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

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[X] The tempestuous northern wind, bringer of storms (Enhances speed and initiative effects of art)
[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)
 
[X] The tempestuous northern wind, bringer of storms (Enhances speed and initiative effects of art)
[X] The warm western wind, herald of spring (enhances Avoid effects of art)

Avoid and Speed are applicable in most combat situations, stealth, even if it is our "speciality" is circumstantial.
 
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[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)
[X] The warm western wind, herald of spring (enhances Avoid effects of art)
 
[X] The warm western wind, herald of spring (enhances Avoid effects of art)

This because it may enhance our domain into a Warm Hug Domain

[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)

this because it may upgrade our domain into a Stealth Hug Domain.

At least that is my hope, that maybe the Art effect can be incorporated into Ling Qi's Domain.
 
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[X] The tempestuous northern wind, bringer of storms (Enhances speed and initiative effects of art)

Gotta go fast!
 
[X] The tempestuous northern wind, bringer of storms (Enhances speed and initiative effects of art)
[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)

I am glad we gave this art our all.
 
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I do not like putting Warmth, Spring and Heraldry of such into Grinning's Moon Gift.

Not only do I think North Wind is the likely canon first out the box (being speedy and high init) but it's also very on theme for the Grinning Moon of Decisive Self-Confident Action.

We have very high stealth, but terrible Alpha Strike capacity. Why? Because we use our stealth to give ourselves time to decide on a course of action. And once we decide, we descend like a Dark Storm Cloud of Death Fields and Failed Attacks. The Lunatic Whirl, the Dirge, the Unstoppable Glacial March, we are a cacophony of Inevitable Change. Loud. Strong. All Consuming.

When we decide on a thing, we have a cabal of math-LQ's draw up excel charts to map the path. We take every detail, every advantage, every possible benefit and we spin them all towards Accomplishing our Goal. We sweep every SL, every opportunity of growth and connection, up into the air with us as we go and have impacted Xiulan, Meizhen, CRX, Su Ling, Suyin, Xuan Shi, Qingge, and lord knows who else for the positive on our way.

Stealth is our current highest derived stat, and LFTWT has a whole tech dedicated to Stealth.

But we're not just quiet. We're a musician for pete's sake! We're also loud with a capital L!

I would like to incorporate a non-electric/thunder Storm theme into our build through the Tempestuous Northern Winds. We usher in change and break chains, bust locks, and storm on by with a laugh to spare for the awed bystander and raging tyrant.

Spring? I don't know her, but if she wants to be heralded I guess she can give us a call.

We're a Storm, a force of nature, and we might bring cold or warmth or ice or rain or broken branches and who knows what else. The only certainty is that we Change Things. It's what we do
 
[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)

We are a sneak through and through so I'd prefer this over the other's simply because it's what she is, also how are we supposed to filch the riches of the nobles if we don't choose this option cause I know ya'll have been thinking about it :V
 
I like the west wind because of how I see it fit with the music duel we had back in the day:
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Her song flowed forth, and the clearing formed, lit brightly by the star shining overhead… for only a moment, before flames overtook it. The howls of hunting beasts drowned out the songbird's soliloquy. The haughty tree splintered, under the incidental impact of a charging beast, not even aiming for the scene but attacking another beast on the other side. For a moment, chaos threatened to engulf the scene she had so painstakingly woven.

She felt more than heard Sixiang's gentle encouragement in her thoughts, and put more into her melody. The Star blazed, and where it touched, fires went out, and beasts shied away, blinded and confused by its light. Once again, she heard the songbird sing. Yet it wasn't over, something massive passed overhead, beyond her reckoning in scale, and the clearing was destroyed, crushed beneath a massive hoof.

Ling Qi played on, and a green stalk shot up from the stump of the tree, and the songbird sang and gathered treasures anew. Shadows swallowed the star, only for its light to be reborn from its last glimmers. Again and again, random destruction and the uncaring whims of the mighty brought ruin, time flying by in a blur of decades and centuries.

Yet, the strumming bass of the lute could not drown out the notes of her flute. The blur of time began to slow. The clearing bloomed with new life and trees grew anew. The songbird sang and the star shone. All around, there was life. Under the stars light generations of the least of beasts lived peaceful lives, not without strife, but with certainty, and the songbirds nest shone with many treasures indeed.

Then it ended again, fire and blood shattering peace, and Ling Qi mentally gritted her teeth in frustration at the other girls inability to see what she was getting at. It felt like trying to shift a mountain with her bare hands, but she forced their shared scene to slow still more, weaving the music with every scrap of skill that Zeqing had taught her to make her own chords more dominant and drag things to her own tempo.

The songbird laughed and sang her many friends gathered in her shining nest. A family of mice lived and burrowed happily beneath the fields, days passing with the lazy certainty that came only from great plenty. A dozen, a thousand, a million other little scenes in the now, in the present, built on the stability that banished the snarling shadow that was fear.

In time it ended, and Ling Qi did not contest her opponent during the end, but rather the notes she picked out asked the question. Why?

Even if peaceful times would end, and fear would return, there was value in striving for those happy days. More value than in obsessing over inevitable ends, the chaos that had come and would come again. Gather your treasures, hold them dear, even if in the end they would be scattered again. Seek stability, because it is the foundation of defeating fear. Live for the moment in which you are happy, rather than fearing the future in which it ends.
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It's true that we aren't spring. Like, at all. But based on this particular clash of beliefs, I think Ling Qi values spring, even though it's not what she herself is. And I feel that what is going on, in the landscape of this art's training sequence, is not the question "which wind are you?" That wouldn't make sense. The wind thief steals the winds. The question that Ling Qi is being asked right now is which wind are you stealing first.
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Within lay a simple bag of golden hide, bulging with the pressure of the winds, and as her deft fingers undid the ties, the first to emerge was…
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And I think Ling Qi would steal the west wind first, because the prospect of those happy days for her loved ones is a large part of what motivates her actions.
 
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[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)

Stealth and Avoid are better than the others and I just like stealth more.
 
[X] The tempestuous northern wind, bringer of storms (Enhances speed and initiative effects of art)
[X] The warm western wind, herald of spring (enhances Avoid effects of art)

Excellent chapter! Felt very "throw yourself at the ground and miss."
 
[X] the gentle eastern wind, unnoticed by all (enhances stealth effects of art)
[X] The warm western wind, herald of spring (enhances Avoid effects of art)
 
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