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{{Hatnote|"Golden Empire" redirects here. For the planned television series, see [[The Golden Empire]].}}
The '''Golden Empire of Yi Ti''' is a realm located in the [[Yi Ti|eponymous region]] of the [[Further East]] of [[Essos]]. It is the supposed successor to the mythic [[Great Empire of the Dawn]], which, according to legend, fell during the [[Long Night]]. It is ruled by a [[God-Emperor]], who is worshiped as divine, though in the present day the God-Emperor has little actual power beyond the limits of the capital city.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: Yi Ti}}

==Capital==

Throughout the centuries, the capital Golden Empire has constantly moved as dynasties rose and fell. The [[grey emperors|grey]], [[indigo emperors|indigo]] and [[pearl-white emperors]] ruled from [[Yin]], on the shores of the [[Jade Sea]], whereas the [[scarlet emperors]] raised the now fallen city of [[Si Qo]] in the heart of the jungle; meanwhile, the [[purple emperors]] chose [[Tiqui]], whilst the [[maroon emperors]] kept court at [[Jinqi]], to better guard their borders against reavers from the [[Shadow Lands]].{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: Yi Ti}}

The current capital is Yin, where the seventeenth [[azure emperors|azure emperor]] [[Bu Gai]] keeps his court. Yet, a [[sorcerer lord]] who claims to be the sixty-ninth [[yellow emperors|yellow emperor]] claims the throne from his seat at the city of [[Carcosa]] on the [[Hidden Sea]], beyond the limits of the Empire. And more recently, a general named [[Pol Qo]] has named himself first of the [[orange emperors]], with the city called [[Trader Town]] as his capital.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: Yi Ti}}

==Borders==
*North: The [[Plains of the Jogos Nhai]].
*Northeast: The [[Bleeding Sea]] and the [[Five Forts]], which separate the Empire from the [[Land of the Shrykes]].
*East: The [[Mountains of the Morn]]
*Southeast: The [[Shadow Lands]]
*South: The [[Jade Sea]]
*West: The [[Bone Mountains]] and the [[Great Sand Sea]]

==History==
Since its origins in the wake of the Long Night to the present, eleven dynasties have ruled over the Empire. Some lasted no more than half a century, whereas others endured for seven hundred years. Some gave way to others peacefully, others in war; and on four ocassions, the end of a dynasty was followed by a period of anarchy and lawlessness when warlords and petty kings warred for supremacy, with the longest of these interregnums lasting more than a century.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: Yi Ti}}

The Empire lives in a constant state of war against the [[Jogos Nhai]], with many an imperial general and three [[God-Emperor]]s having led armies across the plains to bring the nomads to heel, but such attempts seldom ended well and eventually the Jogos Nhai raids began anew, even when emperors compelled handfuls of ''jhats'' to vow them eternal fealty, as Jogos Nhai tended to flee rather than face armies in battle.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: The Plains of the Jogos Nhai}}

During his long reign, forty-second [[scarlet emperors|scarlet emperor]] [[Lo Han]] led three such invasions of the plains, yet by the time of his death the Jogos Nhai carried out bolder and more rapacious raids than when he began his reign. His successor, [[Lo Bu]] determined to end the threat of the nomads for all time. He assembled a mighty host, said to be three hundred thousand strong, and crossed the borders of the empire with slaughter as his only purpose. Tributes, hostages, oaths of fealty, or offerings of peace failed to sway him and his vast army swept the plains, leaving behind a burning wasteland.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: The Plains of the Jogos Nhai}}

When the nomads resorted to their traditional tactic of melting away at the approach of the army, Lo Bu divided his host into thirteen smaller armies and sent them forth in all directions to hunt down the zorse-riders. History tells a million Jogos Nhai died at their hands.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: The Plains of the Jogos Nhai}}

The rival clans of Jogos Nhai unified under ''[[jhattar]]'' [[Zhea]], who, in a period of two years isolated each of Lo Bu's thirteen armies, slew their scouts and foragers, starved them, denied them water, led them into wastelands and traps, thus destroying each army one by one. Finally, her riders fell on Lo Bu's own host and carried out a slaughter so terrible that every stream for twenty leagues around was choked in blood. Among the slain was Lo Bu himself, whose skull was stripped of flesh and dipped in gold, becoming Zhea's drinking cup.{{Ref|twoiaf| The Bones and Beyond: The Plains of the Jogos Nhai}}

==Dynasties==
{{See also|:Category:Ruling dynasties of Yi Ti}}

{| class=wikitable width=80%i
!width=10% | Dynasty
!width=10% | Family name
!width=10px | Known rulers
!width=15% | Capital
|-
| [[Grey emperors|Grey]]
| Har
| [[Har Loi]], 1st grey emperor
| [[Yin]]
|-
| [[Indigo emperors|Indigo]]
| Choq
| [[Choq Choq]], 15th and last indigo emperor
| [[Yin]]
|-
| [[Jade-green emperors|Jade green]]
| Mengo
| [[Mengo Quen]], 3rd jade-green emperor
| &nbsp; 
|-
| rowspan="4"|[[Scarlet emperors|Scarlet]]
| rowspan="4"|Lo 
| [[Lo Tho]], 22nd scarlet emperor
| rowspan="4"|[[Si Qo]]
|-
| [[Lo Doq]], 34th scarlet emperor
|-
| [[Lo Han]], 42nd scarlet emperor
|-
| [[Lo Bu]], 43rd and last scarlet emperor
|-
| [[Pearl-white emperors|Pearl white]]
|&nbsp; 
| [[Nine Eunuchs]]
| [[Yin]]
|-
| rowspan="3"|[[Sea-green emperors|Sea green]]
| rowspan="3"|Jar
|[[Jar Har]], 6th sea-green emperor
| rowspan="3"|&nbsp;
|-
|[[Jar Joq]], 7th sea-green emperor
|-
|[[Jar Han]], 8th sea-green emperor
|-
| [[Purple emperors|Purple]]
|&nbsp;
|&nbsp; 
| [[Tiqui]]
|-
| [[Maroon emperors|Maroon]]
|&nbsp; 
|&nbsp; 
| [[Jinqi]]
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Yellow emperors|Yellow]]
| rowspan="2"|Chai
|[[Chai Duq]], 4th yellow emperor
| rowspan="2"|&nbsp;
|-
|The [[sorcerer lord]] of Carcosa, rival claimant to the throne as 69th yellow emperor
|-
| [[Azure emperors|Azure]]
| Bu
| [[Bu Gai]], 17th and current azure emperor
| [[Yin]]
|-
| [[Orange emperors|Orange]]
| Pol
| [[Pol Qo]], rival claimant to the throne
| [[Trader Town]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{References}}

[[Category:Nations]]
[[Category:Yi Ti]]

[[es:Imperio Dorado de Yi Ti]]
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