On roleplayg gay characters (and fanboyg about Ja Empire)

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• BWARE WRER TALKS GAY ROMANC AND SEXUAL DIVERSY GAMG
• JA EMPIRE-HOW TO UNLOCK GAY ROMANCE?
• THE SPIR MONK    THE SPIR MONK THE SPIR MONKFROM TOP TO BOTTOM: FUR MG, LU THE PRODIGY, RADIANT JEN ZI, LG THE SCHOLAR, TIGER SHEN, WU THE LOT BLOSSOM, AND MONK ZENGTHE PLAYER CHARACTER. MASTER LI'S FAVORE PUPIL. SHORTLY AFTER LEARNG THAT S/HE IS THE LAST SPIR MONK, HIS/HER HOMETOWN OF TWO RIVERS IS STROYED AND MASTER LI IS PTURED. THIS PROMPTS HIM/HER TO GO ON A JOURNEY TO FD MASTER LI AND LEARN WHAT HIS/HER STY IS.THERE'S LS CHARACTER CTOMIZATN AVAILABLE FOR PLAYER CHARACTERS THAN IS UAL BWARE GAM — STEAD OF G A CHARACTER CREATOR TO MODIFY APPEARANCE AND CHANGE STARTG STATS, PLAYERS SELECT ONE OUT OF SIX OR SEVEN (PENDG ON EDN) PRE-SIGNED CHARACTERS. THE CHARACTERS START WH DIFFERENT FIGHTG STYL, BUT N LEARN OTHERS THE URSE OF GAMEPLAY. THEY HAVE NAM ATTACHED TO THEM (SPECIFILLY: FUR MG, LU THE PRODIGY, RADIANT JEN ZI, SCHOLAR LG, TIGER SHEN, WU THE LOT BLOSSOM, AND MONK ZENG), ALTHOUGH PLAYERS N CHANGE THE IF THEY LIKE. ARROGANT KUNG-FU GUY: A CLOSED FIST SPIR MONK SE THEMSELV AS SUPERR TO EVERYONE ELSE ON ACUNT OF THEIR SKILL AND STRENGTH. BARE-FISTED MONK: YOU START THE GAME WH ONLY MARTIAL ARTS ATTACKS. CALLG YOUR ATTACKS: LOUDLY ANNOUNC EVERY STYLE THEY BRG TO BAT. CAME BACK STRONG: IN CHAPTER 6, YOU RETURN TO LIFE AFTER MASTER LI KILLS YOU. YOU DON'T NEED THE AMULET TO CHANNEL GEMS ANYMORE, YOU ARE PABLE OF DOG NEW AND POTENT THGS WH YOUR SPIR MONK POWERS, YOU FALLY KNOW WHO THE TE ENEMY IS AND ALL THE GHOSTS AND MONS YOU FOUGHT THE MEANTIME MA FOR WONRFUL TRAG. PL, YOU'VE HAD TIME TO RRECT THE FLAW YOUR STYLE THAT MASTER LI ED TO KILL YOU THE FIRST GO 'ROUND. CANON NAME: EACH OF THE SPIR MONKS HAVE FLT NAM, SUCH AS FUR MG, LU THE PRODIGY, RADIANT JEN ZI, AND SO ON. THE EXTRA CHARACTER THE SPECIAL/LIMED EDN VERSN OF THE GAME IS NAMED MONK ZENG. THE CHOSEN ONE: DOUBLE SUBVERTED. THERE'S NOTHG PARTICULARLY SPECIAL ABOUT YOU SPIR MONK WISE, YOU'RE JT A KID WHO WAS BORN A FEW DAYS BEFORE SH WENT DOWN. HOWEVER WH SUN LI'S TRAG AND YOUR STAT AS THE LAST OF YOUR KD YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON A POSN TO END THE PROBLEM OF THE WALKG AD. COOL BIG SIS: HOW DAWN STAR SE YOU IF YOU'RE FEMALE. DEADPAN SNARKER: IN TE BWARE TRADN, ALMOST EVERY DIALOGUE HAS A POTENTIAL SNARKY RPONSE. DOOMED HOMETOWN: TWICE, LOSG DIRGE (BORN) AND TWO RIVERS (RAISED). FAKE WEAKNS: THERE'S A SUBTLE "FLAW" BUILT TO THEIR STYLE THAT SKILLED OPPONENTS TO WASTE TIME THE FIGHT TRYG TO EXPLO . SEVERAL NPC OPPONENTS WILL PLIMENT THE CHARACTER ON THE CLEVERNS OF THE GAMB. IT TURNS OUT TO BE A REAL FLAW, BUT ONLY MASTER LI HAS THE SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE NEED TO EXPLO . FIGHTER, MAGE, THIEF: WHEN CHOOSG YOUR CHARACTER, YOU HAVE FOUR STYL TO CHOOSE OM: WU THE LOT BLOSSOM AND LU THE PRODIGY ARE "BALANCED", FUR MG AND RADIENT JEN ZI ARE "FAST", MONK ZHENG AND LG THE SCHOLAR ARE "MAGIC", AND TIGER SHEN IS THE ONLY "STRONG" CHARACTER. GOD-EMPEROR: IN THE CLOSED FIST ENDG AFTER ABSORBG THE POWER OF THE WATER DRAGON, YOU BEE THE GOD EMPEROR. INSTANT EXPERT: YOU CHARACTER N N MASTER NEW MARTIAL ARTS STYL A MATTER OF A FEW -STORY HOURS. IT'S IMPLIED THAT YOU'RE A PRODIGY, AND ALSO THAT MASTER LI IS SUCH A DAMN GOOD TEACHER THAT THE FUNDAMENTALS WHICH HE TRAED YOU MAKE PICKG UP EVERYTHG ELSE A BREEZE. LASER-GUID TYKE-BOMB: MASTER LI RAISED THE SPIR MONK TO KILL THE EMPEROR.. LAST OF HIS KD: THE ONLY SURVIVG SPIR MONK. MARTIAL PACIFIST: THE "OPEN PALM" PATH HAS YOU TRY TO AVOID NFLICT UNLS NECSARY TO SAVE YOURSELF OR OTHERS. MR. FANSERVICE: ON THE MALE SI OF THGS, WE HAVE FUR MG, WHO IS A WALKG SHIRTLS SCENE. THIS IS ACKNOWLEDGED -UNIVERSE. LU THE PRODIGY IS ALSO QUE EASY ON THE EY AS WELL, WHILE TIGER SHEN AND MONK ZENG ROCK A MORE TRADTNAL SAGE LOOK SIAR TO SAGAC ZU, WHICH N BE ATTRACTIVE THEIR OWN WAYS. MS. FANSERVICE: ALL THREE FEMALE PLAYER MOLS HAVE AN ASPECT OF FANSERVICE: WU THE LOT BLOSSOM BAR HER MIDRIFF AND HIK UP SOME GRA-A ZETTAI RYOUIKI. SCHOLAR LG HAS A CLEAVAGE WDOW AND A BT THAT MAY BE EVEN MORE BOUNTIFUL THAN THEY ALREADY APPEAR. RADIANT JEN ZI HAS LEGS AS DISTRACTIVE AS DAWN STAR'S. MORALY PET: UNLS THE FULL SAGAC ZU SUBPLOT IS PLETE, AND SHE LEARNS HER FATHER'S TE INTY, DAWN STAR IS THIS EVEN TO A CLOSED FIST CHARACTER. NORMAL FISH A TY POND: THE SPIRUAL POWERS THE MONK HAS LET THEM FEAT ALL MANNER OF SUPERNATURAL THREATS, BUT AREN’T ANYTHG SPECIAL BY SPIR MONK STANDARDS. IF ANYTHG, THEY’RE LS SPIRUALLY POTENT THAN THAN THEY SHOULD BE BEE THEY ULDN’T RECEIVE FORMAL TRAG WHOUT OTHER SPIR MONKS ALIVE. THE PARALYZER: THROUGH E OF SUPPORT STYL, WHICH FLICT A VARIETY OF STAT EFFECTS. PANTY SHOT: DOG A FORWARD ROLL AS RADIANT JEN ZI OR WU THE LOT BLOSSOM GIV YOU A QUICK FLASH OF HER PANTI. PLAYER CHARACTER: YOU ONLY NTROL OTHER CHARACTERS UNR VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANC. SENT INTO HIDG: WAS SECRETED AWAY AND HIDN OM THE WORLD AND THEIR SIBLGS BY THE BIG BAD, WHILE THEY NCTED A MASTER PLAN THAT WOULD VOLVE G THE SAID MONK AS MEANS TO ACHIEVE THE TLE OF EMPEROR, AND ULTIMATELY, GODHOOD AND IMMORTAL LIFE. THE SOCIAL DARWIST: A CLOSED FIST SPIR MONK BELIEV THAT THE WEAK HAVE NO PURPOSE BEYOND SERVG THE STRONG. UNWTG PAWN: "HE TRAED YOU TO FIGHT A TYRANT, BUT WH A FLAW. HE WANTED YOU TO BE VULNERABLE YOUR MOMENT OF TRIUMPH". VOLUNTARY SHAPHIFTG: ONE OF THE MORE POWERFUL ABILI YOU N PICK UP, VERGG ON A GAME-BREAKER WH THE JA GOLEM TRANSFORMATN.FOLLOWERS    DAWN STAR DAWN STARVOICED BY: KIM MAI GUTTHE SPIR MONK'S CHILDHOOD IEND. SHE HAS THE ABILY TO SENSE SPIRS THAT NNOT BE SEEN BY ANYONE ELSE. THIS HAS LED TO HER BEG SRNED BY MOST OF THE TOWNSFOLK OF TWO RIVERS. SHE WAS NAMED AFTER A BRIGHT FIRE THAT WAS SEEN WHEN SHE WAS BORN. A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A MALE SPIR MONK. ACTN GIRL: ACRDG TO MASTER LI, HER SKILLS PLEMENT THOSE OF THE PLAYER CHARACTER. ALL OF THE OTHER REER: SHUNNED BY MANY OF THE VILLAGERS WHO ARE WARY OF HER ABILY TO MUNITE WH THE AD. YOU N HELP HER TO AL WH THIS TWO WAYS: IF YOU'RE OPEN PALM, YOU N PERSUA HER THAT HER POWERS ARE A GIFT AND NOT A CURSE, AND SHE'S NOT TO BLAME FOR THE OTHERS PICKG ON HER. DOG THIS WILL CLEAR UP HER EMOTNAL ISSU SCE SHE'LL START FG HERSELF BY THE GOOD SHE DO RATHER THAN THE IGNORANT OPNS OF OTHER PEOPLE. IF YOU'RE CLOSED FIST, YOU N PERSUA HER THAT THE OTHERS WILL STOP PICKG ON HER IF SHE STARTS ACTG POWERFUL AND STRONG, LIKE THEY'RE ALL BENEATH HER AND SHE SHOULD TAKE WHAT SHE WANTS. DOG THIS WILL GIVE HER A HUGE NFINCE BOOST BUT SHE'LL ALSO START APPROVG OF VILLAO BEHAVR. AWFUL TTH: FDG OUT THAT MASTER LI IS HER FATHER HAS A LARGE IMPACT ON ALL OF HER ENDGS, AND NOT NECSARILY A GOOD WAY. NOTABLY, IF THE PLAYER TAK OVER THE EMPIRE AND SHE DON'T KNOW, SHE BE A MORATG FLUENCE ON THEM, HELPG TO MAKE THE NATN A STRONG, PROSPERO PLACE THAT SE TO THE PEOPLE'S NEEDS, IF NOT THEIR WANTS. FDG OUT TURNS HER TO A LD, CEL TYRANT. BETTY AND VERONI: DAWN STAR AS THE NICE, EMPATHETIC, GIRL NEXT DOOR BETTY AND SILK FOX AS THE VERONI. CHILDHOOD FRIEND ROMANCE: THE SPIR MONK IS HER OLST IEND AND SHE'S A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A MALE SPIR MONK. WHETHER SHE'S VICTOR OR UNLUCKY PENDS ON THE PLAYER. THE EMPATH: SHE IS SENSIVE TO THE SPIRUAL WORLD. THIS SOMETIM PROBLEMS PLAC LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, TIEN'S LANDG, WHICH IS FILLED WH THE SPIRS OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED THE FLOODG. FACE–HEEL TURN: IF YOU ROMANCE DAWN STAR AFTER HAVG PERSUAD HER TO FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE CLOSED FIST, SHE'LL BACK YOU UP WHEN YOU DO MORALLY QUTNABLE THGS LIKE BD DEATH'S HAND OR TAKE THE WATER DRAGON'S POWER FOR YOURSELF. HOWEVER, 'S RELATIVE BASED ON WHETHER SHE LEARNS THAT SUN LI IS HER FATHER AND NEVER RED ABOUT HER. IF SHE NEVER LEARNS THE TTH, THEN SHE BE A TEMPERG FLUENCE ON THE SPIR MONK, AND TOGETHER THEY LEAD THE EMPIRE TO A STRONG AND PROSPERO FUTURE. HOWEVER, IF SHE DO LEARN THE TTH, SHE BE VERY BTER AND GROWS TO BE JT AS CEL AS THE SPIR MONK, LEADG THE EMPIRE TO A TOTALARIAN AGE. FIRE-FED FRIENDS: SPENDS MUCH OF THE GAME ARGUG WH SILK FOX, BUT THEY E TO RPECT EACH OTHER AFTER FIGHTG TOGETHER AT THE BRIDGE OF DIRGE. THE HEART: EVEN IF SHE UNRGO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT TO A CLOSED FIST CHARACTER, SHE REMAS LARGELY PASSNATE AND RG. FDG OUT MASTER LI'S TE INTY, HOWEVER, IS QUE A BLOW TO HER. IF SHE NEVER LEARNS THE TTH ABOUT SUN LI AND IS ROMANCED BY THE SPIR MONK, SHE MANAG TO TURN EVEN THE EVIL ENDG TO SOMETHG OF A GOOD ENDG AS BY TEMPERG THE SPIR MONK'S MORE FORCEFUL ACTNS WH PASSN, THEY TOGETHER LEAD THE JA EMPIRE TO A PROSPERO AGE. HERO PREFER SWORDS: SHE A IA BLA LLED GUJ'S FAVOR. IF YOU NTROL HER DIRGE, SHE HAS A CHANCE TO GA A STRONGER SWORD LLED THORN AND SHG CARP. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH THE FEMALE SPIR MONK. THE TWO OF YOU ARE VERY CLOSE AND SHE LOV YOU LIKE A SISTER. KISSG COS: WH SILK FOX, HER FATHER'S BROTHER'S DGHTER, THE THREE-WAY ROMANCE PATH, ALTHOUGH IS UNWTG ON BOTH PARTI' ENDS AT THE TIME. LEG FOC: IF YOU HAVE HER WH YOU WHEN YOU REC THE BLACK WHIRLWD, HE JOK THAT SHE ULD DISTRACT THEIR ENEMI BY FLASHG HER LEGS. LEMOTIF: HER THEME MIC IS NAMED AFTER HER. IT SOUNDS VERY RAL AND LM, LIKE THE TIME BEFORE YOU TWO LOSE YOUR HOME. LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER: IF YOU'RE PLAYG A MALE SPIR MONK AND YOU DON'T ROMANCE DAWN STAR (EHER BEE YOU'RE ROMANCG SILK FOX OR SKY OR HAVE CHOSEN TO FO ROMANCE ENTIRELY), YOU AND DAWN STAR HAVE THIS KD OF CLOSE RELATNSHIP. LE, YOU ARE MY FATHER: SUBVERTED WHEN MASTER LI DON'T BELIEVE HER AND TELLS HER THAT HE WOULDN'T RE IF HE DID. MEANGFUL NAME: HER NAME IS A REFERENCE TO THE FIR OF DIRGE BURNG, WHICH, OM THE PLACE OF HER BIRTH, GAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A SUNRISE. UNHAPPY MEDIUM: HER SENSIVY TO THE SUPERNATURAL REALM ED HER TO BE OSTRAZICIZED AND HER SOME PA. THE SPIR MONK N ENURAGE HER TO MAKE PEACE WH HER POWER. YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER: SHE HAS A CHANCE TO TELL THIS TO MASTER LI DURG THE FAL NONTATN TWO WAYS (PENDG ON WHATEVER SHE REMAS AN OPEN PALM OR HAS BEEN TURNED TO A CLOSED FIST CHARACTER).(OPEN PALM VERSN) "I'M NOT SURE WHAT I EXPECTED MY FATHER TO BE, BUT I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN I HOPED HE WAS SOMEONE LIKE YOU. NOT ANY MORE."(CLOSED FIST VERSN) "I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAD BEEN ABANDONED. IT WAS NOT UNTIL JT NOW THAT I KNEW FOR CERTA. IF I AM AD TO YOU, THEN YOU ARE AD TO ME."    SAGAC ZU SAGAC ZUVOICED BY: ROB ATK DOWNA HERM WHO THE SPIR MONK MEETS THE SWAMP OUTSI OF TWO RIVERS. AFTER TWO RIVERS IS STROYED, HE ADMS TO BEG A FORMER LOT ASSASS AND AGRE TO ACPANY THE PARTY FOR HIS OWN REASONS. THE ATONER: YOUR IENDS SPECULATE THAT THE REASON HE'S DOG HIS BT TO HELP YOU IS TO MAKE UP FOR BEG PLIC THE GENOCI OF THE SPIR MONKS. BADASS BOAST: GIV ONE HIS TRODUCTN SCENE TO GAO'S MERCENARI BEFORE KILLG THEM."I AM NO MON BAND! I'VE BEEN HUNTED BY FAR WORSE THAN YOU!" BLAMED FOR BEG RAILROAD: DOWNPLAYED. HE DISLIK THAT YOU NEED TO FILTRATE THE LOT ASSASSS ORR TO FD EVINCE OF THEIR WRONG DOGS. