Otori

The Otori originally ruled the entirety of the Middle Country, but after suffering a crushing defeat by the Tohan in which they not only lost the head of the clan, Otori Shigemori, and the greater part of their warriors, but also suffered the humiliation of the clan's heir being forced to retire from political life in favour of his uncles' rulership, they have been forced to accede the rulership of a considerable part of the Middle Country's richest lands, such as the city of Chigawa