Well... As the tale goes, an old bamboo cutter was harvesting from a local thicket when he found a fully formed child in one of the stocks. Since he and his wife had been without child, they decided to adopt the child.

It became quickly apparent this child was no ordinary human, growing quickly into an uncannily beautiful young maiden. Her otherworldly presence captivated many, and her very presence blessed the old woodcutter and his wife with good luck and long lives, themselves. It seems anything she touched became infused with the essence of eternity...

News of her existence started to spread across the country. Suitors from all over tried to win her hand, but the girl worried what it would mean for her if she were to marry. She knew she could not truly commit to a normal life. So she gave them each an impossible task to complete, many of them dying in the process, all because they simply wished for her hand in marriage...

Well. That as until the Emperor himself came to claim her. Then the truth comes out... she could not marry the Emperor because she was Princess Kaguya of the Lunar Empire, and thus he could not marry her or he would risk starting a war that would lead to humanity's very extinction, given she was not only the lunar princess, but also an exile who would soon be brought back to the moon to stand trial for the crime of consuming the Hourai Elixir, a medicine that granted the truest form of immortality...