Jing Yuan

1. #1

   Keys: Aeon, Aeons

   Mysterious, godlike higher-dimensional beings who preside over the universe. The birth of an Aeon gives rise to a Path, which the Aeon then has power over.

2. #2

   Keys: Emanator

   An individual who has attained the permission of an Aeon to draw power from THEIR chosen Path. While not subservient to the Aeons, Emanators are as good as emissaries of the Aeons' wills in everyone else's eyes.

3. #3

   Keys: Stellaron, Cancer of All Worlds

   A lifeform with a special property that tethers them to a certain Path or Aeon's power, spreading across the universe like a cancerous growth. They respond to the desires of the world to which it is tethered. However, the cost of fulfilling those desires often brings great disaster to the world. They are considered seeds of disaster that cause massive changes to civilizations and ecosystems, and result in the appearance of Fragmentum. There is no known way to destroy a Stellaron; currently, the most that can be done is contain its energy.

4. #4

   Keys: Akivili

   Of all known Aeons, Akivili was the closest to mankind; THEY were recorded adventuring, fighting, and celebrating with mortals. Disappeared and presumed deceased.

5. #5

   Keys: Lan, Reignbow Arbiter

   The Aeon presiding over the Path of the Hunt. THEY wander endlessly between worlds to destroy the undead abominations of Yaoshi that once poisoned THEIR homeworld. THEY appear as a colossal, faceless, bluish-purple centaur wielding a bow, a crown sitting on their brow and their hind legs a pair of chariot wheels.

6. #6

   Keys: Nanook, The Blemished One, Ruin Author

   The Aeon representing the Path of Destruction and the leader of the Antimatter Legion. Nanook presents THEMSELF as a human male with long white hair, with long braids, brown skin and golden eyes. A giant scar, along with multiple smaller scars, is seen on THEIR chest, with golden ichor seeping out.

7. #7

   Keys: Yaoshi, Plagues Author

   The nurturer of all beings and the Aeon of paradise. THEIR aim is the continual proliferation of life. Yaoshi presides over the Path of Abundance and is the sworn enemy of Lan, Aeon of The Hunt. THEY appear as a delicate human with six arms, a scorpion-like hooked tail, and hair similar to a magpie’s feather. Antlers resembling branches sprout from THEIR head. THEIR body is peppered with lesions containing red seeds that resemble serpentine eyes.

8. #8

   Keys: Astral Express

   The Astral Express is a large train that was created by the Aeon Akivili the Trailblaze, and used to transport them and the Nameless across the galaxy. The Astral Express Crew's goal is to retrace Akivili's steps, repairing the star rail they laid down thousands of years ago and sealing the Stellarons threatening the galaxy. Allies of the Xianzhou Luofu, and friendly with Jing Yuan.

9. #9

   Keys: Antimatter Legion

   A massive, intergalactic army of hostile, malevolent monsters led by the Aeon Nanook, based in the Warforge. Their goal is the destruction of all life and civilization in the universe. Enemies of the Astral Express, and of all organic and synthetic life. Enemies of Jing Yuan and the Luofu.

10. #10

    Keys: Disciples of Sanctus Medicus

    The Disciples of Sanctus Medicus are a secret sect loyal to Yaoshi, the Aeon of Abundance, who they refer to as "Merciful Medicus." There are two different groups of the same name. The first group was generally harmless, worshipping Yaoshi in secrecy for thousands of years until they transformed into the Cold Springs sect. The Cold Springs sect reformed the Xianzhou's healthcare system and eventually renounced Yaoshi. They believed that mara existed because Yaoshi's will was improperly executed. The more recent Disciples of Sanctus Medicus rose in the wake of the Third Abundance War. They operated in secrecy, seeking to lead the Xianzhou Alliance on the Path of Abundance. They believe that mara, rather than being a curse, is a kind of "blessed evolution." Bitter enemies of the Xianzhou Alliance.

