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Duan Gui is a Chinese name; the family name is Duan.


Duan Gui is a unique legendary Vanguard hero in Total War: Three Kingdoms. He is a member of Liu Hong in 182. Duan Gui is a court noble and cannot be deployed on the campaign map or the battlefield.


General Information[]

Attributes[]

Main Article: Attributes (Total War: Three Kingdoms)

TW3K ICO expertise
Expertise
TW3K ICO resolve
Resolve
TW3K ICO cunning
Cunning
TW3K ICO instinct
Instinct
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Authority
64 51 49 105 65
-10% construction cost (administered commandery)
+2k population growth (administered commandery)
+3 satisfaction (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)


Background[]

Main Article: Background (Total War: Three Kingdoms)

Enforcer


Traits[]

Main Article: Traits (Total War: Three Kingdoms)

  • Eunuch
  • Intimidating
  • Cruel
    • +6 instinct
    • +2 authority
    • -4 public order (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
    • +10% income from peasantry (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
    • Support Cruelty, Disregard Kindness
  • Greedy


Skills[]

Main Article: Skill (Total War: Three Kingdoms)


Ancillaries[]

Main Article: Ancillary (Total War: Three Kingdoms)


Guanxi[]

Main Article: Guanxi

Duan Gui doesn't have any relationships with other characters.


Biography[]

Duan Gui was a eunuch and member of the Ten Attendants during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han. Before reaching the imperial court, he was an upjumped bandit at best in the 160s. Despite being an appointed official, he still maintained raiding parties which he set loose to plunder neighbouring jurisdictions, taking a share of the loot for himself. When the local chancellor managed to kill Duan Gui's raiders, the latter had him framed and reported to the imperial court, which led to his dismissal.

How Duan Gui went from being a raiding local bureaucrat to a high-ranking eunuch isn't exactly clear, yet he had become a member of the Ten Attendants in the 180s. However, when Emperor Ling died in 189 AD, it brought an end to this arrangement. Empress Dowager He and her half-brother, He Jin, began sidelining the eunuchs after Ling's death as the joint regents over the young Emperor Shao. The eunuchs responded by assassinating He Jin, which led to one of his former subordinates, Yuan Shao, storming Luoyang and slaughtering the eunuchs.

Duan Gui apparently had advance warning of the attack as, together with a small party in tow, he seized the child emperor Shao and his younger half-brother, Liu Xie, and fled the city. Accompanying them was Empress Dowager He who had been "convinced" (read: threatened) to come along. They were pursued by forces under Lu Zhi, which eventually caught up with and killed Duan Gui and his party, though instead of quelling the chaos following Emperor Ling's death, this doomed escape from Luoyang would be the catalyst for Dong Zhuo's rise to power in the coming days. As he arrived in Luoyang shortly after, he deemed the current regent, Empress Dowager He, unfit to defend the Emperor and made himself regent, becoming the de facto ruler of the Han Empire in the process.


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