User:Jerrycuff/Baisetsu clan

The Baisetsu Clan is a fictional clan that appears in Samurai Warriors 2: Empires. They are known as local clan that resides in Hida Province who bears the lineage of strategies such as poisoning enemy troops, setting ambushes, and feinting defeat and fall back in order to trick the enemy army. The first leader of the Baisetsu clan was Kaimei Baisetsu, a weak and clumsy family leader who struggles to defend Hida Province from the siege attacks led by a ruthless neighboring rival family called the Jinpachi clan. During their conquest to vanquish the Jinpachi, Kaimei was caught in the middle of finding Tanjikyo Jinpachi's weak point by lay siege to Isshinoyaki Castle, but was soon discovered that the Jinpachi allied themselves with the Oda Clan and the Baisetsu were outnumbered, causing Nobunaga to slain Kaimei and the Jinpachi won the day. Raima Baisetsu soon found out about the death of his father and became the 2nd leader of the Baisetsu Clan. A few years later, Raima decided to attack the Jinpachi clan at Iwaki Province in the Tohoku region to take down Tanjikyo Jinpachi's army. With Genji Hongikyo by his side, he managed to crush Iwaki castle and achieved total victory, he also saved the Hojo clan from total annihilation when the Uesugi army attacked Odawara Castle. But when Mitsuhide Akechi rebelled against the Oda clan, Raima answer his call and joined him to battle Nobunaga at Honnoji to avenge his father's death. But after the Honnoji incident, Raima and Mitsuhide fought against Hideyoshi Hashiba at Yamazaki but were defeated and Raima tried to flee back to Hida province, but he ended up getting killed when the kunoichi Nene and Hideyoshi's marksman Magoichi Saika was pursuing him. When the Battle of Sekigahara began in the year 1600, Raima's two sons Maigekiyu and Shouzen joined Mitsunari Ishida and the Western army to confront Ieyasu Tokugawa Taigo Jinpachi, Raohmaru Jinpachi and the Eastern Army. After the western army was heavily destroyed and Mitsunari was executed, the two brother leaders of the Baisetsu clan and their sons Taiga and Retsuzan fled to the Toyotomi clan along with Yukimura Sanada to battle their long time rival clan members from the Jinpachi clan Raohmaru and Taigo, who have allied themselves with the Tokugawa clan to destroy the Toyotomi clan at Osaka Castle. The Toyotomi and the Baisetsu fought bravely against the Tokugawa, but Ieyasu Tokugawa destroyed Osaka castle and Yukimura was killed along with Maigekiyu and Shouzen. after the Osaka campaign, their wives committed suicide and brought an end to the Baisetsu clan. Then Taiga and Retsuzan became retainers of the Tokugawa clan.

Clan Heads

 * 1) Kaimei
 * 2) Raima
 * 3) Maigekiyu
 * 4) Shouzen
 * 5) Taiga
 * 6) Retsuzan

Ladies

 * 1) Honoyuki - Kaimei's wife, Raima and Setsuna's mother
 * 2) Setsuna - Raima's younger sister and Genji Honjikyo's wife
 * 3) Miyama - Raima's wife, Maigekiyu and Shouzen's mother
 * 4) Shishiyo - Maigekiyu's wife, Taiga's mother
 * 5) Ayako - Shouzen's wife, Retsuzan's mother

The 8 Furious Generals of Baisetsu

 * 1) Genji Hongikyo
 * 2) Shingetsu Kazama (Shouzen's ninja bodyguard)
 * 3) Hajin Kogasaki
 * 4) Kenzuki Kazama (Kaimei's Ninja bodyguard and Shingetsu's uncle)
 * 5) Tanma Kosuki (Raima's Kunoichi)
 * 6) Segumi Yojimbo
 * 7) Shima Kyogoku
 * 8) Shiki Asura