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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
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- Sweden
[X] The Leigong's chase and capture game
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- UK
[X] His wife's scavenger hunt
Do it for Xin.
Do it for Xin.
CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- They/Them
We were so close 😭
Including heisting us a new Thunder Mom.
Leigong: Where is my wife?
Ling Qi flying away: maniac laughter
Yu Nuan: This is my life now, isn't it?
you think too small! it should be
Leigong: Darling, when did the scenery change?
Wife, drinking tea: Oh, dont worry dear, i just wanted to get some more sun, but the dragon was in the way but that girl with the flute recommended me this place and isnt it lovely?
Leigong, resigned: Yes, yes it is, my love.
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- foraging for beans
Well here's hoping we get Ling Nuan her first spirit aunt!
That said, LQ has far too many "aunts" and "uncles" competing for screen time at this point, so I'll be rather miffed if yrs gives any of these storm spirits much screen time at all after this initial arc.
That said, LQ has far too many "aunts" and "uncles" competing for screen time at this point, so I'll be rather miffed if yrs gives any of these storm spirits much screen time at all after this initial arc.
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- Staring into the void
So many wrong votes. I'm disappointed.
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- Lost!
A whole 133 of them!
Only one person picked an option to actually steal anything! Don't y'all know games are a heist? =P
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Epsilon Rose
The King of Unrest
Huh, we were 1.5 votes off a tie. Is there a precedent for how those get handled.
Yrs just gives extra voting time if a tie occurs. It's broken eventually.
Epsilon Rose
The King of Unrest
Ah. So no chance of crazy "We'll do both!" shenanigans? Disappointing, but very reasonable.
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- being near locations is my passion.
Sounds tiresome. Why not just heist the place and throw Mengboi at it to sort out our loot for us?
After all, a heist is just a heist.
When you think about it, a heist is just a heist where you steal stuff.
We've come and found the Full Circle
Family
Family
The great beast was still there, its gargantuan form taking up an entire quarter of the market square.
Usually when He Man looked through the large windows of his solar, he saw a city that never truly slept. Now what he saw was a sleeping turtle-snake. He supposed it would have been highly optimistic to expect the Xuan Wu to just vanish into the night.
It had appeared in the early morning and had not moved since. At first the common folk had given a wide berth to the powerful third realm spirit-beast, but as hours passed and nothing happened, the normal day to day operations of the market resumed. It was not a market day and so the few merchants and peddlers could simply clump into the opposite corner. By evening the bravest of local orphans had dared to touch the great beast and soon after, when no retribution came, even climb atop its shell.
The Xuan Wu might be blithely napping, but he was sure the beast's master would be much less friendly. There was only one such beast in the entire Emerald Seas and it served his grandniece's daughter. A young woman whose mother he had been forced to disown.
Even with his recent ascend to the third realm he had been twitching nervously for the entire day. In the grand scheme of things, he was not even a player; a minor pawn at best. It had taken him almost two centuries to reach Green Soul; What was he compared to a girl who attained the fourth realm before her twenties?
His ascent should have secured his family's fortunes for at least a century, but instead the He Clan could do nothing but try to weather the mistakes of their past. The Liu would not protect them. Could not protect them. The servants of the Luminous Tyrant were not so easily denied.
He had ordered a tea set, their best blends and two cups prepared the first thing in the morning. Their unwanted, but also unavoidable, guest had not made her appearance, however, and the tea set simply lay unused on the table next to the fireplace.
He Man supposed he might as well use it by himself. A simple trick of fire natured qi turned the lukewarm water into boiling in a heartbeat. He would have to wait for a minute for the leaves to settle, but-
"Hello, Great-uncle," the noblewoman suddenly sitting on the opposite chair greeted him.
It took him a considerable amount of willpower not to sneer at that. Her words were true, but empty. Despite their shared blood, they were not family. While he might be sentimental enough to consider Qingge's girl as such despite having never met her before, the Truth she had embraced did not allow it. Her very soul denounced their connection as lie and named him a pretender.
He Man was saddened, but unsurprised, that her Domain outright rejected him. To protect the clan, he had cast out Ling Qi and her foolish mother before she had even been born. It was only fair that he was repudiated in turn. At least the young lady was kind enough to keep her presence mostly suppressed. Perhaps the youngsters might yet sleep this night undisturbed?
"Well met, Baroness Ling," he eventually said with a perfunctory bow. Now that she was here, he could feel himself relaxing a little. The wait before a fight was always more torturous than the actual combat. "What calamity brings our heiress' retainer to this corner of the Emerald Seas?"
Mist pooled in the dark corners and the room grew colder.
"You fear retribution," she stated bluntly. It was not a question, and it was also the uncomfortable truth. Suffering always beget more suffering and this time the He clan might have to pay the price. "That I would demand redress for every indignity I and my mother endured. It wouldn't be calamity, though, but justice."
