The Shogun of the Land of Iron had been summoned by some of the guardians of the land that he had sworn to protect. They were members of the temple who had been sworn to protect the ancient scrolls of their people, and had come with good news. While it had taken them a year, they had finally managed to recreate the scrolls of the ancient techniques of their people, and Kensai was quite happy to hear these words. He would be led deep into a temple that existed beneath one of the largest mountains in the area, the young Shogun unashamedly shocked and impressed by what he was seeing. He knew full well that the people here were resourceful, as he had seen time and time again, but this was such a breathtaking thing to behold that he had trouble containing his excitement as he wound through the hallways.
He would eventually arrive at a stone table that housed several scrolls, the guardians standing outside as they allowed Kensai to approach this by himself. He would carefully roll out each technique, not wanting to potentially damage anything because these were truly relics of the land. He would look each of them over, reading the movements carefully as he didn’t want to miss anything, and he would look towards the doorway. Nobody was watching him, and there was plenty of space in this room, which would lead the Shogun of the Iron Country to do something he really shouldn’t have done...he would draw his Katana and begin to practice the movements of each technique. As he did this, he would take time to reflect on each, thinking on what made them truly special to the Land of Iron and its people. This reflection was something that he believed was necessary in order to truly be able to properly respect each technique...
The first technique he would examine was Rupture, a technique that seemed simple on the surface, but was slightly more than he would have expected. It was a quick and aggressive slash, something that wasn’t necessarily something Kensai would often think to use as he tended towards a less aggressive style of strikes, but when he went through the motions of the technique, and thought on its applications he could feel how it would be used in order to enhance another technique, such as one of the others he had looked at in the scrolls. The speed that someone could get behind this strike was certainly impressive. He would log the way that he would use this away into his brain so that he would never forget the usefulness of this seemingly simple technique, much like many others he had learned over the years.
The true use for Rupture became apparent when he had read over the technique scroll for the attack known as Flash, which would have the user focus his ki into his blade and perform a slash attack, unleashing a wave of ki forward after the attack. This in conjunction with the fast and aggressive slash of Rupture would be able to get a tremendously quick projectile slash off, and it was something that Kensai could see being tremendously useful in many situations for a weapon style that was clearly used for close combat situations. He refused to perform the technique properly inside of the shrine, deciding to simply practice flowing his Ki in the way he was supposed to and working on figuring out the combat applications to such an impressive technique, which of course were abundant. Flash was going to be a revolutionary move that would certainly allow him to more efficiently guard his village and country.
The third technique was referred to as the Sabre Technique, and what it did was you would channel your Ki along the blade once again, extending it by an extra two meters in order to give you a reach advantage and a potential surprise attack to people who wouldn’t be expecting it. He could feel that it wasn’t the quickest attack, but at the same time the worth of the technique couldn’t be denied. It was an impressive way to quickly dispatch of an opponent who was just out of reach. Kensai could think of several times this would have made removing enemies a quicker task. He did like the personal up close touch of a blade of course, but when it came down to it, prescious second could mean the difference between life and death, and he knew full well that middle range wasn’t his strongest point.
Dancing Blade Risk was a dash strike, again fantastically paired with something like Rupture. It was a simple technique but one that had the distinct advantage that it could easily close a gap so that Kensai would get out of that pesky middle range and back to where he needed to be to finish a fight. It was his last step before the true gems of the Iron Village, which was the fighting style of Iaido, and the Beheading strike. Iaido was the art of the draw, killing an enemy as quickly and efficiently as possible right from the beginning of a fight, and the main cut had become something that the world had come to know as Iai Beheading, a move that when executed perfectly was completely lethal every time. This was what the people feared about the samurai, and this was what the people from the hidden mist had come to steal. This, of course, and Kurusawa, the greatest relic of the country...
Having mastered all there was to learn here, Kensai would bow respectfully to the scrolls and the guardians, leaving this place and getting back to rebuilding the village. The village of Tetsumura had gone through a fantastic growth over the past several years, and its leader had some much of the same. Long gone was the young man who had once been there, freshly jaded towards the ways of the shinobi in his exposure to one of the sites of their “great triumphs” where they had burned the iron nation to the ground. The lands of the Samurai were likely to never truly recover from this, their crops being completely worthless, and many of their natural resources having to start from scratch. Many were dead or wounded, and the stories that Kensai had been told from so many of the survivors were truly sickening to his stomach to believe that humans could commit such atrocities against one another, the cherry on the top being that they send their children to fight their wars for them. The Iron Shogon had resolved to never allow any of these things to happen again, and thus started the three year rebuild of what would eventually become the city of Tetsumura.
