[he shakes his head and then decides to just come out with it. After all, it can't be any weirder than spirits of swords, right?]

Prior to finding myself in this place, I was not in my own homeland. I had been taken, along with many others, to a realm created by the demon Orochi. He intended to conquer us all, though for what reason no one can really say. As such, I found myself fighting alongside - and against - warlords from the islands. It has been a long and strange campaign, but my people are all still trapped there.