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

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yrsillar said:
"Hmph, tinkering with old and abandoned things for parts," Elder Jiao said. "It's not something that will earn much respect."

"I think the key to that is making your new thing appear to be a old thing," Ling Qi said dryly. "People do it all the time."
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"I am going to create a Way that is so improbably cobbled together from forgotten techniques and concepts..."

yrsillar said:
"I'm not sure I want to know that," Ling Qi said warily.

"That sounds like a you problem," Jiao snorted.
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Jiao and his high-level [SASS] concepts.
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)

I actually like both options quite a bit, but I think I slightly prefer the ability to apply it to more targets.
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)

Grounding's ability is nice... but the insight here, I think, it more fitting for Ling Qi and possibly healthier.
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
I was behind for a while but caught back up now!

In terms of the choice I'm really split; For the effect the grounding option feels better and something of it resonates with our first defensive art, Thousand Ring Fortress? And that seems like it might mesh well for Zehngui, but that could very well be just my imagining things. On the otherhand, it does sound like the insight from dispersion would be better for LQ in the long term, and thematically fits quite well with Domain being mist and all.

Could definitely be convinced either way at this point.
 
[x] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
Something important to acknowledge is that the first option's line "seek not negation but acclimation" doesn't mean the second option does negation. It doesn't look like it does, really. Not within its own logic. It's rerouting things to create a safe space, or strata, for dialogue to commence from.

Basically, these philosophies should be read as self-contained rather than making commentary on the other.
 
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[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)

It fits with the whole "dealing with really powerfull spirits\Cultivators and leaving alive but not unharmed" Ling Qi has going on.

Also i wonder, if Jiao and Xin ended up having a kid, would it be Spirit blooded ? And if it was, what kind of Spiritblood abilities\affinities would come from a 7th realm moon spirit ? Like i get what happens with grandma snake and the old Fox, but with an aspect of the Hidden Moon ? Shadow flesh ? Super Research powers ?
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)

If we're buying the art for our clan, somebody will eventually modify it for breadth. But we have a tendency to punch Prisms in the face, so we really need depth.
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)

Being able to protect people from afar without attention seems pretty cool.
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)

Being able to maintain Bastion's effect without maintaining attention with it sounds really strong.
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
Dispersion wins for me mostly off of aesthetic. One of my favorite scenes in the story was the short exchange between the Bai and Cai heads, where the attack and block were titanic, almost metaphorical forces clashing and leaving a small, symbolic wound on Meizhen's aunt. Dispersion sounds like it does that, reducing the presence of blade spirits to leaving a dramatic slash across a cheek, lighting spirits to hair standing on edge and a static charge, and winter storms to chapped lips and frozen breath. It pairs so will with our flashes of understanding, and I cannot wait to watch everyone freak out trying to decode a spirit's nature from the mark they leave.

[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
[X] Grounding, Through and out, world and spirit are one, understand and stand tall. (Bastion's negation may apply to more targets, and linger even without your maintaining attention.)
 
[X] Dispersion, seek not negation but acclimation, one must be touched to understand (Bastion's negation may affect more potent environmental effects, but can never fully negate them.)
 
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