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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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[X][FVM] Even if hardship and tribulation litter your path, it has worth if you have somewhere to return at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
Adhoc vote count started by OneArmedYeti on Feb 26, 2019 at 5:20 PM, finished with 10399 posts and 29 votes.
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[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[x][FVM] Though it is beautiful, the travelers song is not Ling Qi's(No slot)
[x][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though it is beautiful, the travelers song is not Ling Qi's(No slot)

[X][FSS] All things End, but one does not need to think of endings to live(No slot)
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
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[X][FVM] Even if hardship and tribulation litter your path, it has worth if you have somewhere to return at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Even if hardship and tribulation litter your path, it has worth if you have somewhere to return at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FVM] Though it is beautiful, the travelers song is not Ling Qi's(No slot)
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
[X][FSS] All things End, but one does not need to think of endings to live(No slot)
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.

Seems like a good setup for getting journeys, cycles and beauty as core parts of LQ's domain.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
Ok, so: [][FVM] Even if hardship and tribulation litter your path, it has worth if you have somewhere to return at the end. superficially looks like the "Home" option. I'm going to suggest, however, that actually the alternative better fits Ling Qi's ideas of home.

The key thing here is that for Ling Qi home is not a physical place. Her conceptualisation of it, as we may recall from her breakthrough, is home in friendship. In having friends you can rely on, and sharing joy and music with them. Finding safety in mutual support. Looking at things through this lens, FVM#1, is really the more Ling Qi "Home" option.

By being a more dynamic and ephemeral thing rather than a stable physical place, it also combos better with the FSS "endings and new beginnings" which seems to be very popular.

tldr; this is the best Home option:
[][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
 
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[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] The end comes for all things, without exception. In accepting this, you are freed.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Killer_Whale on Feb 26, 2019 at 5:30 PM, finished with 10411 posts and 41 votes.
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Erebeal said:
This one is kinda awkward tbh. While "beauty plus endings = beginnings" can give you a "beauty of a falling leaf" kinda deal, the home one kinda angles for something a bit more stable? Meizhen died :( Oh well, possibility to make new friends :) Oh our home burned down :( Now we can make a new cool one! :) Seems a bit ehhh... though not philosophically invalid.
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I think this combo is more "It's ok if Ling Qi loses her family, as long as she is capable of building another."

In other words, losing her mother, for example, is fine, since that means there's now space for another maternal figure in Ling Qi's life. Becoming lesser temporarily so she can then grow in ways that wouldn't have been possible before, basically.

As for my vote...
[X][FVM] Even if hardship and tribulation litter your path, it has worth if you have somewhere to return at the end.
[x][FSS] All things End, but one does not need to think of endings to live(No slot)
The arguments to slot in FSS aren't convincing, and I think I'm ok-ish with the not-great but nonetheless serviceable FVM insight.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Arkeus on Feb 26, 2019 at 5:32 PM, finished with 10417 posts and 45 votes.
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[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
[X][FVM] Though a path might be hard and lonely, it has worth if you can present something of beauty to those you care for at the end.
[][FSS] All things End, but one does not need to think of endings to live (No slot)
[X]FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.

Still split on the FSS insight.

I'd also like to note that this haphazard way of picking our Domain piecemeal is really irritating. I suspect that's deliberate design and it's very thematic, but damn is it annoying.
 
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[X][FVM] Even if hardship and tribulation litter your path, it has worth if you have somewhere to return at the end.
[X][FSS] There are endings and Endings, only the very last one is final. Just as winter ends in spring, small endings are new beginnings.
 
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