Dragons of the Yellow Sea

Dragons of the Yellow Sea

The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea.

Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol

Timeline of events

1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.

1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. Tonghak, religious movement, equality

Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.

Background

Government & official reading is in Chinese. Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul

Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power

Dragon ecology

Transport - buses! cargo! Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains Agriculture - flatlands Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal

Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)