Exalted: Heartsong

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Heartsong was one of the three rulers of Marrull Vaar before the Circle arrived in the city. A demonblood, Heartsong drew her powers from Spider, one of the seven Seal Devils that were bound to the manse at the centre of Marrull Vaar. She used this power to maintain a decadent thrall over one side of the city, becoming one of its three co-rulers with Thales and Bellar, and indulge in her appetite for human flesh.

While most of the other devils required defeating in order to return their power to the seal, Spider was bound to the blood of Heartsong and would potentially be lost if Heartsong was slain. Therefore Tokumei and Crystal convinced Meng that they needed her alive, and agreed to allow Heartsong to continue ruling her side of the pyramid and offered to help finish the civic project she had been working on, restoring the great eastern road, in exchange for her co-operation in maintaining the seal. Unbeknownst to the Circle, this was an effort to connect Marrull Vaar via Heartsong's side of the city to Anaathalay, at the time a slave-trading empire, with a view to importing slaves Heartsong could eat and troops she could use to subdue the rest of Marrull Vaar.

However, while most of the Circle were travelling far to the south looking for Fang Zan, tensions between Bellar and Heartsong boiled over and the Dragonblood assassinated Heartsong herself, but suffered a wound in the battle that has troubled her ever since. Heartsong's body now lies mummified and sealed in suspended animation where its blood can still provide Spider's power to the city.