Jin Ziyao (Ancestral War)

## Jin Ziyao

**Jin Ziyao** (金自要, *Jīn Zìyào*) is the youngest half-brother of the former leader of the Lanling Jin, Jin Guangshan, the brother-in-law of Madam Jin, the elder martial brother of Jin Kaya and Xiang Taomu, and the martial brother-in-law of Lan Niyu. He married Wang Yuxian and bore their two children Jin Yualang and Jin Zixun. The youngest child and youngest son of Jin Qingjiu and his last wife Mu Xiyuan, he studied underneath the eldest student of the legendary swordswoman Fu Hua, Lin Zhaoyu.

During their youth Jin Guangshan favored him greatly and wished to marry him, an ambition greatly hampered by Ziyao's marriage to Wang Yuxian and the couple's subsequent death. In the aftermath of his death, his wife, his daughter, his son-in-law, and his eldest grandchildren, Guangshan took in his orphaned seven-year-old son Jin Zixun.

## Appearance

Jin Ziyao is a young man with waist-length fair platinum-blonde hair that is tied in a low side ponytail by a purple tassel where it usually rests on his left shoulder with longs bangs hanging on the right side of his face and piercing dark-blue eyes.

His common attire is a periwinkle cloth over a navy blue kimono robe with a forest green sash, white socks, and wooden sandals.

## Personality

Ziyao was described as being cold, solemn, and standoffish by others, including his past prospective fiancés. This was due to his understanding of others' motives, as well as the events of his childhood. Having been used by the people around him constantly, he kept his guard up and disliked letting other people into the confines of his heart. Now that he had set such clean-cut boundaries and put forward an icy demeanor towards other people, it made said prospective fiancés think twice about marriage.

Despite what outsiders seemed to think, he was intuitive and reliable, as seen throughout the flashbacks in the series. He cared deeply for those close to him, though he had somewhat of a temper at times. His love for his wife was incredibly strong and though he preferred to rely on his other abilities to protect his family, he wasn't above refusing the aid of Yuxian or his children.

## Trivia

* Jin Yingyue, one of Jin Ziyao's granddaughters married Shang Yuang (eldest son and a member of the Imperial family), making her title that of a **princess** (公主, *gōngzhǔ*).
* In the world of *Ancestral War*, both men and women are capable of getting pregnant through a technique known as Qi sharing, a rather butched form of Dual Cultivation that doesn't involve pleasures of the flesh. By establishing a Qi 'pathway' between the two users, they are able to manipulate their body's natural Qi and blend their individual tracks of Qi together into one. Rather than involving the use of a body in which to incubate the child, the natural enviornment around the user provides the energy needed to stabilize the birth. Such babies are known as **Spiritual Babies** and are born through true love. Only those that are zhiji traditionally undergo this process.
	+ Of course, men are capable of conceiving through alternate and far more messy processes, such as artifical growth of a womb amongst other similarily unsactioned medical procedures.
* Jin Zixun never forgave his uncle for murdering his parents, older sister, brother-in-law or his eldest nieces/nephews. His grudge was so great against Jin Guangshan that he would be summoned by Wei Wuxian during his tenrue as the Yiling Laozu, serving as one of his most powerful servants.
* The Lanling Jin and the Yunmeng Jiang would be further linked in matrimony through the marriage of Jin Xumi to Jiang Gui
* The Path of Quantum is a path of cultivation utilized by most of the rogue cultivators that defect from Yunmeng Jiang and more rarely Lanling Jin.
	+ Jin Luzi, the youngest of his granddaughters utilizes the Path of Cultivation and is a rogue cultivator.