Ou Jiang

Ou Jiang is a Dragon and swordsmith living in Longquan.

## History

Ou Jiang is a Chinese Dragon born during the reign of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty. In his childhood, Ou Jiang became extremely interested in swordsmithing, thus he apprienticed under a human master swordsmith in Longquan, taking the name Ou Jiang derived from historical famous swordsmiths. In five years, he completed his apprenticeship with superior skills surpassing his mentor, living and working as a swordsmith for most of the Ming Dynasty Ou Jiang created countless prized weapons for a variety of Chinese humans ranging from scholar officials to military generals, among them the Ming Prince Zhu Di who is the future Emperor Yongle, the famous generals Zhang Fu and Qi Jiguang. Ou Jiang also met Gongsun Sheng, becoming the latter's disciple in Taoism. He also spent an unknown period of time studying Taoism in the Wudang mountain and Mount Tai.

At some point, Ou Jiang also took up scholarly pursuits during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the early Qing Dynasty with a deep interest in ancient knowledge such as history, archaeology and epigraphy.

## Power & Abilities

Immense Strength:

Master Craftsman: Oujiang is an immensely talented and skilled master swordsmith with centuries of experience in smithing weapons. In addition to creating very powerful weapons of his own design, he has also recreated stronger and more powerful versions of famous historical weapons through his extensive research on archaeometallurgy and historical records on ancient weaponry.

Master Magician: As Gongsun Sheng's disciple, Ou Jiang is a master of Taoist magic, he applied Taoist magic into his craftsmanship to create powerful mystical and spiritual weapons.

Shapeshifting

Master Combatant: Ou Jiang is a formidable combatant favouring the use of axe, spear or hammer in his human form.

Genius Intellect: Ou Jiang is a extremely wise and intelligent dragon.

Master Scholar: Ou Jiang is a brilliant veteran master sinologist specializing in Chinese archaeology, history and epigraphy.

Master Calligrapher: Ou Jiang is a master calligrapher specializing in the Stele school of Chinese calligraphy. His calligraphy is mostly influenced by his research on Chinese epigraphy, based on the inscriptions of hanbei and weibei steles. Ou Jiang also continuously improved his calligraphy by refering to Li Yangbing, Zheng Fu, Deng Shiru, Jin Nong, Yi Bingshou, Wu Changshuo and Yang Shoujing. His calligraphic specialties are small seal script, clerical script and regular script.

## Equipment

**Xing Tian** :An extremely powerful mystical yue axe of Ou Jiang's creation, named after the headless deity who remained alive even after decapitation in Chinese mythology. On the axe blade is engraved an image of Xing Tian's torso like visage

**Wu King Fuchai Dragon Spear** : An extremely powerful mystical spear, based on the historical weapon of King Fuchai of Wu

## Trivia

* Ou Jiang's favourite food are
	+ Beggar's chicken
	+ Yellow croaker in pickled vegetable soup
	+ Hot pot particularly Instant boiled mutton
	+ Zongzi
	+ Crystal pork
	+ Knife-cut noodles

* Ou Jiang's favourite drinks are huangjiu and baijiu