Zhao Gongming
“Shopkeepers worship him on the fifth day of the New Year, the loudest day of the year, because wealth, like war, favors the bold.”
A Jade immortal of The Mortal Realm
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
The Martial God of Wealth: black-tiger rider, deified as True Lord of the Mysterious Altar — which is heaven's way of saying the money department needed a general. Shopkeepers worship him on the fifth day of the New Year, the loudest day of the year, because wealth, like war, favors the bold.
Happening now
He is riding the black tiger right now, through the smoke of New Year firecrackers, while shopkeepers bang their drums on the fifth day. The tiger is unimpressed by the noise. The tiger has heard it all before.
What may come
When the last coin is earned honestly and kept fiercely, Zhao Gongming will dismount the tiger, hang up the whip, and the money department will close its doors — the general's work finally done. The tiger will stay. Tigers always stay.
Connected
The Mortal Realm
They started human. Mostly. The Monkey King, the sea goddess Mazu, Guan Yu and his long beard, the Kitchen God filing his annual report — and the First Emperor’s clay guardian, who has stood his two-thousand-year watch without blinking.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Jade
- Court
- The Mortal Realm — legends who walked the earth
- Rarity
- Common
- Personality
- Zhao Gongming. The Martial God of Wealth: black-tiger rider, Jie Sect immortal, deified as True Lord of the Mysterious Altar — which is heaven's way of saying the money department needed a general.
- Edition
- One of 400
- Stats
- power 84 · speed 66 · charm 64
Joe was here.
“the old ones say: the gem cannot be polished without friction — thunder only strikes what stands tall enough to be noticed.”