Chapter Two: Ongoing Feud
Several miles outside of Invalice, in the surrounding forest of Jidoor, there are two clans who populate the area. The Houkuten and the Nanten are constantly at war with each other, although the location would suggest savage fighting and uncivilized living conditions, the opposite is true.
Both the Houkuten and the Nanten live comfortably with large fortresses, and all of the accommodations of city life the citizens of Invalice enjoy. However, the bitter feud between the two has caused an uproar in the surrounding areas. Lately, the Nanten have begun using underhanded tactics to gain the advantage over the Houkuten, and thus far it has been working brilliantly.
The Nanten's leader: Vice has been hiring mercenaries for late night raids on the Houkuten's base. Unsuccessful as they might be, the attacks act as more of an annoyance and a distraction than anything else. In addition to this, Nanten assassins have started attacking both women and children, the real reason the Houkuten have sought out help from a third party.
Claude, the leader of the Houkuten has recently approached a group of well organized, and high-priced mercenaries. What sets them apart from what the Nanten are doing is that these fighters for-hire have a strict code about who they will fight for and what they will and will not do. One of the more important things to the morale based Houkuten was their promise of chivalry.
The Wind's Dragons was founded by Nicholas Kaze fourteen years ago, and since then has become widely known, people from all over Vana'diel have heard of their feats, and this has allowed them to become a premium service, in other words, very expensive.