Spirits of Talent and Virtue

In acting, heroes change Creation and impact the lives of the people in it. The 36 Heavenly Spirits are those who've flocked loyally to our heroes' banner, while the 72 Earthly Fiends are those the Circle has encountered on more neutral, less conclusive terms.

The 36 Heavenly Spirits

• Alabaster Sunset [age ?]: A Lunar who has brought her tribe under the Circle's banner. Full Moon

• Cathak Nekuto [age 37]: A dynast general convinced to train and lead the Circle's armies. Fire Aspect
  • Choshu Ishi [age 22]: 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's father; a stern and upright ghost whose legacy remains in thousands of masterful works of calligraphy. Honored Ghost

• 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

• Serrakeen [age ?]: An ifrit, once a village elder, now head of the Circle's bureaucracy. Fire Elemental
  • Choshu Aya [age 26]: 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 by Leaf Shakes the Wind in Rathess. Mosok
    • Hsuan Lin [age ?]: 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 ?]: 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 and broach for Rivers Between Us. Also keeper of The Divisions Least 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 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

The 72 Earthly Fiends

• Allat [First Age]: Lunar wife of Lun Kuai. Changing Moon

• 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

• August Autumn Gale [age ?]: A zephyr that once agreed to serve Rivers. Air Elemental

• Cerulean Sage [age 312]: Sage of compassion, living in the northern Marukan range. Air Aspect

• Chehbraterazim [age ?]: A sobeksis of the grey river, freguently summoned to serve 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'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 10 months]: Road spirit who wanders the highways within the 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 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 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

• Oak and Thorn [age 457]: King of the Wood ruler of the oak forest to the south of the circle's domain and not far from Harborhead. Wood Elemental 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 3 months]: Maple Queen of the Wood who rules both major forests in Marukan; born from the fallen Essence of Oak and Thorn and Unfallen Verdant Blades. Wood Elemental

• Ten Thunders Shatter the Mountain [age ?]: Thunderbird twice summoned by Rivers. Air Elemental

• Younger Tempest [age ?]: A zephyr once bound in resentful servitude to Rivers. Air Elemental

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