Hengqing

* Bio

**Hengqing**, also known as the **God of Unity** and **Arcane Lord of Storms**, is the current Electro Supreme God-King among the continent's ruling Supreme God-Kings, presiding over the city-state of Huan and by association, the wider Kuzanaga Empire and the creation of the eldest of the three Supreme God-Kings, Huiqing. She currently resides in her vessel of Ailiseu.

She is the youngest and likest the newest among the continent's ruling Supreme God-Kings, having risen to this position following the death of the triad of Supreme-Gods: Huiqing, Sae and Rin Itoshi during the cataclysm (also known as the third and final of the great disasters) five hundred years ago.

Soon after her birth, the sages of Huan took her to the manor where the triad of Supreme God-Kings once reigned from, giving her the choice to walk among her people and gain power from her deeds, she chose on self-imprisonment there in order to allow herself to fully grow into her power as a deity, through this method so did Hengqing obtain power. In order to watch over her nation before her imprisonment, she created the device and data-collecting system known as Zaki-Wukong, which complied both oral and written information into a singular database which was accessiable by even the most poorest of people as a way of enriching their lives.

Due to Hengqing being forced to destroy the albeit faded spirits of her three predecessors, which ultimately destroyed all information about them from the world and ultimately changed everybody's memory, Hengqing is believed by all, including herself, to have always been the original and founding Supreme God-King of Huan and of the wider Kuzanaga Empire, while her three predecessors were believed to have been her fellow divine companions that fought as commanders in her military forces while Hengqing ruled the nation.

## Profile

### Introduction

> Much like the waters that fade slowly and are delicately woven in the branches of this world, so too are humans' fates entertwined with that of their ruling deities.
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Despite her status as Huan's Supreme God-King, Hengqing (by choice) exerts little power over her nation's affairs. Due to her self-imposed isolation inside the manor where the triad of Supreme God-Kings once reigned from, no one in Huan other than the sages of Huan have seen her since her birth 500 years ago. The sages often leave her to handle any international matters and exclusively focus on external affairs while she is away or meditating in her self-imposed isolation.

Although she isolates herself from the outside world, she has shown a startling affinity for opening mental links with any of her worshippers and even some of her foreign worshippers, often aiding all of her worshippers through this manner. Having created many bionic puppets that appear no different from humans, she watches over her people by dispatching them through her land, watching them grow and develop with her encouragment and sometimes even taking control of some of the puppet's bodies in order to interact with her own citizens. She is also capable of appearing in the dreams of people across Huan and actively uses this power, in order to aid and watch over her citizens as a form of protection.

Hengqing frequently intervenes in the lives of people across Huan and even from foreign nations as well, having once saved Briar Valley from an earthquake by channeling her power through Silver, one of the royal guards of the future King of Briar Valley, Malleus Draconia. However, since her influence is subtle, stories about her are relegated to rumors and urban legends; even the sages of her own nation and foreign rulers cannot confirm her activities in the outside world.

### Personality

> A kind god with nary a bad word to say about anybody, she is perhapes the kindest of the continent's currently ruling Supreme God-Kings. Just as wise as she is powerful, she doesn't shie away from confrontation and is just and through, weighing all possible outcomes. A gentle god indeed.
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When finally met by the MC, Hengqing shows herself to be an elusive and secretive individual, rarely leaving the manor or revealing her identity. She instead opts to utilize methods like telepathy and possession to communicate to humans. Despite her lack of actual face-to-face social interactions, she is shown to be greatly versed in all forms of social communications and excels in verbal debates. She confesses to having a fondness for analogies, which she uses quite frequently in her speech and when answering questions. Not really fond of giving straight answers, except in matters of great importance, she prefers leaving a person to discover the right answer on their own and even bluntly told Ruggie Bucchi to his face, that even as the aftermentioned God of Unity, that she disliked telling people the answer, believing that it would hinder their growth.

Hengqing is also noted to be a gentle and kind god, disliking violence of any kind but believing in some cases, that bloodshed couldn't be avoided. Wise beyond her years, she considers the principle of trust to be the most important to her reign and frequently advises her own people on the dangers of trusting people too quickly, as proven by her own experiences when she was still in control of her own nation.

As the kagemusha ("shadow double") of the triad of Supreme God-Kings, she was a stern, cold, and ruthless warrior that cared for little outside of the triad of Supreme God-Kings, considering them to be her family. Being the most powerful warrior of their military forces, she was

### Appearance

Hengqing commonly appears as Ailiseu, a tall, young woman with genuine Qilin horns, a repersentation of her true nature as a Qilin who ascended to godhood. The ends of her hair are tinted a different color in accordance with her corosponding element with hers going from dark purple to bright purple—signifying electro.

## Story

### History

During the cataclysm five hundred years ago, the previous Supreme God-Kings perished after trying to completely remove the taint from their land's soil. Before their demise, they took the Qilin child that they had raised, having reforged her entire body (which Hengqing gave up for their ascensions to godhood) into that of a fledging godling directly infusing her body with their divine energies. In doing so, they also imparted their powers and some of their respective traits onto the impressionable young godling who began to emulate them.

The actual day of Hengqing's birth is celebrated in Huan and the wider Kuzanaga Empire as the Tennousei Festival.

### Book Chapters

Hengqing is first mentioned in Chapter I of the first book by Ruggie Bucchi as the God of Electro, where the MC learns that she is the youngest of the Mikoshiba continent's ruling Supreme God-Kings. After the events of Chapter II, Ruggie suggests that the MC venture to Huan (during the time of the Tennousei Festival) next and seek out Supreme God-King Hengqing, though warns them that Hengqing is quite reserved and tight-lipped towards people who are not her worshippers, thus implying that Ruggie has had some interactions with the God himself.

Hengqing is not seen in the first book chapter related to her dorm, although the MC tries to look for her to no avail.

She first makes a proper appearance in the Book Chapter III, Act II: Enlighted One of Wisdom and Astrology, where the MC comes across a sleeping stranger in the woods outside of Ramshackle Dorm while going chesnut picking for a pie and trying to keep their mind off their friends' enslavement by Azul. After Hengqing helps the MC to pick enough chesnuts, she speaks in several cryptic sentences and quite bluntly tells them to find the answers to Hengqing's and their own questions, they must first challenge themselves to do the impossible for only when they understand the truth fully will they truly learn.

## Trivia

* She knows how to fight and was previously the kagemusha ("shadow double")