I also recall there was lore somewhere that said or implied other high elders from the other ships also stepped in for Dan Feng.
If I'm remembering correctly based on the lore explainers, 冱渊君 from Fanghu came in to offer political support for the sentence, but the preceptors first went to Jing Yuan for intervention. (【景元721年将军生涯里做过什么？饮月君欠景元多少人情！景元这一生的努力，有用！但又没有用！带你走进五骁最大怨种：景元元！】) Since 冱渊君 is considered the most elevated of the 龙尊, her stepping in means the rest of the Vidyadhara (not preceptors) would not object to the punishment.
I don't think he necessarily was stable enough in his position at the time to influence that change.
He was second-in-command for a good chunk of time and was being groomed to the position of general (if not arbiter-general), so he must have quite a bit of political pull. Furthermore, the trial went on for a very long time, probably along the lines of nearly 100 years based on how relatively young Dan Feng is. (I know we have to account for the hatching time, but 721 years is still a pretty big chunk of time.)
I don't think we can discount Jing Yuan's involvement in both phases of the aftermath.
I really doubt any other general is going to step in for that Preceptor
Well that depends on whether all 7 arbiter-generals are meant to be good guys... Not having seen the full 2.5 patch, it's hard for me to discount the possibility the corruption goes to the highest level.
what sane person teams up with an Emanator of Destruction as a good idea?
This presumes the rest of the preceptors are sane... I mean they might very well be losing their marbles if they've been consistently using the memory recovery potion. Vidyadhara only avoided Mara because they don't remember their past lives due to reincarnation. If they keep their memories, then they become just as vulnerable to the condition as other long lived species. (Presumably the symptoms differ due to their longevity being powered by Permanence, but it's implied the mortal brain cannot handle indefinite existence.)
So I really don't get where Taoran's confidence of getting away with it all is coming from.
If the writers have a plan, then it should, given the foreshadowing, be coming from the fact that there's a powerful political faction supporting the bad guys. But that's presuming miHoyo is actually going to write a court drama into their gacha game...
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
One possible (better) reason is that this is part of the bargaining. Reduce the death sentence to (multiple) life imprisonment. Then from there, work that down further. Given there's 10 people on the committee, that's a lot of room to maneuver. It's pretty common for prison sentences to get reduced over time IRL through a series of negotiations across many decades, especially in ye olden times. It's clear a lot of the political dynamics in Xianzhou is pulling on archaic concepts of laws, where there isn't a separation of the legislative, judicial, and executive powers. Laws are more like...suggestions.
But if you aren't going to name this problem, then I have to wonder if the writers even though that part out yet. -_-
They haven't. I'm almost certain they haven't. I feel like the writers are just cribbing from pre-existing stuff and throwing it together with no consideration of whether those story elements make sense.
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Date: 2024-09-11 12:51 (UTC)If I'm remembering correctly based on the lore explainers, 冱渊君 from Fanghu came in to offer political support for the sentence, but the preceptors first went to Jing Yuan for intervention. (【景元721年将军生涯里做过什么？饮月君欠景元多少人情！景元这一生的努力，有用！但又没有用！带你走进五骁最大怨种：景元元！】) Since 冱渊君 is considered the most elevated of the 龙尊, her stepping in means the rest of the Vidyadhara (not preceptors) would not object to the punishment.
He was second-in-command for a good chunk of time and was being groomed to the position of general (if not arbiter-general), so he must have quite a bit of political pull. Furthermore, the trial went on for a very long time, probably along the lines of nearly 100 years based on how relatively young Dan Feng is. (I know we have to account for the hatching time, but 721 years is still a pretty big chunk of time.)
I don't think we can discount Jing Yuan's involvement in both phases of the aftermath.
Well that depends on whether all 7 arbiter-generals are meant to be good guys... Not having seen the full 2.5 patch, it's hard for me to discount the possibility the corruption goes to the highest level.
This presumes the rest of the preceptors are sane... I mean they might very well be losing their marbles if they've been consistently using the memory recovery potion. Vidyadhara only avoided Mara because they don't remember their past lives due to reincarnation. If they keep their memories, then they become just as vulnerable to the condition as other long lived species. (Presumably the symptoms differ due to their longevity being powered by Permanence, but it's implied the mortal brain cannot handle indefinite existence.)
If the writers have a plan, then it should, given the foreshadowing, be coming from the fact that there's a powerful political faction supporting the bad guys. But that's presuming miHoyo is actually going to write a court drama into their gacha game...
One possible (better) reason is that this is part of the bargaining. Reduce the death sentence to (multiple) life imprisonment. Then from there, work that down further. Given there's 10 people on the committee, that's a lot of room to maneuver. It's pretty common for prison sentences to get reduced over time IRL through a series of negotiations across many decades, especially in ye olden times. It's clear a lot of the political dynamics in Xianzhou is pulling on archaic concepts of laws, where there isn't a separation of the legislative, judicial, and executive powers. Laws are more like...suggestions.
They haven't. I'm almost certain they haven't. I feel like the writers are just cribbing from pre-existing stuff and throwing it together with no consideration of whether those story elements make sense.