Ortege-Postoyam
Ortege-Postoyam is a communications god of the Celestial Bureaucracy, serving under Meldre God of Communication in the Bureau of Destiny’s Division of Journeys. Ortege’s original position was god of postal waystations where messengers would refresh their mounts or refuel along their journeys, and he has kept this portfolio alongside a more recent appointment to become god of the Infallible Conveyors of Official Messages and Heartfelt Expressions.
The importance of Ortege-Postoyam’s purview sees him receive ample prayer from the Prayer Calendar, but the god has secured even greater worship and sacrifice through dealings direct with the Scarlet Empress, who mandated the officials of the Imperial Post make prayer and sacrifice to the god each time they refresh at a station, in exchange for his favour in assuring the speed and sanctity of the Imperial Post, as well as ensuring the god received many fine gifts for his cooperation.
Most useful to the Throne amongst Ortege-Postoyam’s powers is his ability to know the location of all missives carried by the Imperial Post. He has no inherent knowledge of their contents, but also knows from whom they have been sent, who is intended to receive them, and who has read them in transit. Access to such abilities meant that intercepting Post missives to steal their information was next to impossible: the god would simply report the perpetrators to the Post or the All-Seeing Eye upon request, and the wrath of the Empress would be visited upon the guilty party.
Ortege-Postoyam has a reputation for indulgence even amongst the indolent gods of Yu-Shan, partaking in all the pleasures of Heaven and Earth his wealth can offer and being a constant fixture at Heaven’s salons... with the leeway offered him by his alliance with the Throne he has also been known to appear at Dynastic galas as well.
The Immaculate Order has long protested this arrangement as improper, but could do little to force the Empress to rescind it. Now that the Throne sits empty, some muse that the time has come to curtail this divine corruption... even as scions of the Great Houses approach Ortege-Postoyam to gain advantage as the clouds of civil war gather on the horizon.
