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This game is a highly patriotic Chinese game featuring Chinese figures here and there. Thus a lot of Chinese historical (and some mythical or from famous folklores) characters exist here.


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     Mythology 
Characters from Chinese Mythology.
  • Pan Gu, the first living creature and creator of the world.
  • Nüwa, creator of humankind is present as a mage.
  • Nezha, the Marshal of Central Altar and occasional rival of Wukong.
  • Yang Jian (Erlang Shen), the three-eyed warrior God.
  • Hou Yi, the archer that shot the sun and husband of Chang'e. Being a mythological archer, he is naturally a marksman.
  • Chang'e, the mystic of the moon and wife of Hou Yi is a tank.
  • Taiyi Zhenren, the deity of salvation for all sentient beings is present as a support who can revive his teammates.
  • Zhong Kui, the deity that hunts down and vanquishes ghosts and demons as a support-type hero.

     Investure of Gods 
Characters from Investure of Gods, despite being an overall mythologized version of the fall of the Shang Dynasty, take more cues from the literature.
  • Jiang Ziya, the exorcist that massively helped out overthrow the dynasty as a mage-type hero.
  • Daji, favorite consort of the last king of the Shang dynasty (and also mystified as an evil fox spirit, though she doesn't look as evil here), is a mage who specializes in burst damage.

     Qin, Han Dynasties and Warring States Period 
Figures important of China from the Qin, Han and the Warring States Period
  • Qin Dynasty
    • Qin Shi Huangdi (rendered as Ying Zheng), the first Emperor of Qin Dynasty, as a mage-type hero.
    • Jing Ke, a retainer of Crown Prince Dan of the Yan state, who made a failed assassination attempt on Ying Zheng of the Qin state, is a female assassin-type hero with invisibility abilities (she's also re-named as A Ke).
    • Gao Jianli, a friend of Jing Ke and talented musician that also attempted assassination against Ying Zheng, as a mage-type hero who looks like a rockstar.
    • Zhang Liang, who lived at the end of the Qin Dynasty is present as a mage.
    • Xiang Yu, the mightiest warrior of Qin Dynasty and rival of Liu Bang.
  • The Warring States Period
    • Sun Bin, military strategist who rose to prominence in the Qi state as a support-type hero.
    • Lian Po, prominent general of the Zhao state as a support-type hero.
    • Mo Zi, philosopher who founded the school of Mohism is a mage.
    • Bai Qi, one of the great generals of the Qin state, is a tank.
    • Xi Shi, the first of the Four Beauties of Ancient China living during the Zhou Dynasty, is a mage.
    • Lu Ban, a Zhou Dynasty craftsman, revered as the Chinese patron deity of builders and contractors, as a support-type hero.
    • Zhuang Zhou, commonly known as Zhuangzi, the philosopher who dreamt that he was a butterfly.
  • Han Dynasty
    • Liu Bang, Xiang Yu's arch-rival and the eventual founder of the Han Dynasty.
    • Yu Ji (Consort Yu, Yu Mei-ren), Xiang Yu's wife, is a marksman.
    • Han Xin, military general who served under Liu Bang is a warrior.
    • Meng Tian, inventor and military general
    • Wang Zhaojun, the second of the Four Beauties of Ancient China, is a mage.

