Exalted: NPCs of Zhaojun

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== Southern Provinces ==
=== The Pipe Smoking Man ===
First encountered acting as Yueh Kho Gui's guide and boatman during his misadventure in Taishu, this man is not all he appears. Revealing that he was acting under the alias of "Jiao", he had been watching over Kho Gui's activities while he was being kept away from V'Neef Totori ostensibly under orders from the Ministry of the Blue Robe (the Zhao secret police). However it is clear through his skillset and what little he has revealed so far that his loyalties may lie elsewhere in service of the Zhao Empire itself.
=== Dinh ===
Another agent keeping an eye on Yueh Kho Gui, who the Pipe Smoking Man suspected may have also been acting as an agent for another party, this ex-soldier was tasked with keeping an eye on Kho Gui's activities and reporting back to his masters. Despite ably tailing Kho Gui & "Jiao" across the city, he was no match for the Night Caste Daxi Ong Mao tailing them also, and met a swift end before he could report his findings to his unknown superiors.
== Goldenseal & Central Zhaojun ==
=== The Zhao Chijun ===
The portion of Zhao Chijun Song's family that remained in Zhaojun after she and her husband were forced to move south. No longer permitted to use the 'Zhao' ethnonym, the Chijun family's business fortunes have dried up in recent years, likely at least partially as a result thereof.
* Zhou - A greedy & conniving businessman, eager to keep the illusion of prestige and the lifestyle his family has become accustomed to maintained at all costs even as his rivals slowly bite off more and more of his holdings & contacts. Can Reeds help him turn things around, and if so... would he even want to?
* Lin - Vain, patronizing & simultaneously obsessed with both keeping up appearances and spreading gossip. Vents her frustrations with her husband by being casually cruel to her slave MiMi
* Mei - A bright, inquisitive girl of 6, closer perhaps to her maid MiMi than her distant, aloof parents. Very keen to impress Daxi with her subterfuge.
* MiMi - See Beastmen
== The Spine ==
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== Riven ==
=== Xosefa ===
A merchant of supernatural goods, and a surprisingly dull man for someone cursed with the head of a rhinoceros, he sold Tokumei the jar containing the mummified monk Hachimitsu when she visited Riven. Strangely, he accepted payment in the form of a carving of a lizard given to her by Grey Ocean, perhaps as some deal between him and the Dragonblood from ages past.
=== Elder Sanuk ===
One of the "elders", the most senior of the ghosts in the Underworld version of Riven. From the central hall, sat on the criss-crossed platforms over the void into which the first age ruins had sank when the shadowlands were created, he informed the party about the city's predations by the Snatcher & the Lintha necromancers.