Shikami | 白神

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Clan Name: Shikami | 白神
Clan Village: Yukigakure (Iwagakure)
Clan Starter: N/A; Clan formed by the original Council
Clan Head: Lead by an Elected Elder Council of 3
Clan Age and Status: Ancient | Near Mythical | Disliked/Antagonistic
Clan Bloodline: Nagoriyuki [Lingering Snow]
Clan Element: Combinatorial: Snow
Clan Emblem:

 

 

 

 

Clan Info:

Core Beliefs

 

The Individuals Rights. _{The Core belief of the Shikami. Above all else, they believe in the individual's right to decide their own fate and path. They strive to aid, enable, and teach them to succeed. Their rights to be themselves are above nearly all. So long as they are not a danger to others, they are given near free-rule.
Democratic Rule.}

The Second Core Philosophy of the Shikami. _{A nearly true and pure democracy. They elect their leaders via vote, those who’ve reached the adult age of [16], or become a chunin equivalent Shinobi considered an adult. These leaders are true to their words as they act in their constituents best interests. If at any time the people believe this to be untrue they may challenge their leaders in open council.}

Swords Sheathed By Peace _{When at all possible, most of the Shikami choose peace over war. They prefer to resolve things with words, politics, and anything at all possible before resorting to the blade. When that time comes though, they are relentless in the protection of their own.}

 

 

History

 

The Shikami are one of the founding members of the nation-state of Yukigakure. They were there when the original ninja village of Yuki No Kuni was formed and built it alongside those other clans and wanderers that came together in mistaken idealism. Where-as the others grouped together to form a stronger nation-state as a 'minor country' under a single leader that would remain supreme the Shikami hoped that each clan, each individual, would have a say as many clans had done before the founding of Yukigakure. They lived under this misguided hope and preached to their comrades for years before it finally became enough for those elders of the clan when their 'beloved emperor' demanded subservience and loyalty. A tribute of their own clan's member's to his guard by force and not will.

 

Less than a fortnight later the entire Shikami clan had disappeared from Yukigakure in a single night. Homes left abandoned and all but necessities left abandoned to the village they deemed a failure. Their innate link to the cold and snow through their Kekkai Genkai Nagoriyuki meant that they were able to flee to the area's that even those hardened and weathered Shinobi of Yuki no Kuni dared go to. They fled to the Northern reaches to establish their new home. Building a new rural village of their own clan near the Northern Sea, Hokkai, so that they would have access to fishing, transport, and other needed supplies. Even while this remote rural village was being established the 'core' forces of the clan were being built into the nearest mountain-base. A literal fortress city built and hidden away within the snow-packed mountains to be hidden away from all those but their closest allies and family.

 

Despite their 'abandonment' of Yukigakure the clan was 'allowed' to remain independent. A 'pittance' of a tax paid to the Emperor after tense negotiations, long-rumored to both sides to have been a battle of the Emperor's strongest loyalists and the Shikami's leading members that ended in deadlock, ensured that they would remain independent. This tax was nothing compared to the income that the clan was able to draw in through the trading routes they'd gained by separating themselves and moving to the rich areas of the north by the sea.

 

Things remained calm like this for countless decades. Their established ties with countries, via trade routes of the Northern sea and friendships that established them as a difference to the rest of Yukigakure, even helped them survive the Fujikaze Generator Explosion that ravaged much of the country. Their loss of life was grand, like many others, a quarter of their numbers dwindling overnight but peace and calm quickly returned within a short time unlike the rest of the ravaged country. At least until war broke out. The Shikami hid themselves away in their hidden village as soon as the N.C.I.A. came to be. Immediately regarding it as a threat that they would not be able to handle on their own or reason with they took the same stance they had when they fled the very village they had helped found. Hiding away from the world until their scouts had determined that it was safe to return to the world. During this time, they were lucky to have avoided death and experiments like many other had. Only a single-outer lying village had been massacred in the struggle of the N.C.I.A. and it's resistance. The elder's of it opting to remain, only to suffer for it. When the Shikami left their seclusion at the end of the war the village was a ghost town of already desiccated and stripped corpses.

 

The world they returned to was one they had not been prepared for. Re-establishing friendships and connections was a near-impossibility from within Yukigakure. The 'Mad Emperor Matsuda' was a foul person. The Antithesis to the core beliefs of the Shikami he housed the former N.C.I.A. rebels and his loyalists were even more fanatical then they had been before. Within a short time skirmishes with the Shikami and the Emperor's men broke out. Once again, they faced a choice, to retreat or to fight.

The disillusioned people voted for a return to their hidden away life. A small outpost was all that remained outside of the mountains. Housed by traders, merchants, and the Honorbound warriors of the Shikami only. The rest of the civilians returned to their hidden away cities permanently. Those that had ventured out returning to the quiet life within to be despised by those within their own country once again.

 

Notable Members

Current Council Leader’s:
Shikami Maria [Elected/Chosen Head]
Shikami Morimoto [Elected Foreign Affairs Head]
Shikami Kenichi [Current Military Head/Trade Minister]

 

Honorbound
The Honorbound are the limited military force of the Shikami. Akin to the Shinobi, in fact they use the same grading system of ranks sans ‘Kage, of the Ninja Villages. They are the defense force of the Shikami sent out to protect their caravans and trading outposts.

 

Current Head of the Honorbound is Shikami Kenichi. His Deputy officer is Shikami Shira. A tense and difficult woman to get along with.

 

 

 

Current Relations

[?] Denotes Relationship currently established.

 

• Furousha [Neutral]
• Rinha [Economic/Political Allies]
  
  
   
• Yukigakure at Large [Antagonistic]
• Iwagakure [?]
• Konohagakure [?]
• Sunagakure [?]
• Kumogakure [?]
• Kirigakure [?]
• Amegakure [?]
• Kusagakure [N/A]
• Otogakure [?]

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited April 6, 2018 by MadKatters

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Nagoriyuki

 

Lingering Snow

 

[Bloodline Pending Approval]

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Clan Specific Techniques: N/A [TBD]

 

Clan Skills: N/A [TBD]

 

[cntrstrk14]

This page seems good, history looks solid. I might want more info on their hidden village in the future but I think this is good to go.

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