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Hsuan Lin

2007-04-14T18:16:55Z

Lesleymac:

'''God Blood'''

'''Motivation:''' To fight her way to awesome

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Nexus is a cesspool of humanity, and I'm never going back.
* Sapphire gave me the means to escape Nexus, even though I tried to hurt her; I owe her everything.
* Being involved with the Circle is a world of opportunity.
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 2

Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 2

Strength 5, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts: 2, Melee*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 4, Dodge: 2, Presence: 3, Resistance: 3, Ride: 2, Investigation: 4, Lore: 3, Medicine: 4, Occult: 2

'''Specialties'''

Two-Weapon Fighting: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Hsuan Lin's charms…]

'''Advantages and Disadvantages'''

Awakened Essence, Magical Attunement, God Body (10), Unusual Appearance (2)

'''Other'''

Inheritance: 4, Resources: 2, Artifact: 2 (The Unnamed Blades), Artifact: 3 (Wound Mending Needles)

Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor: 4

Soak: 3B/1L (with armor 11B/6L)

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 2, Willpower 7

Essence Pool: 34 Personal

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 3, Parry DV 4

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 4

'''Artifacts'''

The Unnamed Blades: Speed 4, Acc+4, Dam+4L, Def+1, Rate 4

The Gifted Knives (''perfect'' -- speed-1, Acc+1, Dam+2): Speed 4, Acc+2, Dam+4L, Def+0, Rate 3

Wound Mending Needles

Reinforced Buff Jacket: Soak +5L/8B, Mob-2

'''Unspent Experience:''' 15.5xp (as of 4/13)

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Hsuan Lin

2007-04-14T18:03:44Z

Lesleymac:

Hsuan Lin

2007-04-14T17:59:54Z

Lesleymac:

Ilsa Goganian

2007-03-27T21:23:44Z

Lesleymac:

* dresses monochromatically
* has the potential to be a total psychopath
* sticks it to The Man with subtlety
.

..

...

(I swear, I will write more later.)

The Fifth Master of the Sky

2007-03-17T21:51:57Z

Lesleymac:

'''Dragon Blooded, Air Aspect'''

'''Motivation:''' To be the best spy/assassin she can possibly be.

'''Intimacies:'''
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* She wants to stick it to Lookshy in general, and the Intelligence Directorate in particular.
* Anathema aren't so bad, once you get to know them.
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 3, Manipulation 1, Appearance 3

Perception 4, Intelligence 2, Wits 4

Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Linguistics*: 3, Lore*: 2, Stealth*: 4, Thrown*: 2, Investigation*: 2, Martial Arts: 5, Awareness*: 4, Integrity: 2, Resistance: 2, War: 2, Athletics: 2, Dodge*: 4, Melee: 2, Presence: 1, Archery: 2, Performance: 1, Ride: 1

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Poisoned Weapons: 3

Moving Silently: 2

Dodge when unarmored: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Fifth's charms…]

'''Other'''

Breeding: 2, Reputation: 3, Resources: 2, Mentor: 3, Artifact: 2 (Discrete Essence Armor), Artifact: 2 (Infinite Jade Chakram), Artifact: 2 (Jade Hearthstone Bracers), Artifact: 2 (Dragonfly's Ranging Eye)

Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor: 3

Soak: 3B/1L (w/Essence Armor: 8B/6L)

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 3, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 11 Personal, 9 Peripheral, 18 Committed

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 8, Parry DV 5

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6

'''Artifacts'''

Infinite Jade Chakram: Speed 4, Acc+0, Dam+4L, Def+1, Rate 4, Range 50yd

Throwing Knives (''perfect'' -- speed-1, Acc+1, Dam+2): Speed 4, Acc+2, Dam+4L, Def+0, Rate 3, Range 15yd

Discrete Essence Armor: Soak +5B/+5L, Hard 2B/2L, Mob -0, Fat 0, Attune 5

Dragonfly's Ranging Eye

'''Other Items'''

Catstongue Sap

Coral Snake Venom

'''Unspent Experience:''' 12.5 xp (as of 3/13)

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

User:Lesleymac

2007-03-13T07:29:13Z

Lesleymac:

My Characters:

[[Sapphire River at Midnight]]

[[The Fifth Master of the Sky]]

[[Hsuan Lin]]

[[Ilsa Goganian]]

[[Shiori Yoshida]]

The Fifth Master of the Sky

2007-03-13T07:14:08Z

Lesleymac:

'''Dragon Blooded, Air Aspect'''

'''Motivation:''' To be the best possible spy/assassin.

'''Intimacies:'''
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* She wants to stick it to Lookshy in general, and the Intelligence Directorate in particular.
* Anathema aren't so bad, once you get to know them.
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 3, Manipulation 1, Appearance 3

Perception 4, Intelligence 2, Wits 4

Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Linguistics*: 3, Lore*: 2, Stealth*: 4, Thrown*: 5, Investigation*: 2, Martial Arts: 4, Awareness*: 4, Integrity: 2, Resistance: 2, War: 2, Athletics: 2, Dodge*: 2, Melee: 2, Presence: 2, Archery: 2, Performance: 1, Ride: 1

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Poisoned Weapons: 3

Establishing Surprise: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Fifth's charms…]

'''Other'''

Breeding: 2, Reputation: 3, Resources: 2, Artifact: 1 (Jade Sling of Deadly Prowess), Artifact: 2 (Infinite Jade Chakram), Mentor: 3

Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor: 3

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 3, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 11 Personal, 27 Peripheral, 8 Committed

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 5, Parry DV 4

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6

'''Artifacts'''

Infinite Jade Chakram: Speed 4, Acc+0, Dam+4L, Def+1, Rate 4, Range 50yd

Jade Sling of Deadly Prowess: Speed 4, Acc+2, Dam+4L, Rate 2, Range 200yd

Throwing Knives (''perfect'' -- speed-1, Acc+1, Dam+2): Speed 4, Acc+2, Dam+4L, Def+0, Rate 3, Range 15yd

'''Other Items'''

Catstongue Sap

Coral Snake Venom

'''Unspent Experience:''' 12.5 xp (as of 3/13)

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

The Fifth Master of the Sky

2007-03-13T07:12:23Z

Lesleymac:

'''Dragon Blooded, Air Aspect'''

'''Motivation:''' To be the best possible spy/assassin.

'''Intimacies:'''
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* She wants to stick it to Lookshy in general, and the Intelligence Directorate in particular.
* Anathema aren't so bad, once you get to know them.
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 3, Manipulation 1, Appearance 3

Perception 4, Intelligence 2, Wits 4

Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

*Linguistics: 3, *Lore: 2, *Stealth: 4, *Thrown: 5, *Investigation: 2, Martial Arts: 4, *Awareness: 4, Integrity: 2, Resistance: 2, War: 2, Athletics: 2, *Dodge: 2, Melee: 2, Presence: 2, Archery: 2, Performance: 1, Ride: 1

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Poisoned Weapons: 3

Establishing Surprise: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Fifth's charms…]

'''Other'''

Breeding: 2, Reputation: 3, Resources: 2, Artifact: 1 (Jade Sling of Deadly Prowess), Artifact: 2 (Infinite Jade Chakram), Mentor: 3

Compassion: 1, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 2, Valor: 3

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 3, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 11 Personal, 27 Peripheral, 8 Committed

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 5, Parry DV 4

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6

'''Artifacts'''

Infinite Jade Chakram: Speed 4, Acc+0, Dam+4L, Def+1, Rate 4, Range 50yd

Jade Sling of Deadly Prowess: Speed 4, Acc+2, Dam+4L, Rate 2, Range 200yd

Throwing Knives (''perfect'' -- speed-1, Acc+1, Dam+2): Speed 4, Acc+2, Dam+4L, Def+0, Rate 3, Range 15yd

'''Other Items'''

Catstongue Sap

Coral Snake Venom

'''Unspent Experience:''' 12.5 xp (as of 3/13)

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Player Characters

2007-03-11T22:38:57Z

Lesleymac:

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! [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Mike_Forester Mike Forester]
| Hacker || Lori Priebe
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! [[Jack Scratch]]
| Agent || David Drake
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! [[Ilsa Goganian]]
| Street Samurai || Lesley McKeever
|}

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[[Future Imperfect]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-03-10T19:08:32Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
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'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Everyone I get close to dies.
* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves.
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 3

Fighting Unarmored: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 0 (as of 3/3)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-03-10T19:06:22Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
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'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Everyone I get close to dies.
* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves.
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
|}
|}

'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 3
Fighting Unarmored: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 0 (as of 3/3)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Hsuan Lin

2007-03-10T17:19:20Z

Lesleymac:

Player Characters

2007-03-10T16:59:48Z

Lesleymac:

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-03-04T00:52:17Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
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'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Everyone I get close to dies.
* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves.
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
|}
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 9 (as of 3/3)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-03-03T19:17:36Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
|}

'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Everyone I get close to dies.
* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves.
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
|}
|}

'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 3

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 0 (as of 3/3)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-03-03T19:15:52Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
|}

'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Everyone I get close to dies.
* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves.
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
|}
|}

'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 6 (as of 3/3)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-03-03T16:39:06Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
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'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Everyone I get close to dies.
* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves.
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
|}
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 10 (as of 2/23)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

My Town

2007-02-24T02:24:35Z

Lesleymac:

On Demon Summoning

2007-02-24T02:17:50Z

Lesleymac:

They sat in the garden, jasmine perfuming the air, sun shining down, tinted green by the leaves. The wind made a peaceful whispering in the trees, and the two conversed.

"So...things really are ok? You're not just saying that so I won't worry?" [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire]] inquired anxiously.

[[Hsuan Lin]] simply raised an eyebrow in response.

"Sorry. I just...My new friends have mighty enemies. One of them sent asassins...but I don't think he knew anything about me. I would be irritated that I'm not better known, but if being unknown can keep you safe..." Sapphire trailed off.

"I grew up on the streets of Nexus. Asassins, I can handle. And they would have to find this place." Hsuan Lin said, with solid assurance.

"As well as make it past the guardians." Sapphire glanced meaningfully in the direction of the deep woods.

Hsuan Lin shivered slightly, even in the warmth of the day. "I wish you wouldn't mention them. They creep me the hell out. Is it really necessary for you to keep them here?"

Sapphire looked at her sharply. "Do you have a band of mercenaries somewhere that you haven't mentioned to me? No? Then they're necessary. My new enemies...they wouldn't think much of destroying you to hurt me. I will use all of my skills, and I do mean ''all'' of my skills, to keep everyone here safe. You of all people know I wouldn't summon them for anything less, the price tends to be too high."

Hsuan Lin's steely gaze softens for just a moment, "You made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes."

"No." Sapphire says, bitterly. "Normal people make mistakes. People like me can't make mistakes, or people die. If I hadn't been so- so stupid! so careless! At least I avenged him well, the man I killed." She turns away, and Hsuan Lin gives her a moment to dry her angry tears.

"We won't speak of it again. For that reason alone, I'd never summon another, but the circle...the circle has enemies even among the ruins of Malfeas. I will defend them too, even if it means summoning again."

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

On Demon Summoning

2007-02-24T02:15:15Z

Lesleymac:

They sat in the garden, jasmine perfuming the air, sun shining down, tinted green by the leaves. The wind made a peaceful whispering in the trees, and the two conversed.

"So...things really are ok? You're not just saying that so I won't worry?" Sapphire inquired anxiously.

Hsuan Lin simply raised an eyebrow in response.

"Sorry. I just...My new friends have mighty enemies. One of them sent asassins...but I don't think he knew anything about me. I would be irritated that I'm not better known, but if being unknown can keep you safe..." Sapphire trailed off.

"I grew up on the streets of Nexus. Asassins, I can handle. And they would have to find this place." Hsuan Lin said, with solid assurance.

"As well as make it past the guardians." Sapphire glanced meaningfully in the direction of the deep woods.

Hsuan Lin shivered slightly, even in the warmth of the day. "I wish you wouldn't mention them. They creep me the hell out. Is it really necessary for you to keep them here?"

Sapphire looked at her sharply. "Do you have a band of mercenaries somewhere that you haven't mentioned to me? No? Then they're necessary. My new enemies...they wouldn't think much of destroying you to hurt me. I will use all of my skills, and I do mean ''all'' of my skills, to keep everyone here safe. You of all people know I wouldn't summon them for anything less, the price tends to be too high."

Hsuan Lin's steely gaze softens for just a moment, "You made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes."

"No." Sapphire says, bitterly. "Normal people make mistakes. People like me can't make mistakes, or people die. If I hadn't been so- so stupid! so careless! At least I avenged him well, the man I killed." She turns away, and Hsuan Lin gives her a moment to dry her angry tears.

"We won't speak of it again. For that reason alone, I'd never summon another, but the circle...the circle has enemies even among the ruins of Malfeas. I will defend them too, even if it means summoning again."

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-02-24T02:11:42Z

Lesleymac:

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'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]
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'''Other Sapphire Stories:'''
* [[Virra Amalia]]
* [[On Demon Summoning]]
* [[Nexus]]
* [[The Price You Pay]]
* [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
 
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'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
|}
|}

'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 10 (as of 2/23)
----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

The Fivefold Chronology

2007-02-24T02:03:12Z

Lesleymac:

The Fivefold Chronology strives to include every narrative entry, arranged in fictional-chronology order, independent of when they were actually authored.

Anything that could conceivably have happened before the Battle at the Glass Canyon has been lumped in the "Backstory" section, with no particular sense of ordering.

When there are multiple overlapping many-part stories involving PCs and their servants, I've mixed them together in an attempt to highlight the closeness of back-to-back episodes (e.g. [[Reforging the Promise]]/[[Rededicating the Promise]]), and to separate episodes that have substantial travel or downtime between them (most Daybringers chapters, with the notable exception of [[Chapter 4]] and [[Chapter 5]]).

When the timing of entries are ambiguous, the entries are clustered in the following order: Circle activities come first, followed by Tier-2 (DBs and gods), then Tier-3(Saga of the Daybringers, Servants of the Righteous), then Tier-4 activities (Other non-SotD, non-SoR amalgam groups). Finally, groups of chronologically-ambiguous links concerning the activities of the party's foes tend to be grouped towards the end of a session. Regarding dates: These become increasingly inaccurate towards the beginning.

Occasionally, a link will be located at or near the end of a session for no other reason than that it provides an appropriate note of closure (as in [[The Price You Pay]]), or because the entry directly foreshadows the events of a subsequent session (as in [[Something to Break]]).

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Storyline tags:

DB: Chronicles of the Daybringers

GC: God Crossing

IC: Infinite City

MFL: Marukan First Legion

NRW: Nameless Ravine's Wanderings

SCS: Solar Circle Sorcery

SoR: Servants of the Righteous

SRaM: Sapphire River at Midnight

SSE: Second Southern Expedition

SSW: Seven Seasons Widow

TK: Tea and Karma

ToW: Nameless Ravine's Nightmare - the Torrent of Woe

TP: The Promise

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-- Backstory - in no particular order--

[[Leaf Shakes the Wind]]

[[Mayhiros Tesos]] - first part

[[Rhianna]]

[[Mayhiros Ruja]]

[[The Mourning Field]]

[[Shouting With Iron]]

[[Soft the Valley's Song]]

[[Virra Amalia]]

[[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

[[Third-Arm Glaive]]

[[Chokhan Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]] (TaK)

[[Recollections of Tea and Karma]] (TaK)

[[Rivers Between Us]]

[[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]] (SRaM)

[[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]] (SRaM)

[[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]] (SRaM)

[[Storm of Amber]]

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-- Dawn of the Third Age (from Game Start through Breaking Iron)--

[[Nameless Ravine]] (TaK)

[[Hiparkes' Mirror]]

[[The Xuan Wu Academy]]

[[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]

[[The Dryads]]

[[Amilar Amaki]]

[[Othoclase]]

[[God Crossing]] - first part (GC)

[[The Well of Roots]]

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--The Battle of Breaking Iron: Circa Descending Fire, RY 768--

[[The Plan For The Promise]] (TP)

[[The Gathering of The Promise]] (TP)

[[The Forging of The Promise]] (TP)

[[The Tempering of the Promise]] (TP)

[[Farewell to the Promise]] (TP)

[[Battle of Breaking Iron]] (MFL)

[[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]] (MFL)

[[Clearfield]] (MFL)

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--Failure and Intrigue: Circa Ascending Water, RY 769--

[[Kena]] - Part 1 (SSW)

[[The Divisions]]

[[Allat]]

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--The Halls of Venus: Circa Resplendant Water, RY 769--

[[The Halls of Venus]] (IC)

[[Flying Pearl Lake]] (first part)

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--The City Mastered: Circa Resplendant Water, RY 769--

[[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]] (IC)

[[Ma-Ha-Suchi]] (IC)

[[A School For All]] (GC)

[[Serpent Swords]] (IC)

[[Spring Market]] (GC)

[[Tokaki Kui]]

[[The First Generation]] (GC, DB)

[[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

[[V'Neef Pahul]]

[[The Qinglong Alliance]] - The Living Voice of Ami Kang

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--Lookshy Strikes Back...er... First: Circa Resplendent Wood, RY 769--

[[Iselsi Augus]]

[[Kena]] - Part 2 (SSW)

[[Pai and Pei]]

[[Chapter 1]] (DB)

[[Lyssa]] (IC, SSW)

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--Civil War Averted: Circa Descending Wood, RY 769--

[[Storm's Eye Hill]] - first part

[[Chapter 2]] (DB)

[[Blood Like Sparks]] (DB)

[[Chapter 3]] (DB)

[[The Southern Expedition]] - first two parts

[[A Lesson In Humility]]

[[God Crossing]] - Rivers' Day Off (GC)

[[Subaru Mao]]

[[Fenghuang Temple]]

[[Deren's Ford]]

[[Puyo]]

[[Varsi]]

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--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips: Circa Descending Wood, RY 769--

[[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]] (TK)

[[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]] (TK)

[[An Early Departure]] (SCS, SSW)

[[The Reprimand]] (SCS, TK)

[[Site 1: Firewander]] (SCS)

[[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] (TK, MFL)

[[Site 2: Rathess]] (SCS, SoR)

[[Bones Like Jade]] (SCS, SoR)

[[Gaiden 3.5]] (DB, SoR)

[[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]] (TK)

[[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]] (SCS)

[[Site 4: An Teng]] (SCS)

[[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]

[[Chapter 4]] (DB)

[[Chapter 5]] (DB)

[[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]] (GB)

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--Insults Answered: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--

[[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]] (GC)

[[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]

[[Nexus]]

[[War Games]] (MFL)

[[Alabaster Sunset]]

[[The Marukan Alliance]]

[[Crumbling Pillar]]

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--Oops.: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--

[[Act 1: Curtain Call]] (ToW)

[[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]] (ToW)

[[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]] (ToW)

[[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]] (ToW)

[[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]] (ToW)

[[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]] (ToW)

[[Cerulean Sage]]

[[Marta]], second part (SSW)

[[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]

[[Weeping Jade]]

[[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]] (SSW)

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--Servants of the Righteous: Parts 1-3: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--

[[Gaiden 5.5]] (SoR, DB)

[[Gaiden 5.6]] (SoR)

[[Lu Fei]] - First Part (SoR)

[[Shai Mei]] (SoR)

[[Lu Fei]] - A Letter from a Most Unworthy Brush (SoR)

[[Sha Yan Shi]] (SoR)

[[Raging Panda]]

[[The Halls of Venus]] - second part (SSW, IC)

[[Unity of Dreams]] (SCS, SSW)

[[Seven Season's Widow]] (SSW, IC)

[[Chapter 6]] (DB)

[[Reforging the Promise]] (TP)

[[Rededicating the Promise]] (SSW, TP)

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--Messages and their Bearers: 3rd Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--

[[The Qilin Fellowship]]

[[Flame-bond Forge]] - The Forge's New Master (SoR)

[[Choshu Ishi]] (SoR)

[[Gaiden 6.5]] (SoR)

[[Flying Pearl Lake]] - Soho's tour (SoR)

[[Agathon's Findings]] (SoR)

[[Amilar Agathon]] (SoR)

[[Mayhiros Tesos]] - second part

[[Typhon]]

[[The Price You Pay]]

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--A Trial of Valor: 12th Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--

[[Crucible of Celestial Portion]] (SSW, IC)

[[Nama Bi]] (SoR)

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--The Consequences of Action: 23rd Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--

[[Storm's Eye Hill]] - "In the Dragon's Wake" (SSW)

[[The Southern Expedition]] - The End and the Beginning

[[Thorns]]

[[Juggernaut]] (SSW)

[[Four Farewells]] (NRW)

[[Amilar Vondy]]

[[Hope in Varsi]] (NRW)

[[Chapter 7]] (DB)

[[Soho]] (SoR)

[[Red the Sage's Roots]] (SoR)

[[Something to Break]]

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--The Righteous Strike Back: 1st Day of Calibration, between RY 769 and 770--

[[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

[[Open Skies Above]] (SSW)

[[Storm's Eye Hill]] - "Singular Geomancy"

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]] (NRW)

[[House of Courage]]

[[Putting Out Fires]] (SSW)

[[Falling Bridges]]

[[The Five Changes of Fire]]

[[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]

[[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]

[[A Gift of Blades]] (SoR)

[[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]] (NRW)

[[Shadow of a Different Sun]]

[[Responsibility and Authority]] (SSW)

[[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]] (ToW, NRW)

[[Rivers Between Us]] - Epilogue

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--Distant Peals of Thunder: 28th Day of Resplendent Water, RY 770--

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]] (TK, ToW, SoR)

[[The Righteous Stair]]

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--Wind in the Doorway: 29th Day of Resplendant Water, RY 770--

[[Choshu Aya]] (SoR)

[[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]] (SoR)

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--Darkening Skies--

[[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]] (SoR)

[[Not One Tiger Warrior]] (SSE)

[[A Conspiracy of Virtue]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Secret Avalanche]]

[[Root of the East]]

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--Sapphire's Bad Day--

[[Sapphire's Bad Day]]

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Divine Intervention]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Voices Prophesying War]]

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Part One: When the Student Is Ready...

2007-02-24T01:38:19Z

Lesleymac:

==[The [[Nexus]]]==

Night in the [[Nexus]] falls like a black velvet curtain. As the afternoon wanes, the evening seems to be creeping along, and then, almost before you know it, full darkness has settled in the streets, along with the more unsavory elements of society. The day shift- honest merchants and respectable matrons- are settling in to sleep, and the night shift- crafty burglars and tired prostitutes- are getting ready for business. After a certain hour, these streets are no place for a lady to walk alone.

For more than a month now, I've called this riotous city my home. I try not to think of the place I used to call home. There's no going back, really, and I refuse to mope over what must be. The day I Exalted, every other door slammed shut, every other option was removed. But the way I left...I never would have wished for that. Maybe if I had left sooner. Maybe if I had been more careful in concealing my new nature. Maybe if someone else had been chosen instead. But what good is 'maybe'? All I can do is move forward. I lost my first home, but perhaps this one I can hold on to.

Several months ago, I fled the Blessed Isle in the middle of the night, booking passage under an assumed name to Port Calin; from there I traveled upriver to Nexus. It is, after all, a city for those who are lost and those who wish to be. I needed to disappear, and I could hardly ask for a better place to vanish than this whore of a city. Who in the Realm could imagine that I would run off to live in the rotten core of the barbaric scavenger lands? My disappearance might look suspicious, but if any of them knew... I would be killed on sight.

I arrived with the dawn, weeks later, and took accommodations at the cleanest inn I could find- a nice place, but not too nice. In this town, very few people have the confidence (or the armed guards) to openly appear wealthy. I concealed the gold and jewels I brought with me well, knowing that it would have to last me until I found my place in the chaos of Nexus. And to accomplish that, I set about learning this city.

For five days, I did little but walk the streets, talking to the colorful people that make this town what it is. I started to understand how things work here, and I looked for an opening. As it turned out, finding my place was not as hard as I had thought it would be. This city can be very accommodating, if you possess the right skills.

My skill is this: I can be very persuasive. For as long as I can remember, I have had an easy time of shifting people to my point of view. But, since the day I was Exalted, these skills have increased to the level of the supernatural. It is extremely difficult to defy me. And that's the kind of skill this town of traders can put to use. So, I sold Amalia's diamond earrings and bought myself a fine horse, rented a few rooms in the Cinnabar district, and became a diplomat for hire. Getting the first few contracts was difficult, but once word got around of my skillful negotiation, the offers started rolling in.

In the time since then, I've hired a few Nexus folk, and I now have the beginning of a proper entourage. The very early beginnings of a proper entourage...so far, I only have two assistants. Hsuan Lin, who once tried to talk me out of my fortune at sword-point, and Jian Wei, who was a starving scholar until I hired him. This city devours so many. But for a few at least, I can find a second chance.

At first, I had no idea how I would get by. But things have, by and large, fallen into place. I'm becoming established now. In the way of misfortune, not much has happened to me, at least since I arrived on this shore. There was that one time I foiled the attempted robbery. That's actually how Hsuan Lin joined my staff. She made a terrible thief, and makes a much better...well, diplomat in training, I suppose.

I do try to keep my business strictly above board. Nothing illegal, nothing terribly unethical. Thus, all of my meetings take place in the light of day. It's a guideline I have never broken, until now. I would not have broken my rules for anyone less than a merchant prince. My newest client, Ysmir Stoneoath, would have been offended if I had not partaken of his generosity at the banquet earlier this evening, and I had no chance to slip away before dark. To complicate matters, both members of my entourage are on assignment, so I face these city streets alone.

I am not afraid of what someone might do to me.
I am much more afraid of what I might do to someone.

To be fair, an encounter would not have to end in violence; I can usually talk my way out of trouble. But the truth is, although my persuasive skill is quite remarkable, I've no desire to see it put to the test in anything more dangerous than trade negotiation. If it should ever fail me, in the dark alleys I can't avoid on nights like tonight, things could get out of hand. And I can't stand drawing the wrong kind of attention to myself.

I'm not ashamed of being a Solar, exactly. It just makes things so much more complicated when people know. It could ruin my business, and that's all I've got in this new world. If I'm backed into a corner, I'll have to use my skills. And then everyone will know.

Unless...unless I don't let anyone survive the encounter. But I can't just kill every misguided fool who crosses my path, And that's the real reason I act like I'm afraid. I never want to have to choose between my life and the lives of others.

