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CK2AGOT - Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons
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Yi Ti
Yi Ti
In the far east of the known world lies the land of myth and legend. Little news of it comes to Westeros, save in the form of tales too incredible to be believed and the reports of those few sailors brave enough to visit the Jade Sea. This land is Yi Ti, the Golden Empire, the Land of a Thousand Cities and bearer of many other grandiose titles.Or it was before it collapsed on itself and became the Land of a Thousand Warring Cities instead.
Separating fact from fiction is hard, but it is known that Yi Ti lies on the northern shores of the Jade Sea, east of Qarth and the Jade Gates. Before its collapse the Golden Empire expanded across a colossal area, measuring some 1,800 miles from east to west and 1,700 miles from north to south. However, these measurements are inexact, given that the borders of Yi Ti were constantly shifting even before the divide, depending on who makes the maps and which emperor is sitting on the throne at any time. Its last unified borders were generally held to be the Dry Bones and the Great Sand Sea in the far north-west, the Shrinking Sea and Bleeding Sea in the far north, the Mountains of the Morn in the north-east and the Shadow Mountains and their ghost grass-swathed foothills in the far east. Yi Ti was the second-largest nation-state in the known world, outstripped in size only by the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. The Dothraki claim more territory, although it is still debatable if their rule is to be considered as a coherent nation-state.
Despite its name, even it was still intact the Golden Empire was far reduced in size compared to its glorious heyday of several centuries ago, when its borders stretched much further north into the Plains of the Jogos Nhai and south to encompass the island of Leng and several other isles of the Jade Sea, including the east coast of Great Moraq. It is smaller still than the Great Empire of the Dawn, a vast nation which stretched from the Bones to the furthest east beyond the Shadow Lands and Grey Waste and from the Jade Sea to the Shivering Sea. The Great Empire of the Dawn collapsed in the Long Night and Yi Ti emerged as its successor state, suggesting that the Golden Empire may have approached eight thousand years in age, predating Valyria and maybe even Old Ghis, thus making its collapse even more baffling and quite frankly sad.
For the ease of comprehension in this work please consider the name “Yi Ti” to mean the whole geographical region rather than the political entity.
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Yi Ti: The Western Provinces
The Western Provinces
The western provinces of Yi Ti were where most travellers and traders first encountered the Golden Empire and it is still considered as a part of what remains of the broken realm.The city of Asabhad was, and somewhat still is, the gateway to Yi Ti, sitting at the mouth of a river on the main road leading west to Qarth (about 500 miles distant) and north to Bayasabhad (450 miles distant).
Cancelled Project Offset Concept art by Steven Messing
(unfortunately I couldn't find this particular picture on the author's official page, but found a trace of it on his Instagram)
Given the naming convention, Asabhad may have been a city of the Patrimony of Hyrkoon in origin rather than Yi Ti; the city’s modern status is ambiguous, with a strong YiTish influence but also numerous outlanders living within its walls.
An argument could be made that Asabhad was also the metaphoric gateway that opened up the flood that ultimately shattered the mighty empire.
It all started with Prince Youkhanna Kataan, the last true Prince of Asabhad, and his sister Mai who was wed to Prince Pol Zong Co, the heir of the Golden Empire at that time.
When the groom’s father, God-Emperor Pol Qo, the famous Hammer of the Jogos Nhai, discovered that his daughter-in-law made a fool of his son, he beheaded the heavily-pregnant woman and promptly seized the capital city of the Asabhad region from her brother both as a punishment for his silence, as it is believed that he knew of his sister’s infidelity, and as a warning to everyone else.
When the Hammer died, the city of Asabhad naturally went to his son, the very same Zong Co.
It later went to Zong Co’s only child, a daughter Qa Ping, and remained her only land after she lost her crown as the God-Empress.
After Qa Ping’s death the city of Asabhad was supposed to go to her eldest son Bi, but he was captured in one of the Qartheen slave raids and presumed lost. Bi was later found by his father, Commander Xie Lhoq, and brought back, although the damage done was too great and irreversible, so now he quietly resides with his father in the Lion Fort, out of sight and out of mind. In lieu of the heir’s absence the city of Asabhad went to his brother Jar, but he suspiciously died without issue at the prime age of seven-and-twenty.
Qa Ping’s youngest surviving son, Pol Ni, is the current ruler of the city. He is married to his kinswoman, Pol Chin.
Even though Youkhanna Kataan lost the city, he relocated to the border city of Hyrnaya (forcing its ruling family into exile) and still held the surrounding countryside, calling himself Prince of Asabhad to his death in 313AC. The principality then went to his son Shamir who then proceeded to lose everything.
The principality itself he lost just four years after ascension to his neighbour, Prince Loq Chu of Tiqui, who then abdicated in favour of his daughter, Princess Kei, and after her death it went to her husband and uncle, Prince Loi.
