Tangzhao Jia

Tangzhao Jia, called The Bloodless Hunger, was a grain merchant from a Yellow River caravan stop who became a vampire in 2964 BCE and a broker of debts for the Pale Circle. She spent a decade losing to the slayer Wei Han and was destroyed in 2946 BCE.

Full Name

Tangzhao Jia

Alias / Codename

The Bloodless Hunger

Status

Destroyed

Date of Birth

2987 BCE

No abilities have been documented yet.

Powers

Thought Projection – Voice Beyond Voice

Weaknesses

Direct sunlight
Silver-tipped weapons

No power identity content has been documented yet.

Percentile Profile

Each axis shows Tangzhao Jia's roster percentile (0–100) for that stat, against the dashed roster-average baseline.

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Power ProfileRoster Average

Overview

Overall Rating 31

Click any point on the radar to inspect that stat in full.

Strength21th

Speed28th

Agility33th

Durability22th

Intelligence56th

Combat21th

Power43th

Stamina24th

Statistical Analysis

Each bar shows how many standard deviations above or below the roster mean this stat sits. Click a bar for the full breakdown.

Tangzhao Jia — Strength statistical analysis

Strength score: 35/100.

Roster rank: 395 of 500 — 21th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 107 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Strength: 7–97, average 51.7.

Difference from roster average: -16.7.

Statistical spread: 1 standard deviation below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.2).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Strength sits 7.9 points below that baseline.

Tangzhao Jia — Speed statistical analysis

Speed score: 42/100.

Roster rank: 361 of 500 — 28th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 101 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Speed: 6–100, average 53.2.

Difference from roster average: -11.2.

Statistical spread: 0.6 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 18.1).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Speed sits 0.9 points below that baseline.

Tangzhao Jia — Agility statistical analysis

Agility score: 44/100.

Roster rank: 337 of 500 — 33th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 102 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Agility: 6–97, average 52.8.

Difference from roster average: -8.8.

Statistical spread: 0.5 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.1).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Agility sits 1.1 points above that baseline.

Tangzhao Jia — Durability statistical analysis

Durability score: 38/100.

Roster rank: 390 of 500 — 22th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 104 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Durability: 8–94, average 52.1.

Difference from roster average: -14.1.

Statistical spread: 0.8 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 16.8).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Durability sits 4.9 points below that baseline.

Tangzhao Jia — Intelligence statistical analysis

Intelligence score: 61/100.

Roster rank: 221 of 500 — 56th percentile.

Percentile tier: Average (shared with 146 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Intelligence: 7–100, average 58.8.

Difference from roster average: +2.2.

Statistical spread: 0.2 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 13.9).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Intelligence sits 18.1 points above that baseline — their largest internal gap of any stat.

Tangzhao Jia — Combat statistical analysis

Combat score: 35/100.

Roster rank: 397 of 500 — 21th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 95 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Combat: 7–100, average 49.6.

Difference from roster average: -14.6.

Statistical spread: 0.7 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 20.1).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Combat sits 7.9 points below that baseline.

Tangzhao Jia — Power statistical analysis

Power score: 47/100.

Roster rank: 284 of 500 — 43th percentile.

Percentile tier: Average (shared with 139 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Power: 5–100, average 45.5.

Difference from roster average: +1.5.

Statistical spread: 0.1 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 26.3).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Power sits 4.1 points above that baseline.

Tangzhao Jia — Stamina statistical analysis

Stamina score: 41/100.

Roster rank: 380 of 500 — 24th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 91 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Stamina: 7–97, average 54.5.

Difference from roster average: -13.5.

Statistical spread: 0.8 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.4).

Tangzhao Jia's own average across all 8 stats is 42.9; Stamina sits 1.9 points below that baseline.

No Equipment has been linked to this character yet.

