Post by Akira Nakano on Dec 9, 2007 20:58:51 GMT -5
Since immemorial times, fiendish monsters called 'Illusions' had dwelled in the lands of Lyramion, until three mages sealed them off behind the Coast of Swords. The mages had admonitioned nobody should venture past the coast, but the Emperor, convinced of that expanding the frontiers of the Empire behind the Forbidden Sea would put him a step ahead of the neighboring kingdom, sent a fleet to cross the grisly sea. The fleet never returned, and suddenly, mysteriously, monsters started appearing from underground.
In no time, most part of the Empire had fallen apart, and what remained of it was confined to the capital city. In all the wars and revolts that had taken to get our current Emperor to his place, nobody had noted how the monsters had been crushing the neighboring kingdom of the Red Helms to near-nothingness. The Red Helms, too, had been secluded to their capital. With the hordes of monsters focused on the neighboring kingdom and not on them, the Empire quickly started to rebuild itself, then the Emperor, with the help of a fair-sized army, attacked the Red Helm capital and forced them to surrender.
Now, after the merging of the two kingdoms, the New Empire was able of holding their ground before the wretched monsters. The New Empire started to win terrain, and as time went by, only behind the distant Waterwind mountains one could hear about the war against the Illusions. But when everyone started to lower their guard, the monsters strangely started to grow bigger and badder as their number decreased. In a couple months, the tides of war had turned.
Many heroes appeared during these times, many heroes among which Murasame, Masamune, and Muramasa were the most famous. By a time, these three heroes were able of keeping the feared new monsters at bay, almost on their own, but with time, all three seemed to simply, disappear. But the story does not end here. The remaining heroes knew that something had to be done; no longer doing any good on the first line of attack, they determined the best would be to train the soldiers of the future. And so were the three schools formed:
Masamune longed for peace, so he trained his warriors to be honorable and true.
Muramasa thought one had to be strong, so he trained his warriors to be fast and deadly.
A third school was said to be formed underwater, headed by a mysterious swordsman who taught his warriors to take their own decisions.