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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
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- Mid-Atlantic
Hm. Sounds like the samurai have something along the lines of the Norsemen's Frenzy/Berserker mechanic, with an uncanny cultivation-granted ability to foresee the outcomes of specific actions in combat.
- Location
- Bretonnia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I wonder if ki is the internal or external cultivation resource of Japanese cultivators. Anyway, the interlude was really cool - JapaneseQuest sounds like it would be fun. Miyamoto Musashi would probably rank among one of the strongest cultivators ever.
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Probably because it's just as of a healing potion as that.
- Location
- Bretonnia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yeah, way back in the early days of the quest, Imperial mentioned that the Japanese cultivate via fealty to their lords and honor.
Also, I wonder what Aztec cultivation is like?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, chronologically this is before the Aztecs (9th century AD is the inspiration point).
Ritual bloodletting has been part of Mesoamerican tradition, of course, but the Aztecs took things to a higher level (though I've heard they also had reasons to exaggerate how much sacrificing they were doing, specifically because it was a performative thing...)
- Location
- Bretonnia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Huh, the Aztec Empire was founded in the 15th century apparently. Pretty surprising, honestly. For me, at least. Guess we're not meeting them in this quest, since that's thousands of years away.
Also, I wonder if the Japanese have the best weapons in the setting? Like, I'm pretty sure we have best blacksmiths on average in the setting (or at the very least, the quality of our metalwork is some of the best, although I imagine there are blacksmiths elsewhere that are better than your average Norse/dwarf smith, and then there's foreign blacksmith gods like Ilmarinen) but Japanese cultivation seems to be directly tied to their weapon from what I can tell? Making a lot of assumptions, but I'm interested in how many folds a high-end Japanese cultivator would have, and how folds translate into quality.
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- some computer lab
16 folds is a wierdly specific number of folds, maybe katanas are like knightly armor?
- Location
- Bretonnia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Uh, in what way?
Although with magic most things being possible, I still doubt that.
The foldings of katanas was needed to give them rigidity and hardness, because Japan has shit iron. If they didn't fold it, it would breaking very easily.
With good iron, you can just make the katana blade without folding, but it's.... Unknown how that would interact with their cultivation style, if the folding is integral part of it, like how well it channels energy or something.
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I think it's just a random "a lot" here. I don't think 16 has any significance in Japanese culture. Maaaybe as 8+8 (lucky) or 4*4 (super unlucky). But I wouldn't be surprised if katanas were some kind of cultivation focus for samurai.
Less unlucky, more Die Squared
- Location
- Bretonnia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Eh, I mean, I doubt they actually have the strongest weapons in the setting. But from what I can tell, they seem to be the equivalent of Decades? Not too sure on that, but I would be very surprised if they didn't have great importance in their cultivation system. I imagine it depends on how many folds, but I'd like to think that their katanas can probably do some pretty wild stuff at a high realm.
Hm... So, samurais would be ranked on cultivation by the folds of their katanas?
But then, how could have someone with a 4 fold katana kill another lord and their body guard? Especially a traitor, if the their system also runs on a honour version?
Although, if you meant the channeling of ki flowing better on the katana the more it is folded, I can see and agree to that without arguments.
Wait.... Japan his formal sword and other martial art styles..... Perhaps that's what helped bringing out with the bigger fold number?
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, it's what you'd get if you're trying to take a blade and fold it double, then double again, then again, and again. I'm not sure what the actual smithing techniques are either in real life or in this cultivation world, but the role of binary multiples may not be a coincidence.
I'd bet on it- though the blades may or may not be katanas. There were plenty of other Japanese sword types, many of which would be more period-accurate to the 9th century AD (or the Heian period, if you prefer).
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Eh. They're fighting close up duels on foot. That was always a relatively common situation for swords.
It's more related to the theorising that the swords specifically are really, really special.
- Location
- Bretonnia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I mean, the interlude did say he attacked them without their armour. Which gives me the impression he ambushed them. Not to mention we have no idea how many folds the lord and bodyguard actually had, and there was also mention of a healing potion. For all we know, he might've been grievously injured - and he did have a hole over his liver, so I think he was - before healing himself.
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Trope-samurai is a katana wielding swordsmen. History disagrees, but when has history won with the tropes?
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- Malaysia
I wonder if GabrielQuest ending up with Steinarr was plot, garbage RER rolls, or the quest just started him out as a Thrall already, and his Squire stuff was like, flashbacks where they got their initial Prayers and statlines. Courtly mechanics and actual statgains would have been introduced in those flashbacks, while the Thralldom effectively functioned as the main plot.
Actually given Gabriel Negaquest doesn't seem to have a turbohateboner for Steinarr (this is the expected outcome if they worked their way to Highwater and then it just got snatched from them like that), it was probably the flashback option.
So Gabriel Negaquest would have been structured as such:
1) Intro (Winter 2) : Character Creation, Traits, Thralldom
2) Summer 3 - Winter 3: Flashbacks (Initial Prayers)
3) Summer 4: Tutorial Combat (Fervor only from Shackles)
4) Winter 4: Tutorial Combat (vs Squires, Prayers and stuff actually available)
5) Summer 5: FREEDOM
Doing it this way would have let GabrielQuest's QM to introduce both Christendom and Viking culture at the same time, which is pretty neat.
e: Plus it would let them make combat be escalating, not de-escalating combat (going from Page/Squire vs Page/Squire to a depowered Squire would have suuuucked.)
Actually given Gabriel Negaquest doesn't seem to have a turbohateboner for Steinarr (this is the expected outcome if they worked their way to Highwater and then it just got snatched from them like that), it was probably the flashback option.
So Gabriel Negaquest would have been structured as such:
1) Intro (Winter 2) : Character Creation, Traits, Thralldom
2) Summer 3 - Winter 3: Flashbacks (Initial Prayers)
3) Summer 4: Tutorial Combat (Fervor only from Shackles)
4) Winter 4: Tutorial Combat (vs Squires, Prayers and stuff actually available)
5) Summer 5: FREEDOM
Doing it this way would have let GabrielQuest's QM to introduce both Christendom and Viking culture at the same time, which is pretty neat.
e: Plus it would let them make combat be escalating, not de-escalating combat (going from Page/Squire vs Page/Squire to a depowered Squire would have suuuucked.)
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