Editing Storm of Amber (section)

==A Tale Writ By Lightning==
"When I set my power against the weak cities of men that lined the lower banks of the Yellow River I came against the city-state of [[Chebam]] and found them ready for me.  They had hired a mercenary company, one whose banner flew seven spears, to stand against us.  They would have been as nothing before my greatness, but there was something else stood among them.  The long-faded scent of her ambrosia was a heady perfume.  She did not fight alongside the Seven Spears' troop; she stood on the battlements with a banner and a trumpet, but she was with them yet.  Her strength was not greater than my own, yet still my warriors fell before her.  There was nothing I could do.  

"That was when the Solar arrived, and I thought of my plan.  I called to him as if I were an agent of his law, trying to break a goddess who defied the will of Heaven by interfering with the affairs of Creation.  I called for his support.   But his ears had heard already a softer music, and he drove my tribe away like chattel.  In his arrogance, he claimed four of my pinfeathers as his own before sending me away.  But after four hundred years my tribe would not abandon me so swift as that.  I met them again in the hills and here we wait and plan.  One day, this prince of the earth will fall."

-- ''[[Shouting With Iron]], Elder Thunderbird, god-king of the Grinning Tempest tribe of Hill People


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[[Heaven's Mandate]]