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The price of GSS changes they are a commodity not a currency.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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While this is true, I don't think Yrs is modelling the ebbs and flows of the market, and is probably using a stable value which can change due to haggling or major events. Unfortunately, war is a good candidate for "event that could affect the price of magic cultivation stones″, so doing an audit of previous rounds is likely to give us misleading numbers.
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Hasn't Yrs also said that the Sect subsidizes any excess in the exchange rate to keep things standardized between years? I feel like I remember something like that being said between LQ and Xiulan(?).
Yeah, I think she still doesn't really get it.
Spending a few dozen Red Stones on some maids is basically just a rounding error to Ling Qi. Our budget won't even notice it...
Sect Allowance: 2100 (3 green 60 yellow)
Cai Allowance: 2000 (4 green)
Cai Spirit Upkeep Bonus: 1000 (2 green)
Cai Drug Grant: approx. 270 (15 red per action)
Zhengui Trade Deal: 2200 (4 green 20 yellow)
TOTAL: 7570 Red Stones per month.
TimEd
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I think Quingye is more basing her estimate on the funds she has. Which is abolutely not the entirety of LQ's available funds.
Remember that she not only has to fund her own cultivation, she also needs to spend funds on the house and all it's utilities, cultivator (albeit red) guards wages, all the workers wages and their utilities like uniforms and housing, and lastly Quingye must all fit this into what basically amounts to petty cash, because she definitely must not overly affect the foundation of all this money, which is LQ's cultivation.
This might actually get better once we establish a fief. We will have more expenses, but also considerably more income. Not so much at the start, but once we manage to establish things our finances will be much better
A new fief will definitely be a short period of bleeding money followed by actually starting to exploit its resources. Of course said short period could last several months or even a few years depending on how hard to set up things are, but supporting us during those early years is what our liege is there for and Cai Renxiang is likely to be generous since our fief's wealth is also her fief's wealth.
The sect specifically subsidized purchases of our first GSS per month at one point in the quest*. I do not believe we were told anything about them doing serious price stabilization in any broad sense. But I may have missed it!
*which I still maintain is super-silly of Yrs, any should have been phrased it as just an income of 0.5 GSS / month instead. Nobody talks about getting a subsidy that lets you buy one $100 bill for $50. Even if we treat GSS as a commodity instead of a currency, a subsidy that lets you buy a single oz of gold for $1000 (current market value: ~$1,800) per month doesn't really make sense; just give people gold directly, or give people money directly, whichever matches the intent more.
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But governments do subsidize staple foods, natural gas/propane, electricity, water, gasoline/diesel, and other goods and services which the government wants to encourage the trade and use of. Since stones are a consumable that disciples are unlikely to hoard, subsidizing them makes sense.
It also makes sense to have more people get that first GSS, as that has a disproportionate effect on cultivation.
Usually the subsidize per unit cost, not with a 1/person limit (though I suppose exceptions exist). And also those are often consumer goods that lose substantial value on resale.
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While in some ways, the blood of the Sage Emperor lives throughout the Empire, there is no 'pure' dragon spirit-blood. There are not very fertile due to 'certain reasons'.
*cough*Mother Moon*cough*
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also depends on how would you define "dragon powers"
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Roth963
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I am talking about everyone being descendent of dragons in some way, I remember something about female dragons hating female humans because they are salty about male dragons going to them back in the past, the cloud tribal guy called us the blood of the dragon and arrogant for it during the attack on the sect.
Dragons have fertility problems only with other dragons as far as I remember.
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I'm pretty sure this affects their fertility with other races as well. 'Blood of the dragons' speaks about the Sage Emperor.
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Roth963
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Does it mean their blood is weak and easily bred out, because you would think that with everyone being dragon descendants, at least some potential will remain.
Edit, the emperor isn't a dragon child, side story says he was adopted after surviving the lighting bolt of his adopted mother as a baby and cultivating it.
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Yes, I know about the side story. And my statement remains the same.
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Technically the Bai have more dragon blood than anyone in the Celestial Peaks, Grandmother Serpent is half dragon.
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Short answer: no, because not very many people are actually spirit blood.
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Might be one of the reasons they are so good with water, I assume Grandmother serpant's father was a flood one because she doesn't have heaven powers.
I noticed it what with not everyone getting inborn powers, I was asking more on if they have the potential to awaken ones with the right means.
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Again, no, because the vast majority have humans in the empire have no spirit blood. Those that do are obvious from birth so have nothing to awaken. Spirit blood's might learn new tricks, like Su Ling and her divination, but if you aren't born a spirit blood you can not become a spirit blood without some super extreme means that have to be preplanned, like being adopted by a powerful spirit.
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I mean, it's easily bred out the way anything is. If someone has a dragon ancestor ten generations back that's only on thousandth of their heritage, and has a consequently small impact. It doesn't seem to work like D&D where occasionally someone will be born as a full sorcerer because of some ancient heritage, if that's what you're asking. The old families, like the Bai, have some sorts of rituals which help maintain the spirit ancestor influence in their families, though I don't think we know any of the specifics of how those work.
Do they really? I though their method of keeping their snake blood concentration up was simply to marry relatives. If two quarter sneks have a kid, the result is another quarter snek. Meizhen did remark that the Bai have to be careful with their marriages to avoid "blood sickness".
these are the wogs we have regarding dragon spirit bloods.
However, we also know that the Bai intermarry to make sure their bloodline stays strong (note: the Bai are big enough to count as ethnicity, so those matches wouldnt be between directly related family members). This shows that bloodlines dilute over time. So it is extremly unlikely for someone to randomly be born as a dragon spirit blood
and since the word 'awaken' was used: spirit bloods are usually born that like that, they dont need to awaken.
Ryumancer
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Wasn't there something along the lines of Grandmother Serpent refusing to actually fuck the Bai who was wooing her, because it'd be vulgar, and chose to have kids via mixing their spirits together, or something along those lines? I'm curious how that method would affect the Dragon fertility rate issues, tbh. You'd think you'd be able to influence a process like that to have a far higher chance of success, manually 'building' the child for lack of a better term.