.....so further correction would purely be clarification upon an already unimportant footnote, correct?
anyway, i wasn't trying to say that some sort of elven descent would make him more powerful. He's going to win, he's a figure from a fantasy world wielding a magical (and rare!) sword, against Katsumoto, a veteran samurai from the late 19th century.
A fantasy world where Japan looked to what was at the time a B-List military (America) for weapons and training rather than powers like Germany, France, and England (as they did IRL) and where a province of Japan (Satsuma) that was big on gunsmithing at the time was entirely for some reason devoid of guns.
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to him who loved them so.
Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
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O.K., my bad--you're correct, the last samurai certainly doesn't accurately reflect the situation in Japan at that time (or at any time)
Now let us please return this thread to it's initial purpose, which is to debate the outcome of the stated scenario, instead of debating minor details which don't seem to directly bear upon the result.
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