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY ALTERNATIVE, BUT ZU DON'T HOLD AGAST YOU. DEADPAN SNARKER: HIS SENSE OF HUMOR IS EXTREMELY BG AND SARSTIC. DEFECTOR OM DENCE: HE ONCE BELIEVED THE IAL OF BEG AN ASSASS FOR THE GREATER GOOD, BUT WAS ABLE TO UNRSTAND HOW FAR HIS ORR WAS FALLG WHEN HE WAS ORRED TO KILL MASTER LI'S FANT DGHTER. ENEMY ME: IN THE CLOSED FIST ENDG, HE STILL PULLS HIS NOT TOO DEAD TO SAVE THE DAY PLOY TO SAVE YOU. HE KNOWS THAT YOU MAY BEE A TYRANT AFTER YOU KILL SUN LI, BUT SUN LI IS A TYRANT, AND KILLG HIM HAS A CHANCE OF MAKG THGS BETTER. FAKE DEFECTOR: LEAV YOUR PARTY TO GO TO THE LOT ASSASS FORTRS, BUT HELPS YOU WHILE THERE. GOOD SRS, EVIL SRS: A WEIRD MIXTURE OF THE TWO, BUT HE IS VERED THEM, HEAD TO TOE. HEEL REALIZATN: AS A LOT ASSASS, HE HONTLY THOUGHT HE WAS DOG NECSARILY EVIL ACTS TO KEEP THE EMPIRE ORR UNTIL THE ABOVE CINT. HEROIC SACRIFICE: HE GIV YOU ENOUGH TIME TO PE DEATH'S HAND BY TRICKG DEATH'S HAND TO STROYG THE PILLARS HOLDG THE CEILG UP, BUT SAGAC ZU IS KILLED THE PROCS. IMPALED WH EXTREME PREJUDICE: IS STABBED BY THE SWORD OF DEATH'S HAND BEFORE THEY'RE BURIED BY MBLE. MARTIAL ARTS STAFF: HE FIGHTS WH A STAFF THAT BEARS REMBLANCE TO THE DEMON STAFF THAT'S ACCSIBLE TO THE PLAYER THE PC VERSN ONLY. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: EVEN KNOWG THAT THE LOT ASSASSS ARE EVIL, HE OFTEN FDS HIMSELF FENDG THE EMPEROR AND NYG THAT HE ULD KNOW ABOUT THE ASSASSS' WRONGDOG NON-INDITIVE NAME: ZU'S TLE IS THE SAME AS OF THE FIRST EMPEROR, SAGAC TIEN. UPON FIRST HEARG , THE PLAYER N QUTN THE PATIBILY.THE PLAYER: I DON'T PICTURE A THOUGHTFUL AND PERCEPTIVE EMPEROR FIGHTG A SWAMP.ZU: I SEE YOUR POT. THERE ARE DIFFERENC. TIEN WAS A KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN, WHEREAS I FEEL THAT A PERSON N SOMETIM THK TOO MUCH. NOT TOO DEAD TO SAVE THE DAY: DURG THE FAL BATTLE, HIS SPIR SHOWS UP AND E YOU OM LI'S MD TRAP. JTIFIED BY THE CYCLE OF SOULS BEG BLOCKED, PREVENTG ALL SPIRS OM MOVG ON UNTIL THE WATER DRAGON'S POWER IS RELEASED. PRAGMATIC HERO: HE'S NOT ABOVE KILLG ENEMY MNS WHO HAVE SURRENRED. AS A WHOLE, HE REPRENTS THE CLOSED FIST S MORE PHILOSOPHIL, LS-EVIL FORMS.HUI THE BRAVE: ZU IS AN HONORABLE MAN. NOT A GOOD MAN, PERHAPS, BUT AN HONORABLE ONE. RED RIGHT HAND: HIS HANDS ARE VISIBLY DISLORED WH BLACK K, MARKG HIM AS A FORMER LOT ASSASS. SCE HE WAS PART OF THE ORR BEFORE THEY BEME RPT MAY BE DYED WH DYE, NOT BLOOD AS WH MORE RECENT MEMBERS. RETIRED MONSTER: APART OM THE KILLG OF LI'S FAY, HE HAS NO REMORSE ABOUT WHAT HE DID. SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN: HE HIS UNR A CYNIL AND UNPLEASANT ATTU, BUT HE'S HAD YEARS AND YEARS TO REFLECT ON THE THG'S HE'S DONE, AND THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN KD. STEALTH EXPERT: HE'S SO GOOD AT STEALTH THAT HE SNEAKS OUT OF YOUR MP WHOUT ANYONE NOTICG, MAK SI THE LOT ASSASSS' FORTRS WHOUT THE WATCHER, THE LOT ASSASSS' DOORKEEPER WHO N SPOT ALL BUT THE MOST SKILLED FILTRATORS, BEG ANY THE WISER, AND NO ONE BUT YOU IS AWARE OF HIS PRENCE UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF DEATH'S HAND. STEALTH HI/BYE: FREQUENTLY THE LOT ASSASS FORTRS. WHAM LE: AFTER MENTNG THE LOT ASSASSS WH ACCURACY, HE SAYS "I... I WAS ONE." ZEN SURVIVOR: DPE HIS BTAL WORLDVIEW AND PRIVATE REMORSE, HE HAS STILL ATTAED A KD OF ENLIGHTENED NON-ATTACHMENT. HIS SPIR EVEN REMAS WHOLE AND SANE AFTER HIS ATH TO ASSIST YOU THE FAL BATTLE.    SILK FOX SILK FOXVOICED BY: MASASA MOYOA NJA-LIKE FIGURE WHO ATTACKS THE PARTY AFTER THEIR FLIER CRASH, BELIEVG THEM RPONSIBLE FOR THE STCTN OF TWO RIVERS. A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A SPIR MONK OF EHER GENR. ACTN GIRL: SHE EXHIBS OL MOV WHEN THE ANIMATN IS LS RIGID. BETTY AND VERONI: SILK FOX AS THE FEISTY, MYSTER RICH AND POWERFUL VERONI AND DAWN STAR AS THE BETTY. FOR THE FEMALE PC, SHE'S ALSO THE VERONI TO SKY'S BETTY. BROKEN PESTAL: LET'S JT SAY HER FATHER IS NOT BEG MANIPULATED BY DEATH'S HAND (ED, IS THE EXACT VERSE) AND SHE IS NOT HAPPY TO FD THAT OUT. SHE WONRS IF THE REVELATN THAT LI WAS THE MASTERMD ABSOLV HIM, BUT REALIZ THAT DO NOT. CONTUE YOUR MISSN, DAMM!: SHE DISLIK WHEN YOU GO AROUND ACCEPTG SIQUTS STEAD OF NTUG ON YOUR MA QUT, OFTEN VOICG HER DISPLEASURE. DATG CATWOMAN: WELL, THE DATG PART OCCURS AFTERWARDS, BUT YOU MEET HER AS AN ENIGMATIC ENEMY UNTIL SHE REALIZ THAT YOU ARE BOTH SEEKG TO ACHIEVE THE SAME GOAL. DEATH GLARE: GIV ONE TO KANG WHEN HE'S BEG DISRPECTFUL TO HER. DEOSTG ICE QUEEN: WHILE OPEN TO THE IA OF WORKG WH YOU BEE YOUR GOALS ARE SIAR, SHE DON'T TST YOU AND HAS A D DISDA FOR YOUR LLEAGU. HER RELATNSHIP WH THEM IMPROV AS THE GAME GO ON.EVEN THE GIRLS WANT HER: BORRLE SE, -GAME.--> FIRE-FED FRIENDS: SPENDS MUCH OF THE GAME ARGUG WH DAWN STAR, BUT THEY E TO RPECT EACH OTHER AFTER FIGHTG TOGETHER AT THE BRIDGE OF DIRGE. GAY OPTN: FOR LBIAN CHARACTERS. HAPPILY MARRIED: IN HER EPILOGUE IF ROMANCED BY THE MALE CHARACTER. HERO PREFER SWORDS: SHE A LONG SWORD LLED CAPTA'S BLA. IF YOU TAKE NTROL OF HER DIRGE, SHE HAS A CHANCE TO GA A STRONGER SWORD LLED BLA OF THE BROKEN BOUGH. IT WAS A GIFT: AS THE PRCS, HAS AN ATTENDANT GIVE YOU A GEM AT THE START OF ACT III. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: TYPILLY SNIP AT THE OTHER PARTY MEMBERS, PECIALLY DAWN STAR, BUT R STRONGLY ABOUT DOG THE RIGHT THG. HER "JOURNAL ENTRY" DURG THE SEGMENT OF THE GAME THE PLAYER N PLAY AS HER ACTUALLY HAS HER MAKG A FEW BACKHAND PLIMENTS TOWARDS DAWN STAR. KISSG COS: WH DAWN STAR, HER FATHER'S BROTHER'S DGHTER, THE THREE-WAY ROMANCE PATH, ALTHOUGH IS UNWTG ON BOTH PARTI' ENDS AT THE TIME. LEMOTIF: NAMED AFTER HER, 'S MYSTER BUT WH A CERTA GRAVAS BEFTG HER. MCNJA: AN UNUAL NON-WHE EXAMPLE. SILK FOX'S CHARACTER SIGN IS HEAVILY BASED ON THE NJA STEREOTYPE OF AN AGILE STEALTHY ASSASS A BLACK SU AND MASK, BUT THAT STEREOTYPE IS JAPANE RATHER THAN CHE. MYSTER VEIL: SHE ONE TO VER THE LOWER HALF OF HER FACE. SHE EVENTUALLY STOPS WEARG OM THE 4TH CHAPTER ONWARD. REBELL PRCS: DOUBLE SUBVERTED. HER ACTIVI, WHILE UNORTHODOX, ARE ALL UNRTAKEN AS PART OF WHAT SHE SE AS HER PRCSLY DUTY TO THE EMPIRE. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HER, CIRCUMSTANC EVENTUALLY MAND THAT SHE REBEL FOR REAL. ALSO, THERE'S AN EXAMPLE HER ENDG THAT N EHER BE PLAYG THIS TROPE STRAIGHT OR SUBVERTG THIS TROPE. IF YOU FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE OPEN PALM AND PERSUA SILK FOX THAT ALL OF THE RTRICTG TRADNS ACTUALLY HAVE A GOOD E, SHE'LL BEE A WISE LER WHEN SHE HERS THE THRONE, BEE JA EMPIRE'S SETTG, REBELLG AGAST THE HEAVENLY ORR ISN'T A GOOD THG. THIS SUBVERTS THE TROPE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE CLOSED FIST AND PERSUA SILK FOX THAT SHE SHOULD DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS, SHE PLAYS THE TROPE STRAIGHT AS A PRCS AND AS A LER, SHE BE A TYRANT. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: SECRETLY, ADMTEDLY, BUT SHE DO TRY TO ACT AS A VIGILANTE AGAST DEATH'S HAND'S SCHEM. SHE DROPS THIS ON THE OPEN PALM PATH... BUT ONLY BEE SHE TURNS OUT TO BE A TALENTED ADMISTRATOR, PRERVG THE SPIR OF THE TROPE. S COM ARCH NEMIS: SHE SEEMS TO REALLY DISLIKE DAWN STAR FOR WHATEVER REASON, PERHAPS BEE DAWN STAR IS A PASSNATE MONER WHEREAS SILK FOX IS A PRAGMATIC PRCS. TSUNRE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT SHE'S STILL CLEARLY VERY ED TO GETTG HER WAY, AND DON'T ALWAYS REACT WELL TO THE PLAYER'S LACK OF URTLY MANNERS. UPTOWN GIRL: TO THE PROTAGONIST, IF THE ROMANCE OPTN IS PURSUED. THIS IS DISCSED THEIR DIALOGUE.    SKY SKYVOICED BY: CAM CLARKEA LOVABLE ROGUE WHO SEEKS REVENGE ON THE CRIME LORD GAO THE GREATER. A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A SPIR MONK OF EHER GENR. BERSERK BUTTON: SLAVERY OF ANY KD. IT'S PERSONAL, YOU SEE. HE MAY NOT GIVE A RIP ABOUT THE LAWS OF HEAVEN, BUT HE IS PRETTY TICKED ABOUT THE BROTHERS SUN ENSLAVG A GODSS. BETTY AND VERONI: THE CHILL AND GENTLE BETTY TO SILK FOX'S VERONI. DEAL WH THE DEVIL: LATE THE GAME, DEATH'S HAND AND THE LOT ASSASSS, OFF-SCREEN, OFFER SKY A AL WHERE THEY OFFER TO RTORE HIS AD WIFE AND DGHTER BACK TO LIFE IF SKY WOULD FIRST LEAD THE SPIR MONK TO THEIR TRAP. HE DO LEAD YOU TO THEIR TRAP, SO AT FIRST LOOKS LIKE HE TOOK THE TO REVEAL THAT HE SET HIS OWN TRAP, AND HE EXPLOSIV HE RIGGED EARLIER TO KILL THE ASSASSS, SO YOU ONLY HAVE TO FIGHT DEATH'S HAND. THIS WAS SKY'S PLAN ALL ALONG WHEN HE SEEMED TO ACCEPT THEIR OFFER. DUAL WIELDG: FIGHTS WH TWO CURVED SWORDS AT ONCE WHEN SET TO ATTACK ENEMI. DYG ALONE: IN THE UNED ENDG FOR SKY, HE DI ALONE AFTER DRKG POISONED WE, AND IS IMPLIED TO HAVE SAID THE SPIR MONK'S NAME AS HE DIED. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HE GETS THE DROP ON SOME OF GAO'S MEN, THEN PROCEEDS TO TNT THE OTHERS AND MENTNS THAT YOU'RE WH HIM, DRAWG YOU TO HIS FIGHT. THIS TABLISH HIM AS A SKILLED FIGHTER WHO'S HEADSTRONG AND TENDS TO MAKE CUNNG IF RECKLS PLANS ON THE FLY. FAKE DEFECTOR: LETS DEATH'S HAND TO THE NER DIRGE TEMPLE UNR OFFER OF HIS DGHTER BEG BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE, SO THAT HE N SPRG A TRAP ON HIM. GAY OPTN: IF THE PLAYER IS A GAY MALE. GENTLEMAN THIEF: HE'S ONE OF YOUR NICER PANNS, BUT ISN'T ABOVE PETTY ROBBERY. GOOD COUNTERPART: TO GAO THE GREATER. THEY BOTH LEAD A LIFE OF CRIME, BUT WHILE SKY IS A LOVEABLE ROGUE WHO HAT ANYTHG RELATED TO SLAVERY, GAO MAK PROF OUT OF AS THE LEAR OF THE GUILD. THEY BOTH WANT REVENGE AFTER THEY LOSE THEIR CHILDREN. DEPENDG ON THE PLAYER'S CHOIC, SKY TAK GAO'S POSN AS THE GUILD'S LEAR AND EHER TURNS THEM ON A MORE HONORABLE PATH OR KEEPS THEM THE SAME. GOOD RUNNG EVIL: TAK OVER THE GUILD EVERY ENDG, ASSUMG HE'S STILL ALIVE. IF HE'S OPEN PALM, 'S THIS, WH HIM TAKG THE SYNDITE BACK TO S HONORABLE, SEMI-HONT ROOTS. HEARTBROKEN BADASS: DPE HIS LAID-BACK MEANOR, HE CLEARLY MISS HIS CEASED WIFE AND LTLE GIRL WH ALL HIS BEG. HI YOUR GAYS: IN ORR TO HAVE A SAME-SEX ROMANCE WH HIM, YOU HAVE TO MAKE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT YOU ARE NOT TERTED NEHER DAWN STAR NOR SILK FOX (WHICH PRETTY MUCH MEANS YOU HAVE TO SULT THEM) AND THEN SAY THE RIGHT THGS TO HIM. EVEN THEN, THE SCENE WHERE YOU KISS IS CENSORED (BUT EASILY RTORED ON THE PC VERSN.) LEMOTIF: NAMED AFTER HIM, 'S PLAYFUL AND MISCHIEVO, MUCH LIKE HIS CHARACTER. LADYKILLER LOVE: STARTS OF PLAYFULLY FLIRTG WH YOU, BUT HE DON'T KNOW QUE WHAT TO MAKE OF YOU AT FIRST. IT WILL EVENTUALLY EVOLVE TO LOVE IF YOU RETURN HIS AFFECTNS. LOVABLE ROGUE: HE'S GENERALLY A SORT OF HAN SOLO FIGURE, A PASSNATE CRIMAL WH STANDARDS AND SYMPATHETIC MOTIV. IF YOU'RE A FEMALE CLOSED FIST PLAYER AND YOU ROMANCE HIM, THE ENDG MENTNS THAT HE BE A VILLA STEAD. MEET THE NEW BOSS: IF HE'S CLOSED FIST, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE TAK OVER THE GUILD AT THE END OF THE GAME. RETIRED BADASS: HE WAS AN ADVENTURO THIEF HIS YOUTH, BUT AFTER THE ATH OF HIS WIFE CHILDBIRTH LEFT HIM A SGLE FATHER, HE SETTLED DOWN TO BE A PEACEFUL FARMER FOR MANY YEARS. THEN THE ATH OF HIS DGHTER FORCED HIM TO EMPLOY HIS OLD SKILLS AGA AS PART OF HIS ROARG RAMPAGE OF REVENGE. ROARG RAMPAGE OF REVENGE: ON ONE WHEN THE PLAYER MEETS HIM. IN CUT NTENT, IF THE PLAYER CIS NOT TO FIVE HIM FOR HIS BETRAYAL, HE RUM FIGHTG AGAST THE PEOPLE BEHD GAO UNTIL HE ULTIMATELY GETS POISONED. THE SNEAKY GUY: HE TENDS TO PERFORM RENNAISSANCE WHOUT RMG THE RT OF HIS PANNS. HE ENDS UP GETTG A TSLE THE LAST TIME HE TRI THIS, BUT 'S NOTHG TOO SER. VENGEANCE DENIED: SKY DO NOT MANAGE TO REACH GAO THE GREATER UNTIL AFTER THE PLAYER KILLS HIM.    THE BLACK WHIRLWD THE BLACK WHIRLWDVOICED BY: VICTOR BRANDTA MERCENARY WHO IS MOST FAMO FOR STORMG A FORTRS WHILE NAKED, SCREAMG, AND DNK. ABIVE PARENTS: HIS FATHER, WHOM HE KILLED AS A VERY YOUNG MAN. AX-CRAZY: HEH. MORE SERLY, HE ISN'T UALLY CRAZY UNLS HE'S DNK. (HE'S UALLY DNK.) BLOOD KNIGHT: HE LOV TO FIGHT, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN THE ANNOUNCER STARTS LLG HIM ON IF HE SLGHTERS OVER ONE-HUNDRED ENEMI DURG HIS PERSONAL BATTLE SEQUENCE AT THE SIEGE OF DIRGE. BLUE-AND-ORANGE MORALY: HIS STORI UALLY VOLVE HIM MTG HORRIFYG ACTS OF VLENCE, DNK OR NOT. HE DON'T SEEM TO PREHEND YOUR ISSU WH HIS PAST ACTNS. BOISTERO BISER: WHIRLWD IS LOUD, IMPULSIVE, AND HAPPIT WHEN HE'S EHER DRKG OR FIGHTG. IF HE N DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, HE NSIRS EVEN BETTER. BTISH CHARACTER, BTISH WEAPON: HE'S A MAD MAN WHO ENJOYS DRKG AND FIGHTG MORE THAN ANYTHG ELSE. HE WIELDS TWO AX. BUT LIQUOR IS QUICKER: AFTER A DRKG SPREE, HE SOMETIM FDS HIMSELF SOMEONE'S BED WH NO IA HOW HE GOT THERE. