Y. denotes words in the Yonggan language, C. for the equivalents in the Central Earth Kingdom language. |
Princess Mukushen (Y/C. 穆库什 Mùkùshén) is a young noble of the Nara clan, and an imperial kinswoman of the deposed Great Ri dynasty. She was born in the Si Wong desert, where her clan were banished after their support for Chin the Great in the Earth Kingdom civil war. She was forced to flee from her home when political violence within the Nara clan resulted in the deaths of her parents.
Name
Mukushen was born to the Aisin (Y. 愛新 Aisin, C. 金 Jīn) family of the Nara (Y. 納喇 Nara, C. 日 Rì) clan of the Yonggan people. Her semi-nativized name in the Central Earth Kingdom language is Rijin Mukushen (日金·穆库什), and she also has a completely-nativized Earth Kingdom name, Rì Jīnmù 日金牧 in which her clan name is interpreted as a surname and her nativized family name is the first syllable of her given name. Traditionally, the Yonggan do not use surnames as such, and it would be strange to address Mukushen by her family or clan names in the Yonggan language. However, under the influence of the Earth Kingdom culture, most Nara are familiar with and accept the concept of surnames in Earth Kingdom contexts.
Ancestry
The Aisin descend from the Prince of Jin, younger brother of the first Ri monarch of the Earth Kingdom and one of the conquest elite of the then-new dynasty. As she has no brothers and the Yonggan use male-preference primogeniture, with the death of her father, Mukushen is the de jure heir to the Principality of Jin, northeast of Ba Sing Se. However, her family lost control of these lands during the twilight years of the Great Ri. They lost their remaining holdings in traditional Yonggan lands, after the Nara clan supported Chin the Great in his ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Hou-Ting dynasty that had supplanted the Great Ri centuries prior.
Early Life