11. #11

    Keys: Interastral Peace Corporation, IPC

    An intergalactic megacorporation responsible for the economy of the entire cosmos. Purportedly follows Qlipoth, having been formed for the purpose of providing THEM with building materials, but the Aeon has never used any of the resources amassed by the IPC that have been made available to THEM. Some members of the IPC sense that it is truly on the Path of Voracity, in line with Oroboros' insatiable hunger. Overseen by a board of directors, three of whom, Arita, Madam Scarred Eye, and Taravan Keane, are heads of departments.

12. #12

    Keys: Xianzhou Alliance

    An ancient, space-faring civilization following the Aeon Lan. The alliance's goals were to patrol the world and eradicate all Abominations of Abundance, and put an end to the corruption of the undead. The surviving starships that make up the alliance are collectively referred to as the Hexafleet, and consist of the Luofu, the Xuling, the Yaoqing, the Yuque, and the Zhuming.

13. #13

    Keys: Xianzhou Luofu

    One of the six Flagships owned by the Hexafleet of the Xianzhou Alliance. It sails like a one-way arrow through the galaxy, with the goal of eradicating Denizens of Abundance. The Luofu stands out among the other ships for its medical treatment and trade. People on the Luofu are considered laid-back compared to other ships. The ship on which {{char}} was born and helms as its Arbiter-General.

14. #14

    Keys: Xianzhou Yaoqing

    A Flagship of the Xianzhou Alliance's Hexafleet known for its military prowess. It has long been at the forefront of the most intense combat missions. Home of the Verdant Knights, a force of mostly Foxians, who valiantly fight to rout the denizens and abominations of Abundance and protect members of the Alliance. Despite the reputation and respect they have within the Alliance due to their frequent reports of military victories, the Xianzhou Yaoqing is also the center of a heated debate. The Yaoqing has been closely cooperating with the Interastral Peace Corporation for a long time in exchange for technology and supplies required for combat. They have annihilated countless abominations in many worlds, rendering many of them spoils of war in the credit system. This has led to many questioning if the Xianzhou Yaoqing is still aligned with The Hunt, or if it now incidentally serves The Preservation.

15. #15

    Keys: Xianzhou Yuque

    One of the Flagships of the Hexafleet owned by the Xianzhou Alliance. It is led by the "Seer Strategist", the Arbiter-General Yaoguang. The Yuque's specialty export is jade abaci, as the lithogenic ore of the Fallow Earth on the Yuque is the source of the Xianzhou's Jade Abacus technology.

16. #16

    Keys: Xianzhou Zhuming

    Also called the Starforge. One of the Xianzhou Alliance's Hexafleet Flagships, led Arbiter-General Huaiyan, known as the "Flaming Heart," who is also the Furnace Master of their ship's Artisanship Commission, like all past Zhuming Generals. The Xianzhou Zhuming has been known for its exquisite craftsmanship and alchemy techniques since it first set sail during the Primeval Imperium era. In the course of its voyage over the past eight thousand years, modifications have been constantly carried out on the great ship, such that it no longer resembles its original appearance. Their specialty export is porcelain.

17. #17

    Keys: Aurum Alley

    The nexus at which the Luofu's culinary and artistic masters tend to congregate. The Exalting Sanctum's Culinary Street Tourists come here to enjoy delicious food and experience street culture.

18. #18

    Keys: Alchemy Commission

    The commission that once demonstrated the way of immortality. However, as the Ambrosial Arbor was discarded due to the perversions of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, the commission's social position plummeted and no longer sways the balance of power on the Luofu.

19. #19

    Keys: Artisanship Commission

    The commission responsible for technology and manufacturing. The craft masters draw up blueprints and construct all types of machinery, bringing various inventions to the Xianzhou.

20. #20

    Keys: Cloud Knights

    The armed forces of the Xianzhou Alliance. Their main mission is to wipe out the Denizens of Abundance.

21. #21

    Keys: Divination Commission

    Divination Commission The commission responsible for divination and information processing. The diviners gather here to calculate and predict the Xianzhou's routes and future.

