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It looks pretty good to me. It's speculation, but upon reading your note about Lung Li Po, and that "Li" refers to Plum. At several points in Throne Of Jade, several small purple dragons are seen throughout China, so you could assume that these are the "Plum" dragons. We could add it as a point of speculation. | It looks pretty good to me. It's speculation, but upon reading your note about Lung Li Po, and that "Li" refers to Plum. At several points in Throne Of Jade, several small purple dragons are seen throughout China, so you could assume that these are the "Plum" dragons. We could add it as a point of speculation. | ||
| − | :Just thought I'd add this here; it was removed from the main page a while back; | + | :Just thought I'd add this here; it was removed from the main page a while back; "Xian - 1) immortal; 2) to fly; 3) in advance, first (suitable for a Celestial born of two Imperial parents, who might be expected to sire a line of Celestials)" |
| − | Xian - 1) immortal; 2) to fly; 3) in advance, first (suitable for a Celestial born of two Imperial parents, who might be expected to sire a line of Celestials) | + | |
| + | ::While that list isn't wrong per se, it's sadly inadequate to deal with the horrors of toneless translitertion. At least the spelling limits it to pinyin instead of Wade-Giles, but each of the four single-character tonal variations linked from [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xian Wiktionary's ''Xian'' entry] still has about fifty different possibilities. (Conversely, Zhongwen doesn't list any single-character options for ''xian'' at all, but their vocabulary database may be more limited for historical reasons.) Also, "3)" is somewhat based on the identifying [[Lung Tien Xian]] as "Grandfather", rather than one of his female descendants who might've had one Celestial parent to start with. --[[User:Wombat1138|Wombat1138]] 07:51, 17 August 2010 (PDT) | ||
Revision as of 14:51, 17 August 2010
Speculations
I'm not sure whether to delete the speculative name readings or to add more... for example, it's possible that Lien's name is based on 蓮 ("lotus"; Pinyin lián, Wade-Giles lien2), but without confirmation from NN there's no way to know. --Wombat1138 15:52, 10 August 2010 (PDT)
Should we add Qin, Shen and Yu to this (used for Imperial, "Spiritual" and Jade, respectively)? -Almaron
- Added. I'm not really happy with the format of my additions, but I don't have the patience at the moment to come up with a more elegant/compact table, esp. in some way that indicates most of the probable entries' speculative and unofficial nature. --Wombat1138 18:52, 11 August 2010 (PDT)
It looks pretty good to me. It's speculation, but upon reading your note about Lung Li Po, and that "Li" refers to Plum. At several points in Throne Of Jade, several small purple dragons are seen throughout China, so you could assume that these are the "Plum" dragons. We could add it as a point of speculation.
- Just thought I'd add this here; it was removed from the main page a while back; "Xian - 1) immortal; 2) to fly; 3) in advance, first (suitable for a Celestial born of two Imperial parents, who might be expected to sire a line of Celestials)"
- While that list isn't wrong per se, it's sadly inadequate to deal with the horrors of toneless translitertion. At least the spelling limits it to pinyin instead of Wade-Giles, but each of the four single-character tonal variations linked from Wiktionary's Xian entry still has about fifty different possibilities. (Conversely, Zhongwen doesn't list any single-character options for xian at all, but their vocabulary database may be more limited for historical reasons.) Also, "3)" is somewhat based on the identifying Lung Tien Xian as "Grandfather", rather than one of his female descendants who might've had one Celestial parent to start with. --Wombat1138 07:51, 17 August 2010 (PDT)
