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Events[]

Creation of the World[]

  • The Nothing creates the world in three stages, driven by fear of loneliness, desire for companionship, and remorse.
  • The world is divided in the Heavens and the earth.
  • The Three Nameless Gods created two Gods, the first man and woman, and send them out to give shape to the world.
  • The first man and woman descend to the earth and name it. They also gain their own names, Onnotangu and Amaterasu, the Moon and Sun.
  • The life in the world begins, and new gods, the Fortunes, and beasts, appeared.
  • The shinzoku, or tribe of the gods, attend the Sun and Moon in the Heavens, while the mazoku, demons of the underworld, toil beneath the earth to oversee the souls of the dead.
  • The earth is populated by the Five Ancient Races: the tengu, the kitsu, the ningyo, the trolls, and the zokujin.
  • The Naga appears and dwell in the lands that later will become Rokugan.

Children of the Moon and Sun[]

  • The Kami, children of the Moon and Sun, are born.
  • Onnotangu eat his children, but Hantei survives when Amaterasu replaces him with a stone. Amaterasu's tears fell to Earth.
  • Amaterasu trains Hantei in the arts of combat.
  • Hantei confronts his father Onnotangu, and cuts opening his belly.
  • Where Lord Moon's blood mingled with Lady Sun's tears, a man and a woman is formed. The Mankind is created.
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