| Dragon-Lion War (TCG) |
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| Location: Dragon-Lion border |
| Date: 662 |
| Major Forces: Dragon Clan Lion Clan Phoenix Clan |
| Generals: Togashi Toshimasa |
| Battles of Rokugan (TCG) |
The Dragon-Lion War in the year 662 was a conflict provoked by the Great Famine and the migration of Dragon refugees.
Preambles[]
From the year 660 to the year 665, Rokugan was subjected to a period of relentlessly bad weather: intense drought broken by bursts of torrential rain, compounded by heavy snowfalls during unusually long and cold winters. These climatic extremes ravaged the Empire's crops, resulting in one poor harvest after another. By 662, food stocks were badly depleted, and famine spread among the clans. Exacerbating the mounting troubles, Emperor Hantei XX bestowed arbitrary and dramatic favor on the Lion and Crane Clans, ensuring that these two clans received adequate supplies of food by increasing taxes on the rest of the Empire. [1] The already-poor Dragon Clan asked for a lien on their yearly taxes to stave off starvation. In response, the Emerald Champion levied further fines upon them, and refugees streamed from the Dragon lands into those of the Lion in search of food. [2]
Wars for Food[]
In 662 a Lion Clan delegation crossed the Drowned Merchant River to confront the Dragon Clan because it had done little to stem the flood of starving refugees driven southward into Lion lands. The Dragon Clan Champion, who was in meditative seclusion, refused to meet with the Lion commander, General Akodo Masaumi. Enraged, Masaumi marshaled an army and made to march into the Dragon lands, [1] to confront the Dragon over their failure to act. The incensed Dragon Champion, Togashi Toshimasa, led an attack into Lion territory, seizing great amounts of food, the beginning of the Dragon-Lion War. [2] The Lion, though taxed by keeping the peace and putting down a full-scale peasant revolt, easily overthrew the Dragon invaders, who were ill used to defending themselves within unfamiliar lands. [2] The ensuing Battle of Drowned Merchant River raged on for several days. The arrival of a Phoenix Clan force finally convinced Masaumi to parley with his opponents, leading to a truce. The Lion withdrew and provided some assistance to the famine-ravaged Dragon; the Dragon, in turn, agreed to curtail the movement of refugees into Lion lands. [3] The Dragon refugees were allowed into the lands of Shiba and Isawa's clan. [2]
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