RENEWED SHALL BE BLADE THAT WAS BROKEN
AND THE CROWNLESS AGAIN SHALL BE KING.
[CANON HISTORY]
Shouryuu’s life began in an atypical fashion in comparison to the majority of the people within the Twelve Kingdoms. He was born a taika. That is, a citizen of the Twelve Kingdom's whose ranka (egg fruit) was swept away prior to his birth by a violent storm called a shoku, and whisked to the "legendary" land of Hourai (Japan), where he was then birthed and raised by a human mother instead of hatching from a tree. In Hourai, Shouryuu was born into the successful Komatsu clan during Japan's Warring States Era and given the name Saburo-Naotaka, oblivious to his true heritage. The Komatsu clan were descended from a band of seafaring pirates who, after a series of political maneuvering, were able to secure some coastal, closed-in island land in Japan's inland sea and settled there. His father was the lord of the people, and as Naotaka's mother died young, Naotaka was soon left as the sole heir to the Komatsu name.
Naotaka’s father was a man who constantly wished to appeal and mimic the imperial way of life, that of wealth, refinement and decorum. As such, Naotaka grew up being educated by prestigious tutors from the imperial court and instructed in its ways. However, Naotaka was an oddity in the royal clan household in that he never melded or conformed to the royal way of living that his father so treasured so highly. Instead, Naotaka preferred to wander about the coastal land, intermingle with his subjects, and more or less do whatever he so pleased. Even when he was later arranged and married off to an imperial woman at his father’s behest, he never “settled down,” though the woman herself never once accepted him as her husband, even on their supposed wedding night, due to his seemingly carefree and unrefined attitude and rebellion against the imperial way. As such, the two had no relationship or chemistry to speak of, and it was implied that Naotaka’s own father sired the children she bore.
Still, this never deterred the Komatsu heir from his carefree ways, and he continued on with his preferred way of life in relative peace and good-humor. However, this peace was not to last. As the land on which they lived was situated in a favorable location, the clan was constantly under threat of battle and hostile takeover from neighboring clan families to the point that war not a matter of if but when. That when happened sometime within his twenty-eigth or so year.
It was during this span of time that Naotaka found Enki, called Rokuta, his future taiho and kirin of En, passed out on the coastal shoreline in his human form. Naotaka took the boy in, allowing him to recover and live in the city, keeping the young boy under his watchful eye and saw to it he was cared for.
It wasn't long after this that the first signs of coming war became began to invade the peaceful shores, becoming apparent when a body of one of their citizens washed up upon the coastline. Naotaka, not wanting the boy who had no allegiance to the lord or to the land to be caught up in the war, tried to convince Rokuta to leave before they came under attack. Enki stayed despite warnings, and not even two weeks later, the Murakami clan attacked.
Naotaka’s wife, her children, and his father was killed almost immediately in the first wave, and the remaining people who weren't slaughtered in the first attack were forced to retreat into the castle fort where they were laid under siege. With little food and even fewer options remaining to them, and no possibility of surrender, Naotaka refused to escape and appeal to the imperials for safety. As time was not on their side, he quickly formulated a plan that used him as bait to draw out the majority of the Murakami forces while, at the same time, hopefully allowing the women and children, and as many of his people that could be spared, to escape into the mountains.
However, despite Naotaka’s best efforts, he and his army were hopelessly outnumbered, and they were cut down almost immediately when the plan was put into action, while the remainder of his people faced the same fate. It was only due to Rokuta's intervention that Naotaka was saved from certain death and taken away from the battlefield and out of reach of the Murakami. Though Naotaka was heavily wounded, Rokuta offered the now subject-less king a throne—that of En’s, which, at the time was hardly better than a wasteland--and upon his acceptance, Naotaka was made immortal and taken to the Twelve Kingdoms, where he then claimed a new land and a new people under a new name based on the Chinese reading of the kanji: Shouryuu.
Twenty years passed, and the land of En was in a slow state of recovery; however, Shouryuu was hardly the king anyone expected to be. He was laid back, carefree and nonchalant, with a habitual tendency to gamble and visit brothels in the town below. Because of his frivolous ways, hardly any of the palace staff took him seriously, seeing him as more of an idiot king than one worthy of the throne. However, Shouryuu is soon given a chance to prove himself when Rokuta willingly allows himself to be kidnapped by an old friend named Kouya, who, under orders by a man named Atsuyu, takes him to the Province of Gen, where he is kept under constant supervision as a hostage, and his powers restrained. As time goes on, Atsuyu is soon found to be an extremely corrupt individual, despite outward appearances, wanting the kingdom of En, and the power that comes with it, all to himself.
As rumors of war and rebellion brews, Shouryuu takes action and infiltrates the Gen province himself, under the guise of a military man named Fuukan. In due time, he is able to find Rokuta in the dungeons during the kirin's own escape attempt. Not long afterwards, Shouryuu confronts Atsuyu, who proves unable to be reasoned with, and is killed at the king’s hands, and with it, the rebellion too dies.
Some 500 years later, in an En that is no longer a wasteland, but a prosperous kingdom, he meets Youko, a fellow taika and new queen of Kei. He soon learns the full extent her plight and circumstances, and he convinces Youko to allow him to aid her in an attempt to put her on the throne and undermine the false ruler that sits there. She later agrees, and with En’s help, the attempt is successful and Youko takes her rightful place as the Glory-King of Kei.
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