@Arksulli, what you know about Chinese mythology?

Chinese mythology is particularly fascinating in that it survived well into the the Modern Era (post 1500). It has been around so long that there have been a few supreme deities, which is a lot like the Egyptian myths.

You also can get a deeper understanding of Chinese culture through the myths. Consider this... traditionally the Chinese gods are arranged in a "Celestial Bureaucracy." It is a reflection of the long history of government, often as centralized as possible, that bureaucrats are considered "divine" beings in a way. Because, of course, back then they did have the power of life or death in some situations. Everything is very regimented.

Why? Well other than very rare successful invasions (the Steppe Nomads tried for over a thousand years before the Mongols finally got lucky) the biggest threat to China were... the Chinese. You'd have successful and mostly peaceful dynasties ended and replaced by feuding warlords. And warlord periods were scary as hell. China was rich and heavily populated. Civil wars for them were on a scale matched in recent history by the US Civil War. As a culture they highly focused on preventing that from happening... and, of course, it still kept popping up.

Which brings us to Wukong, the Monkey King, hero of the fabled "Journey to the West" novel and the star of this game. He fills a similar role to hero gods like Thor, or Hercules. Not the most powerful of the gods. Nor the most trustworthy. But he was insanely popular because he was allowed to have his foibles and still save the day.

Honestly Chinese mythology is so diverse and fantastic in nature (I hate to admit it but Chinese magic wipes its behind on European magic, the Chinese were very creative.) that I could write a full length book on it and barely scratch the surface.

The chinese have so often lived in "Interesting times" to their own sorrows. As an excellent Bluegrass song notes: A hard life makes a good song.