The exact date on which SensoTaka Kishu was born is unknown. What is known is that SensoTaka
was born of the great \"House of Kishu\". Villagers say that he was born to a pair of loving parents. His mother Shan Kyohaku, a beautiful eastern province woman and his father KeiTora Kishu, a great warrior and strategist. They had recently come to the village hoping to
live a peaceful life. His mother was of known in the village because of her beauty and practical wisdom and his father won the ear of the council with his expertise on military matters and law. By all accounts they were very happy together and very much in love. Alas
tis true that all good things must end and so it was to be for SensoTaka\'s parents. The very thing that brought the villagers and their nation peace and prosperity now conspired to ensure its brought about it\'s destruction. Politicians being what they are, they grew out
of touch with both the people and reality. Hidden away in their palaces they ignored warnings of a threat building in the far north that if allowed to continue would destroy their entire way of life. There had been those among them that had given warning. There were legends of an ancient and advanced Enkidukai civilization that existed before the present one. A civilization of science and spirit, of mechanics and craftsman, of clerics and statesmen, a world different
than there was now. The people did not use vigilance however and their neighbors became jealous of their prosperity. Stories are told of a conspiracy and a \"Great War\" that decimated the empire and caused great despare among the people. But there were no documents to attest to them nor had any of the alleged cities ever been discovered, these legends had
always been dismissed by the High Council as unfounded daydreams by the ignorant and the
civilization as myth.Others firmly believed in these legends however and were concerned as to what was happening to them in present society. They saw parallels in their present state of affairs and the
legends of old. They feared that if changes were not made, the present society would follow the footsteps of the past. They tried to get the \"High Council\" to reform and to understand the threat but they were regarded as paranoid fools. SensoTaka\'s father was among them, he knew the threat. He had seen the world for what it is and his eyes were known to grow wet with frustration over what he knew would come, but was powerless to prevent. When the fateful day finally came, he and a few others fought the invaders as best they could, but unlike the \"born and bred for war\" Akuma, the Enkidukai were peaceful in those
times and had forgotten the ways of war. The army was weak and untrained and their leaders were fearful. Shamefully, most fled in the face of the enemy. The great \"Akuma Wars\" had begun. The citizens defended themselves with honor and courage as befits an Enkidukai but in those days there were few who had truly studied the ways of war were few. The evil invaders had attacked his peaceful and prosperous people seeking to gather all unto itself. Those who
refused to be assimilated were put to the sword and whole villages were consumed. Women and children alike were gathered up and kept as slaves. Tribute was demanded of each conqueredvillage by the invaders and those who could not or would not pay were burned to the ground and the inhabitants slaughtered in the cruelest of ways. So vicious was their attempt at
subjugation of the Enkidukai.Of course the Enkidukai being what they are, their pride demanded that they fight on and so they did, with sabotage and other techniques of unconventional warfare. SensoTaka\'s father commanded one such resistance group and it was while he was fighting that they attacked his
village. During the battle, SensoTaka\'s mother was attacked and wounded by an Akuma warrior. She dispatched him with a knife but his rough handling caused her pregnancy to end prematurely. Bloodied and in pain she collapsed and gave birth. Looking up through the fire and smoke of the burning village saw a bird of prey circling far overhead. She always had
great respect for the customs and traditions of her people and those traditions were not to be ignored, even now. Though the heated conflict was still all around her, she honored her peoples custom and named SensoTaka accordingly. The conditions of his birth foreshadowed his life however and there was to be no easy path in his future. Minutes after his birth, mother and son were soon separated in the confusion. As quickly as life had been given to SensoTaka, it seemed now death was approaching. Just then a brave
villager saved his life by snatching him up and quickly carrying him to safety. After the attack, the surviving villagers wandered in a daze around their ruined homes searching for survivors and collecting the dead. SensoTaka\'s parents however were nowhere to be found, to this day neither he nor anyone he has met knows their whereabouts or whether they are alive or dead.Eventually the forces of evil were beaten back, but there was great destruction in the land.Ruins were everywhere for the Akuma had destroyed what they could not have. In places even the land had been salted to ensure nothing grew there. Many families were broken and many were the cemeteries filled with Enkidukai dead. As for the Akuma, they crept back into the long shadows of the north from whence they had come, vowing to return and destroy all. Though the \"Akuma Wars\" happened many years ago, SensoTaka has never lost his hatred of the
Akuma or the evil they represented. He vowed even as a youngster to devote his life to ensuring that this evil never again harmed innocents and though he longed for peace, he knew he must train for war. The Akuma must never again be allowed to spread their evil. So he
spent much of the time other children spent in play studying and training in the combat arts using texts his father had left behind. He learned the strategy of war and the use of edged weapons and after a time became proficient.Shortly after undergoing the rites of adulthood, SensoTaka became a guardian for the High
Council. His official mandate was to ensure order but additionally and somewhat secretly he was to find and remove any Akuma observers that may be gathering information for an attack or causing other chaos. Using this opportunity to hone his skills, SensoTaka learned better and better methods, techniques and strategies for dealing with Akuma agents. He became
skilled in the use of many edged weapons, strategy and stealth. He developed skills in leadership, interrogation and negotiations. He proved his abilities time and again
and eventually became known and respected for his abilities and became one of the elite fighters among his people. It was out of desperation he prayed to the Great Spirit of the Enkidukai for guidance. In his own mind SensoTaka had all but given up to the forces of darkness and the emptiness of his soul, but the
enlightenment of SensoTaka was at hand.
