User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/New settings poll!/@comment-4897649-20120317195802/@comment-1153722-20120317200102

History is Ubisoft's playground, they aren't following a pattern. If they decide to use a setting from before the 1100s, they will. Corey May has an idea on how to make the series go to Feudal Japan, and Feudal Japan was from before the 1700s.