List of Fengdao Monarchs

This list of rulers of the Fengdao begins with the first Chan-Changdi of the Fengdao up to the contemporary Changdi rulers.

Arguments are made for a few different ways to measure and due to the archaic roots of the title, to be considered the ruler of the Fengdao the person would ordinarily have to be crowned via the Beiqeòi. For this reason, any claimants who have not been crowned would not appear on the list.

Optionally, when crowned by the Beiqeòi, the individual will also take a regnal name which can be used during their reign and posthumously.

### Ancient Chan-Changdi

#### **Nipīn Dynasty**

##### **Reuzepannekoku**

Death: Slain by the Liqeni during the River War. Some sources say the Changdi fell from a mighty tower, others claim he was pushed by his enemies.

Notes: The first Chan-Changdi on record

##### **Reuzepannekoku II**

Death: Unknown

Notes: The son of Reuzepannekoku I, Crowned by the Beiqeòi on the battlefield after the Liqeni defeat in the River War. A famed strategist and general during the River war

#### **Fēng Dynasty**

##### **Yì Fēng**

Death: Unknown

Notes: An expansionist Changdi, the histories state only that Yì Fēng was a great advocate for the mapping and exploration of the Harmony isles.

##### **Kām Wàng**

Death: Died of old age.

Notes: Child of Yì Fēng, records state that this Changdi far outlived his contemporaries. His reign was entirely peaceful, earning him the nickname of "Wū Qhi / 睦送" i.e. peace-giver.

### Changdi

##### **Tao Wei**

Death: Murdered my an unknown Molemen assailant. Plummeted from a great height in Changxi.

Notes: Child of Kām Wàng, First contemporary Changdi in Sabrim and first of the zujiang living in the caverns of Changxi. Tao wei was openly against the moles native to his caves and is responsable for many of their deaths. For his crimes against moles he is nowadays seen as a discrace to the nation.

#### **Sāng Dynasty**

##### **Hē Sāng**

Death: Poisoned after a botch ransom attempt, Guru Xu Qīnshu takes responsibility for not first checking the wine that brought down the Changdi.

Notes: First Molemen Changdi, suspiciously placed into power immediately after the death of Tao Wei in the Molemen district of Changxi.

After his death, rumours spread like wildfire from Fengdao, in what appears to have been a botched ransom attempt, Changdi Hē Sāng was taken prisoner by a gang of disgruntled servants. Somehow, the Changdi escaped the clutches of his captors, only to have inadvertently been given poisoned wine that was given to the Fengdao as a gift. It appears the poisoned beverage was given while on a diplomatic mission in the Kingdom of Ashos, at the crowning of the King Theoel Jáhken Valingja I.

#### **Interregnum**

It is unsure why the Child of Hē Sāng refused the crown. Beiqeòi claimed that out of grief and perhaps wanderlust, the adopted child of Hē Sāng refused the crown, instead wishing to learn more about the world outside the harmony isles. Good friends of Hē Sāng say the Beiqeòi denied power to try and limit the increasing power of the Changdi. Either way, with no clear successor, the imperial court of Fengdao was thrown into disarray. In the immediate aftermath, the Beiqeòi took emergency powers until a new monarch could be found.

#### **Qīn-Sāng Dynasty**

After the Interregnum the Beiqeòi crowned Baò Qīn as Changdi only a couple years after his trips on the mainland with Tìwai. The winner of the Lemsam Quest, his authority to rule was not questioned. He married Tiwai (preivously Pi Sang) and they had 8 children who survived the age of 5 (Those dying at or soon after child birth have not been included on the family tree) This means that all members of the Qīn-Sāng dynasty are mixed race, part mole, part cave man. The eldest 5 were sent to Changxi from Fiko as to avoid another succession crisis. Despite this it is thought that Pi Sāng-Cha was second born however but Tiwai kept her in Fiko and sent Hèi instead. Lo, Yàn and Hèi all died before reaching puberty. Ko died after being pushed off a cliff in the cave at around 14. The person who killed him is still unknown.

##### **Baò Qīn**

death: Died of sea sickness

Notes: Lived a life of luxury between the Fiko mountains and the caves of Changxi. Notably loved gold. Was a Sulyì, and taught the people of Fiko proper Nisul.

Baò Qīn was crowned after winning the Lemsam Quest. He married Tiwai (previously Pi Sāng). He founded the Qīn-Sāng dynasty and pledged to instate the Changdi as symbols of luxury and upper class living. He was notable for changing the Fengdao surnaming laws. Now the child took the surname of the parent of the same gender. This is thought to be a move to not get his wife to reinstate the Sang dynasty. This meant that all male Changdi in his dynasty are sunamed Qīn and females are surnamed Sāng. He died whilst returning from the Lemqīn colony and during which time he wrote many letters to his son Zan. He commissioned a throne room but it was only in the reign of his son it was completed.

##### **Zan Qīn**

Death: Died of plague, see The Great Plage

Notes: Built the throne room his father commissioned, last changdi of the harmony isles and oversaw the expansion of the Lemqīn colony

Zan was crowned after his father tragically died of sea sickness on the way back from Lemqīn. He assumed the title of his father and vowed to uphold his father's image. He oversaw the building of two new cities in Lemqīn boosting the colony and helping it defend itself from unfriendly neighbours. This was done by annexing the Duchy of Cilleni. This also resulted in a bit more autonomy for the growing colony. He notably had no kids but his brother and sister (Pitāng and Pi Sāng Cha) had a litter. They made sure that Zan did not have kids so that Pi Sāng Cha could be Changdi after his death.

For more on the colony see Lemqin

##### **Pi Sāng Cha**

Death: Killed in Uduge

Notes:

Pi Sāng Cha was crowned after her brother died of plague, making her the first female Changdi of the Qīn-Sāng dynasty. Just before her coronation Pi sang cha was locked up by the paranoid Zan Qin. Pi Sāng Cha notably had the shortest reign of all the changdi's.

**Pi Sung Qin**

Death: n/a

Notes:

##### **Notable Family Members of the Qīn-Sāng**

###### **Pitang Qīn & Pi Sāng Cha**

Pitang is notable for abandoning his family and becoming a Qeoi. He later had sex with his biological sister Pi Sāng Cha but this wasn't regarded as incest as he had abandoned his family by law.

###### **Fāi Qīn**

Fāi is notable for inventing the hot air balloons used in Fiko for goods transport. He was Sulyì and was in charge of teacher the people of Fiko how to speak proper Nisul, the language of the surface dwellers. He tragically died on a test flight where the balloon caught fire.

###### **Xhen Sāng/Srhen Sang**

Xhen was notable for being a Sulyì and teaching the people of the Lemqin the proper way to speak Nisul after they started having a funny accent. The government in Changxi felt a different language might make the Lemqin dwellers feel more independent which it was trying to supress. She was also the first member of the royal family to adopt a Nisul name "Srhen Sang". She adapted Gusul names and books to Nisul so that there would be less division in the province of Lemqin.