After the principality, the time had come for Shamir to lose the prefecture as well, which he did in the year 326AC to Du Bho from Telahi, a neighbouring city of Tequi.
The elegant Prefect Du Bho of Asabhad likes to boast of his descendancy from Prince Mao Vinth of Piqui, Tiqui’s north-eastern neighbour.
What Prefect Du Bho does not like to boast about is the fact that he actually hails from Du Dar, an upjumped steward that managed to place his daughter Qao in bed with Mao Par, an old and very irrelevant Prince of Piqui.
Apparently the girl was so good that the decrepit Prince renounced his name and married her, and thus their two sons (if they were indeed the Prince’s) continued the line of Du Dar, who used the Prince’s money to buy himself a cushy place in the Telahi administration and eventually passed it to his grandson, the very same Du Bho, now a Prefect of the whole Asabhad region.
After his conquest, Du Bho imprisoned his predecessor Shamir, along with both his wife and his mother. Both women were never seen again, and Shamir himself was publicly gelded and served as his captor’s eunuch until the Prefect got tired of him.
After Shamir’s capture his brother Suyen served as his regent until Shamir’s death and as the ruler of Hyrnaya in his own right until finally losing the last bit of land still held by Kataan family to Pol Jar, the brief ruler of Asabhad, thus ironically completing the circle started by Pol Jar’s grand-sire Pol Qo, the Hammer of the Jogos Nhai.
Ever since the Kataan family lost everything to its neighbours, the two principalities have been ruled as one from Tequi, which still swears fealty to what is left from the Golden Empire. However recent developments further destabilise the region.
Another upstart had seized control of the region’s very centre, and is currently pushing for an elective form of government of the principality.
It would seem that the just recently emerged Prefect Ren Bho is not content with his accomplishments and might be aiming even higher.
Or it might be a ploy to secure his position since he acquired it by a very dubious and vague pretext as he seized control on behalf of his very young wife Moq Qai who died soon after giving birth to their only son.
Moq Qai was the granddaughter of late Prefect Moq Hao through his peculiar son Chen, a silver-haired man from a concubine of Valyrian descent.
Even though Chen himself did not endorse anything and in fact was already long gone and living in Leng, Ren Bho staged a coup and seized the prefecture from Moq Hao’s other grandson, a totally retarded Prefect Moq Goi who spent his time hiding in his chambers and left actual rulership to none other than Ren Bho who acted as his regent.
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Seems Yi Ti is experiencing their own Sengoku Jidai/Romance of the Three Kingdoms/War of the Five Kings scenario with how broken that particular realm is, gonna take someone extraordinary to put the empire back together, especially if the White Walkers invade from the five forts, because with a fragmented realm like that, that's definitely ripe for the picking. Kinda interesting that in this timeline Yi Ti is the one that's fragmented and Westeros is united.
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Yi Ti looks very divided. Of course, that fits with both the ASOIAF books and the historical basis for Yi Ti (China). "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been" and all.
I wonder if Dany is feeling benevolent and willing to seize control over some of their lands. The invasion of the Others might encourage this process...
I wonder if Dany is feeling benevolent and willing to seize control over some of their lands. The invasion of the Others might encourage this process...
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That alone shows how fall the mighty empire has fallen for Qarth to be able to launch wars at will and enslave its people/nobility. About how many men does Qarth have?
What are the Jhogos Nai up to?
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That was my exact thought when I saw the actual mess that the Empire had become!
Very true, it seems broken beyond repair. But I really want the current orange emperor to succeed in it though, for his mom's sake (more on that soon
)Well, I be damned. I actually absolutely forgot that there was this possibility. I am just sitting here right now thinking that my meticulous preparations might just be absolutely and horribly pointless. Now that would've been some twist...
I was quite frankly a bit shocked just how low the mighty had fallen. By the looks of it, everyone and their grandma are having a go at it and just kick it as they like.
Pureborn Ognos currently sits on 22314. Orange Emperor will probably win this one btw, he has his own troops and most of the independent kingdoms are in this war on his side for some reason. But on their own they get harrased by literally everyone around.
A lot, surprisingly! There's a kingdom, and there's a big jhatasar or whatever their bands could be called, there's that one excursion all the way to Jinqi on the Asshai border... they've been busy. I'll get to them after Yi Ti. I kinda like the eggheads
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Yi Ti: The Jungles of Yi Ti
The Jungles of Yi Ti
From Asabhad, a road leads down the coast for some 600 miles. This stretch of the coast is populous, with numerous small towns and ports dotting the shores. Cultivated farmland extends inland, to where the great jungles and forests of Yi Ti begin.Yi Ti’s southern half is dominated by a vast region of jungle and woodland. The maps of this region can be deceptive: rather than one vast unbroken canopy of trees, the jungles are divided by open areas, hills and fields surrounding towns and small cities. The jungles are warm, but they are not the boiling, plague-ridden hell of Sothoryos or the thick, balmy jungles of the Summer Isles. The jungles of Yi Ti are very hospitable, giving rise to Yi Ti’s enormous population. The jungle region of Yi Ti runs for 1,400 miles along the northern coast of the Jade Sea and extends for over 700 miles inland.
