Ardens Regia Meizhen's Links
Caelorum Venti, the High Elder of the Xianzhou Yaoqing. Meizhen last met him when she was very, very young, so she only somewhat remembers him. It was enough for her to fear him when she saw him on the Luofu, but also enough for her to feel safe in his arms when the Cloud Knights came after her. Considers him a guardian of sorts, as the oldest High Elder she knows personally.
She wants to apologize for what she became in her attempts to escape the Zhuming and find help for what she fears and experienced, but a part of her fears bringing it up will remind everyone that she stole and abandoned her post overseeing the Primordial Flame. Especially with her fears surrounding what the Flint Emperor might do.
A fellow High Elder. Shiyu has met Meizhen's past incarnations and worked with them plenty. He is surprisingly protective of young Vidyadhara, which includes Meizhen and wishes for her safety and well being. Shiyu understands the stresses that she must endure as someone born to protect a plague mark. After the incident with the reveal that Meizhen was on the Zhuming, he was even willing to extend his stay in the Luofu to help sort out her situation. Sees her as... a niece of some sort, and would go out of his way to help her.
The young Vidyadhara she met on the ceiling of the General's house. While she finds him calling the General's fiancée "mom" rather confusing, she can't help but feel some jealousy and guilt. Did she have a parental figure like that? Did she want one? Even now, she's not sure, but Langzi is sweet and kind, and despite what he's been through, has the joys of being a child. That's something Meizhen hope he gets to keep.
She lost that childhood, and she doesn't want someone else to as well.
Langzi is always excited to meet new people, especially a higher level Vidyadhara with horns and a tail. Thinks Meizhen is very cool and respects her although she's hardly older than him. Can relate to Meizhen in the burden of only being a shadow of their past incarnations, and loves to hang out with her, as if trying to give her some semblance of a childhood during her time here. Langzi doesn't understand the greater politics and issues that Meizhen may be entangled in, but he thinks that being her company might be able to help