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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* Zhurong is based on [[wikipedia:Zhurong|Zhurong]], the God of Fire in Chinese mythology. He fought with the water god, Gonggong, for the right to claim the throne of Heaven and was successful. Gonggong, ashamed of his defeat, smashed his own head against one of the pillars holding up the sky causing calamities. It was the goddess [[Exile#Hourai|Nuwa]] that repaired the heavens. | * Zhurong is based on [[wikipedia:Zhurong|Zhurong]], the God of Fire in Chinese mythology. He fought with the water god, Gonggong, for the right to claim the throne of Heaven and was successful. Gonggong, ashamed of his defeat, smashed his own head against one of the pillars holding up the sky causing calamities. It was the goddess [[Exile#Hourai|Nuwa]] that repaired the heavens. | ||
** Despite what this may suggest, the Zhurong of Chinse mythology isn't associated with [[ | ** Despite what this may suggest, the Zhurong of Chinse mythology isn't associated with [[wikipedia:Red_panda|red pandas]] , however, a possible reason why the red panda was chosen to represent Zhurong is due to it being a pun on the Chinese name for the animal: Huǒhú, which when written in Chinese characters is written as '''火'''狐 ("'''Fire''' fox"). | ||
* During the event quest [[Event Quest:Paradise Hot Spring Village of Hell|Paradise Hot Spring Village of Hell]], it is revealed that Zhurong was originally an amorphous mass of colors from the world of [[Old Ones]] and that he had accidentally absorbed the actual Zhurong when he first entered Tokyo. | * During the event quest [[Event Quest:Paradise Hot Spring Village of Hell|Paradise Hot Spring Village of Hell]], it is revealed that Zhurong was originally an amorphous mass of colors from the world of [[Old Ones]] and that he had accidentally absorbed the actual Zhurong when he first entered Tokyo. | ||
** The colors is reference to one of Lovecraft's stories called "[[wikipedia:The_Colour_Out_of_Space|The Color Out of Space]]" that depicts a meteorite that crashed into a farmland that slowly erodes the sanity of the people living on the farmland and absorbs all the organic matter in the vicinity. | ** The colors is reference to one of Lovecraft's stories called "[[wikipedia:The_Colour_Out_of_Space|The Color Out of Space]]" that depicts a meteorite that crashed into a farmland that slowly erodes the sanity of the people living on the farmland and absorbs all the organic matter in the vicinity. | ||