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[b]Name:[/b] [color=9e0b0f]Yoshina Shizue[/color]

[b]Appearance and Race:[/b] [color=9e0b0f]Human, Female[/color]
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[b]Job:[/b] [color=9e0b0f]She hasn't had a job yet, a recent arrival to the village, Yoshina only wants to explore the city and it's surroundings. Getting a job as a mercenary or a sheriff is a possibility though.[/color]

[b]Background:[/b]

[centre][color=9e0b0f]"It is foolish to assume that this peace will last, so long as there are other lands where people beyond our own lives, war remains a distinct possibility. Brother, I shall make peace my sworn duty now that our lands are reunited, spreading peace to the lands of our reunified Kingdom, and onto other lands beyond our isles. This is my calling, I have consulted with the spirits and meditated on the issue, I am making this decision under a sound mind."[/color][/centre][centre]Yoshina Shizue, weeks before going for her decades long expedition.[/centre]

Born of house Shizue in the Isles of the Far East, commonly called the Mist Isles by the people of this land but called Sangaku by the inhabitants there. She was born in a time of turmoil. An invasion by the Kingdom of Tianguo has left a power vacuum and a puppet ruler in place of the Red Wood Throne of Sangaku. The people are unhappy, but the might of Tianguo and their legions of soldiers was a surefire way to suppress rebellious thoughts from the islanders.

At least, until she and her brother was born. She was born 2 years after her brother's, and the lands where her family inhabited was relatively northerly and isolated from the main power centers of Sangaku. Namely the Great Cities of Yoshika and Hinoki. Her family's lands were comparatively desolate, not well populated, and filled with wild animals and untamed nature. A perfect place for young Yoshina and her subsequent brothers and sisters to frolick about and unsuspectingly gain experience in hunting and fighting wild animals.

All this was put into great use when opportunity found itself landing in their family's lands. A political fugitive, accused of posting fliers deprecating the current leader fled itself into their lands, with enforcers for the puppet king hot on his toes, house Shizue found itself in a position where they can turn in the fugitive and go on in their merry way, or perhaps take this opportunity to rise up.

Yoshina's speech to her father convinced him that rising up should be the option taken. She was impassioned, seeing the poverty and repression her people faced under the rule of Tianguo and the depravity of the Puppet King in Yoshika during her many trips there along with her parents. Once even romancing her own mother in front of his father, and only stopping once she stood up and let out an angry tirade that amused him enough to stop. The ensuing battle between his family's retinue and the enforcers would light up a multi-year military campaign that forced her to learn whatever books on military arts is available in her northerly realm. And compensating that with field experience once that's insufficient.

She also learned about the horrors of war firsthand, the woman now known as the 'Fire of Sangaku' due to her ferocity with her Naginata in combat also steadfastly advocates for peace with Tianguo once the conflict is over. Seeing blood, villages destroyed, and people violated in ways she didn't even think is possible left her an impression she couldn't shake off throughout her life.

Well, long story short, through her military genius and her brother's political maneuverings, Sangaku was unified under her family's house. With the other lords swearing fealty to her father. And she and her brother given lands and titles as a result of her victory.

She took care of the peasants in her lands first, talking with them and learning about their issues and problems firsthand. Once she is confident that the people under her lands can fend for themselves, she then consulted with her brother and father. The matter of consultation? Spreading peace. She would temporarily abandon her lands, leaving it under a council of elected villager heads that would form the basis of power once she's gone, and only regaining her titles and lands once she has returned, she will then spread peace towards all corners of the Kingdom and then? To the world.

It took some convincing of her brother and her father, with her mother only being her support. But in the end they both acquiesced. Allowing her to travel all across Sangaku, deal with issues among the villagers and townspeople she encountered with, and then beyond the lands of her isles (obviously staying clear of Tianguo, much to her dismay). She has ventured far, very, very far indeed, and now? She has arrived in this little village, 29 years old, and eager to improve whatever troubles the villagers of this... unique land she has just landed on.

[b]Home:[/b] [color=9e0b0f]She has no home to speak of, just recently arriving. However, she plans on buying a small house for herself once she gets accustomed to the norms and manners of this village she just arrived in.[/color]
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