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: HE MISTAK YOU FOR A GHOST AND ATTACKS YOU. AFTER YOU BEAT HIM UP, HE JOS OUT OF ADMIRATN. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: HE ONCE NQUERED THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN NTENT JT BEE ONE OF S HABANTS STOLE HIS WE. DNKEN MASTER: PLAYED WH, THAT HIS BEG A DNK MAK HIM A BETTER FIGHTER, BUT HAS LED TO MANY LIFE PROBLEMS. STILL, DURG THE DIRGE BATTLE SEQUENCE, HE N TOP OFF HIS POOLS BY CHUGGG SOME WE.SPEAR CATCH LEAF: HOW N YOU FIGHT SO WELL WHEN ALL YOU DO IS DRK?THE BLACK WHIRLWD: IT'S HARR TO DRK YOUR WATERED DOWN SWILL THAN FACE THOSE GHOSTS. DUMB IS GOOD: FULLY AVERTED. THE BLACK WHIRLWD ISN'T A STUPID MAN, PER SE, BUT WHILE HE EXHIBS ALL THE IMPULSIVE NAIVETE ASSOCIATED WH THIS TROPE, TENDS TO END TEARS FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND NOT GETTG MONEY OR WE FOR HIM. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HIS MEETG WH YOU SHOWS HIS LOVE OF BAT AND HIS TENNCY TO ACT BEFORE THKG. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: DISGTED BY A MAN FORCG A GIRL TO GO TO THE DANGERO CRYPTS TO PAY BACK HER BT UNR THREAT OF BEG SENT TO THE WALL. HE ALSO DISLIK THE TREATMENT OF THE AD WATER DRAGON, BELIEVG SHE, LIKE ANY OPPONENT, SERVED A CLEAN AND FAL ATH, NOT BEG STNG UP LIKE A TROPHY. EXPY: OF THE BLACK WHIRLWD LI KUI OM WATER MARG. THEY'RE INTIL RIGHT DOWN TO APPEARANCE AND ARMAMENT. GAMEPLAY AND STORY SEGREGATN: YOUR PANNS ARE GENERALLY TERRIBLE AT BAT, AND YOU'D REALLY ONLY E THEM FOR SUPPORT SKILLS OR TO DISTRACT THE BAD GUYS. BLACK WHIRLWD IS NO EXCEPTN. GAMEPLAY AND STORY INTEGRATN: HOWEVER, WHEN YOU ACTUALLY GET TO PLAY AS HIM, HE EFFORTLSLY CUTS THROUGH SWATH OF LOT ASSASSS. GUTTURAL GROWLER: HE SPEAKS WH A GROWLG BARONE. I CALL IT "VERA": HIS AX, THE TWS. JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON: SPOOFED ONE OF HIS STORI. HE DIDN'T THREATEN TO CUT A LOVE TRIANGLE'S WOMAN HALF - HE STRAIGHT UP DID . UNRSTANDABLY, BOTH SIS WEREN'T HAPPY WH THIS AND ATTACKED HIM, ONLY TO BE CUT DOWN AS WELL. LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT: HOW YOU FIRST ENUNTER HIM. THE FORT HE IS HAS BEE FILLED WH HOSTILE GHOSTS, AND WHEN YOU FIRST MEET BLACK WHIRLWD, HE THKS YOU'RE A GHOST, AND IMMEDIATELY ATTACKS WHOUT LISTENG TO REASON. MATHEMATICIAN'S ANSWER: IF ASKED HOW ULD HE HAVE PASSED ON THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON ABOVE, HE ANSWERS THAT WAS EASY BEE OF THE WOMAN'S PETE BUILT AND THE SHARPNS OF HIS AX. MERCY KILL: HIS FISHG OFF HIS BROTHER, WHO WAS BRAWASHED TO SERVE AS THE RAVAGER N BE TERPRETED AS THIS. ONE-MAN ARMY: HE HAS FACED ENTIRE ARMI MORE THAN ONCE THE PAST. AND YOU GA NTROL OVER HIM AGAST THE IMPERIAL ARMY DIRGE, GIVG YOU THE CHANCE TO SLAY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED OPPONENTS. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: THE NAME OF "THE BLACK WHIRLWD" WAS PROBABLY GAED DURG ONE OF HIS RAIDS (HE N'T REMEMBER FOR SURE) AND STUCK. PARENTAL ABANDONMENT: HE KILLED HIS ABIVE FATHER, AND HIS MOTHER DISOWNED HIM. PRE-ASSKICKG ONE-LER: SHOULD THE KAI LAN SIQUT HAPPEN AND LUCKY CHO ATTACKS YOU, WHIRLWD MAK AN EPIC LE WHILE BRANDISHG HIS AX."I'VE BEEN WAG FOR THIS. TIME TO CUT OFF THE SERPENT'S TAIL!" RED BARON: UNLIKE MOST EXAMPL OF THIS TROPE, WHIRLWD GO BY HIS TLE HIS EVERYDAY LIFE. IT WAS NSIRED TIMIDATG ENOUGH TO PASS AS HIS IMPERIAL ARENA FIGHTER ALIAS. DURG THE BATTLE OF DIRGE, HE GAS SEVERAL MORE TL AS HE KILLS MORE AND MORE LOT ASSASSS; "BRGER OF PA", "DTROYER OF LIV" AND "RAVAGER OF THE AG". REFUGE AUDACY: HIS BACKSTORY AND HIS ENDG. NEVER HAVE KILLG AND MUTILATG LOTS OF MOSTLY NOCENT PEOPLE SOUND MORE FUN! SACRIFICED BASIC SKILL FOR AWOME TRAG: THE OPPOSE OF HENPECKED HOU, WHIRLWD HAS NO SUPPORT FORM AND N ONLY ATTACK, AND HE'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT YOU'D LL SMART, ALTHOUGH HE DO HAVE A CERTA BTAL W. HE MAK UP FOR THIS BY BEG VERY, VERY GOOD AT FIGHTG. SELF-MA ORPHAN: HE KILLED HIS ABIVE FATHER. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE MANLY MAN TO HENPECKED HOU'S SENSIVE GUY, BEG THE BOISTERO BISER WH AN AFFY FOR DRKG WHILE HOU'S A BABBLG NON-ACTN GUY. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: THIS MAN REVELS WANTON VLENCE AND HAS MTED A NUMBER OF ATROCI THAT N BARELY BE JTIFIED. THE ONLY REASON ONE WOULDN'T MARK HIM AS PLETELY EVIL IS BEE HE DON'T ACTUALLY BELIEVE ANYTHG HE'S DOG IS WRONG. WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER…: DENSTCTED. BLACK WHIRLWD DO NOT REGNISE ANY FORMS OF NFLICT ROLUTN THAT DON'T VOLVE BLOOD AND VLENCE. WHILE HE HAS MANAGED TO PARLAY THIS ATTU TO A SOMEWHAT SUCCSFUL REER AS A MERCENARY, IS MA PAFULLY CLEAR JT HOW MUCH THAT ATTU HAS ST HIM SOCIALLY, EMOTNALLY AND FANCIALLY. YOU CALLED ME "X"; IT MT BE SER: OSTENSIBLY HE'S WORKG FOR YOU AS A MERCENARY, BUT NEVER REALLY UP MUCH AND HE GETS TREATED LIKE ANY OTHER PANN. BUT HE LLS YOU 'MASTER' WHEN ASKG TO FIGHT KAI LAN BEE HE REALLY, REALLY WANTS TO KILL HIM.    WILD FLOWER WILD FLOWERWH CHAI KA, TOP; AND WH YA ZHEN, BELOW.VOICED BY: NICKY PUGHA LTLE GIRL WHO CHANNELS TWO OPPOSG MONS, CHAI KA AND YA ZHEN, EACH OF WHOM IS A SEPARATE BAT/SUPPORT FOLLOWER. THE TWO MONS ONLY APPEAR BAT, HOWEVER — THE RT OF TIME, WILD FLOWER WILL BE THE ONE FOLLOWG YOU. BACK OM THE DEAD: SHE WAS KILLED DURG THE FLOODG OF OLD TIEN'S LANDG, BUT WAS RURRECTED BY CHAI KA. IN THE OPEN PALM ENDG, CHAI KA LEAV HER BODY AND ALLOWS HER TO LIVE ON AS A NORMAL GIRL AFTER FISHG WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. BADASS ADORABLE: A SMALL YOUNG CHEERFUL GIRL WHO TRANSFORMS TO A GIANT MON BAT. BATTLE THE CENTER OF THE MD: THE FAL NONTATN BETWEEN CHAI KA AND YA ZHEN. CHEERFUL CHILD: IN FACT, AS SHE N EXPLA DIALOGUE, WAS CHAI KA WHO TOLD HER TO BE CHEERFUL. CREEPY CHILD: NOT SO MUCH WHEN CHAI KA IS SPEAKG THROUGH HER, BUT WH YA ZHEN, SHE HAS A SNEERG MALE VOICE AND FUR RED RA. ALSO, SHE WAS TENTNALLY SIGNED TO HAVE UNSETTLG FACIAL FEATUR. THIS IS JTIFIED, SCE SHE'S A RURRECTED RPSE WHO WAS ROTTG FOR TEN YEARS. CHILDREN ARE INNOCENT: DECIDLY OPEN PALM HER RPONS TO MORAL CISNS. ALSO, EVEN WHEN THE PLAYER ISN'T MAKG A CISN, WILD FLOWER HAS A NOTICEABLE DISTASTE FOR JERKASS BEHAVR OTHERS. SHE N LL MASTER GANG A JERK, OR ALTERNATIVELY SHE N CI THAT GANG BIG WORDS BUT SEEMS SMALL AND LETS OTHERS FIGHT FOR HIM. SHE N ALSO THREATEN LOT ALYT WH THE GUARDIAN FOR BEG "BULLI". KILLER RABB: SHE MAY BE SMALL, BUT ONCE CHAI KA/YA ZHEN E OUT, 'S OVER. LTLE GUY, BIG BUDDY: THE KID IS PRETTY HELPLS ON HER OWN, BUT CHAI KA LOOKS OUT FOR HER AND SHE THKS OF HIM AS HER GUARDIAN AND IEND. IT'S NEVER STATED OUTRIGHT HOW THE BIG FELLOW ACTUALLY SE HER, BUT HE IS NICE TO HER. WILLG CHANNELER: TO CHAI KA. SHE LIK THE BIG GUY (ALTHOUGH ADMTEDLY, HELPS IMMENSELY THAT CHAI KA BROUGHT HER BACK TO LIFE, SO SHE HAS GOOD REASON TO PAY HIM BACK BY LETTG HIM BORROW HER BODY SOMETIM). YA ZHEN IS A DIFFERENT MATTER ENTIRELY. UNHAPPY MEDIUM: SHE AND CHAI KA HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP AND SHE THKS OF THE BIG GUY AS A IEND, BUT SHE IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT YA ZHEN'S TREATMENT OF HER OR HAVG TO BE A HOST FOR HIM.    CHAI KA CHAI KAA BENEVOLENT MON THAT IS CHANNELED BY WILD FLOWER. HE IS OFTEN LLED "THE GUARDIAN." DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: LIKE SILK FOX, HE MANDS A FIGHT BEFORE HE'LL JO YOU, AS A RULT OF MISTAKG YOU FOR AN ENEMY. IN HIS SE, YOU FD HIM RIGHT AFTER THE LOT ASSASSS STEAL THE AMULET PIECE OM HIM, AND HE MISTAKENLY ASSUM YOU'RE ONE OF THEM. GENTLE GIANT: HE LOOKS MONSTRO, BUT HE'S GENTLE ENOUGH FOR A LTLE GIRL TO REPEATEDLY SPEAK OF HIM GLOWG PRAISE AND RELY ON HIM FOR ADVICE ON LIFE. UNLS YOU TAKE YA ZHEN'S OFFER; THEN CHAI KA TURNS ON YOU AND YOU HAVE TO BEAT HIM. HYBRID MONSTER: HAS THE BODY OF A BIPEDAL LN, THE FACE OF A SHISA, THE HORNS OF A GOAT, AND FEATHERS GROWG OUT OF HIS SHOULRS. LTLE GUY, BIG BUDDY: IT'S AMBIGUO AS TO HOW HE ACTUALLY SE WILD FLOWER, BUT HE DO LOOK AFTER HER AND TREATS HER NICELY. MIGHTY GLACIER: SLOWER THAN MOST OF YOUR BAT PANNS, BUT ABLE TO SLG PEOPLE AROUND WH HIS HORNED HEADBUTT. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: HE DISLIK THE ACTNS TAKEN BY A CLOSED FIST SPIR MONK, BUT HAS SWORN TO SERVE HIM/HER. HE CHANG HIS MD IF YOU SI WH YA ZHEN. PAPA WOLF: OFTEN FIGHTS WH YA ZHEN AND SUPPRS HIM SO HE DON'T TAKE OVER WILD FLOWER. HE ISN'T LLED "THE GUARDIAN" FOR NO REASON! HE EVEN ACTS AGAST HIS STCTNS BY TURNG ON YOU IF YOU CI TO EE YA ZHEN AND LET HIM STROY WILD FLOWER'S MD.    YA ZHEN YA ZHENVOICED BY: GORD MARRTTA TOAD DEMON AND CHAI KA'S EVIL COUNTERPART. HE IS TRYG TO FORCIBLY TAKE OVER WILD FLOWER. HE IS OFTEN LLED "THE OTHER." ADMIRG THE ABOMATN: WHEN HE SE THE WATER DRAGON'S RPSE THAT'S CUT OPEN, HE IS FASCATED BY , AND OPENLY STAT THAT WHAT REPRENTS, THE AMBN TO ENSLAVE ONE'S OWN MAKERS, IS ADMIRABLE. AMPHIBIAN ASSLT: HE'S A LARGE TOAD THAT POISONS HIS ENEMI WH CLAWED FLIPPERS AND TONGUE. AS LONG AS THERE IS EVIL: HE BOASTS THAT HE'LL ENDURE AS LONG AS THERE'S RPTN THE MORTAL REALM. AX-CRAZY: HE EELY ADMS THAT HE HAT EVERYONE AND WANTS TO KILL THEM. GOOD THG HE'S SUFFICIENTLY PRAGMATIC/RTRAED NOT TO ACT AGAST YOU OR YOUR PARTY UNLS YOU SI WH CHAI KA AGAST HIM. BASTARD UNRSTUDY: IF THE PLAYED KEEPS YA ZHEN AND GO THROUGH WH THE OPEN PALM ENDG, THE MON KEEPS HIS WORD AND SERV THE LAST SPIR MONK UNTIL THEY DIE, PROCEEDG TO FOLLOW HIS OWN AMBNS AFTERWARDS. IF THE SPIR MONK BE A TYRANT THE CLOSED FIST ENDG, YA ZHEN PROUDLY SERV THEM WHILE PATIENTLY BIDG HIS TIME. BTAL HONTY: ONE OF THE FEW REMOTELY RPECTABLE THGS THAT N BE SAID ABOUT HIM IS THAT HE DON'T TRY TO LIE ABOUT HIS EVIL TENTNS. CARD-CARRYG VILLA: HE PROUDLY ADMS HE'S THOROUGHLY EVIL AND MURRO. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE HAS A VERY DRY AND WRY SENSE OF HUMOR. DEAL WH THE DEVIL: OFFERS ONE TO THE SPIR MONK: GET RID OF CHAI KA AND LET HIM POSSS WILD FLOWER, AND YA ZHEN WILL MAKE HIMSELF EFUL TO THE SPIR MONK. UNUALLY, HE HOLDS TO THE AGREEMENT QUE PEACEABLY, AND SERV THE PROTAGONIST LOYALLY WHOUT BETRAYG THEM. EVIL SOUNDS DEEP: INVERTED; HE HAS A HIGHER PCH THAN SAGAC ZU AND SPEAKS A SISTER SNAKE-LIKE TONE, WHILE CHAI KA HOLDS THE EPT VOICE ANY OF YOUR PANNS BUT SPEAKS A GENTLE, WELL-MANNERED TONE. FAT BASTARD: THIS VILE MON HAS A BULKY APPEARANCE THAT'S NOTICEABLE WHEN PARED TO THE MUCH LEANER PHYSIQUE OF THE SIARLY SIZED GENTLE GIANT CHAI KA. FROG MEN: HE'S AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC TOAD TWICE THE HEIGHT OF HUMANS. GREEN AND MEAN: YOUR TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE'S SK IS DARK GREEN. JERKASS: EVEN WHOUT THE FACT THAT HE'S A MALEVOLENT MON, HE'S ALWAYS DLY NSCENDG AT MIMUM. MIGHTY GLACIER: LIKE THE OTHER TOAD DEMONS, HE'S A HULKG BTE THAT DON'T WALK VERY QUICKLY BUT PACKS QUE A PUNCH. OBVLY EVIL: HOW ULD HE BE MISTAKEN TO BE ANYTHG BUT VILE AND SELFISH? PALETTE SWAP: HE'S DISTGUISHABLE OM THE OTHER TOAD DEMONS BY HAVG DIFFERENTLY LORED EY AND SK. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: HE'S WILLG TO PLEDGE HIMSELF TO THE PLAYER EXCHANGE FOR HIS EEDOM BEE SCE HE'S IMMORTAL, HE N SIMPLY WA FOR THE PLAYER TO EVABLY KICK THE BUCKET. RED EY, TAKE WARNG: WHEN HE'S TALKG THROUGH WILD FLOWER, HER EY GLOW RED. REPTIL ARE ABHORRENT: OR AMPHIBIANS, ANYWAY. HE IS A TOAD DEMON AND OPENLY MALEVOLENT. SEALED EVIL A CAN: HE'S BEEN REPRSED BY CHAI KA SCE THEY STARTED CHANNELG THROUGH WILD FLOWER, BUT IF THE PLAYER LEARNS ABOUT YA ZHEN THROUGH NVERSATNS, BED WH THE MON DRAWG EVIL ENERGI OM THE IMPERIAL CY, YA ZHEN GAS THE ABILY TO TALK TO THE PLAYER AND EVENTUALLY BE A FOLLOWER OF HIS OWN RIGHT. UPON FIRST ENTERG THE IMPERIAL PALACE WHERE EVIL IS EVEN STRONGER, YA ZHEN BE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO FALLY FEAT CHAI KA AND PLETELY POSSS WILD FLOWER. YOU N EHER HELP HIM GA HIS EEDOM OR HELP CHAI KA THWART HIM, WHICH SE HE SIMPLY BE TOO WEAKENED TO ACT OUT ANYMORE. SMUG SNAKE: WHILE SMART AND KNOWLEDGEABLE, YA ZHEN IS TOO ARROGANT FOR HIS OWN GOOD. THE SOCIAL DARWIST: IT'S CLEAR YA ZHEN IS JT AN EVIL BASTARD, BUT HE SOMETIM RHETORIC ALONG THE L TO JTIFY HIMSELF. