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[thesouppond]

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Feelij cute might save my prinogems for Gaming

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yo what's her number hahah eeyow! [fuckboy lipbite]: nightseeker 4, dragoon 2, arbalist 4, alchemist with short brown hair and glasses, hexer with short brown hair, necromancer 1

peak character design: medic 5, war magus 2, war magus 5, sovereign 2, sovereign 3, sovereign 4, buccaneer 1, buccaneer 3, medic (eo4) 1, both wanderers, fencer 2, pugilist 4, rover 4, vampire 1, gunner 5, survivalist 5, dark hunter 3, sovereign 5, farmer 4

gas: ronin 5, dark hunter (blonde with red whip), medic 2 (mediko), medic masc redhead, highlander 1 and 2, gladiator 4, gladiator 5, twintailed hoplite, ninja 5, old man monk, farmer 5, shogun 5, nightseeker w the middle part, runemaster 4, fencer 3 (blue hair), dragoon 4, harbinger 3, harbinger 4, necromancer 3, fencer 4

its cute!!! or cool!!!: the blonde survivalists, protector 4, dark hunter 1, medic the masc one with glasses, blonde medic, blonde alchemist (masc), troubadour with orange hair, ronin 1 2 and 4, war magus 2, war magus 3, beast 5 (gorilla), hoplite 1, ninja 2, monk 1, monk 4, zodiac 2, zodiac 3, zodiac 5, arbalist 5, farmer 3, shogun 2, landsknecht (eo4) 3, fortress 2, medic (eo4) 3, the girl arcanists, bushi 1, bushi 4, imperial 3, imperial 4, celestrian race portrait 1 (masc), dragoon 3, pugilists 1 2 and 3, harbinger 1 and 2, warlock 2, rover 1, all masuraos, shaman 3 and 4, botanist 1, hero 1 and 2, beast 3 and 4

it's literally fine: landsknechts 1 3 and 2, survivalist (the masc one who isn't blond), protector 1 2 and 3, black hair alchemist, blonde alchemist (fem), white hair troubadour, both male hexers, jack frost gunner, beast 1 and 2, sniper with short brown hair, landsknecht (red hair), hoplite with the bob, buccaneer 2, ninja 1, ninja 4, monk 5, farmer 1, farmer 2, shogun 1 3 and 4, landsknecht (eo4) 1 2 and 4, fortress 1 and 4, sniper 2, both fem eo4 medics, runemaster 2, bushi 2, imperials 1 and 2, earthlain race portraits, fem celestrian race portrait, brouni race portraits, fencer 1, dragoon 1, warlock 4, rover 2, botanists 2 3 and 4, 2 portraits from mystery dungeon 2 that i dont know

he's onto something, but... but...: gladiator 2, hoplite 5, buccaneer 5, yggdroid 4, dark hunter 5

i dont dislike it but i have Problems with it: war magus 4, zodiac 4, wildlings 1 4 and 3, arbalist 1, yggdroids 1 2 3 and 5, dancer 4, troubadour 5, dancers 1 and 3, bushi 3, vampire 2, arbalist 2

my guilt has a strict "no uggos" policy.: landsknecht 5, troubadour 4, protector 5, ronin 3, gunner 4, gunner (black coat), both masc gladiators, hoplit 3, ninja 3, zodiac 1, arbalist 3, nightseeker with fluffy hair, fortress 3, both masc snipers, sniper 4, both masc runemasters, gunner (green coat), both masc arcanists, both therian race portraits, both masc warlocks, necromancer 4, rover 3, shamans 2 and 1

JAILLLLLL: dark hunter 2 (fem w pink hair), alchemist 5, troubadour 2, hexers 2 and 5, sovereign 1, buccaneer 4, monk 2, wildling 2, wildling 5, nightseeker 2, dancer 2, necromancer 2, heroes 3 and 4

hi story character: flavio, raquna, bertrand, simon, arthur, frederica, chloe, highlander, fafnir knight, arianna

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my large evil tierlist go

notes about bias:

i havent played 1 classic at all, i have played a bit of eo2 classic

i havent played either mystery dungeon

i have played through eo3 multiple times (my favorite), eo4 once, eo5 almost done

no thought given to alt colors unless i remembered them. most of these portraits im really only looking at fully while making this tierlist. Feel free to change my mind with good alt colors

just because i dont like some of these doesnt mean i dont like it when other people use it. it's okay when it's your ocs i just wouldnt use the portrait myself

notes about my rankings:

yggdroids are my favorite class bc fuck yes robots, but i wish their designs were better.

dark hunter 5 is so cute, despite the ranking i would play her

most of the problems tier is that yk the designs play into weird stereotypes (wildling and dancer/troubadour) but the first 2 i just dont like blondes, and the bushi just made me laugh the anime boy cut is too funny...

the tiers are unordered. my all time favorite class portrait EVER is [drumroll please...] arbalist 4 alt color.

[thisonesatellite]

Catch up tag

i was tagged by the lovely and incomparable @booksandabeer, who makes my life better and also adds to my never-ending pile of reading and watchlists with a maximum of impunity and a minimum of compunction. 😂😍💖

Last song I listened to: Last Train to Nowhere - Ghost Hounds

If you like blues - check them out. Their sound is straight out of a 1940s oil drum and they're channeling every last dirty guitar riff and bass line through the last six decades from Free to The Black Crowes to Rival Sons. From earlier tag games some of you know that i listen to the gamut from grunge to industrial to hiphop to metal, but sometimes, darlings, it's just gotta be blues.

Last thing I read: The Second Sleep - Robert Harris

He does a lot of alternative-versions-of-history novels, often with a mystery /thriller element, but this was a bit of a letdown, unfortunately. It has an incredibly well-built world with some very thought-provoking elements of how civilization would fall and rebuild after a technological extinction event (not a calamity -- just the absolute dependence of society on not just technology, but the cloud, and the complete ruination its failure and loss brings) --- which is revealed very gradually and organically (initially you think you're reading a normal high-middle-ages story and then, suddenly -- ancient plastic artifacts. It's well done). But the story builds and builds and builds -- and you keep watching the pages dwindle and worry about how he'll wrap this up, and then, basically, he doesn't. It's not an open end, not even unfinished -- but it is intensely dissatisfying and has an air of "my publisher wanted this by tomorrow". It was definitely worth reading once, but it won't become perennial.

Last movie I watched: Dune Part Two

Enough said. 😂 i'm going to go see Civil War this weekend.

Last TV show: The Continental (look, i love everything John Wick, i won't apologize. And this has a lot of really good world building and storytelling ideas so far.)

Which doesn't disguise the fact that i. Am. So. Fucking. Behind. On. EVERYTHING.

EVERYTHING. OMG. i have not enough time in the day for all the stories i want to imbibe and write and also i have to make room for my current Leverage re-binge, because sometimes i need to see a world where justice is A Thing.

Next up: Fallout, obvi. And Ripley. And The Gentlemen. And now that @booksandabeer mentioned it, Shogun has climbed up the watchlist to #4, and 3 Body Problem has entered it.

You guys still want fic from me, or can i stop writing to free up some time? 😂

Last thing I googled: i cannot stress this enough: i DO NOT GOOGLE. i DUCKDUCKGO.

Having said that, the last thing i searched for was: "longest sniper shots in military history". For a throwaway fic line. i'm going to end up on a letter agency watchlist one of these days and they're not going to like my explanation of 'realistic fictional character dialogue'. Are they.

Last thing I ate: Buttermilk. Which is either very cool, or very sad. 😂

Sweet, salty, or savory: Here's the thing: i do not like the taste of sweet. All sweet. Every iteration of sweet. My fave chocolate is 85 - 99% and my actual hell is a candy store. So, like, SAVORY all the way. And then salty, natch.

Sleep: What is sleep? Do not compute. Want it, though.

Currently reading: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovich

Mostly for phrases like: "Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling."

Really, it's all the fun you can eat.

Absolutely zero pressure tags: @stoneserafina @cable-knit-sweater @ace-in-reserve @ohhsodebonair, @voylitscope

[saetoru]

TEE LMFAOOO

Let it NEVER be said that zhongli havers don't know how to dodge 💋 i need to tell u my story of beating this mini boss dhfbfudbf

So I didn't acc know where it was, I just read that its north of the court so I went looking in that region. Found it. Went onto the cliff bc I've seen the stories and was shit scared. I thought I could just Nahida sniper the shit out of it so I stood on my lil cliff and summoned Raidens eye and Nahida E

Tell me WHY IT STARTED WALKING UP THE CLIFF. Oh my goodness my life flashed before my eyes as it started walking towards me I was like HUH? WHERES MY FUCKEN INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR THIS SHIT. Anyway I was really wary bc app this thing obliterates a 50k zhongli shield.... so I was like yeah Imma have to dodge 🙄 my worst nightmare smh.

Surprisingly the actual fight wasn't that bad? I was terrified but ngl I lasered it with nahida and shogun 🤡🤡 anything hydro gets decimated with dendro so it was acc okay! I was making progress LMFAO. I think I used zhonglis burst once and that was it. The rest was just Nahida E and NA and shogun E. Also I outsmarted the water blob by hiding behind my Zhongli pillar everytime it used that stupid ass water laser move 😒 anyway ! No characters were killed 💋 I kicked ass fuck u vivianne

I GIGGLED THE WHOLE TIME I READ THIS BC I WAS LIKE OMG !!! SHE SEES MY STRUGGLE NOW !! except i can’t believe vivianne the CUNT climbed the cliff for you HELLO ??? i stood in higher ground and has lynster shoot the shit out of her LMAOOOOOO she’s so ass to fight bro deadass i hated it sm

the first time i tried it i was genuinely so close like im fairly certain just a few hits from al haitham was all i needed and then she just ONE SHOT EVERYONE BACK TO BAVK and my dodging wasn’t good </3

BUT ABYWAY CONGRATS ON THE ACHIEVEMENT LMAOOOO no fight ninianne </3 she’s not as bad tho tbh she’s easier to dodge

[mywitchcultblr]

WHY JUST WHY

I lost 50/50 Navia to Tighnari which made me happy because I wanted Xiao for next banner, I was saving and reach around 31 wish then I realize that Chevruse do use musket and I wanted her because I love sniper mechanic. I thought "Well might as well pull 10 times so I can get her." I END UP GETTING RAIDEN SHOTGUN INSTEAD OF MUSKET WIELDING LADY AND RUINED MY GUARANTEE XIAO

I GOT RAIDEN IN THE FIRST 10 PULL AND I DO NOT CARE ABOUT Ei/Shogun, I don't hate her but I don't simp for her, my type is Ningguang. And oh you think I got a Chevruse? NO FUCK NO. I GOT 2 KUJO SARA AND I DON'T LIKE KUJO SARA

NOW I HAVE TO SPEND YET ANOTHER 2 MILLION RUPIAH TOP UP TO GET XIAO AND THIS GUY BANNER ONLY APPEAR AROUND LANTERN RITE WHICH IS LIKE ONCE A YEAR

What the hell I should do with Ei? And no, I don't have the budget to get her polearm, Zhongli already has to suffer using Favonius Lance because no budget to get Homa. Now Zhongli and Ei will have to fight over one Favonius Lance *crying*

[megashadowdragon]

GudaGuda: The Ieyasu Implication (feat. Bluebell)

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Art by the talented Bluebell, who did last year's New Year's Special comic if you recall.

Now that I think about it, perhaps the reason Ieyasu hasn't shown up in FGO or even REDLINE is that his very character arc seems to break conventional narrative. He is a man who, from even his formative years of being a political hostage, seemed destined to be fodder. There's this sense that if he had been a cast member in a story rather than a real life guy, he would've been killed during either Akechi or Mitsunari's respective coups to establish a threat level. By that same token, maybe it would've been apt if he had suffered a karmic Agamemnon-esque demise for killing his own son - or perhaps his son would escape the assassination attempt and become the protagonist in a narrative where he must oppose his father's (and his father's friends') tyranny.

But that doesn't happen. He survives both coups thanks to a bunch of grit, a bit of luck, and a lot of help from his pals (Hanzo, Mototada, etc.). He successfully executes his treasonous kid. And then that kid's mother (but not their daughter who wasn't as traitorous as either of them). And not only does he wind up becoming shogun despite being kind of typical compared to Nobunaga (wildcard madman) and Hideyoshi (rags-to-royalty tactician), but he also got a consort, and then remarried, and after his second wife tragically died soon after of natural causes, he threw up his hands and decided to go full harem route over a dozen strong and spread himself around, resulting in a grand SPECULATED low-ball estimate total of 20 kids by the time he croaked (placing him below Nobunaga's 28 and above Hideyoshi's 4, if you're curious).

But he's not all villainy and vice either. Despite being less exciting (and charismatic) than either of his predecessors, he managed to strike up a lot of genuine friendships, alliances, and associations. A lot of which are tied into his abilities as a Servant.

And as harsh as his treatment of his aforementioned scion was, he was also capable of mercy. Which, arguably, almost makes that whole filicidal capital punishment decision worse. Most crucially, he voluntarily provided sanctuary to the remnants of the Iga ninja clan after they had been shattered by Nobunaga in conjunction with their rivals, the Koga clan. And then doing the same to what was left of the Koga clan when Nobunaga turned on them, because while Nobunaga was fond of tricky gambits, he did not like being made the victim of sneak attacks and guerrilla warfare himself. Just ask those warrior monks. In fact, it’s rumored that the sniper Sugitana Zenjubo who tried to assassinate him twice was a ninja. Now, Ieyasu did not need to do this. Both clans were almost worthless in terms of military utility after this battle, and he could’ve easily curried favor with Nobunaga by using the ninjas as bargaining chips. Instead, he shielded them (this is how he met Hattori Hanzo). And years later, during Akechi’s coup, the typically feuding clans paid him back by escorting him across the country back to his territory when he was being hunted when they - still holding a grudge against Oda - could’ve just handed him over to Akechi and aided the usurper in defeating Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Nobunaga’s #2 who had been complicit in his many deeds both glorious and gruesome.

