Lore

Most of the information below can be obtained from the scholar class in the beginning of the Jeng Defensive Campaign. However, other snippets can be found through dialogue and stores.

## **Before the Main Story**

The apparent lack of care from God Emperor Tu Jeng to the Sino populous had enticed the rapidly expanding Sunland Dynastic Lord Hitohito to hasten their invasion of the mainland. This greatly concerned the United Status of Amerika to the point where they directly indirectly intervened in the conflict, sending thousands of real USD to support the crumbling Sino forces. It was futile, however, as the rampant corruption and Jeng dynastic supremacy over the Sino people made the mainland quite unstable, even without Hitohito's meddling. The Northern Slavic Union declined to provide any military or economic support, instead choosing to focus their efforts on repelling the Terrible forces encroaching on their homeland. Diplomat Hale Nokid of the USA expressed this as "a tragic deviation from our shared interests in the East."

### **Dynastic Lord Hitohito**

Dynastic Lord Hitohito was a square Hito, a super Hito as described by the press. As the leader of the Imperial Domain of Sunland, not much was known about his past, except that he was previously the Imperial Commissioner of Logistics across Sunland and his sudden rise to power arose from a military coup in which he organized. He may have been a low born, given how his lofty name was noted to be "as cringeworthy as slicing a hundred onions with lemon in the eyes" by the New Yourk Resident. His ambitions led him to eye the peninsula of Bando, eventually seizing it and starting the first Sino War of the decade. His rule was not without trouble, as many nuclear scientists, after the coup, left for the USA in fear of Hitohito extracting their IQ to develop a "second Sun", a vision that wasn't realized until the Amerikans heard about it.

### **God Emperor Tu Jeng**

An unbelievably decrepit and prideful ruler, Tu Jeng reached a stage in his life yet he was not able to have some Ferba (fermented barley) in the USA when his body double visited. His arrogance over the Sino people was well publicized, as well as his greed for everything desirable. The Mainlander experiment was funded by his belief that one man from the Jeng dynasty can destroy possibly millions of soldiers, whether they were Hito or not. Despite over 95% of his administration was Sino, Jeng considered the Sino to only "farm rice, provide fertilizer, undergo mitosis, and surrender their private lives to the almighty." During the main story, Tu Jeng is presumably dead, however in the later missions, it was implied that he was on vacation in "a land pure of Sinos" in the Machen Republic, which ironically was where he expelled all his political adversaries.

### **Mainlander**

A subject of a horrifying Jeng experiment involving the infusing of Confusing beliefs onto the human spirit and mind, Mainlander was admittedly not raised to be part of a model family. However, his omnipotence of all matters Confusing had granted him the Mandate of Heaven, and thus legitimacy to rule over the people with his eyes of the Sun and his tremors of Violet River flooding. His strengths follow not without his weaknesses however. Files from the Wunan Superlab shows that his memory was repeatedly wiped in an attempt to eradicate the "uncouth morality" that Mainlander had with his omnipotence. The Confusing morals that were infused into him had included the "do not do unto others what you would not want others to do unto you" moral, further complicating the experiment. The alchemists and scholar officials, fearing for their lives upon the experiment's inevitable failure, desperately concocted a final plan: Emulating the God Emperor Tu Jeng.