- Note: The following is from the Scythe game, and may not ultimately be included in Iron Harvest.
From an early age, Akiko, the niece of the shogun, read stories of warriors and adventurers in faraway lands. She was especially fascinated by the beauty and art of sword fighting. When she turned 16, Akiko begged her uncle to let her train at the most elite samurai war academy, and he agreed. She was a model student, practicing constantly until she excelled at fighting, shooting, strategy, and tactics. Bursting with pride, the shogun gave Akiko a special trained monkey named Jiro.
As Akiko was entering her second year of training, her brother, a prominent engineer, went missing during a mission to the mysterious Factory in Eastern Europa. The shogun’s advisors suspected that he had been captured by agents of the Rusviet Union. Trusting in his niece’s skills as a samurai, the shogun has empowered Akiko to lead a large military expedition to subvert the Rusviets, recover the Togawa engineers, and discover the truth of the Factory.
| Lore | ||
| General | Factions | The Factory |
| World of 1920+ Airship |
The Factory Fenris Polania Republic Saxony Empire Rusviet Nordic Kingdoms Togawa Shogunate Crimean Khanate Clan Albion America Frankish Italy Mexico Arabia |
Nikola Tesla Vesna Tesla |
| Polanian Characters | Saxon Characters | Rusviet Characters |
| Anna Kos Wojtek Piotr Kos Lech Kos Janek Kos Michal Sikorski |
Gunter von Duisburg Nacht and Tag Prince Wilhelm of Saxony Kaiser Friedrich of Saxony Heinrich Steinmetz |
Olga Romanova Changa Grigori Rasputin Tsar Nicholas Viktor Popov Lev Alekseevich Zubov |
| Other Characters | Places | Events |
| Akiko Bjorn Connor Zehra |
Europe Zalesie Kolno |
Great War Tarkovsky Expedition |
