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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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That Xuan Xue sure was eating the eye candy there, wasn't she? I mean, I might be reading too much into it. I do have the heart of a shipper after all, but with how intently she was looking for him, how she was miffed he was late, how much she was looking forward to entertaining him...

I mean, for a Xuan that's basically swooning over him, right?
 
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I have a feeling that the Xuan liason to the Imperial Court is something of a dumping-ground (that is, while they need to be diplomatic and have reasonable intelligence, it's not really much of a compliment to be given the job either.)
 
yrsillar said:
So working through everything necessary to get the new quest running is taking longer than expected, and generally being a stressful time.
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Sorry that it's a stressful time, I'm glad you were able to write this interlude though!

yrsillar said:
Xuan Xue ignored her Brother with the ease of familiarity raising her eyes back to the foreigners face. Had he grown even taller? The man was already closer to three meters than two. "Good hunting then. This one must ask, is the patriarchs cargo safe?"

Mehmet's boisterous expression grew serious. "You wound me, O captain. After your patriarchs generosity, of course we would deliver our end of the bargain without fail. Mine Father himself rose from the stone sleep to lead our warriors and raze the Pyyrhan temple which housed your prize. To lose it would be worth more than my head!"
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Interesting tidbit here. I wonder what prize the Patriarch of the Xuan wanted and why he asked these Not!Egyptian's to do the looting for him. It must be pretty important and valuable. It's also interesting that the name for the Northern fishmen Barbarians is the Pyyrhan, or it's the name of one of their gods or another entirely different culture and people.

yrsillar said:
Xuan Xue only gave the activity on the desk a brief glance. She knew the smaller low caste foreigners would obey Mehmets words without question. As the two of them began to walk toward the housing complex built farther back on her brothers shell, Xuan Xue glanced up at her towering companion. "Might this one ask after the other matter?"

Mehmet chuckled and reached up, plunging his ring adorned fingers into his right pectoral, the oiled flesh distorting like clay as he drew forth a scroll case of polished ivory, embossed with gleaming gold stylized eye. "His majesty God King Horemheb II, has heard the request of the Patriarch Xuan. Expansion of the routes is approved."
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Another interesting tidbit in that the Xuan are going to be exporting and trading even more heavily with these foreigners. At least, that is what is implied. I suppose they could be other routes for travel or such, but trade seems to be more likely.
 
TehChron said:
Ha!

Cultivator Apophis

What a guy
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Possibly instead an Ultra-white that is an amalgamation of multiple ascended whites as one composite being, which fits a little better with the Egyptian duology of Ma'at and Apophis as fundamental truths/lies. I guess they could just be two immensely powerful ascended whites, but that just doesn't feel quite right.
 
They literally make jojo poses. I am in love.

More seriously what we can get from this :

Horemhed II never existed in real life egypt. Horemhed I was a general that ended taking the power and becoming pharoah after the death of tutankhaton.

So we should (if the history of not!egypt horemhed is similar to the IRL one) expect a young dinasty military focused. They might be a threat if they manage to get enough wood to build invasion boats (the lack of wood always crippled the egyptian navy irl).

Another note is that horemhed signify horus is happy, which has implication in a world were gods are a real thing.
 
So here we see a glimpse of one of the world's alternate routes to power - cultivation by adding the flesh of one's vanquished enemies to your own.

It makes sense. The flesh of peer-level cultivators is likely to be a meaningful spiritual resource, perhaps especially so when the flesh is taken when fresh. It fits as an alternative to cultivating based off of medicines and spirit stones, which is what the Empire route is AFAIK.
 
PrimalShadow said:
So here we see a glimpse of one of the world's alternate routes to power - cultivation by adding the flesh of one's vanquished enemies to your own.

It makes sense. The flesh of peer-level cultivators is likely to be a meaningful spiritual resource, perhaps especially so when the flesh is taken when fresh. It fits as an alternative to cultivating based off of medicines and spirit stones, which is what the Empire route is AFAIK.
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It is also exactly the sort of method the empire would take pains to discredit and suppress. People practicing it will always be at war.
 
Yeah, because such a method relies on a consistent supply of peer-level opponents to cannibalize, and results in a great deal of consistent conflict and warfare. In a place like the Empire? The Nobles would quickly turn on each other, rather than try to consume Barbarians. And then everything falls apart.
 
Orkus Majorkus said:
I was actually referring to how in greek antiquity they DIDN'T have the ability to make the color blue, so used phrases like wine to refer to what the color of the sea was. That's what I thought this was in reference to D:
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I am familiar with the reference, and I got the joke. I was just pointing out that in a world like this it's entirely plausible for some cultivator to make a wine which looks like seawater.
 
sstabeler said:
I have a feeling that the Xuan liason to the Imperial Court is something of a dumping-ground (that is, while they need to be diplomatic and have reasonable intelligence, it's not really much of a compliment to be given the job either.)
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Or maybe that's a position that needs somewhere decently capable and spinning bullshit. A John Adams, if you will.
 
Floom said:
Yeah, because such a method relies on a consistent supply of peer-level opponents to cannibalize, and results in a great deal of consistent conflict and warfare. In a place like the Empire? The Nobles would quickly turn on each other, rather than try to consume Barbarians. And then everything falls apart.
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It also must be very lossy. If someone could become twice as strong by eating a peer the empire would either not exist or have been conquered already.
 
I never knew how much I wanted wuxia ancient Egyptian cultivators until I saw that. When do we get to meet a friendly neighborhood nomarch?
 
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Wiggin42 said:
Or maybe that's a position that needs somewhere decently capable and spinning bullshit. A John Adams, if you will.
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That's not actually incompatible with what I said- it's a post that needs someone who at least won't screw up, but nobody is exactly happy to get the job because it requires far too much time dealing with people whining and far too little ability to say what you really think about said whiners. There are presumably other posts that would be just as high-status with far more ability to just tell whiners to STFU. How I suspect it works is it's exile for someone competent that has fallen foul of political machinations but that can be trusted not to deliberately screw the clan over.
 
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