History Characters / GhostOfTsushima

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: According to Norio, Komei was well-loved and respected by the other monks.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Was beloved by the people of Yarikawa when he was alive.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Brutally killed by Masako after being confronted about his part in the massacre.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Not only is Yuna a badass action girl, but she has the husky-sounding contralto to match, courtesy of Sumalee Montano.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Lauren Tom gives Masako a deeper, cooler voice befitting her character as an ActionGirl.

* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is fairly lower-pitched, which fits her character as a dangerous Mongol shaman.

* TricksterMentor: Described as being very cunning and often delivered lessons in very indirect ways. For example, when the other monks were in the midst of an argument over something rather trivial, Komei up and disappeared for a full week, forcing the other monks to drop their arguments to work together to find him. In addition, when Hochi and Enjo had a falling out and kept arguing with each other, Komei started carrying around a rock that he'd yell at random, embarrassing Hochi and Enjo into stopping their fighting. Jin even jokes that if he were captured the Mongols, he could simply trick them into giving up on the invasion.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A posthumous example: shortly before [[spoiler: his death]] he criticizes Norio for not taking initiative to think for himself. In the third act after freeing Cedar Temple (which was largely done under the plans of Norio with the help of warrior monks from Aksashima and Kushi temples and Jin proving extra assistances), Norio discovers his [[spoiler: brother Enjo limbless]] and Norio decides to MercyKill his brother, at Enjo's behest. Ultimately Norio finds the Mongol warlord Kharchu that [[spoiler: crippled his brother]] in a fort and single-handedly slaughters every Mongol present, before burning Kharchu alive, shocking even Jin.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A posthumous example: shortly before [[spoiler: his death]] he criticizes Norio for not taking initiative to think for himself. In the third act after freeing Cedar Temple (which was largely done under the plans of Norio with the help of warrior monks from Aksashima and Kushi temples and Jin proving extra assistances), Norio discovers his [[spoiler: brother Enjo limbless]] and Norio decides to MercyKill his brother, at Enjo's behest. Ultimately Norio finds the Mongol warlord Kharchu that [[spoiler: crippled his brother]] in a fort and single-handedly slaughters every present, before burning Kharchu alive, shocking even Jin.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A posthumous example: shortly before [[spoiler: his death]] he criticizes Norio for not taking initiative to think for himself. In the third act after freeing Cedar Temple (which was largely done under the plans of Norio with the help of warrior monks from Aksashima and Kushi temples and Jin proving extra assistances), Norio discovers his [[spoiler: brother Enjo limbless]] and Norio decides to MercyKill his brother, at Enjo's behest. Ultimately Norio finds the Mongol warlord Kharchu that [[spoiler: crippled his brother]] in a fort and singehandily slaughters every present and burns Kharuchu alive, shocking even Jin.

* BlindfoldedVision: Her headgear consists of blindfolds, which don't interfere with her vision[[note]]Unless she is wearing a [[VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn Focus]].[[/note]]

* GreenEyedMonster: She was ''not'' happy when Masako, her younger sister, married a samurai lord she had eyes on. Her envy got a whole lot worse when Masako unknowingly married her off to an abusive retainer to Clan Kikuchi. She also tried stealing some of the Adachi's heirloom and sentimental belonging because she saw them as hers.

* NotSoStoic: The usually calm Yuna loses it completely when [[spoiler:Taka is killed]], roaring and outright snarling in rage, when like Jin, she is usually calm and composed in battle]]

* FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler: Khotun may serve as the player's final test of the various ghost tactics and combat styles, but Shimura tests how well the player has mastered the art of parrying, dodging and counter-attacking with just the sword, utilising quick attacks that alternate rapidly between blockable and unblockable several times in varying combos, and with the fight being restricted to a duel, Jin cannot utilize any Ghost tactics against him for both story and Gameplay purposes. Khotun serves as the final test for the Ghost, but Shimura is the final test of how well you've mastered the Samurai combat style]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shimura's bigotry towards commoners becomes apparent not long after he actually gets rescued at the end of Act 1. He's quite amiable to Ishikawa and Masako after they save him due to them being fellow nobles. He suddenly becomes rather frigid and dismissive towads Yuna, and this is before he even learns that she is a thief.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Eric Steinberg (English), Creator/AkioOhtsuka (Japanese)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Ilya Isaev (Russian)[[/note]]

* LethalJokeCharacter: He might be the PluckyComicRelief, but as he himself points out, his plans for sneaking Jin into heavily-guarded Mongol fortifications always work, including a town that was regarded as impenetrable, he's able to get Jin free from imprisonment [[spoiler: once Jin is branded an outlaw by the Samurai]] using his various wares to distract the guards and give him an opening to flee, and [[spoiler: he's the one that somehow manages to secure an entire battery of Mongol artillery entirely on his own, and without input from [[TheHero Jin]], which proves to be the cornerstone of his plan to sink the Mongol fleet and finally put and end to the Khan's plans for attacking the mainland. Kenji's even the one overseeing that important task during the FinalBattle]].

* MasterPoisoner: She's a master herbalist and makes poisons to get rid of vermin. Jin convinces her to make a stronger version so he can use it as a weapon against the invades, which she reluctantly obliges.

Leader of the Mongol invaders, cousin of Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, and grandson of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. Knowledgeable in the ways of the samurai, he invades Tsushima and comes into conflict with Jin, who he takes an interest in.

* TheCorrupter: As Jin says, his favorite method is to punish resistance with death and rewarding submission, encouraging the inhabitants of Tsushima to side with him.

