Sui Yun

Sui Yun was the Fort Owner of Huli Maou settlement, and one of the first to set foot on the continent of Agartha. She survived an incredibly long time, being able to see the rise and fall of several notable figures in history, the creation and destruction of many settlements, and so on. She was executed in the spring of 1488 at the hands of a Valmasian knight, living up to the ripe age of 90.
== History ==
Much of Sui Yun's early history is unknown. However, her book, The Struggle Of Sui Yun, written in 1474 is serves as an autobiography. Whether it contains true or false information is up to debate. Some say that she had actually given birth, others argue that she was not an only child as it was inconceivable that a Shengese family, be they of peasantry or of nobility, would only have one child, especially if that child is female.
Like many of the eligible colonists from Sheng, in 1433, Sui Yun arrived to the continent of Agartha. In the beginning, she was loyal to the Emperor. It is said that she forced herself to learn many upon many trades, such as becoming a lumberjack, a rice farmer, a merchant, a miner, and so on not just for her own survival, but to help others to establish shelters and lives. Sui Yun was praised for single-handedly pulling the colony out of starvation in the early years, using her magics not for combat, but for farming purposes. It is said that 50% of her rice crops produce were generously donated to the Fourfold Army's cause.
It wasn't until the first five years of colonization when Sui Yun began taking interest in the colony's political affairs. She began distributing her handwritten 'publications' throughout the colony, pinning them especially to the colony's bulletin boards, hoping to spread awareness to the general public about the issues which she saw was at hand. The intake of foreign immigrants, for one, was one issue which Sui Yun had campaigned massively against.
This firmly established her presence in the colony not as a random farmer peasant, but a self declared politician and leader of her self created party, National Suiyunist Party, with her ideology, National Suiyunism.
Throughout the decades, Sui Yun attempted to rally support from the Shengese people who had already opened the floodgates to many upon many instances of foreign mingling, the worst case in her eyes being 'race mixing'. As she had always radically called for deporting foreigners and policing the pro-foreigner thoughts of 'the masses', she was unpopular especially in the elections, which she won none of them.
It was true that the original Shengese colonists were growing fewer and fewer in numbers, and already were the new generations behaving like 'delinquents and degenerates' - loss of cultural identity would have been inevitable. But arguably, the reactionary and radical speeches of Sui Yun had perhaps further contributed to the Shengese Agarthans' adoption of 'Internationalism'.
Whatever sway Sui Yun had on the Shengese population declined sharply when Gaiar Aetherius, the demonic settlement, razed and destroyed Ardent in a bloody, violent war. It is claimed that the aged woman had actually ran into the arms of the demons in that moment, forsaking her own people in exchange for the Aetherians who she saw were against 'Interdimensionalism', were against all the divine beings, angels and the like, good or evil, and wished to slay them all.
It was in this time where she'd meet Zaruma, an Archon who took a great liking to her political literature. Many people speculate that the aged woman was head over heels for the Demon, true to a poem written decades ago which claimed that she liked Demons. They lived together for a good number of years until Sui Yun was captured by Geese Huzi, a Gehennan leader of Ardent who broke her hips under a cliff. 
Sui Yun remained a prisoner of the surviving remnants of the Shengese-Agarthans in Tongyishan settlement until that was destroyed as well, and then Zheng Island settlement... until that too was gone. During these moments, she boldly claimed, "It is undeniable that I, Kim Sui Yun, from 1474 onwards, am the only remaining, pure blooded Shengese woman alive in this wretched continent". She was wrong, but the aged woman had become more and more disillusioned, paranoid, and was developing dementia.
She claimed to have become a 'born again Azraelite'. While it is not clear whether did she abandon her original Shengese faith or not, she was known to credit deception as 'the greatest tool mankind can ever use'. She attempted to sow anti-Demon sentiments into her pupils when she taught non-magic courses in Pleure Academy, New Valmasia.
She died in 1488, beaten, stripped and shot in the head with a mana rifle by a Valmasian knight in Dawn after being exposed of spreading anti-Demonic propaganda by one of her students, although Dawn declared its independence from Demon-infested Aetherius just two years after her death. In 1500, parts of her personal diary entries were found, revealing that she had in fact become a Krausite Extremist in the end, interpreting the Peace Barriers as a means to separate the different human races, and believing that segregation was the natural order of the world in the end, practiced even by the angels themselves who kept to themselves in their own realm for the most part.
