InkFrom the words we inherit to the rituals we keep. Discover the stories that give a culture its meaning.
Begin readingIn the canyon, Ying Zheng commands from the throne of Peerless Among Kings. In history, he spent thirty-seven years traveling from a hostage's son in Handan to the traveling palace at Shaqiu — and invented the word "emperor."
Read the storyIn the canyon, Han Xin waits for the one strike that wins the game. In the histories, Han Xin waited all his life — from a fishing rod outside the walls of Huaiyin to the bell chamber of Changle Palace.
Read the storyBlack Myth: Wukong sends the Destined One up Black Wind Mountain — a charred Guanyin Temple, drifting ghosts, and a bear guai holding the peak. Journey to the West, chapter 16, replayed.
Read the storyIn Honor of Kings, the Empress strikes every corner of the map from her fountain. In the histories, Wu Zetian walked sixty-eight years of a life more astonishing than any skill description.
Read the storyHonor of Kings turns the Tang poet Li Bai into a sword immortal. From Suyab to Dangtu, the official histories and his own poems tell a life wilder than the game.
Read the storyFrom Li Bai to Wang Zhaojun, many heroes of Honor of Kings were once real people. Step out of the game and into the histories that recorded their actual lives.
Starting from Black Myth: Wukong, explore the mythology of Journey to the West, the real Xuanzang's westward journey, and the ancient temples and statuary the game scanned — a millennium of Chinese culture behind one monkey.
A little ink. A wider world.
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