Of course, maybe I'm just worrying for nothing. As I cross through one of the poorer parts of town, the shadows work for me instead of against me. I'm probably not the only one around here sneaking back home before the dawn. The air is crisp tonight, and I shiver as I walk through the (thankfully) silent streets. A full moon shines brightly overhead, casting shadows in the dead of night. Not even the filth piled along the roadway can disguise the beauty of the buildings I pass, so stately, so orderly. I cross a bridge that appears far too light and delicate to be made of anything so base and earthbound as stone, and I am almost safely back in the shadows again when I hear the footsteps behind me.

I walk a little faster. There's plenty of other reasons for someone- no, from the sound of it, there's several someones- I'm sure they've a good reason to be out and about at this time of night, right? I'm not outpacing them, but I refuse to make this a race. At about the same time as I realize my strategy isn't working, I can feel someone walking far to close to me. So, I stop.

And a few people crash into me.

I get to my feet and spin around, as they hastily encircle me, five men, on the burly side. And they're looking at me like the night just got a whole lot more interesting. Fantastic.

"Look, can I help you?" I say, because I can't really think of anything else to say. It's inane, but if I can get them talking, or better yet, listening, I may not have to seriously injure anyone tonight.

One of the men leers and makes a particularly detailed reference to the form that he'd like my help to take. Oh well. So much for diplomacy. Time for plan B.

I speak firmly, just loud enough for all of them to hear. "Shame on you. Frightening young ladies out for a walk. You feel terrible about this. So terrible, in fact that you have decided to turn over a new leaf. From now on, you will spend your time doing good works. Nothing else matters as much as helping others. In fact, you've chosen a life of celibacy, to prevent the ladies from distracting you from your mission. You know, there's a shrine not far from here, you should go and meditate on the purity of the road ahead of you. Oh, and we never had this conversation. Bye now."

The five wander off in the direction I pointed, eyes glazed over. I breathe a deep sigh of relief, that tonight at least, I never had to turn to plan C. I turn back toward home and by the light of the moon, I see a man standing under the eaves of the building across the street.

He's tall, but not very muscular. His pose is relaxed, and as far from intimidating as a tall person can be. He's dressed finely, in sharp contrast to the men that just left, the sober grey of his garments blending into the shadow.

I look at him a moment, trying to discern whether I accidentally influenced him as well. But he's not heading to the shrine with the others, and his hazel eyes seem clear enough. "That's some trick," he says. "Let me guess, you're an Eclipse Caste?"

I can feel the blood leave my face in a rush. It's finally happened. Someone here knows my secret. I don't want to do it, but I can't allow him leave here with that knowledge. For some people, apparently, persuasion is not enough. So I strike my form, and prepare to attack.

The wind is completely taken out of my sails when he makes a small gesture, and his forehead glows with golden light: a circle, half shaded, the mark of a Twilight Exalted.

I immediately break my stance. "I- You're- I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to unduly influence you. I just didn't want to hurt anyone. Please accept my apology."

I stand there for a moment, eyes downcast, and wait. The silence is too long. When I look up, he's staring at me intently. "I was able to throw off the power of your suggestion, so there's no harm done. I appreciate your desire to find a nonviolent solution. Think nothing of it. I am curious, however. I don't recall seeing you around town. What's your name?"

"Sapphire River at Midnight," I answer after a moment's hesitation.

"Really?" he asked. "That doesn't sound much like a Realm name."

"What?! Is it that obvious?" I cry out.

"Calm down. I'm hardly the casual observer. What's your real name?" he asks.

I don't really like the direction this conversation is headed, and I start looking around for an avenue of escape. I mean, it hardly matters if another Solar knows that I'm a Solar; who's he going to tell? But I'll be damned if I'm going to give up all my secrets to some stranger in Nexus, Solar or no.

I think he realizes it when he says, "I'm sorry, I'm curious by nature. Sapphire River at Midnight it is. The name's Galen. Look, it's late (or early, depending on how you look at it) and I'm sure you'd like to get home. I could walk with you, so you aren't quite so...tempting a target."

I consider his offer for a moment. He has a point. Plus, he's the only other Exalted I've met. I'm not quite ready to let him fade back into the night. So, I sigh and take his arm, and we walk through this rundown town as dawn begins to make the sky blush.

-- ''from [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s private notes''

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Part One: When the Student Is Ready...

2007-02-24T01:37:58Z

Lesleymac:

==Part One: When the student is ready... [The [[Nexus]]]==

Night in the [[Nexus]] falls like a black velvet curtain. As the afternoon wanes, the evening seems to be creeping along, and then, almost before you know it, full darkness has settled in the streets, along with the more unsavory elements of society. The day shift- honest merchants and respectable matrons- are settling in to sleep, and the night shift- crafty burglars and tired prostitutes- are getting ready for business. After a certain hour, these streets are no place for a lady to walk alone.

For more than a month now, I've called this riotous city my home. I try not to think of the place I used to call home. There's no going back, really, and I refuse to mope over what must be. The day I Exalted, every other door slammed shut, every other option was removed. But the way I left...I never would have wished for that. Maybe if I had left sooner. Maybe if I had been more careful in concealing my new nature. Maybe if someone else had been chosen instead. But what good is 'maybe'? All I can do is move forward. I lost my first home, but perhaps this one I can hold on to.

Several months ago, I fled the Blessed Isle in the middle of the night, booking passage under an assumed name to Port Calin; from there I traveled upriver to Nexus. It is, after all, a city for those who are lost and those who wish to be. I needed to disappear, and I could hardly ask for a better place to vanish than this whore of a city. Who in the Realm could imagine that I would run off to live in the rotten core of the barbaric scavenger lands? My disappearance might look suspicious, but if any of them knew... I would be killed on sight.

I arrived with the dawn, weeks later, and took accommodations at the cleanest inn I could find- a nice place, but not too nice. In this town, very few people have the confidence (or the armed guards) to openly appear wealthy. I concealed the gold and jewels I brought with me well, knowing that it would have to last me until I found my place in the chaos of Nexus. And to accomplish that, I set about learning this city.

For five days, I did little but walk the streets, talking to the colorful people that make this town what it is. I started to understand how things work here, and I looked for an opening. As it turned out, finding my place was not as hard as I had thought it would be. This city can be very accommodating, if you possess the right skills.

My skill is this: I can be very persuasive. For as long as I can remember, I have had an easy time of shifting people to my point of view. But, since the day I was Exalted, these skills have increased to the level of the supernatural. It is extremely difficult to defy me. And that's the kind of skill this town of traders can put to use. So, I sold Amalia's diamond earrings and bought myself a fine horse, rented a few rooms in the Cinnabar district, and became a diplomat for hire. Getting the first few contracts was difficult, but once word got around of my skillful negotiation, the offers started rolling in.

In the time since then, I've hired a few Nexus folk, and I now have the beginning of a proper entourage. The very early beginnings of a proper entourage...so far, I only have two assistants. Hsuan Lin, who once tried to talk me out of my fortune at sword-point, and Jian Wei, who was a starving scholar until I hired him. This city devours so many. But for a few at least, I can find a second chance.

At first, I had no idea how I would get by. But things have, by and large, fallen into place. I'm becoming established now. In the way of misfortune, not much has happened to me, at least since I arrived on this shore. There was that one time I foiled the attempted robbery. That's actually how Hsuan Lin joined my staff. She made a terrible thief, and makes a much better...well, diplomat in training, I suppose.

I do try to keep my business strictly above board. Nothing illegal, nothing terribly unethical. Thus, all of my meetings take place in the light of day. It's a guideline I have never broken, until now. I would not have broken my rules for anyone less than a merchant prince. My newest client, Ysmir Stoneoath, would have been offended if I had not partaken of his generosity at the banquet earlier this evening, and I had no chance to slip away before dark. To complicate matters, both members of my entourage are on assignment, so I face these city streets alone.

I am not afraid of what someone might do to me.
I am much more afraid of what I might do to someone.

To be fair, an encounter would not have to end in violence; I can usually talk my way out of trouble. But the truth is, although my persuasive skill is quite remarkable, I've no desire to see it put to the test in anything more dangerous than trade negotiation. If it should ever fail me, in the dark alleys I can't avoid on nights like tonight, things could get out of hand. And I can't stand drawing the wrong kind of attention to myself.

I'm not ashamed of being a Solar, exactly. It just makes things so much more complicated when people know. It could ruin my business, and that's all I've got in this new world. If I'm backed into a corner, I'll have to use my skills. And then everyone will know.

Unless...unless I don't let anyone survive the encounter. But I can't just kill every misguided fool who crosses my path, And that's the real reason I act like I'm afraid. I never want to have to choose between my life and the lives of others.

Of course, maybe I'm just worrying for nothing. As I cross through one of the poorer parts of town, the shadows work for me instead of against me. I'm probably not the only one around here sneaking back home before the dawn. The air is crisp tonight, and I shiver as I walk through the (thankfully) silent streets. A full moon shines brightly overhead, casting shadows in the dead of night. Not even the filth piled along the roadway can disguise the beauty of the buildings I pass, so stately, so orderly. I cross a bridge that appears far too light and delicate to be made of anything so base and earthbound as stone, and I am almost safely back in the shadows again when I hear the footsteps behind me.

I walk a little faster. There's plenty of other reasons for someone- no, from the sound of it, there's several someones- I'm sure they've a good reason to be out and about at this time of night, right? I'm not outpacing them, but I refuse to make this a race. At about the same time as I realize my strategy isn't working, I can feel someone walking far to close to me. So, I stop.

And a few people crash into me.

I get to my feet and spin around, as they hastily encircle me, five men, on the burly side. And they're looking at me like the night just got a whole lot more interesting. Fantastic.

"Look, can I help you?" I say, because I can't really think of anything else to say. It's inane, but if I can get them talking, or better yet, listening, I may not have to seriously injure anyone tonight.

One of the men leers and makes a particularly detailed reference to the form that he'd like my help to take. Oh well. So much for diplomacy. Time for plan B.

I speak firmly, just loud enough for all of them to hear. "Shame on you. Frightening young ladies out for a walk. You feel terrible about this. So terrible, in fact that you have decided to turn over a new leaf. From now on, you will spend your time doing good works. Nothing else matters as much as helping others. In fact, you've chosen a life of celibacy, to prevent the ladies from distracting you from your mission. You know, there's a shrine not far from here, you should go and meditate on the purity of the road ahead of you. Oh, and we never had this conversation. Bye now."

The five wander off in the direction I pointed, eyes glazed over. I breathe a deep sigh of relief, that tonight at least, I never had to turn to plan C. I turn back toward home and by the light of the moon, I see a man standing under the eaves of the building across the street.

He's tall, but not very muscular. His pose is relaxed, and as far from intimidating as a tall person can be. He's dressed finely, in sharp contrast to the men that just left, the sober grey of his garments blending into the shadow.

I look at him a moment, trying to discern whether I accidentally influenced him as well. But he's not heading to the shrine with the others, and his hazel eyes seem clear enough. "That's some trick," he says. "Let me guess, you're an Eclipse Caste?"

I can feel the blood leave my face in a rush. It's finally happened. Someone here knows my secret. I don't want to do it, but I can't allow him leave here with that knowledge. For some people, apparently, persuasion is not enough. So I strike my form, and prepare to attack.

The wind is completely taken out of my sails when he makes a small gesture, and his forehead glows with golden light: a circle, half shaded, the mark of a Twilight Exalted.

I immediately break my stance. "I- You're- I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to unduly influence you. I just didn't want to hurt anyone. Please accept my apology."

I stand there for a moment, eyes downcast, and wait. The silence is too long. When I look up, he's staring at me intently. "I was able to throw off the power of your suggestion, so there's no harm done. I appreciate your desire to find a nonviolent solution. Think nothing of it. I am curious, however. I don't recall seeing you around town. What's your name?"

"Sapphire River at Midnight," I answer after a moment's hesitation.

"Really?" he asked. "That doesn't sound much like a Realm name."

"What?! Is it that obvious?" I cry out.

"Calm down. I'm hardly the casual observer. What's your real name?" he asks.

I don't really like the direction this conversation is headed, and I start looking around for an avenue of escape. I mean, it hardly matters if another Solar knows that I'm a Solar; who's he going to tell? But I'll be damned if I'm going to give up all my secrets to some stranger in Nexus, Solar or no.

I think he realizes it when he says, "I'm sorry, I'm curious by nature. Sapphire River at Midnight it is. The name's Galen. Look, it's late (or early, depending on how you look at it) and I'm sure you'd like to get home. I could walk with you, so you aren't quite so...tempting a target."

I consider his offer for a moment. He has a point. Plus, he's the only other Exalted I've met. I'm not quite ready to let him fade back into the night. So, I sigh and take his arm, and we walk through this rundown town as dawn begins to make the sky blush.

-- ''from [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s private notes''

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-02-24T00:58:27Z

Lesleymac:

'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]

'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves
* Lu Fei has proved his worth a dozen times over.
* Hsuan Lin is my right hand...when she's around.
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 12 (as of 2/16)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Talk:Heaven's Mandate

2007-02-24T00:52:01Z

Lesleymac: /* Lesley McKeever */

Howdy exalts. Anyway, I thought that we could post here about what we actually did to the site so that we can easily see what kind of new material has been posted. Related changes just doesn't cut it. So, post your latest adds, starting with what you've posted since the last session.

Exp scale (subject to extreme fudging): 
1/2 pt: Half page of flavor, or moderate structural changes. Great for filling in entries on people and places, but doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity. 
1 pt: One or two pages of flavor. Usually more labor intensive, requiring cross-referencing, and they add new information to the setting. 
2(+?) pts: 3 or more pages. These entries are really adventures in themselves, and go beyond character exploration into character development. 

==Hans Andersen==

# New: [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
# New: [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]

(10/27) Bad news for tea-lovers everywhere.

# New: [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]], and an Epilogue: [[The Reprimand]]
# New: Stub entries for Nameless Ravine's father's two Monkey Bodyguards, [[Raging Panda]] (kohai) and [[Leaf-Catcher]] (sempai)
# New: Stub entry for [[Charms of Apotheosis]]

(10/28-10/29) Some post-game follow-up:

# New: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
# New: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
# New: Finale: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]

(11/07) Oops. Some consequences.

# New: Unity of Nightmares, [[Act 1: Curtain Call]]
# Coming Soon: Acts 2-5, plus an intermission. I'll put these on their own page once they're done.

(11/09) Daybringers Fanfic. Heaven help us all. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 1)

# New: Chronicles of the Daybringers, [[Gaiden 3.5]]
# New: Renamed "Unity of Nightmares" to "Nameless Ravine's Nightmare". Added [[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]]

(11/13-11/16) Stone Bone Trees. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 2)

# New: The lead-in for [[Shai Mei]]'s entry got out of hand and turned into its own tale: [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools. Shai Mei's own entry remains blank...
# New: Entry for [[Shai Mei]]. Needless to say, it features rampant tree-philosophy.
# Updated: [[Reforging the Promise]]. Added the results of the first post-reforging test-run.
# New: [[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]]
# New: [[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]]
# Updated: [[Raging Panda]] teaches Nameless Ravine a new charm.
# New: [[Rededicating the Promise]], with a cameo from SSW

(12/21) The Faces of The Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)

# New: [[Clearfield]]
# New: [[Amilar Agathon]]
# Updated: Soho gives us a guided tour of the completely remodelled [[Flying Pearl Lake]]

(12/30) Staring Into the Abyss (A Trial of Valor)

# New: Poor [[Soho]] doesn't have his own entry yet, but he does guest-star in [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
# Updated: [[Sha Yan Shi]] - Added "Part 3: The Calm Before..."
# New: [[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]].
# Coming soon: The (chronologically challenged) nightmare sequence concludes with [[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]]

(1/9) Angry Angry Deathlord (The Consequences of Action)

# New: [[Four Farewells]] - The first part of Nameless Ravine's adventures between the end of the SSW arc and whatever comes next
# New: [[Hope in Varsi]]
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]

(1/14) Beneath Open Skies (The Righteous Strike Back)

# New: [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]
# New: [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]
# New: [[Soho]] finally has a short entry. I think I'll need to play him in game to get a feel for him before he gets some serious adventures of his own.

(1/21) Phoenix Rebirth (Distant Peals of Thunder)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]. I'm enjoying this *way* too much.
# New: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Intended as a list of every entry, arranged in game-world chronological order (regardless of author and date of composition), cross-referenced by subplot. Lots of cleanup and formatting and typo-fixing yet to do. There's almost certainly chronology errors in there as well. Also, someone else should volunteer to add in-game calendar dates to the session-headings.
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Fixed the broken links, and added commentary about the ordering scheme. Added a link off of the main page.

(2/11) Meanwhile... (Darkening Skies)

# New: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added Part 1: "Not One Tiger Warrior"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "A Conspiracy of Virtue"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "No Man's Land". I'm tempted break this tale into multiple pages, in which case "No Man's Land" will probably be reclassified as "Daybringers Gaiden 7.5: What Might have Been". If for no reason other than to goad David into finishing DB8. Curse you Hans!
# The Chronology-monkeys have been busy; the Second Southern Expedition has been split into [[Not One Tiger Warrior]], [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]], and [[Gaiden 7.5]], with more coming soon.

(2/17) Meanwhile... (Sapphire's Bad Day)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] - Best. Topic. Title. EVAR.
# New: [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]
# New: [[Divine Intervention]] - Fun with evil, evil, evil cliffhangers; You are a horrible, horrible man, Hans Christian Andersen. :) - JK
# New: [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] - The funny part is, Jason, there was only a ninety-minute window of truly-evil cliffhanger-dom before I posted this next part. Not that there's any real resolution, but still.
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]] - The problem with being a half-caste in a full-moon world is that you have to deal with... another Evil, Evil, Cliffhanger! Mwa ha ha! ''She '''''did not''''' just say "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you"...?! -mac''
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night]] - What? No cliffhanger? Inconceivable!
# New: [[Agathon's Findings]] - I wrote this ages ago to explore the events that brought Agathon into disgrace in Lookshy, but forgot to post it. With Marta's wedding and Soho's impending trial, it's suddenly quite relevant. ''You know that nothing links to it right now but this Talk page, right? :) - JK'' ''Yeah, posted it this morning before work. Haven't yet decided the best place to put it. - HCA''
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Added the last several sessions' worth of entries. The simian scribes were uncertain of the timing of some of them, particularly Jason's works.

==David Drake==
# Edit: [[The Vitreous Fulcrum]] now includes changes after the last battle.
# New: road system described under [[Eye of Hiparkes]].
# New: town at the center of the Eye of Hiparkes: [[God Crossing]].
# New: Automata section begun with [[The Gardener]].
# New: Flavor text for [[Selenn]], Nathan's mother, added to the contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Salvar]], Nathan's brother, added to contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Othoclase]], gemlord.

--battle of three forces, 8/12--
# New: [[Battle of Breaking Iron]] is complete (first draft).

--failure and intrigue, 8/20--
# New: [[Kena]], that seductress, added.
# New: [[The Divisions]], the list of good and bad little spirits.

--The Halls of Venus, 9/2--
# New: [[Scales of the Dragon]], the white jade superheavy plate.
# New: [[The Halls of Venus]].
# New: [[Chehbraterazim]], a sobeksis of the grey river.
# Expanded: [[Salvar]].

--The City Mastered, 9/16--
# New: [[A School For All]]: (3/4) news spreads of a school beginning operation in the Plum Blossom Retreat.
# New: [[Spring Market]]: (2/2) Rivers tries to have fun (A compilation project!)
# New: [[Serpent Swords]]: (3/3) Irrational Hope and Unbreakable Faith.
# New: [[The First Generation]]: (2/2) Power and Humanity: the first three amalgams.

--Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First, 9/30--
# New: [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: My totally serious, dark take on what could happen when one of our teams leaves home.
# Expanded: [[Kena]]: Once again, mostly about love, sorcery, and the relationship between Rivers and his mentor.
# New: [[Chapter 1]]: Carnage! Slaughter! We're ready for those things, but can we get a room for the night?
# New: [[Pai and Pei]]: River's assistants.
# New: [[Lyssa]]: Liaison to the Infinite City.
# New: [[Under Bridges]]: River's horse, one of Murakan's finest.

--Civil War Averted, 10/7--
# New: [[Chapter 2]]: Gunzosha Powered Armor: Sure it's sexy, but in the summer?
# New: [[The Bandit King]]: As you get older, the toys just get bigger.
# New: [[Chapter 3]]: Why you don't mess with Yao Ye.
# New: [[Blood Like Sparks]]: Yet another... enemy?
# New: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Doomed souls struggling for the light. 2 quick sections.
# Expanded: [[God Crossing]]: On Rivers' day off, the city's planning must continue.

--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips, 10/21--
# New: [[An Early Departure]]
# New: [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# New: [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# New: [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# New: [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 4]] Melee in the streets of Varsi? 
# New: [[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]]: Fleets.
# New: [[Panoply of the Sun]]: I started it, but it's going to take a beastload of work. Check it out!
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: A quick section added.
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Another quick section added.

--Oops: 11/4--
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
# New: The [[Cerulean Sage]]: Preparing to learn a new style once snake is finished.
# Expanded: Expansion to [[Marta]]: Part 1 of SSW intros, (the test).
# Expanded: [[The Halls of Venus]]: Part 2 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Unity of Dreams]]: Part 3 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Seven Season's Widow]]: An entry of her own. (revised to reflect her lack of athletics).
# Expanded: [[Berren]]: More description of life in God Crossing, with further Lookshy scheming.
# New: [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
# New: [[Reforging the Promise]]
# New: [[Mite Xu]]: just to add a little flavor to our amalgamated servants.
# New: [[Lu Fei]]: Detailing a bit about Lu Fei's bad luck and his present situation.
# New: Expansion of Lu Fei to include the letter requesting amabassadorial status.

--Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers): 12/16/06--
# Expanded: [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# New: Added [[Walker in Darkness]] and three of his servants as blank stubs.
# New: [[Typhon]]. Busy little bugger.

--A Trial of Valor: 12/30/06--
# New: [[Crucible of Celestial Portion]]: It's River's job, so it's off screen, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

--The Consequences of Action: 1/6/07--
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: The End and the Beginning.
# New: [[Amilar Vondy]]: Lookshy politics have grown less subtle of late.
# New: [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring, with an appearance by the newest Daybringer.
# New: [[Thorns]]: I'm not too happy with it, so I'll probably edit it, but it's a little picture of Rivers considering the city of Thorns.
# Edited: Collected gens Amilar under one banner. The house is at the very least neutral, as its head appears to be.

--The Righteous Strike Back: 1/13/07--
# New: [[Open Skies Above]]: Sorry, you're not invited, but you can still send gifts. Hearthstones are preferred.
# New: [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies and busting heads.
# New: [[Falling Bridges]]: Reconstruction in the south, and moderate angst, deflected by Mite Xu.
# New: [[Shadow of a Different Sun]]: Rock and a hard place.
# New: [[Responsibility and Authority]]: Happy endings.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]
# New: [[The Headless]]: Pity Wu.

--Distant Peals of Thunder: 1/20/07--
# New: [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: New page for organizing custom charms, since 1/2 of the players have them.
# New: [[Defy the Armor's Dream]]: Posted the one custom charm that I have in full (I don't have the virtue listed for the spirit charms you sent me, Jason. Sorry!)
# Edited: [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: Added dates as far back as I have them recorded as gm.

--Wind in the Doorway: 1/27/07--
# Expanded: [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: Added a couple of the artifacts from last session.
# Picture: [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]: Crane.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]: Tossed up his intimacies for funsies.

--Darkening Skies: 2/10/07--
# New: [[Secret Avalanche]] gets his own page. I wish I could have written it... without the crappy writing.
# New: [[Root of the East]], Rivers' trusted advisor. Poor devil.

==Jason Kalivas==

Good plan, David!

# (7/30) Added [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (7/30) Added [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (7/30) Added [[The Dryads]]
# (7/31) Added [[Grassfoot]]
# (7/31) Added [[Amilar Amaki]]
# (8/01) Moved River's Automata on the front page, under the [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#The_Book_and_the_Sword|Book and the Sword]] heading, since they're created things and not actual characters.
# (8/01) Changed the formatting for [[An Oathsworn Circle]] to make [[River's Contacts]] stand out better.
# (8/05) Edited David's [[Othoclase]] page, for added evil.
# (8/05) Added a second section to the [[Grassfoot]] page.
# (8/06) Edited [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]] to add a shrine and a way of signalling others.
# (8/06) Edited [[God Crossing]] for logic, clarity and more added evil.

'''8/12: Game Day! Battle of Three Forces'''
# (8/14) Added a second section to [[The Dryads]].
# (8/17) Added [[Lookshy]].
# (8/17) Added [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# (8/19) Added a second section to [[Fear's Umbra]].

'''8/20: Game Day! Failure and Intrigue'''
# (8/26) Listed all of the Mask's known Abyssals on [[Sky-Spanning Devils]].
# (8/26) Added [[Mayhiros Ruja]].
# (8/26) Added [[Rhianna]].

