Otomo Nobu

Please note: This article is about the steward of Closed-Shell Castle. For other uses of the term, please see Nobu (disambiguation).
Otomo Nobu was the steward of Closed-Shell Castle.
== Plotting ==
Nobu was ruthless and ambitious but hid it well. The castle's village, Twin Blessings Village, began to suffer under the governorship of a new shugo, Reju Jikai. Half the court seemed determined to remove Jikai, while the other half resented living in such a place. Nobu saw opportunity on this situation, to oust Lord Jikai and govern in his place. He grew accustomed to running the castle and its territory by himself, and he resented having a disgraced lord forced upon him as a master, and rather than helping him with good advice, had delighted in Jikai's failures and encouraged him to make mistakes. Nobu worked toward overthrowing Jikai, gradually turning both samurai and peasants against him. He communicated with Jikai's neighbor and rival Lord Osamu, and had encouraged Jikai to take on mercenaries, partly to overstretch Jikai's resources, but also to create his own army of vagabonds. Using the advice and skills of a vindictive shugenja, Reju Toshio, who had deliberately angered spirits in the castle and village. Toshio traveled to the river to provoke and anger its kami, provoking the river to change course which eventually ruined the local crops. Nobu himself has thrown bones into the well to render it unusable. With these and other, more mundane tricks, Nobu, Toshio, and a treacherous servant named Atsuko had heaped problems upon the unfortunate Lord Jikai. A group of samurai tried to help the villagers, and eventually uncovered Nobu's plot. Sins of Regret, pp. 2, 23-24
== See also ==
* Otomo Nobu/Meta
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