Two Hundred Years' War

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The Two Hundred Years' War (二百年戦争/Ni-Hyakunen Senso) (1914 – 2123TR/3631 – 3840PCZ) was a roughly two-century period of civil war in Fuso history following the collapse of the Haken Jidai (覇権時代/Hegemonic Period) and ending with the full establishment of the Empire of Yamatai's dominance and hegemony over the vast majority Fuso.

The Ni-Hyakunen Senso is traditionally divided into three periods:

• Fuchowa Jidai (不調和時代/Disharmony Period) (1914 – 2022TR/3631 – 3739PCZ)
  • The period when most of Fuso was carved up by many dozens of warlords and daimyo competing for hegemony over their local regions of Fuso or to simply maintain independence. Ended with the abdication of Sakugen-tenno (昨源天皇) and the establishment of the Empire of Yamatai.
• Gappei Jidai (合併時代/Consolidation Period) (2022 – 2080TR/3739 – 3797PCZ)
  • The period following the abdication of Sakugen-tenno to Shintoki-tenno (新時天皇), after which Shintoki-tenno and his followers set out to unite Fuso under the banner of Yamatai.
• Ibu Jidai (慰撫時代/Soothing Period) (2080 – 2123TR/3797 – 3840PCZ).
  • The period following the end of most of the major fighting of the Gappei Jidai. By this point the only a handful of regional lords remained beyond the shadow of the tenno, and violence that remained were localized rebellions against the hegemony of Yamatai, as well as some banditry.

Prelude

For a few centuries prior to the Ni-Hyakunen Senso, the tenno of the Nadeshiko dynasty, while remaining the peacekeepers of Fuso, had been sidelined by a series of bakufu (幕府/shogunates), who kept the fourteen kingdoms – which in realty were more accurately described as power blocks of loose hegemonic confederations rather than formal kingdoms – in line under the threat of military intervention. The latest was the Takanami Bakufu (高波幕府) under the Ikuno clan (生野).

Fuchowa Jidai

The period of semi-unified rule ended when Ikuno no Sasami (生野の笹身), the then Shogun of Fuso, and Mokuso-tenno (木造天皇), were both assassinated in an internal power struggle that was intended to restore power to the tenno. The coup – referred by historians as the Kokyo de no Gyakusatsu (皇居での虐殺/Massacre at the Imperial Palace) – backfired when a large angry mob stormed the palace at the same time the coup was taking place and most of the direct imperial family, including Mokuso-tenno's intended replacement, was killed. With most of the parent line of the imperial family dead, including the intended post-coup tenno, this left the heir to the throne, and the future of the imperial family, uncertain. Unknown to the public and the coup's organizers was the fact that one of their own, and the actual organizer of the mob – Naraku Onigumo (奈落鬼蜘蛛) – was a chaotic who organized deliberately everything to throw all of Fuso into chaos.

With each of the rulers of the fourteen major power blocks suspecting each other of taking part in the atrocity, and the more ambitious of every major daimyo and samurai clan sensing and seizing opportunity, rebellions and regional inter-clan wars ensued as most of the fourteen kingdoms collapsed entirely. The Takanami Bakufu's authority ceased to mean anything as well and the government too collapsed. And so the lands and islands of Fuso were plunged into the chaos of near-perpetual war, even the eventual enthronement of Jikken-tenno (実験天皇), a distant cousin of Mukuso-tenno and the only known valid heir at the time, did nothing to quell the chaos; just like the bakufu, the position and authority of the tenno had been reduced to nothing and was widely viewed merely as a near-obsolete symbol.

For at least a century the daimyo and other warlords of Fuso warred with each other on and off in either an attempt to gain hegemony over as much of Fuso as possible or simply preserve independence. Many managed to conquer large swathes of territory, but these conquests never lasted long as the ruling daimyo often died before any more headway could be made, leading to revolts that caused the territories to become independent once more. A continued pattern that endured for over a century until the rise of Yamatai.

Gappei Jidai

Treaty of 2080

The Treaty of 2080 (二千八十年の条約/Ni senhachijū-nen no joyaku) was the peace treaty that ended the war between the Empire of Yamatai and the Kingdom of Mizuho, effectively ending the major fighting of the Ni-Hyakunen Senso.

Ibu Jidai

The major fighting of the Ni-Hyakunen Senso ended with the Treaty of 2080. Later that same year the Resolution of 2080 was passed by the Daijo-kan, which ratified the new government of Yamatai and assimilated the vast territories – most of which remained under feudal daimyo and/or samurai rule as throughout the Gappei Jidai – into the new political system of the empire. However, localized hostilities, unresolved conflicts, and small rebellions against Yamato rule persisted and continued throughout Fuso for a few more decades, even as tensions cooled to amity throughout the great islands.

Only a handful of regional lords remained outside the shadow of the tenno, but these holdouts were peacefully assimilated over the following decades.

One of the notable conflicts of the era was the Ashi War (足戦争), fought between the Ashi ninja clan and the imperial court. The Ashi clan was defeated but not eliminated, and since went into hiding. The clan has since become a part of the Cult of Chaos.

The last serious, and largest, post-Gappei conflict of the era was the Kurou Senso (黒烏戦争/Black Raven War), fought between the renegade Kurou clan and their vassals against the imperial court.

Notes & Trivia

• The "Two Hundred Years' War," is actually a misnomer, as it was more of a series of near-constant regional conflicts with varying periods of peace spread over three distinct periods. At no point during any of the three periods were all faction/powers of Fuso at war with one another contemporaneously.
• Hinomoto was the only power of Fuso to not get involved with the conflicts of the north, but did welcome refugees fleeing the wars. This occasionally led to disputes with some clans when they accused Hinomoto of sheltering their enemies, but none of the accusations held any real merit.
• The Fuchowa Jidai of the is mostly inspired of the real-world Sengoku Jidai of Japanese history.