Evan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yi Feng (绎枫); identified as Zhou Evan in his university life 99.
Alias(es)	Lin Xiuhao, used during his duel with Pons Izak; Great Mushroom King, adopted among the Blood Axes 241 547.
Titles	Founding Chapter Master of the Crimson Tide; Lord of the Crimson Tide; master of the Light of the People; Lord of Red River 269 536.
Species/Race	Originally human; subsequently a Primaris Space Marine of White Scars lineage. Later described as a Primarch and encountered as a Warp entity 23 269 540 554.
Gender	Male 99.
Affiliation	Green Templars, formerly; Crimson Tide Chapter. Professes loyalty to the Emperor and the Imperial Truth rather than unquestioning obedience to Imperial institutions 23 35 469 497.
Occupation/Role	Former university student; Chapter Master, military commander, territorial ruler, and organizer of technological development 99 167.
Age	More than four hundred years old by the Emperor’s return 536.
Status	Active as a Warp entity in the latest supplied events; voluntarily accepts capture after learning that Malcador has ordered him brought to the Throne alive 554 555.
Earliest supplied appearance	Chapter 10, dueling Ork warlord Mistanbol 10.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Primaris Space Marine	10 23	Already possesses an augmented body and Power Armour during his first documented battle. His initial success relies on improvisation rather than extensive combat experience.
Baina Robe protection	21	Wearing the robe prevents Karkarim from directly harming him under the circumstances of their confrontation. The Bloodthirster counters by striking him with a steel beam.
Anti-psyker Armour prototype	202	Tests one of Christina’s six new suits, constructed using material extracted from seven million T’au. Powerful but cumbersome, with a sluggish machine spirit.
Personalized blackstone–Blank–adamantium armour	246	Receives a suit combining positively activated blackstone, Blank skeletal remains, adamantium, and a tank-core power source. Greatly increases his strength, durability, and anti-psyker output while prioritizing speed.
Improved mobile adamantium armour	442 443	Christina rebuilds his old suit into a more protective, highly mobile replacement. Its elaborate ornaments conceal practical functions, including sensors in the long plumes.
Jaghatai Khan’s blood treatment	489 491	The Khan gives him blood after a violent sparring session. Survival is initially uncertain; afterward, Yi Feng can detect Victor’s attempted strike earlier than before.
Faith-saturated, Primarch-like state	536	After near-total bodily destruction, the Emperor saves him and removes his chorionic gland, taking the accumulated memories with it. Human faith has made him similar to a Primarch, with extraordinary strength and Warp-threat perception.
Recognized as a Primarch	540	Xiao Lan is explicitly told that Yi Feng is now a Primarch.
Faith-driven soul combat	545 547	Learns to absorb Ork strength through his incorporeal soul and deploy crimson Warp projections. Gork and Mork quickly claiming Ork souls limits further gains.
Warp-entity manifestation through a host	554 555	Operates through Chaplain Helian Cross and his Power Armour, survives psychic attacks, and transforms into a surging red substance. His strength overwhelms Victor repeatedly, though specialized anti-psyker containment remains effective.

Background / History

Earth and Malcador’s intervention

Yi Feng was a university student from an ancient Eastern nation in the human world of “3k.” His practical sword training came from a physical-education elective: after missing registration for basketball, he was assigned Chen-Style Tai Chi Sword and earned an A 16 28.

Malcador later reveals that he selected Yi Feng to help humanity in the far-future Imperium. A Warp disturbance sent him to the wrong era, leaving Malcador able to provide only limited protection. The apparently familiar university, city, and cemetery shown during their meeting are an illusion assembled from Yi Feng’s memories, not Earth itself 99.

Before nearing death, Malcador advises him to seek Blanks: their presence can conceal a non-Psyker from the Dark Gods, although this protection is unreliable once the gods have already detected him. Yi Feng continues invoking Malcador’s orders when challenged about his dependence on anti-psyker protection centuries later 99 441.

Green Templars and early renown

Yi Feng identifies himself as Green Templars Neophyte Number Thirteen, trained by Fro and assigned to the Third Combat Squad of the Fourth Company aboard the Sword of Vengeance 497.

