Shi is a Lunar, a shape-shifting trickster warrior beast child of the Goddess of madness, change, the moon, and whatever the else She feels like.

Whether it's examining inlaid Essence circutry in First Age ruins using his self-created magical glasses, or killing everything in sight with his legendary Ghost Swords passed down from a prior incarnation more concerned with wiping the Realm off the face of Creation then building magical robots, Shi is good at what he does.

Those who know Exalted will notice that Shi's Deadly Beastman Transformation form is rather... tiny. As in human-sized, rather then eight feet of "I eat you now". Shi went out of his way to make his DBT form small because he figured any ass-kicking potential lost was outweighed by being able to go "Oh no, I am just an ordinary beastman. Woof woof. Please let me in, I promise not to eat you and steal your skin."