* BodyDouble: During the assault upon Adachi Estate, she takes the children with her to "escape". Lady Masako later finds what she believes to be Hana's body, but disfigured horribly, and buries it alongside her family while lamenting that she should have been laid to rest in the north, with her own. Turns out, Hana had a peasant girl killed by the Mongols brought to her, had her face mangled and put on the corpse a clothing item known to have been worn by her, specifically to trick Masako.

* EvilCounterpart: To Junshin, who is later framed as another member of the conspiracy, as Sogen is a monk who was willingly complicit in the massacre and demonstrates a selfish and two-faced nature when he believes he's alone while being tailed by Jin and Masako, whereas Junshin is every bit as benevolent and helpful as he appears to be on the surface.

* ArrowCatch: When Tomoe and Jin first meet, he is holding her up with his bow. She manages to ''snatch'' his own arrow and holds ''him'' up instead in barely two seconds.

* InformedAttribute: Reputedly a great general who has won seemingly unwinnable battles, but never wins a battle without outside assistance, usually involving tactics he disdains as dishonorable. All his great victories are a decade in the past, against warriors who play by the same rules as him, leaving him totally out of his depth against an opponent like Khotun Khan who doesn't. In addition, the enormous number of bandits and slavers - some of the latter having been operating for decades - across Tsushima makes it doubtful that he was really as good at maintaining order in this lands as Jin thought.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Shimura may be the respected jito of Tsushima, but comments from the shogunate soldiers sent as aid indicate that he is ''way'' lower on the status rankings compared to their clan on mainland Japan. Some shogunate soldiers privately discuss that his repeated failures (getting everyone killed on Komoda Beach in a suicide attack, repeatedly failing to catch up to Khotun Khan, and being unable to rein in Jin) means that he's going to be replaced if he doesn't start showing some results soon. He is also widely known as a great general that won battles some thought were unwinnable but the Khan has him figured out so well that Shimura keeps running his forces into painfully obvious traps, and he is too rigid to adapt, making him look like a complete failure of a general.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Jin's suggestion to [[spoiler: use wolfsbane poison against the Mongols]] didn't exactly endear him to his rigidly honor-bound uncle, calling such a tactic one of terror. While he was telling this to Jin in the hopes of making sure he further doesn't stray from the samurai code, [[spoiler: Jin's usage of the poison allowed Khotun to reverse-engineer it as well as have merchants use poison to eliminate their rivals]]. For all of the flaws Shimura's rigidity to the code cost him, he wasn't wrong when he claims that using such a weapon had more negative consequences, especially since [[spoiler: Jin's idea to use the poison was only a short-term solution, and it was about to be added in Khotun Khan's arsenal of weapons when he sets for the mainland had Jin and the rest of his allies not put a stop to that plan]].