If Akechi is indeed Tenkai, then it speaks to Ieyasu’s capacity to forgive in his later years (though Chacha would understandably argue otherwise). And in FGO, this generosity imbues loyalty in Akechi so fierce that even with the entire Tokugawa lineage defeated in the Ooku Labyrinth Event, he sacrifices his life to in hopes of providing the means to defeat the mad God of Love to a potential rescuer.

So what you should glean from all this is that Ieyasu is a very wild and dark figure, but in a very unorthodox configuration. He’s not traditionally complex as much as he is objectively difficult to pigeonhole. Which is why his vassals like the Yagyu family, Adams, and Honda tend to assert themselves more easily in the minds of audiences since they can more easily synch with more concise archetypes. If Ieyasu shows up in a work of fiction, and he's not the antagonist, then chances are he'll be a supporting character at best.

Fate's rendition of him as a gloomy neurotic really intrigued me, because it was a uniquely sympathetic image. Writers tend to have him lean towards some combination of dull, cranky, or sly since to casual observation, he seemed to gain the title of shogun by just outlasting the two more interesting unifiers than through any real valor or cunning. In fact, some historians argue that his once audacious-seeming drum gambit after his defeat at the Battle of Mikatagahara - where he threw open the gates of his mostly empty stronghold and had drums played and torches lit to make it seem like he was trying to lead Takeda Shingen's forces to an obvious trap where a secret army would lie in wait - was an accidental side effect of him doing that to lead his scattered men to a rendezvous.

These four unofficial yet really beautiful illustration of him by Dd (Mori Nagayoshi's artist) also helped construct the image of Ieyasu that i had in my head. He might be delicate, broken even, but he's still awfully dangerous because he's the guy who made it to the end of the line, and commanded the respect and loyalty of several Sengoku Era standouts. He's made the tough choices, the huge mistakes, the crucial plays, and while they were truly awful experiences, they were well worth it even if he occasionally stares off into the distance and wonders why he can't taste food sometimes.

To wit, milquetoast sub-boss turned sinister seinen final boss a fraction of the time, and this the rest of the time.

And I think you could still reconcile this with his original draft as just a body double of Ieyasu who can use his link to more legitimate warriors. Just have him be the real one and then have him pretend to be an innocent body double whenever he can't be bothered to deal with anyone who has an axe to grind with him (Amakusa, Muramasa, Chacha, and whoever else). Or if he must be a body double, then at least give him some agency and incorporate as much of the historical Ieyasu's bonkers journey into his character. If he must be a Pretender, make him a great one.

Hopefully, it would make Ieyasu a fascinatingly uncomfortable figure in a franchise where the likes of Bluebeard and Ivan the Terrible already exist.

So I wanted to somehow encapsulate all that with this comic where Akechi is reminded that while Nobu might be his god, and Hideyoshi his enemy, Ieyasu was his BOSS until the day he died, and forgave him for the assassination attempt rather than execute him for this insult like he did with member of his own immediate family for reasons he may never know.

So I can't blame Hidetada for listening to his father often during the Ooku event as, well, see above.

That said, neither the Ooku event or this comic are entirely accurate, as while Hidetada was his favorite son and successor, they did have their disagreements, particularly with how to deal with the remnants of the Toyotomi (who Hidetada had once been a hostage to as a child, much like his father was to the Oda). Their joint inability to come up with an acceptable solution for all sides during a period of purported peace was one of the core contributing factors to the 1614 Siege of Osaka coming to pass, which would be Ieyasu's final military campaign (don't get too excited, he died a year after it was over).

Gudaguda as a storyline seems to really like the story arc of an individual naturally talented genius who made history but whose downfall was caused by their inability to emotionally connect with the 'normal' people around them, so Ieyasu as the bland, unmistakably human guy who just happened to outlast all of the flaming dumpsterfires on team 'Unifying the nation through force' seems a bit too slippery to slot into the story in the same way as Nobu or Kagetora.

Ironically, Fate Ieyasu's probably a bit further down the road from where Guda's mental state is heading at this point, someone who was incredibly human but still strong-willed, and earned the respect of legendary heroes and mythical warriors, but has been cracking slowly for quite a long time under the shee

r weight of responsibility that's been on their shoulders.

I feel like if any character can convince Guda to get some fucking help for their brain problems, it would be Ieyasu.

[griffenscreech]

Character list for my current fit

The Straw Hats (and other allies):

Monkey D. Luffy (The Free Hero: Nika)

Roronoa Zoro (The Loyal Hero: Pirate Hunter)

Nami (The Cunning Heroine: Weather Witch)(intern: Phantom Thief)

Ussop (The Brave Hero: Sniper King)(intern: Hatsume)

Kuroashi Sanji/Anya (The Kicking Hero/Heroine: Blackleg)(intern: Deku)

Tony Tony Chopper (The Transforming Hero: Monster Doctor)

Nico Robin (The Knowing Heroine: Devil Flower)

Franky (The SUUUUUPER Hero: General Cyborg)(intern: Hatsume)

Brook (The Humming Hero: Soul King)

Jinbei (The Honorable Hero: Sea Knight)

Sabo (Blue Gentleman)(intern: Deku)

Koala (Vermillion Lady)

Trafalgar D. Water Law (The Operation Hero: Heart Surgeon)(intern: Deku)

Marco (The Eternal Hero: Phoenix)

Kuroashi Reiju/Rei (The Pink Hero/Heroine: Moth Pink)

Kuroashi Ichiji/Isa (The Red Hero/Heroine: Sparking Red)

Kuroashi Niji/Nate (The Blue Hero: Dengeki Blue)

Kuroashi Yonji/Yvonne (The Green Hero/Heroine: Winch Green)

Nefetari D. Vivi (The Prim Heroine: Desert Princess)

Boa Hancock (The Beautiful Heroine: Snake Empress)

Kozaki Yamato (The Oni Hero: Raijin)

Kozaki Momonosuke (The Shogun Hero: Dragon Samurai)

Akagami Shanks (Red Emperor-retired)

Portgus D. Ace (The Flame Hero: Fire Fist-retired)

Buggy (The Flashy Hero: Star Clown)

Donquioxte D. Rociante the 13th (Government agent-retired)

Koby (Police Officer)

U.A. High School (relavent characters):

Nezu (Mr. Principal)(Target of Blackleg’s wrath)

Aizawa Shouta (The Erasure Hero: Eraserhead)(Target of Blue Gentleman’s wrath)

Kan Sekijiro (The Blood Hero: Vlad King)(Object of Weather Witch’s annoyance)

Majima Higari (The Excavation Hero: Powerloader)

Midoriya Izuku (Deku)(Soon-to-be intern of the Straw Hat Agency)

Monoma Neito (Phantom Thief)(Soon-to-be intern of the Straw Hat Agency)

Hatsume Mei (Soon-to-be intern of the Straw Hat Agency)

Bakugou Katsuki (TBD)(angry pomeranian that wants to blow up Deku)

Shuzenji Chiyo (Recovery Girl)(Target of Heart Surgeon’s wrath)

I might do an updated character list should I decide on adding more characters later

[100beep]

A Pair of Holy Assassins

Liyue was a disaster.

Zhongli turns out to have been Rex Lapis this whole time. He was always planning to give up the Gnosis and fake his death - for what, Childe can’t imagine, but it makes all his plans rather useless. When he reveals this and his plans with Scaramouche, Childe is pissed.

That’s not the worst part. The worst part is that, as he hands the Gnosis over, Scaramouche doesn’t return to Snezhnaya with it. Instead, he steals a boat and is halfway to Inazuma before anyone knows he’s not doing his duty. They learn this after the fact from an eyewitness report by Captain Beidou, whose ship it was that was stolen.

Upon his return to Snezhnaya, Childe is somewhat terrified of what the Tsaritsa will do to him for his failure. The Tsaritsa simply laughs at his concern.

“There was nothing you could have done,” she says before sending him off to Inazuma to hunt down Scaramouche.

In Inazuma, he finds war.

The Shogun’s Vision Hunt Decree has torn the islands apart. Watatsumi has mounted a resistance and is now a refuge for Vision-holders who wish to keep their Visions, as well as anyone else who disliked the Shogunate for whatever reason. Scaramouche, according to the Tsaritsa, would likely fall into the second group, looking for revenge for being cast aside, but Childe finds no evidence of his involvement on either side of the war.

Failing to find evidence of Scaramouche in the Resistance, he tracks down other Fatui involvement in the war. They’ve been supplying Delusions to the Resistance from a factory in Tatarasuna for years. Why anyone signed off on that, Childe can’t imagine, given the value of a Delusion, but it’s not his job to tell them to stop.

Childe doesn’t want to lend the Shogunate the legitimacy of having two Harbingers, so he leaves those islands to Signora - who’s been here this entire time, for some reason. Instead, he goes to Watatsumi Island - if Scaramouche will involve himself in this war, it will be on the side of the Resistance.

Watatsumi Island is surprisingly peaceful for being in the middle of a war. There are battalions of soldiers training, but no actual fighting. The biggest impact of the war, at least on this particular island, is the lack of food. Which Childe does his part to remedy, spending his days on one of the boats dodging patrols to bring in food. It’s the best place to hear any rumors, he reasons. (He spends his nights in a tent in a remote corner of the island, as the few inns and hotels on the island have been commandeered for soldier’s barracks.)

A week and a half later, he’s proven right when he hears the two soldiers come to collect the shipment of grain gossiping about a Harbinger coming to visit. They don’t immediately shut up when they see him, which means they’re not talking about him, and Signora wouldn’t risk losing the Shogun’s goodwill, which means that there’s a decent chance that it’s Scaramouche they’re talking about.

Childe presses them for more details. They almost immediately supply them, to Childe’s mild disapproval - anyone with that level of information should be better at keeping it quiet. They say that this Harbinger will be meeting with Kokomi - who Childe has gathered is the leader of the Resistance. Which Harbinger it is, they don’t know, but they can speculate that the meeting is on the influx of Delusions. And they give the precise date and time of the meeting - early morning a week from now.

As much as Childe would like to take on Scaramouche head-to-head, he knows that he doesn’t stand a chance - and regardless, the Foul Legacy draws far too much attention. Luckily, behind the shrine that’s been converted to an operations center is another shrine, much smaller and abandoned - and he’d brought one of Dottore’s new sniper rifles.

On the evening of the meeting, he lies flat, ready to shoot as soon as he sees Scaramouche. It’s not the best angle, but he’s a good enough marksman (with a rifle, anyways) to be confident that Scaramouche won’t leave alive.

An arrow hits beside his head, sending up a mini-explosion of earth. “That was a warning shot,” a voice above him says. It’s matched with a boot on his back. “Drop the gun, put your hands above your head, then you can get up slowly and explain to the Divine Priestess why you’re trying to kill her.”

Childe curses internally, then releases his hold on the rifle. When he raises his hands, they’re encased in some kind of shackles - he expects it’s a Geo construct of some kind. The gun is pulled away, and once his captor is satisfied he can’t resist, the boot is lifted from his back.

He rolls over - away from where the arrow hit - and gets the first look at the person who managed to capture him. Drawn bow with an arrow pointing at him - he’d expect no less. Watatsumi Resistance, and high-ranking. Then he sees the ears and tail and bites back a laugh despite the situation. He’d been captured by a dog hybrid. He takes Childe’s Vision and Delusion, somehow knowing exactly where Childe keeps them, then returns the Vision encased in stone. Childe can still feel his connection to it, but can tell that he won’t be able to use it.

His captor releases the bow and it dissolves into wherever weapons go when they’re not in use. Then he walks Childe to their makeshift operations center, where he finds Scaramouche and who he assumes to be Kokomi waiting for him.

“Your assassin, exactly as I predicted,” says Scaramouche as if bored, waving a hand at Tartaglia. He looks ready to continue, but Childe interrupts.

“I’m here to kill him, not you,” he says quickly, pointing at Scaramouche.

“Whyever would you want to kill your fellow Harbinger?” Scaramouche asks in a mocking imitation of confusion.

“You know perfectly well you turned traitor,” Childe spits back.

“Such an outrageous claim,” Scaramouche says. “And you with no proof.”

“Signed orders from the Tsaritsa don’t count?” Childe asks. To one of the soldiers, he says “A scroll in my back pocket. I’d get it myself, but…” He holds up his hands encased in stone.

Kokomi nods and the soldier grabs the scroll and hands it to her.

Childe considers saying something about their lack of caution, but decides against it. She scans it, then announces “Faked,” soaking it with her Vision and rendering it illegible.

As Gorou drags him off to a cell, he hears Kokomi tell Scaramouche “It appears we owe you a great debt.”

The cell where he’s to be kept is alone in the open air, as seems to be common in Inazuma for anyone who isn’t the Shogunate. Once he’s locked up, he asks Gorou to remove the binding on his hands. Gorou, apparently reluctantly, partly agrees, reducing it to a pair of shackles. As night falls, he tries - and fails - to sleep. Comfort isn’t an issue, but Scaramouche outsmarting him again so quickly stings.

He must have drifted off at some point because he’s woken up near midnight by someone shaking him. He’s alert in a second, and seeing that it’s Gorou waking him, he immediately tries to summon a blade. He fails, of course, due to the strange encasing on his Vision.

“Come with me quietly,” Gorou whispers. “We know your orders are real.”

