Starless Night's Reflection: Yin, Lake, Darkness, Reflection, Stillness, Void
- Lake Hei is Wide: The great lake is bottomless, but it is also wide, a sea in its own right, there is nothing which cannot vanish into its depths. So to can you render inert even assaults that would strike down a whole company. Improves Rippling Starless Shroud and adds +1 modifier to your Primary Defense Trait in the arts passive. (0/3)
- It's Depths Without End: The imperturbable surface, a skin of shimmering black that lies over the infinite deeps beneath. All vanishes into the dark, leaving mere ripples behind. Where sleeps that which vanishes from world, sight, and memory?. +1 XP to Mystery and Ending. Advances the Black Mirror Technique. (0/3)
–Completing both remaining Projects opens the Quest to advance the Unbroken Will Trait into the Imperturbable Soul Trait
Hi, it's me, your local hot headed moon worshipping lady who believes Xiulan is going to go White and probably ascend. Let's have a conversation, just the two of us.
Now, you might be thinking "Story, why are you doing this to yourself. It's a cursed art, no one wants this and no one wants to take it. It's dead end, it's utterly useless. Let's go with Beast Kings Dirge because we all know how much use that gets."
Yes, I know, I can be a bit awful. My takes are hot, my opinions terrible and there's an odd smell of cabbage that follows me everywhere I go but listen. I feel that right now we need to focus on different roads, to distract ourselves from the intense negotiations that will be the summit.
Allow me to explain. We've seen it several times now, with Xia Ren, Elder Ying and Elder Jiao. Ling Qi's caught glimpses of their pasts, been utterly distracted from reality as she does so. Now, it might just be me, but hear me out: that could be an excellent way to attack Ling Qi. All it would take is someone figuring out how it works and then creating a technique that could use whatever connection she's making to attack her.
Now, I know that doesn't really make much sense, but please, keep reading. We know that the GS phoenix was nearly corrupted by the Twilight King and it blew itself up. My concern is that there is a posssibilty that doesn't quite work as this example does, but in a similar vein that a targeted corruption can be afflicted to Ling Qi. This is of course probably to never be the case, and I'm unsure if Impeturbable Soul would be helpful in preventing that, but I believe it might.
With that being said, there are other advantages as well. Lake Hei is Wide, for example, buffs our defense a little more. It might not seem like much, but when complete there is the possibility that it could give insights into our other arts, based on some nearly forgotten instinct that I have.
It's Depths Without End, on the other hand, seems like it will resonate well with Hidden and Dreaming stuff given this sentence: "Where sleeps that which vanishes from world, sight, and memory?" It's a bit spooky and mysterious yes, but I think that's ultimately the point. You sort of have to read between the lines to come to that conclusion.
Yrs also mentioned that Imperturbable Soul's text would most likely be voted on if it did end up being chosen, and honestly that's the kind of gacha wildcard we live for. With the summit coming up, with more presences that are terrifying in ways that differ from Meizhen's most likely coming, I believe it would be best to delve into this project so that Ling Qi can steel herself for the trial to come.
If you've read this far, thank you. You're looking very cute today. What I'm trying to get at is that the art itself isn't anything spectacular, it's what could spawn off from the art. The insights, a potential successor and the wildcard that is Imperturbable Soul and the fact that it is a 0/3 art meaning it'd be easier to complete quickly for a potentially quick and potent payoff.
