Yujin

156KO - 599KO (443 years old)

Empress from 85 (242KO) to 420 (576KO)

Often referred to as The Golden Empress, as her rule seemed to bring prosperity to all that came under the O'Sine banner. She was known for her patient, strategic and peaceful conquering style - gaining territory for the kingdom through economics and the promise of protection rather than war.

Early Life

Legacy as Empress
The Vei Roads Project Era (248 - 298KO)

After Emperor Yu'he's death had reached the court, Queen Mother Misha had begged Yujin to forego any more exploration. Yujin made the promise, but craftily began the Vei Roads Project as a way to solidify and legitimize her territory (and any territories it branched out into) as O'Sine. She moved the capital to Castle Misha and rushed through several reforms aimed at strengthening the governance power of the individual provinces.

Though the framework of the roads would have taken less than a decade to build, Yujin deliberately slowed their construction down in order to let the majesty of the Vei civilization lure in citizens. While it was called the "Vei Roads" project, in reality it encompassed initiatives to create cities and towns, fertilize and irrigate lands and spread and incorporate Vei culture into the entire landscape.

When she started the Vei Roads Project, the capital "cities" of the four mainland provinces were little more than large forts. By the time the Vei Roads Project was "completed," each province had at least three cities with over 10,000 residents. Castle Misha had already expanded into a teeming metropolis of 50,000. The population of Sunling citizens had quintupled in a generation (about half from accepting citizens through existing populations) and the Hael and Vei populations had doubled.

The Aviana Territory Project (304 - 370)

During the completion of the Vei Roads, Yujin's builders had repeatedly come across minor clashes with the Aviana civilization to the North, especially with small fiefdoms from the states of Grayswallow and Greenfinch. Yujin applied her slow, steady and peaceful approach to conquering those lands as well, relying this time on trade routes, offers of help and the secret seeding of discontent within various statehoods.

The Goldstork Duchess was the most receptive, and Goldstork became the first state to establish formalized tributary relations. The Port of Nine was designated an ambassadorial municipality under Vei rule. In return, Yujin, through her brother Yu'gan, helped Goldstork overwhelm and incorporate their neighbor, White Heron.

The Northern province of Bluegoose very soon afterwards joined as a tributary, partially in fear of also becoming absorbed into Goldstork and partially because they were promised help defending against Norfolk and nomadic tribes coming down from the Steppes.

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