'''9/2: Game Day! The Halls of Venus'''
# (9/4) Added [[The Mourning Field]]
# (9/4) Added [[Flying Pearl Lake]]
# (9/8) Added "At the Altar of Storms" to [[Shouting With Iron]]
# (9/9) Added [[Soft the Valley's Song]]

'''9/16: Game Day! The City Mastered'''
# (9/17) Added [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]
# (9/17) Added [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]
# (9/18) Added [[Ma-Ha-Suchi]]
# (9/18) Added a picture of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (9/24) Began [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

'''9/30: Game Day! Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First'''
# (10/02) Finished [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]
# (10/02) Added [[V'Neef Pahul]]
# (10/06) Added "The Living Voice of Ami Kang" to [[The_Qinglong_Alliance]]
# (10/07) Added "Storm of Amber" to [[Spring Market]]

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/08) Added [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (10/08) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 1
# (10/11) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 2
# (10/14) Added [[Deren's Ford]]
# (10/15) Added [[Puyo]]
# (10/15) Added [[Karacalla]]
# (10/17) Added [[Varsi]], Part 1

'''10/21: Game Day! Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips'''
# (10/22) Added "Fire in the Rain" to [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]

'''10/28: Game Day! Insults Answered'''
# (10/29) Added [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]
# (10/29) Reorganized [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] for clarity; includes moving [[My Town]] to [[Nexus]]
# (10/29) Added [[War Games]]
# (10/29) Added [[A Web Spun From Water]]
# (11/02) Added [[The Marukan Alliance]] - FINALLY!
# (11/04) Added [[Crumbling Pillar]]
# (11/04) Added [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]

'''11/04: Game Day! Oops'''
# (11/04) Reorganized [[Heaven's Mandate]] for clarity - breaking off larger sections into self-contained pages
# (11/05) Added [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]
# (11/19) Added [[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]]
# (11/19) Added [[Weeping Jade]]
# (11/19) Added [[Black Caul Chiurgeons]]

'''12/16: Game Day! Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)'''
# (12/17) Added Part 1 to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''12/30: Game Day! A Trial of Valor'''
# (12/31) Added "The Forge's New Master" to the [[Flame-bond Forge]]
# (12/31) Added [[Choshu Ishi]]
# (12/31) Added "Insolence" to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''1/06: Game Day! Consequences of Action'''
# (1/07) Changed [[A Web Spun From Water]] and [[Storm's Eye Hill]] to account for more defined genders/roles in the [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (1/07) Created [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]] and [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]] to clear up [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] on the Main Page
# (1/07) Added [[Nama Bi]]
# (1/07) Added "In the Dragon's Wake" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (1/07) Added [[Red the Sage's Roots]]
# (1/07) Added pictures to [[Choshu Ishi]], [[Crumbling Pillar]], [[God Crossing]], [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]], [[Nama Bi]] and [[Red the Sage's Roots]]

'''1/13: Game Day! The Righteous Strike Back!'''
# (1/15) Added "Singular Geomancy" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]; in which I try, and fail, to get maudlin
# (1/16) Added [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/17) Added "Lightning Disperses the Clouds" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/18) Added "The Crow Plucks the Corpse's Eye" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added "The Formation Triumphs" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

'''1/20: Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# (1/24) Added [[The Righteous Stair]]

'''1/27: Game Day! Wind in the Doorway'''
# (1/28) Added [[Choshu Aya]].
# (2/05) Added Intimacies for [[Storm of Amber]], [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], [[Cathak Nekuto]], [[Choshu Ishi]] and [[Choshu Aya]]; Storm's are complete, the rest still have some to add, in time.
# (2/05) Added [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]
# (2/05) Edited [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]] to improve the quality.
# (2/08) Added [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]].
# (2/08) Added [[House of Courage]].
# (2/08) Added "In Mountains, Occupy the Heights" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].

'''2/10: Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# (2/11) Added "In Valleys, Deploy for Defense" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].
# (2/11) Added the [[Pearl of Castigation]] to our hearthstones.
# (2/15) Added [[The Five Changes of Fire]]

'''2/17: Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day'''
# (2/17) Added [[Voices Prophesying War]]
# (2/18) Added "The Answer to the Earth" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; anyone who gets the joke gets mad props from me.
# (2/18) Added "The Red Queen" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]
# (2/20) Added "Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; feedback especially appreciated on this one, I'm not sure how I feel about the writing. ''I liked it. Although...are you sure you can't work in a truly heinous cliffhanger ending? -mac''
# (2/20) Rewrote ""Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" on [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]], for added bureaucracy; I'm much, much happier with this version
# (2/20) Added [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]], thus initiating the final chapter in the first Choshu Ishi story; tales of his exploits in the south remain to be heard.
#

==Lukas Myhan==
-- 8/12: Battle of Three Forces
# (8/20): Added [[The Well of Roots]]
# (8/20): Added [[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

-- 8/20: Failure and Intrigue
# (9/02): Added two sections to [[Allat]]

-- 9/2: The Halls of Venus

--9/16: The City Mastered
# (9/25): Added [[Tokaki Kui]]
# (9/29): Contributed last 4 paragraphs to [[The First Generation]]
# (9/30): Contributed Leaf Shakes the Wind's section of [[Spring Market]]

-- 9/30: Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First
# (10/06): Added [[Iselsi Augus]]

-- 10/07: Civil War Averted
# (10/11): Added [[A Lesson In Humility]]
# (10/16): Added [[Subaru Mao]]

-- 10/21: Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips

-- 10/28: Insults Answered
# (11/01): Added "A Matter of Interpretation" to [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# (11/01): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/01): Co-wrote "Trust" in [[Site 4: An Teng]] with David
# (11/02): Added "Old Allies" and Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# (11/02): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade: Stats]]
# (11/03): Added "Duty" to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/03): Added "Perspective" to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/03): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# (11/03): Added [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]
# (11/03): Added [[Alabaster Sunset]]
# (11/03): Added Black Widow Razors, Sling of Deadly Prowess, Hearthstone Bracers, and Amulet of Shadow Walking to [[Panoply of the Sun]]
# (11/04): Added [[The Assassin's Library]]

-- 11/04: Oops!
# (11/15): Added "Twofold" to [[The Empty Garden]]
# (11/21): Added "Part 1: Arrival" to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (12/16): Faces of the Enemy
# (12/28): Added "Part 2: The Pen Is Mightier..." to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (1/06): The Consequences of Action
# (1/11): Added [[Juggernaut]]
# (1/11): Added [[Something to Break]]

-- (1/13): The Righteous Strike Back
# (1/19): Added [[Chain of Regrets]]

== Joe Jay-Dixon ==

10/17: Added four Abyssals to the Mask's roster, from a discussion on RPGnet.

==Lesley McKeever==

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/16) Added a new enemy, [[Virra Amalia]]
# (10/20) Added Part One (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)
# (10/28) Added Part Two (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)

'''12/16 Game Day! Messages and Their Bearers'''
# Working on [[The Price You Pay]]
# Working on Part Three

'''1/20 Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# New: Sapphire's Stats are [[Sapphire River at Midnight|here]]
# Updated: Edited [[Hearthstones]] to add Sapphire's hearthstones
# Updated: Edited [[Solar-Forged Glories]] to add Sapphire's artifacts

'''2/10 Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# Updated: Edited [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire's stats]]
# Updated: Added Charms spreadsheet [http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls here]
# Updated: Part Two of [[Sapphire's Past]] edited extensively
# New: Added Hsuan Lin's [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]

'''2/17 Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day''' 
''Honestly, sometimes I wonder if anyone likes anything they write.''
 This week, it is my intention to finish at least three articles and add them to the wiki. Wish me luck! and/or mock me mercilessly should I fail. 
# New: it will be called [[Walls and Tall Shadows]]
# New: it will be called [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
# New: it will be called [[A Gift of Blades]]
# Updated: Finished spending Hsuan Lin's banked exp and updated her [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]
# Updated: Edited several articles, mainly to make character names fit convention
# Updated: Changed the structure of things. "Sapphire's Past" is now located off of her character [[Sapphire River at Midnight|page]]. Also, each section of her past has its own page now. That thing was getting long, and I'm only about half done.

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

An Oathsworn Circle

2007-02-24T00:41:35Z

Lesleymac:

[[Image:circlesbanner.gif|frame]]
* [[Leaf Shakes the Wind]] [age 27]: Realm-born political saboteur. '''Night Caste'''
* [[Nameless Ravine]] [age 19]: '''Dawn Caste'''
* [[Rivers Between Us]] [age 17]: Lookshy-trained Marukani sorcerer-engineer. '''Twilight Caste'''
**[[River's Contacts]]
* [[Sapphire River at Midnight]] [age 26]: '''Eclipse Caste'''
* [[Song of the Silver Wind]] [age ?]: '''Eclipse Caste'''
* [[Storm of Amber]] [age 24]: Marukan Circuit-Rider; judge and lawman of the horse tribes. '''Zenith Caste'''

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire's Past

2007-02-24T00:40:30Z

Lesleymac:

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-02-24T00:39:56Z

Lesleymac:

'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]

'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves
* Lu Fei is handy to have around
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

<* = favored>

'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 12 (as of 2/16)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Part Two: Tea and Sympathy

2007-02-24T00:39:15Z

Lesleymac:

==[ [[House of Verdant Mysteries Revealed]] ]==

''It's been almost a year. I think that maybe now the bitter ache might subside; maybe now I can appreciate the goodness of our time together, instead of just the horror of how things ended. Maybe now I'm strong enough to remember. So I lock my door, and open the chest where I keep my most treasured things, and from the corner where it hides, I pull out a small ebony box. Slowly, carefully, I pry off the lid and prepare to face the past.

It's tea of remembering, infinitely precious, now that there will be no more. I don't dare drink it. But as I breathe in its subtly distinctive fragrance, I am there again.''

"What I don't know can get me killed. So, I'm asking you, please, teach me." He sets his tea back down, untouched. He seems surprised that I'm asking, but he shouldn't be. I need to understand what I am, and he's the only person I've ever met who can guide me.

The silence stretches on as I make my case. "You are comfortable with what I am- what we are. I need that. I...I don't know the glory of being a Solar Exalted; I only know the shame of being Anathema. Galen...only you can show me the way." I hate this sentimental plea, but it's true. I took my second breath, and ever since, I've been wandering in the dark.

He sighs and says, “No one has an easy time of this; even if I agree to let you become my student, you must realize that the road before you is difficult."

"Walking a hard road is better than wandering the wilderness. I know it won't be easy, but with your help, it won't be impossible, either." For a long moment after my pronouncement, we sit in the silence, neither moving, as the tea slowly cools before us.

He laughs, abruptly. "I should know better than to argue with an Eclipse. Very well, you will be my first student." The smile fades from his face, as he continues. "Before we go any further, there are some things that I need to know. Who are you, really? What are you running from?"

My insides knot up. This was not unexpected, but there are many things I'd rather do than tell him how I came to be where I am. "My name..." I start, but then falter. These are things I haven't spoken of in so long.

"My true name is Virra Lythia. I am twenty-six years old, and I took my second breath just over a year ago." Slowly, my secrets come to light. "I grew up in the Realm proper. My father was a patrician, and my mother died when I was five, the day my sister Amalia was born. For years we lived happily, And then, when she was fifteen, we discovered that Amalia was one of the dragon-blooded, with the aspect of fire. She left home, to the Cloister of Wisdom. She didn't come back for years, not until after Father died, and when I saw her again, I hardly knew her."

I take a deep breath and press on. "She came back so serious. And so sure of her superiority in the scheme of things. Before she had even been home a full day, she chastised me for not being properly respectful of her place in the natural order, as well as for my 'generally irreverent' attitude. It took my breath away. Ever since the day she left, I gave up so much, scraped together all I could, to support her and her glorious future. She may be dragon-blooded, and therefore the pinnacle, but still...the fanaticism...being away corrupted her."

"Time only made these qualities worse. I found out that even among the Immaculate Order her attitude was a hard one. She was particularly taken with the opinions of Peleps Deled before he left to join the Wyld Hunt. That should tell you exactly how conservative she became. Thankfully, she was not home often."

"Just over a year ago, she returned home, preparing to join the Wyld Hunt herself. Her attitude was as insufferable as ever, and I remember...one day I just had enough. I took the fastest horse we owned, and rode out the quiet places where our fields end and the trees begin. It was there...that was where I took my second breath."

"I stayed in the depths of the woods until I was no longer glowing, and when I thought it safe, I returned home. Thankfully, no one noticed anything amiss. She wondered where I had been, so I told her I went to the woods to contemplate the perfection of the Elemental Dragons, and then I thanked her for drawing me back to the correct path. She was so pleased to think of herself as one who shepherds apostates that she accepted the lie."

"Meanwhile, I waited for the secrecy of night. I wanted to find someplace hidden where I could see what had changed- what I was now capable of. So that night, when the servants slept, hours after Amalia left, under cover of darkness, I found my place in the forest clearing again."

"In the silence of that clearing, a wind was rising. I didn't notice. I had never really been one for meditation, but now I was miles away mentally, considering these changes. It was like-- like I was made of light somehow. The feeling, as if I was meant for so much more than the petty games I had contented myself with playing. For so long things have been wrong, but now, they could be mended. And I could be instrumental in setting things right."

"As the power washed through me...my anima flared to life. Silver light- then crystal flowers. At first there were just a few, then more and more filled the air. Flowers, irises so tiny and delicate, but made of cold, hard crystal. I watched as the light grew, lost in the feeling that this was so familiar... I should remember... and yet knowing that this was no elemental anima."

"I knew that it should bother me...but the immaculate order has been wrong about so much. It was easy, filled with that light, to believe that they were wrong about this too. 'Anathema' I tried my new name and found it lacking. 'No, not anathema. Chosen of the Sun.' She must have heard that, as she crossed the clearing, eyes wide-- and sword drawn."

"She stopped just beyond the reach of my anima, as if to cross that circle of light would be to become defiled. For just a few moments, neither of us said a word. She stared at me, eyes filled with both horror and rage. I still wonder what she saw in my eyes." (Sorry, so sorry. But I am who I am. And I will not die just because your philosophy says that I should.)

"'How long have you been this way?' she asked, through clenched teeth."

"'Two days,' I answered sadly. 'Not that it matters. What's done is done, and can never be undone. I love you, Amalia. But I will not throw myself upon your altar.'"

"My words, though softly spoken, had the impact of a knife in her heart. For just a moment her eyes shone with tears she would not shed. That was the last I ever saw of the sister I loved. I found myself facing the new Amalia, beloved of the Order."

"'Sister...' I breathed."

"'You are an abomination,' she spat. 'You are now my responsibility, my taint to cleanse.' She then assumed her form, and fire danced in the air around her. 'This is the way it must be,' she said with grim determination."

"We fought that night, and it was brutal. I had no real training, but Solars don't die easily, and my existence was at stake. She was a fire aspect from the sole of her feet to the roots of her hair, and had become a swordwoman of some renoun since she went away. It went on for hours; attack, defend, attack, wipe the blood from your eyes and find some way to go on."

"In the end, I was left standing. I beat my sister bloody, and as she wavered between conciousness and unconciousness, I found that I could not kill her outright, and that I dared not let her live. And then...I knew what I had to do."

"I leaned in close and told the first lie."

"She accepted what I said completely-- that I was not anathema, that she was working for the downfall of house Mnemon, that I discovered her secret revolution, that she tried to recruit me, and when I refused, fought me."

"I left her there unconcious, and raced back home, to enact the rest of my plan."

And this is the hard part. "I reported her to the All-Seeing Eye. I told them that she was a traitor, conspiring against house Mnemon. I showed them some excellent manufactured evidence, and I told them that I got my many injuries for not agreeing to aid my sister's foul plot. It was enough to get her arrested. When she was questioned, she corraborated my story nicely."

"She was tried in a matter of days. I was there when they led her from the room a convicted traitor, and she seemed to believe it as much as anyone. I knew I had to leave. To tell the truth, I was lucky the lie held for so long. I gave her a chance. Not much of one, I admit. She's constantly watched, so that's got to make it difficult for her to escape. And house Mnemon seems to take the allegations personally."

"It's been over a year now, and I've heard nothing of her. Something tells me that if she's alive and free, I'll be the first person she finds: either because she knows me for Anathema, or because I'm the one who sent her to prison. Or both, actually."

"Once that loose end was tied, I went back to the estate and started making my plans to leave. I took as many small, but very valuable, things as I could, including things that had belonged to Amalia. It felt good, I admit, to take back some of the fine things I had given up for her. I took all of our jewelry, and a considerable sum of gold (ironically, the very money that I had been saving up for Amalia, part of which would have gone to funding the Wyld Hunt.) I took my mother's wedding ring, and my father's sword, fresh clothes and food, and I booked passage to Port Calin. From there I traveled to Nexus."

"And that pretty well brings us to the present. I can still force people to believe my version of events, as you've seen. In all the time I've been Exalted, that's the only thing I've learned how to do with any consistency. It's...handy...but I'm sure that I can do more, if only you will teach me."

He said, “It’s called the memory-reweaving discipline, and it's not one of the things I can teach you, so it's well you don't need my help with that." And that was it. He said nothing about my past. "I can, however teach you a martial arts form that will make you even more persuasive than you already are. I can also initiate you into the first circle of sorcery. Oh, and then I can teach you demon summoning! Trust me, it's not as evil as it sounds."

I looked at him dubiously, and the first day's lesson continued.

''-from [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s private notes''

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Part One: When the Student Is Ready...

2007-02-24T00:36:27Z

Lesleymac:

==[The [[Nexus]]]==

Night in the [[Nexus]] falls like a black velvet curtain. As the afternoon wanes, the evening seems to be creeping along, and then, almost before you know it, full darkness has settled in the streets, along with the more unsavory elements of society. The day shift- honest merchants and respectable matrons- are settling in to sleep, and the night shift- crafty burglars and tired prostitutes- are getting ready for business. After a certain hour, these streets are no place for a lady to walk alone.

For more than a month now, I've called this riotous city my home. I try not to think of the place I used to call home. There's no going back, really, and I refuse to mope over what must be. The day I Exalted, every other door slammed shut, every other option was removed. That day, I lost my home forever. I had to leave. But the way I left...I never would have wished for that. Maybe if I had left sooner. Maybe if I had been more careful in concealing my new nature. Maybe if someone else had been chosen instead. But what good is 'maybe'? There's no going back now. All I can do is move forward. I lost my first home, but perhaps this one I can hold on to.

I left my former home in the middle of the night, booking passage under an assumed name to Port Calin; from there I traveled upriver to Nexus. It is, after all, a city for those who are lost and those who wish to be. I needed to disappear, and I could hardly ask for a better place to vanish than this whore of a city. Who in the Realm could imagine that I would run off to live in the rotten core of the barbaric scavenger lands? I covered my tracks well, and I doubt that anyone from the Realm would have a reason to look for me, but even if they did, there's no way that they would connect who I am now with who I used to be.

I arrived with the dawn, weeks later, and took accommodations at the cleanest inn I could find- a nice place, but not too nice. In this town, very few people have the confidence (or the armed guards) to openly appear wealthy. I concealed the gold and jewels I brought with me well, knowing that it would have to last me until I found my place in the chaos of Nexus. And to accomplish that, I set about learning this city.

For five days, I did little but walk the streets, talking to the colorful people that make this town what it is. I started to understand how things work here, and I looked for an opening. As it turned out, finding my place was not as hard as I had thought it would be. This city can be very accommodating, if you possess the right skills.

I can be very persuasive. For as long as I can remember, I have had an easy time of shifting people to my point of view. But, since the day I was Exalted, these skills have increased to the level of the supernatural. It is extremely difficult to defy me. And that's the kind of skill this town of traders can put to use. So, I sold Amalia's diamond earrings and bought myself a fine horse, rented a few rooms in the Cinnabar district, and became a diplomat for hire. Getting the first few contracts was difficult, but once word got around of my skillful negotiation, the offers started rolling in.

In the time since then, I've hired a few Nexus folk, and I now have the beginning of a proper entourage. The very early beginnings of a proper entourage...so far, I only have two assistants. Nera, who once tried to talk me out of my fortune, and Jheros Tokai, who was a starving scholar until I hired him. This city devours so many. But for a few at least, I can find a second chance.

At first, I had no idea how I would get by. But things have, by and large, fallen into place. I'm becoming established now. In the way of misfortune, not much has happened to me, at least since I arrived on this shore. There was that one time I foiled the attempted robbery. That's actually how Nera joined my staff. She made a terrible thief, and makes a much better...well, diplomat in training, I suppose.

I do try to keep my business strictly above board. Nothing illegal, nothing terribly unethical. Thus, all of my meetings take place in the light of day. It's a guideline I have never broken, until now. I would not have broken my rules for anyone less than a merchant prince. My newest client, Ysmir Stoneoath, would have been offended if I had not partaken of his generosity at the banquet earlier this evening, and I had no chance to slip away before dark. To complicate matters, both members of my entourage are on assignment, so I face these city streets alone.

I am not afraid of what someone might do to me.
I am much more afraid of what I might do to someone.

To be fair, an encounter would not have to end in violence; I can usually talk my way out of trouble. But the truth is, although my persuasive skill is quite remarkable, I've no desire to see it put to the test in anything more dangerous than trade negotiation. If it should ever fail me, in the dark alleys I can't avoid on nights like tonight, things could get out of hand. And I can't stand drawing the wrong kind of attention to myself.

I'm not ashamed of being a Solar, exactly. It just makes things so much more complicated when people know. It could ruin my business, and that's all I've got in this new world. If I'm backed into a corner, I'll have to use my skills. And then everyone will know.

Unless...unless I don't let anyone survive the encounter. But I can't just kill every misguided fool who crosses my path, And that's the real reason I act like I'm afraid. I never want to have to choose between my life and the lives of others.

Of course, maybe I'm just worrying for nothing. As I cross through one of the poorer parts of town, the shadows work for me instead of against me. I'm probably not the only one around here sneaking back home before the dawn. The air is crisp tonight, and I shiver as I walk through the (thankfully) silent streets. A full moon shines brightly overhead, casting shadows in the dead of night. Not even the filth piled along the roadway can disguise the beauty of the buildings I pass, so stately, so orderly. I cross a bridge that appears far too light and delicate to be made of anything so base and earthbound as stone, and I am almost safely back in the shadows again when I hear the footsteps behind me.

I walk a little faster. There's plenty of other reasons for someone- no, from the sound of it, there's several someones- I'm sure they've a good reason to be out and about at this time of night, right? I'm not outpacing them, but I refuse to make this a race. At about the same time as I realize my strategy isn't working, I can feel someone walking far to close to me. So, I stop.

And a few people crash into me.

I get to my feet and spin around, as they hastily encircle me, five men, on the burly side. And they're looking at me like the night just got a whole lot more interesting. Fantastic.

"Look, can I help you?" I say, because I can't really think of anything else to say. It's inane, but if I can get them talking, or better yet, listening, I may not have to seriously injure anyone tonight.

One of the men leers and makes a particularly detailed reference to the form that he'd like my help to take. Oh well. So much for diplomacy. Time for plan B.

I speak firmly, just loud enough for all of them to hear. "Shame on you. Frightening young ladies out for a walk. You feel terrible about this. So terrible, in fact that you have decided to turn over a new leaf. From now on, you will spend your time doing good works. Nothing else matters as much as helping others. In fact, you've chosen a life of celibacy, to prevent the ladies from distracting you from your mission. You know, there's a shrine not far from here, you should go and meditate on the purity of the road ahead of you. Oh, and we never had this conversation. Bye now."

The five wander off in the direction I pointed, eyes glazed over. I breathe a deep sigh of relief, that tonight at least, I never had to turn to plan C. I turn back toward home and by the light of the moon, I see a man standing under the eaves of the building across the street.

He's tall, but not very muscular. His pose is relaxed, and as far from intimidating as a tall person can be. He's dressed finely, in sharp contrast to the men that just left, the sober grey of his garments blending into the shadow.

I look at him a moment, trying to discern whether I accidentally influenced him as well. But he's not heading to the shrine with the others, and his hazel eyes seem clear enough. "That's some trick," he says. "Let me guess, you're an Eclipse Caste?"

I can feel the blood leave my face in a rush. It's finally happened. Someone here knows my secret. I don't want to do it, but I can't allow him leave here with that knowledge. For some people, apparently, persuasion is not enough. So I strike my form, and prepare to attack.

The wind is completely taken out of my sails when he makes a small gesture, and his forehead glows with golden light: a circle, half shaded, the mark of a Twilight Exalted.

I immediately break my stance. "I- You're- I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to unduly influence you. I just didn't want to hurt anyone. Please accept my apology."

I stand there for a moment, eyes downcast, and wait. The silence is too long. When I look up, he's staring at me intently. "I was able to throw off the power of your suggestion, so there's no harm done. I appreciate your desire to find a nonviolent solution. Think nothing of it. I am curious, however. I don't recall seeing you around town. What's your name?"

"Sapphire River at Midnight," I answer after a moment's hesitation.

"Really?" he asked. "That doesn't sound much like a Realm name."

"What?! Is it that obvious?" I cry out.

"Calm down. I'm hardly the casual observer. What's your real name?" he asks.

I don't really like the direction this conversation is headed, and I start looking around for an avenue of escape. I mean, it hardly matters if another Solar knows that I'm a Solar; who's he going to tell? But I'll be damned if I'm going to give up all my secrets to some stranger in Nexus, Solar or no.

I think he realizes it when he says, "I'm sorry, I'm curious by nature. Sapphire River at Midnight it is. The name's Galen. Look, it's late (or early, depending on how you look at it) and I'm sure you'd like to get home. I could walk with you, so you aren't quite so...tempting a target."

I consider his offer for a moment. He has a point. Plus, he's the only other Exalted I've met. I'm not quite ready to let him fade back into the night. So, I sigh and take his arm, and we walk through this rundown town as dawn begins to make the sky blush.

-- ''from [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s private notes''

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire River at Midnight

2007-02-24T00:34:06Z

Lesleymac:

'''Sapphire's Past'''
* [[Part One: When the Student Is Ready...]]
* [[Part Two: Tea and Sympathy]]
* [[Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows]]
* [[Part Four: Deliberate Cruelty]]

'''Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste'''

'''Motivation:''' A closely guarded secret

'''Intimacies:'''
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* Nexus has some problems now, but it is unique, and will shine like a diamond if I have my way.
* The Dragonblooded are not inherently evil, just horribly, horribly misguided.
* The circle can accomplish great things, and I will protect them through whatever means necessary, even from themselves
* Lu Fei is handy to have around
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'''Attributes'''

Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3

Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

'''Abilities'''

Martial Arts*: 5, Athletics: 2, Awareness: 3, Stealth: 2, Integrity: 2,
Performance*: 5, Presence*: 4, Resistence*: 5, Survival: 1, Bureucracy*: 1, Linguistics*: 2, Ride*: 2, Socialize*: 3, Lore: 1, Occult*: 5

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'''Specialties'''

Sorcery: 1

'''Charms'''

[http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls Sapphire River at Midnight's many charms…]

'''Other'''

Resources: 3, Manse: 5, Followers: 3

Compassion: 3, Conviction: 3, Temperance: 1, Valor: 2

Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty 
Limit: 9/10

Soak: 3B/1L

Health: 0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Inc

Essence 5, Willpower 6

Essence Pool: 21 Personal, 42 Peripheral, (8 Comm.)

