>>40376246Thank you for reading!
I had been toying around with the idea of writing how it feels to be on the receiving end of /vnug/’s magic since the first chapter but I figured it’s better to do it here since Borasmor’s magic would be more intense after… certain things happened. Since I didn’t know a thing about warfare before I started writing here I did some reps on how it should generally go, and /vnug/ having a pronounced mud season (or two since there would also be a thawing season) sounds like an interesting idea so I threw that in. I can’t find a lot of records for the right period though so I don’t know how much of what I wrote would actually make sense for them
The herbal towel’s also inspired by what I read about mitigating the effect of inhaling gas in battle although I decided to make the exact effect of the herb ambiguous here. How the soldiers interpret it would depend a lot on whether they trust the native soldier – what he did might help them against the attackers, but he might also be sabotaging them by making them more vulnerable
For han, I first found it when I was doing my reps for /vnug/ chuubanite’s core concept as V&U doesn’t really have a clear identity itself, and manipulating emotion and perception sounds cool! Back then I asked the thread about whether it would also be /kr/ chuubanite’s concept but we never reached a consensus on that. It also troubles me a bit that nowadays people are not so sure if han is an integral part of Korean culture or just a colonial construct. Would it be racist to assume the former? I don’t want to be too racist towards my oshi (V&U getting a non-Korean vtuber since then also threw a wrench into the whole idea)
the mechanism holding the fiddle’s bow isn’t actually due to it being used as a weaponThe flint and steel were used to gauge the rough concentration of active chuubanite still in the air since it’s established that one sign of /vnug/ magic being active is fire being tinted blue, so the sparks turning from blue back to yellow before they disappear showed that the chuubanite in the air there has been mostly depleted and thus it’s time to retreat. I also leave enough clues in my writing to show that the chuubanite concentration isn’t truly natural, and a magical attack like what she unleashed has to be prepared beforehand even when used by someone as powerful as Borasmor
the gray aesthetics of depleted chuubanite clothes also matches the other spoiler well 