A day came when SensoTaka was leisurely \"hunting\" as he called it, an enemy. Killing them was entertainment to him now. The panic stricken enemy had earlier witnessed the swift execution of his comrades and ran blindly through the brush as SensoTaka followed. As his prey tired SensoTaka closed in. In a swift movement, Sensotaka severed the jugular vein and esophagus
of his foe. Then SensoTaka looked around to find he
had stumbling on an ancient Enkidukai city. The city was in virtual ruins and covered with all manner of foliage as would befit an ancient abandoned city. There were only a few buildings standing more or less intact. Nonetheless, his curiosity was overpowering and he determined to explore the place before heading for home. The city was in great decay but SensoTaka was still able to make out a few marks. He was able to determine that this city was once the legendary Enkidukai city of Kabahai, a great center of learning,
commerce and military power in ancient times.
Further explorations revealed the seal of the \"Great Spirit of the Enkidukai\" affixed high atop an ornate building still intact. As he approached the building, he noted two arched doors and two statues about six times his size guarding it. One was obviously an Enkidukai priest carrying a book in his left hand, although he did not recognize the priests vestments or the symbol it held in its right hand. The other was an Enkidukai warrior of some sort dressed in full armor and headgear, carrying a sword. On entering the building SensoTaka knew immediately it was vast. His footsteps echoed through the chamber as he walked. The cavernous enclosure, though dimly lit from cracks in the ceiling far above, appeared endless. SensoTaka came upon a vast open area in the center of which was an ornate stone altar brightly lit by a beam of light from a circular hole cut into the ceiling. On the altar was a huge open book bound in gold with silver trim, a candle burned with a peculiar blue-green colored flame on each side. SensoTaka knew the book contained great power and he opened the cover and read as multi-colored sparkles flew from the turned pages.There were words, symbols and pictures in the book that he could not understand, but there was enough of it that he understood to enable him to read parts of it. . Somehow he knew his answer was here, in this book. Somehow he knew he had this chance, one chance, to understand. Then, after three days of constant reading and meditation, an event occurred that shook the very foundation of SensoTaka?s existence. In one unexplainable instant, SensoTaka knew all that was knowable, he understood all that was understandable. It quickly overwhelmed SensoTaka?s mind. The most important thing SensoTaka learned was that the Great Spirit existed beyond a shadow of a doubt. It seemed that on this occasion, SensoTaka had been touched by the Great Spirit itself.After the enlightenment, SensoTaka found that communion with the Great Spirit had filled the void inside him. The \"Great Book\" as he had come to call it, was soon joined by others he had found in various hidden places. Within these texts were clues to the secrets SensoTaka had sought all his life, some held the legends of Enkidukai pre-history, some
the secrets of science, and some of a spiritual nature and still others that hinted at material treasures and storehouses of all sorts within the ruined city. Most valuable to SensoTaka though were the books dealing with the Great Spirit itself. There was guidance now and a new purpose. He knew that merely protecting his people was not enough, now he must seek out and destroy evil in all it\'s forms. The Great Spirit had revealed to him what to do and the manner in which to do it. The path the Great Spirit had shown him was
not an easy one. SensoTaka spent a total of seven days at the temple before returning to the village, most
of that time in meditation. He returned had brought forth with him a few of the texts he had found in the ancient temple, as much to prove his exploits to the villagers as to study them. SensoTaka spent the next 5 years studying the texts he had brought from the temple. During those 5 years, SensoTaka learned much of the ancient wisdom. SensoTaka continued to train, to read and learn the truths the Great Spirit revealed him.
He traveled the land, seeking out and destroying the evil wherever he found it. He heard rumors of a great people on the other side of the mountains. Good people for the most part, but there was the evil there as well. So he set out to find this land to learn what he can,
to teach what he is able and to kill if he must.
Eventually he found a cave in the mountains from which a stream flowed. His curiosity getting the better of him he followed the stream deep under the mountains. Emerging on the other side he beheld Yliakum. There he continues his journey, his adventure and his quest as you know him.
