Chapter 193: The Timeline of the New World (Before the Kirin Lord Era)
(Author's note: As expected, much of the dates that was written in the series cannot be followed in this timeline. While I, Editor KEY and ZERO have tried our best to compile most of the defined dates or seasons where certain plot points and events happened, we cannot conceivably follow them to the dot and still have it make sense practically. As such, if there are any inaccuracy between this timeline and the story's dates or seasons, please count it as an inaccuracy made by the canonical in-story author of this timeline and not our team. Besides, this places some depth in the lore as much like our own history, there are many inaccuracies and uncertainties that still plague our own real-life history.)
Note: All years belong to the renewed Central Calendar of the European Gregorian system. This timeline only mentions events related to the events of I Became a Sengoku Lord's plot and therefore, does not mention historical events that has no relation to this new world's Japan.
This timeline is split into three phases, namely: Before the Kirin Lord era, During the Kirin Lord era, and After the Kirin Lord era.
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Before the Kirin Lord Era [Circa 3000 B.C - 1537 A.D]
[3000 B.C] – Approximate time period when early Japanese farming towns began to be established. Later, these towns would become cities and eventually, kingdoms. The farming methods and tools came from China and was brought through the Korean peninsula. Of these early rice kingdoms, major ones would form in the great plains of the Kanae region.
[2500 B.C] – Approximate time period when the kingdom of Nichi province won against three other kingdoms and consolidated its enemies' lands and people, starting off the first royal dynasty. Later on, it will spread out both its power and influence across its neighboring provinces, many of which would receive titles and authority in exchange for their submission to the first royal court.
[2450 B.C] – The Hakuyo clan of Kanae territory was formed and were known to be rice granary of the young nation. This helped them gain favor with the royal court which eventually led to their major influence amongst the early nobility.
[2100 B.C] – Fall of the early royal dynasty due to a civil war. Details are scant about what transpired, but pottery and stone tablets from the period say that the Hakuyo clan was in the midst of this conflict, as many of the militarily powerful noble clans disliked sharing positions with the farming clan. With the fall of the first dynasty, the second dynasty led by the chief ringleader of the rebellion took power and immediately demoted the Hakuyo clan to barely being of noble position.
[1300 B.C] – The Hakuyo clan fell from grace after a series of failed crop harvests due to successive years of drought that dried up the Megumi and Asano rivers. Following their fall, the Kikyo clan took on the land of the failed main family.
[1000 B.C] – The second dynasty fell after the years of bounty for 100 years were taken back by nature. Several typhoons inundated Japan with as much as 2 and a half meter of rainfall every week. This started off hundreds of floods, landslides and many other calamities. This led to a protest of both samurai and peasant families who demanded for the king to either depose or face a full-blown rebellion. The last king of the dynasty would choose to depose and leave the mainland with his clan. As a final sign of respect, the remaining samurai clans would forbid to have them be pursued and killed. Shortly after, the third dynasty would rise to power. {1}
[890 B.C] – The third dynasty sent diplomats to China, representing the country for the first time in the international level. Although looking down on the small nation in comparison to his own, the Chinese emperor would recognize it and open China for official trade and diplomatic relations with Japan.
[730 B.C] – The third dynasty would face a succession crisis after the king died and left two heirs to the throne. One is the first-born son but from a non-noble concubine and the other is of noble birth. This would've led to a civil war if not for the appearance of a third side made up of noble clans who would demand for both sides to settle it peacefully lest they face every other noble house. In the end, the noble prince would take over, with the first-born prince given the title and position of "Grand prince", one that has little to no political power but all the free rein to do as he wants.
[501 B.C] – The ruling Chinese emperor would die from a venereal disease after assaulting a palace slave. Leaving no noble heir, it would start off a succession crisis amongst the popular nobles. An estimated 220 million people would die in the next 9 years of civil war.
[500 B.C] – Trade and diplomatic relations with China was cut after the dissolution of the ruling Chinese dynasty and the beginning of the warring states period of China. Due to this, stagnation of trade with the outside world would hamper the development of Japan in many aspects.
[409 B.C] – In China, the victorious general of the civil war would declare himself emperor and established the beginning of his dynasty. The day before the coronation, he would order for all people in the palace and imperial capital who carry venereal diseases to be "driven out", that is to say, be relocated to somewhere else where they cannot spread those illnesses. However, due to the misinterpretation of the palace scribe of what his order of "driving out" those people meant, his orders would be written as "eradication" and the subsequent execution of everyone who was caught to carry those illnesses were misinterpreted as an event during the coronation, something that was far too late to stop once he realized what was happening. An additional 5 million people would die, and their deaths would be consolidated to be deaths during the civil war to cover up the entire farce. While the scribes in China complied with this order, the visiting Japanese record keepers would not, bringing over the entire story back to Japan and solidifying the movement to have its own unique Japanese alphabet to avoid accidents such as this.
[300 B.C] – In Europe, the myriad of Greek city-states united against a Persian invasion and not only repelled them but secured the entire Mediterranean coastline from the Persians. This would foster the beginning of a unique "western" (European) identity, different from the perceived "eastern" identity. This would have repercussions all the way to the east where trade across Asia would stagnate as Persia became weakened after the loss.