The great city of Yin sits on the coast of the Jade Sea, where a mighty river flows into the sea.
Yin was the traditional capital of Yi Ti and is (usually) the largest city of the Empire. More than a million people appear to live in and around this vast and sprawling metropolis, the only city of the west that can rival it in size is Volantis and maybe Qarth.
From here the seventeenth - and the last - Azure Emperor Bu Gai ruled over the Empire until his defeat at the hands of his rival, Pol Qo of Trader Town, the 1st Orange Emperor.
After his death his daughter Hanh became the Princess of Yin. She also became the second wife to the new Orange God-Emperor, even though she was already married and had four sons. Her first husband was never seen or heard of ever again. She had no children by the Emperor.
After her death her firstborn son Qorys became the new Prince of Yin. There are rumours that he is in fact a bastard born out by the princess from her baseborn lover, a sailor of Valyrian descent, hence the name highly unusual for the region.
First order of business for Prince Qorys was independence which he wrestled out of the Hammer’s son, the unfortunate second Orange God-Emperor Pol Zong Co, despite their supposed alliance on the grounds of the marriage between Qorys’ son Huan and Zong Co’s sister Qu.
After the death of his beloved concubine, Prince Qorys was briefly married to his niece, but their only child died stillborn and Prince Qorys himself soon followed.
Since his firstborn son Huan was already dead at that moment, Qorys’ grandson inherited the principality.
Prince Bu Qo the Cruel and his hideous wife, Princess Dol Di the Evil from the neighbouring lands of Linqi, sound like something out of an uninspired child’s story, but unfortunately for their subjects they both are very much real and in charge. Surprisingly they are involved in the Qartheen-Yi Ti embargo war on the side of their former overlord.
Prince Qo’s sister, Princess Ye, is married to her kinsman, Ser Bu Du, who for some reason got knighted by some drunken hedgeknight while on his travels west. Ser Du is responsible for the death of Prince Qo’s uncle, Prince Ri, whom he slayed in a trial by combat.
Prince Ri’s young daughter Tha is married to the current Prince of Tiqui and Asabhad, the man thirty years her senior. Tha’s brother Far was recently granted lands in Xianqi, a peninsula near Yin overlooking the Straits of Leng. Since Prince Qo does not have a living male issue, Prince Far is regarded as Yin’s current heir apparent.
Hundreds of miles upriver and inland, deep in the heart of the jungle, lies the ruined city of Si Qo, from where the Scarlet Emperors of Yi Ti ruled for centuries before they were pulled from power following several disastrous expeditions against the Jogos Nhai.
North-east of it the city of Henqui could be found deep in the jungle. In recent years it had been an unexpected victim of much turmoil and change that culminated in the city’s takeover by an unlikely group led by Guinin Wei, an ambitious man of clear Jogos Nhai descent.
As a close friend of the Prince, Guinin has no fear of any retaliation and feels comfortable and secure in his new position. Oddly enough however his young son does not seem to be considered as his successor and an election is expected to be held when a succession is to take place.
Further north into the jungle lies the lands of Linqi.
Yi TI 2 by Henrik Zähringer for Unseen Westeros
Prince Dol Van the Old was famously married to Princess Chai Qi Chi from the legendary city of Carcosa.
Prince Van’s firstborn son from one of his imperial concubines, Prince Vinh, was supposed to marry Princess Mu Yoi, then sister to the young Prince of Jinqi, but Prince Vinh unfortunately died soon after their marriage. It also might have been some sort of a twisted blessing in disguise however as it allowed Prince Vinh to die quickly and spared him the fate of being caught up in the Shadow Port Massacre (or maybe the Massacre might have been avoided entirely if Dol Vinh was still alive and Princess Mu Yoi did not marry her second husband Cao Par Sun, but history does not believe in ifs).
With Prince Vinh out of the picture, his younger brother Chinh became the next Prince of Linqi. Man of an unfortunate appearance, but a gentle soul, he unfortunately could not escape his visage and is known as the Ugly Prince of Linqi. He is married to Princess Toq Chi, a woman of rather humble birth. Prince Chihn had five children with his wife while she had two additional ones with her husband’s Master of Justice, a lowborn man simply named Boq. It would seem that Prince Chihn and Boq were childhood friends, and while their friendship is understandably shattered, the kind-hearted Prince forgave both his wife and his former friend and did not even strip him of his position at court.
He also went even further and arranged marriages for both of his wife’s bastards: the elder one, Kho, went a bit north to become a second wife to the count of Zanisshi, while the younger one, Cai, married Gai An, Linqi’s chief commander as well as the bodyguard, mentor and friend to Prince Chihn’s eldest grandson.
