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Li Yong the Fire Jewel of the East, overseer of the Zhejiang Province, is a Fire Lord. This is his crest, adorned with illegal ivory and Rhino horns, which identifies him among the masked group of Nine.
Fire Lords control the powers related to the Xnobius element and thus sense the slightly alterations of heat and fire through a veil of strange micro-organisms Ushabti which they use to automate machines, fuel up and control metallic structures, and are very practical to do laborial works. However, a more creeping prospect is that the Ushabti, controlled by Xnobius at certain levels (requiring more energy from the element as larger chains are connected), becomes radioactive to human tissue, however it didn't hinder Fire Lords from employing them in their arts for necromancy. Whilst Ushabti have lives as ephemeral as common flies, they carry out memories, and can be computed into the Sheut, collectives of Ushabtis that are a tad more sentient, being spectres on their own right. Fire Lords, to be the exclusive group they are, are able to project their own Sheut, which means, that they can pass a first death by becoming this so-called shadow, which is bright as a mass of flames, dark as some fume, smoking carbon. In turn, they need Xnobius once again to maintain their status. That said, they're employed in making the element most relevant in daily life at every level. However, whilst it's rarity was a factor it was evaluated for some jewelry purposes, it's actual energetical goodness wasn't at all automated until the turn of the century.
So, the Fire Lords are the frontlines of this hidden technocracy and carry out a somewhat nationalistic agenda to the country of Haijian, whose history is partially shared with our own world's China. They're building up some momentum, as increasing population, late industrialization and global warming lead it all spiralling down to make a "Ushabti Greenhouse" more feasible than ever. Some are most concerned with pushing forth the control of fire and Xnobius to make energy out of Earth's isostasy and rotation, which would render the benefits of such naturalized, fully automated energy exclusively to the Lord and it's state machine, turned a private joint. Many interests build up to this, and the country's parties are somewhat uneasy with the loss of autonomy to this group of Nine.
NINE, because despite every learner can bend Xnobius' powers, few have what it takes to reach the equilibrium between quantity and behavior of the Ushabti to the energy in the Xnobius. Many outcomes went from such a science, trying to find it in genetics to building up magician schools in different places. Fire Lords used to be around Kemet and Huaxia, despite the defeat of the first Flame Emperor left the Yellow Emperor, prime ancestor to Haijian, to monopolize the Fire Lord effort. Other groups became reclusive. Using Xnobius and Ushabti leaves imprints easy to be read by other users, however, using someone else, an automated army of rotten flesh to armor plate, doesn't denounce the author. That is an interesting prospect where the labor of the people is often hierarchized. So, the most untouched the Lord, whilst maintaining most doing it's bidding, is accounted good for the group. They require Nine to replicate some numerical value as a limitating device, maybe inspired in the elementals. To rank that, they use the concept of guanxi "networking". Some believe the Fire Lord automation has been so well mastered that even organics are unaware of it's grasp. No wonder religious leaders, politicians and military account among the Fire Lord and it's intelligentsia.
 

Li Yong uses proeminently the charging up of Xnobius chains for immediate outbursts of energy, controlled by a variety of theorems which were perfected by a bit of empirism just to prove his theories. That said, he can blow enemy gear once it's lines were 'infected' by his Ushabti, and he can protect ally technology with literal "firewalls". To that, his most preferred attack consists of using large flames in thick plasma, which greatly differ of the traditional fire powers, acting less like the wild fire that consumes everything around, and being more like a sinister flame thrower, aimed directly at the victim and from a large distance. He also uses electricity, with the category of Xnobius, to transport ephemeral Ushabti as his minions.
He's a politician who rose up from within the ruling Party, during a time of great reform and opportunnities. His connections plus his knowledge on engineering, which secured his employment in valuable offices concerning energetical sufficience and power pant managements in far away districts, has made he very participative in international affairs in and out from Haijian. Putting his own ideals behind, he's became as much pragmatic as his double life as a Fire Lord became ellusive, while he doesn't employ large quantities of armies like even elder fire lords do, he casts mind-controlling Ushabti through sucessive infections on the neural sense of victims. He means less to become a military and values it best to keep production lines in service. As a governmental officer, he's also not too concerned on "human rights" or work-related laws which hinder production. Lately he's been more open to that, after securing exploitative deals with proectorates elsewhere, most notably in Africa. It was through him that the Lords received vitalicious support by the Party, during their reveal at the 2008's related sports event of international coverage. Too much for propaganda, he was there too in 2010 when an attack later attributed to some Necoc Yaotl threatened a global leadership summit at Times Square. Foiling the plans of the Triton, yet failing to avoid the Minotaur from escaping his prison, albeit some argue that for media related purposes (as letting it leak and reveal demonic existence outside the confined and corroborating "Akh" species within Haijianese darkest corners of traffic would require collaborations between "experienced" Haijian and "newbie" nations elsewhere), he was widely equated to his human counterpart, and revealed to be one and the same in good terms, however protecting the identity of his fellows and maintaining their masked facades for ritual purposes, which just made more tense the Haijian-UN relations. Nevertheless, his works on managing energy projects in Africa has been praised. Critics rest on the colonialist nature of where it's profit goes too, but local tyrants, leaders of satellite states and traffickers within the protectorates agree with his methods. No one cares as capital is capital...
He sees Tao Qing's future as a promising one, while he's an old timer of the party, Qing brings new light for private investors and a new air for the agenda of the state machine, which relied one time too many on international collaboration instead of building some national integrity first.

Initial Sketch concept | Project at Behance
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