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Provinces: The Emerald Seas | The Thousand Lakes

The Emerald Seas

A historically fractured province of the Empire composed of many disparate groups and interests. The Emerald Seas is a land primarily dominated by dense forests, and was originally ruled by the Weilu during the pre-imperial era and then throughout the First Dynasty before their mysterious disappearance. Rulership of the province has since had the dubious honor of exchanging hands more than any other territory of the Empire, passing onto the Xi, then the Hui and recently the Cai.

The Ling Clan

Ling Qi

Ling Qi

Ling Qi, having reached the third stage of cultivation.

Our protagonist and main viewpoint character.

A runaway street rat from Tonghou who had the fortune of both being born with a high innate talent for cultivation, and catching the notice of the Ministry of Integrity for said talent. Ling Qi was given the choice all commoners found with the potential to walk the Path of the Immortal are, attend a Great Sect or have her talent removed. Not a hard choice for her to make despite her near complete ignorance of the wider world beyond the streets of Tonghou and so her journey begins at the Argent Sect.

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• The Ace: Though she doesn't generally perceive herself as this, due to a tendency to compare herself against other similarly exceptional individuals, Ling Qi is a prodigy cultivator who has ascended through realms that have taken most cultivators years in mere months, while starting from a position of zero prior knowledge and resources.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her childhood of being raised in a brothel and struggling to survive as a Street Urchin has left lasting marks on her psychologically.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her smothering mist, wraithlike ability to melt into shadow, chill aura and faint eerie music accompanying her presence having a tendency to give her a foreboding presence, particularly towards mortals, Ling Qi strives to look after her friends and family, and better herself as a person.
• The Ditz: Particularly early on Ling Qi had a tendency to be unaware of the social situation around her and to get lost in her own thoughts, though her social awareness and ability to affect attention has improved over time.
  "Ling Qi had grown skilled at putting on a mask of polite interest that hid the fact that her airy thoughts were beyond the reach of mere Immortals." — Bai Meizhen
• Fish out of Water: As a commoner who only recieved a basic education via homeschooling before running away from home and living on the streets Ling Qi starts out largely ignorant of the many historical, social and political intricacies of the Empire.
• Fog of Doom: One of her most recognizable Arts is exuding a thick mist that blankets the battlefield, which isolates and hinders opponents, and even drains their qi. The Mist later gains properties that protect and support allies too.
• Heroic BSoD: Temporarily suffers this when she believes she's relapsing into selfish behaviour focused only on self preservation. As part of Ling Qi's drive to grow stronger is no longer having to resort to despicable methods in order to survive the prospect that she hasn't actually changed as a person despite all her growth in power causes her to regard her herself as a Dirty Coward.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Living on the streets after running away left little room for moral high ground. Among her greatest guilts are repaying a kind old bum who gave her food by stealing his blankets in the cold of winter, and abandoning a fellow street rat who promised to protect her on a heist gone wrong. Though not proud of these actions Ling Qi nonetheless maintains that she did what was necessary to survive.
• An Ice Person: As a result of being mentored by Zeqing, most of her offensive abilities revolve around ice and cold.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Ling Qi uses her skill at thievery frequently, and even gets an Elder to teacher her how to break into more secure locations. When scouting one of her rival's bases, she described herself as a "sticky fingered hurricane". Taking everything from Spirit Stones, Pills, Elixirs, Art Slips, and even an entire Pill Furnace.
• Magical Flutist: Many of Ling Qi's Arts are expressed through the music of her flute, which has itself been reforged into a talisman after being broken.
• Powers Do the Fighting: Ling Qi fights with her mystical Arts expressed through music, which summon phantom constructs, drain heat and unleash bursts of deadly cold and even simply unleash blasts of concussive sound. Her physical exertion reserved for evasion and movement.
• Trauma Button: Physical intimacy or being the subject of physical attraction, particularly from men, tends to evoke a lot of discomfort from Ling Qi at best.
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Ling Zhengui

Zhengui

Zhengui, a very precious boy and powerful spirit,

Zhengui is the first of Ling Qi's spirit companions, having been raised by her since he was a hatchling. He is a two-headed snake-tortoise, known as a Xuan Wu, who is very affectionate and protective of Ling Qi.

