Riboku
Historical information of Riboku
Stats:
Strength: 91
Command: 99
Intelligence: 100
Frequently targeting something
Basic information:
One of the 3 Great Heavens of Zhao who rallied the coalition army.
A general who excels in strategies. He is able to go against generals who excels in combat with his strategies in his past battles. After the battle at Bayou, he was promoted to prime minister and is in charge of both the internal affairs of Zhao and external diplomacy. He is also in charge of important military missions. In order to stop Qin’s unification ambition, he gathered the armies of various state to form a coalition army which started a war that shook the entire China.
Origins 1: Led a separate army, aiming to take down Kanyou
After the death of Chu great general Kanmei, it is hard take Kankoku Pass and thus he led a seperate force to take Kanyou directly. As the Qin army pursues them, Houken defeated Duke Hyou. They were forced to fight a battle at Sai, the final line of defense before Kanyou.
Origins 2: His loss at Sai resulted in him losing his position as prime minister
As the coalition army lost the war, he was relieved of his duties as the prime minster. He was sent to a small city near the Zhao-Wei border and was restored of his position as prime minster just before the Zhao attack on Tonryu.
From R-L, T-B:
Kaine:
Strength: 84
Command: 86
Intelligence: 83
Likes Riboku!
Futei:
Strength: 90
Command: 85
Intelligence: 87
Aiming for 3 Great Heavens and Kaine
Shinseijou:
Strength: 83
Command: 85
Intelligence: 85
Note: No teeth
Gika:
(no stat listed)
Kakukai:
Strength: 20
Command: 75
Intelligence: 83
Note: Important character*
*nice little hint by Hara for his future role
Youka:
Strength: 65
Command: 78
Intelligence: 90
Spy: 99
King Magax 
Ultimately I was/am disappointing by the way RiBoku’s threat is ended in history
Having a badass long war after being hit by famine and earthquake and still defending against all of qin to then have it all end by a plot from zhao-qin trickery just leaves a bad taste in my mouth
It’s so half-glass empty
So I thought of a way to make it better
I’m not trusting Hara-sensei enough
Like you said to me, he can “change history” in a smart way
Not that Riboku survives, but that he goes out in a huge flame
Instead of the unsatisfying, jarring end to Riboku’s threat
What if Riboku really does plot something, and has all the pieces together like Ryo Fui did, but the qin-zhao trickery just gets the better of him
Shin can still have a duel with Riboku, which I would love to see
And it will feel glass-half full for Riboku fans, and fans of him as an antagonist for him to go out guns blazing
Make it a real twisty, political plot with ups and downs
The comparison to Seikyou’s rebellion is that Seikyou in history really revolted, but Hara made it so Seikyou was framed
This is the opposite, where history makes it seem like Riboku is framed, instead Hara makes it that Riboku was really planning on forcing his hand to save China/Zhao from Qin’s devouring path to unification (as hinted in his stand off with Ei Sei)
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Could you please translate Kaine’s rank? It’s something that I was wondering from quite some time.
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She is a military commander(武将). I assume this rank is lower than a general(将军).
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Thank you
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Hey King, what does the guidebook say about Youka?
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Youka is a spy sent to the Zhao court by SBK. He is one of the many vassals of Kakukai but he reports any movements by Zhao to SBK in Qin. He is the person who gave Kakukai the idea to send RIboku to a faraway land in Zhao after his failure at the coalition war.
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