Shimizu family

The Shimizu family is the darkest secret among the Lion. The small family was disbanded only a few hundred years after it was founded because its leaders had been, for centuries, raising a nightmarish oni and using its power to conquer their neghboring Lion daimyo, jealous of their land. Eventually, word of their activities came to the Akodo, who marched on the family and slaughtered them and the oni. Records of the Shimisu were erased from the histories and geneologies of the empire, and the secret is closely kept by the Lion.