[OOC] Character History
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afterthemomentAn incomplete account of Wei Wuxian's history can be found here. I'll pick up where it leaves off below since it leaves out some crucial events.
Following the incident at Qiongqi Way, all the sect leaders held a meeting about what to do about Wei Wuxian and the remnants of the Wen Sect he'd rescued from captivity. By this point, he'd fled with them to the Burial Mound since it was the only place he could take them where they wouldn't be persecuted. Wei Wuxian used his powers as a demonic cultivator to keep the malevolent undead and supernatural entities at bay. He helped the refugees build new homes, farms, and a small community of their own in Burial Mound.
Due to his close relationship and Wei Wuxian's close association with the Yunmeng Jiang Sect, Jiang Cheng was chosen to deal with the issue. Most of the powerful cultivation clans wanted Wen Qing and the remnants of her sect completely annihilated even though she and her family line had refused to fight during the Sunshot Campaign. The meeting between the adopted brothers went very poorly. Jiang Cheng dismissed the aid that Wen Qing and her brother had once given them in their time of need and insisted that she and her family be handed back to their enemies. This angered Wei Wuxian who absolutely refused which resulted in a duel between the two and him ultimately deciding to leave the Yunmeng Jiang Sect entirely.
Life went on for a time. Wei Wuxian continued aiding the Wen Sect remnants with their endeavor to build a new life in Burial Mound. He'd also begun conducting experiments on the undead Wen Ning after promising his sister and their relatives that he could bring his consciousness back, something that'd never been achieved before in a fierce corpse. At one point, Lan Wangji visited to notify Wei Wuxian that his beloved adopted sister, Jiang Yanli, is getting married to an old rival of his: the heir of the Lanling Jin Sect, Jin Zixuan. The news was somewhat devastating for Wei Wuxian, who realized for the first time that he won't be able to see the person he loves most in the world get married.
During the meeting with Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian received a talisman warning that something had gone wrong back at Burial Mound. When he returned, he discovered that Wen Ning had broken free of his constraints and started rampaging. After a struggle, he managed to calm him down and amazingly enough, Wen Ning regained his sentience. Afterward, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian had a conversation about the dangers of resentful energy; the former worried about whether the latter could truly control it and was concerned about the negative impact it was having on his body and mind. Wen Qing came in and took over care of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji left. For the first time, Wei Wuxian realized that while he might not be able to be close with his adoptive family in Yunmeng anymore, he found himself a new one among the Wen Sect remnants. Sometime later, Jiang Yanli, along with her brother as escort, arrived in Yiling for a surprise visit so he'd be able to see what she looked like on her wedding day.
About a year later, Wei Wuxian was still living with the Wen Sect remnants at Burial Mound and doing pretty well for himself. His adopted sister and her husband invited him to visit so he could meet his infant nephew, Jin Ling, at the one-month ceremony celebrating his birth. While travelling there with Wen Ning, he was ambushed by Jin Zixun, a cultivator of the Lanling Jin Sect, who falsely accused him of placing him under a curse. To make matters worse, he had come with substantial fight force that vastly outnumbered the two men. To make a long story short, a conflict broke out, Wei Wuxian's brother-in-law, Jin Zixuan came out just in time for Wei Wuxian to completely lose control over Wen Ning and get accidentally murdered in the conflict. Wei Wuxian blacked out and had to be rescued by Wen Ning and carried back to Burial Mound.
After waking up back home, Wei Wuxian freaked out at Wen Ning over the killing, worrying about what Yanli and his new nephew were going to do . A flipping out for a while in front of him and Wen Qing, he breaks down crying. Wen Qing paralyzes him, announcing that the Lanling Jin Sect said they'd drop the matter if the leaders of the remaining Wen Sect came forward. She tells Wei Wuxian that she and her brother have decided to turn themselves in with the hope that the dust around the incident will settle, even though it's likely they'll both lose their lives. She takes this one last opportunity to apologize and thank him for everything's done. Wei Wuxian had no choice but to watch his two closest friends leave him behind to walk to their deaths.
