List of Rulers of Tianchao

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Printed inscription of the Imperial Seal of Tianchao, the personal seal of the ruler of the empire, carved from a piece of jade in the early Mei dynasty.
Top line: 接受天命/Jieshou Tianming/Receive the Mandate of Heaven
Second line: 天下勳爵/Tianxia Xunjue/Lord of the World
Third line: 正義規則/Zhengyi Guize/Rule Justly
Bottom line: 消滅邪惡/Xiaomie Xie'e/Destroy Evil

A comprehensive list of rulers of Tianchao, from the semi-legendary era to modern times. Pretender/Claimant rulers of unrecognized self-proclaimed dynasties and division period states/dynasties are included among them.

Rulers of the many dynasties of Tianchao were titled various ways:

• The rulers of the semi-legendary dynasties, Lang, Tong, Cong, and Chi dynasties were titled "Qiu (酋/chief)."
  • These "dynasties" were really tribal chiefdoms that existed mostly contemporaneously rather than the proper dynasties that characterized the majority of Tianchao's history.
• Rulers during the Predynastic era dynasties, Quan, Zao, Gao, Mei, and early Qiang, were titled "Wang (王/King/Prince)."
  • The former three are more properly described as loose confederations or collections of city-states and tribal chiefdoms, consisting of several loosely affiliated independent clans, who recognized a single ruler. Proper centralization of authority was achieved during the early stages of the Mei dynasty.
• The majority of rulers since the founding of the imperial Qiang dynasty are titled "Huangdi (皇帝/Emperor)," but other titles were used, especially during division periods.
  • Such titles include old titles such as qiu and wang, but other titles used including:
    • "Tianwang" (天王/Heavenly King)
    • "Huangzi" (皇子/Prince), Huangfei (皇妃/Princess)
    • "Wuwang" (巫王/Witch King), used exclusively by rulers of the Mei dynasty.
    • "Niangdi" (孃帝), used exclusively by rulers of the women-ruled Jing dynasty.
    • "Khagan" (可汗/ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ), an additional title used by the rulers of the Arslan-ruled Lin dynasty.
    • "Jiongdi" (煚帝/Fire Emperor) & "Bingdi" (冰帝/Ice Emperor), used exclusively by the co-rulers of the Shuang dynasty.

Lang dynasty

Names			Lifetime		Reign
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq

Tong dynasty

Names			Lifetime		Reign
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq

Cong dynasty

Names			Lifetime		Reign
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
					[…] – […]ᴀᴄᴢ
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq

Chi dynasty

Names			Lifetime		Reign
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
					[…] – […]ᴛᴊq

Quan dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Quan (全)
Origin of Name:	"All"
Capital:	???
Ruler Title:	Qiu 酋
Ruling Family
Name:	Lang (狼), later the Su (素)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	???

The Quan dynasty is the namesake of the collective Quantao (全套) people, and in turn the more ethnic names of the empire, Quanbang (全邦)/Quanyu (全宇). The Quan dynasty was created when Lang Zhengzi of the Lang tribe conquered the three other tribes and united the lands of its neighbors into a single unified state for the first time, yet it retained a tribal way of life.

Near the end of the dynasty's reign the Lang clan was usurped by the Su clan, but the usurpation led to weak rule and the collapse of the Quan dynasty, which paved way for the Zao tribe to take over as the Zao dynasty.

While the Lang clan of the Quan dynasty had several leaders prior to Qiu Zun, he is listed first as the uniter of the tribes of the time.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Lang Zhangzi 狼長子	Lingdui 領隊	Qiu Zun 狼尊酋				1371 – […]ᴛᴊq
Leader of the Lang tribe, he united several of the other tribes into the first unified sovereign state in Zanghuan.
Su Longqiu 素龍虯		Qiu Jin 全金酋				[…] – 1286ᴛᴊq
Sole ruler of the Quan dynasty from the Su clan. A weak ruler who held no repsect from the people, his usurpation of the dynasty weakened it and paved way for the Fu clan of the Zao tribe to take over, beginning the Zao dynasty, and effectively starting the dynastic cycle that would characterize Tianzu history.

Zao dynasty

The Zao dynasty retained the tribal way of life at first, but over time led the establishment of many customs that characterize Quantao culture to this day.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Fu Yase 富亞瑟		Qiuwang Shixin 燥獅心酋王				1286 – […]ᴛᴊq
						[…] – 954ᴛᴊq

Gao dynasty

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Chajing Han 茶晶汗	Shangsheng 上升	Wang Cuiruo 皋脆弱王	Xinjian 新建			953 – […]ᴛᴊq
						[…] – 713ᴛᴊq

Mei dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Mei (魅)
Origin of Name:	"Magic"
Capital:	Meishi (魅市)
Ruler Title:	Wuwang (巫王/Witch King)
Ruling Family
Name:	Xi (覡)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Mei dynasty was the longest-enduring dynasty in Tianzu history. Rulers were titled "Wuwang."

The early stages of the Mei dynasty were a time of centralization, when every constituent kingdom was, at their core, fully subordinate to the central government with little to no freedom to act on their own and the monarch held supreme authority. A kingdom ruled by powerful magicians, it was also a time of vivification for Quantao magic.

The second half of the Mei dynasty, referred to in history as the "Summer & Winter" period, was a time of experimentation with new governing methods, in particular the federalization of the empire. These included the elevation of the authorities of the constituent kingdoms to give them a say in the empire's affairs. However, these governing experiments were poorly executed and cost the Wuwang much of his authority, as the newly "promoted" vassal rulers began to exercise their new powers to satisfy and attain their own interests, leading to corruption and the inability of the Wuwang to keep them in check. The remaining tenure of the Mei dynasty was a struggle to hold the empire together.

The Mei dynasty finally lost all control of the constituent kingdoms when many of them went to war with each other at the same time over territorial and resource disputes, kicking off a period of civil war known as the Warring States period. Only a few smaller states remained loyal to the Mei dynasty through to the end.

Late in the Warring States period, the Mei dynasty finally collapsed when it and its vassals were conquered by the Kingdom of Hong.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Xi Gaoming 觋高明	Laoji 僚機	Wuwang Shanmei 魅善媚巫王	Xinjian 新建			733 – […]ᴛᴊq
The founder of the Mei dynasty, Wuwang Shanmei was a powerful magician, one of the most powerful of the age. Brought order to a nation torn by twenty years of civil war between squabbling kingdoms following the collapse of the Gao dynasty.
Xi Ying 觋英	Qiaochu 翹楚	Wuwang Jin 魅金巫王				[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
Son of Wuwang Shanmei, Wuwang Jin carved the Imperial Seal out of a magical piece of jade found atop a mountain during his tour of the realm.
Xi Yan 觋儼	Zhuhong 硃紅	Wuwang Guizu 魅貴族巫王				[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
Proper centralization of authority was achieved under his rule for the first time in Tianzu history.
Summer & Winter Period
Warring States Period
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
Xi Zhu 觋珠	Yaoren 妖人	Wuwang Fenghuang 魅鳳凰巫王				[…] – 11ᴛᴊq
The last monarch of the Mei dynasty. Under his rule, the Mei dynasty finally collapsed when it was conquered by the Kingdom of Hong, just around the same time Jian Zheng, the future Huangdi Chuangjian, came to power in the Kingdom of Qiang.

Qiang dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Qiang (薔)
Origin of Name:	Tribe Name & Noble Title:
	Qiangwei tribe (薔薇部落) Wang of Qiang (薔的王)
Capital:
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Zhi (治), later Jian (劍)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The first imperial dynasty of Tianchao.

The Kingdom of Qiang was originally founded as a vassal of the Mei dynasty until it rose to dominance during the Warring States Period.

Rulers of the Kingdom of Qiang before Huangdi Chuangjian established the imperial period were titled "Wang," and the ruling family before him was the Zhi clan.

During the Qiang dynasty's reign the empire was referred to as "Tianchao" (天朝) for diplomatic purposes with surrounding states and tribes, but with the dynasty's end the name fell out of use until the Zhai dynasty officially adopted it by law.

Title of Wang of Qiang was created during the first half of the Mei dynasty, but the title was purely ceremonial, and so those holders are not included in the list. This list begins with first Wang of Qiang following the creation of the Kingdom of Qiang at the beginning of the Summer & Winter Period.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Eras
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple					Names	yrs
Summer & Winter Period
Zhi Kongtu 治空頭	Xiongke 熊克	Wang Liequan 薔獵犬王		[…] – […]ᴛᴊq		[…] – […]ᴛᴊq
Warring States Period
Zhi Tong 治童	Chunan 處男	n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊq		[…] – 11ᴛᴊq
The last monarch of the Kingdom of Qiang from the Zhi clan.
Imperial Period
Jian Zheng 劍政	Zhugong 主公	Huangdi Chuangjian 薔創見皇帝	Kaiguo 開國	31ᴛᴊq – 32ᴛᴊʜ	63yrs	as Wang		Zaiqi 再起	11ᴛᴊq – 0ᴛᴊʜ
						11ᴛᴊq – 0ᴛᴊʜ	11yrs
						as Huangdi		Tongyi 統一	0 – 32ᴛᴊʜ
						0 – 32ᴛᴊʜ	32yrs
Jian Zheng used the title "Wang" from the time he usurped control of the Kingdom of Qiang from the Zhi clan until he established the Qiang dynasty, beginning the Classical Period of the Imperial Period. He came to power around the same time the Mei dynasty finally collapsed. As the founder of the imperial period, from then on using the title of "Huangdi," Huangdi Chuangjian is also known to history as Qiang Shou Di (薔首帝). He proclaimed his dynasty upon his marriage to Lan Mi, the last wanghou (queen) of the Kingdom of Bao – posthumously known as Huanghou Baoxiao (寶笑皇后) – shortly after the pair led their combined armies to vanquish the Kingdom of Hong and annex its recent conquests. The year of his ascension to Huangdi is the basis of the Luan calendar, though it wasn't adopted until the Chang dynasty.
Jian Mei 劍美	Mingmei 明媚	Huangdi Ziyuan 薔資源皇帝	Yongpi 永辟	7ᴛᴊq – 80ᴛᴊʜ	87yrs	32 – 80ᴛᴊʜ	48yrs	Tongyi 堅貞	32 – 40ᴛᴊʜ
								Jinzhan 進展	40 – 55ᴛᴊʜ
								Jiegou 結構	55 – 70ᴛᴊʜ
								Fangxin 放心	70 – 80ᴛᴊʜ
The second ruler of the imperial Qiang dynasty, Huangdi Ziyuan was Huangdi Chuangjian's third child and only daughter. As she outlived her two elder brothers, both of whom died of unknown causes within months of each other several years before Huangdi Chuangjian's death, most saw it as a sign that she was her father's true successor. Thus she was enthroned as the first female monarch of Tianchao. It was also during her reign that the term Tianfei (天妃/Daughter of Heaven) was coined. Before her enthronement, official and religious leaders were stuck on whether to used the old term, Tianzi (天子/Son of Heaven), for her as she was a woman. But she ended their debate by coining the word Tianfei, which would serve as the variation for female monarchs henceforth. One of only a handful of recognized female monarchs of a unified period (aside for the Jing dynasty, which was ruled entirely by women), Huangdi Ziyuan was the longest-serving ruler of the Qiang dynasty.
Jian Han 劍含	Youxiao 幼小	Huangdi Bukong 薔不控皇帝	n/a	33 – 87ᴛᴊʜ	54yrs	80 – 87ᴛᴊʜ	7yrs	Duzi 獨自	80 – 87ᴛᴊʜ
Sixth child and fourth son of Huangdi Ziyuan out of her ten children. After his mother ascended the throne, he superseded his elder siblings to the throne by eliminating the competition through systematic assassinations made to look like accidents or simple disappearances. So desperate he was for the throne that he did the same with any relative he felt threatened by, including his younger siblings, cousins, and even his own children. He did so slowly over the course of Huangdi Ziyuan's entire reign, and was so meticulously thorough that his mother never even suspected his involvement. Several palace officials and other relatives did suspect him but were never able to prove anything. Their suspicions were enough to try various things to block Jian Han from the throne, but Jian Han maintained a virtual army of loyal retainers that helped him stop attempts to block his succession. He ascended the throne himself following the death of Huangdi Ziyuan. Within weeks of his coronation, one of his mother's retainers, Guan Jin, led an uprising against him to place another on the throne, but Jian Han had long suspected him and placed a spy in his ranks to keep him informed, allowing him to put down the rebellion with minimal resistance. He also used the rebellion as an excuse to execute anyone he believed to be unloyal to him, even several members of his own family. He was praised by the people for putting down the uprising, but it was shortly afterwards, with the last of his opposition to his rule eliminated, that Huangdi Bukong, to the horror of the people, showed his true colors as a brutal tyrant. His brief seven-year reign is characterized as tyrannical, brutally cruel and oppressive, with the populace burdened with heavy taxation and unemployment, and anyone who either failed or refused to pay was jailed and then were later executed if they were still unable or refused. Any suspected dissenters were often executed without trial, and anyone found speaking out against Huangdi Bukong were often executed on the spot, even in broad daylight in a crowd full of people. Sometimes Huangdi Bukong ordered the executions of random people for his own amusement or just because he could, regardless of who they were. Huangdi Bukong even banned schools and proper education, believing that such institutions promoted too much free thought, which he believed provoked rebellious sentiment. Huangdi Bukong all but disbanded the imperial court in an attempt to have sole power over the nation. The aftermath of natural disasters, such as flooding of rivers and the volcanic eruption of Mt. Hong, were also left unattended, resulting in a famine and weakening the country considerably. Huangdi Bukong's excuse for not trying to clean up the aftermath or fix the unemployment was to save money, a poor excuse in the eyes of the court, but Huangdi Bukong didn't care and spent his days indulging in sex and games with various women. Thousands of people died as a result of Huangdi Bukong's tyrannical governance. All this eventually led to his own assassination at the hands of his own once-loyal ministers and palace staff, many of whom helped put him on the throne, disillusioned with the brutality of Huangdi Bukong's reign.
Jian Kong 劍空	Huisheng 迴聲	Huangdi Chuantong 薔傳統皇帝	Zuihou 最後	72 – 100ᴛᴊʜ	28yrs	87 – 100ᴛᴊʜ	13yrs	Lengjing 冷靜	87 – 100ᴛᴊʜ
The last huangdi of the Qiang dynasty. He was the youngest son of Huangdi Bukong, and the only one to survive to adulthood, including his father's purge of potential threats to his accession. Historians often speculated that Huangdi Bukong left him alive solely so that he still had an heir. He was placed on the throne at the age of fifteen following the assassination of Huangdi Bukong. Though huangdi in name, Huangdi Chuantong was little more than a puppet monarch for a regent and the palace officials, most of whom were still reeling from the tyrannical reign of Huangdi Bukong. However, without the huangdi exercising any central authority, along with the regent's own incompetence, the government quickly descended into corruption, weakening the state and hastening the downfall of the Qiang dynasty. After thirteen miserable years on the throne, Huangdi Chuantong took his own life without naming an heir. Childless, and with most of the imperial relatives of the Jian clan eligible for the throne either dead or scattered since the reign of Huangdi Bukong, the Qiang dynasty ended with him.