Regular Combat: Dodge DV 4, Parry DV 6

Social Combat: Dodge MDV 6, Parry MDV 5 (Form - 8)

'''Artifacts'''

Bitter Resolution: Speed 4, Acc +2, Dam +3, Def +4, Rate 4

Dragon's Tear Tiara

Jade Hearthstone Bracers

'''Hearthstones'''

* Gem of Grace: (LV 3 Solar) Adds 3 dice to Charisma and Manipulation rolls
* Jewel of the Graceful Courtier: (LV 2 Solar) Same effects as "Mastery of Small Manners"
* Adder's Eye: (LV 3 Wood) Adds coral snake venom to attacks

'''Unspent Experience:''' 12 (as of 2/16)
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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Hsuan Lin

2007-02-24T00:23:05Z

Lesleymac:

The Soft Breath of Seasons

2007-02-23T17:28:52Z

Lesleymac:

* Year 0 in the Eye of Hiparkes
** [[A School For All]]
** [[The First Generation]]: The First of the Amalgams.
** [[Spring Market]]
** [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]
* [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: Stories from the 5 brave amalgams sent into the east.
** [[Chapter 1]]: We are the Daybringers!
** [[Chapter 2]]: Wing's Three Gifts.
** [[Chapter 3]]: There is only one Yao Ye.
*** [[Gaiden 3.5]]: Shai Mei's roots run deep.
** [[Chapter 4]]: Showmanship and Selara.
** [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
*** [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
*** [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools
** [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
*** [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
** [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring
*** [[Gaiden 7.5]]: What might have been.
** Appendix 1: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
** Appendix 2: [[Reckoning of Heroes Unsung]]: List and locations of three remaining directional teams.
* The Methods of the Minister of War
** [[Battle of the Glass Canyon]]
** [[Battle of Breaking Iron]]
** [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
** [[War Games]]
** [[Gossip in the Barracks]]
* Distant Thunder: Stories from the time immediately following Lytek's Admonition
** [[Four Farewells]]: Nameless Ravine begins a season of wandering.
** [[Hope in Varsi]]: A nameless monk. A stern abbot. A selfless act.
** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]: In love, as in war, timing is everything.
** [[Something to Break]]: The twins make a discovery.
** [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]: Thirsty Soku wins another battle... and loses another war.
** [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]: Nameless Ravine sets a trap for his alter-ego.
** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]: It's not about whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
* While the cat's away: Stories of the Scavenger Lands in the days of the greater circle's meditation.
** [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies struggle to keep the the Marukan running without their powerful leaders.
** [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]: Choshu Ishi learns what it means to be a hero and leader of men.
*** [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]: Choshu Ishi's second encounter with Mayhiros Xenon.
**** [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]]: Choshu Ishi's final(?) confrontation with his foe.
** [[Falling Bridges]]: Rivers and Mite Xu discuss bridges in the Southern Marukan.
** [[Responsibility and Authority]]: The ruination of a good breakfast.
** [[A Gift of Blades]]: Remember kids, never take candy from strangers...
* On Distant Seas and Shores: While the circle rides the Scavenger Lands in the wake of their new power, their allies are busy elsewhere.
** The Second Southern Expedition: Nameless Ravine and his allies fight a shadow war in the no-man's-land between Marukan and Thorns
*** [[Not One Tiger Warrior]]: Cathak Nekuto loses his temper.
*** [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]]: The makings of a deadly mistake.
*** [[Gaiden 7.5]], No Man's Land: Shai Mei reflects on Doing Good and Being Awesome.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]]: Soho delivers an improbably homily to an even less probable audience.
*** [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]: The Mask's servants learn, yet again, that the Nameless Ravine does not negotiate with the dead.
*** [[Divine Intervention]]: After Nameless Ravine confronts yet another of the Mask's abominations, Soho makes a terrible mistake.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]]: Sha Yan Shi has a fateful encounter with an old enemy
*** [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]]: Nameless Ravine buys some time for his comrades.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night]]: The last two members of the expedition are reunited in shadow and grief.
*** [[Oaths and Reflections]]: The expedition may be concluded, but what will become of the traitor? And what ever happened to Sha Yan Shi?
** [[A Gift of Blades pt2]]: Hsuan Lin kicks ass, takes names; gets ass kicked, name taken.
** [[Voices Prophesying War]]: A message from [[An Oathsworn Circle|the solars]] to the [[Roseblack]]
** [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]: Effortless demon summoning with a side of introspection.

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

The Fivefold Chronology

2007-02-23T09:21:12Z

Lesleymac:

The Fivefold Chronology strives to include every narrative entry, arranged in fictional-chronology order, independent of when they were actually authored.

Anything that could conceivably have happened before the Battle at the Glass Canyon has been lumped in the "Backstory" section, with no particular sense of ordering.

When there are multiple overlapping many-part stories involving PCs and their servants, I've mixed them together in an attempt to highlight the closeness of back-to-back episodes (e.g. [[Reforging the Promise]]/[[Rededicating the Promise]]), and to separate episodes that have substantial travel or downtime between them (most Daybringers chapters, with the notable exception of [[Chapter 4]] and [[Chapter 5]]).

When the timing of entries are ambiguous, the entries are clustered in the following order: Circle activities come first, followed by Tier-2 (DBs and gods), then Tier-3(Saga of the Daybringers, Servants of the Righteous), then Tier-4 activities (Other non-SotD, non-SoR amalgam groups). Finally, groups of chronologically-ambiguous links concerning the activities of the party's foes tend to be grouped towards the end of a session. Regarding dates: These become increasingly inaccurate towards the beginning.

Occasionally, a link will be located at or near the end of a session for no other reason than that it provides an appropriate note of closure (as in [[The Price You Pay]]), or because the entry directly foreshadows the events of a subsequent session (as in [[Something to Break]]).

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Storyline tags:

DB: Chronicles of the Daybringers

GC: God Crossing

IC: Infinite City

MFL: Marukan First Legion

NRW: Nameless Ravine's Wanderings

SCS: Solar Circle Sorcery

SoR: Servants of the Righteous

SSE: Second Southern Expedition

SSW: Seven Seasons Widow

TK: Tea and Karma

ToW: Nameless Ravine's Nightmare - the Torrent of Woe

TP: The Promise

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-- Backstory - in no particular order--

[[Leaf Shakes the Wind]]

[[Mayhiros Tesos]] - first part

[[Rhianna]]

[[Mayhiros Ruja]]

[[The Mourning Field]]

[[Shouting With Iron]]

[[Soft the Valley's Song]]

[[Virra Amalia]]

[[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

[[Third-Arm Glaive]]

[[Chokhan Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]] (TaK)

[[Recollections of Tea and Karma]] (TaK)

[[Rivers Between Us]]

[[Sapphire's Past]]

[[Storm of Amber]]

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-- Dawn of the Third Age (from Game Start through Breaking Iron)--

[[Nameless Ravine]] (TaK)

[[Hiparkes' Mirror]]

[[The Xuan Wu Academy]]

[[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]

[[The Dryads]]

[[Amilar Amaki]]

[[Othoclase]]

[[God Crossing]] - first part (GC)

[[The Well of Roots]]

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--The Battle of Breaking Iron: Circa Descending Fire, RY 768--

[[The Plan For The Promise]] (TP)

[[The Gathering of The Promise]] (TP)

[[The Forging of The Promise]] (TP)

[[The Tempering of the Promise]] (TP)

[[Farewell to the Promise]] (TP)

[[Battle of Breaking Iron]] (MFL)

[[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]] (MFL)

[[Clearfield]] (MFL)

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--Failure and Intrigue: Circa Ascending Water, RY 769--

[[Kena]] - Part 1 (SSW)

[[The Divisions]]

[[Allat]]

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--The Halls of Venus: Circa Resplendant Water, RY 769--

[[The Halls of Venus]] (IC)

[[Flying Pearl Lake]] (first part)

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--The City Mastered: Circa Resplendant Water, RY 769--

[[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]] (IC)

[[Ma-Ha-Suchi]] (IC)

[[A School For All]] (GC)

[[Serpent Swords]] (IC)

[[Spring Market]] (GC)

[[Tokaki Kui]]

[[The First Generation]] (GC, DB)

[[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

[[V'Neef Pahul]]

[[The Qinglong Alliance]] - The Living Voice of Ami Kang

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--Lookshy Strikes Back...er... First: Circa Resplendent Wood, RY 769--

[[Iselsi Augus]]

[[Kena]] - Part 2 (SSW)

[[Pai and Pei]]

[[Chapter 1]] (DB)

[[Lyssa]] (IC, SSW)

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--Civil War Averted: Circa Descending Wood, RY 769--

[[Storm's Eye Hill]] - first part

[[Chapter 2]] (DB)

[[Blood Like Sparks]] (DB)

[[Chapter 3]] (DB)

[[The Southern Expedition]] - first two parts

[[A Lesson In Humility]]

[[God Crossing]] - Rivers' Day Off (GC)

[[Subaru Mao]]

[[Fenghuang Temple]]

[[Deren's Ford]]

[[Puyo]]

[[Varsi]]

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--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips: Circa Descending Wood, RY 769--

[[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]] (TK)

[[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]] (TK)

[[An Early Departure]] (SCS, SSW)

[[The Reprimand]] (SCS, TK)

[[Site 1: Firewander]] (SCS)

[[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] (TK, MFL)

[[Site 2: Rathess]] (SCS, SoR)

[[Bones Like Jade]] (SCS, SoR)

[[Gaiden 3.5]] (DB, SoR)

[[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]] (TK)

[[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]] (SCS)

[[Site 4: An Teng]] (SCS)

[[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]

[[Chapter 4]] (DB)

[[Chapter 5]] (DB)

[[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]] (GB)

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--Insults Answered: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--

[[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]] (GC)

[[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]

[[My Town]]

[[War Games]] (MFL)

[[Alabaster Sunset]]

[[The Marukan Alliance]]

[[Crumbling Pillar]]

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--Oops.: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--

[[Act 1: Curtain Call]] (ToW)

[[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]] (ToW)

[[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]] (ToW)

[[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]] (ToW)

[[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]] (ToW)

[[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]] (ToW)

[[Cerulean Sage]]

[[Marta]], second part (SSW)

[[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]

[[Weeping Jade]]

[[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]] (SSW)

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--Servants of the Righteous: Parts 1-3: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--

[[Gaiden 5.5]] (SoR, DB)

[[Gaiden 5.6]] (SoR)

[[Lu Fei]] - First Part (SoR)

[[Shai Mei]] (SoR)

[[Lu Fei]] - A Letter from a Most Unworthy Brush (SoR)

[[Sha Yan Shi]] (SoR)

[[Raging Panda]]

[[The Halls of Venus]] - second part (SSW, IC)

[[Unity of Dreams]] (SCS, SSW)

[[Seven Season's Widow]] (SSW, IC)

[[Chapter 6]] (DB)

[[Reforging the Promise]] (TP)

[[Rededicating the Promise]] (SSW, TP)

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--Messages and their Bearers: 3rd Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--

[[The Qilin Fellowship]]

[[Flame-bond Forge]] - The Forge's New Master (SoR)

[[Choshu Ishi]] (SoR)

[[Gaiden 6.5]] (SoR)

[[Flying Pearl Lake]] - Soho's tour (SoR)

[[Agathon's Findings]] (SoR)

[[Amilar Agathon]] (SoR)

[[Mayhiros Tesos]] - second part

[[Typhon]]

[[The Price You Pay]]

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--A Trial of Valor: 12th Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--

[[Crucible of Celestial Portion]] (SSW, IC)

[[Nama Bi]] (SoR)

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--The Consequences of Action: 23rd Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--

[[Storm's Eye Hill]] - "In the Dragon's Wake" (SSW)

[[The Southern Expedition]] - The End and the Beginning

[[Thorns]]

[[Juggernaut]] (SSW)

[[Four Farewells]] (NRW)

[[Amilar Vondy]]

[[Hope in Varsi]] (NRW)

[[Chapter 7]] (DB)

[[Soho]] (SoR)

[[Red the Sage's Roots]] (SoR)

[[Something to Break]]

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--The Righteous Strike Back: 1st Day of Calibration, between RY 769 and 770--

[[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

[[Open Skies Above]] (SSW)

[[Storm's Eye Hill]] - "Singular Geomancy"

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]] (NRW)

[[House of Courage]]

[[Putting Out Fires]] (SSW)

[[Falling Bridges]]

[[The Five Changes of Fire]]

[[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]

[[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]

[[A Gift of Blades]] (SoR)

[[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]] (NRW)

[[Shadow of a Different Sun]]

[[Responsibility and Authority]] (SSW)

[[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]] (ToW, NRW)

[[Rivers Between Us]] - Epilogue

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--Distant Peals of Thunder: 28th Day of Resplendent Water, RY 770--

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]] (TK, ToW, SoR)

[[The Righteous Stair]]

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--Wind in the Doorway: 29th Day of Resplendant Water, RY 770--

[[Choshu Aya]] (SoR)

[[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]] (SoR)

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--Darkening Skies--

[[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]] (SoR)

[[Not One Tiger Warrior]] (SSE)

[[A Conspiracy of Virtue]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Secret Avalanche]]

[[Root of the East]]

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--Sapphire's Bad Day--

[[Sapphire's Bad Day]]

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Divine Intervention]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night]] (SSE, SoR)

[[Voices Prophesying War]]

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

A Gift of Blades

2007-02-23T09:15:27Z

Lesleymac:

"Damn, that's a long list..." [[Hsuan Lin]] looked in dismay at the list she'd compiled over the past week in [[Celeren]]. Seventeen organizations and individuals given names such as "Overzealous Immaculates", "Super Creepy Lady in Black", "Pathetic Wannabe Wyld Hunt", and "Tough Old Guy that Smells like the Sea" filled a sheet of cheap paper. For just a second, she thought about crumpling the paper up, and throwing it on the fire. That might actually be of more use than what she had originally planned.

She stood, and streched, muscles tired from sitting and scheming in her cramped little room on the poorer side of town. For the past few months, she had been travelling from city to city. At first, it was just because she could- and because none of the places she visited was [[Nexus]]. But eventually, the newness wore off and boredom set in. And then one day, quite by accident, she found a way to both never be bored again, and attempt to repay the [[Sapphire River at Midnight|one]] who gave her a way out.

Thus the list.

On some level, she knew, it was a hopeless gesture. Solars have power to challenge even the gods. And they do. [[Storm of Amber|Some of them]] quite regularly. And that kind of power, so effortlessly wielded, seems to attract mighty opposition: abyssals, lunars, dragon-bloods, demons, elementals, gods, ghosts, ''other solars''; you name it. Against most of these, Hsuan Lin knew she could do nothing. But... if the ghost was not the ghost of an ancient lunar she could possibly beat it; if the god was one of the innumerable small gods, she would have a chance. And what about the boring everyday people (both villainous and virtuous) who didn't have sense enough not to get involved in the Solar's affairs? Such power as the Solars command would be demeaned if wasted on these small concerns.

So Hsuan Lin kept her ear to the ground, hoarding gossip the way that some people hoard gold, and eventually the list took shape. So far, in most of the places she had stopped, there was no real reason to write things down, either because nothing sinister was going on, or because there was no one at her level to oppose. Celeren, though, was different.

"Seventeen!" she hissed, "and most of them acting so damned mysterious!" It was a constant source of irritation to Hsuan Lin that spies and schemers were not overt. "There has to be someone on this list that I can do something about. Hmmm..." She scanned the list quickly, and read "Overly Enthusiastic Weaver" a third of the way through the page. Hsuan Lin shrugged. "It's not the creepy, pale-skinned witch wearing black from head to toe, but whatever."

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"Um, no, I'm not really in the market for cloth of such...vigorous...hues." The cloth in question was quite hideous, but still, the weaver's face fell. "Actually," Hsaun Lin hurried to explain, "I heard that you've been asking around about the 'Sixteenth Son'." The man's eyes went wide, and he dropped the blue and orange cloth. He glanced quickly across the marketplace, but saw no one taking a special interest in their conversation. "Let me guess," she continued. "You read his sutras, didn't you? And I assume you know something about the man who wrote them, or you wouldn't be so nervous."

For just a moment,the man's gaze was piercing. But then, as he realized that she was definately an outsider very laconically discussing anathema, he relaxed a little. "What is your interest in The Teacher?" he asked suspiciously.

Hsuan Lin was only slightly surprised by [[Nameless Ravine]]'s new name. "I am an ally of the Solars of Marukan. I don't want to see your interest in the Nameless Ravine cause him trouble. Also, you haven't been especially cautious in the way you ask after him. People are starting to notice. The wrong people would think nothing of crushing you to strike at him." The weaver's face paled, as if he had not fully considered this possibility.

He hung his head. "I should have been more careful...but I just had to know more!" When he looked up, Hsuan Lin was momentarily taken aback by the fervent look burning in his eyes. "He writes with such wisdom, such passion! And the letters themselves are beautiful beyond anything else I have ever seen!" He lowered his voice still further and added, "There are many of us in this town that have seen, and are no longer content to blindly follow the dead rules of the immaculate order."

"...ok. Well. Um. Yes. How about this: I will send a letter of your composition to the Nameless Ravine, that he might...ah...illuminate you more fully...but in return you've got to stop asking around about him and act like the subversive '''''secret''''' society you are. Deal?"

The man practically wept as he agreed. "I will need time to preprare this letter. It must be perfect. Perfect! Can you return here this afternoon?" Hsuan Lin nodded. "Bless you; bless you," he murmured as he hastily closed up shop.

----

Late in the day, as the streets of the marketplace were dyed a dull red from the setting sun, Hsuan Lin made her way back to the weaver's stand. Though the day was wearing on, the market was still busy; the streets were still crowded.

Her afternoon had not gone so well as the morning, and she had failed to locate either the preteen "Pathetic Wannabe Wyld Hunt" or the "Ninja-like Man in Black". She did, however, locate the "Weird Little Girl" but it turned out that the girl didn't actually know anything about the Solars; she just wanted to sound tough by talking about Anathema. Hsuan Lin also located the "Overzealous Immaculates" completely on accident, and was careful to steer clear of them.

She was about two blocks away from the appointed meeting place when the kindly old man stopped her. "Excuse me, miss?" She heard the voice from behind, and turned to see who would actually talking to her. Between her unnaturally luminous green eyes, her too pale porcelain skin, and the twin hilts of the daiclaives rising over her shoulders, people didn't usually try to make small talk.

"Me?" she asked, slightly puzzled. Puzzlement became wariness when the older gentleman audibly gasped. ''It's my eyes'', Hsuan Lin thought. ''But even so, most people don't react so strongly...''

"You...are you Hsuan Lin?" She frowned slightly as she considered lying to him. ''Nothing good can come of this.'' But before she could pretend that he was mistaken, he shook his head, as if at his own foolishness. "No. Nevermind. You must be. You look just like her."

At this point, Hsuan Lin forgot how to play nice. "Who are you?" she asked with deceptive calm, as she casually rested her hand on the hilt of one of the Unnamed Blades.

The older man's eyes flicked to where her hand rested so easily, but almost immediately he looked back to her uncanny gaze. "Just a friend of your mother's," he replied, sincerely. "How is Xia Ming?" he asked, lightly touching her shoulder, in a most unexpected move.

She shrugged out of his grasp, and her eyes were like thunder as she said, "I wouldn't know. I haven't seen her in nearly a decade." She remembered, as much as she didn't want to, the last time she saw Xia Ming- eyes glazed over, lost in some happy delusion of her own making; always looking for the next high, and never too particular about how she got it. Hsuan walked out on her for good when she was just twelve years old, and joined one of the many gangs of children on the streets of Nexus. She tried very, very hard to never look back.

The older gentleman seemed incredibly sad for a moment, as if he could hear what Hsuan wasn't saying. But then his face softened; he smiled and said, "But you ''are'' Hsuan Lin, daughter of Xia Ming?" Hsuan nodded tersely, and he took a small wooden box, intricately carved, from the depths of his flowing sleeve. "Take this, then; I was asked to bring it to you." He laughed soundlessly, then said, "Use it well; something tells me you'll need it."

She held the box, unsure whether to accept it. It was beautifully worked...but she would not be beholden to anyone. Ultimately, he made the decision for her, walking away; fading into the street traffic all too quickly. Before she could give the box back, he was gone.

She was left standing in the street; an invisible bubble surrounding her as the people filing past unconciously kept their distance. She opened the box then, and saw against a lining of black velvet two finely wrought knives, exceptional in quality, perfectly balanced, almost as if they were made for her hands. They were silver, with a tracing of fine gold wire to add a touch of delicacy. They were beautiful. Instinctively she knew that they somehow belonged with her.

She hid the box in the pocket of her robe; and if she was distracted as she retrieved Nameless Ravine's letter, the weaver was far too excited to notice.

-----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

A Gift of Blades

2007-02-23T07:01:32Z

Lesleymac:

A Gift of Blades

2007-02-23T06:58:06Z

Lesleymac:

A Gift of Blades

2007-02-23T04:46:13Z

Lesleymac:

A Gift of Blades

2007-02-23T04:42:19Z

Lesleymac:

The Soft Breath of Seasons

2007-02-23T01:37:11Z

Lesleymac:

* Year 0 in the Eye of Hiparkes
** [[A School For All]]
** [[The First Generation]]: The First of the Amalgams.
** [[Spring Market]]
** [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]
* [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: Stories from the 5 brave amalgams sent into the east.
** [[Chapter 1]]: We are the Daybringers!
** [[Chapter 2]]: Wing's Three Gifts.
** [[Chapter 3]]: There is only one Yao Ye.
*** [[Gaiden 3.5]]: Shai Mei's roots run deep.
** [[Chapter 4]]: Showmanship and Selara.
** [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
*** [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
*** [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools
** [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
*** [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
** [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring
*** [[Gaiden 7.5]]: What might have been.
** Appendix 1: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
** Appendix 2: [[Reckoning of Heroes Unsung]]: List and locations of three remaining directional teams.
* The Methods of the Minister of War
** [[Battle of the Glass Canyon]]
** [[Battle of Breaking Iron]]
** [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
** [[War Games]]
** [[Gossip in the Barracks]]
* Distant Thunder: Stories from the time immediately following Lytek's Admonition
** [[Four Farewells]]: Nameless Ravine begins a season of wandering.
** [[Hope in Varsi]]: A nameless monk. A stern abbot. A selfless act.
** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]: In love, as in war, timing is everything.
** [[Something to Break]]: The twins make a discovery.
** [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]: Thirsty Soku wins another battle... and loses another war.
** [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]: Nameless Ravine sets a trap for his alter-ego.
** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]: It's not about whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
* While the cat's away: Stories of the Scavenger Lands in the days of the greater circle's meditation.
** [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies struggle to keep the the Marukan running without their powerful leaders.
** [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]: Choshu Ishi learns what it means to be a hero and leader of men.
*** [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]: Choshu Ishi's second encounter with Mayhiros Xenon.
**** [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]]: Choshu Ishi's final(?) confrontation with his foe.
** [[Falling Bridges]]: Rivers and Mite Xu discuss bridges in the Southern Marukan.
** [[Responsibility and Authority]]: The ruination of a good breakfast.
** [[A Gift of Blades]]: Hsuan Lin kicks ass; takes names.
* On Distant Seas and Shores: While the circle rides the Scavenger Lands in the wake of their new power, their allies are busy elsewhere.
** The Second Southern Expedition: Nameless Ravine and his allies fight a shadow war in the no-man's-land between Marukan and Thorns
*** [[Not One Tiger Warrior]]: Cathak Nekuto loses his temper.
*** [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]]: The makings of a deadly mistake.
*** [[Gaiden 7.5]], No Man's Land: Shai Mei reflects on Doing Good and Being Awesome.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]]: Soho delivers an improbably homily to an even less probable audience.
*** [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]: The Mask's servants learn, yet again, that the Nameless Ravine does not negotiate with the dead.
*** [[Divine Intervention]]: After Nameless Ravine confronts yet another of the Mask's abominations, Soho makes a terrible mistake.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]]: Sha Yan Shi has a fateful encounter with an old enemy
*** [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]]: Nameless Ravine buys some time for his comrades.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night]]: The last two members of the expedition are reunited in shadow and grief.
*** [[Oaths and Reflections]]: The expedition may be concluded, but what will become of the traitor? And what ever happened to Sha Yan Shi?
** [[Voices Prophesying War]]: A message from [[An Oathsworn Circle|the solars]] to the [[Roseblack]]
** [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]: Effortless demon summoning with a side of introspection.

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

A Gift of Blades

2007-02-23T01:34:07Z

Lesleymac:

The Soft Breath of Seasons

2007-02-23T00:48:23Z

Lesleymac:

* Year 0 in the Eye of Hiparkes
** [[A School For All]]
** [[The First Generation]]: The First of the Amalgams.
** [[Spring Market]]
** [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]
* [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: Stories from the 5 brave amalgams sent into the east.
** [[Chapter 1]]: We are the Daybringers!
** [[Chapter 2]]: Wing's Three Gifts.
** [[Chapter 3]]: There is only one Yao Ye.
*** [[Gaiden 3.5]]: Shai Mei's roots run deep.
** [[Chapter 4]]: Showmanship and Selara.
** [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
*** [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
*** [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools
** [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
*** [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
** [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring
*** [[Gaiden 7.5]]: What might have been.
** Appendix 1: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
** Appendix 2: [[Reckoning of Heroes Unsung]]: List and locations of three remaining directional teams.
* The Methods of the Minister of War
** [[Battle of the Glass Canyon]]
** [[Battle of Breaking Iron]]
** [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
** [[War Games]]
** [[Gossip in the Barracks]]
* Distant Thunder: Stories from the time immediately following Lytek's Admonition
** [[Four Farewells]]: Nameless Ravine begins a season of wandering.
** [[Hope in Varsi]]: A nameless monk. A stern abbot. A selfless act.
** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]: In love, as in war, timing is everything.
** [[Something to Break]]: The twins make a discovery.
** [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]: Thirsty Soku wins another battle... and loses another war.
** [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]: Nameless Ravine sets a trap for his alter-ego.
** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]: It's not about whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
* While the cat's away: Stories of the Scavenger Lands in the days of the greater circle's meditation.
** [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies struggle to keep the the Marukan running without their powerful leaders.
** [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]: Choshu Ishi learns what it means to be a hero and leader of men.
*** [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]: Choshu Ishi's second encounter with Mayhiros Xenon.
**** [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]]: Choshu Ishi's final(?) confrontation with his foe.
** [[Falling Bridges]]: Rivers and Mite Xu discuss bridges in the Southern Marukan.
** [[Responsibility and Authority]]: The ruination of a good breakfast.
* On Distant Seas and Shores: While the circle rides the Scavenger Lands in the wake of their new power, their allies are busy elsewhere.
** The Second Southern Expedition: Nameless Ravine and his allies fight a shadow war in the no-man's-land between Marukan and Thorns
*** [[Not One Tiger Warrior]]: Cathak Nekuto loses his temper.
*** [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]]: The makings of a deadly mistake.
*** [[Gaiden 7.5]], No Man's Land: Shai Mei reflects on Doing Good and Being Awesome.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]]: Soho delivers an improbably homily to an even less probable audience.
*** [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]: The Mask's servants learn, yet again, that the Nameless Ravine does not negotiate with the dead.
*** [[Divine Intervention]]: After Nameless Ravine confronts yet another of the Mask's abominations, Soho makes a terrible mistake.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]]: Sha Yan Shi has a fateful encounter with an old enemy
*** [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]]: Nameless Ravine buys some time for his comrades.
*** [[Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night]]: The last two members of the expedition are reunited in shadow and grief.
*** [[Oaths and Reflections]]: The expedition may be concluded, but what will become of the traitor? And what ever happened to Sha Yan Shi?
** [[Voices Prophesying War]]: A message from [[An Oathsworn Circle|the solars]] to the [[Roseblack]]
** [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]: Effortless demon summoning with a side of introspection.

