Editing Nippon (section)

== Current lore (post-4th Edition) ==

Nippon is still the same old Tokugawa-era Japan, but less satyral and/or stupid and more... nothing. At least we know that there the [[Skaven]] learned how to be ninjas, right? Nah, not really, other lore states that [[Clan Eshin]] rats learned to be ninjas in ''Cathay''. On a less stereotypical note, [[Ogre Kingdoms|Ogres]] also apparently exist there somehow and are known as Oni, so you could probably convert some Ogre kingdom units in order to help support a homebrew Nippon army. 

[[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] 1st Edition (which almost got the Nippon supplement, by the way), states that there are three known characters from Nippon: Lady Katsui Okumoto, wife of the den Euwe merchant clan's leader in [[Marienburg]]; Toko and Masahito, a ninja and a bouncer in a service of [[Kingdoms of Ind|Indan]] merchant. The last one is named after a real-life Japanese prince, it seems.

According to the [[End Times]], they've got the best fleet ever, but they don't do shit with it. It's the best fucking fleet in the world. That's right, not druchii black arks or asur dragonships, ''fucking Yamato-Class Battleships''.

This is literally everything we know about Nippon.

Andy Hall recently confirmed that they aren't planned [[Total War: WARHAMMER|Total War: Warhammer 3]], so yeah, sorry...until the prototype combined map was found in the game files that included Ind, Khuresh...[[RAGE|BUT NO NIPPON]]. Then again, they also said they wouldn’t do Vampire Coast and Andy also said that while the early plans for additional Total Warhammer 3 content is solidly planned out it get looser as it goes and nothing is strictly off the table so anything could happen.

It turns out that Nippon exists in an [https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RngoLE Immortal Empires Cathayan map prototype], and is even mentioned in the notes as a '''Kingdom''' of Nippon, severely downplaying the status of this nation, it seems. Will it also mean that new Nippon can probably use a different Japanese history era? Probably not, but we'll see.