Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
- Location
- United States of America, Michigan
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
[X] The wound in the mind, the aching scars of Isolation. (+1 Isolation XP)
- Location
- At the end of the world
[X] The wound in the mind, the aching scars of Isolation. (+1 Isolation XP)
WhoTheHeckity
But no one ever asks HowTheHeckity
- Location
- Murica 🦅
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
Once again, we can only hope we're making the right choice...
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
I've been arguing all along that the real issue Liling and people in the West would have with Sun Shao's actions is him selling his soul to the jungle devil and not the sweet spiritblood upgrade so I'm going with this.
I've been arguing all along that the real issue Liling and people in the West would have with Sun Shao's actions is him selling his soul to the jungle devil and not the sweet spiritblood upgrade so I'm going with this.
- Location
- South Africa
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
- Location
- FR
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
It's probably the wound that hurts the most for Liling, tbh. However, I'd like to point out that if you take a look at our cultivation options in the last vote, we currently have no way of getting isolation from our arts...
It's probably the wound that hurts the most for Liling, tbh. However, I'd like to point out that if you take a look at our cultivation options in the last vote, we currently have no way of getting isolation from our arts...
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[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
- Location
- Spain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
[X] The wound in the soul, the eyes blinded by Power. (+1 Power XP)
[X] The wound in the soul, the eyes blinded by Power. (+1 Power XP)
[X] The wound in the heart, the gash torn in Community (+1 Community XP)
I see a lot of people saying that Power is better because Ji Rong is most attuned to it.
But it's precisely because of that this option gives him the lest new information to work with.
As we saw in the ducal meeting update, Ji Rong is already having his own revelations about Power.
That there is more to Power and leadership that punching people in the face harder.
So he doesn't understand why Sun Liling seems to have regressed to her persona of the start or Forge, with the negative traits being enhanced.
Of course, the problem here is that the influence of "bloody evolution" has blinded Liliing to other kinds of Power besides survival of the fittest.
Sun Liling had already realized her mistake of jumping into fights too soon, assuming that people would side with her by virtue of her being the strongest (and she was the individually strongest for most of Forge) and that everyone wanted the same as her. Well, that and because she overestimated how far into "fuck the Bai" everyone else was, Renxiang in particular.
So that's an avenue that Ji Rong already has available to connect with Sun Liling. Power is a problem Ji Rong already knows Liling has and can tackle on his own.
What he has no idea about is the betrayal of Sun Shao, how much it must have hurt and changed Sun Liling, even without the forceful bloodline imposition.
That's the root of the problem, the first wound Sun Liling suffered.
Isolation, on the other hand, is just a direct consequence of that betrayal.
I see a lot of people saying that Power is better because Ji Rong is most attuned to it.
But it's precisely because of that this option gives him the lest new information to work with.
As we saw in the ducal meeting update, Ji Rong is already having his own revelations about Power.
He understands that the cocky bravado, purposeful provocation, stubborn uncollaborativeness and conflict for the sake of conflict that Liling pulled out in the Outer Sect aren't how you should be doing things in the real world, in real projects with real consequences for real people.
That there is more to Power and leadership that punching people in the face harder.
So he doesn't understand why Sun Liling seems to have regressed to her persona of the start or Forge, with the negative traits being enhanced.
Of course, the problem here is that the influence of "bloody evolution" has blinded Liliing to other kinds of Power besides survival of the fittest.
Sun Liling had already realized her mistake of jumping into fights too soon, assuming that people would side with her by virtue of her being the strongest (and she was the individually strongest for most of Forge) and that everyone wanted the same as her. Well, that and because she overestimated how far into "fuck the Bai" everyone else was, Renxiang in particular.
So that's an avenue that Ji Rong already has available to connect with Sun Liling. Power is a problem Ji Rong already knows Liling has and can tackle on his own.
What he has no idea about is the betrayal of Sun Shao, how much it must have hurt and changed Sun Liling, even without the forceful bloodline imposition.
That's the root of the problem, the first wound Sun Liling suffered.
Isolation, on the other hand, is just a direct consequence of that betrayal.
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