Hu Shen - Commander From the East

Hu Shen’s life stretches across centuries, shaped by countless experiences and battles. As an Awakened Human, he is capable of remembering all his past lives, though these memories only begin to resurface as he comes of age. Born into each new life unaware of his past, Hu Shen eventually recalls his former selves, their memories flooding back gradually. These recollections shape the person he becomes, with each new life building on the knowledge and wisdom of those before it. For the first thousand years of his many lives, Hu Shen lived on the continent of Tharador, growing familiar with its customs, languages, and people. He served as a warrior, a healer, a scholar, and even a noble, learning the land’s ways intimately. But over the last several hundred years, his lives have been spent in Edrador, a land far to the east, a place he was wholly unfamiliar with in comparison to the land he had lived and died in so many times. It was in Edrador that Hu Shen first encountered the Cult of the Coiled Serpent, a shadowy organisation bent on enacting the dark will of Mindoriel’s Spawn. Their rise and the devastation they caused left an indelible mark on him, fueling his resolve to stop them. Now, as the commander of the Unseen Wardens' expedition to Tharador, Hu Shen draws on memories of both continents. While his last several lives have been lived in Edrador, his time in Tharador is still vivid, even though centuries have passed. His knowledge of Tharador’s customs may be somewhat outdated, but the land remains familiar to him. The Unseen Wardens trust Hu Shen’s leadership completely, for he has faced the Cult of the Coiled Serpent before and understands their cunning and malice better than most. Hu Shen's mission is clear: to stop the Cult from infesting Tharador with their dark influence. Though his force is small, they are disciplined and united under his command. The weight of his past lives presses on him, each mistake and victory guiding his decisions. This life, like all the ones before, is one of duty; his only goal now is to ensure the Cult does not claim Tharador as it once sought to claim Edrador.