Bloodstone Emperor

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The Bloodstone Emperor
Monarch
Titles
  • God-Emperor
  • Bloodstone Emperor
Predecessor The Amethyst Empress
Successor None
Personal Information
Culture Yi Ti
Family
Father The Opal Emperor
References
Book The World of Ice and Fire (Mentioned)

The Bloodstone Emperor was a the legendary ninth and last ruler of the mythic Great Empire of the Dawn. He was the son of the Opal Emperor and the younger brother of the Amethyst Empress, who succeeded their father. Envious, he slew his sister and proclaimed himself the Bloodstone Emperor.

His was a reign of terror. The Bloodstone Emperor not only practiced torture, but also dark arts, necromancy. He enslaved his own people, took a tiger-woman for wife, feasted on human flesh and cast down the true gods of Yi Ti, to worship a black stone that fell from the sky. The Blood Betrayal, as his usurpation is known is the annals of the Further East, ushered in the Long Night, in which the Maiden-Made-of-Light turned her back upon the world and the Lion of Night came forth in all his power to punish the wickedness of man.

He's believed by some scholars to have beeen the first High Priest of the sinister Church of Starry Wisdom.[1]

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