Blazing Fields Pact

Name: @Blazing Fields Pact (炎野盟約)

Description:
The @Blazing Fields Pact is war given form. A volatile coalition of generals, minor daimyo, and ambitious mercenary banners, it scorches the blood-soaked soil of @Gekisen-no-Hara – The Warlord Plains with ambition and steel. Forged in necessity, bound by opportunity, and tested by betrayal, the Pact is not unified by creed but by conquest.

Each warband flies its own sigil, but all kneel—grudgingly—to @Flame Reaver Kaido , a warlord whose brutal victories and fiery charisma have pulled the splintered armies into something resembling purpose. But the flame that unites also threatens to consume.

Symbol: A burning field with a shattered crest half-buried in ash.

Leadership:

• @Flame Reaver Kaido – "The Fire-Fanged Tyrant", supreme warlord of the Pact.

Initiation Rites:

• Trial of Smoke – survival under battlefield conditions without command.

• Brand of Allegiance – cauterized sigil marked on the left shoulder.

• Pactfire Circle – reciting one's victories to the flame before peers.

• Duel of Cinders – combat trial to earn personal banner.

Values & Tenets:

• Strength is the only truth that endures.

• Conquest proves legitimacy.

• Allies are fuel. Enemies are flint.

• To hesitate is to be replaced.

Recruitment:
The Pact grows by victory. Defeated commanders who yield may join, soldiers are absorbed after skirmishes, and mercenary bands are given contracts steeped in blood and gold. Loyalty is transactional—until @Flame Reaver Kaido makes it personal.

Operations:
Shock assaults, scorched retreats, mass cavalry strikes, and siege-to-ash tactics. The Pact destabilizes regions to draw out rivals, then consolidates swiftly. Every battlefield is a forge.

Reputation:
Respected, feared, and despised in equal measure. Where they march, law unravels. Their victories are undeniable—but temporary alliances and internal duels constantly threaten collapse. Still, they burn forward.

Known Rivals or Threats:

• @Hollow Iron Line , for resisting through structure.

• @Crimson Wolf Banner , who reject Kaido’s authority.

• @Kakureta’s Imperialists , a fading relic @Flame Reaver Kaido seeks to erase.

Whispers Say:

"His voice cracks banners."
"They salt the earth before and after the battle."
"No pact lasts longer than Kaido’s shadow."
"The plains remember fire—and nothing else."
"To fight them is to bleed for a tomorrow that may not exist."