Fan dynasty

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Eras
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple					Names	yrs
Kan Yang 看楊	Caozong 操縱	Huangdi Cui 飯粹皇帝	n/a	69 – 151ᴛᴊʜ	82yrs	103 – 141ᴛᴊʜ	38yrs	Chongzu 重組	103 – 141ᴛᴊʜ
Sole huangdi of the Fan dynasty. A minor official during the last years of the reign of Huangdi Chuantong, the last huangdi of the Qiang dynasty, he came to power in a political coup after a three-year interregnum following the suicide of Huangdi Chuantong. Although Huangdi Cui managed to stay in power for almost four decades, he was an ineffectual ruler who failed at every meaningful thing he did as huangdi, and nothing he did improved the lives of the people. His bad rulership eventually led to his and his own dynasty's overthrow, to be replaced by the Chang dynasty following a three-year civil war known to history as the Fan–Chang Contention (飯與昌爭辯/Fan yu Chang Zhengbian). He was spared following his defeat and allowed to abdicate, but spent the remainder of his life in exile. Despite his bad rule, Huangdi Cui was still recognized for bringing some order out of the collapse of the Qiang dynasty and was given a posthumous name upon his death, but not a temple name.

Chang dynasty

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Fa Mao 發猫	Shangren 聖人	Huangdi Haohan 昌好漢皇帝	Fuxing 復興	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
First huangdi of the Chang dynasty, Huangdi Haoban came to power after overthrowing the Fan dynasty in a civil war, known to history as the Fan–Chang Contention. He began to process of revitalizing the empire following more than half a century of bad rule.
		Huangdi Yueliang 昌月亮皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
The second ruler of the Chang dynasty. The Luan calendar was adopted during his reign.
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 346ᴛᴊʜ

Can dynasty

A short-lived breakaway pretender dynasty during a crisis of the Chang dynasty known as the Imperial Schism.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Fa Tao 發陶		n/a	n/a			296 – 302ᴛᴊʜ	6yrs

Hua dynasty

The first faun-ruled dynasty, and the first non-human ruled dynasty of the Imperial Period.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						346 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 428ᴛᴊʜ

Yue dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Yue (悦)
Origin of Name:	Toponym:
	Yuequan (悦泉)
Capital:	Yuequan (悦泉)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Qingse (青色)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Yue dynasty was founded in the wake of a rebellion that turned into a civil war that overthrew the Hua dynasty a year later.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
		Huangdi Kongyo 悦控唷皇帝	Yaozu 耀祖	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		427 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Qingse Zai 青色崽	Zhuanglie 壯烈	Huangdi Yan 悦儼皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Qingse Ding 青色丁	Nande 難得	Huangdi Juexin 悦決心皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Came to power following a palace coup to depose Huang-Taihou San; personal name: Huyu Ying (冴羽瑩); styled: Qixin (琪心), the fourth and final wife of Huangdi Yan before his death, whom had instigated a blood feud between himself and his brothers in an attempt to secure the throne for herself.
		Huangdi Jiaoyong 悦教涌皇帝	Zuihou 最後	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		684 – 727ᴛᴊʜ	43yrs

Bei dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Bei (悲)
Origin of Name:	Noble Title:
	Gongjue of Bei (悲的公爵)
Capital:	Yuequan (悦泉)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Fan (繁)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Bei dynasty was founded as a usurper dynasty when it's founder, a prominent nobleman, rebelled against the Yue dynasty to found his own, fully supplanting the Yue after twelve years of civil war.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Fan Dou 繁鬥		Huangdi Tanlan 悲貪婪皇帝	Baojun 暴君	686 – 737ᴛᴊʜ	51yrs	715 – 737ᴛᴊʜ	22yrs
Founder of the Bei dynasty. Gongjue of Bei under the Yue dynasty, he came to power when he orchestrated a civil war against the Imperial House of Qingse, supposedly as revenge against the Qingse clan for mistreatment of his family for generations. Once firmly in power over all of what was Tianchao at the time, Huangdi Tanlan's reign was characterized as oppressive toward the lower class, favoring the nourishment of the nobility while leaving the commoners destitute. After his death, Huangdi Tanlan's personal diaries were discovered during the reign of grandnephew, Huangdi Liangjiong, and from them it was learned that his revolt and civil war against the Yue dynasty to establish his own was a false cause built on a lie. Huangdi Tanlan claimed he was an illegitimate offspring between a wangzi of the Yue dynasty and the Fan clan, whose mother was tossed aside by his father when she learned she was pregnant. No one was ever able to confirm whether Huangdi Tanlan really was offspring of the Qingse clan or not, but few questioned it at the time. The discovery that it was, in fact, a lie, led to further investigation and the discovery of a brief affair between another elder female member of his family and a wangzi of the Yue dynasty prior to his birth. A still-living co-conspirator admitted, with "persuasion," that Huangdi Tanlan used the affair to establish cause by falsely passing it off as his mother's affair, whom was no longer alive to dispute his claim, all but proving his crime. These discoveries led to the conclusion Huangdi Tanlan just wanted an excuse to become huangdi and establish his own dynasty, to mold the country into the very image of what he perceived to be a perfect empire. These discoveries brought a deep shame to the Bei dynasty that would endure to the end of its reign, though they were not made public until the Zhai dynasty.
Fan Hui 繁喙	Sunshang 損傷	Huangdi Chuan 悲傳皇帝		716 – 743ᴛᴊʜ	27yrs	737 – 743ᴛᴊʜ	6yrs
Son of Huangdi Tanlan. A staunch supporter of his father's polices, his short reign was no less oppressive toward the lower class than Huangdi Tanlan's. The second year of his reign saw a massive peasant revolt, referred to by the ruling class of the time as the Nijiang Rebellion (泥漿叛亂/Nijiang Panluan/Mud Rebellion). He put down the disorganized rebellion with ease, but he showed his cruelty when he executed nearly a thousand people, even a large number of random innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the rebellion, as a clear and harsh message of the consequences of rebelling against the Bei dynasty. He died of illness after only six years on the throne.
Fan Kang 繁康		Huangdi Liangjiong 悲亮炯皇帝		726 – […]ᴛᴊʜ		743 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Grandnephew of Huangdi Tanlan and the third ruler of the Bei dynasty. His pre-reign life was tumultuous. At sixteen, he came across and fell in love at first sight with Qingse Jing (青色精), grandniece of Huangdi Jiaoyong, the final ruler of the Yue dynasty. Only an infant when her family was forced from the throne and into poverty, Qingse Jing had been struggling to provide for her family since she was seven years old, but Fan Kang took pity on her and started to discreetly help her whenever he could. Over time Qingse Jing came to realize who her mysterious benefactor was and was reluctant to get involved, despite the blossoming feelings she was feeling herself. Her reluctance was shattered when, during a festival, Fan Kang chased her through the streets until he caught her and kissed her deeply before declaring his undying love for her. Qingse Jing accepted, but they both agreed to keep their relationship a secret due to unresolved bitterness between the Imperial House of Fan and the remnants of the Qingse clan. Against the backdrop of their hidden romance, greedy old loyalists of the Qingse clan, seeking the lost privilege they enjoyed under the Yue dynasty, where scheming to restore the Yue dynasty and put Qingse Jing on the throne. Fan Kang became huangdi at seventeen when Huangdi Chuan, his first cousin-once-removed, died of illness without an heir. Immediately after his coronation, Fan Kang had Qingse Jing found and brought to the imperial palace. With nothing to hold them back anymore, Fan Kang asked Qingse Jing to marry him, to the shock of the palace retainers, whom had expected him to eke out some random punishment for her family's supposed crimes. Qingse Jing accepted. Unable to reconcile the idea of the last daughter of the Yue dynasty marrying a supposed enemy, the old retainers of the previous dynasty revolted on the day of the wedding and attempted to install Qingse Jing as a puppet ruler. Their plan was foiled due to the combined efforts of Fan Kang's most loyal friends and several former loyalists of the Yue dynasty whom had since switched allegiances. With the rebellion of the old Yue dynasty quelled and the bitter feelings between the clans resolved, Huangdi Liangjiong and Qingse Jing (posthumously named Hunaghou Aidai (皇后愛戴)) repealed the policies oppressive to the lower class that had been in place since Huangdi Tanlan's reign and led the reformation of the Jing dynasty into another golden age. Yet, gaining the trust of the people, whom were still reeling from the oppressive reigns of Huangdi Tanlan and Huangdi Chuan, proved to be a daunting task that they eventually succeeded in achieving.
Fan Ling 繁齡		Huangdi Zhuping 悲主平皇帝	Zuihou 最後	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1032ᴛᴊʜ

Shu dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Shu (樹)
Origin of Name:	Toponym & Noble Title:
	Shusheng (樹省) Gongjue of Shu (樹的公爵)
Capital:	Luanying (鑾瑛)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Shan (善)
Race:	Gargoyle
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The only gargoyle-ruled dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Shan Ding 善定	Yeyi 夜翼	Huangdi Xinjing 樹心經皇帝	Dazu 大祖	1006 – 1109ᴛᴊʜ	103yrs	1032 – 1087ᴛᴊʜ	55yrs
Gongjue of Shu under the Bei dynasty.
Shan Shao 善少	Youzhu 幼主	Huangdi Xinruan 樹心軟皇帝	Zhepi 哲辟	1031 – 1119ᴛᴊʜ	88yrs	1087 – 1119ᴛᴊʜ	32yrs
The second and last huangdi of the Shu dynasty. He died suddenly without naming an heir, leaving his children and relatives to fight a bloodbath to succeed him.

Zhai dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Zhai (斎)
Origin of Name:	Toponym & Noble Title:
	Zhaiye (斎野) Wang of Zhai (斎的王)
Capital:	Luanying (鑾瑛)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Wei (薇)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

Under the Zhai dynasty, the name "Tianchao" came into use as the official name of the empire, though the dynasty name was still commonly used to refer to the empire, even after the dynasty ended.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Wei Rang 薇讓	Yingxiong 英雄	Huangdi Tongyi 斎統一皇帝	Dazu 大祖	1087 – 1162ᴛᴊʜ	75yrs	1120 – 1162ᴛᴊʜ	42yrs
The founder of the Zhai dynasty. Came to power through a coup d'état – referred to in history as the Xinnian Zhengbian (新年政變/New Year's Coup) because it took place during New Year's – to fill the power vacuum left by the death of the Huangdi Xinruan six months prior.
Wei Ming 薇明				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1162 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Eldest son of Huangdi Tongyi.
Wei Zhao 薇找		Huangdi Mingming 斎命名皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Under his reign, "Tianchao" was legally adopted as the de jure name of the nation, yet referring to the state by the dynasty's name remained common practice.
Wei Bao 薇雹		Huangdi Tang 斎糖皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
The national anthem, "Dou Huanhu Tianchao," was adopted during his reign.
Wei Ku 薇库				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Wei Mao 薇貓				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Wei Si 薇思		Huangdi Rao 斎繞皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Wei Dao 薇掉	Miyao 密鑰	Huangdi Qingsong 斎輕鬆皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Son of Huangdi Rao and Huanghuo Mingyuan.
Wei Jingjing 薇精晶
Granddaughter of Huangdi Qingsong, and the only female ruler of the Zhai dynasty.
Wei Chong 薇衝		Huangdi Zhixu 斎秩序皇帝		1462 – 1501ᴛᴊʜ	39ys	1479 – 1501ᴛᴊʜ	22yrs
Father of Wei Sui and Wei Anzi. He came to the throne at the age of seventeen. During his reign the Heijin zhi Luan (Black Turban Rebellion) broke out – backed by the Hanluan Jundi, the Tianzu branch of the Chaos Order – setting the stage for the Wars at the End of the Zhai Dynasty. Died of his wounds on the battlefield in the aftermath of the final battle of the rebellion.
Wei Sui 薇歲		Huangdi Zhamen 斎閘門皇帝		1482 – 1503ᴛᴊʜ	21yrs	1501 – 1503ᴛᴊʜ	2yrs
Eldest son of Huangdi Zhixu and elder brother of Wei Anzi. Assassinated by Huai Gui to make way for his tyrannical puppet regime.
Wei Anzi 薇安子	Chunjie 純潔	Huangdi Ang 斎昂皇帝	Zuihou 最後	1496 – 1558ᴛᴊʜ	62yrs	1503 – 1539ᴛᴊʜ	36yrs
Last huangdi of the Zhai dynasty. Youngest son of Huangdi Zhixu and younger brother of Huangdi Zhamen. Dominated by regents for his entire reign, Huangdi Ang's reign saw the complete deterioration of central Zhai rule into the hands of regional warlords. Enthroned at the age of seven as a puppet monarch for the tyrannical Huai Gui, Chengxiang of Zhai until his assassination, and then kept in a ceremonial position under Qi Pin, self-titled Zuigao Siling (最高司令/Supreme Commander) of Zhai. Following his defeat of Qi Pin, Huangdi Ang was under the thumb of Chengxiang Kong Song for most of the rest of his reign. He was forced to abdicate to Kong Hao, Kong Song's son and successor, ending the Zhai dynasty and beginning the Four Kingdoms period. Robbed of his throne, he was given the title Gongjue of Tian but spent his remaining days in self-exile.

