Amilar Amaki

"Sure, I served under her when she was a Chuzei. She's a bad sort of soldier; the sort that thinks she's better than her rank. I don't want to give you the wrong idea; she was a good lieutenant. She knew her tactics, she knew how to drill, she knew how to get her men to fight for her and she knew how to take orders. But there's more to soldiering than that. Soldiering is about keeping your head where it belongs. You get to thinking you deserve a promotion and you start to put your men in tough situations to see if they can win it for you. That's the sort of thinking that'll get a scale wiped out.

"I'm friends with some of her Gunchei, now, and they say she hasn't changed much. I see it, too, when she's walking around the redoubt; that little snap in her step that shows she thinks she's just better. I've seen that sort of thing in commissioned officers before; it usually goes away, once they've lost a whole scale to their pride. Maybe it's a good thing that she's in charge of an Ashigaru right now; those guys are as good as dead already."

-- Chegef Ixos, Gunchei (sergeant), 1st Fang, 5th Scale, 3rd Talon, 2nd Wing, 1st Dragon of the First Field Force of the Seventh Legion

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-- Leopard Chao, Commander of the Flying Spears Brotherhood

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