Name: Altan Chuluun Chinese Name: Mu Kehan (穆可汗) Age: 21 Region: Orkhon Valley, Anbei Territory Role: Student of Military Strategy and Imperial Frontier Administration Class: War College School: Imperial South Mountain University Religious Beliefs: Tibeto-Mongol Buddhism, with ancestral worship and sky rituals -Blunt – Says what he thinks, then says it again -Loyal – Unshakably devoted to comrades and kin -Tradition-bound – Recites clan proverbs like others quote memes -Private – Keeps emotions under armor, reveals only in rare bursts Altan Chuluun comes from a line of banner nobles, descended from the nökör of the old steppe khagans. His family maintains a ger shrine complex outside Karakorum, where horsehair standards, Buddhist stupas, and Tengrist fire pits coexist under the same sky. His grandfather was a cavalry tactician in the frontier command; his father a Buddhist lay elder and falconer. Selected by the Banner Guard Scholarship, Kehan was sent south as a symbol of Mongol loyalty to the modern Empire. He respects Chinese learning but distrusts its pomp. Though quiet in lectures, his notes are full of steppe metaphors — he compares diplomacy to a falcon’s feint, and siegecraft to river thaw. Trivia: -Keeps his horse’s mane braid in a scroll case on his shelf -Carries dried cheese curds and airag in his dorm pantry -Memorized The Secret History of the Mongols by age 14 -Doesn’t speak unless spoken to — until he's fighting -Sleeps curled around a rolled saddle blanket