The greatest among them was the Yellow Emperor, who gave the people of China their first alphabet and agriculture.
The Wu Lung claim that they came into being in the Fourth Age, when the first men awakened to the designs of Heaven and chose to involve themselves in the Celestial Bureaucracy. Once the undisputed masters of the supernatural in ancient China, the "dragon wizards" have seen their dominance of the eastern half of China diminish tremendously under the predations of communist atheism, the inadvertent adoption of the Five Elemental Dragons (most notably the Zi Guang) into the Technocracy and by the consolidation of their former rivals, the Akashic Brotherhood. The Wu Lung believe in the Metaphysical Trinity, which they have dubbed Tiger (representing Dynamism), Dragon (representing Entropy) and Phoenix (representing Stasis), whose workings are described as the "Three Warring Kingdoms" History Spells are carefully worded petitions to the gods Thus, ornate regalia, precise writing, and exacting pronunciation are required to please Heaven, to fit the clockwork order of the cosmos, and to pull the appropriate forces into conjunction. Tradition is more than a way of life: Tradition preserves the uncorrupted means to petition and appease Heaven and the spirits.
Every part of the cosmos works in a specific fashion, just so, as a result, every form of magic, every feat, no matter how insignificant, must be properly conducted and practiced, just so. The magical style of the Wu Lung is highly legalistic and bureaucratic. When a Wu Lung lives according to the tenets of Li, he will be subsumed into the T'ai Chi, the Absolute, in what Westerners refer to as Ascension. They are shih, sages whose Hun has transformed into shen, which enables them to communicate with their own revered Ancestors, who guide them on the path of Li (Righteousness). The Wu Lung see themselves as speakers of humanity, interceding before the gods in their behalf.
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