Shiro Chuda

The Snake Clan was founded by one of the Empire’s most decorated Emerald Magistrates, and he built a grand new temple in the middle of the Dragon Heart Plain - Shiro Chuda. This location suited a number of purposes. For one, it was close to Isawa Chuda’s homeland within the Phoenix provinces. For another, the Dragon Heart Plain was one of the largest unclaimed territories within the Empire, and as a result was often the site of activity by those who did not wish to be found, such as the maho-tsukai Chuda and his newly formed family had vowed to hunt to the ends of the earth.

Fall of Snake
Sadly, Chuda married for love rather than duty, and his beloved wife simply was unable to resist the temptations Chuda himself brushed aside so easily. The Chuda family fell into maho use and within a generation was utterly corrupt. When the Phoenix discovered this, they purged the small Minor Clan from the face of the mortal realm, an uncharacteristic display of military might that gave many in the Empire pause. The ruins of their ancestral estate remain undisturbed on the Dragon Heart Plain, and occasionally things not of this world emerge  from them. Some have championed the notion of destroying the ruins once and for all, but others argue that doing so could unleash something completely unforeseen and visit terrible devastation throughout the northern Empire. The debate continues with no end in sight.