#*kiri

Water country --- small, poor, just barely arable --- turned to the requisition of crops and livestock during the Third Shinobi War, doing all it could to keep Kirigakure and the higher classes fed.

It was intended to be a temporary measure, but embargoes placed post-defeat and damage caused by the conflict (as well as their own civil wars) made the Daimyo elect to continue taking surplus by force. Any hint of resistance or revolt was crushed by the country’s shinobi.

The ninja sent to suppress the peasantry were infamous for sadism, their brutality actively encouraged by both Kiri and governmental officials, who likened it to ‘teaching a dog to sit’. Even the youngest among them were monstrous. One survivor recalled a young girl who led a group of genin, none older than fourteen, and terrorized his village as punishment for withholding grain.

“They would cut open the belly of man, nail his small intestine to a tree or a pole or a fence of some sort, and drive him around it with blows, laughing as his intestine unwound through the wound.”

everything in kiri is a deathtrap and that’s what makes it fun!!

Kirigakure has never been a place of many festivities, even prior to the religious purges --- but they still have their own share of traditions.

One of the more enjoyable ones are the maypole dances held each spring. Ribbons are tied to a tree or a pole erected in the village centre, after which participants will dance around it, intertwining their threads till they are tightly braided. Single dances last around five minutes, while the practice itself lasts around a week.