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The character is a Chinese deity. Variation of Deity.

Also Called[]

  • Buddhist Deity
  • Confucianist Deity
  • Shenist Deity
  • Taoist Deity

Capabilities[]

The user can have the traits and abilities of the deities of Chinese Mythology, which is directly connected to Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

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Deities[]

The Three Pure Ones[]

All: Cosmic Awareness, Ethereal Physiology, Omnilock, Old God-Patron God and Supreme Divinity

  • Yúanshǐ Tīanzūn/Jade Pure One
    • Archetype:Causa Sui, Archetype:Supreme Deity, Principle Manipulation, Eternal Transcendence, Absolute Concealment and Formlessness (Yuanshi Tianzun is said to be without beginning and the most supreme of all beings. He is in fact, a representation of the principle of all being. From him all things arose. He is eternal, limitless, and without form. Yùqīng comes into being at a time before Creation started, when the Universe was in a state of either nothingness or meaningless flux. He then oversees the genesis of the Universe and can therefore be seen as "the Creator" – although there is a sense that it is not his own will to do this: he is, himself, an inevitable part of the process of Creation)
    • Chi Manipulation (His spiritual energy radiates outward in a mandora of swirling colors)
    • Divine Energy Manipulation (The first pure one is universal or heavenly Qi... Heavenly Qi includes the Qi or energy of all the planets, stars and constellations as well as the energy of God (the force of creation and universal love))
    • Heat Manipulation and Burning (Taoists claim that sacrifices offered to Yuanshi Tianzun by the king predate the Xia dynasty. The surviving archaeological record shows that by the Shang dynasty, the shoulder blades of sacrificed oxen were used to send questions or communication through fire and smoke to the divine realm, a practice known as scapulimancy. The heat would cause the bones to crack and royal diviners would interpret the marks as Yuanshi Tianzun's response to the king)
    • Knowledge Manipulation (After telling Jiang what to do through a poetic format, Yuanshi Tianzun says his final words of farewell to his student. The Jade Pure One created the first writing system, by replicating shifting patterns of energy and casting them in gold onto jade tablets. The Jade Pure One is the source of all learning and the first author of Taoist scriptures)
    • Meta Teleportation (At the beginning of each age, Yuanshi Tianzun transports the Lingpao ching (or "Yuanshi Ching"), the Scriptures of the Magic Jewel, to his students (who are lesser deities), who in turn instruct mankind in the teachings of the Tao)
    • Mountain Manipulation (Master of the Kunlun mountains, the Chinese equivalent to the Buddhist Mount Sumeru)
    • Past Embodiment (Yuanshi Tianzun was thought to be able to control the past)
    • Omnificence Genesis (It is believed that he came into being at the beginning of the universe as a result of the merging of pure breaths. He then created Heaven and Earth from his being. Yùqīng or The Jade Pure One is also often credited with creating the Heavens, Earth, Mankind and all the other living creatures on the earth, although this seems to sit less well with Laozi’s philosophical text, which suggests that it’s the Three who create the 10,000 things)
    • Omnipresence (It is the Jade Pure One (Yuanshi Tianwang or Yúanshǐ Tīanzūn) who is usually identified with Pangu as the creator of the universe out from the shapeless mysterious dark. Both had existed before other things came into being, and as part of the void (xu - 虛) they themselves had no dimension (wuji - 無極) but nevertheless filled out the whole imaginable space (taiji - 太極))
    • Supreme Divinity (The highest divinity in Taoism) and Meta Power Manipulation (Yuan-shi tian-zun is said to be the supreme beginning, the limitless and eternal creator of Heaven and Earth, who picked the Jade Emperor as his personal successor)
    • Truth Embodiment (He is seen as "the source of all truth, as the sun is the source of all light")


Chinese Deities[]

