This information is presented to reflect Ambraea's understanding of the setting and the people in it who she meets. It is current as of year 7, update 03, Realm Year 765. You may note, this quest began ten years earlier than the standard beginning date for official Exalted content, and I have adjusted canon character ages and events accordingly.
Characters
Students of the Heptagram
Ambraea — Earth Aspect Dragon-Blood. The protagonist. A young daughter of the Scarlet Empress. Twenty-two years old.
Erona Maia — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's Hearthmate and lover. A patrician from a family well-connected in the Thousand Scales, but without much status beyond this. Shy in most social situations. Twenty-two years old.
V'neef L'nessa — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's roommate. The daughter of V'neef, the youngest matriarch in the Realm. Friendly and socially adept. Twenty-two years old.
Cathak Garel Hylo — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. A boy in his fifth year at the Heptagram. Studious and self important. Twenty years old.
Ledaal Anay Idelle — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. A girl in Ambraea's year. The daughter of two famous Wyld Hunt shikari, who wanted to be a monk before coming to the Heptagram instead. Serious about her studies and a very devout Immaculate. Twenty-two years old.
Mnemon Keric — Earth Aspect Dragon-Blood. A boy in Ambraea's year. The son of a well-regarded architect and geomancer. Friendly to those he likes. Can be elitist, but not to the point of cruelty. Twenty-twoyears old.
Nellens Garan — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. A boy in Ambraea's year. The only Exalted child of two mortals. Intelligent but often awkward, particularly around girls.
Peleps Nalri — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. A girl two years ahead of Ambraea at the Heptagram. Bears a grudge against House V'neef. Deceased, twenty-two years old.
Sesus Amiti — Air Aspect Dragon-Blood. A girl in Ambraea's year. The daughter of a respected officer in the Sesus House Legions. Intelligent and extremely hardworking at academic pursuits, but lacking any visible talent at applied sorcery. Socially awkward with morbid tendencies. Twenty-two years old.
Simendor Deizil — Earth Aspect Dragon-Blood. A boy in Ambraea's year. The nephew of the matriarch of House Simendor, an ancient Cadet House from the Southern Threshold. Extremely advanced in his studies compared to the other students in his year. Overly proud, and offends others easily. Twenty-two years old.
Tepet Usala Sola — Air Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's friend and Hearthmate. The youngest daughter of Matriarch Tepet Usala, a famed general and war hero. Brave and loyal, with an interest in martial pursuits. Twenty-twoyears old.
V'neef Darting Fish — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. A boy who was three years ahead of Ambraea at the Heptagram, now a recent graduate. The son of one of V'neef's adoptive daughters, a former patrician. Twenty-five years old.
Instructors of the Heptagram
Ragara Bhagwei — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. The founder and dominie of the Heptagram. Brilliant and stubbornly apolitical, but a difficult teacher.
Brother Lichen — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. A sorcerer-monk, and retired Immaculate spirit breaker. An outcaste and a former slave.
Cynis Bashura — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. A famed traveller and adventurer in her youth.
First Light — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. An outcaste veteran of the Imperial Legions. An expert on war sorcery.
Nellens Ovo — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. An expert on demonology. Irritable and particularly hard on students of his own House. Deceased.
Instructor Sai — There's always an ending.
Zadaki Twelve-Feathers — Air Aspect Dragon-Blood. A foreign-born outcaste from the Northern Threshold.
The Empress, her living consorts and surviving children
The Scarlet Empress — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's mother, the founder and ruler of the Scarlet Realm, and the mother of the Scarlet Dynasty. Seemingly ageless and immortal, the greatest Dragon-Blooded sorcerer alive. Disappeared.
Burano Maharan Nazat — Earth Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's father. A native of Prasad and an Imperial consort.
Berit — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's elder half-sister. A former general and war hero in self-imposed exile after a falling out with the Empress.
Mnemon — Earth Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's eldest living half-sister, founder and matriarch of House Mnemon. A great sorcerer. Nearly 400 years old through the use of life-extending magic.
Mnemon Rulinsei — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. An aged daughter of the Scarlet Empress who was adopted into Mnemon's household centuries ago to gain protection from Ragara's assassination attempts.
Oban — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's elder half-brother. Married to Matirach Sesus Raenyah.
Ragara — Earth Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's eldest living half-brother, founder and former matriarch of House Ragara. Living in retirement in the Northern Threshold. Over 600 years old through the use of life-extending magic.
V'neef — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. Ambraea's elder half-sister, founder and matriarch of House V'neef. The youngest Great House matriarch. Fifty-five years old.
Other human characters
Beacon of Truth — Zenith Caste Solar. An Anathema and former prisoner in the Imperial Manse, killed by Ambraea and Maia as part of a Wyld Hunt in 764. Wounded Hound's lover.
Briar — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. An outcaste itinerant monk of the Immaculate Order who travels a circuit. Caring and humorous, but decisive at need.
Demure Peony/Singular Grace— Love is hard.
Erona Vermillion Shore — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. Officially a former foreign outcaste who married into the young matriarch of an ailing patrician family. In reality, she was born Iselsi Velera, a former officer in the Imperial Legions believed to have died on campaign many decades ago. Maia's grandmother.
Hope For Rain — No Moon Caste Lunar. An Anathema necromancer and sorcerer sent by the dread Face-Stealer, Amatha Kinslayer, to rescue Wounded Hound from the Blessed Isle. Killed by the combined forces of a Wyld Hunt in 764.
Lohna Prince's Scribe — Mortal. A slave of the Imperial household, was Ambraea's wet nurse, later one of her nannies. Peony's mother. Practical but caring.