Zhengui possesses abilties associated with fire and wood, Unlike most Xuan Wu who live in the distant Savage Seas and possess some combination of water and earth abilities. He is thus a very unique Xuan Wu.

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• Xuan Wu : In some parts of ancient Chinese mythology, the Black Tortoise is known as one of the Four Gods . In some versions he is a tortoise-snake with the snake-head being the Black Tortoise's tail. Xuan Wu is actually the Mandarin Chinese name for the mythical figure, the Black Tortoise.
• Big Little Brother : Though Zhengui more like an Empathy Pet when he is a baby, he later grows to be an enormous creature of considerable power. Far from the adorable hatchling he once was, Zhengui is terrifying to strangers at almost 18 feet tall and 30 feet wide. There is some irony in Ling Qi always calling him "Little Brother" while perching on one of the dull spikes of his shell, hence the trope Big Little Brother.
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Hanyi

Hanyi is a third realm spirit of Winter. She is one of Ling Qi's spirit companions and is considered her Junior Sister.

• Charm Person: Hanyi's songs can charm listeners into mindlessly walking into the arms of her heat draining embrace.
• Life Drinker: Subsists primarily by feeding on the warmth and life of other living creatures.
• Yuki Onna : Though Hanyi technically is half human, she takes after her mother Zeqing in most ways. As a lesser spirit of cold and death she similarly feeds on warmth and life, and her physical appearance resembles the corpse of a young child that has succumbed to exposure and hypothermia.
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Sixiang

A muse and fragment of the Dreaming Moon, bonded to Ling Qi.

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Ling Qingge

Ling Qingge

A tired mother

Ling Qingge, formerly He Qingge, was from a servant family of the Liu clan in Tonghou. When she was a teenager, the Young Master of the house took notice of her and chose her as his concubine. Her family told her this was an honor and that she should be happy to be provided for but Ling Qingge refused. She ran away from home and ended up as a homeless pregnant teen when the street musician she falls in love with abandoned her in the most painful way. At some point during all of this, Qingge's family formally disowned her for her actions. She also found out that the Young Master she rejected was ensuring that only one form of employment was open to her in the city.

• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Not by choice, but Qingge was forced to turn to prostitution to support herself and her daughter. She dedicates a lot of effort into trying to ensure her children don't inherit her desperate cirumstances, and once she does find herself in a much better position thanks to Ling Qi she takes the opportunity to lift her friends and fellow prostitutes out of poverty by offering them jobs as household staff.
• Parents as People: Qingge loves and wants the best for both her daughters. Unfortunately the stress of her circumstances and desperation to ensure Ling Qi had a better life than her strained their relationship. Culminating in Ling Qi running away when she, being a child, misunderstood Qingge's intentions as grooming her to be a prostitute and controlling her life.^note Specifically her constant pressuring of Ling Qi on matters of appearance and etiquette, which was intended to give her as much of an advantage as possible in a society that places a lot of importance on propriety, but was misunderstood as encouraging her to effectively sell herself.
• Struggling Single Mother: Qingge embodied this trope during Ling Qi's childhood. She tried to raise her daughter as best she could, unprepared for motherhood and in an environment that was not at all for children. The stresses of their situation strained her relationship with her daughter. As Ling Qi grew older, her resemblance to her absent, biological father served as a bitter reminder for Qingge.
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Ling Biyu

Ling Biyu

An energetic little sister

"Pretty sister, will Biyu sparkle?"

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Ling Qi’s three year old half-sister. Very adorable.

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The Cai Clan

Cai Renxiang

Cai Renxiang

Cai Renxiang, heiress to the Duchess Cai Shenhua, wearing her spirit Liming and holding her sword Cifeng

"The world does not allow us to have mercy for bandits, but the world does not need to be one where bandits exist. The world is far from that state, and to protect those who you come to rule, you will be forced to confront your failures and the failures of your neighbors, but you must remember. We can improve. The world is ours to shape, and just as vice arises from vice, virtue arises from virtue."

