The Celestial Order
The Celestial Order was basically the Rokugani caste system. The will of Tengoku organized all of existence into a hierarchy, ordering both Heaven and The Emerald Empire .
Legends said that long ago, all animals, including humans, were equal. Each species had its own society, religion, culture, and stories. Each one believed a different truth about where they all came from. Periodically, the animals convened to discuss important matters. Every meeting included a vote on whose reality should supersede the others, so that all the animals and humans could agree on a single worldview. Each time, each species voted for its own reality, and that was that. One day the humans persuaded the dogs, their closest allies, to vote for human reality instead of dog one, to be later rewarded by humans when they were in power. humans and dogs voted together, and the humans' way of seeing the world prevailed. From this arose Rokugan's history and the system that exalted humans and their gods above all others: the Celestial Order.
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