#fengyin

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an unlikely pairing has come your way!!!

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started the last immortal to see zhao lusi being pretty only to see her character be tortured for most of the show

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2013 Thorki Halloween by Fengyin on pixiv

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Uniforms: Qixing Zhou, Fengyin, Chongyun, and Jishan

Each school has a uniform, but the extent to which students are expected to wear or modify it depends on the school. The sects as a whole have no ‘set’ uniform – except for employees of the businesses associated with the sects, only students need to have one, and they are normally worn during inter-school competitions and events.

Chongyun Sect

It was founded in the late 700s during the Tang Dynasty, which favored extravagance and colorful clothing. The school changed its name and even its location over the next two hundred years. The uniform today is derived from Song Dynasty, which favors reserved elegance and straight, slender lines.

Women:

Unlike the other dynasties, women in the Song Dynasty could wear trousers, usually paired with a beizi (a long jacket with narrow sleeves). The colors are subdued like the photo below, though the Chongyun Sect’s uniform doesn’t have as many patterns.

Men:

They wear Song-style yishang (cross-collar top + wrap-around skirt), with a dachang (open-fronted robe, not pictured) for more formal occasions. The colors should probably match the women’s uniform, but I couldn’t find a photo lol.

Qixing Zhou Sect

The Qixing Zhou Sect decided to keep Ming Dynasty fashion as its uniform. Their colors tend to be whites and reds. Qixing Zhou is quite strict about its students wearing the uniform when in class (except when dealing with magical creatures - wear whatever is comfortable and you don’t mind getting damaged beyond the point magic can repair it) or traveling outside the sect. Outer wear for when it gets cold is up to the student.

Women:

Women wear an aoqun (袄裙), which is composed of a cross-collar top and a waist-high skirt. The top is not tucked in; in the Qixing Zhou Sect, a short top is standard. 

Men:

The men wear a yuanlingpao, a round-collar robe, paired with a belt.

Fengyin Sect

They wear rather plain clothes not restricted to a single dynasty. You will actually see Fengyin students wear their uniforms the most out of all the sects, since they often play at events and orchestras that require them to wear it.

Women:

Women wear a ruqun (top + skirt). It’s similar to the aoqun, except the top is tucked into the skirt. The top is white, the bottom is a pale grey-blue.

Men:

See above. The men’s version of the ruqun is known as a yishang. Their top is the same as the women’s, but black.

Jishan Sect

The Jishan Sect’s official uniform is from the Ming Dynasty in which it was founded. The Jishan Sect, however, does not require the uniform to be worn during any time except inter-school events. Some people choose to wear it all the time, others prefer their own clothes.

Women:

A cross-collar aoqun with a long top and a green skirt.

Men:

The men wear a green and white yishang, which is the men’s cross-collar top with a wrap-around skirt. 

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Final part of the coffee shop au is now up!

🔞 nsfw Explicit fic.

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“The place where talent goes to die”

Fengyin is referred to as “the place where talent goes to die” even by its own members. It does not imply song-spells are an inferior form of magic, merely that the same level of cultivation achieved in other schools takes ten times longer for a student at Fengyin. This is because building expertise with an instrument is a lifelong process, with most students having practiced extensively even before attending. Anyone who starts at the time of enrollment is automatically set back by quite a few years.

That being said, by the time Fengyin students are in their late twenties to early thirties, the skill level begins to even out except in the case of the truly talented geniuses who may come to surpass all the rest.

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Fengyin Sect – 风吟派

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Overview

The Fengyin Sect's primary focus is the intertwining forces of music and magic, including the refining and research of song-spells, especially ones from the ancient past that have been lost in the evolution of the Chinese language. Several Fengyin masters and their disciples also engage in the innovation and development of new song-spells. Graduates are often accepted into major orchestras, while others are employed to work alongside spellcasters in exorcisms and purification.

History

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Located on a remote, magically concealed mountainside, the Fengyin Sect was founded by the three Qiu siblings, Qiu Lizheng, Qiu Liyang, and Qiu Lihua, in 1690. Although disciples from the Qiu clan were the only students present for the first thirty years, it eventually opened its doors to guest disciples and then foreign disciples from other clans. The Fengyin Sect remains the smallest sect to this day and a majority of its disciples are children of the same ten to fifteen clans who have been attending it for hundreds of years. Due to the constraints of its size, the Fengyin Sect only accepts twenty disciples per year with few exceptions. However, there are still some years in which not all of the seats are filled.

Grounds

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The air surrounding the Fengyin Sect’s mountainside complex is incredibly thin, making it difficult for many to adjust without the help of special spells. However, most disciples will not use these spells in order to increase the foundation of their skills. The mountain is also home to a variety of magical creatures that are blocked off by a thin barrier maintained by the sect’s teachers.

The Fengyin Sect wraps around the mountain on all sides except for the north-facing side, which houses an untamed area of forest where they cultivate the precious trees used to create their instruments. Because the sect was built within the cliffs of the mountain, its rooms and halls are all quite narrow with plenty of multi-tiered pavilions.

Heaven’s Corridor

The southernmost area of the sect, Heaven’s Corridor is filled with the sect’s treasures as well as two libraries, one for normal spells and magic, the other much larger and exclusively for song-spells. It is also the location of all the sect’s classrooms and practice pavilions. The workshops where instruments are crafted line the inner rooms of Heaven’s Corridor.

Earth’s Corridor

The eastern side of the mountain, and the largest. Earth’s Corridor is the residence of the sect’s teachers and disciples, who live on top floors of the main four three-story buildings. Two smaller buildings containing study lounges are located on either side of the dormitories. The lodgings here are extremely tight, so most disciples only return to their shared rooms to sleep.

Mortal’s Corridor

The west side of the mountain is also the sect’s main entrance. This area is filled with narrow paths and a high density of wards that render both flight and song-spells useless. As such, when walking through its halls one will hear a high-pitched whirring sound similar to the whistle of high-speed winds. In order to reach the sect’s main entrance, one must fly to a specific area about one thousand and five hundred meters down the mountain and walk the rest of the way to the entrance hall.

It is said that this corridor was named “Mortal’s Corridor” because in a siege of the sect around the time of its founding, not a single person was able to advanced beyond the entrance hall. It is rumored that there are still traps lying in wait within its walls.

Businesses

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Although the Fengyin Sect does not own or run an orchestra or other musical group, it has been in the business of crafting musical instruments since the days of its founding. The Qiu clan, relations of the founders of the sect, remain in charge of this business. They are known to craft many types of instruments, from the inexpensive to one-of-a-kind custom-made models.

Members

Each member of the Fengyin Sect selects an instrument to specialize in, but there is nothing stopping someone from picking up another instrument and, indeed, many choose to do so.

Notes

Fengyin (风吟, Fēngyín), means “wind song” when 吟 is read to mean an ancient poem instead of its usual meaning of “to chant, recite”. 派 (pài) means “sect”.

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