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: HE MIGHT NOT BE THE ONLY CLOSED FIST PARTY MEMBER AN OPEN PALM PLAYER'S PARTY, BUT HE'S EASILY THE MOST EVIL. ALL THE OTHER CLOSED FIST PARTY MEMBERS ARE REASONABLY WELL-ROUND, BUT NOT YA ZHEN. WOULD HURT A CHILD: HE WOULD GLADLY STROY WILD FLOWER'S MD EHER TO GET HIS EEDOM OR OUT OF SHEER PETTS. YELLOW EY OF SNEAKS: HIS TE FORM'S EY ARE EVEN OF BRIGHTER YELLOW THAN THOSE OF THE REGULAR TOAD DEMONS, AND HE IS A SCHEMER.    HENPECKED HOU HENPECKED HOUVOICED BY: JOSH DEANA FORMER DNKEN MASTER WHO CURRENTLY WORKS AS A OK. WHILE HIS ABIVE WIFE FORBIDS HIM OM DRKG AND FIGHTG, HE IS STILL ABLE TO GIVE WE TO THE SPIR MONK TO ALLOW HIM/HER TO E THE DNKEN MASTER STYLE. ALLERATIVE NAME: WELL, THE FIRST ONE'S A NICKNAME, SO THE ONE MIGHT'VE CREATED THE OTHER. AWOME, BUT IMPRACTIL: HIS DNKEN MASTER STYLE. IT MIGHT BE TWICE AS STRONG AS THE OTHER STYL AT THEIR BASE LEVEL, BUT UNLIKE THEM, N'T BE LEVELED UP AND IS QUE SLUGGISH PARED TO THEM. IT'S MORE OR LS JT A FLASHY NOVELTY. BUTT-MONKEY: NOTHG HIS LIFE EVER SEEMS TO HAVE GONE RIGHT. UNTIL HE MAK HIS PE THE ENDG. CHEF OF IRON: A FORMER DNKEN MASTER TURNED BUN MASTER, ALTHOUGH HE HAS SWORN OFF FIGHTG. COWARDLY LN: TURNS OUT HE'S WILLG TO FIGHT BACK AFTER ALL, FOLLOWG A POWER-UP SHOULD THE SPIR MONK OPT TO KEEP THE WATER DRAGON ENSLAVED. CTCH CHARACTER: INSTEAD OF FIGHTG DIRECTLY HE LETS YOU E THE DNKEN MASTER STYLE. WHILE 'S EFFECTIVE EARLY ON, DON'T LEVEL UP LIKE THE OTHER STYL SO YOU WON'T HAVE MUCH E FOR HOU BAT LATE THE GAME. DEADPAN SNARKER: ESPECIALLY ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS WIFE, OF URSE. DOMTIC ABE: HE'S ON THE RECEIVG END. DOUBLE STANDARD: ABE, FEMALE ON MALE: HIS DOMEERG WIFE POISONED HIM, TO THE POT WHERE HE LOST SO BADLY THAT HE HAD TO RETIRE. THEY'RE STILL TOGETHER, AND 'S ALL PLAYED FOR LGHS. DNKEN MASTER: RETIRED. NOT ENTIRELY BY CHOICE, MD YOU. HIS BACKSTORY ALSO NSTCTS : HE ED TO BE A TOP-TIER ARENA FIGHTER, BUT HIS NSTANT DRKG TO FACILATE HIS FIGHTG STYLE RAVAGED HIS HEALTH AND EVENTUALLY LEFT HIM STUTE, FORCG HIM TO TAKE A JOB SHOVELG DUNG THE ARENA'S CREATURE G TO MAKE A LIVG. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: HENPECKED HOU FEARS HIS WIFE MORE THAN ANYONE THE A PROTAGONIST WHO'S WILLG TO BD DEATH'S HAND OR BD THE WATER DRAGON'S POWER. HENPECKED HOU WOULD ALMOST PREFER TO BE WH HIS WIFE RATHER THAN SUCH A PERSON. GAME-BREAKG INJURY: HE WAS BADLY BEATEN AND NEVER FULLY REVERED AFTER HIS "DUPLICO DOVE" SPIKED HIS WE A MATCH, A BID TO CURTAIL HIS DRKG AND FIGHTG. GEEK PHYSIQU: A SCRAWNY NEBBISH, ABOUT HALF THE SIZE OF OTHER NPCS. THE GHOST: THE UNSEEN, OVERBEARG SPECTER OF HIS BELOVED WIFE, WHO ONLY APPEARS THE STORI HOU TELLS. HENPECKED HBAND: HECK, 'S HIS NAME. ITEM CADDY: HIS ONLY ABILY AS A PARTY MEMBER IS TO TOSS OUT WE THAT LETS YOU E THE DNKEN MASTER STYLE. NON-ACTN GUY: HE'S NO LONGER ANY SHAPE TO FIGHT AS A RULT OF HIS WIFE'S EFFORTS TO GET HIM TO STOP, WHICH MEANS HE N'T DRAW HEAT OFF OF YOU DURG FIGHTS. UNLS YOU TRY TO SACRIFICE HIM. PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF: HE'S BEEN BEATEN DOWN OVER THE YEARS, BUT HE'S NOT OUT YET, AND HIS APPARENTLY UNBEARABLE DOMTIC LIFE IS MOSTLY MED FOR SLAPSTICK EDY. READ THE FE PRT: HOW HE END UP STUCK WH HIS WIFE. AFTER HTG ON HARD TIM, A PROMOTER OFFERED HIM A CHANCE TO STAGE A EBACK THE ARENA. HOU READILY AGREED AND SIGNED THE NTRACT—FAILG TO NOTICE THE SMALL PRT WHICH SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO MARRY THE PROMOTER'S NEICE RETURN. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE SENSIVE GUY TO BLACK WHIRLWD'S MANLY MAN, HOU'S A BABBLG NON-ACTN GUY WHILE BLACK WHIRLDWD IS A BOISTERO BISER WH AN AFFY FOR DRKG. SICKENG SWEETHEARTS: SUBVERTED. HOU HAS ANY NUMBER OF NICKNAM FOR HIS WIFE WHICH ARE A BATN OF TERMS OF ENARMENT AND SULTS. SUPPORT PARTY MEMBER: HE'S PLETELY OUT OF NDN AND HAS LOST ALL OF HIS FORMER FIGHTG ABILY, SO HE N ONLY BE PUT SUPPORT FORM, DURG WHICH THE ONLY THG HE DO IS TOSS OUT JUGS OF WE WHICH ALLOW YOU TO E DNKEN MASTER STYLE. THROW THE DOG A BONE: IF YOU FISHED THE GAME FOLLOWG THE WAY OF THE OPEN PALM, AND TH WEREN'T FORCED TO KILL HENPECKED HOU, HIS ENDG REVEALS HE DO FALLY PE HIS OVERBEARG WIFE: HE TAK A NEW JOB AS A LIVERYMAN AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE SEVERAL DGHTERS. HOWEVER, HE NEVER BACK OM HIS FIRST LIVERY, AND 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT HE SIMPLY TOOK THE OPPORTUNY TO PE. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: IF YOU TRY TO SACRIFICE HIM, THE WATER DRAGON GRANTS HIM HER STRENGTH, ALLOWG HIM TO FIGHT THE PARTY. WORKAHOLIC: HE BEME A BUN MASTER AND SPENDS AS MUCH TIME AT WORK (AND AWAY OM HIS WIFE) AS HE POSSIBLY N.    KANG THE MAD KANG THE MADVOICED BY: PL EIDGA MAD SCIENTIST FORCED TO VELOP FLYERS FOR GAO THE GREATER. HE EVENTUALLY CIS THAT HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF GAO'S MISTREATMENT AND JOS THE PARTY.KANG DON'T JO THE SPIR MONK GROUND-BASED BAT, BUT IS YOUR PILOT AND MECHANIC ABOARD THE MARVELO DRAGONFLY. AMNIAC GOD: HIS QUT TO FD LORD LAO ENDS WH HIS DISVERY THAT HE IS LORD LAO. IT... DON'T CHANGE MUCH ABOUT HIM. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: HE IS A VERY STRANGE LTLE MAN. HE IS ALSO A PEERLS ENGEER. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: HE APPARENTLY WANTS TO VENT SHARKS ARMED WH LASER PISTOLS. DEMOLNS EXPERT: WHILE HE NEVER FIGHTS, HE'S VERY PROFICIENT AT MAKG EXPLOSIV. DISSIE: HE LOV THIS TROPE, SUCH AS SUGGTG THE PLAYER HAVE GAO THE GREATER EXPERIENCE "A BAT-RELATED ACCINT" "LIKE FALLG DOWN A FLIGHT OF PUNCH." THE DOG B BACK: TURNS ON GAO AND LIM OVER BEG MISTREATED. FAKG THE DEAD: IT'S POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO DO THIS HIS ENDG, EHER TO GET AWAY OM THE MASS OR TO AVOID HAVG A WAY OF THE CLOSED FIST PROTAGONIST ABE HIS WORK; SPECIFILLY, HE ARRANG FOR AN EXPLOSN AND MAK LOOK LIKE HE DIED THAT EXPLOSN. GADGETEER GENI: HIS VENTNS ARE THE GREATT OF THEIR KD THE EMPIRE. AND, POSSIBLY, THE SMOS. MAD SCIENTIST: SORT OF. HE'S NOT SANE, JT... TACHED OM THE MORAL IMPLITNS OF HIS VENTNS. MAGEK: HIS VENTNS, CLUDG HIS FLYG MACH, STRETCH TO THIS. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN GETTG TO LORD LAO'S FURNACE. NO CHALLENGE EQUALS NO SATISFACTN: IN HIS ENDG, REGARDLS OF WHETHER OR NOT HE REMEMBERS THAT HE IS LORD LAO, KANG EVENTUALLY CIS THAT HE N'T MAKE HIS BT VENTNS UNLS HIS LIFE IS DANGER, SO HE STARTS MAKG WEAPONS TO GIVE TO THE MOBS THAT CHASE HIM. NON-ACTN GUY: TOWARD THE END OF THE GAME, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT HIM AS HE BLOWS UP A BRIDGE. SUPPORT PARTY MEMBER: GAMEPLAY-WISE, HIS ONLY NTRIBUTN AS A PARTY MEMBER IS MATAG THE MARVELO DRAGONFLY. UNIQUENS DEY: THE REASON HE WILL NOT MASS-PRODUCE HIS AMAZG VENTNS. ONE MARVELO DRAGONFLY IS A TECHNOLOGIL MARVEL AND WORK OF ART. MANY OF THEM WOULD MAKE THEM MONPLACE AND DULL. THE WONKA: HE'S PLETELY OFF HIS GOURD, SCRAMBL HIS WORDS, IS RATHER OBLIV TO DANGER, HAS AN UNHEALTHY RELATNSHIP WH GUNPOWR, AND LOOKS LIKE A MG DYNASTY VERSN OF RUMMAGE SALE REJECT. THEN AGA, HE'S NOT OPERATG ON WH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCS OR MORALY OF A MORTAL - HE'S AN VENTOR GOD.    Z BU Z BU THE MAGIC ABACVOICED BY: BRIAN STEPANEKA MEMBER OF THE CELTIAL BURECRACY. HE ED TO BE RPONSIBLE FOR TERMG WHERE PEOPLE STAND ON THE WHEEL OF LIFE, BUT HIS ABILY TO KEEP UP WH THE ACTNS OF THE SPIR MONK ED HIM TO BE MOTED. HE CIS TO SELL ESSENCE GEMS TO THE SPIR MONK TO PROVE TO HIS SUPERRS THAT HE IS PETENT. ADAM SMH HAT YOUR GUTS: HE OVERCHARG YOU FOR YOU BUY OM HIM, PARED TO OTHER MERCHANTS, AND UNRPAYS YOU FOR WHAT YOU SELL. THIS IS FAIRLY UNRSTANDABLE, NSIRG THAT YOU GOT HIM MOTED, SO HE ACTUALLY DO HAVE FOR YOU. BELEAGUERED BURECRAT: HE ULDN'T KEEP UP WH THE PAPERWORK THAT YOU CREATED, AND TOOK THE FALL WHEN YOU WERE ASSIGNED AN ENTIRE PARTMENT OF THE CELTIAL BURECRACY FOR TABULATG YOUR KARMA, JT LIKE BLACK WHIRLWD. SUPPORT PARTY MEMBER: HIS ONLY PURPOSE IS TO ACT AS A SHOPKEEPER THAT YOU N ACCS AT ANY TIME. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: HIS ONLY APPEARANCE IS HIS TRODUCTN, AND WHILE HE DO SHOW UP THE FOLLOWER MENU, HE DON'T APPEAR ANYWHERE ELSE, HE DON'T EVEN HAVE HIS OWN ENDG SLI THE "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?" EPILOGUE.    ABBOT SONG ABBOT SONGVOICED BY: ARM SHIMERMANTHE GHOST OF THE ABBOT OF THE TEMPLE OF DIRGE. HE HAS BEEN FORCED TO RELIVE THE BATTLE OF DIRGE FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS DUE TO THE IMPRISONMENT OF THE WATER DRAGON. AUTHORY EQUALS ASSKICKG: HE WAS THE ABBOT OF THE SPIR MONKS WHILE HE WAS ALIVE. HE SURVIVED THE MASSACRE SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN MOST OF THE ORR. AWOME, BUT TEMPORARY: HIS SUPPORT ABILY REGENERAT ALL THREE OF THE SPIR MONK'S BARS SIMULTANEOLY. HAVG TO GO BACK TO ONLY ONE AT A TIME WHEN HE LEAV IS DISHEARTENG. BARRED OM THE AFTERLIFE: LIKE MANY OTHER SPIRS OF THE AD, HE'S UNABLE TO ENTER THE GREAT WHEEL BEE OF THE WATER DRAGON'S ABSENCE. PURIFITN OF THE DIRGE OM THE OTHER'S TAT ALLOWS HIM AND THE OTHER LOYAL SPIR MONKS TO ASCEND. BLUE IS HEROIC: ABBOT SONG WEARS THE BLUE SHIRT THE SPIR MONKS WEAR AND IS A VOTED SERVANT OF THE GODSS OF REBIRTH. CLOSED CIRCLE: FOLLOWG HIS ATH, ABBOT SONG HAS BEEN TRAPPED DIRGE'S OUTER URTYARD FOR TWENTY YEARS, FORCED TO WNS THE SPIRS OF HIS FELLOW SPIR MONKS AND IMPERIAL SOLDIERS LOCKED A NEVER-ENDG BATTLE WHOUT BEG ABLE TO CHANGE AND LEAVE THE DIRGE OR ENTER THROUGH THE SEALED GAT. THIS CHANG ONLY WHEN HE JOS THE PLAYER THE RTORATN OF DIRGE'S FOUNTAS. DISAPPEARS TO LIGHT: THIS HAPPENS TO ABBOT SONG AND THE OTHER CEASED SPIR MONKS WHEN THEY'RE EED OM THE ENDLS BATTLE OF DIRGE. GOOD CANNOT COMPREHEND EVIL: SEVERAL LS MORAL SPIR MONKS SUCH AS XIAN WU WERE BRIBED TO BETRAY THEIR ORR. ABBOT SONG NOTED STRANGE BEHAVR THEM, BUT HE NEVER SPECTED BETRAYAL OM THEM BEE DUTY AND HONOR ARE GRAED VALU OF SPIR MONKS. GUT-STAR PARTY MEMBER: HE IS THE ONLY PARTY MEMBER (ASI OM Z BU) WHO N BE ED DURG THE FIFTH CHAPTER. HE WON'T BE AVAILABLE FOR ANY OTHER CHAPTER. IN THE BACK: HE DIED BY BEG CUT DOWN OM BEHD BY SUN LI. IS THAT WHAT HE TOLD YOU?: REVEALS THAT VIRTUALLY EVERYTHG SUN LI TOLD YOU ABOUT HIS OWN ACTNS WAS A LIE. MR. EXPOSN: HE HAS A LOT TO TELL YOU, HAVG BEEN HOLDG SCE HIS ATH. SHOVEL STRIKE: HE FIGHTS WH A MONK'S SPA. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE SPIR MONKS BETRAYED THE ORR, ABBOT SONG STILL FEELS SORRY THAT EMPEROR SUN HAI BOUND THEIR SPIRS TO GUARD THE DIRGE'S FOUNTAS. THIS IS AS FAR AS I GO: THIS TROPE IS VOKED ON ABBOT SONG RATHER THAN HIM PULLG OFF UNPROMPTED. BEFORE THE PLAYER ENTERS THE TEMPLE OF DIRGE, ABBOT SONG IS STCTED BY THE WATER DRAGON TO REMA THE URTYARD AND LEAD HIS FELLOW SPIR MONKS OUT OF THE ENDLS BATTLE. THE ABBOT DON'T BELIEVE HE'S UP TO THE TASK AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF FAILURE AND ASKS TO BE ALLOWED TO FACE THE OTHER WH THE PLAYER, BUT HE CHANG HIS MD AFTER SOME ENURAGG WORDS OM THE WATER DRAGON. UNDYG LOYALTY: HE SERVED THE WATER DRAGON FAHFULLY LIFE AND FOUGHT TO THE ATH TO PROTECT HER TEMPLE. TWENTY YEARS OF SEPARATN OM HER AS A RTLS GHOST HASN'T CHANGED THAT LOYALTY. WARRR MONK: THE SPIR MONKS WERE THE WATER DRAGON'S SERVANTS AND PROTECTORS. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!: HE DIED WHILE TRYG TO BUY TIME FOR THE PLAYER CHARACTER (WHO WAS AN FANT AT THE TIME) AND THE SPIR MONK RG FOR THE BABY TO PE BY FACG OFF SUN K AND SUN LI.THE LOT ASSASSS

