Vermilion Bird

The Vermilion Bird is one of the Four Divine Beasts, he is the father of Lan Feng.

Appearance
A Bird. He's Vermilion.

Background
He, together with the other divine beasts, created multiple worlds before deciding to settle down on ______. They laid down their bodies as the foundation for each of their countries, and their consciousness created new bodies that they used to walk these lands and experience a normal life. Thousands of years passed after the divine beasts created ______ and they had started their own families in their individual countries where they settled down. Their descendants were not divine beasts; instead, they were normal humans.

Time went by, and eventually, the four divine beasts decided to enter an eternal slumber. They had long since buried their original bodies far below the surface of ______, and they spent the rest of their energy to create four massive mountain ranges that split the whole continent into four equal parts. Those four parts represented the locations of each of their bodies. In the middle was a large castle they had created when they first came to ______. Each one of the divine beasts called their oldest son to the Four Beast’s Palace in the center of the continent. There they passed down their legacy together with some of their powers and the right to lead their kingdom. After this rite of passage was completed, they reentered their original slumbering bodies and went into an eternal slumber.