Nippon, Land of the Rising Sun - Warhammer Fantasy Lore 

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I love these fantasy geography lessons. Great info for adventures within the old world. Thanks GDN. 🇬🇧👍

"In your face Heinrich Kemmler!' Man's got a point. An unexpected laugh out loud line, thank you gdn.

Love these episodes on the lesser known areas of the WHF world! Thanks for doing this 👍👍👍

Thrown under the bus by GW ... pity. *Its been a very long time, glad your still going strong GrimDark Narrator.* Have fun everyone

Love me some NIPPON!!! Thank you for adding to the small, but growing list of videos on this awesome, but sparse faction.

very great first episode of Nippon lore. I will listen to it more. Ty for the video 👍

From the wilds of Albion, to the socially stratified and ceremonial Nippon. The journey continues... 👍🙂

Thanks for the video!

Hello and thank you 💪😁 Btw. Love that joke about Kemmler 😂

Very interesting, as always!

More please!!! And I do mean more!!!

Oh boy GDN I've always liked Nippon it was always intriguing a vibrant setting within the Warhammer universe. the idea of funeral warrior society like the samurai mixed with peasantry, really paints a vivid picture of unique and dynamic culture. I would love to see more lore and stories exploring the history and struggles of Nippon in the Warhammer world it adds even more depth to an already rich universe can't wait for more narrative lore about this old fascinating faction! Plus I love all the artwork that shown in this video, here is a Japanese proverb ( Nanakorobi Yaoki) which translates fall down several times get up 8 times, in resilience of perseverance that teaches importance of never giving up no matter how many setbacks or failure one my face, go Nippon." 🇯🇵😃👍🇯🇵

Thank you for this video GDN!

Loyal servant to the true Coordinator, er shogun, I mean shogun, loyal server to the true Shogun The GDR himself 😎.

Nice Nippon lore, you're the best GDN 👌

Good, you're finally awake.

Great Video

Wonderful!

Ah, more cool stuff:)

It’s essentially an idealized and simplified version of classical Japan.

Nice koto intro.

Whoa, konnichi wa, and what an unexpected surprise, daimyo GDN; I did not see this faction coverage coming. Presumably, the clans of Nippon are the equivalent to 'houses' of nobility and regency in other human nations, within which multiple families are united. Theirs truly is a society obsessed with ritual and ceremony. Perhaps the most so in all the human nations of the Old World; perhaps even more pretensiously than the Bretonnians. Predictable contradictions persist with this, another caste-based society biased by design. Such as the attitude towards 'lowborn' monks, as the direct representatives of the national religion, or how the vaunted samurai deign to regularly (ritually) “entertain” themselves with outright non-people that are the geisha. “Laws and punishments for thee, exceptions for me.” All of these formality sanctioned changes of identity throughout any Nipponese's life...isn't all of that too confusingly much, for the Celestial Orders to keep track of through eternity? The tiresomely methodical, exhaustive processes of the arranged marriages are constrictive enough to deter that union outright. Opposite to that on the spectrum of life's milestones, regarding rituals for the deceased...”in your face, Heinrich Kemmler”, HAHAAA, good one, Narrator. Might as well go so far back as to spit it in the face of Nagash himself. For that reason on its own of foiling the undead, I would have to give credit to that specific Nipponese practice. Nippon's Jinto, while continuing to exude medieval similarities, also sounds like, well, all of manga and anime combined. Sure, this installment to your “Minor Nations” playlist was more extensive, GDN, but so too was this a previously neglected, unembellished land. I'll be looking forward to finding out how Nippon distinguishes from the other Eastern, historically secretive/ignored Warhammer Fantasy nations of the Old World. Once again, thanks go to you for sneaking in like a ninja with more fan-supported canon. While awaiting your return journey to Nippon, have a confident and content week, Narrator. May the blessings of Sigmar be upon you.

Found a fanmade take on Nippon where the entire samurai and ruling classes are Oni demons, though not aligned with Chaos or the Dark Gods

Thanks

It's unfortunate that arguably one of the most influential producers of popculture within the past 10-20 years or so feels so uninspired within such an awesome setting as warhammer fantasy. But then again this did come out way before i was even born, and was never really touched sense then unfortunately

I imagen Nippon and Bretonnia would either get along famously or view each other as barbaric(despite being very similar in mindset).

I've never followed Warhammer Fantasy at all, most of what I know is from channels like yours 🙂. If there's a Japanese equivalent culture in the game, is there also a Chinese equivalent?

1st to 1st, 1st to watch, 1st to like

You know? Nippon was just the Japanese name for Japan

Weeb dark narrator

Do you think it's more real world Japan than other cultures transitioned to fantasy because GD had little understanding of it, the language barrier/work it would take to grasp the differences or mix of or different reason?