Description

Personality

Stable, exacting, calm, modest. Loves good food and a hard drink.

Equipment

Katana (perfectly balanced on the tip of her finger) - standard blade in feudal Japan among warriors, custom made
Wakizashi - shorter sword than the katana
Tanto - small dagger like blade
Tessen - steel fan weapon covered in paper
Naginata - long rod with a curved blade; very versatile
Kama - short curved-blade farm tools

History

Mei Long is part of a small upper class group of warriors known as onna bugeisha (or 'female samurai). While most women of her class did not actually fight battles, Mei insisted on being included equally to men. She was never fully accepted into her class by other women because her parents were of Chinese descent. After refusing to be married and fleeing her nation and parent nation, she stowed on merchant caravans traveling over the Silk Road trade routes. They took her far west, where she is constantly searching for adventure, work, and life lessons.