Xue Siyuan (Ancestral War)

## Xue Siyuan

**Xue Siyuan** (薛寺院, *Xuē Sìyuàn*) is the Crown Princess of the Shenzhou Empire and the wife of Jun Wu, the ruler of the Mameihe Fortress. Wielder of the legendary Jixing Gao-Zhao sword, she was the eldest sworn sibling of Meng Shi's mother Meng Xiuyue, with Meng Shi's mother perishing during a Night Hunt.

She is the leading commander of the Western Battlefront and is the most celebrated Princess of the Xue Dynasty (as of the current time), due to her accomplishments during the Wars of Reckoning.

## Appearance

Xue Siyuan is a stern and cold-faced Celestial being with the appearance of a twenty-year-old, creamy jade white skin, and carved, jade-like features that show her cold demeanor. Considered extremely beautiful, Xue Yao, states that Siyuan's beauty far surpasses that of many cultivators due to her cultivating into immortality. Her features are stated to have been strongly inherited by her martial niece and martial grandnephew, as statues of the two royals are often mistaken for Siyuan and her husband.

## Personality

Described as being cold-tongued, ruthless, and ambitious by others, Xue Siyuan is considered to be a fearsome figure in the field of Shenzhouan law and the court system reflects her bottomless ambition (or so it is said). In truth, Siyuan is incredibly bad at expressing her feelings and struggles with understanding emotional connections, to the point that her personal relationships have malfunctioned multiple times. Her unwillingness to explain her reasoning and often erratic decisions led to the intervention of Fu Hua on more than one occasion. Nevertheless, Siyuan is a usually straightforward, blunt, and honest-natured person who rarely-if-ever hides her opinion.

Xue Siyuan is noted as being a caring martial aunt and her parenting style towards Meng Shi reflects that, as she became incredibly enraged upon learning of Jin Guangshan abandoning her and her newborn child. Her loyalty towards the memory of her late sworn sibling Meng Xiuyue is so strong, that she refused to accept evidence suggesting otherwise.

## History

Xue Siyuan was born the eldest child and sole surviving child of Emperor Xue and Empress Xue's ten children. The fate of her younger siblings were never mentioned, but it was suspected that Empress Wang had them murdered upon the previous Empress' death. At the age of 10, her father remarried to the woman who would become Empress Wang, leaving Siyuan and her younger brother in an extremely difficult position.

## Abilities

* **Cultivation**: Xue Siyuan's cultivation is amongst the best in her entire generation, as she is the martial daughter-in-law of Fu Hua and is a member of the Xue Dynasty.

### Weapons

* **Jixing Gao-Zhao**: A family heirloom passed down

## Trivia

* She is the sworn martial aunt of Meng Shi, though remains unaware of her martial grandnephew's existence until his birth after which he is adopted into the Xue Dynasty. Subsequently Meng Shi becomes her martial niece and a member of the high-ranking Dynasty until her death.
* A blood ritual was enacted between Xue Siyuan and her husband to blood-adopt Meng Shi and Meng Yao into their family, with the facial features of both the Meng and the Xuan blending together into one.
* Empress Wang is the stepmother of Siyuan and Meng, though Meng conspired to have her killed when he learned of the Empress's remarks towards his elder sister.
* Meng Yao (or Xue Yao) as he became after his adoption into Siyuan's familial dynasty, is a prodigy in Blade Mantra and reportably mastered it faster than Siyuan.
* She uses the Qingshang School's Blade Mantra's despite having never been formally taught it by her Shizun. It is currently unknown who taught her the school's Blade Mantra's.
	+ The most powerful stage of the Blade Mantra's is **Connection** - the stage is named as such because of the Blade Mantra's connecting the past and future users of the techniques through Memory Crystallization - as of the present time only Fu Hua has even reached and mastered this stage.
* Qingshang is one of the countries where the "land meets the sea" and is described as a militaristic nation that is ruled by Queen Jiangnan. As the Crown Princess of the Shenzhou Empire, a bordering nation of Qingshang, she is well acquainted with Queen Jiangnan and describes her as a "absolute tyrant" with little remorse or even any positive feelings towards her citizens.