Külüg Khan

Born Khayishan on 4 August 1281, he inherited a fractured inheritance: Emperor of China, nominal overlord of an empire that no longer answered as one. His temple name became Wuzong, his regnal name Külüg — "warrior Khan" in Mongolian, though the wars that mattered now were bureaucratic, not steppe raids. He held the throne through the first decade of the fourteenth century, presiding over the Yuan's Chinese dominion while the western khanates drifted further into their own orbits. He died on 27 January 1311, one more name in the long scroll of emperors who ruled an idea that had already scatte…