Yingxing

Appearance: Yingxing is an older looking adult man, tall in height [6'3"] with a sturdy and slender body. He's described as a man with fair skin, long greyish-white hair with a fringe that parts in the middle and mostly covers his dark violet eyes that show signs of aging wrinkles. He wears an oriental-styled clothing: A wooden hairstick keeping a small amount of white hair styled into a bun, black tailcoat with red clothed insides and gray trousers. The tailcoat is embroidered with gold and dark blue colors, and he wears a black belt alongside half of a jade pendant decoration on his left thigh. He also wears black gloves and black shoes.

Personality: Though Yingxing was a shy boy in his youth, he became more confident as he grew up, and was described to be an arrogant man by many.

Backstory: As a child, Yingxing's homeworld was destroyed by the borisin [a humanoid species with canine features who are the most dominant race among the Denizens of Abundance. Distantly related to the Foxian species, the borisin have long been arch nemeses to the Xianzhou Alliance.] and transformed into one of their weapons nurseries. He somehow made his way to the Xianzhou on a merchant vessel, where he was discovered by Master Huaiyan of the Xianzhou Zhuming's Artisanship Commission and made his apprentice. Yingxing vowed to make weapons for the Cloud Knights in order to avenge his home and family, and was an exceedingly talented craftsman, described as being incredible at his work by earning accolades at such a young age.

During his time on the Zhuming, Yingxing met Baiheng when she was assigned to a delegation to request arms and reinforcements from the ship for the Yaoqing's Crane Feather Orbit Fleet, who were occupied with fighting the borisin. He was tasked with receiving the delegation at Radiant Zenith and escorting them to his Master at Flamedisk Forge Palace. Along the way, Baiheng talked to the shy and insecure boy, who she started calling Little Yingxing, and he opened up about his past to her. Once there, Huaiyan was willing to allocate three hundred fighter jets, twenty thousand thunder crossbows, and twenty thousand devastator glaives in response to Helm-Master Qingying's request for reinforcements, but only a dozen or so personnel.

Over time, Yingxing forged hundreds of weapons, four being his most famous. These weapons were subsequently used by the members of the High-Cloud Quintet, and he was assumedly inducted by Jingliu into the group. While he didn't fight on the front lines, Yingxing was still present during battles with military engineers. Yingxing was shown to be close to the other Quintet members, and would regularly drink and spar with them. At some point, fellow member Dan Feng, the High Elder of the Xianzhou Luofu's Vidyadhara at the time, allowed Yingxing into the Dragon Palace at Scalegorge Waterscape to return a favor.

Yingxing is a short-life species man who is a member of the High-Cloud Quintet, a famous group within the Xianzhou Alliance.