Status

Destroyed

Archetype

Unclassified

Full Name

Tangzhao Jia

Alias / Codename

The Bloodless Hunger

Status

Destroyed

Date of Birth

2987 BCE

Close every account before sunrise. That was the whole of Tangzhao Jia's creed, and she repeated it to apprentices, to clients and to herself, because a vampire who left a bargain open at dawn was a vampire who might have to finish it in the light. For eighteen years she kept the rule and prospered. It was tested twice that anyone remembers, and the second test is the reason there is a record of her at all. Tangzhao Jia, whom the river towns later called The Bloodless Hunger, was born at Jiaming in 2987 BCE, in the years of The First Night, a caravan stop on the Yellow River Basin trade road in what is now China, where her father kept the weigh-house. As a girl she learned two things on his scales: how to read a weight to a barleycorn, and how to nudge a pan with a knuckle so that nobody saw. She became a grain merchant at nineteen, and a good one, as the trade was practiced then, buying forward against failed harvests and lending seed at an interest paid in the next crop. She wanted the wharf. Not a stall at it or a share of it, but the whole river frontage at Jiaming, with its warehouses and its landing rights and the old men who sat there deciding whose barge unloaded first. She carried a counting cord in her sleeve, tied a knot in it for every lie she told, and had stopped enjoying the exercise at about the fortieth knot. In 2964 BCE, at twenty-three, she brought a dispute to a night judge. The arbiter in question was a vampire called Bo Bo, whom the river towns knew as The Hollow Judge, and he heard cases after dark in a shuttered room above the wharf. She won. He then offered her the other kind of settlement, in the same level tone, and she accepted it with her eyes open, because it was the best offer she had ever received. He made her a vampire that night. Bo Bo left the Jiaming reach before the month was out and she saw him twice in the years afterward, both times by appointment, and she never said what he cost. She joined the Pale Circle on his word and was counted within a season among those the Vampireverse trusted with its accounts. What she brought to it was Voice Beyond Voice. When she looked at a person, a voice sounded inside their skull, clear as a thing said across a table. It could be anyone's voice, if she had heard it enough; she once held a whole wharf gang with the sound of their gang-leader's dead mother. It lasted only while she could see them, and it cost her a headache like a bar across the eyes, and a nosebleed, and a hoarse real voice for a day. She never used it to make anyone do something monstrous. She used it to make them agree with her. In her opinion that was the more efficient gift, and she was a broker in her bones. She bought debts, then grain, then silence, and when a town defaulted she sent in raiders she had paid for, so that it had to borrow again. She kept fourteen strongrooms of heirlooms taken as security, under three names. In 2956 BCE she was at the Jiaming wharf arranging to buy its stock when a spear-bearer on a barge escort, a vampire slayer named Wei Han, heard the voice and shut her eyes. Tangzhao Jia, who had not met a person who did that, felt the voice go into nothing, like a hand into a sleeve with no arm in it. Then forty copper weights left the wharf-master's scale and filled the room. One caught her above the left eye, and she went out by the river door with blood in her hair and learned, standing on the pier with the bank dark behind her, that the slayer was not afraid of her. She had not been in that situation since she was turned. Nobody at the Pale Circle believed her account until she showed the scar. The war with Wei Han ran ten years, and she found it tiring and oddly restful. The slayer was the one client she could not move. She offered no bribe, because Wei would not take one; she sent no threat, because the threat went into Wei's pack with the rest of the post. In the autumn of 2953 BCE her paid raiders besieged the town of Yuhe, and at first light she watched through a gap in a shed wall as the slayer walked the wall until the raiders lost nerve. She was not angry. She thought it the best-run vigil she had seen. In 2950 BCE the same thing happened at Dongchang, where there was almost no wall at all, and she conceded the arithmetic. She respected the woman. She also wanted her gone, and sat many evenings estimating the cost. By 2946 BCE she was forty-one and rich and behind schedule. The town of Qinwei had agreed to sell its harvest, and the sale was to be closed at midnight, at the grain house, so that loading could be done in the dark. It was her rule to be done by dawn, and she was. All except one account: the clause by which Qinwei's headman would sign for the winter seed, and he was drunk, and she stayed to wait for his mark. Her agents bolted the grain house doors from the outside to keep intruders out. Wei Han came through the south gate in the small hours, shut her eyes, and stood against a post for hours. Tangzhao stood in front of her and tried the voice on her again and again, in the sergeant's cough, in her mother's, in the sound of a barge-master asking for orders, until her nose bled onto the barley. The slayer never answered. When the light showed grey through the slats, the shutters came off their pegs together, all four, copper strapping and all, and the sun came in across the floor in four bars. She had time to realize that her own men had locked the room against her. The counting cord lay on the step of the grain house afterward, with the knots in it, and Wei Han picked it up. As far as anyone could tell she never untied one.

Full Name

Tangzhao Jia

Alias / Codename

The Bloodless Hunger

Status

Destroyed

Date of Birth

2987 BCE

Nemeses

1

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Nemesis

Wei Han

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Powers

Thought Projection – Voice Beyond Voice

Weaknesses

Direct sunlight
Silver-tipped weapons

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Percentile Profile

Overall Rating 31

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Nemeses

Wei Han

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Powers & Abilities

Tangzhao Jia — Strength (35 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Speed (42 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Agility (44 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Durability (38 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Intelligence (61 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Combat (35 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Power (47 / 100)

Tangzhao Jia — Stamina (41 / 100)

Percentile Profile

Overall Rating 31

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Statistical Analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Strength statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Speed statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Agility statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Durability statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Intelligence statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Combat statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Power statistical analysis

Tangzhao Jia — Stamina statistical analysis

Nemeses

Wei Han