Skoacian Shogunate

During the Era of Development, the Shou people clashed with the other ethnicities of Humans that inhabit the Central East Pangea. To protect themselves from the possibility of war, a brave woman named Shou Yating gathered every able bodied person in Yokohaba and trained them to become Skoacia’s first shogunate. Yating and her family trained this military, and raised her status to become that of a daimyo, or land-owner. Through tense military campaigns, Yating increased the land that she owned and stepped down from shogun to become Emperor of Skoacia. The Shou family has become a status symbol as Emperor of Skoacia since 1046, being the only family to ever hold the title of Emperor. Many such shogunates have passed through Skoacia, and many separate dynasties own parts of the Skoacian territory. The only shogun dynasty family to remain loyal to the Emperor’s family is the Chien dynasty, which now controls the territory around the capital city Yokohaba.   Since the First Separation in 1242, there have been no less than 11 dynasties that incorporate the territory of Skoacia. The First Separation saw four generals leave the Chien Shogunate to create the Huang, Kao, Kung, and Zheng Shogunates. The Kung and Zheng Districts split the territory far to the West of the Chien District, with the Kung District sitting to the North of the Zheng District; sandwiched in-between the Kung, Zheng, and Chien districts, the Huang District takes up most of the southern portion while the Kao District inhabits the north. Tensions rose for hundreds of years between these four shogunate districts, coming to a boil with the First Skoacian War in 1854. After a long and bloody battle ending in 1868, the district lines were drawn at the Treaty of Coalitions Summit in Yokohaba, overseen by Emperor Shou Xiang. This peace treaty afforded each district equal trading rights and smaller militaries than the Chien District. Emperor Shou Xiang decided that each district needed to afford some protection or be brought back into the Chien Dynasty and tried for treason.   The Second Separation occurred in 1923 with the Tao, Yan, Hao, and Liang Dynasties waging wars against the Kung and Zheng Districts. Raging until the Emperor Shou Jingyi intervened in 2003, the Tao district split off to the west of the Zheng District with both the Yan and a portion of the Kung Districts forming its northern border, the Hao and Yan districts split from the Kung District with the Hao inhabiting a large portion of the north and the Yan to the south, and the Liang district crippled the newly formed Yan District, stealing much of its Western territory. After millions were slain during this time, the Emperor attempted to hold a peace summit in Yokohaba but no Shogun Generals showed up to the summit. To this day there remains high tensions between the Tao, Yan, Hao, and Liang Districts with no significant trading happening between them.   The Third Separation happened shortly after the Liang District was founded in 2003, with the Mao and Gong districts leaving the Liang district. The Mao District split off the northern portion of the Liang district, while the Gong District split on the other side of the Glistening Lake. While the Mao district left peacefully from the Liang District, the Gong District has a tense rivalry with the Liang District. Their tense rivalry led each Shogun to build their capital city on either side of the Glistening Lake.   The final territories in Skoacia were not claimed by any Shou, rather the Dulandir pillaged land from the Liang, Gong, and Mao Districts, while the Chondathans rebelled against the Shou with the Citizen Insurgency in 2143. With the instruction of Khoridir Khan, a swift rebellion of Chondathans overran the Shou to create what is now present day Khoridistan. Rebuilding after the Citizen Insurgency in 2143, the shoguns of the Mao, Gong, Liang, Yan, and Tao Districts formed the Treaty of Honor to open trade routes between each district and a conglomerate of Districts that ally with each other to fight Khoridistan and Dulandir armies.   Notable exports from across the Skoacian Territories are their elegant weapons, leather accessories, and food recipes. On the waters of the Glistening Lake, freshwater fish are plentiful when the Shou are not fighting Dulandir.