Name: Murasama (The user will receive the title "Wielder of the Murdering Sword." )
Requisition Rank: Jounin
Weight: 2.2 LBS
Description: Muramasa Sengo (千子 村正 Sengo Muramasa) was a famous swordsmith who founded the Muramasa school and lived nearly eighty years ago. Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook said that Muramasa "was a most skillful smith but a violent and ill-balanced mind verging on madness, that was supposed to have passed into his blades. They were popularly believed to hunger for blood and to impel their warrior to commit murder or suicide."
The school of sword-making at Ise province was famous for the extraordinary sharpness of their blades. The earliest known work of the school is dated nearly 90 years ago; the Muramasa school continued for another 30 years. It is believed that Sengo Muramasa was a student of Heianjo Nagayoshi, a prominent Kyoto swordsmith known for spears and engravings. Other legends hold that he was a student of Masamune, which is impossible, as Muramasa lived much later than Masamune.
Muramasa's swords fell out of favor with the Land of Iron when they became Samurai. It is said that Mifune had lost many friends and relatives to Muramasa blades and had cut himself badly with one, so he forbade his samurai to wield blades made by Muramasa. This contributed even more to the Muramasa legend and led to many plays and dramas in Japanese literature featuring the blades. Due to the stigma attached to them, many Muramasa blades had their signature changed or removed.
Since opponents of the Land of Iron Samurai would often wish to acquire Muramasa blades, forgeries of Muramasa blades were also often made. The swords of Muramasa are often contrasted in Japanese media with those of Masamune, another Japanese swordsmith who lived some 300 years earlier. There is a legend of a Masamune blade and a Muramasa blade being put into a river strewn with lotus leaves. The leaves swirled around the Masamune blade untouched, but the Muramasa blade would cut them.
It has also been told that once drawn, a Muramasa blade has to draw blood before it can be returned to its scabbard, even to the point of forcing its wielder to wound himself or commit suicide. Thus, it is thought of as a demonic cursed blade that creates blood lust in those who wield it. This the last Muramasa sword in existence, that happened to fall into the hands of Shizuko after the death of his family, and specializes in using this blade, he welcomes the demon that inhabits this blade almost as a friend, refusing to quench it's thirst.
The second blade, Masemune I.E "The Sword of Justice" was made by Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, who was allegedly Muramasa's mentor, and better. His swords were deemed "Holy" while Murasama's were deemed "Evil" and "Bloodthirsty" A legend tells of a test where Muramasa challenged his master, Masamune, to see who could make a finer sword. They both worked tirelessly and eventually, when both swords were finished, they decided to test the results. The contest was for each to suspend the blades in a small creek with the cutting edge facing the current. Muramasa's sword, the Juuchi Yosamu (10,000 Cold Nights / 十千夜寒) cut everything that passed its way; fish, leaves floating down the river, the very air which blew on it. Highly impressed with his pupil's work, Masamune lowered his sword, the Yawarakai-Te (Tender Hands / 柔らかい手), into the current and waited patiently. Not a leaf was cut, the fish swam right up to it, and the air hissed as it gently blew by the blade. After a while, Muramasa began to scoff at his master for his apparent lack of skill in the making of his sword. Smiling to himself, Masamune pulled up his sword, dried it, and sheathed it. All the while, Muramasa was heckling him for his sword's inability to cut anything. A monk, who had been watching the whole ordeal, walked over and bowed low to the two sword masters. He then began to explain what he had seen.
"The first of the swords was by all accounts a fine sword, however it is a blood thirsty, evil blade, as it does not discriminate as to who or what it will cut. It may just as well be cutting down butterflies as severing heads. The second was by far the finer of the two, as it does not needlessly cut that which is innocent and undeserving." therefore, the Masamune's "Tender Hands" is the apparently better half of the two, both equally as strong, but completely separate in purpose.
OOC Portion: The ability of Muramasa's "10,000 Cold Nights" blade is legendary, and it's wielder would widely be known as "The Murdering Sword" this title is both an honor, and an insult. Why it is not true you cannot sheathe the blade without quenching it's thirst for blood, the blade will whisper madness into it's master's ear until it is quenched. Every time the blade is sheathed, the user must bathe the sword in blood unless they wish to fall into madness and take their own life, this ability contains remants of Raiton Chakra, causing it to become ultra-sonic, allowing it to cut even deeper and might be possible to cut through bone, however most unlikely unless it drained a large amount of chakra and allows the user to channel their chakra through the blade to coat the blade in Raiton Electricity for a burning shock effect. And the final ability is purely cosmetic, all of the user's Raiton chakra is transformed to a crimson red colour, the identical glow of the blade itself.