[280 B.C] – Fall of the third Japanese dynasty due to an incompetent and power-hungry king who ordered for all of the grains in the kingdom to be collected and distributed fairly across the land, not according to population numbers but a total dividing of the grains. This caused mass starvation as lands with larger populations cannot acquire enough food to feed their people, and lands with smaller populations were forbidden to send their excess to the other lands as the royal magistrates warned that it would be "spitting on the king's gift". Because of this, most of the excess grains in the lands with lower populations would simply rot or be turned into Sake that no one would like to drink after learning of the deaths that this excess caused. This would later be referred to as "Inejiro's Folly" and remembered by the dumping of an entire ceramic container of Sake down a ditch.
[276 B.C] – With the fall of the third dynasty that was not preceded by an active rebellion, a short period of civil war started with each noble family waging war with tribes and clans outside the Kanae region. Because of this, the conquered and settled lands in Japan would spread, bringing a period of growth in Japan. {2}
[238 B.C] – After several decades of expansion, the northward conquest was stopped by the mountain ranges of Kisaragi province. With no new lands to conquer, most of the noble families would wage war with each other in order to take the new territories held by the other clans. This would only stop after the Yamagata clan, a scion family of the first dynasty, would emerge and become the first imperial family of the nation.
[235 – 112 B.C] – Era of absolute peace. Under the rule of the first Yamagata emperor, no wars were ever fought for the 123 years of his reign. This time of peace would only be slightly broken when after the first emperor's death, the Takiya clan would attack the Kikyo clan in order to take their western farmlands but would be defeated by the Kikyo clan and completely eradicated by the imperial army.
[140 B.C] – To further spread their control over all aspects of the empire's affairs, emperor Yamagata Toshiro would open the imperial academy hall, and would make it mandatory for all clan heirs to receive education in the academy in order to gain permission to inherit their clan's noble peerage.
[17 B.C] – Kikyo Kokonotsu would be born to Kikyo Korei and his concubine, Aika. He would be the second son of the Kikyo clan, considered as a prince despite not being born from a noble mother. Due to this, he would be forbidden from attending the imperial academy hall.
[10 B.C] – Prince Yamagata Genji would take on hundreds of wives and concubines, placing his children in favorable political positions to secure the throne for his younger brother, Yamagata Yasashiku. After his brother's ascension, he would take on the title of Grand Prince and enjoy the rest of his life in the luxury of the imperial palace.
[2 B.C] – With the southern region running out of wild animals to hunt, the Anjin tribe would consolidate their scattered tribe members to wage their final battle against the Kikyo clan to gain the bountiful river valley of Kanae. They would assault the capital town but would not only be repelled but completely crushed by the clan's second son, Kikyo Kokonotsu, who fought their 50,000-strong army with only 2,000 people.
[1 B.C] – Kikyo Kokonotsu would gain prominence across the empire due to his heroism and would later receive an order of summons from the emperor, Yamagata Yasashiku. Together with this mother, family and followers, they would travel to the imperial capital of Nichi, facing upwards of thirty assassination attempts that they skillfully evaded with the leading of Kokonotsu.
[1 A.D] – A week after the new year, Kikyo Kokonotsu would be declared as the military regent (Shogun) by Emperor Yamagata. Amidst the slandering of the other nobles, the grand prince would appear and state that he has sent his people to investigate how the Kikyo clan has been undermined all this time. This would begin a brief purge of the imperial court wherein numerous noble families would either be disavowed or even completely crushed.
[1 A.D] – After accepting the position of military regent, Kokonotsu would later declare the conquest of the southern provinces. As the imperial army that he leads marched toward Kanae province, he would hear about the coup d'etat led by his elder half-brother, Kikyo Ko Kosho, who demanded for Kokonotsu to be disavowed and returned as a prisoner of the Kikyo clan lest they starve the empire by withholding the grain trade.
[1 A.D] – Without even his leading, the people under the Kikyo clan revolted against Kosho and the clan elders, assailing their castle and dragging out Kosho and the elders who conspired with the coup to be executed by public stoning. Kokonotsu would later arrive and receive a life-changing advice from his father, Kikyo Korei, before his father died shortly after.
[3 A.D] – Although it was plagued by delays due to supply line issues and stubborn resistance by the conquered natives, Kokonotsu and the Imperial army would reach the lands of the Kusanagi clan who presented one of the three Imperial Regalia, the Sword of Kusanagi, to the imperial family long ago. He vouched for their inclusion in the imperial nobility and had them look over the entirety of the southern triad for the empire.
[5 A.D] – With the conquest and security of the southern region achieved, Kokonotsu would lead the conquest to the northern frontier. In the span of 2 years, they would conquer a large swathe of mountainous land where iron and gold mines are located and made Japan independent from foreign metal trade to some degree.
[11 A.D] – Kokonotsu would declare the conquest a success and stop at the northernmost tip of the mainland, just short of Hokkaido. He would return with his army and be received as decorated heroes. A year after his return, he would marry his fiancé, Kikyo Kou Yuno, and settled down to form a family.
[12 A.D] – Although not officially declared, Kokonotsu would wage war against demons, ayakashi and malevolent yokai in the central plains, later eradicating almost all of them save for those who pledged to not interfere with the natural flow of nature for the sake of causing mischief.
