The warlords fight each other; they send their samurai to confront each other in bloody battles where the rules decreed by honor fade in the fury of battle. Behind the muffled lights and silk screens, the intrigues of the courtiers knot and unravel, but are no less deadly. Their goal: to become more powerful, to get closer to the sun that illuminates the empire from the highest peaks of its eternal palace. But in the ancient sacred forests, the inviolable homes of ancient spirits, men find the limits to their excess. Only the brave and the foolish dare to tread the damp and shady earth, covered with the colourful foliage of millennia old trees, pacing the twisted paths where the unconscious and the most greedy disappear forever. In this empire, even the most powerful bow when the Wind of the Gods roars and the cherry blossoms fall...
He offers you to embody colorful characters in a fantasy world directly inspired by ancient Japan. You will meet brave bushi, shinobi mercenaries, master blacksmiths, courtesans with sweet manners or even Miko guardian of the kami way as well as mysterious yokai. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Immerse yourself in a world where magic and wonder are omnipresent, and where your players become the main actors of a great poetic and heroic fresco.
The Empire of the Cherry Trees is a fantasy world freely inspired by Japan and deliberately detached from it in order to integrate the many fantastic components, drawn directly from Japanese folklore and legends. The basic book proposes you to discover the Empire of the Cherry Trees through numerous descriptions, superb illustrations and a complete cartography of typical or emblematic places, a complete innovative system of rules, as well as through a series of texts presenting the abundant universe of the game, the whole written and illustrated with mastery by Olivier Sanfilippo. You will also find a detailed framework: the capital of the empire, Sakura-kyo, which can be used as a playground for your games.
L'Empire des Cerisiers funded on the Ulule platform
L'Empire des Cerisiers was funded on the Crowdfunding Ulule (See the campaign) platform on the May 30, 2018, the campaign lasted 28 days. 1,092 people helped funded the game, whose the amount requested was €10,000.00. Thanks to these 1,092 people the game could be funded up to €134,700.00, ~1,347.00%.
Contents of the box : 1 book of 320 pages.
