Road of the Thousand Shrines

The Road of the Thousand Shrines was a road in the lands of the Phoenix Clan, dotted with frequent, small shrines, one for each Fortune. Only the truly desperate or pious used this way, for to stop and pay homage at each shrine caused interminable delay in a journey. It was said that an heretic or criminal sought to use this route to escape from pious pursuers and the culprits were never seen again, but whether this was because they escaped to a distant place or suffered the wrath of the kami, no one could say.