The main objective of the mod is to depict the instability in Asia during and after the great migrations happening until the 4th century.
To be precise, it will cover the so called
Wu Hu (
five barbarian peoples) Uprising (五胡亂華 -
Wǔhú luànhuá). It started after the
War of the Eight Princes, with a massive (Southern)
Xiongnu uprising in 304. In 311 the chinese capitals
Luoyang (洛陽) and
Chang'an (長安) were sacked.
The uprising culminated in the migration of the
Jin Dynasty to the south and the creation of several short lived states in Northern China, most under '
barbarian' lords. Some of these dynasties managed to unify northern China for brief periods, but for most of the time the whole region was under heavy instability thanks to border pressures.
The five peoples (
Wu Hu) are the
Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di and
Qiang peoples. The Sixteen Kingdoms created during the period are as follow:
The factions cointained in "[]"s are not counted among the 16 Kingdoms. The factions cointained in "{}"s are not even in China-proper.
First starting by the dominant chinese dynasty at the time:
晉朝 Jin Dynasty (265-420) (Han 漢)
- 西晉 Western Jin (265-316) (Han 漢)
- 東晉 Eastern Jin (317-420) (Han 漢)
{吐谷渾 Tuyuhun (285-670) (Murong Xianbei 慕容鮮卑)}
成漢 Cheng-Han (304-347) (Cong 賨 (or Bandun 板楯)/
Di 氐)
前趙 Former Zhao/Han Zhao (304-329) (Xiongnu 匈奴)
前涼 Former Liang (320-376) (Han 漢)
後趙 Later Zhao (319-351) (Jie 羯)
[代 Dai (315-376) (Tuoba Xianbei 拓跋鮮卑)]
[前仇池 Former Qiuchi (296-371) (BaiXiang Di 白項氐)]
前燕 Former Yan (337-370) (Murong
Xianbei 慕容
鮮卑)
前秦 Former Qin (351-394) (Di 氐)
[冉魏 Ran Wei (350-352) (Han 漢)]
{柔然可汗 Rouran Khaganate (330-555) (Rouran Xianbei 柔然鮮卑)}
[西燕 Western Yan (384-394) (Murong Xianbei 慕容鮮卑)]
後燕 Later Yan (384-409) (Murong
Xianbei 慕容
鮮卑)
後秦 Later Qin (384-417) (Shaodang
Qiang 燒當
羌)
後涼 Later Liang (387-403) (Di 氐)
[魏 Wei (388-392) (DingLing 丁零)]
[後仇池 Later Qiuchi (385-443) (BaiXiang Di 白項氐)]
南燕 Southern Yan (398-410) (Murong
Xianbei 慕容
鮮卑)
北燕 Northern Yan (407-436) (Han 漢)
西秦 Western Qin (387-431) (Zi
Xianbei 貲虜
鮮卑)
夏 Xia (407-421) (Tiefu
Xiongnu 鐵弗
匈奴)
南涼 Southern Liang (387-414) (Tufa
Xianbei 禿髮
鮮卑)
西涼 Western Liang (400-421) (Han 漢)
北涼 Northern Liang (397-442) (Lushui
Xiongnu 盧水
匈奴)
While the five peoples are not ethnically
Han Chineses, one has to keep in mind the region was under
Han control for some centuries, and so most of the dynasties formed were heavily sinicized.
To the north, strong un-sinicized
Xianbei tribes were unified under a
Xianbei state until 329 and then under the
Rouran (or
Juan Juan)
Khaganate until 555.
To the south, the now called
Eastern Jin Dynasty remained until 420.
To the west lays the
Xianbei Tuyuhun Kingdom, founded before the uprising, in the
Tarim Basin several weakened turkic oasis kingdoms and further west some
Xiongnu states founded by the northern branch of the ethnicity that fled westward.
To the east, in the korean peninsula, the three kingdoms,
Silla, Baekje and
Goguryeo (reformed in the last decades after a crushing defeat to the
Cao Wei in the previous century, and now mantaining pretensions over the nearest chinese provinces) are still in an unresolved unification war.