The San-meike

The San-meike (三命家 Lit. “House of Three Commands”, “House of Three Lifes” “House of Three Most Important things”) is the collective term for the three families that oversee the grand shrines of the Zōka sanshin.

The San-meike endeavour to work with Ashihara’s national government in the interest of maintaining a status quo: where change is measured, and progress is held back. This is to prevent calamitous ideologies from gaining a foothold on Ashihara’s people and subsequently becoming a reality.

O-meguyoku-uji
O-meguyoku-uji  (大廻憶氏, Lit. “Great Revolving Memories Clan”) is the first shrine of the eponymous San-meike acts in service of the Kotoamatsukami of the Beginning.

History
‘When did it all begin?’ was the query which lead prominent philosophers and priest-scholars of the 4th century to establish the foundation of the polemic Meguyoku clan.

Purpose
By pursuing and persevering of the true causes of events in Ashihara’s past, they aim to accurately predict future catalysts. The work of the Meguyoku clan is widely agreed to be a necessary nuisance: there is not a single clan that particularly wants all of its muddy history neatly stored in a semi-public archive.

O-toyotobanashi-uji
O-toyotobanashi-uji (大豊聡話氏, Lit. “Great Abundant and Clever Tale Clan”) is the second shrine of the eponymous San-meike acts in service of the Kotoamatsukami of the Present.

History
The Toyotobanashi clan emerged as an off-shoot of the Meguyoku clan in the 6th century to circumvent a wave of fear and hysteria after a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.

Purpose
The Toyotobanashi seek to carefully monitor the spread of information of events as they unfold. Ironically, the Toyotobanashi clan is regarded as a remarkably uncommunicative faction of the San-meike as its members are beholden to a strict anti-interference principle.

O-sugisato-uji
O-sugisato-uji  (大次哲氏, Lit. “Great Philosophy of Continuation Clan”) is the third shrine of the eponymous San-meike acts in service of the Kotoamatsukami of the End.

History
Originated from the Toyosakis, advocated for spread the teachings of the san-meike as a sort of extradimensional contingency planning, seeking an answer to coping with mortality, intimately aware of the End of All Known Things, accidentally invited death by thinking too hard about it, self-fulfilling prophecy clan