The Kyuma are on of the six noble Gao-Showa Clans. The Kyuma held an odd position. The poorest of the noble clans, they held no land in the fertile west of the nation but only land in the great plain. Perhaps because of this their armies were among the most effective, utiling the skills of the plains herdsmen in their cavalry. A notable phrase arose "if you fear for your success have a Kyuma on your side" and they became something of an omen of good luck. Their status as the lucky clan was well proven during the Hulstrian colonisation when the Kyuma led the battered armies of the Empire into victory against the westerners, utiling their cavalry and the new gunpowder technology to devestating effect, forcing the Hulstrians back over the mountains and securing the North Dovani Plain and the