Yamato

Overview

Hasegawa retainer and swordsman. This is a carefully bounded Volume II article: its descriptive title does not supply an identity the manuscript withholds.

Recorded role

Yamato is identified by Lord Hasegawa as his finest swordsman. He rides to the midpoint between the loyalist and usurper armies, dismounts fluidly, draws a katana and calls for the enemy's strongest warrior to meet him in honorable single combat.

The challenge is never answered. Three arrows from the opposing ranks strike him before he can raise his guard, one entering his chest. He dies on the field, and Hasegawa cites the attack as proof that the usurper's army has rejected the traditions it claims to defend. No surname, magical element or earlier history is disclosed in Volume II.

Volume II scope

This article includes only facts established through Volume II. Unknown identity, history and later outcome are left unresolved.