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Dream of the Realm

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Japan, 1570. An anonymous villager believes he is alone after the death of his father. That all changes when a stranger arrives and informs him that he is part of something much larger than he could ever have imagined.

Plucked from obscurity, he is taken to the home of his Uncle, adopted into a Samurai family, and forged into a man who can carry the burden of his family name in a world in which any misstep might mean death, his own, or that of others.

The future seems clear: he will honour his family, serve his lord, and be faithful to his new wife. When he is called upon to fight, he will fight, and if he must die, he will do so with the honour and bravery expected of him. In a land torn apart by a century of civil war, a single stroke of a sword might mean the difference between ultimate power and complete destruction.

That all changes, however, when he comes to the attention of the most powerful man in the realm, Oda Nobunaga, and he finds himself thrust into the very heart of the struggle to end the Sengoku Jidai, the Age of the Country at War, unify the land, and bring about the Dream of the Realm. He learns, however, that a man cannot sever two masters, and the unification of the land comes at the cost of an ocean of blood.