The begining the gods of old create the world from the five elements. Then 
 they created animals to populate the world and kami to bring it to life. Next
 they created man to toil in the fields and do their work. The Kami taught men
 the way of Shinto and how to control the elements so that they could rise up
 and free themselves. The gods saw this and decided they needed to watch the
 people more carefully. In order to control people, they create the hengoykai 
 to be their spies and warriors from animals in the field making them 
 intelligent. They too were mistreated by the gods also and soon joined the 
 men.  The sides were formed. One old god Lu-Ti lead the men, Hegoykai, and 
 the kami against the gods. During the battle many of the Hengoykai turned on 
 the army being the secret warriors of the gods and that is why to this day 
 they are still distrusted. In the end, Man and beast won their freedom from 
 the gods.  And Lu-Ti created the Celestial Bureaucracy to rule.

500 BE - Lao-Fu-Tzu becomes a Shinto Priest.

400 BE - War of the old gods and Kami begins.                   

300 BE - Lao-Fu-Tzu discovers Buddaism as a path to enlightment and 
        attains it.

250 BE - Lao-Fu-Tzu after obtaining enlitement writes the Doctorine of
        Taoism.

200 BE - Lu-Ti wins the Kami War and establishes the Celestial Bureaucrecy.
        The Blood of the The dead gods becomes the dragons, oni, and the 
        demons.

100 BE - Lao-Fu-Tzu moves to his temple in the northern mountains.

0 NE - Di-Ma's Son, Jiao-Ti, became the first Emporer of the known world,
 His Riegn was The dawn of modern civilization.

10 NE - Jiao-Ti creates an army of soldiers and spies , samurai and ninja, and
 lays down the principals of Bushido for them to follow

150 NE - Jiao-Ti dies and his identical quintuplet son's divide the kingdom 
 into the current kingdoms each claiming to be rightfull emporer of the 
 original Empire. each also managed to take one of the emporers great 
 artifacts. 
 Names, location of kingdon, artifact:
  1. Hong Kai Yi- The Southern main land kingdom.  The Crown
  2. Fu Shu Er- The Kingdom of the Northern Islands. The Sword
  3. He Chih San- The Northern mainland kingdom. The Mirror
  4. An Mi Si- The kindom of the southern islands. The Signet
  5. Wa Bing Wu- The eastern kingdom. The Scepter

160 NE - The return of The barbarian hordes

175 NE - The last son of Jiao-Ti dies as the rest, battling his brothers' armies

200 NE - The Kings of The Dragons take control of their kingdoms. Ruling over 
        different lesser dragons, monsters.

300 NE - 150 years after Jiao-Ti's death the Imperial Army Goes through a 
        disaterous breakdown, The Barbarians, constant internal warfare and
        death of several generations of kings divided them into:
         5 Ninja clans: each very small and serving the separate kings
         5 Schools of Samurai: large groups each serving a separte kingdom
           completely loyal
         Ronin Clan: A very loose organization of ninja and samurai who wander
          the 5 kingdoms answering only to themselves
         Yakuza Clan: A very tight clan of ninja and samurai who ignore the 
          bondries of the kingdoms and try to reunite them. 

320 NE - The Yakuza Clan ends up becoming more of an organized crime syndicate
        and their orginal leader, Hei-Bao, dies later becoming the King of the
        First Hell.

400 NE - He Chih begins their Great Wall.  To protect from barbarians from the 
        north and Hong Kai from the south.

430 NE - The Individual kingdoms finally stabilize and begin to reach a peak 
        not seen since the time of Jiao-Ti

500 NE(new empirian)- today
  1. Hong Kai-
        Emporer: Bi-Xue
        Ninjas: 50
        Samurai: 50
        Soldiers: 1,000
        Population: 1,000,000
        Export: Spices

  2. Fu Shu-
        Emporer: Hei-Xiang
        Ninjas: 20
        Samurai: 40
        Soldiers: 600
        Population: 600,000
        Export: Steel

  3. He Chih-
        Emporer: Feng-Ying
        Ninjas: 20
        Samurai: 80
        Soldiers: 1,000
        Population: 1,000,000
        Export: Rice

  4. An Mi-
        Emporer: Xian-Yan
        Ninjas: 30
        Samurai: 10
        Soldiers: 400
        Population: 400,000
        Export: Wood/Gold

  5. Wa Bing-
        Emporer: Jing-Xiao
        Ninjas: 40
        Samurai: 10
        Soldiers: 100
        Population: 300,000
        Export: Silk
  
Famous artifacts:
  The Emporer's Crown:
   Allow's the wearer to understand all languages, communicate telepathically
   and detect lies.
  The Emporer's Sword:
   L. sword: +5  on a natural 15-20 it removes wielder's choice of opponent's
    limbs including head.
  The Emporer's Mirror:
   The Mirror allows the user to see any room he's ever visited and teleport
   one person who is there to the king.
  The Emporer's Signet:
   Allows wielder to copy Attributes, skills, abilities and powers from one 
   target within 100 ft once every 24 hours. can only copy one person at time.
  The Emporer's Scepter:
   staff: +3 , +3 Defense, while concetrateing on defense the staff also 
   makes wielder immune to any form of Chi power.
 
Other magic Items: