Shogun Hiroshi Takamoto is the leader of the Akai Tora who opposes demons in Northern Yamato. Once a loyal servant of Shogun Masamori Hyuga in the Yamato Empire, his world was shattered when the demons invaded his homeland in the Cataclysm, but he does what he can to make Yamato rise again and drive the demons out of his homeland. He was kidnapped after the Second Battle of Vulpengaard Keep and taken to the Temple of Hephaestus where he was found by Marcus Sarillius and Oscar Locke.