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  • Cundi
    • Alpha Physiology (of Buddhas)
    • Authority (over the Seventy Million Buddhas)
    • Buddha Manipulation
    • Buddhaic Plane Manipulation
    • Meta Ability Creation (They will always have adequate resources and abilities to do as they wish. In any birth, they will always be able to leave the home life, and will have the ability to maintain the pure precepts of a bodhisattva. They will be born in human or heavenly realms, they will not fall into evil destinies, and they will always be protected by all the heavenly guardians)
    • Perfection (This great dhāraṇī of Cundī is a great brilliant mantra teaching that is spoken by all Buddhas of the past, all Buddhas of the future, and all Buddhas of the present time. I also now speak it thusly to benefit all sentient beings, causing them to attain Anuttarā Samyaksaṃbodhi. If there are sentient beings with little merit, who lack the roots of goodness, natural ability, and the Factors of Bodhi)
    • Purification (Via her sutra)
  • Guanyin/Kwan Yin
    • Absolute Senses (Filled with compassion, she returned to Earth, vowing never to leave till such time as all suffering has ended)
    • Absolute Condition (Vowed to never stop until all suffering has ceased)
    • Absolute Strength (Guanyin's Cintāmaṇicakra manifestation is also widely venerated in China and Japan. In iconographic form, this manifestation is often portrayed as having six arms; his first left hand holds Mount Meru, his second left hand holds a lotus flower and the third left hand holds a Dharma wheel (cakra))
    • Absolute Transcendence and Primordial Force Manipulation (In China, the Thousand-Armed manifestation of Guanyin is the most popular among her different esoteric forms. In the Karandavyuha Sutra, the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Guanyin (Chinese: 千手千眼觀音; pinyin: Qiānshǒu Qiānyǎn Guānyīn) is described as being superior to all gods and buddhas of the Indian pantheon)
    • Compassion Embodiment (Avalokitesvara has the supernatural power of assuming any form required to relieve suffering, and also has the power to grant children. Because this bodhisattva is considered the personification of compassion and kindness, a mother goddess and patron of mothers and seamen)
    • Absolute Wish (Via the cintamani)
      • Absolute Immortality, Meta Music Manipulation and Absolute Restoration alongside complete immunity to Absolute Destruction and Absolute Death Inducement and possible Omni-Immunity (In one version of this legend, when Guanyin was executed, a supernatural tiger took her to one of the more hell-like realms of the dead. However, instead of being punished like the other spirits of the dead, Guanyin played music, and flowers blossomed around her. This completely surprised the hell guardian. The story says that Guanyin, by merely being in that Naraka (hell), turned it into a paradise. A variant of the legend says that Miaoshan allowed herself to die at the hand of the executioner. According to this legend, as the executioner tried to carry out her father's orders, his axe shattered into a thousand pieces. He then tried a sword which likewise shattered. He tried to shoot Miaoshan down with arrows but they all veered off)
      • Blessing Inducement (Finally in desperation he used his hands. Miaoshan, realising the fate that the executioner would meet at her father's hand should she fail to let herself die, forgave the executioner for attempting to kill her. It is said that she voluntarily took on the massive karmic guilt the executioner generated for killing her, thus leaving him guiltless)
    • Omni Healing (Then a monk appeared saying that the jaundice could be cured by making a medicine out of the arm and eye of one without anger. The monk further suggested that such a person could be found on Fragrant Mountain. When asked, Miaoshan willingly offered up her eyes and arms. Miaozhuang Wang was cured of his illness and went to the Fragrant Mountain to give thanks to the person. When he discovered that his own daughter had made the sacrifice, he begged for forgiveness)
        • Omnilock It is because of this that she descended into the Hell-like realms. While there, she witnessed first-hand the suffering and horrors that the beings there must endure, and was overwhelmed with grief. Filled with compassion, she released all the good karma she had accumulated through her many lifetimes, thus freeing many suffering souls back into Heaven and Earth. In the process, that Hell-like realm became a paradise. It is said that Yama, the ruler of hell, sent her back to Earth to prevent the utter destruction of his realm, and that upon her return she appeared on Fragrant Mountain)
      • Compassion Manipulation (The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra) is generally accepted to be the earliest literature teaching about the doctrines of Avalokiteśvara. These are found in the twenty fifth chapter of the Lotus Sūtra. This chapter is devoted to Avalokitesvara, describing him as a compassionate bodhisattva who hears the cries of sentient beings, and who works tirelessly to help those who call upon his name)
    • Enlightenment (Shuiyue Guanyin (Chinese: 水月觀音; Pinyin: Shuǐyuè Guānyīn) - "Water-Moon Guanyin". A traditionally masculine form of Guanyin who is closely linked to and sometimes regarded as a further manifestation of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin. Is traditionally invoked for good rebirth, safe childbirth as well as enlightenment)
    • God Summoning (These forms encompass a Buddha, a pratyekabuddha, an arhat, King Brahma, Sakra (Indra), Isvara, Mahesvara (Shiva), a great heavenly general, Vaiśravaṇa, a Cakravartin, a minor king, an elder, a householder, a chief minister, a Brahmin, a bhikkhu, a bhikkhunī, a Upāsaka, a Upāsikā, a wife, a young boy, a young girl, a deva, a nāga, a yaksha, a gandharva, an asura, a garuḍa, a kinnara, a Mahoraga, a human, a non-human and Vajrapani)
        • Omnifarious (The Lotus Sutra describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of god including Indra or Brahma; any type of Buddha, any type of king or Chakravartin or even any kind of Heavenly Guardian including Vajrapani and Vaisravana as well as any gender male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings)
    • Fertility Inducement (Songzi Guanyin (Chinese: 送子觀音; Pinyin: Sòngzi Guānyīn) - "Child-giving Guanyin". An aspect of Guanyin which is closely linked to another manifestation, Baiyi Guanyin. Is primarily venerated as a fertility goddess and frequently invoked in prayers for children. Usually portrayed in statues and painting as a reclining white-robed young woman with a child sitting on her lap. Baiyi Guanyin is also a fertility deity)
    • Gender Transcendence (Additionally, Tan Chung notes that according to the doctrines of the Mahāyāna sūtras themselves, it does not matter whether Guanyin is male, female, or genderless, as the ultimate reality is in emptiness)
    • Guardianship (In Chinese Buddhism. In both Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism, Hayagriva Guanyin (lit. "Horse Headed Guanyin") is venerated as a guardian protector of travel and transportation, especially for cars)
    • Love Manipulation (Guanyin is immensely popular among Chinese Buddhists, especially those from devotional schools. She is generally seen as a source of unconditional love and, more importantly, as a saviour. In her bodhisattva vow, Guanyin promises to answer the cries and pleas of all sentient beings and to liberate them from their own karmic woes. Based on the Lotus Sutra and the Shurangama sutra, Avalokitesvara is generally seen as a saviour, both spiritually and physically)
    • Miracle Performing, Miracle Armor and Absolute Illusion (Guanyin, after having a discussion with Shancai, decided to test the boy's resolve to fully study the Buddhist teachings. She conjured the illusion of three sword-wielding pirates running up the hill to attack her. Guanyin took off and dashed to the edge of a cliff, the three illusions still chasing her. Shancai, seeing that his teacher was in danger, hobbled uphill. Guanyin then jumped over the edge of the cliff, and soon after this the three bandits followed. Shancai, still wanting to save his teacher, managed to crawl his way over the cliff edge. Shancai fell down the cliff but was halted in midair by Guanyin, who now asked him to walk. Shancai found that he could walk normally and that he was no longer crippled. When he looked into a pool of water he also discovered that he now had a very handsome face. From that day forth, Guanyin taught Shancai the entire dharma)
    • Meta Luck (Even among Chinese Buddhist schools that are non-devotional, Guanyin is still highly venerated. Instead of being seen as an active external force of unconditional love and salvation, the personage of Guanyin is highly revered as the principle of compassion, mercy and love. The act, thought and feeling of compassion and love is viewed as Guanyin. A merciful, compassionate, loving individual is said to be Guanyin. A meditative or contemplative state of being at peace with oneself and others is seen as Guanyin. In the Mahayana canon, the Heart Sutra is ascribed entirely to Guanyin. This is unique, since most Mahayana Sutras are usually ascribed to Gautama Buddha and the teachings, deeds or vows of the bodhisattvas are described by Shakyamuni Buddha. In the Heart Sutra, Guanyin describes to the arhat Sariputta the nature of reality and the essence of the Buddhist teachings. The famous Buddhist saying "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" (色即是空,空即是色) comes from this sutra)
    • Meta Miracle Manipulation (The Sutra also states that "it is easier to count all the leaves of every tree of every forest and all the grains of sand in the universe than to count the blessings and power of Avalokiteshvara". This version of Guanyin with a thousand arms depicting the power of all gods also shows various buddhas in the crown depicting the wisdom of all buddhas)
    • Misfortune Redirection (The king asked his daughter what were the three misfortunes that the marriage should ease. Miaoshan explained that the first misfortune the marriage should ease was the suffering people endure as they age. The second misfortune it should ease was the suffering people endure when they fall ill. The third misfortune it should ease was the suffering caused by death. If the marriage could not ease any of the above, then she would rather retire to a life of religion forever)
    • Omnificence Genesis (In the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra, the Hindu deities born from Avalokiteśvara bodhisattva's body, The Surya (Sun) and Chandra (Moon) are said to be born from Avalokiteśvara's eyes, Maheśvara from his brow, Brahma from his shoulders, Narayana from his heart, Mahalakshmi from his knee, Saraswati from his teeth, Vayu (Wind) from his mouth, Varuna (Water) from his stomach, Bhudevi (Earth) from his feet)
    • Omnipresence and Cosmic Energy Manipulation (She is an all-seeing, all-hearing being who is called upon by worshipers in times of uncertainty, despair, and fear. Guanyin is originally based on the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Avalokiteśvara's myth spread throughout China during the advent of Buddhism and mixed with local folklore in a process known as syncretism to become the modern day understanding of Guanyin. He is the one who is the dharma protector and who restores the peace in the world. His idols and temples are mostly found in mountains and hilly terrain (Kurunji regions))
    • Peace Inducement
    • Sacred Energy Manipulation
    • Samsara Manipulation and Aspect Manifestation
      • Absolute Absorption (Guanyin as Great Mercy (Chinese: 大慈觀音; pinyin: Dàcí Guānyīn), also known as Noble Guanyin (Chinese: 聖觀音; pinyin: Shèng Guānyīn), who corresponds to the preta realm)
      • Underworld Lordship (Guanyin as Great Compassion (Chinese: 大悲觀音; pinyin: Dàbēi Guānyīn), also known as Thousand-Armed Guanyin (Chinese: 千手觀音; pinyin: Qiānshǒu Guānyīn), who corresponds to the hell realm)
      • Multiple Faces and Absolute Light (Guanyin of the Universally Shining Great Light (Chinese: 大光普照觀音; pinyin: Dàguāng Pǔzhào Guānyīn), also known as Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Chinese: 十一面觀音; pinyin: Shíyīmiàn Guānyīn), who corresponds to the asura realm)
      • Omni-Protection and Omni-Empowerment (Guanyin as The Divine Hero (Chinese: 天人丈夫觀音; pinyin: Tiānrén Zhàngfū Guānyīn), also known as Cundī Guanyin (Chinese: 準提觀音; pinyin: Zhǔntí Guānyīn), who corresponds to the human realm)
      • Divine Force Manipulation and Meta Ability Creation alongside Complete Arsenal (Guanyin as Mahābrahmā the Profound (Chinese: 大梵深遠觀音; pinyin: Dàfàn Shēnyuǎn Guānyīn), also known as Cintāmaṇicakra Guanyin (Chinese: 如意輪觀音; pinyin: Rúyìlún Guānyīn), who corresponds to the deva realm)
      • Animal Manipulation (Fearless Lion-like Guanyin (Chinese: 獅子無畏觀音; pinyin: Shīzǐ Wúwèi Guānyīn), also known as Hayagriva Guanyin (Chinese: 馬頭觀音; pinyin: Mǎtóu Guānyīn), who corresponds to the animal realm)
    • Reality Warping (One Chinese Buddhist legend from the Complete Tale of Guanyin and the Southern Seas (Chinese: 南海觀音全撰; pinyin: Nánhǎi Guānyīn Quánzhuàn) recounts how Guanyin almost emptied hell by reforming almost of its denizens until sent out from there by the Ten Kings)
    • Spiritual Meditation (Is non-dual and able to gain enlightenment)
    • Primordial Fire Generation (In Taoism, Hayagriva Guanyin was syncretized and incorporated within the Taoist pantheon as the god Mǎ Wáng 馬王 (lit. Horse King), who is associated with fire. In this form, he is usually portrayed with 6 arms and a third eye on the forehead)
    • Transmutation and Meta Matter Transmutation (Guanyin's hair then floated away and became a white demon female snake. The snake would seduce men and kill other women. Guanyin then disappeared, but she let some of her blood from her finger flow down the river. A woman named Ge Furen (葛妇人 Lady Ge), whose husband was from the Chen family, then drank some of Guanyin's blood from the water and became pregnant, giving birth to Chen Jinggu. Later Chen Jinggu would fight and kill the white demon snake)
  • Guan-Yu
    • Combat Empowerment (The Manchu imperial clan of the Qing dynasty was also associated with Guan Yu's martial qualities. During the 20th century, Guan Yu was worshipped by the warlord Yuan Shikai, president and later a short-lived emperor of China)
    • Enhanced Combat (Was a renowned military general)
    • Guardianship (Over armies)
    • Life-Force Manipulation and Healing (According to Taoism and Buddhist beliefs)
    • Luck Bestowal (He is a deity worshipped in Chinese folk religion, popular Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism, and small shrines to him are almost ubiquitous in traditional Chinese shops and restaurants)
  • Han Xiangzi
    • Enhanced Musicianship (Han Xiangzi is often depicted carrying a dizi (Chinese flute), so he is also regarded as the patron deity of flutists. He is also believed to be the composer of the Taoist musical piece Tian Hua Yin (天花引))
    • Literary Manipulation (Poetry)
    • Musical Empathy
    • Mystical Bardsmanship (One day an old woman appeared in front of Han Xiangzi. She informed him that the Dragon King had locked away her daughter at the bottom of the ocean, because he forbade her relationship with Xiangzi. The old lady then took a magical golden bamboo (or Azure Deep Sea jade in another version ) from her bag and handed it over to Xiangzi. Actually this was a memento from the Dragon Girl for him. With a broken heart, Han Xiangzi turned the golden bamboo into a magical flute and carried it wherever he went)
      • Music Magic (Before leaving, Xiangzi put some earth in a flower-pot and forthwith there came forth a bouquet of perfect peonies. On the petals of these flowers, written in gold)
    • Nigh-Absolute Immortality and Peak Human Regeneration/Absolute (After Han Xiangzi successfully became immortal, he returned to earth to deliver his uncle, his aunt and his wife (so they could become immortals too). After several failed attempts to break Han Yu’s Confucian obstinacy, Xiangzi finally delivered him after saving his uncle’s life from a snowstorm at Languan (Blue Pass). Later he did the same to his aunt and wife)
    • Philosophy-Based Powers (However, his grandnephew claimed that he had the special ability to change the colour of peony flowers, and demonstrated it in front of him. Han Yu was greatly surprised. His grandnephew then returned to the Huai River region and led the rest of his life as a simple commoner)
    • Supernatural Combat
  • Hariti
    • Divine-Demonic Physiology (Hārītī (Sanskrit), also known as Chinese: 鬼子母(神); pinyin: Guǐzǐmǔ(shén), Japanese: 鬼子母神, romanized: Kishimojin, is both a revered goddess and demon, depending on the Buddhist tradition. She is one of the Twenty-Four Protective Deities of Mahayana Buddhism)
      • Ascended Transcendent Demon Physiology
      • Mother Goddess Physiology (Hariti declared that she is no longer a woman with no children, she is now the mother of all beings. Hariti promised the Buddha that she would protect and love children of all realms. She practices and teaches the four Brahma viharas to all worldly beings, for benefits of her children. Buddha hailed her as the Jagatmata or the mother of all realms)
    • Divine Power Immunity
    • Enlightenment (After becoming the mother of all humans throughout all realms with the will of the Buddha)
    • Evil Immunity (Henceforth Hārītī became the protector of children and women in childbirth. In exchange, the Buddha gave her bodhi, which enabled her to withstand black magic and evil powers, and gave her the facility to cure the sick)
