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Originally Posted by Krunk

A few questions about the story:

Itsuwari is supposed to take place 15-20 years after the original right? If the emperor lived so long, why didn't he attack Tuskuru while it was still individual countries? Yamato is supposed to be a huge empire, so what took him so long?

Also, how did Haku's brother manage to create such a huge empire to begin with? I can't imagine him being a fantastic strategist, considering that he focused on science more than anything.

Spoiler:

While the Emperor suspected that there were something big in Onkamiyamukai, he wasn't certain of it until Kamyu and Aruru visited Yamato.
That was the first time Tuskuru had ever had some official dialog with Yamato.
The emperor's true motives aren't that clear, but he have been searching for Haku for a long time but never finding him, so he could very well started to move more directly after Haku had regained his memories and Haku had found out that the emperor was his brother. And supposedly the Emperor is starting to get inpatient due to nearing his end of his life-span.

I can't remember the exact details, I played through the game fast and have yet to do a second run, but the emperor is seen as a god and is also a bit ruthless.
People follow him due to him being seen as a god, and he also provided them with tech as reward (the waterwheel in the first episode came from him).
And he didn't really created the empire by himself. He tried to teach them things, got disappointing by how they acted and went back to the shelter.
He came back years later and saw just how much the culture had changed while he had been gone.