As soon as the paralysis wore off three days later, Wei Wuxian headed straight to Koi Tower, the headquarters of the Lanling Jin Sec, even though he knew he'd probably be too late to save them. Once there, he ran to Jiang Yanl mourning her husband, but ran away, unable to face her after killing her husband. Unfortunately, Wei Wuxian was spotted by someone else and an alarm was sounded. Before he escaped, he learned that that his friends had been burned to death and their ashes would be spead publicly as part of a victory celebration over the Wen Sect remnants during an annual conference involving all the sects at Nightless City, their ancestral home. Already dangerously unstable from recent devastating losses and mistakes, unprocessed war trauma from the Sunshot Campaign, prolonged usage of resentful energy, this news combined with overhearing a lot of vicious gossip about terrible of a person he was pretty much pushed Wei Wuxian over the edge. He confronted the gossips, violently assaulted them, and then started making his way to Nightless City to settle things with the Four Great Sects, unaware that Lan Wangji was on his trail and had been searching for him for days.
Wei Wuxian arrived at the Discussion Conference just in time to see Jin Guangshan, the Lanling Jin Sect's leader, scatter the the ashes of Wen Qing and her brother, and publicly vowing to do the same thing to him and their family of refugees. A bitter confrontation broke out between the opposing sides. Wei Wuxian called out the sect leaders on their unjust and cruel genocide of innocent people who'd done them no harm. The sect leaders called him out on his arrogance, general opposition of their goals, and slaughter of their cultivators whenever they'd come to blows. Basically, both sides escalated the conflict and got angrier and more hateful until a young cultivator shot an arrow at him with clear intent to kill but missed his heart. Wei Wuxian pulled it out and threw it right back him, killing him.
From that point on, the Discussion Conference turned into a bloodletting with the sect cultivators vowing to kill their enemy and Wei Wuxian, now half-mad with anguish, grief, and rage in addition to being corrupted by resentful energy, raising the dead of Nightless City to combat them. Much to the shock, Jiang Yanli showed up on the battlefiend, calling for him. Bloodlust now replaced by terror, Wei Wuxian began frantically searching for her through the chaos, in the process losing control of the corpses he'd summoned. Jiang Cheng, who'd also attended the meeting, also sought out his sister. Unfortunately, Jiang Yanli was cut down by one of the walking corpses before either of her brothers could get to her. Urged on by Lan Wangji to get the corpses back under his control, Wei Wuxian tried and failed, unable to do so in his distraught state. Jiang Cheng, furious at situation, turned on his adopted brother for his role in all of it.
It turned out that Jiang Yanli's wounds weren't fatal and despite being in pain, disoriented, and losing a lot of blood, she called Wei Wuxian over to her. She persuaded him to stop the corpses from rampaging and this time he was successful. It looked like the situation might calm down until the brother of the young cultivator that Wei Wuxian had killed earlier chose that moment to attack him from behind. Jiang Yanli, spotting the would-be killer, pushed her adopted brother out of the way and took the fatal blow meant for him. In that moment, Wei Wuxian's fragile grasp on sanity finally snapped completely. He snapped the neck of the boy who'd killed his beloved sister with his bare hands and assembled the Stygian Tiger Seal, a powerful and dangerous artifact that could create and control undead in massive numbers without straining the person using it.
Somewhere between three thousand and five thousand people were slain that night. Wei Wuxian, himself, was so deeply traumatized by the death of Jiang Yanli and the painful events that led up to it and simply shut down. The only reason he escaped Nightless City was because Lan Wangji rescued him and helped him escape back to the Burial Mound at Yiling. His old friend nursed him back to health, took care of him, and even confessed his love for him but nothing could reach Wei Wuxian. All he would say was "Get lost."
For three months, the cultivation world, shaken and enraged by the massacre that had occurred in Nightless City, banded their forces together and prepared to besiege Yiling and rid themselves of Wei Wuxian once and for all. Led by Jiang Cheng, they attacked the Burial Mound. All the Wen Sect survivors save one were murdered. Wei Wuxian, himself, was also murdered, apparently cut to pieces.
For thirteen years after the Yiling Patriarch's death, the cultivation world kept vigil over his former home and regularly attenmpted to contact his spirit but to no avail. According to a translated interview with the author, Wei Wuxian existed in a primordial, chaotic, dream-like state where he was aware of the passage of time but not fully conscious either. She likened it to a never-ending nightmare but has stated in quite a few interviews that she's leaving a lot of things to fan interpretation. Based on what the author's said, ancient Chinese beliefs about the afterlife and reincarnation, and how he's characterized in the present segments of the story, I'm playing Wei Wuxian as having spent the past thirteen years in a purgatory where he's been forced to relive and reflect on his worst mistakes as a means of atonement and preparation for reincarnation.
Reincarnation comes sooner than expected when a demonic cultivator by the name of Mo Xuanyu sacrifices his own body and soul to bring Wei Wuxian back into the realm of the living to take revenge on his abusive family.