    • Guardianship (In her positive aspects, she is regarded for the protection of children, easy delivery and happy child rearing, while her negative aspects include the belief of her terror towards irresponsible parents and unruly children)
    • Meta Fate Manipulation (Stands on the circle of fate in iconography)
    • Luck Embodiment
    • Omnipresence, Knowledge Manipulation, Meta Love Inducement (Buddha taught her Dhamma rituals associated with upbringing of a child. Hariti started practicing universal friendship and compassion to all beings. In Thervada, she is the supreme mother of all humans as well as non humans who hari(eliminates or destroys)(-ti) obstacles from their life)
    • Patience Embodiment (According to a Thervada oral story popular in southeast asia, Abhiriti or Hariti was a yakka woman who lived in Rajgir. She is considered as the possesser of mysterious wealth of the earth. She was steadfast in ethics, mindfulness, and wisdom. Her husband was the king of yakkas, the kubera. She had no children. In search of experience of motherhood, she started bringing human babies in her abode from Rajgir where the Buddha Shakyamuni was staying. Consequently, victim mothers from Rajgir pleaded to the Buddha. Buddha went to the abode of Hariti and brought one of her kidnapped beloved children with him in his vihara. Hariti was devastated when she found out)
  • Hēidì/Zhuanxu/Xuanwu
    • Arcanepotence (He is revered as a powerful god, able to control the elements and capable of great magic)
      • Alleged Absolute Immortality (Since the usurping Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty claimed to receive the divine assistance of Xuanwu during his successful Jingnan Campaign against his nephew, he had a number of Taoist monasteries constructed in the Wudang Mountains of Hubei, where Xuanwu allegedly attained immortality)
    • Authority (Xuanwu (玄武) or Xuandi (Chinese: 玄帝; pinyin: Xuándì), also known as Zhenwu (真武, lit. 'True Warrior' or 'Truly Valiant') or Zhenwudadi (真武大帝, lit. 'True Martial Great Emperor' or 'Truly Valiant Great Emperor'), is a revered deity in Chinese religion, one of the higher-ranking deities in Taoism)
    • Classical Element Manipulation (Of the Wuxing, specifically the element of water)
    • Dragon Physiology (His animal form is the Black Dragon and his stellar animal is the tortoise-snake)
      • Asian Dragon Physiology (Hēidì (Chinese: 黑帝; lit. 'Black Deity') or Hēishén (黑神; 'Black God'), who is the Běidì (北帝; 'North Deity', Cantonese: Pak Tai) or Běiyuèdàdì (北岳大帝; 'Great Deity of the Northern Peak'), is a deity in Chinese religion, one of the cosmological "Five Forms of the Highest Deity" (五方上帝; Wǔfāng Shàngdì). He is also identified as Zhuānxū (颛顼), today frequently worshipped as Xuánwǔ (玄武; 'Dark Warrior') or Zhēnwǔ (真武))
    • Directional Lordship (the North)
    • Trait:Evil Aversion (Heidi defeated the Demon King and was subsequently granted the title of Mysterious Heavenly Highest Deity. In temples dedicated to him, the bronze tortoise and serpent under the feet of his image signify that the good always prevails over evil)
    • Fertility Manipulation
    • Heaven Lordship (By virtue of his association with the north, he has been identified and revered frequently as a representation of the supreme God of Heaven)
    • Health Manipulation (Xuanwu is sometimes portrayed with two generals standing besides him, General Wan Gong (萬公) and General Wan Ma (萬媽)
    • Medical Mastery (The two generals are deities that handle many local issues from children's birth, medication, family matters as well as fengshui consultation)
    • Mountain Manipulation (Kunlun)
    • Karma Empowerment, Absorption and presumed Transmutation along with Spirit Physiology (Xuanwu lost his stomach and intestines while he was washing them in the river. The Jade Emperor was moved by his sincerity and determination to clear his sins, and made him an immortal with the title of Xuántiān Shàngdì. After he became an immortal, his stomach and intestines absorbed the essence of the earth. His viscera transformed into a demonic turtle and a demonic snake, who started to hurt people. No one could subdue the demonic animals. Eventually, Xuanwu returned to earth to subdue them. After defeating them, he later used them as his subordinates)
    • Omni-Empathy (One story says that Xuanwu was originally a prince of Jing Le State in northern Hebei during the time of the Yellow Emperor. As he grew up, he felt the sorrow and pain of the life of ordinary people and wanted to retire to a remote mountain for cultivation of the Tao)
    • Relationship Manipulation (Zhuanxu is also mentioned as a god of the Polaris along with god Taiyi (太一), the original god of the Polaris, Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were said to be sent by the Taiyi from the east to the land of the humans, and thus considered to return to their original roles as gods of the Polaris when their role in the land of the humans was done)
    • Water Embodiment
    • Winter Manipulation (Is associated with the essence of winter)
    • Absolute Combat and Weapon Manipulation (Xuanwu is portrayed as a warrior in dark-coloured imperial robes, his left hand holding the "three mountain seal", somewhat similar to Guan Yu's hand seal, while his right hand is holding a sword, which is said to have belonged to Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals. Another legend says that he borrowed the sword from Lü Dongbin to subdue a strong demon, and after being successful, he refused to bring it back after witnessing the sword's power. The sword itself would magically return to its owner if Xuanwu released it, so it is said that he always holds his sword tightly and is unable to release it. However, not only does he outrank Lü in terms of divinity, Xuanwu also dates back longer in history than Lü Dongbin, putting this claim in suspect)
  • Huangdi
    • Alpha Reality (It is from this centre that equilibrium and harmony emanate, equilibrium of the vital organs which becomes harmony between the person and the environment. As sovereign of the centre, the Yellow Emperor is the very image of the concentration or re-centering of the self. By self-control, taking charge of his own body one becomes powerful outside. The centre is also the vital point in the microcosm by means of which the internal universe viewed as an altar is created. The body is a universe, and by going into himself and by incorporating the fundamental structures of the universe, the sage will gain access to the gates of Heaven, the unique point where communication between Heaven, Earth and Man can occur. The centre is the convergence of within and outside, the contraction of chaos on the point which is equidistant from all directions. It is the place which is no place, where all creation is born and dies)
    • Absolute Law Manipulation and Absolute Immortality (The Great Deity of the Central Peak (中岳大帝 Zhōngyuèdàdì) is another epithet representing Huangdi as the hub of creation, the axis mundi (which in Chinese mythology is Kunlun) that is the manifestation of the divine order in physical reality, that opens to immortality)
    • Ash Resurrection
    • Authority (In Han dynasty texts, the Yellow Emperor is also called upon as the "Yellow God" (黃神 Huángshén). Certain accounts interpret him as the incarnation of the "Yellow God of the Northern Dipper" (黄神北斗 Huángshén Běidǒu), another name of the universal god (Shangdi 上帝 or Tiandi 天帝). According to a definition in apocryphal texts related to the Hétú 河圖, the Yellow Emperor "proceeds from the essence of the Yellow God")
      • Primordial Light Manipulation (As a cosmological deity, the Yellow Emperor is known as the "Great Emperor of the Central Peak" (中岳大帝 Zhōngyuè Dàdì), and in the Shizi as the "Yellow Emperor with Four Faces" (黃帝四面 Huángdì Sìmiàn). In old accounts the Yellow Emperor is identified as a deity of light (and his name is explained in the Shuowen jiezi to derive from guāng 光, "light") and thunder, and as one and the same with the "Thunder God" (雷神 Léishén), who in turn, as a later mythological character)
    • Land Aspect Manifestation
    • Order Deity Physiology (As the Yellow Deity with Four Faces (黃帝四面 Huángdì Sìmiàn) he represents the centre of the universe and vision of the unity which controls the four directions. It is explained in the Huangdi Sijing ("Four Scriptures of the Yellow Emperor") that regulating "heart within brings order outside". In order to reign one must "reduce himself" abandoning emotions, "drying up like a corpse", never allowing oneself to be carried away, as according to the myth the Yellow Emperor himself did during his three years of refuge on Mount Bowang in order to find himself. This practice creates an internal void where all the vital forces of creation gather, and the more indeterminate they remain and the more powerful they will be)
      • Order Embodiment (According to the sinologist Allen, At the time, Shang rulers claimed that their mythical ancestors, identified with "the [ten] suns, birds, east, life, [and] the Lord on High" (i.e., Shangdi), had defeated an earlier people associated with "the underworld, dragons, west.")
    • Wu Xing Manipulation
      • Four Symbols Physiology (Center)
      • Yin & Yang Manipulation (Another story states that "Huang Di came into being when the energies that instigated the beginning of the world merged with one another, and created human beings by placing earthen statues at the cardinal points of the world and leaving them exposed for 300 years. During that time, the statues became filled with the breath of creation and eventually began to move [after the 300 years]. Huang Di...received his magic powers when he was 100 years old. He [became a xian] and, riding a dragon, rose to heaven where he became one of the five [Wufang Shangdi]. Huang Di himself rules over the fifth cardinal point, the centre.")
    • Ultimate Invincibility
    • Underworld Lordship (In her view, Huangdi was originally an unnamed "lord of the underworld" (or the "Yellow Springs"), the mythological counterpart of the Shang sky deity Shangdi)
    • Zenith Form
  • Jade Emperor/Yu Huang
    • Absolute Immortality (After the eons of cultivation. After 1,750 eons, each eon lasting for 129,600 years (3602 years), he attained Golden Immortality. After another one hundred million years of cultivation, he finally became the Jade Emperor. (Using the given figures, this period before his becoming the Jade Emperor lasted for a total of about 327 million years))
    • Creation (Jade Emperor fashioned the first humans from clay and left them to harden in the sun. Rain deformed some of the figures, which gave rise to human sickness and physical abnormalities. (The most common alternative Chinese creation myth states that human beings were once fleas on the body of Pangu.))
    • Divine Lord Physiology (The Jade Emperor or Yudi (Chinese: 玉皇; pinyin: Yù Huáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gio̍k-hông or Chinese: 玉帝; pinyin: Yù Dì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gio̍k-tè) in Chinese culture, traditional religions and myth is one of the representations of the first god (太帝 tài dì))
      • Absolute Law Manipulation (However, some Taoists in history were skeptical of his benevolence because his buildings and infrastructure in heaven and earth were sometimes seen as interesting with the many natural laws or dao)
    • Good Manipulation (The Mahayana dwells in the words of the Dharma, and the True One points out the way of the lost. His virtues are like the void, and his praise is endless)
    • Enhanced Charisma (The Jade Emperor finished his cultivation during this war. When he was changing the land to make it more liveable for men and repelling a variety of monsters, he saw an evil glow radiating from heaven and knew something was amiss. He ascended and saw that the evil entity was too powerful to be stopped by the gods. He challenged it, and they fought. Mountains shook and rivers and seas toppled. Due to his deeper and wiser cultivation, his benevolence instead of his might, the Jade Emperor won the battle. After the evil entity was defeated, its army was scattered by the gods and immortals)
    • Enhanced Concealment/Absolute (In the book Returning to Zhu Xi: Emerging Patterns with the Supreme Polarity (Jones, He) , the Jade Emperor transcends material and immaterial concepts as the imperceptible is beyond form and image conceptually as all that is formless)
    • Infinite Energy (In the Avatamsaka Sutra, he can make an infinite amount of clones)
      • Primordial Force Manipulation (In the Jade Sutra, "At that time, the Jade Emperor, knowing that the time was near, held up his six powers in front of the assembly and magnified his light to shine in all the heavens, and all the realms of the infinite buddhas were greatly shaken; all the worlds in the ten directions were the same as the glass of Rukia, and there were no barriers; all the people from the ten directions came on the five-coloured pearl wheel, the nine coloured mysterious dragons")
      • Pure Wind Manipulation and Meta Resurrection (At that time, the divine winds were in full bloom, all the air was in the air, the heavens were shaken and the earth was torn, the bones were reborn, the corpses were reborn, and the nine ghosts of the long night were destroyed immediately. At that time, all the sinners, with the power of this light, were reborn in all the great heavenly palaces in the ten directions)
      • Omnifarious (At that time, the Jade Emperor divided his body and spread it over all the great heavenly palaces in the ten directions, causing them to appear naturally, with white jade as the capital, yellow gold as the palace, the seven jewelled arcane garden, the great bright hall with the bright seat, the pennant and the pennant, and the exotic flowers to spread everywhere. At that time, the heavenly beings saw the incarnations of the Jade Emperor from all ten directions, all came to gather in front of the heavenly beings' meeting, like the infinite mirror, shining all the images, allowing each other to enter)
    • Omniscience and Omniscience Bestowal alongside Infinity Manipulation (In Buddhist texts such as the Avatamsaka Sutra, he is referred to as Indra and controls Indra's Net. The net possesses a jewel that is reflected on another jewel, thus seen on all the others, which represents the universe’s interconnectedness. The net is infinite in dimension, encapsulating the universe with the jewels being unlimited in number, with the jewels resembling stars. The other jewels are also infinite, causing an endless reflection. This means that the jewels are universal in capacity and number, thus meaning Indra can easily create and destroy the universe and endless others. This is also seen in the Buddha-lands (which are planets) with the jewels being atoms in untold lands that are reduced endlessly with these endless atoms containing endless planet-wide lands of their own)
      • Meta-Concept Manipulation and Phenomenon Manipulation (The net embodies all actions, inactions, phenomena, time and space. Indra is able to easily make a world including the net with everything that exists or has existed in the past with the utmost ease)
    • Meta Teleportation (There are several stories as to how the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac were chosen. In one, the Jade Emperor, although having ruled Heaven and Earth justly and wisely for many years, had never had the time to actually visit the Earth personally. He grew curious as to what the creatures looked like. Thus, he asked all the animals to visit him in heaven. The Cat, being the most handsome of all animals, asked his friend the Rat to wake him on the day they were to go to Heaven so he wouldn't oversleep. The Rat, however, was worried that he would seem ugly compared to the Cat, so he didn't wake the cat. Consequently, the Cat missed the meeting with the Jade Emperor and was replaced by the Pig)
    • Trait:Evil Aversion (On earth at this time, a powerful, evil entity had the ambition to conquer the immortals and gods in heaven and proclaim sovereignty over the entire universe. This evil entity also went into retreat and meditation to expand its power, though later than the Jade Emperor did. He passed through 3,000 trials, each trial lasting about 3 million years. After its final trial, it felt confident that no one could defeat it. It re-entered the world and recruited an army of demons with the purpose of attacking heaven)
    • Heaven Lordship (Lord of Heaven in Chinese theology. One of the myths describes how the Jade Emperor became the monarch of all the deities in heaven. It is one of the few myths in which the Jade Emperor really shows his power)
      • Esoteric Light Manipulation (It was said that Jade Emperor was originally the crown prince of the kingdom of Pure Felicity and Majestic Heavenly Lights and Ornaments. At birth, he emitted a wondrous light that filled the entire kingdom. When he was young, he was kind, intelligent and wise. He devoted his entire childhood to helping the needy (the poor and suffering, the deserted and single, the hungry and disabled). Furthermore, he showed respect and benevolence to both men and creatures. After his father died, he ascended the throne. He made sure that everyone in his kingdom found peace and contentment. After that, he told his ministers that he wished to cultivate Tao on the Bright and Fragrant Cliff. At that time, the Supreme Lord was sitting on a dragon mantle, holding a baby in his arms, and all the pores of his body emitting ten billion lights, shining in all the palaces)
