User blog comment:Forrestib/Swordsman Identity/@comment-25117735-20141025185205/@comment-10390252-20141026140604

It could be a combination. I like the idea that Yang's mother was the daughter of the leader of White Fang that Adam's faction deposed. This makes Yang the second in line to the 'throne' as it were.

I've just had a mental flash of a scene with Yang standing in a darkned office; Blake, wearing a White Fang mask, walks in and asks her if she's ready to make her first speech to "your followers". The thought of a woman who just wanted to live the carefree life of a wandering adventurer becoming responsible for an entire species and the negotiations to bring peace between her father's race and her mother's appeals to me on a story-telling level.