Editing Spirits of Talent and Virtue (section)

==The 72 Earthly Fiends==
* [[Allat]] [First Age]: Lunar wife of [[Lun Kuai]].  '''Changing Moon'''

* Gens Amilar
** [[Amilar Agathon]] [age 39]: Disgraced Judge Magistrate and Chuzei of [[Lookshy]]'s Magistrate-Advocate Directorate.  Last seen fleeing towards Marukan.  '''Water Aspect'''
** [[Amilar Amaki]] [age 46]: Taizei (captain) of the First Wing, First Dragon of [[Lookshy]]'s First Field Force.  Stationed with the [[Marukan Redoubt]] Garrison.  '''Air Aspect'''
** [[Amilar Jurelle]] [age 16]: Savant in training, and great grandson of [[Amilar Vondy]].  '''Air Aspect'''
** [[Amilar Vondy]] [age ?]:  Head of Gens Amilar. '''Air Aspect'''

* [[Cerulean Sage]] [age 312]: Sage of compassion, living in the northern Marukan range.  '''God'''

* [[Chehbraterazim]] [age ?]: A sobeksis of the grey river, freguently summoned to serve [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]] as a healer and purger of poison.  '''Water Elemental'''

* [[The Dryads]] [age 20]: Two sisters living in the giant oaks on either side of the [[Plum Blossom Retreat|Plum Blossom Retreat's]] great hall.  '''Lesser Goddesses'''

* [[Fear's Umbra]] [age 58]: Child of Five Days Darkness, aided [[Rivers Between Us]] in constructing [[The Promise]]; now mentor to Rivers' brother.  '''God Blood'''

* [[Grassfoot]] [age 20 months]: Road spirit who wanders the highways within the [[The Marukan Alliance|Marukan]] hills.  '''Lesser God'''

* [[Hiparkes]] [First Age]: Stallion-Lord of the Plains.  Patron of [[The Marukan Alliance]], governor of horses and riders, ruler of the unity between man and steed.  '''Greater God'''
** [[Under Bridges]] [age 2]: A precocious gray mare, [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]] bought him at [[Spring Market]] in the Eye.  '''Horse'''
** [[Vaults the Moon]] [age 6]:  Bride-price for [[Storm of Amber]]'s sister, horse and rider are as one.  '''Familiar'''
** [[Wave of Smoke]] [age 3]:  Rescued from traders in [[Nexus]], he aids [[Leaf Shakes the Wind|Leaf]] in his missions.  '''Familiar'''

* [[Kena]] [age 16]: Shonai of the Third Ranger Fang, Second Reconnaissance Talon, First Wing, First Dragon of the Marukan Redoubt Garrison; now revealed as a disguise worn by one of the Mask's Abyssal servants. '''Mortal''' ''DECEASED''

* [[Othoclase]] [age ?]: Gemlord whose caves lie 40 miles east of the [[Plum Blossom Retreat]].  '''Earth Elemental'''

* [[The Ravages of Time]] [age ?]:  God of remorseless destruction leading to rebirth, he aided [[Rivers Between Us]] in constructing the [[The Promise]].  '''God'''
** [[Spring's Inevitable Betrayal]] [age ?]:  God of rebirth through remorseless destruction, he aided [[Rivers Between Us]] in constructing the [[The Promise]].  '''God'''

* [[Red the Sage's Roots]] [age 9 months]: Maple Queen of the Wood who rules both major forests in [[The Marukan Alliance|Marukan]]; born from the fallen Essence of [[Oak and Thorn]] and [[Unfallen Verdant Blades]].  '''Wood Elemental'''
** [[Oak and Thorn]] [age 457]: King of the Wood ruler of the oak forest to the south of [[An Oathsworn Circle|the circle's]] domain and not far from [[Harborhead]].  '''Wood Elemental'''  ''DECEASED''

* [[Ten Thunders Shatter the Mountain]] [age ?]: Thunderbird twice summoned by [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]].  '''Air Elemental'''
** [[August Autumn Gale]] [age ?]: A zephyr that once agreed to serve [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]].  '''Air Elemental'''
** [[Younger Tempest]] [age ?]: A zephyr once bound in resentful servitude to [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]].  '''Air Elemental'''


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