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

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I can't just ignore a mystery.

[X] Keep teasing memories from the shrine, there's definitely a deeper something here.
 
Ok, this is a harder vote than the previous one.

If I remember right, Renxiang's uncle has a 5 tailed spirit fox companion and she is Dawn aligned. We can assume that Bian Ya's fox is as well, at least general sun aligned.

So Su Ling's mother, and thus her own, night alignment is due to the corruption that was born when the pacts were broken and the shrine desacrated?
Interesting.
If the old god of the Diao lands was that 9 tailed fox great spirit that would certainly explain that Diao woman interest in Su Ling. And in introducing her to her son, nephew o whatever familiar.
If you want to revive the importance of the old ways in the current world, what better way than to marry the blood of a literal ancient god into your family?

Now, if it was just us, I would want to learn more about the history of the Hui, Diao and fox spirits. But this trip is for Su Ling's sake.
Su Ling is right that whatever happened here doesn't excuse her mother's crimes. We aren't gonna learn anything that we can't already kind of guess. Su Ling isn't gonna forgive all her mother's murders just because some sad backstory, and she shouldn't. And personally, I don't like that all villains have to be sympathetic.

Su Ling hates her resemblance with her mother. Both in appearance and innate powers. That's why she has cultivated mountain and anti-illusion arts, and is considering surgery to remove her blood-line.
However, meeting Bian Ya and Renxiang's uncle's companions, along with all the good her pyromancy divination has done, has started to make her doubt.
Meeting with a wild spirit fox could either finish changing her mind or not, but I think it will be good for Su Ling to know fox spirits better beyond her mother.

[X] Check up on the Kid, if they are up to something, better to know.
 
[X] Keep teasing memories from the shrine, there's definitely a deeper something here.

It's Su Ling's trip. We should go with what she wants today.
 
[X] Keep teasing memories from the shrine, there's definitely a deeper something here.
 
... Something just occurred to me. Su Ling said that the girl as young as the one we've seen would have had grandma keeping her clean if it was Su Ling at that age.

But we know nothing about her mom except that she's still in the area, doing the same things.

How likely is this to be Su Ling's younger half sister?
 
Glau said:
... Something just occurred to me. Su Ling said that the girl as young as the one we've seen would have had grandma keeping her clean if it was Su Ling at that age.

But we know nothing about her mom except that she's still in the area, doing the same things.

How likely is this to be Su Ling's younger half sister?
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reasonable assumption. We have our own surprise sister, after all
 
Ahhhhhh that makes it hard.

Ok. Better to meet then in real life, I think.

[X] Keep teasing memories from the shrine, there's definitely a deeper something here.
 
[X] Check up on the Kid, if they are up to something, better to know.

this feels like a message, or a warning. Not so much a trap
 
JohnnieBoy123 said:
The article I linked to earlier is about religion, not myth. The Huxian religion appears to "enjoy such popularity to be worshipped by almost every household in north China and Manchuria". My understanding is that this is the region that the Emerald Seas is a reference to.
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Stealing a quote from Wikipedia:
However, while China's huli jing and Japan's kitsune are often depicted with ambiguous moral compasses, possibly good or bad, the kumiho is almost always treated as a malignant figure who feasts on human flesh.
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This is more of what I was talking about. While she may have been similar to a Huli John in the past she now fills the narrative role of kumiho.
 
[X] Sneak up on the Kid, show them why you don't try and spook a stealth cultivator.

[X] Check up on the Kid, if they are up to something, better to know.

It is the obvious choice.
 
[X] Check up on the Kid, if they are up to something, better to know.

Su Ling aspired to justice for the little folk. She has to see, that the narrative is never so neat.
Jiao showed the pitfalls of keeping yourself wilfully blind

disgruntledghost said:
I'll be the first to say I know very little about how exactly similar myths are different in separate cultures but doesn't Sun King's mother seem to be more similar to the Korean Kumiho?
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Daji, the archtypical Evil Fox was a tribulation from Heaven sent in response for decadence and impiety.

A Daji that did not wind up being able to subvert the Emperor would do just this.
 
Glau said:
Ahhhhhh that makes it hard.

Ok. Better to meet then in real life, I think.

[X] Keep teasing memories from the shrine, there's definitely a deeper something here.
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but Hanyi is the daughter of Zeqing and a man, and is a spirit. It could very well be that this sister is also a spirit. Perhaps a spirit that's been around here for ages waiting for someone not scary to talk to.

Su Ling wants to follow the cleaner lead of the Shrine, but her coming to us was in order for us to show her perspectives she wouldn't otherwise see. Weird things, context for things.

If this is a spirit related to Su Ling, I think they won't exist in the physical plane. They've probably been living in relative safety in the Liminal of the town, since we know it takes someone of around Ling Qi's level of specialization and talent to consistently get in and out of the liminal safely.
 
There's some fun stuff here! Clearly, something went wrong in this shrine if the liminal realm has drenched it in darkness and unease.

[X] Sneak up on the Kid, show them why you don't try and spook a stealth cultivator.

[X] Check up on the Kid, if they are up to something, better to know.
 
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