It appears that Kyou has truly inherited most of the "God of War's" blood.
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— Ou Ki talking to Shou Bun Kun about Kyou's prowess.
Kyou was a Great General of the Qin Military and a member of the Six Great Generals of Qin as the leader of the Kyou Army. She was Ou Ki's fiancée and the secret daughter of King Shou, the War God. In her military career, she conquered over 99 cities from different states, buried thousands of enemy soldiers, and fought some of the strongest military commanders like Ren Pa and ferocious warriors Ran Bi Haku before she was slain by Hou Ken in 253 B.C. during the Siege of Bayou.
Kyou was a beautiful woman with grey eyes and long black hair who was trained as a warrior by Ou Ki. After her meeting with King Sho, she began wearing a mask to hide her beauty as it covered half her face. The markings on her mask are similar to those on the helmet worn by King Sho on the battlefield and the seams of her clothes have the same markings as well. She is also noted for wearing ornate robes over her armor after she began wearing a mask. She wielded a sword in battle with superb skill and rode a white warhorse named En.
Personality[]
Kyou was a kind, easy-going women with a personality that attracted those near her. She also liked to joke around considering her responsibilities as she stated that Shou Bun Kun would handle anything she missed on the battlefield, calling him an "old man" which annoyed him greatly.
Kyou was saddened by the fact that her father could not properly acknowledge her but refused to give up the sword, vowing to become a Great General of the Heavens. She told Sho Bun Kun that she truly fights because of the promise that she made as a child with Ou Ki.
Her mother was the daughter of an old friend of Ou Ki's father, so he accepted to help and created the cover story that Kyou was the child of one of their house servants. Ou Ki accepted Kyou's promise of marriage if she can conquer the 100th castle but she was killed by Hou Ken before she can fulfill her promise.
She is the daughter of King Shou and one of his concubines. She hid her true lineage all her life, but when she met King Shou in person, he understood at a glance who she really was.
It's currently unknown if Kyou knew Tou as they're never shown to have interact with each other in Ou Ki's or Shou Bun Kun's memories of the past.
History[]
Born to King Sho and an attractive palace girl, Kyou was smuggled out of the palace by her mother who feared that she would be killed by rivals in the Royal Harem as during the reign of War God, the royal harem had become a lawless and bloody place due the king's absence from the capital. Her mother was the daughter of an old friend of Ou Ki's father, so he accepted to help and created the cover story that Kyou was the child of one of their house servants. Shortly after Kyou was sent away, her mother died in a fire that she most likely set up herself in order to make it seem that she and her baby died.
Kyou grew up in the Ou Family's household and was raised as a servant, growing very close to Ou Ki. Even practicing with and joining him whenever he trained as a child. At one point, She and Ou Ki promised that if she could conquer 100 cities/castles he would make Kyou his wife. As soon as she was old enough, she became a close retainer of his, accompanying his army into the battlefield and achieving multiple accomplishments on various campaigns. It was during of these wars that she met Shou Bun Kun, and they became close friends as he acknowledged her talent in warfare. She came face to face with the king when he came to congratulate the army on conquering the region of Nanan, recognizing him as her father but unable to reveal the truth. He realizes this as well and compliments Kyou on her hard work in the campaign. Sometime after first meeting her father, King Sho would secretly issue a decree to suppress any mention of her origins to prevent her from being harmed by anyone who could use such information for ill intent.
Sometime after, she was promoted to the rank of General due to her great deeds and merit, having her own army. With large armies under her command, she achieved great success on the battlefield and reached the same level as the other five Qin Great Generals a few years after her promotion. She was later appointed the sixth member of the Great Generals by King Sho and is given the ceremonial sword, as they both shed tears.
As one of the Six Great Generals, she attacked Han, slaying over 40,000 enemy soldiers then took both Castle You and Fushou. In the same year, she invaded Zhao and conquered over 20 provinces while capturing or slaying a total of 90,000 enemies. In the 53rd year of the king's reign, Kyou took Castle Go located in Wei which caused both the state of Wei and Han to capitulate in fear.[1] She shed tears of joy at Ou Ki remembering that Bayou would be her 100th conquest, after which, he had promised to wed her.
However, during the siege of Bayou, an unknown man named Hou Ken attacked their camp at night looking to challenge the Great General as a Bushin. As the hulking man cut down her elite bodyguards, Kyou showed up riding her warhorse En to meet him. She rode towards Hou Ken, sword in hand, but her mount was decapitated with a single blow. Despite this setback, she still managed to dodge Hou Ken's mighty swing and stabbed him in the shoulder before her horse fell to the ground. Enraged by the death of her loyal companion, Kyou delivered a flurry of blows, slashing Hou Ken a several times as she nearly killed him. The Bushin answered with a swift attack from his glaive that took her helmet off, but Kyou used the resulting opening to stab him through his forearm. Hou Ken gritted his teeth when Kyou went for the kill, he stepped and destroyed her lead foot stopping her momentum, and while the Bushin suffered just a superficial wound, he countered with a fatal vertical slash, ending the Great General's life.
As her body fell to the ground, Ou Ki arrived at the scene and struck Hou Ken in a vengeful rage. In their brief duel, General Ou Ki slashed the Bushin's face apart, before quickly getting down from his horse to check on his beloved, letting the crossbowmen corps finish off the defeated assailant. As Kyou's killer was seemingly killed and left to rot in the field of battle, Ou Ki and Shou Bun Kun were forced to hide the fact that the Great General had been defeated by the unknown man, in order not to harm the campaign. And so, the pair spread the rumor that Kyou died in bed due to illness. Nine years later, however, when Hou Ken reemerged as the head of an invading Zhao army, Shou Bun Kun was forced to reveal the truth of her death to the royal court of Qin, letting them know what they were really up against.
As a member of the first generation of legendary Six Great Generals, Kyou was one of the most dominant military figures of the era. She was said to be a prodigy at warfare in both fighting ability and tactics.[2] Kyou was an offensive type of commander that was even praised by the likes of Ren Pa for her powerful and intense assaults. She conquered 99 cities before her death at the hands of the Bushin Hou Ken, a feat that made her prowess legendary.[3]
Physical Abilities[]
Master Swordswoman: Despite being the youngest member of the Six Generals, it was said that Kyou was the greatest in her ferocity in battle.[4] She was skilled with the sword as she slew multiple enemy commanders and generals. Although she was killed by the Bushin, Kyou was able to duel and wound Hou Ken multiple times as she nearly killed him, which is an amazing feat considering his inhuman martial prowess.[5]
Leadership[]
Kyou was a fierce general that preferred to lead her army from the front and empower her troops by using her personal might.[6]
Tactical Abilities[]
Master Strategist: Kyou's style of warfare was to continuously assault her opponents without relent until they were annihilated which allowed her to achieve a string of victories.[7] It has been remarked by other veteran commanders and Great Generals like Kyou En and Ren Pa that Kyou was most famous for her brutal offensive tendencies and tactics that would leave tens of thousands of casualties. [8]
