"Go on, what were you about to say, uncle?"

Zhang Qiulan (張秋嵐) is a lightning dragon-kin and the head of the noble Zhang family. After her father (previous head of the clan)'s death, the Zhang family squabbled heavily over who would be the next head. The previous head fathered only Qiulan and a illegitimate son who had no interest in the position. It is said that Qiulan's struggle to regain her birthright as the heiress was a bloody and harsh one, as her uncles and the other men of her clan doubted her skill to actually succeed her father.

She's the aunt of my other ice dragon-kin character, Mengxue! -- Her half-brother is the father of Mengxue, and Qiulan took Mengxue in after Mengxue's parents died. Although she is has a fierce and unyielding personality as the head of clan who used to uphold too many traditional ideas, she is very doting on her niece. Not having any children herself (and not planning to), she plans to instate Mengxue as the next head of the clan.

The character's in her name are Autumn (qiu 秋) and mountain mist (lan 嵐) -- so she has a very regal name of "autumn's mountain mist".