As an interesting sidenote, Cai’s husband An hails from the old Gai family that just recently ruled in the province of Xinzihua just west of the capital of Linqi until Gai An’s father lost the land to an opportunist kin of his direct overlord.
Oddly enough, said kin, count Du Nai, is famous for his peculiarly opposing principles. Count Nai seems to enjoy making women fall head over heels for him, probably to use them in some scheme of his, but he makes sure to never, ever know them too closely, if my shrewd reader understands what I mean. Even though it does seem to bring him some advantages in his political life, it also leaves him without an heir (as he seems to also shun the bed of his own wife as well) and after his death the nobility of Xinzihua is expected to hold an election. If the current electee, late Gai Nuq’s second son, was to succeed, the land would revert right back to the Gai family.
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It is always wonderful to see your interpretation of a moment in time (screenshot). Thank you
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Is it a mod or a portrait pack that makes Yi Ti'sh generals (Such as Bu Qo) have the northern armor and helmet with the fur, or is that something tahat happens normally in the mod that I have not seen, I cant imagine that would be fun to wear in the jungle.
Ive always wondered how the Jhogos Nai were able to ever challenge the might of Yi Ti and their walled cities.
Ive always wondered how the Jhogos Nai were able to ever challenge the might of Yi Ti and their walled cities.
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Has Yi Ti lost their old capital? How the mighty have fallen...
Also, why am I worried about Carcosa? It might have been ruled by a King in Yellow in the past... but that shouldn't matter now, right? (This is likely canon since GRRM put in a few Lovecraftian references into ASOIAF)
Also, why am I worried about Carcosa? It might have been ruled by a King in Yellow in the past... but that shouldn't matter now, right? (This is likely canon since GRRM put in a few Lovecraftian references into ASOIAF)
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I honestly don't know, I've not been paying much attention to the Yi Ti before I accidentally saw what happened in Trader Town and then sat down to write this chapter. But I thing in my game it's always been like that... Or maybe I messed up something with the Better Faces mod, I did make some minor tweaks there, I think... I haven't thought about it until your comment and now I'm perplexed cause you are absolutelyright, fur can't be anywhere near logical in the jungle.
Same. And tbh I was sceptical about the Dothraki as well. I don't remember them having any siege machinery, so they either starve every city to submission, or their horses are descendants of Balerion and can melt stone.
By the looks of it, they lost almost everything and I worry that they might lose even more now that Asshai is properly feral.
They sure are interesting and mysterious, but in this timeline they just sit in their valley and do nothing, at least for now. It might be however that they are just waiting for their moment, with Yi Ti being so fractured and all. I wonder if there is any special mechanic in the mod for them or the other Lovecraftian references.
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Yi Ti: Leng
Leng
The island of Leng lies just off the coast of Yi Ti. Until 400 years ago it was ruled by the emperors, but it threw off the shackles of conquest and became independent once again. However, the Lengii maintain strong ties with Yi Ti and try to avoid open warfare.
The island of Leng is 450 miles long from north to south and about 200 miles wide. It sits in the eastern Jade Sea, with less than 50 miles separating it from the mainland.
Leng is covered by jungle, within which sit curious, ancient ruins.
According to Lengii tradition, great caves lead to fathomless depths, from where a race known only as the “Old Ones” ruled the island and commanded the native inhabitants. The YiTish collapsed most of these caves and banned any further worship of the Old Ones, but the tradition of following their teachings remains.
The northern two-thirds of Leng is dominated by the descendants of YiTish colonists; the southern third is dominated by the original Lengii.
There are three major cities on Leng: Leng Yi and Leng Ma are YiTish cities in origin whilst Turrani is Lengii.
Leng Yi is found on the north-eastern coast, 180 miles or so south-west of Jinqi in Yi Ti. It is currently ruled by the young Prefect Yoq Cho. He is a son of the late Prefect Yoq Shun, sarcastically called the Mild. He was anything but and seized all of the surrounding lands from their original ruling families in favour of his own family. After his death his wife Wu Lu remarried to Shun’s brother Do, also a widower at that point. There are rumours that lady Lu might have taken a liking to a certain Volantene sailor and a strange pale and white-haired stillborn she produced was not an albino at all.
On the west coast some 250 miles south of Leng Yi lies the city of Leng Ma, capital of the island and the seat of its power.
The rulers of Leng, who style themself the God-Empresses, rule in a line of matriarchal descent.
Traditionally God-Empress takes two husbands, one from the Lengii area of the island and one from the YiTish, to maintain balance, but that tradition has been broken numerous times in more recent years.
Deviations started with God Empress Inpesca the Old who was abducted as a child during one of the Qartheen slave raids and raised among the Blue Shadows.
Rumour has it that the madness of Inpesca’s daughter and successor, God-Empress Xotli, was brought about by her mother’s experiments on her, but there is no substantial evidence to support this claim.
