![]() Nobody wants to hear the stories of the also-ran, of the bystander in the crossfire, of the bit player.īut you care. These are not the things spoken of when stories of the war spread, when it filters from shinobi to government to civilian and beyond. It was not these so-called Great Villages who in this war saw more clan compounds and market streets run empty and cold, whose coffers ran the lowest, whose civilians were terrorized most often, whose hidden villages were most brazenly assaulted, whose blood was spilled in such vast quantities that it turned even the driest desert ground into thick, reeking mud. ![]() Not just the victors of the war, of course, as some of the Five Nations obviously came out weaker for their troubles, but the victors of an even longer struggle. That is the tale as written by the victors. Eventually, the war had to end, and when it did, Konoha was the closest thing to a victor, with all the other villages claiming varying degrees of losses and gains. On the single worst day of the conflict, nearly three thousand ninjas in total died across every battlefield. Historians decades from now may know the precise events that ignited the war, but in the aftermath it’s still murky enough to point fingers Suna and Iwa both blame Konoha, Konoha blames Kiri, and so on. Having learned their lesson in the blood-churning free-for-all of the previous war, the five most powerful hidden villages - Iwagakure, Kirigakure, Konohagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure - all worked to build secret alliances between each other and other, smaller villages in preparation for the inevitable next conflict. The Second Shinobi World War, as it’s being called, was a radically different creature from its predecessor.
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