Cai Renxiang is the daughter and heir of Duchess Cai Shenhua, who was sent to the Argent Sect as one of the first of a series of tests to prove herself.

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• Broken Ace: Cai Renxiang is a genius administrator, acomplished warrior, visionary leader and prodigal cultivator beyond her years. She's also traumatized and spiritually scarred from her first meeting with her mother and heavily burdened by the weight of her responsibilities and expections.
• Light 'em Up: As with her mother Renxiang's abilities revolve around blinding light, from blazing auras to laser beams.
• The Perfectionist: The expectations she sets for herself could only be rivaled by those of her mother.
• Serious Business: Tea, from proper brewing to categorization of specific blends. It's one of the only activities Renxiang has that could be considered a hobby throughout her stringent upbringing, and is rather dear to her as a result.
• Trauma Button: Renxiang is not fond of Liming, as the spirit dress was at least partially made from her own broken soul and hastily fitted to her in order to save her life after her disastrous first meeting with Shenhua, and therefore serves as a constant reminder of her trauma on top of making her question her own humanity. This is especially unfortunate as she requires Liming to live and cannot be seperated from the dress for long periods of time.
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Liming

Liming

Cai Renxiang wearing the spirit Liming.

Liming's spiritual form, rather than than her physical form aka a dress

A masterwork item spirit bonded to Cai Renxiang, one of only four to be crafted by Duchess Cai Shenhua. Perpetually angry, and very scary.

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• Animate Inanimate Object: Liming is an object spirit in the form of a dress, made by Cai Shenhua supposedly as an emergency measure to save her daughter Cai Renxiang, who was on the verge of death, and further guard her against future threats.
• Creepy Child: In her first appearance as a spirit rather than a dress, it is revealed that she baers an uncanny resemblance to Renxiang, who is herself a young teenager at the time, but Liming's silent and simple mannerisms, along with her playing with toy soldiers, makes her seem especially childlike by comparison.

Cai Shenhua

Cai Shenhua

The Tyrant Progress, the Builder and the Breaker of Thrones.

"Witness the implacable and infinite. Behold the Tyrant Progress, whose breath is the end of kings and whose hands are the builders of thrones."

Cai Renxiang's mother, Duchess of the Emerald Seas, head of the Cai clan, the youngest person to have ever reached White in the Empire.

150 years before the start of the story Cai Shenhua overthrew the Hui Clan with popular support from nearly the entire province, due to the Hui's less than stellar reputation in the wake of their failure to present an effective defense against Ogedai's invasion, leaving the various clans of the Emerald Seas to fend for themselves. She's since made a point of reforming the historically disparate clans of the Emerald Seas into a more properly united and ordered society.