[13 A.D] – Leading a small band of specialist warriors, he would travel to the north to battle against cursed spirits and Curses that was born from the residual human emotions caused by the war he waged at that region. They would be able to eradicate all of these monsters and even train locals in their ways, starting off the tradition of exorcists in the northern lands.
[16 A.D] – After the eradication efforts in the north, he and his men would travel to the south where they received word from the Kusanagi clan about the mythical beasts that are rampaging across the lands. Although most of these creatures would just be wounded until they are driven away, some who severely resisted were killed. The most famous site of his massacre against mythical beasts was in the mythical forest of Len where most of the evil beasts reside in. He went in all by himself and after making sure that none of the yokai, spirits and beasts have survived his assault, had the entire forest burned to the ground.
[17 A.D] – While resting in the capital of the Kusanagi clan's territory, Kokonotsu would receive word about a malevolent Kirin who demands young women as brides and would later devour them after giving birth to its offspring. He rode all by himself and returned with the head of the Kirin, later piercing it on a spear and presenting it to the emperor as a trophy. This achievement would later give him the title of "Kirin Lord".
[20 A.D] – With the campaign of near-total eradication of their kind committed by Kokonotsu earning their terror, four of the greatest spirits in Japan would visit the imperial capital to negotiate an end to the hostilities. As part of the negotiations, four sanctums would be built across Japan wherein the four great spirits would reside to control the spirits and yokai across the nation. They would later be referred to as "Guardian Spirits".
[23 A.D] – Kokonotsu would resign from regular public life, seen only in the imperial palace as the Shogun and at home, as a father and leader of his own family. At this year, his seventh child would be born, and he would simply remain in the imperial capital as a strategist, not even stepping out of the province for an extended period of time, save for a vacation.
[41 A.D] – Kikyo Kou Yuno, wife of Kokonotsu, fell ill with a terrible illness. All the doctors in the empire would fail to identify or cure it. Kokonotsu, now aged 57, would pick up his weapons yet again to wage a personal war against the remaining spirits and completely eradicated them. His followers would state that "he moved like he wasn't an old man. His strikes were as powerful and precise as it was when he battled against humans and spirits alike decades ago".
[42 A.D] – With the help of some of his followers who began a ritual, Kokonotsu pulled the Guardian Spirits from their sanctums and brought them to the Onnoki wastelands where he battled against them for the next few weeks all by himself. The guardian spirits, although it was a four-against-one, were the ones who were battered beyond help and only escaped with their lives when he returned them to their sanctums without taking their lives.
[42 A.D] – After returning to the Imperial capital, Kokonotsu would first visit his bedridden and dying wife, performing a ritual that somehow saved her before coming to the courtyard of the imperial palace where he stated his failure to serve the emperor for the rest of his life and committed seppuku. This is the first recorded instance of seppuku. {4}
[45 A.D] – With Kokonotsu's ritual suicide that also ended the first shogunate of the empire, the Kikyo clan was relieved of their position as well as their lands in Kanae by emperor Yamagata as per the final request of Kokonotsu of having his family be freed from the brutal life in the imperial capital. They moved southward near the territory of the Kusanagi clan past Iso River named Kiko, the province where the sanctum of the fox spirit Inari is being tended to by the Akizuki clan.
[47 A.D] – The seven children of Kokonotsu would divide the province, with the Akizuki clan who controls the region's sanctum also becoming the daimyo family.
[48 A.D] – The eldest child would rename his family as the Misanagi clan and with his position as the heir apparent of their father's legacy, assert his clan as the adjudicators of the land.
[50 A.D] – The second, third and fourth child would take up their own domains and rename their selves as the Aoyama, Fumikage and Hikigaya clan respectively, each taking after their late father's martial skills, they would form an alliance referred to as the "Kiko Three".
[52 A.D] – The fifth child took her younger brother under her tutelage where they took the names Shinju and Nagisa for their clans respectively. The Shinju clan would take on the economic activity of Kiko and support the Nagisa clan who preserved the history and culture of the Kikyo clan.
[56 A.D] – The youngest child would rename his family as the Shimura clan and take on the responsibility of developing the province's infrastructures such as roads, bridges and harbors. At that same year, the family's matriarch and the last bearer of the Kikyo clan's name, Kikyo Kou Yuno, would join her husband in the afterlife. It was said that even against the protest of the nobles in the imperial court, who wanted to have the Kirin Lord's grave to remain in the imperial capital as a ward against evil spirits, Emperor Yamagata would allow for Kokonotsu's remains to be unearthed and be buried alongside his wife in their homeland of Kanae province. He would even offer a short poem to the two, filled with all kinds of appreciations and wishes for them to be reunited in their next lives.
[58 – 188 A.D] – Era of numerous skirmishes and formation of numerous provinces and fiefdoms. From the initial 41 provinces in the empire, it would grow to about 109 provinces, most of which came from the fragmentation of large territories either through the division by inheritance or through internal civil war between heirs or rulers and their people. It was said that 6 million people would die during this conflict, but no concrete figures can be reliably verified due to the lack of dependable records.
[195 A.D] – In China, the minister of taxation would make a mistake regarding the required taxes of two provinces, swapping the high taxes required from the abundant harbor province to a poor, rural farming province. From this simple clerical mistake, 20 million people will die due to either starvation, banditry or civil conflict. This would set up the fall of the ruling dynasty which will lead to more unrest and eventually, the figure of the dead would rise to 400 million. Chinese trade across the region, including Japan, would be severely hampered, crippling numerous economies.
