Listening to the most recent podcast (on Gloomweaver), I was struck by the number Chinese names permeating the "mentor" role within the Sentinels World:
Mister Fixer had Shwen Zheng, the wandering kung-fu teacher.
Nightmist had Shen Yu, The Master occultist (and, as we find out, a cultist of Gloomweaver)
And, of course, Zhu Long.
So, on a whim, I looked up Zhu Long, only to find THIS. Literally, Zhu Long is the "Torch Dragon". I quote.
"The deity of Mount Bell is named Torch Shade. When this deity's eyes look out there is daylight, and when he shuts his eyes there is night. When he blows it is winter, and when he calls out it is summer. He neither drinks, nor eats, nor breathes. If this god does breathe, there are gales. His body is a thousand leagues long. Torch Shade is east of the country of Nolegcalf. He has a human face and a snake's body, and he is scarlet in colour. The god lives on the lower slopes of Mount Bell."
Did we know this already? Or, did I stumble across something interesting? The Sentinels Wiki had no mention of any of this...
Further, the other two names didn't yield any results, though I can't stand by the spelling of either, as I'm far from a scholar on Far Eastern cultures.
I would suggest adding that stuff into the wiki. I had never thought to look up Zhu Long's name to be honest. Quite fitting it is associated with a dragon.
For what it's worth, Zheng refers both to an ancient author (Xu Zheng) during the Three Kingdoms period (which would fit with Shun Yu and Zhu Long), as well as a mythical beast: a horned leopard with five tails that wandered the world...
I'll be sure to add all this when I get home...I'm at work right now and have been slacking for about the past hour, listening to the podcast and chasing down these phantoms...
The names/references on Sentinels cards have a pattern of mythological literacy. There are the Matriarch's cohorts Huginn and Muninn, the Pillars of Hercules which supposedly marked the location of Atlantis, Anubis and his feather, and so on. I'm not surprised Zhu Long has a mythological inspiration.
Apostate's full title being Bezaliel the Apostate, Bezaliel is a leader of fallen angels from the Hebrew Book of Enoch, the name literally meaning Shadow of God.