!!Legends
[[folder:The Ghosts]]
The {{Player Character}}s of the multiplayer mode. According to Gyozen the Storyteller, they are the samurai of Tsushima who fell in battle, either in Tsushima's past or at Komoda Beach, and battle the Oni that were unleashed upon the island when the Mongols invaded.\\\
The ghosts consist of four classes: Samurai, Hunter, Assassin and Ronin.
!!In general
* CreepyGood: They look less like warriors and more like zombies straight out of a horror movie. Some of their unlockable gear is dripping with ichor, others even have swords and arrows piercing through their bodies, in the Ronin's case, his komuso/basket hat has a katana ''[[EyeScream clearly pierced through the eye]]''. That being said, they all fight to protect Tsushima from both the Mongols and the Oni.
* DamagerHealerTank: Every class is a damager. The Samurai is the dedicated Tank, and the Ronin is the Healer.
* FighterMageThief: The Samurai is the Fighter, The Ronin is the Mage, while The Assassin and Hunter are the Thieves.
* {{Foil}}: They all serve as this to Jin. Regarding their respective reputations, whereas Jin is among the land of the living but is called the Ghost due to numerous factors (primarily Yuna starting the tale and Jin being one of the few, if not the only survivor from Komoda Beach), these samurai have already died and are ''literal'' ghosts. As for how they defend Tsushima, Jin is actively repelling the Mongols from his homeland and has not encountered anything supernatural ([[AmbiguousSituation with the possible exception of the Tengu from the Uchitsune Mythic Tale]]), the Ghosts fight not only Mongol soldiers corrupted by evil spirits, but also actual Oni.
* SignatureHeadgear: Each class has a distinct type of classy headgear, which makes their silhouettes distinguishable.
!!'''The Samurai'''
* {{Expy}}: To Lord Shimura due to him being a Samurai so dedicated to Honor.
* TheBigGuy: Is the frontline fighter of the team, and has the most HP.
* CoolHelmet: The Samurai wears a helmet with distinct horns. How long these horns are will depend on the effort required to earn them.
* FlashStep: His Hachiman's Fury Ultimate allows him to deliver 3 (5 if upgraded) strikes while he dashes across the field. It's fast, but has limited range and control.
* LifeDrain: One of his class abilities drains health from the closest enemy.
* MadeOfExplodium: One of his class abilities makes his sword swings ''explode'' (when they hit), dealing damage to every nearby enemy.
* PlayingWithFire: one of his class abilities causes nearby enemies to burst into flame if he uses a strong attack.
!!'''The Hunter'''
* {{Expy}}: To Yuna due to her main method of attacking in archery.
* ActionGirl: The only female member of the team.
* CriticalHitClass: One of her passive abilities causes 50% of all body shots to count as ''headshots''. Did we mention some bows trigger special powers when they score a headshot?
* HomingProjectile: Her Eye of Uchitsune's Ultimate creates three homing arrows.
* LongRangeFighter: While all the other members have long-range weapons, her specialty and skills allow her to get the most out of bows.
* PlayingWithFire: She can fire flaming arrows.
* StuffBlowingUp: One of her abilities lets her fire an exploding arrow.
* SummonMagic: One of her class abilities lets her summon an allied Wasp Archer, who will distract enemies with their fire arrow barrages.
* TrickArrow: Most of her abilities involve these; exploding arrows, smoke bomb arrows, and even ''homing'' arrows for her Ultimate.
!!'''The Assassin'''
* {{Expy}}: To Jin, due to him abandoning the Samurai code in favor being "The Ghost".
* BlindfoldedVision: Her headgear consists of blindfolds, which don't interfere with her vision[[note]]Unless she is wearing a [[VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn Focus]].[[/note]]
* BlowGun: Assassins can use Blow Guns instead of bows. These darts can poison enemies, weaken them, or cause them to go berserk and attack the nearest friend or foe, all without alerting enemies to his presence.
* CoolMask: The Assassin's masks are separate from the rest of the Ghosts' mask pool and cover his entire face.
* FlashStep: Much like The Samurai, his Shadow Strike Ultimate allows him to deliver three powerful critical strikes, but by blinking to their position. It's slower and (slightly) less damaging than the Samurai's Ultimate but has insanely long range and can be used to teleport across vast distances.
* MasterPoisoner: Standard poison does stagger damage, which leaves enemies open to attack but doesn't kill them. The Assassin has an ability called Deadly Nightshade that causes their poison damage to deal ''actual'' damage.
* SmokeOut: His class ability involves throwing a smoke bomb which turns him literally invisible. It can be customized to spew poison gas, healing gas, or turn his allies invisible.
* StealthExpert: His passive abilities give him the highest potential stealth attack bonus and has skills that allow him and his allies to turn invisible and stealth attack enemies. His special ranged equipment is a silent blowdart that poisons the enemy without them realizing they've been attacked.
!!'''The Ronin'''
* {{Expy}}: To Ryuzo due to his goal of mainly looking out for his men.
* BoringButPractical: The Ronin's ultimate skill instantly revives allies no matter where they are. While this doesn't deal lethal damage like the other classes, it's a literal life saver when used right before a total party kill.
** The healing incense isn't powerful by any means, but it has a fairly quick recharge for a class skill and health management can be very important in legends mode. The ability to drop a heal every minute or so can keep allies topped off on health, keep team fights at crowded points in your favor, and save on healing drum usage for when it's really needed.
* CombatMedic: The only class with team-based healing and resurrection skills.
** His endgame equipment lets him throw ''healing bombs''!
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Has a special ability that both weakens the enemies' defense and decreases their attack power by 25%.
* EyeObscuringHat: While they don't always obscure his eyes, all his hats are large enough to droop below them.
* StuffBlowingUp: His special equipment allows him to use bombs. While the bombs' range is extremely limited compared to a bow, they do a heck of a lot of damage and have a wide radius.
* SummonMagic: One of his Class Abilities is to summon a spirit dog that can fight alongside him.
** TheBeastmaster: With the right equipment, he'll summon a spirit ''bear''.
* TrickBomb: Ronin can use Bomb Packs, which include Concussion Bombs, Flash Bombs, and Black Powder (Fire) Bombs. The legendary bomb pack causes all bombs to ''heal'' Ghosts.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gyozen the Storyteller]]
!!Gyozen
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Once... I wrote the history of Tsushima. Now... I write of the battle for its survival."'']]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Greg Baldwin (English), Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese)

A blind old man that wanders the island, who speaks of the tales of the fallen samurai of Tsushima that battle the oni plaguing the land. He regales Jin with his tales.

* ActorAllusion: Greg Baldwin is using his famous Creator/{{Mako}} impression.
* {{Expy}}: Almost certainly one to Akiro, the wizard and narrator from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. They even both have similar 'That is a tale for another time' lines.
* {{Foil}}: To Yamato. They both tell Jin stories of Tsushima, but whereas Yamato's tales involve historical warriors who accomplished seemingly impossible feats like cutting down lightning beasts or a seemingly invulnerable BloodKnight ronin, Gyozen's stories are more grounded in the supernatural.
* WastelandElder: Tsushima is not a wasteland. The realm in which the Ghosts fight in, where he somehow manages to record their tales and regale them to the residents? That, on the other hand, is a tad bit more than a simple wasteland.

[[folder:Oni Hound]]
Supernaturally-charged hounds with a special power baked in.

* ActionBomb: They have the power to ''explode'' (without dealing damage to themselves). Luckily, the charge time is typically longer than it takes to stab them to death.
* FlamingHair: They have red streaks in their manes to differentiate them from regular hounds.

[[folder:Twins]]
Otherwise standard enemies who, through unholy human sacrifices of biological twins, have gained the power to resurrect themselves as long as one of them is still alive.

* HumanSacrifice: Twin brothers and sisters were sacrificed for their hearts, which were then preserved through magic and linked to pairs of soldiers.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: If one soldier dies and their 'twin' survives for a few seconds, both soldiers will restore to full health. The only way to kill them for good is if they both die in rapid succession.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kamiguard]]
Otherwise standard enemies who have used the stolen power of the Kami as a defensive shield. To defeat them, the Ghosts must charge themselves with Ki of the same element and attack them to temporarily overload their shields... or they could utterly wreck their day with a spirit bow.

