Yōma Society

The Yōma Society is a milleniums long society scattered between the multiple communities within Yopan in the Yōma Realm, barely unified as a single faction.

Shin is considered the High Grand Mother Empress helped by the 9 Yōma Marshals but as implied the communities have a certain independence, powers being barely centralized enough for Yōma Generals and Shin to have enough authority and prevent any actual feudalism. Shoguns and Bushi administrate the different regions.

Despite Yōma being actually a multitude of cultures and races with many differences, they live equally and in a true peace that allowed them to visit the human world 900 years ago.

## Background

The Yōma are a life form created by Shin, a living divinity more than 10,000 years ago, starting out as a naive and ignorant yet intelligent specy. As Shin wished, her children aren't all the same, some are mixed with animals, others mostly humans, some strong physically, others clever. This was meant for complementarity, she intended them to be able to help their sisters where the latter wasn't capable by being naturally capable; she has thought that such interdependence would in advance make them unified and peaceful. This worked until the first Yōma civilization was born a millenium after the species' creation, marked by the appearance of pottery, agriculture, breeding, clothing, and the first spoken laws. They have started to manufacture tools so each Race wouldn't need to depend on others for their primordial needs. This is named the Birth Period in ancient Yōmanese, when Yōma made the base of their civilization together under Shin's watch.

8,500 years ago starts the Buzonzu Era of the Hyōkō Period, the birth of the first 8 kingdoms. Still friendly to each other, they saw the rise of writing, written laws, governance, blacksmithing as well as the exploitation of stone and Yōma metals such as copper, tin as the making of bronze. Less than 3 centuries later rise the exploitation of iron, the making of charcoal and the primordial steel. This is the Hagane Era and among the kingdoms appeared major aristocratic Yōma clans whose members became the Yōma Queens. It is 8,000 years ago during the Danketsu Era of the Sokoku Period that Shin came to see her children who recognized them as the Grand Mother Empress, unifying the 8 Kingdoms under the single Yōma Empire. Despite what can be thought, the 8 Queens remained somewhat independent as Shin persisted to kindly leave her children be.

During the Danketsu Era of the Sokoku Period, the Empire developed and increased in population and prosperity for another 1,000 years, having assimilated isolated tribes and spanning on half of the Yopanese territory. The 600 next years during the Kowasu Era, the first divisions appeared within the Empire. The Queens and Yōma were no longer motivated by survival alone, and, as the Empress was losing power in favor of the different Queens, the latter have started to envisage different ideas of how to continue. With how prosperous the Empire became, there was many choices to make and on which the Queens couldn't agree, and disagreements slowly turned into selfish ambitions and hate as the generations went on. 6,400 years ago, the Empire collapsed on itself after its decline marked by assassinations, plots, civil wars and secession, to Shin's dismay.

Now divided again while inheriting part of the Empire, the 8 Clans ruling the Kingdoms turned progressively from aristocrats to military with their armies as animosity grew tougher against each other. Each kingdom had a Race that occupied the majority of the population along a minority of less and less tolerated other races, and their communities resided in specific environments. This saw the first military developments the Yōma ever had and great rifts between the Yōma Shin had to assist powerlessly, this is the Kireme Era of the Sokoku Period.

6,000 years ago started the Ha Era of the Taisen Period when conflicts started to break out and end repetitively between the Kingdoms for 1,000 years until the Kingdoms themselves break into multiple smaller factions due to the usury. The 8 Clans were no longer the leaders and left power, disgusted, as the war lasted another 2,900 years while Shin was trying to appease her children and bring peace in vain, eventually joining the conflict. Shin, determined to end the war, decided to call the 8 Clans to scold them and try to fix the situation, and she eventually decided that the leader of each Clan became one of her own elite servants, the Yōma Marshals, that will bring peace and reunify all the Yōma again. Her plan failed in short term as joining the conflict wasn't enough to end the conflicts and even she was surprised by her children and their progresses. She barely made the conflict longer, unable to make another difference.

It is only 3,500 years ago that the tide turned. The Snow Maiden, the less powerful and military apt among the Races and which Kingdom was on the verge of defeat against the powerful Red Oni Kingdom, have discovered a mean that would change the face of the Taisen: gunpowder. Mixing saltpeter with sulfur and charcoal created a powder which deflagration could be used to propel objects like a bow would never, at the sole condition they mastered it. After a fast but dangerous development that costed them some defeats and sapped their morale more and more, they have created the first cannons which could tear through the Oni' siege engines and shred their ironclad troops. The battle of Hiroyoshima 3,453 years ago using the first batteries led by the Snow Maiden Queen Soru the Fabulous toppled the conflict to their advantage but also marked the end of their old regime. The feudal-like regime was abolished in favor to a more central one in favor of the Queen who in the following years led her armies to vanquish the Oni who end up surrendering unconditionally, this is the start of the Kuroi Kona Era of the Taisen.

