Warlords of the Three Kingdoms: Yuan Shu 袁术

Yuan Shu. a covetous man with a chip on his shoulder. Yuan Shu has both the pride and the arrogance of his half- brother Yuan Shao but must content to play the second fiddle to him for most of his life. Yuan Shu truly believed that his half-brother has less claim to the Yuan family name and long harbored a resentment against him. Both violently purged the eunuchs from the imperial palace and both were part of the Anti- Dong Zhuo coalition. 

The imperial capital of Louyang was torched in Dong Zhuo's retreat and as a result much of the north was left in the hands of the warlords. After the Dong Zhuo's death, the coalition quickly carved up northern China and began to snipe at one another. In the chaos that followed Yuan Shu got his hands on the imperial seal. It is with this seal, Yuan Shu's ambition blazed and he declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty, further plunging the realm into anarchy.