Mo Duchy Information

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Here is what you will find in this thread.

• How to gain entry
  
• Village Description & POIs
  
• History & Hierarchy
  
• Perks of being Citizen and how to become one
  

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The Mo Village is a non-ninja sanctuary located in the Fire Country (green dot). It is in the South-Eastern part of the country which is near the Tea Country’s borders. The village lies at the mountains that have plenty of vegetation and a river that goes through the center of the village which leads to the sea shared with Tea Country, Sea Country and Water Country. The village itself lies at the peak of a mountain called Mt. Duron and the only way to get to the village is to go by a cable car or take the long road through a zigzagging mountains where one is not guaranteed to find the village or even survive. The village is fairly large (15,000 meter radius) and has more than 6,500 inhabitants. Since Mt. Duron is far away from Konohagakure the traveler will need at least 1 post with 2 paragraphs that have 5 sentences to find the mountain and another 1 paragraph to locate the cable car.


Entry:

To enter the village one must do that by traveling the cable car from the bottom of Mt. Duron to the peak or hike on their own by an old zigzagging road which does not guarantee finding the village, also keep in mind it is hazardous to attempt it.

The cable car will cost 100 Ryo per person. Groups of four people will have a discount and will pay 50 Ryo per person. One can also buy a permanent card which costs 1000 Ryo and can use the cable car freely for a duration of 1 OOC year.

When entering the village, state the purpose of your visit and leave your name and weapons behind. All weapons will be stored in a warehouse and will be given back to you upon leaving. If by any chance your weapons are lost, one will be fully compensated.

Note: The cable car is currently free.

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The village is located at about 6,500 meters above the sea level and can be reached in two ways. The first and easiest way is by a cable car and the second way which is dangerous and deadly to those not citizens of the village is by a side mountain path. The city architecture reminds us of ancient China and Japan.

The bottom of Mt. Duron:

At the utmost bottom of the mountain, there are three buildings but only one is the most important, and that is the cable car station. The station is just a small building that looks more like a hut than a station. The building is opened at the back which faces the mountain to receive the cable cars. One car is able to carry 10 people at most and it usually takes half an hour to get to the village.

The second building looks similar to the cable car station but it is half as small. There are always four guards with long heavy coats standing at the doors greeting people. The building is also opened at the back which faces the mountain just like the station and serves as a weapons transportation. The building links with a warehouse which is located 1000 meters above the sea level. Everyone who wants to use the cable car to get to the village has to leave their weapons at the building and the guards transport the weapons to the warehouse.

The third building is twice as big compared to the station and serves as an inn. The inn is an oval building built so that half of it is built into the mountain which makes it a nice attraction for tourists who could walk inside the mountain from the inn. The inn can hold about 40 people at the same time, it is meant to accommodate anyone who wishes to enter the village and did not obtain permission yet.

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The Village entrance:

When getting off the cable car at the peak, people enter another station identical to the one at the bottom. By going outside, one would see a large wall encircling the village made from iron with a massive gate which has the village name embedded into it. By estimate the wall's height is tremendously high (500 meters) and has a moderate thickness of 200 meters. In the course of history the walls were never conquered by force. High on the walls were guard towers spaced on the entire wall. Each tower would contain 5 guards looking below the towers and doing their other duties. Around the wall, one would see the nice mountainous view like and even the sea which is just bellow.

The Iron Circle:

Going through the impressive walls, people would be able to see many low stone buildings in the fashion of ancient China. This part behind the 1st walls was called the Iron Circle due to the walls made from iron. All the buildings were simple, built from cheap material showing that this part of the village consisted of the poorest of citizens. From time to time, people in long coats would slide around on their skis or sledges pushed by dogs. When walking around for a bit, one would notice many shafts that lead inside the mountain, that is because the village has built mines deep inside the mountains to mine gold, silver, crystal and many more minerals.

The Iron Circle would have plenty of markets and the most important building of all was the Arts Museum. The museum houses many precious art from the time of the village creation up to this date, it doesn't just house art created within the village but also has a collection from all around the world.

