Atsuki

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Atsuki takes the name of the Suri Goddess of Beauty Miyami, according to local folklore she saw the small islands in the vast sea, when she rested her head to rest she fell asleep, slowly turning into the principal islands of the nation. It should be noted that the name of Atsuki in Atsuken is Attusi, of course assuming we’re using the Usyan Alphabet.

### The Sangai Dynasty (721 - 1823)

The earliest written history of Attusi begins with Sangai Ato, who united the Atsu Tribes after an earlier dinastical split. Under his banner he began a bloody campaign to unite the main island of Attusi, Sobai.

His descendant, Sangai Yukihara was the first to organise the Sangainese Fleet, invading and conquering the islands of Gamonata and Tsui putting an end to the tribal period and marking the beginning of feudalism in the region.
The Sangai Dynasty ruled over the newly conquered Atsuki Archipelago with an iron fist, suppressing religious dissent and keeping Eurisyan merchants at an arm's length, keeping the social order intact but isolating the kingdom technologically and diplomatically. Nonetheless, this period of almost uninterrupted isolation gave way to a centralised bureaucracy, previously unknown to the nomad tribes of the archipelago, in the mid 900 an artistic renaissance ravaged the aristocratic circles of the Sangai court, radically changing the power dynamics in society. Culture became a symbol of status and the Merchants could also become patrons of the arts.

### The Tanai Dynasty (1823 - 1863)

The rule of the late Sangai Rokumaye is widely considered as inefficient and corrupt, his end coming at the hands of Tanai Inai, the chief of the Imperial Guard and close friend of Rokuyame, while illegal his takeover was moderately well received by the Aristocracy and Merchant classes although for different reasons for each one, for most, the action that sealed the fate of the Sangai were the foreign concessions to Kremwell which allowed them to dock at certain ports and trade with certain families which more often than not were Sangai loyalists.

### The Ōpuningy Period (1863 - Present Day)

The concession system although unpopular proved profitable for the coastal cities, foreign good and ideas flowed from the coast to the countryside slowly bringing the future to the former hermit kingdom and turmoil to the court, the rising wealth and prestige of the merchants and the decline of Imperial traditions has only further strained the relationships between the crown and her loyal subjects, Kremwelli merchants feely roamed the cities infecting the locals with poisonous ideas like representation or republicanism, while not all understand such nonsense they certainly understand the weight of the gold they carry.

But not only has the merchants affronted the honor of the nobility with their disregard for the traditions of their nation, the Crown itself has been slowly building a new army no controlled by the generals or nobles but by the crown itself, the ranks are filled with peasants with not a single drop of noble blood.
Are the changes going too far or has the nobility lost their north?