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THE SPIR MONK    THE SPIR MONK THE SPIR MONKFROM TOP TO BOTTOM: FUR MG, LU THE PRODIGY, RADIANT JEN ZI, LG THE SCHOLAR, TIGER SHEN, WU THE LOT BLOSSOM, AND MONK ZENGTHE PLAYER CHARACTER. MASTER LI'S FAVORE PUPIL. SHORTLY AFTER LEARNG THAT S/HE IS THE LAST SPIR MONK, HIS/HER HOMETOWN OF TWO RIVERS IS STROYED AND MASTER LI IS PTURED. THIS PROMPTS HIM/HER TO GO ON A JOURNEY TO FD MASTER LI AND LEARN WHAT HIS/HER STY IS.THERE'S LS CHARACTER CTOMIZATN AVAILABLE FOR PLAYER CHARACTERS THAN IS UAL BWARE GAM — STEAD OF G A CHARACTER CREATOR TO MODIFY APPEARANCE AND CHANGE STARTG STATS, PLAYERS SELECT ONE OUT OF SIX OR SEVEN (PENDG ON EDN) PRE-SIGNED CHARACTERS. THE CHARACTERS START WH DIFFERENT FIGHTG STYL, BUT N LEARN OTHERS THE URSE OF GAMEPLAY. THEY HAVE NAM ATTACHED TO THEM (SPECIFILLY: FUR MG, LU THE PRODIGY, RADIANT JEN ZI, SCHOLAR LG, TIGER SHEN, WU THE LOT BLOSSOM, AND MONK ZENG), ALTHOUGH PLAYERS N CHANGE THE IF THEY LIKE. ARROGANT KUNG-FU GUY: A CLOSED FIST SPIR MONK SE THEMSELV AS SUPERR TO EVERYONE ELSE ON ACUNT OF THEIR SKILL AND STRENGTH. BARE-FISTED MONK: YOU START THE GAME WH ONLY MARTIAL ARTS ATTACKS. CALLG YOUR ATTACKS: LOUDLY ANNOUNC EVERY STYLE THEY BRG TO BAT. CAME BACK STRONG: IN CHAPTER 6, YOU RETURN TO LIFE AFTER MASTER LI KILLS YOU. YOU DON'T NEED THE AMULET TO CHANNEL GEMS ANYMORE, YOU ARE PABLE OF DOG NEW AND POTENT THGS WH YOUR SPIR MONK POWERS, YOU FALLY KNOW WHO THE TE ENEMY IS AND ALL THE GHOSTS AND MONS YOU FOUGHT THE MEANTIME MA FOR WONRFUL TRAG. PL, YOU'VE HAD TIME TO RRECT THE FLAW YOUR STYLE THAT MASTER LI ED TO KILL YOU THE FIRST GO 'ROUND. CANON NAME: EACH OF THE SPIR MONKS HAVE FLT NAM, SUCH AS FUR MG, LU THE PRODIGY, RADIANT JEN ZI, AND SO ON. THE EXTRA CHARACTER THE SPECIAL/LIMED EDN VERSN OF THE GAME IS NAMED MONK ZENG. THE CHOSEN ONE: DOUBLE SUBVERTED. THERE'S NOTHG PARTICULARLY SPECIAL ABOUT YOU SPIR MONK WISE, YOU'RE JT A KID WHO WAS BORN A FEW DAYS BEFORE SH WENT DOWN. HOWEVER WH SUN LI'S TRAG AND YOUR STAT AS THE LAST OF YOUR KD YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON A POSN TO END THE PROBLEM OF THE WALKG AD. COOL BIG SIS: HOW DAWN STAR SE YOU IF YOU'RE FEMALE. DEADPAN SNARKER: IN TE BWARE TRADN, ALMOST EVERY DIALOGUE HAS A POTENTIAL SNARKY RPONSE. DOOMED HOMETOWN: TWICE, LOSG DIRGE (BORN) AND TWO RIVERS (RAISED). FAKE WEAKNS: THERE'S A SUBTLE "FLAW" BUILT TO THEIR STYLE THAT SKILLED OPPONENTS TO WASTE TIME THE FIGHT TRYG TO EXPLO . SEVERAL NPC OPPONENTS WILL PLIMENT THE CHARACTER ON THE CLEVERNS OF THE GAMB. IT TURNS OUT TO BE A REAL FLAW, BUT ONLY MASTER LI HAS THE SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE NEED TO EXPLO . FIGHTER, MAGE, THIEF: WHEN CHOOSG YOUR CHARACTER, YOU HAVE FOUR STYL TO CHOOSE OM: WU THE LOT BLOSSOM AND LU THE PRODIGY ARE "BALANCED", FUR MG AND RADIENT JEN ZI ARE "FAST", MONK ZHENG AND LG THE SCHOLAR ARE "MAGIC", AND TIGER SHEN IS THE ONLY "STRONG" CHARACTER. GOD-EMPEROR: IN THE CLOSED FIST ENDG AFTER ABSORBG THE POWER OF THE WATER DRAGON, YOU BEE THE GOD EMPEROR. INSTANT EXPERT: YOU CHARACTER N N MASTER NEW MARTIAL ARTS STYL A MATTER OF A FEW -STORY HOURS. IT'S IMPLIED THAT YOU'RE A PRODIGY, AND ALSO THAT MASTER LI IS SUCH A DAMN GOOD TEACHER THAT THE FUNDAMENTALS WHICH HE TRAED YOU MAKE PICKG UP EVERYTHG ELSE A BREEZE. LASER-GUID TYKE-BOMB: MASTER LI RAISED THE SPIR MONK TO KILL THE EMPEROR.. LAST OF HIS KD: THE ONLY SURVIVG SPIR MONK. MARTIAL PACIFIST: THE "OPEN PALM" PATH HAS YOU TRY TO AVOID NFLICT UNLS NECSARY TO SAVE YOURSELF OR OTHERS. MR. FANSERVICE: ON THE MALE SI OF THGS, WE HAVE FUR MG, WHO IS A WALKG SHIRTLS SCENE. THIS IS ACKNOWLEDGED -UNIVERSE. LU THE PRODIGY IS ALSO QUE EASY ON THE EY AS WELL, WHILE TIGER SHEN AND MONK ZENG ROCK A MORE TRADTNAL SAGE LOOK SIAR TO SAGAC ZU, WHICH N BE ATTRACTIVE THEIR OWN WAYS. MS. FANSERVICE: ALL THREE FEMALE PLAYER MOLS HAVE AN ASPECT OF FANSERVICE: WU THE LOT BLOSSOM BAR HER MIDRIFF AND HIK UP SOME GRA-A ZETTAI RYOUIKI. SCHOLAR LG HAS A CLEAVAGE WDOW AND A BT THAT MAY BE EVEN MORE BOUNTIFUL THAN THEY ALREADY APPEAR. RADIANT JEN ZI HAS LEGS AS DISTRACTIVE AS DAWN STAR'S. MORALY PET: UNLS THE FULL SAGAC ZU SUBPLOT IS PLETE, AND SHE LEARNS HER FATHER'S TE INTY, DAWN STAR IS THIS EVEN TO A CLOSED FIST CHARACTER. NORMAL FISH A TY POND: THE SPIRUAL POWERS THE MONK HAS LET THEM FEAT ALL MANNER OF SUPERNATURAL THREATS, BUT AREN’T ANYTHG SPECIAL BY SPIR MONK STANDARDS. IF ANYTHG, THEY’RE LS SPIRUALLY POTENT THAN THAN THEY SHOULD BE BEE THEY ULDN’T RECEIVE FORMAL TRAG WHOUT OTHER SPIR MONKS ALIVE. THE PARALYZER: THROUGH E OF SUPPORT STYL, WHICH FLICT A VARIETY OF STAT EFFECTS. PANTY SHOT: DOG A FORWARD ROLL AS RADIANT JEN ZI OR WU THE LOT BLOSSOM GIV YOU A QUICK FLASH OF HER PANTI. PLAYER CHARACTER: YOU ONLY NTROL OTHER CHARACTERS UNR VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANC. SENT INTO HIDG: WAS SECRETED AWAY AND HIDN OM THE WORLD AND THEIR SIBLGS BY THE BIG BAD, WHILE THEY NCTED A MASTER PLAN THAT WOULD VOLVE G THE SAID MONK AS MEANS TO ACHIEVE THE TLE OF EMPEROR, AND ULTIMATELY, GODHOOD AND IMMORTAL LIFE. THE SOCIAL DARWIST: A CLOSED FIST SPIR MONK BELIEV THAT THE WEAK HAVE NO PURPOSE BEYOND SERVG THE STRONG. UNWTG PAWN: "HE TRAED YOU TO FIGHT A TYRANT, BUT WH A FLAW. HE WANTED YOU TO BE VULNERABLE YOUR MOMENT OF TRIUMPH". VOLUNTARY SHAPHIFTG: ONE OF THE MORE POWERFUL ABILI YOU N PICK UP, VERGG ON A GAME-BREAKER WH THE JA GOLEM TRANSFORMATN.FOLLOWERS    DAWN STAR DAWN STARVOICED BY: KIM MAI GUTTHE SPIR MONK'S CHILDHOOD IEND. SHE HAS THE ABILY TO SENSE SPIRS THAT NNOT BE SEEN BY ANYONE ELSE. THIS HAS LED TO HER BEG SRNED BY MOST OF THE TOWNSFOLK OF TWO RIVERS. SHE WAS NAMED AFTER A BRIGHT FIRE THAT WAS SEEN WHEN SHE WAS BORN. A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A MALE SPIR MONK. ACTN GIRL: ACRDG TO MASTER LI, HER SKILLS PLEMENT THOSE OF THE PLAYER CHARACTER. ALL OF THE OTHER REER: SHUNNED BY MANY OF THE VILLAGERS WHO ARE WARY OF HER ABILY TO MUNITE WH THE AD. YOU N HELP HER TO AL WH THIS TWO WAYS: IF YOU'RE OPEN PALM, YOU N PERSUA HER THAT HER POWERS ARE A GIFT AND NOT A CURSE, AND SHE'S NOT TO BLAME FOR THE OTHERS PICKG ON HER. DOG THIS WILL CLEAR UP HER EMOTNAL ISSU SCE SHE'LL START FG HERSELF BY THE GOOD SHE DO RATHER THAN THE IGNORANT OPNS OF OTHER PEOPLE. IF YOU'RE CLOSED FIST, YOU N PERSUA HER THAT THE OTHERS WILL STOP PICKG ON HER IF SHE STARTS ACTG POWERFUL AND STRONG, LIKE THEY'RE ALL BENEATH HER AND SHE SHOULD TAKE WHAT SHE WANTS. DOG THIS WILL GIVE HER A HUGE NFINCE BOOST BUT SHE'LL ALSO START APPROVG OF VILLAO BEHAVR. AWFUL TTH: FDG OUT THAT MASTER LI IS HER FATHER HAS A LARGE IMPACT ON ALL OF HER ENDGS, AND NOT NECSARILY A GOOD WAY. NOTABLY, IF THE PLAYER TAK OVER THE EMPIRE AND SHE DON'T KNOW, SHE BE A MORATG FLUENCE ON THEM, HELPG TO MAKE THE NATN A STRONG, PROSPERO PLACE THAT SE TO THE PEOPLE'S NEEDS, IF NOT THEIR WANTS. FDG OUT TURNS HER TO A LD, CEL TYRANT. BETTY AND VERONI: DAWN STAR AS THE NICE, EMPATHETIC, GIRL NEXT DOOR BETTY AND SILK FOX AS THE VERONI. CHILDHOOD FRIEND ROMANCE: THE SPIR MONK IS HER OLST IEND AND SHE'S A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A MALE SPIR MONK. WHETHER SHE'S VICTOR OR UNLUCKY PENDS ON THE PLAYER. THE EMPATH: SHE IS SENSIVE TO THE SPIRUAL WORLD. THIS SOMETIM PROBLEMS PLAC LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, TIEN'S LANDG, WHICH IS FILLED WH THE SPIRS OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED THE FLOODG. FACE–HEEL TURN: IF YOU ROMANCE DAWN STAR AFTER HAVG PERSUAD HER TO FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE CLOSED FIST, SHE'LL BACK YOU UP WHEN YOU DO MORALLY QUTNABLE THGS LIKE BD DEATH'S HAND OR TAKE THE WATER DRAGON'S POWER FOR YOURSELF. HOWEVER, 'S RELATIVE BASED ON WHETHER SHE LEARNS THAT SUN LI IS HER FATHER AND NEVER RED ABOUT HER. IF SHE NEVER LEARNS THE TTH, THEN SHE BE A TEMPERG FLUENCE ON THE SPIR MONK, AND TOGETHER THEY LEAD THE EMPIRE TO A STRONG AND PROSPERO FUTURE. HOWEVER, IF SHE DO LEARN THE TTH, SHE BE VERY BTER AND GROWS TO BE JT AS CEL AS THE SPIR MONK, LEADG THE EMPIRE TO A TOTALARIAN AGE. FIRE-FED FRIENDS: SPENDS MUCH OF THE GAME ARGUG WH SILK FOX, BUT THEY E TO RPECT EACH OTHER AFTER FIGHTG TOGETHER AT THE BRIDGE OF DIRGE. THE HEART: EVEN IF SHE UNRGO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT TO A CLOSED FIST CHARACTER, SHE REMAS LARGELY PASSNATE AND RG. FDG OUT MASTER LI'S TE INTY, HOWEVER, IS QUE A BLOW TO HER. IF SHE NEVER LEARNS THE TTH ABOUT SUN LI AND IS ROMANCED BY THE SPIR MONK, SHE MANAG TO TURN EVEN THE EVIL ENDG TO SOMETHG OF A GOOD ENDG AS BY TEMPERG THE SPIR MONK'S MORE FORCEFUL ACTNS WH PASSN, THEY TOGETHER LEAD THE JA EMPIRE TO A PROSPERO AGE. HERO PREFER SWORDS: SHE A IA BLA LLED GUJ'S FAVOR. IF YOU NTROL HER DIRGE, SHE HAS A CHANCE TO GA A STRONGER SWORD LLED THORN AND SHG CARP. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH THE FEMALE SPIR MONK. THE TWO OF YOU ARE VERY CLOSE AND SHE LOV YOU LIKE A SISTER. KISSG COS: WH SILK FOX, HER FATHER'S BROTHER'S DGHTER, THE THREE-WAY ROMANCE PATH, ALTHOUGH IS UNWTG ON BOTH PARTI' ENDS AT THE TIME. LEG FOC: IF YOU HAVE HER WH YOU WHEN YOU REC THE BLACK WHIRLWD, HE JOK THAT SHE ULD DISTRACT THEIR ENEMI BY FLASHG HER LEGS. LEMOTIF: HER THEME MIC IS NAMED AFTER HER. IT SOUNDS VERY RAL AND LM, LIKE THE TIME BEFORE YOU TWO LOSE YOUR HOME. LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER: IF YOU'RE PLAYG A MALE SPIR MONK AND YOU DON'T ROMANCE DAWN STAR (EHER BEE YOU'RE ROMANCG SILK FOX OR SKY OR HAVE CHOSEN TO FO ROMANCE ENTIRELY), YOU AND DAWN STAR HAVE THIS KD OF CLOSE RELATNSHIP. LE, YOU ARE MY FATHER: SUBVERTED WHEN MASTER LI DON'T BELIEVE HER AND TELLS HER THAT HE WOULDN'T RE IF HE DID. MEANGFUL NAME: HER NAME IS A REFERENCE TO THE FIR OF DIRGE BURNG, WHICH, OM THE PLACE OF HER BIRTH, GAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A SUNRISE. UNHAPPY MEDIUM: HER SENSIVY TO THE SUPERNATURAL REALM ED HER TO BE OSTRAZICIZED AND HER SOME PA. THE SPIR MONK N ENURAGE HER TO MAKE PEACE WH HER POWER. YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER: SHE HAS A CHANCE TO TELL THIS TO MASTER LI DURG THE FAL NONTATN TWO WAYS (PENDG ON WHATEVER SHE REMAS AN OPEN PALM OR HAS BEEN TURNED TO A CLOSED FIST CHARACTER).(OPEN PALM VERSN) "I'M NOT SURE WHAT I EXPECTED MY FATHER TO BE, BUT I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN I HOPED HE WAS SOMEONE LIKE YOU. NOT ANY MORE."(CLOSED FIST VERSN) "I ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAD BEEN ABANDONED. IT WAS NOT UNTIL JT NOW THAT I KNEW FOR CERTA. IF I AM AD TO YOU, THEN YOU ARE AD TO ME."    SAGAC ZU SAGAC ZUVOICED BY: ROB ATK DOWNA HERM WHO THE SPIR MONK MEETS THE SWAMP OUTSI OF TWO RIVERS. AFTER TWO RIVERS IS STROYED, HE ADMS TO BEG A FORMER LOT ASSASS AND AGRE TO ACPANY THE PARTY FOR HIS OWN REASONS. THE ATONER: YOUR IENDS SPECULATE THAT THE REASON HE'S DOG HIS BT TO HELP YOU IS TO MAKE UP FOR BEG PLIC THE GENOCI OF THE SPIR MONKS. BADASS BOAST: GIV ONE HIS TRODUCTN SCENE TO GAO'S MERCENARI BEFORE KILLG THEM."I AM NO MON BAND! I'VE BEEN HUNTED BY FAR WORSE THAN YOU!" BLAMED FOR BEG RAILROAD: DOWNPLAYED. HE DISLIK THAT YOU NEED TO FILTRATE THE LOT ASSASSS ORR TO FD EVINCE OF THEIR WRONG DOGS. