Brilliant light flowed across the Annals.
Information about the ruler of Yan State slowly appeared. After obtaining some information, Luo Zhang decisively cut short his examination of the ruler.
The Book of Man consumed relatively little Fortune, but the Annals consumed rather more and were generally used only to examine crucial events.
Upon the Book of Man appeared the ruler of Yan State, who had always been quite mysterious to the people of the Central Plains.
He was a man of imposing stature, his face shrouded in mist, yet an unyielding arrogance could still be seen filling his eyes. He held a sharp sword and rode a magnificent king among horses.
Words appeared upon the Book of Man.
[Yan Lin is imposing, ever harboring the will to fight, and skilled at commanding vast armies. Violent and autocratic by nature, arrogant and fearless.]
Yan Lin was the current ruler of Yan State. Naturally, he had not been born with the surname Yan.
The great noble families of present-day Yan State in Liaodong had all been stripped of their surnames when their ancestors were exiled to Great Xianbei Mountain in the far north of Liaodong.
The Murong Clan, for instance, had taken the clan name Murong from the Daoist teachings passed down in their family. After Yan Lin's ancestor founded Yan State, he imitated the nobles of the former Zhou State, taking his state's name, Yan, as his clan name.
There was likewise little information about Yan Lin.
Luo Zhang mused, "This ruler of Yan State appears to be a monarch skilled in warfare. That accords with what the family knows of him.
"Violent and autocratic, arrogant and fearless. That assessment rather leaves one speechless."
This ruler of Yan State was a warrior monarch. A monarch could excel at warfare, but warfare