Childe blinks in surprise, then nods and follows. If this is some kind of trap, he’ll have a better chance of escaping outside of the cage.

Gorou leads him to a secluded meeting room where Kokomi is waiting for the two of them. As soon as the doors close, Childe says “Can I ask what’s going on now?” He’s rather exasperated by the cloak-and-dagger nonsense this is turning into.

Kokomi answers a different question. “We know that Scaramouche turned traitor. We knew even before you showed up. But we’re not in a position to fight another god, so we took him in, despite the risk to us.”

She pauses, and Childe notices just how tired she looks. “So I have an offer for you. You get our help to kill Scaramouche, and your freedom, and you reclaim whatever it was he stole from you. You keep supplying us with Delusions and you kill Kujou Sara.”

Childe considers. It’s not a bad deal, and from what he knows of Sara he can take her fairly easily. But he does have a secondary goal in Inazuma - one that Kokomi should already know after reading his orders.

So he makes a counteroffer. “We kill Scaramouche, I kill Sara, I show you how to use a Delusion safely - well, relatively safely - then I join the Resistance until the Shogun is dead, on the condition that I get her Gnosis.”

Kokomi quickly agrees, and Childe belatedly realizes that this was probably her goal in the first place. Not that it matters - he’d still agree to that deal if it was offered, but it annoys him that he’s still so easily manipulated.

They shake on it, then begin planning. Gorou removes the case on his Vision, weakens his restraints enough for them to be breakable, and then returns him to his cage.

The next morning, he’s woken by a nervous-looking messenger. He says quickly “You have been found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death.

Childe pretends to despair - not very well, he thinks - and to fight back - better, but still not very well - as six soldiers drag him off to his execution. It’s all for the benefit of whoever’s watching, of course - all six of his “jailers” know what’s going on.

He’s put on a platform in front of three people - Kokomi, Gorou, and Scaramouche. The six guards leave without binding him in any way, which should be Scara’s first and only warning, but he’s too caught up in arrogance to notice.

“The would-be assassin, thanks to you,” Kokomi says. “If you would like the honor, you may kill him.”

Scaramouche quickly agrees, then makes a show of summoning an Electro ax, examining it, polishing it somehow, and a few practice swings, gloating all the while. And so he’s entirely unprepared for two blades at his throat - one from Childe and one from Gorou - and a hand inside his chest grabbing the Gnosis. He tries backing away and is stopped by another knife in Kokomi’s hand.

As soon as the Gnosis is recovered and Childe’s hand removed - which takes all of ten seconds - Gorou removes his blade from Scaramouche’s throat and stabs him through the heart.

As he sees Scaramouche’s body start to smolder, Childe shoves the Gnosis into Gorou’s hands, says “Run!” and activates his Foul Legacy.

Kokomi and Gorou both turn and run at the panic in the Childe’s voice.

Childe summons as much of an Electro shield as he can, then also runs. He’s caught up to Gorou within a second, after which he shadows him. (Kokomi has wildly outpaced both of them with her Vision.) When he’s counted fourteen seconds from Scaramouche’s death, he knocks Gorou to the ground, covering him.

He does so barely in time for the massive explosion that comes from Scaramouche’s body. It easily overpowers his rushed shields, a wave of force washing over him.

As soon as he gets off Gorou - who thankfully isn’t crushed by the weight of the Foul Legacy - he transforms back into his regular form. Gorou picks himself up and asks “Was that really necessary?” Then he turns around and sees the smoking crater and acknowledges that yes, it was necessary.

“What was that?” Kokomi asks, having returned from over the ocean. “The death of a god,” answers Childe. He’s looking a bit roughed up - the rapid activation of the Foul Legacy takes its toll.

“I know about that,” Kokomi answers. “I mean, what did you do?”

Childe winces. It’s not something he wants to make widely known. “It’s a Foul Legacy form. Abyssal teachings designed to fight gods. And that is all I will say on that.”

Neither of them is satisfied with that answer, but neither care enough to press.

“And now I owe you a death,” Childe states. “Although you may have to wait a few days for me to recover.”

During his recovery, Childe asks Gorou for the Gnosis back. He complies, pulling it out of a pocket, then asks why he was trusted with it. “Did you expect me to use it to shield myself?”

Childe laughs. “It was nothing to do with trust. But the Foul Legacy is incompatible with such a concentration of divine power, and you were closer.”

Killing Kujou Sara goes far smoother than either attempt to kill Scaramouche. He indulges himself with a one-on-one fight, walking into the encampment and challenging her to a duel. She accepts, likely from overconfidence from recently beating an oni for his Vision. Childe can certainly see why they want her dead. If she has as much control over her soldiers as she does her body, she’d make a dangerous enemy on the battlefield. It’s a surprisingly tough fight - Childe is forced to resort to using his Delusion a few times, but he wins out eventually.

After that one fight, he takes the role of common soldier, declining all offers of any higher rank. “I’m a weapon to be pointed, not a commander,” he says.

Very few of the battles after that are remotely interesting - with the loss of Sara and the addition of Childe, the Resistance steadily pushes through Kannazuka and prepares for a direct invasion of Inazuma City.

Of course, proper use of the Delusions that are still flowing in help. Safety won’t stop them draining their users, but it does reduce it - and more importantly, makes them more effective and less prone to backlash.

Between battles, Childe, Gorou, and Kokomi (nominally, as she’s rarely present) begin their plans to kill the Shogun. Once more, it can’t be a straight fight - contrary to popular opinion among the Harbingers, Childe knows when there’s a fight he can’t win. So another assassination attempt it is.

Childe’s first plan is to steal into the Tenshukaku, taking the Shogun by surprise when she’s conducting business.

Gorou points out that there’s nowhere in the Tenshukaku that has both a free shot to the Shogun and is far enough away that they won’t be caught in the blast from her death. Then he proposes baiting her out and taking a shot from there. Unfortunately, by Childe’s insistence, it needs to be somewhere secluded to avoid loss of civilian life, and the Shogun only leaves for public appearances.

After about a week of going nowhere, Childe bemoans his lack of shielding abilities. Gorou asks if he can use the Gnosis to create better shields, and Childe answers “I don’t have enough power over others to use it effectively.”

He then pauses and studies Gorou. After far too long for comfort, he says “But you do.”

Gorou raises both eyebrows. “You’d trust me with that?”

Childe sighs. “After the Liyue fiasco, I wouldn’t trust anyone with it. But you’ve returned it before…” He trails off, and the subject is dropped for now.

After another week of increasingly harebrained schemes, none of which have any chance of working, and a stall in pushing into Inazuma City because the Shogun would likely defend it, Childe agrees to loan Gorou the Gnosis. “And this way, I still have the option of the Foul Legacy if it’s needed.”

After that, the planning is quite straightforward, for a nice change. Wait until the Shogun comes out for some ceremony, take a shot at her, and Gorou contains the energy with the Gnosis once his shields are strong enough - which shouldn’t be that long, considering his natural affinity for Geo.

These plans all go out the window when, as the Resistance defends Kannazuka, the Shogun joins the battle.

Up until that point, as was now standard, the Resistance had been fighting off the Shogunate fairly easily. They’d been pushing the offensive for long enough that any offensive had been seen as foolish at best. Among the soldiers, it’s the subject of more than a few jokes.

As soon as Childe sees the Shogun, floating above the rest of the army, he curses and activates his Foul Legacy. He shoots off a few arrows, hoping for the rest of the archers to follow his lead, then the distance is closed. He quickly comes in behind her, turning her attention to him from the rest of the army. And then they fight.

The Shogun isn’t nearly as strong as Childe expected. Granted, she can’t use the Musou no Hitachi without destroying her entire army, but her offense feels… lacking. It’s almost as if she’s holding back. Her defense, however, is impeccable. She can perfectly block Childe’s strikes as fast as he can make them. The occasional volley of arrows that comes from behind is vaporized before they touch her - Childe’s not entirely sure how, but assumes it’s some sort of Electro aura.

Childe backs up, ignoring the volley of arrows coming at him - with his Foul Legacy armor, they’re little more than an annoyance. The Shogun follows, pressing the attack. Once they reach the edge of the ocean, Childe continues backing up, hovering over the water. The Shogun follows. As the two fight, an arrow narrowly misses the Shogun. This wouldn’t be notable except for the fact that it was close enough that it should be vaporized but wasn’t. And also from the fact that it hadn’t curved down over such a distance.

From slightly behind the front lines, Gorou curses. Then he shoots another arrow, letting it charge longer than normal to consolidate the power of the Gnosis.

After the arrow misses, more fire. The Shogun manages to dodge most of them, but some connect, and they cause significant damage. Childe quickly presses the advantage from this, driving the Shogun back to the bulk of the army.

Another arrow hits, and the Shogun stumbles. Childe attacks from above, and the Shogun blocks. Childe keeps pressing down, and the Shogun drops into the water.

As soon as her foot touches the water, Childe uses it, a surge of water engulfing her and dragging her down. She attempts one last strike but the water binds her, and Childe finishes the fight with a decapitating strike.

As soon as he’s won, he speeds away from the body in preparation for the explosion of divine energy.

It never comes. Instead, the body simply dissolves. Childe questions this, but decides that he can question it later and returns to the fight on the shore, attacking from the rear. On the shore, as soon as the Shogunate soldiers see the Shogun fall, the battle turns into a rout. The soldiers continue fighting, but all hope that the attack is successful is lost.

After that battle and the death of the Shogun, the Resistance finalizes plans for the direct invasion of Inazuma City. Now that the Shogun is dead, there’s nothing stopping them, and they decide to press the advantage as soon as they can. Of course, this leaves no time for considering anything else, including why the Shogun’s death wasn’t anywhere near as destructive as it should be or why she had no Gnosis. Childe raises some concerns about this, but eventually agrees that there can be time for this later.

The landing on the south of Byakko Plain goes as well as can be expected, in large part because of the loss of morale from the death of the Shogun. The Shogunate is cleared off the plains quickly, after which the battle devolves into individual scuffles in the streets of Inazuma City.

The first order of business upon capturing the city, even before clearing it of the remaining Shogunate soldiers, is destroying the Statue of the Omnipresent God - now no longer omnipresent. All ninety-eight Visions are removed from it - ninety-six of them to be returned to their owners, the last two having died, to be given to anyone who can activate them. And then a dozen soldiers with sledgehammers - no one knows where they got the sledgehammers, nor does anyone care to ask - destroy it. Well, as much as can be done with sledgehammers - Gorou takes over with his Vision once there’s only solid stone left.

While mopping up the last of the Shogunate soldiers, Childe enters the Tenshukaku alone. There are no soldiers there that he can find, everyone having abandoned it after the Shogun’s death. There are a few terrified children who’d come in to hide from the fighting. Childe removes his mask and tells them how to get out of the city without attracting any attention. They’re more than happy to listen.

In what appears to be a deserted corridor, the back of Childe’s neck prickles. Out of pure instinct, he throws himself to the floor, barely dodging a thunderbolt.

He’s back on his feet within seconds, looking for where the sudden attack came from. It doesn’t repeat, but the Shogun steps out of an alcove and draws her sword from within her chest.

Childe curses internally, then sends a prayer to whoever might be listening that he survives this. He’s already overused his Foul Legacy lately, and without it, he doesn’t stand a chance. (Even with it, he needed help to beat the Shogun last time.) He’d wonder how the Shogun survived, but he’s too busy surviving himself.

While Childe is desperately dodging the Shogun’s attacks, Gorou gets a sudden feeling that he’s needed elsewhere. He summons a binding around the legs of the soldier he’s fighting to end that fight quickly, then runs for the Tenshukaku.

As soon as he enters the building, he knows exactly where he’s needed. He slows down slightly as he sheathes his sword, draws his bow and lets the Geo energy accumulate. He runs through a hole in the wall, barely dodging another lightning bolt as he does so.

There’s a moment of confusion when he sees the Shogun before he decides that there’s time to puzzle that out later and looses the arrow. It hits the Shogun in a spray of earth that buys Childe time to catch his breath.

His bow dissolves and he draws his sword again. Their only chance is to keep the fight at close distance - for some reason, the Shogun’s attacks only get stronger with distance.

Gorou begins the offensive and Childe joins a few seconds later. Without his Foul Legacy, he can’t do much, but he does serve as a distraction.

Then he gets an idea. “Box her in,” he calls to Gorou, rolling out of the way of another lightning bolt.

Gorou nods and thrusts his sword forwards. As expected, it’s dodged, but a wall still rises from floor to ceiling behind her. The Shogun counterattacks, in response to which Childe retreats behind Gorou, who blocks with another wall summoned, this one more transparent.

Electro energy explodes from the Shogun in all directions. Gorou falls to his knees maintaining the walls, but they do survive. However, the other physical walls - and the ceiling - are blown out. (The floor, being built on stone, survives.) Childe dashes forwards and places a hand on the Geo wall, summoning three Electro sides to the box encasing the Shogun.

The Shogun begins a consistent assault on the back wall. Childe electrifies it, making it harder and adding a backlash - not that the backlash does much.

Childe sees an opportunity in the small space and summons his narwhal underneath the Shogun. The small space constricts its size, but it also makes it impossible to dodge, sending the Shogun flying and into the electrified ceiling, knocking her out.

Gorou resummons his bow, opens a small gap in the wall, and takes aim through it.

He’s stopped by a voice calling “Wait!” from behind them. In an instant, Childe has turned around with an arrow drawn and pointed at a woman who had apparently appeared from nowhere.

“Why should I?” asks Gorou, not taking his eyes or his aim off the Shogun.

“I’ll give you the Gnosis in exchange for her life,” the mysterious woman answers, drawing said Gnosis from a pocket.