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY ALTERNATIVE, BUT ZU DON'T HOLD AGAST YOU. DEADPAN SNARKER: HIS SENSE OF HUMOR IS EXTREMELY BG AND SARSTIC. DEFECTOR OM DENCE: HE ONCE BELIEVED THE IAL OF BEG AN ASSASS FOR THE GREATER GOOD, BUT WAS ABLE TO UNRSTAND HOW FAR HIS ORR WAS FALLG WHEN HE WAS ORRED TO KILL MASTER LI'S FANT DGHTER. ENEMY ME: IN THE CLOSED FIST ENDG, HE STILL PULLS HIS NOT TOO DEAD TO SAVE THE DAY PLOY TO SAVE YOU. HE KNOWS THAT YOU MAY BEE A TYRANT AFTER YOU KILL SUN LI, BUT SUN LI IS A TYRANT, AND KILLG HIM HAS A CHANCE OF MAKG THGS BETTER. FAKE DEFECTOR: LEAV YOUR PARTY TO GO TO THE LOT ASSASS FORTRS, BUT HELPS YOU WHILE THERE. GOOD SRS, EVIL SRS: A WEIRD MIXTURE OF THE TWO, BUT HE IS VERED THEM, HEAD TO TOE. HEEL REALIZATN: AS A LOT ASSASS, HE HONTLY THOUGHT HE WAS DOG NECSARILY EVIL ACTS TO KEEP THE EMPIRE ORR UNTIL THE ABOVE CINT. HEROIC SACRIFICE: HE GIV YOU ENOUGH TIME TO PE DEATH'S HAND BY TRICKG DEATH'S HAND TO STROYG THE PILLARS HOLDG THE CEILG UP, BUT SAGAC ZU IS KILLED THE PROCS. IMPALED WH EXTREME PREJUDICE: IS STABBED BY THE SWORD OF DEATH'S HAND BEFORE THEY'RE BURIED BY MBLE. MARTIAL ARTS STAFF: HE FIGHTS WH A STAFF THAT BEARS REMBLANCE TO THE DEMON STAFF THAT'S ACCSIBLE TO THE PLAYER THE PC VERSN ONLY. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: EVEN KNOWG THAT THE LOT ASSASSS ARE EVIL, HE OFTEN FDS HIMSELF FENDG THE EMPEROR AND NYG THAT HE ULD KNOW ABOUT THE ASSASSS' WRONGDOG NON-INDITIVE NAME: ZU'S TLE IS THE SAME AS OF THE FIRST EMPEROR, SAGAC TIEN. UPON FIRST HEARG , THE PLAYER N QUTN THE PATIBILY.THE PLAYER: I DON'T PICTURE A THOUGHTFUL AND PERCEPTIVE EMPEROR FIGHTG A SWAMP.ZU: I SEE YOUR POT. THERE ARE DIFFERENC. TIEN WAS A KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN, WHEREAS I FEEL THAT A PERSON N SOMETIM THK TOO MUCH. NOT TOO DEAD TO SAVE THE DAY: DURG THE FAL BATTLE, HIS SPIR SHOWS UP AND E YOU OM LI'S MD TRAP. JTIFIED BY THE CYCLE OF SOULS BEG BLOCKED, PREVENTG ALL SPIRS OM MOVG ON UNTIL THE WATER DRAGON'S POWER IS RELEASED. PRAGMATIC HERO: HE'S NOT ABOVE KILLG ENEMY MNS WHO HAVE SURRENRED. AS A WHOLE, HE REPRENTS THE CLOSED FIST S MORE PHILOSOPHIL, LS-EVIL FORMS.HUI THE BRAVE: ZU IS AN HONORABLE MAN. NOT A GOOD MAN, PERHAPS, BUT AN HONORABLE ONE. RED RIGHT HAND: HIS HANDS ARE VISIBLY DISLORED WH BLACK K, MARKG HIM AS A FORMER LOT ASSASS. SCE HE WAS PART OF THE ORR BEFORE THEY BEME RPT MAY BE DYED WH DYE, NOT BLOOD AS WH MORE RECENT MEMBERS. RETIRED MONSTER: APART OM THE KILLG OF LI'S FAY, HE HAS NO REMORSE ABOUT WHAT HE DID. SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN: HE HIS UNR A CYNIL AND UNPLEASANT ATTU, BUT HE'S HAD YEARS AND YEARS TO REFLECT ON THE THG'S HE'S DONE, AND THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN KD. STEALTH EXPERT: HE'S SO GOOD AT STEALTH THAT HE SNEAKS OUT OF YOUR MP WHOUT ANYONE NOTICG, MAK SI THE LOT ASSASSS' FORTRS WHOUT THE WATCHER, THE LOT ASSASSS' DOORKEEPER WHO N SPOT ALL BUT THE MOST SKILLED FILTRATORS, BEG ANY THE WISER, AND NO ONE BUT YOU IS AWARE OF HIS PRENCE UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF DEATH'S HAND. STEALTH HI/BYE: FREQUENTLY THE LOT ASSASS FORTRS. WHAM LE: AFTER MENTNG THE LOT ASSASSS WH ACCURACY, HE SAYS "I... I WAS ONE." ZEN SURVIVOR: DPE HIS BTAL WORLDVIEW AND PRIVATE REMORSE, HE HAS STILL ATTAED A KD OF ENLIGHTENED NON-ATTACHMENT. HIS SPIR EVEN REMAS WHOLE AND SANE AFTER HIS ATH TO ASSIST YOU THE FAL BATTLE.    SILK FOX SILK FOXVOICED BY: MASASA MOYOA NJA-LIKE FIGURE WHO ATTACKS THE PARTY AFTER THEIR FLIER CRASH, BELIEVG THEM RPONSIBLE FOR THE STCTN OF TWO RIVERS. A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A SPIR MONK OF EHER GENR. ACTN GIRL: SHE EXHIBS OL MOV WHEN THE ANIMATN IS LS RIGID. BETTY AND VERONI: SILK FOX AS THE FEISTY, MYSTER RICH AND POWERFUL VERONI AND DAWN STAR AS THE BETTY. FOR THE FEMALE PC, SHE'S ALSO THE VERONI TO SKY'S BETTY. BROKEN PESTAL: LET'S JT SAY HER FATHER IS NOT BEG MANIPULATED BY DEATH'S HAND (ED, IS THE EXACT VERSE) AND SHE IS NOT HAPPY TO FD THAT OUT. SHE WONRS IF THE REVELATN THAT LI WAS THE MASTERMD ABSOLV HIM, BUT REALIZ THAT DO NOT. CONTUE YOUR MISSN, DAMM!: SHE DISLIK WHEN YOU GO AROUND ACCEPTG SIQUTS STEAD OF NTUG ON YOUR MA QUT, OFTEN VOICG HER DISPLEASURE. DATG CATWOMAN: WELL, THE DATG PART OCCURS AFTERWARDS, BUT YOU MEET HER AS AN ENIGMATIC ENEMY UNTIL SHE REALIZ THAT YOU ARE BOTH SEEKG TO ACHIEVE THE SAME GOAL. DEATH GLARE: GIV ONE TO KANG WHEN HE'S BEG DISRPECTFUL TO HER. DEOSTG ICE QUEEN: WHILE OPEN TO THE IA OF WORKG WH YOU BEE YOUR GOALS ARE SIAR, SHE DON'T TST YOU AND HAS A D DISDA FOR YOUR LLEAGU. HER RELATNSHIP WH THEM IMPROV AS THE GAME GO ON.EVEN THE GIRLS WANT HER: BORRLE SE, -GAME.--> FIRE-FED FRIENDS: SPENDS MUCH OF THE GAME ARGUG WH DAWN STAR, BUT THEY E TO RPECT EACH OTHER AFTER FIGHTG TOGETHER AT THE BRIDGE OF DIRGE. GAY OPTN: FOR LBIAN CHARACTERS. HAPPILY MARRIED: IN HER EPILOGUE IF ROMANCED BY THE MALE CHARACTER. HERO PREFER SWORDS: SHE A LONG SWORD LLED CAPTA'S BLA. IF YOU TAKE NTROL OF HER DIRGE, SHE HAS A CHANCE TO GA A STRONGER SWORD LLED BLA OF THE BROKEN BOUGH. IT WAS A GIFT: AS THE PRCS, HAS AN ATTENDANT GIVE YOU A GEM AT THE START OF ACT III. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: TYPILLY SNIP AT THE OTHER PARTY MEMBERS, PECIALLY DAWN STAR, BUT R STRONGLY ABOUT DOG THE RIGHT THG. HER "JOURNAL ENTRY" DURG THE SEGMENT OF THE GAME THE PLAYER N PLAY AS HER ACTUALLY HAS HER MAKG A FEW BACKHAND PLIMENTS TOWARDS DAWN STAR. KISSG COS: WH DAWN STAR, HER FATHER'S BROTHER'S DGHTER, THE THREE-WAY ROMANCE PATH, ALTHOUGH IS UNWTG ON BOTH PARTI' ENDS AT THE TIME. LEMOTIF: NAMED AFTER HER, 'S MYSTER BUT WH A CERTA GRAVAS BEFTG HER. MCNJA: AN UNUAL NON-WHE EXAMPLE. SILK FOX'S CHARACTER SIGN IS HEAVILY BASED ON THE NJA STEREOTYPE OF AN AGILE STEALTHY ASSASS A BLACK SU AND MASK, BUT THAT STEREOTYPE IS JAPANE RATHER THAN CHE. MYSTER VEIL: SHE ONE TO VER THE LOWER HALF OF HER FACE. SHE EVENTUALLY STOPS WEARG OM THE 4TH CHAPTER ONWARD. REBELL PRCS: DOUBLE SUBVERTED. HER ACTIVI, WHILE UNORTHODOX, ARE ALL UNRTAKEN AS PART OF WHAT SHE SE AS HER PRCSLY DUTY TO THE EMPIRE. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HER, CIRCUMSTANC EVENTUALLY MAND THAT SHE REBEL FOR REAL. ALSO, THERE'S AN EXAMPLE HER ENDG THAT N EHER BE PLAYG THIS TROPE STRAIGHT OR SUBVERTG THIS TROPE. IF YOU FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE OPEN PALM AND PERSUA SILK FOX THAT ALL OF THE RTRICTG TRADNS ACTUALLY HAVE A GOOD E, SHE'LL BEE A WISE LER WHEN SHE HERS THE THRONE, BEE JA EMPIRE'S SETTG, REBELLG AGAST THE HEAVENLY ORR ISN'T A GOOD THG. THIS SUBVERTS THE TROPE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE CLOSED FIST AND PERSUA SILK FOX THAT SHE SHOULD DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS, SHE PLAYS THE TROPE STRAIGHT AS A PRCS AND AS A LER, SHE BE A TYRANT. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: SECRETLY, ADMTEDLY, BUT SHE DO TRY TO ACT AS A VIGILANTE AGAST DEATH'S HAND'S SCHEM. SHE DROPS THIS ON THE OPEN PALM PATH... BUT ONLY BEE SHE TURNS OUT TO BE A TALENTED ADMISTRATOR, PRERVG THE SPIR OF THE TROPE. S COM ARCH NEMIS: SHE SEEMS TO REALLY DISLIKE DAWN STAR FOR WHATEVER REASON, PERHAPS BEE DAWN STAR IS A PASSNATE MONER WHEREAS SILK FOX IS A PRAGMATIC PRCS. TSUNRE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT SHE'S STILL CLEARLY VERY ED TO GETTG HER WAY, AND DON'T ALWAYS REACT WELL TO THE PLAYER'S LACK OF URTLY MANNERS. UPTOWN GIRL: TO THE PROTAGONIST, IF THE ROMANCE OPTN IS PURSUED. THIS IS DISCSED THEIR DIALOGUE.    SKY SKYVOICED BY: CAM CLARKEA LOVABLE ROGUE WHO SEEKS REVENGE ON THE CRIME LORD GAO THE GREATER. A POTENTIAL LOVE TERT FOR A SPIR MONK OF EHER GENR. BERSERK BUTTON: SLAVERY OF ANY KD. IT'S PERSONAL, YOU SEE. HE MAY NOT GIVE A RIP ABOUT THE LAWS OF HEAVEN, BUT HE IS PRETTY TICKED ABOUT THE BROTHERS SUN ENSLAVG A GODSS. BETTY AND VERONI: THE CHILL AND GENTLE BETTY TO SILK FOX'S VERONI. DEAL WH THE DEVIL: LATE THE GAME, DEATH'S HAND AND THE LOT ASSASSS, OFF-SCREEN, OFFER SKY A AL WHERE THEY OFFER TO RTORE HIS AD WIFE AND DGHTER BACK TO LIFE IF SKY WOULD FIRST LEAD THE SPIR MONK TO THEIR TRAP. HE DO LEAD YOU TO THEIR TRAP, SO AT FIRST LOOKS LIKE HE TOOK THE TO REVEAL THAT HE SET HIS OWN TRAP, AND HE EXPLOSIV HE RIGGED EARLIER TO KILL THE ASSASSS, SO YOU ONLY HAVE TO FIGHT DEATH'S HAND. THIS WAS SKY'S PLAN ALL ALONG WHEN HE SEEMED TO ACCEPT THEIR OFFER. DUAL WIELDG: FIGHTS WH TWO CURVED SWORDS AT ONCE WHEN SET TO ATTACK ENEMI. DYG ALONE: IN THE UNED ENDG FOR SKY, HE DI ALONE AFTER DRKG POISONED WE, AND IS IMPLIED TO HAVE SAID THE SPIR MONK'S NAME AS HE DIED. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HE GETS THE DROP ON SOME OF GAO'S MEN, THEN PROCEEDS TO TNT THE OTHERS AND MENTNS THAT YOU'RE WH HIM, DRAWG YOU TO HIS FIGHT. THIS TABLISH HIM AS A SKILLED FIGHTER WHO'S HEADSTRONG AND TENDS TO MAKE CUNNG IF RECKLS PLANS ON THE FLY. FAKE DEFECTOR: LETS DEATH'S HAND TO THE NER DIRGE TEMPLE UNR OFFER OF HIS DGHTER BEG BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE, SO THAT HE N SPRG A TRAP ON HIM. GAY OPTN: IF THE PLAYER IS A GAY MALE. GENTLEMAN THIEF: HE'S ONE OF YOUR NICER PANNS, BUT ISN'T ABOVE PETTY ROBBERY. GOOD COUNTERPART: TO GAO THE GREATER. THEY BOTH LEAD A LIFE OF CRIME, BUT WHILE SKY IS A LOVEABLE ROGUE WHO HAT ANYTHG RELATED TO SLAVERY, GAO MAK PROF OUT OF AS THE LEAR OF THE GUILD. THEY BOTH WANT REVENGE AFTER THEY LOSE THEIR CHILDREN. DEPENDG ON THE PLAYER'S CHOIC, SKY TAK GAO'S POSN AS THE GUILD'S LEAR AND EHER TURNS THEM ON A MORE HONORABLE PATH OR KEEPS THEM THE SAME. GOOD RUNNG EVIL: TAK OVER THE GUILD EVERY ENDG, ASSUMG HE'S STILL ALIVE. IF HE'S OPEN PALM, 'S THIS, WH HIM TAKG THE SYNDITE BACK TO S HONORABLE, SEMI-HONT ROOTS. HEARTBROKEN BADASS: DPE HIS LAID-BACK MEANOR, HE CLEARLY MISS HIS CEASED WIFE AND LTLE GIRL WH ALL HIS BEG. HI YOUR GAYS: IN ORR TO HAVE A SAME-SEX ROMANCE WH HIM, YOU HAVE TO MAKE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT YOU ARE NOT TERTED NEHER DAWN STAR NOR SILK FOX (WHICH PRETTY MUCH MEANS YOU HAVE TO SULT THEM) AND THEN SAY THE RIGHT THGS TO HIM. EVEN THEN, THE SCENE WHERE YOU KISS IS CENSORED (BUT EASILY RTORED ON THE PC VERSN.) LEMOTIF: NAMED AFTER HIM, 'S PLAYFUL AND MISCHIEVO, MUCH LIKE HIS CHARACTER. LADYKILLER LOVE: STARTS OF PLAYFULLY FLIRTG WH YOU, BUT HE DON'T KNOW QUE WHAT TO MAKE OF YOU AT FIRST. IT WILL EVENTUALLY EVOLVE TO LOVE IF YOU RETURN HIS AFFECTNS. LOVABLE ROGUE: HE'S GENERALLY A SORT OF HAN SOLO FIGURE, A PASSNATE CRIMAL WH STANDARDS AND SYMPATHETIC MOTIV. IF YOU'RE A FEMALE CLOSED FIST PLAYER AND YOU ROMANCE HIM, THE ENDG MENTNS THAT HE BE A VILLA STEAD. MEET THE NEW BOSS: IF HE'S CLOSED FIST, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE TAK OVER THE GUILD AT THE END OF THE GAME. RETIRED BADASS: HE WAS AN ADVENTURO THIEF HIS YOUTH, BUT AFTER THE ATH OF HIS WIFE CHILDBIRTH LEFT HIM A SGLE FATHER, HE SETTLED DOWN TO BE A PEACEFUL FARMER FOR MANY YEARS. THEN THE ATH OF HIS DGHTER FORCED HIM TO EMPLOY HIS OLD SKILLS AGA AS PART OF HIS ROARG RAMPAGE OF REVENGE. ROARG RAMPAGE OF REVENGE: ON ONE WHEN THE PLAYER MEETS HIM. IN CUT NTENT, IF THE PLAYER CIS NOT TO FIVE HIM FOR HIS BETRAYAL, HE RUM FIGHTG AGAST THE PEOPLE BEHD GAO UNTIL HE ULTIMATELY GETS POISONED. THE SNEAKY GUY: HE TENDS TO PERFORM RENNAISSANCE WHOUT RMG THE RT OF HIS PANNS. HE ENDS UP GETTG A TSLE THE LAST TIME HE TRI THIS, BUT 'S NOTHG TOO SER. VENGEANCE DENIED: SKY DO NOT MANAGE TO REACH GAO THE GREATER UNTIL AFTER THE PLAYER KILLS HIM.    THE BLACK WHIRLWD THE BLACK WHIRLWDVOICED BY: VICTOR BRANDTA MERCENARY WHO IS MOST FAMO FOR STORMG A FORTRS WHILE NAKED, SCREAMG, AND DNK. ABIVE PARENTS: HIS FATHER, WHOM HE KILLED AS A VERY YOUNG MAN. AX-CRAZY: HEH. MORE SERLY, HE ISN'T UALLY CRAZY UNLS HE'S DNK. (HE'S UALLY DNK.) BLOOD KNIGHT: HE LOV TO FIGHT, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN THE ANNOUNCER STARTS LLG HIM ON IF HE SLGHTERS OVER ONE-HUNDRED ENEMI DURG HIS PERSONAL BATTLE SEQUENCE AT THE SIEGE OF DIRGE. BLUE-AND-ORANGE MORALY: HIS STORI UALLY VOLVE HIM MTG HORRIFYG ACTS OF VLENCE, DNK OR NOT. HE DON'T SEEM TO PREHEND YOUR ISSU WH HIS PAST ACTNS. BOISTERO BISER: WHIRLWD IS LOUD, IMPULSIVE, AND HAPPIT WHEN HE'S EHER DRKG OR FIGHTG. IF HE N DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, HE NSIRS EVEN BETTER. BTISH CHARACTER, BTISH WEAPON: HE'S A MAD MAN WHO ENJOYS DRKG AND FIGHTG MORE THAN ANYTHG ELSE. HE WIELDS TWO AX. BUT LIQUOR IS QUICKER: AFTER A DRKG SPREE, HE SOMETIM FDS HIMSELF SOMEONE'S BED WH NO IA HOW HE GOT THERE. