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Originally Posted by tsunade666

So this game feels different from the first one? With no major wars as central plot? Then what is the central plot of the story?

Spoiler for SPOILERS:

The plot is about the events leading up to Haku becoming Oshutoru's successor and world building for Utawarerumono 3. Itsuwari no Kamen is basically Utawarerumono 2 part 1.
It ends with what looks like a civil war in Yamato is about to start after the assassination of the Emperor and the assassination attempt on Anju and trying to make her a political puppet.
They can't allow Oshutoru to be dead due to the unstable situation, so Haku fakes his death and only Nekone knows that the real Oshutoru is dead.
Utawarerumono 3 looks like it will be about Haku pretending to be Oshutoru and uniting Yamato again and making Anju the new emperor while also saving the old humanity, a.k.a red slimes.
The Emperor called Haku humanities first and last hope, but he wasn't able to explain what he meant by it before he died.