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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. "

―Friedrich Nietzsche

History

Childhood

The past of Mitsuhide begins in 2 BBY, when two young force sensitive people met each other and wed. Their names were Michael and Cristina Ryokou. In 3 BBY, they gave birth to their first son, Dismal. In 1 ABY, Mitsuhide was born and showed the greatest promise at an early age. He spent his time teasing his older brother soon after he could talk and was continually correcting his schoolwork. There was little that Mitsuhide could not do within an instant of learning of it. Five years later, the youngest brother, Thorin was born. In 10 ABY, tragedy would strike the young family. While the brothers were spared their lives, the parents were killed while on a transport mission in the Corporate Sector. Mitsuhide, away at school did not learn of the tragedy for many, many years, only that his parents and brother were missing. Thorin was not so fortunate. On the day tragedy struck, Thorin was with a babysitter, and his parents fate was quickly realized by the young four year old's guardian.

Mitsuhide would eventually be adopted by one of his school-friends families. Learning the way of the sword became the focus of his life, and it would be many more years before he learned the truth of his parents. Mitsuhide's childhood from then on is something that is well known. He was raised by a family of warriors who protected had protected their village for generations. His childhood was largely dominated by respect from the other families of the village, so his childhood was lonely as he was taught he was superior to them. Because of this, he is slow to make friends even so many years after he had lost his feeling of superiority. He never had friends growing up, due to the fact that his family was revered. This simple fact is the reason he still has few friends and spent most of his childhood mastering his family's arts.

On the days that he was not training with his blade, Mitsuhide began to learn to dance. He found great enjoyment in this, find the solace from some terrible loss that had been completely blocked from his mind. He always knew he didn't belong in this village, but it was his home and he knew the people he lived with as his family. In his dances, his movements always showed a deep sense of sorrow that nothing could contend with. He spent so much time dancing and practicing his swordsmanship, that he severed all human contact. Something he would find later was a defense mechanism from his parents' deaths.

He grew up quietly and quickly, soon leaving his 'home' after he had reached the age of sixteen. He left not because he wanted to, but because he simply had an urging to be elsewhere. From his home on Dantooine, he left on a transport to Corellia and from there he worked various odd jobs. He learned how to pilot small spacecraft from the spacers in the port and cantinas, eventually learning everything he could and bought his own ship. He fell in love with a Z-95 Headhunter which was in absolute shambles. He spent the next six months rebuilding every part of the craft, before one day he simply vanished.

Adolescence

Mitsuhide's adolescence is shrouded in mystery and rumors. Some have heard reports that he killed more than a hundred men in a single battle, even more say that he has died before and risen again due to an unclean end. All that is really known, is that Mitsuhide dropped of the radar of all living beings from the age of seventeen to twenty. He doesn't speak of his journeys, his findings nor his life during that time. Due to this silence, people have only been able to speculate what he has done. The truth behind it is simply this. He lived only by his blade and knew that he would die by it. He traveled much of unknown space and in doing so, it has left his mind slightly unraveled. He was alone and faced the blackest of nights with not a soul to talk with. Many times, he nearly found himself sucking space because of the dementia he began to suffer from. His movements had become erratic and his thoughts thirsted only for his death. He stared into the abyss and it looked deep into his soul. He began to lust for violence, a lust that would not be quelled for many more years to come.

He became almost barbaric in his ways of fighting, the fluidity of his movements lost for sheer power of the swing; another process that would take many years to revert from. He had lost much of his taste for dancing, his taste for flair. His fighting style was no longer graceful, it was simply brutal and deadly. He traveled for another year and a half before he would return to known space, his mind, however, would never be the same as it was before his departure.

His silence, in his mind, is well deserved for this subject. No one would understand his life during that time, so he remains reticent about it.

Adulthood

Upon his return to Known Space, Mitsuhide learned of the Brotherhood of the Dark Jedi. Finding some small amount of joy in his heart, his lips twisted into a vicious smile and he set the course for the Shadow Academy on Lyspair. His intelligence, it seemed, had not dwindled during his time out in the Unknown, but his demeanor was greatly changed. Within the first six months of joining the Brotherhood, he had smothered six of his fellow pupils and felled another two. He quickly rose through the ranks to Protector. He sat at that rank for many years, seemingly unable to advance further. This, of course, enraged the young man to no end. He almost immediately began to work twice as hard on his studies. During this time, the Dark Brotherhood was breaking ties with the Emperor's Hammer. Mitsuhide sided with the Hammer for a time, before finding that they simply could not feed his needs of power. Contacting the then Grand Master Firefox, Mitsuhide approached him with a humble heart and asked to be allowed into the true Brotherhood.

With open arms, he was welcomed into the ranks of Clan Naga Sadow. He served faithfully under the Keibatsu brothers, Muz Keibatsu Sadow and Nekura Manji Keibatsu. He rose quickly through the ranks, reaching Knighthood faster than he imagined possible. The brothers saw his talent and made him the Battleteam leader of the Avatars of Darkness. Excelling marvelously at this new position, Mitsuhide found himself at the forefront of this once dead battleteam. Soon after, however, Mitsuhide suffered from a sense of restlessness and left his home behind for a time. Just before his departure, Consul Korras Aquillarum promoted him to Krath Priest.

