The House of Zheng has lost many of its Retainers lately, and their deaths are all recorded here: https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=700910.msg731489#msg731489. If you would someday like your character's deeds to be immortalized, do consider joining as a Retainer of the Jade Mantle, and donning the emerald cloak of House Zheng!
For more information on the lore of House Zheng, do consider giving these a gander:
https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?topic=700846.0
Potential Character Ideas
Quote☰ A sword-sage seeking to master the Way of Shui, collecting blades and challenging foes to duels atop scenic sites, such as the peak of this mountain or the base of that waterfall, in want of tutelage and offering lessons
☰ A wizard elementalist seeking to unlock the secrets of the Five Elements, communing with ancestral spirits with burnt incense, and divining the fates with bamboo tablets and strange logograms
☰ A rogue with mastery of the Nine Poisons and the eight-silent-ways-to-kill-without-a-sound, trying to make himself a master of venoms and poisons, an assassin questing for rare and potent alchemies
☰ A cleric of the Immaculate Path, sagacious, ancient and wise, bearing with him old wisdoms and an encylopedic knowledge of the Classics and the Records
☰ An alchemist trying to find the secrets to immortality in the form of medicinal pills and rare herbs, concocting strange mercurial wonders that sometimes seem a lot more likely to shorten one's life than lengthen it...
☰ A secret Yuan-ti that--... Spoilers.
☰ A scheming politician infiltrating the Bishopric of the Triune and trying to introduce the philosophy of the Immaculate Path into its teachings
☰ A merchant trying to reopen the Golden Road of Silk and Spices, trading in high-quality silk, satchets of firepowder, jade and ivory and wonders besides
And more...