* DeflectorShields: The Kami's Ki gives them massive damage resistance.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Uchistune's Bow, which uses the combined Ki of the Kami, will terrorize any Kamiguard. A single hit from this quickly-regenerating ability will overload their shield and stun them for a few seconds, which can be done ad-nauseum to a single enemy to utterly destroy them without a fight. Two hits in quick succession will cause the shield to ''explode'', permanently shutting it down and leaving the enemy prone to 1-2 stealth attacks.

[[folder:Iyo's Disciples]]
Demonic priestesses of Iyo, who support their murderous brethren by making death-by-attrition near-impossible. As the counterparts to the Ronin, their healing powers are so great that they can regenerate any near-fatal wounds of their entire party ''in seconds''.

* CombatMedic: They carry swords and can cast offensive magic if threatened.
* TheMedic: They heal everyone within a ''wide'' radius. ''Constantly''.
* PowerGlows: One of their weaknesses is that their aura cannot be hidden. If you need to find a disciple, just look up and find the giant red pillar.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: Unless you can one-hit kill her patients, you ''need'' to attack her first. Anyone other than her within her radius is healed faster than your standard attacks can damage them.
* WhyWontYouDie: Do ''not'' leave the disciples alone during a fight, or everyone other than them will become this trope.
* YourSoulIsMine: You need to inflict this on ''them'' during the first raid, using their souls to power Iyo's fortress door mechanism.

[[folder:Wasp Archer]]
Elite Oni archers. As the counterparts to the Archer, they combine the lethality of good marksmanship with the mobility of a Ghost.

* SpreadShot: They can shoot multiple fire arrows in quick succession.
* TeleportSpam: What makes them annoying is that, unlike regular archers, they'll react to a melee barrage by teleporting to a random location to continue their arrow spam.

[[folder:Gozu]]
Elite spearguards who use a spear and a shield to charge into their prey. As the counterparts to the Samurai, they are quick, hardy, and can penetrate defenses in a single charged strike.

* FlareGun: They have the unique ability to use their shield as a magic fireworks dispenser, causing damaging flares to sparkle randomly around them. Unfortunately for them, they have to throw their shield in the air to use this ability, leaving them prone to arrows.
* JoustingLance: They use their polearm as one. Also, it explodes at the end of the lunge.
* LightningBruiser: Have a high health pool and strong equipment, but can rush across the battlefield in seconds.
* ShieldBearingMook: The standard Gozu uses a medium-sized shield to protect their front while they charge straight forward.[[note]]Disclaimer: Some Gozu only have a polearm, others use a buckler. We're not sure why.[[/note]]

[[folder:Mezu]]
Hammer-wielding sentinels who can tank blows like no tomorrow while punishing aggressive Ghosts with their slow-casting magical explosions.

* HerdHittingAttack: Their core spell creates a cylinder of magical explosion that only damages what the caster wants to hurt. If the Ghosts don't run, they'll be blown back from the sheer force of the blast.
* MagicKnight: They boast the strongest magical spellcasting ability while having a higher health pool than any other standard Oni.
* MightyGlacier: Their attacks are painfully slow, but they boast extremely high health.

[[folder:Tengu]]
Raven Oni, and some of the most dangerous enemies in the game. Their polearms are a mere distraction compared to the swarms of demonic crows they summon from their body, which can destroy the ghosts in seconds.
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* {{Tengu}}
* ThatOneAttack: Their crow summon is a magic flamethrower made of birds; long range, homing, and a disturbingly long clip, keeping even the most dexterous players on edge. What makes the Tengu truly fearsome is that they use this ability ''as a secondary''; attacking them directly will ''not'' stop the flow of crows. if they aren't interrupted with special attacks constantly, they can spam this attack periodically while defending or attacking with their polearm.

[[folder:Fire Spirit]]
Hwachas brought to life by supernatural magic.

* ForcedFriendlyFire: Their artillery will damage anything in the line of fire. Enemies prioritize getting out of the way, but if you can keep them in the targeting zone, they'll get pummeled.
* SentryGun: As long as a non-Fire Spirit has detected a Ghost, they'll fire merciless artillery at the Ghosts.
* WeakTurretGun: They have no short-range defenses and go down in 2-4 sword strikes.

[[folder:Revenants]]
Undead minions of Sukhbaatar, their lethality comes from their near-invisibility. They act as the counterparts to the assassin, charging silently into battle while the Ghosts obliviously stare at empty space until it stabs them.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Everyone who dies to the revenants turns into revenants mindlessly obedient to Sukhbaatar.
* MonochromeApparition: Ghosts will shimmer blue when revealed.
* TheShadowKnows: Their shadows are visible for some reason.
* StealthyMook: They're invisible, even when using Ghost instincts.[[note]]Lightning always occurs when Revenants are nearby, and the flash will cause them to temporarily reveal themselves. Ghost Lanterns will reveal all Revenants in an aura when struck. Damaged or Attacking Reventants will stay visible for a short time. You can see their outline if you're in position to stealth attack a Revenant. They are easily spotted in fog, and somehow cast shadows when invisible.[[/note]]

[[folder:Sukhbaatar]]
A Mongol invader who betrayed his people after dying and getting resurrected by Iyo. He has become a threat to all life, turning his victims into brainwashed revenants for his undead army.

* BadBoss: He intentionally sent his still-living soldiers into ambushes from his revenants, so they would die and swell his brainwashed revenant army.
* TurnsRed: He and his guard turn into revenants after you kill them the first time.