When an Asshai slave raid resulted in the capture and tragic death of Khiara, Xotli’s daughter and heir, the mad God-Empress somehow managed to plan and execute her revenge.
She sent a message to her nemesis, Shadow Councillor Mushtal Adiur, proposing “a child for a child”. Councillor Mushtar took it as an acceptable exchange and sent his son Yatum to give his pretty eldest granddaughter Murrithe as a wife to God-Empress’ son Yorith.
When Yatum’s severed head reached Asshai, Shadow Councillor Mushtar would realise that he had a grave lapse of judgement.
God-Empress Xotli died almost two years after that.
This is where things get a little bit unconventional. God-Empress Han, Xotli’s firstborn daughter and successor, married Kaalut Marahai, her Lengi step-father. He was thirty years her senior and the father of two of Han’s siblings.
It is speculated that the move was made to allow God-Empress Han to continue her affair with her lover, Commander Ye Bo of the City Watch, a Yi-Ti husband that never was as it was later discovered that the man was already married thus making their first daughter Deh Hi ineligible for succession. After Han’s death there were some plots in Lenqi to reinstate Deh Hi as the God-Empress of Leng, but they soon died with the girl.
Even though the paternity of Han’s second daughter was never publicly disputed, the rumours and talks surround her to this day. Crowned as the God-Empress Qa Ping at the age of two, the poor girl was a pawn at the mercy of her family. Fortunately her arranged marriage to her cousin proved a blessing. The pair grew up together and their genuine friendship soon blossomed into love.
City of Turrani is located on the south coast. Tragically its ruling family currently has to helplessly watch as its very future, the talented and virtuous Chaugnar Chandesh, rapidly withers away.
Turrani also has the dubious honour of being the closest major city to the fabled and feared metropolis of Asshai, located just 600 miles further south and east across the eastern reach of the Jade Sea. This “honour” is currently felt throughout the whole island however due to its ongoing desperate defence against the terrifying forces of the newly-emerged united Kingdom of The Shadow led by its first King Dagan.
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Yi Ti: The Eastern Provinces
The Eastern Provinces
The eastern provinces are dominated by jungle in the south and vast areas of cultivated farmland in the north, extending for over 400 miles from the shores of the Jade Sea to the towering Mountains of the Morn. To the south-east, a river divides the Yi Ti frontier from the Shadow Lands. This region is infested with ghost grass, a form of white grass which poisons other crops and kills them. According to the Dothraki of the far west, ghost grass will one day consume the entire world. Given the remoteness of the Dothraki Sea from this region (between 2,500 and 3,000 miles away), it is curious that they have even heard of ghost grass, let alone developed legends around it.This region was traditionally ruled from Jinqi, an extensive and large city located on the vast river delta.
The Maroon Dynasty established its capital in Jinqi at a time when Yi Ti’s borders were hard-pressed by raiders out of the Shadow Lands. Wearing red, lacquered masks, the raiders tested the boundaries of Yi Ti until the Maroon Emperors decisively defeated them, driving them back into the mountains. The Emperors then forbade any punitive expeditions, fearing that their armies might not return from the shadow-drenched lands of the mysterious east.
In the end however, the final blow to Jinqi did come from the Shadow Lands, but surprisingly from the wrong side of them.
The first step to the abyss came with the sudden death of young Prince Mu Van who came onto the throne ten years prior.
The principality then went to his sister, Princess Mu Yoi, the one that was supposed to become a wife to the heir of Linqi. When that did not work out, she was married to Cao Par Sun, the second son of the Prince of Xin, Jinqi’s northern neighbour.
Here starts the age of turmoil for the city of Jinqi.
The realm became the target of an unprecedented attack by the horde of Jogos Nhai led by Jha Sabo of the Aerluorid clan, younger brother to Jhan Aerlu’or of Labu, the region in the South Plains, right between the Shrinking and the Bleeding Seas. Princess Yoi was captured and lost her capital city to the attackers who held it for more than a decade.
Sabo himself died just four years after his conquest. Sabo’s brother was also long dead in the dungeon of the Prince of Piqui, so it was decided that the city of Jinqi would go to Sabo and Aerlu’or’s father Ngu who held it for two years until his own death. Then the city went to Sabo and Aerlu’or’s sister Laugung who was leading the Aerluorid clan after the death of Aerlu’or.
Seven years later the clan and the city went to Sabo’s son Ngu who lost the city to an uprising and died in the dungeon of the Orange Emperor Pol Zong Co. His sister Yama inherited the clan and later died in the dungeon of Pol Zong Co’s daughter Qa Ping.
By this time it ceased to be seen as the powernode of the region and the position of the Prefect was already abandoned. The rebels and their leader Dinq Var held the city for two years until they were driven away by an unexpected force led by Faghira Issa, the firstborn daughter of Count Alim the Strange of Abaj, an island off the coast of Asabhad. After she and the count of the neighbouring land of Sarahai were found guilty of conspiracy and executed by the God-Emperor Pol Huu, the city of Jinqi went to her young son, the current Count Bha Issa of Jinqi.
