Chozogakure Village Info/History

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Chozogakure

Village hidden in Crags

Chozogakure is dubbed the "Village hidden in Crags" due to their many generation long custom of exile and imprisonment. While the two other major villages, Johogakure and Shikigakure have lush forests and fertile land, Chozogakure is located in a dessert climate. Due to this, the village itself was built in what was once a large oasis, having run dry several generations ago. Since then, the dried oasis had become a deep ravine which supported its own kind of life. The village was build above it, seals were added in countless protected places and the chasm beneath the village was what became known as the "Valley of Judgment" There is only one entrance and one exit to the Valley of Judgment, in the center of the village's highest rising rock. Known as the "Judge" A rock in the shape of a stern old bald man.

The "Judge" was actually the village's first Chozokage. An elderly Senju man who had been a veteran of many wars with the Uchiha clan. Once Johogakure had been established, the elderly man named Remuru Senju convinced his clan to join Chozogakure while the village was still in its infancy. With his skill and seasoned battled with his rival clan, he used his position and authority in the Senju clan and secure the role of Chozokage. A large reason his clan holds power within the village is that their ability to grow trees in the dessert environment is indispensable. With his position of authority solid, he focused the whole village's efforts to retaliating against the now whole village of Johogakure instead of just the Uchiha clan.

Remuru was a stern and heartless man, using the newly formed Valley of Judgment as a prison to send criminals and prisoners of war. None who entered the Valley of Judgment, have ever been seen again. Remuru used this iconic symbol of his village to instill loyalty through fear, as well as ward off would-be attackers to the village. The Valley of Judgment was so notorious that even the warring rival village of Johogakure would send their own dangerous criminals there to be exiled. Shikigakure too, would send criminals to Chozogakure to exile. This was how the fragile alliance with Shikigakure was established. As the neutral village never participated in their wars with Johogakure, Chozogakure and its first Chozokage was content to broker a treaty with the village of Shikigakure. Although he had made a treaty with Shikigakure, he made many attempts to invade Shikigakure in order to kill wounded Johogakure shinobi being treated in Shikigakure's lands. This hostility eventually lead to Remuru being poisoned and dying: the event is still widely known, but many of CHozogakure's villagers had feared their own kage. Relieved and grateful to the first princess Shikage, Remuru's death had been overlooked and a lesson had been learned. Don't anger the neutral village, lest they side with Johogakure.

The most notable event between these two villages was what is famously known as the "One Year War". Three generations ago, just after Nerumu Uchiha's death, Chozogakure saw weakness in Johogakure. This assumed weakness turned into a full blown war between the villages, where they waged war in the neutral lands between the two nations. Many shinobi from both sides died, but worse- the majority of rural and peaceful villages, their people and even the animals were massacred. That is to say, the war between the two villages ravaged the neutral lands between their borders. It is called the One Year War because the survivors of that war, can recall mounds of countless bodies. The neutral lands between the two villages still hold much hostility towards both villages.

Geography

Chozogakure's climate is typically hot. The environment is that or mostly sand, with large jutting rock formations here and there. These rock formations are believed to be part of a mountain-range, completely buried beneath the sands. Sparse water sources can be found, mostly small oasis and two large bodies of water close to the center of the land. Mirages and sand pirates are a more common sight than water or vegetation in this land. A famous resource in this land are crystals and rare metals that can be gathered from these buried mountain-ranges.