Faces of the Jianghu: The Two Great Families
Nangong Family
A'Yi
| Nangong's Birthday Banquet "A'Yi" | A household servant who calls names and seats guests. He thinks Zhao Huo is a servant too, and that sharing a table with the Great Heroes of every sect is already more than he deserves. Bullies Nangong Qian. If Zhao Huo's Mouth Power is high enough, he curses A'Yi until he coughs blood and faints, then kicks him awake again. |
| Rushing to Jiangling "Nangong Yi" | "See my sharp pauldron? This is the symbol of my honor! Today I'll not only win your money, I'll hang your ugly corpse on my pauldron as a trophy and parade you through the streets!" He learned from Nangong Juan, a branch-family uncle. He claims to be a somebody among the household servants, a servant among servants, the cream of the servants! When training in the courtyard, if you run into this Nangong Family Servant, he fights Zhao Huo and suggests betting money. If you refuse to bet with him, he pushes Nangong Qian forward to fight you instead. When Nangong Shen treats Zhao Huo to Birun Cake, he says Zhao Huo is ugly and lowly and is wasting the expensive Birun Cake. |
| Rushing to Jiangling "A'Yi" | Without a word of proof, he accuses Nangong Qian, who is training at night, of being a thief and pins the loss of jewels from the branch residence on him. He is knocked out by the Masked Man who suddenly bursts in. |
| Rushing to Jiangling | He finds Nangong Qian and Zhao Huo, knocked out by Wang Erzhuang. While carrying Zhao Huo back, he shoves him into the river while he is unconscious. Once Zhao Huo wakes, he is respectful again, two faces before and behind people's backs. |
| Wulin Assembly | Bullies Nangong Qian as he leaves the grounds. Then he goes to watch the Family Head face off against Lady Wen. He tries to stop Nangong Qian from speaking on the field and is cut down with a single blade. |
A'Bing
| Nangong's Birthday Banquet "A'Bing" | Bullies Nangong Qian, using the matter of Nangong Qian secretly wearing a pauldron to blackmail him into doing chores. |
| Rushing to Jiangling | He brings a large sum to the Inn in the town next to Jiangling to make arrangements, and speaks harshly of the Tang Clan for deserting before the battle. But then he runs into Beggar Sect members begging for water, is scared half to death, and suddenly wants to go home. With the Tang Clan's help, he says many good things about the Tang Clan to Nangong Shen. |
| Wulin Assembly | Bullies Nangong Qian as he leaves the grounds. Then he goes to watch the Family Head face off against Lady Wen. He tries to stop Nangong Qian from speaking on the field and is cut down with a single blade. |
| Western Wulin "A'Bing" | Used by the Eldest Senior Brother as a Hidden Weapon against Nangong Shen's Phoenix Treasure Robe. |
A'Ding
| Nangong's Birthday Banquet | Puked all over by the drunk Eldest Senior Brother, and scolded by Nangong Shen besides. He orders Zhao Huo to sort out Shangguan Ying's gifts. "I am the one and only me, born of my father and raised by my mother. You just don't know my name. Same reason I don't know yours. You look like a Passerby to me. If you want to look down on me, I'll look down on you first." |
| Rushing to Jiangling "A'Ding" | In charge of reporting on the battle. |
| Western Wulin "A'Ding" | Used by the Eldest Senior Brother as a Hidden Weapon against Nangong Shen's Phoenix Treasure Robe. "Who threw me here? Master, no!" |
Nangong Ji
| Ruined Temple route "Nangong Ji" | Gifted with rare talent, outstandingly able and shrewd, he was recommended before the Family Head and thought he would rise high. Instead he was sent off to wait on the Second Young Lord, Nangong Qian. Not long after he goes to Apricot Blossom Forest to beg for a Brocade Pouch, he meets Duan Zhixiu and begins to think of switching allegiance. He plans the night raid on the Tang Clan under the Nangong name single-handedly, and to earn merit tries to abduct Ye Yunshang. At first he holds out even through torture, relying on the Nangong Family's body-protecting qigong, and is quite arrogant. The Second Senior Brother steps in and he turns obedient in no time, even his portrait changes. In the end the Second Senior Brother plants a parasitic fungus in his body and lets him go. Because of his sneaking about, he is caught and dragged back to the Tang Clan by Ye Yunzhou. |
Nangong Wei
| Junior Martial Sister's Wedding "Iron Whip" Nangong Wei | Acts as matchmaker for Nangong Shen, and is a good friend of the Third Senior Brother. |
| Wulin Assembly | Called cousin by Nangong Yuan and cousin-uncle by Nangong Qian. When Nangong Qian says the wrong thing, he pulls him aside and warns him. When Nangong Qian leaves the grounds and the servants and womenfolk want to teach him a lesson, he speaks up against it, but only to tell them to drag him farther off and not hit his face, for the Nangong Family's sake. |
| Western Wulin | Seeing the Tang Clan's ceasefire fireworks, he fears for Nangong Shen's safety and quarrels with the Cang Gang Leader. He will pay any price to keep Nangong Shen alive, and even considers kneeling to the Third Senior Brother to apologize. |
Madam Nangong
| Rushing to Jiangling | Nangong Qian's young auntie. She mistakes Zhao Huo for a Beggar Sect member and takes him to task on Nangong Qian's behalf. After Zhao Huo teases her with his mouth, she finds her heart racing. |
| Wulin Assembly | She orders the household servants to teach the departing Nangong Qian a lesson, saying she will take the blame. |
Shangguan Family / Cang Gang
Attendant A
| Wulin Assembly "Zhu Wuhua" | Fifth in his family, Incense Master of the Cang Gang's Nine Immortals Hall. Within the Cang Gang, he is second only to one man. Accompanied by Song Bei, he goes to the Tang Clan to deliver the invitation. He claims to be a seafaring man who has not read many books, yet he is a fine talker. He is an old friend of Huang Jinlong, Sect Leader of the Tianwu Sect. When the two first set out, they swore to make a name for themselves in the Jianghu and meet again twenty years later atop Songshan. He once mocked Huang Jinlong for having no backbone, throwing in with the Nangong Family, never thinking he himself would fail to make it either and end up serving the Shangguan Family. |
| Wulin Assembly "Hua Yihe" | A Cang Gang Disciple who collects invitations and seats guests at the Wulin Assembly. |
| Wulin Assembly | Shangguan Ying's attendant. He answers to the Cang Gang Leader, and the Cang Gang Leader answers to Shangguan Sun. He was sent to watch the young lady and should not take orders from Shangguan Ying, but out of respect for Zhao Huo he is willing to let the two say their private farewells. To treat the Tang Clan to drinks, Shangguan Ying offers him fifty years' pay to take the money and run. |
Attendant B
| Wulin Assembly | Shangguan Ying's attendant. He answers to the Cang Gang Leader, and the Cang Gang Leader answers to Shangguan Sun. He was sent to watch the young lady and should not take orders from Shangguan Ying, but out of respect for Zhao Huo he is willing to let the two say their private farewells. To treat the Tang Clan to drinks, Shangguan Ying offers him fifty years' pay to take the money and run. |
Jiang Lan
| Western Wulin | The Cang Gang Leader. When Zhao Huo becomes Sect Leader of the Kongtong Sect and chooses to strike at the Tang Clan, Jiang Lan, together with the Beggar Sect's Green Snake Old Monster and Nangong Wei, surrounds and kills Zhao Huo after he pursues too far, and gives his name here. Fearing for Shangguan Sun's safety, he quarrels with Elder Nangong. |