Akodo Hirotsu

Akodo Hirotsu underwent his gempukku mere weeks before the Scorpion Coup, and when the Akodo family was disbanded shortly afterwards Hirotsu felt that his only choice was to become a deathseeker and redeem his honor through a glorious death. Miracously he survived the Clan War, and was placed among the personal guard of Ikoma Tsanuri upon the end of the war. he served her faithfully until the Battle of Oblivion's Gate where afterwards the Akodo were reinstated, and Akodo Ginawa personally requested Hirotsu to be his yojimbo. Hirotsu accepted without hesitation. Twenty years later he had become the sensei of the Castle of the Swift Sword Dojo, provinding the youth of the Lion with the opportunity to be worthy of calling themselves Lion. Something Hirotsu had sought himself. Hirotsu looks for only one thing in his students, perfection. He has never found it, and is quick to offer suggestions and corrections to his students, but slow to offer praise. He believed that praising a warrior who has not truly earned it weakens the spirit of both the warrior and the teacher. (Samurai pp. 40-41)