Talespinner is one of the three well-known Gods of Great Forks, and is a wise and well-traveled celebrety God. He is known to be favorably inclined to the Solar Exalted, having taken a young member of the Dawn Caste under his wing as something of a protege. The Circle first met him in the . He weaved an uplifting story about the Circle being the ones to lift the Curse, of which he himself is a sufferer, being forced to return every year on Calibration or else be ripped back through the land of the dead to it (although he can dodge the Curse by hiding in Heaven, he admitted.) He quickly explained to the Circle about the Burnt Man, the focus of the curse.