The Emperor had the Water Dragon's body transferred to the burial chambers of the Imperial Palace and cut open to provide water across the Empire. The baby went on by the name of Dawn Star and ironically ended up in Two Rivers to be raised alongside the last Spirit Monk by her father Sun Li. While Li's wife was killed, the baby was saved by one of the Assassins known as Sagacious Zu. Within weeks of Dirge's siege, Hai ordered Sun Li's wife and newborn daughter to be killed by a Lotus Assassin squad. He left it to savor in the misery he had wrought in Dirge. What Sun Hai didn't know was that his acts of deicide and defilement of Dirge provided for an unnatural evil incarnate a chance to take root in the sacred place that exists both in the mortal world and the spirit realm. During the following twenty years, the Lotus Assassins were assigned with brutal tasks by the Emperor, including silencing anyone who questioned his will.Д«efore leaving Dirge, Sun Hai executed Xian Wu and the other Spirit Monks who had been bribed to betray their order and bound their spirits to guard Dirge's fountains. The Lotus Monks were disbanded and reestablished as the Lotus Assassins under Death's Hand. Hai found Li's discarded armor and decided to taunt his traitorous brother by using his stolen powers to bind Kin's spirit to the armor, creating Death's Hand, the unrelenting and unquestioning enforcer of the Emperor's will.

Hiding in the village of Two Rivers at the Empire's borders, he shook Emperor Sun Hai off. Realizing that only a Spirit Monk could have a chance to defeat his empowered brother, he took the baby with him to train it as his pawn. While escaping, Sun Li found a baby who'd become the last living Spirit Monk. Sun Li managed to escape, leaving Sun Kin to be killed by Hai. His brothers planned to take the power for themselves and attacked him, only to be overwhelmed by him. There Emperor Sun Hai struck the Water Dragon through the portal to the spirit world, killing her and stealing her power by seizing her heart. By bribing several Spirit Monks into tainting Dirge's holy waters with human blood, the Sun brothers weakened the Water Dragon, allowing them to enter her temple unopposed. The Imperial Army assaulted Dirge and slaughtered thousands of Spirit Monks through superior numbers. Having discovered a way to not only end the Drought but also steal the Water Dragon's divine powers thanks to Sun Li, Emperor Sun Hai set out to conquer Dirge. It was the home of the Spirit Monks, servants and protectors of the Water Dragon, the goddess who oversaw the distribution of water in the mortal realm and guided the spirits of the dead to afterlife and rebirth. The Sun brothers directed their gaze towards the Temple of Dirge in the mountainous Land of the Howling Spirits in the west. Emperor Sun Hai could not accept that his dynasty would end in the face of the natural order, so he demanded his ingenious brother Sun Li to find a way to prevent this. Even opening the royal granaries did no good. For the following ten years, scorching heat and limited rainfall killed crops, costing thousands of lives. Thirty years before the start of the game, the Empire was struck by what was afterwards known as the Long Drought. Hai also had a daughter, Sun Lian the Heavenly Lily, who was born shortly before the end of the Long Drought.

Sun Li served as the Imperial Army's commander, while Sun Kin led the monastic Order of the Lotus that directly served and protected the emperor. He had two younger brothers named Sun Li the Glorious Strategist and Sun Kin the Hand of Heaven. Sun Hai was born as the eldest son of the Jade Empire's previous ruler and as such, inherited the throne.

Biography Early life and the Long Drought

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