There's A War Going On In Stardew Valley?!
Stardew Valley is an indie game made by one person: Eric Barone, also known as Concerned Ape. It allows you to live out a fantasy of starting your own farm out in the country and leaving your boring, tedious office job behind you.
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Unfortunately, not everything is as perfectly peaceful as it may seem. Though the fighting isn't happening on their doorstep, the people of Pelican Town and the rest of Stardew Valley are at war with a far-away nation: The Gotoro Empire.
The Ferngill Republic is the country where Stardew Valley is located. The Fern Islands (including Ginger Island), Zuzu City, and the Calico Desert are all within the Ferngill Republic.
The Gotoro Empire is the country that the Ferngill Republic is at war with, located across the Gem Sea (the body of water next to the beach in Stardew Valley). We know very little about them, except for a few NPCs mentioning that they're the enemy and the fact that the Traveling Cart merchant is able to smuggle some items across the border.
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Since Stardew Valley is meant to be a peaceful game about your life on a farm after leaving the big city behind, it's no great surprise that the war doesn't come up often. We don't know why the war is being fought, how long it's gone on, what scale it's on, or what might end the fighting.
The most direct link to the war that the player has is an NPC named Kent. He isn't in Pelican Town at the start of the game; he arrives at the beginning of your second year. When Kent introduces himself, he explains that he was gone because he was fighting against the Gotoro Empire. From the chevrons on his jacket, we can guess
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