Editing Kamon (section)

==The World of Kamon==
Originally, Kamon was actually a parallel Earth's Japan - specifically, it was Japan in the years of the Mongol invasions, from 1274 to 1281. Like in our history, Kamon saw intense storms and turbulent seas during this period, which culminated in the total annihilation of the great invasion fleet of Kublai Khan. But unlike in our history, the storms ''didn't stop'' after wiping out the Mongols. In fact, Japan was wracked by nearly a century of continual storms, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, changing the coastline and sundering all semblance of a unified Japanese culture as the great clans retreated to their strongholds and fortified them as best they could.

The reason behind this chaos? The kami of death, Izanami, was breaking free of her confinement in the underworld, and in response the kami and yokai were free to flood into the mortal world and openly make their presence felt. Kamon truly emerged as its own society from the decades of strife in the year 1387, when the first emperor of Kamon, Mikoto, appeared. Claiming descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu, he announced himself as the only true heir to the long-lost throne of the emperors and the new ruler of the land. When challenged on this, he unfurled a pair of white-feathered wings and, before a goggling crowd of stunned peasants, flew across the churning waters to the sacred isle of Onogoro, which had emerged from the ever-writhing seas in 1383 and stepped foot into the sacred castle of Yahirodono on its peak.

It is now 1412, and Kamon is building itself back into an empire once more. But it faces continued challenges; aside from the lingering issues of politics between clans that hadn't exactly been united before they spent a century surviving through their own skills, the supernatural forces at large in the world have staked their claim on what was once Japan.

Whilst the areas claimed by the Emperor of Kaman from his new imperial center of Onogoro have stabilized, the central regions of Japan are still afflicted by continuous natural disasters. The western coasts are turning to deserts, and a vast swamp is slowly consuming the fertile lands. In the south, several cities have fallen under the sway of a dark new faith that grew from Buddhist ascetic teachings into a reverence for pain and perdition. The Gaki, or hungry spirits, have founded cities and swelled their ranks with followers from across the land. The Yurei, ghosts escaped from the underworld of Yomi, have infested forests and old villages and turned them into places of death and torment for the living. Yokai of all shapes and types now thrive throughout Japan, and the north in particular is more their land than it is the realm of humans. And from the ranks of the yokai have come great armies of [[oni]], capable of beseiging and destroying even large fortresses.

To challenge the darkness, the Emperor Mikoto has founded the Order of Guardians; heroes who have been awarded with a sacred omamori and sent out on his direct order to roam the lands and offer aid to any Daimyo who is battling the supernatural.