Takada

Vital Statistics

Official Name

The Village of Takada

Location

On the planet Earth, on the continent of Cardinal, approximately 300 kilometers south-southeast of Central City.

National Allegiance

Cardinal

Population

2000 sentients

Population Breakdown

45% male, 55% female.

85% human, 15% demihuman. No aliens or other non-humans have taken residence in Takada.

Notable Inhabitants

Kinsei Reichi

Ukyo Sasarai

Outside Relations

Takada does not have a great deal of contact with the outside world, save for the regular tax collectors and trucks that come to bring their foodstuffs to market. They do have infrequent visitors, of both the mortal and powered variety. The former they greet with wamrth and hospitality - the latter they avoid like the plague, deferring first to the village's shaman, Kinsei Reichi.

Points of Interest

Takada is a rather uninteresting backwater village. The closest thing to a "point of interest" is probably the hilltop shrine where Kinsei lives. The structure is magically enhanced to withstand powered damages.

Local Government

Takada is led by an elected Headman and a small group of councillors from the various neighborhoods of the village. The villagers have, on several occasions, attempted to nominate Kinsei as the village Headman, a nomination he has continually declined. The Council meets monthly to discuss village policy, crop status, legal issues, and other assorted business.

Defenses

Takada has virtually nothing to defend itself against a powered attack - save for its resident shaman, Kinsei Reichi. A few short earthen walls are spaced around the village's perimeter; a lesser creation of Kinsei's earth magic. These walls can stand up to considerable mortal-level punishment before falling, but significant powered threats will overcome them easily.

History

Takada was established well over a century ago as a small farming community. For generations the village prospered under the leadership of a line of Kamist priests. They survived many disasters of the past; Vegeta and Nappa, Cell, Majin Buu, and even Jobe. It was Zann and his Golems that laid the village's prosperity low. They sapped the life from the land, and not even the priests could convince much life to grow from it. During this time, the village was damaged severely in battle, and the Kamist priests killed. From then on, Takada barely scraped by. The population dwindled as more and more people moved to the cities, eventually stabilizing at just under a thousand souls.

Years later, after the cataclysm brought about by Yakeoni, a wandering Shaman by the name of Kinsei Reichi happened upon the village. Struck by its plight, and by the sad state of the land around it, Kinsei decided to stay. His communion with the elements revitalized the crops and fields, and the village was once more able to sustain itself. People began to move back to Takada, families and descendants of those who had long ago left returning to their homes.

Today, Takada is still a small community, though it now supplies a great deal more food to the markets of Central and South Cities.