Güyük Khan
Former Khagan of the Mongol EmpireWikipedia
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Oct 23, 2026
TitusHOST
Ogedei, upon his death, the person in charge of the actual empire, not just Karakorum, is his widow, Torijini.
TitusHOST
And her son that she tries to put on the throne over and over and over again, Guyuk, who's elected in 1246.
TitusHOST
Guyuk says, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to be Subodai 2.0, and I'm going to go march west and conquer a bunch of shit.
TitusHOST
He then dies on campaign.
TitusHOST
Does he die in battle? No, it's a sort of mysterious death, which happens a lot with these various cons.
Chris StewartHOST
Ogedei cometh.
Chris StewartHOST
In the Year of the Rat, Chagatai, Batu, and the other princes of the right hand, Ochagi Noyan, Yugu, Isunge, and the other princes of the left hand, and Tolui, and the other princes of the center, together with the princesses, the sons-in-law, and the commanders of the ten thousand households, assembled in their entirety at Kodeu Arau on the Karaloon River.
Chris StewartHOST
In accordance with the decree in which Genghis Kayan had named him, they raised up Ogade as Great Khan.
Chris StewartHOST
From the Secret History of the Mongols, as translated by Ergonga Bonon.
Chris StewartHOST
And so today, we enter the AG era.
Chris StewartHOST
Toward the end of his life, Genghis had realized the predicament that his empire would likely find itself in upon his passing.
Chris StewartHOST
He had four primary sons, each of whom held a strong potential claim to succeed him as Great Khan, and none of whom the Great Khan himself thought particularly well-suited to the task.
Chris StewartHOST
His eldest son, Jochi, though intelligent and a decent commander, was moody, unpredictable, with a rebellious streak, and over his whole life had a dark cloud of questionable parentage hanging over his head.
Chris StewartHOST
Others posit malaria, while shamans whispered of dark magics and witchcraft directed against the great ruler.
Chris StewartHOST
Prior Giovanni Dapian del Carpine would write his account of Genghis's death after visiting Mongolia itself just in time for the third great Khan, Guyuk's, curled high in 1246.
Chris StewartHOST
Carpine would write that Genghis had been killed by a bolt of lightning, apparently making an unwarranted extrapolation from the Mongols' morbid fear of that phenomenon.
Chris StewartHOST
The surviving Tanguts would prove themselves eager to both denigrate the great Khan and claim him as one of their victims, in both cases making very entertaining and yet equally unlikely claims on his life.
Dylan SaccoccioHOST
And I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I got to just say this before it gets too far past it.
Dylan SaccoccioHOST
So Friar John, in his mission from the Pope to the Emperor of the Great Khan, Emperor of Sartoria, his name is Kuyuk Khan.
Dylan SaccoccioHOST
The order in that world in the 1200s means tent.
Dylan SaccoccioHOST
okay that's what it means he says having received the presence they led us to his order or tent and we were instructed to bend three times the left knee before the door of his dwelling and to be very careful not to put our feet on the threshold of the door and this we were attentive yeah attentive to observe for sentence of death is on those who knowingly tread upon the threshold of a chief's dwelling okay so the historical record completely destroys His, I guess, claim about what order means.