Despite her threatening words, she didn't seem angry and so he dared to probe. "I would have expected the honorable Lady Cai's right hand to have a more sophisticated view of justice than just base retribution."
The luminous eyes blinked, and the pressure of her unawakened domain eased. "You are not begging for your life?"
"We can do that if it would soothe you," he said as he filled their cups. "My pride is not more important than the clan. Nothing is. Do you want sugar or honey with your tea?"
"Perhaps it is just me, but I find your professed dedication to your family somewhat questionable. And honey, please."
He Man placed her cup in front of her and took a sip from his own. "You and Qingge are one of my greatest regrets, and not just because of your talent. If your mother had simply rejected Liu Quan, we could have protected her, but after she insulted the whole Liu clan there was nothing left to do."
Unfortunately, the Baroness clearly didn't share his opinion. "You threw her out to protect yourselves and then spent years watching her to whore herself out for coppers."
"The Liu wanted blood," he stated calmly, even though he internally bristled at the insult. "The best we could do was to banish He Qingge and pretend your father never existed. By severely punishing the small insult and burying the larger one, we minimized the loss of face for the Liu, and thus also their anger."
Ling Qi's cold eyes narrowed. "Trusting their mercy doesn't seem to have worked, though."
"Ling Qingge still lives," he countered. "I don't know for certain if it was our actions and pleads that saved your mother, but I presume so. Normally they wouldn't have been satisfied with just killing your father."
"I was told that he simply left," the Baroness said.
He Man lowered his cup onto the hardwood table. "Yes, he left without his comrades and was never heard from again. I have no doubt his blood nourished the trees and his flesh fed the wild beasts."
"Do you have any evidence of this?"
He shook his head. "No. I did not look into the misdeeds of my overlords. The He have no power to oppose the Liu and so even the smallest hint of a rebellion would be harshly punished."
His grandniece said nothing and so they lapsed into uncomfortable silence. She kept idly playing with her teacup, the remains of her tea having long since frozen solid.
Eventually she took a long, fortifying breath and spoke, "I suppose I can't blame you overmuch and I have never been one to nurse my grudges."
"The lady is most gracious," He Man said and dipped his head. When he rose from the bow, his guest was already gone.
Somehow, the lingering mist didn't feel so cold anymore.
AN: I'm not apologizing for the name. Fite me! This was supposed to be a longer and much more heartfelt conversation, but then I realized that I simply cannot write heartfelt conversations.
The great beast was still there, its gargantuan form taking up an entire quarter of the market square.
Usually when He Man looked through the large windows of his solar, he saw a city that never truly slept. Now what he saw was a sleeping turtle-snake. He supposed it would have been highly optimistic to expect the Xuan Wu to just vanish into the night.
It had appeared in the early morning and had not moved since. At first the common folk had given a wide berth to the powerful third realm spirit-beast, but as hours passed and nothing happened, the normal day to day operations of the market resumed. It was not a market day and so the few merchants and peddlers could simply clump into the opposite corner. By evening the bravest of local orphans had dared to touch the great beast and soon after, when no retribution came, even climb atop its shell.
The Xuan Wu might be blithely napping, but he was sure the beast's master would be much less friendly. There was only one such beast in the entire Emerald Seas and it served his grandniece's daughter. A young woman whose mother he had been forced to disown.
Even with his recent ascend to the third realm he had been twitching nervously for the entire day. In the grand scheme of things, he was not even a player; a minor pawn at best. It had taken him almost two centuries to reach Green Soul; What was he compared to a girl who attained the fourth realm before her twenties?
His ascent should have secured his family's fortunes for at least a century, but instead the He Clan could do nothing but try to weather the mistakes of their past. The Liu would not protect them. Could not protect them. The servants of the Luminous Tyrant were not so easily denied.
He had ordered a tea set, their best blends and two cups prepared the first thing in the morning. Their unwanted, but also unavoidable, guest had not made her appearance, however, and the tea set simply lay unused on the table next to the fireplace.
He Man supposed he might as well use it by himself. A simple trick of fire natured qi turned the lukewarm water into boiling in a heartbeat. He would have to wait for a minute for the leaves to settle, but-
"Hello, Great-uncle," the noblewoman suddenly sitting on the opposite chair greeted him.
It took him a considerable amount of willpower not to sneer at that. Her words were true, but empty. Despite their shared blood, they were not family. While he might be sentimental enough to consider Qingge's girl as such despite having never met her before, the Truth she had embraced did not allow it. Her very soul denounced their connection as lie and named him a pretender.
He Man was saddened, but unsurprised, that her Domain outright rejected him. To protect the clan, he had cast out Ling Qi and her foolish mother before she had even been born. It was only fair that he was repudiated in turn. At least the young lady was kind enough to keep her presence mostly suppressed. Perhaps the youngsters might yet sleep this night undisturbed?
