Battle of Sleeping River (TCG)

The Battle of Sleeping River was the defeat of the evil sorcerer Iuchiban against the assembled forces of the Great Clans.
== Preambles ==
In the year 750 the spirit of Iuchiban escaped his tomb and possessed a body to serve as his own. Gathering an army of maho cultists and reanimated corpses, he again attacked the Empire. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 18 The Bloodspeakers converged on the Twilight Mountains to join their evil master. Marshaling his monstrous forces south of the Shinomen Forest, Iuchiban launched them on a vicious rampage that swept across the lands of the Scorpion Clan, culminating in the fall of Ryokō Owari Toshi. The Battle of the Bloody Retreat was a bitter and brutal rearguard battle fought by the Scorpion Clan against the monstrous forces of Iuchiban to buy the needed time for the clans to raise forces large enough to offer help. Pressed relentlessly by the horde of undead, the Scorpion were forced ever northward, toward the Spine of the World Mountains. Eventually, they were forced out of their lands entirely, and into Beiden Pass. Fields of Victory, p. 32
== Battle ==
When all seemed lost, the Lion Clan finally arrived, flanking Iuchiban's forces from the south and drove them northward. By the time the Lion reached the vicinity of Sleeping River, forces dispatched by all of the clans had arrived to support the Lion and Scorpion, and the Battle of Sleeping River ensued. Fields of Victory, p. 33 The armies of the Great Clans stopped the advance of Iuchiban's forces at the Battle of Sleeping River, and one Ise Zumi succeeded in trapping Iuchiban's spirit in the monk's own body long enough for both to be sealed into a tomb. 
== Aftermath ==
The Empire's struggles against Iuchiban demonstrated to the clans that it was necessary for them to remain able to quickly put aside their rivalries and unite against a common foe. The clans substantially bolstered the Emerald Legions, which in turn fostered countless interclan friendships, often between individuals of great influence. It became far more common for the schools of one clan to accept samurai from another. Interclan cross-training of military leaders led to more standardized wartime practices. 
Sleeping River