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Romance of the Three Kingdoms Novel, History, and Games

Kongming’s Archives is dedicated to Luo Guanzhong’s novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, related games (like Koei’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dynasty Warriors), and the history behind them. Kongming’s Archives is also a place for you to share your Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel and history writing and share knowledge with everyone else in the Three Kingdoms community.

Donations & Support

An updated dated February 25th, 2024

We Have a Patreon. Your contributions are_deeply_ appreciated, and help not only to defray costs, but also serve as valuable motivation and means to create new content and features. Donations serve as an especially lovely reminder that these sites are valued. But no worries. I’m keeping these sites online.

Biographies New Entries

Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia New & Revised Entries

Li Fu 李輔 Unknown

Opened the gates of Meng Da’s city to Sima Yi.

Li Fu 李輔, Huang Yueying “Lady Huang” 黃月英 “黃氏”, Pan Sui 潘遂, Xiahou Mao (Zilin) 夏侯楙 (子林), King Meng Huo 孟獲大王, Lady Zhurong 祝融妃, Sun Yan (Shuran) 孫炎 (叔然), Huo Hu “Fire Tiger” 火虎, Wen Gong (Zhongbao) 文恭 (仲寶), Li Ying “Li Wei” 李應 “李維”, Sima Zhi 司馬直, Ma Dai 馬岱, Empress Mu 穆皇后

Scholars of Shen Zhou Discussion

Feature Menu

Three Kingdoms Novel and History Section
Learn about the history behind the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo)
novel and era along with the Jin and Han Dynasties.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms Games Series
Images, avatars, wallpaper, music, and more from Koei’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X.

Dynasty Warriors Game Series
Images, avatars, wallpaper, music, and information for the following
Dynasty Warriors games: DW, DW2, DW3, DW4 and DW5.

Other Featured Games
Information pages for: Samurai Warriors, Kessen, Kessen 2,
Dynasty Tactics, Dynasty Tactics 2, and Destiny of an Emperor.

Simulated RTK (SimRTK)
Compete against other human players in this strategic forum-based
Romance of the Three Kingdoms simulation online role-play game.

The Scholars of Shen Zhou
Discuss Romance of the Three Kingdoms games, novel and history,
current affairs, world history, and more with other viewers.

Other Kongming’s Archives Features
Kongming’s Archives also features: avatars, portraits, game music,
wallpaper, fan art, fan fiction, walkthroughs, and related links.

Site Updates

April 26th, 2025

All old-section biographies have been migrated over to the new biographies page. This has been a bear of a task—even after having written a one-off program to help—and it feels good to “finish” after months of chipping away.

I say “finished” because there is still work to do—portraits, details on comprehensive biographies, redirection of old links, reorganizing navigation, and adding search—but this is a more enjoyable task.

ZL181 has published many new Sanguozhi translations.

The encyclopedia will display links to new biographies as caches expire. A new biographies widget has been added to the home page. Also, the new encyclopedia entries widget has been repaired, and no longer shares “stub” (nearly empty) entries.

February 25th, 2025

Much work has been underway behind the scenes. Aside from transitioning old content to the new layout, the main focus has been on publishing some new content from thethe development project.

At long last, a new Three Kingdoms Biographies section has launched. It features two new Sanguozhi biographies from ZL181—Cao Xiong and Lü Qian (Zike)—with more to come. Existing biographies, still featured at the old biographies page, will be moved to the new biographies page and layout. Reach out if you are interested in participating. Authors can now add, edit, and control publishing of their own biographies.

Progress has been made with the new online community translation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel, which can also be community edited. Reach out if you would like to participate. Chapters 1-5 have gone through a first draft, and chapters 6–26 are published in rough draft.

Speaking of online novels, threekingdoms.com is online again, and have been for a while. Our project was launched after they were offline for an extended period of time.

New pages have been launched for Destiny of an Emperor officers and Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII officers. More work to come on this front. Behind these projects is a broader effort to gradually release new encyclopedia-like features, including, in time, a new Three Kingdoms Officer Encyclopedia.

December 9th, 2024

Maps of the Three Kingdoms has been updated with remastered maps from Zhou Dadudu, including both province province and China maps. Cache may need to be refreshed if you visited recently. The interactive map now includes shoreline changes and loads much faster.

I have changed my approach to restoring content. Before I was updating the website as a whole, with transitional code, which called for changes to be made across the whole website before updates were published. While in theory this could have been more efficient, it added a layer of complexity to the legacy code, and didn’t feel rewarding to work on as little was published. Now I will update sections one at a time, removing legacy code as I go and publishing each when finished. This already feels more encouraging, and allows updates to be shared sooner. Thankfully work already done can be carried forward.

Today’s update featured some of the older Romance of the Three Kingdoms pages, and new code for game pages, which should make it much easier to revise the remaining sections.

February 7th, 2024

A big update (but small content-wise) featuring pretty extensive code revisions and improvements. A lot of effort, here, to deal with bots, handle email communication well, and support future user interaction forms. A behind-the-scenes transition of our website to the new theme continues.

January 1st, 2024

Approaching One Year: A Status Update

December 30th, 2023

Simulated RTK has finally been re-designed. Have feedback? And Big Map (if you know, you know) has been restored! A new game is also being explored. If you are interested, head over and chime in.

December 27th, 2023

With great thanks to Zhou Dadudu, we introduce the new Maps of the Three Kingdoms page. It features Zhou Dadudu’s lovely China and province maps and the long-familiar map by William L, along with an interactive China map which you can use to view the provinces.

December 12th, 2023

November 1st, 2024

Due to problems associated with the Fandom platform, including aggressive advertising, the Koei Tecmo Wiki has moved to a new address. Please use their new address to support them in this move.

February 3rd, 2023

Launched by long-time community members, friends of the website, and folks-simply-knowledgeable about the Three Kingdoms, enjoy this new podcast.

January 27th, 2023

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and support. As requested, and with sincere appreciation as a means to help in supporting this website and its maintenance,we have launched a Patreon.. Please support us if you have some coin to spare.

January 18th, 2023

A few years we went offline. Our websites use old code which broke as hosts dropped support for security reasons (PHP 6). I was able to restore our sites for a short time, but a much larger code rewriting project was necessary. Due time demands of this project, in combination with simple ol’ fashioned struggling mental health, we remained offline for a few years. I have long regretted this fate, and this update kickstarts an earnest effort to not just patch but restore Kongming’s Archives, Scholars of Shen Zhou, and Simulated RTK.