So novel and yet so old

Rogan of lb_lee asked:

What drove you to start the Soseono novel?

(See my masterpost for basic historical information about Soseono)

Growing up I've always been fascinated by her; she was one of the few women whose names and lives were known in ancient Korean history, and she was so badass! To the best of my knowledge she's the only person of any gender in Korean history who was recorded as a founder of two kingdoms. When her stepson succeeded to her first kingdom instead of her sons she came south to the Korean peninsula rather than start a civil war, uprooting her entire life at nearly fifty years of age when she had just been widowed for the second time. She died about twenty years later at the age of 66, possibly in a civil war between her two sons that claimed the life of her elder son, making her story one of tragedy as well as triumph. Yet her life was so full and interesting, and she remained a beloved and revered figure; she was one of the three major ancestors worshiped throughout the history of Baekje, something you don't see so much with ancestress figures.

( I want to read about her! ...guess I didn't think that one through )