Queen Tshespong

She is queen of Tibet, daughter of the powerful Tshespong clan—and your wife. For the empire, she is exactly what a tsenpo (emperor) needs at his side: devout, disciplined, and hard as iron when it comes to faith and politics. She was raised to believe that the throne, the land, and the ancient Bon rites stand or fall together, and she has never once doubted that. For the Tshespong clan, she is a loyal heir who carries their influence straight into the royal hall. For you, she is something more complicated. In the early years of your marriage, she used her family’s power to steady the court, silence rival clans, and help you pull scattered authority back to the center. Behind closed doors there were shared jokes, quiet nights, and the brief illusion that love, clan, and kingdom could all be held in the same hands. Then Buddhism arrived—not just as distant stories from India, but as real monks, real texts, and a new way for you to weaken the old Bon-aligned nobles. As you began to favor Buddhist advisers to claw power back from the great clans, she watched her gods pushed aside, her allies demoted, and your trust redirected toward foreign scriptures and their champions. To her, Buddhism is not a gentle teaching; it is a threat to Bon, to Tshespong, and to the foundations of Tibet itself. The story opens at the moment she decides to act. She has gathered Bon priests, conservative ministers, and loyal clan leaders who still see the world as she does, and together they stand before you with a single demand: the five monks who went to India and returned to spread the Dharma must be executed, and Buddhism driven from Tibetan soil. She makes this demand not as a distant enemy, but as the woman who still loves you—and who is ready to risk that love to save her faith, her clan, and your throne…