    • Rain Manipulation (Once a great drought had spread across the land. Four dragons from the sea noticed the plight of the people and travelled to beseech The Jade Emperor in the Heavenly Palace to bring the rains to the people. He was very busy ruling the heavens, earth, and sea and distractedly agreed to send the rains on the next day if they would return to the sea, but soon after the dragons departed, he forgot his promise. After ten days, the rains still did not come and the people began to die of starvation. The dragons could not simply stand by and do nothing, and so they decided to use their bodies to capture great masses of water from the sea, taking it upon themselves to bring the rain. The people were grateful and prayed their thanks to the Jade Emperor, who soon discovered what the dragons had done, and became angry that they intervened without his blessing)
    • Reality Warping (In another story,[citation needed] popular throughout Asia and with many differing versions, the Jade Emperor has a daughter named Zhinü (simplified Chinese: 织女; traditional Chinese: 織女; pinyin: zhī nǚ or Chih'nü, literally: weaver girl). She is most often represented as responsible for weaving colorful clouds in the heaven. In some versions, she is the Goddess Weaver, daughter of the Jade Emperor and the Celestial Queen Mother, who weaves the Silver River (known in the West as the Milky Way), which gives light to heaven and earth. In other versions, she is a seamstress who works for the Jade Emperor)
    • Sky Manipulation (The sky in Chinese mythology was said to be the cosmos, mostly seen through the myth of the Silver River. It is the Lord of the firmament, the supreme being, the great vision and knowledge, the infinite and unparalleled, the pure and silent, the true and quiet, the lost and the living, the supreme sage, the great divine power, the brightness, the great man, the enlightenment, the infinite teaching, the great compassion)
    • Soul Manipulation, Absolute Change and Chi Manipulation (The gods shine brightly, and the nine souls exhale their essence. The Jade Void is clear and bright, and the Taixia is high and bright. The Jade Emperor has opened up the world, and the celestial beings have been pervaded. The three elements of the Tao are nourished and the two images are deterred. The old roots of the tricky tree have withered and regained their glory. The larvae and larvae are born. The fetus is conceived, and all are born. The soul of the deceased will return to the three clearings, and the body will be chained and ascend to the South Palace. Today is a very auspicious day, and all of them will receive light)
    • Spiritual Meditation (Through his tests that lasted millions of years)
    • Supreme Voice (This is the Jade Emperor's wonderful words, the secret words of the saints, the way to the end of the road, subtle and incomprehensible, a great example of the divine, to protect the kingdom, to remove life and death. At that time, when Hao Tian God spoke these words, all the people in the Dharma feast looked up to the words of the Tao and were enlightened. So the heavenly father said: "The Jade Emperor has great merit and virtue. Jade Emperor's merit and virtue is great, the mysterious theory is extremely deep. Born before the catastrophe, transported in the ancient and modern)
    • Transmutation and Meta Matter Transmutation (By the power of the Jade Emperor, the precious flowers were transformed into a precious lid in the air, covering all the people)
  • Jiutian Xuann
    • Animal Manipulation (Chiyou had caused a great mist, which was so impenetrable that it obscured day and night. Huangdi would dwell in the mist for several days. Jiutian Xuannü rode a cinnabar phoenix, holding phosphors and clouds as reins, into the great mist. She wore variegated kingfisher-feather garments of nine colors)
    • Fertility Manipulation
    • Invisibility (A set of Daoist texts, produced after the Tang dynasty, associates the goddess with magical capabilities, such as the skill of invisibility (隱身) and the method of mobilizing the stars of the Northern Dipper to protect the state. The Lingbao Liuding Mifa (靈寶六丁秘法) specifies that Jiutian Xuannü's magic is martial in origin. According to the Lingbao Liuding Mifa, the Jade Maidens perform specific tasks during the concealment: the Jade Maiden of Dingmao (丁卯玉女) conceals one's physical body)
    • Mystery Embodiment ("The Mysterious Woman is the mother of the Way of the void and nothingness." The text gives instructions to adepts: "Close your eyes and meditate on a white breath between your shoulders. In its centre is a white tortoise. On top of the tortoise is the Mysterious Woman." There are two governors beside her, which adepts are instructed to summon by saying: "Governor of Destiny and Governor of the Registers, pare so-and-so's name from the death list and inscribe it on the Life List of the Jade Calendar." This ritual therefore points to a procedure in which a long life is promised)
    • Portal Creation (The six ding are the spirits who are responsible for the position of the irregular gate (奇門), which represents a rift in the universe. The irregular gate must be approached by performing the paces of Yu and serves as the entrance to the emptiness of the otherworld in which invisibility to evil influences is achieved)
    • Sex Deity Physiology (While most books bearing Jiutian Xuannü's name were about warfare, books that focus on her link to sexuality also exist. The Xuannü Jing (玄女經) and the Sunü Jing (素女經), both dating to the Han dynasty, were handbooks in dialogue form about sex)
    • War Deity Physiology
      • War Manipulation (Heaven dispatched the Mysterious Woman down to earth to deliver military messages and sacred talismans to the Yellow Emperor, enabling him to subjugate Chiyou. The returning statesman (the Yellow Emperor) therefore used them to suppress the enemy and seized control of the eight directions)
  • Kṣitigarbha
    • Death-Force Manipulation (While she was pleading for help at the temple, she heard the Buddha telling her to go home, sit down, and recite his name if she wanted to know where her mother was. She did as she was told and her consciousness was transported to a Hell realm, where she met a guardian who informed her that through her fervent prayers and pious offerings, her mother had accumulated much merit and had already ascended to heaven)
    • Demon Manipulation (He is therefore often regarded as the bodhisattva of hell-beings)
    • Guardianship (Of children. The guardian of children and patron deity of deceased children and aborted fetuses in Japanese culture)
    • Halo Generation (Usually depicted as a monk with a halo around his shaved head)
    • Soul Manipulation (Protects the souls of children)
    • Staff Proficiency (In most iconography, he is seen with a Khakkhara. He carries a staff to force open the gates of hell)
    • Primordial Earth Generation (Kṣitigarbha (Sanskrit: क्षितिगर्भ, Chinese: 地藏; pinyin: Dìzàng; Japanese: 地蔵; rōmaji: Jizō; Korean: 지장 (地藏); romaja: Jijang; Vietnamese: Địa Tạng (地藏), Standard Tibetan: ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་ Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk. His name may be translated as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb")
    • Underground Manipulation
    • Underworld Lordship (Kṣitigarbha statues are sometimes accompanied by a little pile of stones and pebbles, put there by people in the hope that it would shorten the time children have to suffer in the underworld)
  • Lei Gong
    • Deification and Absolute Immortality (Leigong began life as a mortal. While on earth, he encountered a peach tree that originated from Heaven during the struggle between the Fox Demon and one of the Celestial Warriors. When Leigong took a bite out of one of its fruit he was transformed into his godly form. He soon received a mace and a hammer that could create thunder)
    • Thunder Manipulation (God of thunder)
    • Claw Retraction (Leigong is depicted as a fearsome creature with claws, bat wings, and a blue face with a bird's beak who wears only a loincloth)
    • Sound Manipulation
    • Phenomenon Manipulation, Primordial Lightning Manipulation, Mirror Creation, Cloud Attacks and Primordial Air Manipulation (Since Leigong's power is thunder, he has assistants capable of producing other types of heavenly phenomena. Leigong's wife Dianmu is the goddess of lightning, who is said to have used flashing mirrors to send bolts of lightning across the sky. Other companions are Yun Tong ("Cloud Youth"), who whips up clouds, and Yu Shi ("Rain Master") who causes downpours by dipping his sword into a pot. Roaring winds rush forth from a type of goatskin bag manipulated by Fengbo ("Earl of Wind"), who was later transformed into Feng Po Po ("Lady Wind"))
    • Punishment (Leigong punishes both earthly mortals guilty of secret crimes and evil spirits who have used their knowledge of Taoism to harm human beings)
    • Reality Warping and Electricity Manipulation (The Jade Emperor instructed Leigong to only kill bad people. But the sky got really dark whenever he struck people. So sometimes he killed the wrong people since he couldn't find his quarry. Dianmu was one such victim of his blind fury. She lived with her mother in the countryside, where they worked as rice farmers. One day, she dumped a husk of rice into a river because it was too hard for her mother to eat. When Leigong witnessed this action, he became enraged as he thought she was wasting precious food, so when he saw her dumping the husk out he killed her with one of his lightning bolts)
    • Weapon Proficiency (He carries a drum and mallet to produce thunder, and a chisel to punish evildoers. Leigong rides a chariot driven by a young boy named A Xiang)
    • Wing Manifestation
  • Liu Haichan
    • Absolute Invulnerability, Absolute Immortality, Omni-Immunity and Aging Immunity (Ge Hong's (c. 320 CE) Baopuzi lists 10,000-year old chanchu toad as a magical rouzhi 肉芝 "meat/flesh excrescence" that provides the invulnerability and longevity associated with Daoist xian. (Zhi 芝 usually means "mushroom; fungus", especially the lingzhi mushroom, but Daoists also uses it to mean "excrescence; numinous substance".) The ten-thousand-year-old hoptoad is said to have horns on its head, while under its chin there is a double-tiered figure 8 written in red. It must be captured at noon on the fifth day of the fifth moon and dried in the shade for a hundred days. A line drawn on the ground with its left root will become a running stream. When its left foreleg is carried on the person, it will ward off all types of weapons. If an enemy shoots at you, the bow and arrow will both turn against the archer. The thousand-year-old bat is as white as snow. When perching, it hangs head down because its brain is heavy. If both of these creatures are obtained, dried in the shade, powdered, and taken, a body can live for forty thousand years)
    • Economy Manipulation and Archetype:Fortune Deity (Liu Haichan is traditionally represented as a child with a string or sash of coins and a three-legged toad (symbols of good fortune), two attributes "probably borrowed" from the immortals Lan Caihe and Helan Qizhen 賀蘭棲真, both of whom were irregulars in the Eight Immortals. "I have heard that the delicacy of old toad is a drug / That can turn even grass into golden bud; / But would it be better to close [my] mouth and nourish internally / To replace your [toad's] ugly substance and nurture [my internal] bud. / Riding you, I shall fly to the palace in the moon / And descend to see the mulberry sea that reaches the clouds beyond the sky)
    • Monetary Manipulation (There is a famous story about how Liu Haichan was converted to Daoism. One day, at the height of his glory, Liu met a Daoist monk who called himself Zheng Yangzi 正陽子 "Master of Correct Yang"—but was actually the renowned Immortal Zhongli Quan. He asked Liu to get ten eggs and ten gold cash coins (with a hole in the middle), and then placed a coin under each, and piled them one on top of another. Liu yelled "How dangerous!" and the Daoist smilingly replied, "The position of a prime minister is much more dangerous!")
    • Omni-Magic (Another Chinese folklore tradition is that during the night, Liu Hai's three-legged toad produces a pearl that, when eaten, can change a person into a xian immortal or can restore a corpse to life.
      • Alchemy (Liu Haichan was a (c. 10th century) Daoist xian ("transcendent; immortal") who was a patriarch of the Quanzhen School, and a master of neidan "internal alchemy" techniques)
    • Transcendence Inducement (Liu was suddenly awakened, resigned from his position, gave up his wealth, left home, and went wandering. He changed his name to Liu Xuanying and the Daoists called him Haichan "Sea Toad". Liu lived alone and practiced self-cultivation while travelling in Shaanxi between Mount Hua, a famous location for Daoist and Buddhist monks, and the Zhongnan Mountains, until he achieved Daoist xian-hood "immortality; transcendence")
    • Water Manipulation
  • Mazu
    • Absolute Senses
    • Benefic Force Manipulation
    • Guardianship (Revered after her death as a tutelary deity of seafarers, including fishermen and sailors, her worship spread throughout China's coastal regions and overseas Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia and overseas, where some Mazuist temples are affiliated with famous Taiwanese temples)
    • Disaster Negation (She met a Taoist immortal at a fountain at sixteen and received an amulet or two bronze tablets which she translated or used to exorcize demons, to heal the sick, and to avert disasters. She was also said to be a rainmaker during times of drought)
    • Heaven Lordship (She was thought to roam the seas, protecting her believers through miraculous interventions. She is now generally regarded by her believers as a powerful and benevolent Queen of Heaven)
    • Hypnotic Attacks and Telekinesis (Mazu's principal legend concerns her saving one or some members of her family when they were caught offshore during a typhoon, usually when she was 16. It appears in several forms. In one, the women at home feared Lin Yuan and his son were lost but Mazu fell into a trance while weaving at her loom. Her spiritual power began to save the men from drowning but her mother roused her, causing her to drop her brother into the sea. The father returned and told the other villagers of the miracle; this version of the story is preserved in murals at Fengtin in Fujian. One variant is that her brothers were saved but her father was lost; she then spent three days and nights searching for his body before finding it. Another version is that all the men returned safely. Another is that Mazu was praying to Guanyin; another that she was sleeping and assisting her family through her dream. Still another is that the boats were crewed by her four brothers and that she saved three of them, securing their boats together, with the eldest lost owing to the interference of her parents, who mistook her trance for a seizure and woke her)
    • Light Manipulation (Rather than being born in the conventional way, Mazu shot from her mother at birth in the form of a fragrant flash of red light. In earlier records, Mazu died unmarried at 27 or 28. (Her celibacy was sometimes ascribed to a vow she took after losing her brother at sea.) The date of her passing eventually became the specific date of the Double Ninth Festival in 987, making her 27 by western reckoning and 28 by traditional Chinese dating. She was said to have died in meditation, though in some accounts she did not die but climbed a mountain alone and ascended into Heaven as a goddess in a beam of bright light)
    • Magic
      • Shamanism (Very little is known of the historical Lin Moniang. She was apparently a shamaness from a small fishing village on Meizhou Island, part of Fujian's Putian County, in the late 10th century. She probably did not live there, however, but on the nearby mainland)
    • Miracle Manipulation (She protects her believers through miracles)
    • Ocean Manipulation
      • Water Manipulation (The power of the goddess, having indeed been manifested in previous times, has been abundantly revealed in the present generation. In the midst of the rushing waters it happened that, when there was a hurricane, suddenly a divine lantern was seen shining at the masthead)
      • Water Mimicry
    • Seer and Teleportation (The earliest record of her cult is from two centuries later, an 1150 inscription that mentions "she could foretell a man's good and ill luck". By 13, she had mastered the book of lore he had left her (玄微袐法, Xuánwēi Bìfǎ) and gained the abilities to see the future and visit places in spirit without travel. She was able to manifest herself at a distance as well and used this power to visit gardens in the surrounding countryside, although she asked owners' permission before gathering any flowers to take home)
    • Speed Swimming
    • Combat Mastery/Supernatural and Life and Death Lordship (In one, the demons Qianliyan ("Thousand-Mile Eye") and Shunfeng'er ("Wind-Following Ear") both fell in love with her and she conceded that she would marry the one who defeated her in combat. Using her martial arts skills, however, she subdued them both and, after becoming friends, hired them as her guardian generals. In a book of the Taoist Canon (t 太上老君說天妃救苦靈驗經, s 太上老君说天妃救苦灵验经, Tàishàng Lǎojūn Shuō Tiānfēi Jiùkǔ Língyàn Jīng), the Jade Woman of Marvelous Deeds (妙行玉女) is a star from the Big Dipper brought to earth by Laojun, the divine form of Laozi, to show his compassion for those who might be lost at sea. She is incarnated as Mazu and swears not only to protect sailors but to oversee all facets of life and death, providing help to anyone who might call upon her)