After the loss of their capital and capture of their Princess, the surviving ruling household fled to the neighbouring city of Fenqui on the other end of the same river’s delta.
They then made their first grievous mistake and evicted its previous ruler, Cha Bu.
By all accounts a pleasant man and a just ruler, Cha Bu was highly regarded in the city and many were displeased to see him disrespected like that. As a very concerning side note, his firstborn son Cha Hai struck some kind of a deal with the King of The Shadow himself and had been reportedly seen leading the shadowlander’s troops in their invasion of Leng.
It would seem that Cha Bu was held in high regard not only by his subject, but also by his step-mother, Countess Wu Qa Ping of the Shadow Port. Countess Qa Ping married Cha Bu’s father, Prefect Cha Hai of Fenqui, after the gruesome death of her first husband, Prefect Poq Chien of Fujin.
Ironically, Countess Qa Ping’s father Wu Noq and consequently the Countess herself owe their family’s place as the rulers of the Shadow Port to the very same Princess Mu Yoi whose family the Countess is about to exterminate. Irrelevant to that it is nonetheless interesting to note that Qa Ping’s younger sister Mu had travelled all the way to the Hidden Valley of Carcosa, married a man there and after his sudden death ruled the Valley in her own right. She never remarried, took no lovers and died childless under rather questionable circumstances and the age of one-and-fifty.
Very relevant however was the fall and occupation of the city of Fenqui by its neighbour Yin.
Princess Mu Yoi was already confirmed dead at that point, as was her eldest son Cao Phong, so the family was led by her son, Cao Fuen, who at this point still called himself the Prince of Jinqi. It is worth noting that Cao Fuen was Mu Yoi’s youngest son. It would seem that he was put in charge by the sheer fact that he was married to Cha Mha Lha, youngest half-sister of the evicted Cha Bu, thus giving Cao Fuen’s rule of Fenqui some semblance of legitimacy.
Cha Mha Lha was also the only child of Cha Bu’s father, Prefect Cha Hai of Fenqui, and Countess Wu Qa Ping of the Shadow Port. Moreover, Cao Fuen’s older brother, Cao Har, was married to the Countess’ bastard daughter, Wu Poi. So when the city fell and the Principality of Jinqi finally came to its end, the whole household fled to the Shadow Port.
(Found randomly on the internet, if anyone knows the author please contact me)
It is unclear whether the death of Cao Chu, Princess Yoi’s third son, could be attributed to the Countess, but the deaths of Cao Ni, Cao Har and Cao Fuen, as well as Cao Fan, the young son of Cao Bu, were all the bloody work of the Countess.
Their wives were spared, even those not related to the Countess, as well as Cao Ni’s daughter Chin. Cao Bu, grievously wounded, managed to escape by falling into the canal, pretending to be dead and floating into the sea (ironically he still perished at the Shadow port years later when he came to seek justice from the Countess’ grandson and suspiciously died soon after arrival from what the healers claimed to be the Bloody Flux despite there being no other cases of it). All other male descendants of the once-ruling household of the fallen principality of Jinqi were summoned to the courtyard by one pretext or another, seized and murdered with different degrees of violence on that fateful twenty-seventh day of the eight moon in the year 343AC.
All except one.
Prince Cao Par Sun, the current ruler of the principality of Xin, Jinqi’s northern neighbour, was raised and moulded by the Countess herself. Prince Cao is the grandson of both the Princess Mu Yoi of Jinqi and the bloody Countess Wu Qa Ping of the Shadow Port through the Countess’ daughter Cha Mha Lha and Cao Fuen, the Princess’ youngest son. Young and eager ruler of a very formidable realm, he is allied to three major players in the region whether by marriage, as is the case of his wife - the bastard-born sister to the Prince of Piqui, or by personal friendship with none other than the current Orange Emperor Pol Norwin himself, and by extension the Emperor’s doting mother, the Queen of Trader Town.
Prince Par Sun inherited through the blood of his grandfather, also named Cao Par Sun, the second son of Prince Cao Phong the Just.
It is unclear if the Countess had anything to do with Xin’s succession or it was sheer bad (or good, in Par Sun’s case) luck, but every ruler before him died from some horrible disease or accident, starting from the Prince’s great grandfather and followed by his great uncle and both of his sons.
One of the Prince’s staunchest supporters and advisors is his uncle, Prefect Poq Gang of Fujin, the oldest son of the Countess Wu Qa Ping and her first husband, Prefect Poq Chien of Fujin. He is also the current ruler of the Shadow Port that he inherited after an untimely death of his second son, Poq Si, who initially inherited the Port after the death of the Countess.
