Shizune Mei

**Shizune Mei** (寧音梅, *Jìngyīn Méi*), courtesy name **Shizune Xuande** (寧音玄德, *Jìngyīn Xuándé*), is the former clan leader of the Shenzhou Shizune Clan and former Peak Lord of Shizune Mountain. She is the only daughter of Nie Kexin and Shizune Xiao, the elder sister of Shizune Kai, the granddaughter of Xiao Qingqiu, Liu Xiyan, Shizune Yichen, and Shizune Jie and the niece of Wei Binghe and Song Yaling. At the end of the novel, she finally solves the murder of her parents thus laying them to rest in the family graveyard.

After giving birth to her two children, Mei returned to the Qilin Assembly and became the clan leader of the Long Qilin Clan. Her successor to the post of the clan leader of the Shenzhou Shizune Clan and the Peak Lord of Shizune Mountain is her eldest daughter Shizune Sying while her youngest daughter Shizune Shinku is the future wife of Jin Luo.

## Appearance

The novel describes Shizune Mei's features as delicate, sharp, and threatening presumably mostly due to her inability to seemlessely fade into the background. Tall in stature and petite, she possesses a feline grace usually found in most female cultivators, her eyebrows constantly furrowed as if she is always angry or suspicious of the people around her, with her mouth furrowed into a scowl most of the time.

## Personality

A warrior born and bred in the heat of battle, Shizune Mei is the epitome of a diplomatic warrior and her compatriots echo those sentiments amongst the common people, her sense of rightenous and level-headed temperment make her excellent for the often sharpened edges of diplomatic warfare; her mother Nie Kexin even once claimed that Mei had a far superior understanding of the field of diplomatic warfare, expertly baiting people into revealing information and spearheading investigations that led to throughly examined results that satisfied everybody. Yet, it can also be said that Mei while experienced in the field of diplomacy has never learned the virtues of companionships and falters when placed in an oppurtunity to make a real friend.

Her martial brothers describe her as having learned "all of her uncle and father’s strengths and faults but none of his mother’s strengths”.

Shizune Mei is acutely sensitive to being an orphan. Taking the resentment towards her wily and uncontrollable mother as a sign of stain or the undeserved hatred that her father faced by marrying an outsider, her loathing towards her own clan members climbed higher and higher until it cumilated in the trial and eventual execution of many clan elders and branch family members due to the assassination of her parents and the attempted assassination of her younger brother in cold blood. Her love for her younger brother is so strong that she even risked disappointing the clan elders in order to save him from certain death on more than one occasion. Not a forgiving person by nature, Mei refuses to see the good side in people and even purposely alienates those that she sees as the enemies of her whole clan or just herself.

Along with being the current **Peak Lord** (峰主, *Fēng Zhǔ*) of Shizune Mountain (ruled over by the Shenzhou Shizune Clan), she is also the **Elemental Wind Master** (元素風大師, *Yuánsù Fēng Dàshī*) (a position only held by the strongest child of an immortal) amongst the current generation of the Peak Lords and wields the weapons Lieyan Weishi and Huanghun respectively. Much like the winds that she commands, Mei is known to speak in a flowy style of speech and is swift like the wind when it comes to completing objectives, rarely liking to be confined or constrained to merely one objective.

Though she is the youngest amongst the clan leaders, Mei possesses a sharp intellect and a cutting, sharp tongue, rarely backing down in submission to anybody save the Chief Cultivator, harshly berating her clan's own juniors for backing down in the face of their own fathers and even raking her own fellow clan leaders over the coals in matters pertaining to Yiling and Wei Wuxian. Due to this, many of her fellow clan leaders express displeasure at her presence during the annual Cultivation Conferences and attempt to snidely remark on her activities.

## Trivia

* The Elemental Masters are beings capable of manipulating, generating, and developing new ways of controlling the element over which they hold divine supremacy over, through the usage of their lineage's and divine-forged weapons.
	+ As the current Elemental Wind Master, Shizune Mei was born with the ability of Aerokinesis, which is the ability to manipulate and produce air and affect the flow, velocity and chemical composition of air and wind.
* Mei is capable of speaking several different regional languages and dialects, due to the different peaks and their ruling Elemental Masters refusing to use either the same regional language or dialect.
* Her handwriting is noted to resemble chicken scratch.
* She is still working on completely mastering the rituals of the entire tea ceremony.
* Amongst the current generation of the Peak Lords, she is notoriously lazy when it comes to her diplomatic duties to the point where she is often not even present when diplomatic options are on the table.
* Mei has mastered inedia and as such, is rarely shown indulging in food even when given the oppurtunity to do so.