<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/0b/The_Winged_Prince_by_keiiii.jpg)</div><strong>Lai Aan/Graceful Willow (Sidereal Mentor)</strong><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7d/B8c37200a214e470b8f4201c77081530.jpg)</div><strong>Captain Ramalan Fire-Orchid (Prophet of Human Potential)</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCZK28uvV0ugmN-Xfu2OMUoV6TRcCFezKKmL6pbN7K0/edit)<br/><br/>Davralan was a warrior merchant from Wavecrest.  He and his wife Lusitania built their family wealth into a major trade company.  Deeply in love with Lusitania, Davralan never took a second wife.  He was still a man, though, and employed several contract concubines.<br/><br/>Of the two sons he begot on Lusitania, the eldest was Ramalan--a young man of astounding potential.  Davalran declared the lad his heir by the age of seventeen, but he groomed all four of his sons to potentially inherit the business.  The others were Ramalan's younger brother and two sons of Davalran's contract concubines whom he chose to adopt and legitimize.<br/><br/>By the age of 24, Ramalan was captain of the Fire Orchid.  With the help of an elderly and reliable first officer—Dain—he captained several successful trade missions and had protected his ship from both mutants and a small band of lintha pirates.  He'd traded with men of the west, the Blessed Isle, and the South.  He'd done business with humans, sea folk, and even gods.<br/><br/>On their way to Abalone, a pirate ship ship came at them moving against the wind.  They tacked with the wind and let out the sweeps, trying to outrun the ship, but it continually gained.  Through his spyglass, Ramalan saw that the ores were manned not by men, but by desicated corpses.<br/><br/>Pale with fear and fury, Ramalan pondered the fate that awaited his crew.  He knew they had little hope aginst the power of a necromancer, but he believe in his men.<br/><br/>Ramalan mounted the forecastle and addressed the crew.  “We can not outrun this foe, my friends.  That ship is crewed by walking corpses.  It is the dead we face this night, but it is not our death.  We will turn now.”  The crew was silent, and Ramalan's voice echoed out over the water with supreme confidence.  “We will face these abominations with courage in our hearts and steel in our hands.”  The mark of the sun at Zenith blazed to life on the young captain's brow, but his men were not afraid of him.  His men new only courage.  “When the sun rises, when the gods record this victory in Heaven, let them say that this night the crew of the Fire Orchid taught death to die!”<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Blaze"</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/95/52745e95b101322f85f2512ecc267a79.jpg)</div><strong>Hearts Ablaze Abarami</strong> (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HIsIRVzBisiu7Q4C65lYZwSXxqHIqdxFg0ZcXGKigJQ/edit)<br/><br/>   One of the most powerful men in the city of Gem is Abarami, head of the house of the same name.  The Despot has licensed this house with a local monopoly on the fire dust trade and the manufacture and sale of fire wands.  <br/><br/>   Abarami himself is a savvy businessman, a consummate warrior, and one of the finest firewand artisans in all creation.  His house is know for mass producing quality weapons—but each slave on the assembly line knows only how to make a specific part.  A firewand crafted personay by Abarami is rarer commodity than a grand daiklaive!  <br/><br/>   Abarami was quite a lover in his youth.  Rather than go away with age, that ardor has become refined.  A connoisseur of the finest in feminine companionship, Abarami has acquired several of the finest concubines in the South—including an actual goddess.  <br/><br/>   That's not entirely accurate.  <br/><br/>   Eveleen Veneera—a petite and lovely emerald skinned girl wearing little more than a collar and bangles of red jade and gold—is not a goddess but a fire elemental—a flame duck.  In return for reminding of hre of strength and elf worth, Eveleen has pledged her heart, service, and submission to Abarami for the duration of his mortal life.  <br/><br/>   Abarami wished very much to adopt and legitimize their daughter—Hearts Ablaze—but the realities of family politics has kept the young demigoddess collared.  She grew up with conflicting messages coming at her form all sides.  She was her father's property.  She was a daughter spoiled and doted on by her owner.  She was...  <br/><br/>   Eventually, she decided that she would define herself, and bend knee only to a master who earned her respect and love the way Abarami earned her mothers.   