Do you think Lingsha resembles Yuuko from xxHolic a bit?
Between the hime-cut and the cloud/smoke clothing theme, yes. I wouldn't be surprised if she's heavily inspired by Yuuko's designs. (So there's at least one girl on the design team, lol.)
native Xianzhou Alchemy Commission was originally built around the worship of Yaoshi
Is this in cutscenes or do we need to dig into lore stuff to find this detail? (Again, this is the reason why I feel like I need to actually play this game to get a better sense of the world.)
It's not hard to equate this with him arranging for Dan Heng to be "exiled" from the Luofu, in that respect, as a means of protecting Xianzhou-loyal assets for potential future use.
I mean that's basically what Lingsha was hinting at. Despite Lingsha saying she's not here for "personal vengeance", it's clear that what she's actually implying is she's not here as a spy and is going to be on Jing Yuan's side.
BTW, saw this analysis recently on Bilibili
I'm about half way through this, but I feel like there's a lot of speculation that isn't really backed up. Like the statement that Mara only strikes between 800-1000 years, but that statement has no screencapped source to back up the claim. As far as I'm aware, that specific trivia came from a discussion of Mara in the context of 天人, not all long lived species. The source he cites for Foxian lifespan also never mentioned that Foxians aren't affected by Mara, as the text merely describes what's happening to the stem cells. According to the citation, the permanent youth of Foxians is maintained by essentially suspension of cellular scenescence, in which case death can't be caused by aging. If Foxians don't suffer from mara, then we can't explain why the mode of Foxian lifespan is 307 (per the screencap), since it's not aging that's killing them off. Further, if Borisin are capable of living up to 700 years, they're well within the range of error for Mara to befall them (based on the spread of lifespan of Foxians). I really feel like there's a lot of numbers being thrown around that's taken as exact cutoffs rather than rough estimates that's not being talked about. (Have to run but will try to finish the video later.)
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Between the hime-cut and the cloud/smoke clothing theme, yes. I wouldn't be surprised if she's heavily inspired by Yuuko's designs. (So there's at least one girl on the design team, lol.)
Is this in cutscenes or do we need to dig into lore stuff to find this detail? (Again, this is the reason why I feel like I need to actually play this game to get a better sense of the world.)
I mean that's basically what Lingsha was hinting at. Despite Lingsha saying she's not here for "personal vengeance", it's clear that what she's actually implying is she's not here as a spy and is going to be on Jing Yuan's side.
I'm about half way through this, but I feel like there's a lot of speculation that isn't really backed up. Like the statement that Mara only strikes between 800-1000 years, but that statement has no screencapped source to back up the claim. As far as I'm aware, that specific trivia came from a discussion of Mara in the context of 天人, not all long lived species. The source he cites for Foxian lifespan also never mentioned that Foxians aren't affected by Mara, as the text merely describes what's happening to the stem cells. According to the citation, the permanent youth of Foxians is maintained by essentially suspension of cellular scenescence, in which case death can't be caused by aging. If Foxians don't suffer from mara, then we can't explain why the mode of Foxian lifespan is 307 (per the screencap), since it's not aging that's killing them off. Further, if Borisin are capable of living up to 700 years, they're well within the range of error for Mara to befall them (based on the spread of lifespan of Foxians). I really feel like there's a lot of numbers being thrown around that's taken as exact cutoffs rather than rough estimates that's not being talked about. (Have to run but will try to finish the video later.)