Ashikaga Takauji

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Ashikaga Takauji was the Lord of the Ashikaga House that managed to unify JAPAN under the flag of his house in the year GI0455, ending the 3rd Sengoku Period.

While not many details are known about him, he must have been a skilled Warlord and a charismatic leader. He managed to end the Sengoku Era in only three years, which was probably the shortest one seen in the country. He's presumed to have been a strong and admirable person, capable of defeating the other houses and claiming the name of the Emperor for himself, completely different to his most recent descendant.

Takauji's childhood, like other details of his life, are unknown, but what we do know is that he grew up during the Holy Magic Sect's rule over all of humanity. It is likely that before the 3rd Sengoku Period, JAPAN had been at peace for a very long time. As a political leader in JAPAN, Takauji was also in all likelihood a leader in JAPAN, in what would have been Continent-wide revolts against the local Toushin Toshi after M.M Rune pitted himself and the mage elite of the Toushin Toshi against the 'barbarians' living on land, just 4 years prior. It is unlikely that Takauji was, himself, a mage, as mages don't seem to have left much of a legacy in the Ashikaga Clan, nor in JAPAN as a whole.

It was in such a context of a vacuum of power, as the Holy Magic Sect was imploding from within, after M.M Rune's death, that the 3rd Sengoku Period in JAPAN appears to have begun.