Su Qin

Biodata

Power Progression

Su Qin’s documented progression includes both his personal combat enhancement and milestones in the territory system.

Recorded Attributes

Background and History

Refugee and Rescue of Earl Yaron

Su Qin arrives in Westeros without understanding why he has transmigrated. After wandering around Runestone, he is taken in by Uncle Farn, who is intrigued by his Eastern appearance. By his first appearance, he has spent roughly a month in this world and survives through odd jobs in Gulltown 1.

When fighting erupts in the streets, Su Qin and Luke carry Farn to safety after Luke knocks him unconscious to prevent him from returning for his horse. Su Qin subsequently activates the Hercules talent, fights through the attackers, and saves the Earl of Runestone from a sneak attack. His publicly reported tally is forty-seven attackers killed 1 3 4 5.

Yaron questions him using Maester Denwen’s Truth Gem before offering him knighthood and the Barony of Gulltown. Su Qin accepts both as a means of establishing himself in Westeros and gaining access to the territory system 4.

Establishing Rule in Gulltown

Su Qin begins his rule with household registration, grain relief, rewards for reporting conspirators, and a one-year tax exemption. Refugees can register as households and receive the same thirty jin of grain offered to established residents. Reports expose collaborators, leading to confiscations, executions, and further arrests 5 6.

Rather than immediately dismissing the former lord’s administrators, he assesses their usefulness and loyalty. He reorganizes offices, takes control of the smithy and confiscated lumberyards, and develops an intelligence network to monitor both enemies and his own officials 7 10 12.

His first system-enhanced workforce consists of twelve loyal young men granted crafting skills in a staged Dragon God ceremony. Gery and Downton become artisan officers, providing the foundation for larger smithies and improved weapon production 17 18.

Mountain Clan Raids and Military Reform

While inspecting the border near the Gull Mountains, Su Qin intervenes in a village raid and kills a clan leader and thirty-five raiders. Despite winning the fight, he regards the encounter as a failure: his strength cannot undo the deaths or protect every remote settlement. He gives the survivors money and directs them to Gull Manor for shelter and livelihoods 19 20.

A later warning from Delia’s silver knights makes him reconsider the risks of pursuing clans into mountain forests. He turns toward trained troops, fortified routes, and preparations for a larger campaign rather than relying on personal strength alone 22 48.

On another journey to Runestone, he breaks a bandit formation with repeated mounted charges while his guards cover the flanks and pursue fugitives. More than twenty bandits die, and none of his guards are killed 27.

Alliance with House Royce

Su Qin initially tells Delia that he does not yet have feelings for her, although he wears the gull-embroidered clothing she makes for his welcoming feast. He later accepts their marriage alliance after considering her loyalty and the support House Royce can provide 20 29 30.

Yaron reveals that Delia herself requested Su Qin’s title and marriage alliance and influenced many of House Royce’s political decisions. Her family subsequently supplies loans and warhorses, while Delia assists with administration and agricultural development 29 34 43 48.

The Golden Dragon Necklace Su Qin gives Delia saves her from an assassin at Runestone Castle, breaking apart after blocking the attack. He immediately rides to Runestone upon learning what happened 29 40.

Agricultural Expansion and Royal Attention

Su Qin establishes Lower Gull Agricultural Town to house refugees and develop farmland. Five households share each farm, receiving housing and an annual subsidy in exchange for three years of work. The first hundred farms are completed by the end of July 34.

He also negotiates the return of Aite Keep, Augustus Castle, and Keir Keep to direct administration. Their former owners receive compensation arrangements and ten-year appointments as deputy financial officers 38.

His corn crop yields 1,500 jin per mu across 1,000 mu, but the system restricts cultivation to designated areas in Lower Gulltown. The harvest attracts attention beyond the Vale, prompting debate in King’s Landing over whether Gulltown should be reassigned 42 45.

Su Qin promises House Targaryen 200,000 units of grain annually and swears eternal loyalty. Aerys II decides against hostility toward Gulltown while ordering an investigation into the Qilin Faith 45.

By year’s end, Su Qin sells 10,000 units of corn for 3,000 gold, repays part of his debt to Delia’s family, and negotiates a twenty-percent commercial tax. Compensation and salary agreements secure the system’s recognition of his complete territorial control 49.

