The Seven Tigers were a group of Shogunate-era generals who nearly stopped the Scarlet Empire before it began. After the Great Contagion and the reactivation of the Imperial Manse by the Scarlet Empress, the entirety of Creation held its breath. The Shogunate was inarguably over - taken down by a combination of plague, the Fair Folk and the reintroduction of weaponry an order of magnitude more powerful than anything used by the rapidly decaying Shogunate forces.