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PLAYER INFO:
Name: Bri
Age: 18+
Current Characters: none
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CHARACTER INFO:
NAME: Lan Huan | Lan Xichen | Zewu-jun
CANON: The Untamed (TV drama)
CANON POINT: post episode 50
AGE: mid/late 30s

HISTORY: Lan Xichen was born to the leader of the Gusu Lan Sect. His interactions with his parents were limited, as his mother was imprisoned to her room after killing someone and his father had secluded himself for loving and marrying her anyway. He was raised primarily by his uncle, especially after his parents' deaths, and became the Gusu Lan Sect leader at a fairly young age. Like other Lan clan leaders before him, he was aware of the piece of Yin Iron, a powerful artifact with strong resentful energy, sealed in the back mountain of Cloud Recesses, and kept it secret to protect it.

Young disciples from other clans came to take classes from the Lan clan, and it was during one of these that suspicions rose that the Wen clan was seeking the Yin Iron. It was revealed that the leader of the Wen clan already had two pieces of the Yin Iron, and was using them to raise to ultimate power over the other clans.

Lan Wangji, Lan Xichen's brother, was sent with their Yin Iron to locate the missing piece before the Wen could find it. Lan Xichen encouraged him to take Wei Wuxian, a young disciple from the Jiang clan who had also become aware of the Yin Iron.

When Lan Xichen refused to hand over the Yin Iron to the Wen, Cloud Recesses was attacked, forcing Lan Xichen into hiding. During this time, he ran into Meng Yao, the former assistant to the Nie clan and illegitimate son of the Jin clan leader, and Meng Yao helped him survive. The two became close friends, and Meng Yao volunteered to pretend to defect to the Wen clan and become close to the clan leader to obtain secrets for them.

Lan Xichen kept this secret to protect him when he rejoined the clans to help lead the Sunshot Campaign against the Wen, refusing to reveal the source of their information to even his good friend Nie Mingjue. They triumphed over the Wen clan, and Meng Yao himself killed the Wen clan leader. Meng Yao was finally claimed by his father, and became Jin Guangyao. Nie Mingjue, Jin Guangyao, and Lan Xichen became sworn brothers, despite Nie Mingjue's misgivings.

Most of the clans had suffered heavy losses during the Sunshot Campaign, and rebuilding was difficult - made more complicated by the fact that Wei Wuxian had used something that closely resembled the Yin Iron during the Sunshot Campaign to help them win. As time went on, he fell from war hero to dangerous rebel, especially when he defected from the Jiang clan to protect the remnants of the Wen clan. By this time, Lan Xichen was well aware of the fact that Lan Wangji was close with Wei Wuxian, and tensions around what to do about Wei Wuxian rose. They broke eventually through a series of events that included the deaths of the Jin clan heir, the Wen clan remnants, Wei Wuxian, and his sister, and Lan Wangji entering seclusion.

Sixteen years passed by in relative peace. Lan Wangji came out of seclusion, Jin Guangyao rose to become the Jin clan leader after the death of his father, and Nie Mingjue succumbed to qi deviation and his body was never recovered.

Then Wei Wuxian came back.

It was ultimately discovered that his return was orchestrated with the purpose of revealing who Nie Mingjue's killer was - and who was in fact responsible for the most severe of crimes that Wei Wuxian had been accused of. Although Lan Xichen initially refused to believe it, it was Jin Guangyao who was behind it all, acting first on behalf of his father and then to keep his position and power. They had a final confrontation in a temple where Nie Mingjue's ferocious ghost came to take revenge.

Jin Guangyao was left severely injured by the time it was subdued, and although Lan Xichen was working to heal him, when he turned his back and Nie Mingjue's younger brother warned him that Jin Guangyao was about to attack, he didn't hesitate to stab him. Jin Guangyao insisted that he would have never harmed Lan Xichen and that it was a trick, and then promptly rewoke the resentful energy and caused the temple to start to fall down around them. He asked Lan Xichen to stay and die with him, but when Lan Xichen agreed, he pushed him out of the temple, saving Lan Xichen's life and sacrificing his own.

(Wiki link also here, though it's for the novel so there are some differences!)