Amatatsu family

Amatatsu family

(Organization)

Type

Noble family

Leader

Amatatsu Ameiko

Headquarters

Kasai, Minkai

Structure

Familial

Source: The Brinewall Legacy, pg(s). 7 (1E)
Tian Xia World Guide, pg(s). 147–153 (2E)

The Amatatsu family is one of the five families to whom Shizuru had granted a divine mandate to rule. As of 7224 IC, the family's leader Amatatsu Ameiko has served as Empress of Minkai since 7211 IC.

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History

The Path of Aganhei

See also: Path of Aganhei and Amatatsu Aganhei

The commercial success of the Teikoku Shogunate in establishing trade relations with Hongal in 2970 IC inspired many to further explore the world. The most impactful of these explorers was Amatatsu Aganhei, who charted a treacherous but plausible route over the Crown of the World into Avistan that later became known as the Path of Aganhei.

However, the shogun of Teikoku had Aganhei executed in 3800 IC and had many of his maps destroyed, with the only surviving copies being held protectively hidden in rival Yixing. These maps would not resurface until 6800 IC.

Exile and hiding as House Kaijitsu

See also: Rokuro Kaijitsu and House Kaijitsu

Pursued by a group of oni called the Five Storms who were intent on their destruction, the last Amatatsus fled their homeland with their seal of rulership in 7152 IC. Prior to their exile, Tsutoku's father left Asachi Isao much of the family's wealth.

The exiles traversed the Crown of the World, and several died by the time they reached Kalsgard. Amatatsu Tsutoku—the youngest and last surviving son of his family—took leadership of the remaining Amatatsus and sold their heirloom sword Suishen to fund their resettlement. Tsutoku eventually settled in the Varisian city of Magnimar, and to evade the Five Storms, he changed his name to Rokuro Kaijitsu, settled and formed a family, built a successful glass-blowing business, became part of that city-state's nascent nobility as House Kaijitsu, and co-founded the town of Sandpoint.

With the throne left vacant, rulership of Minkai eventually fell to Soto Takahiro, friend and bodyguard of Emperor Higashiyama Shigure, whom many assumed had been was granted the right of regency by Shigure but whose rule was backed by the Five Storms. The regent styled himself as the Jade Regent, and his tyrannical rule sent the nation into a period of decline. The Jade Regent also spread rumors that the Amatatsu family had long since died out.

Return and restoration to power

In 7211 IC, House Kaijitsu scion Ameiko Kaijitsu rediscovered her family's lineage, which had been kept secret from her, and set off to return to Minkai. She reclaimed Suishen in Kalsgard, located documents and the Amatatsu Seal that established rulership, traversed the Path of Aganhei, rallied the people of Minkai, and overthrew the Jade Regent controlling the nation. With the blessings of past emperors she was crowned Empress, and reclaimed her Amatatsu family name in the process. This initiated a new era in Minkai dubbed the Ondori Era, or the Post-Regent Era as it is known outside of Minkai.

As empress, Ameiko enacted wide-ranging reforms of the Jade Regent's ruinous policies of extreme taxation and noxious foreign relations. Many of her reforms changed the nation's political structure and agriculture. In 7216 IC she stripped its formerly powerful samurai families of some of its powers privileges, some of whom left for Songbai where they became engaged in a power struggle.

She approved the opening of a Pathfinder lodge, the Three Gates Lodge, on the island of Kayajima off the northwestern coast of Minkai. In 7220 IC, Ameiko visited Absalom to participate in the Radiant Festival, which she saw as an opportunity to bolster trade and establish connections with other nations.

Adventurers

The Amatatsu family has a reputation for adventurers and explorers, including Amatatsu Aganhei and his Path or tales of Amatatsu Ameiko's career as a bard and adventurer in Avistan prior to taking the throne. Amatatsus explored and exorcised evil spirits from the clockwork necropolis of Pan Majang, bringing back clockwork golems to the Imperial Palace in Kasai where they remained as of 7211 IC.

Known members

See also: Category:Amatatsu family

• Amatatsu Aganhei, explorer of the Path of Aganhei (deceased)
• Amatatsu Ameiko, Empress of Minkai
• Amatatsu Maemi, former Empress of Minkai (deceased)
• Amatatsu Onoko, former Empress of Minkai (deceased)
• Amatatsu Satomi, former Empress of Minkai and namesake of Satomi Park (deceased)
• Suishen, an intelligent magic katana believed to hold the soul of the first Amatatsu emperor of Minkai
• Amatatsu Tsutoku, later known as Rokuro Kaijitsu (deceased)