Archive: Kurotokage Index

# Kurotokage Sourcebook

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**Overview to keep track of what's going on**

**General information on Japan**

* Modern Japanese society in brief
* Being a gaijin in modern Japan
* Japanese names
	1. Female first names
	2. Male first names
	3. Surnames
* Transportation in Japan
* Prices in Japan
* Law enforcement
* The American military presence in Japan
* Crime, yakuza, availability of guns etc in Japan
* Brief outline of religion in Japan (Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam)
* Note on romanization of Japanese and name conventions (PDF file)

**Japanese history and timeline (real and Mythos)**

* Early myths and legends (most history only covered in timeline)
* Meiji history
* Amaterasu's birth, death and plots
* The Imperial lines (real and IP/VP)
* The Imperial Regalia (Jewels, Mirror, Sword)

**Taininhodo**

* The Tainin Hodo name
* Foundations of Tainin Hodo
* Sidebar: Kukai and Shingon Buddhism
* Ch'an (Zen)
* Philosophical Background
* Brief History of Tainin Hodo
* Ryuzoji Temple
* Taininhodo Today
* Taininhodo Magic

The Taininhodo in the Dreamlands

* The Dreamlands Temple
* Role of the Taininhodo in Dreamlands
* The Sacred Sword Kusanagi

NPCs

* Nyogen, the Abbot
* Tosui, Master of Taia
* Other characters

**Kurotokage**

History

* The Formative Years: 1524 to 1868
* New Challenges: 1868 to 1926
* Their Darkest Hour: 1926 to 1945
* A Losing Battle: 1945 to present

Organization

Procedures and Style

Important Individuals

The Secret within a Secret

**Kuromaku and Japan Inc**

* Hidachi Corp. and the Fuyokai
* M&M (Mitsue and Mitsuboshi)
* Aozora-Kai of METI (formerly MITI)
* Mausolea and Tombs Department, Imperial Household Agency
* Head of the yakuza
* Black Dragons

**Cthonians**

* Overview of Japanese deep structure or, Geology of Japan for Beginners. Includes:
	1. Japanese subduction zone (presented as a hands-on info file from the 1958 DG Operation: AHAB)
	2. A 1958 geological report about the trail of the cthonians
	3. A more recent report about geological anomalies in Japan
	4. Brief glossary/tech sidebar
* Cthonian ecology - or why they like it under Nihon. Includes: # Cthonian timeline and general bio overview (keeper's eyes only)
	1. Why Cthonians love it down there & the Cthonian way of Life (more Op: AHAB, Kurotokage and Taininhodo docs)
	2. The diary of a lone Tokugawa-era yamabushi that somehow connected with a cthonian and witnessed part of the burrower's social life
	3. Field notes from a Meiji-era insect collector witnessing the hatching of a cthonian egg and following the earlier stages of a cthonian's life
	4. A manga script and explanatory letter from a notoriously deranged mangaka (submitted to a publisher but 'lost' after a B&E) full of hentai tentacle sex and hints at cthonian sexuality (hentai as effect of cthonian libido seepage).
* The Cthonians and the Japanese. All the rest:
	1. How Zhang Daoling trapped a Cthonian under <insert opportune location> (maybe two or three versions of the same tale, with varying Mythos elements, and varying tie-ins with other chapters of the book)
	2. Cthonians & CATFISH (a collection of docs recovered and compiled by Kurotokage operatives or Anti-Mythos Monks through the years)
* Possible expansions/sidebars/stuff….
	1. Japanese Civil Protection details and DG-style template NPCs (who knows…. a Cthonian yamabushi cultist, a non-conformist geologist keeping up Mogi's research, an oversensitive manga artist etc)
	2. New Cthonian Spells/Abilities - Mating Call, Clan Summoning etc.
	3. Keeper's Help - some new and alternative takes on the old 'stolen cthonian egg' scenario seed.

**Ghouls**

**Hastur**

**Dreamlands**

**Scenario arc**

1. Mibe Town and the Deep Ones
2. Okinawa and Zoth-Ommog
3. The Bookstore in Tokyo
4. Hidachi and the Death of Deep Thoat
5. Meeting Kazuo and The Taira

**Tomes**

**Bibliography**

**Maps of Japan (ancient, Edo-era PDF, modern-era PDF or modern-era links**

**Sidebars and modules**

* Project AHAB
* Otani Kozui
* Tanuki
* The Lost Legion
* St. Jerome in Japan
* Deep Ones in China Sea (also, see Mibe)
* Lloigor (North Korea?)
* Byakhee
* Ithaqua

**Related Fiction**

* Dream Reaper by Davide Mana
* Without Intent by Davide Mana
* Tosui Scrubs a Floor by Edward Lipsett

**Links**