Mukade no Tani

The Valley of the Centipede was a hidden valley found by Isawa Azami when he transversed the Mountains of Regret. They became the ancestral lands of the Centipede Clan. Celestial Realms, p. 69 The name Mukade no Tani referred to the large insects that infested the rocky terrain of the Mountains of Regret. These centipedes were nearly a foot in length, reddish brown in color, and highly aggressive, with an extremely painful bite that could stun adults and even kill small children. Celestial Realms, p. 71
== Location ==
The Valley of the Centipede lied east of the Treacherous Pass, high in the Mountains of Regret. Rocky peaks surrounded the valley on three sides, but the eastern side was open to the sea, where steep cliffs drop from the valley's base down to the water below. An intricate system of large suspended platforms moved by pulleys brought goods, visitors, and even small carts up from the beaches and into the valley. The river that run by Centipede lands to the sea is called the Course of Lady Sun. At the northern end of the valley, in the Mountains of Regret, was the Mountain of the Sun Goddess; Amaterasu Seidō, Shrine of the Lady Sun, stood at its summit. Celestial Realms, p. 71
== Appearance ==
The Centipede's idyllic valley atop a high cliff reminded viewers of a favored dollhouse on a shelf; it was thought that Amaterasu herself carved out Mukade no Tani as she sat idly by the sea. 
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