Otomo Nahoko

Please note: This article is about the general. For other uses of the term, please see Nahoko (disambiguation).
Otomo Nahoko was a general of the Imperial Families. She won many battles, developing tactics the Imperial Legions practiced, such as the inescapable “closed shell” maneuver. Sins of Regret, p. 12
== Paranoid ==
As she aged, she grew paranoid, seeing enemies everywhere, and yet refused to retire to a monastery. Her family gave her land to build herself a castle, Closed-Shell Castle. Nahoko designed the castle herself, with an unusually deep moat and vast number of yasama, and numerous trick doors and trapdoors. The hill the castle stood on was artificial, as no natural defences were in the lands given to Nahoko. The area Nahoko had cleared around the castle remained barren and unsightly, and an elemental imbalance was clear there. 
== Death ==
Rumor had it her death was hastened by her own successor, who grew tired of being embarrassed by her. Some said both Nahoko's ghost and that of her successor haunted the family rooms in the castle. 
== After Death ==
As part of a plot against the current lord of the castle, Reju Jikai, her bones were thrown in the castle's well by his steward Otomo Nobu. Incensed, Nahoko's vengeful spirit became a Kyōkotsu, a ghostly, skeletal yōkai which rises out of wells to scare people. Eventually the restless spirit was appeased by a group of samurai and the bones were cremated in proper funerary rites for Nahoko's spirit to find rest. Sins of Regret, p. 19
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