Wouldn't do for a guardian stuck on a mountaintop to lose his touch, am I right? So every now and then I'd come down to visit Byakko and goad him into a sparring match.
I tell you, they're not called the Four Lords for nothing. Even when I gave it my best shot, he won. Easily. And you know what makes it worse? I know he was going easy on me!
I know she says she isn't, but boy does she look like the Firebird of legend! I bet she gave you the fight of your life, too! I might have to ask for a sparring match...
Doesn't speak too highly of the rest of us that we could only hang back and watch while the Four Lords did all the hard work. But hey─we've got a few more millennia till we have to do this again, right? Time enough for me to train that I can do my bit when the time comes!
Affiliation
Auspices
Biography
An auspice who has lived some two millennia, Qitian Dasheng is the former disciple of another auspice who created the tamate-bako of geomancy. After his master's death, the monkey took it upon himself to safeguard the relic sequestered deep within Swallow's Compass, the grand mausoleum of King Ganen. Qitian's name is perhaps more akin to a title, for it can also be translated as, "Great Sage, Heaven's Equal."