Sopranos
The Sop
A new age, an age of war is coming in Japan...
It's the 16th century in feudal Japan. For hundreds of years, the Ashikaga had ruled over the land, kept it in peace and harmony. But in their later days, the Shogun soon lost influence and control over the daimyos(local lord), especially those whose domains were far from the capital, Kyoto. The daimyos started to grow stronger in both influence and military, but most importantly they do show more and more freely. Many of these Lords began to fight uncontrollably with each other for control over land and influence over the shogunate. This situation brought Japan to a potential of a warring state.
1554, Ashikaga Ichiro, the current Shogun, was assassinated. There were rumors that someone poisoned his drink. The death of the Shogun left Japan without a rightful ruler. And soon there were many opportunists. Watanabe Clan of Tanba province, lead by Watanabe Yoshiro, marched into Kyoto. Watanabe clan was powerful and well-known to be loyal to the Shogun. Therefore it was shocking and unforgivable what they decided to do when they arrived to Kyoto. The Watanabe, in the name of loyalty under the Shogun, used their influence to quickly install the only child of the last Shogun as the new shogun, although that child was only 6 years old. It was a movement to use the Shogun as a puppet. With the Shogun in his hand, Watanabe Yoshiro seized control of the capital and his clan became the most powerful clan in the center. Yoshiro didn't take long before used his power to widen his territory. Yoshiro started attacking others clan for their territories and claimed it was the will of the Shogun to unite Japan. Weaker clans surrendered their territories to Watanabe Clan so that they could live. For those daimyos who refused, their lands suffered war. Not so many could hold again the powerful clan Watanabe and for those who couldn't, a merciless death await. Soon Japan was put into a warring state by the warlord Watanabe Yoshiro.
Meanwhile, the shogun family was kept in the capital, under Watanabe's control. The little Shogun was too young to understand anything while his mother's devastated to see her son on that throne, being used by a tyrant to take away lives of his own people. 1556, Yukihime (Lady Yuki), wife of the last Shogun and mother of the current Shogun, wrote a letter to encourage every daimyo to raise their armies again Yoshiro and stop this demon's mindless killing. With the help of many other Shogun's loyalists, the message was sent far to every clan in Japan, calling them for war again the tyrant Watanabe...
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So...um... this is a fictional history, samurai/feudal japan RP that take place in the Sengoku Era - The Warring Stage of Japan. The RP starts with the warlord Watanabe Yoshiro, uses the Shogun as a puppet and wages war again other clans. The Shogun family, powerless in Watanabe's hand, sends for other clans to rebel again the powerful clan and stop him. Every character in this RP would be fictional and surely OC (meaning they shouldn't have nothing to do with real history). Our characters will be daimyo or a province or a retainers for daimyo. They'll be the clan that receive the order from the Shogun family and join the army to fight again Watanabe.
Also here is the link for the discord group
The RP is officially open, the thread is right here
(Also, I want to tag a few old friends from the old Sengoku RP where I had a lot of fun
SAIGO-NO-HEATS
Nenma Takashi
loyalwolf
Dante Verren
Alteras
animegirl20
ChimpMan
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