Yarihito (People)

Overview: The Yarihito (Also called Yarito) are a people group in the world of Jagdas, they are defined by their distinct culture and religion. The Yarihito most recently come from the snowy eastern continent as a migratory people who raided local tribes, but under the leader Tenno-Seitaishogun Aoi Akiyama Minase they had a final migration to the Yukishiro coast where they crossed the sea to the uninhabited Mori peninsula and established their first settlement of Kamakura. The people developed a unique architecture, diet, and way of life. They have gone through many trials and hardships but ever since a foreign backed revolt within the Kaihyo Shogunate, the Yarihito have been scattered and their existence is at risk while their former leader Aoi Minase is nowhere to be seen. The remaining Yarihito are spread throughout the lands of Jagdas within several different nations but they have been awaiting a great leader's return to lead them so they may settle a new city on a site that they named Kitakyo.

Founding Legend: According to Yarihito legend, the Yarihito came from a great swamp island where they lived off of fishing in a harmonious life. The great town here was known as Tengoku-Shi, Heaven's City. At this time they were known as the Oniwa people, the leader at this time was known as Queen Misato Minase who was known for her rude but fair attitude. The people had houses of wood, straw, and terracotta in the land with simple designs, only the royal palace had stone. At this time the Konosora Religion was already present and the Queen held divine authority. The people here had little in mdoern advancements and lived with Iron tools. The people at this time feared a great Kami in the form of a beast who would drag people into the swamps. One day the Queen received a visit by an old man who offered to get rid of the Kami for the people, the price was that of several bars of gold and some of the Queen's blood. The old man received his payment and went off and did not come back for a while, however the Kami disappeared. Eventually a sword was found in the swamp. The sword was made of gold and finely engraved, soon after it was brought to the queen. The queens touch caused the sword to glow and a blinding flash to occur, the queen was killed with her soul bound to the sword. At this time the disguised old man reappeared and revealed himself to be a great spirit of the Sea named Umibozu. The Spirit took the sword and ran back to the sea where great waves began battering the island and the whole place began to erode under the waves. The royal family along with some of the populace escaped on a fleet of fishing ships to the eastern frozen lands of Jagdas.

Upon arriving at the continent it is said a white fox lead the people to a cave where they sheltered for some time and wept over the loss of their home. At this point some of the people headed north to the Yukishiro coast and form small tribes. The original group began to domesticate horses and use them to launch raids against the settled villages in the snow. At this point they began to develop a history of using mounted archery and spear usage. The spears which were forged of the ores found in the cave, had 3 tips and are said to still be used by the spirits drowned sailors (Ningen) of this era. These people caused terror in the lands but they began seeing monsters in the darkness who resembled those who died back at Tengoku-Shi. They called these monsters Oni after their old name, known as demons of the night. This coincided with the adoption of the name Yarihito (People of the Spear) due to the prevalent use of the weapon. The people began to migrate often throughout these lands until a great leader named Tamaki Minase lead their people to the northern coast of the area known as Yukishiro. At Yukishiro they encountered a small tribe which was what was left of the group that split off. They said there was a great land to the north they called Kaihyon because of the Sea ice around it and its frozen environment. The people finally settled on the Yukishiro coast at a city they named Yukiyama.

Much time later during a decade of terrible cold that was only getting worse, the leader of the Yarihito, Seitaishogun Aoi Akiyama Minase, heard from explorers and settlers that the northern lands had developed a much milder climate. Faced with destruction from the cold, he then began the final migration of the Yarihito to the new lands which were named Kaihyon after the stories of the old lands he heard of. It is here where the city of Kamakura was founded along with the Kaihyo Shogunate. Soon after the migration the weather in Yukishiro got so bad that towns there were abandoned and left to ruin while Kaihyon held the last of the Yarihito people.