Shadowed Wastes "'The Phoenix were so easily manipulated, their students - like Hosigeru - encouraged and destroyed. A broken house has many cracks that let our shadow in.'" - from Secrets of Shadow, Part I
Swamp Marsh "'We have been Tsukune, Kuro, and even Toju, but the greatest trick of all was to become Itako and tell the destiny you would create for yourselves.'" - from Secrets of Shadow, Part II
Nori Farm "The only clan we could not infiltrate was that of the half-serpents, but their isolation allowed us to control them, driving their Akasha mad... until they could bear no more." - from Secrets of Shadow, Part III