- Sun Quan is a Chinese name; the family name is Sun.
Sun Quan is a unique legendary Commander hero in Total War: Three Kingdoms. He is the son of Sun Jian and a member of his faction in 182 and 190, later serving as the heir of his brother Sun Ce in 194 and 200. He is a child in the earlier start dates, only coming of age in 200 AD.
Description[]
Meet Sun Quan, second son of warlord Sun Jian and younger brother of Sun Ce. First Emperor of Eastern Wu, Sun Quan is a patient, confident, and diligent ruler. He takes calculated risks to protect the Sun family’s future.
General Information[]
Attributes[]
Main Article: Attributes (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
 Expertise |
 Resolve |
 Cunning |
 Instinct |
 Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 66 | 54 | 45 | 107 |
| -15% construction cost (administered commandery) +25 melee evasion +21% general's health +3k population growth (administered commandery) +15% ammunition (own retinue) +3 military supplies (own army) +5% melee damage -1% recruitment cost (this army) +6 satisfaction (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister) +5 unit morale (own retinue) | ||||
Background[]
Main Article: Background (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Emerald-Eyed Administrator
- +10 expertise
- +30 resolve
- +20 authority
- +1 resilience
- +50% income from family estates (if faction leader)
- +5% campaign movement range (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- +10 military supplies (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- Admires Attractiveness, Admires Refinement
Traits[]
Main Article: Traits (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Loyal
- +8 expertise
- -50% desire for higher office
- Decreases ambition to gain independence as administrator
- Focuses on Family
- Reckless
- +6 resolve
- -4 cunning
- -10% chance of evading capture post-battle
- -1 mustering turns (armies in administered commandery)
- -5 public order (administered commandery)
- +10% speed
- Accepts Impulsiveness, Resents Discipline, Resents Caution
- Perceptive
- +6 cunning
- +2 instinct
- +10% chance of capturing enemy officers post-battle
- +10% campaign line-of-sight
- Commends Perceptiveness
Skills[]
Main Article: Skill (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Dignity
- +8 instinct
- Enables: Disciplined (own retinue)
- +5 faction support (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
- Meditation
- +8 authority
- Enables: Unbreakable
- +2 morale when defending (when commanding)
- Nature's Ally
- +4 cunning
- +4 authority
- Ability: Nature's Ally
- Nobility
- +8 authority
- +1 available assignments (if leader, heir or prime minister)
- Enables: Encourage
- +20% ranged block chance for melee cavalry (own retinue)
- Composure
- +8 cunning
- Enables: Fire Arrows (own retinue)
- Enables: Night Battles (this army)
- Understanding
- +8 expertise
- Unlocks assignment: Industrial Exploitation
- +1 starting rank for all recruits (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
Abilities[]
Main Article: Ability (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Encourage
- Provides a morale bonus to nearby allies.
- Unbreakable
- Does not suffer any morale loss and will never rout.
- Nature's Ally (Passive Buff)
- +25% Speed
- +10 Morale
- Ignore Forest Penalties
- Range: 75m
- Duration: Infinite
Ancillaries[]
Main Article: Ancillary (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Military Jian
- Base Melee Damage: 441
- Armour-Piercing Melee Damage: 326
- Melee Attack Rate: 30
- +12 expertise
- Sun Quan's Armour
- Base Armour: 45
- +15 authority
- +12% speed
- White Horse
- Speed: 97
- Mass: 1.5k
- +2 authority
Guanxi[]
Main Article: Guanxi
Harmony[]
- Attractiveness
- Perceptiveness
- Refinement
- Family
- Impulsiveness
- Discipline
- Caution
Relations (200)[]
- Family
- Acquaintances
- Negative Acquaintances
- Rivals
Biography[]
Born in 182, Sun Quan was the second son of the warlord Sun Jian who, at the time, was still an assistant magistrate. After the death of his father, when he was ten years old, Sun Quan and the rest of his family fell under the protection of his older brother, the young firebrand Sun Ce. While the Suns had been driven to the brink of irrelevancy, Sun Ce launched a series of lightning-fast conquests throughout southeastern China, carving out a large realm for the Suns. During this time, Sun Quan was coming of age and subsequently became a county magistrate and dabbled with military conquests. While Sun Quan was still finding his footing, his older brother would be mortally wounded in 200. Before dying, he named Quan as his successor. Despite some scattered protests, most of the late Sun Ce's military staff rallied behind Quan.
