1198

Dates are from the Isawa Calendar
Centuries:	11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Years:	1195 1196 1197 - 1198 - 1199 1200 1201

Events

• Kaiu Onizuka wins the Topaz Championship.
• The Mara wakes from a decades long slumber, and is plagued by her dreams. She writes letters, suggesting Naga artifacts be recovered from Naga temples.
• Shinjo Itao and Shinjo Kinto search Naga temples for certain items, using the ronin Chuo and his nephew Karui.
• The Balash stirs in his sleep, waking to find his blade missing.
• Miya Shoin, Miya Daimyo and Imperial Herald, retires from all his posts. He is succeeded by his son, Miya Kiyokaizu.
• Shinjo Min-Hee challenges and kills the Lion Clan Champion Akodo Shinjiro in revenge for her father's death at hands of Shinjiro's father.
• Akodo Kano skips his heritage as Lion Clan Champion's heir, passing the mantle to her sister Akodo Dairuko.
• The Scorpion Wall is breached by Ki no Oni.
• Ikoma Satoru becomes the Turquoise Champion.
• Hida Haruto becomes the Kakeguchi Daimyo.
• Shinjo Scouts returned to the Oasis of Spirits in the place suggested by Moto Naleesh.
• The Imperial Governor of the Colonies Otomo Suikihime reforms the Ivory Court, creating several new posts, as the Ivory Chancellor and five Ministries.
• Otomo Takama becomes Chancellor of the Left and his brother Otomo Moritaka becomes Chancellor of the Right.
• Seppun Ishitata becomes Minister of Rites, and Isawa Chisaki becomes Minister of Ceremonies.
• The Governor Otomo Suikihime issues the Edict of Exploration.
• Yoritomo Asuka becomes Minister of the Census.
• The Minister of the Center is replaced by Doji Harashige.
• The lands the Spider claim now will be for the Spider alone. They begin the construction of the Steel Soul Dojo.
• Yodotai forces ambush Unicorn caravans in the Ki-Rin's Path.
• A Ruhmalist temple is found by the Spider Clan. The Blood of the Preserver is seized there.
• Tension increases between the Crane and Mantis Clans regarding commerce interests in the Colonies.
• The Emerald Champion Utaku Ji-Yun sanctions the Mantis-Crane War in the Colonies.
• The Ninth Imperial Legion is sent to the Colonies.
• The Crab Clan begin to attack the Spider Clan in the Colonies.
• The Lion begin to attack the Spider Clan in the Colonies.
• The Mantis get their fleet past of Twin Forks City, breaking the Crane blockade.
• The left wing of Kyuden Kankei is burned to the ground.
• The Master of Water Asako Karachu foresees the Siege of the Second City. He tells it to Moshi Sasako before his mind forgets his own accounts.
• A doppelganger of Shosuro Keirei is created with an Egg of P'an Ku.
• The Second City is besieged by the Ninth Imperial Legion. The Ivory Court host the colonial winter court.
• P'an Ku's madness is exposed by the Fudoist.
• The Second City surrenders and the governor Otomo Suikihime escapes. Her name is stricken from the Otomo family rolls.
• Kalani's Landing is attacked by a Crane fleet.
• The Spider Clan Champion Daigotsu Kanpeki marries in secret with Otomo Machiko.
• The Empire learn that a long-standing conflict between the mad dragon P'an Ku and the Fudo cult had exacerbated conflicts in the Colonies.
• Yasuki Bikan becomes regent of the Yasuki family.

Month of the Dragon

• Togashi Maro, formerly known as Mirumoto Mareshi, disappears.
• The Naga Embassy is destroyed by an explosion.
• The Shinomen Forest is attacked and the Shinomen Tower is burned to the ground.

Month of the Serpent

• Dark Naga infiltrates the Second City killing the Imperial Governor of the Colonies Ikoma Katsuru.
• Akasha disappears.

Month of the Horse

• Doji Hakuseki is appointed to investigate the incidents related to the Naga race.
• Hida Fubatsu disappears and all his students are found dead.

Month of the Goat

• Otomo Suikihime becomes the Imperial Governor of the Colonies.

Month of the Monkey

• The temple of the Dark Naga is found by Iweko's Conquerors.
• A Scorpion patrol is attacked by Naga in a temple in the Shinomen Mori while seeking information about the vanished.

Month of the Rooster

• Shinjo Tselu is apointed as the first Ivory Champion and Minister of Defense and Justice.
• Mirumoto Shikei learns the location of the Dark Naga's lair in the Shinomen Mori.
• An Imperial Legion under the command of Akodo Kano and Tamori Yayu is sent to the Shinomen to find the Dark Naga.

Month of the Dog

• The Phoenix deploy a fleet to find a Black Pearl in the sea.
• Mirumoto Shikei breaks an arm of Shinjo Min-Hee in a kenjutsu practice during the Festival of the Hundred Hands.

Battles

• Mantis-Crane War in the Colonies
• War of Serpents
• Battle of Ten Thousand Martyrs
• Heretic War

Deaths

• Akita
• Akodo Shinjiro
• Akodo Suoh
• Asako Kouhei
• Asako Shoji
• Bayushi Himaru
• Bayushi Ryoku
• Bayushi Taji
• Buraindo
• Daidoji Ibara
• Daidoji Katsutomo
• Daidoji Narizane
• Daigotsu Nizaru
• Daigotsu Ryuto
• Doji Nikaitsu
• Doji Rengetsu
• Drunken Tiger
• Hida Akano
• Horiuchi Nobane
• Ide Kamino
• Ide Shimoro
• Ikoma Katsuru
• Isawa Chenko
• Isawa Sakonoko
• Jahan
• Kakita Hiro
• Kakita Kyoya
• Karui
• Raya
• Mara
• Moshi Hiroko
• Moto Jun-Ni
• Moto Ogama
• Oda
• Otomo Teruken
• Seppun Taiyiko
• Seppun Tomko
• Shiba Fukada
• Shinjo Etsuma
• Togashi Osawa
• Tsuruchi Etsui
• Tsuruchi Shigekazu
• Tsuruchi Shisuken
• Tsuruchi Tomaru
• Tsuruchi Yakusho
• Yoritomo Akukiho
• Yoritomo Doho
• Yoritomo Iwashi
• Yoritomo Sakuma
• Yoritomo Tsang
• Yoritomo Zinan