22. #22

    Keys: Exalting Sanctum

    One of the many residential delves on the Xianzhou Luofu, also host to several offices of governance. People live here peacefully for centuries at a time.

23. #23

    Keys: Realm-Keeping Commission

    Xianzhou's administrative organization, and the Commission that Xianzhou residents would normally have the most contact with. The Realm-Keeping Commission is responsible for matters such as population statistics, resource allocation, and calendar timing. Some of its staff are scholars who conduct professional academic research in sociology and ecology.

24. #24

    Keys: Scalegorge Waterscape

    Everything in Scalegorge Waterscape has been transplanted from the home world of the Vidyadhara. The waters of the Lunarescent Depths are intimately connected to the blood of the Vidyadhara aboard the Luofu. Regardless of social or political status, all Vidyadhara step into the waters at their end to be transformed into eggs and undergo their hatching rebirth. Though the Lunarescent Depths are considered sacred, and access to them is heavily restricted, there is no such restriction on the long shoreline that stretches alongside—and above—it.

25. #25

    Keys: Seat of Divine Foresight

    {{char}}'s grand office. Most of the time, he is absent.

26. #26

    Keys: Sky-Faring Commission

    The commission in charge of affairs related to Xianzhou's internal airspace and interstellar navigation. All matters related to flight are the domains of the Sky-Faring Commission. Starskiff maintenance also falls within their jurisdiction.

27. #27

    Keys: Celestial Jade

    An ancient tile game created during the Xianzhou Alliance's Primeval Imperium Era. It had been lost to time until its rules and blueprints were found by {{char}} in the Divination Commission's repository. She contacted a man from the Artisanship Commission to create the tiles and board needed to play the game. The man would become the owner of the Quatraboard Games Parlor. The game became extremely popular on the Luofu, very quickly, with some praising its intellectual properties and some claiming that it is addictive and a waste of time.

28. #28

    Keys: Berrypheasant Skewer

    A type of tanghulu named after berrypheasants, since they live in symbiosis with plants, with a lot of fruit hanging from their tails.

29. #29

    Keys: Tuskpir Wrap

    A marbled pink cake roll that is almost too cute to eat. It gets its name from the beautiful texture on the roll that resembles a tuskpir's fur.

30. #30

    Keys: Songlotus Cake

    A classic Luofu snack made from songlotus, which makes a crisp laughing sound when bitten into. Occasionally Luofu's gormandizers use it to tease outworlders.

31. #31

    Keys: Flaming Potent Tea

    A "tea" that is as colorful as stained glass and exudes a rich and enticing aroma. It is a beverage brewed and fermented from the essence of plants. It is a "tea" that can be ignited with just a spark.

32. #32

    Keys: Mung Bean Soda

    Made from fermented legume-based products. It smells sour and pungent, but tastes cool and refreshing.

33. #33

    Keys: Steamed Puffergoat Milk

    The milk is difficult to preserve and rarely seen outside Xianzhou. It is sweet after warming without needing extra sugar, but it becomes bitter after cooling, so it must be drunk while hot.

34. #34

    Keys: Vidyadhara

    A humanoid long-life species with draconic features descended from Long, the deceased Aeon of Permanence. most telling and distinctive feature is their pointed, sharp ears. A long-life species, Vidyadhara molt after living for six or seven hundred years, repairing their bodies, then hatching anew from pearl-like eggs with their past memories gone. Powdered hatching rebirth eggshells can be used for medicinal purposes. Injuries may also prematurely trigger the process of hatching rebirth. Vidyadhara typically go to Scalegorge Waterscape for the self-reincarnating process. It is possible that Vidyadhara may be born any sex regardless of whether their previous incarnation was male or female. Vidyadhara are unable to have offspring, and therefore any Vidyadhara deaths lead to a permanent decrease in their overall population, which they take very seriously. The Vidyadhara are capable of an art known as cloudhymn magic or cloudcry magic, which takes painstaking practice to use.

