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Guest99 said:
I don't think Mount Tai even exists in most Xianxia settings. It's honestly kinda weird how everyone keeps referencing it, like it's some multiversal constant that everybody has seen at some point or another and just universally accepts is something everyone else has seen.
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"Well,first of all, through the power of 5000 years of Chinese history,all things are possible so jot that down"
 
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I think most of us are saying Warhammer as a tongue-in-cheek reference to his older work(Dandriss, my beloved). and that AN loves adding darker touches here and there. Whether it is actually Warhammer or simply taking elements from it, is still up in the air.
 
Sivantic said:
I think most of us are saying Warhammer as a tongue-in-cheek reference to his older work(Dandriss, my beloved). and that AN loves adding darker touches here and there. Whether it is actually Warhammer or simply taking elements from it, is still up in the air.
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I have no idea baout AN's other works.

I'm saying it because they literally have the Chaos star on their shit.

If this is a Jebait, and it's part of one big giant prank being pulled on us, AN deserves to mock us until the end of time, this is masterfully done.
 
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Academia Nut said:
The nightmare of all who strove for the heavens, it was the worst possible outcome. Stalling in the climb for ascension meant eventual death, but trying to push through a bottleneck the wrong way could lead to one's own soul being consumed to power the next step, leaving behind a being of tremendous strength and no intelligence or will.
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This sure does sound like just a fancy way to say "became a Chaos spawn".
 
Guest99 said:
I don't think Mount Tai even exists in most Xianxia settings. It's honestly kinda weird how everyone keeps referencing it, like it's some multiversal constant that everybody has seen at some point or another and just universally accepts is something everyone else has seen.
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The entire Mount Tai thing is a proverb about not seeing something right in-front of your nose because it is too huge and part of the landscape so gets ignored.
 
Xon said:
The entire Mount Tai thing is a proverb about not seeing something right in-front of your nose because it is too huge and part of the landscape so gets ignored.
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Ok, but the mountain being referenced, Mt. Tai, doesn't exist in any of the Xianxia Worlds. They have a proverb that refers to the existence of a mountain that doesn't actually exist! Where and what is Mt. Tai, that it is such a ubiquitous thing in these settings as to have a proverb so universal even two people from entirely different universes can hear it and understand what's being referenced?
 
Guest99 said:
Ok, but the mountain being referenced, Mt. Tai, doesn't exist in any of the Xianxia Worlds. They have a proverb that refers to the existence of a mountain that doesn't actually exist! Where and what is Mt. Tai, that it is such a ubiquitous thing in these settings as to have a proverb so universal even two people from entirely different universes can hear it and understand what's being referenced?
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I personally always interpret it as just being a matter of translation convention. The character aren't, hypothetically, referring specifically to Mt. Tai, it's just that the author is writing for a chinese audience, so they use the chinese idiom to convey that meaning. If we were reading the "actual accounts" of the dialogue, I like to imagine they'd be using some local idiom that would, in turn, not really mean anything to us.
 
Guest99 said:
Ok, but the mountain being referenced, Mt. Tai, doesn't exist in any of the Xianxia Worlds. They have a proverb that refers to the existence of a mountain that doesn't actually exist! Where and what is Mt. Tai, that it is such a ubiquitous thing in these settings as to have a proverb so universal even two people from entirely different universes can hear it and understand what's being referenced?
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Amusingly, it didn't even develop over a mountain, but someone's name, it was later misremembered as the name of the mountain, but the initial use was about a person.
 
Aabcehmu said:
If we were reading the "actual accounts" of the dialogue, I like to imagine they'd be using some local idiom that would, in turn, not really mean anything to us.
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"Fang Yuan, just hand over the Spring Autumn Rizz Gu and we'll let you go out easy, no cap."

"Bro, stop resisting. All the big factions are here. You're cooked. This is a certified L for you."

"Fang Yuan, you're such a demon. You killed, like, so many people just to level up that Spring Autumn Rizz Gu. That's mad sus, bro."

"Demon, 300 years ago you took my rizz, clapped my family, and wiped out my whole bloodline. I've been malding ever since. Today, you're gonna catch these hands!"
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Someone is creating an… improved version of revered insanity.
Sirrocco said:
Eight-pointed star on the envoy banners says definitely undivided.
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Not necessarily I think, could also be combined chaos warband where memebers worshio their own gods.
 
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I wonder if the unanimity mechanic goes on all other votes, or just the runner up.

I.E. 40/(40+10+8) = ~0.7
or 40/(40+10) = ~0.8

Probably the former?
 
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