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Sapphire's Bad Day

2007-02-22T07:21:36Z

Lesleymac:

"It all went wrong," she thinks, "when I attempted to land the warbird on a barge floating in the middle of the Yellow River." Sapphire sits on the banks of that very river as the sun is going down. Her face is streaked with dirt, and her beautiful silk (midnight blue to match her eyes) has seen better days. "Even then," she reflects, "it wouldn't have been that bad had I not sunk like a stone. I can't believe that Leaf had to rescue me. I've never had to save him from anything. So embarrassing!" She stands, and raises a hand to cover her face. It's been that kind of day.

She dusts off her ruined kimono (trying not to notice that it makes no difference; it's far too late for that now), and gets to work. She clears a patch of the river bank, tossing away rocks, and tearing up what little grass has taken root until she has a suitable section of bare, slightly damp earth. She then starts sketching out her circle. She works, by the silver light of her anima, still deep in thought. "And then, out of nowhere, he asked me about Galen. It probably shouldn't have surprised me; I know how people persist in putting two and two together to get three. And Leaf...it's as though secrets are looking for him. But I've been a part of this circle for nearly a year. I guess... I just hope that they, of all people, won't believe the worst of me."

She has to stop as she thinks about Galen. Time has passed, and though it's not the raw wound it was, still her hands start to shake. She clenches them into fists, and for just a moment, she feels again the grief, the icy rage, the commitment to revenge. But then she calms herself, and relaxes her hands, continuing her preparations. She removes from her pack the small box of salt she keeps for just such an occasion, and evaluates it carefully. It will do.

As she begins tracing the circle in pure salt, adding complexity with each graceful gesture of her hand, she considers the final indignities of the day. "I can't believe that even now, no one knows who I am. You'd think that being able to summon a kraken of liquid hot magma would count for something, but no, apparently that's pretty forgettable. And then when the commander tried to oppose us, instead of hitting anyone, I tripped and fell on my face. Great, just great. Now I'll forever be known as that clumsy girl who hangs out with the Solars of Marukan."

She stands back to survey her work. She makes sure that every line connects, that the pattern is flawless and complete. She has learned the lesson of being absolutely certain of the quality of her circle before proceeding. But this time, at least, not a thing needs to be changed. She smiles and rolls up the sleeve of her robe, tying it in place. She then picks up the knife she borrowed from Lu Fei (who is very definitely somewhere else right now) and cuts lightly across her palm.

At first it doesn't even hurt, but it starts to sting as the cut begins to bleed. "Stupid blood summoning," she thinks, as she hurries to trace the circle one last time before the bleeding stops. "It's so much stronger than summoning without, but it's such a hassle. Oh well." As the last connection is made in blood, and the endless knot is tied, the entire pattern glows with an infernal green light.

She waits as the light grows, and eventually, before her stands a hopping puppeteer. "Not what I expected," she concedes, "but it will work." And then she begins to break the creature's will, methodically shredding its resistance. It cowers before her in the end. "I need you to retrieve my warbird from the riverbed. You will do this one thing for me, and only this one thing. If you fail me, or attempt to betray me in any way, I will scatter your essence to the five poles. Now go."

She stands on the riverbank and watches as the demon races to do her bidding. She decides that no matter what happens tomorrow, it will have to be better than today. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Talk:Heaven's Mandate

2007-02-22T07:18:51Z

Lesleymac: /* Lesley McKeever */

Howdy exalts. Anyway, I thought that we could post here about what we actually did to the site so that we can easily see what kind of new material has been posted. Related changes just doesn't cut it. So, post your latest adds, starting with what you've posted since the last session.

Exp scale (subject to extreme fudging): 
1/2 pt: Half page of flavor, or moderate structural changes. Great for filling in entries on people and places, but doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity. 
1 pt: One or two pages of flavor. Usually more labor intensive, requiring cross-referencing, and they add new information to the setting. 
2(+?) pts: 3 or more pages. These entries are really adventures in themselves, and go beyond character exploration into character development. 

==Hans Andersen==

# New: [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
# New: [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]

(10/27) Bad news for tea-lovers everywhere.

# New: [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]], and an Epilogue: [[The Reprimand]]
# New: Stub entries for Nameless Ravine's father's two Monkey Bodyguards, [[Raging Panda]] (kohai) and [[Leaf-Catcher]] (sempai)
# New: Stub entry for [[Charms of Apotheosis]]

(10/28-10/29) Some post-game follow-up:

# New: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
# New: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
# New: Finale: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]

(11/07) Oops. Some consequences.

# New: Unity of Nightmares, [[Act 1: Curtain Call]]
# Coming Soon: Acts 2-5, plus an intermission. I'll put these on their own page once they're done.

(11/09) Daybringers Fanfic. Heaven help us all. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 1)

# New: Chronicles of the Daybringers, [[Gaiden 3.5]]
# New: Renamed "Unity of Nightmares" to "Nameless Ravine's Nightmare". Added [[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]]

(11/13-11/16) Stone Bone Trees. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 2)

# New: The lead-in for [[Shai Mei]]'s entry got out of hand and turned into its own tale: [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools. Shai Mei's own entry remains blank...
# New: Entry for [[Shai Mei]]. Needless to say, it features rampant tree-philosophy.
# Updated: [[Reforging the Promise]]. Added the results of the first post-reforging test-run.
# New: [[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]]
# New: [[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]]
# Updated: [[Raging Panda]] teaches Nameless Ravine a new charm.
# New: [[Rededicating the Promise]], with a cameo from SSW

(12/21) The Faces of The Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)

# New: [[Clearfield]]
# New: [[Amilar Agathon]]
# Updated: Soho gives us a guided tour of the completely remodelled [[Flying Pearl Lake]]

(12/30) Staring Into the Abyss (A Trial of Valor)

# New: Poor [[Soho]] doesn't have his own entry yet, but he does guest-star in [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
# Updated: [[Sha Yan Shi]] - Added "Part 3: The Calm Before..."
# New: [[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]].
# Coming soon: The (chronologically challenged) nightmare sequence concludes with [[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]]

(1/9) Angry Angry Deathlord (The Consequences of Action)

# New: [[Four Farewells]] - The first part of Nameless Ravine's adventures between the end of the SSW arc and whatever comes next
# New: [[Hope in Varsi]]
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]

(1/14) Beneath Open Skies (The Righteous Strike Back)

# New: [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]
# New: [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]
# New: [[Soho]] finally has a short entry. I think I'll need to play him in game to get a feel for him before he gets some serious adventures of his own.

(1/21) Phoenix Rebirth (Distant Peals of Thunder)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]. I'm enjoying this *way* too much.
# New: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Intended as a list of every entry, arranged in game-world chronological order (regardless of author and date of composition), cross-referenced by subplot. Lots of cleanup and formatting and typo-fixing yet to do. There's almost certainly chronology errors in there as well. Also, someone else should volunteer to add in-game calendar dates to the session-headings.
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Fixed the broken links, and added commentary about the ordering scheme. Added a link off of the main page.

(2/11) Meanwhile... (Darkening Skies)

# New: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added Part 1: "Not One Tiger Warrior"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "A Conspiracy of Virtue"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "No Man's Land". I'm tempted break this tale into multiple pages, in which case "No Man's Land" will probably be reclassified as "Daybringers Gaiden 7.5: What Might have Been". If for no reason other than to goad David into finishing DB8. Curse you Hans!
# The Chronology-monkeys have been busy; the Second Southern Expedition has been split into [[Not One Tiger Warrior]], [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]], and [[Gaiden 7.5]], with more coming soon.

(2/17) Meanwhile... (Sapphire's Bad Day)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] - Best. Topic. Title. EVAR.
# New: [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]
# New: [[Divine Intervention]] - Fun with evil, evil, evil cliffhangers; You are a horrible, horrible man, Hans Christian Andersen. :) - JK
# New: [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] - The funny part is, Jason, there was only a ninety-minute window of truly-evil cliffhanger-dom before I posted this next part. Not that there's any real resolution, but still.
# New" [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]] - The problem with being a half-caste in a full-moon world is that you have to deal with... another Evil, Evil, Cliffhanger! Mwa ha ha! ''She '''''did not''''' just say "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you"...?! -mac''

==David Drake==
# Edit: [[The Vitreous Fulcrum]] now includes changes after the last battle.
# New: road system described under [[Eye of Hiparkes]].
# New: town at the center of the Eye of Hiparkes: [[God Crossing]].
# New: Automata section begun with [[The Gardener]].
# New: Flavor text for [[Selenn]], Nathan's mother, added to the contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Salvar]], Nathan's brother, added to contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Othoclase]], gemlord.

--battle of three forces, 8/12--
# New: [[Battle of Breaking Iron]] is complete (first draft).

--failure and intrigue, 8/20--
# New: [[Kena]], that seductress, added.
# New: [[The Divisions]], the list of good and bad little spirits.

--The Halls of Venus, 9/2--
# New: [[Scales of the Dragon]], the white jade superheavy plate.
# New: [[The Halls of Venus]].
# New: [[Chehbraterazim]], a sobeksis of the grey river.
# Expanded: [[Salvar]].

--The City Mastered, 9/16--
# New: [[A School For All]]: (3/4) news spreads of a school beginning operation in the Plum Blossom Retreat.
# New: [[Spring Market]]: (2/2) Rivers tries to have fun (A compilation project!)
# New: [[Serpent Swords]]: (3/3) Irrational Hope and Unbreakable Faith.
# New: [[The First Generation]]: (2/2) Power and Humanity: the first three amalgams.

--Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First, 9/30--
# New: [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: My totally serious, dark take on what could happen when one of our teams leaves home.
# Expanded: [[Kena]]: Once again, mostly about love, sorcery, and the relationship between Rivers and his mentor.
# New: [[Chapter 1]]: Carnage! Slaughter! We're ready for those things, but can we get a room for the night?
# New: [[Pai and Pei]]: River's assistants.
# New: [[Lyssa]]: Liaison to the Infinite City.
# New: [[Under Bridges]]: River's horse, one of Murakan's finest.

--Civil War Averted, 10/7--
# New: [[Chapter 2]]: Gunzosha Powered Armor: Sure it's sexy, but in the summer?
# New: [[The Bandit King]]: As you get older, the toys just get bigger.
# New: [[Chapter 3]]: Why you don't mess with Yao Ye.
# New: [[Blood Like Sparks]]: Yet another... enemy?
# New: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Doomed souls struggling for the light. 2 quick sections.
# Expanded: [[God Crossing]]: On Rivers' day off, the city's planning must continue.

--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips, 10/21--
# New: [[An Early Departure]]
# New: [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# New: [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# New: [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# New: [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 4]] Melee in the streets of Varsi? 
# New: [[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]]: Fleets.
# New: [[Panoply of the Sun]]: I started it, but it's going to take a beastload of work. Check it out!
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: A quick section added.
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Another quick section added.

--Oops: 11/4--
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
# New: The [[Cerulean Sage]]: Preparing to learn a new style once snake is finished.
# Expanded: Expansion to [[Marta]]: Part 1 of SSW intros, (the test).
# Expanded: [[The Halls of Venus]]: Part 2 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Unity of Dreams]]: Part 3 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Seven Season's Widow]]: An entry of her own. (revised to reflect her lack of athletics).
# Expanded: [[Berren]]: More description of life in God Crossing, with further Lookshy scheming.
# New: [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
# New: [[Reforging the Promise]]
# New: [[Mite Xu]]: just to add a little flavor to our amalgamated servants.
# New: [[Lu Fei]]: Detailing a bit about Lu Fei's bad luck and his present situation.
# New: Expansion of Lu Fei to include the letter requesting amabassadorial status.

--Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers): 12/16/06--
# Expanded: [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# New: Added [[Walker in Darkness]] and three of his servants as blank stubs.
# New: [[Typhon]]. Busy little bugger.

--A Trial of Valor: 12/30/06--
# New: [[Crucible of Celestial Portion]]: It's River's job, so it's off screen, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

--The Consequences of Action: 1/6/07--
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: The End and the Beginning.
# New: [[Amilar Vondy]]: Lookshy politics have grown less subtle of late.
# New: [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring, with an appearance by the newest Daybringer.
# New: [[Thorns]]: I'm not too happy with it, so I'll probably edit it, but it's a little picture of Rivers considering the city of Thorns.
# Edited: Collected gens Amilar under one banner. The house is at the very least neutral, as its head appears to be.

--The Righteous Strike Back: 1/13/07--
# New: [[Open Skies Above]]: Sorry, you're not invited, but you can still send gifts. Hearthstones are preferred.
# New: [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies and busting heads.
# New: [[Falling Bridges]]: Reconstruction in the south, and moderate angst, deflected by Mite Xu.
# New: [[Shadow of a Different Sun]]: Rock and a hard place.
# New: [[Responsibility and Authority]]: Happy endings.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]
# New: [[The Headless]]: Pity Wu.

--Distant Peals of Thunder: 1/20/07--
# New: [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: New page for organizing custom charms, since 1/2 of the players have them.
# New: [[Defy the Armor's Dream]]: Posted the one custom charm that I have in full (I don't have the virtue listed for the spirit charms you sent me, Jason. Sorry!)
# Edited: [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: Added dates as far back as I have them recorded as gm.

--Wind in the Doorway: 1/27/07--
# Expanded: [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: Added a couple of the artifacts from last session.
# Picture: [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]: Crane.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]: Tossed up his intimacies for funsies.

--Darkening Skies: 2/10/07--
# New: [[Secret Avalanche]] gets his own page. I wish I could have written it... without the crappy writing.
# New: [[Root of the East]], Rivers' trusted advisor. Poor devil.

==Jason Kalivas==

Good plan, David!

# (7/30) Added [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (7/30) Added [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (7/30) Added [[The Dryads]]
# (7/31) Added [[Grassfoot]]
# (7/31) Added [[Amilar Amaki]]
# (8/01) Moved River's Automata on the front page, under the [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#The_Book_and_the_Sword|Book and the Sword]] heading, since they're created things and not actual characters.
# (8/01) Changed the formatting for [[An Oathsworn Circle]] to make [[River's Contacts]] stand out better.
# (8/05) Edited David's [[Othoclase]] page, for added evil.
# (8/05) Added a second section to the [[Grassfoot]] page.
# (8/06) Edited [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]] to add a shrine and a way of signalling others.
# (8/06) Edited [[God Crossing]] for logic, clarity and more added evil.

'''8/12: Game Day! Battle of Three Forces'''
# (8/14) Added a second section to [[The Dryads]].
# (8/17) Added [[Lookshy]].
# (8/17) Added [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# (8/19) Added a second section to [[Fear's Umbra]].

'''8/20: Game Day! Failure and Intrigue'''
# (8/26) Listed all of the Mask's known Abyssals on [[Sky-Spanning Devils]].
# (8/26) Added [[Mayhiros Ruja]].
# (8/26) Added [[Rhianna]].

'''9/2: Game Day! The Halls of Venus'''
# (9/4) Added [[The Mourning Field]]
# (9/4) Added [[Flying Pearl Lake]]
# (9/8) Added "At the Altar of Storms" to [[Shouting With Iron]]
# (9/9) Added [[Soft the Valley's Song]]

'''9/16: Game Day! The City Mastered'''
# (9/17) Added [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]
# (9/17) Added [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]
# (9/18) Added [[Ma-Ha-Suchi]]
# (9/18) Added a picture of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (9/24) Began [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

'''9/30: Game Day! Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First'''
# (10/02) Finished [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]
# (10/02) Added [[V'Neef Pahul]]
# (10/06) Added "The Living Voice of Ami Kang" to [[The_Qinglong_Alliance]]
# (10/07) Added "Storm of Amber" to [[Spring Market]]

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/08) Added [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (10/08) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 1
# (10/11) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 2
# (10/14) Added [[Deren's Ford]]
# (10/15) Added [[Puyo]]
# (10/15) Added [[Karacalla]]
# (10/17) Added [[Varsi]], Part 1

'''10/21: Game Day! Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips'''
# (10/22) Added "Fire in the Rain" to [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]

'''10/28: Game Day! Insults Answered'''
# (10/29) Added [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]
# (10/29) Reorganized [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] for clarity; includes moving [[My Town]] to [[Nexus]]
# (10/29) Added [[War Games]]
# (10/29) Added [[A Web Spun From Water]]
# (11/02) Added [[The Marukan Alliance]] - FINALLY!
# (11/04) Added [[Crumbling Pillar]]
# (11/04) Added [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]

'''11/04: Game Day! Oops'''
# (11/04) Reorganized [[Heaven's Mandate]] for clarity - breaking off larger sections into self-contained pages
# (11/05) Added [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]
# (11/19) Added [[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]]
# (11/19) Added [[Weeping Jade]]
# (11/19) Added [[Black Caul Chiurgeons]]

'''12/16: Game Day! Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)'''
# (12/17) Added Part 1 to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''12/30: Game Day! A Trial of Valor'''
# (12/31) Added "The Forge's New Master" to the [[Flame-bond Forge]]
# (12/31) Added [[Choshu Ishi]]
# (12/31) Added "Insolence" to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''1/06: Game Day! Consequences of Action'''
# (1/07) Changed [[A Web Spun From Water]] and [[Storm's Eye Hill]] to account for more defined genders/roles in the [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (1/07) Created [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]] and [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]] to clear up [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] on the Main Page
# (1/07) Added [[Nama Bi]]
# (1/07) Added "In the Dragon's Wake" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (1/07) Added [[Red the Sage's Roots]]
# (1/07) Added pictures to [[Choshu Ishi]], [[Crumbling Pillar]], [[God Crossing]], [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]], [[Nama Bi]] and [[Red the Sage's Roots]]

'''1/13: Game Day! The Righteous Strike Back!'''
# (1/15) Added "Singular Geomancy" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]; in which I try, and fail, to get maudlin
# (1/16) Added [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/17) Added "Lightning Disperses the Clouds" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/18) Added "The Crow Plucks the Corpse's Eye" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added "The Formation Triumphs" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

'''1/20: Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# (1/24) Added [[The Righteous Stair]]

'''1/27: Game Day! Wind in the Doorway'''
# (1/28) Added [[Choshu Aya]].
# (2/05) Added Intimacies for [[Storm of Amber]], [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], [[Cathak Nekuto]], [[Choshu Ishi]] and [[Choshu Aya]]; Storm's are complete, the rest still have some to add, in time.
# (2/05) Added [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]
# (2/05) Edited [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]] to improve the quality.
# (2/08) Added [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]].
# (2/08) Added [[House of Courage]].
# (2/08) Added "In Mountains, Occupy the Heights" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].

'''2/10: Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# (2/11) Added "In Valleys, Deploy for Defense" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].
# (2/11) Added the [[Pearl of Castigation]] to our hearthstones.
# (2/15) Added [[The Five Changes of Fire]]

'''2/17: Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day'''
# (2/17) Added [[Voices Prophesying War]]
# (2/18) Added "The Answer to the Earth" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; anyone who gets the joke gets mad props from me.
# (2/18) Added "The Red Queen" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]
# (2/20) Added "Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; feedback especially appreciated on this one, I'm not sure how I feel about the writing. ''I liked it. Although...are you sure you can't work in a truly heinous cliffhanger ending? -mac''
# (2/20) Rewrote ""Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" on [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]], for added bureaucracy; I'm much, much happier with this version
# (2/20) Added [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]], thus initiating the final chapter in the first Choshu Ishi story; tales of his exploits in the south remain to be heard.
#

==Lukas Myhan==
-- 8/12: Battle of Three Forces
# (8/20): Added [[The Well of Roots]]
# (8/20): Added [[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

-- 8/20: Failure and Intrigue
# (9/02): Added two sections to [[Allat]]

-- 9/2: The Halls of Venus

--9/16: The City Mastered
# (9/25): Added [[Tokaki Kui]]
# (9/29): Contributed last 4 paragraphs to [[The First Generation]]
# (9/30): Contributed Leaf Shakes the Wind's section of [[Spring Market]]

-- 9/30: Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First
# (10/06): Added [[Iselsi Augus]]

-- 10/07: Civil War Averted
# (10/11): Added [[A Lesson In Humility]]
# (10/16): Added [[Subaru Mao]]

-- 10/21: Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips

-- 10/28: Insults Answered
# (11/01): Added "A Matter of Interpretation" to [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# (11/01): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/01): Co-wrote "Trust" in [[Site 4: An Teng]] with David
# (11/02): Added "Old Allies" and Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# (11/02): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade: Stats]]
# (11/03): Added "Duty" to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/03): Added "Perspective" to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/03): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# (11/03): Added [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]
# (11/03): Added [[Alabaster Sunset]]
# (11/03): Added Black Widow Razors, Sling of Deadly Prowess, Hearthstone Bracers, and Amulet of Shadow Walking to [[Panoply of the Sun]]
# (11/04): Added [[The Assassin's Library]]

-- 11/04: Oops!
# (11/15): Added "Twofold" to [[The Empty Garden]]
# (11/21): Added "Part 1: Arrival" to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (12/16): Faces of the Enemy
# (12/28): Added "Part 2: The Pen Is Mightier..." to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (1/06): The Consequences of Action
# (1/11): Added [[Juggernaut]]
# (1/11): Added [[Something to Break]]

-- (1/13): The Righteous Strike Back
# (1/19): Added [[Chain of Regrets]]

== Joe Jay-Dixon ==

10/17: Added four Abyssals to the Mask's roster, from a discussion on RPGnet.

==Lesley McKeever==

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/16) Added a new enemy, [[Virra Amalia]]
# (10/20) Added Part One (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)
# (10/28) Added Part Two (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)

'''12/16 Game Day! Messages and Their Bearers'''
# Working on [[The Price You Pay]]
# Working on Part Three

'''1/20 Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# New: Sapphire's Stats are [[Sapphire River at Midnight|here]]
# Updated: Edited [[Hearthstones]] to add Sapphire's hearthstones
# Updated: Edited [[Solar-Forged Glories]] to add Sapphire's artifacts

'''2/10 Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# Updated: Edited [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire's stats]]
# Updated: Added Charms spreadsheet [http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls here]
# Updated: Part Two of [[Sapphire's Past]] edited extensively
# New: Added Hsuan Lin's [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]

'''2/17 Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day''' 
''Honestly, sometimes I wonder if anyone likes anything they write.''
 This week, it is my intention to finish at least three articles and add them to the wiki. Wish me luck! and/or mock me mercilessly should I fail. 
# New: it will be called [[Walls and Tall Shadows]]
# New: it will be called [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
# New: it will be called [[A Gift of Blades]]
# Updated: Finished spending Hsuan Lin's banked exp and updated her [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]
# Updated: Edited several articles, mainly to make character names fit convention

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Talk:Heaven's Mandate

2007-02-21T16:26:45Z

Lesleymac: /* Lesley McKeever */

Howdy exalts. Anyway, I thought that we could post here about what we actually did to the site so that we can easily see what kind of new material has been posted. Related changes just doesn't cut it. So, post your latest adds, starting with what you've posted since the last session.

Exp scale (subject to extreme fudging): 
1/2 pt: Half page of flavor, or moderate structural changes. Great for filling in entries on people and places, but doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity. 
1 pt: One or two pages of flavor. Usually more labor intensive, requiring cross-referencing, and they add new information to the setting. 
2(+?) pts: 3 or more pages. These entries are really adventures in themselves, and go beyond character exploration into character development. 

==Hans Andersen==

# New: [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
# New: [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]

(10/27) Bad news for tea-lovers everywhere.

# New: [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]], and an Epilogue: [[The Reprimand]]
# New: Stub entries for Nameless Ravine's father's two Monkey Bodyguards, [[Raging Panda]] (kohai) and [[Leaf-Catcher]] (sempai)
# New: Stub entry for [[Charms of Apotheosis]]

(10/28-10/29) Some post-game follow-up:

# New: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
# New: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
# New: Finale: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]

(11/07) Oops. Some consequences.

# New: Unity of Nightmares, [[Act 1: Curtain Call]]
# Coming Soon: Acts 2-5, plus an intermission. I'll put these on their own page once they're done.

