Kurozume Rulers - Emperors & Shoguns

Post Long Night / Fractured Thrones (~600 – 1100 A.E.)

• Emperor Tenshin-no-Mikoto I – Silver Fox

• Shogun Karasu no Takemaru – Gray Wolf (First true Shogun, established military rule)

Age of Holy Flames (~1100 – 1400 A.E.)

• Emperor Ryūsen-no-Mikoto XII – White Dragon

• Shogun Akabane no Yoshiro – Red Fox (Legendary warrior during the crusades)

• Shogun Kurogane no Haruto – Black Wolf

Reawakening (~1400 – 1650 A.E.)

• Emperor Go-Ryūsen – Golden Fox

• Shogun Izanagi no Raijin – Red Fox (Ruthless unifier)

• Shogun Mizuki no Haruka – Tanuki (Cultural patron and diplomat)

• Shogun Tsukiyomi no Kagehiro – Gray Wolf (Founder of the long-lasting Tsukiyomi Shogunate)

Age of Rising Banners (~1650 – 1799 A.E.)

• Emperor Meiyuki – Arctic Fox (Female)

• Shogun Tsukiyomi no Akatsuki – Gray Wolf

• Shogun Tsukiyomi no Sorata – Brown Bear (Reformer)

Age of Iron Banners (~1799 – 1815 A.E.)

• Emperor Kourin – Silver Fox

• Shogun Tsukiyomi no Raiden – Gray Wolf

• General Takeda Raizen – Red Fox (Hybrid traditional samurai + modern officer)

Kurozume Civil War (1868 – 1873 A.E.)

• Emperor Ryūsen-no-Mikoto XXXIII – White Dragon (Young traditionalist, claimed divine right)

• Shogun Tsukiyomi no Kagehisa – Black Wolf (Pragmatic modernizer, victor of the Civil War)

Smoke & Steam Ascendancy / Modernization Era (~1873 – 1910 A.E.)

• Emperor Meiyuki II – White Dragon (Ceremonial, symbolic divine figure)

• Shogun Tsukiyomi no Kagehisa II – Black Wolf (Son of the Civil War victor, continued modernization while keeping Shogunate control)

First Emberline War (1910 – 1918 A.E.)

• Emperor Kourin II – White Dragon (Ceremonial)

• Shogun Haruto no Akio – Red Fox (Led Kurozume during the war on the Allied side)

Interwar Period & Second Emberline War (1919 – 1945 A.E.)

• Emperor Ryūsen IV – White Dragon (Ceremonial)

• Shogun Takeda no Isamu – Red Fox (Descendant of the Raizen line, powerful military leader during the Second Emberline War)