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not a huge fan of the original game designers to make sun quan assassinate his brother! i have always hated that. the novel didn’t really give the suns too many negative takes. i always liked the sun family…
DoaE takes a lot of its inspiration from Yokoyama Mitsuteru’s classic Sangokushi manga. I have no idea whether the Sun Quan assassinating his brother was in there, but it could be where the event came from.
I’ve only read the first volume and a half of the manga… I have more but it’s difficult to muddle through the deliberately-archaic Japanese.
Lots of the first volume is taken up by added stuff.
Liu Bei buys tea for his mother, traveling far out of his way to reach a shipment from Japan (IIRC)… On his way back he is accosted by Yellow Turbans, who cart him around for a while. He tries to escape by selling his sword (a family heirloom), but is taken prisoner anyway. He manages to break out through the aid of an old priest, who tells him to escort a certain princess (yeah now we’re getting into completely fake stuff) off of the mountain.
Eventually he meets up with Zhang Fei, a retainer of the princess’ family, who helps him rescue said princess and recover his sword. Liu Bei gives the sword to Fei in gratitude, Fei gives him his own in return, Fei walks off with the princess, Bei goes home.
Arriving home, his mother bursts into tears, half in gratitude and half in disappointment, for Bei has given away the only proof of his family’s imperial descent.
A few years later, Bei notices the call for volunteers (as usual). He meets Zhang Fei again as well; Guan Yu is a local schoolteacher who happens to already be Fei’s sworn brother. Bei mentions the sword, Fei returns it and asks to serve Bei in crushing the YTs, and things progress as normal.
You know, when I started this post I was pretty sure Sangokushi would still be mostly canon from there… but now I’m not.
I really wish I had a scanner, though. Partly for Mitsuteru’s Sangokushi and partly for the Scholar Bunko version (also of course called Sangokushi). The Scholar Bunko one has the most badass-looking Cao Cao I have ever seen.
see if you can find that pic of cao cao under google images or something…i wouldn’t even what to title it if i were to search…
Not sure what the princess’ name was. It was a Japanese pronunciation of a Chinese character, that always screws things up.
Bet it was, though. The manga was adapted into an anime (the one that was fan-translated fairly recently).
I checked google images; no luck. For a vague description… it seems out-of-place but in this manga Cao Cao had curly hair (younger version only). He has this cool cape clasped together chain, with armor underneath. Younger Cao wears a circlet for some reason. Older Cao has more armor and a trimmed beard (similar to LOCC).
I prefer the Scholar Bunko version more in general, since it follows a bit more closely with history / original story. Plus, the second portion of the series, which covers Chi Bi, is a larger size book with pretty nice artwork in general.
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