What can be found here:

• Art Museum
  
• Fushiateru Statue
  
• Dario Statue
  

The Inner Circle:

At the end of the Iron Circle, there is yet another wall made from steel that has the same height and parameters as the first wall. Behind these walls lays the main part of the city. When one enters this part for the first time, they would be amazed at the improvement from the first part of the city. The houses in this section are styled according to ancient Japanese buildings with several floors, not just one like in the Iron Circle. Only the rich and middle class citizens are allowed to live in this part and the main transportation would be sledges pushed by large packs of dogs. In this part of the village, is located everything one could imagine, entertainment, parks, government buildings and many more.

What can be found here:

• Military Academy
  
• The State of Arts Medical Center
  
• Fort Al-Meid
  
• Illiad Park
  
• Icy Hotsprings
  
• Yan's Cafe
  

The military academy:

The military academy was built a long time ago during the times of reform and change of the way people in this village lived. It is one of the oldest and most preserved building aside from the palace. The academy has several floors where each floor holds classes that teach tactics, leadership and research new formations for the village army. Only the strongest warriors can attend the academy and when one graduates, they either becomes a general or join Duke/Duchess personal guard (Blue Company). The academy is not opened to any foreigners at any time, there are some exceptions though.


The State of Arts Medical Center:

This building is just a newly created facility to serve as a hospital and a research center. The Medical Center has been constructed over the old hospital which could accommodate a limited amount of ill people and could not serve as a research center. Behind the buildings are greenhouses used to grow different herbs and the building has four floors. The Medical Center is opened for everybody but only citizens do not have to pay for medical fees.


Fort Al-Meid:

This fort is named after one of the most successful generals of Mo Village of all times. This fort nowadays serves as a military barracks and armory at the same time. The chief generals would be all stationed inside the building as do all the Council members. It is the center of this village's military might. The fort is a square like building that has four guard towers on each edge. On its walls, one could find ballistas, catapults and archers running about safeguarding the fort.


Illiad Park:

This park is located at the NE part of the Inner Circle which faces the peak of the mountain. This is the place where Dario and Roberutsu first meet. The park is a very sacred place for the citizens and nobody would dare vandalize the place or touch it in any sense. It is one of the only place where one could see a lot of green and not just snow, except for the palace grounds. At the middle of the park, there is a small lake containing man eating fish.

The Heart:

The Heart is another circle which contains just the palace alone. This area is surrounded by another steel wall which has a height of 100 m and width of 50 m. The wall is set with gold and diamond all over signifying how rich the village in fact is. There is just one massive gate which is always closed and has six guards in blue uniform guarding at all times. Behind this wall is a trench filled with icy water and man eating fish in a size of a human head. There's a land bridge that goes over the trench. When looked on the horizon, one would see a dense forest with no visible roads. The forest is there to confuse enemies that enter The Heart so they can't find where the palace is located at.


What can be found here:

• Palace
  
• Blue Company Citadel
  
• The Death Jungle
  

The palace is the largest building in the village. It occupies approximately 5,000 m square altogether. It is a place where the Abumi family live and rule over the whole village for centuries. The palace is so large that only the Abumi family know what it all contains, only a few citizens have ever seen/been inside the palace and even if they had, they are forbidden to reveal any information about the family or the palace at all. According to some myths, beneath the palace lies a secret passageway that leads through the whole mountain and ends somewhere near the coats and is used as an escape point for the family.

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History:

It all started a few centuries before there was the Fire Country. A hermit by the name of Kaishin Abumi Dario has settled within the vicinity of Mt. Duron to escape from all the bureaucrats in large cities so he could study the art of medicine. Dario was an extremely gifted healer from the clan of Kaishin built a small house in a place where the cable car could be found nowadays. For years he had studied medicine and was so successful that his name rang all over the land and people flocked to his place to get healed as at that time, there were no real doctors around.

It is said that while he was gathering the herbs high in the mountains, he stumbled on an injured penguin who was larger than any penguin he has ever seen or heard about and the penguin could also talk. Dario took the penguin to his homestead and healed the poor animal. When that penguin regained consciousness it revealed to Dario it was an ancient race of summons and that he should call the penguin Roberutsu. After several adventures on the mountain both Dario and Roberutsu became best friends and partners. Roberutsu was a very loyal friend to him but he desired to find his kind as he was lost from his race of penguins and needed help to find them. The two set on a quest to find the other penguins. It took them more then a year to find the Fushiateru (Penguin clan) and Dario became celebrated by his new friends.

