Surochi

The Forbidden Sands

Surochi is a deserted wasteland that was once governed by a patriarch of monks who valued their freedom and views on peace. However, this civilization was eventually wiped out during the events of Yamamura. With the temples ruined and the sands written with yaogaui tracks, the desert is nothing more than an abandoned plain smitten by god out of anger.

A destroyed statue of Suzaku.

Capital

N/A

Form of Goverment

N/A

Monasticism (formerly)

Ruler(s)

Tsering (formerly)

Military Captain

N/A

Climate

Dry

Population

100,000

Population
(Post Yamamura)

???

Based on:

Tibet, Southern Mongolia

History

Like Midora and Monkhu, the first settlers of Surochi were nomadic outcasts from the Shilon Kingdom. They ventured past the mountain ranges in the south believing it would grant them solitude. Struggling to survive in this dry settlement, they found spiritual guidance from the Celestial Vermillion Bird; Suzaku. One of the Four holy beasts, associated with the element of fire, the season of summer, and the direction of south. Ever since the settlers built temples and shaped their customs around this emblematic figure in exchange for guardianship and sustenance.

Yamamura (3100 RH)

During the reign of Dragon Emperor Ren of the Shilon kingdoms they thrived. The nomadic hordes were silenced, old enemies were subdued, and the kingdoms outside the walls were safe. For a time the kingdoms of Shilon felt at peace, yet Emperor Ren yearned for more.

The isolidated nomadic tribes of Surochi proved themselves peaceful but their loyalty and faith in the heavens remained unclear. Their land was barren and of no use, but Ren's pride and thirst for achievement were unsavored. Wanting to annex Surochi into the Shilon law, but even Ren knew any means of force or violence would leave his reputation a tyranny, and will only create feared enemies instead of trusted allies. So, Emperor Ren sent a pilgrimage group led by Malong to the south to persuade them peacefully. Malong's charm was able to stir the Patriarch of Surochi, Elder Tsering to his favor but wasn't enough to gain his approval. Frustrated by his refusal, they remained loyal to Ren's plan of peaceful negotiation. But instead of journeying back, Malong decided to stay behind for he was captured by Surochi's hospitality and culture.

In the middle of the night, a colossal earth yaoguai named Rou Shan tore up from the ground in a village named Yamamura and attacked the temple where the Surochi Patriarch resided, but was thwarted by Malong and his men. Mighty the former emperor stood true, their battle laying waste to the temple and the monks within. Finally, after five days, Malong subdued the yaoguai king, chopping him into seven pieces. One of them being a tooth that pierced Malong's skin with a fatal poison. After Malongs death the severed remains of Rou Shan picked themselves up and hammered a lavish hole into a revered temple of the Vermillion bird of the South; Suzaku. Causing a great eruption that quickly turned all standbys into dust.

A great war of yaoguais ensured and forced all the nations of the globe to interfere. After months of bloodshed, the hole pierced in Yamamura was sealed by Admiral Fu Bai and his magic door. After the war, Surochi was considered a "national corpse", and would only be used for the exiled, every inch of sand was officially free from any law or government, and completely unconstrained.

The door created by Fu bai to seal both him and the yaogaui world from the mortal realm.

Yamamura

Culture

Before Yamamura, the people of Surochi practiced a monastic government and pledged their faith and likeness to the celestial Suzaku. Today the desert practices an anarchistic ideology system, no faction owns it or even wants it. So as you might expect, the Surochi desert contains the most dangerous and sadistic bandits, criminals, and raiders of all of Kudao. Stealing, ransacking, and slaughtering each other like a pack of hungry beasts trapped in the same room, fighting for survival. It is cautiously advised to avoid this land at all costs.