Editing Nippon (section)

== Old Lore (pre-4th Edition) ==
Nippon is pretty much just a Tokugawa-era Japan with some minor fantasy stuff and only a little bit of somewhat good ideas. They were apparently united as a nation for the first time in 1IC by some guy named Yamayakyuki I who promptly dropped dead a few years later in 12 IC and since then the position of Emperor (known as the Divine Sun) has become mostly ceremonial similar to how the emperor position was in real life Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate. 

Nipponese (like other Oriental guys in Oldhammer) worship a Buddha-like deity known as the Orange Simca which was named after one of the Warhammer developers' car. The truly hilarious thing is that Simca isn't even Japanese brand, but a [[Bretonnia|French one]]. Simcaism has a martial version called Vim-to, that is worshipped by crazy, but skilled monks and mages that fight [[Awesome|with bare hands]]. There are also a bunch of [[Tzeentch|Tsien-Tsin]] cults, which is not unusual for [[Eastern Lands]].

The little official info on their land army pretty much shows it as being the same as what real-life Japan had during the latter half of the Shogunate (arquebus wielding ashigeru, peasant foot soldiers, samurai and ninja etc.) plus, rocket artillery, magic sorcerers, magic kung-fu monks and...suicide bombers called Kamikaze. Out of all the possible magical creatures they could of had, for some reason Nippon only got Ki-Rin and Temple Dogs, which were shared with [[Cathay]].  

There were almost no named characters in Nippon back then. "The tale of Sanyo Kawasaki" scenario told the story of a Samurai who had a [[Butthurt|butthurt]] over the fact that the government [[Grimdark|let a foreign ship pass near the Nipponese coast (not even landing there) and made no attempts to sink it]]. He gathered an army under the command of his retainers with similarly stupid names ([[Derp|Honda Suzuki, everyone?]]) and marched to the capital, but failed to take it and ritually killed himself [[Derp|by standing on his head in a bowl of cold water]]. Yeah. This was the only Nipponese scenario before the squatting happened, by the way.

[[Genevieve Sandrine du Pointe du Lac Dieudonné]] also apparently went there once. Probably. If she exists. Honestly, this wouldn't be worth mentioning except that we don't know shit about Nippon so it's like 5% of what we know.