Hayashi no Uragirimono, most commonly known as Traitor's Grove, was a grove of trees to the south of Kyuden Bayushi, and the most vicious place of punishment in Rokugan. The unusual method of punishment employed in the grove was devised by the Scorpion Clan in the sixth century as a response to an unprecedented betrayal. To the Scorpion, loyalty was valued above all other virtues, and thus betrayal was the most heinous of all crimes, necessitating the most painful penalty they could devise. The most vile criminals in the clan - almost exclusively traitors to the Scorpion - were executed there with special knives, and their souls were permanently bound to the trees to suffer for eternity.