It is also interesting to note that after the death of Prefect Poq Chien the Prefecture of Fujin went to Poq Dong, his first son unrelated to the Countess. Just five years into his rule Poq Dong is violently overthrown and exiled by Lin Fong, a seeming nobody who also beheads Poq Car, Poq Dong’s younger brother also unrelated to the countess. After Lin Fong’s death none of his twin sons are deemed fit to rule and are exiled, with Countess’ son Poq Gang being invited to rule his late father’s land instead.
The Bloody Countess finally dies a year later.
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Yay, possible magic and assassinations!
Leng looks interesting - former Old One cultists? I wonder how the Old Ones will feel about their disloyalty when the stars align. In all seriousness, though, I could see Leng as a base for an invasion from the water - and there's no evidence against water people. Of course, that won't happen with the ASOIAF mod...
Leng looks interesting - former Old One cultists? I wonder how the Old Ones will feel about their disloyalty when the stars align
. In all seriousness, though, I could see Leng as a base for an invasion from the water - and there's no evidence against water people. Of course, that won't happen with the ASOIAF mod...- 2
Death defeats both the most ruthless and the kindest. Thank you for updating
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Thought about this a bit more and remembered we got some insight into this in the show when they talked about the Dothraki, Yi Ti armies likely leave the cities when the Jhogos Nai begin to slaughter the unwalled hinterlands and towns, forcing them into pitched battles which can explain the losses but doesnt entirely explain how they manage to capture the cities even with a weakened garrisson, would make more sense if the dothraki or jhogos nai conscripted engineers like the mongols did but no indication they do this at all.
Very interesting
A rare good decision by rulers in this world, certainly much better than taking a great army into the mists of Valyria or trying to tame the jungles of Sothoryos.
The Bloody Countess and the Queen of Skulls would either be great friends and co-conspirators, or would immediatly try and have eachother killed, I dont see much of a middle ground.
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True ASOIAF experience!
They are currently being invaded by the Asshai and I reeeally hope they won't do anything stupid to repel those invaders with some possible much more horrifying ones...
True. Both fortunately and unfortunately, death is the ultimate equalizer even in a world of real and working magic.
I agree, them going out to fight would be a very plausible explanation, buuut on the other hand it's a fight with a literal horde and maybe would be more prudent to hide anyone still alive behind the walls and wait it out. This gaping hole in siege warfare logic is very irritating, but I don't really have much hope to ever get a plausible explanation from Martin on it. So I propose as a headcanon that the armies go out to fight the horde, get obliterated and the rest of the city is starved into submission and then just looted or obliterated as well.
Definitely. Only a lunatic would attempt something like that. A true madman. Or worse, an AAR writer. XD
They might even be both. I think they would really appreciate each other as on-off allies and permanent rivals in the background. And let the most rutheless win.
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Yi Ti: The Northern Provinces
The Northern Provinces
The northern provinces of Yi Ti cover fully half of the Empire. This region is dominated by utterly immense, cultivated farmlands which extend across colossal distances.
The better part of a thousand miles separate the Great Sand Sea from the Bleeding Sea, and this space is filled with farmsteads, towns and small cities, linked by numerous roads. This is the breadbasket of Yi Ti, the food supply for the huge, hungry coastal cities of the south.
The largest city in this region is Tiqui, a vast, thriving metropolis and the seat of the old Purple Emperors.
In the Asabhad chapter we already talked briefly about its ruling Loq family that subjugated their neighbouring city and is now considered as the rulers of both Tiqui and Asabhad.
By the time of the Two Emperors Prince Loq Shen of Tiqui considered their city as independent from Yin, but when the first Orange Emperor came into power Loq Shen’s son, Prince Loq Dong, swallowed his pride and bent the knee. His own son, Loq Chu (the one who conquered Asabhad), continued to serve as a vassal to the Orange Emperors’ throne even when the freshly-reforged empire started to crumble again under the Hammer’s son. Prince Loq Chu himself got deposed by his own flesh and blood - his only child, Princess Loq Kei, and her uncle-husband, Chu’s brother Loi.
The rash Princess Kei then tried to bite more than he could chew (and she could chew quite a lot) and got executed by the third Orange Emperor. All four of her daughters were discarded as successors and her uncle-husband became the new ruler of Tiqui and Asabhad. He recently remarried to a woman thirty years younger in the hopes of securing a male heir.
In the meantime his kinsman Loq Zong Dan is presumed next in line. He also recently got married to the youngest sister to the Prince of Piqui.
Tiqui is linked by good roads to Bayasabhad (450 miles to the west, around the fringes of the Great Sand Sea) and Trader Town (300 miles to the north).
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Trader Town is a large city located near the northernmost territory reliably claimed by the Empire. The city lies athwart the Steel Road which leads north and west around the Great Sand Sea, through the Howling Hills and into the Bone Mountains, to the city of Kayakayanaya. Trader Town is so-named for its reputation for trade and commerce with the lands to the west. It is also heavily fortified due to the threat of the Jogos Nhai, whose territory lies not far north of the city.
