completion labelling it as a cursed and taboo subject. This piece is held by the Silkweaver guild in a place where no eyes will suffer its sight.

Date of First Recording

6625

Date of Setting

6620