Editing Kensei (section)

====Hattori====
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The ninja clans who have decided to turn their backs on the Kuge and fight for their own gain. Their mysterious leader Saki guides them. 

While they eventually intend to eliminate all opposition, the ninja clans counted among the Hattori still serve their Kuge patrons with unwavering loyalty in the short term. 
Buke are not a concern, easily dispatched with trickery despite their strength. Sohei are not a threat, since the Hattori play them against each other over rivalries and interpretations of scripture between temples. Otokodate are even easier, as money rules their decisions. Even the Kuroi-te are not seen as a major threat, since the Hattori believe they can discover the force than animates the hordes and use it to control them.

Ninja in general are mostly fictional due to the reality just being assassins wearing plain clothes (sometimes double-sided) or as camouflaged field scouts and spies, so a bunch of demon pact-making assassins in black robes is obviously fictitious. There were many strange cults and in Japanese history, but mostly existed due to isolation from mainstream culture and didn't involve samurai civil war and assassination. The Hattori in real life were a family of Samurai, the most famous of whom was named Hanzo, who served the Tokugawa during and after the Sengoku period. Hanzo became a general in the Tokugawa's service (effectively making him a Buke still loyal to a Kuge in Kensei terms) and employed ninja from his home province of Iga during battle and to gather information; late in life he retired as a pacifist monk and had nothing to do with demons.