Shenmeng
Shenmeng | |
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Information | |
First seen | Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling |
Last seen | Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling |
Planeswalkers |
Jiang Yanggu Mu Yanling |
Status | Unthreatened |
The Plane of Mountains and Seas is an unnamed plane featured in the Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling set. It is inspired by the Chinese Classic of Mountains and Seas, a compilation of mythic geography and myth.[1] It is home to the planeswalkers Jiang Yanggu and Mu Yanling.
Description
The world is characterized by its many mountains, forests, plains, lakes, rivers and oceans. It has a rich flora and fauna.
Locations
- The Arrow Bamboo Forest: a forest which a welcoming appearance that hides it’s deadly hostility, it was pacified by the arrival of Jiang Yanggu.
- Cloud Dream Lake:[2] the rainbows seen above the lake are nothing more than the ritual dancing of the Vivid Flying Fishes.
- Mount Zhaoyao: represented in Timber Gorge (Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling), it's a forest of stones that reaches the clouds and a land of wondrous treasures and strange animals.
- Ten Wizards Mountain[2][3]
- The Northern Mountains: deep in this mountain range, linger the Earth-Origin Yaks, who channel the power of the earth.
- The Dark Sea of Penglai in the north.[2][4]
- The Easternmost Valley,[3] the first place Yanggu can remember[2]
- The Western Seas: near them lies Mount Zhaoyao.
- The Eternal Divided Realm in the south.[2][4]
- Mu Yanling's village (ruined by a deluge)[2]
- Village of the Jiuli Clan,[2] Yanggu's foster clan
Sapient races
Other races
Notable individuals
- Chiyou, teenage Jiuli-clan fire dancer[2]
- Jiang Yanggu, a teenage orphan who journeyed to find a legendary elixir to save his village from a waterborne plague[2]
- Li Shan, nomad and foster father of Yanling, presumed dead[2]
- Mu Yanling, a water mage orphaned by a deluge, seeking to study time magic to undo her foster father's death[2]
- Mowu, Jiang Yanggu's sapient dog
- Yinglong, the Ancestor Dragon