Shen Luong

Shen Luong was a Kodaman warlock who gave birth to many of the bestial races of Dorhaun.
==The Mask of Life (1358-1364 AoV)==
Shen Luong, in his search for knowledge and power, discovered half of a broken mask--black, marbled with red. Not understanding its function but recognizing its power, he wore it to intimidate foes and differentiate himself from what he increasingly saw as the idiotic masses. Before long, he invoked his great power, enhanced by the mask, and began to ransom villages. Their tribute to him was first in currency, but soon turned to much crueler payments.
In 1360 AoV, Shen Luong began to understand the power of the mask he wore daily. He gathered small animals to him and twisted them into tiny, grotesque monsters. Starting with these experiments, he explored how to alter the genetics of larger creatures, even humanoids. The villages he held in fear were given a reprieve from his monetary greed. Instead, he asked for payment in warm bodies.
He would fall asleep at his workstation, the mask still attached to his face, until eventually it could not be separated from his face. Once, he would have been frightened. but he took this in stride. The mask had taught him so much, seeming to answer his most frustrating questions when he muttered them to himself. Over the next five years, Shen Luong created eight different species: the chiao, the ugidan, the rakshasa, the tikbalang, the tanuki, the loxo, the kappa, and the bogai.
==The Beast War of Kodamaii (1382-1392 AoV)==
After decades of working in secrecy, Shen Luong marched forth with his army of magically-bred
beast-folk. He attacked Lao Tsang and turned his son Tengu Tsang and his followers into bird-creatures known as the tengu and the kenku. The tengu overran the lands of Lao Tsang and took them as their own. This was the fall of the seemingly-timeless Tsang Dynasty.
Through the battles, Shen never stopped experimenting with new creatures to fight his war. In 1385 AoV, Shen Luong created the komori from the bamboo elves and bats. Later that year he took the sacred panda bear and morphed them into feral ursal humanoid creatures. Before sentience, they had known nothing of war and all of peace, thus the elves viewed it as the greatest sacrilege. This caused a massive retaliation from the elves and the Beast War of Kodamaii truly began in earnest.
Finally, in 1392 AoV, Shen Luong was overthrown by his own burgeoning army of beast-folk. He was stabbed in the face, his mask shattering into four fragments. With his dying breath, he cast a massive teleportation spell across the battlefield, sending most of the combatants to an unknown place. The Beast War of Kodamaii ended with his death.
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