During the Time of Two Emperors General Pol Qo seized Trader Town, proclaimed himself the first emperor of the Orange Dynasty and laid claim to all of Yi Ti, eventually overthrowing the last emperor in Yin and briefly reuniting the region under one ruler.
General Pol Qo married his first wife Yi Ma Cha, daughter of one the field commanders, when he was just starting his rise to power. After her death, the newly-ascended Orange Emperor married also widowed Princess Bu Hanh, the daughter and successor of his rival, the last Emperor in Yin.
General Pol Qo used his eldest daughter Ming to forge his first alliance with the Prince of Xin.
Pol Qo’s second daughter married her uncle, Qo’s brother Vi Sun. After her death Vi Sun married Cao Mu Cha, the daughter of his eldest niece, the aforementioned Pol Ming. Their marriage was childless, but after his death Mu Cha quietly remarried to a state official and had two daughters with him before tragically succumbing to a dreaded Grey Plague at the age or five-and-thirty.
Pol Aoi, Pol Qo’s daughter with a concubine, was briefly married to Bu Ho Boi, one of the grandsons of Princess Bu Huhn, Aoi’s eventual step-mother. Unfortunately Aoi died from a very aggressive form of tumour at the prime age of twenty. Ho Boi eventually remarried.
Pol Aoi’s full sister Pol Qu was married to Bu Huan, another of her step-mother’s grandsons. He was supposed to eventually inherit the principality of Yin, but died in a battle against the Qartheen. Their son is the current Prince of Yin. After Bu Huan’s death Qu married one of her son’s commanders, a lowborn religious scholar named Har. He died from blood rot in the year 346AC and Pol Qu followed him a year later in the exact same manner as her sister Aoi did almost thirty years prior.
Pol Mo Cu is the Emperor’s fifth daughter, the third and last one for his first wife. She was first married to Du Juen, younger son of the Prefect of Wan Ti, a prefecture between Asabhad, Yin and Linqi. After his death she remarried to Su the Mummer, a lowborn Minister of Finances of Wan Ti. After Pol Mo Cu’s celibate-seduser son Du Nai usurped the county of Xinzihua, she separated from her husband and relocated to her son’s court to serve as his Minister (ministress?) of Army.
Pol Bi, arguably the first Orange Emperor’s most tragic daughter, is his last child and also the daughter of a concubine. She eloped with a young lowborn commander Bu of The East Fort and lived happily with him, quietly raising their two young children. It all was destroyed in an instant on that fateful twenty-eighth day of the first moon in the year 337AC when poor Bi found her husband’s lifeless body curled on the floor in the nursery, in an eternal embrace with the bodies of their six year old son An and their two year old daughter Duyen. There were no traces of struggle, but both the perfect health of all deceased prior to that day and the position of their bodies were highly suspicious. Absolutely broken, Pol Bi lingered in a near-vegetable state and finally followed her beloved family at the end of that same year.
The first Orange Emperor also had three sons.
His youngest, Pol Rho, fell in love with a concubine that gave him a daughter. When his father forbade the lovers to marry and forced his son into a marriage with a daughter of one of his lesser allies instead, Rho declared that he would not touch another woman ever in his life. He stayed true to his oath until his rather suspicious death at the age of nine-and-thirty. His daughter Chin is married to her kinsman Pol Ni, the current ruler of the city of Asabhad.
Pol Ni’s grandfather was the second Orange Emperor, Pol Qo’s firstborn son and successor, Pol Zong Co. His unfortunate first marriage to Mai Kataan, sister of Prince Youkhanna of Asabhad, was the pretence for the beginning of the fall of that great city.
Pol Zong Co’s only child, a daughter Qa Ping, eventually lost her empire’s crown to her uncle and died as a countess of that very same city.
Her uncle, the Trickster Pol Huu, usurped The Five Forts from his niece and thus became the fourth Orange Emperor of the fractured empire (technically he was the third due to the fact that Qa Ping was an Empress, but both our maesters and YiTish scholars just ignore that little inconsistency).
Mady readers no doubt are asking themselves right now: “Wait, why was he usurping The Five Forts and not the Trader Town?”. That, my perceptive friend, is because the Trader Town was already usurped by that time!
It was still the capital city for the second Orange Emperor Pol Zong Co right until the eighth day of the eleventh moon of the year 336AC when Trader Town opened its gates to a motley mob led by The Purple Unicorn from the West.
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After the cowardly emperor’s surrender, the new Queen of Trader Town decided to let him and his family live and leave the city unmolested. They fled to The Five Forts where Zong Co died and his brother Huu seized the crown. He then rode with a massive host of soldiers and a rich entourage right back to the Trader Town where he did what any sensible emperor would. He married the Queen.
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These Orange Emperors are facing some suspiciously convenient deaths. Their kids are also very stubborn, to be fair.
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