“The Gnosis and a promise from her to abdicate, leave Inazuma, and never return,” Gorou counteroffers.

“And an explanation on how she returned from the dead,” Childe adds.

She sighs and agrees. Gorou closes the hole in the wall, not taking his eyes off the Shogun.

“The two Shoguns is easy to explain,” she says as she hands the Gnosis to Childe. “The one you fought first was a puppet designed for day-to-day rule.”

Which would be why it didn’t count as a god’s death, Childe thinks.

“And your oath to abdicate and never return,” Gorou says to the Shogun.

The Shogun doesn’t answer, instead making one last desperate assault on the walls. Gorou reopens the gap, and before any attack can get through it, sends an arrow through the Shogun’s head.

“Get the other two walls,” Childe commands. “I can’t hold it.”

Gorou curses, then summons another two walls, while Childe removes the Electro ceiling. A wave of Electro comes from the Shogun’s body, entirely directed up.

The mysterious woman vanishes as suddenly as she appeared.

“That was… odd,” Childe says. And then they both return to the city, finishing the sweep for the Shogunate soldiers.

After the cleanup, Childe finds Kokomi - who’s extremely busy with the administrative work from taking over the country.

“The Shogun is dead and you’ve won,” he says. “And I must return to Snezhnaya.”

She nods without looking up.

The last thing he needs to do before returning is get the Geo Gnosis from Gorou. Gorou hands it over, but as soon as Childe touches it, he pulls his hand back sharply from the burn.

“Apparently I can’t hold more than one,” he says. “And since you won’t want to come to Snezhnaya with me, I’ll be back.”

“I can come with you,” Gorou offers. “The war’s over, I’m sure I can be spared for a few days.” Truth be told, he’s been at a bit of a loose end since the war had ended.

Childe nods. “Excellent - that should save some time. If you’d like to stay in Snezhnaya, I’m always recruiting for interesting people like you.”

Gorou blinks in shock. After a moment, he nods. “Maybe. I don’t know if I’ll be needed here again… but I’ll consider it.”

Childe grins. It’s a better answer than he’d expected. “In that case, the ship leaves in three hours on the tide… the two-way one.”

Gorou laughs, then goes off to pack hurriedly.

The trip to Snezhnaya goes quite smoothly. Gorou has questions about the Fatui that Childe is mostly happy to answer - although Gorou’s not always happy to hear the answers. Childe also continues his attempted recruitment of Gorou, which leads to a large number of their conversations being about the Fatui in some way or another.

The first thing Childe does upon arrival in Snezhnaya is tell Gorou exactly how the meeting with the Tsaritsa will go. She tends to be rather strict when it comes to respect, and while Childe thinks that with two Gnoses, he’s bought enough goodwill for her to disregard any slip-ups, he doesn’t want to take the chance.

Childe enters the throne room beside Gorou. They proceed to the base of the Tsaritsa’s throne and kneel, and when the Tsaritsa says “Rise,” Childe proceeds to his lesser throne, while Gorou stands behind it.

The Tsaritsa begins “Tartaglia. Your return from Inazuma comes slightly later than I had hoped, but no later than I expected. Report.”

“Your Majesty,” Tartaglia says. He reaches into his chest for the Gnosis and gestures for Gorou to do the same. “I report success on all counts.”

The Tsaritsa is impressed, although she does not show it. “Very good,” she says. She walks to Tartaglia’s throne and accepts the two Gnoses. Both of them are curious at how she can hold more than one, and both are disciplined enough to not ask.

After their report to the Tsaritsa, Childe gives Gorou a tour of the city, who is suitably impressed by the landmarks. On the journey over, Gorou had decided to stay for a few days - what’s the point of a four-day journey if he’s only going to stay for a few hours?

Childe leaves the city the morning after their arrival, going to somewhere in the country. He gives Gorou no details.

Gorou spends those few days alone, mostly touring the city. He does, however, spend some time asking questions about the Fatui - he trusts Childe, but the person trying to recruit you might not always be the best source of information. He finds that Childe was entirely truthful, leaving very little out.

He returns a few days later, ready to go out on another mission.

“Where will you be going next?” Gorou asks.

“Natlan, most likely,” Childe answers. “We’re still hunting Gnoses, Dottore’s in Sumeru, and Arlecchino in Fontaine.”

Gorou nods. “I’ve always wanted to visit there,” he says.

“You could come with me,” Childe says, half-jokingly.

Gorou laughs. “I don’t suppose I could join on a trial basis?” he asks.

Childe nods. “I can work something out.”

[kchasm]

Ryu Number: The Sengoku Period/Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters of Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate, Chapter 2, Part 1

The Rescue of Takeda

Kunoichi (くのいち) Female ninja invented by KOEI.

Takeda Shingen (武田 信玄) Major daimyo of the Sengoku Period. Led the Takeda clan. Born 1521. Highly skilled, he famously almost entirely annihilated the combined forces of the Tokugawa clan and the Oda clan at the Battle of Mikatagahara in 1573. Unfortunately, he was unable to fully defeat his foe and had to withdraw. In the later Siege of Noda Castle, he succeeded in taking the castle from Tokugawa forces, but was shot by a sniper, perhaps fatally. He died in the same year (1573).

Sanada Nobuyuki (真田 信之) Samurai. Born 1566. Older brother of Sanada Yukimura. Originally served the Takeda clan under his father. After the Takeda clan was destroyed, this and that happened, but Nobuyuki eventually fell in under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When Ishida Mitsunari led his uprising at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, Nobuyuki, who was married to Tokugawa Ieyasu’s adopted daughter/Honda Tadakatsu’s daughter (that’s one person), served the Eastern Army under Tokugawa, while his Yukimura and his father served the other side. After the Eastern Army won, Nobuyuki was able to secure exile for Yukimura and his father (rather than anything capital). Died 1658.

Sanada Yukimura (真田 幸村; also called Sanada Nobushige/真田 信繁) Born 1567. Served the Takeda clan until their fall, after which he ended up under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, joined the Western Army, but his life was spared at the request of his brother Nobuyuki and he was exiled instead of executed. However, at the Siege of Osaka he again joined Toyotomi loyalists against Tokugawa Ieyasu’s forces and was killed there in 1615.

Guan Yinping

Liu Bei

Ma Chao

Naoe Kanetsugu

Uesugi Kenshin

Hori Hidemasa (堀 秀政) Born 1553. Served Nobunaga, then, after Nobunaga’s death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of Nobunaga’s retainers. Died 1590 of illness.

Kai (甲斐, often suffixed with -hime i.e. Lady) Date of birth unclear—possibly 1572. Originally served the Hōjō clan. In the 1590 Siege of Oshi, wherein Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s forces struck against the Hōjō clan, she defended the castle for over a month with an incredibly small number of men, only surrendering after it was learned that the lord of the castle (Kai’s father) had been defeated elsewhere. She later put down an internal rebellion by sword, impressing Hideyoshi such that he made her his concubine. I guess that was a reward back then. Date of death unknown—she disappears from history after the Siege of Osaka (1615ish), which saw the defeat of the Toyotomi by the Tokugawa shogunate.

Mori Ranmaru (森 蘭丸; also called Mori Naritoshi/森 成利) Attendant of Oda Nobunaga. Served Nobunaga with great devotion. Died in the Honnō-ji Incident.

Niwa Nagahide (丹羽 長秀) Retainer of Oda Nobunaga. Born 1535. Died of illness 1585.

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Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長). Major daimyo of the Sengoku Period. Born 1534. The guy who kickstarted the unification of Japan. He did a dang lot and trying to sum it all up under one entry is more work than I’m up to right now, so suffice to say a lot of people died and it was very interesting and/or dramatic. He was known both for his innovative tactics and his brutal behavior toward the uncooperative. His also-famous retainers were Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. He died 1582 in the Honnō-ji Incident when his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide rebelled—after being wounded and made unable to fight further, he committed suicide (possibly; it was a big ruckus so exactly how he died is unclear).

Sakuma Nobumori (佐久間 信盛) Retainer of the Oda clan. Born 1528. Was entrusted with the care of Oda Nobunaga. Despite this, in 1580, he received a formal chastisement from Nobunaga for Not Being Good At His Job and was dismissed (de facto exiled), and would die in 1582. There are opinions regarding whether this dismissal was deserved.

Sassa Narimasa (佐々 成政) Samurai lord. Born 1536. Served Oda Nobunaga through the latter’s career. Eventually ended up serving Toyotomi Hideyoshi. For his services he was granted Higo Province, but after he was unable to quell an uprising there on his own he was ordered by Hideyoshi to commit suicide, which he did in 1588.

Akechi Hidemitsu (明智 秀満) Retainer to Akechi Mitsuhide, which isn’t confusing at all. Married to a daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide. Led the attack against Nobunaga at Honnō-ji. Famously cut across Lake Biwa with his horse after Akechi Mitsuhide’s defeat at the 1582 Battle of Yamazaki, then committed ritual suicide at Sakamoto Castle. Died 1582. The character Akechi Samanosuke in the Onimusha series is based on him, but probably not intended to be literally the same individual.

Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀) Born 1528. Served Oda Nobunaga, but is best known for his assassination. In 1582, he was ordered by Nobunaga to assist Toyotomi Hideyoshi against the Mōri clan, but instead rebelled and attacked Nobunaga at Honnō-ji (translator’s note: “ji” means “temple”). The reasons for his actions are unclear at best. With less support and more enemies than he apparently anticipated, Mitsuhide was killed in 1582 fleeing (as did his forces) from the Battle of Yamazaki.

Saitō Toshimitsu (斎藤 利三; some sources give his given name as “Toshikazu”) Vassal of Akechi Mitsuhide. Born 1534. Sided with Mitsuhide in the Honnō-ji Incident. Captured and executed accordingly in 1582.

Asahina Yasutomo (朝比奈 泰朝) Vassal of the Imagawa clan. After Yoshimoto’s death, continued to serve his heir Imagawa Ujizane (Ujizane was actually the one who notably enjoyed playing kemari, not Yoshimoto).

Imagawa Yoshimoto

Okabe Motonobu (岡部 元信) Vassal of Imagawa Yoshimoto. Even after Yoshimoto was killed in the 1560 Battle of Okehazama, he refused to stop fighting, which apparently impressed Nobunaga such that he returned Yoshimoto’s head. Afterward, Motonobu served the Takeda clan and died in 1581 in the Seige of Takatenjin, falling to Tokugawa forces.

Fūma Kotarō (風魔 小太郎) The name taken on by each head of the Fūma clan, which specialized in guerrilla warfare and espionage. The fifth leader of the clan is the pertinent one here. Served the Hōjō clan. Forced to surrender with the Hōjō clan after the latter’s defeat at the 1590 Siege of Odawara at the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The Fūma clan were reduced to brigands, and Fūma Kotarō was eventually captured and executed by Tokugawa Shogunate forces in 1603. That said, it’s really not clear how much of this guy is actual history and how much is folklore, which is itself very ninja, so good job, I guess.

Hōjō Tsunashige (北条 綱成; given name possibly “Tsunanari”) Born 1515. Initially a vassal of the Imagawa clan, he joined the Hōjō clan and became the brother-in-law of Hōjō Ujiyasu (third head of the Hōjō clan). He managed to retire and died 1587.

Hōjō Ujinao (北条 氏直): Final head of the Hōjō clan. Born 1562. He tried to take advantage of the chaos after the Honnō-ji incident, but ended up defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu and banished. Died 1591.

Hōjō Ujiyasu (北条 氏康) Head of the Hōjō clan. Born 1515. Conflicts began between the Hōjō clan and the Takeda clan toward the end of Ujiyasu’s life, but he was able to hammer out a truce between the Hōjō and Uesugi Kenshin and the Hōjō and Takeda Shingen. He died in 1571. His heir was Hōjō Ujimasa.

Hou Yin (侯 音, Kou On) Subordinate of Cao Cao. In 218, Cao Cao sent his younger second cousin Cao Ren to Wan (present day Nanyang, Henan) to prepare an attack on Guan Yu. However, Cao Ren’s policy of conscription and forced labor led to an uprising led by Hou Yin. Cao Ren put down the rebellion and Hou Yin was killed in 219.

Hu Juer (胡 車兒, 胡 車児, Ko Shaji, often translated Hu Che'er or Huche’er, the latter used by Warriors Orochi 4) Aide of minor warlord Zhang Xiu. In Romance of Three Kingdoms, when Zhang Xiu strikes against Cao Cao, Cao Cao’s guard Dian Wei is a really tricky piece to get around. Hu Juer is the one who comes up with a plan that gets Dian Wei drunk so that he can steal his weapons; this leads to Dian Wei’s death in the ensuing battle. Not to be confused with unrelated Three Kingdoms individual Hu Che’er (胡 赤兒), who served and betrayed Niu Fu (who served Dong Zhuo).

Jia Xu (賈 詡, Ka Ku). Born 147. Originally served Dong Zhuo and advised in the takeover of the imperial capital after Dong Zhuo’s death. He eventually left and served minor warlord Zhang Xiu as advisor instead; after Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao he became one of Cao Cao’s strategists. Made major contributions in this way, and helped secure Cao Pi as Cao Cao’s heir. Died 223.

Zhang Quan (張 泉, Chou Sen; also translated Zhang Chuan) In 219, when Cao Cao was away from the capital on a campaign against Liu Bei, a government official of Cao Wei, Wei Feng, plotted a rebellion, but one of the conspirators got cold feet and reported the plan to Cao Pi, Cao Cao’s heir. Zhang Quan was one of the people who was implicated and executed.

