Sun Yat-Yen
- There is an October 2016 version of this entry available at (2016) Sun Yat-Yen
Sun Yat-Yen was a Helltunan soldier-statesman who was a minor backstory character in the Oburron and Jenner paracosm. Kerry also included him in his semi-canon expansion of Ro Elluna's backstory during the Acteriendian BHH roleplays. Sun was a mentor to Ro while she was an Helltunan soldier; the character was originally added to the paracosm so that Kerry could credit a specific mentor with teaching Ro that "death and pain are better than cowardice and inaction", a quotation he had stolen from the Divergent fan-fiction Pyre’s version of the Dauntless manifesto. The Acteriendian version of the character was killed by Mala Dzumach Kavanah at the start of the era of BHH as part of her campaign to consolidate her behind-the-scenes power in Helltuna after having assassinated Imperium Adshek.
The name "Sun Yat-Yen" is a corruption of "Sun Yat-sen", the name of a 20th-century Chinese revolutionary, but the derivation is a long-winded one through Kerry's other fictional universes and there is no link between the BHH character and the historical figure. One January 2017 document suggests that Kerry may have tried to rename him to "Kaoru Yat-Yen".