While I'm not unhappy with the outcome it does make
An oof when that person is a prism and clan head we just implied are less imperial
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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While I'm not unhappy with the outcome it does make
TimEd
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[X] Combat Perception
-[X] Ear Cuffs
-[X] Ear Cuffs
well, one of the benefits from that was how we moved a -2 into a mere -1. Which is worth it to us to avoid more targeted sabotage to our new clan.
I don't think that was a perception art, it seemed really similar to Bai Suzhen cutting Meizhen's father with a sharp word in that sidestory (that I can no longer find); more a consequence of her cultivation and how her domain has formed than something as defined as an art.
[X] Combat Perception
-[X] Ear Cuffs
-[X] Ear Cuffs
Hey, technically I didn't say it was an art! Devious plot of mine, really.
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- At the end of the world
[X] Combat Perception
-[X] Ear Cuffs
Looks like more sane variant
-[X] Ear Cuffs
Looks like more sane variant
- Location
- Germany
Come to think of it, there will be gardening with Zhengui and LQ this turn. This means they will try to garden something they both like. The only named character source I can think of is Renxiang and her tea hobby. I would not be suprised, if LQ and Zhengui try to cultivate some Tea and knowning LQ it will be positive for cultivation, especially her family.
TimEd
Meteor maker
Maybe we can steer it towards something else. Maybe Ling Qi can make milkshakes that would bring boys to the yard.
[X] Combat Perception
-[X] Ear Cuffs
Coupled with this:
The question is how
Hmm...theoretically the right strategy there is skirmish and exhaust their reserves, except the Sect isn't positioned to skirmish, being a fixed target they can assault.
That said if you squint at it, it seems Suyin found some kind of insight(no caps) into warfare like Ling Qi's "Its a heist" revelation.
Ling Qi don't do that to OCD people.
She already looks like a corpse so its one path she could take for style.
Reminds me of Ling Qi's sunfire burns, it wouldn't just leave via treatments, its an antitheical force and that means you have to grow to erode it.
Also assuming those bones are all of a single piece those are some huge ass critters the bones came from.
Would guess they're too minor to actually bother the court.
Wonder if the place used to be used for Sun/Moon worship earlier on. The tree is old enough that fae may have been members of the court at some point.
If sleeping rather deeply.
This is a court led by a White weaver.
The presence of fine woven fabrics directly implies at the ability to source weaving equipment, ensure a stable supply of raw stock for thread, spinners to work stock to thread.
That they have embroidery suggests all of the above at a sufficient frequency to develop a separate art form for the purpose of a canvas which requires civilization to produce.
A good point to emphasize here.
Renxiang's first meeting was, IIRC, when Shenhua was actually annoyed at something else. At Red. She melted.
So going over the exchange that Ling Qi was too blanked to comprehend:
-Honorable lineages mention probably was the Old Tribes reps. They have the best context for how lineage might be considered for passing down arts. Pity we missed it all.
-Imperial Ambassador goes all barbaric practices
-Weilu Moderates defend their fellow Emerald Seas practices.
-Shenhua's focus is her light's focus, when she's relaxed and at leisure her attention is spread evenly across the court and everyone is slightly pressed. When she's focused nobody feels anything(and thus everyone can look at her) except for the one she's focusing on. Linqin distracts her so she doesn't splatter the poor Green.
-Shenhua's brightness directly scales to her mood, but Linqin is absorbing it. This suggests she wasn't in the best of moods from the start due to learning her heir was used as part of the bait in a trap.
Ling Qi pretty much called the imperial ambassador foolish there lol, and the Wang/Luo backed her up.
If a fragment of a fragment's fragment even slowed Shenhua's analysis that's White+ work.
Whats the history with the Xia?
-Meng - Traditionalist aligned.
-Luo - Traditionalist aligned, surprised to find themselves on the same side as the Meng for a change.
-Jia - Trying to be moderate, very uncomfortable with either angle.
-Wang - Doesn't really find it all that important compared to the strategic suggestion that we...not engage in a four front war.
The Bao are notably silent, whether not caring or not wanting to annoy a trade partner regardless of their stance is unclear.
I recall it was hinted and it IS rather unlikely that a mining clan have no interaction with the Underground.
Shenhua's Enthusiastic Walk did the trick. I'd guess given the need for sacrifice to build up to greater power and that Shenhua was open to negotiations meant that they didn't feel up to sacrificing a city to take her with them if they didn't need to.
...oh my god Ling Qi is taking point on a diplomatic delegation.
Her friends are all going to spit blood.
The cartographers are going to need to redraw the Wall when she's done.
And this has gone past Interested Shenhua to Determined/Grim Shenhua.
And that's an explicit raise in our cultivation budget.
And THEN theres a Boon inbound for Renxiang.
All Ling Qi has to do is broker a peaceful meeting with a people she doesn't share a language with.
No pressure.
-[X] Ear Cuffs
Huh, you know, I thought Suyin was as far in the backlines as you could get while still on the mission.
Coupled with this:
That suggests that the lines were bypassed.
The question is how
...I'm guessing that nobody seems to have understood how they respond to attacks. They treat every attack as if its all in.