Following the incident at Qiongqi Way, all the sect leaders held a meeting about what to do about Wei Wuxian and the remnants of the Wen Sect he'd rescued from captivity. By this point, he'd fled with them to the Burial Mound since it was the only place he could take them where they wouldn't be persecuted. Wei Wuxian used his powers as a demonic cultivator to keep the malevolent undead and supernatural entities at bay. He helped the refugees build new homes, farms, and a small community of their own in Burial Mound.
Due to his close relationship and Wei Wuxian's close association with the Yunmeng Jiang Sect, Jiang Cheng was chosen to deal with the issue. Most of the powerful cultivation clans wanted Wen Qing and the remnants of her sect completely annihilated even though she and her family line had refused to fight during the Sunshot Campaign. The meeting between the adopted brothers went very poorly. Jiang Cheng dismissed the aid that Wen Qing and her brother had once given them in their time of need and insisted that she and her family be handed back to their enemies. This angered Wei Wuxian who absolutely refused which resulted in a duel between the two and him ultimately deciding to leave the Yunmeng Jiang Sect entirely.
Life went on for a time. Wei Wuxian continued aiding the Wen Sect remnants with their endeavor to build a new life in Burial Mound. He'd also begun conducting experiments on the undead Wen Ning after promising his sister and their relatives that he could bring his consciousness back, something that'd never been achieved before in a fierce corpse. At one point, Lan Wangji visited to notify Wei Wuxian that his beloved adopted sister, Jiang Yanli, is getting married to an old rival of his: the heir of the Lanling Jin Sect, Jin Zixuan. The news was somewhat devastating for Wei Wuxian, who realized for the first time that he won't be able to see the person he loves most in the world get married.
During the meeting with Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian received a talisman warning that something had gone wrong back at Burial Mound. When he returned, he discovered that Wen Ning had broken free of his constraints and started rampaging. After a struggle, he managed to calm him down and amazingly enough, Wen Ning regained his sentience. Afterward, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian had a conversation about the dangers of resentful energy; the former worried about whether the latter could truly control it and was concerned about the negative impact it was having on his body and mind. Wen Qing came in and took over care of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji left. For the first time, Wei Wuxian realized that while he might not be able to be close with his adoptive family in Yunmeng anymore, he found himself a new one among the Wen Sect remnants. Sometime later, Jiang Yanli, along with her brother as escort, arrived in Yiling for a surprise visit so he'd be able to see what she looked like on her wedding day.
About a year later, Wei Wuxian was still living with the Wen Sect remnants at Burial Mound and doing pretty well for himself. His adopted sister and her husband invited him to visit so he could meet his infant nephew, Jin Ling, at the one-month ceremony celebrating his birth. While travelling there with Wen Ning, he was ambushed by Jin Zixun, a cultivator of the Lanling Jin Sect, who falsely accused him of placing him under a curse. To make matters worse, he had come with substantial fight force that vastly outnumbered the two men. To make a long story short, a conflict broke out, Wei Wuxian's brother-in-law, Jin Zixuan came out just in time for Wei Wuxian to completely lose control over Wen Ning and get accidentally murdered in the conflict. Wei Wuxian blacked out and had to be rescued by Wen Ning and carried back to Burial Mound.
After waking up back home, Wei Wuxian freaked out at Wen Ning over the killing, worrying about what Yanli and his new nephew were going to do . A flipping out for a while in front of him and Wen Qing, he breaks down crying. Wen Qing paralyzes him, announcing that the Lanling Jin Sect said they'd drop the matter if the leaders of the remaining Wen Sect came forward. She tells Wei Wuxian that she and her brother have decided to turn themselves in with the hope that the dust around the incident will settle, even though it's likely they'll both lose their lives. She takes this one last opportunity to apologize and thank him for everything's done. Wei Wuxian had no choice but to watch his two closest friends leave him behind to walk to their deaths.
As soon as the paralysis wore off three days later, Wei Wuxian headed straight to Koi Tower, the headquarters of the Lanling Jin Sec, even though he knew he'd probably be too late to save them. Once there, he ran to Jiang Yanl mourning her husband, but ran away, unable to face her after killing her husband. Unfortunately, Wei Wuxian was spotted by someone else and an alarm was sounded. Before he escaped, he learned that that his friends had been burned to death and their ashes would be spead publicly as part of a victory celebration over the Wen Sect remnants during an annual conference involving all the sects at Nightless City, their ancestral home. Already dangerously unstable from recent devastating losses and mistakes, unprocessed war trauma from the Sunshot Campaign, prolonged usage of resentful energy, this news combined with overhearing a lot of vicious gossip about terrible of a person he was pretty much pushed Wei Wuxian over the edge. He confronted the gossips, violently assaulted them, and then started making his way to Nightless City to settle things with the Four Great Sects, unaware that Lan Wangji was on his trail and had been searching for him for days.
