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| “ | Your life's work is undone tonight. | „ |
| ~ Akechi Mitsuhide to Fujibayashi Nagato |
Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀), also known as the Two-Faced, is the main antagonist of the 2025 video game Assassin's Creed Shadows. He is a samurai and general serving under Oda Nobunaga and secretly the second-in-command of the Shinbakufu, an shadowy cabal led by shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki intent on restoring him to power and reestablishing the Ashikaga shogunate. He is also an associate of the Templar Order. He is the archenemy of Fujibayashi Naoe.
He is voiced by Kevin Ohtsji in English.
Biography[]
Background[]
Akechi Mitsuhide was born on 10 March 1528 to Akechi Mitsutsuna and Omaki no Kata at Tara Castle. He was betrothed to Tsumaki Hiroko in 1545, with whom he fathered three children; two daughters, including Tama, and a son, Mitsuyoshi.
Originally serving under Asakura Yoshikage, Mitsuhide eventually entered the service of Oda Nobunaga, climbing his way through the ranks until he became one of the warlord's most powerful and influential generals. Fighting in various campaigns across several regions of Japan, including Tamba, he was eventually rewarded for his loyal service by being granted the fief of Sakamoto Castle near Lake Biwa.
In 1571, Nobunaga attacked and massacred the monks and civilains at Enryaku-ji, which Akechi was disgusted by and ultimately drove him to eventually betray his master. In 1579, Nobunaga attacked Hatano Hideharu at Yakami castle for breaking his surrender to the Oda clan. A famous yet unproven anecdote claims that Mitsuhide sent his mother to Yakami as a hostage; unfortunately, when Hideharu brazenly demanded an audience woth his rival, Nobunaga killed him, to which the former's men responded by executing Okami in retaliation, leading Mitsuhide to hold his lord responsible for her death. Mitsuhide's resentment was noted by the Templars Nuno Caro and Duarte de Melo, who planned to use it to their advantage against Nobunaga, who's ambitions to unify Japan interfered with their plans to exploit the labnd and its resources as they saw fit.
Assassin's Creed Shadows[]
By 1581, Mitsuhide had joined the Shinbakufu, a conspiracy organised by the deposed shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki with the goal of restoring him to power. The cabal formed an alliance with the Templar Order, whose agents had arrived in Japan with the Portugese Jesuits, with the latter promising the former financial support in exchange for the three pieces of the Imperial Regalia, which were safeguarded at the behest of Emperor Go-Nara by the Kakushiba ikki, the branch of the Assassin Brotherhood operating in the country. The Shinbakufu succeeded in obtaining two pieces of the Regalia, decimating the Kakushiba ikki in the process, then focused on locating the final piece. Meanwhile. Mitsuhide bided his time, knowing the risks of betraying Nobunaga, waiting for his moment to strike. In March of that year, Mitsuhide personally greeted the Portugese Jesuits Alessandro Valignano and Luís Fróis, informing them that Nobunaga wished to speakmwith them and that their African servant, Diogo, was to join them; Valignano objected on the basis that Diogo did not understand Japanese, but Mituhide made it clear to him that Nobunaga was not to be turned down. He remained silent during the meeting, even as Nobunaga briefly dismissed Valignano and Fróis to privately speak with Diogo. Diogo was subsequently transferred to Nobunaga's service, who gave him the new name Yasuke.
Six months later, following a shinobi attack on Azuchi Castle, Nobunaga called his generals to the war room, where Mitsuhide criticized both the attack and the absence of Hashiba Hideyoshi; as they drank and debated, Tokugawa Iyeasu explained that Hideyoshi was away securing Nobunaga's victory. Mitsuhide barely had time to express his indignance before their lord arrived with Yasuke; Mitsuhide objected to the presence of a foreigner in the council, but Nobunaga asserted that Yasuke was loyal and that his outside perspective made him a valuable advisor.