The first several months of Kensai’s rule were spent trying to help rebuild the village, using the money that he had been given for the rebuild as efficiently as possible, and spending at least twelve hours a day cleaning and building himself. He had barred entry into the country to any who weren’t a samurai as he focused on his own people. Even during his rebuild, the shinobi warred among themselves, and Kensai grew more and more bitter with the murder hungry bastards. The time no spent building and not spent sleeping had Kensai training, both himself and others, to become a stellar warrior. He had taught himself the hidden techniques of the Samurai, quickly mastering each in turn by travelling to the shrine that housed them and meditating on their meaning before learning the motions and the deep seeded techniques. He would become a shining example of what it was to be Samurai, and he would rally his people so that they could become strong again and fight back against their oppressors. The shinobi would be brought justice, they would be given hellfire and brimstone from the far west, and they would quickly learn the folly of their ways. The Land of Iron would rain death and destruction down upon the shinobi, and when they begged for the swift release of death, the Iron would deliver it swiftly.
Under his guidance the village would be rebuilt, and not just that but it would begin to thrive. Before being burnt down, there had never been a massive settlement where all of the Samurai would stay, but he would set out, once the building was mostly completed, to unify all of the land and bring all of the Samurai under the banner of the Shogun. This was a difficult thing at first, but with the assistance of the leaders of the Hinode and the Fisei, he had a bit more of a case to bring to the other leaders of the Samurai clans. There was an air of distrust around the Shogun, especially with his dealings with The Society, but that would be broken down when the work he had done was brought up and when he would duel them, leading to showing that he truly was a master of the way of Bushido and that he was worthy of his position. The clans would join one by one, and Tetsumura would continue to grow at a rapid pace because of this, bringing in Samurai and civilians from around the lands to bolster their numbers.
The growth of Tetsumura was truly amazing as Kensai watched the busy streets of the large city, a rare smile crossing his face. He would often take shifts on the defence towers, but even when he wasn’t doing this he liked to observe what was happening, not much one for being holed away in his administrative palace. He liked to be among the people, and the majority of the time he would be found among them. This gave him a bit of a reputation with his “subjects” as being a truly humble man. He never put himself above anyone else, and was a servant of the people as much as a leader of the country. He was a guardian, a protector, and a man that the village could always count on to be there for them. He was the embodiment of a promise kept, having lived up to every word that he had given the people when he had first come to them. It was this that made him a great leader, and even more than that a good man. He was Samurai, through and through, and the people loved him for it.
Trained :
Rupture - B
Flash - A
Sabre Technique - A
Dancing Blade Risk - B
Iaido - S
Iai Beheading – S
1775/1500
He would eventually arrive at a stone table that housed several scrolls, the guardians standing outside as they allowed Kensai to approach this by himself. He would carefully roll out each technique, not wanting to potentially damage anything because these were truly relics of the land. He would look each of them over, reading the movements carefully as he didn’t want to miss anything, and he would look towards the doorway. Nobody was watching him, and there was plenty of space in this room, which would lead the Shogun of the Iron Country to do something he really shouldn’t have done...he would draw his Katana and begin to practice the movements of each technique. As he did this, he would take time to reflect on each, thinking on what made them truly special to the Land of Iron and its people. This reflection was something that he believed was necessary in order to truly be able to properly respect each technique...
The first technique he would examine was Rupture, a technique that seemed simple on the surface, but was slightly more than he would have expected. It was a quick and aggressive slash, something that wasn’t necessarily something Kensai would often think to use as he tended towards a less aggressive style of strikes, but when he went through the motions of the technique, and thought on its applications he could feel how it would be used in order to enhance another technique, such as one of the others he had looked at in the scrolls. The speed that someone could get behind this strike was certainly impressive. He would log the way that he would use this away into his brain so that he would never forget the usefulness of this seemingly simple technique, much like many others he had learned over the years.
The true use for Rupture became apparent when he had read over the technique scroll for the attack known as Flash, which would have the user focus his ki into his blade and perform a slash attack, unleashing a wave of ki forward after the attack. This in conjunction with the fast and aggressive slash of Rupture would be able to get a tremendously quick projectile slash off, and it was something that Kensai could see being tremendously useful in many situations for a weapon style that was clearly used for close combat situations. He refused to perform the technique properly inside of the shrine, deciding to simply practice flowing his Ki in the way he was supposed to and working on figuring out the combat applications to such an impressive technique, which of course were abundant. Flash was going to be a revolutionary move that would certainly allow him to more efficiently guard his village and country.