(11/09) Daybringers Fanfic. Heaven help us all. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 1)

# New: Chronicles of the Daybringers, [[Gaiden 3.5]]
# New: Renamed "Unity of Nightmares" to "Nameless Ravine's Nightmare". Added [[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]]

(11/13-11/16) Stone Bone Trees. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 2)

# New: The lead-in for [[Shai Mei]]'s entry got out of hand and turned into its own tale: [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools. Shai Mei's own entry remains blank...
# New: Entry for [[Shai Mei]]. Needless to say, it features rampant tree-philosophy.
# Updated: [[Reforging the Promise]]. Added the results of the first post-reforging test-run.
# New: [[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]]
# New: [[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]]
# Updated: [[Raging Panda]] teaches Nameless Ravine a new charm.
# New: [[Rededicating the Promise]], with a cameo from SSW

(12/21) The Faces of The Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)

# New: [[Clearfield]]
# New: [[Amilar Agathon]]
# Updated: Soho gives us a guided tour of the completely remodelled [[Flying Pearl Lake]]

(12/30) Staring Into the Abyss (A Trial of Valor)

# New: Poor [[Soho]] doesn't have his own entry yet, but he does guest-star in [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
# Updated: [[Sha Yan Shi]] - Added "Part 3: The Calm Before..."
# New: [[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]].
# Coming soon: The (chronologically challenged) nightmare sequence concludes with [[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]]

(1/9) Angry Angry Deathlord (The Consequences of Action)

# New: [[Four Farewells]] - The first part of Nameless Ravine's adventures between the end of the SSW arc and whatever comes next
# New: [[Hope in Varsi]]
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]

(1/14) Beneath Open Skies (The Righteous Strike Back)

# New: [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]
# New: [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]
# New: [[Soho]] finally has a short entry. I think I'll need to play him in game to get a feel for him before he gets some serious adventures of his own.

(1/21) Phoenix Rebirth (Distant Peals of Thunder)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]. I'm enjoying this *way* too much.
# New: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Intended as a list of every entry, arranged in game-world chronological order (regardless of author and date of composition), cross-referenced by subplot. Lots of cleanup and formatting and typo-fixing yet to do. There's almost certainly chronology errors in there as well. Also, someone else should volunteer to add in-game calendar dates to the session-headings.
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Fixed the broken links, and added commentary about the ordering scheme. Added a link off of the main page.

(2/11) Meanwhile... (Darkening Skies)

# New: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added Part 1: "Not One Tiger Warrior"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "A Conspiracy of Virtue"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "No Man's Land". I'm tempted break this tale into multiple pages, in which case "No Man's Land" will probably be reclassified as "Daybringers Gaiden 7.5: What Might have Been". If for no reason other than to goad David into finishing DB8. Curse you Hans!
# The Chronology-monkeys have been busy; the Second Southern Expedition has been split into [[Not One Tiger Warrior]], [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]], and [[Gaiden 7.5]], with more coming soon.

(2/17) Meanwhile... (Sapphire's Bad Day)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] - Best. Topic. Title. EVAR.
# New: [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]
# New: [[Divine Intervention]] - Fun with evil, evil, evil cliffhangers; You are a horrible, horrible man, Hans Christian Andersen. :) - JK
# New: [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] - The funny part is, Jason, there was only a ninety-minute window of truly-evil cliffhanger-dom before I posted this next part. Not that there's any real resolution, but still.
# New" [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]] - The problem with being a half-caste in a full-moon world is that you have to deal with... another Evil, Evil, Cliffhanger! Mwa ha ha! ''She '''''did not''''' just say "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you"...?! -mac''

==David Drake==
# Edit: [[The Vitreous Fulcrum]] now includes changes after the last battle.
# New: road system described under [[Eye of Hiparkes]].
# New: town at the center of the Eye of Hiparkes: [[God Crossing]].
# New: Automata section begun with [[The Gardener]].
# New: Flavor text for [[Selenn]], Nathan's mother, added to the contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Salvar]], Nathan's brother, added to contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Othoclase]], gemlord.

--battle of three forces, 8/12--
# New: [[Battle of Breaking Iron]] is complete (first draft).

--failure and intrigue, 8/20--
# New: [[Kena]], that seductress, added.
# New: [[The Divisions]], the list of good and bad little spirits.

--The Halls of Venus, 9/2--
# New: [[Scales of the Dragon]], the white jade superheavy plate.
# New: [[The Halls of Venus]].
# New: [[Chehbraterazim]], a sobeksis of the grey river.
# Expanded: [[Salvar]].

--The City Mastered, 9/16--
# New: [[A School For All]]: (3/4) news spreads of a school beginning operation in the Plum Blossom Retreat.
# New: [[Spring Market]]: (2/2) Rivers tries to have fun (A compilation project!)
# New: [[Serpent Swords]]: (3/3) Irrational Hope and Unbreakable Faith.
# New: [[The First Generation]]: (2/2) Power and Humanity: the first three amalgams.

--Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First, 9/30--
# New: [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: My totally serious, dark take on what could happen when one of our teams leaves home.
# Expanded: [[Kena]]: Once again, mostly about love, sorcery, and the relationship between Rivers and his mentor.
# New: [[Chapter 1]]: Carnage! Slaughter! We're ready for those things, but can we get a room for the night?
# New: [[Pai and Pei]]: River's assistants.
# New: [[Lyssa]]: Liaison to the Infinite City.
# New: [[Under Bridges]]: River's horse, one of Murakan's finest.

--Civil War Averted, 10/7--
# New: [[Chapter 2]]: Gunzosha Powered Armor: Sure it's sexy, but in the summer?
# New: [[The Bandit King]]: As you get older, the toys just get bigger.
# New: [[Chapter 3]]: Why you don't mess with Yao Ye.
# New: [[Blood Like Sparks]]: Yet another... enemy?
# New: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Doomed souls struggling for the light. 2 quick sections.
# Expanded: [[God Crossing]]: On Rivers' day off, the city's planning must continue.

--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips, 10/21--
# New: [[An Early Departure]]
# New: [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# New: [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# New: [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# New: [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 4]] Melee in the streets of Varsi? 
# New: [[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]]: Fleets.
# New: [[Panoply of the Sun]]: I started it, but it's going to take a beastload of work. Check it out!
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: A quick section added.
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Another quick section added.

--Oops: 11/4--
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
# New: The [[Cerulean Sage]]: Preparing to learn a new style once snake is finished.
# Expanded: Expansion to [[Marta]]: Part 1 of SSW intros, (the test).
# Expanded: [[The Halls of Venus]]: Part 2 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Unity of Dreams]]: Part 3 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Seven Season's Widow]]: An entry of her own. (revised to reflect her lack of athletics).
# Expanded: [[Berren]]: More description of life in God Crossing, with further Lookshy scheming.
# New: [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
# New: [[Reforging the Promise]]
# New: [[Mite Xu]]: just to add a little flavor to our amalgamated servants.
# New: [[Lu Fei]]: Detailing a bit about Lu Fei's bad luck and his present situation.
# New: Expansion of Lu Fei to include the letter requesting amabassadorial status.

--Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers): 12/16/06--
# Expanded: [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# New: Added [[Walker in Darkness]] and three of his servants as blank stubs.
# New: [[Typhon]]. Busy little bugger.

--A Trial of Valor: 12/30/06--
# New: [[Crucible of Celestial Portion]]: It's River's job, so it's off screen, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

--The Consequences of Action: 1/6/07--
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: The End and the Beginning.
# New: [[Amilar Vondy]]: Lookshy politics have grown less subtle of late.
# New: [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring, with an appearance by the newest Daybringer.
# New: [[Thorns]]: I'm not too happy with it, so I'll probably edit it, but it's a little picture of Rivers considering the city of Thorns.
# Edited: Collected gens Amilar under one banner. The house is at the very least neutral, as its head appears to be.

--The Righteous Strike Back: 1/13/07--
# New: [[Open Skies Above]]: Sorry, you're not invited, but you can still send gifts. Hearthstones are preferred.
# New: [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies and busting heads.
# New: [[Falling Bridges]]: Reconstruction in the south, and moderate angst, deflected by Mite Xu.
# New: [[Shadow of a Different Sun]]: Rock and a hard place.
# New: [[Responsibility and Authority]]: Happy endings.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]
# New: [[The Headless]]: Pity Wu.

--Distant Peals of Thunder: 1/20/07--
# New: [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: New page for organizing custom charms, since 1/2 of the players have them.
# New: [[Defy the Armor's Dream]]: Posted the one custom charm that I have in full (I don't have the virtue listed for the spirit charms you sent me, Jason. Sorry!)
# Edited: [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: Added dates as far back as I have them recorded as gm.

--Wind in the Doorway: 1/27/07--
# Expanded: [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: Added a couple of the artifacts from last session.
# Picture: [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]: Crane.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]: Tossed up his intimacies for funsies.

--Darkening Skies: 2/10/07--
# New: [[Secret Avalanche]] gets his own page. I wish I could have written it... without the crappy writing.
# New: [[Root of the East]], Rivers' trusted advisor. Poor devil.

==Jason Kalivas==

Good plan, David!

# (7/30) Added [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (7/30) Added [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (7/30) Added [[The Dryads]]
# (7/31) Added [[Grassfoot]]
# (7/31) Added [[Amilar Amaki]]
# (8/01) Moved River's Automata on the front page, under the [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#The_Book_and_the_Sword|Book and the Sword]] heading, since they're created things and not actual characters.
# (8/01) Changed the formatting for [[An Oathsworn Circle]] to make [[River's Contacts]] stand out better.
# (8/05) Edited David's [[Othoclase]] page, for added evil.
# (8/05) Added a second section to the [[Grassfoot]] page.
# (8/06) Edited [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]] to add a shrine and a way of signalling others.
# (8/06) Edited [[God Crossing]] for logic, clarity and more added evil.

'''8/12: Game Day! Battle of Three Forces'''
# (8/14) Added a second section to [[The Dryads]].
# (8/17) Added [[Lookshy]].
# (8/17) Added [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# (8/19) Added a second section to [[Fear's Umbra]].

'''8/20: Game Day! Failure and Intrigue'''
# (8/26) Listed all of the Mask's known Abyssals on [[Sky-Spanning Devils]].
# (8/26) Added [[Mayhiros Ruja]].
# (8/26) Added [[Rhianna]].

'''9/2: Game Day! The Halls of Venus'''
# (9/4) Added [[The Mourning Field]]
# (9/4) Added [[Flying Pearl Lake]]
# (9/8) Added "At the Altar of Storms" to [[Shouting With Iron]]
# (9/9) Added [[Soft the Valley's Song]]

'''9/16: Game Day! The City Mastered'''
# (9/17) Added [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]
# (9/17) Added [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]
# (9/18) Added [[Ma-Ha-Suchi]]
# (9/18) Added a picture of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (9/24) Began [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

'''9/30: Game Day! Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First'''
# (10/02) Finished [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]
# (10/02) Added [[V'Neef Pahul]]
# (10/06) Added "The Living Voice of Ami Kang" to [[The_Qinglong_Alliance]]
# (10/07) Added "Storm of Amber" to [[Spring Market]]

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/08) Added [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (10/08) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 1
# (10/11) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 2
# (10/14) Added [[Deren's Ford]]
# (10/15) Added [[Puyo]]
# (10/15) Added [[Karacalla]]
# (10/17) Added [[Varsi]], Part 1

'''10/21: Game Day! Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips'''
# (10/22) Added "Fire in the Rain" to [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]

'''10/28: Game Day! Insults Answered'''
# (10/29) Added [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]
# (10/29) Reorganized [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] for clarity; includes moving [[My Town]] to [[Nexus]]
# (10/29) Added [[War Games]]
# (10/29) Added [[A Web Spun From Water]]
# (11/02) Added [[The Marukan Alliance]] - FINALLY!
# (11/04) Added [[Crumbling Pillar]]
# (11/04) Added [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]

'''11/04: Game Day! Oops'''
# (11/04) Reorganized [[Heaven's Mandate]] for clarity - breaking off larger sections into self-contained pages
# (11/05) Added [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]
# (11/19) Added [[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]]
# (11/19) Added [[Weeping Jade]]
# (11/19) Added [[Black Caul Chiurgeons]]

'''12/16: Game Day! Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)'''
# (12/17) Added Part 1 to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''12/30: Game Day! A Trial of Valor'''
# (12/31) Added "The Forge's New Master" to the [[Flame-bond Forge]]
# (12/31) Added [[Choshu Ishi]]
# (12/31) Added "Insolence" to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''1/06: Game Day! Consequences of Action'''
# (1/07) Changed [[A Web Spun From Water]] and [[Storm's Eye Hill]] to account for more defined genders/roles in the [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (1/07) Created [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]] and [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]] to clear up [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] on the Main Page
# (1/07) Added [[Nama Bi]]
# (1/07) Added "In the Dragon's Wake" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (1/07) Added [[Red the Sage's Roots]]
# (1/07) Added pictures to [[Choshu Ishi]], [[Crumbling Pillar]], [[God Crossing]], [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]], [[Nama Bi]] and [[Red the Sage's Roots]]

'''1/13: Game Day! The Righteous Strike Back!'''
# (1/15) Added "Singular Geomancy" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]; in which I try, and fail, to get maudlin
# (1/16) Added [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/17) Added "Lightning Disperses the Clouds" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/18) Added "The Crow Plucks the Corpse's Eye" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added "The Formation Triumphs" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

'''1/20: Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# (1/24) Added [[The Righteous Stair]]

'''1/27: Game Day! Wind in the Doorway'''
# (1/28) Added [[Choshu Aya]].
# (2/05) Added Intimacies for [[Storm of Amber]], [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], [[Cathak Nekuto]], [[Choshu Ishi]] and [[Choshu Aya]]; Storm's are complete, the rest still have some to add, in time.
# (2/05) Added [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]
# (2/05) Edited [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]] to improve the quality.
# (2/08) Added [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]].
# (2/08) Added [[House of Courage]].
# (2/08) Added "In Mountains, Occupy the Heights" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].

'''2/10: Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# (2/11) Added "In Valleys, Deploy for Defense" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].
# (2/11) Added the [[Pearl of Castigation]] to our hearthstones.
# (2/15) Added [[The Five Changes of Fire]]

'''2/17: Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day'''
# (2/17) Added [[Voices Prophesying War]]
# (2/18) Added "The Answer to the Earth" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; anyone who gets the joke gets mad props from me.
# (2/18) Added "The Red Queen" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]
# (2/20) Added "Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; feedback especially appreciated on this one, I'm not sure how I feel about the writing. ''I liked it. Although...are you sure you can't work in a truly heinous cliffhanger ending? -mac''
# (2/20) Rewrote ""Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" on [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]], for added bureaucracy; I'm much, much happier with this version
# (2/20) Added [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]], thus initiating the final chapter in the first Choshu Ishi story; tales of his exploits in the south remain to be heard.
#

==Lukas Myhan==
-- 8/12: Battle of Three Forces
# (8/20): Added [[The Well of Roots]]
# (8/20): Added [[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

-- 8/20: Failure and Intrigue
# (9/02): Added two sections to [[Allat]]

-- 9/2: The Halls of Venus

--9/16: The City Mastered
# (9/25): Added [[Tokaki Kui]]
# (9/29): Contributed last 4 paragraphs to [[The First Generation]]
# (9/30): Contributed Leaf Shakes the Wind's section of [[Spring Market]]

-- 9/30: Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First
# (10/06): Added [[Iselsi Augus]]

-- 10/07: Civil War Averted
# (10/11): Added [[A Lesson In Humility]]
# (10/16): Added [[Subaru Mao]]

-- 10/21: Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips

-- 10/28: Insults Answered
# (11/01): Added "A Matter of Interpretation" to [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# (11/01): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/01): Co-wrote "Trust" in [[Site 4: An Teng]] with David
# (11/02): Added "Old Allies" and Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# (11/02): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade: Stats]]
# (11/03): Added "Duty" to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/03): Added "Perspective" to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/03): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# (11/03): Added [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]
# (11/03): Added [[Alabaster Sunset]]
# (11/03): Added Black Widow Razors, Sling of Deadly Prowess, Hearthstone Bracers, and Amulet of Shadow Walking to [[Panoply of the Sun]]
# (11/04): Added [[The Assassin's Library]]

-- 11/04: Oops!
# (11/15): Added "Twofold" to [[The Empty Garden]]
# (11/21): Added "Part 1: Arrival" to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (12/16): Faces of the Enemy
# (12/28): Added "Part 2: The Pen Is Mightier..." to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (1/06): The Consequences of Action
# (1/11): Added [[Juggernaut]]
# (1/11): Added [[Something to Break]]

-- (1/13): The Righteous Strike Back
# (1/19): Added [[Chain of Regrets]]

== Joe Jay-Dixon ==

10/17: Added four Abyssals to the Mask's roster, from a discussion on RPGnet.

==Lesley McKeever==

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/16) Added a new enemy, [[Virra Amalia]]
# (10/20) Added Part One (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)
# (10/28) Added Part Two (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)

'''12/16 Game Day! Messages and Their Bearers'''
# Working on [[The Price You Pay]]
# Working on Part Three

'''1/20 Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# New: Sapphire's Stats are [[Sapphire River at Midnight|here]]
# Updated: Edited [[Hearthstones]] to add Sapphire's hearthstones
# Updated: Edited [[Solar-Forged Glories]] to add Sapphire's artifacts

'''2/10 Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# Updated: Edited [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire's stats]]
# Updated: Added Charms spreadsheet [http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls here]
# Updated: Part Two of [[Sapphire's Past]] edited extensively
# New: Added Hsuan Lin's [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]

'''2/17 Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day''' 
''Honestly, sometimes I wonder if anyone likes anything they write.''
 This week, it is my intention to finish at least three articles and add them to the wiki. Wish me luck! and/or mock me mercilessly should I fail. 
# New: it will be called [[Walls and Tall Shadows]]
# New: it will be called [[A Sorceress in a Snit]]
# New: it will be called [[A Gift of Blades]]
# Updated: Finished spending Hsuan Lin's banked exp and updated her [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]
# Updated: Edited several articles, mainly to make character names fit convention

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Talk:Heaven's Mandate

2007-02-21T16:25:33Z

Lesleymac: /* Hans Andersen */

Howdy exalts. Anyway, I thought that we could post here about what we actually did to the site so that we can easily see what kind of new material has been posted. Related changes just doesn't cut it. So, post your latest adds, starting with what you've posted since the last session.

Exp scale (subject to extreme fudging): 
1/2 pt: Half page of flavor, or moderate structural changes. Great for filling in entries on people and places, but doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity. 
1 pt: One or two pages of flavor. Usually more labor intensive, requiring cross-referencing, and they add new information to the setting. 
2(+?) pts: 3 or more pages. These entries are really adventures in themselves, and go beyond character exploration into character development. 

==Hans Andersen==

# New: [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
# New: [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]

(10/27) Bad news for tea-lovers everywhere.

# New: [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]], and an Epilogue: [[The Reprimand]]
# New: Stub entries for Nameless Ravine's father's two Monkey Bodyguards, [[Raging Panda]] (kohai) and [[Leaf-Catcher]] (sempai)
# New: Stub entry for [[Charms of Apotheosis]]

(10/28-10/29) Some post-game follow-up:

# New: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
# New: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
# New: Finale: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]

(11/07) Oops. Some consequences.

# New: Unity of Nightmares, [[Act 1: Curtain Call]]
# Coming Soon: Acts 2-5, plus an intermission. I'll put these on their own page once they're done.

(11/09) Daybringers Fanfic. Heaven help us all. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 1)

# New: Chronicles of the Daybringers, [[Gaiden 3.5]]
# New: Renamed "Unity of Nightmares" to "Nameless Ravine's Nightmare". Added [[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]]

(11/13-11/16) Stone Bone Trees. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 2)

# New: The lead-in for [[Shai Mei]]'s entry got out of hand and turned into its own tale: [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools. Shai Mei's own entry remains blank...
# New: Entry for [[Shai Mei]]. Needless to say, it features rampant tree-philosophy.
# Updated: [[Reforging the Promise]]. Added the results of the first post-reforging test-run.
# New: [[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]]
# New: [[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]]
# Updated: [[Raging Panda]] teaches Nameless Ravine a new charm.
# New: [[Rededicating the Promise]], with a cameo from SSW

(12/21) The Faces of The Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)

# New: [[Clearfield]]
# New: [[Amilar Agathon]]
# Updated: Soho gives us a guided tour of the completely remodelled [[Flying Pearl Lake]]

(12/30) Staring Into the Abyss (A Trial of Valor)

# New: Poor [[Soho]] doesn't have his own entry yet, but he does guest-star in [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
# Updated: [[Sha Yan Shi]] - Added "Part 3: The Calm Before..."
# New: [[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]].
# Coming soon: The (chronologically challenged) nightmare sequence concludes with [[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]]

(1/9) Angry Angry Deathlord (The Consequences of Action)

# New: [[Four Farewells]] - The first part of Nameless Ravine's adventures between the end of the SSW arc and whatever comes next
# New: [[Hope in Varsi]]
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]

(1/14) Beneath Open Skies (The Righteous Strike Back)

# New: [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]
# New: [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]
# New: [[Soho]] finally has a short entry. I think I'll need to play him in game to get a feel for him before he gets some serious adventures of his own.

(1/21) Phoenix Rebirth (Distant Peals of Thunder)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]. I'm enjoying this *way* too much.
# New: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Intended as a list of every entry, arranged in game-world chronological order (regardless of author and date of composition), cross-referenced by subplot. Lots of cleanup and formatting and typo-fixing yet to do. There's almost certainly chronology errors in there as well. Also, someone else should volunteer to add in-game calendar dates to the session-headings.
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Fixed the broken links, and added commentary about the ordering scheme. Added a link off of the main page.

(2/11) Meanwhile... (Darkening Skies)

# New: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added Part 1: "Not One Tiger Warrior"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "A Conspiracy of Virtue"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "No Man's Land". I'm tempted break this tale into multiple pages, in which case "No Man's Land" will probably be reclassified as "Daybringers Gaiden 7.5: What Might have Been". If for no reason other than to goad David into finishing DB8. Curse you Hans!
# The Chronology-monkeys have been busy; the Second Southern Expedition has been split into [[Not One Tiger Warrior]], [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]], and [[Gaiden 7.5]], with more coming soon.

(2/17) Meanwhile... (Sapphire's Bad Day)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] - Best. Topic. Title. EVAR.
# New: [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]
# New: [[Divine Intervention]] - Fun with evil, evil, evil cliffhangers; You are a horrible, horrible man, Hans Christian Andersen. :) - JK
# New: [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] - The funny part is, Jason, there was only a ninety-minute window of truly-evil cliffhanger-dom before I posted this next part. Not that there's any real resolution, but still.
# New" [[Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack]] - The problem with being a half-caste in a full-moon world is that you have to deal with... another Evil, Evil, Cliffhanger! Mwa ha ha! ''She '''''did not''''' just say "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you"...?! -mac''

==David Drake==
# Edit: [[The Vitreous Fulcrum]] now includes changes after the last battle.
# New: road system described under [[Eye of Hiparkes]].
# New: town at the center of the Eye of Hiparkes: [[God Crossing]].
# New: Automata section begun with [[The Gardener]].
# New: Flavor text for [[Selenn]], Nathan's mother, added to the contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Salvar]], Nathan's brother, added to contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Othoclase]], gemlord.

--battle of three forces, 8/12--
# New: [[Battle of Breaking Iron]] is complete (first draft).

--failure and intrigue, 8/20--
# New: [[Kena]], that seductress, added.
# New: [[The Divisions]], the list of good and bad little spirits.

--The Halls of Venus, 9/2--
# New: [[Scales of the Dragon]], the white jade superheavy plate.
# New: [[The Halls of Venus]].
# New: [[Chehbraterazim]], a sobeksis of the grey river.
# Expanded: [[Salvar]].

--The City Mastered, 9/16--
# New: [[A School For All]]: (3/4) news spreads of a school beginning operation in the Plum Blossom Retreat.
# New: [[Spring Market]]: (2/2) Rivers tries to have fun (A compilation project!)
# New: [[Serpent Swords]]: (3/3) Irrational Hope and Unbreakable Faith.
# New: [[The First Generation]]: (2/2) Power and Humanity: the first three amalgams.

--Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First, 9/30--
# New: [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: My totally serious, dark take on what could happen when one of our teams leaves home.
# Expanded: [[Kena]]: Once again, mostly about love, sorcery, and the relationship between Rivers and his mentor.
# New: [[Chapter 1]]: Carnage! Slaughter! We're ready for those things, but can we get a room for the night?
# New: [[Pai and Pei]]: River's assistants.
# New: [[Lyssa]]: Liaison to the Infinite City.
# New: [[Under Bridges]]: River's horse, one of Murakan's finest.

--Civil War Averted, 10/7--
# New: [[Chapter 2]]: Gunzosha Powered Armor: Sure it's sexy, but in the summer?
# New: [[The Bandit King]]: As you get older, the toys just get bigger.
# New: [[Chapter 3]]: Why you don't mess with Yao Ye.
# New: [[Blood Like Sparks]]: Yet another... enemy?
# New: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Doomed souls struggling for the light. 2 quick sections.
# Expanded: [[God Crossing]]: On Rivers' day off, the city's planning must continue.

--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips, 10/21--
# New: [[An Early Departure]]
# New: [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# New: [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# New: [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# New: [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 4]] Melee in the streets of Varsi? 
# New: [[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]]: Fleets.
# New: [[Panoply of the Sun]]: I started it, but it's going to take a beastload of work. Check it out!
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: A quick section added.
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Another quick section added.

--Oops: 11/4--
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
# New: The [[Cerulean Sage]]: Preparing to learn a new style once snake is finished.
# Expanded: Expansion to [[Marta]]: Part 1 of SSW intros, (the test).
# Expanded: [[The Halls of Venus]]: Part 2 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Unity of Dreams]]: Part 3 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Seven Season's Widow]]: An entry of her own. (revised to reflect her lack of athletics).
# Expanded: [[Berren]]: More description of life in God Crossing, with further Lookshy scheming.
# New: [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
# New: [[Reforging the Promise]]
# New: [[Mite Xu]]: just to add a little flavor to our amalgamated servants.
# New: [[Lu Fei]]: Detailing a bit about Lu Fei's bad luck and his present situation.
# New: Expansion of Lu Fei to include the letter requesting amabassadorial status.

--Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers): 12/16/06--
# Expanded: [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# New: Added [[Walker in Darkness]] and three of his servants as blank stubs.
# New: [[Typhon]]. Busy little bugger.

--A Trial of Valor: 12/30/06--
# New: [[Crucible of Celestial Portion]]: It's River's job, so it's off screen, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

--The Consequences of Action: 1/6/07--
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: The End and the Beginning.
# New: [[Amilar Vondy]]: Lookshy politics have grown less subtle of late.
# New: [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring, with an appearance by the newest Daybringer.
# New: [[Thorns]]: I'm not too happy with it, so I'll probably edit it, but it's a little picture of Rivers considering the city of Thorns.
# Edited: Collected gens Amilar under one banner. The house is at the very least neutral, as its head appears to be.

