Yeon Hana

Yeon Hana (연 한아, Yeon Hahn-Ah) is the Head of the Yeon Family and is known to be the most beautiful among the 10 Family Heads. Although she is the Family Head, there is not a single child in the Yeon Family who has received her blood. All children of the Yeon Family are the sons and daughters of "Ilarde (godmother)," who is an old fellow family member (권속, gwonsok; 眷屬) of Hana. Yeon Hana herself is a virgin who has never embraced a man. Due to this reason she is sometimes suspected to be a misandrist (man-hater), but she actually has a gentle personality (which is very rare among the 10 Family Heads) and treats both men and women kindly. According to a rumor, she could not forget a man whom she broke up with a long time ago, so she made a contract with the Administrator (Guardian) to become a "female that cannot feel love towards the opposite sex." Though she has a gentle personality, Yeon Hana is "the scariest woman when angry" according to the 10 Family Heads. It is said that when angered once, she surpassed Ha Yurin who was famous for having a terrible personality, but this is impossible to confirm at the present time in which the 10 Family Heads are not active in public.

Her fellow family member Ilarde gives birth to and raises her children in her stead, so the children of the Yeon Family all call her "godmother." Once every 5 years, Ilarde selects (선별, seonbyeol; "choose") a man to sleep with her, and it is said that Rankers from all over the Tower gather for a chance to become that man; however, Ilarde's eyes for choosing men are very "cold", so unless one is a decent male Ranker, it is difficult to even get past the paper document interview. Selected males live in the palace for 5 years, and only one of these men will receive the right to sleep with Ilarde, and if a child is born, they attain the glory of being accepted into the Family. Like the Ha Family, the Yeon Family is a thoroughly matriarchal (mother-centered) family, so males cannot take central roles in either the main house or the branch house of the Family. Thanks to this, the females of the Yeon Family, especially those of the main house, have a tendency to look down on men.

Notes and Trivia

 * Yeon family members are similar to Zahard's Princesses in that they don't inherit the blood of their Family Head.

Yeon Hana