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• Abusive Parents: She hasn't been the best mother. While it doesn't appear to be intentionally malicious, her overwhelming presence and demanding standards have clearly left scars on Cai Renxiang. In particular an incident from Renxiang's early childhood where in an apparent lapse in judgement Shenhua allowed her fragile mortal daughter to meet her far too early.
• The Ace: An administrative genius capable of running entire ministries single handedly, a revolutionary figure that rallied an entire province against its corrupt dukes, a charismatic orator that convinced an Imperial Throne to support her uprising against one of their own provinces, and one of the most powerful cultivators in the whole of the Celestial Empire. Cai Shenhua already had the makings of a prodigy back during her relative youth, having reached the 5th realm at by the age of 40, before somehow managing to progress to the 8th realm in a mere ten years, achieving the peak of cultivation at the age of 50 in a setting where even the greatest talents achieve the 8th realm well into their 400s, cementing her as this.
• Affably Evil: Downplayed on the evil bit, but Cai Shenhua is a charismatic and personable, generally displaying a very laid back demeanor, with a penchant for irreverent humor and puns, despite her inhuman aura putting people on edge.
• Awesomeness Is a Force: Shenhua's presence is physically felt as a sort of overwhelmingly oppressive spiritual pressure along with a corona of scouring, cleansing light. Her mere proximity or attention can be incapacitating or even fatal to beings of insufficient power.
• Berserk Button: Corruption and anything to do with the Hui.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: As with most 8th realm cultivators, Shenhua has shed much of her humanity to become near wholly aligned with a higher ideal, which in her case appears to be Progress and Order. She's lost much of her ability to emphasize with others as a direct result of this.
  • Interestingly, Shenhua appears to actually have retained more humanity comparitive to other similar 8th realm cultivators, namely still being capable of personal love and affection. This seeming defiance of the natural order is a source of great confusion for other high level cultivators
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Due to her Law, Cai Shenhua is utterly unable to lie, and furthermore instills this quality in everyone around her. Even the greatest spymasters in the empire are forced to tell the truth and struggle to so much as hold themselves silent when questioned under her light. Lesser cultivators whose Ways and identities are built upon falsehood are liable to be being destroyed on the spot by Cai Shenhua's gaze alone.
• Creating Life Is Awesome: Any talisman can potentially become a sentient object spirit with enough care and age, but Cai Shenhua is the only crafter in the Empire to be able to directly craft object spirits. Among the most notable examples are Liming and Cifeng, Cai Renxiang's dress and sword respectively.
  • Her students, while not able to directly craft object spirits themselves, are able to craft talismans that become object spirits significantly sooner.
• The Dreaded: The enormity of her power and presence means that there are very few characters that aren't constantly on edge in her presence and no one wants to provoke her wrath. It only ever takes a firm gesture or statement for her court to acquiesce to her will.
• Elite Four: In series of short short stories about her rise to power her four greatest supporters were explicitly called her four Heavenly Kings.
• The Gadfly: Fond of presenting an easygoing persona, with a fondness for irreverent humor, teasing comments and puns. The discomfort caused by the disconnect between her affable personality and her terrifying nature seems to amuse her.
• Humanoid Abomination: On the surface Shenhua could be mistaken for a mere human woman, if a very tall and imposing one, but looking into her eyes reveals something far greater.
  "There was no pupil or iris there, only pits of burning colorless light, in the shape of human eyes. Portals through which something vast and terrible peered from behind a shell of human skin. She could feel her eyes watering, as if she was staring into the sun as a mortal, yet she knew that she could stare forever until the light scoured her mind clean."
• Light 'em Up: Her powers revolve around purifying radiance and beams of light.
• Light Is Not Good: Cai Shenhua is heavily associated with light, her appearances usually occur in brightly lit settings and she herself emits a blazing aura of baleful light that is oppressive and painful to behold, with her being described as less a human being and something more akin to a terrible radiance contained in a shell of human skin. Downplayed however, in that while Cai Shenhua is disconcerting she's more Ambiguously Evil or morally grey rather than outright evil.
• Meaningful Name: Depending on the characters used, Cai Shenhua translates to something along the lines of "Mythic Talent"
• No Place for Me There: As she reveals to her daughter, Shenhua ultimately believes that she herself cannot be the one to fulfill her vision of a perfect world, as her unrelenting, uncompromising drive to break boundaries and institutions in the name of progress makes her unsustainable, and therefore flawed and in need of a replacement to succeed her.
  Shenhua:"I will continue to break traditions. I will continue to change the world, even as my favor runs dry and the wrath of the people turns against me. Tomorrow even I will make my next step, no doubt angering many across the Empire. I am not sustainable. Something must replace me."
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Whenever Shenhua stops being affable and relaxed something very important and/or terrifying is about to happen.
• The Perfectionist: Shenhua is pathologically incapable of holding back in anything she chooses to apply herself to, and holds similar standards for others. She won't ask for the impossible, but she always expects excellence.
• Physical God: As an 8th realm cultivator she has reached the peak of earthly power, making her this.
• Red Baron: Known as "The Radiant Tyrant" by her opposers, a title that has since spread to other circles. Not many dare to openly refer to her by the title due to its origins though Shenhua herself doesn't really mind, finding it amusing.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Shenhua is at this point the living incarnation of Revolution. She will continue to break traditions and change the world by any means neccesery until she ascendes into a Great Spirit or dies.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Shenhua enacts wide reform creating soup kitchens, homeless shelters and universal healthcare throughout Xiangmen. She also singlehandedly wiped out the corrupt bureaucracies and guardsmen of the capital and mounted their bleached skulls on the city walls and barracks. Her goals of creating a perfect and ordered society make her well intentioned, her willingness to achieve that goal through any means necessary make her an extremist.

