[@Lyla]

So, a lot of mythology was based around real places, so there's no fictional place for my characters origin. I may just leave it at Hebei, since most people don't know that's China and it can seem as an origin or place in this settings old world. If that's ok. Otherwise is there a set name for the original Bervenia? If so, I'll use that as his place of origin. 

The problem with explaining Tao is that it's really vague. I'm not Taoist, but I'm pretty sure they have teachings on how it's not really explainable or teachable. Which is sort of ironic. It's basically just understanding of the universe, so he would have a simple understanding of even a lot of magics, if he has interacted with it before, but his power for this is going to come from something I'm going to simply call Tao. It'll be like magic with a sort of monk's ki feel. The power comes from within him and his ability to extend it out. I'll try to go into more detail of this in the app. 

Also, he's definitely not going to be an anti-hero. More just a cranky hero. His evil side is definitely going to be mostly under control, and it wouldn't do anything too drastic. It might be enough that if a great enemy needed to be killed, but was subdued and could be retained, but it would be extremely dangerous, he might just kill the enemy. He definitely will not turn on his allies though and he'll probably agree with the group as much as anyone else. There's always a little turmoil in groups though.