Hmm...theoretically the right strategy there is skirmish and exhaust their reserves, except the Sect isn't positioned to skirmish, being a fixed target they can assault.
That said if you squint at it, it seems Suyin found some kind of insight(no caps) into warfare like Ling Qi's "Its a heist" revelation.
=.=
Ling Qi don't do that to OCD people.
Well, nobody wanted to acknowledge it. Wishful thinking is only natural.
Zhengui feels good for a change. He was useful. He got hurt, but he stopped others from getting hurt.
In before punk style Hanyi.
She already looks like a corpse so its one path she could take for style.
Nasty, if the grade of treatments she had available couldn't flush it.
Reminds me of Ling Qi's sunfire burns, it wouldn't just leave via treatments, its an antitheical force and that means you have to grow to erode it.
We have the answer now.
Ling Qi-ness is beyond the understanding of mere immortals.
Twelve, the Zodiac animals?
Also assuming those bones are all of a single piece those are some huge ass critters the bones came from.
Using spontaneously spawning fae for style points is a Thing apparently.
Would guess they're too minor to actually bother the court.
Wonder if the place used to be used for Sun/Moon worship earlier on. The tree is old enough that fae may have been members of the court at some point.
First on screen Sublime!
If sleeping rather deeply.
Already lightly sniping even before we said anything huh?
Perception arts. Pretty precise and mathematical one, but that's useful for targeting assistance if you use ranged attacks or do crafting work.
Methinks the court didn't like hearing about the Nomads having a being on that scale. It doesn't fit their preceptions for those away from the border and its concerning to those on the border - they can't be sure of winning such a commander's duel if it came to that.
Implying that the injuries and tainting might have been grounds for censure and correction, if things weren't so far deep in the shit to justify it?
Hmm, didn't think Shenhua was the sort to give that impression. They're seeing someone vastly different from what we see?
Funny, is this their official stance on us and they don't care to mask it in Shenhua's presence since she tends to shred any such, or is it their personal stance and their Way precludes hiding it.
In a court of so many potent cultivators, could the court's combined attention pose such a pressure as well?
Lady, prodding at us at every turn is a bad look you know.
Renxiang knows how to craft a speech. This got their attention and let them raise the significance, without being crass.
Behave strangely.
This is a court led by a White weaver.
The presence of fine woven fabrics directly implies at the ability to source weaving equipment, ensure a stable supply of raw stock for thread, spinners to work stock to thread.
That they have embroidery suggests all of the above at a sufficient frequency to develop a separate art form for the purpose of a canvas which requires civilization to produce.
A good point to emphasize here.
We have her attention. That's basically the point of success here - Shenhua considered it Interesting, and she is a woman of action.
Also damn, Ling Qi has remarkably tough resolve for her stage and mere attention has buckled her.
Renxiang's first meeting was, IIRC, when Shenhua was actually annoyed at something else. At Red. She melted.
So going over the exchange that Ling Qi was too blanked to comprehend:
-Honorable lineages mention probably was the Old Tribes reps. They have the best context for how lineage might be considered for passing down arts. Pity we missed it all.
-Imperial Ambassador goes all barbaric practices
-Weilu Moderates defend their fellow Emerald Seas practices.
Is that a Yandere Way? Because it smells like Smothering Love from here.
Minorly confusing here. Not sure which is going on:
-Shenhua's focus is her light's focus, when she's relaxed and at leisure her attention is spread evenly across the court and everyone is slightly pressed. When she's focused nobody feels anything(and thus everyone can look at her) except for the one she's focusing on. Linqin distracts her so she doesn't splatter the poor Green.
-Shenhua's brightness directly scales to her mood, but Linqin is absorbing it. This suggests she wasn't in the best of moods from the start due to learning her heir was used as part of the bait in a trap.
Renxiang: [Conceals exasperation]
Ling Qi pretty much called the imperial ambassador foolish there lol, and the Wang/Luo backed her up.
And Shenhua verified the credentials.
If a fragment of a fragment's fragment even slowed Shenhua's analysis that's White+ work.
Organically developed...as in it just directly exploits the inherent properties of a high tier material?
Huh, whats going on here?
Whats the history with the Xia?
-Diao - Imperial aligned obviously, but suggesting that its absurd when there are people in this court who identify with Hill Tribes...
-Meng - Traditionalist aligned.
-Luo - Traditionalist aligned, surprised to find themselves on the same side as the Meng for a change.
-Jia - Trying to be moderate, very uncomfortable with either angle.
-Wang - Doesn't really find it all that important compared to the strategic suggestion that we...not engage in a four front war.
The Bao are notably silent, whether not caring or not wanting to annoy a trade partner regardless of their stance is unclear.
Bao had dealings with the underground too right?
I recall it was hinted and it IS rather unlikely that a mining clan have no interaction with the Underground.
Shenhua's Enthusiastic Walk did the trick. I'd guess given the need for sacrifice to build up to greater power and that Shenhua was open to negotiations meant that they didn't feel up to sacrificing a city to take her with them if they didn't need to.
And thus also recontextualizes the conflict near the Sect. If its one city state at war, rather than their entire race...thats doable.
