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The Castle of Learning is the family seat of the Yogo, and is an imposing but visually unoriginal structure. It is not positioned at any sort of strategic location, and in fact is built in one of the worst pieces of land in Scorpion territory – fitting, given the bad repute of the family. The surrounding wooded hills are interspersed with squalid marshland, and the cleared zone around the castle has barely enough space for the cramped and unpleasant village that tends to its material needs. Indeed, so cramped is the area that even the village eta live within sight of the samurai, and the faint odor that comes from their dwellings and leatherworking facilities permeates the air.

Samurai, commoners, and eta all consider Yogo Shiro a terrible place to live… but a relatively safe one. Although Yogo Shiro has been assaulted a handful of times in history, most enemies simply stay away, seeing the castle as too unpleasant a place to try to conquer. Likewise, bandits cause no trouble in the area because there is so little worth stealing.