

There was only 1 sorcerer from Cathay in the series, a man called "Dien ch'ing".


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In the Q & A that was released right after it was revealed Cathay was a base faction, the Q & A mentions a certain cathayin sorcerer from the beasts in velvet series would returning. There is Tzeentch sorcerer from Cathay that was a member of the monkey king's court who was one of the first things GW declared to still be cannon. As for the other two, the nigh perfect shapeshifting and deception of the Six Eared Macaque is positively Tzeentchian, and while Wukong can be tricksy himself, his first answer to most problems tend to be violence, something Khorne definitely approves, and is sometimes depicted as a gorilla when in giant monkey form. Note that the baboon and an orangutan correspond to those mentioned in the above text. Besides Wukong himself, the Six Eared Macaque also appears in the novel, and convincingly impersonated Wukong to such a degree that it took a literal omniscient Buddha to tell them apart, while also dueling him to a standstill. The quad supposedly cannot be classified under the ten categories of living things in Buddhist cosmology, and are noted to be incredibly powerful both physically and spiritually. Wukong), the Six Eared Macaque, the Red Bottomed Horse Monkey/Baboon, and the Long Armed Ape/Orangutan. Interestingly, this blurb can also be a reference to the four spirit primates in the Journey to the West novel, which are respectively the Intelligent Stone Monkey (ie.
