Hao Jin
Hao Jin is a powerful sorceress who lives in the city of Goka, on the continent of Tian Xia. She is also known as the Ruby Phoenix for her bright red hair that grew an ever-brighter shade of red whenever she arises from the dead by resurrection magic.
Background
Hao Jin was born in Goka to an Abadaran priestess and a painter who emphasised the importance of order and creativity in her life. She loved exploring the Empress Yin Museum, home to countless relics from Yixing, whose stewards were fond of her but often told her to be more careful around the exhibits. Her recklessness eventually burnt the museum, killing Hao Jin and destroying countless exhibits. Her parents, at great expense, had her resurrected, igniting her talent as a sorcerer.1
Collection
Hao Jin's resurrection and the irrevocable damage she did to the museum changed Hao Jin. As her powers developed, Hao Jin sought to recreate her deity's collection of magic items, wealth, and treasure in a mortal version of the First Vault, like how her patron Abadar does. After living for several centuries, Hao Jin succeeded in accumulating an impressive collection but eventually realized that her hoard was only safe while she lived. In response, Hao Jin strove for immortality, driven by her desire to acquire the greatest collection of magical wonders from across Golarion, but such power consistently eluded her. Fearing her collection would be stolen, broken up, or simply lost to history, she made plans for her eventual permanent demise.123
The crown jewel of Hao Jin's collection was the Hao Jin Tapestry, a personal demiplane that she created to house entire communities and geographical features and safeguard her most dangerous treasures.4
Ruby Phoenix Tournament
Among her many contracts and pacts, Hao Jin made an arrangement with the Temple of Abadar in Goka. If she did not return to the temple after a decade and a day, then she would be declared dead and a competition of martial skills would be held every decade after that date. Under supervision from the clergy of Abadar, the greatest combatants of the age would compete for the fame and glory of emerging the ultimate warrior. The victor would then choose a single item as a final prize from Hao Jin's collection. These games would be called the Ruby Phoenix Tournament.5
Content with her creation, Hao Jin departed Golarion for good and moved to Axis.1 By 4391 AR, Hao Jin had not returned to the temple of Abadar for ten years. In accordance with her agreement, the priests of Abadar enacted her contract and made plans to create the first Ruby Phoenix Tournament. It would be held in a decade's time, in 4401 AR.5
Hao Jin is an expert in the elements.6
Relationships
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Syndara
Hao Jin had a close relationship with the axiomite Syndara the Sculptor who taught her how to craft demiplanes.7 When her talent surpassed his, he grew jealous and began to create evil demiplanes. Upon learning that Syndara was creating such a demiplane for Sok Jyun-son, a vicious despot in Tian Xia, she was horrified that Syndara would aid the cruelty of a man so close to her homeland and she attempted to absorb the demiplane, the Glass Lighthouse, into the Hao Jin Tapestry. Syndara and Hao Jin fought for days across numerous demiplanes with Hao Jin emerging as the victor. She sealed Syndara in the Glass Lighthouse and placed it inside her tapestry.8
When Hao Jin voluntarily relinquished her memories of creating the Hao Jin Tapestry to Axis, she also lost most of her memories of her former master, recalling only that she had worked with him in the past.9
Empress Nai Yan Fei
Hao Jin has formed a partnership with Empress Nai Yan Fei since her return to Goka and has consulted her on Gokan matters.10
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alex Greenshields. (2019). Tapestry's Trial, p. 3. Paizo Inc.
- ↑ Tim Hitchcock. (2012). Blood Under Absalom, p. 3. Paizo Publishing, LLC.
- ↑ John Compton & Mark Moreland. (2013). Pathfinder Society Primer, p. Inside Back Cover. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-534-1
- ↑ Robert Brookes et al. (2018). "The Great Beyond". Planar Adventures, p. 215. Paizo Inc. ISBN 978-1-64078-044-6
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Tim Hitchcock. (2012). The Ruby Phoenix Tournament, p. 3. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-381-1
- ↑ John Compton, Paris Crenshaw, Eleanor Ferron, Thurston Hillman, and Jessica Price. (2016). Planes of Power, p. 2. Paizo Inc. ISBN 978-1-60125-883-0
- ↑ James Case. (2021). "King of the Mountain". King of the Mountain, p. 4–5. Paizo Inc. ISBN 978-1-64078-339-3
- ↑ James Case, Joan Hong, Danita Rambo, David N. Ross, William Thompson, and Ruvaid Virk. (2021). "Adventure Toolbox". King of the Mountain, p. 88. Paizo Inc. ISBN 978-1-64078-339-3
- ↑ James Case. (2021). "King of the Mountain". King of the Mountain, p. 5. Paizo Inc. ISBN 978-1-64078-339-3
- ↑ Luis Loza. (2021). "Despair on Danger Island". Despair on Danger Island, p. 58. Paizo Inc. ISBN 978-1-64078-329-4
Additional works published by Paizo Inc. in which Hao Jin appears:
- Ageless Ambitions
- The Blakros Matrimony
- Blood Under Absalom
- Countdown to Round Mountain
- The Deepmarket Deception
- The Dog Pharaoh's Tomb
- The Elven Entanglement
- The Fabric of Reality
- Fragments of Antiquity
- From Under Ice
- The Green Market
- The Hao Jin Cataclysm
- The Hao Jin Hierophant
- The Icebound Outpost
- Pagoda of the Rat (scenario)
- Portal of the Sacred Rune
- Prisoners of the Electric Castle
- The Sealed Gate
- Serpent's Rise
- Severing Ties
- Siege of Serpents
- Snakes in the Fold
- Storming the Diamond Gate
- The Sundered Path
- Tapestry's Toil
- Tapestry's Trial
- The Temple of Empyreal Enlightenment
- Ward Asunder
- Where Mammoths Dare Not Tread