His first documented battle produces an unlikely triumph over Mistanbol. Both combatants misread the other: the Ork mistakes improvised swordplay for expert dueling, while Yi Feng mistakes the warlord’s flight for evidence of crippling weakness. Despite an axe lodged in his shoulder, Yi Feng pursues and decapitates Mistanbol before assembled Astartes 10.

The victory transforms his standing. William resolves to teach him everything he knows and train him as a Chapter Champion; Deika sees the potential for a future Chapter Master. By the time he reaches Stolov, Yi Feng is celebrated as Mistanbol’s slayer, Karkarim’s banisher, and the last Astartes of the Green Templars—reputations he privately considers far beyond his actual experience 10 11 23.

Founding and supplying the Crimson Tide

Yi Feng is already addressed as Chapter Master during the desert recruitment trials. He protects candidates’ right to participate even against interference from a grand duke’s household 26.

The new Chapter’s growth depends on securing equipment from stronger institutions. Yi Feng trades STC technology to Mavrek for ships, armour, weapons, and tanks, while separately bargaining with Stolov over payment for clearing and recovering a Space Hulk. He preserves his ships’ loyalist appearance despite independently directing their deployment 35 40.

The Night Lords campaign on Scaria exposes the cost of his early command decisions. After severe Astartes losses, he combines systematic searches with Underhive informants and ambushes to eliminate the remaining raiders. He then establishes a concealed Astartes garrison, commemorates mortal and transhuman casualties together, and turns the fighting into a training case study 42 43.

Territorial rule and technological expansion

Yi Feng presents his expansion as reclaiming enemy-held worlds in the Emperor’s name rather than attacking loyal Imperial planets. On Scaria, his laws emphasize survival, education, and advancement through ability; schools, public instruction, and exhibitions of the Emperor’s deeds help build civic loyalty 58.

His political independence grows alongside his military strength. He arranges a staged public break with Stolov while retaining secret supplies, accepts the submission of rebel worlds, and expands recruitment despite shortages of Apothecaries and biological organs 59 60.

During a Warp crisis, he recruits Archmagos Christina and her surviving Mechanicus personnel by offering evacuation, research opportunities, and access to STC fragments. He also proposes sharing technical knowledge across their ranks rather than preserving it as an elite monopoly 145.

After the capture of a vast Secret Cult warship, Yi Feng concentrates on developing the Three Hundred Worlds. Shipyards, resource detection, adapted T’au engines, agriculture, population growth, and biological industries become parts of a single defense strategy. When the Astronomican returns, he leaves William to oversee development and returns to relieve the overstretched Provisional Second Segmentum Pacificus 164 167.

Expansion, coercion, and Imperial recognition

The search for stronger anti-psyker armour drives increasingly ruthless resource policies. Yi Feng supports schemes exploiting T’au population and labor, mobilizes trade and seizures of hidden mineral shipments, and campaigns against Orks to obtain adamantium from their warships 202 209.

Expansion does not solve his manpower problems. Even after his territory triples, insufficient population limits colonization, ship purification, and industrial work. His campaign toward Cariman territory also places him in conflict with the loyal Carcharodons; upon discovering their allegiance, he still orders his warriors to overpower them before negotiating 213 229.

At the Blade Feast, Yi Feng earns respect through his even duel with Salamanders champion Pons Izak and his intervention in a dangerous psychic ritual aboard the Phalanx. With Imperial Fists backing, the Crimson Tide is accepted as inheriting the Storm Will Chapter’s place, although some Chapters continue rejecting its mixed heritage 241 244.

The Emperor’s rescue plan

Yi Feng obtains blackstone activation and extraction knowledge from Zahadrek by trading a fused C’tan Shard under the guise of a lost Necron superweapon. His intended use is to amplify the Emperor’s power beneath the Golden Throne, drive back daemons, and then stabilize the Webway through blackstone suppression 356.

He nevertheless keeps a contingency against an Emperor who might return without humanity. Lian Leilo’s expedition beyond the Astronomican, seeking a Dark Age of Technology spark and a possible complete STC, becomes his secret fallback should the Crimson Tide need to oppose the Emperor 442.

