Long Xiang
"Steal my drumstick! I'd never forgive even the Poet Immortal for that!"
A disciple of Jinxiang Palace, peerless in swordsmanship and striking in bearing. She travels the Jianghu along the trail of , and by her master's command rights wrongs, cutting down with a single stroke any dashing villain named in the Flower-Cherishing Register.
But once her sword is sheathed, she is a muddlehead. She roasts a chicken without plucking it, her purse is forever being cut, and her life is a mess.
She loves chicken legs and wishes to have them at every meal.
Biographies
Treading the path her father once walked, she yearns to carry on his will and right wrongs across the land.
Even so, knowing nothing of the world, she is surprisingly easy to deceive.
Titles
Murderous Demon of Jinxiang Palace, a title Tang Buyi made up on a whim, later known to all.
Chicken Leg Hero: one chicken leg is enough to buy her into a killing. The Ten Thieves of Goose City were slain by an assassin the poor folk bought off with chicken legs. Those ten thieves of Goose City were ruthless and skilled, and the wealth they plundered was said to rival a city lord's. A pity they died over chicken legs; one cannot help but feel it unjust.
the mark of all marks, a Beggar Sect-Certified Mobile Money Changer. Though beautiful as a flower and her swordsmanship divine, she is exceedingly foolish and utterly incapable of learning. Beggar Sect Disciples who meet her are delighted, for in the Chronicle of Jianghu Villainy there is not one trick she has not fallen for! Every single time, without fail; a rare specimen indeed. But should anyone try to drug her and take liberties, she will strike back with her sword in her dreams. And her sword moves in dreams are crueler than when awake, and never leave a survivor.
Zhao Huo says that all those Long Xiang has saved declare, "Heaven has eyes! It sent this White-Robed Bodhisattva to save us from our suffering!" And Xiang Wuyou, hearing the Commoners speak of Heroine Long, says she is a Bodhisattva with a sword.
Poems
At the Ruined Temple, after eating Zhao Huo's roast chicken leg, she recited this, adapted from the Poet Immortal Li Bai's "Ode to Gallantry".
Though dead, the hero's bones are fragrant, unashamed before the world's finest. Who will record it in the pavilion, white-haired Tai Xuan's chicken.
At Woyun Ridge, hearing the title Chicken Leg Assassin, she was smug and recited half a poem.
Slay every wicked heart under heaven, taste every fine chicken upon the earth.
When word got back to Jinxiang Palace, Lady Wen was mortified by her own beloved disciple and had a rattan cane readied, meaning to thrash Long Xiang within an inch of her life the moment she returned to the palace, and then to hire a village schoolmaster to teach her Reading from the beginning.
Leaving Fengyu Mountain, resting at an Inn, she woke to find no chicken leg and recited this.
Alas, no chicken legs at the morning market.
After the Western Wulin War, refuting that her belly held little ink, she said she could write her own lyric, titled "Song of Everlasting Longing · Ode to the Chicken Leg", for which there is an official image.
Marinated chicken legs. Roast chicken legs, roasted to a light char are the finest of all. The belly rumbles like thunder.
Who are you. Who is he. Dismounting at the scent, all forget to go home. So good it brings tears.
This lyric was written by Bear, and not only this one. At present Long Xiang's series of poems can only be seen on certain routes.[1]
Bonding Process
See "Long Xiang Bonding Guide"
Bonding Keepsake
Long Xiang's Hairpin
Long Xiang's jade-marrow hairpin, two pairs in all, comes from a jade dragon statue the Great Song sent to the Jin Kingdom as tribute.
Her father Long Yuan, in his youth, took it as a disgrace, broke off the dragon's horn in a fury and fled, and later had it made into a hairpin, which he left to his daughter.
Notes
Personality
Officially certified Jinxiang Palace husky[2][3]- Acknowledged by Bird Bear as the resident loser.[4]
- Long Yuan says Long Xiang's scatterbrained, happy-go-lucky nature is mostly inherited from him.