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  • Nezha
    • Absolute Speed (Via his wind and fire wheels)
    • Enhanced Combat
    • Enhanced Condition (Nezha could speak and walk immediately after birth)
    • Dream Manipulation (Nezha then appeared in his mother's dream. In the dream, he asked her to build a temple for him, so that his soul would have a place to rest. This constitutes a link to Nezha's birth because the night before Nezha was born, Lady Yin had a dream where a Taoist put something into her bosom and told her to take this child. In both instances, a dream was used to communicate a message)
    • Multiple Arms (Sometimes, he is shown in his "three heads and six arms" form (三頭六臂))
    • Trickster
    • Soul Manipulation (Thus Nezha returned his flesh and blood to his mother and bones to his father. Then Nezha's soul went to the Buddha, who resurrected him. After, he used his vast powers to subdue 96 caves of demons through dharma. After this Nezha wanted to kill his father because he had to remove every piece of flesh and every stain of blood to return his bones to his father. The heavenly king had no choice but to seek help from the Buddha. The Buddha gave him an intricately made golden pagoda, in each story of which were Buddhas radiant with splendor. The Buddha told Nezha to regard these Buddhas as his father. Thus ending the hatred between the father and the son. Thus earning Li Jing the title Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly king)
    • Spear Proficiency
    • Archetype:Protector Deity (Nezha (哪吒) is a protection deity in Chinese folk religion)
    • Weapon Proficiency/Absolute (Nezha is often depicted as a youth, instead of an adult. He is often shown flying in the sky riding on the Wind Fire Wheels (風火輪), has the Universe Ring (乾坤圈) around his body (sometimes in his left hand), the Red Armillary Sash (浑天绫) around his shoulders and a Fire-tipped Spear (火尖槍) in his right hand)
    • Wind Generation and Fire Manipulation (Thus, the enmity between father and son grew. Nezha was later brought back to life by his teacher, Taiyi Zhenren, who used lotus roots to construct a human body for his soul and gave him two new weapons: the Wind Fire Wheels (風火輪) and the Fire-tipped Spear (火尖槍). With the reincarnation of Nezha by his master, Li Jing and Nezha fought many battles)
  • Nüwa
    • Asian Dragon Physiology or Snake Physiology (Resembles a snake or dragon in iconography. Fuxi and Nüwa can be depicted as individual figures arranged as a symmetrical pair or they can be depicted in double figures with intertwined snake-like bodies. Their snake-like tails can also be depicted stretching out towards each other. Fuxi and Nüwa can also appear individually on separate tomb bricks. They generally hold or embrace the sun or moon discs containing the images of a bird (or a three-legged crow) or a toad (sometimes a hare) which are the sun and moon symbolism)
    • Creator Deity Physiology (Nüwa, also read Nügua, is a mother goddess, culture hero, and/or member of the Three Sovereigns of Chinese mythology. She is a god in Chinese folk religion and Taoism. She is credited with creating humanity and repairing the Pillar of Heaven)
      • Creation (In the collection Four Great Books of Song (c. 960 – 1279 AD), compiled by Li Fang and others, Volume 78 of the book Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era contains a chapter "Customs by Yingshao of the Han Dynasty" in which it is stated that there were no men when the sky and the earth were separated. Thus Nüwa used yellow clay to make people. But the clay was not strong enough so she put ropes into the clay to make the bodies erect)
      • Life Creation (As creator of mankind, she molded humans individually by hand with yellow clay. In other stories where she fulfills this role, she only created nobles and/or the rich out of yellow soil. The stories vary on the other details about humanity's creation, but it was a tradition commonly believed in ancient China that she created commoners from brown mud. A story holds that she was tired when she created "the rich and the noble", so all others, or "cord-made people", were created from her "dragg[ing] a string through mud")
    • Fertility Manipulation (Could allow humans to procreate)
    • Guardianship
    • Human Manipulation (In Songs of Chu (c. 340 – 278 BC), Chapter 3 "Asking Heaven" (Chinese: 问天), author Qu Yuan writes that Nüwa molded figures from the yellow earth, giving them life and the ability to bear children. After demons fought and broke the pillars of the heavens, Nüwa worked unceasingly to repair the damage, melting down the five-coloured stones to mend the heavens)
      • Archetype:Heaven Deity (Nüwa was given a compass to symbolize her identification with the heavens because a compass is associated with curves and circles leading to a more abstract mindset. With the two being married, it symbolized the union between heaven and Earth. Other versions have Nüwa invent the compass rather than receive it as a gift. In addition, the system of male and female sex, the yang-yin philosophy, is expressed here in a complex way: first as Fuxi and Nüwa, then as a compass (masculine) and a square (feminine), and thirdly, as Nüwa (woman) with a compass (man) and Fuxi (man) with a square (woman))
    • Mother Goddess Physiology
    • Nature Manipulation (In the Huainanzi, there is described a great battle between deities that broke the pillars supporting Heaven and caused great devastation. There was great flooding, and Heaven had collapsed. Nüwa was the one who patched the holes in Heaven with five colored stones, and she used the legs of a tortoise to mend the pillars)
    • Reality Warping (Going back to more ancient times, the four pillars were broken; the nine provinces were in tatters. Heaven did not completely cover [the earth]; Earth did not hold up [Heaven] all the way around [its circumference]. Fires blazed out of control and could not be extinguished; water flooded in great expanses and would not recede. Ferocious animals ate blameless people; predatory birds snatched the elderly and the weak. Thereupon, Nüwa smelted together five-colored stones in order to patch up the azure sky, cut off the legs of the great turtle to set them up as the four pillars, killed the black dragon to provide relief for Ji Province, and piled up reeds and cinders to stop the surging waters. The azure sky was patched; the four pillars were set up; the surging waters were drained; the province of Ji was tranquil; crafty vermin died off; blameless people [preserved their] lives)
    • Relationship Manipulation (Long ago, when the world first began, there were two people, Nü Kua and her older brother. They lived on Mount K'un-lun. And there were not yet any ordinary people in the world. They talked about becoming husband and wife, but they felt ashamed. So the brother at once went with his sister up Mount K'un-lun and made this prayer: "Oh Heaven, if Thou wouldst send us two forth as man and wife, then make all the misty vapor gather. If not, then make all the misty vapor disperse." At this, the misty vapor immediately gathered)
    • Star Power (Nüwa is often depicted holding a compass or multiple compasses, which were a traditional Chinese symbol of a dome-like sky. She was also thought to be an embodiment of the stars or a star god)
    • Supreme Voice and Absolute Command (The luck Cheng Tang won six hundred years ago is dimming. I speak to you of a new mandate of heaven which sets the destiny for all. You three are to enter King Zhou's palace, where you are to bewitch him. Whatever you do, do not harm anyone else. If you do my bidding, and do it well, you will be permitted to reincarnate as human beings)
    • Snail Mimicry
  • Pangu
    • Creator Deity Physiology (Pangu was said to be the creation god in Chinese mythology. He was a giant sleeping within an egg of chaos. As he awoke, he stood up and divided the sky and the earth. Pangu then died after standing up, and his body turned into rivers, mountains, plants, animals, and everything else in the world, among which is a powerful being known as Huaxu (華胥). Huaxu gave birth to a twin brother and sister, Fuxi and Nüwa. Fuxi and Nüwa are said to be creatures that have faces of human and bodies of snakes)
    • Divine Beast Physiology (Pangu (Chinese: 盤古, PAN-koo) is a primordial being and creation figure in Chinese mythology who separated heaven and earth)
    • Giant Physiology (Was the first giant. Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive, hairy giant who has horns on his head)
      • Absolute Strength (Pangu began creating the world: he separated yin from yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the earth (murky yin) and the sky (clear yang). To keep them separated, Pangu stood between them and pushed up the sky. With each day, the sky grew ten feet (3 meters) higher, the earth ten feet thicker, and Pangu ten feet taller. This task took yet another 18,000 years)
    • Nature Unity (His head, the mountains and extremes of the world; his blood, rivers; his muscles, fertile land; his facial hair, the stars and Milky Way; his fur, bushes and forests; his bones, valuable minerals; his bone marrow, precious jewels; his sweat, rain; and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became animals)
    • Reality Warping (His left eye, the Sun and his right eye, the Moon)
    • Yin & Yang Manipulation (Split yin and yang with his axe)
  • Shangdi
    • Absolute Command and Absolute Will (In Shang sources, Di is already described as the supreme ordainer of the events which occur in nature, such as wind, lightning and thunder, and in human affairs and politics. All the gods of nature are conceived as his envoys or manifestations)
    • Absolute Transcendence (Shangdi was probably more transcendent than immanent, only working through lesser gods. Shangdi was considered too distant to be worshiped directly by ordinary mortals. Instead, the Shang kings proclaimed that Shangdi had made himself accessible through the souls of their royal ancestors)
    • Heaven Lordship (Shangdi (Chinese: 上帝; pinyin: Shàngdì; Wade–Giles: Shang Ti), also called simply Di (Chinese: 帝; pinyin: Dì), is the Chinese term for "Supreme Deity" or "Highest Deity" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tian ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology)
    • Omnipotence (The omnipotent deity in Chinese theology)
    • Sky Father Physiology (Initially he utilized the term Tianzhu (天主; Tiānzhǔ), lit. "The Lord of Heaven")
    • Supreme Divinity (However, 帝 refers to the High God of Shang, thus means "deity" (manifested god), . Thus, the name Shangdi should be translated as "Highest Deity", but also has the implied meaning of "Primordial Deity" or "First Deity" in Classical Chinese))
    • Universal Manipulation (The interpretation of Shangdi as the celestial pole, Taiyi and as Ku the progenitor of the Shang is not contradictory. Feng Shi argues that Ku and Di are indeed identical. The Shang probably deliberately identified their ancestor with a universal god recognized in different regions and local cultures in order to legitimize their power)
    • Victory Inducement, Success Manipulation and Harvest Inducement (Shangdi was regarded as the ultimate spiritual power by the ruling elite of the Huaxia during the Shang dynasty: he was believed to control victory in battle, success or failure of harvests, weather conditions such as the floods of the Yellow River, and the fate of the capital city and kingdom)
  • Xi Wangmu
    • Absolute Transcendence (According to Tu-Kuang-ting. In heaven, beneath heaven, in the three worlds, and in the ten directions all women who ascend to transcendence and attain the way are her dependent)
    • Age Manipulation
      • Age Negation and Absolute Immortality (No matter where the peaches were located, the Queen Mother of the West is widely known for serving peaches to her guests, which would then make them immortal. She normally wears a distinctive headdress with the Peaches of Immortality suspended from it)
    • Archetype:Causa Sui (According to Zhuangzi. The Queen Mother of the West obtained it [the Dao]... ...and took up her seat at Shao kuang. No one knows her beginning; no one knows her end)
    • Authority
    • Directional Lordship (West)
    • Disease Manipulation
    • Feline Manipulation (Tigers)
    • Guardianship
    • Infinity Embodiment and Alpha Reality (In some beliefs. In Chinese salvationist religions, she is believed to be the same being as their main deity, Wusheng Laomu (Chinese: 無生老母; lit. 'birthless old mother'), also known as Wujimu (無極母; lit. 'infinite mother'). The title, Wujimu, signifies the absolute principle of reality, or the creational origin of all things)
    • Life and Death Manipulation
    • Luck Bestowal
    • Mental Inducement
    • Archetype:Mother Goddess (The Queen Mother of the West was said to care for all woman Daoists in the universe, both perfected and aspirants. In accordance with the Shang Ch'ing vision expressed by Tu, she appears as teacher judge, registrar, and Guardian of female believers. Her forms reflect Tu's definitions; all children, both male and female are conceived from her)
    • Monetary Manipulation (Grants money to her devotees)
    • Prosperity Embodiment (The growing popularity of the Queen Mother of the West, as well as the beliefs that she was the dispenser of prosperity, longevity, and eternal bliss)
    • Utopia Lordship and Immaculate World Creation (Her palace is believed to be a perfect and complete paradise, where it was used as a meeting place for the deities and a cosmic pillar where communications between deities and humans were possible)
    • Tiger Physiology (Initially. Originally, from the earliest known depictions of her in accounts like the Classic of Mountains and Seas during the Zhou dynasty, she was a ferocious goddess of death with the teeth of a tiger, who rules over wild beasts and sends down heavenly punishments such as pestilences)
    • Yin Manipulation (The Queen Mother of the West was seen as "a powerful, independent deity representing the ultimate yin controlling immortality and the afterlife.")
      • Yin & Yang Unification (During her birth. According to the Precious Scripture of the Dragon Flower: "The Eternal Venerable Mother conceives from herself and begets yin and yang. The yin is the daughter and the yang is the son")
  • Yán/Yama
    • Afterlife Lordship (limited)
    • Ancestry Manipulation
    • Disease Manipulation (A punishment in modern Theravadan texts is that of diseases)
    • Directional Lordship (the South)
    • Grim Reaper Physiology
    • Hindu Deity Physiology
    • Karma Manipulation (In response to Yama's questions, such an ignoble person repeatedly answers that he failed to consider the karmic consequences of his reprehensible actions and as a result is sent to a brutal hell "so long as that evil action has not exhausted its result)
    • Judgement Manipulation (In the Pali canon, the Buddha states that a person who has ill-treated their parents, ascetics, holy persons, or elders is taken upon his death to Yama. Yama then asks the ignoble person if he ever considered his own ill conduct in light of birth, deterioration, sickness, worldly retribution and death)
    • Samsara Manipulation (Presided over the cycle of Samsara)
    • Soul Removal (The spirits of the dead, on being judged by Yan, are supposed to either pass through a term of enjoyment in a region midway between the earth and the heaven of the gods or to undergo their measure of punishment in the nether world. Neither location is permanent and after a time, they return to Earth in new bodies)
      • Age Manipulation and Punishment (Modern Theravādin countries portray Yama sending old age, disease, punishments, and other calamities among humans as warnings to behave well. At death, they are summoned before Yama, who examines their character and dispatches them to their appropriate rebirth, whether to earth or to one of the heavens or hells. Sometimes there are thought to be two or four Yamas, each presiding over a distinct Hell)
    • Life and Death Manipulation (In Tibetan Buddhism Yama occurs in the form of Yama Dharmaraja, also known as Kalarupa, Shinje or Shin Je Cho Gyal. He is both regarded with horror as the prime mover of the cycle of death and rebirth and revered as a guardian of spiritual practice)
    • Shinto Deity Physiology

