Appearance and History of the Five-Toed, Black Imperial Dragon Jian Long<br/><br/><br/>Dragon: (Former General) Jian Xi. Sly, dark, and wicked,<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FENhqDYT.jpg&amp;hash=a20bd022a90a55a486e29583a56f60c9" href="https://i.imgur.com/ENhqDYT.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Jian is secretly a five-toed, black imperial dragon</a>. As smart as any human, he considers Lin Xi, inferior to him, but superior to any other human. He guides her, instructs her, and protects her. Secretly, he enjoys the taste of human flesh and savours the art of killing. Due to his own peculiar moral code, he generally confines his killing to those who lack honour or prey on the weak. For reasons of taste, he prefers to confine his consumption of human flesh to those of the male gender.<br/><br/><br/>General Jian Long lacks wings in his native form but can fly (he’s the size of a black mid-sized sedan). Magical in nature, he may transform into human form (an ability he developed under the tutelage of Lin’s father, a man who mistakenly thought he was Jian Long’s master—in reality, Jian has always considered the Young Mistress, Lin Xi, to be his chosen human).<br/><br/><br/>Though male, Jian’s body is filled with icy Yin energy and the temperature of any room or location slowly drops as he spends time there.<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5D16By3.jpg&amp;hash=42b0875fa5bd84948a809be374420c8b" href="https://i.imgur.com/5D16By3.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">In human form, his skin is dark, his eyes are black and filled with killing intent. He stands several inches over six feet tall and looks muscular, agile, and dangerous</a>. Arguably bi-polar, Jian is celibate and prefers to spend his time reading scrolls, drinking tea, and mediating when not guarding Lin Xi, killing his enemies, or feasting secretly on the flesh of (preferably evil and male) humans.<br/><br/><br/>No one in the Yoba Dynasty has realized that he is—in reality—a dragon. People think he was the younger brother of Lin Xi’s father (a minor poet, low ranking imperial minister, and secret mage) who became a famed General in the Yoba Army. When the Emperor decided that his “niece” Lin Xi would make a suitable concubine, General Jian gently refused. The Emperor had General Jian stripped of his rank and sent a high-ranking minister with an imperial decree dictating that Lin Xi assume her role as an imperial concubine. General Jian sent the man’s head back in a jade box with a beautifully written poem commemorating the event. When the Emperor sent troops to arrest the general, he and his personal bodyguard slew them.<br/><br/><br/>Appearance and History of Lin Xi:<br/><br/><br/><a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FVvCULwh.jpg&amp;hash=d02a306b41b97fca87c0f80511b28141" href="https://i.imgur.com/VvCULwh.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Lin Xi stands five feet six inches tall. She is slim with dark brown eyes and hair</a>. Her hands are calloused from constantly practicing her swordsmanship, archery, and combat abilities under the tutelage of her strict uncle Jian. Although, she was born magical, she doesn’t realize it and unconsciously uses her magic to guide her archery and speed and strengthen her sword strikes. Her father was a moderately well-known poet and low ranking imperial minister of the Yoba Dynasty. He was also an abusive, evil man. To this day, Lin bears psychological and physical scars from her father’s idea of family discipline. The year she turned thirteen, her father was found neatly eviscerated and thoroughly dead (his internal organs were missing) after Lin had been nearly beaten to death by her father for some now forgotten misdeed.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Her “uncle” was a famous general and he has raised her for the last six years having her serve as his aide. When he “rebelled” against the Emperor, she and approximately forty of those troops who formed his personal bodyguard chose to follow him into hell or damnation.<br/><br/><br/>Lin looks upon her uncle as her spiritual father, mentor, and a God. As do the forty who chose to follow him. Her uncle, the general, is incredibly strict, but appears to follow a code of honor, which includes punishing the wicked and protecting the weak. None of them realize that he’s not human.