Zhang Xiu (張 繡, 張 繍, Chou Shuu) Initially a minor warlord who stood against Cao Cao. His uncle, Zhang Ji, served Dong Zhuo, and he was part of the coup after Dong Zhuo’s death that took over the imperial capital. He was angered when Cao Cao took Zhang Ji’s widow as concubine. The war between Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao ended in 200 when Zhang Xiu listened to his advisor Jia Xu and surrendered, after which he served Cao Cao with distinction—go fig. Father of Zhang Quan. Died 207 en route to join Cao Cao in his northern campaign against Wuhuan tribes.

Zhao Yan (趙 儼, Chou Gen) Born 171. Joined Cao Cao after he “took in” Emperor Xian. Known for his strictness in enforcing law. Continued to serve under Cao Pi, Cao Rui, and Cao Feng. Died 245.

The Rescue of Uesugi

Aya[-Gozen] (綾 [御前]; translator’s note: “-Gozen” means “Lord”): Born 1524. Half-sister of Uesugi Kenshin, mother of Uesugi Kagekatsu through Nagao Masakage. Died 1609.

Naoe Kanetsugu

Uesugi Kagekatsu (上杉 景勝): Born 1556. Uesugi Kenshin’s nephew through Kenshin’s sister Aya. After his father died, Kenshin adopted him. When Kenshin died in 1578, the inheritance was supposed to go to Kenshin’s other adopted son, Uesugi Kagetora, but Kagekatsu defeated him and took it for himself. He later married a daughter of Takeda Shingen. Kagekatsu was defeated by Oda Nobunaga’s forces, but Nobunaga’s death granted him an unexpected reprieve, and Kagekatsu stayed alive to fight another day. Kagekatsu was one of the Council of Five Elders Toyotomi Hideyoshi set up to ensure that his chosen heir, Hideyori, succeed him; when the Sekigahara Campaign occurred between Ishida Mitsunari’s Western Army and Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Eastern Army, Kagekatsu sided with Mitsunari, but was defeated early and went to serving Tokugawa. Died 1623.

Yukimura Sanada

Nagamasa Asano (浅野 長政): Born 1546. Served Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Under Hideyoshi, held seniority over the Five Commissioners, who governed Kyoto and surrounding areas. Assisted in Hideyoshi’s failed invasions of Korea. Died 1611.

Hachisuka Koroku

Hosokawa Fujitaka (細川 藤孝): Born 1534. Originally a retainer of the last Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, but when Nobunaga and Yoshiaki clashed, he joined Nobunaga. Refused to support Akechi Mitsuhide after Mitsuhide killed Nobunaga, even though his son was married to Mitsuhide’s daughter. He shaved his head and became a Buddhist monk, taking on the name “Yūsai” (幽斎) and handing his responsibilities to his son. During the Sekigahara Campaign, in 1600, he was in command of Tanabe Castle when it came under siege by Western Army forces (his son was away as part of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Eastern Army); it’s said that the Western Army attackers, having great respect for Fujitaka, staged an ineffective attack. Died 1610.

Kani Saizō (可児 吉長, also called Kani Yoshinaga/可児 吉長): Born 1554. Skilled with the spear. Served various vassals of Oda Nobunaga. Also served Oda Nobutaka, but after Nobutaka fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi and then committed suicide, he served the nephew and retained of Hideyoshi, Toyotomi Hidetsugu, but eventually left after Hidetsugu saw defeat at the 1584 Battle of Komaki and Nagakute (part of a power struggle between Hideyoshi and Oda Nobukatsu, with Tokugawa Ieyasu supporting Nobukatsu) and became a masterless samurai (i.e. ronin). Fought in the Battle of Sekigahara in the Eastern Army under Fukushima Masanori. A devotee of the kami Atago Gongen, he is said to have foreseen that he would die on the day of Atago Gongen’s festival, and did so in 1613.

Kuki Yoshitaka

Kuwayama Shigeharu (桑山 重晴): Born 1524. Served Niwa Nagahide, vassal of Oda Nobunaga. Joined Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara. Died 1606.

Oda Nobukatsu (織田 信雄, forename possibly “Nobuo”): Born 1558. Second son of Oda Nobunaga. Became an adopted heir of the Kitabatake clan and ensured his position as head with violence. Was unsuccessful and incompetent as a general, but a skilled fighter. After Nobunaga’s death, he and his brother Nobutaka quarreled over succession, leading a council to decide on the infant Oda Hidenobu instead. Toyotomi Hideyoshi supported him, and he initially joined with Hideyoshi to fight Nobutaka, but eventually a power struggle occurred between Nobukatsu and Hideyoshi, too, and he allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu’s force to fight against Hideyoshi in the 1584 Battle of Komaki and Nagakute. Became the guardian of Hideyoshi’s son and successor, Toyotomi Hideyori, in 1598, but walked out on him directly before the 1614 Siege of Osaka, cooperating with Ieyasu. Lived the rest of his life comfortably and died 1630.

Oda Nobutaka (織田 信孝, forename possibly “Nobunori”): Born 1558. Third son of Oda Nobunaga. Was adopted into the Kanbe clan and became its eighth head. After Nobunaga’s death, he quarreled over succession with his brother Nobukatsu. Tensions between Nobutaka and Nobukatsu eventually came to violence when Nobutaka tried to start a war against Toyotomi Hideyoshi (who supported Nobukatsu). He lost and was forced to commit suicide in 1583.

Yamauchi Kazutoyo (山内 一豊, forename possibly “Katsutoyo”): Born 1545 or 1546. Served Oda Nobunaga, then Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In the Battle of Sekigahara, served Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Eastern Army. Died 1605.

Li Fei (黎 斐, Rei Hi) Served Wu under the regent Sun Chen (“under” Sun Liang). Some background: In 249, Sima Yi, regent of young Cao Wei emperor Cao Fang, overthrew his fellow co-regent Cao Shuang in a coup (referred to as the Incident at the Gaoping Tombs). After this, Cao Wei’s power began to fall into the hands of the Sima family. Sima Yi was followed by his son Sima Shi (who deposed Cao Fang in 254 and replaced him with Cao Mao), who was followed by another fon of Sima Yi’s, Sima Zhao. Various rebellions occurred against the Simas, but it always ended badly for the rebels and loyalists, which made Cao Wei general Zhuge Dan real antsy until his staged his own rebellion against Sima Zhao in 257. Anyway, Sun Chen of Wu supported Zhuge Dan’s rebellion (but really messed it up in various ways), and Li Fei led some of the Wu forces.

Lü Ju (呂 據, 呂 拠, Ryo Kyo): Served Sun Quan of Wu. Lü Ju was one of the men Sun Quan placed to guide his heir, Sun Liang, after Sun Quan’s death (Zhuge Ke, meanwhile, was regent). You might remember that Sun Jun killed Zhuge Ke and assumed regency. In 256, Sun Jun ordered Lü Ju and other generals to attack the Xu and Qing provinces under Wei. However, shortly after the army started out, Sun Jun took ill and died, and his duties were taken over by his cousin, Sun Chen. Apparently, this distressed Lü Ju, who suggested with some other folks that Sun Chen be removed from power. Sun Chen objected, hilarity ensued, and Lü Ju ended up committing suicide. And then Sun Chen killed his whole family. Great going.

Sun Quan

Sun Shao

Taishi Ci (太史 慈, Taishi Ji): Born 166. Han official who ended up serving Wu. Originally a minor official of the Donglai Commandery. Rescued minor warlord Kong Rong, the Chancellor of Beihei State, from Yellow Turban rebels, to repay the aid his mother had received from Kong Rong in the past. Tried to establish his own power base but was defeated by Sun Ce’s forces. He then willingly served Sun Ce. After Sun Ce was assassinated, he served his successor, Sun Quan. Died in 206. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he gets a more dramatic end, dying in the 208 Battle of Hefei (this occurred between Sun Quan and Cao Cao as part of the Red Cliffs Campaign).

Taishi Xiang (太史 享, Taishi Kyou) Served Wu. Son of Taishi Ci. Served Sun Quan; was appointed to various posts. In fiction, Sun Quan looks after him after the death of his father.

Li Tong (李 通, Li Tsuu): Born 168. Served Cao Cao of Wei. Saved Cao Cao’s rearguard in the retreat from Zhang Xiu in 197. Broke through Guan Yu’s defenses in the 208 Battle of Jiangling and supported Cao Ren, but died of illness during the campaign in 209.

Xu Huang (徐 晃, Jo Kou): Served Cao Cao of Wei. One of the individuals responsible for secreting Emperor Xian out of Li Jue and Guo Si’s control. During this time, he still served Yang Feng, a former bandit who served as a general under the Han government. His most successful moment was when he led a force to break Guan Yu’s siege of Fancheng in 219 (this was the start of the circumstances directly leading to Guan Yu’s capture and death by Sun Quan—at this point Cao Cao and Sun Quan were allied). He would later serve under Cao Pi and Cao Rui before dying in 227. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he’s killed during the Xincheng Rebellion by Meng Da (a rebelling Wei general).

Xu Shang (徐 商, Jo Shou): Served Cao Cao of Wei. At the 219 Battle of Fancheng, he supported Xu Huang against Guan Yu.

Yin Shu (殷 署, In Sho): Served Cao Cao of Wei. In 215, after the troops of Han Sui (a warlord who had rebelled against Cao Cao) were placed under his authority, they rebelled against Yin Shu, but Yin Shu survived. At the 219 Battle of Fancheng, supported Xu Huang.

Zhai Yuan (翟 元, Teki Gen): A fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Serves Cao Ren at the Battle of Fancheng and is killed by Guan Yu’s son, Guan Ping.

Zhu Gai (朱 蓋, Shu Gai): Served Cao Cao of Wei. At the 219 Battle of Fancheng, supported Xu Huang.

The Collapse of Oda’s Allied Forces

Ii Naomasa

Ii Naotora

Kunoichi

Takeda Shingen

Uesugi Kagekatsu

Asahina Nobuoki

Asahina Yasutomo

Imagawa Yoshimoto

Okabe Motonobu

Saika Magoichi (鈴木 孫一): A name inherited by the leader of one of the Saika Ikki (translator’s note: “Ikki” means “uprising” or “revolt”) groups. The Saika Ikki was one of a number of Ikkō-ikki sects (translator’s note: Ikkō was a small, militant offshoot of Jōdo Shinshū Buddism) (translator’s note: Jōdo Shinshū is a school of Jōdo Buddhism) (translator’s note: Jōdo Buddhism is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in the Pure Land) made up of various peasants and merchants and the like. They were backed up by, uh, those particular Buddhists I mentioned parenthetically up there, and opposed daimyo rule. The relevant Saika Magoichi here was Suzuki Shigehide (鈴木 重秀). He famously fought against Oda Nobunaga in support of various opposed parties until those opposed parties—and the support they provided—petered out.

[Hosokawa] Gracia ([細川] ガラシャ; that katakana spells “Garasha”): Born 1563. Daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide. “Gracia” was her baptismal name after she converted to Christianity; her original name was “Tama” or “Tamako.” Married Hosokawa Tadaoki, son of Hosokawa Fujitaka. After her father betrayed and killed Oda Nobunaga, she was confined, but like in a “kept to mansion grounds” kind of way. Secretly converted to Catholicism even after Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued a proclamation against Christianity. When conflict broke out between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari after Hideyoshi’s death, Mitsunari attempted to take Gracia hostage as part of a general plan to secure compliance of enemy generals, but everyone at the place went for suicide instead (except for Gracia—because Catholicism—who was killed by her retainer). This further did-not-endear Mitsunari to potential allies, possibly sealing his fate.

Jia Xu

Taishi Ci

Zhu Ran

Diaochan (貂蟬, Chousen): In real life, official Wang Yun organized a coup against Dong Zhuo with Lü Bu; one of the reasons Lü Bu and Dong Zhuo had fallen out was a quarrel over a woman in Dong Zhuo’s harem. Romance of the Three Kingdoms jazzes up the whole situation, inventing Diaochan, adopted daughter of Wang Yun. In fiction, Wang Yun and Diaochan set Dong Zhuo up, setting him and Lü Bu as the far sides of a love triangle with Diaochan in the middle, deliberately stirring up Bad Feelings between the two of them until Lü Bu is Very Inclined toward Wang Yun’s coup plans. As she’s a fictional character, her ultimate fate differs from folktale to folktale.

Dong Zhuo

Ju Shou (沮 授, So Ju; occasionally in Japanese as “Sho Ju”): Advisor under warlord Yuan Shao. Known for giving Yuan Shao good advice which Yuan Shao then ignored. Examples: Advised Yuan Shao to take in Emperor Xian and utilize his authority—he didn’t, and then Cao Cao did that instead, which was good for Cao Cao. Advised Yuan Shao that an all-out attack against Cao Cao was a Bad Idea and he ought to adopt a strategy of wearing him out over time—Yuan Shao did it anyway, and lost the 200 Battle of Guandu. Ju Shou was captured by Cao Cao in this battle and Cao Cao treated him decently, but remained thoroughly loyal to Yuan Shao and was killed by Cao Cao’s men when he tried to escape.

Wen Chou (文 醜, Bun Shuu): Served under Yuan Shao. At the 200 Battle of Yan Ford between the forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he was killed, possibly by Guan Yu (who was serving Cao Cao at that time).

Yan Liang (颜 良, 顏 良, 顔 良, Gan Ryou): Served under Yuan Shao. At the 200 Battle of Boma between the forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he was killed by Guan Yu (who was serving Cao Cao at that time).

Yuan Shao (袁 绍, 袁 紹, En Shou): During the civil wars at the end of the Han Dynasty, he controlled the northern territories of China. Spearheaded a coalition of warlords against Dong Zhuo when Zhuo was essentially holding Emperor Xian hostage, but it turns out warlords don’t coalite very well. Campaigned against Cao Cao, but lost battle after battle and died in 202 before he could properly set up succession, leaving his territories contested among his sons, which didn’t help them not also get defeated by Cao Cao. Cao Cao respected him and reportedly wept at his tomb.