The reward of work well done is more work.
...oh my god Ling Qi is taking point on a diplomatic delegation.
Her friends are all going to spit blood.
Enthusiastic Walk time.
The cartographers are going to need to redraw the Wall when she's done.
And this has gone past Interested Shenhua to Determined/Grim Shenhua.
I think that's the first ever Well Done we've seen from Shenhua.
And that's an explicit raise in our cultivation budget.
And THEN theres a Boon inbound for Renxiang.
All Ling Qi has to do is broker a peaceful meeting with a people she doesn't share a language with.
No pressure.
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Lol. Ling qi with a fedora 'M'lady ranxian'. I'm in for a wind chime earing. Imo it is the most unique. I only hope it doesn't hinder her combat performance.
There is a bit in the Rushing Cloud Sect information update. Xia was a small fading hill tribe until Xia Ren went on modernizing them. So clear Hill tribe ancestry.
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- Finland
Just little something i found funny.
I want a followup sidestory of the imperial ambassador telling their boss that they may have criticized the Duchess by accident.
I did a thing.
Why would anyone do the thing.
I did the thing.
Now go and do the thing, but more so.
I want a followup sidestory of the imperial ambassador telling their boss that they may have criticized the Duchess by accident.
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The last update had a really neat bit of world building I want to point out, and maybe expand upon. In the last update the one thing that got the Cai to switch from 'maybe interesting' to 'actually interesting and has my attention' was this:
That is the bit where we showed her bit of iron. It doesn't matter that they have enough industry to make clothes and what not, since any idiot can hold a needle (and I'm sure Shenhua considers most tailors that). No what matters is that they have the access to items with that level of power and the ability to hand them out to some third realm. To the empire, and probably in this world, a government doesn't have any meaningful power without access to people at the highest levels of cultivation. Ancestors and whites are needed to get respect here. Before this it was just another random set of barbarians that can be crushed as needed. Now this ties nicely into what was said in the jungle interlude:
Making Liling spirit blooded, or whatever happened to her, was needed to make the jungle the ancestor of the Sun clan. Again the clan needs the power of an anecstor to be respected once their white is gone. This has been a theme throughout the story, the Bai were never pushed too far after all, but it is cool to see it playing out like this.
Also, I think this and the fact that cultivation methods differ and are hard to translate between will have some interesting effects on how two cultures interact. Like with the cloud tribe, they only had a prisim tier, and it's not like those are super rare. Hell, we've met more than one in less than a year. What is a single prisim to the providence, let alone the empire? The empire, despite it's many flaws, can muster a force to crush a single prisim lead army if they want to.
But what about the ice people? Do they really understand what a white means? Have they ever seen one? Do the believe their newly absorbed cloud tribes about this? What if they don't have whites, but do have an active sublime ancestor, like the jungle? After all they culitvate differently and may not even have something at the same level. The struggle to understand the potential destructrion seems like it would cause lots of misunderstands and probably wars until both sides figure out where each stand. I think it will be fun, and a little scary, to try to explain to each other these sorts of things. Thinking about it, this does make our task seem somewhat insane, but I guess we can expect when you work for the Cai.
That is the bit where we showed her bit of iron. It doesn't matter that they have enough industry to make clothes and what not, since any idiot can hold a needle (and I'm sure Shenhua considers most tailors that). No what matters is that they have the access to items with that level of power and the ability to hand them out to some third realm. To the empire, and probably in this world, a government doesn't have any meaningful power without access to people at the highest levels of cultivation. Ancestors and whites are needed to get respect here. Before this it was just another random set of barbarians that can be crushed as needed. Now this ties nicely into what was said in the jungle interlude:
Making Liling spirit blooded, or whatever happened to her, was needed to make the jungle the ancestor of the Sun clan. Again the clan needs the power of an anecstor to be respected once their white is gone. This has been a theme throughout the story, the Bai were never pushed too far after all, but it is cool to see it playing out like this.
Also, I think this and the fact that cultivation methods differ and are hard to translate between will have some interesting effects on how two cultures interact. Like with the cloud tribe, they only had a prisim tier, and it's not like those are super rare. Hell, we've met more than one in less than a year. What is a single prisim to the providence, let alone the empire? The empire, despite it's many flaws, can muster a force to crush a single prisim lead army if they want to.
But what about the ice people? Do they really understand what a white means? Have they ever seen one? Do the believe their newly absorbed cloud tribes about this? What if they don't have whites, but do have an active sublime ancestor, like the jungle? After all they culitvate differently and may not even have something at the same level. The struggle to understand the potential destructrion seems like it would cause lots of misunderstands and probably wars until both sides figure out where each stand. I think it will be fun, and a little scary, to try to explain to each other these sorts of things. Thinking about it, this does make our task seem somewhat insane, but I guess we can expect when you work for the Cai.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
I think that the people of the south have at least a sublime ancestor. They have the Iron Toothed Crone. We don't know if its a very active sublime, a hereditary white like the Khemer have, or some regional super spirit like the Sunflower Goddess. What we do know however is that the Iron Tooth Crone torments the south of the wall and the cloud tribes don't ever consider fighting it.