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: HE MISTAK YOU FOR A GHOST AND ATTACKS YOU. AFTER YOU BEAT HIM UP, HE JOS OUT OF ADMIRATN. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: HE ONCE NQUERED THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN NTENT JT BEE ONE OF S HABANTS STOLE HIS WE. DNKEN MASTER: PLAYED WH, THAT HIS BEG A DNK MAK HIM A BETTER FIGHTER, BUT HAS LED TO MANY LIFE PROBLEMS. STILL, DURG THE DIRGE BATTLE SEQUENCE, HE N TOP OFF HIS POOLS BY CHUGGG SOME WE.SPEAR CATCH LEAF: HOW N YOU FIGHT SO WELL WHEN ALL YOU DO IS DRK?THE BLACK WHIRLWD: IT'S HARR TO DRK YOUR WATERED DOWN SWILL THAN FACE THOSE GHOSTS. DUMB IS GOOD: FULLY AVERTED. THE BLACK WHIRLWD ISN'T A STUPID MAN, PER SE, BUT WHILE HE EXHIBS ALL THE IMPULSIVE NAIVETE ASSOCIATED WH THIS TROPE, TENDS TO END TEARS FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND NOT GETTG MONEY OR WE FOR HIM. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HIS MEETG WH YOU SHOWS HIS LOVE OF BAT AND HIS TENNCY TO ACT BEFORE THKG. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: DISGTED BY A MAN FORCG A GIRL TO GO TO THE DANGERO CRYPTS TO PAY BACK HER BT UNR THREAT OF BEG SENT TO THE WALL. HE ALSO DISLIK THE TREATMENT OF THE AD WATER DRAGON, BELIEVG SHE, LIKE ANY OPPONENT, SERVED A CLEAN AND FAL ATH, NOT BEG STNG UP LIKE A TROPHY. EXPY: OF THE BLACK WHIRLWD LI KUI OM WATER MARG. THEY'RE INTIL RIGHT DOWN TO APPEARANCE AND ARMAMENT. GAMEPLAY AND STORY SEGREGATN: YOUR PANNS ARE GENERALLY TERRIBLE AT BAT, AND YOU'D REALLY ONLY E THEM FOR SUPPORT SKILLS OR TO DISTRACT THE BAD GUYS. BLACK WHIRLWD IS NO EXCEPTN. GAMEPLAY AND STORY INTEGRATN: HOWEVER, WHEN YOU ACTUALLY GET TO PLAY AS HIM, HE EFFORTLSLY CUTS THROUGH SWATH OF LOT ASSASSS. GUTTURAL GROWLER: HE SPEAKS WH A GROWLG BARONE. I CALL IT "VERA": HIS AX, THE TWS. JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON: SPOOFED ONE OF HIS STORI. HE DIDN'T THREATEN TO CUT A LOVE TRIANGLE'S WOMAN HALF - HE STRAIGHT UP DID . UNRSTANDABLY, BOTH SIS WEREN'T HAPPY WH THIS AND ATTACKED HIM, ONLY TO BE CUT DOWN AS WELL. LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT: HOW YOU FIRST ENUNTER HIM. THE FORT HE IS HAS BEE FILLED WH HOSTILE GHOSTS, AND WHEN YOU FIRST MEET BLACK WHIRLWD, HE THKS YOU'RE A GHOST, AND IMMEDIATELY ATTACKS WHOUT LISTENG TO REASON. MATHEMATICIAN'S ANSWER: IF ASKED HOW ULD HE HAVE PASSED ON THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON ABOVE, HE ANSWERS THAT WAS EASY BEE OF THE WOMAN'S PETE BUILT AND THE SHARPNS OF HIS AX. MERCY KILL: HIS FISHG OFF HIS BROTHER, WHO WAS BRAWASHED TO SERVE AS THE RAVAGER N BE TERPRETED AS THIS. ONE-MAN ARMY: HE HAS FACED ENTIRE ARMI MORE THAN ONCE THE PAST. AND YOU GA NTROL OVER HIM AGAST THE IMPERIAL ARMY DIRGE, GIVG YOU THE CHANCE TO SLAY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED OPPONENTS. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: THE NAME OF "THE BLACK WHIRLWD" WAS PROBABLY GAED DURG ONE OF HIS RAIDS (HE N'T REMEMBER FOR SURE) AND STUCK. PARENTAL ABANDONMENT: HE KILLED HIS ABIVE FATHER, AND HIS MOTHER DISOWNED HIM. PRE-ASSKICKG ONE-LER: SHOULD THE KAI LAN SIQUT HAPPEN AND LUCKY CHO ATTACKS YOU, WHIRLWD MAK AN EPIC LE WHILE BRANDISHG HIS AX."I'VE BEEN WAG FOR THIS. TIME TO CUT OFF THE SERPENT'S TAIL!" RED BARON: UNLIKE MOST EXAMPL OF THIS TROPE, WHIRLWD GO BY HIS TLE HIS EVERYDAY LIFE. IT WAS NSIRED TIMIDATG ENOUGH TO PASS AS HIS IMPERIAL ARENA FIGHTER ALIAS. DURG THE BATTLE OF DIRGE, HE GAS SEVERAL MORE TL AS HE KILLS MORE AND MORE LOT ASSASSS; "BRGER OF PA", "DTROYER OF LIV" AND "RAVAGER OF THE AG". REFUGE AUDACY: HIS BACKSTORY AND HIS ENDG. NEVER HAVE KILLG AND MUTILATG LOTS OF MOSTLY NOCENT PEOPLE SOUND MORE FUN! SACRIFICED BASIC SKILL FOR AWOME TRAG: THE OPPOSE OF HENPECKED HOU, WHIRLWD HAS NO SUPPORT FORM AND N ONLY ATTACK, AND HE'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT YOU'D LL SMART, ALTHOUGH HE DO HAVE A CERTA BTAL W. HE MAK UP FOR THIS BY BEG VERY, VERY GOOD AT FIGHTG. SELF-MA ORPHAN: HE KILLED HIS ABIVE FATHER. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE MANLY MAN TO HENPECKED HOU'S SENSIVE GUY, BEG THE BOISTERO BISER WH AN AFFY FOR DRKG WHILE HOU'S A BABBLG NON-ACTN GUY. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: THIS MAN REVELS WANTON VLENCE AND HAS MTED A NUMBER OF ATROCI THAT N BARELY BE JTIFIED. THE ONLY REASON ONE WOULDN'T MARK HIM AS PLETELY EVIL IS BEE HE DON'T ACTUALLY BELIEVE ANYTHG HE'S DOG IS WRONG. WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER…: DENSTCTED. BLACK WHIRLWD DO NOT REGNISE ANY FORMS OF NFLICT ROLUTN THAT DON'T VOLVE BLOOD AND VLENCE. WHILE HE HAS MANAGED TO PARLAY THIS ATTU TO A SOMEWHAT SUCCSFUL REER AS A MERCENARY, IS MA PAFULLY CLEAR JT HOW MUCH THAT ATTU HAS ST HIM SOCIALLY, EMOTNALLY AND FANCIALLY. YOU CALLED ME "X"; IT MT BE SER: OSTENSIBLY HE'S WORKG FOR YOU AS A MERCENARY, BUT NEVER REALLY UP MUCH AND HE GETS TREATED LIKE ANY OTHER PANN. BUT HE LLS YOU 'MASTER' WHEN ASKG TO FIGHT KAI LAN BEE HE REALLY, REALLY WANTS TO KILL HIM.    WILD FLOWER WILD FLOWERWH CHAI KA, TOP; AND WH YA ZHEN, BELOW.VOICED BY: NICKY PUGHA LTLE GIRL WHO CHANNELS TWO OPPOSG MONS, CHAI KA AND YA ZHEN, EACH OF WHOM IS A SEPARATE BAT/SUPPORT FOLLOWER. THE TWO MONS ONLY APPEAR BAT, HOWEVER — THE RT OF TIME, WILD FLOWER WILL BE THE ONE FOLLOWG YOU. BACK OM THE DEAD: SHE WAS KILLED DURG THE FLOODG OF OLD TIEN'S LANDG, BUT WAS RURRECTED BY CHAI KA. IN THE OPEN PALM ENDG, CHAI KA LEAV HER BODY AND ALLOWS HER TO LIVE ON AS A NORMAL GIRL AFTER FISHG WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. BADASS ADORABLE: A SMALL YOUNG CHEERFUL GIRL WHO TRANSFORMS TO A GIANT MON BAT. BATTLE THE CENTER OF THE MD: THE FAL NONTATN BETWEEN CHAI KA AND YA ZHEN. CHEERFUL CHILD: IN FACT, AS SHE N EXPLA DIALOGUE, WAS CHAI KA WHO TOLD HER TO BE CHEERFUL. CREEPY CHILD: NOT SO MUCH WHEN CHAI KA IS SPEAKG THROUGH HER, BUT WH YA ZHEN, SHE HAS A SNEERG MALE VOICE AND FUR RED RA. ALSO, SHE WAS TENTNALLY SIGNED TO HAVE UNSETTLG FACIAL FEATUR. THIS IS JTIFIED, SCE SHE'S A RURRECTED RPSE WHO WAS ROTTG FOR TEN YEARS. CHILDREN ARE INNOCENT: DECIDLY OPEN PALM HER RPONS TO MORAL CISNS. ALSO, EVEN WHEN THE PLAYER ISN'T MAKG A CISN, WILD FLOWER HAS A NOTICEABLE DISTASTE FOR JERKASS BEHAVR OTHERS. SHE N LL MASTER GANG A JERK, OR ALTERNATIVELY SHE N CI THAT GANG BIG WORDS BUT SEEMS SMALL AND LETS OTHERS FIGHT FOR HIM. SHE N ALSO THREATEN LOT ALYT WH THE GUARDIAN FOR BEG "BULLI". KILLER RABB: SHE MAY BE SMALL, BUT ONCE CHAI KA/YA ZHEN E OUT, 'S OVER. LTLE GUY, BIG BUDDY: THE KID IS PRETTY HELPLS ON HER OWN, BUT CHAI KA LOOKS OUT FOR HER AND SHE THKS OF HIM AS HER GUARDIAN AND IEND. IT'S NEVER STATED OUTRIGHT HOW THE BIG FELLOW ACTUALLY SE HER, BUT HE IS NICE TO HER. WILLG CHANNELER: TO CHAI KA. SHE LIK THE BIG GUY (ALTHOUGH ADMTEDLY, HELPS IMMENSELY THAT CHAI KA BROUGHT HER BACK TO LIFE, SO SHE HAS GOOD REASON TO PAY HIM BACK BY LETTG HIM BORROW HER BODY SOMETIM). YA ZHEN IS A DIFFERENT MATTER ENTIRELY. UNHAPPY MEDIUM: SHE AND CHAI KA HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP AND SHE THKS OF THE BIG GUY AS A IEND, BUT SHE IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT YA ZHEN'S TREATMENT OF HER OR HAVG TO BE A HOST FOR HIM.    CHAI KA CHAI KAA BENEVOLENT MON THAT IS CHANNELED BY WILD FLOWER. HE IS OFTEN LLED "THE GUARDIAN." DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: LIKE SILK FOX, HE MANDS A FIGHT BEFORE HE'LL JO YOU, AS A RULT OF MISTAKG YOU FOR AN ENEMY. IN HIS SE, YOU FD HIM RIGHT AFTER THE LOT ASSASSS STEAL THE AMULET PIECE OM HIM, AND HE MISTAKENLY ASSUM YOU'RE ONE OF THEM. GENTLE GIANT: HE LOOKS MONSTRO, BUT HE'S GENTLE ENOUGH FOR A LTLE GIRL TO REPEATEDLY SPEAK OF HIM GLOWG PRAISE AND RELY ON HIM FOR ADVICE ON LIFE. UNLS YOU TAKE YA ZHEN'S OFFER; THEN CHAI KA TURNS ON YOU AND YOU HAVE TO BEAT HIM. HYBRID MONSTER: HAS THE BODY OF A BIPEDAL LN, THE FACE OF A SHISA, THE HORNS OF A GOAT, AND FEATHERS GROWG OUT OF HIS SHOULRS. LTLE GUY, BIG BUDDY: IT'S AMBIGUO AS TO HOW HE ACTUALLY SE WILD FLOWER, BUT HE DO LOOK AFTER HER AND TREATS HER NICELY. MIGHTY GLACIER: SLOWER THAN MOST OF YOUR BAT PANNS, BUT ABLE TO SLG PEOPLE AROUND WH HIS HORNED HEADBUTT. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: HE DISLIK THE ACTNS TAKEN BY A CLOSED FIST SPIR MONK, BUT HAS SWORN TO SERVE HIM/HER. HE CHANG HIS MD IF YOU SI WH YA ZHEN. PAPA WOLF: OFTEN FIGHTS WH YA ZHEN AND SUPPRS HIM SO HE DON'T TAKE OVER WILD FLOWER. HE ISN'T LLED "THE GUARDIAN" FOR NO REASON! HE EVEN ACTS AGAST HIS STCTNS BY TURNG ON YOU IF YOU CI TO EE YA ZHEN AND LET HIM STROY WILD FLOWER'S MD.    YA ZHEN YA ZHENVOICED BY: GORD MARRTTA TOAD DEMON AND CHAI KA'S EVIL COUNTERPART. HE IS TRYG TO FORCIBLY TAKE OVER WILD FLOWER. HE IS OFTEN LLED "THE OTHER." ADMIRG THE ABOMATN: WHEN HE SE THE WATER DRAGON'S RPSE THAT'S CUT OPEN, HE IS FASCATED BY , AND OPENLY STAT THAT WHAT REPRENTS, THE AMBN TO ENSLAVE ONE'S OWN MAKERS, IS ADMIRABLE. AMPHIBIAN ASSLT: HE'S A LARGE TOAD THAT POISONS HIS ENEMI WH CLAWED FLIPPERS AND TONGUE. AS LONG AS THERE IS EVIL: HE BOASTS THAT HE'LL ENDURE AS LONG AS THERE'S RPTN THE MORTAL REALM. AX-CRAZY: HE EELY ADMS THAT HE HAT EVERYONE AND WANTS TO KILL THEM. GOOD THG HE'S SUFFICIENTLY PRAGMATIC/RTRAED NOT TO ACT AGAST YOU OR YOUR PARTY UNLS YOU SI WH CHAI KA AGAST HIM. BASTARD UNRSTUDY: IF THE PLAYED KEEPS YA ZHEN AND GO THROUGH WH THE OPEN PALM ENDG, THE MON KEEPS HIS WORD AND SERV THE LAST SPIR MONK UNTIL THEY DIE, PROCEEDG TO FOLLOW HIS OWN AMBNS AFTERWARDS. IF THE SPIR MONK BE A TYRANT THE CLOSED FIST ENDG, YA ZHEN PROUDLY SERV THEM WHILE PATIENTLY BIDG HIS TIME. BTAL HONTY: ONE OF THE FEW REMOTELY RPECTABLE THGS THAT N BE SAID ABOUT HIM IS THAT HE DON'T TRY TO LIE ABOUT HIS EVIL TENTNS. CARD-CARRYG VILLA: HE PROUDLY ADMS HE'S THOROUGHLY EVIL AND MURRO. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE HAS A VERY DRY AND WRY SENSE OF HUMOR. DEAL WH THE DEVIL: OFFERS ONE TO THE SPIR MONK: GET RID OF CHAI KA AND LET HIM POSSS WILD FLOWER, AND YA ZHEN WILL MAKE HIMSELF EFUL TO THE SPIR MONK. UNUALLY, HE HOLDS TO THE AGREEMENT QUE PEACEABLY, AND SERV THE PROTAGONIST LOYALLY WHOUT BETRAYG THEM. EVIL SOUNDS DEEP: INVERTED; HE HAS A HIGHER PCH THAN SAGAC ZU AND SPEAKS A SISTER SNAKE-LIKE TONE, WHILE CHAI KA HOLDS THE EPT VOICE ANY OF YOUR PANNS BUT SPEAKS A GENTLE, WELL-MANNERED TONE. FAT BASTARD: THIS VILE MON HAS A BULKY APPEARANCE THAT'S NOTICEABLE WHEN PARED TO THE MUCH LEANER PHYSIQUE OF THE SIARLY SIZED GENTLE GIANT CHAI KA. FROG MEN: HE'S AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC TOAD TWICE THE HEIGHT OF HUMANS. GREEN AND MEAN: YOUR TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE'S SK IS DARK GREEN. JERKASS: EVEN WHOUT THE FACT THAT HE'S A MALEVOLENT MON, HE'S ALWAYS DLY NSCENDG AT MIMUM. MIGHTY GLACIER: LIKE THE OTHER TOAD DEMONS, HE'S A HULKG BTE THAT DON'T WALK VERY QUICKLY BUT PACKS QUE A PUNCH. OBVLY EVIL: HOW ULD HE BE MISTAKEN TO BE ANYTHG BUT VILE AND SELFISH? PALETTE SWAP: HE'S DISTGUISHABLE OM THE OTHER TOAD DEMONS BY HAVG DIFFERENTLY LORED EY AND SK. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: HE'S WILLG TO PLEDGE HIMSELF TO THE PLAYER EXCHANGE FOR HIS EEDOM BEE SCE HE'S IMMORTAL, HE N SIMPLY WA FOR THE PLAYER TO EVABLY KICK THE BUCKET. RED EY, TAKE WARNG: WHEN HE'S TALKG THROUGH WILD FLOWER, HER EY GLOW RED. REPTIL ARE ABHORRENT: OR AMPHIBIANS, ANYWAY. HE IS A TOAD DEMON AND OPENLY MALEVOLENT. SEALED EVIL A CAN: HE'S BEEN REPRSED BY CHAI KA SCE THEY STARTED CHANNELG THROUGH WILD FLOWER, BUT IF THE PLAYER LEARNS ABOUT YA ZHEN THROUGH NVERSATNS, BED WH THE MON DRAWG EVIL ENERGI OM THE IMPERIAL CY, YA ZHEN GAS THE ABILY TO TALK TO THE PLAYER AND EVENTUALLY BE A FOLLOWER OF HIS OWN RIGHT. UPON FIRST ENTERG THE IMPERIAL PALACE WHERE EVIL IS EVEN STRONGER, YA ZHEN BE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO FALLY FEAT CHAI KA AND PLETELY POSSS WILD FLOWER. YOU N EHER HELP HIM GA HIS EEDOM OR HELP CHAI KA THWART HIM, WHICH SE HE SIMPLY BE TOO WEAKENED TO ACT OUT ANYMORE. SMUG SNAKE: WHILE SMART AND KNOWLEDGEABLE, YA ZHEN IS TOO ARROGANT FOR HIS OWN GOOD. THE SOCIAL DARWIST: IT'S CLEAR YA ZHEN IS JT AN EVIL BASTARD, BUT HE SOMETIM RHETORIC ALONG THE L TO JTIFY HIMSELF. