Breaking The Fate

Shikizaki Master Plan To Negate The Curse of History

Kiki Shikizaki (四季崎 記紀). A master swordsmith, and soothsayer of the Sengoku period who was reclusive, belonged to no house nor country, and is renowned by many of the other characters, his work was regarded so highly that during said period, 1000 of his swords were distributed over 25 countries and that the country with the most of his swords during that time dominated it. Of those 1000 swords, the first 988 he had created are believed to have been practice for the last twelve: the Deviant Blades. Inspiration came from his ability to peer into the future, seeing the methods he implied to his latest creations. In episode 11 of the anime, it was revealed that his true intentions of creating the 12 Deviant Blades, were to falsify history; a history that wasn’t suppose to be. It was later revealed that he was doing this for the sake of Japan, as one of his ancestors had a vision that Japan will perish at the hands of foreigners. He was friends with the founder of the Kyotoryuu, Kazune Yasuri, his ‘final blade’. He dabbled in alchemy and the occult during his development of the Deviant Blades. Later is it confirmed that Kyotoryuu is Shikizaki’s Completed Deviant Blade.

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Falsifying History

Because history is not a useless pastime but a study of the utmost practical importance, people have been eager to falsify historical evidence and to misrepresent the course of events. The endeavors to mislead posterity about what really happened and to substitue a fabrication for a faithful recording are often inaugurated by the men who themselves played an active role in the events, and begin with the instant of their happening, or sometimes even precede their occurence. To lie about historical facts and to destroy evidence has been in the opinion of hosts of statesmen, diplomats, politicians, and writers a legitimate part of the conduct of public affairs and of writing history. One of the main problems of historical research is to unmask such falsehoods.

The falsifiers were often prompted by the desire to justify their own or their party’s actions from the point of view of the moral code of those whose support or at least neutrality they were eager to win. Such whitewashing is rather paradoxical if the actions concerned appeared unobjectionable from the point of view of the moral ideas of the time when they occured, and are condemned only by the moral standards of the fabricator’s contemporaries.

No serious obstacles to the efforts of the historians are created by the machinations of the forgers and falsifiers. What is much more difficult for the historian is to avoid being misled by spurious social and economic doctrines.

The historian approaches the records equipped with the knowledge he has acquired in the fields of logic praxeology, and the natural sciences. If this knowledge is defective, the result of his examination and analysis of the material will be vitiated.

Ludwig von Mises, Theory and History, 1957, p 291

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