Ryoko Owari Toshi



Ryoko Owari Toshi, or Journey's End City was possibly the second largest city in Rokugan after the capital.

Other Names
The city was alternately called City of Lies, City of Stories, City of Green Walls, or the popular shortened form, Ryoko Owari.

Criminal Hotbed
Control of the city changed hands several times over the years, but Ryoko Owari always retained its reputation for being a hotbed of criminal activity, having many gambling dens, geisha houses and opium parlors. The city maintained a mask of legitimacy as Rokugan's center for medicinal opium trade. Poppies were grown in vast fields that surround the city, and it's involvement in the opium trade (both legal and illegal) made the city very profitable for its rulers.

The Crab Invasion
Early in the seventh century, Crab forces seized Ryoko Owari, and held it for a little more than a year. The Liberation Day Festival is a local holiday held every year to honor the return of Shosuro Sanekata, then governor of Ryoko Owari, who had predicted that the Crab could never hold his city. (City of Stories, pg 14-15)

Second Rise of Iuchiban
In 750, during the second rising of Iuchiban the city was ravaged by the bloodspeaker's undead army.

Opium War
In 1122, Ryoko Owari was the place of the Opium War.

Clan War
In 1127, in the month of the Dog, on their way to Beiden Pass, Crab forces seized and pillaged Ryoko Owari Toshi after defeating two of the Imperial Legions guarding the city. The commander choose not to destroy the city, but instead pillaged as many supplies as possible and returned to the main Crab army.

Unicorn Assume Control
In 1130, in the month of the Serpent, with the Scorpion Clan sent into exile, the Unicorn Clan seized control of the city.

Kaneka
Ryoko Owari was the place where Kaneka announced to the Empire that he was the son of the Emperor Toturi I in 1155. Three years later, in 1158, the Emperor was supposedly on his way to Ryoko Owari Toshi when he was ambushed and killed by a shadowlands force led by an oni.

In 1160, in the month of the Dragon, Akodo Kaneka attacked Hantei Naseru's power base in Ryoko Owari Toshi.

Scorpion Regain Control
In 1166, the Scorpion managed to negotiate the return of control from the Unicorn. The Scorpion were unsurprised to discover the Unicorn had little luck reducing the crime in the city.

Notable Locations



 * Teardrop Island
 * House of Plum Blossom
 * House of the Red Lotus
 * House of Foreign Stories
 * House of the Morning Star

Dojo
Situated within the heart of Ryoko Owari sat the Scorpion courtier school, the Dojo of Lies.