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| Kubota | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Hometown | |
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| Physical description | |
| Species |
Human |
| Gender |
Male |
| Hair color |
Black |
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| Class |
Aristocrat/Unknown Prestige Class |
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| Known masters |
Lord Shojo (deceased) |
| Known apprentices |
Therkla (deceased) |
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Daimyo Kubota was a male human aristocrat and the head of House Kubota. He led several noble houses in abandoning Azure City on the eve of battle of Azure City over a disagreement with Lord Hinjo and Roy Greenhilt regarding how best to address the impending threat of Xykon.[1]
On Kubota's orders, both a pair of ninjas[2] and a convict released to fight for the city[3] tried (and fail) to assassinate Hinjo during the chaos of the battle.
Due to the ruling of the lone magistrate to escape the fall of the city, Hinjo has been unable to arrest Kubota for these actions.[4] As Kubota's ships sailed with the fleet of refugees leaving the city, he has made several more attempts on Lord Hinjo's life using charmed aquatic monsters and his own ninja, Therkla.[5]
Hinjo has described Kubota as the kind of man who would not care whether all of Azure City fell to the forces of evil, just so long as he came out of it with his power intact.[4] However, Kubota actually was more actively villainous than even Hinjo suspected, conspiring with devils to place himself on Azure City's throne.[6][7] Kubota had an appreciation for the finer things in life, from caviar[6] to imported rugs, which extends to a dim view of commoners like Kazumi Kato and her husband Daigo.
Disintegrated Kubota
While he surrendered to Elan following the murder of Therkla,[8] he seemed infinitely confident of the aristocratic countermeasures he had plotted out, assuming that any trial will turn into a circus to make Hinjo look even worse, in part due to a non specified "aristocrat-friendly prestige class that grants the extraodinary ability to fool magical lie detection". All his bragging was for naught; Kubota never even got to trial, thanks to a Disintegrate spell from an annoyed and trance-deprived Vaarsuvius. This was followed with Gust of Wind, which effectively swept Kubota's remains into the sea, thus preventing him from being resurrected.[9]
Vaarsuvius then admitted to not even knowing the man's name or precisely what he had done wrong, simply that, as Elan's prisoner, he was most likely a villain of some sort, and that the trial Kubota mentioned would distract from Vaarsuvius' research. Elan did not approve of the killing, comparing to it something Belkar would have done.[10]
Other Apperances
Kubota appears in the bonus digital comic "Spoiler Alert", published in February 2015, featuring Therkla.
References
- ↑ Comic 0414, "Noble is Goodble"
- ↑ Comic 0453, "Heck of a Fight"
- ↑ Comic 0435, "Amoral Dilemma"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Comic 0503, "Surreptitious Admirer"
- ↑ Comic 0506, "Flanking Crush"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Comic 509, "It Has Flowers, Hearts, and a DC 30 Lock"
- ↑ Comic 0631, "Who Doesn't Get Ten of These a Week?"
- ↑ Comic 0594,Rock the Boat"
- ↑ Comic 0595, "Trial of the Century"
- ↑ Comic 0596, "Convenience Story"