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For world boss, see Yu'lon (tactics).
NeutralYu'lon (Fei)
Image of Yu'lon (Fei)
Title The Jade Serpent,
the Great Serpent,[1]
the Celestial of Wisdom,[2] Spirit of Wisdom and Foresight[3]
Gender Female[4]
Race August Celestial
Reaction Alliance Horde
Affiliation(s) August Celestials
Occupation Leader of the August Celestials[5]
Location Various
Status Alive
Relative(s) Yu'la (broodling),
Yu'lei (daughter)
Student(s) Emperor Shaohao
Yu'lon in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms during one of N'Zoth's assaults.
There is but one certainty - every end marks a new beginning.
Pearl of Yu'lon

Yu'lon the Jade Serpent is one of the four creatures known as the August Celestials who watch over Pandaria. Yu'lon watches over the Jade Forest. She is the spirit of wisdom, but also represents spring, youth, growth, and nurturing.[6] She occasionally disguises herself as a pandaren girl named Fei.


Fu Zan

Long ago, the titanic watcher Keeper Freya gifted her walking stick, fashioned from one of the branches of Fu Zan the first tree, to Yu'lon. The Jade Serpent later gave it to a uniquely clever hozen known as the Monkey King.[7]

The mogu empire


During Lei Shen's conquest of Pandaria, he and the mogu overpowered the four August Celestials. Yu'lon was the last Celestial to remain uncaptured, and she spread wisdom to the pandaren of the Jade Forest during their time under the mogu empire. During a visit to one of the slave camps, Lei Shen sent a bolt of lightning streaking across the sky that pierced Yu'lon's body and sent her crashing to the earth. Yu'lon awoke underground, where the pandaren had secreted her away to a hidden cave built in honor of the August Celestials. The Jade Serpent, so moved by what she saw, imbued the place with her magic to help the miners find the wisdom, hope, fortitude, and strength they had lost in life. But she was dying, and so she requested that the pandaren build a statue of her.

For a hundred years, generations of miners toiled. All the while Yu'lon, still wounded from the Thunder King's attack, drew closer to death. At the moment when the work finished, she breathed her last breath. The miners wept that they'd failed to save her, but the statue moved and its eyes opened; Yu'lon had been reborn through the statue, and to this day she still must reincarnate through a new statue when she grows weak.[8]

The Burdens of Shaohao

When Shaohao climbed up Mount Neverest, the Jade Serpent appeared before him. Shaohao needed to know how to keep his land and people safe from the Sundering. She told him to go to the center of Pandaria and find the answer within.[9]

Mists of Pandaria

Yu'lon as Fei.


Fei is a pandaren girl illusion used by Yu'lon to test the adventurer in the Jade Temple,[4] and later in the Serpent's Heart after completing the main storyline of Jade Forest and takes the adventurer to Valley of the Four Winds.

Every hundred years a enormous jade state is built in the temple grounds, so Yu'lon can transfer her life essence into the sculpture, which would then turn into a new being. This cycle has been going for generations.[10]

Yu'lon and the other three Celestials opened the gate to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.[11]

She also granted her powers to the Golden Lotus warriors when the mogu invaded the vale after the death of Zhi the Harmonious.[12]

Temple of the Jade Forest

Main article: Liu Flameheart

During the encounter with Liu Flameheart, roughly around 30%, she summons Yu'lon to defend her. After Yu'lon is defeated, she frees the priestess of all doubt, killing her and flying off.


As part of Wrathion's legendary journey, he and an adventurer visited the Jade Serpent in order to receive her blessing.[13]

Timeless Isle

The trial of Yu'lon.

The trial of Yu'lon is a test of wisdom and faith. With omens of a bleak future floating through his mind. Emperor Shaohao climbed to the summit of Mount Neverest to seek the council of the Jade Serpent. Yu'lon urged Shaohao to cast off the dark emotions that plagued him, and through his trials, Emperor Shaohao would become one with the land. To pass the trial of the Serpent, warriors must be wise in their choices.[14]

Siege of Orgrimmar

During the quest N [90] Why Do We Fight?, the celestials alongside the ghost of Shaohao, Lorewalker Cho and Adventurer gathered around to begin to heal the Vale. She flies around in a circle after the tree was planted upon the ground to begin the process of healing Pandaria.

There is much work ahead of us if we are to heal the land and mend our wounds. But thanks to your deeds we no longer must work in the shadow of one of the seven breaths of Y'Shaarj.
In time, the sha will cease to be, and your name will be remembered with the reverence of the last emperor.

