
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. Some lasted no more than half a century, whereas others endured for seven hundred years. Since its origins in the wake of the Long Night to the present, eleven dynasties have ruled over the Empire.
West: The Bone Mountains and the Great Sand Sea.
Northeast: The Bleeding Sea and the Five Forts, which separate the Empire from the Land of the Shrykes. 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. Yet, a sorcerer lord who claims to be the sixty-ninth yellow emperor claims the throne from his seat at the city of Carcosa on the Hidden Sea, beyond the limits of the Empire. The current capital is Yin, where the seventeenth azure emperor Bu Gai keeps his court. The grey, 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. Throughout the centuries, the capital Golden Empire has constantly moved as dynasties rose and fell.