Jing Lang

"I lived a free life. A glorious life. The life of a pirate queen."

- Jing Lang.

Jing Lang (1686 – 1717) was a Chinese Templar, pirate, and target of Edward Kenway in the early 18th century.

The daughter of a rebel, Jing Lang grew up fighting. As a young woman, she developed a talent for negotiation and a knack for languages, as well as a taste for discovery. She broke the ties with her family to marry the son of a Qing dynasty general her father opposed, and served as their military adviser. Ultimately performing so well, she was granted a diplomatic post. Over the next decade, she traveled the world, developing a reputation for brutality that preceded her in most conflicts. Using piracy as a cover for her political activities, she banded with any who might serve her ultimate desire for negotiated order.

In the West Indies of 1717, she fell under the interest of a rumored cache of treasure, and feigned a romantic relationship with one-time Assassin, Vance Travers, to gain access to it. Under the suspicion of Jing being a Templar, Vance's brother, Upton, ordered Edward Kenway to have them both killed. Edward shortly assassinated her to collect a Templar key.

In 2013, her genetic memories were used as an Animi Avatar by the entertainment branch of the Templar company Abstergo Industries, to influence the general public via the Animus game console, under the title of the Orchid.

Trivia

 * Jing is the transliteration of multiple Chinese surnames, the exact surname in this case being unknown. Likewise, Lang is a transliteration of various homophonic Mandarin words. However, the title of her Animi Avatar indicates that her name may perhaps be 蘭 (: 兰) meaning "orchid," though it is properly transliterated as Lán.

Reference

 * Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag