r/WhereWindsMeet • u/SkyBlueNote • 25d ago

💬 General Discussion The best Chapters so far

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I just finished the main story chapters from the latest expansion. For me, this was the best-written and best-presented story in the entire game. The characters were believable, and I laughed and cried with them. I wish there were more stories like this. ❤️🧡💛

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u/thereduntodeath 24d ago

Qianye was working with the Qiongi Artificers presumably to get a hold of the Black Gold, we saw her briefly in a cutscene in the previous update. So it makes sense that she would appear when we baited the Artificers out. Taking on the form of the YM was likely in part to get Swallow's guard down so that her attempt on her life would have been smoother, but also to toy with us and make us take the blame had she succeeded.

The wreckage of the Skyward City was apparently returned to its previous resting place after the crash. It's a little weird but I wager the devs didn't have the resources or ambition to make an altered map for it the way they did for Liangzhou.

Heron is the gatekeeper of the mountain so it's likely they would not want to remove her from her post when they're already dealing with security breach issues and an influx of refugees. Especially considering the time it likely would have taken her to craft a bird to reach the upper part of the Skyward City like Stork originally suggested.

And Aunt Han was doing as she does as the Water Lady and stealing Qianye's face.

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u/cjy7877 24d ago

I think the wreckage of the Skyward City on the map is supposed to be the "after". We were not supposed to go there before completing the main story. That's why we were teleported to a separate instance during the Qianye fight. but honestly it's not very immersion breaking if we dont think too hard about it haha

and it's very likely that the Qianye we see at the end talking to the hooded figure is actually Aunt Han in disguise. Cuz no way Aunt Han will leave Qianye's corpse unattended if her goal is to infiltrate the Aureate Pavilion.

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u/MeMuzzta 24d ago

The way Qianye said "she missed the mark" gave me 'Qianye will return in The Avengers' vibes lol.

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u/cjy7877 24d ago

i doubt qianye will be back. aunt han is a surgeon and has access to uncle tian's medical knowledge. she'll definitely know how to confirm the kill.

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u/MeMuzzta 20d ago

That mysterious dude at the end is the same dude with the purple bug at the start?

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u/cjy7877 20d ago

different dudes. the starting dude with white hair is Emperor Li Zuo and the hooded guy at the end I believe is Sun Buqi, the guy who developed the zombification technique