Pretenders, Usurpers, and Self-Proclaimed dynasties

Wars at the End of the Zhai Dynasty

Self-proclaimed dynasties during the Wars at the End of the Zhai dynasty. The Fei, Huang, and Dian dynasties were self-proclaimed during the period of chaos and civil war in the final decades of the Zhai dynasty, but were unrecognized and overthrown rather quickly.

Names				Declared Dynasty	Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Lin Lin 霖琳	Reqing 熱情	Huangdi Liang 匪亮皇帝	n/a	Fei 匪	1496ᴛᴊʜ – unkwn	unkwn	1519 – 1524ᴛᴊʜ	5yrs
Lin Lin was a female ruler, one of only a handful recognized in Tianzu history, aside for the women-ruled Jing dynasty. Originally an outlaw and bandit leader, Lin Lin waged war against the Zhai dynasty itself and all its lords during the Wars at the End of the Zhai Dynasty. She used the suffering of the people caused by the recent famine and the chaos of the conflict between the regional warlords to justify her campaign, taking advantage of the chaos of the civil wars to better herself and the people. She stole the Imperial Seal of Tianchao from the Imperial Palace when she led her bandit army to invade and sack the capital while Qi Pin, then the self-titled Shahuang of Zhai, was away warring with Kong Song, and used her "acquisition" of it as justification for declaring herself huangdi of a new dynasty. She vanished following her final defeat; whether she escaped and went into hiding or died in battle was never known.
Xin Zhujiao 信主教	Jiaohuang 教皇	Huangdi Jiuzhu 黃救主皇帝	n/a	Huang 黃	1484 – 1532ᴛᴊʜ	48yrs	1530 – 1532ᴛᴊʜ	1yr, 6mo
A religious leader-turned-warlord, who proclaimed himself huangdi of the Huang dynasty – also known as Xin Huang (信黃) to differentiate it from the Warring States kingdom of the same name. Devoted to Linglun faith and loved by his people, his rationale for proclaiming his dynasty was that the Zhai dynasty had long-since lost the Mandate of Heaven and that he had received a vision from the gods saying that it had been granted to him for the purpose of saving the nation from self-destruction. He died of illness a year and a half following his declaration. Passing on without an heir, his court quickly collapsed and his army scattered.
San Yinghao 傘英豪	Lijie 禮節	Huangdi Jingling 靛精靈皇帝	n/a	Dian 靛	1504 – 1537ᴛᴊʜ	33yrs	1535 – 1537ᴛᴊʜ	2yrs
An ethnic Senzai warlord from the Dianqing (靛青) peninsula, who proclaimed himself huangdi of the Dian dynasty. His rationale for proclaiming his dynasty remains unknown to history, but most historians believe he was simply an independence fighter before becoming overly ambitious. He intended on conquering the rest of Tianchao, but his self-proclaimed dynasty was defeated by Kong Song and his armies following a successful invasion and reconquest of the peninsula two years later. San Yinghao himself was captured and executed. His sons and daughters were spared, but the men were forced to serve in the armies the Kong-controlled Zhai, and later the Gan, court. San Yinghao's eldest daughter, San An (傘安), was forced to marry Kong Song's nephew, Kong Zao, but would later follow him when her husband defected to Yong Zhai Kingdom.

Four Kingdoms

Northern Gan

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Kong Song 孔嵩	Zhengke 政客	Huangdi Meng 感猛皇帝	Yaozu 耀祖	[…] – 1539ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1539ᴛᴊʜ		n/a
Chengxiang of Zhai dynasty during the final years of the Wars at the End of the Zhai Dynasty. Father of Kong Hao/Huangdi Gengxin, the first huangdi of Gan kingdom. Did not rule as huangdi – though he was de facto ruler of Zhai during his tenure as chengxiang following his defeat of Qi Pin – but was posthumously honored as huangdi by Huangdi Gengxin.
Kong Hao 孔好	Youya 幽雅	Huangdi Gengxin 感更新皇帝	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1539 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Huangdi Gengxin was the last chengxiang of the Zhai dynasty under Huangdi Ang, the last monarch of the Zhai dynasty. Son of Kong Song, he took over from his father as chengxiang of the Zhai dynasty. Less than three months following Kong Song's death, he forced Huangdi Ang to abdicate to him, ending the Zhai dynasty,
Kong Dong 孔懂			n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
			n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
			n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Kong Jiong 孔炯		n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1581ᴛᴊʜ

Yong Zhai

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Wei San 薇散	Sangjian 桑劍	Huangdi Qianbei 永斎謙卑皇帝	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1539 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Scion of the imperial family of the Zhai dynasty.
Wei Fu 薇散	Longta 龍獺	Huangdi Heshan 永斎和善皇帝	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1574ᴛᴊʜ
Second son of Huangdi Qianbei, as well as the second and last hunagdi of Yong Zhai. He abdicated following a massive defeat by the armies of Gan kingdom, and spend the remainder of his life in solitude.

Xue Lu

A faun-ruled kingdom

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Xue Tai 學鈦		n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1540 – 1580ᴛᴊʜ	40yrs
Xue Han 學含		n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1580 – 1588ᴛᴊʜ	8yrs
Son of Xue Tai. Willingly abdicated to the Xuan dynasty rather than risk a substantial loss of life.

Western Zan

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Chan Kan 纏看	Yingxiong 英雄	Huangdi Ge 攢鴿皇帝	Dazu 大祖	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		n/a		n/a
Warlord of the Wars at the End of the Zhai dynasty. Father of Chan Ming and Chan Yue, the first huangdi of Zan. Took part in the Coalition Against Huai Gui. Did not rule as huangdi but was posthumously honored as huangdi by Chan Yue.
Chan Ming 纏名	Nujie 女傑	Huangdi Tian 攢甜皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		n/a		n/a
Warlord of the Wars at the End of the Zhai dynasty. Daughter of Chan Kan, and elder sister of Chan Yue, the first huangdi of Zan. Took part in the Coalition Against Huai Gui alongside her father. Did not rule as huangdi but was posthumously honored as huangdi by Chan Yue.
Chan Yue 纏越		Huangdi Jinyue 攢勁樂皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1546 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Warlord of the Wars at the End of the Zhai dynasty. Son of Chan Kan and younger brother of Chan Ming, father and daughter successive warlords of the Chan clan during the Wars at the End of the Zhai Dynasty.
Chan Miqi 纏米奇		Huangdi Chiqi 攢池崎皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Daughter of Chan Yue, and the only female monarch of the Four Kingdoms Period.
Chan Ti 纏體				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Chan Jieji 纏傑基		Huangdi Haolong 攢好龍皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1589ᴛᴊʜ

Xuan dynasty

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Shenji Jian 身幾檢	Piaobo 漂泊	Huangdi Huanyuan 軒還原皇帝	Dazu 大祖	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		n/a
Grandfather of Shenji Rui/Huangdi Shanyu. Chengxiang of Gan Kingdom for the majority of its tenure during the Four Kingdoms. Posthumously honored as huangdi by Huangdi Shanyu in 1595ᴛᴊʜ.
Shenji Rui 身幾瑞		Huangdi Shanyu 軒善于皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1587 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
First Huangdi of the Xuan dynasty. At first Chengxiang of Gan kingdom under the last two monarchs, he came to power when he forced Huangdi Kong Jiong to abdicate to him.
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1742ᴛᴊʜ

Lai dynasty

A short-lived centaur-ruled dynasty

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Sa Tang 薩瑭	Mushu 木薯	Huangdi Mashu 騋馬術皇帝	n/a	1711 – 1787ᴛᴊʜ	76yrs	1746 – 1766ᴛᴊʜ	20yrs
Sole ruler of the Lai dynasty. A centaur of noble birth, he brought order to Tianchao when he replaced the Xuan dynasty following a three-year interregnum and war of succession within the imperial Shenji clan that followed the death of the Xuan dynasty's last huangdi. Seventeen years later, Huang Wanjian (later known as Huangdi Qishi of the Hun dynasty) led a coup against him to force him to abdicate, but Huangdi Mashu, placed under house arrest, resisted for three years until he was left with no recourse but to abdicate, ending the short-lived Lai dynasty.

Hun dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Hun (昏)
Origin of Name:	Noble Title:
	Wang of Hun (昏的王)
Capital:
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Huang (衁)
Race:	Vampire
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Hun dynasty was the only vampire-ruled dynasty to rule a unified Tianchao.

Under the Hun dynasty, vampires achieved a lot more freedom and rights than they used to have, to the point that they almost eclipsed other races.

Also, being of a race with great longevity (usually), the huangdi of the Hun dynasty would traditionally abdicate after between twenty-five to forty years on the throne.

Enduring for 562 years – the second-longest-enduring dynasty of the imperial era dynasties – the Hun dynasty was the last dynasty of the Classical Imperial Era.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Huang Wanjian 衁晚間	Anying 暗影	Huangdi Qishi 昏騎士皇帝	Yongzu 永祖	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1763 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
First huangdi of the Hun dynasty. Before becoming huangdi, he was the Wang of Hun and a government official in the last years of the Xuan dynasty and throughout the Lai dynasty. Partially inspired by Huangdi Mashu's victory, partially because he believed a centaur was unworthy of the Mandate of Heaven, he led a coup of the imperial palace to force Huangdi Mashu to abdicate to him, but Huangdi Mashu resisted. And so, rather than kill Huangdi Mashu, Huangdi Qishi placed him under house arrest, took control of the government, and declared himself huangdi of the Hun dynasty. Huangdi Qishi pressed Huangdi Mashu for his abdication for three years until he finally broke him and convinced him to abdicate, ending the Lai dynasty.
Huang Jundao 衁軍刀				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Shouyue 9th 1939 – Meiyue 10th 1940ᴛᴊʜ	6mo
The first huangdi part of the power struggle within the imperial family known as the Six Years and Ten Emperors, which precipitated the Crisis of the Twentieth Century.
Huang Tang 衁堂				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Meiyue 12th – Longyue 20th 1940ᴛᴊʜ	3mo
Huang Ming 衁命				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Longyue 20th 1940 – Meiyue 8th 1941ᴛᴊʜ	9mo
Huang Cao 衁槽				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Meiyue 15th 1941 – Tangyue 20th 1942ᴛᴊʜ	1yr, 2mo
Huang Liu 衁流				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Tangyue 22nd – Bingyue 11th 1942ᴛᴊʜ	6mo
Huang Sun 衁損				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Bingyue 20th – Xieyue 12th 1942ᴛᴊʜ	2mo
Huang Wei 衁微				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Xieyue 13th 1942 – Bingyue 23rd 1943ᴛᴊʜ	10mo
Huang Shu 衁屬				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Bingyue 24th – Xieyue 20th 1943ᴛᴊʜ	2mo
During his reign, with chaos consuming the empire, the Crisis of the Twentieth Century began when the Jian dynasty broke away.
Huang Wu 衁吳				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Xieyue 22nd 1943 – Xieyue 25th 1944ᴛᴊʜ	1yr
During his reign the Zhao dynasty, the other breakaway Crisis of the Twentieth Century, broke away.
Huang Duanjian 衁短劍				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Xieyue 30th 1944 – 1997ᴛᴊʜ	53yrs
The last huangdi part of the power struggle within the imperial family known as the Six Years and Ten Emperors. Stability within the imperial family was restored with his coronation and he reigned until the Jian and Zhao dynasties were reconquered.
Huang Liang 衁亮	Yingjie 影傑	Huangdi Lucao 昏綠草皇帝	Zuihou 最後	[…] – 2289ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 2289ᴛᴊʜ

Jian dynasty

A human-ruled breakaway dynasty of the Crisis of the Twentieth Century

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Tang […] 瑭[…]			n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		1941 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Tang […] 瑭[…]			n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Tang […] 瑭[…]		n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 1997ᴛᴊʜ

Zhao dynasty

A vampire-ruled breakaway dynasty of the Crisis of the Twentieth Century

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Yan Tang 眼糖	Manyan 滿眼	n/a	n/a	1838 – 1991ᴛᴊʜ	153yrs	1944 – 1991ᴛᴊʜ	47yrs
The sole ruler of the breakaway Zhao dynasty. He was a well-accomplished but unacknowledged general of the Hun dynasty. Declared independence of the land he was given to govern as both revenge and to grab some much-craved glory for himself. Fought against the Hun dynasty to maintain his self-declared empire until he was slain in battle. His slayer was Wangzi Tao of Souchuan (藪川逃王子/Souchuan Tao Wangzi), a wangzi (prince) of the Hun dynasty, personal name Huang Chuang (衁窗); styled Jingzi (鏡子). Wangzi Tao was glorified in history as the slayer of a rouge general, but was demonized by Yan Tang's followers.

