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Wei Wuxian

THE YILING PATRIARCH

Statistics

Birth name: Wei Ying
Courtesy name: Wei Wuxian
Title: Yiling Patriarch/Yiling Laozu
Age: 19
Height: 5'10"
Hair: Black
Eyes: Dark brown

Sexuality: Disaster bi
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Terror of the cultivation world/Radish farmer
Current location (Areyto): Llave

Mother: Cangse Sanren
Father: Wei Changze
Sibling(s): Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli (Shijie)
Canon point (Areyto): Episode 31, shortly after being knocked out by Wen Qing
Canon Point (Ximilia): Episode 33, after the fall.

Personality

Wei Wuxian is someone who cares deeply about others and about doing the right thing. Despite earning a reputation as careless and irreverent, the decisions he makes are largely driven by a desire to protect the innocent. He's incredibly passionate about what he believes in and willing to give up everything to fight for a just cause. Wei Wuxian is also selfless to a fault, plowing straight past selflessness and instead landing in concerning self-destructive tendencies.

After his birth parents died when he was very young and he spent some time living on the streets, he was found and taken in by the Jiang clan at the tender age of four. The wife of the clan leader who took him in, Madam Yu, resented him from the time they took him in. As a result, Wei Wuxian who was already living under the belief that he owed the Jiang family for taking him in, had those beliefs reinforced and deepened. He truly felt that he could never repay the Jiangs for this kindness and resolved to always give them whatever they needed of him, whether it be his loyalty, his protection, or other more significant pieces of himself.

Thanks to his ever present belief that he is only alive and well by the grace of others, Wei Wuxian strives to be as light of a burden as possible. This means serving the Jiang clan as best as he can, and it also means never weighing them down. When he is injured, physically or emotionally, Wei Wuxian pays it no mind, concealing it behind his ever present humor and a teasing smile. To acknowledge his own hurts is to force others to bear witness to it and take care of him, and in doing so, become more of a burden, so Wei Wuxian locks it up and keeps it out of sight. This habit only grows with time, to the point where he no longer knows how to share his hurts with others, always claiming to be fine even when his entire life is falling apart. He doesn't know how to ask for help and instead withdraws from those who offer it, balking at their sincere offers and pleas out of fear and deep seeded insecurity that to confess his weakness is to utterly fail everyone around him.

However, in spite of his inability to share his own hurts, he is compassionate and sensitive to the hurts of others. He fights for the disenfranchised and offers his help without need for reward.

On an entirely different note, when Wei Wuxian can afford to indulge, he is a harmless troublemaker who has fun teasing and riling others. He's an incredible flirt, though his flirting tends towards sweet flattery and charming smiles rather than anything crude or over the top. He's happy to make the object of his attentions feel good about themselves, though he will dive for a subject change if someone begins to attempt the reverse, as he becomes fairly uncomfortable with anyone attempting to give him a sincere compliment.

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History

Cultivation

The world of The Untamed is set in a mythical ancient China within the broader Chinese high fantasy genre of Xianxia. Xianxia, (much like western high fantasy that draws from european history) has its own established conventions and genre staples, but where western fantasy embraces wizards and knights, Xianxia is highly influenced by Daoist themes, incorporating individuals called cultivators who harness inner spiritual powers.

In the world of the Untamed, cultivators are divided into sects and clans with each sect having their own fighting style and preferences. Here cultivators harness their abilities to protect the common people from monsters and the unrestful dead.

An important note to understand about the Untamed and the cultivation world is that most of the supernatural elements draw from a spiritual origin. Cultivators harness their own spiritual abilities by meditating and training to refine and build them. There are no shortcuts to power, only hard work and perseverance.

Wei Wuxian

Five great clans lead the cultivation world in the Untamed, with minor sects and clans following their lead. Wei Wuxian was adopted into the great clan of the Jiang and was considered one of the best and brightest of his generation, with incredible spiritual power and ability, and great fighting finesse. At least, he was until four of the great clans went to war with the fifth clan, the Wen clan.

The war with the Wen was an ugly, messy thing that devastated the Jiang clan in particular. Although Wei Wuxian and his adopted siblings survived, he endured several war traumas including being witness to the slaughter of most of his clan, being captured by the enemy, and the subsequent psychological and physical torture he received as a result of their method of punishment. He endured other significant losses during the war as well, ones that scarred him mentally and emotionally in ways he hasn't begun yet to process. The end result is that the Wei Wuxian who entered into the war is not the Wei Wuxian who came out of it.

