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The Yūkiheki Family (勇気劈一族, Yūkiheki Ichizoku; lit. "Valorburst Family) is an old military family based in the Kingdom of Fiore. The exact age of the family is unknown, but records have traced their official establishment to as early as X393. In the past, The Yūkiheki were feared across Fiore and the surrounding nations as a savage warrior clan. Specializing strictly in swordsmanship, its members are talented at wielding bladed weapons. The Yūkiheki have been involved in a plethora of militaristic conflicts since their founding. They are strictly loyal to the Kingdom Fiore, as shown when they fought valiantly against an attempted insurrection nearly a century ago.

The Yūkiheki have maintained strained relations with other military families in the Kingdom of Fiore, their biggest rivals being the Tetsuōkami Family who also specialize in swordsmanship. The Yūkiheki were previously fierce enemies with the other military families of Fiore; however, their common affiliation with the monarchy have prevented most of these tensions from erupting into fighting. Today, the Yūkiheki remain a powerhouse within Fiore in terms of combat strength. As they are an imposing presence within the nation, its members often take positions of law enforcement within jurisdictions where the family heavily resides.

Overall, the public view of the Yūkiheki is mixed. The intensity of the bad blood they still carry with their rivals fluctuates. For instance, they are still pratically enemies with the Tetsuōkami while relations to other families have cooled to a point which they can ally for the greater good of Fiore without dispute. The exploits of the Yūkiheki range widely from both glorious to reprehensible. While they have served Fiore wholeheartedly, prominent members have been linked to heinous war crimes in the past.

Recently, the modern Yūkiheki Family has divided into two sects - the result of a coup that occured nearly twenty-five years ago. Thus, the clan has two recognized leaders. However, only one of them, Saito Yūkiheki, is the true leader while the widely accepted leader is ??? Yūkiheki. The two active sects of the clan are the Jitsu (実, Truth) and the Risou ( 実, Ideal). The Jitsu is the half of the family who were previously in charge before the coup and the Risou is the line currently in the power. Because they have access to all of the family's pre-established resources, the Risou is dominant while the Jitsu struggles to survive with its numbers dwindling.

History
While definite records do not exist pretaining to the clan's specific founding, it is speculated by historians that they and other clans of swordsmen came together in the years following the Dragon Civil War. With the balance of the world having shifted dramatically from the age of dragons to the age of man, the Yūkiheki were believed to have been founded on the principle of protecting those who weren't able to fight from the ensuring anarchy. The first Yūkiheki were supposedly gathered under one banner by a small group of swordsmen seeking to teach those who could not use magic melee combat. From there, their numbers grew exponentially until they were large enough to be a force of their own. With other families also coming together at this time, it was only natural that rivalry would stir. The Yūkiheki were small and weak in comparison to their counterparts - the Tetsuōkami being larger and older. In order to climb the hierarchy of the post-Dragon Civil War world, the Yūkiheki fought these other clans and bathed in their blood. They increased their size by forcibly recruiting those they defeated into their ranks.

Originally, the Yūkiheki operated outside the command of Fiore and were autonomous to the country. They were identified as a threat to the kingdom because of their rising power. Having removed several significant families from power, the Yūkiheki threatened war against the equally powerful Tetsuōkami. Abhoring the idea of both clans having conflict, ambassadors from the kingdom prompted a peace conference between the two families as well as others. The Yūkiheki attended the conference alongside the Tetsuōkami. In order to promote peace between the swordsmanship families, the Kingdom of Fiore distributed to them each a specially forged magical sword. The families willingly accepted these offerings from the kingdom and each adopted their respective blade into their customs as a heirloom. As a condition for their acceptance of these swords, each family attending the conference was forced to affiliate with the monarchy or risk betraying the concurrent treaty - an act of war on its own. The Yūkiheki were now indirectly allied with the Tetsuōkami through their new found ties with Fiore. The Yūkiheki assimilated into Fiore without little difficulty. Their feuds with other families did not waver.