- Liu Xie is a Chinese name; the family name is Liu.
For the gameplay mechanic to control the Han Empire, see Emperor Xian.
Liu Xie is a unique legendary Commander hero in Total War: Three Kingdoms. He is the faction leader of the restored Han Empire introduced in the Mandate of Heaven DLC. Liu Xie is also known as Emperor Xian and can be controlled as a child. He is a non-deployable character and subsequently has no combat stats or retinue.
General Information[]
Attributes[]
Main Article: Attributes (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Expertise: 61
- -9% construction cost (administered commandery)
- +15 melee evasion
- Resolve: 43
- +8% general's health
- +1k population growth (administered commandery)
- Cunning: 48
- +11% ammunition (own retinue)
- +3 military supplies (own army)
- Instinct: 45
- +5% melee damage
- -1% recruitment cost (this army)
- Authority: 109
- +6 satisfaction (faction-wide)
- +5 unit morale (own retinue)
Background[]
Main Article: Background (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Lord Dong
- +10 expertise
- +5 resolve
- +15 authority
- +1 resilience
- +5 satisfaction (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- +2 public order (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
Commends Honour, Values Diplomacy.
Traits[]
Main Article: Traits (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Composed
- +6 expertise
- +2 cunning
Commends Bravery, Respects Patience.
Quiet
- +6 cunning
- +2 instinct
- +4 cover gain per turn when spying
- Decreases ambition to gain independence as administrator
Disregards Sociability, Wary of Zeal.
Humble
- +2 resolve
- +6 authority
- No desire for higher offices
- +10 satisfaction
- Decreases ambition to gain independence as administrator
Commends Honour, Wary of Ambition, Loathes Vanity.
Skills[]
Main Article: Skill (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Dignity
- +8 instinct
- +10 faction support (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
Ancillaries[]
Main Article: Ancillary (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Imperial Gold Inlaid Blade
- Melee Attack Rate: 30
- Base Melee Damage: 1.9k
- Armour-Piercing Melee Damage: 483
- +10 authority
- +5 morale (forces in allied territory faction-wide)
- Emperor Xian's Armour
- Base Armour: 20
- +20 authority
- +10 satisfaction (faction-wide)
- -10% corruption (all commanderies)
- Brown Stallion
- Speed: 86
- Mass: 2k
- +6 resolve
- +10% chance of evading capture post-battle
- +20 charge bonus
Guanxi[]
Main Article: Guanxi
Liu Xie doesn't have any relations with other characters.
Biography[]
Liu Xie came into the world as the son of one of Emperor Ling's concubines. Upon his birth, Empress He had his mother poisoned and urged Emperor Ling to make the child "disappear", though Ling didn't want to. Ling named the boy Xie, which literally translates to "like me", and then gave him to the eunuch Zhu Zhi, who hid the baby from the Empress. Eventually, he was raised by his grandmother, the Dowager Dong, which is how he became known as Lord Dong.
Emperor Ling died in 189, at which point his son, the young Liu Bian, took the throne. Liu Bian was merely a child at the time, and as had happened many times before, a power struggle to control the child emperor arose. Ultimately, Liu Bian's uncle, He Jin, took control over the child emperor. The Ten Attendants – or eunuchs – were furious at this and lured He Jin into an ambush and assassinated the regent. Upon learning of the assassination, He Jin's and the Ten Attendants' supporters openly attacked each other in the streets of Luoyang as the city was consumed by an inferno. Imperial forces under Yuan Shao stormed the palace and slaughtered most of the eunuchs there. In the chaos, Liu Bian and Liu Xie were seized by a small party of the eunuchs' backers and smuggled out of the city. However, they were caught trying to cross the Yellow River, and the two children were seized and brought back to Luoyang, just in time to be captured by Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo had just arrived with a sizeable army in Luoyang and took control of the two children. Dong Zhuo had Liu Bian deposed and instead put Liu Xie on the throne due to his ties to his own Dong clan. The warlord feared that Liu Bian would receive support from other nobles, so he had the young prince murdered. With a coalition led by Yuan Shao forming against Dong Zhuo, he moved Liu Xie – now crowned Emperor Xian – west to Chang'an, where he became a political hostage in all but name. Dong Zhuo would be assassinated in 192 and – after some infighting – Liu Xie would fall under the joint control of Li Jue and Guo Si. However, the two generals would grow to hate each other, and a civil war broke out between the two in 195. However, this would come with an opportunity for Xian.
Emperor Xian was contacted by a group of imperial loyalists operating in the territory of the two generals. This conspiracy allowed Xian to escape Chang'an, at which point he fled east. Upon learning that their political pawn had escaped, Li Jue and Guo Si declared a brief truce and gave chase to the Emperor. Yet, a vast network of defectors and imperial loyalists came out of the woodwork to support him. Before long, Xian was accompanied by an enormous group of officials and soldiers, constantly fighting with the forces of the two generals giving chase. Despite much bloodshed and some close calls, Xian successfully escaped the two generals and settled down in Luoyang, which had become a shadow of its former self. When the warlord Cao Cao arrived to conquer the area, he convinced Xian and his supporters to move the imperial court to Xuchang, Cao Cao's own capital.
Xian's position in Xuchang wasn't much different from Chang'an, as he once again became a political hostage in all but name, granting Cao Cao some legitimacy in his various campaigns and conquests against surrounding warlords. Xian wasn't content with just being a prisoner in a golden cage and actively plotted against Cao Cao. However, this plot would be discovered in 199, and the conspirators would be slaughtered, with Xian being put on an ever closer watch as a result.
In 214, Xian's wife, Empress Fu, was arrested and "mysteriously" died in captivity, clearing the way for Cao Cao's daughter, Cao Jie, to become the next Empress of the Han Dynasty, giving Cao Cao even more control over the Emperor. However, the Han Empire had become little more than a name to throw around and had little to no real power at the time. When Cao Cao died in 220, Cao Pi succeeded him. After some deliberation with his advisors, he gave Emperor Xian an ultimatum to abdicate. Having no choice, Xian abdicated, and Cao Pi dissolved the Han Dynasty when he crowned himself Emperor of Wei.
Now powerless, Liu Xie spent the rest of his day in a small fiefdom with a prestigious but relatively powerless title. He no longer held any power and was closely watched in case he tried to rebel against Wei. Yet, Liu Xie would never try to reclaim his lost power and died in 234. Liu Xie's descendants would continue to rule over the land he had gotten from Cao Pi until the War of the Eight Princes and the subsequent collapse of the Jin Dynasty in the 4th century, after which the last of Liu Xie's bloodline would be killed by the invading barbarians from the north.
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