Rama Singh was a courtier Kshatriya and ambassador gaijin native of the Ivory Kingdoms, was fluent in Rokugani, and had had a great deal of experience with the Mantis Clan acting as an ambassabor to the Empire. He had for the most part been charged with maintaining a supply of ginseng for the Maharaja. He was aware of the Rokugani xenophobia and understood their reasons, yet at the same time he hoped to help prove their ideas wrong via his and his people's example. He later swore fealty to the Mantis and became Yoritomo Singh.