We are actually on the mainland on the north side, in the game stats there’s a map tab and on it you can see “Izumo” province marked out, Toda Castle is about smack dab in the middle of that.
I feel you with the duel, so much cool stuff I want to write for the character that we can’t get into yet because of the age, like real warfare. Won’t have to wait too much longer though, in general you were counted as an adult a lot earlier in this time period.
Cheers!
The food choice doesn’t affect anything other than the preference itself, it’s just a fun roleplaying choice. I’ve saved the preferences for the future in case I want to make a callback to it at some point.
Good catch, it should. I had been intending to make success on that check more powerful than just a relationship boost and I just forgot to.
A bit early to say but this has some serious potential.
Depending on how high we can climb it would be interesting to have some alt-history choice like getting fond of chinese or mongolian culture and introducing some systems from those cultures into our rule.
Ah my mistake I didn’t notice the things at the bottom of the stats screen also explains why mori didn’t take you hostage when he found out who you where
Oh and I like how how characters are in the clan tabs but it is kinda hard to find the if you don’t already know that so have you considered making a character tab that than splits the character into their clan
Oh and have you considered doing the stat notification like +sword (I’m not spelling the sword technique it would take like 5 minutes)
or +honorable something like that just so you know when the stats increase
(I would personally do the + or +++ something like that since you do linear stats)
it will also help people find bugs of stats not improving when they should be
(And I mean after you select something)
I think so too 
Cultural exchanges like that weren’t uncommon, is there any specific system you were thinking of?
I hear ya, didn’t consider how hidden it was.
I can add them as an optional thing.
Maybe something like the inner palaces system of the Chinese Dynasties or setting up a tradition of horse archery inspired by Mongolia, especially since both Archery and Horseriding are stats in the game so it would be a logical interest for an MC who has both stats pretty high.
I love the demo so far, it really makes me experience feudal Japan. Concerning the map, I have troubles in telling where the territories of each clan is, maybe you can color coded them for better navigation.
Oh and have you considered when you are in the training segment if you do one training 3-5 times it will trigger an event would kinda cool maybe not now but in the later trainings if their is later ones it could be kinda cool
if there where more of the one you have to actually read and remember to get rewards for knowledge
Could be a duel with your master or another noble who is also in training (might be for the later years) or a lesson from your instructor for phisical
But I do know that you want every chapter to only be around 10k and it would be hard to incorporate that with that limit
but it would help flesh out the character instead of just pressing the train button
Interesting. Though, I wish we could pick our own clan name.
Happy to hear you enjoyed it, a colour-coded map is in the plans and will be made when I’m back from vacation 
I really like what you have in the demo so far!
The 10k isn’t a hard limit, it was my initial estimation, in fact I’m almost certain chapter 2 will have to surpass that. Update 2 will come with updates to chapter 1 alongside chapter 2, fleshing out both the story, characters, and historical tie-ins, meaning chapter 1 will probably end up larger than 10k as well.
Alright but why did you put a limit of 10k
Oh and isn’t the mori clan color orange or did the change that after they defeated the clans around them(I’m playing a game that has them after the victory so I’m just curious)
It wasn’t a limit, just an estimation of what I would be aiming for.