The Silent Blades was an Otokodate formed by little more than rank amateurs when it came to the arts of infiltration and assassination. The group managed to avoid cultivating a poor reputation despite their mediocrity. The Blades were actually pawns of a more secretive and skilled order known as Shadowed Steel, which was in turn a pawn of yet another unknown force. The Silent Blades were fodder for larger, more powerful, and more skilled groups, brought out when a scapegoat was necessary.