The Suhodan path of Cheongan, the Sky Eye: precision, the wild, and putting corrupted creatures down at range or with dual blades.
Patron and philosophy
Hunters follow Cheongan, the Celestial Spirit of Precision and the Wild. Where the other paths hold a wall, heal, or refine the self, Hunters see everything and hunt the corrupted beasts of Haneul-ttang. Most Hunters lived in nature, and they walk the path out of a desire to restore it.
The Hunter’s creed is two short orders: “See everything. Miss nothing.”
The Hunter’s view of the Maggi-corrupted is its own thing among the five paths. To Hunters, a corrupted creature is a rotted limb or a parasite, something to be excised so the greater whole of the world can survive. Killing such a creature is not pure butchery but a sacred task, a “Good Death,” putting a suffering thing out of its misery. This reading fits the bible’s framing of Maggi as a meta-emotional force that gathers around grief and suffering, where ending a corrupted creature is a mercy rather than a clean act of good against evil.
Leader, Master Tracker Yoo-ri
Master Tracker Yoo-ri leads the Hunters. She is as cold as her name implies and is considered an outsider to the Council of Seonhwa, both figuratively and literally. When she is around the Manor she keeps to the outside, by a tree or on the outskirts, and refuses to stay in a room or be contained in any way. Her tasks are rarely driven by the needs of people and more by the greater balance of the world. The harshness sits over a conviction that putting down the corrupted is a sacred duty given to Hunters, the granting of a “Good Death.”
Tutor, Pathfinder Kang-Ho
Pathfinder Kang-Ho trains new Hunters. He looks better suited to Guardian or Monk work at first glance, but anyone who has crossed the treacherous wilds would say otherwise. He wears the hide of a powerful Maggi-wrought beast he killed on his first assignment, along with the eyepatch that same creature left him with, and wears both with pride. His instruction is direct and to the point, taught with efficiency.
Subpaths
The Hunter borders two shared traditions in the Circle of Balance (Cleric, Wizard, Hunter, Monk, Guardian).
- Inscriber (Wizard and Hunter). Inscribers take the elemental Giun theory Wizards study and make it field-ready using the Hunter’s knowledge of terrain, traps, and fieldcraft. They make Bujeok, talismans inscribed with Giun patterns that store elemental effects: frost-triggered trap circles, arrows carrying a lightning charge, ward-stones for camp perimeters. Their workshop sits near the Hunter training grounds, and Hunters give the craft a practical respect for being useful.
- Seon (Hunter and Monk). The Seon keep communion with the Sansin, the old mountain and nature spirits that survived the Fracturing uncorrupted. Hunters know the land intimately and Monks know how to commune through disciplined cultivation, so the Seon combine both, spending long stretches in the wilds and returning with knowledge ordinary scouting cannot reach: where the Maggi is shifting, which paths are safe this season, where new corruption is taking root. Yoo-ri respects their field knowledge, though she does not fully understand where they go for weeks at a time.
See also
- The Five Celestial Spirits
- Maggi
- Spirits of the Earth
- The Circle of Balance (Shared Subpaths)
- Inscriber
- Ridgewalkers (Seon)
- Master Tracker Yoo-ri
- Pathfinder Kang-Ho
- Transcendence (Beyond Level 99)
Source: ETK Lore Bible (Path Leaders: Master Tracker Yoo-ri; Tutor NPCs: Pathfinder Kang-Ho; The Circle of Balance: Inscriber, Seon; General Lore Considerations: Maggi); World of Haneul foundation doc (Five Paths and Patrons, Cheongan).