Unfortunately, the Fushiateru have lost their ancient home in a long war with another clan of summon family and was driven away. Roberutsu and Dario would discuss the relocation of the entire Fushiateru and came to a conclusion, they would settle on Mt. Duron for the time being. When they arrived back, the Fushiateru climbed the mountain and created with their mysterious power a large crater within the mountain and there they would start building their homes. Words ran around the land again and people where whispering of weird animals talking human language. They started to gather at the mountain to confirm the rumors. At first, the people were afraid of the Fushiateru and Dario but when the talking penguins were kind towards them, they began to trust each other. It seemed that the Fushiateru were indeed strong and possessed strong powers, they people would settle in the crater as well for protection.

Soon, the village was overpopulated by people and the Fushiateru grew uneasy with the amount of humans living by them and mountains were not their natural habitat they chose to leave the crater for good. Just beneath Mt. Duron was a vast sea where the penguins took their leave and none would be seen later on. Roberutsu departed with his race as well but it was not the end of his friendship with Dario. The man was still celebrated by the penguins so that they signed a blood pact with him and his blood so that his family could call upon them at any time. Dario married a girl named Elysia and was voted over and over again to the position of Mayor.

A few generations passed and the Fire Country was formed. The country was indeed huge and its borders stretched even towards Mt. Duron. At that time, the village that was built by Dario and the Fushiateru named itself The Mo Village and ran through many reformations. The village was attacked on several occasion by bandits or other strong clans and so healing was not amongst the most important aspects of their life. To defend well against raiders and such, the people of the village became obsessed with the arts of war and tactics. The Mo Village developed a tradition of training warriors since birth. The Mayor position was no longer voted upon as each election was won by Dario's descendants and so the title stayed in the family. The Mayor and the master healer at that time was called Jenzo the Immortal was confronted by the Daimyo of Fire Country to join them.

Of course Jenzo could not agree on to the idea as the village was always independent and the people would not allow that to happen. Hearing the denial, the Daimyo was forced to declare war on the village and the conflict dragged on for centuries with neither side winning or losing anything. Both sides realized there was no point in fighting, they sat down to discuss the possibilities. Seeing the citizens of Mo Village were a strong military force on its own, the Daimyo asked that the village would join the country but would still be able to govern itself in exchange for providing soldiers in times of need for the Fire Country. The Mayor agreed after several more meetings with the Daimyo and was awarded the title of Duke.

Years of prosperity followed next and the village developed several rules of society. In this society, women and men are all equal. The people of the village live by a strict military code and are trained in martial arts, sword fighting and many more disciplines from infancy be they a boy or a girl. Usually the infant would be trained at an age of 5 till an age of 12 when they can choose to further train in the military arts or they can become doctors. The bloodline of their leaders is the ultimate, they would never betray them at any time and would never question their judgment.

In exchange for the people's loyalty, they receive free education and medical care. Furthermore the duke/duchess grants every citizen for a long time military service (40 years) his/her own land with a house and for a death while defending the dukedom in any way grants one person in that family a seat in the council. Only the Duke/Duchess and their family was able to utilize ninjutsu, the villages were never taught the secrets of molding chakra.

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Hierarchy:

This list goes in the order from most important to least.

• Duke/Duchess
  
• Assistants
  
• Council
  
• Generals & Army
  
• Representatives
  
• Citizens
  

The whole village is a small dukedom run by a Duke or a Duchess and two of their assistants. The village also has a council consisting of people whose relatives died heroically for the dukedom. The Duke/Duchess takes care of practically everything within the village and helps it to prosper into a nice place to get entertainment, research medicine and keep the tradition of a strong military force by training small boys/girls since infancy. When the Fire Country Daimyo calls for, the Duke/Duchess lends the military force to the country and go into battle themselves.

