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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5690344" data-attributes="member: 50895">Ah, if it could only be so simple - not all has been revealed... Kaidan owes its existence to a powerful ancient curse uttered by the emperor's grandmother and consummated with the suicide of an entire imperial house - based on real world events that occurred on April 24, 1185, at the Battle of Dan-no-ura at the end of the Genpei War. A curse binding the boy emperor to the throne of Kaidan for 1000 years - its been 714 years so far.  If the PCs could find some way to remove the boy emperor from the throne, thereby ending the curse, then the PCs and all within the empire would be sent into entropy and be annihilated. While a worthy act to end such a vile curse, it would mean the end of the PCs as well. Its probably better and easier to attain enlightenment, escape Kaidan and wait for 286 years to go by and the curse will end on its own, and annihilation will come to pass on its own.  Kaidan wasn't a land that became cursed. Kaidan came into existence at the utterance of a curse, enabled by some dark power, possibly the god king of Jigoku (the Japanese hell). Ending the curse ends Kaidan as well, and it will cease to be...</blockquote>