Writers don't have an internal timeline at all confirmed.
if Dan Heng is under 30 years old
Dan Heng has to be at least 30 years old tho, since the exile of Lingsha's master happened 30 years ago. Even assuming she was processed immediately, there's still trial time and stuff.
either Dan Feng was kept in jail for a longer time than we thought
Taoran did say Dan Feng's trial took a very long time. Also DHIL personal story contains memories of Preceptors questioning him (Dan Feng) repeatedly. So probably the whole kept getting delayed or dragged out to buy the Preceptors more time with Dan Feng.
their time in between spent as an egg lasted for a looot of centuries
I think egg hatching might be shorter simply because we have that one quest where the Vidyadhara dates the same woman over the course of 4 cycles. If we assume the woman is 1000yo and each incarnation averages 300 years due to shitty luck or something, that still only leaves about 100 years to hatch 3 times, roughly 30 years hatching time.
On the other hand, we have Bailu, but her hatch time is probably not normal and can't really be used as a reference.
But the line about drugging baby Dan Heng seemed like a non-sequitor
I thought it's meant to let Lingsha know she doesn't have the whole story and she may not want to know the whole story because it's pretty ugly. A "you think your master was framed but she actually had a lot more agency than you think" kind of statement.
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Date: 2024-09-13 00:37 (UTC)Writers don't have an internal timeline at all confirmed.
Dan Heng has to be at least 30 years old tho, since the exile of Lingsha's master happened 30 years ago. Even assuming she was processed immediately, there's still trial time and stuff.
Taoran did say Dan Feng's trial took a very long time. Also DHIL personal story contains memories of Preceptors questioning him (Dan Feng) repeatedly. So probably the whole kept getting delayed or dragged out to buy the Preceptors more time with Dan Feng.
I think egg hatching might be shorter simply because we have that one quest where the Vidyadhara dates the same woman over the course of 4 cycles. If we assume the woman is 1000yo and each incarnation averages 300 years due to shitty luck or something, that still only leaves about 100 years to hatch 3 times, roughly 30 years hatching time.
On the other hand, we have Bailu, but her hatch time is probably not normal and can't really be used as a reference.
I thought it's meant to let Lingsha know she doesn't have the whole story and she may not want to know the whole story because it's pretty ugly. A "you think your master was framed but she actually had a lot more agency than you think" kind of statement.