Sunagakure

*The village that destroyed itself through the pursuit of power*

Kohana became the first Kazekage at the age of 24 as a war-hero in their failed campaign against the Fire Country. Noticing the strife and separation of the tribes of Wind Country, she desired a strong and unified nation. However, in order to do this, she needed every tribe of Wind Country to rise up and join together. She and several other tribes of the Wind Country banded together and took down the Gold Kings. Having taken the capital, she unified the Wind Country and developed the Village Hidden in the Sand (Sunagakure).
She was the leader of the village during the country's first major drought. The two rivers had began to run dry and the need for fresh water drove her to listen to her people and begin invading their neighboring country of Rain. After a swift occupation, she had brought water to the people within her country through the slave labor of the citizens of the Rain Country. She was assassinated shortly after by members of a group of Uchiha shinobi from Konohagakure, thus sparking the KonoSuna war. All over the assassination of the First Hokage -- which she did not give the order for.

**Haken Roku**
"The One Who Ruined Wind Country"
**Age**: 72
After the death of the first Kazekage, the scholars of Sunagakure had decided on placing Haken Roku into the seat of power. It was later discovered that it was Roku that orchestrated and arranged the assassination of the First Hokage. His belief that Sunagakure should continue their imperial march throughout the rest of the countries was what lead him to carry out the assassination. After taking the seat, after the war, he spent time rebuilding after their defeat against Konohagakure. Information about a new weapon of war was told to him from his fellow scholars, the "Black Powder Rifle". After seeing the destructive power of these Black Powder Rifles, he ordered their development.
After a few years, he trained his shinobi and many willing civilians in using the Black Powder Rifles. This bolstered his number of combat-capable bodies to 20,000. With this amount, Roku felt confident in his plans to dominate the other countries in order to sap them of their resources. His plans, however, did not bare fruit due to the abrupt occurrence of the Double Impact Event.
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## The Place

Description of how it is now.

 **The Great Library of Sunagakure** | While the Wind Country had an impressive library, the bulk of the knowledge resided within the Great Library of Sunagakure. The Great Library are ran by a group of 99 scholars that allowed any and all forms of knowledge into the library. Foreigners are given specific permissions to enter the village for the sake of entering the library. All books and information stored within are not allowed to leave the library as this information is archived for the sole purpose of cataloguing the world's information.
 **Industrial District** | The Industrial District was where manufacturing of weapons, armor, and other innovations occurred. Skilled artisans from throughout the world would visit the Industrial District to share information, crafting strategies, and techniques. However, within the Industrial District was where the Sunagakure Researchers and artisans created the 'Black Powder Rifle'. A weapon with tremendous power that could allow anyone to wield and potentially kill their target from tremendous distances. Some people speculate that one of the weapons that Sunagakure was researching, in secret, was the reason for the Double Impact Event, however, those claims were unsubstantiated and merely conspiracy theory.

## The History

### Village Founding

In year 2 of the Shinobi Calendar, the Hidden Village of Sand was founded by the First Kazekage, Jourin Kohana, when she unified the Wind Country after overthrowing the Gold Kings of the Wind Country. Taking the capital city for herself, she forced a unification of all tribes under a single banner -- the banner of Sunagakure. Along with the backing of the Sabakujin and Arashikari Clans, she was able to found Sunagakure in the wreckage of the old Wind Country palace, located within an ancient crater, and begin the legacy of the Wind Country shinobi.

### The Great Drought

Starting in the year 7 of the Shinobi Calendar to the year 12, the Wind Country experienced a massive drought. The two major rivers in the Wind Country had began to run dry and the seasonal rans never came. The livestock began to die, the crops along the river began to shrivel up, and the people grew more and more desperate through the coming years. Having used the reserves stored within Sunagakure, they had no other recourse but to invade neighboring countries for their source of fresh water. It was in this instance that the first Kazekage had ordered the annexation of Rain Country. After a swift campaign, the Rain Country was absorbed by the Wind Country. Political tensions mounted throughout all of Rain Country's neighbors as they feared an invasion from the Wind Country -- however, as the drought problem had been resolved, Sunagakure (and by extension -- Wind Country) no longer had any need to continue their campaign, using Rain Country slaves to port fresh water from Rain Country throughout the span of Sunagakure and the rest of the Wind Country.

### Twin Assassinations

In the year 13 of the Shinobi Calendar, tensions between Sunagakure and the other nations were brewing. It was long thought that the First Kazekage was the one to stage the assassination of the First Hokage. However, the record was set straight as the one to become the Second Kazekage was the person to orchestrate and issue the order for the assassination of the First Hokage. In reprisal, Konohagakure's Council of Elders had organized a counter-attack. Seeing the Uchiha Clan as disposable, a contingent of 5 Uchiha shinobi were dispatched to assassinate the First Kazekage. Successful, but only 2 of the Uchiha were to return from the mission, this left a vacuum of power within both countries. Quickly, both countries would select their new leader with Sunagakure selecting a non-shinobi as their second Kazekage by the name of Haken Roku. Using the chaos left behind from the assassinations, and Roku's desire to gain more power through imperialism, Roku had declared war on Konohagakure and the Fire Country in what history would call the KonoSuna War.

