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

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yrsillar said:
When the tip of Renxiang's blade bloomed with light and unleashed a small ray of scouring light over the stone and the wall however, something strange happened. The stone, so inert up until now wobbled violently, and rolled forward. Cai Renxiang let out a choked off grunt of pain. Her free hand flew up to press against her temple.
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This actually confirms the connection between the Cai arts and the Stars — Ling Qi's Moon cultivation resonates with stellar poisoning, as direct contact of Cai Renxiang's Light with the starstone attracted each other.

Anyways, an analysis of the italics:
  • Mountain of sunlight — Elder Bei Yongrui
  • East river, clockwork ship of bronze and sails of silver — Sect Elder
    • Similarity with Cai Shenhua's city whose walls are mounted with one hundred thousand siege engines.
  • West inferno, Burning Queen, court of demons — Sect Elder
    • Drums, music Elder?
  • Storm of cloud and lightning — Cloud Tribe Khan
  • South Radiant Titan, Seven Colored Sword of Ruin — ??? Twelve Stars superweapon?

yrsillar said:
The storm raged and a titan with lightning for bones and clouds for flesh grappled with a great golden mountain among the jeering stars. Rays of harsh sunfire and heavenly bolts tore at the mountainside, sending a million tons of stone crumbling down. Within the mountain dawn's light bloomed, a thousand colors spilling from painted caverns. Harsh and soft sunlight clashed, and lit the vault of heaven aflame.
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Cloud Tribe Khan hits Elder Yongrui with lightning and harsh sunlight. Elder Yongrui counterattacks with soft sunlight.

yrsillar said:
A hundred thousand arrows roared from the bowstring. Each one a shard of sunfire, fletched with the storm. They flew unerring and one hundred fists the size of hills shattered the air, punching them from the sky, and battered the Cloud Titan, but could not catch the scattering sky. Behind the fists a mountain bled liquid sunlight from a thousand tiny wounds.
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Cloud Tribe Khan hits Elder Yongrui with sunfire and storm arrows. Elder Yongrui parries and counters, but his parry couldn't catch everything nor does his counter hit.

yrsillar said:
From the east came a river. Torrential and furious it made its bed in the sky, whitecaps currents howling above the thunder of fists and the rumble of stone. On the river came a great ship, a sleek thing of bronze, with sails of purest silver. Beneath it's deck whirred clockwork of unimaginable complexity. Upon the sides of it's hull panels drew down revealing a thousand weapons of innovative and cruel design.

From the west came an inferno. All consuming and vast. The flame ate the clouds and hissed and crackled with joy among the steam. In the burning depths was a platform of soot and ash. There demons and ogres beat out a warsong upon drums carved from magma and fear. A hundred devils in soot blackened bronze cavorted before the burning throne of skulls at its core. Lo! The Burned Queen had come, and the court of devils marshalled for war! A paneled mask whirred and clicked, transforming a cruel smile into a bloodthirsty shout, and a tremendous gauntleted hand rose and clenched into a fist.
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Sect Elders Clockwork Ship and Burning Queen arrive.

yrsillar said:
The storm screamed as barbed hooks of silver and wit punctured the clouds and hooked upon lightning wrought bone, and nets of steel and resolve tangled it's currents. The devils swarmed, laughing their cruel laughs even as lightning unmade them, a thousand slain only for a thousand more to emerge, born from the inferno's embers. And the drums did beat, pounding a mocking funeral dirge. The river crashed down with a dragon's roar, scouring away the whirling winds to expose the titan at the core.

Through the river waded the scarred golden mountain, his hundred fists raised not in defense, but with intent to strike.
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Elder Clockwork Ship grapples with and applies multi-attacker penalties to Cloud Tribe Khan, while Elder Burning Queen buffs and Elder Yongrui switches to offensive stance.

yrsillar said:
The barbed lashes forged from hate tore apart the flesh of clouds, and the devils shrieked in delight at the touch of the sky's blood.

Suffer. Crackled the flames.

Vengeance. Roared the river

Die. Spake the mountain.

One hundred fists crashed down, and bones of lightning fractured. The silver sailed ship cut unerring through raging waters of the river, as it coiled 'round the storm, the chains of its' grapnels binding the storm even as a hundred new weapons wrought of a war forged mind wheeled forth onto the decks to speak.

