Shenlong — Wyrd Games

In the aftermath of the Tyrant War, one of the hunted Tyrants, the Dragon, carved its essence in half and hurled part of itself through the dimensions. Its severed half appeared on Earth and slammed into a mountain near Sicily, triggering a volcanic landslide that caused a megatsunami, devastating the eastern Mediterranean coastline.

Weakened by traveling through the dimensions, the Dragon bonded with a shaman that came to investigate the disturbance. Though kept youthful by the Dragon’s influence, the shaman’s body eventually failed her and she collapsed in a Tibetan river. The Dragon learned, to its horror, that it could not separate itself from its host’s corpse, and millennia slowly passed as the Dragon struggled to escape its prison of bone.

Eventually, the Dragon was freed and possessed a new host. Rather than risk such a long imprisonment again, it traveled across Tibet, twisting the tenets of Buddhism to suit its own needs and creating a dogma that had but one purpose: to prepare humans to become the Dragon’s next host.

Even as a young monk in the temple of High River, Shenlong was exceptional. His brutality was matched by a ruthless cunning that drove him to travel from one temple to the next, mastering each style in turn. While he was aware of the political power that this granted him, he was not prepared for what would follow.