Editing Crab Clan (section)

===Standing Against The Shadowlands===
After surviving the horror of [[Horus|Fu Leng's]] war, Hida took on the duty of guarding the Emerald Empire from the tainted hordes of the Shadowlands. As the strongest of his siblings, he had the mental fortitude to wage a neverending war against an implacable foe. And as one would expect, he declared that only those strong enough to survive in the harsh environment would be worthy of his new Clan, forging them into a hardened army able to withstand the worst attrition.
His first recruits were the hunter Hiruma, the smith Kaiu, and the mystical scholar Kuni. To prove their worth, he tasked them with eliminating a surviving lieutenant of Fu Leng. The trio worked together with the foundational skills which would define their future families: Kuni studied everything he could about the oni including what magic worked against it, Kaiu forged traps and a weapon capable of slaying it, and Hiruma tracked it down and lured it. Together, these three mortal men barely felled a demonic beast from the depths of Jigoku with their combined knowledge and tenacity.

The Crab amassed manpower, expertise, and weaponry, all the while struggling with the threat of constant casualties and sparse supplies. The greatest of their fortifications is the Kaiu Wall (or the Great Carpenter Wall). What started as a wall that ran along the Hiruma border was first destroyed in the same attack which cost the Hiruma their ancestral home. But when another army led by the oni known as The Maw arrived en masse, a single Kuni shugenja turned the rivers into an impassable barrier, buying time for the Crab Clan to construct an even greater wall with the aid of the other Clans. Having bought the defenders 73 days at the cost of one year of her life for each day, the Kuni died, but the new Kaiu Wall stood tall, and the Shadowlands army broke against it and the combined might and firepower of its defenders, siege engines, and magical artillery.

Since then, the Wall, much like its defenders, has suffered great damage and constant attacks, only to rebuild and stand firm each time. The first line of defense against an unspeakable evil, held together by the toughest samurai in the worst battlefield imaginable for an Empire that doesn't always appreciate them.