The Kamakiri were one of the founding clans of the Hidden Snow, and were once the primary providers of meat to the village, hunting anything the harsh land provides. Now they are a clan of rogues, carving out their own territory for those who value freedom. Clan members are expected to learn to use the clan’s style bow as soon as they can hold one, how to set traps, and how to field dress and skin prey. In one of darker periods of the clan history, this would extend to opponents slain on the battlefield. Some clan members have advocated to the return of this practice as it was an effective psychological warfare tactic. It’s rumored that underneath the main house there a secret room filled with the tanned skins of enemies.
The Founder of the Kamakiri clan, Kamakiri Shimo was born in a small hunting village in the Land of Frost. When she was young girl, a shinobi clan kidnapped her for her Ice Release abilities. Though she was then raised by them, she always felt resentful. Regardless, she married and had children. She learned everything she could about the shinobi and political arts, and had attracted a small group of followers, including others that had also been stolen as children.
With these followers, including her children, she deserted the Shinobi clan and crossed the sea back into the Land of Frost to return to her home village, declaring all within as her family, Kamakiri. She had one goal in mind, make the Kamakiri as powerful as possible.
Using her power and skills, she took large swaths of hunting territories, enacted poaching laws, set up checkpoints on trade routes, and even did “inspection”, i.e. raids, on towns. They confiscated any food that wasn’t rice, allowing only goods that were from the Kamakiri clan. The Kamakiri ended up seizing control of the richest hunting grounds, increasing her family’s power and wealth as the sole provider of food until they became recognized by the Daimyo as a legitimate clan and an important ally.
Because she knew the usefulness of diversifying chakra natures, she also employed her own method byhaving her Kunoichi to seek out the elite shinobi of each chakra nature and seducing them. Children who were physically born into the clan were always more loyal than those kidnapped from other clans. While Kunoichi are not obligated to go on these missions, there is a special honor attached to doing so. Any children produced are communally raised.
Fifty years later, under the leadership of Kamakiri Hibiki, the Hidden Snow was founded. He continued the traditions of both hunting and the Kunoichi Black Ops. He also standardized the kyujutsu training methods.
Throughout the history, even though the variety of chakra nature’s remains small, the clan exercises political leverage and military strength. By having heirs from other clans/villages, historically they have managed to displace other clan’s heads with their own members.
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