Zheng Yan
County clerk left behind with ledgers, forms, and law
Cautious, exact, and unimpressed by heroic language.
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Year One of Zhongping: Foundations in Chaos
Yingchuan, 184 CE.
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About this story
Yingchuan, 184 CE. The Yellow Turban uprising has cut the official road and the county can no longer protect Shiliang village. You hold a failing granary, twenty-seven temporary defenders, and the attention of clans, refugees, rebels, and Han officers. Build a power base slowly enough to deserve it: feed people, make alliances, survive losses, earn or counterfeit authority, and decide what order means before the empire comes apart around you.
Meet the cast
Han Lie
Retired frontier soldier training Shiliang's temporary defenders
Blunt, observant, and loyal to preparations rather than speeches.
Xu Heng
Head of Shiliang's largest local clan
Patient, proud, and practical.
Tang Qiniang
Caravan owner with three carts and routes beyond official roads
Dry, mobile, and allergic to patriotic excuses for confiscation.
Liang He
Young organizer of more than sixty refugees, once treated by Taiping healers
Controlled and alert, suspicious of both official titles and charitable performance.
Huangfu Song
Han General of the Household leading operations in Yingchuan
Steady and consequence-minded.
What you'll explore
historicalenglishthree-kingdomslate-hanpower-basestrategycanon-awareserial-campaignpublic-domainsfw
Content notes: war, famine, political violence
How it begins
Zhongping, year one. Third month. North of Changshe in Yingchuan.
Your choices shape what happens next.
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