# Hoang — Kai Lung’s Golden Hours character guide

> Hoang in Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Hoang - Ho, Hoang - keng, Waking Hoang

**First appearance:** 0001-kai-lung-s-golden-hours

## Snapshot

A figure whose waking presence and watchful attention shape the fortunes of those who pass through the wood and beyond it.

## Who they are

Hoang moves through the narrative as one whose awareness, once roused, alters the calculations of everyone around him. He is bound up with the shifting alliances and suspicions that make Kai Lung's road to Yu-ping anything but straightforward. His wakefulness, literal and figurative, reminds the reader that in this world no encounter is truly private and no listener is entirely passive.

## In the story

### [The Out-Passing Into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two with Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/xii-the-out-passing-into-a-state-of-assured-felicity-of-the-much-enduring-two-with-whom-these-printed-leaves-have-chiefly-been-concerned)

Mysterious figure who appears to Ten-teh in a storm, revealing himself as a messenger of Kwo Kam and entrusting Ten-teh with a secret mission.

### [The Story of the Loyalty of Ten-Teh, the Fisherman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-the-loyalty-of-ten-teh-the-fisherman)

A youth who trusted Ten-teh and would dive into deep waters fearlessly at his word, mentioned in Ten-teh's final speech.

### [Under the Dragon’s Wing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/i-under-the-dragon-s-wing)

The man-child discovered in the fish's mouth, raised by Ten-teh, displaying noble bearing and bringing prosperity.

### [The Message from the Outer Land](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/ii-the-message-from-the-outer-land)

Mentioned as having departed, after which Ten-teh's affairs ceased to prosper.

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