Editing Akashic Brotherhood (section)

== Origins ==
The Akashics creation myth comes from the idea that a mass Ascension occured before an ending of the world, and those people became the Meru'ai. The Meru'ai were in good with the spirit realm, and learned how to live truly, absolutely harmonious lives, governed by the Wheel of Life. They only had one real law: nobody gets in, and nobody gets out, under pain of death. Eventually, an exile managed to escape, and returned years later on three consecutive days, basically showing that they'd effectively played themselves into thinking they had truly ascended and couldn't remain hidden from the world anymore, and just to prove his point; slashed himself to pieces and then came back together just to prove how much of an illusion they lived under. This madlad was the first Akashic. From there, the Meru'Ai descended into indolence and madness, and were eventually spread throughout the world; though principally they found themselves concentrated in Asia. Though they were far from their brethren, always they felt a deep connection that reminded them of the world they once knew.

They became masters of both war and medicine, and travelled throughout the east doing both medicine and war in equal measure, until they came into a major discovery on the other side of the Ganges River; similar walkers of the Wheel of Age's priesthood in who would become the [[Euthanatos|Euthanatoi]]. Initially they were chums with the Death Mages, as they both shared a sense of justice with their newfound abilities and understood reality to be an illusion under the strict control of the Wheel, but that's where their similarities ended. The Akashics took umbrage to the monumental hubris of getting to decide who lived and who died, while the Euthanatoi were appalled at how wantonly the Brotherhood were willing to cause disruption to the Wheel using their magic. It all came to a head when a plague ravaged the indian subcontinent, which quickly went from a series of philosophical arguments to the Himalayan Wars; which started well for the Akashics as they were far more experienced in open-combat, but quickly lost ground as it quickly sank into becoming a quagmire and ended with the Akashics roundly defeated, and forced into seclusion in China. The conflict is nominally a thing of the past since the foundation of the Tradition Council, but occasionally you'll get some reincarnated soul who didn't get the memo and starts cleaving a path of bloody vengeance through their ostensible allies.

The Akashics found China in a terrible state; as it was currently under the control of a Kuei-Jin shadow empire that preyed upon the sleeping populace. A number of different supernatural factions rise up to meet this horror, and successfully ousted them. Their victory was shortlived, as the Sleeping community eventually was so fucking fed up of being effectively cannon fodder that they began expelling most of the supernatural elements of their lands by force, and the Akashics faded into the background, proliferating their martial arts and shacking up with the old nobility that ''wasn't'' vampire bait, and trying to carefully guide them into doing right. They managed to be semi-successful at this (the Ming Dynasty has them to thank for quite a bit) before [[Cult of Ecstasy|Sh'Zar]] shows up and suggests that it's time that all mystic traditions come together as one. They're a bit put off by this weird glowing hedonist, but they eventually agree to join, are briefly caught off guard by The Great Betrayal, but ultimately become a Tradition; returning to Asia with the Eastern world as their oyster...right up until the Qing Dynasty's Technocrats decided to run them all the way up to the Shaolin Temple and sold their ass out to pretty much all supernatural creatures; namely ones they'd been in direct conflict with, and a mass slaughter occurs. What few survivors there were had to go off the grid for years until the Boxer Rebellion, where they both begin mass-recruitment drives from outside their traditional ranks (read: white people get to learn Kung-Fu) and massively update their strategies; focusing all their attention on combating the Technocracy.

Since Hiroshima, they've been working overtime to make sure that the Technocracy never gains the decisive upper hand on them ever again.