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Divinities
I guess it would be polite to start adding some of the assorted and sundy divinities that I'm so gleefully littering the city with to this page, wouldn't it? ^_^ - Brightfires (Builder of a Cast of Thousands)
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Walls of Granite ("WG" to his friends. "Brain Stew" to Arcus.): Walls of Granite, the war god, is a very sociable guy. He's a lot like Dream and Death's kid brother, Destruction... ie: He's a big, grinning, gray-haired teddybear of a god... Who can shatter mountains with his fists. He's popular with mercenaries and enlisted soldiers, and has something of their outlook on making merry whenever the opportunity arises...
After an especially good century of strife in the Threshold, he bought himself a big "country house" out on one of the canals, and sooner or later just about everybody who's the least bit interesting ends up at one of his parties... Either because he met them somewhere and thought that they were entertaining, or by coming along with someone else who was given an invitation.
WG's parties aren't see-and-be-seen diva-approved events, by any means. He serves ambrosial hot-wings and beer, not fancy wine and peaches of immortality.... and a true social diva would *never* want to be seen in such mixed company... But juicy gossip about WG's parties is always welcome by the upper crust, and a few have been known to attend on the sly or in diguise. They would just never admit it.
Most beings "in the know" (Which may include WG himself. Every soldier knows that it's good to have friends in a variety of places-) look at them as an opportunity for interesting members of Heaven's different social strata and various factions to meet and network and have a good time on relatively neutral ground. *ANYBODY* could end up at one of WG's parties... and the host being who and what he is, everyone knows it's a bad idea to start a fight. (WG has been known to toss people into the canal for "Disrespecting the Bing"... Whatever that means...)
To that end... enter the PCs. Each of whom has met WG and each of whom has a standing invitation to at least one of his parties. The only trick is figuring out how each of us met him, and what each of us did to warrent being interesting enough to secure their invitation.
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Doyo Tan Suni ("Buzzing Temper"): One of Suyu's former strays. Currently one of the lesser administrators of Li Ho, the Second Celestial Censor of the Blessed Isle. He's related to one of the Celestial Lioness who guards the Meru gate.
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Gurrid: A Sidereal familiar. (His master is one of the Chosen of Jupiter with connections to the Wyld Hunt) He appears to be a very energetic, furry man about three feet high.
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Lin Jun Po: God of New-Bristled Calligraphy Brushes. His shop is in the market square of the District of the Boundless North. He looks like a wizened old man with a very bushy moustache.
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Coils of Silk: A goddess in the Division of Serenity's Department of Extra-ordinary Circumstances, in charge of the arrangement of Pre-Destined Reunions. (Her specialty is engineering the "chance meeting" of formerly paired Exalts.) She's also the chair-being of the Most Auspicious Glory of Beauteous Radiance contest's planning committee. She appears to be an opulently over-dressed human female made entirely of satin ribbon, silk cloth, and multicolored pearl buttons.
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Harmony of Greetings: Goddess of Invitations, and soical Diva. Formerly the Steward of Ink-Stones. She inherited her current position from Cordial Word, who made the mistake of angering Mnemon. (Poor Cordial's current where-abouts are unknown.) She prefers polar behemoth bristles for her calligraphy brushes.
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Afaldinada, Prince of the Pangolin: Homeowner of dubious taste.
"A little over a century ago, Afaldinada, Prince of the Pangolin, had taken a serene and sensible six-tiered pagoda that had stood unchanged for a good thousand years (For, indeed, the residents who made up the Boundless North’s neighborhood association were notoriously strict-) and, without so much as a nod to the wishes of his neighbors, had painted it nineteen shades of pink and festooned it with garlands of fire-flowers. Some said he had done it to spite a rival… a functionary of the Department of Landscape Appropriations who lived next-door. Others claimed it was dream-stone induced insanity. Either way, the structure and its owner had become the focus of a fierce debate which had yet to reach a conclusion. Did the Association have any control over a neighbor who refused to listen to its proclamations?… Looking at the notorious Pink Pagoda in the wan light of both the sun and the moon Suyu certainly hoped that it did. “That has got to be the single *ugliest* dwelling in Yu Shan.”
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Silver Waves: Dock-master of the District of the Boundless North's eastern-most harbor. He appears to be a column of silvery water.
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Ubu: Suyu's boatman. A skelatal figure wearing robes of scarlet and orange, leaning on a thin pole. His voice sounds like bones snapping in a fire.
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