Even when gunpowder spread among all other Kingdoms the Snow Maiden could develop further this technology and even defend against it with the first bastion fortifications. 3,289 years ago, the Snow Maiden Kingdom was now the biggest of all those who remained and her Queen Ponyo, younger sister of the 5th great clan was contacted by Shin in order to help her reunify and bring peace to the Yōma. As Snow Maiden and Shin always wanted, they thus had an alliance. With the capable Marshals and the former Empress Shin, Queen Ponyo has placed herself as the legitimate reunifier of the Yōma and decided to not just wage war against the other Kingdoms for defense but also vanquish all of them for the sake of the whole civilization. 3,270 years ago, Ponyo defeats the Flower Sprites and the Spider Ladies' Alliance at Toyokyo, and takes the city with the help of the 3rd Marshal, defeating the Spider Ladies' Kingdoms and forcing them to surrender. 3,250 years ago, the Unconditional Surrender Yuki, a young spider lady recruited at Toyokyo and who became a general barely a year ago, defeats the Flower Sprites' Kingdom and greatly weakens the Snake Women', forcing both to surrender without condition. 3,214 years ago, she defeats the Crab Madames, False Walls and Ayakashi using a Grand Battery during the battle of the beach of Nayosaki. Ponyo, now named the Great, with Shin and the 8 Marshals lead a long siege war for 114 years against the Blue Oni Kingdom, splinter of the former Red Oni kingdom that could invade a part of all others to resist. The victory of Yokkaido 3,100 years ago where the exhausted Oni surrender without condition to Yuki, Ponyo and Shin sign the end of the Taisen Period and the reunification of the Yōma into the sole new Empire.

Saddened by all the violence until this point and thankful for the Snow Maiden, Shin has decided to form a new government less dependent on the Empress. Ponyo the Great becomes the 5th Yōma Marshal as only the 4 first ones survived the whole war, and Unconditional Surrender Yuki becomes her sidekick. Determined to not let such tragedy happen again, Shin and the Marshals did everything in their power to re-conciliate the living and help mourn the deceased. This is the Empire that still exists today. The rise of Industrialization and sciences together has improved the living condition of Yōma, and led to new problems they solved little by little. Now unified and fully reestablished, the Yōma softened and any form of animosity or toxicity against each other became minor. 900 years ago, the Yōma discover the human world and start to create settlements in that world where they find another civilized species, the human.

## Description

The Yōma Society is marked by sexuality, sisterhood and craftsmanship. They share similarities with the Japanese and enjoy a land where they can find whatever they want of great quality. They have anime and manga but also their classical arts and literature, and Shin is considered as the grand mother they venerate.

The rulers, the Yōma Marshals, are kind and bighearted like the 4th to Henry, and they belong to one of 9 clans each :

* The Ice Spiders
* The Snake Samurai
* The Black Bunnies
* The Electric Clockwork
* The Crimson Sunflowers and Silver Sakura
* The Gunpowder Demon
* The Sword Demon
* The Multicolor Oni
* The Sakura Boulton
	+ (Has many members with friendships or being married to high ranking Yōma or just saving Yōma villages from shinobi or just being a half Yōma born of a high ranking clan)
	+ This clan only became part of the Grand Clans after the discovery of humans by Yōma.

Each Clan Head is called a Grand Crown Empress and has a high-ranking position in the Yōma government, and a political party of their own in the Council. The Clan Head isn't forcefully a Yōma Marshal nor the other way around. Note that with the idea of a grand crown empress, Henry is a Double grand crown empress for being apart of 2 Clans (SB and CSSS).

The Council is a a giant group of Yōma’s of different nations and races. Each country must provide 40 prime ministers elected by the people as well as 400 ministers minimum, as well as Yōma’s who represent a minority, a state or a prefecture. The Council's building is located in Yōpan out side of the final wall that acts as a buffer between Shin’S desert and the Yōma Marshals gatehouses, and it is massive with multiple areas including a massive Cabinet were all the prime ministers, minsters, and the other representatives.

There is also a island with in Yōpan called Beni Kiku Iwa island, based off Okinawa, ruled by an empress and apart of Henry’s political party. Henry’s political party is called the Yōma People's political party of the Yōma world, it includes Representatives from every Yōma country and every Yōma region, prefecture, state, city, town, and different city district. Henry is called the Yōma People’s Grand crown empress and her right hands are her 3 Yōma daughters which sit right next to her and helps get her paper work and many other things as well as acting as her body guards.