The warlords fight against each other; They send their samurai to fight in bloody battles where the rules laid down by honor fade in the fury of battle. Behind the muffled lights and silk screens, the intrigues of the courtiers are woven and unraveled, 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, inviolable dwellings 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 foliage of thousand-year-old trees, walking the tortuous 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...

The Empire of the Cherry Trees is Olivier Sanfilippo's first role-playing game.

It offers you to embody colorful characters in a fantasy universe directly inspired by ancient Japan. You will meet valiant bushi, shinobi mercenaries, master blacksmiths, courtiers with gentle manners or miko guardians of the way of kami as well as mysterious yokai. The only limit to the possibilities is your imagination. Immerse yourself in a world where magic and wonder are omnipresent, and where your players become the main actors in a great poetic and heroic fresco.

The Cherry Blossom Empire is a fantasy universe freely inspired by Japan and voluntarily detached from it in order to integrate the many fantastic components, drawn directly from Japanese folklore and legends.

The basic book offers you to discover the Cherry Tree Empire through numerous descriptions, superb illustrations and a complete cartography of typical or emblematic places, a complete innovative rules system, as well as through a series of texts presenting the abundant universe of the game, all masterfully written and illustrated by Olivier Sanfilippo. You will also find a detailed setting: that of the capital of the empire, Sakura-kyo, which can be used as a playground for your games.

The Cherry Tree Empire

Publisher: Arkhane Asylum

Language: French