Yuan Xi (袁 煕, En Ki): Second son of Yuan Shao. Following the 200 Battle of Guandu and the defeat of Yuan Shao’s forces by Cao Cao’s he fled to the Liaodong Peninsula, taking shelter with its administrator, Gongsun Kang. Kang’s domain was semi-independent, but he decided to curry favor with Cao Cao anyway, executing Yuan Xi in 207 and sending Cao Cao his head. He was married to Lady Zhen, who Cao Pi took as his own wife while Yuan Xi was still alive.

Lü Bu

Chaos Incarnate

Kunoichi

Sanada Yukimura

Takeda Shingen

Gracia

Fūma Kotarō

Haga Ujitsugu (垪和 氏続): Vassal of the Hōjō clan. When Takeda Shingen broke the alliance between the Takeda and Hōjō clans in 1568, he valiantly defended Kōkokuji Castle. He participated in the 1582 Battle of Kanagawa between Hōjō and Oda forces following the death of Oda Nobunaga, but his actions after are unclear at best.

Haga Yasutada (垪和 康忠): Vassal of the Hōjō clan. Helped hammer out the alliance between the Takeda, Hōjō, and Imagawa clans. His movement after the fall of the Hōjō clan are unknown.

Hōjō Tsunashige

Inomata Kuninori (猪俣 邦憲): Vassal of the Hōjō clan. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued an order forbidding private warfare among the daimyo, he was directly involved in the taking of Nagurumi Castle (which belonged to the Sanada clan). This led to Hideyoshi’s destruction of the Hōjō clan. What happened to Kuninori afterward is unclear.

Ishimaki Yasumasa (石巻 康敬): Born 1534. Vassal of the Hōjō clan. After the fall of the Hōjō clan, he eventually ended up with Tokigawa Ieyasu. Died 1613.

Kai

Kasahara Masaharu (笠原 政晴; Warriors Orochi 4 calls him Kasahara Masataka/笠原 政尭, which is apparently a historical error that’s percolated?): Vassal of the Hōjō clan. After the alliance broke between the Hōjō and Takeda clans, he defected to the Takeda in 1581 and even fought against his own family, but after the Takeda were defeated he returned to the Hōjō. During Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Siege of Odawara in 1590, he was caught attempting to surrender by his brother and killed accordingly.

Lady Hayakawa (早川 殿; that last kanji is the honorific suffix “-dono”): One of the daughters of Hōjō Ujiyasu. As part of the alliance between the Takeda, Hōjō, and Imagawa clans, she married Imagawa Ujizane, Imagawa Yoshimoto’s son. After the alliance fell apart, the two of them ended up with Tokugawa Ieyasu. Died 1613.

Nagao Akinaga (長尾 顕長): Became head of the Nagao clan. His territory was caught between the Uesugi and Hōjō, but he eventually ended up solidly on the Hōjō side. Around 1589, he fell out with the Hōjō chan, though, and lost his territory. He defended Odawara Castle in 1590. Afterward, he became a wanderer and died in 1621.

Narita Nagatada (成田 長忠; also called Yasuchika/泰親): After the defeat of the Hōjō by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he and his brother, Narita Ujinaga, were entrusted to one of Hideyoshi’s men, Gamō Ujisato. With his brother, assisted in the Kunohe rebellion, in which the forces of Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu completed the unification of Japan through the killing of folks who didn’t particularly want to be unified. When Ujinaga died, he took over his stuff. He was in the Eastern Army in the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara. Died 1617.

Narita Ujinaga (成田 氏長): Father of Kai; older brother of Narita Nagatada. Born 1542. Originally a vassal of Uesugi Kenshin, he was later aligned with the Hōjō clan. After the defeat of the Hōjō by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he and his daughter were placed in the care of one of Hideyoshi’s men, but Ujinaga eventually got into Hideyoshi’s graces (the relationship between Hideyoshi and Kai probably helped). Died 1596.

Ogasawara Yasuhiro (小笠原 康広): Born 1531. Vassal of the Hōjō clan. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Hōjō Ujinao in 1590, he followed the latter to exile until Ujinao’s death. Afterward, he served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Died 1598.

Tominaga Naokatsu (富永 直勝): Born 1509. Vassal of the Hōjō clan. In the Second Battle of Kōnodai in 1564 against the Satomi clan, he crossed the Edo River well ahead of the main body of the army and was killed. It’s said that he did this out of guilt for not being able to catch the defection of Ōta Yasusuke to Uesugi Kenshin. Ironically, this meaningful gesture served only to muck up Hōjō Tsunashige’s battle plans, though Tsunashige did manage to work out a victory anyway.

Ueda Norisada (上田 憲定): Born 1546. Vassal of the Hōjō clan. He was present at the Siege of Odawara in 1590 when Odawara Castle fell to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. What happened to him following those events is unclear, but he’s reported to have died 1597.

Fa Zheng

Guan Yinping

Xiahou Ba (夏侯 霸, 夏侯 覇, Kakou Ha): Son of Xiahou Yuan, a prominent general under Cao Cao. After Yuan was killed in the 219 Battle of Mount Dingjun at the hands of a Shu general, Ba swore revenge. He continued to serve the Cao Wei; however, in 249, the Incident at the Gaoping Tombs occurred wherein regent Sima Yi had the other regent Cao Shuang executed and effectively seized Cao Wei for himself. This was pretty bad for those who might have been politically aligned with Cao Shuang, and Xiahou Ba elected to defect to Shu. There, he befriended another defector from Cao Wei to Shu, Jiang Wei, and joined him on campaigns against Cao Wei. His date of death is unknown, but occurred between 255 and 259. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he is killed in the final invasion of Shu by Cao Wei forces (in 263) that marked the end of the Shu state.

Xu Huang

Yuan Shao

Lü Lingqi

The Rescue of Liu Bei

Sanada Yukimura

Noatora Ii

Uesugi Kenshin

Lady Hayakawa

Akechi Mitsuhide

Dom Justo Takayama (indicated in-game as Takayama Shigetomo/高山 重友 and also known as Takayama Ukon/高山 右近): Born c. 1552/1553; in 1564 his father converted to Roman Catholicism and he was baptized “Justo.” Served under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Sengoku period. Relating to his Christianity, his position allowed him and his father to facilitate the conversion of subjects and detroy Buddhist and Shinto shrines in their territories. When Hideyoshi ordered the expulsion of Christian missionaries and that Christian daimyo renounce their faith, Justo refused gave up his lands and possessions instead, living under the care of previous comrades, effectively in exile. When Tokugawa Ieyasu expelled Christians in 1614, he left for Manila (the Philippines then being Spanish territory), but died there in 1615; afterward, his family was allowed to return to Japan.

Gracia

Hori Hidemasa

Hosokawa Fujitaka

Mori Ranmaru

Nō

Oda Nobunaga

Sakuma Nobumori

Sakuma Yasumasa (佐久間 安政): Born 1555. Served Oda Nobunaga. Worked under Sakuma Nobumori for some time. During the succession dispute following Oda Nobunaga’s death, Yasumasa fought in the 1583 Battle of Shizugatake on the side of Shibata Katsuie and Oda Nobutaka against Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobukatsu. He took shelter among various sides opposing Hideyoshi in the following years, but Hideyoshi pardoned him after 1590 and he eventually became his vassal. Fought in the Eastern Army in the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara. Died 1627.

Sassa Narimasa

Shibata Katsuie (柴田 勝家): Born 1522, or maybe 1526 or 1527. Trusted general of Oda Nobunaga. He originally served under Nobunaga’s younger brother, Oda Nobuyuki, and fought for Nobuyuki when he and Nobunaga clashed over control of the Oda clan; Nobuyuki lost and was executed, but was impressed with Katsuie, who pledged himself to Nobunaga. After Nobunaga’s death and the following succession crisis, Katsuie eventually sided with Nobunaga’s third son, Oda Nobutaka, against Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobukatsu. When he was defeated in the 1582 Battle of Shizugatake, he retreated to Kitanosho Castle, where he and his wife, Oichi (the younger sister of Nobunaga) committed suicide.

Shibata Katsumasa (柴田 勝政): Born 1557. He was Shibata Katsuie’s nephew through his mother, as well as Katsuie’s adopted son. All indications are that he died at the 1582 Battle of Shizugatake, but there is a legend that he survived, changed his name to Shibano, and died in 1641 in the town of Sadamitsu (merged into the town of Tsurugi since 2005).

Yamauchi Kazutoyo

Guan Ping (關 平, 関 平, Kan Pei): Eldest son of Guan Yu who served under Liu Bei (in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he’s the son of a farmer who impresses Guan Yu, who subsequently fosters him). After Sun Quan’s Wu forces, led by Lü Meng, invaded Liu Bei’s Jing Province, he and his father were captured and executed in 220.

Fa Zheng

Liu Bei

Ma Chao

Xu Shu (徐 庶, Jo Sho): Originally a vigilante who gave up the sword and became a reclusive scholar in Wei. Settled in Shu’s Jing Province in the early 190s. Became an advisor to Liu Bei; also recommended Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei as an advisor. He joined Liu Bei, but after Cao Cao’s forces defeated Liu Bei’s at the 208 Battle of Changban and Xu Shu’s mother was among those captured, he left to serve Cao Cao He lived through Cao Pi’s reign and died in the 230s during the reign of Cao Rui. Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes Xu Shu’s circumstances: Cao Cao wants to poach Xu Shu, so he captures Xu Shu’s mother and orders her to write Xu Shu to join her. She refuses, so he has his advisor Cheng Yu hang around Xu Shu’s mother until he’s good enough to mimic her handwriting and write Xu Shu himself. Xu Shu falls for it, and Xu Shu’s mother commits suicide out of shame. Xu Shu remains with Cao Cao, but refuses to ever give Cao Cao any advice.

Zhang Fei (張 飛, Chou Hi): Follower of Liu Bei basically from the beginning (in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he’s one of Liu Bei’s sworn brothers along with Guan Yu). He was a skilled military leader, though fiction makes him a mite unintelligent. After Sun Quan broke his alliance with Liu Bei in 219 (invading Jing Province, which resulted in Guan Yu’s death), Liu Bei launched a campaign to strike back; Zhang Fei was sent to lead troops, but two of his subordinates assassinated him and took his head as they defected to Sun Quan’s side.

Lianshi

Chen Tai (陳 泰, Chin Tai): Military general of Wei. In 260, Cao Mao died in a futile attempt to take his imperial power back from the “regent” Sima Zhao. Chen Tai wept and initially refused to attend coirt sessions. During the attempted ousting, Cao Mao had died by spear personally at the hands of officer Cheng Ji, but with Cheng Ji following the instructions of Sima Zhao’s aide Jia Chong; Chen Tai recommended that Jia Chong executed for regicide accordingly, but Sima Zhao executed Cheng Ji instead. Chen Tai died soon afterward, in some recountings of the event of suicide or despair.

Guo Huai (郭 淮, Kaku Wai): Military general of Wei. Initially served under Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He during Cao Cao’s reign. Additionally, lived during the reigns of Cao Pi, Cao Rui, Cao Fang, and Cao Mao. Failed to participate in the initial campaign of Liu Bei to take Hanzhong Commandery from Cao Cao due to illness. Notably fell sick and was consequentially late to Cao Pi’s coronation, which led Cao Pi to not-threaten him with execution, which Guo Huai fended off with a clever response that got him promoted. Studied potential enemies/vassal beforehand to win them over diplomatically. A major figure when it came to fighting the Shu and resisting their invasions. In 251, when Wei general Wang Ling launched a failed rebellion, it was ordered that all relatives of Ling be executed; this included Guo Huai’s wife. Guo Huai reluctantly refused to request his wife’s pardon, and only begged the Wei regent Sima Yi after he was moved by the pleas of his sons (she was spared). Died 255; in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he’s killed by an arrow of Jiang Wei’s during Shu’s (unsuccessful) 253 invasion.

Sima Zhao (司馬 昭, Shiba Shou): Born 211. Regent of Wei emperors Cao Mao and Cao Huan. I mean, I say “regent,” but he held all the power. His father, Sima Yi, and his brother, Sima Shi, were similarly “regents” for Mao’s predecessor Cao Fang, with Sima Yi having fully turned regency into “regency” during Cao Fang’s “reign.” Sima Zhao took over for “regenting” for Cao Mao after the previous “regent” Sima Shi died in 255. In 262, Cao Mao attempted to regain his power in a rebellion and was killed; Sima Zhao subsequently had Cao Huan, Cao Mao’s first cousin once removed, become puppet emperor instead. In 262, he launched an invasion of Shu, which was by this time weakened by having carried out numerous failed campaigns against Wei; this invasion ended in the surrender of Shu emperor Liu Shan and the fall of the Shu state. He died in 265, all but having named himself emperor; his son, Sima Yan, would finally formally usurp Cao Huan and establish the state of Jin (retroactively formalizing Sima Zhao an emperor).

Wang Yuanji (王 元姬, 王 元姫, Ou Genki): Born 217. Noble and wife of Sima Zhao. When her son Sima Yan forced Wei emperor Cao Huan to abdicate and proclaimed himself emperor of Jin, she formally became empress dowager; however, she continued to live a simple and frugal lifestyle. Died 268.

