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

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yrsillar said:
However, even with their abilities limited within the ring, they were able to save most of the materials that had not already fallen into the void. It was thanks to both Ling Qi's speed and Meng Dan's ability to swiftly organize their loads for maximum efficiency that they managed to save most of the materials that had not already fallen into the void.
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@yrsillar This section repeats with the "save most of the materials that had not already fallen into the void" part.

On the vote itself, I don't see why touching the tapestry has to mean anything? Like let's say we decide to learn more about our ancestry, at the end of the day the voters still decide the course of the story. Our ancestry is only going to be a big time-consuming narrative plot if we try to make it one (and even then we would need Yrs to offer it as a choice), and I don't feel like just finding out the basics is going to lock us into that.
 
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The Chu taunt also kind of rings hollow considering later trends of LQ´s character, this mission for example hings on those old clans when it comes to our reason given.
 
Erebeal said:
I'm just really not interested in giving any narrative space to any ideas about our ancestory at all. I just don't see it as important or beneficial to the story - indeed, given people's historical obsession with the idea that our father is special or something, quite the opposite.
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Knowledge is useful. Turning your noise up at it because you dislike it isn't a good thing.

More than one story ends badly become people refused to learn things they could easily learn because of some misplaced pride of being too good to learn about the small thing. Do I think its likely to happen here? No I don't, but the principle is the same.

LQ's heritage is her mother and her teachers that wont change. But it doesn't mean that she has to somehow ignore all other things like a scared child.
 
[] It can't hurt to try. The Weilu are ancient after all, surely most everyone had a drop or two of their blood in them. Imagine how useful it would be, to claim some ancient connection.

dew it

yes we are our own but ancestry can be used in negotiations and we ae in such mission
plus, y'know its fun to do
 
Also on a personal level, as someone who similar to everyone in modern China had their family Genealogies stretching back who knows how long destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. Just the thought of not touching this and gaining some information either way makes me physically ill.

People do not need to take that personal argument seriously, but its a point to say that this shit isn't just "whatever we don't have to care". If she is, its something that gives a tie to look into. If she isn't, its still something to look into. Especially since LQ has been on a binge of recovering past knowledge and stories, the ones that tie to her past are also important.

She does not have to let it define her, but she should also not bury it deliberately without even looking.
 
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Consider that a big part of Ling Qi's journey has been an acknowledgement of exactly where she's from and what that state forced her to do... willfully ignoring this seems rather misplaced from the very beginning.

Her entire story is rooted in the premise that by admitting where she came from and how she acted she had the impetus to change for the better.
 
I feel like Ling Qi should test it when alone (or only with family, familiar spirits included).
 
I'm honestly not super sold on option 1 being incredibly Hidden Moon aligned or anything?
Cause I'm seeing only a very small chance of it actually revealing any big secret about our heritage.
"You kinda have a drop of Weilu blood in you from like fifteen different ancestors but there's also like a couple dozen generations of mortals between you and them" isn't a deep secret we'd be abandoning to be never discovered.
Especially since we're realistically gonna be getting our closest Weilu ancestry from that one time a Liu sired a child with a member of our mother's clan and they got dumped in the non-cultivator servant house.

I'm pretty confident that there is no secret lost heiress plotline waiting to be unveiled here and Ling Qi seems to largely share that belief, so trying to touch the thing isn't framed as an act dedicated to the Hidden Moon by her either.
Internally the act is rather clearly spelled out as "I kinda do want to be special and also political advantage" vs "I do not actually want to lean into this sorta thing for legitimacy".
 
[x] It can't hurt to try. The Weilu are ancient after all, surely most everyone had a drop or two of their blood in them. Imagine how useful it would be, to claim some ancient connection.
 
