Role Play

Water Margin

by Shi Nai'an

About this book

The marsh at Liangshan, where a hundred and eight outlaws gather one ruined life at a time — a framed arms instructor, a clerk who kills his mistress, a monk too violent for any temple — until the men the empire threw away are the only army it is afraid of. Eleven ways in, from the night a foolish official breaks a seal and lets the demons out to the stone tablet that finally names them all.

Characters in this book

Song Jiang (宋江)Dark-faced and short of stature, a steady gaze | Generous with wealth for the cause of justice, modest and courteous | Calm in a crisis, deeply loyal
Wu Song (武松)Eight chi tall, possessed of boundless strength | Staunch and forthright, deeply loyal | Fiery-tempered after drink, unbound by petty convention
Li Kui (李逵)Dark-skinned and stocky, wielding twin axes | Wild and reckless, treating violence as routine | Obeys Song Jiang without question
Lin Chong (林冲)Leopard head and round eyes, mighty and imposing | Steady and long-suffering, weighed down by melancholy | Always carries a blade, drowns his sorrows in wine
Lu Zhishen (鲁智深)Burly and powerfully built, a face full of beard | Rough-hewn and bold, swift and fiery in action | Loves wine like life itself, quick to throw a punch
Wu Yong (吴用)Delicate, scholarly features, refined and cultured | A calm bearing that plans from within the tent | Habitually steeples his fingers while thinking

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