Zhang Jue

Territory Creation: B

As a mage he can create favorable positions for himself. Allows for the creation of a ‘workshop’.

Item Construction: B

Can create magical tools. Particularly skilled in the creation of Yellow Turban Puppet Soldiers and healing via fúshuǐ.

General of Heaven: B-

A skill coming from the title he adopted as the supreme leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. He also gave his younger brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang the titles of "General of Earth" and "General of the People" respectively. This skill represents the strength of his leadership and authority as the one who led hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans into battle. Similar to Charisma, this skill’s benefits are best demonstrated in its user’s military capabilities. Its rank is a little on the low side since Zhang Jue fell to disease before he could finish his fight, and because his Yellow Turbans’ rebellion got off to a slow start thanks to them being betrayed by former comrades.

Great Teacher: A

A skill that shows him as the founder of The Way of Peace, gaining followers and using fúshuǐ to cure plagues. A composite skill combining his talents for folk medicine, his techniques for winning over people as a religious leader, his eloquence and his evangelistic abilities. As all of these skills are interpersonal rather than military it’s of higher rank than his first skill.

Taipingjing: EX

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it’s said that Zhang Jue received a book by this name from an old immortal coming from the southern lands. From this book Zhang Jue learned weather manipulation and various other arts. As he received it he was told “Make use of this to make the world a better place. However if you misuse it you will undoubtedly receive divine punishment”.

Cāngtiān Yǐ Sǐ, Huáng Tiān Dāng Lì

The Azure Sky Dead, The Yellow Sky Rises.
A Noble Phantasm that takes its name from the slogan which became the Yellow Turbans’ rallying cry. It is nothing less than the embodiment of the turbulent times that drove people to take up arms against the empire oppressing them. Simply put, Zhang Jue uses the weather manipulation arts wielded by him and his brothers to summon storms, thunder, hail, fog, and other natural phenomena that can be used for large-scale military offensives. This Noble Phantasm also allows control of puppets under Yellow Turban manipulation arts and peasants allied with their cause, by combining these two effects it’s possible to fight even the government’s army.

Personality

A good-natured old man. Prefers going out to staying in.

Once he sets about his goal of achieving peace throughout the land he becomes an action-oriented shitty old geezer, who doesn’t care about the problems he causes.

Motivation · Attitude towards Master

His wish for the Holy Grail is, as expected, peace throughout the land.

“I wish for all the people to live happily” he says his eyes shining

As for Master, now that Zhang Bao and the others are gone, Zhang Jue treats them as a talented person he wants to put under his control. He frequently tries to recruit the Master, saying things like, “The General of Earth and General of the People spots are open, you know?” Though he still would need to recruit one more person to complete the Three Pillars, otherwise the foundation won’t be solid.

Additionally whenever he can Zhang Jue tries to wrap a yellow cloth around Master’s head

“This is the kind of fashion that’s a big hit with the young folks nowadays.”

“I’ve heard of a concept called The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness. This is basically the same idea.”

Of course, this would inevitably put Master under Zhang Jue’s control so each time it happens either Mash or Da Vinci tell him off with a “You can’t!”. In response, Zhang Jue pretends to be dejected, saying, “To think you wouldn’t grant the request of an elderly man with little time left to live… Oh woe is me…”

Zhang Jue, for his part, has no ill intentions. It’s simply that if the Master were under the Yellow Turban’s manipulation arts in an emergency, he might be able remotely control them out of danger.

“I’m only thinking about what’s best for the Master… Though, admittedly, the idea of using them as the figurehead for the Chaldean forces is also quite tempting…”

“You’re not supposed to say the second part out loud!”

All this being said even if the cloth were to be wrapped around Master due to a derivative of their innate anti-poison skill, they would resist being fully controlled and after a short while the effect would come undone.

Dialogue Examples

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Historical Image · Character Image

Zhang Jue was the founder of the religious organization called the Way of Peace (Taiping Dao), and he led the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that he met an immortal, who handed him three volumes of a book called The Essential Art of Great Peace (Taipingjing), saying, “Make use of this to make the world a better place. However if you misuse it you will undoubtedly receive divine punishment” Through this, Zhang Jue is said to have mastered mystical arts such as controlling the weather.