[199 A.D – 659 A.D] – The era of stagnation. During this period, little to no historical records has been kept other than the yearly census and imperial budget. During these years, Japan entered a state of isolationism as external trade between China, Korea and other countries became small due to abnormal weather changes that made sea travel treacherous.
[700 A.D] – A brief schism ensued regarding the imperial line of succession as documents detailing the genealogy of the imperial family was lost at a fire that consumed a part of the imperial palace that contained the palace library and ancient records office. The imperial family, split between the Akira and Hitachi princely houses at the time, argued about which line would take precedence in the event of the then-ruling Emperor Yamagata Takamatsu's death, as the emperor was the product of the two houses' intermarriage. Although this schism didn't become a cause of military conflict, this did gather the attention of many daimyo families and even the ruling Shogunate, who each had interests about siding with either of the two imperial houses.
[713 - 754 A.D] – After Emperor Yamagata Takamatsu's death, the schism between the Akira and Hitachi lines became untenable and with both sides having equal legitimate claims, the civil war began that took several decades and a hundred thousand lives before it ended. Later on, the Hitachi line would succeed the chrysanthemum throne and would assign their most loyal samurai family, the Sugiyama clan, as the Shogunate. However, the Sugiyama clan would later rebel against the emperor, demanding power over the nation to be handed to them. The imperial family, with no other ally to depend on, would accept the demands, starting off the military government of the Sugiyama Bakufu.
[800 A.D] – The Sugiyama Bafuku orders all trade with China to be ceased after the Chinese imperial court stated that they "will only receive diplomats from their Japanese counterparts (imperial government)" and not the ambassadors sent by the Shogunate. This would be a bad choice as the cessation of trade didn't make much of a dent in China's economy but hit Japan's majorly after it lost its rice and iron ore imports.
[830 A.D] - Satou clan rebels against the Kusanagi clan and settled in Asahi province, starting off the fragmentation of the entire southern triad once owned by the Kusanagi clan. The Shouri clan would follow suit and take control of Tadai where the Daigo clan and the Pheonix Guardian Spirit resides.
[853 A.D] – The Yamaguchi clan rebelled against the Kusanagi clan, starting off a war that ended with the Kusanagi clan driving the Yamaguchi clan to the mountainous land of Fuku. That same year, the Akizuki clan would also assert their independence from the Kusanagi clan and fought against them but would lose majorly and barely saved from being eradicated by the seven clans of Kiko.
[855 A.D] – The Moya clan rebelled against the Kusanagi clan and was driven off to Yukonami. Finally being fed up by his former subordinate samurai families rebelling and declaring their independence once they secure their own swathe of land that the Kusanagi clan rightfully owned, the Kusanagi daimyo would declare total war and would regain an enormous part of the southern region that dwarfed the lands of the rebel families.
[861 A.D] – Almost being destroyed after the reconquest of the Kusanagi clan's lands, the Shouri clan negotiated for the independence of Tadai province from the Kusanagi clan's regency. Given their abundant wealth from foreign trade, as well as the ownership of their subordinate clan of Daigo over Kingo sanctum, the Kusanagi clan accepted on the condition that they will remain in friendly terms as well as a deferment of trade tariffs between the two provinces.
[890 A.D] – Japan underwent another period of isolationism as the Sugiyama Bakufu broke due to an internal rebellion and left a power vacuum. For years, the Imperial capital would be torn by war until by the order of the emperor, the shogunate capital was established and, on its helm, the Amanogawa clan was assigned by the vote of all high nobility to be the new military government.
[954 - 972 A.D] – The Amanogawa Shogunate called for the conquest of the rest of Hokkaido. After 17 years of war, the northernmost region was secured and settled either by new noble families from the mainland's clans or natives who accepted noble titles from the shogunate.
[1066 A.D] – War engulfed the world as conquerors with conquests to fulfill sprouted up at every continent. While Europe had massive battles that would later shape its geopolitics and future, the same applied to the east where the Amanogawa Bakufu was brought into the civil war in China wherein the Chinese emperor demanded Japan to assist them against the rebellion of the Chinese populace. Although the shogunate sent their ships to blockade the port of Daiping to stop an amphibious landing on the capital city, they didn't fight in the civil war, ending the ruling dynasty of China. Also, 300 million people will die during the civil war.
[1138 A.D] – The Naisen period starts. Due to the weakness of the Amanogawa shogunate, numerous daimyos declared war on each other for the sake of conquering the lands of other clans, disregarding the threat of violence from the weakened shogunate.
[1139 A.D] – The White Tiger spirit of Niijima was said to have died after its long battle against the "Corruption" brought by the massive losses of lives during the wars in the North, as well as the countless evil miasma brought by the atrocities committed in its area of protection. Although it was already empty, the Inazuma clan, the family responsible for Kurumi Sanctum would continue to perform their duties, believing that it would somehow be the catalyst of the guardian spirit's rebirth. Unfortunately, it wouldn't happen and their duties to the sanctum became nothing more but symbolic actions.
[1146 A.D] – The Priestess of Kingo sanctum of Tadai, Daigo Akari, discovered an ancient scroll in Kingo sanctum and performed a ritual that summoned the first Otherworlder, Narukami Ayaka.
