Yatorishino Igsem

"My existence completely turned into the two blades in my hands"

- Yatorishino Igsem

Yatorishino "Yatori" Igsem is a major character in the Japanese novel and later manga and anime Alderamin on the Sky was the daughter of Solvenares Igsem, an expert swordsman and field marshall of the Katjvarna Empire, one of two main powers in the fantasy world of Alderamin. From an early age, Yatori was trained in fighting with a sabre and a dagger as an off-hand weapon, and by the time she turned 17, she became an expert with the weapon, and enrolled into the Empire's military academy along with her childhood friend Ikta Solork. Her military upbringing gave her a serious personality and strong sense of duty and loyalty. During the ride on a ship to the academy, Ikta and Yatori are stranded along with Torway Remeon, a cadet, expert marksman and son of a general; Matthew Tetridch, another cadet; Haroma Bekkel, a cadet in the medical corps; and a girl who turns out be the Chamille Kitra Katjvanmaninik, princess of the empire, on the shores of the Kioka Republic, currently at war with Katjvarna. Thanks to Ikta's unforeseen tactical brilliance, as well Yatori and Torway's combat skills, the six of them escape back to Katjvarna.

After their escape, Yatori and Ikta are pitted against each other as platoon leaders in a mock battle at the academy. Ikta's tactical brilliance once again nearly secures his victory, however, the training session is interrupted by an assassination attempt on Chamille, who was viewing the battle. Yatori, Torway, and Ikta intervene and Yatori kills several of the attackers in close combat. For their actions Ikta and Yatori are knighted by the Emperor.

Ikta, Yatori and the others are later sent into battle against the Shinaak Tribe, a mountain tribe similar to the real-world Gurkhas, who prove to be experts in guerilla warfare and inflict several costly defeats on the Imperial Army, though all of Ikta and Yatori's group survive the war.

Yatori would later serve in a civil war in the Empire between forces led by Chamille and the Prime Minister, which ends up pitting the two childhood friends on opposite sides of the conflict. Yatori is ordered by her father to assassinate Ikta, an order which brought Yatori to tears, but she buries her emotions, placing her duty as a soldier above all and steels herself to kill Ikta. However, as Ikta and Yatori met on the battlefield, Yatori was hit by four air gun (air guns with similar range and power to a musket are used instead of firearms, which do not seem to have been developed in the world of Alderamin), once in the leg and three in the torso. Oblivious to the battle around him, Ikta cradles a dying Yatori in his arms as the two sadly reminisce about their past and exchange a tearful goodbye, before Yatori finally dies.