Historical Japanese Monarchs

Historical Japanese Monarchs (HJM) is a mod that improves and extends the historical Japanese monarchs from the base game. As of 1.13, PDX has implemented a full roster of emperors from Ninko to Showa (Hirohito) and shoguns from Ienari to Iesato. For players with The Great Wave DLC, there are even special events surrounding the ascensions of shoguns and emperors. This supersedes most of what HJM originally did, but HJM can still be used to ensure shoguns & emperors retire or die at historical times to keep the succession of Japanese rulers moving on schedule.

HJM leverages the heir-blocking features of the Heir Blocking Framework to stop ahistorical heirs from appearing while driving historical heirs for Japan. As long as the monarchy isn’t abolished at any point, HJM will spawn in historical shoguns & emperors as appropriate throughout the course of a game.

On top of that, HJM has a feature for driving historical deaths of historical shoguns and emperors instead of letting them live to ahistorical ages. A game rule allows the user to select whether the deaths should be forced, encouraged (i.e. RNG-dependent), or not enforced at all (for base game old age deaths). It is recommended to play with forced deaths to allow for all of the historical monarchs to be seen!

HJM also adds templates & DNA for Emperors Heisei (Akihito) and Reiwa (Naruhito), and a template for Tokugawa Iemasa. It also provides custom DNA for Taisho and Showa (which HJM originally had before 1.13), and these can optionally be used instead of the base game DNA data if you prefer via a game rule.

HJM REQUIRES either the Heir Blocking Framework or the Community Mod Framework for proper functionality. You do not need both. Without either of these mods, ahistorical heirs will not be blocked and it may interfere with the mod.

HJM has built-in support for Royal Splendor. Please remember to set the "Japanese Emperor Templates" game rule to "Use Royal Splendor" before starting a new campaign!

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HJM overwrites the following vanilla content:

• Scripted effects:
  
  • country_restore_japanese_emperor
  • country_generate_japanese_shogun
  • country_generate_japanese_emperor
  • country_ezo_generate_next_japanese_shogun
  • japan_generate_scripted_heirs
  • character_japan_ruler_succession_chain_effect
  • character_japan_imperial_succession_chain_effect
  • JAP_character_generate_kishu_daimyo
• Scripted trigger japanese_character_is_marked_for_death_chance
• Events:
  
  • japan_monarchy.1 ("The Kaei/Tenkyū Era")
  • japan_monarchy.2 ("The Meiji Era")
  • japan_monarchy.3 ("The Taishō Era")
  • japan_monarchy.4 ("The Shōwa Era")
  • shogunate.2 ("The Succession Issue")
  • shogunate.5 ("Hitotsubashi and Nanki")
  • shogunate.6 ("The Appointment of Yoshitomi")
• English localizations for Ninko, Komei, Taisho, and Showa (aesthetic change – not critical for functionality)

HJM does not touch any other vanilla definitions and defines everything else it needs in its own files, so all other mods should work.

HJM may be placed anywhere with respect to HBF/CMF.
This mod otherwise works alone and may be placed anywhere to any other mods.

This mod does not rely on any DLC features, so you should not need any DLCs.

• Japanese Uniform Pack
• Universal Names

• YES, you may include this mod in any modpacks/collections/whatever.
• YES, you may use this mod as a base to create your own. Credit and a link back here would be very much appreciated!
• YES, you may translate this mod into other languages.

• The Japanese Uniform Pack mod by Miss Duce (linked above) was used when creating the thumbnails.

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