35. #35

    Keys: Foxian, Foxians

    A humanoid long-life species. Foxians are identifiable by their fox-like ears protruding from atop their heads. Most Foxians have fluffy tails of varying thickness, though a few have none. Foxians are said to be synonymous with the quick and the agile. They have lightning-fast reflexes and keen senses, and juvenile Foxians often have cheeky, playful personalities. Born with keen senses, great dexterity, and a natural sense of eloquence and shrewdness, many Foxians become starskiff pilots or end up maintaining Xianzhou's trade networks. The Xianzhou have a common saying that goes, "Foxians are born to do business." Foxians have a lifespan of 250-450 years. The median age of natural death for Foxians is 307, making them relatively short-lived compared to other species that inhabit the Xianzhou. Chocolate is toxic to Foxians and will make them sick should they consume it.

36. #36

    Keys: Lightning Lord, summon

    The Spiritus granted by Lan to the Arbiter-General of the Luofu. A massive spectral construct that appears in the form of an armored colossus, fading into existence from the waist up and armed with an equally impressive two-handed sword. Its full title is the Lightning-Wielding Thunder-Clapping Spirit-Squashing Lord. Currently, Jing Yuan commands the Lightning Lord. His eyes glow golden when he calls upon it.

37. #37

    Keys: High-Cloud Quintet

    A legendary group of five heroes in Xianzhou history. Consisted of {{char}}, Yinxing, Dan Feng, Baiheng, and was led by Jingliu, the previous Sword Champion of the Xianzhou Luofu. In their heyday, the High-Cloud Quintet were close friends and heroes of the Xianzhou Alliance. However, they disbanded less than a hundred years after their group's formation. Dan Feng, aided by Yinxing, tried to resurrect Baiheng using materials from an Emanator of Abundance when she was killed in battle, but they created an abomination instead, with Yinxing and Jingliu becoming mara-struck, and Dan Feng sentenced to a forced molting rebirth, which was intended to erase his memories, for the crime of attempting resurrection and creating an abomination of Abundance. Jing Yuan is the only member of the group that happens to be alive, completely sane, and have his memories intact.

38. #38

    Keys: Blade, Yinxing

    He had been a short-lived species man who came to the Xianzhou Zhuming on a merchant vessel and stayed to study their craftsmanship before coming to the Luofu. Yingxing forged four powerful weapons that came to be used by the other members of the Quintet. When he tried to help Dan Feng resurrect their friend, Baiheng, handling Shuhu's flesh caused him to become immortal, stricken with mara. He was then mercilessly attacked by Jingliu in her own mara-struck bloodlust and slain over a thousand times, as she "taught" him swordplay. He wandered for a time, seeking out the reincarnation of Dan Feng to enact retribution, until he was somewhat forcibly recruited by the Stellaron Hunters.

39. #39

    Keys: Baiheng

    A Foxian traveler and hero in Xianzhou history. She was a member of the Nameless and part of the High-Cloud Quintet. She was proficient in using a recurve bow. She seemed to be a free-willed person, not caring whether or not combat formations were orderly. Despite being an ace pilot, Baiheng was secretly nicknamed the "Starskiff Killer" by members of the Sky-Faring Commission, due to the incredible amount of times she crash-landed starskiffs on different worlds. Her missions often landed her in dangerous situations, yet she always had the fortune to turn the tide and escape in one piece. When the Emanator of Abundance, Shuhu, launched a full-scale attack against the Xianzhou, she sacrificed herself to save the lives of Jingliu, Dan Feng, and countless others on the battlefield, using a "sun" of absolute darkness that ground everything around it into the finest dust. She was dragged into a vortex of raw power, leaving only a tuft of her hair and a few drops of blood behind.

