Dan Ming

Dan Ming is the current Empress of the Celestial Empire. Dan Ming was the third born of the Dan Dynasty former Emperor, Dan Wuxi-Daio. However her older brother was found to be part of a conspiracy to kill his elderly father, and Godslaying in a serious crime in Celestia. This left the second make son to become heir apparent as attempted Godslaying was enough to force the firstborn to take a vow of redemption and isolate himself in a monastery, giving up his name to avoid execution. When the Emperor died, his second born, then 20 years old, took the throne, but half the court believed he was behind framing his brother for the attempted murder. After a year, he found impossible to rule and abdicated the throne in favor of the next male heir, the fourth born. However the kid was 8 and that would mean a long regencial period. Dan Ming was 18, and legal adulthood was 16 for women, and married to High-Lord General Sin Cao-lin. The Sin clan being very powerful, and the regent was going to be a very disliked member of the Dan Dynasty, the former emperor's brother. So Sin Cao-Lin pressed the claim of his wife and the courts approved, placing a woman in the throne for the fourth time in history. And the first that it was a direct succession rather than being the last living heir or taking control as regent.
Given the massive weight on her shoulders, many say that Dan Ming actually a figure head for her husband. But her first act as Empress was to send her husband back to his province in the far north, physically isolated him from the throne and capital. There's 2 ways to read this move: Either she used him for her claim and banished him after, or she wants someone she can thrust holding the far flung provinces in line, and thrusts herself and her allies to hold the capital. The Han of the K'elle'orde is trough matrilineal ties one of the candidates for the next Emperor of the Celestial Empire and the two countries share a deep alliance. The K'elle Han seeks to usurp his cousin's throne and form a united empire across the Subcontinent .
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