Takaikabe Mura

The High Wall Village overlooks the rough terrain of Exile's Road, the passage from Unicorn lands into the Northern Wastes and the Burning Sands. The kinsmen of those who are banished to leave Exile's Roadoften move to this villgae to defend the clan's banishment. Such a sentinel is considered a honored, if permanent guarst, and always treated with the utmost respect by the Dragon heimin here. After fifteen years here the samurai is invited to join the local monastery, spending the rest of their lives praying for their dishonored relative. (3E p. 290)