The Torch Dragon
“In the north, it is the weather.”
A Cinnabar immortal of The Shanhai Wilds
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
The Torch Dragon of Mount Zhong: a thousand li long, human-faced, serpent-bodied, holding a torch in jaws that light the northern dark. When he opens his eyes it is day; when he closes them, night; when he breathes, winter. The Classic reports this the way other books report the weather. In the north, it is the weather.
Happening now
He is breathing right now — slow, deep — and the northern winter is settling in on schedule. His eyes are half-open: the long blue dusk of the north.
What may come
One day he will open his eyes all the way and keep them open — a day that does not end, a north without night — and the people of the dark will see the sun for the first time and not know what to call it. He has been saving that day. The torch is ready.
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
- Cinnabar
- Court
- The Shanhai Wilds — the Classic of Mountains and Seas
- Rarity
- Epic
- Personality
- The Torch Dragon, Zhulong, of Mount Zhong: a thousand li long, human-faced, serpent-bodied, holding a torch in jaws that light the northern dark. When he opens his eyes it is day; when he closes them, night; when he breathes, winter. The Classic reports this the way other books report the weather.
- Edition
- One of 40
- Stats
- power 95 · speed 45 · charm 60