Exalted: Lukha Palash

A young Lunar Exalt, newly chosen by Luna, Lukha has rallied the disparate peoples of the Grey Eye Peninsula to form the Bronze Tide and flee the advancing Rakshasa.
== Description ==
A Mygdon man in his early twenties, Lukha choses to forgo the trappings of a leader and instead continues to wear his favourite sailor's tunic. Over time, he has added to this as he ingratiates himself with the other cultures, having been gifted a fine Yensei sash and marked with "honoured ally" tattoos by the Pelith.
== Rise of the Tide ==
During the disaster following the emergence of Spear-Empress Bhadri and the five courts of Rakshasa that followed her out of the eye Lukha distinguished himself by managing to unite as many of the fleeing evacuees as he could into a coalition that would come to be called the Bronze Tide. Winning over some leaders, playing kingmaker to others, his primary goal was to help the people flee - but to where?
It was then that Jural Three-Trees came into the picture. An emissary from the Shahan'ya of the Caul - the "Black Lion" Sha'a Oka - Jural sought to recruit the newly-Exalted Lunar and his new army to assist in the war for the Caul against the Realm. But to do that, the Tide needs to make it across the open ocean to the Caul, and to escape the creatures pursuing them. Lukha and Jural became close, eventually lovers, and with his help he bound the Tide into one force that could conquer and absorb the people of the Cinder Isles - in doing so ostensibly protect them from a worse fate at Bhadri's hands, even if it didn't seem like it in practice - and use their resources to make the trip across the ocean.
== Recent Events ==
When the Tide became aware of the Circle and that at least one of them - Tokumei - could target a person from great distances with only the person's name, Lukha begrudgingly took Jural's advice to keep out of sight, allowing Jural to pretend to be the leader of the Tide in case of assassination attempts. Having now treated with the Circle, Lukha has welcomed the opportunity to avoid bloodshed at Baruntulga and to move his forces across the path of the Court of the Ascendant Insect, trusting in the Solars' help to keep his people safe.
== The Tragic Reality ==
Having managed to avert a bloodbath, Lukha wanted to repay the favour and he and Jural came with them to find out what had caused all this and hopefully to stop it.
Alas, for Lukha, the true culprit had turned out to be him.
As a youth, he and his friends had made a journey trespassing into the "forbidden" Issyk jungles to drink and cause trouble. In a drunken stupor he did not remember now, he had stood before the Grey Eye and bet his friends out loud "TEN talents of Jade [that] some Rakshasa won't reach out of the Eye and grab me!" Being chased off by Issyk hunters, who were themselves destroyed when a Rakshasa tried to do exactly that, Lukha knew nothing of the Ishvara that had accepted his "bet" until it came through the eye a near-Decade later to hunt him down.
Though the Spear Empress was stopped and the Tide - and the Cinder Isles - were saved, Lukha was so traumatized by the revelation that he suffered a breakdown, and is now being treated by his beloved Jural in the Tide's new temporary home on the island of Callerian.