I’ve always been a fan of Wuxia fiction, and I have noticed the lack of the usually Chinese-exclusive Wuxia genre here, so I have aimed to create a story under the Wuxia genre;
Edit: Choice of Kung Fu wasn’t exactly Wuxia; traditional wuxia seldom involves emperors and dragons, which sort of puts it between mythology and wuxia. Also, I felt that the magic stat destroyed it a bit, as did the presence of foreigners. Anyway, this is what my planned story is like:
It all starts when you were a child. You are enrolled in a combat school, with only one master of Kung Fu there. He teaches you, along with four other (then) young children, whichever arts you wish to learn. He taught you the way of his path, whether it was the white path or the black path, allowing you to enter the Jiang Hu in later life, and favours you to be his successor, calling you the most promising of his students.
However, just as he was about to complete the traditional ceremonies to allow you to leave his tutelage and enter the Jiang Hu, you are attacked by masked enemies. Although your ShiFu is one of the greatest masters that walked the Jiang Hu in his youth, he had retired himself from the Jiang Hu and no longer practices his own martial arts so much, and you are vastly outnumbered.
Holding off the attackers on his/her own, your ShiFu orders all of his five students (including you) to escape. As you flee, you see one of the attackers stab your ShiFu with a poisoned blade, dying in the process.
As you flee, you are pursued by the remnants of the original 30 something attackers, which have dwindled to 20 or so. However, despite the ten that your ShiFu killed, the five of you combined are still too weak to defeat them, and flee onwards.
Eventually, you have reached the edge of your ShiFu’s domain; guarded by fast flowing waters, there is only one spare boat left that the attackers couldn’t find and burn. You may only take one more of your fellow students with you, and the rest of them valiantly hold off the attackers until you have escaped.
You are now in the Jiang Hu, but not as you have hoped… you are wounded, penniless, and your ShiFu is dead. You and your chosen fellow student swear vengeance on the attackers, and take up the task of avenging your fallen comrades… But who were those masked attackers?
That is how the story starts.
You set yourselves a vendetta to avenge your fallen brothers and sisters, and hunt for the truth from fragments. Along the way, however, you find out many, many things about your ShiFu’s past… Why would someone proclaimed as the greatest master of all leave the Jiang Hu and travel to the far west? What did your ShiFu involve him/her self in while he/she was in the Jiang Hu?
Each and every one of the attackers has his/her own tale of vengeance. Was your ShiFu deserving of death, and were those attackers deserving of death?
That is my idea. I know, I’m too long-winded. I can’t help it, it was an idea that has been fermenting for three years, ever since the first hosted games came out…