Afterward, he began to use fúshuǐ to save people and began calling himself “The Great Teacher”. Those who admired him and revered his teachings quickly grew in number, and his followers became known as the Yellow Turban Army because they wore yellow cloths around their heads.

In 184 AD, these followers, tired of the corrupt Han Dynasty that caused suffering and chaos for the people, finally rose up as a rebel army in an armed insurrection. Zhang Jue proclaimed himself the “General of Heaven” and his younger brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang the “General of Earth” and “General of the People” respectively.

However, the Yellow Turban Army began to lose cohesion and devolved into violent mobs across various regions. The Han Dynasty, appointing He Jin as it’s General-in-Chief, organized a military campaign to suppress the Yellow Turbans and capture Zhang Jue.

Thanks to the efforts of warriors who would later become central figures in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms such as Sun Jian, Cao Cao and Liu Bei the Yellow Turban Army was steadily defeated across the land.

During the conflict, Zhang Jue died of illness. After his death, his brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were also killed, and thus the Yellow Turban Rebellion came to its end.

Character Image in “FateGO”

Zhang Jue has always hated hearing his Yellow Turbans referred to as “bandits.” He insists that they are nothing of the sort, but rather, ordinary people who came to believe in the Way of the Peace. That said, the Yellow Turbans did harbor a significant secret. As their seemingly impossible numbers would suggest, not every one of them was human. Some were actually puppet soldiers Zhang Jue controlled directly with Taoist arts!

Thanks to his Taipingjing, Zhang Jue learned how to use yellow cloth as a conduit that would give him control over anything the cloth was wrapped around, both living and nonliving. This means that the Yellow Turbans’ three hundred thousand members were not comprised solely of those who believed in the Way of the Peace, but also of mechanical puppet soldiers and people being controlled by such cloth. The puppet soldiers were humanoid, and given to chanting “Azure Sky…dead… Yellow Sky…rises…” as part of their core programming.

Though Zhang Jue’s ends are noble—bringing peace to the world and happiness to all people—he is ruthless in the means he employs. He will resort to using religion, military force, assassinations, cowardly plots…whatever will get the job done. In essence, he believes one can justify throwing the world into chaos for a time, if it is done in service of bringing peace to the people of the world.

“However if you misuse it you will undoubtedly receive divine punishment.” True to the immortal’s warning, the Yellow Turbans who followed Zhang Jue’s teachings and caused trouble across China may well have ended up dying miserably before their goals had been realized. Zhang Jue, however, refuses to accept that fact. He believes he is fully in the right, and that there is no such thing as divine punishment for doing the right thing. According to him, any Yellow Turbans of his who happened to die from disease were simply unlucky, nothing more. A troublesome old man who is not only willing to use questionable means, but refuses to reflect or repent if he believes his ends are justified.

General Armaments

Arts (Talismans, Weather manipulation)

Yellow Turban Soldiers (Puppets Soldiers control via Yellow Turban)

Connections with Characters

Lu Bu / Chen Gong / Zhuge Liang / Sima Yi

I don’t know anything about them.

Jiang Ziya

Are you sure about this?

Wu Zetian

Ho, so in five hundred years an Empress will be born. Interesting. I’ll have to see it with my own eyes, whether her reign was righteous.

Qin Shi Huang

What! You seriously became a Zhēnrén?

Medical Servants

If you need medicine, you can take some of my fúshuǐ.

Kazuradrop

You like yellow ribbons, don’t you? Oh, I see, I see… (smiling warmly). By the way, doesn’t that one look a little worn out? I happen to have a new one right here. What do you think? Just think of it as a small gift from this old man. Go on now…”

I thought I’d show off my strengths as a mangaka by drawing lots of different facial expressions. Just as I was thinking “This much is alright, right?” Mélusine was released having a whole lot of different facial expressions and so I thought “Ahhhhhh, if I don’t draw even more I’ll be overshadowed” and added even more faces. I’m sorry for the trouble I caused. This is also the first time a character I drew gets a voice, so I was incredibly moved. And I never expected to get such an amazing performance for the final ascension, so I actually cried a little. The lines and the voice were absolutely perfect.” (Takeshi Kawaguchi)