But the storm did rage. The mountain earned new scars as suns bloomed upon his sides and sent a million tons of stone and gold sloughing off. The Burned Queen laughed as lighting struck deep into her court, slaughtering demons and blackening her flesh. The river boiled with sunfire, the rising steam a scream. Only the ship was untouched, darting through ten thousand arrows untouched.
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Elder Yongrui takes advantage of opportunity to strike at Cloud Tribe Khan. Khan counterattacks, hitting Elders Yongrui and Burning Queen.

yrsillar said:
The storm bled. Swathes of Cloud flesh boiled under the heat of the inferno and the beat of the drums. Bone broke under the mountain's fists and it's winds ever slowed under the machinations of the ship. The river crashed down, and this time the current punched through, a million tons of raging water breaking through the storm and out the other side.

The storm raged against inevitability, and winds fit to scour the very world began to shriek
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Elders Yongrui and Clockwork Ship begin the execution blow. Cloud Tribe Khan tries to counter or death curse.

yrsillar said:
Dawn came in the south.

Unlight rose over the mountains. The sk#@%^^&@@^%#

Radiant Titan, trailing hair and veil as one. Eyes of crimson fall upon the impure world. S@(*&())&^%%&*())))^%^%$&%^&^%&^ Seven Colored Sword of Ruin ris%&^*(^*%***&(&^&^&

And all the world crumbles.
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South Radiant Titan interrupt!
 
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That Nomad Khan is a complete badass. He was totally dominating that 1 on 1 and even outnumbered he manages to fight back. What a beast.
 
Candesce said:
I wonder just how much damage Sect forces just took.

I've no doubt we've just gained quite a bit in reputation, but depending on how that blast plays out, the Sect's opinion might not be the important part.
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Youuuuu are right. Seems like the hone team took a bit of damage, but, I am holding out hope that it is not too much damage.
 
lendary said:
So why could Zhengui move it with his lava? Just because he has a bond with a moon cultivator?
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My best guess is the physicality of the lava burst. As we've seen the stone does interact with stone and earth, as in it doesn't just no-clip through it, which indicates that there are things that can affect the starstone. Especially earth stuff, and Zhengui's lava burst does take advantage of the earth and stone to create it.
 
ChronOblivion said:
They felt her protection, and that carved away a whole lot of their antipathy.
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When the answer to "why am I alive today" includes a very clear necessary-if-not-sufficient of "because Ling Qi", that has certain often profound affects on how you think about certain things.

Candesce said:
I wonder just how much damage Sect forces just took.

I've no doubt we've just gained quite a bit in reputation, but depending on how that blast plays out, the Sect's opinion might not be the important part.
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Honestly, as far as I can tell, the sect came out of it pretty darned well. The opposition forces lost personnel and assets that can't be easily replaced, I'd bet that the assault team mostly made it, the starseed is much more under sect control than it is under enemy control (assuming that that crack isn't something horrible about to happen) and the "clash of titans" had our titans both heavily outnumbering the foe and doing fairly well for themselves. It's not guaranteed, but it looks like this one is an overall win.
 
Thor's Twin said:
My best guess is the physicality of the lava burst. As we've seen the stone does interact with stone and earth, as in it doesn't just no-clip through it, which indicates that there are things that can affect the starstone. Especially earth stuff, and Zhengui's lava burst does take advantage of the earth and stone to create it.
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The winds coming from the elder battle seem pretty physical too though.
 
lendary said:
The winds coming from the elder battle seem pretty physical too though.
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Ling Qi explained this when she first yeeted the stone. It obeys the Law of Earth, i.e gravity and stuff involving earth qi. Wind doesn't got anything to do with either of those things. She can yeet the stone because of stellar and moon cultivation most likely given that the moon subjugated the star and she's used to messing with stellar qi.
 
lendary said:
The winds coming from the elder battle seem pretty physical too though.
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Wind, though, is going to be much less dense than earth and stone. Given that the starstone seems to be distorting and breaking everything around it, I wouldn't be surprised if the wind gets broken down before it can exert enough force on the stone to make it do anything. In contrast, the stone has enough there to afford some being broken down and still have enough force to shift the Starstone around.
 
I wonder just what a fight like this, that rearranges the geography of a region, does to the local wild spirits. Shouldn't some of them even get violent when a couple assholes start wrecking their house? I am thinking of the hill spirits that we once negotiated with; wouldn't these mountains and volcano have their own spirits too?
 
