Taimanin Clans

Igawa Asagi and unnamed Taimanin

The **Taimanin Clans** are **families** of Taimanin, which usually look back on a long tradition of members and were founded in the distant past.

Before the founding of Gosha Village, the clans themselves would independently fight against demons, using their Ninja Arts, which ran in their bloodlines. The term clan or family is often used fully interchangeably.

## Policy/Structure

Though all Taimanin clans agreed to fight demons, since their name, between the clans different ideologies resulted in constant bloody fighting, until the unification under Gosha Village.

Clans tend to have a clan head (matriarch or patriarch) or sometimes a small council leading them. In the case of larger clan, which contain big subfamilies, they might also contain sub-clan heads. A clan steward, which acts as a second in command, is often a feature of large families and elders within the clans can also have a large amount of power even over the clan head. The degree of these power dynamics varies and can also shift over time. Certain families are also split into main families and branches, with the branches producing the "steward" and the main part producing the "Patriarch/Matriarch".

Some clans remain mostly isolated, while others cooperate as subservient or equal parts of a larger whole.

## Abilities and Bloodlines

In the past of every clan lies the mixing of demon and human blood. This mixing enables Taimanin to manipulate "Taima particles" to use supernatural skills and increase their base abilities.

The bloodlines of every clan carry certain clan ability, that could emerge in a single member. However, the process is not well understood and not everybody awakens to one. Should the bloodlines be mixed, it will increase the possible "ability pool" but again only a single ability can be awoken by a single Taimanin. It could be assumed that because of that, in the past, mixing of bloodlines was looked down upon as it weakens the bloodlines of an individual clan and a stronger ability could be lost in a too large "pool of abilities".

Examples of abilities would be the many versions of the "Evil Eye", the Fuuma clan can produce, or the famous lighting arts of the Mizuki clan.

## Relations and History

The clans are originally just lose families all over Japan that would battle demons on their own. Most have a long-running history of war and conflict, with some even leaving Japan.

Not that long before the modern age, almost all clans lived in their own village or small settlement, including the Koukawa or Fuuma Village.

Since entering the modern and future age, the clans have formed the Gosha Taimanin organization and work under the Japanese government semi-officially. While the unification was a struggle for many clans, as they viewed it as a loose of power, many agreed to become part of Gosha Village. However, old grudges still remain in the heads of many Taimanin. Especially the position of the Taimanin Chief Commander, which is meant to be the bridge between Japan's government and the Taimanin, is viewed by many clans not as just the most capable Taimanin in charge but the entire clan ruling all other clans.

In the Online Universes, this is further explored and resulted in both the Fuuma Revolt and later Igawa Revolt in the past. Some clans also just weakly agreed to join Gosha but remained in nearby settlements. Current Taimanin clans, all, are contained in Gosha Village with only a few exceptions like the Shinganji clan.

### Timeline TABA

The Fuuma clan suffered a split under Fuuma Danjo and Fuuma Kotaro, both are not part of Gosha.

### Timeline RPGX/Action

The Nisha clan split from the current Fuuma clan, and now as the Nisha Ninja Troops plans to take Gosha Village and the Fuuma clan over.

## Clans/Families

Full Clan List: Here

* Akiyama clan
* Fuuma clan
	+ Nisha clan (Part of the Fuuma clan)
		- Tekkain clan (Split from Nisha clan)
	+ Shinganji clan (Part of the Fuuma clan)
* Igawa clan
	+ Yatsu clan (Serves Igawa clan)
* Kamimura clan
* Katou clan
* Kinugiri clan
* Kirikage clan
* Koukawa clan
	+ Hiyama clan (Serves Koukawa clan)
* Karamochi clan
* Mizuki clan
* Onigumo clan
* Saku clan
* Tekkain clan

## Special mention

Not part of Gosha Village in Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena timeline.

* Fuuma clan (Lead by Fuuma Danjo)
* New Fuuma Clan (Lead by Fuuma Kotaro)
* Ryoumanin (Similar to Taimanin, but a clan of the Dark World)

## Trivia

* Being of the same clan, does not mean they need to share the same surname. Even sharing the same surname, does not make it clear if someone is part of the main or side branch of a clan.
* Some clans are very small compared to the clans containing multiple hundreds of members. The largest clans in the past were the Igawa clan, Fuuma clan and Koukawa clan. Other clans like the Katou clan were not yet given many members but have been mentioned as of a compared size, that they had a long-running conflict with the Igawa clan.
* Igawa Asagi is, as the name suggest, part of the Igawa clan.
* Some clans, like the Mizuki, seem to lack a clan head, possibly because they are powerful but still of a very small size.
* Ninja Art's of the same type tend to appear more often in a single clan. The Shadow Art is typical of the Igawa clan. While the Mizuki or Uehara clan have both many Lighting Art users.