Post by Sasuke |{+}| Hyun on Jul 27, 2006 19:41:44 GMT -5
Name: Taka Clan
Village: Konohagakure no Sato[Hi no Kuni]
Clan History:
This clan orginated nearly 800 years ago in Hi no Kuni and migrated into Konohagakure no Sato roughly 100 years ago, making it a relatively newer clan to The Village Hidden in the Leaves. It all began when a man named Abyo Hoshi took one of his trips into the wilderness. Hoshi always had been a bit of a wild life enthusiast and specialized in the study and preservation of various avian species in their natural habitats. While not exactly an ecologist by profession, his family was a rather wealthy merchant family whose specialty was spices and silks from various other regions, he was very much enthralled by the interconnections of nature and the flow of energy and life without any interference of man. Well on this fateful trip, Hoshi came across a primitive society and was immediately brought into their ranks, forbidden to ever leave again.
Of course, Hoshi was very much upset by this news, but was consoled when he discovered that this society was built around worshiping a rare bird species and it's main God, a large hawk with dark red feathers littering it's dust brown plumage. Of course, Hoshi, being that he was a rational thinking man of science discounted any tales of this large hawk and was merely content to study the actual, primitive aviaries that these people, the Taka Clan, built to house their birds of prey and the actual means with which these people used them. At first, they were pensive to release him for periods any longer than an hour due to communication barriers, but as the weeks went by, Hoshi soon gained their trust and a fledgling knowledge of their language which was rather advanced for such a backward tribe and so he slowly grew to be a part of their society.
Marking the fourth month of his capture, Hoshi--now renamed Akato by the Taka elders--was subjected to the rites of passage for his new family which included him scaling the top of a large mountain in the heart of the forest to gather the feathers from their Hawk God whose name was not expressed in words due to the fact that they saw it as an act of disrespect to limit the meaning of their higher power with mere, utterable syllables so instead they crossed their arms across their chest and raised them upward toward the sky whenever referencing the Taka God. Despite his new immersion amongst them, Akato's rational, logical mind would not let him willingly accept the existance of such a god, but not going through with it was not an opition so he hiked to the base of the mountain and began his ascent.
It took him a week to scale the face of the steep cliffs and by the time that he made it to the top, his body was emaciated and rather thin and his mind was weak, often playing games upon him. Nevertheless, he collapsed in victory on the top of the cliffs and awoke in the middle of the night to a shrill shreak. Sensing danger, he grasped for his knife and lashed out, only to have his eyes deftly plucked from his skull. The pain and bloodloss nearly did him end, but he tumbled off of the cliff and would have surely died had it not been for a strange sensation of floating and the sharp, biting pain in his stomach as if something was digging into him. Flailing about, Akato's hands brushed against what felt to be feathers and talons, but could not believe it and did not have time to as he again lost consciousness.
The next day, he awoke floating face upward in a stream, the sun steaming down on him and causing him to wince in pain. Believing that he'd been hulicinating due to hunger and stress and had fallen off of the mountain, Akato attempted to move and found his body unbroken. Still unreconcilable was his ability to see after the events that he had thought were mere figments of his imagination. Swimming to shore, he bent over it and stared in horror as he caught sight of his eyes. They did not resemble human eyes in the slightest, no they more closely ressembled eyes that he was more than familiar with, those of the hawk. The whites of his eyes were a pale yellow and his pupils were larger, darker in nature that contracted into slightly-slit like lines in the bright glare of the sun. Shocked and beyond explanation, he nearly gasped and comitted suicide but soon found a single, larger red feather floating down from above him. It was nearly three feet in length and two and half feet wide which meant that it had to have come from a monster. Despite it's size, it was not too heavy and so Hoshi stumbled back to the Taka Tribe's village.
