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Gods

The Bureau of Destiny

The Division of Battles

• Eashae rem Spai, Goddess of Broken Spears

The Bureau of Heaven

• Grejios, Outer Warden of the Vinsala Gate, a Celestial Lion.

Grejios is one of the guardians of the Heavenly Gateway located in the ruins of Vinsala (#12 on the map in E:tS). He is the Outer Warden, meaning he commonly watches the Creation-side of the gate.

The Court of the Burning Horizon

• Asha'anryu the Mount Enshrouded, Dragon Prince of the Court of the Burning Horizon, God of the Volcano Asha.

Asha'anryu, also called the Mount Enshrouded, is the god of the volcano Asha and the titular head of the Court of the Burning Horizon, a collection of earth, fire, sea and some humanity-related spirits native to the Central-Southwest. Asha itself is situated about 700 miles due south of Arjuf, on the coast of the Inner Sea.

Until very recently, Asha'anryu had been asleep. Six hundred years passed while Asha'anryu slumbered. His Court and the mortal inhabitants of the city Kiyasha, built on Asha's slopes, labored to keep the volcano god quiescent. The regular sacrifice of criminals and prisoners of war, in addition to ritual obesiences, made this task relatively easy. However, the recent intervention of the Sidereal Exalt Hikaru awoke The Mount Enshrouded, with predictably disasterous results for Kiyasha.

Asha'anryu's awakening has also caused a major shake-up in the Court of the Burning Horizon. The former city god of Kiyasha, Shah ibn Asha, once Regent of the Court during his father/master's repose, has now lost much of his former strength. Similiarly, other gods of the Court who relied upon mortal worship or commanded domains relating to humanity have fallen out of favor while the elementals of the court have waxed mighty.

Asha'anryu appears as an immense dragon formed from lava. His scales are hard black basalt and liquid fire seeps through the cracks as he shifts and moves. His eyes burn white-hot and molten rock constantly drips from them. His claws and fangs are all of solid diamond. His voice is the thunder of breaking rocks.

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• Shah ibn Asha, Lesser Terrestrial God

The child/servant of the volcano god Asha'anryu, Shah ibn Asha was, until recently, the god of the city Kiyasha. Kiyasha, however, was destroyed only two years ago when Asha'anryu awoke from his six-centuries slumber. The Chosen of Endings, Hikaru, was most directly responsible for the volcano's eruption and the subsequent destruction of Kiyaha, and so Shah ibn Asha regards that Sidereal with no small degree of hatred.

The Court of Masques

Upon the slopes of the sacred mountain Zangu, in the distant North, the Court of Masques makes its home. The Court is filled with spirits of illusion, trickery and deception. The God of the Northern Lights, Loghe Sky-Thief, the greatest trickster and illusionist of them all, rules the Court.

Elementals

• Shadi ibn Zalla, an Ifrit, formerly Curator of the Third Eternal Flame Burning in the Depths Unseen and Beyond Knowing. Ombudsman to Rook, a willing servant. The Binding of Shadi ibn Zalla