Kai dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Kai (愷)
Origin of Name:	Noble Title:
	Wang of Kai (愷的王)
Capital:	Xingyun (幸運)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Tai (泰)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Kai dynasty was the first dynasty of the Medieval Imperial Era.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Unity Period
Tai Moshui 泰墨水	Dafang 大方	Huangdi Wan 愷玩皇帝	Bianjian 變建	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		2288 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
		Huangdi Songhan 愷嵩涵皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Tai Bing 泰兵	Bangshou 幫手	Huangdi Ju 愷句皇帝		[…] – 2590ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 2590ᴛᴊʜ
Mentally stunted, he was dominated by regents for the entirety of his reign. Throughout his tenure, there was constant internecine fighting between regents, imperial wangzi (his siblings, uncles, cousins), and his wife Huanghou Mihan Keyi (米晗可以皇後) for the right to control him (and therefore the imperial administration), causing great suffering for the people and greatly undermining the stability of the Kai regime, culminating in a conflict known as the War of the Twelve Princes (2154 – 2167ᴘᴄᴢ/2575 – 2588ᴛᴊʜ). Most historians believe and agree that Mihan Keyi provoked the wars between the twelve wangzi in a vain, foolish, and ill-fated attempt to establish supreme hegemony over the realm from behind the throne, or perhaps even usurp the throne herself.
Tai Yan 泰眼	Huakong 花控	Huangdi Yong 愷永皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		2590 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Youngest brother of Huangdi Ju. Vastly more intelligent than his predecessor, he attempted to exercise some central authority to initiate reforms to restore the empire, but Tai Zize, the regent the dynasty and de facto winner of the War of the Twelve Princes, kept him from exercising any real power.
Twenty Kingdoms Period
Huangdi who ruled the Kai dynasty during the Twenty Kingdoms period, a time when, in the aftermath of the War of the Twelve Princes, political order of what was then western and northern Tianchao splintered into a series of short-lived sovereign states while the Kai dynasty, whose power continued to wane, continued to rule most of central and eastern Zanghuan.
Tai […] 泰[…]				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Tai […] 泰[…]				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Tai […] 泰[…]				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Tai […] 泰[…]		Huangdi Dang 愷黨皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 2734ᴛᴊʜ

Pretenders

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
War of the Twelve Princes
Pretenders who declared themselves Huangdi amidst the War of the Twelve Princes during the reign of Huangdi Ju.
Tai Han 泰喊	Gongtai 攻台	n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Nanzhou Yuji Wangzi (南粥預計王子/Prince Yuji of Nanzhou). Uncle of Huangdi Ju. Executed for treason.
Tai Song 泰送	Jiatang 加糖	n/a	n/a	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Jiongxiao Tinan Wangzi (囧校題難王子/Prince Tinan of Jiongxiao). First cousin, once removed of Huangdi Ju. Commited suicide following final defeat.

Western, Central & Northern Dynasties

Western dynasties

Sai

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2736 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2816ᴛᴊʜ

Northern Sai

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2816 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2872ᴛᴊʜ

Southern Sai

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2815 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2900ᴛᴊʜ

Rao

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2872 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2911ᴛᴊʜ

Chao

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2911 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2930ᴛᴊʜ

Fang

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2900 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2935ᴛᴊʜ

Central dynasties

Central Tan

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2734 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2790ᴛᴊʜ

Western Tan

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2790 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2912ᴛᴊʜ

Eastern Tan

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2790 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2920ᴛᴊʜ

Ling

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2920 – 2927ᴛᴊʜ	7yrs
						2927 – 2930ᴛᴊʜ	3yrs

Kang

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2912 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2938ᴛᴊʜ

Northern dynasties

Three of the Northern Dynasties were rule by ethnically Tukhii families. By this time the Tukhii had only been partially Chunized, and so they used both Quantao and Tukhii names for their kingdoms, the former for diplomatic purposes with Quantao kingdoms.

Yutian/Boroo

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2735 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2809ᴛᴊʜ

Xiatian/Zuny

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2809 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2905ᴛᴊʜ

Jiu

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2809 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
						[…] – 2864ᴛᴊʜ

Dan

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2864 – 2868ᴛᴊʜ	4yrs
						2868 – 2894ᴛᴊʜ	26yrs
						2894 – 2900ᴛᴊʜ	6yrs
						2900 – 2904ᴛᴊʜ	4yrs

Qingwa/Malkhii

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						2905 – 2920ᴛᴊʜ	15yrs
						2920 – 2940ᴛᴊʜ	20yrs

Zan dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Zan (簪)
Origin of Name:	Toponym:
	Zanxian (簪縣)
Capital:	Zanhui (簪會)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Yang (杨)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Tonglu

The first unity period dynasty since the Kai dynasty and the ruling family was the first non-Yinghui ethnic group to rule a unified Tianchao, the Tonglu in this case.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Yang Soutu 杨藪土	Xianqu 先驅	Huangdi Zhaoze 簪沼澤皇帝	Kaijian 凱建	2875 – 2952ᴛᴊʜ	57yrs	2940 – 2950ᴛᴊʜ	10yrs
Brought order back to Tianchao through the reunification of the empire out of the dark age of the Western, Central & Northern Dynasties. Abdicated after ten years so that his eldest son could rule and sought to spend the rest of his life in retirement. Huangdi Zhaoze died of poisoning by Huangdi Qipian at the same time as as Huangdi Jinglao did.
Yang Wangxiao 杨旺销	Bangshou 幫手	Huangdi Jinglao 簪敬老皇帝		2918 – 2952ᴛᴊʜ	34yrs	2950 – 2952ᴛᴊʜ	2yrs
Eldest son of Huangdi Zhaoze, whom abdicated so he could rule. Died of poisoning by his own brother, along with his father, after only two years on the throne.
Yang Danyao 杨弹药	Yajun 亞軍	Huangdi Qipian 簪欺騙皇帝	Huaipi 壞辟	2919 – 2973ᴛᴊʜ	44yrs	2952 – 2973ᴛᴊʜ	21yrs
Younger brother of Huangdi Jinglao, coming to power by usurpation after poisoning his brother and father. An utterly corrupt, selfish and tyrannical ruler, the policies of his two-decade reign led to financial ruin and began the downfall of the Zan dynasty. Midway through his reign he was faced rebellion and civil war to remove him from power, but the conflicts ended up deadlocked through the rest of his reign through to the end of the dynasty under his successor. Died of a plague that swept through the empire and claimed the lives of half a million people near the end of his reign, an event seen by sages of the time and historians as harsh divine retribution.
Yang Wajiao 杨挖教	Jianbing 尖兵	Huangdi Caoze 簪草澤皇帝	Zuihou 最後	2951 – 2986ᴛᴊʜ	35yrs	2973 – 2986ᴛᴊʜ	13yrs
Son of Huangdi Jinglao, and the last ruler of the Zan dynasty. He spent the entirety of his uncle's reign in hiding, only coming out again to take the throne following Huangdi Qipian's death. When he took the throne, his empire attempted to recover, both financially and culturally, from the tyrannical reign of his uncle and the plague near the end of the latter's reign, but did not have the chance to properly do so. The Zan dynasty remained locked in civil war, with warlords and several imperial relatives vying for the throne since the final days of Huangdi Qipian, and his ascension did nothing to convince them to lay down their arms. His reign saw the conquest of Tianchao by the Qiu dynasty of the Xiyi people, for which it was unprepared but still managed to resist for ten years despite ongoing civil war.

Claimants

Individuals who claimed the imperial title while fighting the civil war to remove Huangdi Qipian from power or simply take it for themselves. Many of these claimants endured for long after the extinction of the Zan dynasty until their final submission at the hands of the Qiu dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
						[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ

Qiu dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Qiu (虯)
Origin of Name:	Toponym:
	Qiulu (虯陸)
Capital:	Gulong (古龍) (first) Longcheng (龍城) (second)
Ruler Title:	Longdi (龍帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Mijingyu (冪鯨魚)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Xiyi

The imperial family of the Qiu dynasty originated from the island of the same name and was of the Xiyi (爬蟲) people, and was the second non-Yinghui ethnic group to rule a unified Tianchao. Before this period, the island of Qiu was not yet under the sovereignty of Tianchao.

Rulers of this dynasty used the self-made title Longdi (龍帝/Dragon Emperor). Mijingyu Linpian, the final ruler of the dynasty, changed the title to Shendi (神帝/God Emperor) during his reign as a reflection of his vanity in attempt to make himself seemingly a god, but was given the title Xiuhuang (羞皇/Disgraced Emperor) as part of his posthumous name upon his overthrow.

Additionally, while the dwarven invention of black powder had been available for various actions across Marlakcor for centuries, the Qiu dynasty's conquest of Tianchao was the first time in Tianzu history it had been utilized as a weapon of war.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Mijingyu Cijijian 冪鯨魚刺棘尖	Heijin Huoyan 黑金火焰	Longdi Pachong 虯爬蟲龍帝	Dazu 大祖	2925 – 2984ᴛᴊʜ	59yrs	2976 – 2984ᴛᴊʜ	8yrs
The founder of the Qiu dynasty. The same year he established his dynasty, seeing an opportunity to establish glory for himself and his people, and revitalize the empire his way, he orchestrated the Xiyi invasion of Zanghuan, known as the Yinghui–Xiyi War, to replace the faltering Zan dynasty, plagued by instability and civil war since the mid-reign of Huangdi Qipian. Regretfully, even with victory in sight, he did not live to see his ambitions realized.
Mijingyu Kanjinji 冪鯨魚刊晉級	Zanzhu Yuansheng 贊助原生	Longdi Jiayin 虯甲胤龍帝	Kaijian 凱建	2944 – 3014ᴛᴊʜ	70yrs	2984 – 3014ᴛᴊʜ	30yrs
Eldest son of Longdi Pachong, the second huangdi of the Qiu dynasty and the first to rule over the entirety of Tianchao following the final conquest of the Zan dynasty and the submission of the warlords tearing the empire apart since the reign of Huangdi Qipian, ten years after the Qiu dynasty's founding, fulfilling the ambitions of his late-father. Though not the dynasty's actual founder, he was giving a temple name that implied he was as he was the first huangdi of the Qiu dynasty to rule the entirety of Tianchao.
Mijingyu Sourongni 冪鯨魚藪蠑鯢	Qinglu Yulong 青綠羽龍	Longdi Mangshe 虯蟒蛇龍帝		2997 – 3084ᴛᴊʜ	87yrs	3014 – 3084ᴛᴊʜ	70yrs
Grandson of Longdi Jiayin. One of the longest-ruling monarchs in Tianzu history. He was also the first Huangdi of the Qiu dynasty to rule it from a place in Zanghuan. One of his acts in the second decade of his reign was to found what is now the city of Longcheng (龍城) in eastern Zanghuan, moving the capital there from Gulong (古龍), the old capital of the Qiu dynasty. His rationale for moving the capital was to give the dynasty further legitimacy by ruling it from a place within Tianchao's cradle of civilization, while the placement of the new capital also meant to serve as a reminder of the dynasty's roots.
Mijingyu Sanbihu 冪鯨魚散壁虎	Gulao Konglong 古老恐龍	Taishang Longdi Qiancheng 虯虔誠太上龍帝		3066 – 3125ᴛᴊʜ	59yrs	3084 – 3099ᴛᴊʜ	15yrs
Youngest son of Longdi Mangshe. Later abdicated for health reasons in favor of his son, Longdi Jinglu.
Mijingyu Chilonggu 冪鯨魚齒龍骨	Congjing Mingling 叢精命令	Longdi Jinglu 虯晶顱龍帝	Lieshi 烈士	3084 – 3130ᴛᴊʜ	46yrs	3099 – 3130ᴛᴊʜ	31yrs
Eldest son of Taishang Longdi Qiancheng. He was later violently overthrown and executed by his own son, the infamous Huangdi Shui Bude Mingming.
Mijingyu Heilinpian 冪鯨魚黑鱗片	Huaizao Sheguai 壞糟蛇怪	Xiuhuang Kuangguai 虯狂怪羞皇	Xiuhuang Shui Bude shi Mingming 羞皇誰不得是命名	3109 – 3165ᴛᴊʜ	56yrs	3130 – 3165ᴛᴊʜ	35yrs
Son of Longdi Jinglu. He came to power by violently overthrowing his own father. Historians speculate that he also had a hand in the death of his own grandfather, Taishang Longdi Qiancheng, a few years prior so that he couldn't interfere, but this has never been proven. Xiuhuang Shui Bude shi Mingming, was a monstrous tyrannical ruler so cruel and evil that his name still lives infamy. He used the title Shendi (神帝/God Emperor) during his reign as a reflection of his vanity in attempt to make himself seemingly a god, but was given the title Xiuhuang (羞皇/Disgraced Emperor) as part of his posthumous name upon his overthrow. Throughout his reign he committed numerous atrocities, including: raising taxes despite a famine, massacring entire populations of several towns and villages who failed to pay just for sport, executing random people for amusement, forcing kinsmen to fight to the death, kidnapping hundreds of random women for his harem to fuel is lust, killing many for fun later, and many more besides. So infamous is he that during and since his reign his names came to viewed as synonymous with evil, to the point that people fear to even speak them, a fear that persists into present day; he is commonly referred to in conversation by his unique temple name: Xiuhuang Shui Bude shi Mingming (皇帝誰不得是命名/Disgraced Emperor Who Shall Not be Named). He was finally overthrown and his dynasty replaced after a year-long civil war known to history as Muren's Rebellion (木人謀反). Captured alive when the capital fell, he was denied a proper execution and burial. He was instead cursed and buried alive in a tomb that was more of a prison, the location of which was purposely unrecorded in history to prevent anyone from finding him. Quantao mage texts call his curse the Xie'e Juexing (邪惡覺醒/Evil Awakening). It's described as the worst of all curses. Should he be awakened he would take his revenge by destroying all of Tianxia; which, in modern terms, would include all of Qirsyllviar, not just Marlakcor.

Jia dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Jia (嘉)
Origin of Name:	Noble Title:
	Gongjue of Jia (嘉的公爵)
Capital:	Xingyun (幸運)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Pang (滂)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

While short-lived, it was the first Yinghui-ruled unity dynasty since the Kai dynasty.

The Jia dynasty was an unstable regime from the outset, as the founder of the dynasty had little interest in being ruler. The lack of effective ruling led to corruption and the destabilization of the regime, setting the stage for the destructive War of the Seven Emperors and paving way fro the rise of the Gun dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Pang Yu 滂與	Muren 木人	Huangdi Zui 嘉醉皇帝	Jiuxing 救星	3134 – 3181ᴛᴊʜ	47yrs	3164 – 3181ᴛᴊʜ	17yrs
Gongjue of Jia during the last decade of the Qiu dynasty, Pang Yu became the founder of the Jia dynasty after overthrowing the last tyrannical ruler of the Xiyi-ruled Qiu dynasty following a year-long civil war – an event remembered as Muren's Rebellion – restoring Yinghui rule to Tianchao for the first time in almost two centuries. Generally regarded as the sole true huangdi of the Jia dynasty. While lauded as a hero for ending the tyrannical rule of Xiuhuang Shui Bude shi Mingming and the Qiu dynasty, he was well known for his drunken temperament and general lack of interest in actually ruling the empire. Because of this, he is also widely regarded as an inefficient ruler whose policies, or lack thereof, destabilized the regime and the empire, setting the stage for civil war following his death. His only true act as ruler was to move the capital back to Xingyun, the capital last used by the Kai dynasty. His inactive rulership also caused the government to descend into corruption and saw the formation of various factions, either supporting one of his brothers to succeed him or for someone else to replace the dynasty. He died suddenly during the seventeenth year of his reign. His cause of death is unknown, but historians have long suspected that he was somehow assassinated, perhaps by his own hunaghou.

