To: Blood Dragons; CC: Golden Chrysanthemums

[Emperor Tekagi]

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Konbanwa, Dragon.


You appear confused or I must have missed something. Did the Blood Dragons got clouded ever since my absence? We have always been different from the Shogunate of the current Empire or the one before. Their Shogunate is not more than the vassals listening to the corporations, a "Shogun" bearing not more than the title, not the status.
Our Shogun, is a true Shogun. The head of the militaristic parts of the Blood Dragons. The Shogunate being his cabinet. I do not know about the current one, labelling itself as a far descendant of Hideyoshi himself. I am, even though the bloodline is fairly twisted and nothing like a "true blood" exists anymore because over 500 years separate us and the dishonoring Sakura Coup by now.

I have left the Blood Dragons, following what I would describe a less honorable act by entities still bearing the Dragons' colors, but I have trust that they will not lose their sight. We never did. Whatever stands in their way this day, it will pass. The Blood Dragons survived for centuries, endlessly fighting the system. They will survive without my guidance too. I knew this time was to come, when an uproar appeared regarding them losing their way. The path we walked was never a straight line though.
But shall they not turn into what we all oppose, this would be a great loss to us all. I dare to say that the people who gave me a new home, namely the Golden Chrysanthemums, would also not want the Blood Dragons to lose sight on their true goal.


May Amaterasu guide us all. For Kusari, in the name of the flower and the dragon!

Lilly Hideyoshi