[[folder:Iyo ('''SPOILERS''')]]
!!Iyo
-->'''Voiced by:''' Minae Noji (English)

The overarching villain of the ''Legends'' scenarios.

* BigBad: All the disasters that befall Tsushima in the Legends missions are due to her machinations.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: When you finally see her in the flesh, it's unclear whether she has this, or simply has no eyes whatsoever.
* BuriedAlive: Not only was she buried by the ancient rulers of Tsushima, but she was pregnant at the time.
* EldritchAbomination: Confronting her in her chamber in the final mission of Legends reveals that one of her three forms is a ''kaiju'' sized monstrosity. Thankfully, you don't have to fight this form directly. The form you have to duel with one-on-one and her third and final form are more HumanoidAbomination.
* EvilLaugh: Half her lines in the first few chapters are malicious laughter.
* {{Foil}}: Like Jin, she served Tsushima until she was betrayed by its rulers. Unlike Jin, she was killed, and sought to destroy Tsushima to get her revenge.
* MinionMaster: Every enemy you fight in the Legends missions, from the priestesses to the Tengu to Oni to the summoned spirits, are all under her command.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: She was once a powerful priestess, but was buried alive by the rulers of Tsushima while she was pregnant. According to her, she felt [[FromBadToWorse the heartbeat of her child fade away as she lingered under the dirt]] praying for the gods to help her. When that help didn't come either, her hate empowered her to destroy every person and god on Tsushima.
* OmnicidalManiac: She doesn't just want to kill the people and rulers of Tsushima for the torture they put her through, she also imprisons the ''kami'' of the land for failing to protect her and her child.
* RealityWarper: She managed to tear open a portal separating the underworld from Tsushima, then sent her minions forth to destroy the land. Once you access the final Raids and cross into ''her'' realm, you discover she has created massive stages, with castles and pagodas and abandoned villages, many of which are filled with all sorts of nasty traps and devious puzzles that must be solved before you can progress, and all swarming with hundreds of high-level minions of every stripe you have ever encountered.
* VillainousBreakdown: Once you deal enough damage to [[spoiler:force her unborn daughter to reincarnate as a bird]], she loses all her composure and charges at you in a mad suicide run.

!!Iki Island
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[[folder:The Eagle]]
!!Ankhsar Khatun
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[[caption-width-right:329:''"Let me guide you through the horror. Purge the guilt from your spirit. Make you whole again."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Anzu Lawson (English)
A shaman and the leader of a Mongol tribe that has invaded Iki Island.

* {{Acrofatic}}: She's not the slenderest person but she can perform some impressive aerial feats during her duel against Jin.
* AnimalMotifs: Eagles, as befitting her role as leader of the Eagle Tribe. They even show up in Jin's hallucinations as a sign that they're getting worse.
* BigBad: Of the Iki Island expansion storyline.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: She is strongly associated with purple, which is the colour of her own clothing and that of her elite shamans. The hallucinations that plague Jin with her voice tinge the entire world in purple light and wisteria petals.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is fairly lower-pitched, which fits her character as a dangerous Mongol shaman.
* DyingCurse: As she succumbs to her injury and dies, she tries invoking this to Jin, who shuts her down in response.
--> ''The Eagle'': "One day, you will face the judgment of your ancestors."
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She cannot understand Jin's goodness of heart and his willingness to help the people who have killed his father and only expresses her disappointment.
* EvilOldFolks: The Eagle is an older woman, and she aims to conquer Iki Island by forcing residents to drink her hallucinogenic poison to break them.
* {{Expy}}: She has a lot in common with Sasha from the original ''[[VideoGame/{{Infamous}} inFAMOUS]]'' game.[[note]]Also developed by Sucker Punch Productions.[[/note]] She forces the player hero to consume an unknown substance, which allows her to speak into the hero's mind, and view apparitions of her minions. There's also an InterfaceScrew where the world around the hero becomes and dark and scary and the UI (minimal though it is in this game) disappears. She thankfully lacks Sasha's creepy sexual obsession with the hero, but there's an echo of it in her desire to make Jin her loyal shaman.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She comes across as a dignified, affable shaman who shows hospitality even to her enemies. However, her affable front hides a sense of pleasure from seeing Jin suffer, and a desire to break him and turn him into one of her shamans.
* {{Foil}}: To Khotun Khan. They're both high-ranking members of the Mongol forces, they both want the Japanese populations of Tsushima and Iki to surrender and submit to them, and they're both ruthless yet pragmatic individuals who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. But while Khotun Khan focuses on using brute strength to make Tsushima submit to him, Ankhsar Khatun uses a pseudo-spiritual approach to force the people of Iki to surrender.
* GlassEye: She wears one for her right eye.
* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: She is the finesse to Khotun's might due to her usage of poison to force people to submit to her.
* MindRape: Her "sacred medicine" induces surreal hallucinations in her victims and drives them to madness. When Jin is forced to drink it, the hallucinations he suffers often conjure up his past, or events from the main game such as [[spoiler:Ryuzo's betrayal]], his first fight with the Khan, or [[spoiler:Taka's death]]. Jin's visions intensify even more during the BossFight against the Eagle as the battlefield becomes increasingly obscured by bloody demonic eagles before it culminates in Jin [[spoiler: getting sucked into a hallucination where he's forced to finally put his guilt with his father's death to rest before he can return to reality and finish the fight with the Eagle]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's a woman at least twice as old as Jin, blinded in one eye, but by the Expansion's end, she'll put up one hell of a fight, alternating between her CoolSword and her shamanic staff in a duel with Jin. It's unclear exactly how much of her fighting prowess is due to her own skill and how much is due to Jin suffering the increasingly worsening effects of the MindScrew he's been forced to deal with throughout the expansion thanks to imbibing her specialized brews, but it's made clear that she's the leader of the Mongol tribe not only because she's got the brains and the vision to lead them, but also the fighting skills.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's often referred to as "the Eagle" throughout the story, but her real name is Ankhsar Khatun, as seen in the records. Jin also calls her "Ankhsar Khatun" when trying to chase her down in the last mission.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Eagle and her men heavily feature purple in their armor and clothing and Jin's visions from her "sacred medicine" are heavily tinged with purple as well. She proves to be a fearsome foe and the Eagle Tribe warriors, in general, are far tougher than other Mongols.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Even when forcing Jin to drink her poison, her voice always remains soothing and calm. Only when she's duelling Jin does her voice become more malicious towards him.
* AVillainNamedKhan: An extremely RareFemaleExample. In this case, it's "Khatun", which was the female counterpart of the Khan rank in the Mongol Empire.
* VillainousBreakdown: She is shocked when [[spoiler:Jin manages to overcome his pain and her "sacred medicine"]].
-->'''The Eagle:''' [[spoiler:The sacred medicine no longer affects you. [[ThisCannotBe How is that possible?]]]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: Like Khotun Khan, the Eagle tries to convince Jin to side with her and aid the conquest of Iki Island]].
-->'''The Eagle''': [[spoiler: Let me guide you through the horror. Purge the guilt from your spirit. Make you whole again. Just as I have done for all my shamans. Then we will tame this island and finish what your father started. Help me defeat the raiders of Iki Island. Avenge your father's death.]]