During the advance toward the Solar Sanctum, his officers formally rebuke his repeated abandonment of command to fight personally. He later tells suspicious White Scars that he follows the Emperor’s final instructions and the Imperial Truth, inviting them to accompany him to Terra 428 469.

Faith, transformation, and the search for home

During the preparations surrounding the Emperor’s return, Yi Feng is overwhelmed by prayers, historical memories, and psychic power. He attempts to preserve his identity through repeated personal recollections, but the influx eventually damages his body and exceeds his armour’s capacity to absorb it 497 510 536.

The returning Emperor’s kick destroys his armour and most of his body. The Emperor then saves him by concentrating the accumulated memories into his chorionic gland and removing it. Yi Feng emerges with a clearer mind and vastly greater strength; the Emperor explains that humanity’s faith has made him similar to a Primarch 536.

The Emperor intends to use his own divinity and Yi Feng’s accumulated faith to create new Primarchs. Yi Feng’s soul must disappear completely for his faith to form one, and the proposed arrangement includes sending him back to Earth. The supplied events do not establish that this return occurs 536.

Later, Yi Feng develops his own faith-driven fighting style, travels with Blood Axes toward the Eye of Terror, and appears as a Warp entity operating through Helian Cross. He seeks help reaching the Golden Throne and stops resisting capture once he learns that Malcador has ordered him brought there alive 545 547 554 555.

Appearance

• Towering Primaris physique: His size leads the Emperor’s Spears to think he might resemble a Custodian, despite wearing ordinary Terminator armour 67.
• White Scars lineage: Removing his helmet reveals the face of a son of Jaghatai Khan; the Khan later recognizes him as a White Scars descendant 269 489.
• Changing armour colors: Early accounts show him in white armour. Later adamantium suits use crimson coatings over golden metal 21 272 485.
• Ornate late-period armour: Lion-and-tiger pauldrons, golden dragon patterns, pearls, the Chapter emblem, spikes, and two long pheasant plumes distinguish Christina’s replacement suit 443 448.
• Armoured height: His personalized blackstone-powered suit stands over three meters tall 246.
• Warp manifestation: In his later entity form, he can become a surging mass of red substance 554.

Personality

Yi Feng combines battlefield courage with theatrical bravado and private self-doubt. His early triumphs begin with improvised techniques, mistaken assumptions, and opportunistic pursuit; once victory seems secure, he enjoys making it spectacular. Centuries later, the same showmanship leaves him buried and exhausted after taunting Khorne atop a collapsing altar 10 23 248.

He distinguishes service to humanity from obedience to Imperial hierarchy. He supports reason, technical understanding, and the Imperial Truth, objects to excessive displays of submission, and insists that mortals who fulfill their duties are his equals. His joint funeral for mortal soldiers and Astartes makes this belief a public policy rather than merely a private opinion 35 43 123 137.

His egalitarianism coexists with coercion and exploitation. He falsifies records, uses intimidation in negotiations, extracts resources from conquered populations, and treats T’au lives as inputs for military technology. Conversely, he refuses Zahadrek’s demand to sacrifice those under his protection merely to gain political standing 43 202 209 313.

Yi Feng habitually preserves fallback plans, including against allies and the Emperor. He prefers self-sufficiency, salvage, and technological leverage to dependence on exceptional psychic talent. His repeated wish to escape administrative work conflicts with his inability to leave dangerous frontline tasks to others—a habit his own Chapter eventually condemns 321 428 442 536.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship and Close Combat

• Chen-Style Tai Chi Sword, 49 Forms: Uses circular movement, redirection, and precise thrusts to frustrate stronger opponents. His defensive technique sustains lengthy technical spars even when he lacks confidence in attacking 16 23.
• White Scars saber instruction: Teaches recruits saber techniques alongside Taiji swordsmanship and adapts training for warriors with mechanical limbs or disabilities 43.
• Improvised combinations: Integrates kicks, shoulder rams, reverse grips, thrown weapons, magnetic boots, and close-range grappling 10 165 241.
• Veteran-level adaptability: Holds Pons Izak to a standstill and defeats a heavily armed Iron Hands suit by targeting its control equipment and Tactical Visor 241 483.
• Limits: Armour and skill do not place him on equal footing with a Primarch; Jaghatai Khan decisively overwhelms him during their spar 489.

