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[indent][indent]The ways of shinobi had always been founded in death and destruction. The musings of honor and love were landmarks in a journey that inevitably resulted in the slaughter of sons and daughters. So it was in the Warring States Period, before the rise of shinobi nations, and peace was a false pretense that would be used to hide the building of militaries and gathering of tailed beasts. Again a war would break out, a struggle for power, land, a chance to become gods, the desires of men all originated from a place of avarice. Peace again, and then war. The cycle was unending and would be perpetual, like the coming and going of a harsh winter.

A dense forest seemed like a place to hide away from the winters, and it was a great defense. A village grew, home to orphans, elderly and once-powerful figures that were weary of fighting and death. Peace found them in the natural fortress. For a time, they lived rather happily, even as the signs of war grew more frequent around them, and eventually their position seated between powerful foes brought swift destruction upon their happy lives.

The worst of the Second Shinobi World War was brought to an end through diplomacy between the largest hidden shinobi villages.

The grievances of the weak villages went unheard among the world leaders. Instead, civil unrest plagued the places between the powerful countries. In Kusagakure, a leader once praised for treading harmoniously between its seeds and flowers is lost and thus the balance tips as a new Kage rises, and a call for change sweeps the village into a new era.

Let the blood of our foes act as fertilizer for the seeds of our future.
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Obviously this is set in the world created by Kishimoto and we have opted to loosely follow the cannon timeline mentioned in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. We will be exploring the shinobi world and all of its complexities through the perspective of up and coming shinobi from a war-ravaged village nestled between the Land of Earth and Land of Fire a couple of years after the end of the Second Shinobi World War. 

There is an established endpoint for the first arc of the roleplay, but the journey is much more important than that destination. The emphasis of the roleplay will be placed on character interaction and development, and as such our admission process for characters/players will be "application-based" and understand we will review all characters and roleplayers with as much fairness as being human affords us, but ultimately have the right to reject anyone who we feel isn't fit for at least the first arc of the roleplay.
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[u]Follow rpg rules[/u], duh.
[u]18+[/u], we'll be exploring mature themes. I don't really care how old you are, just don't be a little bitch.
[u]Quality over quantity[/u], we're looking for depth here, not [i]every[/i] single post is going to be epic and they aren't always going to be interesting, but they can 100% be meaningful in some type of way.
[u]There [b]will not[/b] be a posting schedule[/u], I want commitment above anything else. I don't want to encourage burnout by having a required weekly or bi-weekly deadline, and sometimes muse comes and goes so we're all going to be flexible with each other, if problems arise we'll deal with them.
[u]Discord will be required.[/u] If you don't have one, make one. If you don't want to make one, don't waste your time doing a sheet. All of our ic/ooc communication will happen on discord, plus we have lots of extra flavor information on there.


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