To many, the young Sun Quan seemed a weak pushover. One particular administrator, Li Shu of Lujiang, outright rebelled against Quan and sought the aid of Cao Cao. Unfortunately for Li Shu, Cao Cao was a little busy fighting a massive war with Yuan Shao to the north, allowing Sun Quan to crush the revolt and establish his authority. Despite this incident, Quan's early reign was relatively peaceful. He learned the ropes of rulership from Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, both respected advisers to his late brother. With the death of Lady Wu in 202, Sun Quan began to prepare for war. The following year, he continued where his brother had left off, fighting against Huang Zu and his master Liu Biao to the west. For the most part, this was a slow war of attrition, yet Sun Quan finally defeated Huang Zu for good by 208. Conveniently for Sun Quan, the elderly Liu Biao died shortly after and he no longer had to continue his war to the west.
The death of Liu Biao set a chain of events in motion that would eventually lead to the rise of the Three Kingdoms as we know them today. Cao Cao, ever the opportunist, launched an invasion into Jing Province following the death of Biao. Liu Biao's son and successor, Liu Cong, decided to respond to this invasion with a defining act of resilience and bravery: he immediately surrendered. With Cong surrendering Jing province to Cao Cao, it was up to his unfavoured older brother Liu Qi -- with the aid of the popular Prince Liu Bei -- to put up a resistance. Cao Cao then ordered Sun Quan to attack Liu Bei as Quan was technically still a subject of the Han Dynasty, which Cao Cao controlled at the time. Despite his advisors urging him to obey, Sun Quan actually defied Cao Cao and instead sent troops to support Liu Bei, laying the foundation for an unlikely alliance against Cao Cao. This alliance would eventually lead to the legendary Battle of Red Cliffs, where Cao Cao experienced the bitter sting of defeat as he was forced to retreat north. Against all odds, the Sun-Liu alliance in the south had repelled Cao Cao.
As expected of the period, following the defeat of their mutual enemy, Sun Quan and Liu Bei immediately turned turned to infighting over territorial disputes, particularly Changsha and Nan. Sun Quan ultimately felt resentful about the arrangement with Liu Bei. While Liu Bei had taken vast swathes of territory following the Battle of Red Cliffs, Sun Quan felt he only got a few scraps which did not reflect how much effort had gone into defeating Cao Cao on his end. With Cao Cao taking territory in the north and Liu Bei taking territory in the west, Sun Quan felt trapped and eventually asked for territories he had "leased" (free of charge) to Liu Bei. Liu Bei responded with force, and any hopes of the shaky alliance persisting fell apart then and there. Despite their falling out, actual battles between the forces of Liu Bei and Sun Quan were rare, as both still kept a wary eye on Cao Cao to the north, careful not to weaken each other and allow both sides to be conquered. When Cao Cao died, however, all bets were off.
In a weird moment of pragmatism, Sun Quan made a flimsy alliance against Liu Bei (who had since founded Shu-Han) with Cao Pi, who had crowned himself Emperor of Wei and finally dissolved the at that point mostly ceremonial Han Dynasty. In return for being recognised as the King of Wu, Sun Quan loosely cooperated with Cao Pi's military against Liu Bei's forces. Liu Bei made a few bold counterattacks but was ultimately defeated and lost much territory to the Wei-Wu partnership. To the surprise of nobody, Sun Quan broke his agreement with Cao Pi. What was surprising is that he then entered a new distrustful alliance with Shu-Han. This alliance lasted until 229 when Sun Quan became the final person to declare himself Emperor, making Wu the last of the namesake Three Kingdoms alongside Wei and Shu-Han.
And, following the establishment of the last of the Three Kingdoms... not a whole lot happened. Sun Quan ruled for another twenty-or-so years but achieved very little in that time. He struck out against Wei and Shu-Han alike without much progress, failed to find allies further to the south, and failed to conquer Taiwan. The early Three Kingdoms period was something of a universal stalemate, with none of the three dynasties making much progress in conquering the others. Sun Quan died in 252. His reign was so long that his eldest son, Sun Deng, had already died before Quan. Instead, his youngest son, Sun Liang, took the throne.
In the end, Sun Quan's Empire would not go on to unify China, nor would Wei or Shu-Han for that matter. All three Empires were preyed upon by the same corruption that had weakened the Han before them. Wei had a string of child emperors, Shu-Han was home to a dominant eunuch clique, and Wu's Emperors were prone to indulging in so-called "court culture" which consisted of hedonism and largely ignoring their actual duties. Ultimately, it would be the Sima Clan of Wei who would go on to unify China under the Jin Dynasty, yet the Suns remained quite prominent in southern China long after Wu ceased to exist.
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