Gan Jiang

**Gan Jiang** (Chinese: 干將) is one of the greatest fairy weaponsmith in history, known for creating the twin-swords named after him and his wife - Ganjiang & Moye. He is the husband of Mo Ye and the father of Chi and Jinfeng.

## History

### Origins

Gan Jiang was born a very long time ago, being said to be one of the first fair-folk to emigrate from Avalon to China. He is part of a fairy race known as Fenghuang, named after the legendary Asian rulers of all bird Feng and Huang.

Gan Jiang and his wife have been alive for many hundreds of years; "marrying" before the "sea was salt". They have lived in the area that would later be known as Shanghai for millennia, even before the Chinese Mother Goddess Nu Wa even created the original human.

### Gangjiang and Moye

During the Spring and Autumm Period of China, King Helü of Wu ordered the two weaponsmiths to create him a pair of fairy-crafted swords for him in three mere months. However, due to the intricate process and the large amount of magical energy needed to siphon from the environment just to forge a single sword, the desired result was only achieved after three years and the two swords were named after the couple.

Gan Jiang kept the "male" sword, Gangjiang, for himself and presented the "female" sword, Moye, of the pair to the king. The king was already unpleasant since he ordered the swords made in three months but Gan Jiang did not come back in three years, when he discovered Gan Jiang had kept the "male" sword, he was angered and had Gan Jiang burned in his furnace to dead, not knowing about the blacksmith's true origin as a Fenghuang.

When Mo Ye discovered this, while she wasn't worry about her husband's fate as they are both fairies, she was furious by the king's action. Quickly transformed into her true form, a beautiful Eastern Dragon-like fairy known as a Tianlong, and flew to the palace. She then threatened that years later, a young child shall come and bring forth his doom, before taking Gangjiang in her mouth and flew away.

She then came back to their home and woke Gang Jiang, who just resurrected from his temporary death, and the two quickly packed their stuffs and moved deep within the moutains. Years later, their first son Chi heard about their story and was eager to avenge his father, feeling indignant that a human dared to do such a thing to a fairy. Filled with anguish, he started crying on his way to enact his vengence, not knowing that King Helü had ordered for assassins to find and bring back his head even before he was born.

On his way, he met an assassin and a malicious prank appeared in the young fae's head. Using his magic, he tricked the assassin into his loyal servant and ordered him to decapitate him in order to personally meet the king in person. After entering the palace, he kept appearing in the king's dreams in the form of his decapitated head. Soon, the mortal king went mad with fear and ordered his head to be boil, perfectly went along with Chi's plan.

Not trusting anyone else to do the task, Helü decided to have the same assassin that brought back Chi's head to do it. The moment he dropped the head into the boiling cauldron, his hair began to move and rip both the king's and the assassin's head off their necks, pulling them into the water as well. The flesh on the heads was boiled away such that none of the guards could recognize which head belonged to whom, and thus all the three skulls (one of them was the skull of a dog Chi transformed into looking as a human's) at Yichun County, Runan, Henan, and the "grave" is called the "Tomb of Three Kings".

After his little adventure, Chi came back home with his parents, who were quite upset that he left before finishing his housework, for dinner.

### Modern Era

At some point, they had a daughter, Jinfeng. Some years later she met and began dating a Shadowhunter of the Shanghai Institute. Though it is against the laws of the Cold Peace, Gan Jiang and his wife supported Jinfeng in her relationship with Ke Yi Tian.

In September 2010, upon hearing of Magnus Bane being stabbed with the Svefnthorn, they ordered him and his friends to come to their shop immediately. Once there, they gave him Gangjiang and Moye, which they claimed them to be keys and that they would help the group get into and out of Diyu. They then quickly hurried them out the door so they could have supper.

## Trivia

* He and his wife are referred to together by the name "Mogan".
* Though they like Tian and trust him, they do not really trust other Shadowhunters.
* Gan Jiang and Mo Ye claimed to have had their own Svefnthorn at one time. Though Mo Ye believed it to still be in the back of their shop, Gan Jiang denied it saying he had lost it long before Shanghai was even built.