With his new robes in hand, Mitsuhide thanked his leaders for the honor of serving under them and he promised to be back soon. Some few months later, he hungered once more for the company of the Dark Jedi. Returning to Naga Sadow, he found himself conflicted with feelings of indifference and struck out once more. Spending a few brief months in Clan Tarentum, Mitsuhide eventually settled into Clan Plagueis under the leadership of Proconsul Aabsdu di Plagia and Consul Aristan Dantes. Soon, Aristan Dantes found himself taking Grand Master Jac Cotelin's place as the Grand Master of the Dark Brotherhood. With Aabsdu now leading Clan Plagueis, Mitsuhide once more felt the restlessness arise.

After several months, Mitsuhide returned once more to Plagueis. He spent his time now as Clan Envoy and as the battleteam leader of Exar's Shadow. Soon afterwards, he resigned from team leader to focus solely on his duties as Clan Envoy. Soon after, he was promoted to Krath Archpriest and then made Quaestor of House Satal Keto. This venture, however, did not last long. The summit feared another uprising and Mitsuhide was summarily forced to resign from his position. This incurred a great rancor from Mitsuhide and he vowed that one day he would see the Clan that had spurned him fall. He wished no ill will on the members of the clan, nor the clan itself. He would simply be there at the point of it destruction to laugh.

Departing once more, Mitsuhide left Brotherhood Space and was not heard from for many months. Where he went, no one knows, but he simply will not talk about it. He gone for the better part of a year, this time his return to Clan Plagueis was met with deceit and lies. He was brought in as though there was no wrong done in the past and he felt he had the chance to flourish once more. This was not so, however, when the Aedile of House Satal Keto Alaris Jinn confronted Mitsuhide about a small matter with a Guardian named Kara Rohana. Ignoring this officious windbag, Mitushide continued with business as usual. He took on an apprentice, Kalei Basai and began instructing her in the ways of the Force and of the Sword.

Soon after, Mitsuhide's old friend Derev Niroth was made Commander of Exar's Shadow. During a sortie against the Yuuzhan Vong, Derev was gravely injured. When donors were asked for, Mitsuhide was the first to step forward and the results from the blood tests came back that they shared the same genetics from both parents. Mitsuhide had found his brother he thought long gone. Waiting until Derev was healed, Mitsuhide told him of the doctor's discovery. Unbelieving at first, Derev searched through the Force and found that Mitsuhide was indeed telling him the truth. The brothers had been reunited at last and it would be a long time before the two would become separated again.

Soon, Derev applied and became the Quaestor of House Marka Ragnos. Allowing his brother to leave, Mitsuhide stayed in Plagueis with his apprentice and future wife, Kalei Basai. Soon, though, events would arise that would cause the Archpriest to leave his home and be inevitably drawn back to Naga Sadow. He would confront Braecen Kaeth the Consul of Plagueis and express his distaste for a Guardian being made Aedile. Braecen, after hearing this, flew into a rage and demanded that Mitushide vacate his clan. Without further hesitation, Mitsuhide beseeched the Master at Arms and asked to be transferred into Naga Sadow. His apprentice was soon to follow as she would soon become villanized by Plagueis and ultimately made to feel as though she were already gone.

Now, Mitsuhide spends his days faithfully watching over his younger brother. Having never been there in the past, Mitsuhide took great pains to ensure that his little brother’s safety was one of his primary concerns. He had once been enemies with the man, but was the first there to help save Derev’s life. He had found almost immediately that they were in fact, full brothers. Waiting until he had recovered, he told Derev that they were brothers. As soon as Derev had found the truth, the two had become instantly inseparable. Finding that he had a brother forced him to recall the memories he had suppressed as a child to save himself from the anguish of losing everything.

When Derev left for Naga Sadow, their former Clan, Mitsuhide felt as though he were missing half of himself. He had only found Kalei days before his brother’s departure and she managed to keep him from leaving Brotherhood space again. On the eve of their anniversary, he had gotten into a heated fight with the Consul of Plagueis, Braecen Kaeth. Informing his lover that he was leaving the Jusidah system, he told her that he was returning to his home in Marka Ragnos, a House in Naga Sadow. Departing from Plagueis, he settled into Marka Ragnos once more. Soon after, the Ryokou brothers, Derev and Mitsuhide, found like minded people and brought them into their family. Of these were Mitsuhide’s wife, Kalei, as well as Dismal and his apprentice Laigerick.

Shortly after Ryokou-Amor was made, the family went out on a vacation of sorts. The events of which led to Mitsuhide’s change in appearance. His raven black hair had become white as snow and his dark brown eyes had become pale green, like emeralds in the light. Even his demeanor had changed. He was no longer the easily irritated man he was; his entire demeanor became calm and collected. His thoughts were only on the importance of family and his drive to protect that which he called his own deepened to the point of nearly being its own religion.

His devotion to his brother was even greater now, rivaled only slightly by the devotion to the rest of his family. His wife was his primary concern closely followed by his younger brother. Derev had become a keystone in his life and he was going to do everything possible to protect that. He would become the perfect shield for his wife and brother, giving his own life before either of them even saw the danger.

Positions

• Krath Tetrarch of Avatars of Death (Avatars of Darkness)
• Rollmaster of House Gladius
• Rollmaster of House Tridens
• Rollmaster/Envoy of House Exar Kun
• Rollmaster/Envoy of House Satal Keto
• Krath Tetrarch of Exar's Shadow
• Clan Envoy of Clan Plagueis
• Eclectic Pedagogue: Krath Core
• Quaestor of House Satal Keto
• Krath Tetrarch of Dark Inquisitors

Achievements

• Began construction on Umbra Arx Exar's Shadow's Base of Operations
• Dark Maven - Service Degree
• Dark Savant - Service Degree