Shadowlands Marshes (TCG)

Shadowlands Marshes

The Shadowlands Marshes was a small area within Shinomen Mori that was corrupted by the Shadowlands Taint. They were a festering wound, a pool of black mud filled with fan-based cypress and spider-legged mangroves. It was the gravesite of a Shadowlands army struck down several centuries ago by the serpentine guardians they awoke. Tainted souls writhed in the muck, corrupting the surrounding creatures and spirits.

Tainted

In 815, a vast army of monsters attempted to force passage into Rokugan through the immense forest of the Shinomen Mori. Some mysterious and ancient power within the forest stopped and ultimately destroyed the raiders, but a sodden region within the woodlands became Tainted in the process. The Tainted area was contained somehow, limiting it to a small but persistent corrupted region known as the Shadowlands Marshes.

Iuchiban's Mask

One of the lost Masks of Iuchiban, the leader of the Bloodspeaker cult, was located by the Scorpion Clan within the marshes. These maks were key to reopening the blood sorcerer's tomb, and Yogo Junzo's father attempted to track down the artifact. In his efforts he had become an unwitting pawn of the last vestiges of the cult. It has been hidden within the mempō of Kikyo, the armor intended for Hida Atarasi and which was lost by Hida Chuku in the 10th century during his disastrous campaign in the Shadowed Swamps, and remained within the Cave of Bloody Ghost Fire until it was retrieved by the Kuni Daimyō Kuni Yori in 1123.

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