Jiang Yawen

**Jiang Yawen** 「蒋雅雯 (Jiāng Yǎwén)」, courtesy name **Jiang Lianhua** 「蒋莲花 (Jiǎng Liánhuā)」
is the current Sect Leader of the Xiulan Yan Sect and the first young mistress of the Tianjin Jiang Clan. The maternal aunt of Jiang Lei and Jiang Mei, making her the eldest sibling of the Twelve Jades of Tianjin-Laofu.

Eldest daughter of Gou Jiang Yanli and Hou Jiang Meixuan, elder sister of the Twelve Jades of Tianjin-Laofu, the husband of Jin Yinzhu and the younger martial sister of Cheng Mai.

During her youth, she trained underneath the cultivation fan master Liu Ningxian, the rebellious and often reckless immortal ruler of Mt. Luo, near the icy rivers of Shenzhou.

## Appearance

Jiang Yawen is a tall, shapely, and slim young woman with carved, jade-like features, sporting an air similar to that of a detached immortal cultivator. As the current sect leader, her robes are that of the xuan duan style, in the colors of white, gold, and black to symbolize her status. She completes her look with a silver and gold-accented hair guan that is shaped like a lotus bud just about ready to blossom.

## Personality

Cultured and incredibly non-traditional, Jiang Yanwen stands out as the youngest amongst her generation of Sect Leaders, due to her far more affectionate mannerisms of speech and gentler visages compared to other people. Possessing neither harshness or subtleness, Yanwen is strikingly open-minded, honest, and even-natured, simply accepting outcomes as they are decided and rarely providing discontenment at said outcomes.

As one of the highly respected Venerated Dragon Quintent which is comprised of four of the most skilled and prolifect warriors of their era, she presents herself as the clear leader of thr group. Strongly believing in the ties of friendship between the Quintent's members, to the point where she missed several signs of the Quintent's clear divide in opinions. While she often advocates peace, the other members of the Quintent are less forgiving of the ideals that peace has wrought on the land.

A scholar of the highest regard, Jiang Yanwen is dedicated to the inscription of knowledge and often finds herself pondering principles of the Four Arts. For all of her expertise in the Qin, she is wholly uncapable of infusing her music with her Path of cultivation.

## History

Jiang Yawen was born into a highly important family, that of the Tianjin Jiang, to whom her parents belonged to. From the time
of her birth, she was exposed to the hardships of the world, leading her to befriend the Shen siblings; Shen Meihua, Shen Yuan, and much later on Shen Jiu. Shen Jiu was originally a victim of human trafficking, whom the surly and indifferent Shen Yuan rescued out of the sense of a misguided duty to Jiang Yawen.

When Yawen and her younger siblings were extremely young, their mother fell ill with bronchitis and died in her sleep, the pain of her illness causing her pain during the last hours of her life. Her father consequently went into closed door seclusion as a form of atonment whilst the 17-aged Jiang Yawen was forced into the limelight as the current living heir to the clan, with her younger siblings as possible heirs should Yawen die without anyone to inherit the throne of the clan.

In December of the next century, Jiang Yawen (by then aged a thousand years old), took on her first apprentices and assigned them as their first team-oriented mission to negotiate with the chalk sellers in Petriochr Village.