Senkyō was the Rokugani term for "enchanted country" or "immortal country," and it included the Realms of Chikushō-dō, Sakkaku, and Yume-dō. [1] It was a place of sentient animals and shapeshifting tricksters. [2] Within untouched nature such some forests, Ningen-dō bleed into the Realm of Spirits. [3] Notable places that overlapped with this realm were the Isawa Mori and the Shinomen Forest. [4]
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The Rokugani character for Senkyō also denoted both the concept of a capricious magical being who lived in an otherworldly wilderness and the concept of a human (usually a hermit-sage) who had achieved immortality by alchemical or divine means. [5]
Court Organization[]
Chikushō-dō and Sakkaku had its own court, which had a leader, a council of elders or nobles, and many commoners who were expected to do the bidding of the leader and elders, who in turn took care of them. A Great Tengu was a spiritual and philosophical leader who was the highest authority of one of the individual courts that made up these courts, though this leader was not necessarily a tengu (one of the Five Ancient Races that ruled before long before the Kami fell). [6]
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