### Konosuna War

Beginning at the end of Year 13 of the Shinobi Calendar, the KonoSuna War had officially been declared between Konoha and Sunagakure. The reason behind this war was due to the assassination of the First Hokage and the counter assassination of the First Kazekage, the delay came from the shoring of forces on both sides. The war started out with small skirmishes in the formerly known Rain Country and in River Country. The skirmishes erupted into conflicts within the River Country as both sides attempt to gain a foothold and territory on the other. This stalemate within the River Country lasted a grand total of 40 days, causing a refugee crisis and the loss of many innocent lives within River Country. Those who have lived fled to Tea Country.

In the year 14 of the Shinobi Calendar, the shinobi of Sunagakure pushed ahead, deflecting Konohagakure's advances and annexed the River Country. Using this momentum, the Sunagakure forces pushed forward. At this time, the shinobi of Sunagakure have discovered Black Powder and it's potential war uses and began mass production of Black Powder and weapons utilizing Black Powder. During this time, however, Konohagakure ended up staging a counter-offensive against Sunagakure to liberate both Rain Country and River Country. Konohagakure began to push back and started to march upon the capital. Several assassins were sent to assassinate the new Kazekage, with each attempt failing. At the beginning of the year 15 of the Shinobi Calendar, the war came to a screeching halt due to the Double Impact Event.

### Weapons of War: Black Powder (Redo)

In the middle of the KonoSuna war, in the year 14 of the Shinobi Calendar, Sunagakure spies were dispatched to the Earth Country and a grand discovery was found: Black Powder. An explosive compound created from the mixing of three ingredients: charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur. Each of these ingredients were plentiful within Earth Country and were taken from Earth Country through stealth and subterfuge only to be brought back to Sunagakure for the scholars to examine and test. Portions of the Industrial District were cut-off from the public for the purpose of testing and developing a weapon using Black Powder. A destructive and explosive weapon that even civilians could use to combat far more skilled shinobi. The development of Black Powder also lead to the development of a method of hurling a metal projectile using the explosive force: the Black Powder Rifle.

This creation intrigued and excited the tyrannical Haken Roku and the Industrial District was converted to a factory for creating these Black Powder Rifles. Volunteers from throughout the Wind Country have been recruited to becoming 'Rifle Troopers' to bolster the war effort. However, due to the Double Impact Event, this call-to-arms was abruptly cancelled. It was suggested, through intelligence gathered from Prisoners of War after the abrupt conclusion of the KonoSuna War that a massive weapon was being created using Black Powder -- and that it might have been the cause behind the Double Impact Event.

### The Great Fire Event

Nobody knows the true cause of the Double Impact Event, but witnesses have reported an extremely bright flash of light coming from Sunagakure followed by a tremendous explosion that shook the ground all the way up to the Fire Country border. The heat from the explosion had scorched the land and turned the sand for miles around into desert glass. Once the devastation had cleared, those who braved into the Glass Desert would see a wasteland. There were no signs of life remaining within Sunagakure or it's surrounding areas, all man-made structured had been vaporized, and an even deeper crater remained in it's wake. It was assumed that everyone and everything living within Sunagakure had been obliterated. This remains a mystery to the very day.

### Fallout of the War

After the Double Impact Event had completely obliterated Sunagakure, leaving no survivors and no leadership to guide the shinobi, they quickly surrendered to Konohagakure's shinobi. Many of the shinobi were brought in for questioning and detainment with non-reliable information. However, some units went as far as disobeying orders given to them and executing swathes of Sungakure shinobi prisoners before they would be returned to Konohagakure. Many of these shinobi faced punishment while others abandoned their village to become nuke-nin. While most of the shinobi from Sunagakure were either killed or imprisoned, many others fled to other countries with them remaining incongnito to live their lives peacefully in other countries.

The nations that had once fallen to the Wind Country were given back to the people, with a small portion of the lands taken by Fire Country as recompense. Nobody assisted the rebuilding efforts in either country, leading to several famines and several economic crisis within River and Rain. Seeing that nobody would help them, they would help one another as they struggled to rebuild their now broken countries. Banding together, they became shinobi-for-hire and were often hired to eliminate any reported vermin within Wind Country. This lead to several atrocities, but it brought in more-than-enough money to assist with the rebuilding of their own countries.

Evading persecution from the River and Rain shinobi alliance, many innocent civilians that avoided the tragedy of the Double Impact Event fled towards the southeast, using the Glass Desert and the distance away from the border as their only lines of defense. Even to this day, the Wind Country appears to be a massive wasteland with very little life throughout the country, but it was due to the harsh climate and conditions brought forth by the Glass Desert that people would rather ignore this area altogether rather than invade and take over.