yeah. there's so much we still don't know, though I sort of think he cooled his heels in jail for a while first (maybe JL kidnapped him on her way out? we know he was in her extremely unloving care for a while).
i can only hope jingliu's companion quest goes into more detail since she's a somewhat reliable narrator... mara-stricken aside Her being mara-stricken is a memory problem, and tbh she seems to have her own axe to grind re: anything Abundance-related so she's probably not going to have much good to say either. Admittedly everyone being unreliable is also a delight to me, but then I'm biased since my whole job involves putting together a bunch of unreliable sources into a picture of the past. Like even JY is biased, tbh.
(lowkey kinda racist, definitely unsatisfied with the political power imbalance between the vidyadhara and other xianzhou races?, Yeah the preceptors have never gotten over the vidyadhara no longer being a majority on their own world. But then again, given what the bitchy vidyadhara tourist in Aurum Alley says re: how the Luofu treats vidyadhara (useful minority population) vs. how the Fanghu treats vidyadhara (majority vidyadhara) especially about adapting shit like real estate property laws to be inclusive of vidyadhara's unique needs or rather the Luofu's failure to do so, they might have a bit of a point re: being disgruntled about that. Especially after Yubie did his thing which was...primarily beneficial to Xianzhou at a major cost to the vidyadhara for not really that much return. It's sort of interesting seeing like, differing priorities and even different visions for like, what's best for the vidyadhara vs. best for the Luofu as a whole, and how those are in conflict.
It's just that this scheming comes at the cost of people we like, lol.
bailu's former maid saying she suspected the preceptors wanted to know of her dreams for "malevolent purposes" I'm betting the preceptors have Suspicions about her exact origins and want to know her dreams for that purpose. Whatever they do with that information, probably not good (almost certainly use it to sink her legitimacy).
*and* the fact they couldn't "control df" was something that annoyed them more often than not). they can join literally everyone else in DF's life in that corner, lol. just imagine the fucking headaches he gave like the six charioteers when he had to deal with them politically. part of me was like "I hope there was a drinking club where they got drunk and bitched about Dan Feng" but that isn't very realistic, if very funny.
. they certainly have their own scheme that even the preceptors aren't happy about, which just feels like conflicting evils trying to follow their own sus schedules lmao... overall the whole thing is still very ????? because 1) unreliable narrators and 2) there's several different puppetmasters and the only one who probably has any idea of what's going on behind the scenes is... again... jing yuan. who refuses to speak up lmao............ Honestly like the different factions playing political hardball with each other with conflicting agendas is just SO good, and it's like "here's our decadent deadly imperial court" shit
(and the preceptors might also have like a unified agenda to present to outsiders but we know they fight internally and they probably have like six different factions. I hope they fistfight at preceptor meetings but even if they don't, the bureaucratic clownery from these mermaid dragon elves is probably very intense and very funny). this is just for me, who loves palace dramas, and am eating it up with a spoon as we speak.
Like DH was certainly a political hostage but there just isn't enough info yet to know past that point. Like maybe once Xueyi becomes playable but who even knows when that will be because we're off to Penacony. Though I bet Jing Yuan actually probably doesn't know that much re: the Ten-Lords Commission even as the arbiter-general because they are just SO mysterious and don't have to listen to him (or the other charioteers), but I really want to know what kind of political arm-twisting he did to get the Ten-Lords to approve his exile order, given that they don't have to do anything he says.
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i can only hope jingliu's companion quest goes into more detail since she's a somewhat reliable narrator... mara-stricken aside
Her being mara-stricken is a memory problem, and tbh she seems to have her own axe to grind re: anything Abundance-related so she's probably not going to have much good to say either. Admittedly everyone being unreliable is also a delight to me, but then I'm biased since my whole job involves putting together a bunch of unreliable sources into a picture of the past. Like even JY is biased, tbh.
(lowkey kinda racist, definitely unsatisfied with the political power imbalance between the vidyadhara and other xianzhou races?,
Yeah the preceptors have never gotten over the vidyadhara no longer being a majority on their own world. But then again, given what the bitchy vidyadhara tourist in Aurum Alley says re: how the Luofu treats vidyadhara (useful minority population) vs. how the Fanghu treats vidyadhara (majority vidyadhara) especially about adapting shit like real estate property laws to be inclusive of vidyadhara's unique needs or rather the Luofu's failure to do so, they might have a bit of a point re: being disgruntled about that. Especially after Yubie did his thing which was...primarily beneficial to Xianzhou at a major cost to the vidyadhara for not really that much return. It's sort of interesting seeing like, differing priorities and even different visions for like, what's best for the vidyadhara vs. best for the Luofu as a whole, and how those are in conflict.
It's just that this scheming comes at the cost of people we like, lol.
bailu's former maid saying she suspected the preceptors wanted to know of her dreams for "malevolent purposes"
I'm betting the preceptors have Suspicions about her exact origins and want to know her dreams for that purpose. Whatever they do with that information, probably not good (almost certainly use it to sink her legitimacy).
*and* the fact they couldn't "control df" was something that annoyed them more often than not).
they can join literally everyone else in DF's life in that corner, lol. just imagine the fucking headaches he gave like the six charioteers when he had to deal with them politically. part of me was like "I hope there was a drinking club where they got drunk and bitched about Dan Feng" but that isn't very realistic, if very funny.
. they certainly have their own scheme that even the preceptors aren't happy about, which just feels like conflicting evils trying to follow their own sus schedules lmao... overall the whole thing is still very ????? because 1) unreliable narrators and 2) there's several different puppetmasters and the only one who probably has any idea of what's going on behind the scenes is... again... jing yuan. who refuses to speak up lmao............
Honestly like the different factions playing political hardball with each other with conflicting agendas is just SO good, and it's like "here's our decadent deadly imperial court" shit
(and the preceptors might also have like a unified agenda to present to outsiders but we know they fight internally and they probably have like six different factions. I hope they fistfight at preceptor meetings but even if they don't, the bureaucratic clownery from these mermaid dragon elves is probably very intense and very funny). this is just for me, who loves palace dramas, and am eating it up with a spoon as we speak.
Like DH was certainly a political hostage but there just isn't enough info yet to know past that point. Like maybe once Xueyi becomes playable but who even knows when that will be because we're off to Penacony. Though I bet Jing Yuan actually probably doesn't know that much re: the Ten-Lords Commission even as the arbiter-general because they are just SO mysterious and don't have to listen to him (or the other charioteers), but I really want to know what kind of political arm-twisting he did to get the Ten-Lords to approve his exile order, given that they don't have to do anything he says.