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

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yrsillar said:
Ling Qi looked up to her mother, seated on the bench across from her and raised an eyebrow. The older woman heaved a sigh, and gave a little nod. Ling Qi tapped the shutters on the wall beside her and they swung open revealing the blurring dark green and brown and shadowed black of the path whipping by outside. None of the wind screaming outside the carriage made its way in, past the thin film of qi she could feel which blocked it even from the open window.
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Ah. Ling Qi and her carriages are always the precursors to some truely fire business. Hype af rn.
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)

I agree with the post that said Everyone will be attending in some capacity. I wonder if Xiulan will be there as part of the Sands delegation.
 
[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
I prefer ambition, because I want Biyu to hang out in the same halls of power as LQ. I want her to become a supporting character like CRX, since LQ never really had family to lean on early on in the quest. Besides, LQ is already infected with the spirit of adventure and daring, there's little chance people are going to vote otherwise. A more 'pragmatic' Biyu would balance things out. My 2c

[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
The most important thing to realize here is probably that both options are extraordinarily, recklessly, dangerous. Which is a good thing, obviously.

[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)

But I think this one is funnier, so it gets my vote.
 
[x] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them
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People are going about how this is ambition and being more responsible than wanderlust.
The truth is that this is the path for Little Sis to become a Mountaineer! Wandering the lands to find the tallest mountain/tree/building/island and climb it. All to steal the moon from her Big Sister's hand.
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)

The tipping factor is that I too would like to keep Biyu around.
 
[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)
 
ReignTorrential said:
Voting for Palaces is fine but... I don't really think Yrs is framing this as a vote focused on short-term consequences. This is a foundation for Biyu's long-term character.
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Yrs just said we're giving her a dream. The thread is discussing it like it's long-term character molding. Yrs does take cues from vote discussions though.

I admit this is also colored by recent IRL interaction with little girls this age.

Maybe magic makes it work differently, but the little girls I know dgaf about your long term plans for them. Life and learning is very Now and Immediate Future. How will something stick with you if it's not reinforced quickly and immediately?

Lots of life is like this. It is very rare to make surviving plans for the far future that don't also tie in to the Now and the Immediate Future.

One-off events are pruned and forgotten unless they are somehow passed into regular use.

What long-term plan doesn't require you to invest in it soon?
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[x] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)
 
[x] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[X] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)
 
[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)
Explorer Biyu would really help the Ling clan become the clan that forms the bridge between the empire and the wider world.
 
[x] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)

Biyu is nominally Ling Qi's Heir, as Nuan is not in the proper line of succession. She needs to able to stand besides Qi one day.
 
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[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)
 
[x] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)

Synthesizer said:
[x] Tsu's great palace, built around a single great branch, living wood and stone and glass, green and serene… (Gives Biyu a dream of the highest places and the striving to reach them)

Biyu I'd nominally Ling Qi's Heir, as Nuan is not in the proper line of succession. She needs to able to stand besides Qi one day.
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Actual lines of succession are less of a thing. If Ling Qi died in the upcoming underground offensive, which is not going to happen but in universe something people would recognize as certainly not impossible, Nuan would absolutely be in charge of the Southern Emerald Seas Ling Clan as the remaining cultivator of note.

In the far off future if Nuan had 'only' a couple stages on Biyu and something happened THEN proximity would be taken into account, but right now Nuan is absolutely Ling Qi's heir and will be for a while.

Which is obviously not a disagreement with the actual vote, or even with the intent behind the reasoning for the vote, just making a note about that.
 
[X] Endless glittering lights, like droplets of dew on a spiderweb, catching the morning sun, stretching out too far for the eye to see, a constellation here on the earth to match the sky(Gives Biyu a dream of wanderlust, of traveling far and wide)
 
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