Fair-Field

The first Chancellor was the lord of the clan called Fair-Field, which held the title of King and possessed an S-Rank territory. The Fair-Field King was patrilineally descended from the Deity through his son Eternal-One, his son Divine-Gale, and his son Thousand-Mountain. The clan was based in the fertile lands north of the Capital, where it employed over fifteen hundred retainers. The clan was able to field more than ten thousand warriors on chariots, and over a hundred lesser tribes were attached to it by oaths of fealty. The output of its land and all its dependent lands exceeded fifty thousand bushels of grain per year. As Chancellor, the Fair-Field King held the ministers to the highest standards of virtue and righteousness, and did not hesitate to jail or exile any official who sought to use his government post to embezzle funds. This pleased Towering-Justice, the Emperor, very much.

Not even a year after the establishment of the new realm, the Fair-Field King saw a dream in which his oldest daughter, who at that time had just come of age, stood at the top of the Emperor's Pyramid before the front gates of the great courtyard, wearing the eight-layered robes of a bride, while the sun blazed regally overhead. The Emperor had still not taken a wife, and the Fair-Field King was one of the most eminent lords in the entire realm, so the King's daughter would not be ill-matched with him, but he took the dream as a sign from Heaven that it was destiny, and decided to go ahead with the proposal. He climbed the steps of the Pyramid and went in for an audience with the Emperor. The two discussed it in private for some time, and the Emperor accepted the proposal. After that, in accordance with the Law, the Great Shaman Resplendent-Pure was summoned to select a propitious day for the King's daughter to enter the palace. When the appointed day arrived, the lady went to the Pyramid with much splendor and fanfare, cloaked in the eight-layered robes of brides, and climbed the stairs to meet her sovereign and husband. Seventy ladies-in-waiting followed her into the palace. Thereupon she was crowned Empress.

In the years that followed, the Fair-Field Empress managed the palace's economy, oversaw the serving boys and girls, tended the hearth, wove the Emperor's gowns, grew the garden, and was the Emperor's secretary and scribe. The Emperor loved her very dearly and confided in her with all things. She bore him five girls and five boys; the oldest boy, called Towering-Soul, became the Crown Prince.