Appearance

• Eastern facial features distinguish him from the people around him and attract Farn’s and Nack’s curiosity 1 2.
• An imposing physique is noted when Yira tends to him after a banquet 16.
• His lordly clothing includes black garments with silver seagull patterns, a gull brooch, and embroidered gull attire made by Delia 9 18 20.
• His battlefield equipment includes full plate armor and an iron dragon helmet; Delia’s younger brothers admire the black scales of his armor 27 30.
• He dislikes wearing armor during ordinary daily activities because he finds it cumbersome 9.

Personality

Su Qin’s experience as a destitute refugee informs his treatment of commoners. He greets residents personally, pays a carriage driver who is afraid to accept his money, and introduces relief measures intended to give refugees work rather than merely keep them alive. Pujin remarks that his casual treatment of people of lower standing makes him unlike other nobles 5 9 14 15.

His compassion coexists with severe authoritarian methods. He rewards merit, punishes abuses of office, and forbids arbitrary oppression of commoners, but executes proven bandits and refuses a bandit’s attempted surrender. He considers force necessary during the early consolidation of his rule 27 35 49.

He is cautious about trust and political dependence, using loyalty scores to assess servants, officials, and even Delia’s intentions. He also accepts correction: after being warned against recklessly pursuing the Mountain Clans, he acknowledges that his strength may have made him overconfident 15 22 29.

Politically, Su Qin considers himself a reformist noble rather than a committed member of either major faction. He accepts noble rule on the condition that commoners can live well. His longer-term goals include changing Daenerys Targaryen’s childhood, which he believes will require military strength, economic resources, and cultural influence 35.

Abilities and Skills

Hercules Talent

A red-grade talent that supplies Su Qin’s overwhelming physical power and broad combat aptitude 3.

• Grants minor mastery of all weapon and combat techniques, increased combat experience, and control over blood and qi 3.
• Allows him to wield a greatsword one-handed, throw axes lethally, and overpower groups in close combat 3.
• He can lift one thousand jin with one hand; his own load-bearing tests suggest a limit of approximately 500 kilograms 19 27.
• His power does not eliminate tactical constraints: he avoids exhausting Duanhong by leaving prolonged pursuit to lighter cavalry 27.

System Inspection and Inventory

Su Qin can examine personal attributes, loyalty, equipment information, and territorial assets through the system 6 9 15 26.

• Uses loyalty readings to screen recruits and identify potentially dangerous residents 15 18.
• Requires loyalty above 70 for estate residents and above 80 for people inside the castle 15.
• Stores money, medicine, and other items in the system inventory 10 26.
• Does not initially possess an intelligence network reaching King’s Landing or more distant regions, despite these inspection functions 15.

Character-Template Summoning

The system summons character souls as templates that improve the aptitudes of existing people rather than simply supplying an independent retinue 7.

• Before cultural conversion, targeted summoning is limited to white- and blue-grade templates 7.
• The initial pool primarily draws from figures of the Chinese Han Empire before AD 280, with some chance of other dynasties; figures after the Ming Empire are excluded 7.
• Each recipient has only one opportunity, leading Su Qin to reserve better templates for trusted companions such as Luke and Yira 7 18.
• The junior Mohist craftsman enhancement requires loyalty above 90 and grants multiple level-two crafting skills 17.
• He presents template bestowal as divine miracles, connecting skilled labor recruitment with religious allegiance 17 18.

Territory and Cultural Conversion

Su Qin’s system links settlement development, religion, and access to higher-grade summoning 7 26.

• A level-1 town requires 1,000 permanent households, each containing at least three people 7.
• Cultural conversion requires 90% of residents to follow the Dragon God Faith and accept its doctrine, and 90% to accept Han characters 26.
• Completion would unlock the faith system and allow summoning beyond blue grade, up to red 26.
• The system requires acceptance of the writing system, not wholesale replacement of local customs, and warns against rapidly imposing cultural practices 26.
• His Yellow Dragon bloodline remains explicitly unawakened in the recorded profile 6.

Administration and Technical Development

Su Qin combines system resources with practical experimentation, research, and specialist advice 22 24 49.

• Designs housing, roads, latrines, and drainage, and recommends adding river sand to a lime-and-earth mortar mixture 22 24.
• Guides the development of inverted triangular plows and plans an arrow-tower fortress to block clan raiding routes 33 48.
• Studies craftsmanship books and consults Delia and artisans while developing a brick-kiln design 49.
• Revises plans when money is insufficient, widening dirt roads instead of immediately building a paved route costing approximately 3,000 gold dragons 38.

