Ninja

### Purpose

Initially the main populace of the Yokai Island, now the Yokai Secret Service or mercenary.

## Other attributes

### Internal ranks or jobs

KageJounin

Chuunin

Genin

Student

### Specified jobs or activities

Bounty Hunting, Courier, Cooking, Medical, Secret Service, Assasination, Theft, Guarding, Intellicence, Training.

## Political Information

### Known for

War versus pirates

 Founding and Purpose

Officially the Ninja's are founded by Thyton in the DragonFable era, but in the ancient times of the AdventureQuest era there also have been existing ninja-clans. But these were never very organised and mostly went rogue. The ninja knowledge is ancient however, there are no records of it's exact origin.

Ninja's excel in stealth, speed and assasination. They are never highly armored as to improve agility. They fight with shurikens, short ninja blades and tactics. If they use any kind of magic abilities they name it 'jutsu'.

Ninja's are not all loyal to the Yokai faction. Most are actually mercenary. And there is also a ninja faction that is loyal to the Sandsea kingdom.

#### Notable Members:

* Thyton founder of the Shadow of the Wind clan.
* Drew American Ninja Warrior
* Llussion leader of the Sandsea ninja clan.

## Notable events and achievements.

### AdventureQuest

In the earliest timeline of the AE universe Ninja's do exist in small separate groups. Most ninja's are rogue ninja's or mercenaries for hire. There is no set location as to where they might origin from.

The Vampire Slayer faction does sell a ninja armor for Z tokens however. Also Safiria installs the powers of the ninja here in her own fashion granting them a dojo. But Ninja's in the AQ time line aren't specifically human.

### DragonFable

As Thyton appears in the DragonFable era, the ninja clans get a more distinguised place to live. On Sho'Nuff Island Thyton founds the Shadow of the Wind clan. It is here where Pirates start bothering the Ninja's and the unending feud between them starts.

The ninja's do however get involved in certain affairs regarding Sepulchure and Drakath.

### AdventureQuest Worlds

Following up to the AQWorlds timeline the Ninja's are a part of the lore even before the Yokai islands are discovered. Mazumi, a traveling ninja trainer is found in Greenguard Forest and is willing to train people in the Ninja arts. Oddly, but not very correctly Assasins are seen as a higher rank of Ninja's while this is not entirely the case.
Ninja's in this timeline are hired by lots of factions, even by factions like EbilCorp., The Nation or The Legion. It is not said if they are all loyal to their faction or are mere mercenaries as would be expected.

The AQWorlds era is the first timeline where actual differences are made in ninja ranks however, but ninja viillages do not seem to exist anymore other than the Yokai faction.

### AdventureQuest 3D

The first ninja to be encountered is Thyton whom trains you in the art of being ninja in exchange for saving the town of Westmere from a purple corruption.
The ninja faction in the sequel of this is encountered by the Pirates in Lolosia. As the ninja's are followed back to the place they seem to origin from it is discovered that they have an own village. Which likely is aligned to the old Yokai faction.

### Mech Quest

Way later the ninja factions in the Mech Quest era only exist on the Yokai planet.

### Epic Duel

In the Epic Duel timeline the ninja's are solely loyal to Ebilcorp.

### Hero Smash

In the last timeline only an ninja armor is available from Yergen.

## Fun Facts

* In AQWorlds there is a ninja-spinoff from the series of Naruto Shippuuden.
* The most known ninja clans are the Ninja's of the Sand and the Shadow of the Wind clan.
* Ninja's hate Pirates, but there has been reported to be 1 pirate ninja in existence ever.

## Real life story

Ninja's are Artix Krieger favorite. Together with Drew he has participated to American Ninja Warrior and even filmed various clips about ninja tricks on his Youtube channel. Not to mention that the entrance of the Secret Underground lab is guarded by ninja's.