Name: Jang Hui
Description: A young woman with a square shaped face and short brown hair. She dresses in cool earth tones and wears a locket of some kind of glassy metal that's been shaped into a lily pad.
Personality: Jang Hui keeps to herself often, but when others interact with her they find an intelligent person with a dry wit.
Element: Water
Path: The Path of Shallow Water.
Backstory:
On the edge of Lake Tawei there is a region that not many people bother to remember. When they do, they think only of how grateful they are not to live there. It is known as the Gray River Marsh, spanning the entirety of the floodplain of the Gray River which feeds the lake. The marsh is made up of hundreds upon hundreds of minuscule island connected by menacing and interlaced water ways—some deep enough for a man to stand on another's shoulders, and some so shallow that the lightest of canoes would still run aground. Deep peat deposits means no foundations can be laid without sinking into the muck. Thousands of mosquitoes, mayflies, and gnats make it supremely annoying to travel through. But oh, when the marsh lilies blossom? When the glow flies dance? When the swamp fire lights the night? Jang Hui knows that she is home.
Her people, thought brutish and lazy by outsiders, have lived on the marsh for time unknown. They create floating houses on stilts driven into the peat. Walkways miles long connect dozens of islands in one sprawling marsh village. They move using canoes made of bound reeds and pitch. Even amongst the peasants they are the poorest of the poor, making their living off what fish can be caught and what nuggets of bog iron can be dredged up.
Hui was brown the fourth of eight siblings, three of which died during their first year of life. Being a child is hard on the marsh, always at risk to disease or drowning or beasts or a hundred other things. She holds no loyalty to the Barony, who ignored her people unless it was to press them for taxes or to draft them for war. Her only purpose in the sect is to gather resources and experience that she can bring back and use to improve the lives of her family and her people.
The Path of Shallow Water is a way of viewing qi through the lens of Hui's wetland home. Qi moves like meandering water and it is Hui's job to navigate those channels as best she can. Hopefully this will lead to enhanced water, earth, and wood techniques, or techniques that are empowered by cultivating in a wetland ecosystem.
Gift:
[X] Technique Manual: You found a rare technique manual that will surely give you a leg up in your cultivation. (The Silver Catfish Cultivation Method: A primer on how to pull water qi into one's roots and build further techniques based on that mechanic.)
Stats:
Body (Clay)
Spirit (Copper)
Fortune (Clay)
Cultivation:
Tempered Eyes: 5/5
Tempered Lungs: 5/7
Insights:
3 Shipwright
1 Herding
Techniques:
Heavenly Purification of Liquid Bodies
Silver Catfish Cultivation Method
Inventory:
50 Spirit Stones