Claimants

Huangdi Zui is generally regarded as the only true huangdi of the Jia dynasty. The reign and conflict of his brothers and assumed son, part of the wider War of the Seven Emperors, is considered by most historians as an interregnum between his death and the founding of the Gun dynasty. Yet, Pang Long, also known as Huangdi Xiong, is traditionally counted by historians and scholars among the official list of huangdi as the final monarch of the Jia dynasty for conclusionary reasons.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Pang Wu 滂吴	Jujue 拒絕	Huangdi Hunwai 嘉婚外皇帝	n/a	3166 – 3189ᴛᴊʜ	23yrs	3181 – 3189ᴛᴊʜ	8yrs
Huangdi Zui's direct successor, but was an illegitimate bastard whom was not born to him. Huangdi Zui's huanghou, known to history as Jin Ting (尽挺), deceived him into thinking he was. The common belief among historians is that he was born of an affair between Jin Ting and her childhood friend from before her marriage. He was fifteen years old at the time of Huangdi Zui's death. Though he was given a posthumous name, historians traditionally don't count him among the official list of huangdi, but rather as a pretender. He was known as a selfish tyrant whose policies made the common people suffer, though historians admit that he was not nearly as bad as his presumed father's predecessor. He was also an inept politician worse than his presumed father, and all his actions kept bringing his empire further into ruin. He refused to consider surrender or negotiation under any circumstance, executing anyone who attempted to counsel it, even his own mother, and kept his empire on the path of civil war. He was killed along with many of his nearest relatives in a palace coup initiated by his advisor Song De, who became the founder of the Gun dynasty, replacing the Jia.
Pang Gou 滂够	Wenxian 文獻	Huangdi Shi 嘉獅皇帝	n/a	3130 – 3189ᴛᴊʜ	59yrs	3181 – 3189ᴛᴊʜ	8yrs
Huangdi Zui's eldest older brother. Declared himself huangdi within days of Pang Wu's enthronement. Died in the Battle of Yongting against the army of Pang Long, almost simultaneously as Song De overthrew Huangdi Hunwai and established the Gun dynasty.
Pang Mingce 滂命策	Weilian 威廉	Huangdi Hu 嘉虎皇帝	n/a	3132 – 3186ᴛᴊʜ	54yrs	3181 – 3186ᴛᴊʜ	5yrs
Huangdi Zui's second eldest older brother. Declared himself huangdi within days of Pang Wu's enthronement. Assassinated by agents of Song De on behalf of Huangdi Hunwai, making him the first of the self-proclaimed huangdi of the War of the Seven Emperors to die.
Pang Long 滂隆	Yadang 亞當	Huangdi Xiong 嘉熊皇帝	n/a	3137 – 3191ᴛᴊʜ	54yrs	3181 – 3191ᴛᴊʜ	10yrs
Huangdi Zui's younger brother. Declared himself huangdi within days of Pang Wu's enthronement. Died in the Battle of Rongke against the armies of the breakaway San dynasty. Huangdi Xiong was the last of the self-declared huangdi of the Jia dynasty to die. The Gun dynasty had been founded two years prior, and with most of the imperial Pang clan dead or scattered his death officially ended the Jia dynasty, though the wider aspects of War of the Seven Emperors would continue for another five years. Though a pretender, he was the last of the imperial house of Pang to hold the title, albeit illegally; and so, historians and scholars traditionally count Huangdi Xiong among the official list of huangdi as the final monarch of the Jia dynasty for conclusionary reasons.

Pian dynasty

A centaur-ruled dynasty and one of the breakaway states of the wider War of the Seven Emperors.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Sui Han 虽韩	Dianzhui 點綴	n/a	n/a	3154 – 3188ᴛᴊʜ	34yrs	3181 – 3188ᴛᴊʜ	7yrs
Sole huangdi of the breakaway Pian dynasty. Wang of Pian under the Jia dynasty before seceding, his kingdom was conquered by Huangdi Shi. Sui Han was personally executed by Huangdi Shi for his rebellion.

Nian dynasty

A vampire-ruled dynasty and one of the breakaway states of the wider War of the Seven Emperors.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Ren Jizhi 稔機智	Pianzi 騙子	n/a	n/a	3150 – 3329ᴛᴊʜ	179yrs	3181 – 3192ᴛᴊʜ	11yrs
Sole huangdi of the breakaway Nian dynasty. Wang of Nian under the Qiu and Jia dynasties, and aided Huangdi Zui in overthrowing the Qiu dynasty. Following the enthronement of Huangdi Hunwai, he seceded to form his own dynasty for reasons unknown to all but himself. Save for some border disputes with the other two breakaway kingdoms and the Pang clan claimants, Ren Jizhi mostly managed to stay out of the fighting between the other six huangdi. Four years after the establishment of the Gun dynasty, with the Gun army beginning to encroach upon his lands following the fall of Pang Long in battle against the San dynasty, Ren Jizhi challenged Song De to a "duel of champions" and his champion lost. Per the terms of the duel, in which his kingdom would retain independence if he had won, he willingly abdicated, ending his self-proclaimed dynasty. Stripped of his titles, he quietly lived out the rest of his days in retirement, undisturbed and practically forgotten by the Gun government.

San dynasty

One of the breakaway states of the wider War of the Seven Emperors.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Na Bin 拿斌	Jingzhi 精製	n/a	n/a	3135 – 3191ᴛᴊʜ	56yrs	3181 – 3191ᴛᴊʜ	10yrs
First huangdi of the breakaway San dynasty. Wang of San under the Jia dynasty, he was a sworn brother Huangdi Zui and a loyal general of during the latter's rebellion to overthrow Xiuhuang Shui Bude shi Mingming and the Qiu dynasty. He learned the truth about Pang Wu's parentage by accident in the last days of Huangdi Zui's reign, but the latter died before he could tell him. Unable to stop Huangdi Hunwai from coming to power, and realizing that Huangdi Zui's brothers were going to contend for the throne themselves, Na Bin fled the capital and soon declared independence, with the eventual aim of conquering Tianchao once the four false huangdi of the Pang clan had killed each other off. Assassinated by agents of the Gun dynasty same day his armies defeated Huangdi Xiong. His death is widely considered the beginning of the end for his self-proclaimed dynasty.
Na Ao 拿澳	Haiwan 海灣	n/a	n/a	3156 – 3196ᴛᴊʜ	40yrs	3191 – 3196ᴛᴊʜ	5yrs
Second son of Na Bin, and the second and last huangdi of the breakaway San dynasty. He took over after the death of his father, as his elder brother, his father's initial heir, died in battle just days before Na Bin died, and Na Ao's uncles, nephews and cousins all died of varying circumstances, including the war, over the course of the previous decade. Under his reign, his kingdom was the last resisting faction to fall the the Gun dynasty after a series of substantial defeats, and Na Ao himself committed suicide when he realized all hope was lost. His own children were spared any punishment, yet lived out the rest of their days in exile.

Gun dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Gun (磙)
Origin of Name:	Noble Title:
	Gongjue of Gun (磙的公爵)
Capital:	Xingyun (幸運) (first) Dongtan (東灘) (second)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Song (松)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Gun dynasty came to power through the usurpation of the Jia dynasty in the midst of the ongoing War of the Seven Emperors.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Song De 松德	Qinqing 親情	Huangdi Chunzhen 磙純真皇帝	Yongzu 永祖	3144 – 3211ᴛᴊʜ	67yrs	3189 – 3211ᴛᴊʜ	22yrs
Founder of the Gun dynasty. Gongjue of Gun during the Qiu and Jia dynasties, he is lauded as a hero for bringing order back to Tianchao by replacing the collapsing Jia dynasty during the War of the Seven Emperors. He initially feigned allegiance to the illegitimate Huangdi Hunwai for the early stages of the war before he came to power. His reign began when he instigated a palace coup, killing Huangdi Hunwai and many of the tyrannical bastard's nearest relatives, both his presumed ones and his actual blood relatives, yet he spared Huangdi Hunwai's young an innocent children. Ended the war with the reconquest of the breakaway San dynasty. He is viewed by historians with mixed impressions: on one hand he is lauded as a hero for restoring order to a nation plagued by decades of strife and war; on the other he is admonished as a manipulative opportunistic usurper for overthrowing a dynasty to establish his own. Sparing the children of Huangdi Hunwai the death penalty earned him some respect, but not enough to fully redeem his reputation.
Song Kun 松坤		Huangdi Tilu 磙題錄皇帝				3211ᴛ – 3248ᴊʜ	37yrs
Second ruler of the Gun dynasty. Founded the new imperial capital, Dongtan. His rationale for creating a new capital was to hopefully wipe away the bad memories of the last great war through a massive construction project, as well as inaugurate a time of new beginnings.
Song Quanti 松權體		Huangdi Yiwang 磙遺忘皇帝				3248 – 3272ᴛᴊʜ	24yrs
Third ruler of the Gun dynasty. Often nicknamed "Bei Yiwang de Huangdi (被遺忘的皇帝/the forgotten emperor)" due to his relatively uneventful reign, which is also the origin of his posthumous name.
Song Mao 松毛	Yingjun 英俊	Huangdi Tanpan 磙談判皇帝	n/a	3250 – 3284ᴛᴊʜ	34yrs	3272 – 3284ᴛᴊʜ	12yrs
Forth and last huangdi of the Gun dynasty, his reign saw the end of patriarchal rule to the matriarchal Jing dynasty for over six-and-a-half centuries. When the capital fell at the end of the Jing–Gun War, he committed suicide once he had heard Jing forces had breached the palace defenses rather than be executed or forced to abdicate. Out of respect for his resolve, Huangdi Cuilu, the founder of the Jing dynasty, decreed he be given a posthumous name, but not a temple name.

Jing dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Jing (晶)
Origin of Name:	Toponym:
	Jingwen (晶溫)
Capital:	Dongtan (東灘) (first) Tangzhai (瑭寨) (second)
Ruler Title:	Niangdi (孃帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Yuan (苑)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

Unique among the rest of the dynasties. While there were female monarchs in past and future dynasties, in both unity and division periods, the Jing dynasty was the only unity period dynasty ruled entirely by women. Monarchs of the Jing dynasty used the title Niangdi, with the title passed mother to daughter matrilineally, and all children of daughters of the imperial family took their mothers' surname as well. While men were forbidden from succeeding the throne during this dynasty, inheritance of the family name was remained as unchanged for sons born into the imperial family, and their sons and daughters continued to inherit the family name.

Enduring for over six-and-a-half centuries, it is longest imperial dynasty in the history of Tianchao, and is also famous for being the longest period of female-preference primogeniture in Tianzu history.