     Three Kingdoms – Shu, Wei, Wu 
Many figures from Three Kingdoms – Shu, Wei, Wu, later popularized with Romance of the Three Kingdoms are featured here.
  • Shu Kingdom
    • Liu Bei, the founder of the Shu-Han Kingdom/Empire romanticized as a virtuous man, but in truth a very tenacious lord and king, is a warrior.
    • The Five Tiger Generals of Shu
      • Guan Yu, one of Liu Bei's sworn brothers and a mighty general riding the mighty Red Hare (here an Automaton Horse) later deified as a God of Brotherhood/War, is a warrior.
      • Zhang Fei, the last of Liu Bei's sworn brother and a gung-ho battle master, is a warrior.
      • Zhao Yun, one of Liu Bei's most prominent generals and master of spears, is a warrior.
      • Huang Zhong, master archer and one of the Tiger Generals (and an old man), as a marksman (trading his bow with a hand cannon).
      • Ma Chao, northern cavalry general of the Liang Province as a warrior.
    • Zhuge Liang, the legendary strategist of Shu nicknamed 'Sleeping Dragon', is a mage.
    • Pang Tong, the Fledging Phoenix and ally of Zhuge Liang, is a doll-controlling mage; however, as of current, he is renamed as 'Yuan Ge'.
    • Liu Shan, the last Emperor of Shu and usually thought of as Liu Bei's Sucksessor, is surprisingly present and more 'supportive' as a support-type hero.
  • Wei Kingdom
    • Cao Cao, king and founder of the Wei Kingdom, as a warrior-type hero.
    • Xiahou Dun, one of Cao Cao's most prominent generals linked with blood and famed for eating his own eye after it was shot by an arrow, as a warrior-type hero.
    • Dian Wei, a fearsome giant of a man styled as 'The Coming Evil' and Cao Cao's main bodyguard that gave his life early to ensure Cao Cao's survival, as a warrior hero.
    • Sima Yi, prominent Wei strategist who would become the patriarch of the dynasty that succeeded Wei and ended the Three Kingdoms period (the Jin Dynasty) as an assassin-type hero.
    • Zhenji, daughter-in-law of Cao Cao who was later immortalized through poems as the Goddess of Luo River, is present as a mage-type hero.
    • Cai Wenji, a late Eastern Han dynasty era composer, poet, and writer that was temporarily under Cao Cao's care, as a support-type hero with powerful healing abilities.
  • Wu Kingdom
    • Sun Ce, the Young Conqueror that conquered the land that would become the Wu kingdom as a warrior-type hero.
    • Zhou Yu, Wu Kingdom's most prominent strategist and best friend of Sun Ce as a mage-type hero.
    • Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, otherwise known as the Two Qiaos, sisters famed for their beauty and wives of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu respectively, as a support-type hero and a mage-type hero respectively.
    • Sun Shangxiang, Sun Ce's youngest sister and later wife of Liu Bei, is a marksman.
  • Others
    • Lü Bu is included as a mighty warrior hero, leaping to the battlefield and mightily swinging his halberd.
    • Diaochan, beloved of Lü Bu that allowed him to kill his adoptive father, the tyrant Dong Zhuo, and being the third of the Four Beauties of Ancient China, as a slippery mage-type hero.

     Tang Dynasty and Journey to the West 
The Tang Dynasty is considered a high point of Chinese culture, thus many figures originating from here can be found in this game. Including the famed novel Journey to the West (which took place in this era), despite only one of them can count as a historical character.
  • Historical Tang Dynasty figures
    • Empress Wu Zetian, China's only Empress during the Tang Dynasty, as a mage-type hero.
    • Shangguan Wan'er, the Empress's leading advisor, is a mage.
    • Di Renjie, the Empress's other most celebrated chancellor and popularized in culture as Judge Deenote , is a marksman.
    • Li Bai, renowned Chinese poet, is an assassin-type hero.
    • Yang Yuhuan (Yang Guifei), beloved consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and the last of the Four Beauties of Ancient China, as a mage hero.
    • Empress Zhong Wuyan, one of the latter empresses of the Tang Dynasty, as a warrior-type hero.
    • Cheng Yaojin, long-serving Chinese commander that bridges the Sui and Tang Dynasty, ending his service in Emperor Gaozhong's reign (shortly before Wu Zetian's rise to power), as a tank-type hero.
  • Journey to the West figures
    • Tang Sanzang, the monk that underwent the journey to the west, is present as a mage-type hero, although his name is rendered as 'Jin Chan'.
    • Sun Wukong, the famed Monkey King and first disciple of Sanzang, is once again present to fulfill the quota of 'A Multiplayer Online Battle Arena needs a Wukong character', as an assassin-type hero.
    • Zhu Bajie, the pig demon and second disciple of Sanzang, is a tank.
    • Niu Mo (full name Niu Mowang), the Bull Demon King and one of Sun Wukong's most iconic enemies, is a support.

     Others 
  • Hua Mulan, folk heroine who disguised herself as a man to fight in an army and save her family, is present as a warrior-type hero.
  • Gao Changgong, rendered as his title "Lanling Wang"/"Prince of Lanling", is a ninja-like assassin.
  • The blacksmith couple, Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, that created a famed twin sword that led to their tragic demisenote , are a Difficult, but Awesome mage-type hero.
  • Queen Dowager Xuan (listed under her real name Mi Yue), royal concubine of the Kingdom of Chu, as a warrior-type hero.
  • Empress Dugu Qieluo of the Sui Dynasty, rendered as her other name Jia Luo, is a marksman.

     Non-Chinese 
And a few non-Chinese figures... somehow. Some might have something to do with China, some are just out there.
  • Miyamoto Musashi, Japan's greatest swordsman, as a warrior-type hero.
  • King Arthur, King of the Britons, as a warrior-type hero.
  • Marco Polo, a traveling Italian merchant who once visited China, as a marksman-type hero.
  • Athena, Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War as a warrior-type hero.
  • Genghis Khan, the great conqueror from Mongol, stylized as 'The Scourge of God', with China being one of his many targets of conquests, as a marksman-type hero.

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