An assistant is a right hand man or woman who serves as advisers in the matter of economy and military. There are only two position slots open for the top economists and military leaders of the village. Their aim is to give out ideas on how to improve on income and tactics. It has been known that those positions were filled by the relatives of the Duke/Duchess or once in a while by an examination opened to the whole village.

The council has the least power, the members consists of people whose relatives died defending the dukedom in any way, only one member of the family is able to get a seat. The council is quite numerous because of the number of heroic people who die every generation. What the council does, has nothing to do with politics, instead they are formed for one sole purpose, they are the police force of the village. Each council member is assigned a particular area of duty and it is their responsibility to keep law and order in that area. A council member gets 2-3 non-council members called detectives helping them do their jobs. The detectives are just ordinary people who are trained as a police force.

The representative position is meant to be for diplomatic people of the village. There can be as many people at a time in this position as needed. The representative goes out from the village in order to make new treaties, invite leaders of other countries and ninja villages to participate in the Mo Village challenges and other things politicians do. It is true the representative will not go to any necessary fights but just in case, he/she can defend themselves.

Important NPC's:

The Military Assistant position is vacant at this stage, but the new Duke/Duchess will fill that position with an examination soon.

Economic Assistant – Yokkaichi Jab (Last, First) is currently the Economic Assistant of Mo Village. He is 46 years old and is power for 20 years already. This man is very good with handling the job; he constantly encourages the shopkeepers to expand their sales items. He is obsessed with money and will do nearly anything for it, just not betray the Duke/Duchess. He is intelligent and cunning like a fox but is honest and will never take a bribe. Jab is a round and small man with a pointed nose. He is always seen with an elegant business outfit and a fashion hat. He currently has a French mustache, black hair and brown eyes. This man once used to be and still is a powerful sword wielder trained from infancy.

Head of Entertainment and Leisure – Yoshimoto Mitchiko (Last, First) is a very clever lady although being a 20 years old. She has just succeeded this office from an old man Yamato who died the other year. Mitchiko works under the Economic Assistant. Her job varies from many things, mainly checking out spas, hotels, clubs and other leisure point of interest of the village making sure the people get all the entertainment they need. She is always busy and can be hard to find because she runs from a place to a place. Mitchiko does everything in a fast manner as she is quick. She is a blond with blue eyes. She is tall for a woman and always carries her luxury purse with her.

Guard Captain – Kashiwa Suzume (Last, First) is a fast and knowledgeable fighter. She is more of a tactician then a fighter thought but her commands are ultimate and everyone has to obey them. She can be hard sometimes too and likes to mock people. She is the Pink Devil of the village. She normally fights with speed and precision. Her main focus is on hand to hand combat but she is also proficient in sword styles. She can be found at her headquarters wearing her blue-pink cloak. Suzume has pink hair and blue eyes which matches with her clothing. She carries many weapons on her; Katana, Tanto, Medium Fan and two Sai. She is only 23 years old and is already the Guard Captain.

Head of Research and Medical Care – Matsumoto Yudai (Last, First) is the cleverest man in the whole village. He is in charge with making new technology for the village to improve others jobs and also to care for the ill and wounded. He is a master medic at the age of 30 which is quite impressive. He is the person who sits in his workshop creating various inventions. Sometimes he would go too far and make his workshop explode. He is a bit clumsy and is easily bullied but he pays it back by mocking them later.

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The People & Traditions coming soon

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Perks of being a Mo citizen

• Very rewarding mission system
  
• Medical Center contains all medical, animalist and herbalist books.
  
• Every citizen gets a 20% discount for any items bought in the Market no more than 50,000 ryo altogether.
  
• Access to special techniques (coming soon)
  

How to become a citizen?

Anyone can become a citizen be they non-ninja or a ninja, just PM me first. However if a ninja wishes to join they will have to put Mo village ahead of their ninja village in any arguments between villages. You can start as a citizen, you can revamp into one or join at a later stage.

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The Frontier

There will always be some story involved within the village, which brings us to Frontier threads. Threads marked as Frontiers will advance the village story and will effect item sales. There will constantly be Frontier missions you can grab in the Fort Al-Meid [Missions/POI]. For these missions, the prices will always be honor points and some special/rare items.