While women had achieved high military and political status many thousands of times under previous dynasties, they were difficult to attain and required great merit before they were even considered for those statuses. Under the Jing dynasty, women's rights and status were elevated to equal of that of men, given them equal opportunity, which saw the rise of many influential characters of both sexes throughout the dynasty's tenure.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Eras
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple					Names	yrs
Yuan Lan 苑藍	Ganqing 感情	Niangdi Cuilu 晶翠綠孃帝	Zuangli 壯麗	3258 – 3321ᴛᴊʜ	63yrs	3277 – 3321ᴛᴊʜ	44yrs	Shengkai 盛開	3277 – 3304ᴛᴊʜ
								Qiangwei 薔薇	3304 – 3321ᴛᴊʜ
The founder of the Jing dynasty. Her parents were named Sheng Jin (繩筋) and Yuan Minglin (苑茗琳). Yuan Lan's mother, Yuan Minglin, was born a commoner woman from a well off merchant family. A bad investment on her father's part led to debts and her being sold into slavery to pay them off. Not long after, Yuan Minglin met Sheng Jin, another slave, who became her constant companion until he died. Yuan Lan, the future ruler of Tianchao, was born some time after, and they decided that she would have her mother's surname rather than her father's. Born a slave, Yuan Lan endured harsh conditions under the tyrannical slave system of the Gun dynasty. Her father died as a result of these conditions when she was just eight years old. When she was a teenager, Yuan Lan started to speak out against slavery and the oppression of women under patriarchal traditions. Even though she endured harsh punishments for speaking out, including whippings and being striped nude and tied to a pole in public, she kept her head high and never let herself be silenced. Influential and charismatic, with an innate talent for public speaking, she accumulated some sympathetic listeners, both freemen and fellow slaves, and even some sympathetic nobles, some who turned into devoted followers. Among them were her two lifelong friends: Tian Meili (甜美梨), styled Aifeng (爱風), a young noblegirl of high stature who was her oldest friend and sworn sister, whom also taught her to read and write; and Xiong Wu (熊舞), styled Jianshi (劍師), her sworn brother, and her lover. Another of Yuan Lan's close allies was her teacher, Po Han (迫含), styled Wushi (武師), the Abjaksan of the time and the greatest martial arts and zhishu (質術) master of the era, who trained her in everything he knew when he discovered she was a zhifu (質婦). Even after she became ruler of Tianchao, he continued to train her and her children. When she was nineteen, Yuan Lan's mother was arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges in an attempt to shut her down, but that was the final straw for her. With support from Tian Mili's family, she organized and led a slave revolt in Dongtan, the imperial capital of the time. Her uprising was repulsed from the city, but word of her cause spread far and wide and attracted followers from all corners of the empire, women and men, until they had grown into an army many-thousands-strong within just a few weeks. A slave no more, her cause then waged war against the Gun dynasty, a conflict known to history as the Jing–Gun War (晶與磙戰/Jing yu Gun Zhan) (3277 – 3284ᴛᴊʜ). Following the Battle of Tanxian, a few months into the conflict, Yuan Lan and some of her retinue came across a small hidden temple that had been left derelict for a long time; the writings they found seemed to indicate it had been built during the Hun dynasty, but something about the temple felt much older. Enshrined in the temple was a locked puzzle box that nobody could budge. But when Yuan Lan touched it the pieces began to move, allowing her to solve it. Her solving the puzzle unlocked the lid which opened with a bright glow. To the awe of everyone, in the box was the Imperial Seal of Tianchao, long thought lost since the end of the Kai dynasty, and on the inside of the lid was an inscription: 只有天朝真正的統治者可以佔有璽。(Zhiyou Tianchao zhenzheng de tongzhi zhe keyi zhanyou xi./Only the true ruler of Tianchao may take possession of the Imperial Seal.). The acquisition of the long-lost Imperial Seal proved a major propaganda and morale coup. At the urging of her most loyal retainers – who believed that the sudden growth and support of her rebellion, as well as her acquisition of the long-lost imperial seal, meant that the Gun dynasty had lost the Mandate of Heaven and it had been granted to her – Yuan Lan hesitantly declared a new dynasty, naming her dynasty "Jing (晶)," and coined the imperial title of "Niangdi (孃帝)." Her declaration was met with applause from her entire army and retinue. To solidify her position and give her new dynasty some legitimacy, she married Xiong Wu, fulfilling a lifelong goal of hers, and decreed that her children would use her surname. Once the news spread across the empire, not only was there a tidal wave of support for the new Jing dynasty, but much of what little support remained for the Gun dynasty faded away in favor of the Jing. The final conquest of the capital seven years later saw the deposition of Huangdi Tanpan and the end of the Gun dynasty. Once he had heard Jing forces had breached the palace defenses, Huangdi Tanpan committed suicide rather than be executed or forced to abdicate. Once firmly in power, Yuan Lan freed her mother, who was surprised to learn her daughter was now the ruler of the empire, and outlawed slavery – a policy that endured until the inauguration of the Arslan-ruled Lin dynasty – and ushered in a golden age that lasted until the end of the dynasty. She also revitalized the empire with various welfare projects that improved the lives of people of all races and social classes; and for these reasons she is firmly acknowledged as one of the greatest rulers in Tianzu history. Soon after securing her place on the throne, she gave birth to three sons named Yuan Ping (苑评), Yuan Kou (苑摳), and Yuan Yong (苑勇), in 3285, 3290, and 3297ᴛᴊʜ respectively. In 3304ᴛᴊʜ, her granddaughter and heiress, Yuan Ying (苑硬), was born to her eldest son. Before the birth of her granddaughter, most assumed that one of Niangdi Cuilu's sons would be her heir, but the day of the birth of her Yuan Ying she shocked the nation when she decreed that successors to the Jing dynasty would only be women, something not only defied all old traditions but she had longed to do but couldn't until she had female progeny to do so. Niangdi Cuilu died of natural causes in 3321ᴛᴊʜ and was deified as the goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood after her death. Aside for her posthumous and temple names, in later years of the dynasty she was also sometimes known as Zuchuan Niangqin Zhongda (祖傳孃親重大/Great Ancestral Mother).
Yuan Ying 苑硬	Yonghai 勇孩	Niangdi Hongbao 晶紅寶孃帝		3304 – 3353ᴛᴊʜ	49yrs	3321 – 3353ᴛᴊʜ	32yrs
Granddaughter of Niangdi Cuilu via her eldest son, Yuan Ping and his wife Qin Ren (琴忍). Before she was born, most assumed that either her father one of her uncles would be Niangdi Cuilu's heir. But the day of her birth Niangdi Cuilu shocked the nation when she decreed that successors of the Jing dynasty would only be women. As her father and uncles held no ambition for the throne, this caused no friction between them. In fact, when she was old enough to understand her father openly told her how relieved he was that she had been born. Niangdi Hongbao came into the throne at the age of seventeen upon the death of her grandmother. Under her reign, the modern capital, Tangzhai, was founded. But the new imperial palace would not be occupied or completed until the reign of her successor, Yuan Ren (Taishang Niangdi Baolan). She gave birth to four children, three daughters and a son, over the course of her reign. She died of illness.
Yuan Ren 苑忍	Bingyin 丙胤	Taishang Niangdi Baolan 晶寶藍太上孃帝		3336 – 3398ᴛᴊʜ	62yrs	3353 – 3366ᴛᴊʜ	17yrs
Third daughter and child of Niangdi Hongbao, she superseded her elder sisters to the throne when they declared their intentions forgo any right to the throne in favor of personal pursuits. Came into the throne at the age of seventeen upon the death of her mother. The imperial palace of Tangzhai, the new (and modern) imperial capital founded during her mother's reign, was completed a few years after she ascended the throne. Thus Niangdi Baolan was the first monarch of Tianchao to occupy the modern capital. She later abdicated in favor of her chosen heir – passing over her elder daughter, Yuan Jin, the future Niangdi Huangjing, in favor of her younger daughter, Yuan Qing (Niangdi Lingxing) – but retained power as regent until she reached age of majority, transferring all powers to Yuan Qing when she turned seventeen before going into retirement. She only briefly came out of retirement to be regent for her granddaughter, Yuan Chanjuan (Niangdi Jinyu), daughter of Yuan Qing, upon the death of Yuan Jin. She transferred full powers to her granddaughter upon her twentieth birthday before spending the remainder of her life in quiet retirement
Yuan Qing 苑青	Mikai 蜜凯	Niangdi Lingxing 晶菱形孃帝	Weipi 偉辟	3356 – 3374ᴛᴊʜ	18yrs	3366 – 3374ᴛᴊʜ	8yrs
Second child and daughter of Niangdi Baolan. Ascended to the throne at ten years old following the abdication of her mother. Her mother continued to rule as her regent until she turned seventeen. The following year, she died in childbirth giving birth to her daughter and only child, Yuan Chanjuan, the future Niangdi Jinyu, living long enough to name her and declare Yuan Chanjuan her heir.
Yuan Jin 苑勁	Rexin 熱心	Niangdi Huangjing 晶黃晶孃帝	Junpi 軍辟	3350 – 3387ᴛᴊʜ	37yrs	3374 – 3387ᴛᴊʜ	13yrs
First child and eldest daughter of Taishang Niangdi Baolan and elder sister of Niangdi Lingxing. Initially passed over to be heir to the throne by her mother. Tomboyish and adventurous, she held no grudge against her and instead opted to pursue a military career over a political one. Achieving an astounding record in the field, mainly against the Sinjok kingdoms in Guangdai, Yuan Jin was awarded the title of Taiwei – one of the offices of the Liugexia and the highest military rank in the Tianzu army – by her sister; one of Niangdi Lingxing's first acts when their mother fully turned power over to her. When Niangdi Lingxing died in childbirth with her only daughter and heir, Yuan Chanjuan, a newborn infant, Yuan Jin was elected to take over as ruler. Despite being passed over for the throne initially, and she never held any desire for the throne, she proved herself a capable ruler. Niangdi Huangjing was later killed in battle during a war of expansion. By her will, she was succeeded by Yuan Chanjuan, upon her death; yet upon the death of her niece, who died from illness without any living children or naming an heir, her own daughter, Yuan Qiqi (Niangdi Kuihua), took over as ruler.
Yuan Chanjuan 苑嬋娟	Wanqiang 頑強	Niangdi Jinyu 晶金玉孃帝		3374 – 3407ᴛᴊʜ	33yrs	3387 – 3407ᴛᴊʜ	20yrs
Daughter of Niangdi Lingxing. Enthroned at the age of thirteen following the death of her aunt, Niangdi Huangjing. Her grandmother, Taishang Niangdi Baolan (Yuan Ren), ruled as regent until her twentieth birthday. She died of illness. None of her children lived past infancy, and so she died childless without naming an heir.
Yuan Qiqi 苑氣器	Zhongshi 忠實	Niangdi Kuihua 晶葵花孃帝	Xinzu 新祖	3373 – 3426ᴛᴊʜ	53yrs	3407 – 3426ᴛᴊʜ	19yrs
Daughter of Niangdi Huangjing and cousin of Niangdi Jinyu.
Yuan Jing 苑靜	Ruhua 如花	Taishang Niangdi Shanhu 晶珊瑚太上孃帝		3400 – 3460ᴛᴊʜ	60yrs	3426 – 3456ᴛᴊʜ	30yrs
Daughter of Niangdi Kuihua. She later abdicated in favor of her daughter, Yuan Luoji.
Yuan Luoji 苑邏輯	Zaobo 造波	Niangdi Chuju 晶嘛龛孃帝		3422 – 3462ᴛᴊʜ	40yrs	3456 – 3462ᴛᴊʜ	6yrs
Daughter of Taishang Niangdi Shanhu. Took over as Niangdi following the abdication of her mother. Her brief reign ended when she suddenly died unexpectedly, outliving her mother by barely a year and a half. Imperial doctors of the time diagnosed her cause of death as sudden heart failure, but historians continue to debate the actual cause of it.
Yuan Jiang 苑將	Yunying 熨英	Niangdi Ciqian 晶慈繾孃帝		3444 – 3502ᴛᴊʜ	58yrs	3462 – 3502ᴛᴊʜ	40yrs
Eldest daughter of Niangdi Chuju. She ascended the throne when her mother died unexpectedly. During her reign, her twin brother, Yuan Huan, attempted to overthrow her in a coup. They were close, nigh inseparable, in their childhood, but grew apart as Yuan Jiang was being groomed to take the throne. While she was briefly deposed, her loyalists proved greater than Yuan Huan's support and she was restored. Yuan Huan eventually came back with an army to retake the capital and the throne by force, but Niangdi Ciqian and her government managed to escape. She then, with great reluctance, waged a civil war against her brother to retake the throne. After five years, she eventually defeated her brother and retook the capital, but, out of love and against the advice of her court, spared his life, merely throwing him in prison for the rest of his natural life. She became his only regular visitor for the remainder of their days. Her mercy, combined with her general gentle nature, earned her her posthumous name.
Yuan Chiqi 苑池器		Niangdi Shuo 晶爍孃帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		3502 – 3513ᴛᴊʜ	11yrs
Yuan Pingmen 苑瓶們		Niangdi Taijian 晶鈦劍孃帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		3513 – 3529ᴛᴊʜ	16yrs
Yuan Li 苑李		Niangdi Taoshu 晶桃樹孃帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		3529 – 3552ᴛᴊʜ	23yrs
Yuan Wu 苑舞		Niangdi Huaxin 晶花心孃帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		3552 – 3582ᴛᴊʜ	30yrs
Yuan Shuang 苑爽		Niangdi Beiwei 晶卑微孃帝		3588 – 3658ᴛᴊʜ	70yrs	3611 – 3658ᴛᴊʜ	47yrs
A scion of the imperial family born into a distant and destitute branch descended from Niangdi Ciqian's son, Yuan Bo (苑博). Came into the throne by election following a massive civil war of succession that resulted in the near-extinction of the main line.
Yuan Bei 苑被		Taishang Niangdi Kanka 晶龕卡太上孃帝		[…] – 3767ᴛᴊʜ		3739 – 3763ᴛᴊʜ	24yrs
Yuan Suyin 苑素銀		Niangdi Zisi 晶自私孃帝	Huaipi 壞辟	3746 – 3778ᴛᴊʜ	32yrs	3763 – 3778ᴛᴊʜ	15yrs
Niece of Taishang Niangdi Kanka. Taking the throne at the age of seventeen with the abdication of her aunt, when Niangdi Zisi came to power her reign seemed right for prosperity. But… within a few years of her ascension, around the same time Niangdi Kanka finally died, her love of power and a lavish lifestyle caused her to descend into corruption, leading her down the path of tyranny. The selfish actions of her reign started a decline of the Jing dynasty when she allowed certain ministers certain illegal activities in exchange for favors meant to increase her own influence and luxuries. Her reign abruptly ended when he was reluctantly killed by her own sister, Yuan Meiying, the future Niangdi Bugan. They had been close in their youth, but Niangdi Zisi's tyranny led Yuan Meiying to make the heartbreaking decision to assassinate Niangdi Zisi.
Yuan Meiying 苑美英	Qinghua 輕花	Niangdi Bugan 晶不甘孃帝	Xinzu 新祖	3750 – 3815ᴛᴊʜ	65yrs	3778 – 3815ᴛᴊʜ	37yrs
Younger sister of Niangdi Zisi. Titled Kongling Ken Wangfei (空灵肯王妃/Princess Ken of Kongling) during the reign of her aunt and sister, Yuan Meiying reluctantly came to power at the age of twenty-six after killing Niangdi Zisi by stabbing her sister in the heart. They had been close in their youth, but, unable to bear seeing the tyrant that her sister had become, she made the decision to assassinate Niangdi Zisi. Her decision to kill her sister, whom she still loved, caused her endless heartbreak. Despite never having sought the throne for herself, in fact she asked to be severely punished for the crime of regicide, she was elected niangdi by both her family and the imperial court. She initially declined the throne, instead advocating for some of her other female relatives. She only yielded to the government's decision to install her as monarch when it was suggested that her intention was to end the dynasty. Depressed and initially unwilling and to take charge of her nation, for several years she left most affairs to her ministers and shut herself away in the palace, only coming to court as a formality, earning her the deserved nickname "Nage Yanwu Niangdi (那個厭惡孃帝/The Reluctant Empress)." Her unwillingness to rule in turn allowed some of the corrupt officials from Niangdi Zisi's reign to continue their illegal activities relatively unhindered. Six years into her reign, Niangdi Bugan finally took charge of her empire when her own daughter, Yuan Tudi, the future Niangdi Liang, admonished her for letting her guilt blind her from what was truly important: her people. The reality check from her daughter snapped her out of her depression and she became a more active ruler, revitalizing the empire that had been in decline and ending the corruption of the officials that had been running rampant since her predecessor's reign.
Yuan Tudi 苑土地	Guangbo 光波	Niangdi Liang 晶亮孃帝		3768 – 3837ᴛᴊʜ	69yrs	3815 – 3837ᴛᴊʜ	22yrs
Eldest child and daughter of Niangdi Bugan. Ascending to the throne at the age of forty-seven, she earlier earned her place as Niangdi Bugan's successor when she snapped her mother out of a years-long depression stemming from the guilt of killing Niangdi Zisi.
Yuan Lin 苑琳	Xuezhe 學者	Niangdi Qingfu 晶情夫孃帝		3793 – 3854ᴛᴊʜ	61yrs	3837 – 3854ᴛᴊʜ	17yrs
Second child and eldest daughter of Niangdi Liang.
Yuan Ruyi 苑如意	Shuangkou 塽口	Niangdi Weikou 晶胃口孃帝		3823 – 3885ᴛᴊʜ	62yrs	3854 – 3885ᴛᴊʜ	31yrs
Third daughter of Niangdi Qingfu.
Yuan Lian 苑戀	Tangmi 糖迷	Niangdi Xiangliao 晶香料孃帝		3851 – 3926ᴛᴊʜ	75yrs	3885 – 3926ᴛᴊʜ	41yrs
Third child and only daughter of Niangdi Weikou.
Yuan Milin 苑密林	Huaji 滑稽	Niangdi Chuai 晶踹孃帝	Zuihou 最後	3906 – 3939ᴛᴊʜ	33yrs	3926 – 3939ᴛᴊʜ	13yrs
Granddaughter of Niangdi Xiangliao and the last ruler of the Jing dynasty. Her reign and the dynasty ended when she was tricked into abdicating to Luo Hao, the Gongjue of Jun. It was only when the Sisters of the Yellow Dragon rebelled against the Jun dynasty weeks later that she finally realized her mistake. But, she and the former imperial family were prevented from taking any action when Luo Hao had his agents assassinate her and many of her kin, preventing any resurgence of the Jing dynasty. Several members of the Yuan clan, including Niangdi Chuai's son and her two daughters, were spared this fate and later fought against the Jun dynasty, but the remnants of the Jing dynasty were never able to return to power.