[1151 A.D] – An outbreak of Measles would spread across Japan, with many people dying or being permanently disabled because of it. At this time, Narukami Ayaka would save Daigo Akari's life by giving her a crude antibody treatment. Although not everyone would be saved by it due to its crude method of extraction and injection, Ayaka would give the same treatment to the infected of Tadai province, making it the first recorded vaccination drive in the world.
[1152 A.D] – Narukami Ayaka would be adopted by the Daigo clan and assume the position of assistant shrine maiden. There, she will learn from Daigo Akari and although still retaining her unconventional behavior, would be renown in performing various temple rites.
[1154 A.D] – The Naisen period started to wane as conquered or consolidated territories become secure and the last blood wars between samurai families ended.
[1155 A.D] – Learning about the Otherworlder, Narukami Ayaka, the Amanogawa Shogun demanded for the summoning ritual to be taught to the three other clans who serve in the Guardian Spirits' sanctums.
[1157 A.D] – The training of the three other sanctum-serving clans ended and with the help of Kiko's Misanagi clan, would sign the "Magna Carta of the Ethereal World", putting in place rules and regulations regarding the summoning of Otherworlders as well as how they will be taught the ways of the new world and conditions about how they will be treated if they wish to serve a daimyo.
[1194 A.D] – The Amanogawa Shogunate regained their control over the nation after it took in 6 Otherworlders that helped with the reformation efforts on its government. Although none of these Otherworlders would ever be named in the official records, many would speak about the changes they brought and how it helped maintain the stability of Japan. One of these changes in particular is the construction of water and windmills that helped automate some functions in various industries. However, much of these technologies would not be able to be replicated or maintained after the death of the Otherworlders that made them.
[1197 A.D] – In the middle east, the betrayal of the terms of surrender between the Crusaders and the Ayyubid sultanate by mercenaries that was not paid during the third Crusade, and thus, looted numerous sultanate towns and cities, led to the total banning of Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem and other holy sites. While the ban against Christians was conveyed to the church's authorities, the cause wasn't mentioned. This convinced the Papal state that the Ayyubid sultanate cannot be trusted and made reclaiming the Holy Land a necessary thing for the European powers, extending the crusades well into the following centuries.
[1228 A.D] – In Europe, the Kingdom of Prussia was established after the merger of numerous knightly houses native to the Polish-Germanic lands. However, after the war between various lands that affected Prussia, the feudal lands demanded more localized and independent power over their lands. This would lead to the Kaiserdom system, where the Prussian Kaiser would rule and represent the entire kingdom by the behest of the princely and knightly houses, in a form of monarchical federation. {5}
[1255 - 1314 A.D] – The Mongol conquest of Asia began, with China falling to the Khanate, followed by the numerous nations across the Eurasian steppes. In 1268, the Mongols would attempt to attack Japan using a naval invasion through the Korean peninsula but would fail due to a massive storm. In 1281, they will try again and landed in the island province of Chushima, where they would quickly conquer the province and attempt to use it as a forward base to take on the Japanese mainland. However, the actions of the heroic samurai-turned-legendary warrior, Takai Gin, would severely hamper this attempt as he made the Mongol war effort bleed enough that it cannot take on an offensive to the mainland. The Mongol leadership would consider him as a thorn in its side and made hunting him down their priority, something that he turned on them as he assassinated countless leaders and generals by his own hand until they were forced to declare the conquest a failure and had their forces sail back to mainland Asia. While the conquest of Japan would end as a failure, the westward expansion would be widely successful, with much of eastern Europe and the middle east falling to the hands of the Khanate until they were eventually driven back decades later. {5}
[1338 A.D] – In Europe, the Kingdom of England would consolidate with the three other ethno-political groups of the British Isles either through filial intermarriage or conquest. This would lead to the creation of the United Kingdom of Britannia.{5}
[1361 A.D] – After the fall of the European foothold in the holy land due to internal mismanagement and Islamic conquests, the Pope called for the reconquering of the Iberian Peninsula as well as the entire coast of northern Africa in order to better secure the routes for the next crusades. This would greatly deplete the resources of Spain and Portugal as they focused on driving out the Moors in Iberia as well as fulfilling the demanded conquest of north Africa. {5}
[1374 A.D] – After the spice trade across the middle east was permanently cut off from Europe, British sailors sailed around Africa and found a way to reach the India and China. This would later be leaked to the Spanish and Portuguese who would plan to brave the unknown southern waters by themselves. {5}
[1376 A.D] – The Spanish and Portuguese crossed the Cape of Perseverance and landed in India. Their initial trade attempts were not as successful as the British and Prussians since the local Indians didn't like that they came with proselyting friars that insulted their race and choice of religious belief. Later that year, a Castilian friar would be caught slaughtering a wild cow in Calcutta which would prompt a mob of locals that besieged the chapel and would later beat the priest and the other people in the church before razing it to the ground. {5}
[1377 A.D] – The Spanish and Portuguese would demand an apology and renumeration for what they considered as an "unprovoked and unjust death" to the Mughal emperor. Hearing of the details, the emperor would later declare trade with the Spanish and Portuguese forbidden and for them to leave India immediately. This would lead to a battle just a few weeks later where they held out in cities and were either imprisoned or killed in battle. {5}