Minor Deities[]

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  • Baosheng Dadi
    • Healing (Baosheng Dadi is a Deity of Medicine worshiped in Chinese folk religion and Taoism)
    • Medicine Manipulation (He was a skilled doctor and Taoist practitioner who was credited with performing medical miracles, including applying eye drops to a dragon's eye and removing a foreign object from a tiger's throat. After his death in 1036, he began to be worshiped as a deity)
    • Protection Embodiment (His deified status was officially recognized by the Hongxi Emperor of the Ming dynasty who conferred on him the title of “Imperial Inspector at Heavenly Gate, Miracle Doctor of Compassion Relief, Great Taoist Immortal, and the Long-lived, Unbounded, Life Protection Emperor (恩主昊天金闕御史慈濟醫靈妙道真君萬壽無極保生大帝"))
  • Budai
    • Ascended Physiology
    • Buddhaic Plane Manipulation (As Angida. According to legend, Angida was a talented Indian snake catcher whose aim was to catch venomous snakes to prevent them from biting passers-by. Angida would also remove the snake's venomous fangs and release them. Due to his kindness, he was able to attain bodhi)
    • Elemental Immunity (The wandering monk was often inclined to sleep anywhere he came to, even outside, for his mystical powers could ward off the bitter colds of snow and his body was left unaffected)
    • Happiness Manipulation (His jolly nature, humorous personality, and eccentric lifestyle distinguish him from most Buddhist masters or figures. He is almost always shown smiling or laughing)
    • Joy Bringer (Ultimately, Budai was revered from both a folkloric standpoint as a strange, wandering vagabond of the people as well as from his newfound personage within the context of the Chan tradition as a 'mendicant priest' who brought abundance, fortune, and joy to all he encountered with the help of his mystical "cloth sack" bag)
  • Chen Fu Zhen Ren
    • Ancestry Manipulation (Chen Fu Zhen Ren (Chinese: 陈府真人; Hokkien: Tan Hu Cin Jin) is an ancestral deity of the Indonesian Chinese people)
    • Economy Manipulation (Had control of the economy via being in a high societal position)
    • Human Manipulation
    • Misfortune Redirection and Seer (He was accepted by the king of Blambangan and then was asked to build a palace at Macanputih, Banyuwangi (which is now a Probolinggo Sub-district). The palace was so beautiful that the king of Mengwi heard of Tan Cin Jin. At that time, the king of Mengwi had a plan to build a new palace; the king of Blambangan asked Tan Cin Jin to go to Mengwi for that reason. Tan Cin Jin had a precognition that he would be betrayed, so he tried to refuse, but the king insisted that he should go and assured him by swearing a vow: if any misfortune should befall him at Bali, the Kingdom of Blambangan would be far from blessed for many generations)
    • Land Lordship (Chen Fu Zhen Ren was an architect that fulfilled the contest made by the king of Mengwi. He had to build a palatial garden under certain amount of time. But with three days to go before the deadline, the architect had not built anything yet. The next morning, a beautiful garden magically appeared)
    • Power Bestowal (To his two guards)
    • Shapeshifting (The architect turned himself into Watu Dodol, a black and large volcanic stone with a base smaller than its top)
  • Dapeng Jinchi Mingwang
    • Garuda Physiology (Legend holds that in primordial times the original Phoenix (Fenghuang), the leader of flying beings, gave birth to the peacock Mahamayuri and to the eagle named the Golden Winged Great Peng)
      • Absolute Absorption and Flight (He is armed with a ji and can fly over great distances. Peng has a Flask of Yin and Yang Essence (陰陽二氣瓶) which can suck in unsuspecting victims)
      • Size Manipulation (The Great Golden Winged Peng is the king among birds. The Peng bird feasts exclusively on dragons. His wing-span measures an astounding 330 yojanas (3,960 to 4,950 km). When Peng flaps his wings, the sea waters part clear to the deepest seabed)
    • Evil Immunity (According to martial arts master Liang Shouyu's book, "[A] Dapeng is a great bird that lived in ancient China. Legend has it, that Dapeng was the guardian that stayed above the head of Gautama Buddha. Dapeng could get rid of all evil in any area. Even the Monkey King was no match for it)
    • Gold Mimicry
    • Guardianship (Dapeng Jinchi Mingwang (Chinese: 大鵬金翅明王; lit. 'The Golden-Winged King of Illumination'), also known as the Golden-Winged Great Peng (Chinese: 金翅大鵬雕), is a guardian deity in Mahayana Buddhism)
    • Shapeshifting (The Buddha gave the Eagle a high position in Heaven which only served to fuel his ego. For an unknown reason, the Eagle transformed himself into a humanoid form, the Golden Winged Great Peng, ate all residents of the Lion Camel Kingdom, ruled it for 500 years)
    • Supreme Observation (Existed in Heaven)
    • Transcendent Bird Physiology
  • Erlang Shen
    • Divine Combat (Fought with both Sun Wukong and Nezha)
    • Enhanced Craftsmanship
    • Seer
    • Nigh-Absolute Invulnerability and Immunity (Erlang Shen has also been portrayed as possessing a unique skill known as the "Nine Turns Divine Skill" (九轉玄功). It grants him vast, physical durability of undefined limits and nigh-invulnerability to conventional weapons and various magic spells. In the novel "Creation of the Gods", Erlang was shown to be completely impervious to hits from various powerful mystical objects due to this skill; he has emerged completely unscathed from mystical weapons and artifacts that have proven capable of severely injuring or even killing other immortals)
    • Omnifarious (He is capable of 72 Transformations (sometimes said to be 73 Transformations), meaning he can transform into virtually anything he wants)
    • Justice Embodiment (A noble and powerful warrior god who slays and vanquishes demons and monsters in the mortal realm and who embodies justice and righteousness)
      • Absolute Strength and Absolute Speed (He is shown to have vast, superhuman strength, being able to cleave an entire mountain with his axe to save his mother in just one stroke)
    • Enhanced Spearmanship (His main weapon of choice is his "three-pointed, double-edged lance" called the Sān Jiān Liǎng Rèn Dāo (三尖兩刃槍), a long three-pointed spear with two cutting edges of a saber. This spear is powerful enough to penetrate and cleave through steel and stone like wool. Erlang wields the Divine Spear with unmatched skill and superior mastery, being an unstoppable force of destruction in battle when wielding said spear, having slain countless evil gods, monstrous demonic beasts, and vast, massive armies of demons and ogres with it)
    • Animal Manipulation and Soul Destruction (He is almost always accompanied by his faithful Xiàotiān quǎn or "Howling Celestial Dog" (嘯天犬), which has the ability to viciously attack, maul, and subdue demons and evil spirits)
    • Sealing (A legend tells of Li Erlang suppressing a fire dragon that lived in the mountains north of Dujiangyan by climbing to the top of Mount Yulei, turning into a giant and building a dam with 66 mountains then filling it with water from Dragon Pacifying Pool. He also survived a massive flood)
    • Supernatural Eye (His third eye and he managed to see through Sun Wukong's disguise (as a temple) using his third eye)
      • Holy Fire Generation and immunity to Absolute Illusion ("The Eye of Heaven" (天眼). It has the ability to differentiate truth from lies and see through deceptions and disguises. It may also be used as an offensive weapon, being able to fire continuous, highly destructive blasts of light energy and/or divine fire)
    • Thunder Manipulation and Divine Lightning Manipulation (In Chinese belief, he was a filial son that entered the Chinese underworld to save his deceased mother from torment and will punish unfilial children by striking them with thunder as a punishment, hence the Chinese parent saying "Being smitten by lightning for being unfilial and ungrateful" towards unruly children)
    • Truth Detection (Erlang Shen (Chinese: 二郎神; pinyin: Èrláng Shén; Wade–Giles: Êrh-lang Shên; lit. 'Second-Lad God'), also known as Erlang of Guankou (灌口二郎; Guànkǒu Èrláng; Kuan-kʽou Êrh-lang) and the Lord of Sichuan (川主; Chuānzhǔ; Chʽuan-chu), is a Chinese god with a third truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead)
    • Weapon Proficiency/Absolute (In Journey to the West, he is described as follows: "His bearing was refined, his visage noble, His ears hung down to his shoulders, and his eyes shone. The hat on his head had three peaks and phoenixes flying, And his robe was of a pale goose−yellow. His boots were lined with cloth of gold; dragons coiled round his socks; His jade belt was decorated with the eight jewels, At his waist was a bow, curved like the moon, In his hand a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear. His axe had split open Peach Mountain when he rescued his mother, His bow had killed the twin phoenixes of Zongluo")
      • Transformation Arts ("He was the Merciful and Miraculous Sage of the red city, Erlang, whose transformations were numberless")
  • Fengbo/Feng Po Po
    • Air Manipulation
      • Air Generation (He holds a goatskin bag of winds and directs them as he pleases. He is considered a stellar divinity, under the control of the star Ch’i of the Sagittarius constellation)
      • Air Magic (Legends say that Fei Lien was originally one of the supporters of the rebel Ch’ih Yu, who was defeated by Huang Ti. He was transformed into a spiritual monster and stirred up tremendous winds in the southern regions. Emperor Yao sent Shên I and three hundred soldiers to quiet the storms and appease Ch’ih Yu's relatives, who were wreaking their vengeance on the people. Shên I ordered the people to spread a long cloth in front of their house and secure it to the ground with stones; this caused the wind to blow against it and change direction)
      • Esoteric Wind Manipulation (Fengbo (Chinese: 風伯), also known as Fengshi, is the Taoist deity of the wind)
      • Sacred Wind Manipulation
    • Chimerism (In ancient times, he was depicted as a grotesque deity with the body of a deer, the head of a bird, horns, the tail of a snake, and patterns of a leopard)
    • Peak Human Strength/Supernatural (Both he and his son Ô Lai, who was so strong that he could tear a tiger and rhinoceros to pieces with his bare hands, were killed while in service of Chou Wang)
    • Storm Generation (On calm days she expresses her generous spirit by stuffing all the winds into her sack, but when her mood turns foul or the sack of wind becomes too heavy, she unleashes pent up winds in the form of violent storms)
  • Fude Zhengshen
    • Blessing Manipulation (His position was taken by Wei Chao that oppressed people by his greedy and cruelty character. Many people left their homeland and farms, and they wished to had a wise new officer just like Zhang Fu De. They worshiped him and called him Fude Zhengshen. One poor family had wished to build an altar for him, but they just could afford four pieces of bricks to build. They used three bricks as the walls and one as the roof, wrote down the name of Fude Zhengshen inside it and use a broken crock as tripod to put the incense. Unexpectedly, the poor family became rich and many people turned to believed on Zhang Fu De; built a temple for him)
    • Fertility Inducement
    • Gender Transcendence
    • Monetary Manipulation (Blessed a poor family with money)
    • Prosperity Embodiment (Fude Zhengshen (Chinese: 福德正神; pinyin: Fúdé Zhèngshén; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-tek Chèng-sîn, lit. Righteous God of Virtue and Blessing) is a God of Prosperity in Chinese folk religion)
    • Underground Manipulation
      • Earth Manipulation (Both Fude Zhengshen and Tudigong are described as sitting white haired old men with white long beard. The main differences between the two deities are that Fude Zhengshen is a wealth deity with no connection to the earth while Tudigong are a group of low-ranking earth deities)
    • Virtue Manipulation
  • Kui Xing
    • Constellation Manipulation (The name 'Kui Xing' literally means "Chief Star(s)", and anciently referred to the 'spoon' of the Big Dipper. The Chun Qiu Yun Dou Shu defines the ‘Kui Xing' as "The four stars in the first section of the dipper")
    • Health Optimization
    • Literary Manipulation (God of literature)
    • Probability Manipulation (In Daoist tradition, Kui Xing is said to have been "bent and hunchbacked, as if he were an actual calligraphy character", and came to be viewed as a saint of human fortune)
    • Supreme Observation (From the stars)
    • True Name Manipulation (As his form developed, people depicted Kui Xing's right foot standing on a character 鰲 (ao), a giant turtle, in reference to a traditional saying, 獨佔鰲頭, "to stand lonely on the ao's head", meaning coming in first in examinations), his left foot support a ladle, a writing brush in his hand, and his body full of vigor and life. Stylized calligraphy of Confucian adages often compose his torso)
  • Lan Caihe
    • Eternal Transcendence (Via age. Legends describe Lan as failing to visibly age over the decades, even before attaining immortality. In connection with this, Lan represents eternal youth and innocence)
    • Flower Magic (Could control all flowers including plants)
    • Gender Transcendence (The gender of Lan Caihe is unknown. Different writers and artists portray this immortal as an intersex person, a man, a woman, a man who looks like a woman, a person who does not fit into contemporary male or female gender roles, or someone who appears as—or dresses as—different genders at different times)
    • Healing and Medicine Manipulation (Lan's basket contains plants and medicinal herbs associated with longevity, including: the magic fungus (lingzhi mushroom, Ganoderma lucidum), which resists decay, and in Traditional Chinese medicine is used to prolong life; sprigs of bamboo and pine, which as evergreen plants, symbolize longevity; flowering and leafless plum, because they show vitality in blooming in early spring from seemingly lifeless branches)
    • Magic
    • Music Manipulation (According to the Hsiu hsiang Pa Hsien tung yu chi, epithets of Lan Caihe include "the Red-footed Great Genius," Ch’ih-chiao Ta-hsien incarnate. Lan was also called the "foot-stomping immortal," which was a reference to the genre of music that Lan performed, "stomping songs," which are described further below)
  • Li Jing
    • Authority
    • Divine Object (Prison Tower)
    • Supernatural Speed
    • Underground Maneuverability (Throughout his past, Li Jing had studied under Superiorman Danger Skipper of Mount Kunlun, and had soon become a master of exceedingly fast underground travel (even to the extent of traveling thousands of kilometres without a single individual noticing)
    • Sealing (Via his pagoda. He carries a tower that can capture any spirit, demon or god within its walls)
  • Li Tieguai
    • Clown Physiology (limited since he resembles a clown)
    • Health Manipulation (He is sometimes described as irascible and ill-tempered, but also benevolent to the poor, sick and the needy, whose suffering he alleviates with special medicine from his Calabash gourd)
    • Magic
    • Omni Healing (Laozi appeared and gave him a medicine gourd that could cure any illness and never emptied. Li then brought his apprentice's mother back to life using the liquid from his gourd. Li Qing was then dismissed as his apprentice, after being given a small pill and being told that he would work hard enough to become an immortal himself. This turned out to be true)
    • Smoke Manipulation, Soul Removal and Astral Projection (The "gourd had spirals of smoke ascend from it, denoting his power of setting his spirit free from his body.")