- Of all the Beloved, the one you least want to two-time; the consequences are severe
- She has no distaste for brothel women, since many of her Senior Sisters were courtesans who left the trade. They sold themselves to survive, robbing and cheating no one, and are far nobler than those born to wealth who do every wicked thing yet fancy themselves pure. But lecherous men who visit brothels are another matter (draws sword).
- She usually keeps her word; even if you try to buy her with a chicken leg, she will come to the appointment with the chicken leg in her mouth.[5]
- She dislikes bugs, but does not scream at the sight of one. She is not afraid of the dark, but still carries a lantern when she wanders out.[6]
- She fears nothing in heaven or earth except Lady Wen.[6:1]
- Lady Wen's rattan cane is vicious, but it leaves no lasting trauma.[6:2]
- For all her martial skill, she is easily pickpocketed without noticing, and to the Beggar Sect she is a prize sheep.
Health
- At 174 in height she is a giant in the Southern Song.[7] But she is past the age for growing and is unlikely to get any taller.[8]
- Medium butt.[1:1]
- She dislikes medicine but will endure it when she must; she rarely falls ill.[9]
- After taking a Panacea Pill, she is immune to all poisons, like Shangguan Sun.[9:1]
- The Song Dynasty had limited means of washing, and most people used plain water. Jinxiang Palace folk boil water with honey locust and mugwort to wash their hair.[10]
- She is a good swimmer.[11]
Relationships
- Her mother was Wanyan Meng, Princess of Yiguo, born of the Jin Kingdom's late Emperor Wanyan Yungong. Long Yuan says she was striking and valiant yet noble and elegant, a woman he was unworthy of.
- Of all Jinxiang Palace, Long Xiang alone did not enter of her own will; she was raised at Lady Wen's side from childhood, called master and disciple but more like mother and daughter.
- Continuing the above: though the Legend text says so, Bird Bear states that Lady Wen and Long Xiang share the bond of master and disciple.[9:2]
- The four in Jinxiang Palace who dote on Sister Xiang most: Sheng Xue, Lady Wen, Painting Immortal, and Mingyu.[5:1]
- In the first version, after the great battle with Tang Buyi, it was Tang Buyi who deliberately kissed her cheek so she would run off; players who insist on purity objected, and it was changed to Zhao Huo falling and kissing her. Later still it was changed so that a Destiny wheel decides who kisses her.
- She looks up to Tang Buyi, in the way one admires a righteous champion, just as she does Long Yuan and Wang Erzhuang,
though usually the moment they meet it turns into a manhunt, and so Zhao Huo has always believed he was taking advantage of the opening. - She rates Zhao Huo highly and praises whatever he does, and Tang Buyi teases her as the Murderous Demon of Jinxiang Palace, Flatterer Extraordinaire.
- During the month she stayed at the Tang Clan after the Flying Hero's landing, she sparred with and thrashed everyone in the sect; her strikes were so fearsome she nearly frightened the Tang Clan Disciples to death.[12]
- Of the Long Family, only Long Yuan remains.[11:1]
- The sibling bond between Wang Erzhuang and Lady Wen is one reason she wants to be sworn brother and sister with Zhao Huo.[13]
After Bonding
- She dresses in palace attire and means to play "Song of the Phoenix Seeking a Mate" to express her feelings, but Zhao Huo has no taste for such refinements, and she ends up pinning him to the wall and kissing him.
