The Grandmasters Mask
They say the greatest warrior's in history all come from the long gone and distant land of Ioni. Where it exist none know today, but what is know that there is a long lineage of warriors who can trace ancestors back to this land. Multiple ways of the warrior all can be traced back to Ioni. At some point though the continent it was located on collapsed into the planet it resided on. All remnants of it shattered to oblivion. All there was left were a few artifacts traders had before the collapse happened and stories the elders spoke of. After thousands of years all was forgotten. Ioni and all that was known of it was gone, none knew of it and everybody went through their trainings not knowing who had created their art form of war. One day on a sunny day the whole world was at peace. No wars had been fought for 200 hundred years and civilization was thriving. As the birds chirped and children played in the meadows, the planet shook all across. The oceans seem to sink deeper and the water levels lowered. New land rose and came with it many old broken structures. Ioni had rose back up to the world. Out of all the chaos wars broke out for the race to see what was in these structures. Millions died trying to figure out what was in these structures. One day a group of explorers found something that was terrifying to all of them, a war mask stained in blood. The mask bathed in black had carving all over it and some with blood as a paint over. The mask itself lied on a pedestal patiently waiting. All around this mask were more carvings and the first of their kind, actually writing by the people that once existed. The writings themselves suggest that there lived about 10,000 people, all with the heart of a warrior. They ate much of the same traditional food they still ate at the current time: rice, fish, cattle, and many
common vegetables including carrots, corn, potatoes and artichokes. The writings on the wall also suggest