But no, really this comes from an idea I had way back in Grevious Khan’s [i][b]A Glided Throne[/b][/i], though for various reasons I decided to play pretty typical Brythonic-influenced folks instead of this. I wanted to come up with the prospect of a racially diverse people who were East Asian in appearance but culturally more in line with the Germanic kingdoms of the early middle ages— The Frankish Kingdom, The Burgundian Kingdom, Saxony, Brittany, Lombardy, etc. 

From there I wanted to give them a reason to be surrounded by European-esque cultures, so I developed a naval identity (hence Polynesia), and then spin my own ideas from there during the course of the RP’s prebuilding draft and then the RP itself. It’s an incredibly niche and perhaps esoteric idea, but I’ve played white people with bows or white people with swords for a few times enough to want to try something new. I mean imagine if the Katana was perfected with European steelworking instead of the “pig iron” concept or how a shogunate-like concept evolving alongside European customs would be.