Mo Ziyuan (Reverance of the Gods)/History

## Youth

Born from the matriarchal Mo family, Mo Ziyuan grew up in an extremely spoiled and indulgent household with his mother encouraging his every whim and his father indulging both of them. The opposite of his traumatized and often extremely mentally unstable older cousin, the death of the Second Lady Mo further drew Ziyuan's cousin Mo Xuanyu into his shell. Due to that event and the subsequent murder of his parents amongst other events, Ziyuan matured and dissolved the Mo family entirely yet retained his surname and decided to keep that of his cousin.

Retreating to Yiling which was located near the Burial Mounds, Ziyuan retained only a few possessions of his parents and sold the rest in order to pay for the expenses of keeping a small household to support him and his cousin.
While at first looked down upon his common lineage amongst clan-related cultivators, Ziyuan's steel backbone and unrelenting ferocity in Night Hunts won him respect amongst the people of Yiling who presented Ziyuan and Xuanyu with the honor of becoming the overall reaching clan that controlled Yiling, leading to the creation of the Yiling Mo Clan in common cultivation history.

Ziyuan while not an entirely effective leader in the greater scheme of things, was not an all terrible diplomat who handled the internal turmoil and outside turmoil of his clan with much struggles. In spite of the ill treatment that he lavished on his older cousin, his changed nature eventually won him Xuanyu's trust though Xuanyu still doubted many of his decisions at time.

To show his changed nature, Ziyuan allowed his cousin the right to choose his courtesy name and only allowed his cousin (at first) to use both his birth name of Ziyuan and his courtesy name of Zixhui, a right later granted to his later wife Yu Daiyu. Xuanyu chose Zixhui after a distant sixth cousin of his mother's cousin, Yu Zixhui, which delighted Ziyuan who would grant Xuanyu the courtesy name of Cheng as a sign of his affection for his older cousin.

### Marriage

His marriage was a time of much happiness for the two cousins, which they proceeded to celebrate by creating a shared garden for their beloved wives together.

During their brief marriage, Ziyuan admitted that he would never marry again if Baiyu ever died, having called her the "sun" to his "moon" and their two daughters their "stars" --- this amuses Xuanyu who then declared that Ziyuan's faithfulness reassured his wife that he would never stray from their martial bed ever. Indeed, their love for each other was so profound and strong that it produced their two children, two daughters.

### Death

Mo Ziyuan accompanies the Yiling Mo delegation to Lotus Pier for the proclaimation of the birth of Jiang Hua, the daughter of Jiang Lai and Jiang Cheng.

During the commencement of the proclaimation ceremony, Clan Leader Yao invokes the anger of the Yiling Mo by claiming that the Yiling Mo were nothing more than a clan of "worthless lowlives" - which insulted the Yiling Mo and incited their immediate relation - during the ensuring chaos, a member of the Lanling Jin sliced Ziyuan's throat on purpose. Yu Baiyu his wife, and his two children were enraged and demanded the heads of the Lanling Jin cultivator that killed her husband.

### Consequences

Xuanyu who had been away leading a Night Hunt at the time immediately rushed back to take care of his grieving sister-in-law, leaving his own wife in charge of the juniors. After returning to Central Yiling, Xuanyu immediately entered his mourning period and would choose to enter seclusion for the sake of processing his grief.