Yinglong
“Every drought is it holding back; every flood is it remembering.”
A River immortal of The Shanhai Wilds
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
The Winged Rain Dragon: feather-winged, rain-bringing, the Yellow Emperor's air force in the war against Chiyou — it slew Chiyou and executed Kuafu, then made so much rain the south flooded and it could never fly home. It lives in the southern marshes still, homesick and enormous. Every drought is it holding back; every flood is it remembering.
Happening now
It is coiled in the southern marshes right now, watching the northern sky, while the rain it is holding back gathers behind its eyes. The south is flooding again. It is not its fault. It is never its fault.
What may come
One dry season the winds will turn right, the clouds will lift right, and Yinglong will spread its feathered wings and fly home — north, over the battlefields, over the marshes, all the way home. The south will cheer. The north will rain. It will be the longest flight in history.
Connected
The Shanhai Wilds
The old bestiary, personified: nine-tailed foxes, torch dragons, the faceless dancer Hundun, the rain-bringing Yinglong, the white sage-beast Baize. Every strange thing about them is in the ancient books — nothing made up.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- River
- Court
- The Shanhai Wilds — the Classic of Mountains and Seas
- Rarity
- Rare
- Personality
- Yinglong. The Winged Rain Dragon: feather-winged, rain-bringing, the Yellow Emperor's air force in the war against Chiyou — it slew Chiyou and executed Kuafu, then made so much rain the south flooded and it could never fly home. It lives in the southern marshes still, homesick and enormous.
- Edition
- One of 150
- Stats
- power 90 · speed 78 · charm 64