Andan Shandal Yeng

> "*What a droll analysis from someone who's never had to sit through a dinner with all his children squabbling over pittances of power.*"
> ― Andan Shandal Yeng
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Hexarch **Andan Shandal Yeng** was the most recent Andan hexarch. She appeared in Raven Stratagem. She had six living, acknowledged children, including Andan Tseya.

## Appearance and Personality

Shandal Yeng maintains an immaculate appearance, wearing rich, sultry robes, rings, and jewels. She had a number of successive consorts whom Nirai Mahar diagnosed as "social rivals she's decided to take down personally." Hexarch Nirai Kujen found her tiresome, though less exasperating when she wasn't smiling, and both he and Hexarch Shuos Mikodez observed her unsuccessfully trying to buy her childrens' love.

## History

Shandal Yeng had a tempestuous relationship with her son, Andan Nezhe, who had insisted on special operations training instead of joining high society as she'd wanted him to. He also slept with Kujen at a party given by her, leading to another vicious quarrel. Their last argument, a long time ago, ended in Nezhe's social status being reduced. When Nezhe became a woman and was renamed Tseya, Shandal Yeng accepted her new pronouns but not her name. Nonetheless, Shandal Yeng considered Tseya the most brilliant of her children and searched for ways to buy back her loyalty.

While outwardly scornful of the Kel swarm that had been taken over by General Shuos Jedao, Shandal Yeng used a protocol program to cover for having a conversation on the side with Hexarch Kel Tsoro during a video conference with the other hexarchs. Mikodez recorded the conversation to review it later.

Together with Tsoro, Shandal Yeng arranged for Tseya to be assigned to Jedao's assassination, along with a Kel high general to retake the swarm after Tseya had enthralled Jedao. Tseya, who had not spoken with Shandal Yeng in a long time, was given the impression that Shandal Yeng did not believe she could accomplish the mission.

Shandal Yeng asked Hexarch Nirai Faian to extend immortality to Tseya as a bid to win Tseya back, but Faian turned her down. Shandal Yeng then contacted Kujen, the only hexarch to reach him after his disappearance, and asked, bribed, and threatened him for access to his own new immortality process for Tseya. Kujen turned her down as well, arguing that Tseya would come to hate her if she discarded her other acknowledged children. Despite his refusal to accommodate her, Shandal Yeng did not inform the other hexarchs of the conversation.

As scheduled, Shandal Yeng joined several of the other hexarchs on Station Mavi 514-11 to receive Faian's new form of immortality, and died when a shadowmoth made a suicidal attack on the station.

## Trivia

* Shandal Yeng's reliance on material goods and services to bribe loyalty out of her children suggests that she had already reached the limit of effectiveness of her ability to enthrall them into obedience.

## References

1. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 20
2. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 20,25
3. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 17,20
4. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 7
5. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 12,17
6. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 20
7. ↑ Raven Stratagem, Chapter 26