Vanguard_D said:
The Chu taunt also kind of rings hollow considering later trends of LQ´s character, this mission for example hings on those old clans when it comes to our reason given.
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I still think it hits hard, but I may be using a different interpretation of the insult. I don't think the insult is coloured by the mission we are on because I didn't see Ling's words as an attack on the clan itself or even the history and weight of old clans in general, but more of a personal attack at Chu Song. I read the taunt as, "I don't care about your feeble struggles to remain relevant." This, if I remember correctly, is backed up by the fact that before the insult she mentions that Chu's position is one that others would literally kill to have. So, it's easy to see why Ling Qi, who scrambled on the streets would disdain someone with a chip on their shoulder about status despite aready being in the 99%.
 
Pipeman said:
I'm honestly not super sold on option 1 being incredibly Hidden Moon aligned or anything?
Cause I'm seeing only a very small chance of it actually revealing any big secret about our heritage.
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It doesn't have to be particularly significant to be Hidden Moon. Hidden Moon is about being open to curiosity, learning, and secrets. Ling Qi being completely uninterested in learning something about herself even when handed such a rare opportunity would be very anti-Hidden imo.

I entirely expect poking the mirror won't change the story much at all, or give Ling Qi some huge background. This is almost entirely about whether Ling Qi wants to learn. Ling Qi learning that she has no connection to the Weilu at all is still learning, and is still important, and (I think) should still interest Ling Qi.
 
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Honestly, just watch us come back home, mention this escapade and then Qingge will start reciting the family genealogy all the way to the Weilu because that's exactly the sort of thing her tutors made her memorize, even though it would always have been completely irrelevant to her life.

Sure, we'll have evidence to back it up, but the information could very well be there already.
 
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065tdsa said:
Honestly, just watch us come back home, mention this escapade and then Qingge will start reciting the family genealogy all the way to the Weilu because that's exactly the sort of thing her tutors would have made her memorize even though it would always have been completely irrelevant to her life.

Sure, we'll have evidence to back it up, but the information could very well be there already.
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"Oh yeah sweetie, we're actually descended directly from Tsu the Diviner's favorite daughter, why do you ask?"
 
Pipeman said:
I'm honestly not super sold on option 1 being incredibly Hidden Moon aligned or anything?
Cause I'm seeing only a very small chance of it actually revealing any big secret about our heritage.
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But it's not just about the size of the secret for the Hidden Moon, it's the fact that we took the chance to look at all, or that's how I see it.

Even if I had OOC knowledge that nothing would happen if we touched it, I would still vote to do so because I think not taking the chance when there are almost 0 visible consequences would make us a poor Hidden Moon cultivator.
 
LimitlessMemes said:
It doesn't have to be particularly significant to be Hidden Moon. Hidden Moon is about being open to curiosity, learning, and secrets. Ling Qi being completely uninterested in learning something about herself even when handed such a rare opportunity would be very anti-Hidden imo.
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But what is she actually learning?
That her closest Weilu ancestor was the seventh son of Tsu's third daughter who was married off into some now dead Clan?
Why is this relevant to who Ling Qi is, unless Ling Qi actually puts stock into it?

The second option isn't disregarding to learn something important about her ancestry, it's deciding that this is not actually meaningful in the first place.
The Hidden Moon doesn't compel you to obsessively collect all kinds of trivia and this vote is about whether our potential Weilu bloodline connection is trivia or not.
 
[] It can't hurt to try. The Weilu are ancient after all, surely most everyone had a drop or two of their blood in them. Imagine how useful it would be, to claim some ancient connection.

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!
I can't put into words! JUST DO IT!
 
yrsillar said:
Meng Dan on the other hand wasn't looking at her at all, instead running his fingers soothingly up the books spine.
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Eyyy. Harry Potter reference (unless they also took it from somewhere else?).

What if touching the thing when you have Zero connection by blood triggers a trap? It's probably unlikely, but still.

I do so wanna touch the thing though. Whatever else happens, poking the thing would still be so tempting.

But I also dont want anything to do with our lineage. Our line starts with us. No amount of fancy shmancy blood will change that, especially since doing so would link us back to Quingge's family.
 
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