Shuten Doji

When the Chuda family settled in the lands given to them they found them haunted. The ancient spirit would appear at their castle the first evening of every month screaming and begging the family to hear it's pleas. For generations the Chuda ignored its screams.

That was until the great grandson of the family founder and son of the Snake Clan Champion Chuda Tamishei succumbed to the temptation of the spirit.

Shortly after Tamishei became the Champion and with the help of the spirit he unleashed, the Shuten Doji he concieved of a plot to gain immortality.

The Shuten Doji began possessing every living thing in the Snake Clan lands, and the daimyo began his quest for power. The Shuten Doji had gained control within a month.

Only through the intervention of the Fortunes, the Phoenix Clan discovered the plot and the evil brewing among the family on their border. The Elemental Masters were outraged at the young daimyo's actions, and terrified at the implications. They mobilized the armies of the Phoenix and marched upon Snake lands in what became known as the Five Nights of Shame, killing every living thing within the Dragon Heart Plain. Once finished, not a soul of the Snake Clan remained living.

Or so they thought.