Claimants & Usurpers

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Yuan Huan 苑煥	Cancao 燦草	n/a	n/a	3444 – 3500ᴛᴊʜ	56yrs	3468 – 3473ᴛᴊʜ	5yrs
Twin brother of Niangdi Ciqian (Yuan Jiang). They were close, nigh inseparable, in their childhood, but grew apart as Yuan Jiang was being groomed to take the throne. Six years into the reign of his sister, he attempted to orchestrate a coup to become huangdi. While he briefly deposed his sister and proclaimed himself huangdi, his coup failed when the loyalists of Niangdi Ciqian proved too great. But he amassed a great support from many opponents of the women-ruled dynasty. His following turned into an army that retook the capital, expelling the loyalist government. Niangdi Ciqian still managed to escape and Yuan Huan's followers waged a five-year civil war to hold the throne. Yuan Huan was defeated but not executed. He remained in prison the rest of his life, visited solely by Niangdi Ciqian until their final days.

Jun dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Jun (菌)
Origin of Name:	Noble Title:
	Gongjue of Jun (菌的公爵)
Capital:	Dongtan (東灘)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Yuan (苑)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The Jun dynasty was a usurper dynasty whose founder overthrew the Jing dynasty for selfish reasons. Thus the gods denied him and his sons the Mandate of Heaven, and with the regime destabilized from forty years of civil war, the stage was set for the Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms period.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Luo Hao 蓏豪	Dangao 蛋糕	Huangdi Ganju 菌柑橘皇帝	Xinzu 新祖	3897 – 3991ᴛᴊʜ	94yrs	3939 – 3991ᴛᴊʜ	52yrs
He was an alleged descendant of Xiangrikui Gongchan through his father, Luo Yao (蓏要). The Gongjue of Jun and the last Chengxiang under the Jing dynasty, he came to power when he tricked Niangdi Chuai, the last monarch of the Jing dynasty, to abdicate in his favor. A conservative traditionalist educated in the pre-Jing ways, Huangdi Ganju became huangdi purposely to end the women-ruled Jing dynasty and reinstate male-only primogeniture for the first time in centuries. He even moved the capital back to Dongtan and ordered Tangzhai abandoned, believing the city to be a sicking reminder of women-rule. However, his dynasty did not begin peacefully, as the Sisters of the Yellow Dragon – a women-only Quantao military order founded during the Western, Central & Northern Dynasties period that had served as the personal army of the Niangdi since the founding of the Jing dynasty – rebelled and began the forty-year Yellow Dragon Rebellion (黃龍叛亂/Huanglong Panluan), a civil war so devastating that it destabilized the Jun dynasty to a point it couldn't recover. It is for these reasons that he is remembered infamously. Along with the fact that Huangdi Ganju lived and reigned for a long time, his four sons struggled with infertility, specifically with producing sons, producing nothing but daughters, and their daughters only produced more daughters. As Huangdi Ganju's usurpation of the Jing dynasty was meant to restore patriarchal rule, he forbade women from claiming the throne as soon as he took it, and it was for this reason that the throne passed between his four sons following very brief reigns until the end of the dynasty. Most religious scholars believe that the inability of Huangdi Ganju's sons' and granddaughters' to produce male heirs was a karmic curse cast upon them by the gods, as punishment for his selfish usurpation of the Jing dynasty, thus denying him the Mandate of Heaven. As most of his other male relatives were long-deceased or scattered, with no man to assume the throne with the end of his youngest son's reign nearing, and with the empire still unstable following the Yellow Dragon Rebellion, the empire fell apart into the chaos of the Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms Period until the conquest of Tianchao by the Gergazard Khaganate and the establishment of the Lin dynasty.
Luo Han 蓏寒		Huangdi Mangguo 菌芒果皇帝		3932 – 4001ᴛᴊʜ	69yrs	3991 – 4001ᴛᴊʜ	10yrs
Luo Sun 蓏筍		Huangdi Xingshu 菌杏樹皇帝		3935 – 4004ᴛᴊʜ	69yrs	4001 – 4004ᴛᴊʜ	3yrs
Luo Ming 蓏銘		Huangdi Fengli 菌鳳梨皇帝		3940 – 4011ᴛᴊʜ	71yrs	4004 – 4011ᴛᴊʜ	7yrs
Luo Qin 蓏琴		Huangdi Yangguo 菌蘋果皇帝		3941 – 4020ᴛᴊʜ	79yrs	4011 – 4020ᴛᴊʜ	9yrs
Youngest son of Huangdi Ganju and the final ruler of the Jun dynasty. Produced only daughters, who only produced granddaughters. As women were forbidden to succeed the throne Jun dynasty, with no son or grandson to assume the throne with the end of his reign nearing, and with the empire still unstable following the Yellow Dragon Rebellion, the empire fell apart into the chaos of the Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms Period until the conquest of Tianchao by the Gergazard Khaganate and the establishment of the Lin dynasty.

Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms

Seven Dynasties

Yin dynasty

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An dynasty

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Qu dynasty

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Tai dynasty

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Gui dynasty

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Geng dynasty

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		Huangdi Cheng 耿誠皇帝

Man dynasty

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Twelve Kingdoms

Hang

Hang Kingdom, along with Sang Kingdom, was never recovered by Tianchao and continued on independently for a time. Eventually, it collapsed into several states that eventually became Dongbalian.

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Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple

Sang

Hang Kingdom, along with Sang Kingdom, was never recovered by Tianchao and continued on independently for a time. Eventually, it collapsed into several states that eventually became Dongbalian.

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Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple

Zhang Chi

Founded by alleged descendants of the Chi dynasty, a dynasty/chiefdom of the Semi-Legendary Era.

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Lin dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Lin (霖/ᠯᠢᠩᠨ)
Origin of Name:
Capital:	Shiltgeen (是老天戈恩/ᠰᠢᠯᠲᠦᠭᠡᠨ) (first) Tovguren (托夫格伦/ᠲᠥᠪᠭᠦᠷᠡᠨ) (second)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝) & Khagan ( ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ)
Ruling Family
Name:	Altanzul (阿坦祖爾/ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Arslan

An Arslan-ruled conquest dynasty, established in the chaos of the Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms period. While non-Yinghui ethnicities had ruled Tianchao before, the Lin dynasty was the first non-Quantao dynasty to rule Tianchao. The first three monarchs of the Lin dynasty were also rulers of the Gergazard Khaganate, as Lin was founded as a division of the Khaganate (sort of like dual monarchy: two mostly autonomous states ruled by a single monarch). The first six rulers of the Gergazard Khaganate were never huangdi in their lifetime, but were posthumously declared so following the foundation of the Lin dynasty.

Following the death of one of the rulers in a far-away land, a coup by a rival clan forced the Altanzul clan out of power in Gergazar, resulting in the complete separation of the Lin dynasty from Khaganate.

Even before independence from Gergazar, the ruling family made efforts at Chunization for ease of rule, but retained most of their traditional ways.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Khagan	Posthumous	Temple
Gergazar
Altanzul Selemchin 阿坦祖爾塞勒姆琴 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠰᠡᠯᠡᠮᠡᠴᠢᠨ	Amidralyn Khagan 阿米德拉林可汗 ᠠᠮᠢᠳᠤᠷᠠᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Guojia de Chuangshi Renhe Tuanjie zhe Huangdi 國家的創始人和團結者皇帝	Yongzu 永祖					n/a
Unifier and First Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate. Posthumously honored as Huangdi of Tianchao by Nait Khagan in 4080ᴛᴊʜ.
Altanzul […] 阿坦祖爾[…] ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ […]	[…] Khagan […]可汗 […] ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Dong Huhe Luoxue de Huangdi 凍湖和落雪的皇帝						n/a
Second Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate. Posthumously honored as Huangdi of Tianchao by Nait Khagan in 4080ᴛᴊʜ.
Altanzul […] 阿坦祖爾[…] ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ […]	[…] Khagan […]可汗 […] ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ							n/a
Third Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate. Posthumously honored as Huangdi of Tianchao by Nait Khagan in 4080ᴛᴊʜ.
Altanzul […] 阿坦祖爾[…] ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ […]	[…] Khagan […]可汗 […] ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ							n/a
Fourth Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate. Posthumously honored as Huangdi of Tianchao by Nait Khagan in 4080ᴛᴊʜ.
Altanzul […] 阿坦祖爾[…] ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ […]	[…] Khagan […]可汗 […] ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Chusheng de Taiyang Huangdi 初升的太陽皇帝						n/a
Fifth Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate. Posthumously honored as Huangdi of Tianchao by Nait Khagan in 4080ᴛᴊʜ.
Altanzul Juram 阿坦祖爾朱拉姆 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠮ	Zaluu Khagan 扎魯可汗 ᠵᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Zhengfu zhe Guowang Huangdi 征服者國王皇帝	Kaijian 凱建	4017 – 4054ᴛᴊʜ	37yrs	4039 – 4054ᴛᴊʜ	15yrs	n/a
Sixth Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate. Posthumously honored as Huangdi of Tianchao by Nait Khagan in 4080ᴛᴊʜ. Though not the founder of the Lin dynasty, he was given a temple name to imply he was as he laid the foundation for the conquest of Tianchao. During his lifetime, even before his reign, he set his sights on conquering Tianchao (known as Tenger (ᠲᠩᠷᠢ) to the Arslan), torn asunder by the Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms period since the fall of the Jun dynasty. As soon as he became Khagan, he took advantage of the ongoing conflicts to invade what was then acknowledged as the borders of Tianchao and secured the whole of the Pianpilu (called Delkhiin (ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ) by the Arslan), including Antikülke. However, he did not live do see his ambitions fulfilled. His reign and conquests were cut short when he was slain by an assassin on the eve of his planned invasion of Zanghuan (called Zangkhuan (ᠵᠠᠩ ᠢᠬᠤ᠎ᠠ ᠶᠢᠨ) by the Arslan).
Gergazar & Lin Dynasty
Altanzul Ayalguu 阿坦祖爾阿亞爾古 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠠᠶᠠᠯᠭᠤ	Ayalguu Khagan 阿亞爾古可汗 ᠠᠶᠠᠯᠭᠤ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Diqi Zuichu Huangdi 第七最初皇帝	Zuangli 壯麗	4037 – 4111ᴛᴊʜ	74yrs	as Khagan		[…] […] […]
						4054 – 4111ᴛᴊʜ	57yrs
			Nait Khagan 奈特可汗 ᠨᠠᠢ ᠳᠤ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ			as Huangdi
						4076 – 4111ᴛᴊʜ	35yrs
Eldest son of Zaluu Khagan, seventh Khagan of the Gergazard Khaganate and founder of the Lin dynasty. Elected to the Gergazard throne by the kurultai at the age of seventeen, he intended to take over where his father left off and invade Zanghuan, but securing his place as the rightful khagan to succeed his father, in competition with his uncles, his father's brothers, proved to be a daunting endeavor that took him two decades to achieve. With his place secure, he finally launched the invasion of Zanghuan in 4074ᴛᴊʜ. Within two years he conquered two Quantao splinter kingdoms and the imperial capital of the Man dynasty, the last of the Seven Dynasties. With the capital under control and the imperial seal in his hands, he proclaimed the establishment of the Lin dynasty as a division of the Khaganate, declared himself huangdi of Tianchao and claimed the Mandate of Heaven. Within a few more months he crushed the last remnants of the Man dynasty, ending the Seven Dynasties. He made plans conquer the rest of Tianchao, but a need to rest the army and rebuild the infrastructure of his conquered lands forced him to pause his campaign for several years. Fascinated by Quantao culture and traditions from a young age, under him the Altanzul clan began the slow process of Chunization, becoming more and more like the people they had conquered. By the end of the first decade of Nait Khagan's reign as huangdi, the entirety of Zanghuan was secured – save for the Hang and Sang kingdoms, whose successor states would later go on to form Dongbalian. Nait Khagan intended to invade and conquer Guangdai, but by the time Zanghuan was secured he and his armies were again militarily exhausted and required many more years to rebuild, along with the infrastructure of his newly conquered territories. He died with the ambition of his father still only partially fulfilled.
Altanzul Jargaltai 阿坦祖爾賈爾嘎泰 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠠᠯᠲᠠᠢ	Jargaltai Khagan 賈爾嘎泰可汗 ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠠᠯᠲᠠᠢ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Shui Wanchengle Renwu Huangdi 誰完成了任務皇帝		4075 – 4153ᴛᴊʜ		4111 – 4153ᴛᴊʜ	42yrs
Third son of Nait Khagan, second ruler of the Lin dynasty and eighth Khagan of Gergazar. During his reign he set out to conquer the splinter kingdoms in Guangdai for the the Lin dynasty, finishing the job Zaluu Khagan and Nait Khagan started. By the twenty year mark of his reign, the entirety of what was then Tianchao in Guangdai was secured, finally ending the Seven Dynasties & Twelve Kingdoms period.
Altanzul Khundet 阿坦祖爾昆德 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠬᠦᠨᠳᠦᠳ	Khundet Khagan 昆德可汗 ᠬᠦᠨᠳᠦᠳ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Yu Zhongshen Jiemeng Huangdi 與眾神結盟皇帝		[…] – 4173ᴛᴊʜ		4153 – 4173ᴛᴊʜ	20yrs
Third ruler of the Lin dynasty, and ninth and last Khagan of Gergazar from Altanzul clan. He was the first huangdi of the Lin dynasty to actually rule it from a place in Zanghuan, choosing the newly-founded Tovguren (ᠲᠥᠪᠭᠦᠷᠡᠨ) – now known as Waiyang (外央) – as his capital. His reasoning for moving the capital to Zanghuan rather than keeping it in the Arslan homeland was to assert dominance over the Quantao world. Little did he realize that this would work against his clan in regards to Gergazard politics later. In the final three years of his reign, Khundet Khagan led his army and navy in the First Arslan Invasion of Fuso, conquering a large chunk of it before he was killed in battle against the recently-founded Empire of Yamatai. Khundet Khagan died during the Siege of Hansei (繁星の包囲) against the defending forces of both the Yamato Empire and local daimyo, slain in a duel with Shintoki-tenno himself. His empire in Fuso was recaptured by Yamatai within the following year. His sudden death so far from home, and without naming an heir – and worse the kurultai was unable to come to a consensus on the election of a new khagan, in part because Khundet Khagan's branch of the Altanzul clan had mostly gone native with the Quantao – resulted in a succession dispute that saw the Altanzul clan being ousted from their position position as Khagan of Gergazar, and the fragmentation of the Khaganate into five separate states.
Lin dynasty independent
Altanzul Baatar 阿坦祖爾巴塔爾 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ	Baatar Khagan 巴塔爾可汗 ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Tashui Chongxin Huo de Kongzhi Quan Huangdi 他誰重新獲得控制權皇帝		[…] – 4210ᴛᴊʜ		4173 – 4210ᴛᴊʜ	37yrs
Khundet Khagan's third son, fourth ruler of the Lin dynasty, and the first to be independent of the Gergazard Khaganate. Because Khundet Khagan died in Fuso without naming an heir, a succession dispute erupted between Baatar Khagan, his brothers and rival clans. In the end, within a year after Khundet Khagan's death, the Khaganate fragmented into five states: Gergazar fell under the reign of the Tsetsgiin (ᠴᠡᠴᠡᠭ ᠦᠨ) clan under Tuimer Khagan (ᠲᠦᠢᠮᠡᠷ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ); Baatar Khagan won succession of the Lin dynasty as undisputed huangdi after defeating his brothers in battle; the northern sector became split between the resurgent Antikülke Khanate and the Shengwai-ruled Shuang (雙) dynasty; the territories in Guangdai became the Sinjok-ruled Gwan (관/棺) dynasty; the Island of Qiu broke away into the Xiyi-ruled Pan (磐) dynasty. Baatar Khagan and his successors continued to rule the Lin dynasty independently.
Altanzul Taitan 阿坦祖爾泰坦 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠲᠠᠨ	Taitan Khagan 泰坦可汗 ᠲᠠᠶᠢᠲᠠᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Leiming Ban de Mapi he Mingzhi de Long Huangdi 雷鳴般的馬匹和明智的龍皇帝
Son of Baatar Khagan.
Altanzul Olon 阿坦祖爾奧龍 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠣᠯᠠᠨ	Sarsorvi Khagan 薩索爾維可汗 ᠰᠠᠷᠰᠣᠷᠪᠢ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Weineng Zhengfu Fusang de Huangdi 未能征服扶桑的皇帝
Initiated the Second Arslan Invasion of Fuso; another failure.
	Zaltsus Khagan 扎爾特蘇斯可汗 ᠵᠠᠴᠢᠰ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ
Nephew of Sarsovi Khagan.
Altanzul Kunziin 阿坦祖爾昆濟寧 ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨᠵᠤᠯ ᠺᠥᠩᠽᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ	[…] Khagan […]可汗 […] ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ	Huangdi Yanjiuyuan 研究員皇帝	Zuihou 最後	4389 – 4430ᴛᴊʜ	41yrs	4404 – 4430ᴛᴊʜ	26yrs
			Etssiin Khagan 埃齊因可汗 ᠡᠴᠦᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ
Final ruler of the Lin dynasty. Well known as a scholar and a pacifist, his reluctance to take armed action against rebels, preferring to find peaceful solutions, led him to be ousted from his throne by the Ang dynasty. He was executed within a week after his overthrow, and most historians claim it was unjust and unlawful.

