Shimaya

Ruled by Shogun Tarou Hiroshi. The Shimaya Shogunate was never actually conquered by Baz, being nestled too deep in the mountains to allow for the kinds of logistics needed to support Baz's armies, and like most of the Azure Mountains having all it's coast dominated by nearly impossible to scale cliffs. Further, Shimaya had little to offer the Empire, being much like Nimizu in its lack of desirable lands. The Shogunate is rather large, however, and despite its scarce population still maintains a significant force that once further dissuaded Bazrian invasion, and which has turned to conquest now that Baz has fallen. Shimaya is rooted deeply in the old culture of the Azure Mountains, which they still call Aoyama. Here the old regional dialect is spoken more than Baz's common, and almost no sign of the otherwise nearly ubiquitous Bazrian architecture, nomenclature, or craft is to be found.