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Contacts (Guild Contacts) **
You've managed to keep some of your contacts in the Guild intact, even after you fled Nexus following Gavin Bael's takeover. While you lost your access to the Northern Trade Routes when an old friend "slipped and fell into the River", you've managed to keep in contact with Jade Phoenix, a factor who runs a highly successful drug route through the South, particularly Harbourhead and Varang. You've also gotten deeper in bed with the young and ambitious Factor from "the City of Grains", Xaos Drell, who keeps you abreast of trade matters in and around the Hundred Kingdoms and politics in Nechara itself. The rest of your contacts are scattered here and there throughout the Guild's infrastructure, and back in Nexus.
Cult **
You've got a fair-sized religion gestating back in Nevin, that considers you a Fertility Goddess. It started with you wining and dining various important Necharan folk back at your countryside estate, and things getting a bit out of hand, but things eventually really took off. Especially when your control slipped a couple times and the drunk well-sexed partygoers high on Qat noticed the glowing silver horned Goddess in their midst. Plus, this Goddess stuff is both fun and sounds cool. You've since talked to some other Gods (the ones that'll listen), visited Great Forks a few times, and otherwise tried to figure this out. So far, you've only got a small temple and a spattering of priestesses, but the religion has definitely caught on. Some of the folk in Nechara (and their Gods) don't much like that, though.
The Cult
Heart's Blood ***
You've engaged in a lot of sacred ritual hunts, taken a lot of Heart's Blood, and otherwise made your mark. These include Housecat, Large Wolfhound, Mospid, Cobra, Spider Monkey, Salmon, Parrot (multiple color schemes), Deer, Fine Riding Horse, Mountain Goat. You also have up to 6 unique and/or exceptional forms, and the forms of four humans which are described below:
Influence *
A smart person such as yourself didn't leave Nexus on a whim; you'd seen the writing on the wall, and were prepared, at least for your fleeing further into the East if not for your Exaltation. You had destinations in mind, places where you knew the people in power, or at least where the bodies were buried. While without the backing of the Guild your influence isn't quite as it once was, you're still a somebody. Given that this "place of power" is Nechara, that influence also spreads over into some of the northern edges of the Hundred Kingdoms.
Mentor (Tazzi Many-Shapes) **
You ran into Tazzi, and the Pack he led, not long after your Exaltation. In fact, he ran into you (or found you, one supposes) just in the nick of time, considering that a Wyld Hunt from Gray Falls (a really small Wyld Hunt, but a Wyld Hunt none the less) had managed to catch up with you after the boat you'd been on had all but forced you over the side and into the River and you'd spent the past three days walking upriver toward your destination. The Lunars killed the Terrestrial, scattered his men and celebrated your rescue.
You spent the next several two seasons with the Lunars, being tested and getting your Tattoos. You remained in close contact with Tazzi that entire time, always finding him available when you had questions or needed advice. Plus, the mercurial gender-shifting trickster just had a certain flair that you really liked and the two of you managed to cause trouble all over the Scavenger Lands, but even beyond the hijinks... You could tell that you were learning things, even as he got you in and out of amazing amounts of trouble. So, when he looked you up and told you about the Solars a season back, you promised him you'd look into things.
Resources ****
Prior to the takeover, and your Exaltation, you were a rich and influential Guild Factor. You lost a lot of assets when you had to leave Nexus ahead of the Takeover, but within a few years out in the Scavenger Lands, you'd made most of it back. Particularly given your Exaltation. You've managed to get yourself a nice estate several hours downriver from Nevin, and a townhouse in the city (and you're in the process of purchasing another in Budan), plus your own small river boat. You even own a breeding pair of Elephants, from far off An-Teng, which you're carefully raising back on your estate.
Since being tapped by Tazzi to work with the nearby circle of Solars, though, you've been spending more and more time in the Hundred Kingdoms. You've already purchased a small house in Nulam, one of the smallest little villages you've ever seen, and imported enough luxuries that you're able to be comfortable there. Once you have a townhouse in Budan, you hope to spend more time there, as the Solars seem more interested in the Southern reaches of the region anyway. Regardless of anything else, though, you've found that you enjoy working with the Solars.
Reputation *
A Nain-ya, you've begun to make a name for yourself.
Intimacies
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