HomeDramatis PersonaeMatsu Sakura

Dramatis Persona

Matsu Sakura

Lion

What is known

S10The Lion commander on the Snow Plain. She refused a contest of champions as premature and refused delay twice, and sent the battle line across bog to test an enemy who was already dug in. Two of her officers told her not to. She is the general Kitsu Taigen's line descends from, and the one Kitsu Yui saved.
S11Her stated aim was to make the Unicorn reveal their commanders. Her unstated one was to cover Akuyaku's infiltration of the Unicorn camp.
S12Demanded the Unicorn withdraw from the plain and was refused. Had given Akuyaku up for dead.
S13Took the Central Hill and drove the Unicorn off it — against a thinned garrison, because their units had been pulled to answer the flanking force.
S15Named the three crises — poisoned stores with a third of the army down, broken morale, and a Unicorn spy who knew the flanking plan. Sent a man with ruined feet back out for intelligence with the order to die well if he could not return with answers.
S16Refused Akuyaku's assassination of Shinjo Kamo outright and in public — the enemy general was to be beaten on the field or not at all. Then ordered a shugenja killed by three cohorts, which she did not consider the same thing.
S18Her record admits the Lion's failures, and still omits both Ikoma Hideri and the medic suspected of espionage.

Each line is what she took from the session it cites, and nothing else. The Archivist's own account of this person is not reproduced here — it blends what she saw with what she did not.

Encounters

Not known

Nothing lies behind these. They mark what the record does not hold, so that a guess is never mistaken for a fact.

Motive
Allegiance
Capability
Standing with Setsuna