> After all, it was the preceptor pulling on strings to commute the sentence, not Dan Feng, so the politics are being played on the preceptor side. Granted, Dan Feng's case was helped by having an arbiter-general coming in to negotiate
Eh, yes, the Preceptors probably politicked to avoid executing Dan Feng to avoid losing the dragon inheritance. But, I also recall there was lore somewhere that said or implied other high elders from the other ships also stepped in for Dan Feng.
I don't think Jing Yuan contributed to that particular sentence change though. Given the timeline, he probably just made General at the time, with the Marshal giving him the position against vocal objections. I don't think he necessarily was stable enough in his position at the time to influence that change.
What I think Jing Yuan likely did drive through was the later exile sentence, instead of letting Dan Heng spend the rest of his life in jail.
That said, even if Jing Yuan contributed to the commuting of the execution sentence... I really doubt any other general is going to step in for that Preceptor in this case. And I don't see any other high elder interceding for Taoran either, because what sane person teams up with an Emanator of Destruction as a good idea?
So I really don't get where Taoran's confidence of getting away with it all is coming from.
> The preceptors didn't want to keep Dan Feng alive to take power again, it's to make sure the knowledge doesn't die with him. So politics wise that makes sense, keep the guy alive but locked up.
That would make sense if he was kept in house arrest or a specialized dungeon or something. But Dan Heng grew up in the Shackling Prison, which is the domain of the Ten Lords Commission. Why would they take orders from the Vidyadhara Preceptors, over the standard laws and precedents for treatment of Vidyadhara rebirth?
Of course, this then starts coming back to the conspiracy theory of corruption in the Ten Lords Commission. The "old guys" who have it out for Jing Yuan politically, I suppose. But if you aren't going to name this problem, then I have to wonder if the writers even though that part out yet. -_-
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Eh, yes, the Preceptors probably politicked to avoid executing Dan Feng to avoid losing the dragon inheritance. But, I also recall there was lore somewhere that said or implied other high elders from the other ships also stepped in for Dan Feng.
I don't think Jing Yuan contributed to that particular sentence change though. Given the timeline, he probably just made General at the time, with the Marshal giving him the position against vocal objections. I don't think he necessarily was stable enough in his position at the time to influence that change.
What I think Jing Yuan likely did drive through was the later exile sentence, instead of letting Dan Heng spend the rest of his life in jail.
That said, even if Jing Yuan contributed to the commuting of the execution sentence... I really doubt any other general is going to step in for that Preceptor in this case. And I don't see any other high elder interceding for Taoran either, because what sane person teams up with an Emanator of Destruction as a good idea?
So I really don't get where Taoran's confidence of getting away with it all is coming from.
> The preceptors didn't want to keep Dan Feng alive to take power again, it's to make sure the knowledge doesn't die with him. So politics wise that makes sense, keep the guy alive but locked up.
That would make sense if he was kept in house arrest or a specialized dungeon or something. But Dan Heng grew up in the Shackling Prison, which is the domain of the Ten Lords Commission. Why would they take orders from the Vidyadhara Preceptors, over the standard laws and precedents for treatment of Vidyadhara rebirth?
Of course, this then starts coming back to the conspiracy theory of corruption in the Ten Lords Commission. The "old guys" who have it out for Jing Yuan politically, I suppose. But if you aren't going to name this problem, then I have to wonder if the writers even though that part out yet. -_-