Way
Wei Xing originated somewhere in the East, a long time ago, and has been travelling ever since. As her faith has grown and spread to the west, linguistic misunderstandings (very few people speak her original tongue) a similarity in pronunciation, and the fact that it represents her philosophy lead to a local corruption of her name - and she is generally known as Way. Few, even among her priests, know the origins of her name, and many think of her as the embodied spirit of her own philosophy. Not only that, her story changes from location to location, and even from priest to priest - however, the core of the story is always the same.
Some will tell you that she was originally a half-elf, others that she was a half-orc, a few others hints as a different mixed heritage - but the one thing they are sure of, is that she is half-human. For Way, the destination wasn't important, but the journey was and she travelled for all of her life. It didn't matter whether it was on land or sea, in the mountains, deserts or plains - Way travelled. She even travelled across the planes, and visited with gods and demons alike. Most of her stories describe her ability to talk her way out of trouble, a few describe combat and spell use, but the majority concentrate on her negotiating skills. Many of the stories, however, tell of her ‘liberating’ minor ‘souvenirs’, some of which were later left with another, needier, host. These were her first steps on the path to divinity. There are no written records, no formal holy books and little formal theology. No priest will ever say that another priest’s stories are not true, not that their take on the religion is wrong. Instead, they all rub along together, adding more and more stories to the legend that is Way.
As always, with Way, there are a number of different stories about her immortality. Some say that she drank the Wine of Immortality at the table of a fey noble, who was her lover. Others say that she sat at the feast table of a true deity and ate Ambrosia. Still others, suggest it was an Elixir, that she ‘borrowed’ from a famed alchemist. The stories vary - as do the names of the fey noble, deity and alchemist. In truth, no one really knows, or even cares too much. After all, that is her business, and so long as she guides and helps them …