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Saw a clip from 2.5 patch
Dan Heng telling Taoran even after reincarnation he will still be the same person.
The fuck is miHoyo trying to do here?
Are they having trouble keeping their own lore straight or are they ret-conning? Is there some extra context that's missing? (I know that this is on context of the memory potion, which Dan Heng also experienced. But Dan Heng insists he is not the same person while claiming Taoran will remain the same, so which one is it you fucking tsundere? And no, individual variation in response to the treatment isn't enough to explain the difference, because Dan Heng is saying he's speaking from personal experience.)
I agree with the OP, Jing Yuan needs to call Dan Heng on his BS. Are you or are you not the same person?! (But this also feeds into the interpretation that Dan Heng is jealous of Dan Feng when it comes to friendship with Jing Yuan given how insistent he is about keeping the identities separated while also apparently internally accepting he's...the same? I swear miHoyo storytelling drives me up a wall.)
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Would be funny if Bailu is technically older than Dan Heng... (Since we know she was given a medicine to suppress her aging, so her appearance doesn't reflect her age, even by Vidyadhara standards.)
I thought Dan Feng named her the successor? That implies he gave verbal/written indication. If her becoming the successor was automatic due to having powers, then Dan Feng had no real agency in making Bailu the successor, seeing as Dan Feng wasn't sure what was coming out of his experiment.
Sure, but we have no clue how much natural lifespan remained when Dan Feng was arrested. The only reason fandom thought he didn't have very long left was because of one folk song, which we know are not reliable accounts of anything.
If Dan Heng is only 30 years old, then Vidyadhara development is much faster than fans thought, making Dan Feng's age (based on appearance) on the young end during arrest. That means he'd have easily another 400-500 years to spend rotting in prison.
I don't think it's likely, but then again, I don't think miHoyo themselves know when any of this stuff happens either, so they just handwave away everything and end up with weird timescales.
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> I thought Dan Feng named her the successor?
Sure, but there's a log of wiggle room to interpret when it happened, because it was all so vague and mysteriously stated.
Like, we don't know if she was an egg at the time, hatched, or some other weird state...
> If her becoming the successor was automatic due to having powers
No, it's not automatic. Dan Feng naming her successor was important, in terms of internal Vidyadhara tradition/law/whatever. That action has to be locked in, for her to have the current high elder position. It's not something anyone else other than Dan Feng can confer, and it was specifically Dan Feng who conferred it.
> If Dan Heng is only 30 years old, then Vidyadhara development is much faster than fans thought
Or has greater variation in growth rates per rebirth...
I mean, there was one readable who had a dude complaining about being defeated by a fellow Vidyadhara cloud knight trainee who only came up to his chest (so child-sized similar to Bailu), but was over 80 years old. But if Dan Heng is only in his 30s, he's definitely not child-sized.
There's also a kid-sized Vidyadhara on Herta's Space station, a fully accredited researcher and everything. But I find it hard to believe she's actually a kid (mentally), since I doubt the Xianzhou would've allowed actual minors (mentally) to go off-world by themselves without a chaperone.
Let's throw Taoran in there while we're at it... He presumably went through natural rebirth some time after Dan Feng's molting. But he now looks older than Dan Heng. *shrug*
> I don't think it's likely, but then again, I don't think miHoyo themselves know when any of this stuff happens either
Yes, I expect we will end up with self contradictory timeline in the end. Maybe it's best they stop trying to fill in the blanks. -_-
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Hm...interesting. I guess that's more an implication due to that medication existing on the same item that contained the entry on the memory potion, but there's nothing explicit.
Yeah, so the most likely time this happened must have been while he was in jail, as I mentioned it doesn't make sense to name his experiment the successor before he can confirm it was a success.
Based on common sense, someone would have to inform him that his abomination dragon turned into an egg and it shows signs of becoming a viable Vidyadhara or that Bailu already hatched to confirm the success of his experiment. At which point Dan Feng can name her the successor since he's...well, in jail. But that's reasonable and logical, so miHoyo probably will write something completely different.
Very fair point. Maybe traveling on the Express stunted Dan Heng's growth.
Or maybe the reality is miHoyo sucks at writing.
This is my constant ambivalence when it comes to Xianzhou. Lore-wise it's the most interesting, but the more story happens there the worse the story gets.