Shentu Ziye

**Shentu Ziye** *(Chinese: 申屠子夜 Pinyin: Shēntú Ziyè)* is a human and member of Fog Hill's Shentu Clan. He is also the current Water Envoy *(Chinese: 水行 Pinyin: Shuǐxíng lit: Water Path)* and the older brother of Shentu Yuanshu.

## Appearance

Shentu Ziye has long black hair, gray-blue eyes, soft facial features, and a dot centered on his brow. Due to the frigid location of his home, Ziye wears a thick, white fur cloak decorated with a purple trim, purple shoulder armor with a green trim, and green feathers. His normal attire consists of a thick white long-sleeved cloak with a green trim on the sleeve cuffs, black and green wrist bands, a purple cloth waist guard, black pants, and purple boots with green soles.

## Personality

Ziye's personality matches his element; cold and hard on the outside, but soft and quick to change on the inside. In his interactions with his fellow Envoys, he maintains a professional and non-confrontational relationship. However, he's not heartless and takes effort to help them such as when he pulled water out Wenren Jingxuan's lungs when he was almost drowned by Jue Ying.

His softer side comes out when he interacts with his younger sister Yuanshu. Though he never loses his stoic demeanor with her, he never hid his concern for her safety and took efforts to make her tools to improve her powers. Her capture and subsequent imprisonment by the Qilin became a sore subject for him, and the cause of it, Wenren Yixuan, a target of his resentment and temper.

## Images

Artwork of Ziye and his Divine ManifestationZiye Promo ArtZiye and Yuanshu's home

## Powers and Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: As one of the Five Envoys, Ziye possesses speed, strength, endurance, and elemental control unrivaled by most of his clan members. Like the other Envoys, he possesses the ability to amplify his elemental and physical powers via Divine Manifestation.

**Divine Manifestation** *(Chinese: 昭神 Pinyin: Zhāoshén):* A power shared amongst the Envoys, Ziye is able to enter into a powerful state that amplifies his abilities. In this state, his skin turns pale blue with green markings on his cheeks and forehead, while his irises turn yellow. His hair changes to white and flows up as if air is flowing through it.

* Ziye surrounded by Ice
* Ziye freezing Yixuan and the Qilin
* Ziye freezing Jue Ying
1/3**Hydrokinesis:** Ziye’s elemental alignment is Water, but his focus is control over Ice unlike his sister Yuanshu. With his powers, he can quickly generate vast amounts of ice to immobilize, pierce, or freeze his opponents with his go-to offensive being blades of ice formed around his lower arms.

In his battle with the Qilin, Ziye was able to generate a mountain of ice to immobilize Yixuan and the Qilin. In his short battle with Jue Ying, Ziye was able freeze the assassin almost instantaneously and shatter him.

He can still control water in a fluid state, such as when he removed water from Jing's lungs after saving him from Jue Ying.

## Trivia

The characters that make up Ziye's name:

* *Shēn (申):* To state to a superior, report; extend;
* *Tú (屠):* Butcher, slaughter, massacre
* *Zǐ (子):* Offspring, child; fruit, seed of;
* *Yè (夜):* Night, dark; in night; by night
	+ When combined together, the Characters "**Ziyè***"* (*子夜)* translate to "**Midnight**."