Hantei Genji (TCG)

Hantei Genji (TCG)
Born:	Unknown
Died:	Unknown
Parents:	Hantei Doji Mioko
Spouse:	Doji Oborozukiyo
Children:	Hantei Murasaki unnamed daughters
Titles:	Emperor of Rokugan
People

Hantei Genji, the Shining Prince, was the second Emperor of Rokugan.

Appearance and Demeanor

Genji was an elegant and accomplished man who, in his youth, pursued numerous adventures and escapades. Genji was renowned for his famous shots with the bow. In the days of Hantei Genji the bow was the favored weapon, and held much of the prestige that the daishō would do later in Rokugan.

Family

Genji was son of Hantei and Doji Mioko. He married Doji Oborozukiyo, establishing the tradition of the Imperial line mixing with the Doji family. The date of Hantei's death was not clear, but it was likely sometime in the second century.

Emperor

As Emperor he continued the building of a great network of roads between the cities of the Empire. During his reign Doji Hatsuo and Soshi Saibankan reformed and codified Imperial Law, which had been originally formulated by the original Hantei. He also buil the Temple to Hantei, to commemorate his divine father.

Yobanjin

Concerned over the possibility of enemies from within the Empire, Genji decreed that all within the recorded borders of his father's Empire were now his people. He decreed that any who did not submit to the rule of the samurai class were banished from Rokugan and forbidden to return. The descendants of those who were pushed out over this decree were known as Yobanjin.

Miya Family

Otomo convinced Genji to allow Miya, still Otomo's loyal follower, to found hiw own family, the Miya family.

Religion

During the rule of Hantei Genji the religion of the Seven Fortunes, the ancestor worship, and the Shinseism, the words of the Tao, were merged. Genji sponsored the building of many temples and monasteries, so that the knowledge of the Five Elements and the Tao of Shinsei could spread throughout the Empire.

Fox Clan

After the Day of Thunder, the majority of the Ki-Rin Clan rode out of Rokugan in pursuit of the Empire's enemies, leaving a small group to safeguard their land. Unfortunately, they were too few to withstand an invasion from the Lion. The remaining Ki-Rin were pushed southward until the Emperor himself intervened and declared the orphaned group a Minor Clan. They were given the territory encompassing Kitsune Forest and changed their name to the Fox Clan to reflect their new home.

High Histories of the Ikoma

In the late first century the libraries of the Ikoma became the officially recognized repository of the recorded history of the Empire. The Emperor graced the Ikoma family with the task of recording the Empire's history after Ikoma Noritobe wrote his epic The Prince of Heaven detailing the life of a young Hantei Genji.

Battle of Regret's Shadow

In the year 120 Hantei Genji was worried by a coalition led by Doji Takamori, the so-called “Bloody Crane”, who over the course of several years, had assembled a coalition among the Crane, Phoenix, and Scorpion Clans and even some members of the Imperial families. In 123 Hantei Genji approached Lion Clan Champion Akodo Tokoyama and instructed him to prepare to stand against Takamori. In summer of 124 the loyal Lion army defeated Takamori's forces in the Battle of Regret's Shadow, being the traitor one of the casualties.

Founding the Imperial Legions

The Emperor had hoped to lean exclusively upon the loyalties of the Great Clans, but the betrayal of General Matsu Kaguya, who ordered her soldiers to march into battle expressly against the Emperor's wishes, tipped the Emperor's resolve. In the year 156 the Emperor began requiring all loyal families to send soldiers to join the Imperial Legions to patrol the Empire, assist in carrying out the Emperor's will, and mediate conflict whenever necessary.

Death

Upon his death, Genji passed the throne to his eldest daughter, Hantei Murasaki. In the second century Seppun Namika wrote "The Shining Prince", a series of loosely-linked stories about the late Emperor.

Preceded by: Hantei

Emperor of Rokugan Second century - ?

Succeeded by: Hantei Murasaki

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