The third technique was referred to as the Sabre Technique, and what it did was you would channel your Ki along the blade once again, extending it by an extra two meters in order to give you a reach advantage and a potential surprise attack to people who wouldn’t be expecting it. He could feel that it wasn’t the quickest attack, but at the same time the worth of the technique couldn’t be denied. It was an impressive way to quickly dispatch of an opponent who was just out of reach. Kensai could think of several times this would have made removing enemies a quicker task. He did like the personal up close touch of a blade of course, but when it came down to it, prescious second could mean the difference between life and death, and he knew full well that middle range wasn’t his strongest point.
Dancing Blade Risk was a dash strike, again fantastically paired with something like Rupture. It was a simple technique but one that had the distinct advantage that it could easily close a gap so that Kensai would get out of that pesky middle range and back to where he needed to be to finish a fight. It was his last step before the true gems of the Iron Village, which was the fighting style of Iaido, and the Beheading strike. Iaido was the art of the draw, killing an enemy as quickly and efficiently as possible right from the beginning of a fight, and the main cut had become something that the world had come to know as Iai Beheading, a move that when executed perfectly was completely lethal every time. This was what the people feared about the samurai, and this was what the people from the hidden mist had come to steal. This, of course, and Kurusawa, the greatest relic of the country...
Having mastered all there was to learn here, Kensai would bow respectfully to the scrolls and the guardians, leaving this place and getting back to rebuilding the village. The village of Tetsumura had gone through a fantastic growth over the past several years, and its leader had some much of the same. Long gone was the young man who had once been there, freshly jaded towards the ways of the shinobi in his exposure to one of the sites of their “great triumphs” where they had burned the iron nation to the ground. The lands of the Samurai were likely to never truly recover from this, their crops being completely worthless, and many of their natural resources having to start from scratch. Many were dead or wounded, and the stories that Kensai had been told from so many of the survivors were truly sickening to his stomach to believe that humans could commit such atrocities against one another, the cherry on the top being that they send their children to fight their wars for them. The Iron Shogon had resolved to never allow any of these things to happen again, and thus started the three year rebuild of what would eventually become the city of Tetsumura.
The first several months of Kensai’s rule were spent trying to help rebuild the village, using the money that he had been given for the rebuild as efficiently as possible, and spending at least twelve hours a day cleaning and building himself. He had barred entry into the country to any who weren’t a samurai as he focused on his own people. Even during his rebuild, the shinobi warred among themselves, and Kensai grew more and more bitter with the murder hungry bastards. The time no spent building and not spent sleeping had Kensai training, both himself and others, to become a stellar warrior. He had taught himself the hidden techniques of the Samurai, quickly mastering each in turn by travelling to the shrine that housed them and meditating on their meaning before learning the motions and the deep seeded techniques. He would become a shining example of what it was to be Samurai, and he would rally his people so that they could become strong again and fight back against their oppressors. The shinobi would be brought justice, they would be given hellfire and brimstone from the far west, and they would quickly learn the folly of their ways. The Land of Iron would rain death and destruction down upon the shinobi, and when they begged for the swift release of death, the Iron would deliver it swiftly.
Under his guidance the village would be rebuilt, and not just that but it would begin to thrive. Before being burnt down, there had never been a massive settlement where all of the Samurai would stay, but he would set out, once the building was mostly completed, to unify all of the land and bring all of the Samurai under the banner of the Shogun. This was a difficult thing at first, but with the assistance of the leaders of the Hinode and the Fisei, he had a bit more of a case to bring to the other leaders of the Samurai clans. There was an air of distrust around the Shogun, especially with his dealings with The Society, but that would be broken down when the work he had done was brought up and when he would duel them, leading to showing that he truly was a master of the way of Bushido and that he was worthy of his position. The clans would join one by one, and Tetsumura would continue to grow at a rapid pace because of this, bringing in Samurai and civilians from around the lands to bolster their numbers.
The growth of Tetsumura was truly amazing as Kensai watched the busy streets of the large city, a rare smile crossing his face. He would often take shifts on the defence towers, but even when he wasn’t doing this he liked to observe what was happening, not much one for being holed away in his administrative palace. He liked to be among the people, and the majority of the time he would be found among them. This gave him a bit of a reputation with his “subjects” as being a truly humble man. He never put himself above anyone else, and was a servant of the people as much as a leader of the country. He was a guardian, a protector, and a man that the village could always count on to be there for them. He was the embodiment of a promise kept, having lived up to every word that he had given the people when he had first come to them. It was this that made him a great leader, and even more than that a good man. He was Samurai, through and through, and the people loved him for it.
Exit Thread
Trained :
Rupture - B
Flash - A
Sabre Technique - A
Dancing Blade Risk - B
Iaido - S
Iai Beheading – S
1775/1500
