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==Influence 3: Terrestrial Bureaucracy==
While the jealous gods of the Celestial Bureaucracy might scoff at the returning Solars, their oppressed poor cousins in Creation proper, having long suffered under the yoke of unnatural tyrants like the Mask of Winters, have not forgotten. The spirit courts of the River Province all rejoiced when the Veil-Winged Shrike's Circle retook Thorns and restored the proper way of things: some of them recognise the Crown of Thunders on Shrike's brow and they remember what it means. Her marriage to the city god of Thorns has only enhanced this esteem. She wields powerful influence over the gods of the Scavenger Lands, and many of them accept her as one of their own. It is only a matter of time before Shrike assembles a new pantheon with herself at its head.