Xiahou Ba

Xiahou Xuan (夏侯 玄, Kakou Gen): Born 209. He was related to Xiahou Ba but refused to follow him to Shu after Sima Yi staged his coup and seized power as a “regent.” Having been aligned with Sima Yi’s political opponents, he wasn’t treated all that well. Around 254, Li Feng, who held a position in the Wei government, sought to overthrow Sima Shi (who had followed Sima Yi) and put the power in the emperor Cao Fang’s hands. Xiahou Xuan was part of this plot; however, Sima Shi found out before it could be enacted and Xiahou Xuan was executed.

Xin Chang (辛 敞, Shin Shou): An official of Wei, and a subordinate of Cao Shuang. When regent Sima Yi made his move against other-regent Cao Shuang in 249, taking the capital, Xin Chang asked his older sister, Xin Xianying, for advice, and she told him that as one of his Cao Shuang’s men, he was obligated to go to Cao Shuang’s aid. Following the whole shebang, Xin Chang was pardoned from execution, having been recognized as only following his duty.

Zhuge Dan (諸葛 誕, Shokatsu Tan): Military general of Wei. The rising power of the Sima clan (“regents” of the Wei emperors) and their tendency to purge (politically, I mean) made him so antsy that he decided he’d do his own rebellion against Sima Zhao in 257. Wu helped a little but left when it became clear it wasn’t going to be any good, and Zhuge Dan was killed attempting to break out of a siege in 258.

The Lion of Sagami

Ii Naotora

Sanada Yukimura

Chiba Naoshige (千葉 直重): Possibly born 1573. Thought to be the son of Hōjō Ujimasa (some say Hōjō Ujiyasu), he was adopted into the Chiba family as part of a peace agreement. He was defeated in the 1590 Siege of Odawara and went into hiding, but was eventually pardoned. Died 1627.

Daidōji Masashige (大道寺 政繁): Born 1533. Served three generations of the Hōjō clan (Ujiyasu, Ujimasa, and Ujinao). He defended Matuida Castle against the Toyotomi clan, but was defeated and cooperated with Maeda Toshiie’s army. Nevertheless, after the fall of the Hōjō, he was ordered to commit suicide by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died 1590.

Fūma Kotarō

Haga Yasutada

Hōjō Tsunashige

Hōjō Ujikatsu (北条 氏勝): Born 1559. Second son of Hōjō Ujishige. When Toyotomi Hideyashi attacked Odawara Castle in 1590, his forces also attacked Yamanaka Castle; this castle also fell, and Ujikatsu attempted suicide but was stopped by one of his vassals. He retreated to Tamanawa Castle, where Tokugawa Ieyasu’s army besieged him; this time, he surrendered, afterward serving Toyotomi’s forces in the area to some extent. He became a Tokugawa vassal and died 1611.

Hōjō Ujikuni (北条 氏邦): Born 1548. Fifth son of Hōjō Ujiyasu. Adopted by the Fujita clan 1558. When Uesugi Kenshin died, sparking a succession crisis, he supported Uesugi Kagetora (unsuccessfully). When Toyotomi Hideyoshi began his takedown of the Hōjō clan, he opposed holing up in Odawara Castle and advocated a large-scale campaign, but nobody else agreed, so he left for his residence at Hichigata Castle to do his own thing. Outnumbered there, he surrendered. He became Maeda Toshiie’s vassal and died 1597.

Hōjō Ujimasa (北条 氏政): Born 1538. Son of Hōjō Ujiyasu; father of Hōjō Ujinao. Fourth head of the Hōjō clan. Handed the reins over to Ujinao in 1578. Defeated at the Siege of Odawara in 1590, he was made to commit suicide.

Hōjō Ujinao

Hōjō Ujishige (北条 氏繁): Born 1536. Eldest son of Hōjō Tsunashige. Used the name “Yasuhige” for most of his life; when his father retired, he took over his affairs and changed his name to “Ujishige.” Was able to capture a number of sites that were under Uesugi Kenshin. He was stationed to Iinuma Castle in 1578, but died of illness 1579.

Hōjō Ujitada (北条 氏忠): Born 1556. Though to be the son of Hōjō Ujiyasu, but may have been the son of Ujiyasu’s younger brother adopted by his uncle. He was later also adopted by Sano Munetsuna; when Munetsuna was killed in 1585 he took over as head of the Sano clan and replaced opposing vassals with Hōjō men. Was at the 1590 Siege of Odawara; after the Hōjō clan fell, he followed his master Hōjō Ujinao into exile. Thought to have died in 1593, but there is a theory he died at a later date under the care of the Mori clan.

Hōjō Ujiteru (北条 氏照): Born 1542. Third son of Hōjō Ujiyasu. Defeated at the 1590 Siege of Odawara, he committed suicide along with his brother Ujimasa.

Hōjō Ujiyasu

Ishimaki Yasumasa

Inomata Kuninori

Lady Hayakawa

Mibu Yoshitake (壬生 義雄): Born 1552. Defected to the Hōjō clan in 1585 in order to gain independence from the Utsunomiya clan (his father had wanted to do the same but was assassinated). Died of illness in 1590 shortly after the fall of Odawara Castle.

Narita Nagatada

Narita Ujinaga

Ogasawara Yasuhiro

Ōta Ujifusa (太田 氏房; AKA Hōjō Ujifusa/北条 氏房): Fourth son of Hōjō Ujimasa. Was at the Siege of Odawara Castle in 1590. Followed Hōjō Ujinao into exile. Died 1592.

Shimizu Yasuhide (清水 康英): Born 1532. Vassal of the Hōjō clan. He became lord of Shimoda Castle around 1589 and accordingly defended it against naval Toyotomi forces in the 1590 Siege of Shimoda. Toyotomi’s forces were victorious, though the fighting last for more than fifty days before the Hōjō side surrendered. He took to his family temple and died 1591.

Tominaga Naokatsu

Tōyama Tsunakage (遠山 綱景): Born around 1533. Vassal of the Hōjō clan. Had a high position in the clan and governed Edo Castle. In 1564 his son-in-law Ōta Yasusuke defected to Uesugi Kenshin and in the subsequently Second Battle of Kōnodai against the Satomi clan (allied with Kenshin), Tsunakage crossed the Edo River ahead of the main body of the army and was killed. If this sounds familiar, it’s because he did it alongside Tominaga Naokatsu.

Ueda Norisada

Fa Zheng

Guan Yinping

Ma Chao

Cao Ren (曹 仁, Sou Jin): Born 168. Military general under Cao Cao, who was also his second cousin. He was there when Cao Cao was raising an army against Dong Zhuo. Continued to serve under Cao Pi, who appointed him to Grand Marshal. Defended Fancheng against Guan Yu in 219. Failed in his attack on Ruxu against Wu defender Zhu Huan in 222-223 despite a numerical advantage. Died 223.

Cao Tai (曹 泰, Sou Tai): Son and heir of Cao Ren.

Chang Diao (常 雕, Jou Chou): Subordinate of Cao Ren. Died in 222 in the Battle of Ruxu.

Jiang Gan (蔣 幹, 蒋 幹, Shou Kan): A scholar that Cao Cao sent after the 208-209 Battle of Red Cliffs to recruit Zhou Yu (who served Sun Quan). Yu pleasantly refused. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this event takes place before the Battle of Red Cliffs and is made super-dramatic; Zhou Yu provides a fake letter that indicates that two of Cao Cao’s commanders are traitors, leading to their executions, and then later facilitates a meeting with an awfully helpful fellow who follows Gan back to Cao Cao to dispense some Really Bad Advice.

Niu Jin (牛 金, Gyuu Kin): Military leader under Cao Ren of Wei. At the Battle of Red Cliffs, he was nearly killed by the forces of Sun Quan led by Zhou Yu, but Cao Ren rescued him in time. Some sources say that he was later killed by Sima Yi by poison around 239, or that he was secretly the real father of Sima Rui (a later Jin emperor), but there’s no proof of either and the last claim is Pretty Yeah Right considering the Battle of Red Cliffs happened 208 and Sima Rui was born 276.

Xiahou Ba

Yue Jin (樂 進, 楽 進, Gaku Shin; his name has been mistranslated as “Yue Jing,” “Le Jin,” and in one case, “Le Xin”): Served under Cao Cao (he was there from the beginning, during the first campaign against Dong Zhuo). He fought against forces of Yuan Shao and Liu Bei, and managed to assist in defending the fortress at Hefei in the 214 Battle of Xiaoyao Ford against Sun Quan’s forces partially thanks to a timely plague. Died 218. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he is one of the Five Generals of Wei, and is killed after Battle of Xiaoyao Ford with an arrow shot by Sun Quan general Gan Ning.

Lianshi

Lu Xun

Zhu Ran

Brutal Enemies

Hattori Masanari (服部 正成; the second Hattori Hanzō/服部 半蔵): Born 1542. Leader of the Iga ninja, and served Tokugawa Ieyasu. When he was just sixteen, he led sixty to seventy ninja into Udo Castle, for which Ieyasu rewarded him by giving him his spear. Escorted Ieyasu to safety after Oda Nobunaga was assassinated. Died 1597. I think. This other page says 1596. Not a big difference, in this case.

Honda Tadakatsu

Honda Masanobu (本多 正信): Born 1538. Served Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1563, he joined the Ikkō-ikki revolt in Mikawa Province against Ieyasu (then called Matsudaira Motoyasu), fighting in the 1564 Battle of Azukizaka. However, by 1570 he was back with Ieyasu again, and their following relationship was noted to be very close. Go figure. Died 1616. Though Masanobu appears as a dot on the map, it’s not really possible to see him before he’s defeated by Lü Bu and disappears, so this may not count as an appearance.

Ii Naomasa

Ii Naotora

Ishikawa Kazumasa (石川 数正): Born 1534. Retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu since childhood. However, in 1585, he sided with Toyotomi Hideyoshi against Ieyasu for unclear reasons. Died of illness 1592.

Komatsuhime (小松 姫; also called Ina or Inahime/稲 姫, as she is in Warriors Orochi 4): Born 1573. Daughter of Honda Tadakatsu and adopted child of Tokugawa Ieyasu. She married Sanada Nobuyuki. In a notable episode, it is said that in 1600, she was visited by Nobuyuki’s father, Sanada Masayuki, who had sided with Ishida Mitsunari; she refused to let him into the castle, but also refused to let anyone harm him or his company. Died 1620 and was lamented by Nobuyuki.

Sakai Tadatsugu (酒井 忠次): Born 1527. One of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa clan. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu from his childhood, and married the younger sister of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s father. Died 1596. Though Tadatsugu appears as a dot on the map, it’s not really possible to see him before he’s defeated by Lü Bu and disappears, so this may not count as an appearance.

Sakakibara Yasumasa (榊原 康政): Born 1548. One of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa clan. Was associated with Tokugawa Ieyasu from a young age. For unclear reasons he took over as head of the Sakakibara clan from his brother. Died 1606.

Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康): Born 1543. Originally called Matsudaira Takechiyo. One of the three big-time unifiers of Japan alongside Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Lived as a hostage under Imagawa Yoshimoto until Yoshimoto’s death, then allied with Nobunaga. After Hideyoshi died—we’re skipping ahead here—he was one of the regents of Hideyoshi’s heir, Toyotomi Hideyori, but when Ieyasu made movements to grab power himself, a factioning broke out, culminating in Ieyasu’s Eastern Army versus Ishida Mitsunari’s Western Army at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, which Ieyasu’s side won. He became the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603, then nominally abdicated in 1605 in favor of his son Hidetada. Died 1616.

Torii Mototada (鳥居 元忠): Born 1539. Served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Significantly wounded at the 1573 Battle of Mikatagahara between the forces of Ieyasu and Takeda Shingen. When Ishida Mitsunari’s Western Army forces besieged Fushimi Castle in 1600, Mototada chose to stand his badly outnumbered forces there as per orders despite his certain death. This act of loyalty apparently hella resounds among Sengoku fans.

Sanada Yukimura

Aya

Lu Xun

Liu Bei

Xu Shu

Cao Xing (曹 性, Sou Sei): Served Lü Bu. When Hao Meng rebelled in 196, Cao Xing fought against Hao Meng—he’s the guy who disarmed him. Remember the disarmament? In Romance of the Three Kingdoms he gets a dramatic scene at the Battle of Xiapi where he shoots Cao Cao’s general Xiahou Dun’s eye out, but then Xiahou Dun eats his own eyeball and stabs Cao Xing in the face.

Chen Gong

Cheng Lian (成 廉, Sei Ren): Served Lü Bu. Noted for his courage. He was captured by Cao Cao’s forces in the Battle fo Xiapi in 198 and his following fate is unknown. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he’s killed in battle instead.

Gao Shun

Hao Meng

Hou Cheng (侯 成, Kou Sei): Served Lü Bu. During the 198-199 Battle of Xiapi (between Lü Bu’s forces and the forces of Cao Cao and Liu Bei), he sent a trader to purchase horses, but the trader took the horses and set off with the intention of defecting to Liu Bei. Hou Cheng was able to pursue him and retrieve all the horses. Lü Bu’s men then threw a feast in celebration of this feat, but Hou Cheng ended up being chastised by Lü Bu for breaking the latter’s ban of alcohol. Subsequently, in 199, he teamed up with Song Xian and Wei Xu to to capture Chen Gong and Gao Shun and defected to Cao Cao.

Lü Bu

Lü Lingqi

Song Xian (宋 憲, Sou Ken): Served Lü Bu. Captured Chen Gong and Gao Shun along with Hou Cheng and Wei Xu. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he’s killed in the 200 Battle fo Boma (between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao) by Yan Liang.

Wang Kai (王 楷, Ou Kai): Originally served Cao Cao, but in 194 when Cao Cao was off attacking Xu Province, he defected to Lü Bu along with Chen Gong. In 198, at the Battle of Xiapi, he advised Lü Bu to seek reinforcements from Yuan Shu, and do so accordingly, but nothing came of it.

