[Ancient Japan, eh? Oersted thinks a little on this. The topic is surprisingly nostalgic for a knight who lived in a different part of the world let alone a different era. Oboro, one of the heroes that fought his incarnation, was summoned from that era not to mention.]

Feudal Japan was as its name would almost imply. There was no end to the feuds that its ruling families started against one another. All for the acquisition of power.

Though when war can be avoided, assassination was a favorite political tool for the period's daimyo. Ninjas indeed.