Dan Feng is Innocent | The Bloomborn Scion [Part Two] - The Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae

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Published 2024-02-20
Dan Feng is an infamous criminal whose actions had a lingering impact on the lives of the Xianzhou characters. What if I told you Dan Feng was set up by his enemies and framed for crimes he did not commit. This video is my interpretation of the events of the Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae. Mostly written during patch 1.6, but published during 2.0 with minor adjustments.

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Additional credits to my lore friends ❤️
- Stella: twitter.com/synonyms26
- Mari: twitter.com/Himeshxt
- Vuka: twitter.com/artofvuka
- Thotty: twitter.com/thotslain
- Ignis, Sei, Zhenjie, Alex, Xing, Nim
- Additional anonymous friends from discord

And thanks to Xueyi for exposing Shuhu ❤️

And the opposite of thanks to Taoran and Jingliu 🙂

Additional Reading:
Dragon Tree, Butterfly Dream, and Tang Theory
x.com/synonyms26/status/1750207758090297745?s=20
Identifying the Azure Dragon
x.com/synonyms26/status/1710695091554394486?s=20
Better Chang Hong info:
baike-baidu-com.translate.goog/item/碧血丹心/2116915?_…
Famitsu Interview Publication:
www.famitsu.com/news/202307/24310470.html

Sources:
Chang Hong info
min.news/en/culture/c18b3fb33549658ba8eb9a1cc0bee4…
Chang Hong info 2
baike.baidu.com/item/苌弘/486353
Famitsu Interview via 4Gamer
www.4gamer.net/games/599/G059954/20231226029/
Rahu and Ketu story
www.templepurohit.com/the-story-of-rahu-ketu-their…
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China excerpt
books.google.com.sg/books?id=sbJ5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA156…
Blade = Smiling Black Dragon info
imgur.com/a/ntudFHV
Belleau Explained
www.igenea.com/en/surnames/b/belleau
Baiheng Artifact
exoticjades.com/2016/02/16/楚之白衍-戰國玉衍l-13-2cm-w-2-8…

Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Shuhu Information
04:47 - Disciples of Sanctus Medicus History
06:24 - Shuhu's Name
08:21 - The Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae
13:31 - The Blood and Soul
17:31 - The Half-Draconic Abomination
20:46 - Jingliu
25:23 - Character Designs
29:30 - Arthurian Legends
30:30 - Ruan Mei Theory
33:51 - Outr

