History Roleplay / DestinyCycle

The story is currently comprised of Forge Of Destiny (which covers Ling Qi's first year at the academy), Threads Of Destiny (her second year, which is in progress), and Tales Of Destiny (a series of side stories, usually involving supporting characters or expanding on the lore of the world). New chapters are posted first on Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom, often with a vote-in choice for the audience there, then eventually tidied up and published on Royal Road sometime later.

The story is currently comprised of Forge Of Destiny (which covers Ling Qi's first year at the academy), Threads Of Destiny (her second year, which is in progress), and Tales Of Destiny (a series of side stories, usually involving supporting characters or expanding on the lore of the world). New chapters are posted first on [[Website/SufficientVelocityDotCom Sufficient Velocity]], often with a vote-in choice for the audience there, then eventually tidied up and published on Royal Road sometime later.

The quest can be read and participated in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/threads-of-destiny-eastern-fantasy-sequel-to-forge-of-destiny.51431/ here]], with an edited version being posted on [[Website/RoyalRoad Royal Road]] [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21188/forge-of-destiny here]]

* TheWikiRule: [[https://forge-of-destiny.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_of_Destiny_Wiki Has a fan-made and maintained wiki]]

The story is currently comprised of Forge Of Destiny (which covers Ling Qi's first year at the academy), Threads Of Destiny (her second year, which is in progress) and Tales Of Destiny (a series of side stories, usually involving supporting characters or expanding on the lore of the world). New chapters are posted first on [[Website/SufficientVelocityDotCom Sufficient Velocity]], often with a vote-in choice for the audience there, then eventually tidied up and published on Royal Road some time later.

!!Tropes in the Destiny Cycle include:
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Cultivators who reach the peaks of the highest realms attainable have the opportunity to attempt to trancend physical reality entirely, becoming a [[AbstractApotheosis Great Spirit]]

* HalfHumanHybrid: Spiritbloods are people born from the union of a human and spirit parent, and exhibit various traits inherited from their non-human lineage, these traits carry onto [[UnevenHybrid subsequent generations]] though they tend to fade as the blood dilutes with each generation. This is particularly prevalent among the oldest clans of the Empire, who maintain their spiritblood nature with careful breeding, [[FunctionalMagic Arts]] and medicines.
* HateSink: The Hui, the clan that used to rule the Emerald Seas. They maintained power by playing their vassals off one another and by having a robust network of spys, informants and infiltrators. They were overthrown 150 years before the story starts. With the long lifespan of cultivators the generation that overthrew the Hui is still in charge. Many of them seem to have made hating the Hui an important part of their Way, especially the [[HumanoidAbomination Duchess Cai Shenhua]]. Everything we have seen about the Hui from flashbacks and relics suggest this hate is well deserved.
* SuperPowerfulGenetics: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], while a child born from cultivators will be more likely to also be capable of cultivating than a child born from mortals it is only possible to raise the floor for [[TheGift innate talent]] to about average, being born with high talent is entirely random and unpredictable.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://forge-of-destiny.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_of_Destiny_Wiki Has a fan made and maintained wiki]]

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* HateSink: The Hui, the clan that used to rule the Emerald Seas. They maintained power by playing their vassals of one another and by having a robust network of spys, informants and infiltrators. They were overthrown 150 years before the story starts. With the long lifespan of cultivators the generation that overthrew the Hui is still in charge. Many of them seem to have made hating the Hui an important part of their Way, especially the [[HumanoidAbomination Duchess Cai Shenhua]]. Everything we have seen about the Hui from flashbacks and relics suggest this hate is well deserved.

* HateSink: The Hui, the clan that used to rule the Emerald Seas. They maintained power by playing their vassals of one another and by having a rubust network of spys, infromants and infiltrators. They were overthrown 150 years befroe the story starts. With the long lifespan of cultivators the generation that overthrew the Hui is still in charge. Many of them seem to have made Hating the Hui an important part of their Way, especially the [[HumanoidAbomination Duchess Cai Shenhua]]. Everything we have seen about the Hui from flashbacks and relics suggest this hate is well deserved.

* HateSink: The Hui, with the long lifespan of cultivators the generation that overthrew the Hui is still in charge. Many of them seem to have made Hating the Hui an important part of their Way, especially the [[HumanoidAbomination Duchess Cai Shenhua]]. Everything we have seen about the Hui from flashbacks and relics suggest this hate is well deserved.

* HateSink: The Hui, with the long lifespan of cultivators the generation that overthrew the Hui is still in charge. Many of them seem to have made Hating the Hui an important part of their Way, especially the [[HumanoidAbomination Duchess Cai Shenhua]]. Everything we have seen about the Hui from flashbacks and relics suggest this hate is well deserved.

** [[HalfHumanHybrid Spirit]][[UnevenHybrid bloods]] are born with certain advantages over purely human cultivators, natural Arts, the ability to digest raw beast cores and [[UninhibitedMusclePower uncapped]], [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower boosted]] [[TheSixStats physical attribute]].

* ElementalPowers: [[Ki Qi]] exists as a universal natural force permeating every facet of the world and is most commonly and easily seen as various types of elemental energy.

** [[HalfHumanHybrid Spirit]][[UnevenHybrid bloods]] are born with certain advantages over purely human cultivators, natural Arts, the ability to digest raw beast cores and [[UninhibitedMusclePower uncapped]], [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower boosted]] [[TheSixStats physical attribute]]. Ultimately though these advantages, while useful, are [[DownplayedTrope fairly minor in the long run]].

Tropes in the Destiny Cycle include:

* FantasticRankSystem: Cultivation in the Empire is divided into two parts, spiritual and physical, with each having 8 ranks, referred to as realms, with a varying amount of subranks per realm, referred to as stages.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Cultivators who reach the peaks of the highest realms attainable have the opportunity to attempt to trancend physical reality entirely, becoming a Great Spirit

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