[1395 A.D] – The royal houses of Britannia and Prussia was bound by an intermarriage that conjoined the two families. With no need to heed the order to reconquer Iberia and north Africa as the two nations held considerable power and influence to ignore the demands of the initial preparations for the Crusade, they managed to preserve their military power in preparation for the reconquering of Antioch and Jerusalem. However, with the other nations' armies exhausted and outmanned by the initial preparations, the crusaders of Britain and Prussia would be forced to also lag behind. {5}
[1414 A.D] – Andreo Magallanes would sail out and later establish the first Spanish colony, Cuba and the first Portuguese colony, Brazil. This would later open Europe to the New World (American continent). By 1416, boatloads of gold and silver would return to Spain and help bankroll the crusade. {5}
[1419 A.D] – The Holy Land returned to the hands of the European nations and the Kingdom of Jerusalem would be reestablished. While the kings of various middle eastern caliphates would declare a Jihad to retake the Holy Land, the newfound wealth of the European nations that are now carving their own pieces of the New World would hamper this attempt. {5}
[1427 A.D] – An attempt was performed by a French sailor: Claude du Fornier, to complete the circumnavigation expedition which Andreo and many others failed. Following Andreo's route alongside 5 ships, none would be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean but would face privateers in the Caribbean as well as a ludicrous amount of toll fee from the Spanish governor of Cuba after they landed and resupplied there. While all five ships arrived in Tahiti and went past the point where the previous other attempts turned back, two of the ships would be rendered unusable once they landed in the islands whose inhabitants bore great desire for the iron nails of the ships. Many of the men would pull out these nails in exchange for sex with the island's women. In the end, only three ships, overcrowded with sailors, would return to Brazil and back to France where Claude's fleet would be referred to as "Horny Sea Dogs" by the nobles who can't believe that the reason why the expedition failed was because the sailors cannot control their selves. Although it ended as a failure, the voyage would open up the infamous "Passion Islands" sea route, a costly sex tourism trip made available after this discovery that attracted countless people into the isles. {5}
[1441 A.D] – Britain would be the next to attempt a circumnavigation and followed the same route as the French voyage 20 years ago. Although widely questioned and not accepted in the modern definition of the achievement, this was considered the closest attempt to a circumnavigation of the world as the British expeditionary fleet reached the outskirts of the isles of Japan before shortly heading south and meeting their deaths near the Strait of Malacca due to a pirate attack. The only reason why the news of their demise reached Europe was that a Dutch shipping vessel witnessed the battle between the ships. The Dutch would later admit that it was their own privateer forces that sunk the fleet and pay reparations to the British. This is also the same fleet that saved a fisherman from Fuku province who would steal a musket and bring it back to Japan, starting off the age of the Tanegashima matchlocks in the country. {5}
[1448 A.D] – The great Yukogahara bandit clan fought and won against the Moya clan of Yukonami, claiming it as their own land. They will then attack their borders with Shinka and Kise province, aiming to further spread their territory. However, both provinces' lordships would successfully repel them and keep them inside their confines of Yukonami.
[1450 A.D] – The control of the Mughal emperor in India began to weaken as foreign trade began to siphon valuable gold and silver from the country and be brought back to Europe, stagnating the flow of trade in India. Four years later, the numerous kings, chieftains, rajahs and other leaders in the empire's feudal nobility rebelled and demanded for the empire to be dissolved to return the sub-continent to its individual city-state system. With help from Britain, who supplied them with ammunition and training for their forces, the rebellion would be victorious. This fragmentation, however, would weaken political coordination across India, opening weaknesses that the British would later exploit for both profit and control. This would start up more sea traffic towards India and the other nearby countries. {5}
[1453 A.D] – In Japan, the Amanogawa Shogunate lost control of the country after the Shogun died without leaving a legitimate heir. Although it was known that he had many children from his myriad of wives, all of them were women and were seen as a last possible choice as rumors that a legitimate male heir was being kept by one of the noble families spread and accusations of "keeping the heir to their own selves" were thrown around by clans against other clans. This would later fragment the country and kick off the beginning of the Sengoku Period. {5}
[1468 A.D] – Due to the sheer brutality of the wars, most of which would not end until one or both sides were wiped out, it became permitted for women to take on the position of their husbands, fathers, male relatives as needed by their circumstances. Although many clans would resist this trend, citing that "women have no place in positions of power", the ceaseless battles and numerous epidemics during the period that made the average life span of a man to not even reach 25 years old, forced them to recognize the need to let go of prejudices if it meant the survival of their clan. {5}
[1472 A.D] – The failure of the Jihad that was declared on French-held Syria marked the end of the age of the crusades as the Islamic kingdoms withdrew any interests to hold the Holy Land due to the sheer amount of funding and lives that are being wasted on it. Fortunately, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, held back then by Earl Edward the XVIII of Cornwall, offered to have the city be open for Christians, Muslims and Jews, with no tolls during times of pilgrimage. Although not the desired outcome for any of the sides, it did bring lasting peace in the region that has spent hundreds of years and millions of wasted lives during the Crusades. With the wars here brought to an end, the European colonization of the Americas and the spread of Islam all across Africa and the Eurasian steppes began to quicken. {5}