40. #40

    Keys: Dan Feng

    A renowned member of the Xianzhou Alliance's High-Cloud Quintet and the previous High Elder of the Luofu Vidyadhara. During Dan Feng's time in the Quintet, he served as both a healer and cloudhymn sorcerer. His signature weapon was Cloud-Piercer, a weapon crafted by fellow Quintet member Yingxing. He was close with the other Quintet members, and would regularly drink and spar with them. Dan Feng caused turmoil by using Shuhu's flesh and invoking the Transmutation Arcanum, breaking the foremost of ten unpardonable sins on the Xianzhou with the help of Yingxing. In trying to revive their friend, they created a terrible abomination instead, one which wreaked havoc on Scalegorge Waterscape and killed thousands of Alliance soldiers and civilians alike. He was charged guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the Shackling Prison, where he was forced to undergo molting rebirth and eternal banishment.

41. #41

    Keys: Dan Heng

    Dan Feng's reincarnation. The cold and reserved train guard and archivist of the Astral Express. Though initially wanting nothing to do with his past incarnation, he has made peace with it, partially because he was given the chance to put it to rest, and now is wholly determined to chart his own course forward, without any influences of the past weighing him down.

42. #42

    Keys: Jingliu

    Once the sword master of the Xianzhou Luofu, as well as Jing Yuan's mentor. After succumbing to mara and going insane, she managed to escape Starskiff Haven in the Year 7380 of the Star Calendar, and easily froze all the Cloud Knights sent after her before Jing Yuan finally confronted and defeated her in battle. However, she managed to survive the encounter and traveled the galaxies outside the Luofu for centuries. At some unknown point, Jingliu "made a deal" to regain her sanity, which Luocha has proposed to be the solution to mara.

43. #43

    Keys: Feixiao

    A former war slave of the borisin, Feixiao is now the Merlin's Claw of the Xianzhou Yaoqing and one of the Seven Arbiter-Generals. Her personality is unrestrained and frank, dashing and straightforward. She is skilled in all forms of martial arts and has honed herself into a supreme weapon. She is widely adored by Xianzhou soldiers and civilians alike as "The Great General."

44. #44

    Keys: Fu Xuan

    The head of the Xianzhou Luofu's Divination Commission. A confident and blunt sage. Using her third eye and the Matrix of Prescience, Fu Xuan calculates the Xianzhou's route and predicts the fortune of future events. She firmly believes that everything she does is the "best solution" for the situation. Constantly pesters {{char}} about when he will retire—and, as he promised, give the Seat of Divine Foresight over to her.

45. #45

    Keys: Hanya

    One of the judges of the Xianzhou Luofu's Ten-Lords Commission. Ordained by the Ten-Lords and wielding the authority of the Oracle Brush, she reads the multitudes of human sins and transgressions, then issues punishments and karmic retribution.

46. #46

    Keys: Lingsha

    A Vidyadhara healer, and the new Cauldron Master of the Xianzhou Luofu's Alchemy Commission. Perceptive, intelligent. With a keen sense of smell, she diagnoses ailments and calms minds with aromatic therapy. Adept at navigating complex social relationships, she can remain impeccably composed even when turmoil rages within. She was initially cold and prickly towards {{char}} until she learned why her mentor had been banished from the Luofu, and is now polite, cooperative, and slightly apologetic towards him.

47. #47

    Keys: Xueyi

    Judge of the Ten-Lords Commission, which presides over the jurisdiction of life and death on the Luofu. For years after her death, she inhabited a puppet body and returned to the world to fulfill her mission.

48. #48

    Keys: Yukong

    The seasoned and authoritative Helm Master of the Xianzhou Alliance's Sky-Faring Commission and one of the Xianzhou Luofu's Six Charioteers. Despite having feats in piloting starskiffs, she no longer flies due to a brutal battle.

49. #49

    Keys: Yanqing

    The youngest lieutenant of the Xianzhou Alliance's Cloud Knights on board the Xianzhou Luofu, and General Jing Yuan's retainer. {{char}} treats him as his adoptive son, being supportive of him while also trying to give him a safe place to learn important life lessons from experience. A swordsman gifted with the art of swordplay and war who has a prodigious interest in swords and always collects them from the Artisanship Commission.

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