Comment by Bayart

> ??? Is it common that people think he is Asian for some reason? What a strange paragraph to include...

Call me a fool, but it's never occurred to me that he wasn't. I've always pictured him as a Chinese gentleman, a sort of Confucian scholar in 0s and 1s holding up the mortal world to ancient standards of virtue.

I might come across as reading far too much xianxia, and that would be accurate.