Appearance: 10,000 Cold Nights
Requisition Rank: Jounin
Weight: 2.2 LBS
Description: Muramasa Sengo (千子 村正 Sengo Muramasa) was a famous swordsmith who founded the Muramasa school and lived nearly eighty years ago. Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook said that Muramasa "was a most skillful smith but a violent and ill-balanced mind verging on madness, that was supposed to have passed into his blades. They were popularly believed to hunger for blood and to impel their warrior to commit murder or suicide."
The school of sword-making at Ise province was famous for the extraordinary sharpness of their blades. The earliest known work of the school is dated nearly 90 years ago; the Muramasa school continued for another 30 years. It is believed that Sengo Muramasa was a student of Heianjo Nagayoshi, a prominent Kyoto swordsmith known for spears and engravings. Other legends hold that he was a student of Masamune, which is impossible, as Muramasa lived much later than Masamune.
Muramasa's swords fell out of favor with the Land of Iron when they became Samurai. It is said that Mifune had lost many friends and relatives to Muramasa blades and had cut himself badly with one, so he forbade his samurai to wield blades made by Muramasa. This contributed even more to the Muramasa legend and led to many plays and dramas in Japanese literature featuring the blades. Due to the stigma attached to them, many Muramasa blades had their signature changed or removed.
Since opponents of the Land of Iron Samurai would often wish to acquire Muramasa blades, forgeries of Muramasa blades were also often made. The swords of Muramasa are often contrasted in Japanese media with those of Masamune, another Japanese swordsmith who lived some 300 years earlier. There is a legend of a Masamune blade and a Muramasa blade being put into a river strewn with lotus leaves. The leaves swirled around the Masamune blade untouched, but the Muramasa blade would cut them.
It has also been told that once drawn, a Muramasa blade has to draw blood before it can be returned to its scabbard, even to the point of forcing its wielder to wound himself or commit suicide. Thus, it is thought of as a demonic cursed blade that creates blood lust in those who wield it. This the last Muramasa sword in existence, that happened to fall into the hands of Shizuko after the death of his family, and specializes in using this blade, he welcomes the demon that inhabits this blade almost as a friend, refusing to quench it's thirst.
The second blade, Masemune I.E "The Sword of Justice" was made by Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, who was allegedly Muramasa's mentor, and better. His swords were deemed "Holy" while Murasama's were deemed "Evil" and "Bloodthirsty" A legend tells of a test where Muramasa challenged his master, Masamune, to see who could make a finer sword. They both worked tirelessly and eventually, when both swords were finished, they decided to test the results. The contest was for each to suspend the blades in a small creek with the cutting edge facing the current. Muramasa's sword, the Juuchi Yosamu (10,000 Cold Nights / 十千夜寒) cut everything that passed its way; fish, leaves floating down the river, the very air which blew on it. Highly impressed with his pupil's work, Masamune lowered his sword, the Yawarakai-Te (Tender Hands / 柔らかい手), into the current and waited patiently. Not a leaf was cut, the fish swam right up to it, and the air hissed as it gently blew by the blade. After a while, Muramasa began to scoff at his master for his apparent lack of skill in the making of his sword. Smiling to himself, Masamune pulled up his sword, dried it, and sheathed it. All the while, Muramasa was heckling him for his sword's inability to cut anything. A monk, who had been watching the whole ordeal, walked over and bowed low to the two sword masters. He then began to explain what he had seen.
"The first of the swords was by all accounts a fine sword, however it is a blood thirsty, evil blade, as it does not discriminate as to who or what it will cut. It may just as well be cutting down butterflies as severing heads. The second was by far the finer of the two, as it does not needlessly cut that which is innocent and undeserving." therefore, the Masamune's "Tender Hands" is the apparently better half of the two, both equally as strong, but completely separate in purpose.
OOC Portion: The ability of Muramasa's "10,000 Cold Nights" blade is legendary, and it's wielder would widely be known as "The Murdering Sword" this title is both an honor, and an insult. Why it is not true you cannot sheathe the blade without quenching it's thirst for blood, the blade will whisper madness into it's master's ear until it is quenched. Every time the blade is sheathed, the user must bathe the sword in blood unless they wish to fall into madness and take their own life, this ability contains remants of Raiton Chakra, causing it to become ultra-sonic, allowing it to cut even deeper and might be possible to cut through bone, however most unlikely unless it drained a large amount of chakra and allows the user to channel their chakra through the blade to coat the blade in Raiton Electricity for a burning shock effect. And the final ability is purely cosmetic, all of the user's Raiton chakra is transformed to a crimson red colour, the identical glow of the blade itself.
Appearance: 10,000 Cold Nights
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