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History Of The Shogunate
The Years Of Stone: Foundation Of The Shogunate
- 9 Years Before Shogunate: During the Calibration Feast held by the Solar Exalted, the Terrestrial Exalted rose up against their cruel overlords. In the first night, the bulk of the Solar Exalted were killed, along with many of their Lunar minions, and the great war against the Solars began. The Terrestrials begin their spread of righteousness, spreading out to destroy the remaining mighty Anathema, along with those minions of theirs that remained loyal. For the next several years, the Terrestrials were forced to work together against these enemies without giving more than the minimum amount of thought to what would come next.
- Year Of The Mospid, Bronze Era Of The First Era Of The Dragon-Blooded Shogunate (Year 1): With most of the remaining Solars dead, the generals of the Terrestrial Exalted met to determine the direction that Creation would take. After three weeks of deliberation, the Shogunate was born. Shogun Takezo, an eldery Exalt of the Fire Aspect, was chosen to be the first of the Shoguns, and the other generals were appointed daimyos of the newly-designed provinces of the Shogunate.
- Year Of The Cat, Bronze Era Of The First Epoch Of The Dragon-Blooded Shogunate (Year 9): After a brutal war that stretched across the island of Okeanos, the last of the Solar Anathema menacing Creation was destroyed. Although the Wyld Hunt continued to ride against newly birthed Solars, and the occasional Lunar who was birthed within the bounds of Creation, the attention of the Dragon-Blooded turned to administration, reconstruction, and fighting back creatures who had taken advantage of the Exalted's distractions to gain footholds in Creation.
The Years Of Righteous Jade: The Takezo Dynasty
The Takezo Dynasty lasted for three hundred and twenty-three years, and covered the rule of three Shoguns. Nuriada Takezo, the first Shogun, took the throne at the age of two-hundred and thirty-one, and ruled for a hundred and ten years. It was under his rule that the Five Military Divisions and the Five Efficient Ministries were developed, and he worked ceaselessly to help the Dragon-Blooded step up into the roles formerly held by their Anathema ex-masters. Unfortunately, the time was also marked by terrible storms, natural disasters, and poor integration with the gods. The Terrestrials attempted to force compliance, but the gods had spent centuries under the dominion of the Solars, and having been so recently freed, they refused another yoke, even one so critical.
Nuriada Takezo was replaced by Takezo Shion, a Water Aspect of just under two hundred years of age. Shion ruled for ninety-six years, during which time she helped encourage communication and interaction between ministries, presided over the re-integration of the relic races into the fabric of the Shogunate, and focused on expansion into the edges of the world. It was the only time of expansion during the Shogunate to date, and is thus well-remembered. Finally, after her death from natural causes, Shion was replaced by Takezo Shumasi, the final Shogun of the line. Shumasi was a more idolent and easy-going lord than his predecessors, and the one hundred and seventeen years of his rule were marked by the ever-growing power of the daimyos, which he did not see fit to check, and by his constantly shifting marriages; Shumasi had seventeen wives over the course of his rule, who between them bore him thirty-one children - twenty-two of whom Exalted.
The Years Of Weeping Blood: The Shattered Dynasties
Upon Shumasi's death, three of his children asserted that their claim on the throne was the superior one, and the daimyos could not agree on which had the stronger claim. Their disagreement turned to fighting, and by the year's end, the world was at war.
What followed became known as the Years of Weeping Blood. Over of the next three hundred and eleven years, no fewer than eighteen shoguns took the throne, each ruling for an average of nine years before being overthrown, killed, or forced into abdication. The longest spate of peace lasted for twenty-two years, but ended with the assasination of the reigning Shogun by poison. Indeed, for over half of the period, there were no shoguns at all. Daimyos warred against one another, vying to gain power at the expense of one another, and were courted by would-be Shoguns who offered them ever-greater power in
The Years Of Crystal Fragments: The Jukari Dynasty
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