Cloud ladder—a mobile, counterweighted siege ladder. Grappling hooks and ram—implements for naval warfare. Wooden bird—a non-powered, flying, wooden bird which could stay in the air for three days. It has been suggested to be a prototype of a kite)

  • Mahamayuri
    • Absolute Wisdom (Mahamayuri (Sanskrit: महामायूरी Mahāmāyūrī ("great peacock"), Chinese: 孔雀明王 Kǒngquè Míngwáng, Vietnamese: Khổng Tước Minh Vương, Japanese: 孔雀明王, romanized: Kujaku Myōō, Korean: 공작명왕 Gongjak Myeongwang), or Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī is a bodhisattva and female Wisdom King in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism)
    • Multiple Arms (Her origins are said to derive from an Indian goddess of the same name. She is portrayed riding a top a peacock and commonly sporting four arms. Although the items she holds varies among traditions, common items include a citron, bael fruit, lotus flower and a peacock tail feather)
    • Poison Manipulation
      • Spiritual Poison Manipulation and immunity to Omnipoison (The Sanskrit name Mahāmāyūrī means 'great peahen'. Known as the 'Queen of the secret sciences' and the 'Godmother of Buddha', Mahamayuri is believed to have the power to protect devotees from poisoning, either physical or spiritual)
    • Protection Embodiment (In contemporary times, her veneration is thought to be closely related to medical care, public health, environmental protection, and social welfare)
    • Wrath Embodiment

