Master Ethereal
Names: Master EtherealEtherealthe old master
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 49 (The First Tale of Yun Tianming “The New Royal Painter”)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 49Painter from He'ershingenmosiken who taught Needle-Eye; he is the only one who can stop him by painting him.
- Ch 49He survives being painted only by keeping his dragon-bone umbrella spinning open; if it closes, he will disappear.
- Ch 49Ethereal is an old master painter who taught Needle-Eye Western-style painting but never Eastern painting, and he regrets teaching him.
- Ch 49Ethereal is painted into a picture by Needle-Eye and fades away, accepting his fate and sending the princess to safety.
Connections
- related toNeedle-Eyestudent ofteacher of
- ally ofPrincess Dewdrop
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ethereal warns the princess
Ethereal arrives with a spinning umbrella, explains Needle-Eye's magic, and with Auntie Wide's obsidian iron begins flattening snow-wave paper to paint Needle-Eye.
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ethereal sacrifices himself
Ethereal gives instructions for the umbrella and tells the princess to bring Deep Water to kill Needle-Eye. He urges her to leave, then is painted into a picture and vanishes.