SEAL OF EVIL

people. They regard the Qin king as little more than a power hungry
despot, and they are right. Wanting nothing to do with him or his
particular form of tyranny, the Baiyun resist. Sadly, years earlier the
country of West Baiyue had already fallen to the Qin, leaving the East
to fend for itself. A great warrior chieftain named Lan Xiong and his
best friend and chief sacrificial wizard, Chi Huan, lead the remaining
Baiyun. Although not at all eager for battle and bloodshed, they will
nonetheless not give up without a fight. Then on the eve of war, Lan
and Chi die suddenly of mysterious causes. East Baiyue no longer has
leadership and guidance. All seems hopeless.
Lan Wei, the heir to Lan Xiong’s mantle of authority, is distraught.
Lacking confidence in her own abilities to lead the Baiyun to war and
unable to unify them the way her father would have, she decides her
only course of action is to seek the mythical Empyrean Stones. If the
legends and stories are correct, the five stones will enable her to bring
Lan Xiong back from the dead. He is her only hope for saving East
Baiyue from the Qin menace…
1.2 The Empyrean Stones
Thousands of years before the Warring States period, a god named Chi
You rebelled against the authority of Heaven because he was jealous of
his brethren. The Yellow Emperor, the god who is regarded as the
ancestor of the Chinese people, went to war against his brother and
after one hundred years of battle defeated him. He would not have won
if were not for the ancestors of the Baiyun people turning on Chi You,
who had until that point been their patron deity. The Yellow Emperor
imprisoned his soul in a slate platform using the magic of an enchanted
stone tablet. To ensure the demon god could never escape, he broke the
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