== Abilities ==
While Sui Yun was not a fan of Symbolic Casting, she found herself subconsciously implementing it when casting more emotionally tuned magics such as those involving Holy magics. Otherwise, it is said that she was a fair Visionary caster, a woman who seemed to be able to cast magic without the aid of a staff nor with hand gestures or commanding words. She would often close her eyes before a battle, what little amount of skirmishes she had to endure anyway.
Most of the time, Sui Yun engaged in diplomacy, using words alone to escape danger. Her lack of battle experiences, and her aging and failing body, ultimately failed her when she had to fight for her life in Dawn.
=== Holy Magic ===
Sui Yun was a woman of great passion, so it was a given that she would wield holy magics, known for very passionate users. Many of those exploring the treacherous mountain caves between 1435 and 1485 would encounter the old woman with a bright, illuminating aura of 'righteousness' and with no torch in hand. The woman with a cold heart ironically exuded light and warmth.
=== Water Magic ===
Despite her rather chaotic nature, Sui Yun wielded water magics known for its calm and collected, and fluid users. She would cast mist all over her farms and sustain them for long periods of time, as to artificially boost the humidity of the area for some of the crops she planted. Other times, she would conjure water straight from the ocean to nurture her crops. She was best known for forming a whip made of water, that was so dense that it made the sound akin to a real whip.
=== Nature Magic ===
This was a magic which she rarely had to use. Sui Yun was not a fan of artificially speeding up crop growth or pumping mana into plants meant for eating in general; she believed in non-magically modified organics! Instead, she'd use her average affinity towards nature to find the most nutrient dense soils, as well as draining the nutrients out of pesky weeds and figuring out which crop seeds would create the best yields.
=== Holywater Magic ===
A combination magic which mixes Holy magics with Water magics. This was a magic barely practiced by Sui Yun, intended by her to be for combat usage only. Nevertheless, she found herself healing mild prickles and cuts on her hands when she'd head out and forage in the woods, and inevitably encountering danger along the way.
=== Blood Magic ===
Years before her death, Sui Yun tried to learn Blood manipulation, with mediocre success. She was paranoid of her own failing body and sought to draw blood from herself just to see how clean it was. In the end, she gave up, finally coming to terms that she was too old to learn anything anymore and had to leave everything to the younger generations to come. She was senile, and she no longer feared death.
=== Cooking Skills ===
The aged woman had cooked many, many dishes way before cooking experience was even a thing. She was especially good at Shengese delicacies, naturally, having been able to mass produce Rice Balls and sell them for cheap in Ardent and elsewhere. Her favourite dish to cook was Fried Rice with Pork Stir-Fry combined. She indulged in Fried Chicken Feet when she lived with chicken-rearing Zaruma the Archon, but she never sold them for obvious reasons.
=== Writing Skills ===
Sui Yun was especially adept at Shengese calligraphy, but her most known form of literature was her now discontinued Suiyunist propaganda pamphlets and opinion pieces targeting many notable individuals in Ardent, and covering many topics that concerned her mainly. She wrote a book, The Struggle Of Sui Yun, and a personal diary, most of which had been burnt away.
==Contributions==
Sui Yun had been indirectly responsible for numerous events which weakened the Emperor's colony on Agartha, Ardent. It is ironic as Sui Yun was a woman who was extremely loyal to her homeland, yet had ultimately caused it irrepairable damage.
- She donated 50% of all her rice crop produce to the army of Ardent, and cooked Rice Balls with the rest of them and sold them for cheap to the Shengese masses, oftentimes without profit.
- She had, after successfully influencing Ren Tseng, the first Elected Leader of Ardent, implemented so called 'Suiyunist laws' which led to Silver Lake, a neutral settlement, 'defecting' from Ardent and ultimately weakening the colony, dooming it to nearly being conquered by the Valmasians.
- She had, after successfully influencing Ren Tseng, notable Qilins and having Chi She, the second Elected Leader of the colony implement new laws, caused the forced impeachment of Chi She and subsequently the disasterous Revolt Of 1453 which sacrificed hundreds of lives.
- She had, after gaining power as Fort Owner of Huli Maou, rebuilt the long destroyed bridge which connected Jianghese lands with Gehennan lands, causing unfixed disputes which caused the colony to be conquered and made a vassal state of the Cruxati Gehennans in the long run.
- She had, during her imprisonment in 1474 in Tongyishan settlement, wrote a book called 'The Struggle Of Sui Yun', solidifying both her own history, the history of the Shengese in Agartha, and her Suiyunist ideology.
- For two years, she had taught non-magic subjects in Pleure Academy, attempting to sow anti-Demon sentiments into her pupils in her propaganda-filled subjects. She was promptly executed due to this.
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