[1478 A.D] – The ruling Khanate dynasty in China fell and brought the beginning of a native Chinese dynasty once again. 140 million people will die during the reunification, most of this would surprisingly not be due to war but instead, the lack of efficient transportation of goods that the populace took for granted during the Khanate dynasty, with many settlements heavily specialized in one trade such as fine pottery and tea farming, to the point that they are not self-sufficient when it comes to food. {5}
[1486 A.D] – The number of provinces and territories in Japan began to fluctuate as clans consolidated and broke up. With the chaos caused by the failure of the Shogunate, a movement to reinstate the emperor to power started out within the noble families of Kanae estuary. The Imperial family would accept the formation of this imperial faction, out of fear that they would be wiped out during the civil war, but would prohibit having their selves involved in the fighting, citing their reluctance to "clean up after the Shogunate's mess that they should fix by their selves". Although not officially under their authority as the Amanogawa Shogunate still stands, much of the southern provinces would submit their selves to the Imperial court and would view the favor of the Emperor more highly than the Shogun's favor. {5}
[1495 A.D] – Due to the chaos that happened during the First Shogunate-Imperial war, the Enomoto and Kataoka clan in Kanae were sold into slavery after falling out of favor amongst the nobility, some of their members would be brought to Europe and be resold through a variety of masters until a pair from both clans would fall to the hands of a British Baron who would give them freedom on the condition that they would accept the Christian faith. After being baptized, the two would serve in the Barony and eventually form a family. Although they are foreign freemen in England, the couple would put a task for their descendants to one day return to their home country of Japan. {5}
[1497 A.D] – The Sea Dragon spirit of Kyoga sanctum would leave the sanctum, citing its inability to fulfill its responsibilities when faced with the risk of being taken over by the "Corruption" and becoming a greater danger to Japan. It would head for the bottom of the sea where it is said that the spirit would disperse its remaining power into the sea around Japan, protecting the nation from invaders as its final act of its duty.
[1502 A.D] – The Phoenix spirit of Kingo sanctum would leave the shrine and head towards the seven largest volcanoes in the nation, sprinkling its remaining power into the peaks in order to protect Japan from extremely destructive volcanic eruptions in exchange for its life. However, as it is a phoenix, it cannot die and somewhere secluded, it left its egg eternally at rest, never to be disturbed once again.
[1504 A.D] – The last of the guardian spirits, Fox spirit Inari, would leave Kaiho sanctum and gather up the war orphans across the nation into the province of Furuya that remains untouched by the war. Here, she would lead her people in total secrecy alongside what remains of the yokaifolk and the spirits. In 1515, she would snatch up an Otherworlder being summoned to Kaiho sanctum as she feared that he would be used in the Akizuki clan's war against the Kusanagi clan. Years later, the first and only escapee of the sanctuary, the husband of the Otherworlder's daughter, would travel around the country and end up being taken in by the Yomi Cultists of the now debased Kingo sanctum's Daigo clan.
[1508 A.D] – Higuchi Sora is reborn into the world as Takamori Sora of Niijima province. Telling his parents about him being a reincarnated Otherworlder by age seven, he would form a bout with his father about brokering a peace deal with the other provinces in the north before his fifteenth birthday. By the age of 13, he became successful with consolidating the northern provinces and pushed towards the Shogunate capital after forming the Northern Coalition.
[1512 A.D] – The Ishigawa clan of Shinka betrays the Kusanagi lordship and murders Ishigawa Maya and Kusanagi Ryouko. Knowing that the traitorous family has connections amongst the nobles of the imperial capital of Hitachi and pursuing them may put the Kusanagi clan in the bad favor of the imperial court, Lord Kusanagi Kenji forbid for anyone among his samurai to seek revenge against them, forever depriving Ishigawa Gojo of the ability to attain justice by his own hands. Instead, it would be Kusanagi Kyoshiro, Kenji's cousin from a branch family, who would slay the men of the Ishigawa clan and force the women and children to disperse without any of their noble titles. Kyoshiro would later succumb to his injuries and die near Furuya province where he would be picked up and brought back to life as a Kyonshi by Inari-no-kami.
[1521 A.D] – With the city of Acapulco as their staging port, Spain finally managed to cross the Pacific Ocean and arrived at the island nation that they will later name as "La Islas Filipinas" or The Philippines. Here, they will form numerous trading posts with the Dutch to gain access to the silk of China, the precious metals and jewels of India as well as the spices in south-east Asia. They will attempt to conquer the lands and form it into an actual colony for Spain, but fierce resistance from the native kingdoms would severely hamper these attempts, with many of these settlements already warned by their Indonesian and Malaysian kinsmen about the "white, yellow-haired men". Although the natives resisted being conquered, much of the lands around their trading post did eventually fall to them, forming a loose web of Spanish-held lands in the archipelagic nation. {5}
[1526 A.D] – At the young age of 18, Takamori Sora would defeat the Amanogawa Shogunate in battle and force the shogunate to declare him as Shogun. With this newfound authority, he would set out to the Imperial capital in order to unify the country. He would also force a reform across all his conquered and allied states, raising the standard of living and severely penalizing actions that he sees as a danger to the stability of the war-torn nation that he is trying to unify. As it is one of the foremost trades that he focused on eradicating, owners of brothels along with its workers would flood the provinces not yet reached by the new Shogunate's authority, dangerously overrunning the southern provinces with the numerous new venereal diseases brought by summoned Otherworlders.
