Yodotai
From L5r: Legend of the Five Rings
The Yodotai are an expansionistic foreign Empire that has recently reached as far as Medinat al-Salaam. Their interests and intentions towards Rokugan are unknown.
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[edit] Yodotai Culture
The Yodotai are an ancient and powerful Empire located west of Rokugan, across the vastness of Yakamo's Heart. They are a proud people, defined by expansion and conquest. Their civilization comprises the best of countless different conquered peoples, each assimilated into the totality of the Yodotai Empire. The Yodotai are ruled by an Emperor, who is advised in turn by a Senate formed of elected representatives from every province under Yodotai rule. Though their military is fierce, the Yodotai's true strength lies in their ability to encourage conquered nations to accept the fair rule and technological advancements the Yodotai have to offer.[1]
[edit] Military Structure
The Yodotai are renowned for their military organization and techniques fielding vast legions with specialist troops ranging from light infantry scouts to heavily armored cavalry. Like the Rokugani, the Yodotai seem to venerate the warrior ethos and their own ancestors. It is said that the greatest of the Yodotai warriors sometime appear to fight by the side of their descendants.
[edit] Religious Beliefs
The Yodotai believe that those who die at sea are dragged into a hellish realm beneath the waters, where their soul will never be free to join their ancestors. As a result, they only rarely venture across the seas.[2]
[edit] Yodotai Near Rokugan
Despite their fear of sea travel, a Yodotai "scouting party" (a large army by Rokugani standards) lost at sea established a colony north of Medinaat al-Salaam roughly fifty years ago. These colonists have spent the time since their arrival eagerly studying the foreign lands where they now find themselves, as well as searching for a way out.[3]
