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Ok, I am working on a little storygame called Dynasty: Origins. I am looking for a willing co-author that can be able to write another part of the story and cooperate. If anybody has any art, ideas, help, or etc. I would be happy to hear.

This is the plot:

It is the ancient era. The Mongols are attacking a Japanese Clan called the Rising Sun. Brave samurai are killed every day by the fierce enemies. The bravest, strongest, and most skilled may be hiding in plain sight. But we have yet to know who he is. Whoever you are, help us.

So basically you are the personal helper of a brave Samurai but later you prove yourself to be the best warrior of them all and attempt to push back the Mongol threat.

P.S this won't show under my profile cause I put it in secret

I'm not sure if you're aware of this but in 1274 and 1281 the Mongols did try to invade Japan and did have a few battles with Japanese Samurai and Warrior Clans (who incidentally had names more like Hojo, Otomo, Shimazu etc not Rising Sun...), I'm not too sure how Mongols could fight a Japanese Clan without going to Japan anyway and Samurai weren't really the sort to "hide in plain" sight as little things like gaudy armor, bandits and the fact they were the only Japanese individuals allowed to carry weapons gave them away... you might be thinking of Ninjas or Shinobi who did  hide in plain sight but most accounts of them don't pop up until the Sengoku Jidai period which started in 1467, quite a while after the Mongols's heyday...

basically I'm not really into co-authoring but if you want your thing to be historically accurate or you need a proofreader I could probably help with that. When writing about Samurai Clans mostly they're less like nice, honorable Warrior Cats sort of organizations and mostly more like Mafia who were quite happy to double cross an ally and pillage and burn his castle (note, it's important to do these in the right order) or send a chap with a spear to hide in a toilet and jab upwards when their target came into sight... :) Simpler solutions for happier times :D

Random fact: archeologists studied battlefields and the corpses left in them after feudal battles. They discovered that roughly one third of all the warriors were female.

Feudal battles in general or this particular place? And do you have a source? Sounds interesting.

That's interesting! But I did know that Japan was one of the first countries to have female fighters.

Stop ruining this story with logic, dammit Will! /s

Seriously though, I don't really have too much of a problem with stories like this not being historically accurate, not unless the author claims it to be. The point of a story is to be entertaining, so as long as it achieves that objective I think it's fine. I think Will has a point about the samurai/ninja thing though, because I suspect this would throw a lot of people off when they read it.

Thanks Will, what I also wanted was more history accurate story. So thanks for that and I will do more research on the way :)