CHARACTERS

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The Guan Family

Guan Anjie - Eldest Guan brother 

Guan Jinyue - Middle Guan brother

Guan Wenzhan - Youngest Guan brother

Guan Wenbo - Youngest Guan sibling, a ten year old girl

Guan Baisun - Mute Guan woman, aunt to Anjie and siblings

Guan Sanhai - Guan family head doctor and shaman

Guan Ruotian - Twelve year old niece of Sanhai

Guan Liutian - A shaman doctor who's been living outside of Guilin

Mu Ziyuan - Agender right hand of the First Lord

Su Cailan - Seventeen year old attendant to Guan Jinyue

Feng Sueyi - A member of the crane generation from before Anjie's lordship

Zhang Yelu - A nine year old girl of the household

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Zhang Lanyu - A crane who has been living outside of Guilin

Xi Mona - A crane who has been living outside of Guilin

Guan Liyun - Deceased eldest sister of the Guan family

Guan Haizhen - Former First Lord of House Guan, father of the Guan brothers

Na Mingbo - Second wife of Guan Haizhen, Wenbo's mother

Jie Zhaliu - First wife of Guan Haizhen, mother of the Guan brothers

Other

Jun Musheng - An artist Anjie meets in Guilin in Year 697

Lin Suzha - A female student at the Guilin provincial college, affiliated with Wenzhan

Yu Ling - Deceased king of Yulai

Chang Dazhe - A foreign visitor to Guilin in August, charged with rape by House Guan

Quan Caihe - Regent of Anzhou

LOCATIONS

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Guilin

Guilin - A small autonomous valley province. Present-day Jiuzhaigou National Park.

Rizhai - The central town in Guilin. Located near the valley split.

Guilinhe - A village on the outskirts of the Rizhai township. Location of the Guan estate.

Beicheng - Northmost town of Guilin province.

Other

Anzhou - A state of the continent, encompassing the region of what was formerly China beneath the Yangtze river to the Tibetan plateau.

Yincheng - A modern coastal city, capital of Anzhou.

Beiguo - A state of the continent, encompassing the region above the Yangtze to the northern border.

Shanjing - A mountain city, capital of Beiguo.

Xijia - A state of the continent, encompassing the western plateau and desert regions of what was formerly China.

Mosanguo - Capital of Xijia.

Yulai - A former state of the continent, once encompassing the area between the Yangtze and the Yellow River, excluding the autonomous province of Guilin.

Tianxin - Formerly the continental empire, existing from 149 to 296 of the Ashless Era.