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WARNING.

The Tales you Read here will Form the backbone of Many of our Stories. They May seem contradictory to each Other, But that is because not All of these Tales are linked to each Other. Such is the Nature of the Multiverse.

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-Conqueror Z

The War of Shadowthorn

The old legends tell of war. Not the conflicts of today, or the squabbling of fools and married couples, but true war, where man and woman alike fought and died. The land's were soaked with blood, and it is there, ironically, that the new world began.

From the blood-soaked dirt rose the Shinju, a tree of such power and majesty that no man would touch it for fear of death.

And indeed, it was no man who acted.

The life that the war-torn land created had attracted the attention of the powerful Ōtsutsuki clan, a clan that hailed from another world.

It was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the Rabbit Goddess, the matriarch of the clan, that felt compassion for the land and it's inhabitants. It was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki who ate the fruit of the Shinju, gaining the powers of a god.

And it was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki who gave birth, years later, to the great Sage.

This is known.

What is not known is the other.

She came from far away, from another land that none knew of. A woman, the same age as Kaguya, journeyed to the Shinju as well.

Her name was Salamandra.

Her reasons for her actions are to this day unknown.

Salamandra went to the roots of the Shinju. There, she found a thorned branch.

As Kaguya ate the fruit, so Salamandra did eat the branch. In return, power was gifted to her, power that could rival that of Kaguya.

The other-worldly Ōtsutsuki were of the shape of humans, yet with great horns sweeping back from their foreheads. Salamandra, too, began to change, as her skin turned a deep purple, and her hair became black thorns. Her eyes became cat-like and poisonous yellow, like the venom ofa snake.

Not a single man or woman was unable to stop Salamandra from leaving the gnarled boughs of the Shinju. Her raw power pierced her enemies with thorns imbued with green flame. Her eyes hypnotized her foes into tranquillity, and her very touch drained the life energy of the body.

The only one who could have stopped her then was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and she was nowhere to be found, as she was mastering her own powers. Leaving chaos in her wake, Salamandra left the land to return to her own. All prayed that she would never return.

Three years later, Salamandra had founded an empire of her own. From it's capital city of Pesh, the goblin armies of Shadowthorn marched across the lands, conquering all in their path.

Their path was halted by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, who had at last mastered her own amazing chakra abilities. She stopped the advance of the goblins with a storm of lightning from the sky, wiping out most of the assembled monsters.

Fearing her power, the remaining goblins turned and began to flee.

The people rejoiced, and began to praise Kaguya as a god in human form. As the humans celebrated, thorns alight with green flame fell from the sky as Salamandra herself arrived on the battlefield, bearing a staff topped with flaming green thorns.

So it was that Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the Rabbit Goddess, and Salamandra, Queen of Shadowthorn, began to battle against each other.

The battle that raged was enormous, both sides unwilling to give in. The landscape was forever changed, as both combatants unleashed the power they had received from the Shinju. Lightning and thorns rained from the sky as two goddesses clashed.

The power of chakra prevailed in the end, as Kaguya forced Salamandra to back down and kneel. Thanks to Salamandra's cunning, she managed to escape Kaguya's wrath and flee back to Pesh with her armies all but gone and the Empire of Shadowthorn in shambles.

It is not known what happened to Salamandra, her remaining goblins, or even Pesh itself.

Her story faded into myth, then out of memory, as did Kaguya. The War of Shadowthorn became forgotten as the Ninshū way became prominent, then followed by Ninjutsu.

But one person would never forget.

And she never forgave.

This is the First in a series of Tales Which will provide Backstories to our Stories. The majority of them will be One-shots, but there may be Exceptions

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