Meanwhile, she took her father’s indulgence as an opportunity to pursue a wide variety of apprenticeships, studies, and even paths of invention.  She is a courtesan, a dancer, a firewand smith, an alchemist, a supernatural martial artist, an inventor, a mad genius!  <br/><br/>   In her seventeenth year—after several battles of wits climaxing in a mortal man taking her over his knee and spanking her like a little girl—(only she never got that hot after being spanked s a little girl!) Heart's Ablaze found the master of her heart.  Ramalan—chosen of the Unconquered Sun at Zenith.  A traveler' from the west, Ramalan had come to Gem first as a simple traveler seeing the world  Eventually he revealed to Abarami that he was a trade factol, seeking new markets and trade partners for his father's goods.  <br/><br/>   After performing seven legendary deeds for Abarami, the two agreed to an extensive trade contract—but Ramalan—having by now grow quite fond of the red haired scamp—ultimately placed a final condition upon a trade agreement that would enrich both their houses by dozens of talents of silver every year.  <br/><br/>   He demanded to be allowed to purchase Abarami's daughter.  <br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Kaname</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e9/Devushki-s-hvostikom-golie.jpg)</div><strong>Kaname</strong> (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GN6juXTWgYsagnG-pCSTX7k-PvDDHCV3c9hwMnJVO_w/edit)<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mists of Evensong</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/30/0729ac96ae5c8445f949b33dc7109eea.jpg)</div><strong>Mists of Evensong</strong> (https://docs.google.com/document/d/12HISzViu1b3S9RNTIyN2SSBjxNmSbHFaIj3x0a1kzyU/edit)<br/><br/>   “When I was younger, I thought for a while that Mists of Evensong was my sister—child of my father's newest concubine.  I discovered later that the beautiful young woman he'd contracted into his harem had not, in fact, been pure when he acquired her.  She'd actually already been with child from the seduction of a baiji—a dolphin god.  <br/><br/>   “I suppose I had already gotten into the habit of indulging her like a little sister. She loved to hear my stories about the open seas, and had a tomboyish fondness for chasing me around the countryside, joining my friends and I when we played at swords—or even during serious training—and standing on a rocky butte overlooking the sea for hours on end.  <br/><br/>   “I was in Gem when my father died.  My brothers had spent the better part of a year tearing the family business apart contesting to seize control of his fortune before I returned too bring them into line.  Their was a buxom beauty serving as my chamber maid then.  It took me a few days to realize who she was!  <br/><br/>   During an attack by assassins—who were <em>probably</em> not actually sent by my brothers but by a rival house trying to take advantage of our weakness—Mists of Evensong grabbed a long knife and leaped fearlessly to my aid in battle—mortally wounding a mortal assassin even after she'd been injured herself.  <br/><br/>   She healed with supernatural speed, blood clotting almost instantly, scar gone in a few weeks.  <br/><br/>   When mists of Eventide asked me to make her part of my crew, pointing out that my Flame and my Fox sailed with me, I cocked my head for a moment, then smirked.  “Blaze and     aren't just part of my crew, they are my concubines.  Not just contracted like your mother, either. They've given themselves fully to me in loving obedience.  Will you do the same?”  <br/></div></div><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/68/B143ef625b323da0d34435cd3e5e1b52c4f8f117d8dae1a6b1c080fcfcb73d6c.jpg)</div><strong>Sanja</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iaJaDaJ8DzyYgO_Xkca8Jc0KFS-Jg0BmdAGbEDhr9-o/edit)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Atasha</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7d/V%27neef_Briar_Rose.jpg)</div>Atasha (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pwcX1ZfZDJlrcWxwT8gAHB-Xb4Q5S7bjOEitGW-Hl78/edit)<br/><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spark</div><div class="spoiler_body">Spark (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R3URUvvMd7TgYuyiFGfbNueuoCKhOVbhAoeR_Z106CY/edit)<br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fc/Beautiful-girl-pink-silk-clothes-jewelry-sword-in-hand-Asia-Oriental-fantasy-art-Wallpaper-for-Desktop-915x515_%281%29.png)</div><strong>Usha, Radiant Daughter of Umari Thousand Hands</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zE6BPyZ5ICcFPKm8A1zm4B1RauyP4opl3emVESMQTME/edit)<br/><br/><br/>