Editing Spirits of Talent and Virtue (section)

==The 36 Heavenly Spirits==
* [[Alabaster Sunset]] [age ?]:  A Lunar who has brought her tribe under [[An Oathsworn Circle|the Circle's]] banner.  '''Full Moon'''

* [[Cathak Nekuto]] [age 37]:  A dynast general convinced to train and lead [[An Oathsworn Circle|the Circle's]] armies.  '''Fire Aspect'''
** [[Choshu Ishi]] [age 18]:  Warrior from [[Calin]], sworn to prove himself a hero of the East.  '''Earth Aspect'''
** [[The Zhuque Brotherhood]]: Special operations soldiers who take on impossible missions.  '''Amalgams'''

* [[Chokhan Fifteenth Son Shatters the River]] [age 44 at death]: [[Nameless Ravine|Nameless Ravine's]] father; a stern and upright ghost whose legacy remains in thousands of masterful works of calligraphy.  Recently promoted to godhood.  Patron Saint of the First Marukani Legion.  '''Lesser God'''
** [[Soho]]: An inquisitive and even-handed Immaculate Monk seeking to walk his own path.  '''Wood Aspect'''

* [[Cynis Lachid and Layochi]] [age 22]:  Immaculate-trained twins defeated in battle by [[Leaf Shakes the Wind]] and [[Song of the Silver Wind]], quickly recruited to their cause.  '''Water Aspects'''
** [[The Baihu Society]]: Spies sent to ferret information from mortal courts.  '''Amalgams'''

* [[Lyssa]]: Rivers' personal clerical assistant. '''Amalgam'''
** [[The Jokun]]: The four personal guards and servitors of [[Rivers Between Us]].  '''Earth Elementals'''
** [[Pai and Pei]]: The twin batteries that assist Rivers in  his works. '''Amalgams'''

* [[Open Skies Above]]: The redeemed exalt once known as [[Seven Season's Widow]].  '''Night Caste'''

* [[Serrakeen]] [age ?]: An ifrit, once a village elder, now head of the [[An Oathsworn Circle|Circle's]] bureaucracy.  '''Fire Elemental'''
** [[Choshu Aya]] [age 22]:  Forgemaster from [[Calin]], looking to perfect her work and herself.  '''Earth Aspect'''
** Servants of the Righteous
*** [[Bones Like Jade]] [age 143]: First Age Dragon King, found in Rathess by [[Leaf Shakes the Wind|Leaf]].  '''Mosok'''
*** [[Hsuan Lin]] [age 21]:  Mostly repentant thug from [[Nexus]], taken in by [[Sapphire River at Midnight]].  '''God Blood'''
*** [[Lu Fei]] [age ?]: Seraph of the Burning Bastion, his arrival is described in [[Gaiden 5.5]]. '''God Blood'''
*** [[Shai Mei]] [age 22]: Introduced in [[Gaiden 3.5]] and [[Gaiden 5.6]]. '''God Blood'''
*** [[Sha Yan Shi]] [age ?]: cat-girl obsessed with [[Nameless Ravine]].  '''Lunar Half-Caste'''
** [[The Xuan Wu Academy]]: Sorcerer-engineers who aid [[Rivers Between Us]] in his artificing.  '''Amalgams'''

* [[Seven Thousand Wonders Unfolding]] [First Age]: Clerk of [[The Infinite City]]; mentor to [[Rivers Between Us]].  Also keeper of [[The Divisions]]  '''Lesser God'''

* [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]] [age 211]: Former Eastern Captain of the Trumpets of War, recently re-hired as Assistant Eastern Goddess of War for [[The Marukan Alliance]], she serves as support for [[An Oathsworn Circle|the Circle's]] armies.  Close ally to [[Storm of Amber]].  '''Lesser Goddess'''
** [[Perfected Vigilance of Stone]] [age 836]: Philosophical lion dog guardian of the [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]; thought retired after the Shogunate fell.  '''Lesser God'''
** [[The Qilin Fellowship]]: Scale of watch-soldiers stationed in [[Varsi]].  '''Amalgams'''
** [[The Qinglong Alliance]]: An elite group of relays and heralds, Sweet Brass' clergy.  '''Amalgams'''