House of Yu

Yu
Royal house
Country	Great United Benevolent State of All Chuyan Peoples
Founded	12 May 1697 (1697-05-12)
Founder	Yakmur Khagan (Mythical, Clan Founder) Aysen I Khagan (As Untsangasari Imperial House)
Current head	Timujin II Khagan
Estate(s)	Palace of Falling Waters, Kha'ankhot

The House of Yu are an aristocratic house in Ochran, and the current imperial house of Untsangasar. The House is an extension/subset of the Yu clan, a larger clan found throughout Untsangasar and with branches in other countries, but the House proper is, at present, largely confined to Untsangasar. Before the formation of the Untsangasari khaganate, the family was also an important player in the politics of the Jade Road Khaganate, in particular wielding significant influence over the eastern and northern provices in the region known then as Aspanaken.

Family Background

The Yu clan that the noble house represents the ruling, aristocratic core of is believed to have arisen in what is now southern Untsangasar, sometime either immediately prior to the Bayarid conquests or during the Bayarid imperial period, although when exactly is not known. What is known is that by the time the post-Bayarid Nanjut Federation had emerged in eastern Ochran, a clan claiming descent from a pre-Bayarid ruler of the Zhurjin people, one Yaghimur Khagan, had emerged and begun culturally integrating with the Lo people that had settled in the area. The clan, as it Sinicized would take the name "Yu", in reference to its founder, whose name was believed to translate to "rain".

As the Lo and Nanjut states fell under the sway of the growing Jade Road Khaganate, the Yu clan's profile grew, and its leadership gained prominence in the administration of the newly-acquired territories, even as they migrated north to participate in the project of founding the city of Yakushari in the early 1500's. The family's rise continued when Koyen Yu wedded a junior princess of the Ozkanid dynasty and was appointed the Khan, or governor, of the newly formed province of Aspanaken in 1568.

Over the next century, the Yu's would slowly build a powerbase in the eastern and northern peripheries of the Jade Road Khaganate, striking alliances and building relationships even with the tribal and herding peoples living outside the Khaganate proper. Even as they did this, the Sinicized Yu's increasingly found themselves (re-)Chuyanized and began seeking their opening to advance at court and perhaps even seize the throne from, as the 1600's rolled on, an increasingly-weak and unstable Ozkanid dynasty.

Their opportunity would come during the governorship of Nurhaci Yu in the 1690's. As the situation in the imperial court in Ozhe continued to deteriorate, various factions, regionally-based and otherwise, began to sponsor their own proxy claimants to the throne. This only accelerated once Ozkan VI Khagan left Ozhe to campaign in the restive western provinces in what would ultimately prove to be a fatal error. His distant blood relations increasingly either sought patrons for protection and advancement, or found their lives under threat. One Ozkanid princess, Duygu, fearing for her life, fled east to Yakushari in winter of 1696. Seeing an opportunity, Nurhaci promised sanctuary for Duygu, on the condition that she wed his son, Nikan. Short on options, Duygu agreed, and the two were wed on 12 May 1697, even as violence unfolded around Ozhe to begin the War of the Banners in earnest. The following day, 13 May 1697, the couple were acclaimed "Khan and Khatun of Aspanaken" by an assembly of chiefs, notables, and aristocrats from the subject peoples of the province and an assortment of peoples living outside the Khaganate proper. As the civil war grew, rather than pressing a claim to the Jade Throne in Ozhe, Nikan & Duygu and their Yu backers were content to simply remain in their eastern strongholds, drive out Ozkanid garrisons, and generally defend their holdings, allowing the chaos to destroy their rivals and, unfortunately for their ambitions, the Jade Road Khaganate with it.

Although their union was arranged, the marriage of Nikan and Duygu turned out to be quite a happy one and the two had many children, including their eventual heir Aysen Khagan who was born, by all acounts large and healthy approximately six months following their marriage in 1697. She would be followed by 10 brothers and sisters (although only six of them would reach adulthood). By the time Nikan and Duygu, with failing health, abdicated in 1737 in favor of Aysen, the House of Yu had established itself as a new dynasty, ruling a wholly-distinct empire in Northeast Ochran.

Heads of the House of Yu

Name		Portrait	Predecessor relations	Consort/Spouse	Lifespan	Entered office	Left office	Notes
Governors of Aspanaken
-	Cuyen	---	Son of Fiyanggu	TBD	1625 - 1682	1670	1682 (Death)	Not a lot to say.
-	Nurhaci	---	Son of Cuyen	TBD	1652 - 1714	1682	13 May 1697 (Office Abolished)	Engineered the rise of his son and daughter-in-law, along with kick-starting the creation of Untsangasar.
Monarchs of Untsangasar
1	Nikan I		Son of Nurhaci	Duygu Tayu	1678 - 1738 (Nikan I)	13 May 1697	21 June 1737 (Both) (Abdication)
2	Aysen		Daughter of Nikan I	Phillipos	1697 - 1770	21 June 1737	23 February 1770 (Death)
3	Altan I		Son of Aysen I	TBD	1719 - 1785	23 February 1770	6 October 1785 (Death)
4	Nikan II		Son of Altan I	TBD	1740 - 1832	6 October 1785	15 August 1832 (Death)
5	Altan II		Grandson of Nikan I Son of Temir Taiji	TBD	1799 - 1834	18 August 1832	19 July 1834 (Death)
6	Timujin I		Nephew of Altan II Son of Suna Gonji	TBD	1827 - 1880	31 July 1834	24 March 1880 (Death)
7	Oyuun		Daughter of Timujin I	TBD	1858 - 1933	27 March 1880	18 April 1933 (Abdication)
8	Erdem		Son of Oyuun	TBD	1884 - 1943	18 April 1933	17 November 1943 (Death)
9	Nikan III		Son of Erdem	TBD	1917 - 1984	19 November 1943	26 May 1984 (Death)
10	Timujin II		Son of Nikan II	TBD	1943 -	2 June 1984	incumbent