Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
- Location
- Random place
[X] The future changes with every step, never be certain you know what is coming
That, or nothing. Can someone think of how this insight can blow up in our face? If we read optimistically this insight seems pretty suitable for us, but not sure of the potential downsides here
That, or nothing. Can someone think of how this insight can blow up in our face? If we read optimistically this insight seems pretty suitable for us, but not sure of the potential downsides here
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
[X] To journey and seek knowledge is virtue unto itself
Going this just to be a contrarian
Going this just to be a contrarian
- Location
- Charlton, NY
[X] The future changes with every step, never be certain you know what is coming
Honestly, there are ways any insight could become damaging. If I were to theorize about how that insight could turn out bad, I might trot out something about how being proactive would become harder. If we can't predict what's coming, we can only react, not act...
There was a point made several pages back about how higher levels of cultivation naturally make one more rigid, and insights like these counteract that directly. I have a feeling that either insights like this are directly necessary to maintain sacrificial potential for the highest tiers, or there's a "classic" problem with such insights we don't know about.
Honestly, there are ways any insight could become damaging. If I were to theorize about how that insight could turn out bad, I might trot out something about how being proactive would become harder. If we can't predict what's coming, we can only react, not act...
There was a point made several pages back about how higher levels of cultivation naturally make one more rigid, and insights like these counteract that directly. I have a feeling that either insights like this are directly necessary to maintain sacrificial potential for the highest tiers, or there's a "classic" problem with such insights we don't know about.
pblur
Reminiscing over the halcyon days of Ymaryn
- Location
- Lawrence's Wagon
I just don't think that paralysis automatically follows from uncertainty.
"A set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession." According to Google Dictionary, anyway. Not fashion, but definitely art.
I don't think the "personal staff" definition matches the word's use in context.
That's "suit," no e.
While I'd agree... Ling Qi doesn't necessarily find that balance automatically, either.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] The future changes with every step, never be certain you know what is coming
It's worse than that actually. The specific note of Shenhua's voice reverberating, and the pain Ling Qi experienced hearing it; Shenhua likely cast a spell to silence her entire court and (potentially) forced Renxiang to speak her mind such that the heiress rebuked them, and then Shenhua agreed to it. I don't know a lot about Asian cultures but that seems like a massive fucking deal.
Note that that's the courtiers of the court clans, not the count clans - i.e. the ones that do stuff purely within Xiangmen, and that Shenhua has gradually been replacing with a non-feudal system. The last time there was a large military presence in Xiangmen was probably the overthrow of the Hui and Shenhua's anti-corruption purges, so they would have reason to be nervous.
As for "suite", I think that was meant to be "suit".
[X] To journey and seek knowledge is virtue unto itself
I'd be more hesitant about this if I thought it had a chance of winning, but I do really like the idea of Ling Qi internalizing that there are ways to grow other than constantly rushing forward, and I strongly suspect such an insight will be necessary.
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It, with the other cues suggests that this may have been Shenhua using Renxiang as mouthpiece to warn them from a bad course.
Uncertainty has a few paths down:
-Minimize it. Be paranoid. If anything bad can happen at any time, be ready for it all.
-Internalize it. Be hasty. If you cannot know all, then act with what you have in the now.
Paralysis shouldn't happen unless you picked a planning/strategy insight and then an insight that you can't plan for everything. In which case you have a conundrum to resolve.
- Location
- New York
[X] The future changes with every step, never be certain you know what is coming
- Location
- South Africa
[X] To journey and seek knowledge is virtue unto itself
I think the value in giving additional options for journeying, yet not insisting on journeying is very useful. The other option is also very good.
I think the value in giving additional options for journeying, yet not insisting on journeying is very useful. The other option is also very good.
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- Finland
-Accept it. Plan and move forward, but do not carve those plans in stone and be ready to change tactics at moments notice.
You may have noticed - insights don't really do nuanced very well. That comes from interactions between insights that avoid contradiction
- Location
- Rivendell
It's a bit funny to consider how this insight will will interact with any techniques that rely on precognition or future prediction. Ways affect reality after all, and internalizing that the future may change at any moment could very well mean that it becomes literally impossible for others to see and predict Ling Qi's future actions.
- Location
- Staring into the void
My enemies can't know what I'm going to do if I don't know either.
- Location
- Finland
-There is no peace in emptiness, no content in stillness. Stagnation is death; act, change, move, think, and grow until the very end.
Yet somehow we are able to sit down for tea.
Insights inform who we are, what we do, and what we can't do.
The uncertainty insight does not require us to become paranoid, or to stop planning.
Future insights might do that in combination, but so far i think the fears of negative consequences are overblown at best.