Ophris Maharan Teran — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. A distant cousin of Ambraea's from Prasad, daring and cheerful, but confused by the Realm's culture.
Ophris Maharan Yavis — Mortal. A distant cousin of Ambraea's from Prasad, Teran's Sage Caste personal attendant.
Sesus Cerec — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. Mother to Amiti and Kasi. A dragonlord, later quartermaster, with the Sesus House Legions. More than she appears.
Sesus Kasi — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. Amiti's twin sister, who Exalted years before her. Currently attending the Spiral Academy.
Sesus Vahelo Mortal. Cousin to Amiti, a young legionary officer. Shared a memorable evening with Ambraea.
Stinging Nettle — I cannot help who drives me.
V'neef S'thera — Wood Aspect Dragon-Blood. One of V'neef's daughters, a blind swordmaster.
Teng Evening Garnet — Mortal. A freedwoman and former Dynastic slave, originally from the satrapy of Zhaojun. Ambraea's handmaiden.
Tepet Igan — Air Aspect Dragon-Blood. V'neef's husband, the father of L'nessa and S'thera.
Tepet Kedas — Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood. Engaged to V'neef S'thera.
Tepet Usala — Air Aspect Dragon-Blood. Matriarch of House Tepet, Sola's mother.
Tepet Usala Numara — Air Aspect Dragon-Blood. Sola's eldest sister, a general commanding one of the Tepet House Legions.
Tranquil Depths Drown Deceit — Water Aspect Dragon-Blood. An Immaculate monk originally of House Erona. Maia's elder brother.
Wounded Hound — Full Moon Caste Lunar. An Anathema and former prisoner in the Imperial Manse killed by Singular Grace and Stinging Nettle as part of a Wyld Hunt in 764. Beacon of Truth's lover.
Yula Cerenye — Love endures.
Spirits
Diamond-Cut Perfection — Lesser elemental dragon of Earth. A newly-fledged dragon and powerful elemental, Ambraea's unorthodox tutor. Friendly, but erratic and greedy.
Yoxien, the Directory Bound in Crimson, Defining Soul of the Bottomless Library — Demon of the Second Circle. A powerful demon in the shape of a miniature raiton, bound by ancient and powerful magics. Seemingly friendly.
Verdigris — Minor elemental. A bronze serpent permanently summoned at Ambraea's side. Ambraea's familiar, highly attuned to her emotional state.
The Great Houses
House Cathak — Fire That Marches Against the Tide. One of the three Great Military Houses of the Realm. Famed for its Legions' iron discipline.
House Cynis — Wood Nourished on the Tears of the Fallen. A mercantile House with a monopoly on importing slaves and narcotics into the Blessed Isle.
House Ledaal — Air that Raised the Bones of Giants. Famed for its deep stores of arcane knowledge and single-minded dedication to safeguarding the Realm from dark forces.
House Mnemon — Earth Carved in the Image of One. Renowned architects, builders and geomancers. Responsible for much of the Blessed Isle's roads and other great works of infrastructure.
House Nellens — Dragons of the Blood Ressurgent. A mercantile House with diverse investments. The youngest House, besides V'neef.
House Peleps — Water That Wreaths the Crown of Centuries. A particularly old House that controls the Imperial Navy.
House Ragara — Earth Slaked on the Blood of Dragons. Controls most of the banking interests for the Dynasty.
House Sesus — Fire that Makes the Shadows Strong. One of the three Great Military Houses of the Realm. Has an unsavoury reputation, and is known to rely on underhanded tactics in both military and political matters.
House Tepet — Air Stained by the Blood of Legions. One of the three Great Military Houses of the Realm. A very old House famed for heroism, brilliance in command, and martial excellence.
House V'neef — Wood That Tenders the Garden's Grace. The youngest Great House by far, only elevated in RY 754. Apart from V'neef's own household, still predominantly made up of former outcaste households formally adopted by V'neef. Controls the Realm's merchant fleet.
Other Houses of the Realm
Clan Burano — Stone That Towers Toward the Sky. One of the two ruling Dragon Clans of Prasad. Officially a Realm cadet house. Based in Prasad, in the South-Eastern Threshold.
Erona — A patrician family, predominantly made up of bureaucrats working in the Thousand Scales.
House Ferem — Air Cradled in the Jaws of the Sea. The former rulers of Grand Cherak, now the largest Realm cadet house. Based in Cherak, in the Northern Threshold.
Clan Ophris — Fire That Renews the Forest. One of the two ruling Dragon Clans of Prasad. Officially a Realm cadet house. Based in Prasad, in the South-Eastern Threshold.
House Simendor — Dark Wings Enfolding the Agate Throne. An ancient bloodline of sorcerer princes. Now a Realm cadet house, named for the Shogunate daimyo, Simendor the Hellblade. Based in Chalan, in the Southern Threshold.
Former Great Houses
House Akiyo — A fallen Great House.
House Burano — A former Great House. Struck from the rolls for co-founding the Empire of Prasad.
House Chanos — A fallen Great House.
House Iselsi — Water That Hides the Deepest Dark. A fallen Great House. Struck from the rolls thirty years ago, after nearly a century of humiliation and slow dismantlement by the other Houses for a failed assassination attempt against the Empress.
House Jerah — A fallen Great House.
House Jurul — A fallen Great House. Destroyed for consorting with Lunar Anathema and plotting against the Empress.
House Manosque — A fallen Great House. Anihilated down to the last scion after a failed coup.
House Ophris — A former Great House. Struck from the rolls for co-founding the Empire of Prasad.