Wei Xu

Yang Feng (楊 奉, You Hou): When Li Jue and Guo Si had their Disagreements re: Chang’an, Yang Feng, a leader of the White Wave Bandits (some remnants of the Yellow Turbans), ended up on Li Jue’s side. In 195, he had a plot to kill Li Jue and escort Emperor Xian to Luoyang. That plan was found out, and Li Jue wasn’t killed, but in any case, Yang Feng ended up being part of the emperor’s escort out, defending against Li Jue’s forces all the way, but afterward lost him to Cao Cao and fled under Yuan Shu. In 197, warlord Yuan Shu declared himself emperor, and Yang Feng was convinced to defect to Lü Bu’s side. The same year, Yang Feng and Lü Bu had a falling out when Lü Bu refused to support Yang Feng in raiding Jing Province; Yang Feng attempted to defect to Liu Bei, who threw him a party, and by “a party” I mean “a party to celebrate Yang Feng’s execution.”

Zang Ba

Zhong Hui (鍾 會, 鍾 会, Shou Kai): Born 225. Became a close aid to Sima Zhao (“regent” of Wei) in the 250s and became a key governmental figure. Was ordered to attack Shu Han alongside Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu in 263; Zhong Hui framed the other two for Crimes and seized control of the Wei military. After Shu fell, he attempted to carry out a coup against Sima Zhao in 264, but was unable to gain allegiance of other high-ranking officials, who rioted and killed him. It’s said that Sima Zhao gave Zhong Hui partial responsibility for conquering Shu knowing full well he was the rebelling type as he had confidence that any attempt at rebellion would fail.

The One-Eyed Dragon and the Genius

Uesugi Kagekatsu

Uesugi Kenshin

Aya

Sanada Yukimura

Ii Naotora

Hōjō Ujiyasu

Date Hidemune (伊達 秀宗): Born 1591. Eldest son of Date Masamune. His father thought him unsuitable to lead the main family, but had him start up a branch family instead. Died 1658.

Date Masamune (伊達 政宗; his surname may have been pronounced “Idate”): Born 1567. Seventeenth head of the Date clan. Lost the sight of his right eye as a child. When Toyotomi Hideyoshi took Odawara Castle in 1590, he compelled daimyo in the Tōhoku region (Masamune included) to serve under him. After Hideyoshi died, Masamune supported Tokugawa Ieyasu. Died 1636.

Date Shigezane (伊達 成実): Born 1568. Retainer of the Date clan. He suddenly left service in 1595, but then returned to in 1598. Died 1646.

Endō Munenobu (遠藤 宗信): Born 1573. Vassal of the Date clan. Died of illness 1593.

Gotō Nobuyasu (後藤 信康): Born 1556. Served Date Masamune. Known as “Yellow Gotō” from the yellow robe he wore into battle. For a time, from 1605 to 1611, Masamune got rid of him, but the reasons are unclear. Died 1614.

Hamada Kagetaka (浜田 景隆): Born 1554. Served the Date clan. During the Kasai-Ōsaki Uprising in 1591 (which occurred when Toyotomi Hideyoshi took fiefs away from some Date vassals due to their failure to support him in his 1590 Odawara campaign), he was shot and killed.

Harada Munemasa (原田 宗政): Served the Date clan. Head of the Harada. Killed in battle 1582 fighting against the Sōma clan. I think. Maybe I’m not punching in the right keywords, but I can’t find a lot of information on this dude.

Harada Munetoki (原田 宗時): Born 1565. Served the Date clan. After Harada Munemasa was killed in battle, he succeeded him. He joined Date Masamune when he was deployed to Korea in 1593, but fell ill and died, either in Korea or after being sent back to Japan.

Hasekura Tsunenaga (支倉 常長): Born 1571. In 1613, Date Masamune sent him on a trip to Rome to establish relationships and trade agreements. The trip was a failure on every level, and by the time Tsunenaga returned to Japan in 1620 Japan was doing a We’re Closed anyway. Died 1622.

Izumida Shigemitsu (泉田 重光): Born 1529. Served the Date Clan. He became official head of his family in 1584, after the death of his older brother. With Yashiro Kageyori, he killed the leaders of the Kasai-Ōsaki Uprising in 1591. Died 1596.

Katakura Kagetsuna (片倉 景綱; called Katakura Kojūrō/片倉 小十郎): Born 1557. Senior retainer of Date Masamune. He recommended that Masamune cooperate with Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Odawara Campaign in 1590; after the campaign, Hideyoshi granted him his own fief, but Kagetsuna returned it, refusing independent daimyoship in favor of loyally sticking with Masamune. Died 1615.

Katakura Shigenaga (片倉 重長): Born 1585. Son of Katakura Kagetsuna. He was the head of his family after Kagetsuna’s run. During the 1614 Siege of Osaka, he defeated Toyotomi general Gotō Mototsugu. After the Osaka campaign (wherein the Tokugawa wiped out the Toyotomi), and the death of his first wife, he married a daughter of Sanada Yukimura.

Kokubun Morishige (国分 盛重). Born 1553. Brother of Date Masamune’s father. He became the head of the Kokubun clan, but it wasn’t a smooth ascent and there was internal opposition, to such an extent that Masamune took control of the Kakubun clan himself. In 1596 or 1599 he left the Date and became a vassal of Satake Yoshinobu, Masamune’s cousin. Died 1615.

Kōri Munenaga (桑折 宗長): Born 1532. Vassal of the Date clan. Date of death unclear—may have been either 1601 or 1614.

Oniniwa Tsunamoto (鬼庭 綱元): Born 1549. Vassal of Date Masamune. It’s said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi made him change his surname to Moniwa/茂庭, since Oniniwa contained the characters for “demon” and “garden,” two things that should never be put together. For a time, Date Masamune was suspicious of him because it seemed like Hideyoshi was favoring him, but he eventually pardoned him. After Masamune died in 1636 he retired and died in 1640.

Oniniwa Yoshinao (鬼庭 良直; also called Oniniwa Sagetsusai/鬼庭 左月斎 and apparently called Oniniwa Sagetsu/鬼庭 左月 in Warriors Orochi 4): Born 1513. Served the Date clan. Father of Oniniwa Tsunamoto. Yoshinao was killed during the 1586 Battle of Hitotoribashi, when Date Masamune’s forces attacked the Nihonmatsu clan (as revenge for Masamune’s father’s death).

Rusu Masakage (留守 政景): Born 1549. Served the Date clan. Brother of Kokubun Morishige. Toyotomi Hideyoshi took his territory for not participating in Hideyoshi’s 1590 Odawara campaign. Died 1607.

Shiroishi Munezane (白石 宗実): Born 1553. Vassal of the Date clan. Took part in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea, and died shortly after returning to Japan, in 1599.

Yashiro Kageyori (屋代 景頼): Born 1563. Served Date Masamune. During the Kasai-Ōsaki Uprising in 1591, Masamune had him put down the upriser leaders. When Masamune left to take part in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea, Kageyori was the one in charge of his domain. In 1607, he was exiled for approving the execution of a peasant who didn’t pay his taxes—not because of the execution, mind, but because he went for it without the higher-ups okaying it first. He was actually supposed to be executed for it but somehow managed to Not Be Executed, but then died in 1608 anyway.

Sakenobe Hidetsuna (鮭延 秀綱): Born 1563. Vassal of the Mogami clan, which if I’m understanding history correctly is kind of weird because the Mogami clan and the Date clan were Associated, but also, like, Not Exactly Buddies? I mean, the eleventh head of the Mogami clan was Date’s uncle through his mother, so I guess that’s good enough justification for a generic mook, But. Anyway, fought with noted bravery in the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara for the Eastern Army. After the Mogami clan was effectively dissolved in 1622, he ended up serving the Doi clan. Died 1646.

Ujiie Akiuji (氏家 光氏; name possibly actually Ujiie Mitsuuji): Vassal of the Mogami clan.

Fa Zheng

Guan Yu (關 羽, 関 羽, Kan U): General best known for his service under Liu Bei. He also had a short service under Cao Cao’s care after Cao Cao and Liu Bei warred and Guan Yu was captured. Cao Cao treated Guan Yu well, and out of honor Guan Yu paid back this kindness through the slaying of Yan Liang, an enemy general under Yuan Shao, in the 200 Battle of Boma. Recognizing Guan Yu’s sense of loyalty, Cao Cao allowed him to leave. After the 209 Battle of Red Cliffs, Guan Yu was placed by Liu Bei to guard Jing Province, but while Guan Yu was away campaigning against Cao Ren, Sun Quan broke his alliance with Liu Bei and his vassal Lü Meng invaded Jing Province. Guan Yu returned but ended up captured alongside his son Guan Ping in 220 and executed. Was deified during the Sui Dynasty and is still worshipped today. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, sworn brothers with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei and one of the Five Tiger Generals of Shu.

[Huang] Yueying ([黃] 月英, [黄] 月英, Kou Getsuei): A name originating from folklore and fiction often given to Lady Huang, wife of Zhuge Liang. Daughter of reclusive scholar Huang Chengyan. It was said that though she was not attractive, she was as talented as her husband.

Liu Bei

Xu Shu

Zhang Fei

Zhuge Liang(諸葛 亮, Shokatsu Ryou): Born 181. Accomplished strategist who notably served Liu Bei—like, this is The Guy. He was recommended After Shu Han officially Became A Thing in 221, Liang served as Imperial Chancellor/Prime Minister. After Liu Bei died in 223, Liang became regent to Bei’s son Liu Shan and worked hard to keep order in Shu Han. Besides being a military strategist, he also had an impressive grip on domestic affairs (enacting significant agricultural, bureaucratic, monetary, legal, and educational reforms) and was an engineer and inventor. Died 234 mid-campaign against Wei; when Sima Yi surveyed Liang’s encampment he declared that Zhuge Liang was a genius.

Deng Ai (鄧 艾, Tou Gai): Served Wei. Born sometime around 195? Led Wei forces through mountainous terrain to pull off a surprise attack as part of the invasion of Shu, which resulted in Shu emperor Liu Shan surrendering. He sort of got a bit up himself afterward, which gave Zhong Hui the opportunity to get rid of him by accusing Ai of treason against Wei. In 264, he was arrested and ended up killed; his family members that weren’t also killed were exiled and not allowed back till Sima Yan, the next Sima after this Sima (this Sima being Sima Zhou), pardoned them.

Hu Fen (胡 奮, Ko Fun): Served Wei, and later Jin. When Zhuge Dan’s rebellion ended in his besiegement and he tried out a last-ditch escape in 258, Hu Fen was the one who killed him. Died 288.

Hu Lie (胡 烈, Ko Retsu): Served Wei and Jin. Younger brother of Hu Fen. Took part in the 263 invasion of Shu. When Zhong Hui tried to pull off his coup and shut everyone in (including Hu Lie), Hu Lie was the one who snuck out a message that Zhong Hui was Doing A Treachery.

Li Fu (李 輔, Ri Ho): There were at least two different individuals by this name that served Wei. One Li Fu served under Wei general Meng Da, but when Meng Da rebelled Li Fu cooperated with Sima Yi’s forces. The other Li Fu was a subordinate of Zhong Hui who took part in the invasion of Shu. Which one is this one? I don’t know; go ask Koei.

Sima Jin (司馬 進, Shiba Shin): Younger brother of Sima Yi.

Sima Kui (司馬 馗, Shiba Ki): Younger brother of Sima Yi.

Sima Min (司馬 敏, Shiba Bin): Younger brother of Sima Yi.

Sima Tong (司馬 通, Shiba Tou): Younger brother of Sima Yi.

Sima Xun (司馬 恂, Shiba Jun): Younger brother of Sima Yi.

Sima Yi (司馬 懿, Shiba I): Born 179. Began his career under Cao Cao. He and Cao Shuang were supposed to be the regents of Cao Fang beginning 239, but he ousted Cao Shuang and grabbed all the power himself; Wei would essentially be under Sima family control until it was dissolved. Died 251.

Zhang Chunhua (張 春華, Chou Shunka): Born 189. Wife of Sima Yi. An episode goes thus: Sometime before 208, Cao Cao wanted to recruit Sima Yi, so Yi faked paralysis to get away from it. One of his maids saw him rush out to grab his books from a downpour, and Zhang Chunhua, understanding that the maid might leak one way or another that Yi was a lot less paralyzed than reported, killed the maid. In Yi’s later years, he neglected Chunhua in favor of a concubine. Died 247.

Lu Xun

Sun Quan

[thesouppond]

GL Headcanons #3

Mostly Shogun Sniper oriented stuff this time

(Slight NSFW under read-more)

Val/entina starts binding their chest before their surgery

This leads to a hilarious conversation when Kazu inadvertently asks 'where'd they go?'

Val/entina once stained the bathroom purple after dyeing their hair. They're usually not that messy, but Cammie insisted on keeping them company and ended up playing with the dye too

Cammie had purple marks all over her for a solid week

Every time Kazu calls his parents, everyone runs to say hi to them

Zariku and Toshida basically treat the team as if they were their own kids

Miranda and Jodie once turned up to RTASA with a care package from Kazu's folks. Cammie definitely got manga from that.

Kazu and Val/entina start hooking up for fun and to blow off steam and there's no feelings involved they swear!

Everyone but Kazu and Val/entina can tell that's a lie

They tried to keep it quiet at first but forgot Cammie's room shares a wall with Kazu's

Yaz found out when Cammie barged into her room at 2am in the morning refusing to sleep in her own room

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*Mai takes her own sniper and immediately snipes away. Soon a message came that the Shogun has escaped*

.....I knew it.

Even if he has escaped, I doubt he has much support now.

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