By the time he made it, he was truely near death and they were aghast at his transformation. Taking the feather as a bad omen, they made him an outcast and sent him to die. Hoshi found no other way but to perhaps go back to where his nightmare had begun so he went back to the mountain and found that he made the climb much easier this time. The feather he wore upon his back and by the time he made it atop the clifface, he found no sign of any of the events. Taking the chance to rest, he did so and soon awoke at dust to yet another dull shriek. This time, he was able to avoid having his eyes plucked out, Hoshi was shocked to find his reflexes increased a great deal as well as his overall speed, strength, and stamina. Finally brought face to face with an enormous hawk, he was finally forced to believe in the Taka God and bowed to show his respect. The hawk merely ruffled it's feathers and placed a single wingtip against Hoshi's forehead, allowing it to communicate its thoughts to Hoshi.
Apparently, Hoshi had frightened it the first time he arrived at the mountain base because humans in the past had hunted the hawk and plucked its feathers while it slept so it took to sleeping during the day and keeping a vigilant guard during the night. When it saw Hoshi sleeping upon the rock face, it attacked and took from his the gift of sight so that he could never take the hawk's feathers nor any birds for that matter, but upon having contact with Hoshi's mind via physical contact, it saw that Hoshi indeed loved birds for the fact that they were free creatures of the sky and not just objects to be idoly worshipped and stupidly followed and because of that the hawk repented for its actions by granting Hoshi the sight and power of the birds he so coveted and loved. Knowing this, Hoshi opened his eyes and shed tears knowing that while he had been spared one death, he would never be allowed into any land, much less his original home. The Hawk saw pity on this and offered Hoshi more of its insight and wisdom, that he could find refuge in another place where his gifts, the gifts of the avians, would be appreciated and not seen as a curse. Taking this to heart, Hoshi asked where he could find such a place and the hawk responded by taking him to a secluded, fledgling town in Hi no Kuni where he could start anew.
Hoshi soon met a young woman named Kaito after having established himself as a renown falconer and the two fell in love over a mutual love of nature. Their first son was born with his eyes closed and appeared to be blind for some after. When he opened his eyes, they were large and contained very little color and the vision appeared to be blurred. Kaito wept at this and her child not being able to see but Hoshi did not. He went instead back to that same mountain and begged the hawk to restore the sight of his son as he believed that it was through his own fault that his child was harmed. The hawk returned this plea by amusedly preening its feathers and urging Hoshi to return home and that he would find the matter resolved. After returning home, Hoshi was astonished to find that his son's eyes more closely ressembled his own if they had a bit more white about them. Over the next year, the child whose name was Daiyo grew with excellent speed and developed into an unsually bright child with above average skills. At the age of eleven, he could outrun and out manuever the fastest and most flexible children and young adults and his aim as beyond compare, only surpassed by his fathers.
A traveling stranger told them of a growing need for shinobi and that their son would make an excellent one. Being pacifists, they were reluctant to allow their son to fight but the man compromised and said that he would teach their son only to hone his natural skills. The man's name was Kaishin and he tutored Daiyo in return for room and board at the aviary. Soon Daiyo's talents and skills earned him a reputation as an excellent fighter and the love of a young woman, Shai, whose father was a merchant. Hoshi and Kaito had four more children who also underwent the training of Kaishin though they lacked the work ethic and determination of their eldest brother. One however, was able to take to tasks far easier than Daiyo and when he came of age, he chose to leave the familie's home and become stronger, his name was Hytan.
Daiyo and Shai were wed at the age of twenty-seven an twenty-eight while an eighteen-year-old Hytan traveled with Kaishan to become all that he could be. Daiyo and Shai had five children and he trained them all in the family's own style which lent itself well to their ability to sense incoming attacks and predict movement as well as see higher ranges of motion with incredible accuracey and each child was born with the trademark blindness then eventual development of the Taka Manako(Hawk Eye).
Hytan became a ninja and developed several jutsu utilising his bloodline limits and abilities for one of the minor villages of Hi no Kuni, and returned back home at the age of thirty to settle down and pass on these traits. Hytan and Daiyo both took to training generations of the family and passing along these things. Over several generations, these were refined into kekke genkai, but they reached a block and needed more powerful so the latest generation of the clan, thirty or so, migrated to Konohagakure no Sato and set up there as merchants selling, as their ancestors had done, spices and silks while bearing the name of the Taka. They excelled and pushed their memebers into the ranks of ninja over the next 100 years and evolved into a semi-prominent though still relatively new clan.