"Well met, Baroness Ling," he eventually said with a perfunctory bow. Now that she was here, he could feel himself relaxing a little. The wait before a fight was always more torturous than the actual combat. "What calamity brings our heiress' retainer to this corner of the Emerald Seas?"
Mist pooled in the dark corners and the room grew colder.
"You fear retribution," she stated bluntly. It was not a question, and it was also the uncomfortable truth. Suffering always beget more suffering and this time the He clan might have to pay the price. "That I would demand redress for every indignity I and my mother endured. It wouldn't be calamity, though, but justice."
Despite her threatening words, she didn't seem angry and so he dared to probe. "I would have expected the honorable Lady Cai's right hand to have a more sophisticated view of justice than just base retribution."
The luminous eyes blinked, and the pressure of her unawakened domain eased. "You are not begging for your life?"
"We can do that if it would soothe you," he said as he filled their cups. "My pride is not more important than the clan. Nothing is. Do you want sugar or honey with your tea?"
"Perhaps it is just me, but I find your professed dedication to your family somewhat questionable. And honey, please."
He Man placed her cup in front of her and took a sip from his own. "You and Qingge are one of my greatest regrets, and not just because of your talent. If your mother had simply rejected Liu Quan, we could have protected her, but after she insulted the whole Liu clan there was nothing left to do."
Unfortunately, the Baroness clearly didn't share his opinion. "You threw her out to protect yourselves and then spent years watching her to whore herself out for coppers."
"The Liu wanted blood," he stated calmly, even though he internally bristled at the insult. "The best we could do was to banish He Qingge and pretend your father never existed. By severely punishing the small insult and burying the larger one, we minimized the loss of face for the Liu, and thus also their anger."
Ling Qi's cold eyes narrowed. "Trusting their mercy doesn't seem to have worked, though."
"Ling Qingge still lives," he countered. "I don't know for certain if it was our actions and pleads that saved your mother, but I presume so. Normally they wouldn't have been satisfied with just killing your father."
"I was told that he simply left," the Baroness said.
He Man lowered his cup onto the hardwood table. "Yes, he left without his comrades and was never heard from again. I have no doubt his blood nourished the trees and his flesh fed the wild beasts."
"Do you have any evidence of this?"
He shook his head. "No. I did not look into the misdeeds of my overlords. The He have no power to oppose the Liu and so even the smallest hint of a rebellion would be harshly punished."
His grandniece said nothing and so they lapsed into uncomfortable silence. She kept idly playing with her teacup, the remains of her tea having long since frozen solid.
Eventually she took a long, fortifying breath and spoke, "I suppose I can't blame you overmuch and I have never been one to nurse my grudges."
"The lady is most gracious," He Man said and dipped his head. When he rose from the bow, his guest was already gone.
Somehow, the lingering mist didn't feel so cold anymore.
AN: I'm not apologizing for the name. Fite me! This was supposed to be a longer and much more heartfelt conversation, but then I realized that I simply cannot write heartfelt conversations.
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Fun omake! Remember to tag Yrs! I did think that this was an actual He Man crossover at first
I was waiting for He Man to say
View: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/CCarAYW
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Not a bad omake, but it is out of character and out of setting.
To begin with, we have established many times that Ling Qi just does not care enough about her mother's family to even bother seeking any revenge on them.
Second, you are imposing modern western values on a setting that, even if more civilized than the usual Xianxia Fare, is still fundamentally Medieval China:
If any of them had been a cultivator considerations of their status might have had to be taken into account but that would have been a matter of calculating profits vs losses, not of law or justice.
The only illegalities that were commited in the matter were administrative ones, when the Liu corrupted officials in order to keep harassing Qingge on trumped out charges
To begin with, we have established many times that Ling Qi just does not care enough about her mother's family to even bother seeking any revenge on them.
Second, you are imposing modern western values on a setting that, even if more civilized than the usual Xianxia Fare, is still fundamentally Medieval China:
No, it wouldn't be justice because there was nothing illegal or even immoral to disowning a disobedient daughter that rejected her fiance to elope with a vagabond. Even honor killing her would not have been out of the norm.
If any of them had been a cultivator considerations of their status might have had to be taken into account but that would have been a matter of calculating profits vs losses, not of law or justice.
You speak as they would have had to collect evidence in order to bring the case in front of a judge. Once again, there is no crime here, a cultivator killing a mortal (and a vagabond to boot!) that insulted him by cuckolding is just a matter of course. There is no case to be judged, and He Man would have no reason to get evidence of something as obvious as the sun in the sky.
The only illegalities that were commited in the matter were administrative ones, when the Liu corrupted officials in order to keep harassing Qingge on trumped out charges
I thought I made it clear that it wasn't a serious threat. He Man even notes that she didn't actually seem angry. Ling Qi was just doing her haughty noblewoman imitation.
Her real question was if there was any evidence that her father didn't just use and then discard her mother. That is something I assume she would like to know. Even if she doesn't personally care, her mother definitely does.
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