She's also a very strong female who understands the injustice of a woman's position in society. She has a definite authoritative air about her, which Ashitaka inevitably sees and provokes. In pressing situations, she's shown as calm and collected, attributing to her status as a leader. However, she looks at spirits as foolish creatures. Her two most notable acts of empowering others is buying the contacts of women forced to work in brothels and taking in lepers, whom are cleaned and fed well the women run the forge, while the lepers craft the guns. As the leader of Irontown, the townspeople love her, giving her the highest influence as she was the one who freed them from their oppressive environments by bringing them all to Irontown. Eboshi is a tough and arrogant woman who wants to positively influence the world.