Gwan dynasty

An Sinjok-ruled splinter dynasty, centered in Guangdai, that broke away with the fragmentation of the Gergazard Khaganate a year following the death of Khundet Khagan, within months of the Altanzul clan's ousting from rulership of Gergazar. Eventually reconquered by the Lin dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4174 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4295ᴛᴊʜ

Pan dynasty

A Xiyi-ruled splinter dynasty centered in Qiu island, the Xiyi homeland, that broke away with the fragmentation of the Gergazard Khaganate a year following the death of Khundet Khagan, within months of the Altanzul clan's ousting from rulership of Gergazar. Eventually reconquered by the Lin dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4174 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4283ᴛᴊʜ

Shuang dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Shuang (雙)
Origin of Name:	"Twin"
Capital:	Beijia (北家)
Ruler Titles:	Jiongdi (煚帝)
	Bingdi (冰帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Hanleng (寒冷)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Shengwai

A Shengwai-ruled splinter dynasty, centered in the Bianjing region of Pianpilu, that seceded into independence with the fragmentation the Gergazard Khaganate following the death of Khundet Khagan, within months of the Altanzul clan's ousting from rulership of Gergazar.

Uniquely from any other dynasty of Tianchao, the Shuang dynasty always had two co-rulers at a time, ruled by two families descended from the two rulers who founded the dynasty, twin brothers Hanleng Sansun & Hanleng Dongmu, sons of revolutionary leader Henleng Fengfu.

Following the untimely death of the father in battle, both brothers stepped up to lead the cause in his place. They adopted a different stance though; instead they had the rebel army temporarily disband until it was time to gather again. Immediately after hearing the news of the death of Kundet Khagan, the brothers sounded the call, the army regrouped within days, and within months carved out their empire in northern Marlakcor.

Unlike the Gwan and Pan dynasties, which endured for over a century but were eventually reconquered by the Lin dynasty, the Shuang dynasty endured for the better part of five centuries, contemporaneously with the Lin, Ang, Ting, and early-Lei dynasties, enduring many wars with Tianchao, Gergazar and Antikülke until it was finally conquered by the Lei dynasty. It is for this reason that is considered a true dynasty of Tianchao rather than a simple breakaway state, even though it never ruled any part of Zanghuan, the Quantao cradle of civilization.

The rulers also used two different titles, Jiongdi (煚帝/Fire Emperor) and Bingdi (冰帝/Ice Emperor) respectively, not only to differentiate their offices but to differentiate themselves from Tianchao, still under Arslan-Lin rule at the time of the dynasty's inception.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Hanleng Fengfu 寒冷豐富	Hongse 紅色	Yehuang Shengwai 雙生外爺皇	n/a	4126 – 4170ᴛᴊʜ	44yrs	n/a		n/a
Father of Jiongdi Juge and Bingdi Dongge. Hanleng Fengfu was the leader of a rebellion and independence movement against Arslan rule in central Pianpilu, and he waged war against the Gergazartan Khaganate for years before the fragmentation of the Khaganate. In 4170ᴛᴊʜ, Henleng Fengfu died in the Battle of Shuangye (霜野的開戰/Shuangye de Kaizhan), four years before the fragmentation. Despite his untimely demise, his cause did not die with him as his sons stepped up to lead the rebellion in his place. In 4180ᴛᴊʜ, with their empire secure for the time being, Hanleng Fengfu was posthumously anointed as Yehuang Shengwai by his sons.

Line of Jiongdi Juge

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Co-ruler(s)		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Hanleng Sansun 寒冷三筍	Shixin 獅心	Jiongdi Juge 雙炬哥煚帝		4149 – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4174 – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Bingdi Dongge 雙凍哥冰帝	4174 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Founder, twin brother, and co-ruler with Bingdi Dongge.
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4642ᴛᴊʜ			[…] – 4642ᴛᴊʜ

Line of Bingdi Lengge

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Co-ruler(s)		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Hanleng Dongmu 寒冷冬木	Zunjian 尊劍	Bingdi Dongge 雙凍哥冰帝		4149 – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4174 – […]ᴛᴊʜ		Jiongdi Juge 雙炬哥煚帝	4174 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Founder, twin brother, and co-ruler with Jiongdi Juge.
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4642ᴛᴊʜ			[…] – 4642ᴛᴊʜ

Ang dynasty

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Qiao Kuaili 俏快樂	Lingsheng 鈴聲	Huangdi Zhanshi 盎戰時皇帝	Jiuxing 救星	[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4428 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Founder of the Ang dynasty, Huangdi Zhanshi is a mixed figure in Tianchao history. He's lauded as a liberator by those who disdained having an originally foreign clan rule over their country and the restoration of Quantao rule, but others denounce him as an opportunistic usurper who seized the throne for himself after he overthrew and unjustly and unlawfully killed a peaceful monarch. The same year he toppled Kunziin Khagan and the Lin dynasty, he was forced to deal with the invasion of Marlakcor by the Yamato Empire to the west, preventing him from restoring to Tianchao the way he envisioned.
Qiao Ci 俏刺				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Qiao […] 俏[…]				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4523ᴛᴊʜ

Ting dynasty

The second unitary dynasty to be ruled by the Xiyi and the third overall. It was short-lived compared to the former Qiu dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4509 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4576ᴛᴊʜ

Lei dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Lei (雷)
Origin of Name:	Toponym & Noble Title:
	Leizhou (雷州) Wang of Lei (雷的王)
Capital:	Leishan (雷山) (first) Tangzhai (瑭寨) (second)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Kuangshi (礦石)
Race:	Dwarf
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The only dwarf-ruled dynasty in the history of Tianchao, and the last non-human unity dynasty to rule the empire.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Kuangshi Shujing 礦石水晶	Jiecheng 結成	Huangdi Geng 雷耿皇帝		4545 – 4618ᴛᴊʜ	76yrs	4576 – 4618ᴛᴊʜ	42yrs
Founder of the Lei dynasty. Descendant of powerful mining magnates, he was the Wang of Lei and governor of Leizhou during the Ting dynasty. While dwarves in Tianchao had served in many powerful positions for thousands of years, he was the first dwarf to rule the empire.
Kuangshi Can 礦石燦	Tiejiang 鐵匠	Huangdi Cheng 雷誠皇帝		[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4618 – […]ᴛᴊʜ
Son of Huangdi Geng and the second ruler of the Lei dynasty. His first act was to move the imperial capital and administration back to Tangzhai for the first time since the overthrow of the Jing dynasty.
Kuangshi […] 礦石[…]				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		[…] – 4902ᴛᴊʜ

Nao dynasty

A faun-ruled rebel dynasty during the Lei dynasty.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
				[…] – […]ᴛᴊʜ		4776 – 4802ᴛᴊʜ	26yrs

Dongji

A Shengwai-ruled breakaway dynasty. It was reconquered by the Cui dynasty as it took over from the collapsing Lei dynasty.

Cui dynasty

Dynasty Name:	Cui (翠)
Origin of Name:	Toponym & Noble Title:
	Cuishan (翠山) Wang of Cui (翠的王)
Capital:	Tangzhai (瑭寨)
Ruler Title:	Huangdi (皇帝)
Ruling Family
Name:	Sun (笋)
Race:	Human
Ethnicity:	Yinghui

The latest dynasty to rule Tianchao.

Names				Lifetime		Reign		Era Names
Personal	Courtesy	Posthumous	Temple
Sun Liu 笋留	Makan 嘛龛	Huangdi Shiwu 翠飾物皇帝	Xinjian 新建	4867 – 4933ᴛᴊʜ	66yrs	4903 – 4933ᴛᴊʜ	30yrs
Founder of the Cui dynasty.
Sun Mulan 笋木蘭	Bamei 八美	Huangdi Qiji 翠奇蹟皇帝	Zhepi 哲辟	4903 – 4961ᴛᴊʜ	60yrs	4933 – 4958ᴛᴊʜ	25yrs
Daughter of Huangdi Shiwu, and the last female monarch of Tianchao. She later abdicated in favor of her third son and chosen successor, Sun Xuan.
Sun Xuan 笋炫	Shuocan 箾摻	n/a	n/a	4933ᴛᴊʜ – still living	n/a	4958ᴛᴊʜ – Incum	n/a
Son of Huangdi Qiji, and the current ruler of Tianchao.

Notes & Trivia

• The lifetime and reign years use the Luan calendar years. There is a 421-year difference between the Luan calendar and the Solramese calendar. I.e. 0ᴛᴊʜ = 421ᴀᴄᴢ. To get the equivalent year to the Solramese calendar, subtract 421 from the year. Note: negative Solramese years, years before year 0, are suffixed ᴀᴄᴢ, while years 0 and after are suffixed ᴘᴄᴢ.
• The Quantao characters of the posthumous names of rulers, if applicable, are the name of the dynasty, the name, and their title, in that order.
• For rulers whose reigns ended before they died, this is an indicator that they abdicated or were somehow deposed without being executed.