Vengée

**Liberty Equality Fraternity, Mountain, Swamp and Gironde** by it's full name, nicknamed **Vengée**, is a **Forbidden Ninja Art** used by **Ryōki** to become **Judge Sapphire**. It is the origin of every Judge Arts. It refers to the phase of the Terror and its nickname refers to the War of Vendée during the French Revolution.

## Description

It is the Art necessary for Judge Sapphire to fully awakens into her true form, and requires special training and her will to use it. It can't be used by anyone else than her.

## Background

Judge Sapphire is the entity linked to the Gems of the Revolution, through she dates back from before they were first mentioned. She appeared shortly after True Kagura as an entity which goal was to act as a balance for Kagura's Yōma extermination, even if she lacked her own identity and was merely a Blue Kagura. If Kagura was merciless to Yōma disregarding who they were individually, Sapphire was able to forgive and help the kind ones, without showing more mercy than Kagura to rogue Yōma. She had less powers and her incarnation was restricted, able to awaken only in the ancestors of the Kurokuin Family.

In 1794, a French Officer who participated in the Wars of Vendée and the Napoleonic Wars escaped from the Restoration by flying to Japan. He wasn't involved in any of the massacre that happened in Vendée and even tried to arrange the uprising peacefully, and was known as a kind general. As he entered Japan during the Edo period where the Sakoku was applied, he was chased by shinobi as a stranger that stepped on the Japanese ground without being allowed. He eventually was attacked but sparred by the elder sister of the Kurokuin Family named Kishi. Sensitive to his misery, she hid him and offered hospitality with the support of her family, and was taking care of him, slowly growing a bond and even feel love for him. By recognition, he gave the family the most modern firearm technologies of these times, and helped them to gain importance as shinobi, hardening their great reputation in the shinobi sector

This Frenchman's arrival and eventual reproduction with Kishi who bore Sapphire's powers in her blood resulted in a child in which Sapphire started to develop. It found an identity, thematics, and it started to gather a power that the father was determined to develop by carving gems with the help of Shintoist jewelers. He wrote the Judge Arts including Vengée, Arts that all contained Sapphire's powers.

The French biologic legacy slowly decreased each generation and disappeared at the beginning of the 20th, but what he has done for the Kurokuin and his influence on Sapphire were preserved. His 9 gems contain all the power necessary for Sapphire to achieve her full power; 3 of them were inserted by one of the family's members in the Bonaparte sword, 3 other were set on the button of a ribbon tie, and the 3 last ones given to 3 daughters each generation.

Recently, Sapphire encountered multiple issues. Her latest incarnation is an orphan who died and the Kurokuin family is nearly forgotten. The Bonaparte sword disappeared and was fond by the Sakura Boulton family to be lost when Henry 39th was assassinated by Hiroshima Shinobi. Fortunately, the orphan, Ryōki, was revived and became an immortal spirit, and could develop the powers to their full potential as well as reuniting all the gems, realizing Judge Sapphire who lost her role of balance against Kagura. She doesn't compensate Kagura's extermination anymore but counters it and led to her elimination.