Kosaten Shiro
In the Kosaten province was also known as Crossroads Castle. The castle was constructed two centuries after Shiro Daidoji when the Crane Clan realized that their disagreements with the Lion Clan would not abate over time. Moving troops from Shiro Daidoji to the Lion border every time there would be a conflict was just not practical, and Kosaten Shiro was created between the Crane lands and Shiro Matsu. Due to its smaller size compared to the Lion Clan’s fortresses, the defense of the Crane relied on the more unorthodox tactics of the Daidoji Army. Many traps, deadfalls, and ambush points laid hidden in the walls of Kosaten Shiro, and the architecture lent itself to deep, concealing shadows. Below the castle laid a large town housed roughly two thousand commoners. Three Sides River and the Lake of Sorrows both acted as its water sources.
Emerald Champion’s meeting point
Four times a year the city was visited by the Emerald Champion, to be given the obliged periodical reports by the Emerald Magistrates of the provinces nearby.