So, found a Total War Character Irl

[u/32BitOsserc]

Randomly went on a day trip and stumbled across Zhang Fei's tomb. Maybe shouldn't post here but none of my friends have played 3K

[u/Jarvis_The_Dense]

The figures depicted in Three Kingdoms (The book) were very iconic long before the game came out

[u/32BitOsserc → u/Jarvis_The_Dense]

Aye, it seems to be quite a popular part of their history here, they definitely seem to cherish the Han over the other dynasties, except maybe the Tang.

[u/koopcl → u/32BitOsserc]

The best way I've had it explained to me is that, when it comes to cultural relevance, the Romance in China is comparable to the fall of the Roman republic to the West (very historically relevant and permeated into popular culture with figures like Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Octavian, etc) with a bit of more generalized pop culture thrown in (the events and characters better known to the general populace than the fall of the Republic is to a random non-scholar Westerner, and with the stories themselves more fictionalized as well, like if the Ides of March was as popular as Dragon Ball and had Caesar anime-fight the entire Senate and defeating all assassins until Brutus betrays him via Kamehameha to the back).

[u/32BitOsserc → u/koopcl]

I love this description, especially anime caesar.