[1528 A.D] – In Shinka province, the 12-year-old Ayanami Mitsuha and 6-year-old Ayanami Mitsuhide, after years of abuse by their father to force them into strong, unfeminine warriors, would murder him and later on, most of the male elders of the clan. This would mark the beginning of the first female-led clan in Japan and the popularization of the "warrior maiden" culture in the near and far future.
[1530 A.D] – Aoyama Natsuki would betray her husband, Shimura Shido, and would leave a trail of destruction and humiliation for the Aoyama clan as she traveled to the north in order to avoid the consequences of her actions. She would borrow huge sums of money from the Ayanami clan in order to hamper any pursuers from Kiko from chasing after her, and as the Aoyama clan didn't have the money to pay it back, Aoyama Takeshi would be forced to hand over his daughter, Aoyama Chiyo, as collateral, where she would work as the Page of Ayanami Mitsuha as well as a hostage against the Kiko Three.
[1531 A.D] – The Second Shogunate-Imperial War would begin after Shogun Amanogawa Sora arrived in the Imperial capital of Hitachi and quickly gathered a faction of nobles around himself. In the first battle, now referred to as the "Battle in the river valley", massive formations of Shogunate musketeers would defeat the renown Miyamura clan's cavalry. The second battle will happen a week later wherein almost the entirety of Kanae estuary's fiefdoms would erupt with road and alleyway sword duels where most of the survivors in the Shogunate army would later be given a position in the Shogunate Officer Legion, a group directly under the beck-and-call of Shogun Sora.
[1532 A.D] – The Taka clan of Hashidate province, would officially let go of their authority over the province, handing the governmental authority to the five consuls of the land's business world. Although the system would remain in the confines of the province, the Ikehara clan would be known across the nation as the most affluent in the country when it comes to total amount of owned non-liquid assets (business shares, owned properties, etc.), in comparison to the Daigo clan who are the richest when it comes to liquid assets (on-hand cash bonds, gold Kan, etc.)
[1533 A.D] – As the Asada clan began to poison Akizuki Godan, dulling his mind and turning him into a madman, Akizuki Minori would be brought by his mother out of the castle to save him from being used as a political puppet. Years later, he would become a renown assassin and one of the founding members of the Blood Moon Fraternity whose sole aim is to destroy the Untouchables of Hashidate's monetary elite.
[1534 A.D] – In order to weaken the province and set up a spy network in Kiko, Kusanagi Kenji would secretly finance the establishment of the red-light district near the city of Aoya. This would put a strain in the relationship between the Aoyama clan and the Kusanagi clan as the former saw this as a grave insult and the latter saw this as a way to make the Aoyama clan pay up their debts far faster than normal. With his beloved daughter held in Shinka, Aoyama Takeshi would accept the existence of the district but would never directly govern it.
[1536 A.D] – Under the guise of discussing the fact that none of the four sanctums contain their respective guardian spirits anymore, the Daigo clan would call of a summit between the four clans that serve in these shrines. During which, the Inazuma clan would send Higuchi Chiasa and travelling with him incognito was Shogun Amanogawa Sora. Although the summit did address the fact that the sanctums' acts and traditions must remain as the rites of summoning Otherworlders remained relevant in this age, their real aim was to contact Shogun Sora regarding a new type of summoning ritual that can potentially target a specific person's soul in the past world and reincarnate them in this world. Shogun Sora would be interested, citing the need for a successor due to his failing health and desire to spend his retirement with his family. This is also the time when Shogun Sora would come in contact with the Kiko Three and the Misanagi clan, forming a secret bond in the south for the purpose of taking over Kiko and placing his protegee as the replacement for Akizuki Godan who is further progressing into mental derangement.
[1537 A.D] – The Akizuki clan declares war against the Kusanagi clan for the reason of finally securing the Iso River for themselves instead of it being a borderline between the two provinces. Given that her father became gravely ill, Kusanagi Kyoko would lead the war that would be declared by this year and would be fought in the next. During this same year, Ishigawa Gojo would be sent at Shinka's border with the four Yukogahara bandit lords of Yukonami to act as a deterrence against their invasion, depriving the war against the Akizuki clan of a capable and experienced leader, making the war against the Akizuki clan to become a slow and costly fight.
Highlighted footnotes:
{1} – The deposed second dynasty king would later settle in the northern lands and rename his entire clan as the Takamori clan of Niijima province. The same family where Takamori Sora, later to be known as Shogun Amanogawa Sora, would be born into.
{2} – The expansion was mostly focused northward of the Kanae region (modern-day Hitachi province/imperial capital), making the land of the Kikyo clan still the southern-most province in the early empire. This is due to the existence of numerous warrior clans that resisted conquest and hindered the settlement of the southern provinces.
{3} – The Prince Genji mentioned here is inspired by the real-life Japanese tale of "Genji Monogatari". However, the description of the events is not accurate to the real-life story and instead, is just merely inspired by it.
{4} – None of this is factual in the real world both historically and in practice, although the bit about "failing to serve one's master" is accurate to some degree.
{5} – The author and editing team would like to clarify that these dates, events and groups are not historically accurate, nor does it give any personal statement regarding these things that may reflect on its real-life counterparts.
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