- Even after marriage Long Xiang is still thin-skinned; tease her rashly and she will be overcome with shame and fury and draw her sword.[8:1]
- After the Western Wulin ending, she wanders the world with Zhao Huo, returning to the Tang Clan now and then.[9:3]
- Alone with Zhao Huo, she tries to act spoiled, but has no knack for it. She does things for her partner, and the kitchen catches fire.[9:4]
- On the Chicken Leg Tycoon route, Bird Bear guesses they do not earn much, and are the type to spend whatever they earn.[5:2]
- On the Chicken Leg Tycoon route, the mountain Tea Shop has no fixed location, because they wander.[14]
- Bird Bear says it is hard to say how many children they will have after bonding, since that comes down to fate; in any case, she is healthy.[5:3][10:1]
Equipment
- Her sword is the Celestial Cup Sword Long Yuan once used, forged by the Fire Mountain Sword Pavilion. But Long Yuan found it too heavy, and later gave her her mother's Wrathful Mist Sword.[11:2]
- The Celestial Cup Sword's guard and handguard are shaped after the Warring States period wine vessel, the "feather cup". Of great age and priceless value, but the owner, Long Xiang herself, does not know it is an antique.
- Jinxiang Palace Disciples braid sword tassels, which sell dear on the market, but the ones Long Xiang braids will not sell, so she keeps them for herself. Many moves in the Soft Sword require a sword tassel, to obscure the sword's path or to sweep at the enemy's eyes, but Long Xiang has trained to the point of cutting men down with the tassel.
- She maintains her sword herself, so beyond the cost of materials she spends little; fortunately the sword is well forged and very durable.[15]
- The Celestial Cup Sword is a legendary treasured sword in this age, but everyone dreads Jinxiang Palace and admires Long Yuan, so few contend for it.[15:1]
- Were the Celestial Cup Sword masterless, the Diancang Sect would mobilize the whole sect to seize it.[1:2]
- She has several pairs of shoes; known are one pair for combat and one pair in the 2024 greeting card. At home she wears lighter shoes, and going out she wears boots. That was how everyone in the Wulin did it then.[16]
- Her Beloved Master Lady Wen braids her hair to cultivate her patience, and decrees that she must go out neatly groomed, never with hair loose. The braiding might be called Long Xiang's limiter. At Jinxiang Palace she slacks off with lighter styles.
Martial Arts
- The Tang Clan favors skill and finesse, favors soft force; neither sect prizes brute strength. Long Xiang is the exception.
- Her strength is the second greatest among the romanceable heroines (first is Yu Zhu), and not very great at that; the Celestial Cup Sword is heavy, but Jinxiang Palace prizes balance, and too much muscle would hurt coordination, so Lady Wen controls Long Xiang's diet.[17]
- Her fists and kicks are passable, not her strong suit, but she can use fist and kick techniques with a sword.[3:1]
- At the Western Wulin final battle, if she faces Shangguan Sun or Xiang Wuyou, she awakens twin swords and steps into the Peerless.
- She can kill with a chicken leg. Book of Life and Death No.32
- The chicken leg sword strikes vital points, and where the Internal Force goes it shakes the vagus nerve plexus, and then it is farewell.[18]
- Not yet implemented as of v3206, so her combat skill panel is blank.[12:1]
- When she attacks, her shadow shows a dragon, image.
- She has never killed a Good Person by mistake; though her strikes are fierce, her swordsmanship is precise and she holds back at will. When she travels abroad she wears Jinxiang Palace garb, to show her identity.[5:4]
- The Battle portion is planned for a future version.[5:5]
- Her greatest mischief at Jinxiang Palace: practicing the Soft Sword on live chickens.[11:3]
Music, Chess, Calligraphy, Painting
- Jinxiang Palace rules require each member to learn at least one instrument; Long Xiang can only play the flute, and not well.
- She can play Chess, but her game is terrible.[19]
- Her singing voice is clear and high.[20]
- Her geography is poor; Lady Wen forced her to study it, with limited results. She is fine in the Central Plains, but knows nothing of places farther off.
Where are the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun[11:4] - She was raised to be very polite; when she is not mentioning swords, her bearing and manners are those of a great lady.[11:5]
Food and Drink
- The culprit who lured Long Xiang into the chicken leg pit: the Beggar's Chicken Wang Erzhuang roasted with his own hands. Crack the yellow clay, peel the lotus leaf, and that aroma—no mortal could resist!