After Wei Wuxian was captured, he went missing for three months. Upon his return, he refused to tell any of his allies where he had been, and given that the war was still on, no one pressed him too hard for answers. However, after his return, Wei Wuxian gave up carrying a sword (the weapon that marks him as a cultivator), refusing the ways of cultivation that he had been taught. Instead, Wei Wuxian began practicing something called demonic cultivation. Where other forms of cultivation rely on inner spiritual energy, demonic cultivation instead harnesses the resentful energy of the dead. Although it is a type of cultivation that is incredibly frowned upon, during the war it gave them a great advantage, and it's not an exaggeration to suggest that they might not have won the last battle without it.

After the war

Despite eagerly accepting his help during the war, after the defeat of the Wen, several of the clans turn their attention to Wei Wuxian's unconventional cultivation methods, calling it unnatural and suggesting he turn over a tool he crafted to enhance his abilities. Although this thinly veiled bid to covet his power is fairly obvious to everyone, there are also some legitimate concerns levied his way, in particular from the Lan clan and his friend Lan Wangji. The Lan clan claims that demonic cultivation acts as a corrupting influence no matter what the intention of the user. Wei Wuxian however, refuses any requests to stop using demonic cultivation, claiming that he has it under control.

For a short while it seems as though peacetime will hold with the end of the Wen war, but that peacetime is shattered abruptly for Wei Wuxian. Though on opposite sides of the war, Wei Wuxian had befriended and allied two Wen siblings who had aided he and his siblings after their home was attacked. Wei Wuxian runs into Wen Qing—the medical cultivator who had nursed his brother back to health—only to learn that her brother has been taken from her. Unwilling to stand by and watch Wen Qing or her brother Wen Ning suffer after all they had risked to help his family, Wei Wuxian promises to find Wen Ning and reunite him with Wen Qing. Unfortunately, what Wei Wuxian finds is that the Jin clan has stepped up in more ways than one in the absence of the Wen.

Wei Wuxian finds Wen Ning along with dozens of other innocent Wen elderly, women, and children—those who had no say in the war and took no part in the battles—being tortured and slaughtered at a work camp run by the Jin clan. It is also nearly too late for Wen Ning, as when Wei Wuxian finds him at the camp, Wen Ning is near death. Using demonic cultivation, Wei Wuxian is able to revive Wen Ning, but not fully. Instead, Wen Ning becomes a walking corpse or zombie like being that obeys his every command. Faced with the corruption that seems inescapable in the cultivation world and dozens of innocent civilians who will be killed if he does nothing, Wei Wuxian chooses to defect, taking the Wen remnant with him to keep them safe.

With very few options, Wei Wuxian takes the Wen remnant to a mountain horribly drenched in resentful energy, the Burial Mounds—a place that his unique skills in demonic cultivation allow him to enter unharmed. There, he and the Wen remnant build a settlement where they build houses, farm the difficult soil, entertain the youngest Wen remnant, one Wen Yuan, and generally attempt to survive away from the rest of the world. He even manages to restore Wen Ning's consciousness so that Wen Ning still remains a physical zombie, but with all of his other faculties restored. For a little while, they have peace and Wei Wuxian knows the comfort of family again, even as he mourns the Jiang siblings from whom he defected to protect from his own actions.

But nothing good can last forever, and though the Wen remnant spend their days growing radishes and sharing meals, the leader of the Jin clan spins tales of Wei Wuxian's Wen warrior armies. Having long been separated from his adopted siblings, Wei Wuxian receives an invitation to attend the one month celebration of his adopted sister's son, who has since married her betrothed, the Jin heir Jin Zixuan. Eager for the chance to meet his sister and brother and knowing that they mean to use this as a chance to convince the other clans to understand he isn't amassing any army, he sets off with Wen Ning to attend. But though his sister and her husband are sincere in their attempts to reconcile him with the cultivation world, others are not. Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning are ambushed, and his sister's husband shows up to stop the ambush—just in time for Wei Wuxian's control over his resentful energy to snap. Wen Ning, a mindless monster once again, kills Jin Zixuan.

Having returned to himself, Wen Ning gets an unconscious Wei Wuxian back to safety at the Burial Mounds. When he wakes, hysterical and weeping at having realized what he's done, Wen Qing uses her medical skills to temporarily paralyze him. As she lays him down on a bed, she calmly explains that the Jin clan has issued an ultimatum. If Wei Wuxian hands over Wen Qing and Wen Ning, they will not march on the entirety of the settlement. Wen Qing then informs him that she and Wen Ning have chosen to hand themselves over for execution, claiming that they had been living on borrowed time anyway. Wei Wuxian protests hysterically, but Wen Qing and Wen Ning say their goodbyes, thanking him for all that he'd done for him, and then Wen Qing knocks him out.

