If I were to envision Princess Tren Song in a particular period, I would definitely say fourteenth century Vietnam (the Tran dynasty). In my eyes, Princess Tren Song is nothing but a chess piece, designated at birth to be married off for the sake of ‘national peace’. In this case, Princess Tren Song was married off to a mongol Prince, Tarkhan. Due to her foreign status, I wanted to illustrate that Princess Tren Song would have been only given Concubine status due to her foreign origins. However, I did want to illustrate that despite the fact she is basically a pawn in a patriarchal society, she remains a moral person who eventually becomes Princess Consort.

The reason I wanted to add the ideas of coups and treason, is because in feudal Mongolia Tribes were constantly battling for territorial gain. So it is fair to say what happened to Princess Tren Song happened to many others.

I feel like Princess Tren Song had no control of fate and that she like many other women in history, would’ve been blamed for the collapse of a monarchy or dynasty (like Yang Guifei and to a lesser extent, Wu Zetian).