The stronghold of the Silver Dragons, it has been under attack a multitude of times and each attack has been repelled with little damage to the island or to those upon it. It has become known to the participants of the secret war that any attack on the Silver Dragons must take place oputside the confines of the island.

But that does not provide absolute safety for them, as the island is small, and although it's Chi is strong, if an opponent could manage to wrest most of the chi sites away from others, they could change enough to break Master Tso's establishment. A fact master Tso well knows and does his best to prepare for, and avert the happening of.

As well as being the residence of Master Tso and his students, and housing various Silver Dragons from time to time, Master Tso's island also serves as a holding place for many national and antique treasures, as well as many items of powerful Chi that have been wrested away from the combatants in the Secret War who would use them for evil. These items were brought back here upon recovery so that the Prof might have access to them, and that they might have the protection of Master Tso's seemingly invulnerable fortress.

These items help contribute to the Chi of the island, and many of the students who work closely with them also become attuned to them, gifting them with the power to sense those items if they are near to them.

Beyond the fact that these items are powerful, they are also priceless in age and singularity and fighters of the Secret War are not the only ones who might seek them out.

It is said that once, many years before, a team of thieves managed what no team of Secret War fighters ever accomplished. They gained access to Master Tso's Island and managed to escape with a few very precious items from it. Expecting the worst, Master Tso traced the trio of thieves to their lair expecting to find them engrossed in discussions with the Ascended or another Secret War participant. Instead he found them returning the stolen icons to the monks who manned the temple they had originally been taken from nearly two thousand years before.

Master Tso, stayed on after the retreat of the thieves to talk with the monks who escorted the iconsback to their home. Upon questioning, the monks told him the trio had followed the research given them about the lost icons and sought to return them to their rightful place for the benefit of the local people whom had placed much superstition about the health of their lives and their village in the mysterious disappearal of those icons. The icons, long missing were now to be returned to their home to bring luck back to them.

Master Tso followed the monks home, providing them protection on the way, and upon his entrance to the village, realized that the return of the icons completed the flow of Chi in the village causing it to return to the Feng Shui site it had once been. As life returned to the village, Master Tso gained the goodwill of the people in it, and gained their alliance. Now, his students provide protection and help to the village as it slowly regains it's feet, and Master Tso seeks out the mysterious trio who managed their way past his stronghold, not for their own gain but for the good of an entire village. Perhaps those mysterious strangers would make strong members of the Silver Dragons.

Better that, than let them slip to the Ascended, knowing what they know.