Wei Wuxian arrived at the Discussion Conference just in time to see Jin Guangshan, the Lanling Jin Sect's leader, scatter the the ashes of Wen Qing and her brother, and publicly vowing to do the same thing to him and their family of refugees. A bitter confrontation broke out between the opposing sides. Wei Wuxian called out the sect leaders on their unjust and cruel genocide of innocent people who'd done them no harm. The sect leaders called him out on his arrogance, general opposition of their goals, and slaughter of their cultivators whenever they'd come to blows. Basically, both sides escalated the conflict and got angrier and more hateful until a young cultivator shot an arrow at him with clear intent to kill but missed his heart. Wei Wuxian pulled it out and threw it right back him, killing him.
From that point on, the Discussion Conference turned into a bloodletting with the sect cultivators vowing to kill their enemy and Wei Wuxian, now half-mad with anguish, grief, and rage in addition to being corrupted by resentful energy, raising the dead of Nightless City to combat them. Much to the shock, Jiang Yanli showed up on the battlefiend, calling for him. Bloodlust now replaced by terror, Wei Wuxian began frantically searching for her through the chaos, in the process losing control of the corpses he'd summoned. Jiang Cheng, who'd also attended the meeting, also sought out his sister. Unfortunately, Jiang Yanli was cut down by one of the walking corpses before either of her brothers could get to her. Urged on by Lan Wangji to get the corpses back under his control, Wei Wuxian tried and failed, unable to do so in his distraught state. Jiang Cheng, furious at situation, turned on his adopted brother for his role in all of it.
It turned out that Jiang Yanli's wounds weren't fatal and despite being in pain, disoriented, and losing a lot of blood, she called Wei Wuxian over to her. She persuaded him to stop the corpses from rampaging and this time he was successful. It looked like the situation might calm down until the brother of the young cultivator that Wei Wuxian had killed earlier chose that moment to attack him from behind. Jiang Yanli, spotting the would-be killer, pushed her adopted brother out of the way and took the fatal blow meant for him. In that moment, Wei Wuxian's fragile grasp on sanity finally snapped completely. He snapped the neck of the boy who'd killed his beloved sister with his bare hands and assembled the Stygian Tiger Seal, a powerful and dangerous artifact that could create and control undead in massive numbers without straining the person using it.
Somewhere between three thousand and five thousand people were slain that night. Wei Wuxian, himself, was so deeply traumatized by the death of Jiang Yanli and the painful events that led up to it and simply shut down. The only reason he escaped Nightless City was because Lan Wangji rescued him and helped him escape back to the Burial Mound at Yiling. His old friend nursed him back to health, took care of him, and even confessed his love for him but nothing could reach Wei Wuxian. All he would say was "Get lost."
For three months, the cultivation world, shaken and enraged by the massacre that had occurred in Nightless City, banded their forces together and prepared to besiege Yiling and rid themselves of Wei Wuxian once and for all. Led by Jiang Cheng, they attacked the Burial Mound. All the Wen Sect survivors save one were murdered. Wei Wuxian, himself, was also murdered, apparently cut to pieces.
For thirteen years after the Yiling Patriarch's death, the cultivation world kept vigil over his former home and regularly attenmpted to contact his spirit but to no avail. According to a translated interview with the author, Wei Wuxian existed in a primordial, chaotic, dream-like state where he was aware of the passage of time but not fully conscious either. She likened it to a never-ending nightmare but has stated in quite a few interviews that she's leaving a lot of things to fan interpretation. Based on what the author's said, ancient Chinese beliefs about the afterlife and reincarnation, and how he's characterized in the present segments of the story, I'm playing Wei Wuxian as having spent the past thirteen years in a purgatory where he's been forced to relive and reflect on his worst mistakes as a means of atonement and preparation for reincarnation.
Reincarnation comes sooner than expected when a demonic cultivator by the name of Mo Xuanyu sacrifices his own body and soul to bring Wei Wuxian back into the realm of the living to take revenge on his abusive family.