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Shards of Time: Forging Alliances
I agreed to Nobunaga’s idea about marrying off children to the other clans to form an alliance without bloodshed. But instead of the children that I’ve been raising, he promised to adopt children of the right age to marry off into those clans. Morally, I don’t agree with this but I have no choice. Even before, to be historically accurate, Nobunaga did marry off his children to the other clans to form an alliance and also to solidify his power over the other daimyos.
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