The delicate Shangdi-Zhi patrols the wall around the Abbess' domain, aided by mirrors and mazes of bronze that bewilder and disorient any that would breach the wall and avoid the Gate and its Guardian.

Shangdi-Zhi This little paper Name is sometimes many things, and Shangdi-zhi yet he is sometimes but a single thing. Right now he is a single, origami mantis, made of paper as sharp and sturdy as the finest steel. =====Nushen Hao=====''A grinding of gears. Nothing more?''<br />Aspects: {{Aspect|Heart|12}}, {{Aspect|Lantern|12}}; Deciever<br />Temptations: Unsummonable The watchful Nushen Hao keeps count of the Dead, those within the Abbess' domain and those that are bound for it but not yet within the walls. Sometimes, when the Abbess is occupied and the need is great, it leaves the ground. A blue metal loops and twists around itself like a tangle of vines, or a bramble thicket. At the very top, Nushen Hao's great unblinking eye stares towards the path which all the Dead must walk. Sometimes it pulses out eldritch messages to the sepulcher beyond. =====Kuma=====''Silence, as always and as ever.''<br />Aspects: {{Aspect|Winter|12}}, {{Aspect|Heart|12}}; Devourer<br />Temptations: Unsummonable The weary Kuma once bore a different name, in another time, but there is only one who would remember that now. Sometimes it lifts itself up from the soft earth and trundles one place or another in its mistress' service. Usually, it sleeps. The mossy rubble was something, once. Here and there one can trace out the carvings left behind by those Dead and Dreaming who didn't know better than to leave the traces of their existence behind.