Anti-Psyker and Anti-Daemon Warfare

Much of Yi Feng’s documented anti-psyker presence comes from Blank remains, shields, and blackstone-equipped armour rather than an explicitly established natural Blank condition 145 246.

• Disrupts sorcerous attacks, psychic barriers, and the protections supplied by Chaos blessings 128 272 316 323.
• Weakens daemons at close range and threatens a Bloodthirster with true destruction, forcing it back into the Warp 248.
• Prevents some Warp-based targeting from locating his projection 272.
• Causes serious discomfort to allies; a nearby attendant loses consciousness, and frail Lady Euten cannot safely approach 199 396 472.
• Can interfere with communications and relic machine spirits near his field 164 483.
• Does not negate all physical danger: steel beams, daemon weapons, armour weaknesses, and sufficiently immense psychic power remain threats 21 246 448 536.

Primaris Physiology and Recovery

• Recovers shoulder movement within a day of treatment after the Mistanbol duel 11.
• Uses his Belisarian Furnace to recover from severe burns and regain strength during the Bloodthirster battle 42 248.
• His Larraman’s Organ rapidly seals surface wounds, although serious internal damage still requires Situval’s surgery 279.
• Prolonged anti-psyker suppression is burdensome; removing his armour lets him feel the full vitality of his Primaris body again 442.

Memory Acquisition and Parallel Thought

• Gains fragments of enemies’ memories by consuming their flesh, using them to find a route through the Secret Cult warship 164.
• Runs simultaneous tactical calculations involving terrain, enemy density, routes, and contingency plans 113.
• His chorionic gland enables multithreaded thinking, but accumulated prayer-memories eventually threaten his identity and overwhelm his mind 497 510 536.
• The Emperor removes the gland and its concentrated memories, restoring mental clarity 536.

Faith-Driven Warp Power

• Gains extraordinary strength and the ability to sense threats in the Warp after the Emperor’s intervention 536.
• Absorbs Ork strength through his incorporeal soul and manifests crimson Warp projections carrying humanity’s resolve 545.
• Gains are limited when Gork and Mork rapidly claim the souls of defeated Orks 547.
• As a Warp entity, operates through a host, destroys concealed Daemon Engines, and uses red-substance transformations in combat 554.
• Specialized stasis and anti-psyker containment can imprison him 555.

Command, Diplomacy, and Development

• Uses informant networks, incentives, route prediction, and prepared ambushes against concealed enemies 42.
• Coordinates layered fleet formations and cautious boarding operations that first disable enemy weapons 43 62.
• Bluffs through mistaken identities, fabricated histories, public disputes, and bureaucratic delays 60 313 356 453.
• Treats transport, industry, agriculture, population, and technical training as foundations of military defense 167.
• His technical ambition exceeds his engineering expertise; he admits having no useful knowledge of Haituo’s ship designs 202.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Power Swords — Uses conventional and golden blades throughout his career; later orders master-crafted swords from Salamanders smiths 10 241.
• Green Templars relic Chainsword — Green-glowing Chapter relic carried during the Karkarim confrontation 20 21.
• Cross-shaped Longsword / Key of Helrek — Gem-powered weapon acquired from a Chaos Librarian’s disguised staff. Zahadrek identifies it as the Key of Helrek; its emergency defensive field activates against Ka’Bandha 211 313 448.
• Ion Pistol — Used against traitor Astartes and daemons, including during the Hurricane Star intervention 20 128 318.
• Snow Eagle — Weapon used to kill the corrupted lake creature on Chogoris and damage the Iron Hands opponent’s control equipment 469 483.
• Sisters of Silence relic shield — Constructed from a Sister’s bones; weakens Warp entities and helps close the Phalanx ritual’s threatened rift 145 244.
• Baina Robe — Worn as a cape against Karkarim; later expands across the Imperial Palace with crimson figures proclaiming humanity’s liberation 21 536.
• Christina’s custom Anti-psyker Armour — Successive designs combine blackstone, Blank remains, adamantium, mobility systems, and practical ornaments. The Emperor’s return destroys the suit worn during that event 246 443 536.
• Assault bike and grav-bikes — Support high-speed charges and boarding assaults; a particle beam destroys his bike aboard the Secret Cult warship 113 164.
• Silver Throne — Enables a mobile headquarters rather than a fixed forward command position 381.
• Light of the People — His enormous flagship, used as a military base, transport, prison, and center of Chapter operations 229 279 313.
• Sacred Sword entrusted by the Sanguinor — Carried during the Ka’Bandha battle and recognized as strategically important to the Emperor 448.