Archery and Military Leadership

Su Qin fights from horseback and personally demonstrates archery technique to his officers 27 48.

• Hits a target’s bull’s-eye at 100 meters with a redwood horn bow 48.
• Orders daily practice of at least 500 arrows, offering fifty gold to the first soldier to achieve ten consecutive bull’s-eyes 48.
• Builds toward a Qilin Guard capable of mounted archery, mounted blade combat, and dismounted spear formations 49.
• Restricts the exposure and sale of advanced bows because widespread distribution could alter military power and attract hostile attention 36.

Equipment and Items

• Greatsword — Acquires a steel greatsword during the Gulltown fighting and uses it one-handed against multiple attackers 3.
• Hundred-fold-forged iron spear — His mounted weapon during the caravan battle; that passage describes it as weighing ten kilograms 27.
• Redwood horn bow — Used for mounted combat and archery instruction 27 48.
• Full plate armor and iron dragon helmet — Worn during the bandit encounter 27.
• Silver knight’s plume — Bears Runestone’s crest and verifies his position as a House Royce vassal 20.
• Duanhong — His warhorse, used to break the bandits’ formation through repeated charges 27.
• Antibiotics — Purchased from the system at ten gold per ten-pill set. Their sale becomes a major source of development funding, although his first transaction badly underestimates their resale value 7 16 31.
• Golden Dragon Necklace — Given to Delia; warns of hostile intent and blocks an attack before being destroyed during her assassination attempt 29 40.
• Torch Dragon Pair Pendants — Blood-bound to Su Qin and Delia. Provide an active or passive Torch Dragon Shield and Torch Dragon Eye, which permits a contracted animal’s vision to be shared. Reusable, but require magic crystals 47.
• Vibration-sensitive bells — Hangs them on his bedroom window and locked door as intrusion alarms 13.

Relationships

• Delia Royce — Wife, political partner, and financial supporter. Her loyalty helps persuade him to accept their alliance; he later shares the blood-bound Torch Dragon pair with her 29 30 47 48.
• Earl Yaron — Liege, benefactor, and Delia’s father. Grants Su Qin his title after being rescued and assigns him preparations for the following July’s campaign against the Moon Lake clans 4 29 48.
• Uncle Farn — Takes him in during his refugee days. Su Qin helps carry him out of danger during the Gulltown attack 1.
• Luke — Farn’s son, Su Qin’s early companion and squire, and later minister of patrols. Su Qin arranges his apprenticeship under Aila and reserves a better miracle for him 6 11 18 36.
• Nack — Squire who later becomes minister of logistics and reports on the territory’s food supplies 6 36.
• Yira — Personal maid and trusted household aide. Su Qin entrusts her with servant screening and enables her revenge against the noble responsible for her mother’s death 8 11 13 16.
• Aila — Commander of Su Qin’s guards and Luke’s martial instructor; later leads the Qilin Guard 11 12 36.
• Kelun / Kren — Former conspirator turned intelligence minister. Su Qin uses his compromised position, loyalty, and merchant connections to build an informant network 5 10 22.
• Telang — Senior financial and civil administrator who represents established landholding interests. His loyalty is tested by Su Qin’s recovery of local estates 12 31 49.
• Gery and Downton — System-enhanced craftsmen central to smithy expansion, weapons manufacture, and construction projects 17 18 26.
• Leike / Leite — Appointed minister of military affairs after Su Qin recognizes his archery talent despite his imprisonment for poaching 36.
• Robar and Waymar Royce — Delia’s younger brothers. Su Qin affectionately scolds them for handling his weapons and promises Waymar a sword when he turns ten 30.
• Daenerys Targaryen — A future beneficiary of his plans rather than an established companion in the supplied chapters; he intends to prevent her destitute childhood 35.

Notable Quotes

“Anyone who advances dies!” 3

“If you have courage, then train hard in martial arts! Remember, always know who your true enemies are!” 20

Trivia

• He understands spoken Westerosi and can read its writing upon arrival, but initially cannot write it. He uses Chinese characters for his own notes 4 8 9.
• His “Lion” nickname troubles him because of its association with House Lannister, although he admits it suits his fighting reputation 21.
• Outsiders know his religion as the Qilin Faith; recipients of his miracles know that it concerns a divine dragon 26.
• Selling antibiotics has consequences beyond profit: Su Qin later notes that the system stopped functioning for three months because of the medicine sales 45.