--The Righteous Strike Back: 1/13/07--
# New: [[Open Skies Above]]: Sorry, you're not invited, but you can still send gifts. Hearthstones are preferred.
# New: [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies and busting heads.
# New: [[Falling Bridges]]: Reconstruction in the south, and moderate angst, deflected by Mite Xu.
# New: [[Shadow of a Different Sun]]: Rock and a hard place.
# New: [[Responsibility and Authority]]: Happy endings.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]
# New: [[The Headless]]: Pity Wu.

--Distant Peals of Thunder: 1/20/07--
# New: [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: New page for organizing custom charms, since 1/2 of the players have them.
# New: [[Defy the Armor's Dream]]: Posted the one custom charm that I have in full (I don't have the virtue listed for the spirit charms you sent me, Jason. Sorry!)
# Edited: [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: Added dates as far back as I have them recorded as gm.

--Wind in the Doorway: 1/27/07--
# Expanded: [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: Added a couple of the artifacts from last session.
# Picture: [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]: Crane.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]: Tossed up his intimacies for funsies.

--Darkening Skies: 2/10/07--
# New: [[Secret Avalanche]] gets his own page. I wish I could have written it... without the crappy writing.
# New: [[Root of the East]], Rivers' trusted advisor. Poor devil.

==Jason Kalivas==

Good plan, David!

# (7/30) Added [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (7/30) Added [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (7/30) Added [[The Dryads]]
# (7/31) Added [[Grassfoot]]
# (7/31) Added [[Amilar Amaki]]
# (8/01) Moved River's Automata on the front page, under the [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#The_Book_and_the_Sword|Book and the Sword]] heading, since they're created things and not actual characters.
# (8/01) Changed the formatting for [[An Oathsworn Circle]] to make [[River's Contacts]] stand out better.
# (8/05) Edited David's [[Othoclase]] page, for added evil.
# (8/05) Added a second section to the [[Grassfoot]] page.
# (8/06) Edited [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]] to add a shrine and a way of signalling others.
# (8/06) Edited [[God Crossing]] for logic, clarity and more added evil.

'''8/12: Game Day! Battle of Three Forces'''
# (8/14) Added a second section to [[The Dryads]].
# (8/17) Added [[Lookshy]].
# (8/17) Added [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# (8/19) Added a second section to [[Fear's Umbra]].

'''8/20: Game Day! Failure and Intrigue'''
# (8/26) Listed all of the Mask's known Abyssals on [[Sky-Spanning Devils]].
# (8/26) Added [[Mayhiros Ruja]].
# (8/26) Added [[Rhianna]].

'''9/2: Game Day! The Halls of Venus'''
# (9/4) Added [[The Mourning Field]]
# (9/4) Added [[Flying Pearl Lake]]
# (9/8) Added "At the Altar of Storms" to [[Shouting With Iron]]
# (9/9) Added [[Soft the Valley's Song]]

'''9/16: Game Day! The City Mastered'''
# (9/17) Added [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]
# (9/17) Added [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]
# (9/18) Added [[Ma-Ha-Suchi]]
# (9/18) Added a picture of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (9/24) Began [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

'''9/30: Game Day! Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First'''
# (10/02) Finished [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]
# (10/02) Added [[V'Neef Pahul]]
# (10/06) Added "The Living Voice of Ami Kang" to [[The_Qinglong_Alliance]]
# (10/07) Added "Storm of Amber" to [[Spring Market]]

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/08) Added [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (10/08) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 1
# (10/11) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 2
# (10/14) Added [[Deren's Ford]]
# (10/15) Added [[Puyo]]
# (10/15) Added [[Karacalla]]
# (10/17) Added [[Varsi]], Part 1

'''10/21: Game Day! Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips'''
# (10/22) Added "Fire in the Rain" to [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]

'''10/28: Game Day! Insults Answered'''
# (10/29) Added [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]
# (10/29) Reorganized [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] for clarity; includes moving [[My Town]] to [[Nexus]]
# (10/29) Added [[War Games]]
# (10/29) Added [[A Web Spun From Water]]
# (11/02) Added [[The Marukan Alliance]] - FINALLY!
# (11/04) Added [[Crumbling Pillar]]
# (11/04) Added [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]

'''11/04: Game Day! Oops'''
# (11/04) Reorganized [[Heaven's Mandate]] for clarity - breaking off larger sections into self-contained pages
# (11/05) Added [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]
# (11/19) Added [[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]]
# (11/19) Added [[Weeping Jade]]
# (11/19) Added [[Black Caul Chiurgeons]]

'''12/16: Game Day! Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)'''
# (12/17) Added Part 1 to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''12/30: Game Day! A Trial of Valor'''
# (12/31) Added "The Forge's New Master" to the [[Flame-bond Forge]]
# (12/31) Added [[Choshu Ishi]]
# (12/31) Added "Insolence" to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''1/06: Game Day! Consequences of Action'''
# (1/07) Changed [[A Web Spun From Water]] and [[Storm's Eye Hill]] to account for more defined genders/roles in the [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (1/07) Created [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]] and [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]] to clear up [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] on the Main Page
# (1/07) Added [[Nama Bi]]
# (1/07) Added "In the Dragon's Wake" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (1/07) Added [[Red the Sage's Roots]]
# (1/07) Added pictures to [[Choshu Ishi]], [[Crumbling Pillar]], [[God Crossing]], [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]], [[Nama Bi]] and [[Red the Sage's Roots]]

'''1/13: Game Day! The Righteous Strike Back!'''
# (1/15) Added "Singular Geomancy" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]; in which I try, and fail, to get maudlin
# (1/16) Added [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/17) Added "Lightning Disperses the Clouds" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/18) Added "The Crow Plucks the Corpse's Eye" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added "The Formation Triumphs" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

'''1/20: Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# (1/24) Added [[The Righteous Stair]]

'''1/27: Game Day! Wind in the Doorway'''
# (1/28) Added [[Choshu Aya]].
# (2/05) Added Intimacies for [[Storm of Amber]], [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], [[Cathak Nekuto]], [[Choshu Ishi]] and [[Choshu Aya]]; Storm's are complete, the rest still have some to add, in time.
# (2/05) Added [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]
# (2/05) Edited [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]] to improve the quality.
# (2/08) Added [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]].
# (2/08) Added [[House of Courage]].
# (2/08) Added "In Mountains, Occupy the Heights" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].

'''2/10: Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# (2/11) Added "In Valleys, Deploy for Defense" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].
# (2/11) Added the [[Pearl of Castigation]] to our hearthstones.
# (2/15) Added [[The Five Changes of Fire]]

'''2/17: Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day'''
# (2/17) Added [[Voices Prophesying War]]
# (2/18) Added "The Answer to the Earth" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; anyone who gets the joke gets mad props from me.
# (2/18) Added "The Red Queen" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]
# (2/20) Added "Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; feedback especially appreciated on this one, I'm not sure how I feel about the writing. ''I liked it. Although...are you sure you can't work in a truly heinous cliffhanger ending? -mac''
# (2/20) Rewrote ""Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" on [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]], for added bureaucracy; I'm much, much happier with this version
# (2/20) Added [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]], thus initiating the final chapter in the first Choshu Ishi story; tales of his exploits in the south remain to be heard.
#

==Lukas Myhan==
-- 8/12: Battle of Three Forces
# (8/20): Added [[The Well of Roots]]
# (8/20): Added [[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

-- 8/20: Failure and Intrigue
# (9/02): Added two sections to [[Allat]]

-- 9/2: The Halls of Venus

--9/16: The City Mastered
# (9/25): Added [[Tokaki Kui]]
# (9/29): Contributed last 4 paragraphs to [[The First Generation]]
# (9/30): Contributed Leaf Shakes the Wind's section of [[Spring Market]]

-- 9/30: Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First
# (10/06): Added [[Iselsi Augus]]

-- 10/07: Civil War Averted
# (10/11): Added [[A Lesson In Humility]]
# (10/16): Added [[Subaru Mao]]

-- 10/21: Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips

-- 10/28: Insults Answered
# (11/01): Added "A Matter of Interpretation" to [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# (11/01): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/01): Co-wrote "Trust" in [[Site 4: An Teng]] with David
# (11/02): Added "Old Allies" and Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# (11/02): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade: Stats]]
# (11/03): Added "Duty" to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/03): Added "Perspective" to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/03): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# (11/03): Added [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]
# (11/03): Added [[Alabaster Sunset]]
# (11/03): Added Black Widow Razors, Sling of Deadly Prowess, Hearthstone Bracers, and Amulet of Shadow Walking to [[Panoply of the Sun]]
# (11/04): Added [[The Assassin's Library]]

-- 11/04: Oops!
# (11/15): Added "Twofold" to [[The Empty Garden]]
# (11/21): Added "Part 1: Arrival" to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (12/16): Faces of the Enemy
# (12/28): Added "Part 2: The Pen Is Mightier..." to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (1/06): The Consequences of Action
# (1/11): Added [[Juggernaut]]
# (1/11): Added [[Something to Break]]

-- (1/13): The Righteous Strike Back
# (1/19): Added [[Chain of Regrets]]

== Joe Jay-Dixon ==

10/17: Added four Abyssals to the Mask's roster, from a discussion on RPGnet.

==Lesley McKeever==

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/16) Added a new enemy, [[Virra Amalia]]
# (10/20) Added Part One (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)
# (10/28) Added Part Two (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)

'''12/16 Game Day! Messages and Their Bearers'''
# Working on [[The Price You Pay]]
# Working on Part Three

'''1/20 Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# New: Sapphire's Stats are [[Sapphire River at Midnight|here]]
# Updated: Edited [[Hearthstones]] to add Sapphire's hearthstones
# Updated: Edited [[Solar-Forged Glories]] to add Sapphire's artifacts

'''2/10 Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# Updated: Edited [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire's stats]]
# Updated: Added Charms spreadsheet [http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls here]
# Updated: Part Two of [[Sapphire's Past]] edited extensively
# New: Added Hsuan Lin's [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]

'''2/17 Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day''' 
''Honestly, sometimes I wonder if anyone likes anything they write.''
 This week, it is my intention to finish at least three articles and add them to the wiki. Wish me luck! and/or mock me mercilessly should I fail. 
# New: it will be called [[Walls and Tall Shadows]]
# New: it will be called [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
# New: it will be called [[A Gift of Blades]]
# Updated: Finished spending Hsuan Lin's banked exp and updated her [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]
# Updated: Edited several articles, mainly to make character names fit convention

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Talk:Heaven's Mandate

2007-02-21T07:48:56Z

Lesleymac: /* Lesley McKeever */

Howdy exalts. Anyway, I thought that we could post here about what we actually did to the site so that we can easily see what kind of new material has been posted. Related changes just doesn't cut it. So, post your latest adds, starting with what you've posted since the last session.

Exp scale (subject to extreme fudging): 
1/2 pt: Half page of flavor, or moderate structural changes. Great for filling in entries on people and places, but doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity. 
1 pt: One or two pages of flavor. Usually more labor intensive, requiring cross-referencing, and they add new information to the setting. 
2(+?) pts: 3 or more pages. These entries are really adventures in themselves, and go beyond character exploration into character development. 

==Hans Andersen==

# New: [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
# New: [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]

(10/27) Bad news for tea-lovers everywhere.

# New: [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]], and an Epilogue: [[The Reprimand]]
# New: Stub entries for Nameless Ravine's father's two Monkey Bodyguards, [[Raging Panda]] (kohai) and [[Leaf-Catcher]] (sempai)
# New: Stub entry for [[Charms of Apotheosis]]

(10/28-10/29) Some post-game follow-up:

# New: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
# New: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
# New: Finale: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]

(11/07) Oops. Some consequences.

# New: Unity of Nightmares, [[Act 1: Curtain Call]]
# Coming Soon: Acts 2-5, plus an intermission. I'll put these on their own page once they're done.

(11/09) Daybringers Fanfic. Heaven help us all. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 1)

# New: Chronicles of the Daybringers, [[Gaiden 3.5]]
# New: Renamed "Unity of Nightmares" to "Nameless Ravine's Nightmare". Added [[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]]

(11/13-11/16) Stone Bone Trees. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 2)

# New: The lead-in for [[Shai Mei]]'s entry got out of hand and turned into its own tale: [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools. Shai Mei's own entry remains blank...
# New: Entry for [[Shai Mei]]. Needless to say, it features rampant tree-philosophy.
# Updated: [[Reforging the Promise]]. Added the results of the first post-reforging test-run.
# New: [[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]]
# New: [[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]]
# Updated: [[Raging Panda]] teaches Nameless Ravine a new charm.
# New: [[Rededicating the Promise]], with a cameo from SSW

(12/21) The Faces of The Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)

# New: [[Clearfield]]
# New: [[Amilar Agathon]]
# Updated: Soho gives us a guided tour of the completely remodelled [[Flying Pearl Lake]]

(12/30) Staring Into the Abyss (A Trial of Valor)

# New: Poor [[Soho]] doesn't have his own entry yet, but he does guest-star in [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
# Updated: [[Sha Yan Shi]] - Added "Part 3: The Calm Before..."
# New: [[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]].
# Coming soon: The (chronologically challenged) nightmare sequence concludes with [[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]]

(1/9) Angry Angry Deathlord (The Consequences of Action)

# New: [[Four Farewells]] - The first part of Nameless Ravine's adventures between the end of the SSW arc and whatever comes next
# New: [[Hope in Varsi]]
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]

(1/14) Beneath Open Skies (The Righteous Strike Back)

# New: [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]
# New: [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]
# New: [[Soho]] finally has a short entry. I think I'll need to play him in game to get a feel for him before he gets some serious adventures of his own.

(1/21) Phoenix Rebirth (Distant Peals of Thunder)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]. I'm enjoying this *way* too much.
# New: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Intended as a list of every entry, arranged in game-world chronological order (regardless of author and date of composition), cross-referenced by subplot. Lots of cleanup and formatting and typo-fixing yet to do. There's almost certainly chronology errors in there as well. Also, someone else should volunteer to add in-game calendar dates to the session-headings.
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Fixed the broken links, and added commentary about the ordering scheme. Added a link off of the main page.

(2/11) Meanwhile... (Darkening Skies)

# New: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added Part 1: "Not One Tiger Warrior"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "A Conspiracy of Virtue"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "No Man's Land". I'm tempted break this tale into multiple pages, in which case "No Man's Land" will probably be reclassified as "Daybringers Gaiden 7.5: What Might have Been". If for no reason other than to goad David into finishing DB8. Curse you Hans!
# The Chronology-monkeys have been busy; the Second Southern Expedition has been split into [[Not One Tiger Warrior]], [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]], and [[Gaiden 7.5]], with more coming soon.

(2/17) Meanwhile... (Sapphire's Bad Day)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] - Best. Topic. Title. EVAR.
# New: [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]
# New: [[Divine Intervention]] - Fun with evil, evil, evil cliffhangers; You are a horrible, horrible man, Hans Christian Andersen. :) - JK
# New: [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] - The funny part is, Jason, there was only a ninety-minute window of truly-evil cliffhanger-dom before I posted this next part. Not that there's any real resolution, but still.

==David Drake==
# Edit: [[The Vitreous Fulcrum]] now includes changes after the last battle.
# New: road system described under [[Eye of Hiparkes]].
# New: town at the center of the Eye of Hiparkes: [[God Crossing]].
# New: Automata section begun with [[The Gardener]].
# New: Flavor text for [[Selenn]], Nathan's mother, added to the contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Salvar]], Nathan's brother, added to contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Othoclase]], gemlord.

--battle of three forces, 8/12--
# New: [[Battle of Breaking Iron]] is complete (first draft).

--failure and intrigue, 8/20--
# New: [[Kena]], that seductress, added.
# New: [[The Divisions]], the list of good and bad little spirits.

--The Halls of Venus, 9/2--
# New: [[Scales of the Dragon]], the white jade superheavy plate.
# New: [[The Halls of Venus]].
# New: [[Chehbraterazim]], a sobeksis of the grey river.
# Expanded: [[Salvar]].

--The City Mastered, 9/16--
# New: [[A School For All]]: (3/4) news spreads of a school beginning operation in the Plum Blossom Retreat.
# New: [[Spring Market]]: (2/2) Rivers tries to have fun (A compilation project!)
# New: [[Serpent Swords]]: (3/3) Irrational Hope and Unbreakable Faith.
# New: [[The First Generation]]: (2/2) Power and Humanity: the first three amalgams.

--Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First, 9/30--
# New: [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: My totally serious, dark take on what could happen when one of our teams leaves home.
# Expanded: [[Kena]]: Once again, mostly about love, sorcery, and the relationship between Rivers and his mentor.
# New: [[Chapter 1]]: Carnage! Slaughter! We're ready for those things, but can we get a room for the night?
# New: [[Pai and Pei]]: River's assistants.
# New: [[Lyssa]]: Liaison to the Infinite City.
# New: [[Under Bridges]]: River's horse, one of Murakan's finest.

--Civil War Averted, 10/7--
# New: [[Chapter 2]]: Gunzosha Powered Armor: Sure it's sexy, but in the summer?
# New: [[The Bandit King]]: As you get older, the toys just get bigger.
# New: [[Chapter 3]]: Why you don't mess with Yao Ye.
# New: [[Blood Like Sparks]]: Yet another... enemy?
# New: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Doomed souls struggling for the light. 2 quick sections.
# Expanded: [[God Crossing]]: On Rivers' day off, the city's planning must continue.

--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips, 10/21--
# New: [[An Early Departure]]
# New: [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# New: [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# New: [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# New: [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 4]] Melee in the streets of Varsi? 
# New: [[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]]: Fleets.
# New: [[Panoply of the Sun]]: I started it, but it's going to take a beastload of work. Check it out!
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: A quick section added.
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Another quick section added.

--Oops: 11/4--
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
# New: The [[Cerulean Sage]]: Preparing to learn a new style once snake is finished.
# Expanded: Expansion to [[Marta]]: Part 1 of SSW intros, (the test).
# Expanded: [[The Halls of Venus]]: Part 2 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Unity of Dreams]]: Part 3 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Seven Season's Widow]]: An entry of her own. (revised to reflect her lack of athletics).
# Expanded: [[Berren]]: More description of life in God Crossing, with further Lookshy scheming.
# New: [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
# New: [[Reforging the Promise]]
# New: [[Mite Xu]]: just to add a little flavor to our amalgamated servants.
# New: [[Lu Fei]]: Detailing a bit about Lu Fei's bad luck and his present situation.
# New: Expansion of Lu Fei to include the letter requesting amabassadorial status.

--Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers): 12/16/06--
# Expanded: [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# New: Added [[Walker in Darkness]] and three of his servants as blank stubs.
# New: [[Typhon]]. Busy little bugger.

--A Trial of Valor: 12/30/06--
# New: [[Crucible of Celestial Portion]]: It's River's job, so it's off screen, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

--The Consequences of Action: 1/6/07--
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: The End and the Beginning.
# New: [[Amilar Vondy]]: Lookshy politics have grown less subtle of late.
# New: [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring, with an appearance by the newest Daybringer.
# New: [[Thorns]]: I'm not too happy with it, so I'll probably edit it, but it's a little picture of Rivers considering the city of Thorns.
# Edited: Collected gens Amilar under one banner. The house is at the very least neutral, as its head appears to be.

--The Righteous Strike Back: 1/13/07--
# New: [[Open Skies Above]]: Sorry, you're not invited, but you can still send gifts. Hearthstones are preferred.
# New: [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies and busting heads.
# New: [[Falling Bridges]]: Reconstruction in the south, and moderate angst, deflected by Mite Xu.
# New: [[Shadow of a Different Sun]]: Rock and a hard place.
# New: [[Responsibility and Authority]]: Happy endings.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]
# New: [[The Headless]]: Pity Wu.

--Distant Peals of Thunder: 1/20/07--
# New: [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: New page for organizing custom charms, since 1/2 of the players have them.
# New: [[Defy the Armor's Dream]]: Posted the one custom charm that I have in full (I don't have the virtue listed for the spirit charms you sent me, Jason. Sorry!)
# Edited: [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: Added dates as far back as I have them recorded as gm.

--Wind in the Doorway: 1/27/07--
# Expanded: [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: Added a couple of the artifacts from last session.
# Picture: [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]: Crane.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]: Tossed up his intimacies for funsies.

--Darkening Skies: 2/10/07--
# New: [[Secret Avalanche]] gets his own page. I wish I could have written it... without the crappy writing.
# New: [[Root of the East]], Rivers' trusted advisor. Poor devil.

==Jason Kalivas==

Good plan, David!

# (7/30) Added [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (7/30) Added [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (7/30) Added [[The Dryads]]
# (7/31) Added [[Grassfoot]]
# (7/31) Added [[Amilar Amaki]]
# (8/01) Moved River's Automata on the front page, under the [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#The_Book_and_the_Sword|Book and the Sword]] heading, since they're created things and not actual characters.
# (8/01) Changed the formatting for [[An Oathsworn Circle]] to make [[River's Contacts]] stand out better.
# (8/05) Edited David's [[Othoclase]] page, for added evil.
# (8/05) Added a second section to the [[Grassfoot]] page.
# (8/06) Edited [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]] to add a shrine and a way of signalling others.
# (8/06) Edited [[God Crossing]] for logic, clarity and more added evil.

'''8/12: Game Day! Battle of Three Forces'''
# (8/14) Added a second section to [[The Dryads]].
# (8/17) Added [[Lookshy]].
# (8/17) Added [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# (8/19) Added a second section to [[Fear's Umbra]].

'''8/20: Game Day! Failure and Intrigue'''
# (8/26) Listed all of the Mask's known Abyssals on [[Sky-Spanning Devils]].
# (8/26) Added [[Mayhiros Ruja]].
# (8/26) Added [[Rhianna]].

'''9/2: Game Day! The Halls of Venus'''
# (9/4) Added [[The Mourning Field]]
# (9/4) Added [[Flying Pearl Lake]]
# (9/8) Added "At the Altar of Storms" to [[Shouting With Iron]]
# (9/9) Added [[Soft the Valley's Song]]

'''9/16: Game Day! The City Mastered'''
# (9/17) Added [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]
# (9/17) Added [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]
# (9/18) Added [[Ma-Ha-Suchi]]
# (9/18) Added a picture of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (9/24) Began [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

'''9/30: Game Day! Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First'''
# (10/02) Finished [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]
# (10/02) Added [[V'Neef Pahul]]
# (10/06) Added "The Living Voice of Ami Kang" to [[The_Qinglong_Alliance]]
# (10/07) Added "Storm of Amber" to [[Spring Market]]

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/08) Added [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (10/08) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 1
# (10/11) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 2
# (10/14) Added [[Deren's Ford]]
# (10/15) Added [[Puyo]]
# (10/15) Added [[Karacalla]]
# (10/17) Added [[Varsi]], Part 1

'''10/21: Game Day! Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips'''
# (10/22) Added "Fire in the Rain" to [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]

'''10/28: Game Day! Insults Answered'''
# (10/29) Added [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]
# (10/29) Reorganized [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] for clarity; includes moving [[My Town]] to [[Nexus]]
# (10/29) Added [[War Games]]
# (10/29) Added [[A Web Spun From Water]]
# (11/02) Added [[The Marukan Alliance]] - FINALLY!
# (11/04) Added [[Crumbling Pillar]]
# (11/04) Added [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]

'''11/04: Game Day! Oops'''
# (11/04) Reorganized [[Heaven's Mandate]] for clarity - breaking off larger sections into self-contained pages
# (11/05) Added [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]
# (11/19) Added [[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]]
# (11/19) Added [[Weeping Jade]]
# (11/19) Added [[Black Caul Chiurgeons]]

'''12/16: Game Day! Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)'''
# (12/17) Added Part 1 to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''12/30: Game Day! A Trial of Valor'''
# (12/31) Added "The Forge's New Master" to the [[Flame-bond Forge]]
# (12/31) Added [[Choshu Ishi]]
# (12/31) Added "Insolence" to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''1/06: Game Day! Consequences of Action'''
# (1/07) Changed [[A Web Spun From Water]] and [[Storm's Eye Hill]] to account for more defined genders/roles in the [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (1/07) Created [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]] and [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]] to clear up [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] on the Main Page
# (1/07) Added [[Nama Bi]]
# (1/07) Added "In the Dragon's Wake" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (1/07) Added [[Red the Sage's Roots]]
# (1/07) Added pictures to [[Choshu Ishi]], [[Crumbling Pillar]], [[God Crossing]], [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]], [[Nama Bi]] and [[Red the Sage's Roots]]

'''1/13: Game Day! The Righteous Strike Back!'''
# (1/15) Added "Singular Geomancy" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]; in which I try, and fail, to get maudlin
# (1/16) Added [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/17) Added "Lightning Disperses the Clouds" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/18) Added "The Crow Plucks the Corpse's Eye" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added "The Formation Triumphs" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

'''1/20: Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# (1/24) Added [[The Righteous Stair]]

'''1/27: Game Day! Wind in the Doorway'''
# (1/28) Added [[Choshu Aya]].
# (2/05) Added Intimacies for [[Storm of Amber]], [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], [[Cathak Nekuto]], [[Choshu Ishi]] and [[Choshu Aya]]; Storm's are complete, the rest still have some to add, in time.
# (2/05) Added [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]
# (2/05) Edited [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]] to improve the quality.
# (2/08) Added [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]].
# (2/08) Added [[House of Courage]].
# (2/08) Added "In Mountains, Occupy the Heights" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].

