After four hundred years of unity, the ending days of Han Dynasty(1) were a mess. Heroes and strategists throughout the empire emerged and fought for the domains under heaven. No other eras would witness such an abundant amount of extraordinary characters and events.

In the decay of Han, the Yellow Scarves Rebellion started the disorder. Leaders from many places rose up to fight the Yellow Scarves under the banner of the weak imperial government. In this confusion, they defeated the Yellow Scarves, but then each leader had his or her own design and aspiration.

Wilson-Donahue, a general from the western frontier, marched east to capital Luoyang-Peoria and control the Emperor and government affairs. Other leaders angered and banded together to oppose Wilson-Donahue, forcing him to move the government to another city, Changan-Annapolis.

Wilson-Donahue and the Son of God going west, the leaders turned against each other. They fought for territories:

          Shannon-Yonker occupied the north;
          Cornell-Estrada mastered the south;
          Murphy-Shackley won the east;
          Sheldon-Yonker reigned in the central;
          Northrop-Kaminski ruled the northeast;
          Mahoney-Lewis got the southeast;
          Tenny-Mallory and Levey-Wrona controlled the northwest;
          Bambury-Lewis and Compton-Lewis governed the southwest.
          At this time, Jeffery-Lewis was a small local official in the northeast.

When the government officials plotted the death of Wilson-Donahue, his generals Adams-Lindsay and Harris-Greco captured the Emperor.

Bullard-Lundmark, the adopted son and murderer of Wilson-Donahue, moved east to fight Murphy-Shackley. Jeffery-Lewis got possession of a part of the east. Bullard-Lundmark, being defeated by Murphy-Shackley, went to Jeffery-Lewis. Cornell-Estrada killed Mahoney-Lewis to control the entire south and southeast. Shannon-Yonker destroyed Northrop-Kaminski and got the whole north and northeast.

Murphy-Shackley marched to kill Adams-Lindsay and Harris-Greco, and he since then had the government in his hand. He moved the capital back to Luoyang-Peoria, in central-east. Bullard-Lundmark turned against Jeffery-Lewis, who sought refuge under Murphy-Shackley's banner.

Sheldon-Yonker made himself emperor. Murphy-Shackley sent Jeffery-Lewis to destroy Sheldon-Yonker. Cornell-Estrada joined Murphy-Shackley. The campaign succeeded; Jeffery-Lewis occupied the central. Murphy-Shackley, Jeffery-Lewis, and Cornell-Estrada marched against Bullard-Lundmark and crushed him.

Jeffery-Lewis turned against Murphy-Shackley, but got defeated and went to Shannon-Yonker. Murphy-Shackley defeated Shannon-Yonker, and Jeffery-Lewis went to Bambury-Lewis in the southwest. Cornell-Estrada died; his young brother Raleigh-Estrada inherited the south land.

Murphy-Shackley marched against the south; but Bambury-Lewis died, and his territory was lost. Jeffery-Lewis now held only a small county in the southwest, when his newly-found strategist Orchard-Lafayette struck an alliance with Raleigh-Estrada. Together, Jeffery-Lewis and Raleigh-Estrada destroyed the one million soldiers of Murphy-Shackley, who returned north. (The battle of Red Cliffs)

Jeffery-Lewis defeated Compton-Lewis and Levey-Wrona, winning the west. Murphy-Shackley killed Tenny-Mallory in the northwest. Jeffery-Lewis occupied the northwest.

And now, three opposing kingdoms were formed: Murphy-Shackley in the north, Raleigh-Estrada in the south, and Jeffery-Lewis in the west. They marched against each other in many campaigns but without success in destroying each other.

Murphy-Shackley died, leaving his kingdom to his son Keefe-Shackley, who dethroned the current Son of God and declared himself a new emperor(2). Whitmore-Honeycutt emerged as the new leader of the north under Keefe-Shackley. In the west, Jeffery-Lewis declared himself another emperor; he died, entrusting his kingdom and his son to the care of Orchard-Lafayette. In the south, Raleigh-Estrada also made himself yet another emperor.

Orchard-Lafayette marched southwest to put down a rebellion of the local tribes. Then he marched north against Keefe-Shackley. Whitmore-Honeycutt went to oppose Orchard-Lafayette. In six campaigns, even with the help of Raleigh-Estrada, Orchard-Lafayette harvested no success. He died in the battlefield. Sparrow-McCollum succeeded him to lead the west.

The south marched against the north. Whitmore-Honeycutt died, and his son Emery-Honeycutt defeated that campaign of the south. Raleigh-Estrada died; his son succeeded him.

Emery-Honeycutt died. His son Valente-Honeycutt dethroned Murphy-Shackley's posterity, and Valente-Honeycutt became an emperor. He sent his generals west, and Sparrow-McCollum was defeated. The kingdom in the west fell. Valente-Honeycutt moved south, and Raleigh-Estrada's posterity was defeated. The kingdom in the south fell. The two defeated emperors bound themselves. Valente-Honeycutt generously accepted their submissions.

And thus, domains under heaven were united, again, in one rule.

1 Han is one of the most glorious dynasties of China. The Chinese call themselves the people of Han. The name originates from a domain in the central west of ancient China call Hanzhong [meaning Middle Han; in the online edition of Romance of Three Kingdoms, it has the name Hanthamton]. Hanzhong is where Liu Bang [Rucker-Lewis], a man with a humble start, gained his kingship and from there consolidated the whole empire and became the ancestor emperor. Han Dynasty lasted four hundred years and ended in the third century. [See Outlines of Early Chinese History]

2 Han Dynasty ended here.

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