Clan Traits
Kekke Genkai/Clan Jutsu:
Village: Konohagakure no Sato[Hi no Kuni]
Clan History:
This clan orginated nearly 800 years ago in Hi no Kuni and migrated into Konohagakure no Sato roughly 100 years ago, making it a relatively newer clan to The Village Hidden in the Leaves. It all began when a man named Abyo Hoshi took one of his trips into the wilderness. Hoshi always had been a bit of a wild life enthusiast and specialized in the study and preservation of various avian species in their natural habitats. While not exactly an ecologist by profession, his family was a rather wealthy merchant family whose specialty was spices and silks from various other regions, he was very much enthralled by the interconnections of nature and the flow of energy and life without any interference of man. Well on this fateful trip, Hoshi came across a primitive society and was immediately brought into their ranks, forbidden to ever leave again.
Of course, Hoshi was very much upset by this news, but was consoled when he discovered that this society was built around worshiping a rare bird species and it's main God, a large hawk with dark red feathers littering it's dust brown plumage. Of course, Hoshi, being that he was a rational thinking man of science discounted any tales of this large hawk and was merely content to study the actual, primitive aviaries that these people, the Taka Clan, built to house their birds of prey and the actual means with which these people used them. At first, they were pensive to release him for periods any longer than an hour due to communication barriers, but as the weeks went by, Hoshi soon gained their trust and a fledgling knowledge of their language which was rather advanced for such a backward tribe and so he slowly grew to be a part of their society.
Marking the fourth month of his capture, Hoshi--now renamed Akato by the Taka elders--was subjected to the rites of passage for his new family which included him scaling the top of a large mountain in the heart of the forest to gather the feathers from their Hawk God whose name was not expressed in words due to the fact that they saw it as an act of disrespect to limit the meaning of their higher power with mere, utterable syllables so instead they crossed their arms across their chest and raised them upward toward the sky whenever referencing the Taka God. Despite his new immersion amongst them, Akato's rational, logical mind would not let him willingly accept the existance of such a god, but not going through with it was not an opition so he hiked to the base of the mountain and began his ascent.
It took him a week to scale the face of the steep cliffs and by the time that he made it to the top, his body was emaciated and rather thin and his mind was weak, often playing games upon him. Nevertheless, he collapsed in victory on the top of the cliffs and awoke in the middle of the night to a shrill shreak. Sensing danger, he grasped for his knife and lashed out, only to have his eyes deftly plucked from his skull. The pain and bloodloss nearly did him end, but he tumbled off of the cliff and would have surely died had it not been for a strange sensation of floating and the sharp, biting pain in his stomach as if something was digging into him. Flailing about, Akato's hands brushed against what felt to be feathers and talons, but could not believe it and did not have time to as he again lost consciousness.
The next day, he awoke floating face upward in a stream, the sun steaming down on him and causing him to wince in pain. Believing that he'd been hulicinating due to hunger and stress and had fallen off of the mountain, Akato attempted to move and found his body unbroken. Still unreconcilable was his ability to see after the events that he had thought were mere figments of his imagination. Swimming to shore, he bent over it and stared in horror as he caught sight of his eyes. They did not resemble human eyes in the slightest, no they more closely ressembled eyes that he was more than familiar with, those of the hawk. The whites of his eyes were a pale yellow and his pupils were larger, darker in nature that contracted into slightly-slit like lines in the bright glare of the sun. Shocked and beyond explanation, he nearly gasped and comitted suicide but soon found a single, larger red feather floating down from above him. It was nearly three feet in length and two and half feet wide which meant that it had to have come from a monster. Despite it's size, it was not too heavy and so Hoshi stumbled back to the Taka Tribe's village.
By the time he made it, he was truely near death and they were aghast at his transformation. Taking the feather as a bad omen, they made him an outcast and sent him to die. Hoshi found no other way but to perhaps go back to where his nightmare had begun so he went back to the mountain and found that he made the climb much easier this time. The feather he wore upon his back and by the time he made it atop the clifface, he found no sign of any of the events. Taking the chance to rest, he did so and soon awoke at dust to yet another dull shriek. This time, he was able to avoid having his eyes plucked out, Hoshi was shocked to find his reflexes increased a great deal as well as his overall speed, strength, and stamina. Finally brought face to face with an enormous hawk, he was finally forced to believe in the Taka God and bowed to show his respect. The hawk merely ruffled it's feathers and placed a single wingtip against Hoshi's forehead, allowing it to communicate its thoughts to Hoshi.
