Min is a supporting event character, as well as an NPC found in Hausson. She played a key role in the Wind Temple storyline event.
Character Biography
The Legend
One day in a small coastal town, there lived a young girl named Min. Her parents having died while she was young, Min was adopted and cared for by a strict and cold nobleman called Jae-Hwa. Owner of a fishing company and a true businessman, Jae-Hwa immediately put the eight-year old Min to work repairing fishing nets.
She rapidly showed much talent and her well-crafted nets helped Jae-Hwa to expand his wealth. When Jae-Hwa realized her great potential, Min's duties were expanded. By the age of twelve, she was already a master seamstress, creating stunning clothing highly prized by noblemen in the region. Through Min's fabulous work and Jae-Hwa's business cunning, his fortune continued to grow.
What Jae-Hwa's cunning overlooked, however, was the restless cleverness of his adopted servant. Indeed, Min was among the most intelligent of her people. And with intelligence comes reflection. While Min worked diligently and obediently for her master she knew that his treatment of her was unfair. She knew that she deserved to be free from her life of servitude. Even as she toiled away, she thought of her escape.
Unbeknownst to Jae-Hwa, the charming Min convinced one of her master's scribes to teach her how to read and write. She quickly immersed herself in all writings she could find. She learned of the Tao, the eight trigrams, and the four totem animals. To her innate cunning, she added the wisdom of great minds such as Confucius and Sun-Tzu. She identified her master's largest weakness: Greed. She devised her plan.
Trading a beautiful scarf for fine paper and ink, Min wrote a legend. Many, including Jae-Hwa, knew that the Winds came from a secret place high in the mountains. Min wrote a legend about how one skilled enough could, by traveling to the home of the Winds, weave the wind itself into magical cloth. This cloth could then be used to create clothing and armor of unparalleled beauty. Unfortunately, Min's original legend has been lost through time, but it was said to be so well written as to enchant any who read it.
Jae-Hwa, unaware of the legend's author, was among these. "Garments made from the winds could be sold for the wealth of Kings!" he though, "and surely there is no seamstress more gifted than my Min." He had provisions gathered and prepared to set Min on a journey to the realm of the Winds to weave the magical garments. This, of course, was exactly Min's plan. She would have enough supplies to begin a new life in a far away town, finally free of this slavery.
But Jae-Hwa was not blinded completely by his greed. He sent a foul wizard, Chul, to keep watch on Min and see that she was successful in this quest. Trapped, poor Min had little choice but to search for the Winds with Chul overseeing her every move.
After two years of travel and dozens of adventures that are legends themselves, Min and Chul finally discovered the land of the Winds. They could here the winds speaking quietly to each other in the distance. The ethereal creatures seemed to take no heed of the two humans. Still longing for her own freedom, she recognized the irony of the situation. Only by imprisoning another would she gain freedom from her own prison. But what choice did she have?
(to be continued)