Kyoujiro Kirumasa

Kyoujiro Kirumasa [キョウジロ キルマサ] is an Akashiren official, being a member of the esteemed Daijō-kan. Kyoujiro also serves as Akashiro's Minister of Culture as well as the special diplomat to Soijiro. In Soijiro, he also serves on the high council as well as being the co-founder of the KKG. Kyoujiro also served in the Muhō Jidai under the Akashiro Clan, a revered war veteran.

=History=

Early Life
Kyoujiro was born in the Akashiren capital of Tennyoku in 200 BU, just a few months before the passing of the first Shōgun. He was born to Kirumasan parents Kouki Kirumasa and Harumi Kirumasa, with his mother tragically passing in labour. Shortly after Kyoujiro's birth, Akashiro was swiftly thrown into the conflict of the Muhō Jidai, meaning as a young child, he spent his time within the city of Tennyoku, protected from the war outside. Kyoujiro was often ridiculed by others due to his limited serpent features compared to those of his family, having only a limited amount of scales and no horns. Taking an evening stroll one night as an adolescent, Kyoujiro encountered the snake kami, a mystical spirit of the Shinan. The kami offered him a deal; in expense of whatever physical powers he was gifted as a Kirumasa, he would receive a more spiritual connection with serpents, allowing him to call upon them during battle, unleashing them like vines, to which Kyoujiro accepted.

Fall of Seuku
During the war, Kyoujiro was appointed as a military advisor, due to his studies of battle and Akashiren culture, by the then leader of Akashiro, Ōgosho Akira, earning him the government rank of Mandokoro. However, following the fall of Seuku [Soijiro] to the hands of the Hiragawa Clan in 120 BU, Kyoujiro believed his efforts would be best spent elsewhere, inspiring him to join the front lines.

The Kadono Battles
Fighting in the outskirts of Akashiro territory, known as the Kadono battles, Kyoujiro aided in defending from the advancing Hiragawa and Fujishina Clan, earning him the rank of Rōjū. Despite efforts over multiple years, Kyoujiro and his forces were outnumbered and overwhelmed as Akashiro suffered crushing defeats, losing control of their most strategically important castles and outposts. Upon order of Akira Akashiro, Kyoujiro returned to Tennyoku in 20 BU after almost a century of battling, to further aid in the logistical side of the conflict.

The Siege of Tennyoku
Shortly after Kyoujiro's return to Tennyoku, the Akashiro Clan was cornered within the capital, the city surrounded by Hiragawan forces as they commenced a final siege to at last claim the Shogunate under their own banner. During this time, his leader Akira, sought desperate solutions to quell the conflict. Therefore, like the first Shōgun before him, he ventured into the abyss, searching for divine reason and disappearing from the material world. The Siege of Tennyoku then saw Kyoujiro and the Akashiro, decisively led by Akira's younger brother Tsukikage, defend their ancestral stronghold against relentless assaults, creating a longstanding stalemate. Following the emergence of Akira from the abyss along with the first Shigen-sha's lost blessed necklace, the Siege of Tennyoku finally came to an end, as the Fujishina and Kaguro Clans came together with the Akashiro to form an alliance in 15 BU.

The Seuku Campaign
This alliance of clans then lead their forces against the Hiragawa, completely quelling their military and reclaiming the land of Akashiro. Kyoujiro was then tasked with leading the Seuku Campaign, a military operation to liberate the neighbouring nation of Seuku [Soijiro] after a rule of almost a century. During his campaign, Kyoujiro became very familiar with the nation, becoming close allies with the Sajo Clan and in the process, finding his wife Ai Sajo Kirumasa. Following immense victory in liberating Seuku [Soijiro], the Hiragawa Clan then collapsed, with Tsukikage Akashiro granting Kyoujiro the esteemed rank of Daijō-kan.

Reunification of Akashiro
After the end of the Muhō Jidai, a period of reorganization occured, seeing a few clans leave, including the Kaguro Clan, sparking a reset of the Akashiren calendar to the year 0 AU. The Akashiro Clan reunified the nation under the original clan banner, Tsukikage was elevated to Shōgun of the realm, and Akashiro entered a peacetime era, restoring the Shogunate, with Kyoujiro in his high council.

Relations in Soijiro
After displaying his prowess and now his familiarity with Soijiro, Shōgun Tsukikage Akashiro assigned Kyoujiro as the special diplomat to the nation, founding an embassy in the capital of Honbu. With his great friend as well as sister-in-law, Ajin Sajo, together they created the Kanōto Hearts Party, or KKG, in order to run in next Soijiran High Council election. Winning with a large majority, Kyoujiro was admitted into the High Council in 49 AU, also as a representative for Akashiro.

Akashiren Organization
Due to his well-renowned studies of Akashiro, Kyoujiro was appointed as Minister of Culture within the national government. The following year, colonizers from lands far away, arrived in Abeshiru [Abexilas]; the Shōgun and his Daijō-kan observing them with a watchful eye. Seeing them scramble to claim all the land they could and fight with each other over mere meters of land, some nations settled near the Akashiro. As they did so, the Shōgun, Tsukikage Akashiro, sent them an invitation to a regional meeting, in which he, Kyoujiro, and the rest of Daijō-kan discussed borders and boundaries with the new settlers, as well as friendships, potential trade routes and alliances. The Shōgun offered them Akashiren sake as they all shared stories with one and other, of the past and of lands not yet seen by the Shogunate. After which, they wrote up a treaty, with each neighbouring nation signing it, marking the creation of 'The Five Winds' Alliance.