Shang-ti

"The Celestial Emperor"
Pantheon:	Chinese
AoC:	Creation, social order
Symbol:	Jade dragon
Home P/L/R:	Mechanus/The Jade Palace

Shang-ti (full name: Yu-Huang-Shang-ti) is the highest high-up in the Chinese pantheon. He controls the mandate of the heavens, watches over the prime-material worlds where his pantheon has influence, determines promotions and demotions of the Chinese powers, and guides the Celestial Bureaucracy on its path through history. It's an awful lot of responsibility, but Shang-ti is more than up to the task. He never becomes angry or utters a harsh word unless extremely provoked, but his punishments for failure are legendary. Powers have actually lost their immortality and been sentenced to the Afterworld for correction.

Shang-ti looks down on the "barbarous" powers of the planes, and won't deal with any of them - not even the leaders of the pantheons - except for Primus, the patron of the modrons. Primus is the only outsider, it seems, who's lawful and orderly enough to tumble to the workings of the Celestial Bureaucracy.

Small wonder, then, that Shang-ti makes his home, the Jade Palace, on Mechanus. But it sits on a gear far from Regulus (the home of Primus) so that minor modrons can't interfere with the pristine state of the realm. The streets are lined with carefully ordered parks, libraries of lost knowledge, and other architectural wonders, each leading toward the Emperor's palace - the center of the entire Bureaucracy. Once there, it seems a body has to fill out a form for everything.