Nangong Heng
Retired Family Head of the Nangong Family, a centenarian held in high esteem throughout the Jianghu. When he throws a birthday banquet, everyone has to show him that small courtesy.
At the banquet, he proposed a plan for the various sects to exchange disciples, to study and apprentice abroad.
Before the decisive battle at the siege of Jiangling, he received a Brocade Pouch from Ruixing and went to the appointed meeting, where he died of Heart Failure.
Deeds
- In his life he saw three Wulin Alliances. When his grandfather Nangong Zhi founded the first as Wulin Alliance Leader, he was a babe no bigger than a palm; by the second he was a young man in his prime, serving under Zeng Wen.
- Many of the scrapes got into roaming the Jianghu as a youth were smoothed over, great matters made small and small matters made nothing, on the strength of Nangong Heng's face. On learning of his passing, the Sect Leader grieved as if he had lost an elder of his own family.
- The nickname of was given by the Old Patriarch Nangong, who changed the characters to help clear his name from his days as a flying thief.[1]
Notes
- He championed the exchange study to smooth over differences between sects, but distant water cannot quench a nearby fire.
- He was an old friend of Wanli Pengcheng. Seeing the scowling Nangong Shen, Wanli Pengcheng thought he looked exactly like Nangong Heng in his youth.
- "My eyes are dim" is mere politeness; his eyesight is in fact excellent, and he can read lips besides. Curse him behind his back and he will find out.
- At the siege of Jiangling, he went to the Beggar Sect to seek an audience with bringing only Nangong Qian and Zhao Huo.
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