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

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I dont think it will matter much that a daughter of the Weilu married outside the Empire.
@yrsillar
How much of the Emerald Seas hold to the Weilu anyway? I mean i guess the fact Tsu has descendants in the winter tribe is something but would that really matter?
Liao zhu mentioned defectors, there was that false emperor who launched an undead tide, and there are known to be other polities out there.
Machinations aside the Successor of Tsu marrying off A daughter should not really matter much. With how the Weilu are described to be debaucherous i would not be surprised if a full 10% have Weilu blood and maybe like .01% have Tsu the Diviiner in their ancestry.
 
It matters because it's proof that they're not savage barbarians like the cloud tribe, this means peace and trade are truly viable instead of coming to blows.
 
I just realized theres some things that are kind of big about the setting we dont know.

What did the founders become?

We know the Sage Emperor committed suicide by bad decisions at White, but the Fisher and the Diviner and the other less cool ones probably made it to ascension.
 
I wonder if the Sun is the other culprit collaborating this little adventure, I don't think Elsa was mentioned having Moon elements so her husband could've been the one being nudged by Papa Sun our way.
 
yrsillar said:
Meng Dan's perpetually amused expression didn't fade, but he did give her an assessing look. "Quite, why recently, the library discovered a number of old Xi era poems. The translation butchered the meter but they have been informative."

Ling Qi very carefully did not react at all. "How fortunate."
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1. Thought: moon Quest Action matter, yay!
2. Thought: inner Meng Dan: "How does She know...She admitted to be no aca... Oh right... Hidden moon(seek hidden knowledge)... I wonder what else She knows.... How interesting! 🤔
 
Given Meng Dan's obvious interest in the subject matter of our discovery I wonder how much of Meng Diu pushing for him going was his own request.
 
yrsillar said:
"Unknown," Meng Dan replied, some mild frustration bleeding away his humor. "They were a significant polity, but the next records a bare few centuries later refer to them as a remnant. My Professors concluded that they had simply gone the way of the others, assimilated or destroyed by the Cloud Tribes in their southern migrations."
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Hmmm... interesting that they were referred to as a remnant. Did the nation split into two pieces in a civil war similar to the one that the Weilu underwent? And this remnant was the losing polity that fled north in a strange mirror of what happened in the Mason's War?

Probably not, but it would be interesting to see what other similarities there have been between the timelines North and South of the Wall.
 
yrsillar said:
"Common parlance calls all who lived south of the Weilu and North of the Cloud tribes Hill Tribes, but this is misleading."
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I wouldn't call it misleading, I would call it "hard to parse"; you should consider putting the expression "Hill Tribes" in quotation marks, and since it's already in a quote it should use single quotes, like thus:

"Common parlance calls all who lived south of the Weilu and North of the Cloud tribes 'Hill Tribes', but this is misleading."

Also, on a completely unrelated note, I kept reading "Meng Dan" as "Mega Dan" for some reason.
 
Crazyone47 said:
I dont think it will matter much that a daughter of the Weilu married outside the Empire.
@yrsillar
How much of the Emerald Seas hold to the Weilu anyway? I mean i guess the fact Tsu has descendants in the winter tribe is something but would that really matter?
Liao zhu mentioned defectors, there was that false emperor who launched an undead tide, and there are known to be other polities out there.
Machinations aside the Successor of Tsu marrying off A daughter should not really matter much. With how the Weilu are described to be debaucherous i would not be surprised if a full 10% have Weilu blood and maybe like .01% have Tsu the Diviiner in their ancestry.
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Probably around half of the population still. And the daughter wasn't married off, ice boy was married in, the point was that the Weilu had a marriage alliance with these guys.It's not some earthshaking connection but its something to play up if you want
 
Yeah the actual connection itself is basically meaningless but it basically means "The Weilu treated them as peers, the Weilu were worth bringing into the empire (according to current orthodox historiography), they're worth bringing into the empire."
 
yrsillar said:
Meng Dan chuckled, rubbing the spirit's head affectionately. Ling Qi eyed the both of them, wondering if he was like Elder Jiao… but that didn't seem right. She was hardly experienced in that kind of thing, but his affection seemed more like a siblings.

It hadn't made her uncomfortable after all.
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DarkLight140 said:
Ling Qi: "If it doesn't creep me out, it's not romance. That's just logic."
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Never change Ling Qi, never change.
 
angelofwhim said:
given how little sisterly this moon spirit is, maybe she can be friends with Hanyi?

Brash girl meets shy girl what can go wrong?
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Last time we tried that Xiulan trashtalked Suyin.
By the same measure she'd probably get along okay with Zhengui, other than the dreaded "MY sibling is bester" that could happen.
OneArmedYeti said:
We know the Sage Emperor committed suicide by bad decisions at White
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Imagine if the Sage Emperor ascended and wrote harems into cosmic laws...
 
yrsillar said:
There was also the tomb on Sect lands, where a horned skeleton stood, bleeding forever in a maze of broken space.
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Huh, I thought the twitching deer skeleton was shown as a "mysterious things react in the background" manner, I didn't remember us going there.

Wasn't it kind of implied that's the Horned Lord's corpse? Tho thinking that may have led me to believing we weren't there, as that sounds way too valuable for us to stumble upon.
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
Huh, I thought the twitching deer skeleton was shown as a "mysterious things react in the background" manner, I didn't remember us going there.

Wasn't it kind of implied that's the Horned Lord's corpse? Tho thinking that may have led me to believing we weren't there, as that sounds way too valuable for us to stumble upon.
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That's where we went for the Hidden Moon quest back in Forge. It's where we got the material that became our Domain Weapon from, the Death Mirror that was auctioned for 30-ish Green Stones, and those seed pods.

We haven't been there since.
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
Huh, I thought the twitching deer skeleton was shown as a "mysterious things react in the background" manner, I didn't remember us going there.

Wasn't it kind of implied that's the Horned Lord's corpse? Tho thinking that may have led me to believing we weren't there, as that sounds way too valuable for us to stumble upon.
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We went there in the outer sect. It's where we got our darkness shard. The Royal Road version changed the scene a bit.

It's a Weilu corpse but not The Horned Lord. In RR Zhengui says that part of the spooky skeleton's name is "Nightmare of the Burning Glade". Not something I'm interested in dealing with.
 
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It's funny, I remember the Fourth Realm Death Mirror, the black shard and some spore things. I kind of recall a poison lake with a truly magnificent, probably 5th realm spear resting on a tiny island in the middle of it which we just turned away from, because that seemed clearly there just to test people's composure in the face of phat loot.

But I don't remember the skeleton being on the same trip. Funny.
Neshuakadal said:
Is this the right thread?
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It ain't.

Look, I got a lot of the open, and it's late :oops:
 
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