Apparently, Hoshi had frightened it the first time he arrived at the mountain base because humans in the past had hunted the hawk and plucked its feathers while it slept so it took to sleeping during the day and keeping a vigilant guard during the night. When it saw Hoshi sleeping upon the rock face, it attacked and took from his the gift of sight so that he could never take the hawk's feathers nor any birds for that matter, but upon having contact with Hoshi's mind via physical contact, it saw that Hoshi indeed loved birds for the fact that they were free creatures of the sky and not just objects to be idoly worshipped and stupidly followed and because of that the hawk repented for its actions by granting Hoshi the sight and power of the birds he so coveted and loved. Knowing this, Hoshi opened his eyes and shed tears knowing that while he had been spared one death, he would never be allowed into any land, much less his original home. The Hawk saw pity on this and offered Hoshi more of its insight and wisdom, that he could find refuge in another place where his gifts, the gifts of the avians, would be appreciated and not seen as a curse. Taking this to heart, Hoshi asked where he could find such a place and the hawk responded by taking him to a secluded, fledgling town in Hi no Kuni where he could start anew.
Hoshi soon met a young woman named Kaito after having established himself as a renown falconer and the two fell in love over a mutual love of nature. Their first son was born with his eyes closed and appeared to be blind for some after. When he opened his eyes, they were large and contained very little color and the vision appeared to be blurred. Kaito wept at this and her child not being able to see but Hoshi did not. He went instead back to that same mountain and begged the hawk to restore the sight of his son as he believed that it was through his own fault that his child was harmed. The hawk returned this plea by amusedly preening its feathers and urging Hoshi to return home and that he would find the matter resolved. After returning home, Hoshi was astonished to find that his son's eyes more closely ressembled his own if they had a bit more white about them. Over the next year, the child whose name was Daiyo grew with excellent speed and developed into an unsually bright child with above average skills. At the age of eleven, he could outrun and out manuever the fastest and most flexible children and young adults and his aim as beyond compare, only surpassed by his fathers.
A traveling stranger told them of a growing need for shinobi and that their son would make an excellent one. Being pacifists, they were reluctant to allow their son to fight but the man compromised and said that he would teach their son only to hone his natural skills. The man's name was Kaishin and he tutored Daiyo in return for room and board at the aviary. Soon Daiyo's talents and skills earned him a reputation as an excellent fighter and the love of a young woman, Shai, whose father was a merchant. Hoshi and Kaito had four more children who also underwent the training of Kaishin though they lacked the work ethic and determination of their eldest brother. One however, was able to take to tasks far easier than Daiyo and when he came of age, he chose to leave the familie's home and become stronger, his name was Hytan.
Daiyo and Shai were wed at the age of twenty-seven an twenty-eight while an eighteen-year-old Hytan traveled with Kaishan to become all that he could be. Daiyo and Shai had five children and he trained them all in the family's own style which lent itself well to their ability to sense incoming attacks and predict movement as well as see higher ranges of motion with incredible accuracey and each child was born with the trademark blindness then eventual development of the Taka Manako(Hawk Eye).
Hytan became a ninja and developed several jutsu utilising his bloodline limits and abilities for one of the minor villages of Hi no Kuni, and returned back home at the age of thirty to settle down and pass on these traits. Hytan and Daiyo both took to training generations of the family and passing along these things. Over several generations, these were refined into kekke genkai, but they reached a block and needed more powerful so the latest generation of the clan, thirty or so, migrated to Konohagakure no Sato and set up there as merchants selling, as their ancestors had done, spices and silks while bearing the name of the Taka. They excelled and pushed their memebers into the ranks of ninja over the next 100 years and evolved into a semi-prominent though still relatively new clan.
Clan Traits
Kekke Genkai/Clan Jutsu: