Editing Character:Wind of Lament (section)

== Allies 2==
Wind of Lament has two close allies. The first is an extremely inexperienced young Chosen of Secrets, Resplendent Seeker. He seems quite taken with the romantic, somewhat tragic image of Wind of Lament, who features heavily in his current 'History of the Scarlet Empire's Campaigns in the Threshold, Volume III". His relative inexperience and an overabundance of paperwork prevent him from being truly useful however. The second is Emerald Orchid, the former city goddess of Joren's Crossing, the site of the Battle of Seven Gates. Their relationship is - unusual - to say the least. Robbed of her portfolio (she is now the Goddess of Seven Gates Refugees, a small group of now-slaves on the Blessed Isle) and much of her prestige, Wind of Lament has a good deal of sympathy for her, as the tangled fates that led to the battle were not her doing. She now lives with him as a concubine, in what turns out to be a mutually beneficial relationship. She is free from (most) duties, and he spends much of his salary doting on her, while he gains a certain amount of political advantage. War Gods view the relationship favorably, seeing the Sidereal take what they consider valid and right spoils of victory for his own pleasure. City Gods tend to see a sympathetic figure, who while often the herald of their destruction, does not revel in the duty. Emerald Orchid makes efforts to appear as either would expect her to, to reenforce this notion.
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