[[folder:Khunbish]]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
The Eagle's main enforcer and overseer of the captives who are being [[MindRape broken]] to her cause in the Mongol-occupied Fort Sakai.

* CombatPragmatist: If Jin manages to fight his way deep enough into Fort Sakai, Khunbish appears before him and apparently forces Jin into a standoff, before his men [[DefiedTrope defy]] the MookChivalry present in the gameplay mechanic and chuck explosives around them. Thanks to his heavier armour and shield, Khunbish isn't as adversely affected as Jin, and knocks him unconscious when he's dazed on the ground.
* DirtyCoward: When Jin is on the brink of defeating him, he quickly tries to runs away but doesn't get too far as Jin immediately chases after him and kills him.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: With his death, the Raiders and Jin are able to free Fort Sakai from Mongol control and take it for themselves, preventing its defenses being used for the Eagle's benefit, but as the Eagle herself was absent during the attack, she's still free to utilize her poisons against the residents of the island, even without a home base.
* TheDragon: To the Eagle, being the toughest fighter in her employ and defender of the most fortified location on the island for her and her troops.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Like his boss, Khunbish cannot understand why Jin would reject the Eagle's "gift" to him.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Khunbish acts as the player's final test for facing the Mongol enemies who utilize this tactic on Iki Island, initially fighting with a FlamingSword and shield, before casting those away to switch between [[DualWielding twin blades]] or a BladeOnAStick as the fight progresses.
* YouShallNotPass. His most notable role is the story is to ensure that Jin becomes captured upon his exploration/assault upon Fort Sakai, [[ButThouMust so that he can then be force-fed the Eagle's poison]] and be subjected to the MindScrew and {{Hallucinations}} that several plot point hinge upon. If Jin gets into combat when approaching the fort and loses, then a cutscene plays where Khunbish approaches him and knocks him unconscious. However, if Jin manages to fight his way deep enough into the fort, then Khunbish appears and forces Jin into a standoff... only for his men to cheat and stun Jin with explosives for Khunbish to render unconscious anyway.

[[folder:Tenzo]]
!!Tenzo
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tenzo.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"What's a samurai doing on Iki Island?"'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GregChun (English)
A raider and a resident of Iki Island, who teams up with Jin to stop the Eagle and her forces.

