Zhu En - Vlado's WWM DB

Biography

Frail priestess of the Grand Nuo exorcism rite — her name invokes Rao Er, the filial-piety folk goddess of the Tang.

Zhu En leads the Grand Nuo Ritual Lost Chapter at the Imperial Palace. The localization renders her name Zhu En; strictly speaking the source material prefers Zhu Er — an honorific from Song-dynasty ritual poetry invoking Rao Er, a Tang folk figure deified for extraordinary filial piety after she searched riverbanks until blood flowed from her eyes seeking her drowned father's body.That etymology explains both her frail appearance and her ceremonial role: she is invoker, not warrior. Before the ritual she is coughing blood and requires Healer-career treatment. [spoiler]When the protagonist asks how to reconcile hearing the dead during a ceremony staged for the living, she answers that the age of war was long — what you heard were only echoes that had not faded yet. Now that the Nuo is done, the echoes are gone. She reframes restless spirits not as ghosts demanding gods but as dissonant notes in the world's melody — a direct extension of the harmonizer cosmology Qi Shen introduces in Qinghe.[/spoiler]