Ikoma Libraries (TCG)

The Ikoma Libraries, also known as High Histories of the Ikoma, were located at Kyūden Ikoma. The Ikoma historians kept meticulous records of every moment of note in Rokugan. The records were preserved by monks dedicated to serving the Ikoma historians, who carefully organized the dizzying amount of information that the historians recorded daily, compiling accounts from scouts and in delivered scrolls, from eyes and ears stretching all across the vast reaches of Rokugan. Fields of Victory, p. 21 There were historical events that the Ikoma preferred not to record, and others whose records they had altered to preserve the dignity of the lords involved. Fields of Victory, p. 57
== Foundation ==
In the late first century during the reign of Hantei Genji, the libraries of the Ikoma became the officially recognized repository of the recorded history of the Empire. The Emperor graced the Ikoma family with the task of recording the Empire's history after Ikoma Noritobe wrote his epic The Prince of Heaven detailing the life of a young Hantei Genji. 
== Writing the History ==
The centerpiece of the High Histories was a set of unaltered copies of Akodo's Leadership, Mirumoto's Niten, Kakita's The Sword, and Bayushi's Lies, all taken directly from the original sources and among the oldest in the Empire. 
== Relics ==
Among the rarest and most unusual items to be found in the High Histories were scrolls that predated Doji's invention of the kanji writing system. Many of these feature pictographs used by the cultures that were present in the region before the Kami fell to the Mortal Realm. Within these images, scholars had found curious and recurring drawings depicting things such as people with snakelike lower bodies and humansized rodents in coats standing before gleaming towers. While some scholars (and Hiruma Scouts) knew the identities of some of these nonhuman beings, the images' meanings and why they were so common remained a mystery. Fields of Victory, p. 25
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