You know, now that Ling Qi used her Gown to signify the protection of her Mist, I am curious what effect this will have on Dress-chan. Now that Dress-chan sees Ling Qi able to fly on her own, will it change focus to protection? And if Dress-chan does do so, will it follow the lewd CRX route of being slpwly stripped away if it gets dispelled? Ling Qi might just start wearing layers amd layers of clothing if that were the case.
 
This all demonstrates how at the highest levels of warfare, it's all about trying to get the enemy to expose their elites while you have sufficient forces in place to kill them, while avoiding the opposite happening.
 
Nemonowan said:
I wonder just what a fight like this, that rearranges the geography of a region, does to the local wild spirits. Shouldn't some of them even get violent when a couple assholes start wrecking their house? I am thinking of the hill spirits that we once negotiated with; wouldn't these mountains and volcano have their own spirits too?
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I suspect that a lot of those spirits are Cyans and below so they don't want to get involved in a Violet (and maybe Prism) fight. There might be the occasional Indigo but a couple of those would still be irrelevant and they know it.

The volcano spirit could probably cause trouble for people if it woke up, though.
 
The stone has been moved by a lot of things since the fight started. I think it can still be physically moved by things that physics would allow for.

As for the weird Cai reaction, im thinking it might just be similar power sources resonating.
 
So, huh, something I haven't seen brought up yet. All those 'mook green' Ling Qi just saved? If they are from Baronnial houses, they are at least potential heirs, if not chosen heir. If they are from Viscount houses, they are Elder potential at least.

Ling Qi has just saved a lot of noble houses some "significant to crippling" damage. This will be remembered.

Falconis said:
The stone has been moved by a lot of things since the fight started. I think it can still be physically moved by things that physics would allow for.

As for the weird Cai reaction, im thinking it might just be similar power sources resonating.
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People keep saying that it's because they like each others, but the reaction could actually be one of antipathy. CRX being purification and the stone being impurity.
 
So it has occurred to me that with the CN presumably having access to a SA the best outcome long-term would be something that permits the Empire to actually conduct diplomacy with them, but the issue with the amount of bloodshed by both sides you'd need an undeniable cultural avenue to even get an attempt out of the starting gate.

So what if the reason the 12 sites are sacred is they were the locations foretold that a star would descend to earth to reincarnate the ancestor in their time of need? Basically worst outcome was leaving the thing in the Caldera where it would likely have enough power to pop out a Cyan spirit whereas outside of there it'll hatch as a third realm spirit, which a green can bind.
Ling Qi fell to her knees under the wave of pressure that struck her back, and droplets of red spatter the mud as the air is driven from her lungs in a spray of blood flecked breath. Her eyes burn with the shadow of the light that just bloomed across the sky. Her ears ring in the eerie silence that is the end of the continuous ringing of thunder from above. Around her, allies lie scattered and groaning, only Cai Renxiang remaining above.

Before her lies the starstone, come to rest against piled trees and stones.

Through its center is a jagged crack
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Because that certainly looks like a egg hatching, and Ling Qi just spat blood in the general direction of the Starstone. :V
 
Arkeus said:
So, huh, something I haven't seen brought up yet. All those 'mook green' Ling Qi just saved? If they are from Baronnial houses, they are at least potential heirs, if not chosen heir. If they are from Viscount houses, they are Elder potential at least.

Ling Qi has just saved a lot of noble houses some "significant to crippling" damage. This will be remembered.


People keep saying that it's because they like each others, but the reaction could actually be one of antipathy. CRX being purification and the stone being impurity.
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I'm fairly certain if it was antipathy, the stone would have jumped away instead of lunge at her until the connection was cut.
 
Arkeus said:
So, huh, something I haven't seen brought up yet. All those 'mook green' Ling Qi just saved? If they are from Baronnial houses, they are at least potential heirs, if not chosen heir. If they are from Viscount houses, they are Elder potential at least.

Ling Qi has just saved a lot of noble houses some "significant to crippling" damage. This will be remembered.
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The weird thing that we've been discussing on discord is that the demographics of this mission don't make sense. Like, we could say "oh, the group was underpowered with so many G2s around", but that could be excused as arrogance. The problem is though that low greens shouldn't be that large a fraction of the inner sect. Like, what - ranks 750+ are ~G3+?. Even if we assume that the top 500 are fast tracked and not necessarily higher level than those below them, I'd still expect them to be at least G3/4. So on one hand, ~75% of the inner sect is G3+. Otoh, for some reason only like 1/7 of the disciples here were? Like what? Wasn't this supposed to be a serious important mission? You'd almost have to go out of your way to get this many low greens.
 
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