* DeadpanSnarker: He tends to crack a few snide comments here and there, often engaging in snarky banter with Jin from time to time. Most notable is when he explains how he and Fune had met at Fort Sakai.
-->'''Tenzo:''' We enjoyed the hospitality of the Sakai Inn together.
-->'''Jin:''' You mean Fort Sakai.
-->'''Tenzo:''' Terrible food. But we left with our heads intact. Most of the guests weren't so lucky.
* EnemyMine: While Tenzo is disbelieving over Jin's offer to help him and his fellow raiders, he willingly teams up because they both want the Mongols gone from Iki Island. Soon, their tentative alliance strengthens and becomes a genuine friendship as the story progresses.
* FireForgedFriends: Despite a rough start, he and Jin quickly come to trust one another as they work to free Iki from the Mongols. [[spoiler:This gets sharply tested when Jin realizes that Tenzo is the one who landed the killing blow on his father, but by that point, Jin has [[CharacterDevelopment changed enough]] from his time as the Ghost to understand and accept that his father had committed a lot of horrible actions against the people of Iki, and recognize that the Eagle is a big enough threat to Iki and Tsushima as a whole, so he cannot allow his personal feelings to guide his actions, in case he jeopardizes the hard-won trust and goodwill he's earned with the Islanders. It also acts as a parallel to Tenzo saving Jin from his drug-induced delirium and near-death at Fort Sakai, despite being aware the latter was a samurai, because he needed all the help he could to save his island from the Eagle]].
* {{Foil}}: To Yuna. They're both peasants from regions that were negatively affected by samurai related to Jin (Tenzo being from Iki Island, which had been raided by Jin's father, and Yuna being from Yarikawa, which had a rebellion crushed by Jin's uncle), they both rescue Jin from the Mongols, and they are both major allies to Jin throughout the DLC and main game, respectively. The only difference, apart from gender and age, is that Yuna had never made an attempt on Lord Shimura's life, while [[spoiler:Tenzo is actually Kazumasa Sakai's killer.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the mission to destroy the Eagle's warship, Tenzo is found finishing off a captive Mongol in anger over something the latter had told him, disbelieving it. After the mission, he privately speaks to Jin, telling him that the Mongol had told him Jin's true identity as the Sakai heir on the Eagle's orders, with him reluctantly accepting that Jin is still an ally to the Iki islanders regardless after seeing him in action-- and also because by that point he'd vouched for Jin as an ally, and if his true identity got out, then both of them would be targets for the Raiders' ire. [[spoiler: His disbelief is given another aspect to it once he's revealed to be the one that killed Kazumasa Sakai, as he could possibly be fearful of the consequences should Jin find out]].
** What's the first thing you see him do? [[spoiler:Slash Kazumasa's throat.]] It's a hallucination, but Jin still recognizes him on some level, just not consciously.
* HiddenDepths: Tenzo may be a raider, but he is also a family man who once had a wife, and he has a strong spiritual and religious core within him.
-->'''Tenzo''': I grew up here, you know. Learned to swim in the shallows, helped build half these homes. Broke my arm falling off the rock wall, trying to impress my wife.
-->'''Jin''': ''[surprised]'' You were married?
-->'''Tenzo''': Years ago. [[DeathByChildbirth She didn't make it through childbirth]]. Fune helped me bury them. This is my home. These people are my family.
* LovableRogue: Played with. While it's established that Tenzo is a raider who has robbed merchants and played a significant role in the death of Kazumasa Sakai, he is also shown to have a good heart and a compassionate side to him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: If Jin tells Tenzo that watching Kazumasa dying in front of him was the worst moment in his life, Tenzo will grow quiet for a moment before offering a sincere "I’m sorry" to Jin. [[spoiler:It's clear that Tenzo is horrified over how badly this hurt Jin as a child]].
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:He gave one to Kazumasa Sakai, shortly before killing him]].
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: He frequently exchanges snipes with Jin throughout the DLC.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"May your death benefit all beings".]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Tenzo is the raider who had killed Kazumasa Sakai. He himself admits he simply got lucky, as [[WorfHadTheFlu Kazumasa had broken his leg and was exhausted from killing so many of the ambushers beforehand]].]]
-->'''Jin''':[[spoiler: How did someone so ''worthless'' kill Kazumasa Sakai?!]]
-->'''Tenzo''': [[spoiler: I don't know! Luck! [[DefiantToTheEnd He slaughtered dozens of us before we brought him down]]. Broke his leg, I think. [[CoupDeGrace All I did was finish the job]].]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fune]]
!!Fune
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I hope so. Because right now, I'm really curious why you brought a samurai into my home."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Judy Alice Lee (English)
The head of a hidden cove filled with raiders and bandits on Iki Island.

* ActionGirl: She's a strong and capable fighter, which makes sense, considering that she's the leader of a group of raiders.
* DubNameChange: In the Japanese dub, her name becomes "Fuka".
* EnemyMine: Like the other raiders, Fune doesn't have many good memories of the samurai, but she reluctantly allows Jin to join her crew in order to drive the Eagle from Iki. Soon, she comes to trust Jin as a valuable ally, and even personally requests his help in rescuing her daughter.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:She mounts a rescue mission to save her daughter from the Mongols, risking mutiny along the way.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Several years ago, Fune discovered her estranged daughter Toki in a drug-induced stupor at a teahouse, but was so disgusted by the state that Toki was in that she chose to leave her there. By the time Fune finds her again, Toki's been left brain dead from her drug addiction and Fune regrets not helping her back then.]]
* PetTheDog: Tenzo mentions in a conversation with Jin that Fune helped him bury his wife after she [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to a stillborn child]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While she comes across as a violent and ruthless leader, she ultimately cares about her band of raiders and wants nothing more than to see them safe from the Mongols to the point that she accepted help from a samurai.

[[folder:Sao the Crimson Fisherman]]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
A fighter at the Hidden Cove Bokken Tournament and Jin's final opponent.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Defeating Sao and completing the tournament will make him available as the Crimson Dye Merchant, opening up new armor dyes, masks and sword kits.
* BloodKnight: Like all the other fighters at the tournament, Sao has a keen love of fighting.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After Jin defeats him in the tournament, Sao becomes much friendlier and offers Jin his wares as a dye merchant. He even offers one item from his stock for free as a reward for beating him.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Sao's son was killed in a bandit attack, and his grief is what drives him to fight.
* RedBaron: Known as "The Crimson Fisherman."
* YouRemindMeOfX: The first thing Sao says to Jin is that Jin looks like his late son. After their fight, he even comments that Jin ''fights'' like his son.

[[folder:Kashira]]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
The pirate who tells the Mythic Tale of the infamous pirate Black Hand Riku and his Sarugami armor.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seems personable enough when Jin first meets him, but then attempts to kill Jin to take the Sarugami armor for himself once Jin successfully kills Riku to retrieve it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Yamato from the main story. Unlike Yamato, however, he comes after Jin to try and steal the Sarugami armour.
* TrickAndFollowPloy: Attempts this with Jin to see if he can locate Riku's Sarugami armor, telling him the Legend of Black Hand Riku to get him interested in recovering the armor, letting him do all the work of finding and recovering the armour before cornering him and demanding at swordpoint that he hand it over. Predictably he and his men all end up being killed by Jin.