Cai Tienli

Cai Tienli is the infant sister of Cai Renxiang.

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Gan Guangli

Retainer of Cai Renxiang

Gan Guangli, wearing his liege's colours.

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Shu Yue

One of Cai Shenhua's apprentices, serves as a hidden bodyguard to Cai Renxiang and a kind of mentor to Ling Qi.

• A Day in the Limelight: Has a POV interlude which details their background and how they came to serve Cai Shenhua

Lin Hai

One of Cai Shenhua's apprentices, created Ling Qi's dress and a few of her talismans.

• Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: Transitioned through cultivation and is now indisputably male.

The Diao Clan

Diao Linqin

Cai Shenhua's Prime Minister and wife in all but name.

• Elite Four: Is known as the Heavenly King of the North in a short series of flashback chapters detailing the rise of the Cai and overthrow on the Hui
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Diao Luwen

The Minister of Works, Cai Shenhua's husband and father of Cai Renxiang

• Abusive Parents: Of the Parental Neglect variety, Diao Luwen is completely apathetic to Cai Renxiang's existence beyond the minimum niceties of social obligation, having had no hand in raising her and barely ever interacting with her. This is in keeping with his detachment from everything not related to his singular passion for architectural and civil engineering.
• Amicable Exes: Shenhua divorces him soon after discovering a means to reproduce without the need of a male partner, he's completely unbothered by this and if anything seems pleased that he's no longer burdened by the social and physical expectations of being her consort
• The Beard: Neither he nor his wife bear any attraction for one each other. His marriage to Cai Shenhua simply exists to present a paper thin, publically acceptable facade over Shenhua's actual relationship with Diao Linqin, and to provide Shenhua with a means to produce children. He's quite pleased when she deems both these roles no longer necessary and divorces him.
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Diao Hualing

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The Bao Clan

Bao Qiang

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Bao Qingling

A scion of the Bao comital clan and younger sister to Bao Quan. Li Suyin's mentor. Recently seen chatting with Bai Meizhen

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Bao Qian

Bao Qian, in his typical finery

A cheerful and gregarious young man from the wealthy Bao clan who has come to the Argent Sect for business opportunities as well as courting Ling Qi.

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The Meng Clan

Meng Diu

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Meng Dan

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The Wang Clan

Wang Jun

• Elite Four: Is known as the Heavenly King of the East in a short series of flashback chapters detailing the rise of the Cai and overthrow on the Hui
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Wang Chao

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Liang He

A swordsman who Ling Qi challenged and defeated in single combat.

• Scare 'Em Straight
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The Jia Clan

Jia Hong

• Elite Four: Is known as the Heavenly King of the West in a short series of flashback chapters detailing the rise of the Cai and overthrow on the Hui
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The Xia Clan

Xia Ren

The Heron General and Commander of the White Plume Regiment. She is one Cai Shenhua's greatest supporters.

• Red Baron: Is known as The Crucible
• Elite Four: Is known as the Heavenly King of the South in a short series of flashback chapters detailing the rise of the Cai and overthrow on the Hui
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Xia Lin

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The Argent Sect (Sect faculty, core disciples and associated local spirits)

Sima Jiao

Grumpy occasional mentor to Ling Qi. Head of the Talisman department. Former Minister of Integrity under Emperor An. Married to Xin

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Xin

Wife, and bonded spirit to Elder Jiao. She is the Archivist of Vice, a powerful prism Hidden Moon spirit.