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: HE MIGHT NOT BE THE ONLY CLOSED FIST PARTY MEMBER AN OPEN PALM PLAYER'S PARTY, BUT HE'S EASILY THE MOST EVIL. ALL THE OTHER CLOSED FIST PARTY MEMBERS ARE REASONABLY WELL-ROUND, BUT NOT YA ZHEN. WOULD HURT A CHILD: HE WOULD GLADLY STROY WILD FLOWER'S MD EHER TO GET HIS EEDOM OR OUT OF SHEER PETTS. YELLOW EY OF SNEAKS: HIS TE FORM'S EY ARE EVEN OF BRIGHTER YELLOW THAN THOSE OF THE REGULAR TOAD DEMONS, AND HE IS A SCHEMER.    HENPECKED HOU HENPECKED HOUVOICED BY: JOSH DEANA FORMER DNKEN MASTER WHO CURRENTLY WORKS AS A OK. WHILE HIS ABIVE WIFE FORBIDS HIM OM DRKG AND FIGHTG, HE IS STILL ABLE TO GIVE WE TO THE SPIR MONK TO ALLOW HIM/HER TO E THE DNKEN MASTER STYLE. ALLERATIVE NAME: WELL, THE FIRST ONE'S A NICKNAME, SO THE ONE MIGHT'VE CREATED THE OTHER. AWOME, BUT IMPRACTIL: HIS DNKEN MASTER STYLE. IT MIGHT BE TWICE AS STRONG AS THE OTHER STYL AT THEIR BASE LEVEL, BUT UNLIKE THEM, N'T BE LEVELED UP AND IS QUE SLUGGISH PARED TO THEM. IT'S MORE OR LS JT A FLASHY NOVELTY. BUTT-MONKEY: NOTHG HIS LIFE EVER SEEMS TO HAVE GONE RIGHT. UNTIL HE MAK HIS PE THE ENDG. CHEF OF IRON: A FORMER DNKEN MASTER TURNED BUN MASTER, ALTHOUGH HE HAS SWORN OFF FIGHTG. COWARDLY LN: TURNS OUT HE'S WILLG TO FIGHT BACK AFTER ALL, FOLLOWG A POWER-UP SHOULD THE SPIR MONK OPT TO KEEP THE WATER DRAGON ENSLAVED. CTCH CHARACTER: INSTEAD OF FIGHTG DIRECTLY HE LETS YOU E THE DNKEN MASTER STYLE. WHILE 'S EFFECTIVE EARLY ON, DON'T LEVEL UP LIKE THE OTHER STYL SO YOU WON'T HAVE MUCH E FOR HOU BAT LATE THE GAME. DEADPAN SNARKER: ESPECIALLY ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS WIFE, OF URSE. DOMTIC ABE: HE'S ON THE RECEIVG END. DOUBLE STANDARD: ABE, FEMALE ON MALE: HIS DOMEERG WIFE POISONED HIM, TO THE POT WHERE HE LOST SO BADLY THAT HE HAD TO RETIRE. THEY'RE STILL TOGETHER, AND 'S ALL PLAYED FOR LGHS. DNKEN MASTER: RETIRED. NOT ENTIRELY BY CHOICE, MD YOU. HIS BACKSTORY ALSO NSTCTS : HE ED TO BE A TOP-TIER ARENA FIGHTER, BUT HIS NSTANT DRKG TO FACILATE HIS FIGHTG STYLE RAVAGED HIS HEALTH AND EVENTUALLY LEFT HIM STUTE, FORCG HIM TO TAKE A JOB SHOVELG DUNG THE ARENA'S CREATURE G TO MAKE A LIVG. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: HENPECKED HOU FEARS HIS WIFE MORE THAN ANYONE THE A PROTAGONIST WHO'S WILLG TO BD DEATH'S HAND OR BD THE WATER DRAGON'S POWER. HENPECKED HOU WOULD ALMOST PREFER TO BE WH HIS WIFE RATHER THAN SUCH A PERSON. GAME-BREAKG INJURY: HE WAS BADLY BEATEN AND NEVER FULLY REVERED AFTER HIS "DUPLICO DOVE" SPIKED HIS WE A MATCH, A BID TO CURTAIL HIS DRKG AND FIGHTG. GEEK PHYSIQU: A SCRAWNY NEBBISH, ABOUT HALF THE SIZE OF OTHER NPCS. THE GHOST: THE UNSEEN, OVERBEARG SPECTER OF HIS BELOVED WIFE, WHO ONLY APPEARS THE STORI HOU TELLS. HENPECKED HBAND: HECK, 'S HIS NAME. ITEM CADDY: HIS ONLY ABILY AS A PARTY MEMBER IS TO TOSS OUT WE THAT LETS YOU E THE DNKEN MASTER STYLE. NON-ACTN GUY: HE'S NO LONGER ANY SHAPE TO FIGHT AS A RULT OF HIS WIFE'S EFFORTS TO GET HIM TO STOP, WHICH MEANS HE N'T DRAW HEAT OFF OF YOU DURG FIGHTS. UNLS YOU TRY TO SACRIFICE HIM. PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF: HE'S BEEN BEATEN DOWN OVER THE YEARS, BUT HE'S NOT OUT YET, AND HIS APPARENTLY UNBEARABLE DOMTIC LIFE IS MOSTLY MED FOR SLAPSTICK EDY. READ THE FE PRT: HOW HE END UP STUCK WH HIS WIFE. AFTER HTG ON HARD TIM, A PROMOTER OFFERED HIM A CHANCE TO STAGE A EBACK THE ARENA. HOU READILY AGREED AND SIGNED THE NTRACT—FAILG TO NOTICE THE SMALL PRT WHICH SAID THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO MARRY THE PROMOTER'S NEICE RETURN. SENSIVE GUY AND MANLY MAN: THE SENSIVE GUY TO BLACK WHIRLWD'S MANLY MAN, HOU'S A BABBLG NON-ACTN GUY WHILE BLACK WHIRLDWD IS A BOISTERO BISER WH AN AFFY FOR DRKG. SICKENG SWEETHEARTS: SUBVERTED. HOU HAS ANY NUMBER OF NICKNAM FOR HIS WIFE WHICH ARE A BATN OF TERMS OF ENARMENT AND SULTS. SUPPORT PARTY MEMBER: HE'S PLETELY OUT OF NDN AND HAS LOST ALL OF HIS FORMER FIGHTG ABILY, SO HE N ONLY BE PUT SUPPORT FORM, DURG WHICH THE ONLY THG HE DO IS TOSS OUT JUGS OF WE WHICH ALLOW YOU TO E DNKEN MASTER STYLE. THROW THE DOG A BONE: IF YOU FISHED THE GAME FOLLOWG THE WAY OF THE OPEN PALM, AND TH WEREN'T FORCED TO KILL HENPECKED HOU, HIS ENDG REVEALS HE DO FALLY PE HIS OVERBEARG WIFE: HE TAK A NEW JOB AS A LIVERYMAN AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE SEVERAL DGHTERS. HOWEVER, HE NEVER BACK OM HIS FIRST LIVERY, AND 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT HE SIMPLY TOOK THE OPPORTUNY TO PE. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: IF YOU TRY TO SACRIFICE HIM, THE WATER DRAGON GRANTS HIM HER STRENGTH, ALLOWG HIM TO FIGHT THE PARTY. WORKAHOLIC: HE BEME A BUN MASTER AND SPENDS AS MUCH TIME AT WORK (AND AWAY OM HIS WIFE) AS HE POSSIBLY N.    KANG THE MAD KANG THE MADVOICED BY: PL EIDGA MAD SCIENTIST FORCED TO VELOP FLYERS FOR GAO THE GREATER. HE EVENTUALLY CIS THAT HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF GAO'S MISTREATMENT AND JOS THE PARTY.KANG DON'T JO THE SPIR MONK GROUND-BASED BAT, BUT IS YOUR PILOT AND MECHANIC ABOARD THE MARVELO DRAGONFLY. AMNIAC GOD: HIS QUT TO FD LORD LAO ENDS WH HIS DISVERY THAT HE IS LORD LAO. IT... DON'T CHANGE MUCH ABOUT HIM. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: HE IS A VERY STRANGE LTLE MAN. HE IS ALSO A PEERLS ENGEER. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: HE APPARENTLY WANTS TO VENT SHARKS ARMED WH LASER PISTOLS. DEMOLNS EXPERT: WHILE HE NEVER FIGHTS, HE'S VERY PROFICIENT AT MAKG EXPLOSIV. DISSIE: HE LOV THIS TROPE, SUCH AS SUGGTG THE PLAYER HAVE GAO THE GREATER EXPERIENCE "A BAT-RELATED ACCINT" "LIKE FALLG DOWN A FLIGHT OF PUNCH." THE DOG B BACK: TURNS ON GAO AND LIM OVER BEG MISTREATED. FAKG THE DEAD: IT'S POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO DO THIS HIS ENDG, EHER TO GET AWAY OM THE MASS OR TO AVOID HAVG A WAY OF THE CLOSED FIST PROTAGONIST ABE HIS WORK; SPECIFILLY, HE ARRANG FOR AN EXPLOSN AND MAK LOOK LIKE HE DIED THAT EXPLOSN. GADGETEER GENI: HIS VENTNS ARE THE GREATT OF THEIR KD THE EMPIRE. AND, POSSIBLY, THE SMOS. MAD SCIENTIST: SORT OF. HE'S NOT SANE, JT... TACHED OM THE MORAL IMPLITNS OF HIS VENTNS. MAGEK: HIS VENTNS, CLUDG HIS FLYG MACH, STRETCH TO THIS. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN GETTG TO LORD LAO'S FURNACE. NO CHALLENGE EQUALS NO SATISFACTN: IN HIS ENDG, REGARDLS OF WHETHER OR NOT HE REMEMBERS THAT HE IS LORD LAO, KANG EVENTUALLY CIS THAT HE N'T MAKE HIS BT VENTNS UNLS HIS LIFE IS DANGER, SO HE STARTS MAKG WEAPONS TO GIVE TO THE MOBS THAT CHASE HIM. NON-ACTN GUY: TOWARD THE END OF THE GAME, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT HIM AS HE BLOWS UP A BRIDGE. SUPPORT PARTY MEMBER: GAMEPLAY-WISE, HIS ONLY NTRIBUTN AS A PARTY MEMBER IS MATAG THE MARVELO DRAGONFLY. UNIQUENS DEY: THE REASON HE WILL NOT MASS-PRODUCE HIS AMAZG VENTNS. ONE MARVELO DRAGONFLY IS A TECHNOLOGIL MARVEL AND WORK OF ART. MANY OF THEM WOULD MAKE THEM MONPLACE AND DULL. THE WONKA: HE'S PLETELY OFF HIS GOURD, SCRAMBL HIS WORDS, IS RATHER OBLIV TO DANGER, HAS AN UNHEALTHY RELATNSHIP WH GUNPOWR, AND LOOKS LIKE A MG DYNASTY VERSN OF RUMMAGE SALE REJECT. THEN AGA, HE'S NOT OPERATG ON WH THE SAME THOUGHT PROCS OR MORALY OF A MORTAL - HE'S AN VENTOR GOD.    Z BU Z BU THE MAGIC ABACVOICED BY: BRIAN STEPANEKA MEMBER OF THE CELTIAL BURECRACY. HE ED TO BE RPONSIBLE FOR TERMG WHERE PEOPLE STAND ON THE WHEEL OF LIFE, BUT HIS ABILY TO KEEP UP WH THE ACTNS OF THE SPIR MONK ED HIM TO BE MOTED. HE CIS TO SELL ESSENCE GEMS TO THE SPIR MONK TO PROVE TO HIS SUPERRS THAT HE IS PETENT. ADAM SMH HAT YOUR GUTS: HE OVERCHARG YOU FOR YOU BUY OM HIM, PARED TO OTHER MERCHANTS, AND UNRPAYS YOU FOR WHAT YOU SELL. THIS IS FAIRLY UNRSTANDABLE, NSIRG THAT YOU GOT HIM MOTED, SO HE ACTUALLY DO HAVE FOR YOU. BELEAGUERED BURECRAT: HE ULDN'T KEEP UP WH THE PAPERWORK THAT YOU CREATED, AND TOOK THE FALL WHEN YOU WERE ASSIGNED AN ENTIRE PARTMENT OF THE CELTIAL BURECRACY FOR TABULATG YOUR KARMA, JT LIKE BLACK WHIRLWD. SUPPORT PARTY MEMBER: HIS ONLY PURPOSE IS TO ACT AS A SHOPKEEPER THAT YOU N ACCS AT ANY TIME. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: HIS ONLY APPEARANCE IS HIS TRODUCTN, AND WHILE HE DO SHOW UP THE FOLLOWER MENU, HE DON'T APPEAR ANYWHERE ELSE, HE DON'T EVEN HAVE HIS OWN ENDG SLI THE "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?" EPILOGUE.    ABBOT SONG ABBOT SONGVOICED BY: ARM SHIMERMANTHE GHOST OF THE ABBOT OF THE TEMPLE OF DIRGE. HE HAS BEEN FORCED TO RELIVE THE BATTLE OF DIRGE FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS DUE TO THE IMPRISONMENT OF THE WATER DRAGON. AUTHORY EQUALS ASSKICKG: HE WAS THE ABBOT OF THE SPIR MONKS WHILE HE WAS ALIVE. HE SURVIVED THE MASSACRE SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN MOST OF THE ORR. AWOME, BUT TEMPORARY: HIS SUPPORT ABILY REGENERAT ALL THREE OF THE SPIR MONK'S BARS SIMULTANEOLY. HAVG TO GO BACK TO ONLY ONE AT A TIME WHEN HE LEAV IS DISHEARTENG. BARRED OM THE AFTERLIFE: LIKE MANY OTHER SPIRS OF THE AD, HE'S UNABLE TO ENTER THE GREAT WHEEL BEE OF THE WATER DRAGON'S ABSENCE. PURIFITN OF THE DIRGE OM THE OTHER'S TAT ALLOWS HIM AND THE OTHER LOYAL SPIR MONKS TO ASCEND. BLUE IS HEROIC: ABBOT SONG WEARS THE BLUE SHIRT THE SPIR MONKS WEAR AND IS A VOTED SERVANT OF THE GODSS OF REBIRTH. CLOSED CIRCLE: FOLLOWG HIS ATH, ABBOT SONG HAS BEEN TRAPPED DIRGE'S OUTER URTYARD FOR TWENTY YEARS, FORCED TO WNS THE SPIRS OF HIS FELLOW SPIR MONKS AND IMPERIAL SOLDIERS LOCKED A NEVER-ENDG BATTLE WHOUT BEG ABLE TO CHANGE AND LEAVE THE DIRGE OR ENTER THROUGH THE SEALED GAT. THIS CHANG ONLY WHEN HE JOS THE PLAYER THE RTORATN OF DIRGE'S FOUNTAS. DISAPPEARS TO LIGHT: THIS HAPPENS TO ABBOT SONG AND THE OTHER CEASED SPIR MONKS WHEN THEY'RE EED OM THE ENDLS BATTLE OF DIRGE. GOOD CANNOT COMPREHEND EVIL: SEVERAL LS MORAL SPIR MONKS SUCH AS XIAN WU WERE BRIBED TO BETRAY THEIR ORR. ABBOT SONG NOTED STRANGE BEHAVR THEM, BUT HE NEVER SPECTED BETRAYAL OM THEM BEE DUTY AND HONOR ARE GRAED VALU OF SPIR MONKS. GUT-STAR PARTY MEMBER: HE IS THE ONLY PARTY MEMBER (ASI OM Z BU) WHO N BE ED DURG THE FIFTH CHAPTER. HE WON'T BE AVAILABLE FOR ANY OTHER CHAPTER. IN THE BACK: HE DIED BY BEG CUT DOWN OM BEHD BY SUN LI. IS THAT WHAT HE TOLD YOU?: REVEALS THAT VIRTUALLY EVERYTHG SUN LI TOLD YOU ABOUT HIS OWN ACTNS WAS A LIE. MR. EXPOSN: HE HAS A LOT TO TELL YOU, HAVG BEEN HOLDG SCE HIS ATH. SHOVEL STRIKE: HE FIGHTS WH A MONK'S SPA. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE SPIR MONKS BETRAYED THE ORR, ABBOT SONG STILL FEELS SORRY THAT EMPEROR SUN HAI BOUND THEIR SPIRS TO GUARD THE DIRGE'S FOUNTAS. THIS IS AS FAR AS I GO: THIS TROPE IS VOKED ON ABBOT SONG RATHER THAN HIM PULLG OFF UNPROMPTED. BEFORE THE PLAYER ENTERS THE TEMPLE OF DIRGE, ABBOT SONG IS STCTED BY THE WATER DRAGON TO REMA THE URTYARD AND LEAD HIS FELLOW SPIR MONKS OUT OF THE ENDLS BATTLE. THE ABBOT DON'T BELIEVE HE'S UP TO THE TASK AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF FAILURE AND ASKS TO BE ALLOWED TO FACE THE OTHER WH THE PLAYER, BUT HE CHANG HIS MD AFTER SOME ENURAGG WORDS OM THE WATER DRAGON. UNDYG LOYALTY: HE SERVED THE WATER DRAGON FAHFULLY LIFE AND FOUGHT TO THE ATH TO PROTECT HER TEMPLE. TWENTY YEARS OF SEPARATN OM HER AS A RTLS GHOST HASN'T CHANGED THAT LOYALTY. WARRR MONK: THE SPIR MONKS WERE THE WATER DRAGON'S SERVANTS AND PROTECTORS. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!: HE DIED WHILE TRYG TO BUY TIME FOR THE PLAYER CHARACTER (WHO WAS AN FANT AT THE TIME) AND THE SPIR MONK RG FOR THE BABY TO PE BY FACG OFF SUN K AND SUN LI.THE LOT ASSASSS

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