[Story] The Tale of the Jade Regent

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The Jade Regent Once, there were five Imperial families: five families that, by right of the gods, could sit upon the Sakura Throne. And in the twelve hundred years since the destruction of the Teikoku Shogunate, those five families have ruled in relative peace and harmony with nature and the other nations of Tian Xia, fighting just wars against goblins, oni, and warlords promising insurrection. But this is no longer true. Shizuru, the Empress of Heaven, no longer smiles down upon us. One by one, the emissaries and masters of the five clans began to disappear, until only two remained: the current Emperor and his Clan, the Higashiyama; and the Amatatsu, ever-faithful to the Sakura Throne. Perceiving the threat, the two clans reacted differently. The Amatatsu fled, running as far from those who threatened them as possible. They headed north, through the Forest of Spirits, and over the Crown of the World. They were lost in the snows, and never heard from again. The Higashiyama ruled openly, until four years ago, when the clan placed the Emperor within the boundaries of his imperial home. In his stead, he placed his friend and bodyguard, Soto Takahiro, as the Jade Regent, watching over the Sakura Throne until the time it was safe to sit upon it once again. And in those four years, taxes have risen, priests and families have forgotten their ancestral gods and begin to preach heresy across Minkai. Loyal lords are banished, good samurai are demeaned and exiled, and those who resist or speak ill of the Jade Regent, such as myself, are mutilated or killed. What became of the Higashiyama and the Amatatsu? I cannot say. Nor can I say what will become of me. This is my last entry in my life-long attempt to map the history of Minkai from the ancient past to its unclear future. I am old, my family in hiding, my line secure. What can they do to me? They have dishonored my Emperor, destroyed divine and familial piety, ruined tradition, and spoiled the lands of Minkai. If not me, then who? Who can stand against the Jade Regent? -From the Hidden History of Minkai, by Court Historian and Daimyo Hirameki Ubiro (recently deceased) 12 Pharast, 7211 Imperial Calendar, Age of Succession

Chapter I: The Brinewall Legacy
Chapter II: Night of Frozen Shadows
Chapter III: The Hungry Storm
Chapter IV: Forest of Spirits
Chapter V: Tide of Honor
Chapter VI: The Empty Throne

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The Brinewall Legacy Chapter I: Fires Over Brinestump Chapter II: The Legacy's Lure Chapter III: The Ruins of Brinewall Gozran 11-, 4711 AR After Goblins from Brinestump Marsh begin to trouble travelers to Sandpoint, the sheriff hires four adventurers to seek out the problem and eliminate the Licktoad tribe. Venturing into the swamp, they find creatures fouler than they appear, and by chance or destiny, discover a secret held twenty years in that bog. Gathering their friends and forming a caravan, they head north to Brinewall, where twenty-four years ago, the entire population mysteriously disappeared. When the situation grows more dire, they must face horrors from the other side of Golarion, and before the end, they must confront the Brinewall Legacy that will shape not just the destiny of a nation: it will change the course of their lives. Dramatis Personae Blackfyre as Ghosteye Jarl11 as Praeta Mountainforge PIG as Wesh Gabor PopCultureBard as Katrina Eleksai and Sassafrass as the Gamemaster