[[folder:Jiro]]
-->'''Voiced by:'''
The peasant who tells the Mythic Tale of Jin's father Kazumasa Sakai and his horse mount's armour.

* FreudianExcuse: He said that he lost his family in the samurai invasion, which explains why he’s so bitter against Kazumasa Sakai.
* GrumpyOldMan: Repeatedly insists that his past experiences with the samurai invasion is worse than the Mongol invasion, and then brush off the arguments otherwise.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first, he's rude and callous towards Jin after discovering who he is, and has him kicked out off the cove. But after Jin saves his life from the Mongols, using his father's horse mount armour, Jiro concedes that Jin is different from his father, and is more willing to put his trust in him, even thanking him in the end.

[[folder:The Viper]]
-->'''Voice by:'''
A Japanese smuggler based out of Iki Island that has evaded capture by the samurai for over two decades whom Kenji owes a great deal of money.

* AffablyEvil: He's a vicious smuggler, but he's perfectly polite when speaking with Jin if you choose the "defuse" options.
* GroinAttack: Jin comments that Kenji was lucky that the Viper didn't cut off one of his hands when he caught him trying to sneak aboard his smuggling ship. Kenji nervously notes that he was about to chop off 'other things' before he managed to talk his way out of it.
* NoNameGiven: The Viper is never referred to by his real name.
* OptionalBoss: Pushing the confrontational options in conversation with him will lead to a duel where Jin nearly kills him.
* RedBaron: Known as "The Viper of Hakata Bay".

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlived her husband, sons, daughters, sister ([[spoiler: or so she thinks...]]) and ''grandkids''. To say she's suffering is a major {{Understatement}}.

* Playing With Fire: one of his class abilities causes nearby enemies to burst into flame if he uses a strong attack.

* BlindfoldVision: Her headgear consists of blindfolds, which don't interfere with her vision[[note]]Unless she is wearing a [[VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn Focus]].[[/note]]

* TrojanHorse: Kenji's go-to plan is to stuff Jin in something sake-related, and smuggle him into a fortified Mongol position under the guise of giving them Sake so Jin can do what Jin does.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Ryuzo's justification for betraying Tsushima is that he must feed his starving men and that he resented Jin ever since losing a tournament against him, costing Ryuzo his only chance to become a samurai. However, all of these excuses fall completely flat when he burns civilians even when he starts to regret it and becomes responsible for Taka's gruesome death. He even tries to weasel his way back to Jin's side when things get bad for him, but Jin has given up trying to forgive Ryuzo and kills him for his crimes.]

* NonActionGuy: He insists on helping Jin and Yuna fight despite being clumsy at best in combat.[[spoiler:Sadly, he predictably gets killed when he attempts to turn around and attack the Khan rather than kill Jin to save his own life.]]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Eddie Shin (English), Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Vladimir Golitsyn (Russian)[[/note]]

* {{Expy}}: To Lord Shimura due to him being a Samurai so dedicated to Honor.

* LifeDrain: Has an ability that drains health from the closest enemy.

* {{Expy}}: To Yuna due to her main method of attacking in archery.
* LongRangeFighter: While all the other members have long-range weapons, her specialty and skills allow her to deal more damage and faster with a bow, with certain other side-benefits, like arrows that ricochet.

* BlowGun: Assassins can use Blow Guns instead of bows. These darts can poison enemies, weaken them, or cause them to go berserk and attack the nearest friend or foe.
* FlashStep: Much like The Samurai, his Shadow Strike Ultimate allows him to deliver 3 (5 if upgraded) strikes while he dashes across the field. It's slower, but has greater range and players can select their targets.
* MasterPoisoner: Standard poison does stagger damage, which leaves enemies open to attack but doesnt kill them. The Assassin has an ability called Deadly Nightshade that causes their poison damage to deal ''actual'' damage.
* StealthExpert: Does the most assassination damage, and has skills that allow him and his allies to turn invisible and stealth attack enemies. His special ranged equipment is also a silent blowdart that poisons the enemy or causes them to go berserk.

* BoringButPractical: The Ronin's ultimate skill instantly revives allies no matter where they are and there are a few perks that grant it more utility for both recently revived and still living allies. It's a literal life saver when used right.
** The healing incense isn't powerful by any means but it has a fairly quick recharge for a class skill and health management can be very important in legends mode. The ability to drop a heal every minute or so can keep allies topped off on health, keep team fights at crowded points in your favor, and save on healing drum usage for when it's really needed.
* CombatMedic: The only class with team-based healing and resurrection skills.

* TrickBomb: Ronin can use Bomb Packs, which include Concussion Bombs, Flash Bombs, and Black Powder (Fire) Bombs. The Legendary causes all bombs to ''heal'' Ghosts.

* ActionBomb: Every one of them can ''explode'' without dealing damage to themselves. Luckily, the charge time is typically longer than it takes to stab them to death.

* DeflectorShields: The Kami's ki gives these enemies massive damage resistance.

Raven oni, and some of the most dangerous enemies in the game.

* ThatOneAttack: Imagine a magic flamethrower made of birds. Its range is long, and each bird-burst lasts a few seconds, keeping even the most dexterous players on edge. What makes the Tengu truly fearsome is that they use this ability ''as a secondary''; attacking them directly will ''not'' stop the flow of crows. if they aren't interrupted with special attacks constantly, they can spam this attack periodically while defending or attacking with their polearm.