'''2/10: Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# (2/11) Added "In Valleys, Deploy for Defense" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].
# (2/11) Added the [[Pearl of Castigation]] to our hearthstones.
# (2/15) Added [[The Five Changes of Fire]]

'''2/17: Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day'''
# (2/17) Added [[Voices Prophesying War]]
# (2/18) Added "The Answer to the Earth" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; anyone who gets the joke gets mad props from me.
# (2/18) Added "The Red Queen" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]
# (2/20) Added "Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; feedback especially appreciated on this one, I'm not sure how I feel about the writing. ''I liked it. Although...are you sure you can't work in a truly heinous cliffhanger ending? -mac''
# (2/20) Rewrote ""Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" on [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]], for added bureaucracy; I'm much, much happier with this version
# (2/20) Added [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]], thus initiating the final chapter in the first Choshu Ishi story; tales of his exploits in the south remain to be heard.
#

==Lukas Myhan==
-- 8/12: Battle of Three Forces
# (8/20): Added [[The Well of Roots]]
# (8/20): Added [[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

-- 8/20: Failure and Intrigue
# (9/02): Added two sections to [[Allat]]

-- 9/2: The Halls of Venus

--9/16: The City Mastered
# (9/25): Added [[Tokaki Kui]]
# (9/29): Contributed last 4 paragraphs to [[The First Generation]]
# (9/30): Contributed Leaf Shakes the Wind's section of [[Spring Market]]

-- 9/30: Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First
# (10/06): Added [[Iselsi Augus]]

-- 10/07: Civil War Averted
# (10/11): Added [[A Lesson In Humility]]
# (10/16): Added [[Subaru Mao]]

-- 10/21: Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips

-- 10/28: Insults Answered
# (11/01): Added "A Matter of Interpretation" to [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# (11/01): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/01): Co-wrote "Trust" in [[Site 4: An Teng]] with David
# (11/02): Added "Old Allies" and Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# (11/02): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade: Stats]]
# (11/03): Added "Duty" to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/03): Added "Perspective" to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/03): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# (11/03): Added [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]
# (11/03): Added [[Alabaster Sunset]]
# (11/03): Added Black Widow Razors, Sling of Deadly Prowess, Hearthstone Bracers, and Amulet of Shadow Walking to [[Panoply of the Sun]]
# (11/04): Added [[The Assassin's Library]]

-- 11/04: Oops!
# (11/15): Added "Twofold" to [[The Empty Garden]]
# (11/21): Added "Part 1: Arrival" to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (12/16): Faces of the Enemy
# (12/28): Added "Part 2: The Pen Is Mightier..." to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (1/06): The Consequences of Action
# (1/11): Added [[Juggernaut]]
# (1/11): Added [[Something to Break]]

-- (1/13): The Righteous Strike Back
# (1/19): Added [[Chain of Regrets]]

== Joe Jay-Dixon ==

10/17: Added four Abyssals to the Mask's roster, from a discussion on RPGnet.

==Lesley McKeever==

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/16) Added a new enemy, [[Virra Amalia]]
# (10/20) Added Part One (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)
# (10/28) Added Part Two (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)

'''12/16 Game Day! Messages and Their Bearers'''
# Working on [[The Price You Pay]]
# Working on Part Three

'''1/20 Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# New: Sapphire's Stats are [[Sapphire River at Midnight|here]]
# Updated: Edited [[Hearthstones]] to add Sapphire's hearthstones
# Updated: Edited [[Solar-Forged Glories]] to add Sapphire's artifacts

'''2/10 Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# Updated: Edited [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire's stats]]
# Updated: Added Charms spreadsheet [http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls here]
# Updated: Part Two of [[Sapphire's Past]] edited extensively
# New: Added Hsuan Lin's [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]

'''2/17 Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day''' 
''Honestly, sometimes I wonder if anyone likes anything they write.''
 This week, it is my intention to finish at least three articles and add them to the wiki. Wish me luck! and/or mock me mercilessly should I fail. 
# New: it will be called [[Walls and Tall Shadows]]
# New: it will be called [[Sapphire's Bad Day]]
# New: it will be called [[A Gift of Blades]]
# Updated: Finished spending Hsuan Lin's banked exp and updated her [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]
# Updated: Edited several articles, mainly to make character names fit convention

----
[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Talk:Heaven's Mandate

2007-02-21T07:23:28Z

Lesleymac: /* Lesley McKeever */

Howdy exalts. Anyway, I thought that we could post here about what we actually did to the site so that we can easily see what kind of new material has been posted. Related changes just doesn't cut it. So, post your latest adds, starting with what you've posted since the last session.

Exp scale (subject to extreme fudging): 
1/2 pt: Half page of flavor, or moderate structural changes. Great for filling in entries on people and places, but doesn't require a lot of thought or creativity. 
1 pt: One or two pages of flavor. Usually more labor intensive, requiring cross-referencing, and they add new information to the setting. 
2(+?) pts: 3 or more pages. These entries are really adventures in themselves, and go beyond character exploration into character development. 

==Hans Andersen==

# New: [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
# New: [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]

(10/27) Bad news for tea-lovers everywhere.

# New: [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]], and an Epilogue: [[The Reprimand]]
# New: Stub entries for Nameless Ravine's father's two Monkey Bodyguards, [[Raging Panda]] (kohai) and [[Leaf-Catcher]] (sempai)
# New: Stub entry for [[Charms of Apotheosis]]

(10/28-10/29) Some post-game follow-up:

# New: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
# New: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
# New: Finale: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]

(11/07) Oops. Some consequences.

# New: Unity of Nightmares, [[Act 1: Curtain Call]]
# Coming Soon: Acts 2-5, plus an intermission. I'll put these on their own page once they're done.

(11/09) Daybringers Fanfic. Heaven help us all. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 1)

# New: Chronicles of the Daybringers, [[Gaiden 3.5]]
# New: Renamed "Unity of Nightmares" to "Nameless Ravine's Nightmare". Added [[Act 2: Boameth and the Fox]]

(11/13-11/16) Stone Bone Trees. (Servants of the Righteous, Part 2)

# New: The lead-in for [[Shai Mei]]'s entry got out of hand and turned into its own tale: [[Gaiden 5.6]]: Marta's many tools. Shai Mei's own entry remains blank...
# New: Entry for [[Shai Mei]]. Needless to say, it features rampant tree-philosophy.
# Updated: [[Reforging the Promise]]. Added the results of the first post-reforging test-run.
# New: [[Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers]]
# New: [[Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]]
# Updated: [[Raging Panda]] teaches Nameless Ravine a new charm.
# New: [[Rededicating the Promise]], with a cameo from SSW

(12/21) The Faces of The Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)

# New: [[Clearfield]]
# New: [[Amilar Agathon]]
# Updated: Soho gives us a guided tour of the completely remodelled [[Flying Pearl Lake]]

(12/30) Staring Into the Abyss (A Trial of Valor)

# New: Poor [[Soho]] doesn't have his own entry yet, but he does guest-star in [[Gaiden 6.5]]: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
# Updated: [[Sha Yan Shi]] - Added "Part 3: The Calm Before..."
# New: [[Act 4: Torrent of Woe]].
# Coming soon: The (chronologically challenged) nightmare sequence concludes with [[Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn]]

(1/9) Angry Angry Deathlord (The Consequences of Action)

# New: [[Four Farewells]] - The first part of Nameless Ravine's adventures between the end of the SSW arc and whatever comes next
# New: [[Hope in Varsi]]
# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi]]

(1/14) Beneath Open Skies (The Righteous Strike Back)

# New: [[Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man]]
# New: [[The Prison of Oaken Rebuke]]
# New: [[Soho]] finally has a short entry. I think I'll need to play him in game to get a feel for him before he gets some serious adventures of his own.

(1/21) Phoenix Rebirth (Distant Peals of Thunder)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger]]. I'm enjoying this *way* too much.
# New: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Intended as a list of every entry, arranged in game-world chronological order (regardless of author and date of composition), cross-referenced by subplot. Lots of cleanup and formatting and typo-fixing yet to do. There's almost certainly chronology errors in there as well. Also, someone else should volunteer to add in-game calendar dates to the session-headings.
# Updated: [[The Fivefold Chronology]] - Fixed the broken links, and added commentary about the ordering scheme. Added a link off of the main page.

(2/11) Meanwhile... (Darkening Skies)

# New: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added Part 1: "Not One Tiger Warrior"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "A Conspiracy of Virtue"
# Updated: [[The Second Southern Expedition]] - Added "No Man's Land". I'm tempted break this tale into multiple pages, in which case "No Man's Land" will probably be reclassified as "Daybringers Gaiden 7.5: What Might have Been". If for no reason other than to goad David into finishing DB8. Curse you Hans!
# The Chronology-monkeys have been busy; the Second Southern Expedition has been split into [[Not One Tiger Warrior]], [[A Conspiracy of Virtue]], and [[Gaiden 7.5]], with more coming soon.

(2/17) Meanwhile... (Sapphire's Bad Day)

# New: [[Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven]] - Best. Topic. Title. EVAR.
# New: [[Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters)]]
# New: [[Divine Intervention]] - Fun with evil, evil, evil cliffhangers; You are a horrible, horrible man, Hans Christian Andersen. :) - JK
# New: [[Hurry Home, Sweet Voice]] - The funny part is, Jason, there was only a ninety-minute window of truly-evil cliffhanger-dom before I posted this next part. Not that there's any real resolution, but still.

==David Drake==
# Edit: [[The Vitreous Fulcrum]] now includes changes after the last battle.
# New: road system described under [[Eye of Hiparkes]].
# New: town at the center of the Eye of Hiparkes: [[God Crossing]].
# New: Automata section begun with [[The Gardener]].
# New: Flavor text for [[Selenn]], Nathan's mother, added to the contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Salvar]], Nathan's brother, added to contacts for Rivers.
# New: Flavor text for [[Othoclase]], gemlord.

--battle of three forces, 8/12--
# New: [[Battle of Breaking Iron]] is complete (first draft).

--failure and intrigue, 8/20--
# New: [[Kena]], that seductress, added.
# New: [[The Divisions]], the list of good and bad little spirits.

--The Halls of Venus, 9/2--
# New: [[Scales of the Dragon]], the white jade superheavy plate.
# New: [[The Halls of Venus]].
# New: [[Chehbraterazim]], a sobeksis of the grey river.
# Expanded: [[Salvar]].

--The City Mastered, 9/16--
# New: [[A School For All]]: (3/4) news spreads of a school beginning operation in the Plum Blossom Retreat.
# New: [[Spring Market]]: (2/2) Rivers tries to have fun (A compilation project!)
# New: [[Serpent Swords]]: (3/3) Irrational Hope and Unbreakable Faith.
# New: [[The First Generation]]: (2/2) Power and Humanity: the first three amalgams.

--Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First, 9/30--
# New: [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: My totally serious, dark take on what could happen when one of our teams leaves home.
# Expanded: [[Kena]]: Once again, mostly about love, sorcery, and the relationship between Rivers and his mentor.
# New: [[Chapter 1]]: Carnage! Slaughter! We're ready for those things, but can we get a room for the night?
# New: [[Pai and Pei]]: River's assistants.
# New: [[Lyssa]]: Liaison to the Infinite City.
# New: [[Under Bridges]]: River's horse, one of Murakan's finest.

--Civil War Averted, 10/7--
# New: [[Chapter 2]]: Gunzosha Powered Armor: Sure it's sexy, but in the summer?
# New: [[The Bandit King]]: As you get older, the toys just get bigger.
# New: [[Chapter 3]]: Why you don't mess with Yao Ye.
# New: [[Blood Like Sparks]]: Yet another... enemy?
# New: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Doomed souls struggling for the light. 2 quick sections.
# Expanded: [[God Crossing]]: On Rivers' day off, the city's planning must continue.

--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips, 10/21--
# New: [[An Early Departure]]
# New: [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# New: [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# New: [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# New: [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 4]] Melee in the streets of Varsi? 
# New: [[Gatehouse of the Five Winds]]: Fleets.
# New: [[Panoply of the Sun]]: I started it, but it's going to take a beastload of work. Check it out!
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: A quick section added.
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Another quick section added.

--Oops: 11/4--
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 5]]: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
# New: The [[Cerulean Sage]]: Preparing to learn a new style once snake is finished.
# Expanded: Expansion to [[Marta]]: Part 1 of SSW intros, (the test).
# Expanded: [[The Halls of Venus]]: Part 2 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Unity of Dreams]]: Part 3 of SSW intros.
# New: [[Seven Season's Widow]]: An entry of her own. (revised to reflect her lack of athletics).
# Expanded: [[Berren]]: More description of life in God Crossing, with further Lookshy scheming.
# New: [[Gaiden 5.5]]: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
# New: Daybringers [[Chapter 6]]: Where has the sun gone?
# New: [[Reforging the Promise]]
# New: [[Mite Xu]]: just to add a little flavor to our amalgamated servants.
# New: [[Lu Fei]]: Detailing a bit about Lu Fei's bad luck and his present situation.
# New: Expansion of Lu Fei to include the letter requesting amabassadorial status.

--Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers): 12/16/06--
# Expanded: [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# New: Added [[Walker in Darkness]] and three of his servants as blank stubs.
# New: [[Typhon]]. Busy little bugger.

--A Trial of Valor: 12/30/06--
# New: [[Crucible of Celestial Portion]]: It's River's job, so it's off screen, but that doesn't mean it's trivial.

--The Consequences of Action: 1/6/07--
# Expanded: [[The Southern Expedition]]: The End and the Beginning.
# New: [[Amilar Vondy]]: Lookshy politics have grown less subtle of late.
# New: [[Chapter 7]]: Still More Day to Bring, with an appearance by the newest Daybringer.
# New: [[Thorns]]: I'm not too happy with it, so I'll probably edit it, but it's a little picture of Rivers considering the city of Thorns.
# Edited: Collected gens Amilar under one banner. The house is at the very least neutral, as its head appears to be.

--The Righteous Strike Back: 1/13/07--
# New: [[Open Skies Above]]: Sorry, you're not invited, but you can still send gifts. Hearthstones are preferred.
# New: [[Putting Out Fires]]: Rivers and Skies and busting heads.
# New: [[Falling Bridges]]: Reconstruction in the south, and moderate angst, deflected by Mite Xu.
# New: [[Shadow of a Different Sun]]: Rock and a hard place.
# New: [[Responsibility and Authority]]: Happy endings.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]
# New: [[The Headless]]: Pity Wu.

--Distant Peals of Thunder: 1/20/07--
# New: [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: New page for organizing custom charms, since 1/2 of the players have them.
# New: [[Defy the Armor's Dream]]: Posted the one custom charm that I have in full (I don't have the virtue listed for the spirit charms you sent me, Jason. Sorry!)
# Edited: [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: Added dates as far back as I have them recorded as gm.

--Wind in the Doorway: 1/27/07--
# Expanded: [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: Added a couple of the artifacts from last session.
# Picture: [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]: Crane.
# Expanded: [[Rivers Between Us]]: Tossed up his intimacies for funsies.

--Darkening Skies: 2/10/07--
# New: [[Secret Avalanche]] gets his own page. I wish I could have written it... without the crappy writing.
# New: [[Root of the East]], Rivers' trusted advisor. Poor devil.

==Jason Kalivas==

Good plan, David!

# (7/30) Added [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (7/30) Added [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (7/30) Added [[The Dryads]]
# (7/31) Added [[Grassfoot]]
# (7/31) Added [[Amilar Amaki]]
# (8/01) Moved River's Automata on the front page, under the [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#The_Book_and_the_Sword|Book and the Sword]] heading, since they're created things and not actual characters.
# (8/01) Changed the formatting for [[An Oathsworn Circle]] to make [[River's Contacts]] stand out better.
# (8/05) Edited David's [[Othoclase]] page, for added evil.
# (8/05) Added a second section to the [[Grassfoot]] page.
# (8/06) Edited [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]] to add a shrine and a way of signalling others.
# (8/06) Edited [[God Crossing]] for logic, clarity and more added evil.

'''8/12: Game Day! Battle of Three Forces'''
# (8/14) Added a second section to [[The Dryads]].
# (8/17) Added [[Lookshy]].
# (8/17) Added [[Mayhiros Tesos]].
# (8/19) Added a second section to [[Fear's Umbra]].

'''8/20: Game Day! Failure and Intrigue'''
# (8/26) Listed all of the Mask's known Abyssals on [[Sky-Spanning Devils]].
# (8/26) Added [[Mayhiros Ruja]].
# (8/26) Added [[Rhianna]].

'''9/2: Game Day! The Halls of Venus'''
# (9/4) Added [[The Mourning Field]]
# (9/4) Added [[Flying Pearl Lake]]
# (9/8) Added "At the Altar of Storms" to [[Shouting With Iron]]
# (9/9) Added [[Soft the Valley's Song]]

'''9/16: Game Day! The City Mastered'''
# (9/17) Added [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]
# (9/17) Added [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]
# (9/18) Added [[Ma-Ha-Suchi]]
# (9/18) Added a picture of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]
# (9/24) Began [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]

'''9/30: Game Day! Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First'''
# (10/02) Finished [[Abbot of Hunger and Dust]]
# (10/02) Added [[V'Neef Pahul]]
# (10/06) Added "The Living Voice of Ami Kang" to [[The_Qinglong_Alliance]]
# (10/07) Added "Storm of Amber" to [[Spring Market]]

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/08) Added [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (10/08) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 1
# (10/11) Added [[Fenghuang Temple]], Part 2
# (10/14) Added [[Deren's Ford]]
# (10/15) Added [[Puyo]]
# (10/15) Added [[Karacalla]]
# (10/17) Added [[Varsi]], Part 1

'''10/21: Game Day! Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips'''
# (10/22) Added "Fire in the Rain" to [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]

'''10/28: Game Day! Insults Answered'''
# (10/29) Added [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]]
# (10/29) Reorganized [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] for clarity; includes moving [[My Town]] to [[Nexus]]
# (10/29) Added [[War Games]]
# (10/29) Added [[A Web Spun From Water]]
# (11/02) Added [[The Marukan Alliance]] - FINALLY!
# (11/04) Added [[Crumbling Pillar]]
# (11/04) Added [[The Trials of Righteous Judgement]]

'''11/04: Game Day! Oops'''
# (11/04) Reorganized [[Heaven's Mandate]] for clarity - breaking off larger sections into self-contained pages
# (11/05) Added [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]]
# (11/19) Added [[Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow]]
# (11/19) Added [[Weeping Jade]]
# (11/19) Added [[Black Caul Chiurgeons]]

'''12/16: Game Day! Faces of the Enemy (Messages and their Bearers)'''
# (12/17) Added Part 1 to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''12/30: Game Day! A Trial of Valor'''
# (12/31) Added "The Forge's New Master" to the [[Flame-bond Forge]]
# (12/31) Added [[Choshu Ishi]]
# (12/31) Added "Insolence" to [[The Qilin Fellowship]]

'''1/06: Game Day! Consequences of Action'''
# (1/07) Changed [[A Web Spun From Water]] and [[Storm's Eye Hill]] to account for more defined genders/roles in the [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]
# (1/07) Created [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]] and [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]] to clear up [[Heaven%27s_Mandate#Records_of_the_Grand_Historian|Records of the Grand Historian]] on the Main Page
# (1/07) Added [[Nama Bi]]
# (1/07) Added "In the Dragon's Wake" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]
# (1/07) Added [[Red the Sage's Roots]]
# (1/07) Added pictures to [[Choshu Ishi]], [[Crumbling Pillar]], [[God Crossing]], [[Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages]], [[Nama Bi]] and [[Red the Sage's Roots]]

'''1/13: Game Day! The Righteous Strike Back!'''
# (1/15) Added "Singular Geomancy" to [[Storm's Eye Hill]]; in which I try, and fail, to get maudlin
# (1/16) Added [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/17) Added "Lightning Disperses the Clouds" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/18) Added "The Crow Plucks the Corpse's Eye" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added "The Formation Triumphs" to [[The Crow and Cloud Formation]]
# (1/19) Added [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]]

'''1/20: Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# (1/24) Added [[The Righteous Stair]]

'''1/27: Game Day! Wind in the Doorway'''
# (1/28) Added [[Choshu Aya]].
# (2/05) Added Intimacies for [[Storm of Amber]], [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], [[Cathak Nekuto]], [[Choshu Ishi]] and [[Choshu Aya]]; Storm's are complete, the rest still have some to add, in time.
# (2/05) Added [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]]
# (2/05) Edited [[Scattered Hoof-beats Sound]] to improve the quality.
# (2/08) Added [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]].
# (2/08) Added [[House of Courage]].
# (2/08) Added "In Mountains, Occupy the Heights" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].

'''2/10: Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# (2/11) Added "In Valleys, Deploy for Defense" to [[Strategies For Mountains and Valleys]].
# (2/11) Added the [[Pearl of Castigation]] to our hearthstones.
# (2/15) Added [[The Five Changes of Fire]]

'''2/17: Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day'''
# (2/17) Added [[Voices Prophesying War]]
# (2/18) Added "The Answer to the Earth" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; anyone who gets the joke gets mad props from me.
# (2/18) Added "The Red Queen" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]
# (2/20) Added "Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" to [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]]; feedback especially appreciated on this one, I'm not sure how I feel about the writing. ''I liked it. Although...are you sure you can't work in a truly heinous cliffhanger ending? -mac''
# (2/20) Rewrote ""Two Ladies and a Legion of Brass" on [[Three Visits For the Brass Lady]], for added bureaucracy; I'm much, much happier with this version
# (2/20) Added [[Tactics For Hosts and Guests]], thus initiating the final chapter in the first Choshu Ishi story; tales of his exploits in the south remain to be heard.
#

==Lukas Myhan==
-- 8/12: Battle of Three Forces
# (8/20): Added [[The Well of Roots]]
# (8/20): Added [[Lun Kuai's Letter]]

-- 8/20: Failure and Intrigue
# (9/02): Added two sections to [[Allat]]

-- 9/2: The Halls of Venus

--9/16: The City Mastered
# (9/25): Added [[Tokaki Kui]]
# (9/29): Contributed last 4 paragraphs to [[The First Generation]]
# (9/30): Contributed Leaf Shakes the Wind's section of [[Spring Market]]

-- 9/30: Lookshy Strikes Back... err... First
# (10/06): Added [[Iselsi Augus]]

-- 10/07: Civil War Averted
# (10/11): Added [[A Lesson In Humility]]
# (10/16): Added [[Subaru Mao]]

-- 10/21: Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips

-- 10/28: Insults Answered
# (11/01): Added "A Matter of Interpretation" to [[Site 1: Firewander]]
# (11/01): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/01): Co-wrote "Trust" in [[Site 4: An Teng]] with David
# (11/02): Added "Old Allies" and Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 2: Rathess]]
# (11/02): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade]]
# (11/02): Added [[Bones Like Jade: Stats]]
# (11/03): Added "Duty" to [[Site 3: Diamond Hearth]]
# (11/03): Added "Perspective" to [[An Early Departure]]
# (11/03): Added Leaf's Journal Entry to [[Site 4: An Teng]]
# (11/03): Added [[Sun-Blackened Pinions]]
# (11/03): Added [[Alabaster Sunset]]
# (11/03): Added Black Widow Razors, Sling of Deadly Prowess, Hearthstone Bracers, and Amulet of Shadow Walking to [[Panoply of the Sun]]
# (11/04): Added [[The Assassin's Library]]

-- 11/04: Oops!
# (11/15): Added "Twofold" to [[The Empty Garden]]
# (11/21): Added "Part 1: Arrival" to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (12/16): Faces of the Enemy
# (12/28): Added "Part 2: The Pen Is Mightier..." to [[Sha Yan Shi]]

-- (1/06): The Consequences of Action
# (1/11): Added [[Juggernaut]]
# (1/11): Added [[Something to Break]]

-- (1/13): The Righteous Strike Back
# (1/19): Added [[Chain of Regrets]]

== Joe Jay-Dixon ==

10/17: Added four Abyssals to the Mask's roster, from a discussion on RPGnet.

==Lesley McKeever==

'''10/07: Game Day! Civil War Averted'''
# (10/16) Added a new enemy, [[Virra Amalia]]
# (10/20) Added Part One (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)
# (10/28) Added Part Two (of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s background)

'''12/16 Game Day! Messages and Their Bearers'''
# Working on [[The Price You Pay]]
# Working on Part Three

'''1/20 Game Day! Distant Peals of Thunder'''
# New: Sapphire's Stats are [[Sapphire River at Midnight|here]]
# Updated: Edited [[Hearthstones]] to add Sapphire's hearthstones
# Updated: Edited [[Solar-Forged Glories]] to add Sapphire's artifacts

'''2/10 Game Day! Darkening Skies'''
# Updated: Edited [[Sapphire River at Midnight|Sapphire's stats]]
# Updated: Added Charms spreadsheet [http://www.lesleymac.com/ex/exaltcharms.xls here]
# Updated: Part Two of [[Sapphire's Past]] edited extensively
# New: Added Hsuan Lin's [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]

'''2/17 Game Day! Sapphire's Bad Day''' 
''Honestly, sometimes I wonder if anyone likes anything they write.''
# This week, it is my intention to finish
# at least three articles and add them
# to the wiki. Wish me luck? and mock me mercilessly should I fail.
# Updated: Finished spending Hsuan Lin's banked exp and updated her [[Hsuan Lin|stats]]
# Updated: Edited several articles, mainly to make character names fit convention

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]

Virra Amalia

2007-02-21T06:55:50Z

Lesleymac:

Amalia...you were so different then. I wonder if your mind now returns to those days; because you can't look to the future, do you cherish the past? Mother was gone then, you never knew her; she died the day you were born. The void she left was hard on us all, but you didn't have even the memory of her face for comfort. We tried so hard to make up the difference, Father and I. And you did seem happy. Then came the day the world shifted forever.

That day, the last day, we were walking in the garden, and you were telling me all of your adolescent woes and triumphs, As I remember it, the crisis of the morning was that Cynis Rega had started flirting with Iselsi Kalia, and just when you were prepared to confess to him your undying love. "What does he even see in her? It just makes me so mad!" you fumed. Then, without warning, the air around you burst into flames.

It stopped almost immediately, you were so shocked at what you had done. The heat of the fire didn't touch you. I was standing close enough to you that my sleeve began to burn, but I threw myself to the ground and smothered it before it did much damage. For a few moments we just looked at each other in wide eyed awe.

"Do you know what this means?" I broke the silence. "You must be Dragon Blooded. One of the Outcaste." I didn't know what else to say. You sat there in a daze, as I took your hand carefully, and led you back to the house, my mind reeling and my arm throbbing with pain.

If we were awed and amazed, how much more so was Father. When we told him the news, he cried with joy. He cried, for the first time since Mother died. And he decided then and there, that we would use all we have to see how far your gift could carry you. Perhaps if he could have seen how things would work out he would have done otherwise. It's not for me to say. The fact remains that he didn't, and one more cobblestone was laid in the road that got us here.

-- ''from [[Sapphire River at Midnight]]'s private notes''

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[[Heaven's Mandate]]