Ampelio

"The child sits with her face in her arm, ignoring the thick, choking smoke coming from the coals where her house used to be. Her parents were in the house when the fire started, and only she sits on the carefully built garden patio in front.  " ''A cleric of Ampelio is the first one here. He is nimble in his approach, hopping over flowerbeds in spite of his heavy armour and antlered helmet. He's seen enough suffering in his years to know that

trying to convince this child that all was well wasn't enough, and wasn't true besides.  Instead he sits beside her and pulls out a bright coin. It twinkles

around in his fingers, reflecting in the peeking eyes of the girl. He reaches a hand to her ear and pulls it back with no coin in the palm, faking surprise. She pokes her head out of her arms to grab her ear and gasps when there is no coin there. She watches in amazement as the cleric reaches to her other ear and now holds between his thumb and index finger, suddenly, the coin! The cleric chuckles and flicks the coin to her and somehow, in spite all odds, a smile finds the face of the girl.      '' Ampelio stewards humour and mirth. Many lawful types might look down on him and his clerics, save for the undeniable influence they have. He has a deep kinship with copper dragons, most of them serving him in his wandering city refuge, the thing known as Pavence. Many court jesters are actually top graduates of his academies, sent to provide the king hard truths in the form of wit.

Both clerics of Ampelio and of Fen Ula would describe the two Elosi as being married in a sense. This poses no problem for these clerics but seems baffling to outsiders. Fen Ula's grief, and Ampelio's mirth seem fundamentally opposite. The Elosi themselves would say that they are fundamentally very similar.