War Crimes


Yu'lon and other Celestials chose to hold a trial involving the members of the Alliance and Horde rather than sentence Garrosh Hellscream among themselves. During the trial, Yu'lon took the form of the Panda cub from the Jade Forest as a show of respect to the gathered races.[15]

The Jade Hunters

Yu'lon and Fenella Darkvire.


Disguised as Fei, she led Fenella Darkvire, Carrick Irongrin and Fendrig Redbeard to the same 'mine', of which none where happy with.

Later on the dwarves learned of how Yu'lon inspired the pandaren miners to seek knowledge and escape the mogu's grip, and of the hidden refuge the pandaren had built underground to worship the Celestials in secret. After Emperor Shaohao's teachings and the Great Sundering, the miners' descendants would build the great temples in honor of the celestials and founded the order of the August Celestials to uphold their teachings. The three masons realized that the 'mine' Fei had sent them to was the very refuge that Yu'lon experienced the death of her natural body.

When they returned as friends from their journey, Fei revealed her true form to them and they watched her fly away until she was a vein of jade in the diamond sky.[8]

Warlords of Draenor


Yu'lon can be summoned by an item called  [Scroll of Invoke Yu'lon, the Jade Serpent] during Ashran battles.


Legion This section concerns content related to Legion.

Yu'lon fends off an attack from the Burning Legion on the Temple of the Jade Serpent.[16]


Notable appearances
Location Level range Health range
Jade Forest 90 11,494
Temple of the Jade Serpent 87 - 92
N [90] Celestial Blessings 100 20,481
Yu'lon (tactics) ?? 2,704,063
Vale of Eternal Blossoms ?? 11,494
Ashran 101 151,845
N Monk [98 - 110] The Trial at the Temple 98 - 110 6,752,710
Broken Isles 111 1,075,123



The Burdens of Shaohao Part 1—Doubt
Yu'lon: What troubles you, young emperor?
Shaohao: Countless demons will soon pour over Azeroth! What must I do to save my kingdom?
Yu'lon: Seek out the heart of Pandaria, for the answer lies within.
Shaohao: But how can I find it?
Yu'lon: Your emotions cloud you. Free yourself of these burdens, let the land be your teacher.

Mists of Pandaria


  • Greetings, little one.
  • May joy be in your heart.
  • I will guide your way.
  • A new day is upon us.
  • What do you seek, my child?
  • Spring will bloom.
  • May your journey be joyful.
  • Wisdom guide your path.
  • Farewell little one.
  • The cycle always turns.
Main article: The Jade Serpent#Notes
Main article: Moving On#Notes
Main article: A Witness to History#Notes
Main article: The Might of Three#Notes
Main article: Celestial Blessings#Notes
Main article: Yu'lon (tactics)#Quotes
Main article: Time-Lost Shrine
As Fei
Hey there!
<The little girl squints at you.>
I overheard you talking to the Elder Sage. He's pretty serious, isn't he?
Well you're in luck, because I hear just about everything that happens around here.

Warlords of Draenor


Come close heroes, and let me heal your wounds.


Legion This section concerns content related to Legion.

Main article: The Trial at the Temple#Notes

Notes and trivia

  • During Legion, she could be summoned using the  [Sheilun, Staff of the Mists] artifact trait [Blessings of Yu'lon].
  • Like the Dragon Aspects, the August Celestials have the ability to take on mortal forms. Yu'lon's mortal appearance of choice is a young pandaren girl named Fei, used in the Jade Forest and at the trial of Garrosh Hellscream.
  • The  [Jadefire Spirit] is thought to be a living embodiment of Yu'lon's own jade breath.[18]
  • Fenella Darkvire noticed that in either form, Yu'lon has strange red eyes, which the dwarf described as "eyes ancient like elementium."[8]
  • Yu'lon (玉龙, pinyin: yù lóng) is Chinese for "jade dragon".
  • In the early Mists of Pandaria beta, Fei used a female pandaren adult model placeholder.
  • In the original four symbols of Chinese mythology which the August Celestials are based on, the dragon in the East is blue instead of green. However, it should be noted that Classical Chinese lacked distinct terms for blue and green, using the term qīng (青) for both colors. (Modern Mandarin Chinese uses lán (藍) for blue and (緑) for green.)
  • Yu'lon is voiced by Alyson Reed.



The  [Pearl of Yu'lon] Archaeology artifact used to refer to Yu'lon as male. While it's possible this was simply an error by Blizzard, it may have suggested that Yu'lon may get reincarnated as either male or female, even if her current incarnation is female. This was eventually corrected in Patch 6.0.1, so presumably it was the former rather than the latter.



Patch changes


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