Late Emperor Gi

Emperor Gi is considered to be one of the most important emperors in the current dynasty and he led his country to a golden age of prosperity and peace. He ruled for the total of 67 years which is also auite unprecedented. However, he also had over thirty children and twelve of his princes made it into adulthood. Because the transfer of power is based on merit and not necessarily on who was born first and to whom, there was some dubiousness about who is supposed to be the next one on the throne. And the late emperor did not want to watch his children fight over his favour during his life, so he never firmly appointed a crown prince like many of his predecessors. Unfortunately that led to one of the most intense and bloody battles for the throne after emperor Gi eventually passed away. At least he did not have to see the consequences of his (in)actions.   Out of twelve princess only one could emerge victorious and only one other would survive alongside him. His ally suffered a grievous injury during the siege of two tigers that left him with permanent brain damage and unable to ever regain speech again.   Scholars to this day wonder what would the late emperor truly think about the actions of his many children and wether he has forseen the battle that is about to be and simply just tried to stave it off for as long as possible, hoping that his children would forge friendship eventually. Or if it was something that simply could not be avoided and so the late emperor simply favoured being dead and residing in heavens over having to wintess the massacre himself.   Only the divinators could now speculate, as long as they do not dispute the legitimacy of the current ruler.