#japan

This is…something of an odd world. Over a period of nine thousand years, the people of the Central Valley on the southwest coast of Tortolia slowly but surely started on the road to domestication. Unlike the rest of the continent, however, across which the trinity of beans, squash, and maize...

In August 1864 Radicals Associated with the Chosu domain sought to kidnap/protect the emperor in Kyoto, setting fire to much of the city in the process. What would be the reprecussions if the conflagration spun out of the control, killing the emperor and his (only) heir, OTLs future Meiji? You...