ling

The eldest sister of Nian and Dusk and the third eldest among all the "siblings" of Sui, Ling is a carefree, alcoholic poet whose power dubbed "Unfettered" (逍遥) has the ability to bend reality, space, and time in the form of dreams. She is also a brilliant military strategist who once served Yan to guard the garrison city of Yumen and the empire's northern borders for almost a century. She then wandered around the country after fulfilling her task until she decided to settle in the missing eighteenth peak of Shangshu. However, as the evil siblings, specifically her "Second Brother," and Yan's imperial court attempted to revive the ancient Feranmut, she would not be a sitting duck. Rather, she voluntarily joins Nian's plan to reunite other siblings and is happy to defy her own destiny. After the Shangshu incident, Ling was given the permission by the Sui Regulator and the Grand Tutor to follow Nian and Dusk and joined Rhodes Island. While she remains an unofficial member of R.I., Ling offers her aid as a tactician in combat using her century-old strategies and her own summons created by her poetic mouth. She also acts as the middleperson between R.I. and the Sui Regulator so that R.I. is able to assist in Nian's grand mission. And thanks to her presence, Nian and Dusk no longer argue with each other or slack off, but instead fully obey her words all the time. Ling is one of the main characters of Invitation to Wine.