Character:Yi Xing

Historical Backstory
Yi Xing was an alchemist in the area that would become known as China, around the year 808 AD. He claims his Taoist name was Qing Xu Zi (the person who first recorded the recipe for gunpowder), and has considerable skill in chemistry and mathematics.

Post-Resurrection
With immortality already achieved, Yi Xing put effort into the next step up on the ladder, godhood. He spent centuries unsuccessfully trying to create a method of giving an individual superpowers via alchemy, and eventually got into Metathaumatics (the creation of Superhuman Ability Modules) in order to single-handedly create the Alchemy SAM.

During his long stay on Gaia, he heard of and reached out to other great ancient inventors, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Heron ho Alexandreus.

After the creation of the Alchemy SAM, Yi Xing once again went beyond the impossible, seeking a way for ordinary denizens of Gaia to create their own universes. In his pursuit of this end, he became the first Ancestor to join the Descendant's Hivemind, and is currently working in a Descendant laboratory on another planet in the New Real.