<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/>Where before the iconic displays of radiant glory had been compressed beneath the not quite thirty foot high ceiling of the workshop,  now the fiery garda bird rose to fill the high vaulted ceiling, spreading fiery wings freely.<br/><br/>Ramlan stepped up with Talitha and took her hand, extending his other to Xenovia that she, too, might join them.  An identical caste mark blazed to life on his own brow and the great golden serpent uncoiled from his own radiance.  "My friends, " his voice boomed out like a great bell.   "It is a time of chaos and violence all over Creation.  The Lintha pirates bring forth demons and profit together from human suffering. The dread ghosts who have conquered our ancestors now march legions of corpses into the living world. The successors to those who betrayed the solar deliberative now betray their own most loyal subjects for the resources to shed each other's blood in a fight for an empty throne."<br/><br/>The golden serpent unfurled radiant wings. “This is a time of tumult,  but not of despair.  We, the chosen of the Unconquered Sun, have come again to answer Creations need. Stand with us. My friends."  The serpent leaped up into the air beside the Phoenix.  "Let us go together into Creation as it's saviors."<br/><br/>"I am Ramallan,  captain of the Fire Orchid, chosen of the sun at his zenith.  Follow me and we will chart a course through the darkness.  Together we will light the way."