Koei Tecmo has finally updated their Dynasty Warriors 9 official website with newly revealed designs for five returning characters: Cai Wenji, Ding Feng, Wei Yan, Zhang Jiao, and Zuo Ci. Read on to check the biographies of each character introduced.
Cai Wenji

Cai Yan, who has the courtesy name Wenji, is the daughter of Cai Yong, a Han scholar who served Dong Zhuo but was also a friend of Cao Cao. Cai Wenji herself was also famous as a poetess. When China fell into chaos after Dong Zhuo’s murder, Cai Wenji was abducted by the Xiongnu tribe to the north and was made a concubine to one of their kings. However, Cao Cao was able to bring her back to her homeland peacefully by sending gold to the Xiongnu, and Cai Wenji would spend the rest of her lifespan in Cao Cao’s Wei premises. In one of the predictable but still disconcerting decisions, Cai Wenji does not retain either of her Harp which had been assigned to her since Dynasty Warriors 7 or the Erhu Violin which she used on her DW debut in Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce 2. Instead, she is now given the Whip, the same weapon type which is also assigned to Diaochan and Zhenji.
Ding Feng

Ding Feng (courtesy name Chengyuan) is a long-living Wu general. Of all the unique Wu characters appearing in Dynasty Warriors series so far, he lived the longest until the year 271 (9 years before the Three Kingdoms era ended in 280). Despite his scary face and huge posture, Ding Feng in Dynasty Warriors series is depicted as a natu...