- She likes every chicken dish.[13:1]
- Though she lives by Dongting Lake, she has no particular love of seafood. She will eat fish, but finds picking out the bones a bother, and dislikes anything troublesome to eat.[1:3]
- She eats a great deal and her fuel costs are high, but her basal metabolism and exercise are high too, so she keeps her figure without anyone managing her.[1:4]
- She quite likes spicy food and can take a fair amount of heat.[1:5]
- Under supervision she eats at most two chicken legs a day (that is, one chicken), but after Lady Wen's death the limit is lifted.[1:6]
- She does not know it herself, but she has a naturally high tolerance for alcohol.[9:5]
- Drunk, she is a little bolder than usual and more talkative, and her threshold for killing drops, but she is still basically good-hearted.[9:6]
- Jiang's Meat Bun is famous, and has a chicken floss with sauce flavor; she simply cannot resist, and queues on sight.[5:6]
- At Jinxiang Palace her pocket money and food budget were both limited; after bonding, how much she spends on food is up to you. You can of course fob her off with dry rations and steamed buns.[5:7]
- She knows good food but also treasures it, and will not waste even what she does not like.[18:1]
Chores
- She pays the rent for the Outer Fort.[18:2]
- While staying at the Outer Fort she washed her own clothes; the Biography's ruined Zhao Huo clothes were because that garment was already in tatters.
Use a bit of force and it turns to rags, how can you blame her[21] - She can help sweep, mop, and chop firewood, but do not expect her to be careful.[12:2]
- When out training she takes work waiting tables at restaurants or Inns, simply because she can find no other suitable job.[18:3]
- She can do arithmetic and handle the accounts at work.[22]
- Cooking in the kitchen starts fires.
But kitchens use fire anyway, a little accidental blaze is nothing to fuss over[22:1] - She has also burned the Jinxiang Palace Kitchen; not an explosion, a fire (emphasis).[11:6]
- She wants to try cooking but has no talent; chopping vegetables, she cuts the cutting board clean in two.[12:3]
- However bad the food she cooks, she wastes none of it and eats it herself.[12:4]
- She will eat even burnt food, eating it in tears! If the burnt thing is meat, she apologizes to the dead animal, weeping as she eats.[18:4]
- Her best dish is charcoal, her second best is raw food.[5:8][23]
- Lady Wen arranged for her to work in the businesses Jinxiang Palace manages.[11:7]
- Her room at Jinxiang Palace is not especially messy, but full of things she likes, including toys from childhood, and she is very shy about anyone seeing them.[11:8]
Other
- Bird Bear has no plans for an ending where she becomes queen of the Jin Kingdom.[1:7]
- Her birthday is 8/5.[24]
- Long Xiang's character design was revised many times: at first she was set as Ruixing's gold-medal assassin, a shrewd and capable yet likable enemy. In the course of reworking Long Xiang, Sheng Xue, the "Silent Night, Compassionate Lantern" of Jinxiang Palace, was even spun off.[25]
- Bird Bear reveals: they originally planned a special Story in the Ruixing DLC to let Long Xiang shine, but at this stage they have decided to focus on polishing the base game.[25:1]
- Text from the Long Xiang Wanted Warrant folder merchandise: source
Wanted: the Murderous Demon of Jinxiang Palace
for robbery, murder, and the robbery, murder, and the theft of chicken legs, ten counts
Wicked beyond pardon. Whoever seizes
this person and delivers them to the Yuezhou Prefecture Yamen
shall report and receive a reward of one thousand taels of silver
Anyone who harbors them or knows and fails to report
shall be punished as the criminal
Yuezhou Prefecture Yamen - In Eldest Senior Brother Assassinates the Jin Emperor, Long Xiang goes to the Jin front to meet the Jin Emperor Wanyan Xun, who was sworn brother to her father Long Yuan, and demands to know why he broke faith after taking the throne and abandoned her father. She declines the title of Lady and cuts her robe to sever ties, leaving the words "My father never failed you; it was ever you who owed him." She also stages a scene with the assassin Tang Buyi, making it seem Tang Buyi died by her sword, and helps him escape.
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