Victory Without a Sword

Victory Without a Sword was a Rank 6 void shūji which taught to win without conflict, to conquer without destroying, to unite with prowess rather than merely subjugating—this was the ideal Akodo was said to have reached by the end of his long and violent life. Though he never put it to words himself, several of his students from his later years did. His lessons were simple. Any battle should be as swiftly won as possible, and the greatest general would be the one who never needed to fight, their superiority clear to all who could see it. To fight at all was its own sort of failure, a lesson he had learned all too well across ceaseless campaigns to unite Rokugan for his Emperor. Of course, up to the end, Akodo found it necessary to fight, so perhaps this ideal was beyond even the Kami of the Lion Clan, a dream image of a world barely visible through one tired eye. Fields of Victory, p. 104
Category:Void Shūji