Relationships

• Malcador the Sigillite — Chose him for service to humanity and warned him about the Dark Gods. Yi Feng treats Malcador’s instructions as a central authority and later hopes he can provide a route home 99 441 555.
• William — Begins as his squad leader and prospective instructor, later becomes acting Chapter Master and a trusted organizer. Their relationship combines reliance, delegation, and exasperation 11 99 167 441.
• Deika — Early Chapter Master who recognizes Yi Feng’s potential after the Mistanbol kill 10.
• Kazhaniv — Champion and frequent combat partner. Yi Feng relies on his aggression and timely interventions while trying to restrain reckless charges 39 165 313 321.
• Situval — Chief Apothecary responsible for his survival and the Chapter’s recruit transformations; repeatedly challenges the risks created by Yi Feng’s decisions 60 279 489.
• Annos — Techmarine whose repair, research, and equipment workload grows with Yi Feng’s ambitions. Their recurring disputes concern scarce specialists and unfinished projects 62 167.
• Xiao Lan — Recruit leader, administrator, and later deputy legion master. Yi Feng repeatedly burdens him with wider responsibilities; Xiao Lan repeatedly tries to escape them 59 411 428.
• Nian Cijin — Fleet commander and Chaplain entrusted with recruitment duties, ideological outreach, and rebuilding the Trade Fleet 59 199 213.
• Ina — Close companion with an affectionate, teasing bond. Their private moments include bike rides, age jokes, and an anniversary cake fight; later testimony reports her death 199 428 441 540.
• Christina — Blank Archmagos, principal armour designer, and intimate collaborator. Her affection and fear of losing him coexist with possessiveness, theatrical teasing, and frustration over his demands 145 202 246 442 443.
• Lian Leilo — First-generation warrior entrusted with territorial government and Yi Feng’s secret long-term contingency for humanity 123 318 442.
• Victor — Custodian protector, disciplinarian, and suspicious ally. Their later confrontation becomes a capture attempt, but Yi Feng still calls him his brother and reacts protectively when he finds him injured 356 554 555.
• Jaghatai Khan — Primarch of his lineage, who recognizes his heritage, tests him violently, and gives him restorative blood 489.
• The Emperor — Object of his professed loyalty and rescue effort, but also someone he questions and prepares contingencies against. The Emperor saves him, explains his faith-driven transformation, and proposes sending him home 356 442 536.
• Pons Izak — Salamanders champion who earns and returns his respect after their evenly matched duel 241.
• Zahadrek — Necron general whom he manipulates through mistaken identity and theatrical diplomacy to obtain protection, intelligence, and blackstone technology 313 356 468.
• Helian Cross — Chaplain who serves as his host despite physical deterioration and the danger of being mistaken for a Chaos-possessed Marine 554 555.

Notable Quotes

“A soldier should earn the people's love. An army that cannot even win the affection of its own people cannot win battles.” 13

“Mr. Outlets, there's no need to be so formal. As long as we all fulfill our duties, we're equals. Just call me Yi Feng.” 137

“Make Macragge the capital and keep fighting.” 536

“Call me the Great Mushroom King.” 547

Trivia

• His early “expert” swordplay draws partly on martial-arts imagery, short videos, and remembered game knowledge; Mistanbol takes it much more seriously than Yi Feng does 10.
• Officials begin compiling Yifeng’s Sayings, intended for school memorization over the following century 13.
• Christina’s ornate armour makes him joke that he resembles Lü Bu; he later privately casts himself as Guan Yu while impressing Zahadrek 443 468.
• His proclaimed calming practice produces an unusual rice cake that rapidly absorbs broth, surprising White Scars guests 396.
• Ina’s banner congratulates him on surviving four hundred years in the setting, but he objects that he has not quite reached that age at the time 441.