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Name: Yingko, Illuminated Shadow
Solar, Night Caste
A former member of the Tepet Legions and a survivor of the House's ruinous campaign against the Icewalkers, this newly exalted Solar was a shell of a man after seeing the waste of life at the hands of the inept leaders. Weary of duty and servitude and tramuatized by war, the Solar deserted and hid himself away in the Threshold, eventually rising to power as Shiwan Khan, a brutal warlord and opium producer in the Scavenger Lands. A crude understanding of his Solar abilities allowed Shiwan to ruthlessly stamp out his rivals. Ironically, much his former Tepet overlords, Shiwan had a disregard for the lives of his solders and followers and led an opulent lifestyle.
Then one night, he was kidnapped out of his own bed by unknown assailants who dragged him to what looked like a barren cliff in the Marukan mountains. Thinking that his kidnappers brought him out to this remote cliff to throw him over, Shiwan instead saw an ancient First Age monastery that shimmered into view.
He was bought before who he thought was an Immaculate Monk, a man shaved and in dressed in simple robes who called himself Illuminated Tuklu. Shiwan threatened the monk, asking him if he had any idea who he just kidnapped. The monk replied back with his true name, Tepet Yingko. Surprised that this stranger knew his real name, he was even more surprised when Illuminated Tuklu revealed that he was not an Immaculate or even a Dragon-Blooded, but answered to a higher power. Illuminated Tuklu said to him, that he knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men, for Yingko had seen that evil in his own heart. Illuminated Tuklu had brought him to be redeemed, to teach him to use his own inner darkness against the rising evil in Creation.
Years passed as Yingko's benefactor taught him to refine his martial and Solar abilities. When his training was complete, he told him to return to the Scavenger Lands to right injustice, and provided him with artifacts, a manse location, and the necessary amount of jade to establish himself. From therein, Yingko headed off on his quest of redemption.
Currently, he is residing in Nexus under an adopted guise as a foppish Realm socialite, and is the scourge of the Underworld in his disguised identity as Illuminated Shadow.
EDIT: At ST's request, removed the bit about the Sidereal and the Cult of the Illuminated
Solar, Night Caste
A former member of the Tepet Legions and a survivor of the House's ruinous campaign against the Icewalkers, this newly exalted Solar was a shell of a man after seeing the waste of life at the hands of the inept leaders. Weary of duty and servitude and tramuatized by war, the Solar deserted and hid himself away in the Threshold, eventually rising to power as Shiwan Khan, a brutal warlord and opium producer in the Scavenger Lands. A crude understanding of his Solar abilities allowed Shiwan to ruthlessly stamp out his rivals. Ironically, much his former Tepet overlords, Shiwan had a disregard for the lives of his solders and followers and led an opulent lifestyle.
Then one night, he was kidnapped out of his own bed by unknown assailants who dragged him to what looked like a barren cliff in the Marukan mountains. Thinking that his kidnappers brought him out to this remote cliff to throw him over, Shiwan instead saw an ancient First Age monastery that shimmered into view.
He was bought before who he thought was an Immaculate Monk, a man shaved and in dressed in simple robes who called himself Illuminated Tuklu. Shiwan threatened the monk, asking him if he had any idea who he just kidnapped. The monk replied back with his true name, Tepet Yingko. Surprised that this stranger knew his real name, he was even more surprised when Illuminated Tuklu revealed that he was not an Immaculate or even a Dragon-Blooded, but answered to a higher power. Illuminated Tuklu said to him, that he knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men, for Yingko had seen that evil in his own heart. Illuminated Tuklu had brought him to be redeemed, to teach him to use his own inner darkness against the rising evil in Creation.
Years passed as Yingko's benefactor taught him to refine his martial and Solar abilities. When his training was complete, he told him to return to the Scavenger Lands to right injustice, and provided him with artifacts, a manse location, and the necessary amount of jade to establish himself. From therein, Yingko headed off on his quest of redemption.
Currently, he is residing in Nexus under an adopted guise as a foppish Realm socialite, and is the scourge of the Underworld in his disguised identity as Illuminated Shadow.
EDIT: At ST's request, removed the bit about the Sidereal and the Cult of the Illuminated
