Limahong (Sea Dragons)

Lim Hong (Chinese:林鳳) was a Chinese warlord and considered to be the founding father of the Sea Dragons which terrorized the waters of Asia and Oceania for centuries. Being born from humble beginnings Hong made his career as an aspiring leader to his followers. Aspiring to be an emperor Hong overthrew the short lived Spanish colony in the (OTL:Philippines). From his new capital Limahong began to build the foundations of the proclaimed Dragon Empire. Lim Hong successfully turned back a European-Japanese expedition to retake their colony. Madly ambitious and overconfident he was assassinated was killed by a Ming sponsored assassin in 1577. Hong was most pivotal in his legacy, friends and foe alike among pirates wished to emulate his story of a vagabond turned king. After his death, a whole movement of Mainland Asians and Japanese would take to the seas to find a new world to their south. His close friend and more conservative adviser Sioco would take the reigns after Hong's death ensured a strong presence of Sea Dragons for years to come.