Introducing: Jin Baijian
Some facts about this guy!
He’s the son of one of Jiawei and Dongguo’s sisters, Liqin. She’s the middle child
(Jin is still considered the family name because the eldest sister of any batch of imperial kids passes on the surname because she inherits a position in the theocratric part of government.)
Baijian is the second-born son of Changming and Liqin, and the third-born all together. The eldest is Chenguang, his sister, and the older brother is Longwei. Baijian has three younger sisters and one younger brother.
He’s six years older than Kaifen, putting him at twenty-one
He’s kind of a disgrace to the whole family! He’s blessed, of course he’s blessed, but he mostly just uses it to find out secrets on people.
Take the usual gaudy fashions of Yangshe and turn it up to a hundred.
He decorates his robes with various flowers. He really likes perfume. He smells of his favourites very, very strongly.
Was involved in a scandal with the daughter of a nobleman from one of the islands. Apologies were sent out and Baijian was punished with being sent off of Burning Rock Temple to study - you guessed it! - nothing but scripture and scrolls
The idea was to make him a monk. It was Liqin’s idea
After causing a lot of mayhem for a year the head wrote to Liqin saying, “hey please come get your son I cannot take this anymore”
He got taken home. Got shoved onto Longwei to maybe help deal with.
The two of them were fairly successful in solving some disputes between farmers in the west of the empire! Baijian started to feel like things were going well!
He had another scandal again. Met a pretty noble boy. It got covered up fairly well.
He got shipped off to a small island off the coast of Drekku as an “ambassador.” He mostly just did nothing.
He’s very good at chess!
And card games. He doesn’t like to gamble for real but he will bet with things like, “If you win, I’ll let you have ten years of my life”
Unapologetic flirt
Pretty good at conflict resolution!
After about two years on that island he is finally back! Because of his good behaviour overseas he managed to convince his parents that he should be rewarded with a tour of the empire (”I want to get reacquainted with my people.”)
He’s kind of a national heart throb
Kiiiind of a dumbass, but smarter than he seems
Makes fun of his brother, Longwei, for being so serious all the time. But he’s secretly kind of envious of Longwei’s position - he’s on track for being the youngest general in Yangshe history.
Got partway through the tour when all that shit went down in Vwos.
“Hey remember your dead cousin? He’s alive now. Killed his father, kidnapped his brother and Uncle Dongguo, no one can find any of them. This makes Longwei next in line for the succession.”
Longwei is currently on the battlefiend with the Blylahns and probably won’t be able to leave for several months, at best!
Baijian is next in the succession
Baijian is acting as emperor now
Please someone help him