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Yuan He

Slayer of the Great Khan Ogodei. Head of the Sect

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Guan Zhou

Commander of the Sect Militaries and initial teacher of Physical Cultivation to Ling Qi

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Hua Su

Initial teacher of Spiritual Cultivation to Ling Qi. Head of the Medicinal Department.

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Hua Heng

Teacher in the Inner Sect. Father to Hua Su, and very old.

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Shi Ying

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Zeqing

• Lotus-Eater Machine: Zeqing is capable of trapping her victim's minds in alluring illusory dreams specifically tailored to their desires that leave them insensate even as their bodies succumb to the cold.
• Yuki Onna: A spirit of Winter and Endings, and a manifestation of the cold environment of one of the Argent Sects mountains. Zeqing has all the markings of a Yuki Onna, including a history of devouring the warmth and life of unfortunate travelers.
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Guan Zhu

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Guan Zhi

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Others (Misc, minor clans and ascended commoners):

Li Suyin

Li Suyin

Friend to Ling Qi, Craftsman of Creepy things, Apprentice to Bao Qingling

• Shy Blue-Haired Girl
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Zhenli

A pink, fuzzy spider, bonded with Li Suyin

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Su Ling

Su Ling, a spiritblooded disciple at the Argent Sect with a prickly personality who is friends with Ling Qi

Su Ling is a friend of Ling Qi's at the Argent Sect. A fellow Disciple, Su Ling is a commoner like Ling Qi but has also suffered from discrimination for being spirit-blooded. Her father was human but her mother was a fox spirit, analogous to the Japanese myths of Kitsune.

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Fu Xiang

Fu Xiang, professional creep.

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Liao Zhu

Liao Zhu, a sometimes-tutor for Ling Qi, is a follower of the Bloody Moon

This older disciple is Ling Qi's senpai. While sometimes flirtatious, other times Liao Zhu acts as a mentor or older brother to Ling Qi.

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Ruan Shen

A scion of the Ruan baronial clan. Former music tutor to Ling Qi. The Ruan are subordinate to the Bao comital clan, but the cultivation stage reached by members of the Ruan means they can potentially take up the vicontiel rank.

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Bian Ya

A scion of the Bian vicontiel clan. Former tutor to Ling Qi in Wind and Wood qi. Seemingly interested in Ruan Shen. The Bian are directly subordinate to the Cai ducal clan, but the cultivation stage reached by members of the Bian means they can potentially take up the comital rank.

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Shen Hu

Shen Hu

Friendly with Ling Qi. Scion of the very recently created Shen baronial clan.

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Lanhua

A monstrous looking mud spirit beast.

Yu Nuan

A fellow musician who Ling Qi challenged and defeated in a contest of music.

Yu Nuan rocking out, with her doggy spirit

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Yan Renshu

A craftsman who viciously hates Ling Qi after she ruined multiple of his bases in one night. He attempted to poison Zhengui. He was crippled by Wen Cao in his first year at the Sect. Entered the Sect two years before Ling Qi’s year did.

• Faking the Dead: Sabotaged the sect's defences and faked his death to get away with it
• Turncoat: Betrayed the sect and joined the Ya L'ith Kai
• Evil Is Petty: Turned on the empire, got a lot of fellow disciples who had never wronged him killed, and started a long complicated scheme to kill Ling Qi over a minor squable they had in the Outer Sect.
• Kill It with Water: How Bai Meizhen dealt with his last base. She used a talisman to summon a lake's worth of water in the middle of his base, destroying all his work and letting Bai Cui
• The Worm That Walks: While he isn't there yet, this seems to be the direction Yan Renshu is headed with his cultivation. In the Outer Sect he moved on a carpet of worms that fell of his robes, had a bound spirit beast worm, had large pits filled with smaller worms, and the art it all seemed to be based on was all about summoning worms to drain the qi of his opponents.

Ma Jun and Lei

Former guards of Ling Qi. Friends with Su Ling

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