This is his Areyto canon point. (Massive spoilers from here on out)

When Wei Wuxian wakes up three days later, it is to the knowledge that Wen Qing and Wen Ning have been executed. Desperate to be sure, he stumbles down from the mountain and ultimately confirms via hearsay that the siblings have been burned alive. He also finds the bodies of the other innocent Wens hanging from the walls of Koi Tower, the Jin palace. Feeling he has nothing left to lose, he goes straight to Nightless City, the site where thousands of cultivators are meeting to discuss how they plan to attack Wei Wuxian the next day.

Instead of waiting for the next day, Wei Wuxian confronts the cultivators, angrily lashing out with bitter words. A fight breaks out, and though Lan Wangji tries to talk him down, they are both sidetracked when Wei Wuxian's martial sister Jiang Yanli appears on the battleground, clearly looking for Wei Wuxian. Jiang Cheng shouts at Wei Wuxian to put a stop to the battle, but when Wei Wuxian tries to call back his resentful energy, he fails, evidently having lost control of it. Before Wei Wuxian or Jiang Cheng can intercept her, she is injured in the battle. Both brothers meet her then and her injuries appear serious, though not fatal. Only, while she is speaking to Wei Wuxian, she sees someone coming for him that he does not. Pushing him out of the way, Jiang Yanli takes a sword meant for Wei Wuxian and then immediately dies.

Wei Wuxian is visibly broken by this last heartbreaking loss, and after breaking the Tiger seal—the powerful artifact that he'd created—and tossing it into the crowd, he walks calmly to the edge of a cliff and steps off. Lan Wangji gets there in time to catch him, but due to an injury does not have the strength to pull him up. Jiang Cheng attempts to kill him, and can't bring himself to do it. With a bittersweet smile, Wei Wuxian pushes away from Lan Wangji's grip and falls to his death.

This is his Ximilia canon point

Abilities

A brief explanation of demonic cultivation:

As mentioned, cultivator powers are developed through the honing of inner spiritual power and of developing an inner spiritual core called the Golden Core. Everything in the world of The Untamed has energy and spiritual energy is what cultivators harness. That energy exists in every living thing: people, animals, and flora alike. In order to use this energy, the cultivator must have spiritual ability.

However, another kind of energy exists in this world, and that is resentful energy. Resentful energy exists primarily although not exclusively within the dead. Someone who died without warning, someone who died very violently, someone who died with many regrets: these are all the breeding grounds of resentful energy. That energy lingers on the corpse after death unless a cleansing ritual is performed. This energy can also spread to objects and places that it comes into contact with. For example a graveyard or former battlefield will be teeming with resentful energy. Likewise, a sword that has taken several lives, or an object that a soldier carried with them might absorb the resentful energy.

Although resentful energy can be harnessed just like spiritual energy, it does not require spiritual ability, meaning anyone, not just cultivators have the ability to work with it. However, it is considered taboo to use resentful energy as it goes against the natural order, especially for cultivators who exist to bring peace to the land. It is also rejected because it is very difficult to successfully manipulate and generally believed to erode at the soul and humanity of one who uses it.

Wei Wuxian is considered a master of demonic cultivation, partially because he has come up with the unique method of using music to regulate his control of resentful energy.

At the canon point I am playing Wei Wuxian from, he is exclusively a demonic cultivator. His abilities include the following:
•The ability to raise and command the dead. Technically this only extends to the unrestful dead, so someone truly at peace or who went through spiritual cleansing in life will not answer his call. The dead who do answer him are granted supernatural strength and agility.
•The ability to summon raw resentful energy. This appears as a thick black smoke and he can use it for physical attacks
•The ability to summon and control any creature tainted by resentful energy, including demons, ghosts, and animals or people tainted by resentful energy.
•Empathy: A demonic cultivation technique that allows him to memory share and see into the mind of a willing or dead participant. This is always risky because he is essentially playing host body to a spirit that may not wish to return it when he is done.
•Return consciousness to someone who is fatally wounded. This means they will still die, but if he gets to them before they are dead, he can turn them into a walking corpse (zombie like creature minus the decay and plus super strength) but with sentience. This is a lengthy process taking weeks or months and he has only accomplished it once.

Non demonic cultivation abilities:
•sword fighting
•talisman development: Wei Wuxian is something of a mad genius and is actually considered brilliant by many. This often makes itself known in how innovative he is with talisman creation.
•Playing the flute, specifically, the dizi
•he's a skilled artist

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