#world interrogating

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Speaking about anthropological tours in Mt. Tonglu, the story we get about the previous heavenly dynasty (which I am very ! about, I was wondering about this kind of thing but was not expecting to get anything) brings up fascinating thoughts in a continuation or modern au of in fact divine anthropology (of the trying to figure out history type; not sure if there’s another word?). (Or even not a modern version, but in-universe-as-is scholarship!)

Which - would you have to try to get it entirely from human records, or are there ways to try to get something from the heavens? Is archeology in the heavens a thing? Did Jun Wu ascend to an empty heavens or did things stick around? If it was empty could you find traces? (And was this a special case or do things disappear under some conditions in general).

[Spoilers below this]

(I mean given what I know about Jun Wu I’m suspicious this is not the real story, but, in the universe where it is.)

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(History timeline!!)

So I need to look up some irl history for some of the other ones, but - 

So I was actually thinking before - I wondered how the world wars went in this world, and then I was thinking that it actually felt like this world hadn’t had (at least a) WWII.

And oh wow it turns out they actually didn’t!

(I’d seen a post before that revealed that their WWI started earlier).

I wonder if the Hague (which here seems to be a witch :thing:) was made to like - deal with/because of the problems that in our world caused WWII?

Interesting to see that the Revolution was earlier (considerably). And the Civil War also (though not quite as much). And the Civil War also shorter. ...Wait a sec, I actually remember the Revolution one having just the one year, while other wars get a range... *checks*. Wow, yeah. So if that’s accurate it was way shorter. (Which would make a lot of sense if at that time only the future-US had a witch army).

...Also meanwhile come to think, the Chinese Civil War mentioned must be really world-important, because it’s the only other-country-specific thing on the timeline. (And we already know there’s something with China in this world - they’re not at the Hague and this was specifically brought attention to.)

And the Proxy Wars thing explains (or at least like, tells us something about) who all this fighting they’ve been mentioning has been with (I’ve been noticing that most of what they mention doesn’t seem to correspond to real world conflicts in our world). I do wonder who they’re with (since it doesn’t seem like it’s the USSR).

(Sidenote, this was a really cool way to give us a world building bit! (Like the museum was, come to think). Hoping for more of these!! (Also is there a compilation somewhere? I’d have missed the WWI pic if I hadn’t run into it by accident, and I don’t know if there’s more like that.)

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Worldbuilding questions I have right now (just finished wedding episode):

So it seems that the general thing witches do with relationships/family forming is this 5-year thing, (with other witches, heterosexually) (but that they then consider some form of relationship to continue after - Abigail said ‘all my fathers’ (!), and like, it would make sense that you’d want to have some system that makes sense with the fact that people are only fertile so long but still living after that).

-I am kind of generally confused and wanting-to-know about general witch gender things. There’s clearly something but, ?. There are male witches, we know it’s possible at least in some countries for them to reach the highest of ranks because we saw the Hague. (Though come to think I don’t think we’ve seen any us men with high ranks mentioned? Does this differ?). I saw a post that said that male witches make weapons etc, but is there some particular *reason* for the division? (It does look like lineage is tracked through the mother, that does look to be pretty clearly how they do it.)

-So we now know that witches might go into combat pregnant (though not currently *how* pregnant). But if witches have kids with each other, who does child *raising*? If male witches indeed make objects, is it them? ...Come to think, a very reasonable one would be grandparents, but we haven’t seen like... anyone’s. Possibly - whoever in the wider family isn’t deployed etc at the time? Another possible option would be war-disabled family members, but we’ve not really seen that being a thing either.

-Who were the civilians at the wedding? There were def a bunch of them - the military people wear their uniforms, so it’s pretty clear to tell. But if all a witch’s children are witches (as the Salem Accords quote suggests), and witches aren’t supposed to marry civilians, who are those people? It doesn't look like witches do much socializing with civilians either, they’re very their own subculture/system. (Putting this and the previous one together there could be a system where witches somehow partner with civilians for childraising, but we haven’t really been given reason to think that’s a thing.)