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Mnemon Merkan: The traitor, a Earth-aspected Dragon-Blood. Merkan was once a member of the Circle, thoughout most of their adventuers, until he sold Illhousen and Balthasar out to the Wyld Hunt in hopes of buying his way back into the Dynasty and settling other small scores. Merkan has not merely been shuffled off into the shadows, either, but remains a vital and important opponent of the Circle. He currently spends much time in Chiaroscuro, working to secure the city and overlooking the rebuilding efforts. When not in the City of Broken Glass, he is usually in the Imperial City, working to keep the Realm functioning and avert Civil War.
Chejop Kejak: An engimatic foe, a Secrets-casted Sidereal. Johann and Balthasar know he was present during the betrayal of Merkan, and all the Solars who have met him have vague memories of him that hint at his youth during the far off First Age. He arrived at the end of the character's confrontations with the Father of Darkness, taking the Circle back to the plains far outside the city. He offered both congratulations on their victory over the deathlord, and a warning that they would one day become a threat to Creation even greater than that which the Father of Darkness had represented.
Ledaal Catala Palancia: There are a few people within the Dynasty who hold an inordinate amount of influence and power over their House. Ledaal Palancia, elder of House Ledaal and founder of her own powerful Household, is one of those figures. Palancia and her twin sister Gamam are probably the two most powerful women in the House, and hold an fairly large amount of influence over the Council of Elders that has governed the Ledaal since the death of their founder. Both women are cautious, intelligent, and wary of the threat posed by the Deathlords -- having spent most of their life in the Threshold, investigating Shadowlands and gathering intelligence on the Underworld.
Palancia has spent most of the last year in Arjuf and Paragon, coordinating the Realm's responce to the Father of Darkness' unexpected attack on Chiaroscuro. An Elder Dynast and a powerful Sorcerer, Palancia spearheaded the attack on the city herself and has since spent most of her time slowing and shrinking the Shadowlands, caging off the ghosts and hungry dead, and otherwise bringing order back into the city. She probably understands more than anyone else just what the Deathlord was actually doing and what his true plans were...
Blood Feathers: The last member of the Father's circle that is not accounted for, none can really explain what has happened to the Day Caste Abyssal after the fall of the Father of Darkness in Yane and some suspect that she remains there still -- lurking in the depths of the city, among the growing shadowland and amidst the hungry dead. Illhousen hopes that she might have thrown off the Father's mental dominance and returned to the service of the Eye & Seven Despairs in silence. Schuyler & Balthasar are not so sure, both suspecting something more dire, but as of yet they have no better as to where the Daywalker might be...
All suspect that they will see her again, however, and are eager for that meeting and the chance to avenge the blood of the Rohan's who she killed in the days before the final confrontation with the Father of Darkness.
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