N/History/Kirin Tor Split
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- 1059: The Kirin Tor captured the bureaucrat along his itinerary, and turned him over to the emperor in exchange for being given a chance to serve him and thus be part of something big. But the entirety of the Kirin Tor was not behind this, so they formed two factions: those that agreed to this process and those who struck an independent course. Meanwhile, the emperor, in need of support, accepted the offer.
- 1059-1064: For five years, the royalist Kirin Tor members shared their secrets in exchange for hospitality, prestige, and leverage in affairs. The emperor came to see them as useful tools for his own rule, which was blessed for the first time with constructive marvels. At the end of this period, they were told to go find the other Kirin Tor faction and exterminate them.
- 1067: Discovery of Unicorn Island.
- 1069: The two factions collided in a major but rather unnoticed confrontation that resulted in the royalist Kirin Tor members' total defeat and no casualties on the other side. The emperor realized that the Kirin Tor would now have the power to spread chaos across his kingdom, so he abdicated in favor of a not so well known and well disliked niece. The niece knew that he would have to settle the Kirin Tor matter satisfactorily, but knew that his uncle was setting him up, so he instead had the most popular member of the Royal court announce that it was the abdicated emperor's decision to concede territory to the Kirin Tor. In anger, the people and the Royal enforcers joined to capture the abdicated emperor and imprisoned him.
