Honganji is a former spiritual monastery located in eastern Shinri renowned for its relationship with the new Incarnate. Built in a forbidding mountain range to guard over the seals trapping dark spirit Go-Niyasho, the monastery remained isolated from most events that struck Shinri. Due to the monastery’s acceptance of anyone who reached its location it would become a home to many of the land’s outcasts. The new Incarnate would take refuge in this monastery while he fled from warlord Hidetsu Takenaga, but even its strong defenses were not enough to save it from destruction at the hands of the Takenaga army. The monastery itself would be restored by Shinri hero and former monk Shizen, who turned it into a martial arts dojo. Even though it is safe once more, the discovery of massive chi deposits in the region by the Mirai corporation and the opening of a chi mine to exploit these resources has left its future in a precarious situation.
Built out of the desert sands with the artifact Agha Iryan, the Seven holy cities are sacred to the Temash people and formed the heart of the Tamashkhan empire. At their peak they had populations reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands and were centers of science and culture. Unfortunately for the Temash these days are long gone and their holy cities have fallen to ruin or foreign conquest. Even though their era of glory has passed, the memory of the Seven holy cities lives on in Temash tales and songs ensuring that they will forever endure no matter their current state.
Yamakori is the highest mountain in Shinri and considered to be the home of the ice spirit Seiryuu by popular tradition. Because of this the mountain is considered a sacred place for the Katamashi clan who traditionally would take their newborn children to the high mountain so they can be gifted the power of elemental ice by Seiryuu himself. While once both the clan and the spirit were at peace, numerous atrocities committed against the Katamashi clan and Seiryuu’s forced sealing by the Seishin-Gumi have made the ice spirit develop a hatred for humanity which will undoubtedly lead to a great tragedy if he is ever released.