Wuxing University

Wuxing University Campus

Wuxing University is a university located in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It is China's most prestigious university.

Background

A wise family in China, dedicated to the study of the Wuxing Philosophy, founded the university on a certain mountain in Chengdu centuries ago to pioneer new science with traditional wisdom. The school is divided into five colleges based off the "Five Phases", the Fire, Earth, Water, Wood, and Metal Colleges; each with a unique curriculum but all share the same school uniforms. During the Omnic Crisis, a Fire College alumni task force including Anran and Wuyang Ye's parents thwarted the Anubis's forces. This victory improved the Fire College's prestige and increased the college's enrollment requirements since, therefore, only the best of the best are admitted.

At one point Metal College's first-year Ming, family friend of the Ye siblings, created a fire staff that could condense and release its fire balls as a test weapon for fourth-year Anran to demonstrate during a collaboration project. This stimulated Wuyang to develop the Xuanwu Staff before the Null Sector incident, successfully revolutionizing the traditional university thought of non-Fire Colleges' non-combatant potential.

Story

Elemental Kin

The university's sparring arena is used by Wuyang and Anran Ye at some point to settle a misunderstood sibling rivalry dispute. This happens on the full moon night when Overwatch invites the two siblings to join it.

Layout

Central Courtyard

The original preserved ancestral area of the university existing since its founding centuries ago. The courtyard's front entrance is behind the Water and Metal Colleges, its sides have by the Wood and Earth Colleges, and its back houses the Fire College. It features a nearby museum hall dedicated to publicly displaying the university's ancient history and relics for prospective student applicants.

Sparring Arena

This is the university' public quadrilateral building (and its open courtyard) with an internal, open circular arena for students to spar at anytime. It combines traditional Chinese architecture and modern technological illumination. It is notably deserted around dinner time.

The arena is entered by a circular, technological illuminated open passage within the building. The arena has a central open field surrounded by four sides: an open entrance opposite to the judge's panel, with two audience stands on the left and right. The last side is near the entrance: a wall of wooden racks stationing traditional Chinese weapons. The central field is a circular version of the eight trigrams, but with technological illumination highlights. The arena's materials are resilient towards porousness and combustibility, leaving no marks. The weapon racks area's resistance to water and fire is unknown.

Usually, periodic sparring matches between the two Ye siblings are conducted at the arena with two sessions: warm-up and combat.

Colleges

Below are Wuxing University's colleges, sorted from most demanding to least demanding, along with their respective curriculum. The five colleges surround the central courtyard. Students and potential applicants colloquially refer to each college by its associated Phase.

• Fire College (Martial arts, defensive strategy) (College color: Red)
• Earth College (Agriculture, sustainability) (College color: Orange)
• Metal College (Robotics, technology) (College color: Gray)
• Water College (Traditional medicine, medical advancements) (College color: Blue)
• Wood College (Civil and environmental engineering) (College color: Green)

Other

• Transport Bay

Known Faculty

Teachers

• "Shifu" (Unnamed Water College lecturer)

Students

• Anran Ye (Fire College, 4th Year)
• Ming (Metal College, 1st Year)
• Wuyang Ye (Water College, 1st Year)

Alumini

• Anran and Wuyang Ye's parents (Fire College; graduates)

Trivia

• In collaboration with the comic introducing the university, a story time video is read by Wuyang's voice actor Howard Wang.
• Chengdu is the capital city of Sichuan province and a famous universities' city of Western China.
• Wuxing University is "五行大学" (wǔxíng dàxué) in Chinese Mandarin.
• The five Fire-Metal-Water-Earth-Wood Colleges in Mandarin are "火・金・水・土・木学院" (huǒ・jīn・shuǐ・tǔ・mù xuéyuàn).
• Wuxing University, in emergency situations, assists the local Chengdu forces to thwart foreign crises until official forces arrive. All available students will support the evacuation efforts. After the emergency, the students' official studies will not be rescheduled because of the sudden crisis.
• Wuxing is a real-world Chinese philosophy/framework that studies the "Five Phases" (Wuxing)--Fire, Water, Metal, Wood, and Earth.
• Wuxing University students are divided by grade-year and then their college.

Media

Concept Art

Early Wuxing U <Water> College uniform concept (Hero 44: Aqua)