¶ The Emerald Empire
Also known as the Emerald Empire, Rokugan is the setting for the Legend of the Five Rings.
¶ Creation
Rokugan was the name given to the lands where the Kami fell from the Heavens. Their inhabitants, the humankind, had been created shortly before when the blood of Lord Moon mixed with Lady Sun's tears. [1] Prior to the Fall of the Kami, the human population of what would become Rokugan was primarily nomadic groups and small agrarian communities. [2] Humans lived scattered across the world in tribes, worshipping the Fortunes, the gods of human endeavors, and their priests traveled the spaces between human and spirit and beast. These peoples lived in small villages, although in a few places there were towns. They made pottery without pottery wheels, and they forged crude tools and weapons from bronze. They clothed themselves in hides and woven grasses, and they hunted in and gathered their sustenance from the forest. A few tried their hand at cultivating small swaths of the wild grains and beans they found. [3] The language employed characters derived from the script of the Land of Four Rivers along with elements of other local languages. [4]
¶ Points of Interest
The Emerald Lands, or “Rokugan” in the tongue of its people, comprised a vast, majestic countryside that stretched nine hundred miles from the pine valleys and snow-capped peaks of the Great Wall of the North mountains at one end, to the austere Carpenter Wall standing vigil along the country's desolate southern border. Beyond the Wall lied the Shadowlands, a blighted land tainted by the influence of Hell itself.
At its widest point, Rokugan measured six hundred miles, from the Sea of the Sun Goddess in the east to the Burning Sands in the west. [5] From the Shadowlands in the south to the Burning Sands in the north, from the Twilight Mountains in the west to the Islands of Spice and Silk in the east, Rokugan had stood for over one thousand years. [2:1] Somewehere across the sea were the Ivory Kingdoms. [5:1]
¶ Imperial Lands
¶ The lands of the Great Clans
The holdings of the Great Clans of Rokugan.
¶ The lands of the Minor Clans
The holdings of the Minor Clans of Rokugan.