Editing 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 [[An Oathsworn Circle|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 [[An Oathsworn Circle|the Circle's]] banner.  '''Full Moon'''

* [[Cathak Nekuto]] [age 37]:  A dynast general convinced to train and lead [[An Oathsworn Circle|the Circle's]] armies.  '''Fire Aspect'''
** [[Choshu Ishi]] [age 18]:  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|Nameless Ravine's]] father; a stern and upright ghost whose legacy remains in thousands of masterful works of calligraphy.  Recently promoted to godhood.  Patron Saint of the First Marukani Legion.  '''Lesser God'''
** [[Soho]]: An inquisitive and even-handed Immaculate Monk seeking to walk his own path.  '''Wood Aspect'''

* [[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'''

* [[Open Skies Above]]: The redeemed exalt once known as [[Seven Season's Widow]].  '''Night Caste'''

* [[Serrakeen]] [age ?]: An ifrit, once a village elder, now head of the [[An Oathsworn Circle|Circle's]] bureaucracy.  '''Fire Elemental'''
** [[Choshu Aya]] [age 22]:  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 in Rathess by [[Leaf Shakes the Wind|Leaf]].  '''Mosok'''
*** [[Hsuan Lin]] [age 21]:  Mostly repentant 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 22]: 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 to [[Rivers Between Us]].  Also keeper of [[The Divisions]]  '''Lesser 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 [[An Oathsworn Circle|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'''

* 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 1]: 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 4 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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