Exalted: Gods, Spirits & Animals

== Gods & Spirits ==
=== The Seven Devils ===
Originally tasked with guarding the seal on the Manse, the "Seven Devils" abandoned their duties and instead pursued their own whims, with some assuming the roles of minor deities around the city, until the Solar Circle subdued them and re-bound them to the manse.
* First Devil: ______
* Second Devil: ____
* Third Devil: _____
* Fourth Devil: _____
* Fifth Devil: ____
* Sixth Devil: _____
* Seventh Devil: ____
=== [Unnamed Deity of Marrull Vaar] ===
Every city has its own deity in the celestial bureaucracy to oversee it. Given the situation with the Seven Devils and the other problems plaguing Marrull Vaar, the Circle have begun to speculate - where exactly IS the patron deity of Marrull Vaar, and what exactly have they been doing about all this?
=== Skyfather ===
The patron deity of Jheroth, an island to the far north of the Cinder Isles. Takes the form of a gigantic man with a bird's head and cloak of black feathers that grow from his shoulders. With his island under threat of being devoured by the encroaching wyld, his worshippers have brought him with them as they evacuated by bringing his priest in training, the Bird Man, and a segment of the Great Ocean Road, an ancient wondrous road that ran along the island, in the hopes that he would be bound to them and not the island.
=== Igappo ===
A monstrous, octopus-like river god worshipped by the residents of Stilt-Walker Village. Was enraged by the visiting Solar Circle, who fought the deity to rescue Daxi Ong Mao and Plucks By Moonlight (one of the villagers) who had fallen into the waters he dwelled in. He was eventually appeased by Hephastia Sonor crafting a statue in his likeness of white jade and agreeing to flood the land surrounding his lake by rebuilding the Three Sisters Dam.
=== The Spider Bureaucrat ===
A celestial bureaucrat who dwells in the Three Sisters Dam, where he keeps detailed records of the comings and goings of the local spider population that he sends off as reports to his superiors. A surprisingly low level task for one of his station, he nonetheless handles his task with enthusiasm and thoroughness, and has a good memory for the other things he has encountered while carrying out his task.
=== The Sister of the Ram ===
A bizarre entity dwelling beneath the Manse in Marrull Vaar, which was seemingly built to contain it, that issues sinister advice to those who ask boons of it. It is unclear if it merely predicts the future, manipulates it or actively causes it to happen, but in any case it should be approached with caution and engaged in conversation with even greater caution.
=== Mahadevi ===
The mother goddess of the Anaatha, the tribes who would eventually found Anaathalay. Is said to have created the lake Mahadevi Kalang, and granted the divine revelation that inspired Jagganath the Irrigator's solar exaltation.
=== Shui Song ===
The guardian deity of Sweet Tea Village, who inhabited the great tree in the centre of town. Protector of the village's dead, as long as the tree was unharmed. When Fang Zan tore down the village's tree during the events of The Treasure of Fang Zan, Shui Song resurrected the dead villagers a s zombies who rose up to devour their descendants. 
=== Gods of the Bronze Tide ===
The many cultures that now make up the Bronze Tide have their own host of deities and other beings that they worship and have brought with them during their flight. While looking upon the Bronze Tide using her powers of enhanced mystical sight, Tokumei saw many of these beings battling against the expansion of the Wyld in the skies above the fleet, but to little effect and visible cost, as gods struck by strange black bolts toppled from the sky into the sea.
Among these are counted Marduk the Storm Lord, a king amongst gods to the Mygdons, and his consort Sheba, worshipped more actively amongst the Yensei as a goddess of the household, trade and law. A statue of Sheba was escorted by her high priestess Devita amongst Prasad's caravan of refugees.
=== The Ancestors ===
Ancestor worship was practiced amongst the villagers of Guimen and Hontari, in primitive forms in the past until they were instructed in "the proper way" by Bal Sho. In this prior form child sacrifice is known to have been practiced, where mutated, sickly or otherwise unwanted children were left in a clearing for the ancestors to take (though it is more likely exposure or wild animals are what took them). Could there be other Ancestor Cults hidden amongst the villages of the Wreckers' Coast?
=== Thunderbirds ===
A type of warlike air-elementals in the shape of winged men, whose roost was nestled in the ruined adobe village overlooking the Nulbaran-Ostean burial grounds. Led by Wahkoowah, and his war-chiefs Matunaaga, Hiamovi, Tangakwunu and Ohitekah, the Thunderbirds "went on strike" at some point in the past over a dispute none of them can remember, but with the aid of ritual offerings of rum, cannabis and food were convinced to aid The Circle in their attack on the Bronze Tide.
== Animals ==
=== Swamp Strider ===
A giant insect-like creature that travels in family herds across the Wreckers' Coast as they forage for food, particularly molluscs such as snails. These creatures are frequently adopted by the Swamp Nomads, who use them as beasts of burden and bond with them for life.
==== An Unreasonable Appetite for Snails ====
A young Swamp Strider bonded for life to the Zenith Solar Reeds Whisper, "Snails" has travelled with Reeds for many years and on his adventures with the Solar Circle against Gigacles, and to the Little Peninsula.
=== Rainshark ===
A subspecies of the Fogsharks seen in the open ocean, these large predators swim the waters of the swamplands to the south of Marrull Vaar until heavy rains or mists allow them to swim through the air in pursuit of food. Generations of rainsharks used to use the warm waters in the interior of Gigacles' belly as a nesting ground for their eggs, and the pirate Fang Zan had minions who could summon them at will. One of the three rainsharks that was summoned in Fang's final battle with the Solar Circle was blinded in both eyes by Dirty Bull Meng but escaped, though who knows to what end?
=== Boomslang ===
A poisonous river snake grown to colossal size through dwelling in the essence-enriched waters of Gigacles' belly and feeding on a diet of similarly enriched shark pups, Boomslang intimidated the party (and particularly Hephastia) but ultimately helped them stop Gigacles in exchange for being allowed to escape into Still Waters Lake. It is unknown if he remained there or returned upriver to the swamps.
=== The Creature of the Wreck ===
Looking vaguely like a rhinoceros beetle constructed from human limbs, with faces dotting its head like a spiders eyes and a full head at the end of its horn cradled by hands, it is a terrifying sight as it emerges from behind obstacles that could not possibly hide something of its size. Worse still, its keening song elicits rumblings from the surrounding marshes, in what can only be presumed is some sort of response call.
=== Devil Tigers ===
An ancient species of gigantic super-predators, these enormous predatory cats were the only natural predators of Hellboars and competed with Tyrant Lizards and River Dragons until they were hunted into extinction by the First Age Solars. One of these solars, the ferocious Rampaging Devil Tiger, was named for these beasts.
=== Giant Porcupines ===
A species of porcupine that naturally grows to the size of a small pony, Giant Porcupines were aggressively territorial creatures revered by the Pelith horse-lords, who hunted them for their spines and fur to make the headdresses that are given to tribespeople as part of their adulthood ceremony. Giant Porcupines were only known on the Grey Eye Peninsula, and as their habitat is now absorbed into the bordermarches surrounding the Grey Eye they are presumably extinct.