Every named figure in Jin Sakai's campaign — the samurai who raised him, the outcasts who taught him to fight dirty, and the Mongol commanders who made both necessary.
Cast of Tsushima
Every named figure in Jin Sakai's campaign — the samurai who raised him, the outcasts who taught him to fight dirty, and the Mongol commanders who made both necessary.
The leads the game is built around
The shaman leading the Mongol Eagle Tribe on Iki Island — an antagonist who attacks Jin's mind rather than his body, using a sacred hallucinogen to reopen his father's death.
The last of the Sakai clan and the player character — a samurai who abandons the code he was raised on because it cannot save Tsushima, and becomes the Ghost instead.
The Mongol commander leading the invasion of Tsushima — a strategist who researches his enemies' customs specifically so he can use them against them.
Jito of Tsushima and Jin's uncle — the man who made Jin a samurai, and the one person who cannot forgive him for becoming something more useful.
The thief who drags Jin off Komoda Beach and teaches him the techniques his training left out — and the closest thing the story has to a second protagonist.
Recurring figures who shape whole arcs
Jin's father, killed in front of him when Jin was a boy — and, on Iki Island, remembered as the samurai who led a campaign the islanders have never forgiven.
Head of the Adachi clan, hunting the people who slaughtered her entire family — the ally least interested in Jin's opinion of her methods.
A warrior monk who takes up the sword when prayer stops being enough, and whose Tale is the story of a pacifist discovering he is good at killing.
Jin's childhood friend and leader of the Straw Hat ronin, who sells his starving band to the Mongols because nobody else offered to feed them.
Tsushima's master archer, who teaches Jin the bow while hunting the student who took his teaching to the Mongols.
Employers, contacts and rivals across the story
A sake merchant, opportunist and reliable liar whose Tales are the game's comic relief — and who is useful far more often than he has any right to be.
Yuna's younger brother, a blacksmith the Mongols keep alive for his skills — and the reason Yuna needed a samurai in the first place.
Ishikawa's finest student, now training Mongol archers — the antagonist of his Tale, and not straightforwardly a traitor.
A herbalist from Jin's childhood whose two-part questline is the quietest thing in the game — and one of the few that has nothing to do with the Mongols.