N-Z[]

  • Old Man of the South Pole 
    • Joy Bringer
    • Monetary Manipulation
    • Stellar Embodiment (The Old Man of the South Pole is often depicted in Chinese pictures as an old man with a long white beard with a deer by his side. This style of picture is related to the story of an emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, who had invited such an old man from the street and later considered the old man as the sign of his longevity)
      • Constellation Manipulation (The Old Man of the South Pole (in Chinese: 南極老人, 南極仙翁 or Japanese: 南極老人) is the Taoist deification of Canopus, the brightest star of the constellation Carina. It is the symbol of happiness and longevity in Far Eastern culture)
      • Constellation Physiology (Was a literal star)
  • Qianliyan and Shunfeng'er
    • Door Manipulation
    • Guardianship
    • Multiple Arms (Shunfeng'er typically appears as a red- or brown-skinned demon cupping a hand to one of his ears. He also occasionally appears with three heads and six arms)
    • Ocean Manipulation (In still another account, the pair were originally warriors or guards of King Zhou of Shang. In this version of the story, they are sometimes said to have already possessed their superhuman powers and to have used them to foil the first moves towards rebellion by the Zhou. Ji Fa's advisor Jiang Ziya is made out to have been a Taoist adept)
    • Supreme Observation (The name "Qianliyan" literally means "He of the Thousand-Mile" or "League Eyes" but may be taken more generally as "Hawkeye", "Lynx-Eyed", "Far-Seeing", or even "All-Seeing" or "Clairvoyant" as a distance of 1,000 li was idiomatic in Chinese for any great distance. It also appears as Qianli Yan and Qian Li Yan. His partner Shunfeng'er's name similarly means "Sharp-Eared" or "All-Hearing". Qianliyan's sharp vision is employed to help protect sailors at night and during fog and other inclement weather. In some accounts, he is capable of seeing everything in the world)
    • Wind Generation (Shunfeng'er's sharp hearing is employed to help sailors distinguish favorable winds from coming storms. In some accounts, he is capable of hearing everything in the world, no matter how quietly spoken, and was therefore also worshipped as a witness and guarantor of oaths and contracts)
  • Qu_Yuan
    • Poetry Embodiment (Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC – 278 BC) was a Chinese poet and politician in the State of Chu during the Warring States period)
    • Water Manipulation (Following his suicide, Qu Yuan was sometimes revered as a water god, including by Taiwanese Taoists, who number him among the Kings of the Water Immortals)
  • Tudigong
    • Blessing Manipulation (A Tudigong (Chinese: 土地公; lit. 'Lord of the Land') is a kind of Chinese tutelary deity of a specific location. There are several Tudigongs corresponding to different geographical locations, sometimes multiple ones will be venerated together in certain regions. Fudegong (福德公 "Lord of Blessing and Virtue"))
    • Divine Earth Manipulation (Tudigongs developed from land worship. Before Chenghuangshen ("City Gods") became more prominent in China, land worship had a hierarchy of deities conforming strictly to social structure, in which the emperor, kings, dukes, officials, and common people were allowed to worship only the land gods within their command; the highest land deity was the Houtu ("Queen of the Earth"))
    • Earth Manipulation
    • Land Lordship (Soil Deities and Lords of the Land)
    • Protection Embodiment
    • Virtue Manipulation
  • Wenchang Wang
    • Constellation Manipulation (The literal translation of his name would be King (王) of Flourishing (昌) Culture/Language (文). Wenchang Wang is physically represented by a constellation of six stars near the Big Dipper. The stars all had names of their own: Shangjiang (上將), Cijiang (次將), Guixiang (貴相), Siming (司命), Sizhong (司中), and Silu (司祿))
    • Inspiration Manipulation (He has historically been called upon by scholars and writers who need inspiration or help right before an exam)
    • Lexiconicy (He sometimes holds a pen and a book that says "Heaven determines literary achievement")
    • Literary Manipulation
    • Script Manipulation (Wenchang Wang also appears in other texts, where he is praised for other noble virtues. The book Wenchang Emperor and the States He Stabilized states: "He descended into the mortal world seventy-three times as a shidafu" (a scholar-bureaucrat position in the emperor's government of feudal China). Wenchang was uncorrupted, upright and just, and never dealt out harsh punishments to the people)
  • Wu Zixu
    • Enhanced Inventing
    • Lake/River Manipulation
      • Water Manipulation (Wu Zixu is worshipped in eastern China as Taoshen, "God of the Waves". He was also long considered the god of the tidal bore of the Qiantang River near Hangzhou and continues to be worshipped, particularly by Taiwanese Taoists, as one of the five Kings of the Water Immortals. Having assisted King Helü in planning modern Suzhou (then known as "Helü City"), Wu is also sometimes credited as the culture hero responsible for the invention of the waterwheel)
  • Xihe
    • Solar Deity Physiology (Xihe (Chinese: 羲和; pinyin: Xīhé; Wade–Giles: Hsi-ho), was a solar deity in Chinese mythology)
      • Solar Empowerment
      • Solar Manipulation
        • Light Manipulation ("The sun enters the floodwaters of the Abyss of Anxiety; sunrise emerges from the drainage stream of the Vale of Obscurity. [The sun] travels over the nine continents, [passing through] seven resting places, [covering a distance of] 507,309 li. The divisions [of its journey] make dawn, daylight, dusk, and night.")
        • Time Manipulation (In the poem Suffering from the Shortness of Days (苦晝短), Li He of the Tang dynasty is hostile and even deviant towards the legendary dragons that drew the sun chariot as a vehicle for the passage of time)
  • Yanluo Wang
    • Judgement Manipulation and Omniscience (Omniscient only with regards to death. King Yan is not only the ruler but also the judge of the underworld and passes judgment on all the dead. He always appears in a male form, and his minions include a judge who holds in his hands a brush and a book listing every soul and the allotted death date for every life)
    • Karma Manipulation and Absolute Separation (Men or women with merit will be rewarded good future lives or even revival in their previous life. Men or women who committed misdeeds will be sentenced to suffering or miserable future lives. In some versions, Yan divides Diyu into eight, ten, or eighteen courts each ruled by a Yan King, such as King Chujiang, who rules the court reserved for thieves and murderers)
    • Meta Life-Force Manipulation (Sun Wukong wiped his name from the Book of Life and Death, a collection of books containing the names of every mortal alive which had the ability to manipulate lifespan)
    • Necromancy (Could revive the souls of the dead)
    • Necroscience
    • Underworld Lordship (In Chinese mythology and religion, King Yan (simplified Chinese: 阎王; traditional Chinese: 閻王; pinyin: Yánwáng) is the god of death and the ruler of Diyu, overseeing the "Ten Kings of Hell" in its capital of Youdu)
      • Samsara Manipulation (Yan was sometimes considered to be a position in the celestial hierarchy, rather than an individual. There were said to be cases in which an honest mortal was rewarded the post of Yan and served as the judge and ruler of the underworld. Some said common people like Bao Zheng, Fan Zhongyan, Zhang Binglin became the Yan at night or after death. Once a King of Hell has served out his sentence in Hell, he is able to reincarnate on Earth again or leave the cycle entirely)
    • Soul Absorption, Soul Manipulation and Absolute Destruction (Destroys souls within Diyu. The spirits of the dead, on being judged by Yan, are supposed to either pass through a term of enjoyment in a region midway between the earth and the heaven of the gods or to undergo their measure of punishment in the nether world. Neither location is permanent and after a time, they return to Earth in new bodies)
  • Zhang Guolao
    • Magic (Zhang was the most eccentric of the Eight Immortals, seen clearly in the style of Chinese martial arts dedicated to his memory. The style includes moves such as delivering a kick during a backflip or bending so far back that your shoulders touch the ground. He was known to be quite entertaining, often making himself invisible, drinking water from the petals of poisonous flowers, snatching birds in flight from the sky, as well as wilting flowers simply by pointing in their direction)
      • Necromancy (Was a lover of necromancy. After the emperor begged Zhang for forgiveness for his indiscretion, Zhang then sprinkled water on Ye's face and he revived. Soon after, between 742 and 746, Zhang fell ill and returned to die on Zhongtiao Mountain in Hengzhou. When his apprentices opened his tomb, they found it empty)
      • Potion Creation (Zhang also had a love for wine and winemaking. He was known to make liquor from herbs and shrubs as a hobby. Other members of the Eight Immortals drank his wine, which they believed to have healing or medicinal properties. He was also known to be a master of qigong and could go without food for days, surviving on only a few sips of wine)
  • Zhong Kui
    • Demon Manipulation (He is depicted as a large man with a big black beard, bulging eyes, and a wrathful expression. Zhong Kui is able to command 80,000 demons to do his bidding and is often associated with the five bats of fortune)
    • Ghost Lord Physiology (Zhong Kui (Chinese: 鍾馗; pinyin: Zhōng Kuí; Korean: 종규, romanized: Jonggyu; Japanese: 鍾馗, romanized: Shōki; Vietnamese: Chung Quỳ) is a Taoist deity in Chinese mythology, traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings)
    • Guardianship (In art, Zhong Kui is a frequent subject in paintings and crafts, and his image is often painted on household gates as a guardian spirit)
    • Hunting Deity Physiology
    • Soul Destruction (Could destroy souls in Diyu)
    • Spirit World Lordship (During the divine judgment after his death from suicide, Yanluo Wang (the Chinese Underworld Judge) saw much potential in Zhong Kui, intelligent and smart enough to score top honors in the imperial examinations but condemned to Youdu because of the strong grievance. Yama then gave him a title as the king of ghosts and tasked him to hunt, capture, take charge of and maintain discipline and order among all ghosts)
  • Zhongli Quan
    • Magic
      • Alchemy (He came across an old man who led him to a spiritual sanctuary where he was welcomed in and told that he could stay as long as was needed. There he learned the ways of the immortal rituals and extensive amounts of alchemy. After three hard days of teaching, he was dismissed and told to use his newfound powers to serve his people. When he turned back to talk to the man, he and his home had vanished. Using his power of alchemy)
      • Necromancy and Transmutation (Zhongli Quan, courtesy name Jidao, is a Chinese mythological figure and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. He is also known as Han Zhongli because he was said to have been born in the Han dynasty. In legend, he holds a peach and wields a large feather fan which can resurrect the dead and transform stones into silver and gold)
      • Resurrection

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Known Users[]

  • Niang-Niang (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
  • The Eight Immortals (Marvel Comics)
  • Chinese Mythology (Megami Tensei series)
  • Chang'e (Over the Moon)
  • Chinese gods (Smite)
    • Erlang Shen
    • Guan Yu
    • Sun Wukong
    • Xing Tian
    • Ao Kuan
    • Chang´e
    • He Bo
    • Nu Wa
    • Zhog Kui
    • Da Ji
    • Ne Zha
    • Hou Yi
    • Jing Wei
    • Yu Huang
  • Zao Shen (Supernatural)
  • Chang'e (Touhou)
  • Nezha (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Nuwa (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Yama (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Monkey (Valkyrie Crusade)

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