Empress Chai Ran Yan

Empress Chai Ran Yan is the matriarch of House Chai Ran. She is the mother of Lady Chai Ran Dian and the aunt of Lady Chai Ran Yi. She is one of the minor POV characters in The Dragon Has Three Heads. She is the fourth member of Aegon's Harem.

Appearance and Character

 * See also: Images of Empress Chai Ran Yan

Despite being a mother to a young woman of at least sixteen, Empress Chai Ran Yan could easily pass for her daughter's sister. Age hasn't marred her beauty in the slightest, not even a single wrinkle blemishing her skin. Chai Ran Yan bears the classical Yi Tish features of slanted eyes, but with Valyrian coloring due to being the descendants of the Yellow Emperors of ages past. Her skin is pale, her eyes amethyst, and her hair platinum blonde.

She is deeply skilled with statesmanship and bureaucracy thanks to her extensive experience in the millennia old government of Yi Ti.

History
Empress Chai Ran Yan is the matriarch of House Chai Ran of the line of the Yellow Emperors, and the former Empress of Leng. She is a master of cultivation rarely seen, nearing two centuries of age without a trace of the decades in her features. As a young woman she would experiment in lesbian relationships with both her sister (the mother of Lady Chai Ran Yi) and her maids as "practice" for her husband, though this faltered somewhat when her sister perished against horseman raiders of the Jogos Nhai. Marriage, however, proved to be a disappointment. Beyond siring Ran Dian on her, her husband barely ever touched her.

As the years flew by, Chai Ran Yan ended up hiring the rising General Feng Xian after his very public rejection of multiple masters. She managed to secure his allegiance through promising the hand of her daughter, Chai Ran Dian, with whom Feng Xian quickly became enamored with. With this mighty warrior at its side, House Chai Ran was secure in its power, even should the Azure Emperor himself decide to wage war against them.

Yet all that political maneuvering was for naught. Disaster struck, and abominations overran all of Yi Ti. A scant fraction of their once mighty population escaped, and only then because the Lion of the Night and the Maiden Made of Light personally descended from the heavens to save them. Chai Ran Yan took charge of the refugees of Yi Ti and Leng and fled west, accepting the aid offered by Boromun, a ship captain in service of House Targaryen.

After months at sea the refugees arrived at Volantis and were ushered into the Dragonlord Manse to treat with Aegon... coincidentally precisely as Daenerys was giving birth. Their first meeting was then postponed for several days, but after that she had a private meeting with Aegon in the gardens. Though negotiations initially went well, with Ran Yan even going so far as to offer up her family's only dragon egg in her desperation, Aegon... miscalculated, and committed several diplomatic blunders without realizing the insult he offered. As such he was forced to reverse time for a second time, after which the situation was manageable.

With the newly revised deal, Yi Ti would be given the ruins of Vaes Dothrak, renamed Naques Irudy, to settle and make their new home as a vassal directly to Aegon. Further, Aegon would not only let the Chai Rans keep their dragon egg, but he would help them hatch it and train it properly. Though it rankled for them to bow to anyone, Ran Yan accepted the bargain, and she and her family stayed as honored guests in the Dragonlord Manse as her people labored in Volantis in preparation to settle in their new home.

For a time the Yi Tish settled into a new routine, making waves with their paper making and their silk weaving. Foreign though they were, they were also recognized as the Dragonlords' subordinates, and thus they weren't cheated nearly as much as they otherwise would have been. Within the Dragonlord Manse, the Chai Rans weren't idle either. Before long, they fell into bed with first Daenerys and then with Aegon, though thankfully Chai Ran Dian never got a chance to be with Aegon and break her betrothal with General Feng Xian no matter how much she wanted to.

Chai Ran Yan grew into a regular sexual partner for Aegon, sleeping with him often even after she realized she was pregnant with his triplets (something she could apparently discern through her talent in cultivation). With this she not only secured her family's place in what she perceived as the new world order, a budding empire of dragonlords, but her own place as one of the chief wives in Aegon's growing harem.

Children
Lady Chai Ran Dian -- The eldest child of Chai Ran Yan, Lady Chai Ran Dian is also her biggest disappointment, failing to learn any meaningful lessons in politics or statecraft due to a hyperactive libido. Ran Dian very nearly brought about their doom by trying to seduce Aegon Targaryen before formally breaking off her standing engagement with General Feng Xian.

Chai Ran Yan is currently five months pregnant with Aegon's triplets and is due in about four months. She is able to discern the number of her unborn children through cultivation, though is unable to identify their genders.