Old Tsau

A bent old woman with a wide gap-toothed smile and hands like roots, who has kept an illegal shrine to the household gods on the Sorogei road for fifty years. Every magistrate in that time has known and every magistrate has decided not to notice, because their wives leave offerings there. Claims to remember the Reasoned Rebellion; is lying, and does it beautifully. Gives soup to conscripts and advice to everyone. Knows what the peasants of the Reach actually think, which is a thing no minister knows. Kind, sly, a little mad, or pretending. The Doctrine's most persistent failure.