All Comments (19)
  • @LalodysLore
    Can't believe I forgot to mention that the Lu in Bailu's name means dew which is associated with Abundance. In Fables About the Stars, Black Swan describes Yaoshi as: "The tender sprouts will grow to the sky, and the dew that falls from their branches will rid you of sickness and poison." This is consistent with dew as a fruit of immortality as described in the Borisin Folk Song Collection's 'Duran's Pilgrimage to the Master of Immortality.' More hints from Hoyo that Bailu is the Bloomborn Scion and a product of Abundance's power. There's also the abundance mechanic of the Dewdrop in Simulated Universe. And I also forgot to mention she has an Eidolon called Ambrosial Aqua lmao.
  • The streets definitely need that Simulated universe: gold and gear lore breakdown. Great video and looking forward to what you have next up.
  • @redjellyfishs
    I'm still partial to Bailu's looks just because I think we don't have enough info yet to rule out possibilities. They could still pull something down the line that explains a connection. I don't believe Baiheng=Bailu but Bailu having Baiheng's dna mixed in the process of making her unintentionally is an angle I could see them going for. Despite the little amount that was left of Baiheng just to make the big reveal of her creation more messed up with the way they are side pushing Bailu into the HCQ story. Even with all I just said have to agree you have a point with the look alikes. Nothing to do with each other but looking alike helping further the misdirection and masking what actually happened. Either way they are playing the audience. I also want to thank you for adding the CN context that gets lost in translation. It really changes some povs. We end up missing these little details with no way for EN to be able to fully explain without footnotes. Looking forward to your next video would love to hear about the simulated universe more!
  • @flevflev9646
    What if Bailu will be the cherry on top for the xianzhou to notice how messed up the preceptors actually are… I really hope we get a new SU game mode about long specifically… Also I wonder if you have something planned for other characters like Yanqing or speculations about Huaiyan, actually I’m pretty interested in the heavy Yanqing and Jingliu parallels they’re setting up in the game (and in 2.1 there’s a very obvious one lol)
  • @atelalafford4794
    I think I have to watch this around 12 times to really gather my thoughts but it was a very succinct explanation on your thoughts around what happened! the underlying theme of the xianzhou story focusing on "being deceived" has juicy connotation for literally anything coming from the alliance down the way, and i'm eager to see how it's further expounded on through penacony as well. honestly when you brought up everything around dan feng's dragon I had to sit down lol. and i personally love the "jingliu sounds like she knows everything but is actually the most in the dark" hints, I hope they do more with her character later on. like i said though, gonna rewatch a few times now lolololol
  • @RenHengstuffs
    Good job, bro. I especially love the mini Ningguang you put next to Guizhong hahhahahah.
  • @nerdgrave
    Just wanted to make a quick comment of something I noticed when it came to Ruan Mei and Bailu- they interestingly enough- have similar colored eyes... so... perhaps that may mean nothing but... with Ruan Mei perhaps having something to do with her creation??? Mayhaps that may be... a teensy clue??? Lemme know if that interests any of ya'll! >:3c
  • @Lilackity
    This video explained so much about the Xianzhou Luofu storyline. But I'm still a little confused on what Dan Feng and Yingxing were actually doing at the arbor when they were framed. If they weren't trying to resurrect Baiheng or create a new Vidyathara High Elder, why were they using the flesh of Shushu? Is it possible that Dan Feng was trying to ascend to the power of Long? My current theory is that Dan Feng wanted to destroy the roots of the Ambrosial Arbor once and for all to stop deaths caused by wars of abundance, such as Baiheng's. Maybe he believed that this could only be done using the flesh of an emanator of abundance, and had Yingxing help him with Shushu's flesh. I'm not completely sure about that, but this video sold me on the idea that Dan Heng was framed. Also, love the theory that Ruan Mei played a role in creating Bailu. It makes a lot of sense considering her desire to create emanators and questionable experiments.
  • @isisv7
    I would love so much your video about the SU expansions, they are by far my favorite parts of lore in Star Rail, cause I love seeing the aeons messing up with everything on the side lines. Great video once again, thanks to that great deep dive on the xianxhou history, I wonder if we’re going to have a bigger picture on that the high cloud quintet after visiting the others ships
  • @vitalythemaster
    Interesting video! I'm mostly interested in Jingliu tho. How could she torture her former comrade without any actual evidence of his crime? She never saw him bringing Shuhu's flesh anywhere, but spoke about it with such a certainty. No one had a trial over Yingxing. From where did she get the idea of resurrecting Baiheng? She should have known Yingxing and Dan Feng well. How could she allow herself to be deceived so easily knowing about Shuhu's powers? And why did she apologise to the abomination?
  • Jesus, this Preceptors are bunch of sactamonius punks. 😭 This whole mess have so many layers than onions. Thank you for this amazing analysis!
  • @dearhnni
    i’m so curious on what will happen with bailu in the future
  • I really hope the preceptors get exposed for the crimes they very likely committed.
  • @hdono8542
    23:00 Sorry if I didn’t get it but Shuhu was where? At her fight with the abomination? At wat point did she feel core esse boiling.
  • @Rietto
    I don't think all the hints that Bailu and Baiheng are related are simply red herrings or coincidences; I mean it COULD be, but there's still too many unclear facts in this event that can be interpreted multiple ways to say one way or another. I really think the Sedition events will be revisited later, and hopefully clarified both for players and the remaining Quintet members themselves.
  • @AyumuTheTamer
    I do agree that Dan Feng did get framed… however I still think that Bailu is the reincarnated Baiheng. Bailu starts dreaming when she left the Astral express (during one of the character visits). I think that traveling or going through the stars may have triggered her past life memories… Kind of like when we’re where visiting Scalegourge Waterscape and Dan Heng started to recall some people in his past life… How Baiheng re-incarnated would have turned into Bailu is the thing that still perplexes me… considering how little DNA was left when her life ended…🤔
  • @brightlight8852
    A bit of criticism, I can buy some of with but when you got to the character design you were reaching and in doing so you didn't address the actual theory. The reason why people note the Bai in Bai Heng and Bailu is not just because just because they both share the Bai in their names. Dan Heng and Dan Feng also share the characters of Dan in their names as well. The differences in the bangs can be chalked up to the the fact that Bai Heng is in a 2d drawing while Bailu is a 3d model and one is older while Bailu is younger. The same holds true for Dan Heng and Dan Feng, the same hair and eye color but different hairstyle and horns (they actually have different horns). Also your excuses to say that they aren't alike just resulted in you coming across as reaching to the point where you started to discredit yourself. Because it's one thing for them to have an eye color, in common it's another for them to have hair color, name, and design motif in common one thing is an accident all of those things at once is intentional, and the fact that the only other two characters that are like this are reincarnations and that is the context of the similarities as they are related to that plotline makes your attempt to explain it away very weak. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. The preceptors could have easily have used the Abomination's remains to create Bailu. The abomination being Baiheng would still make Bailu Baiheng's reincarnation. As for why it failed like I said in the comment previous video the preceptors could easily have messed up the transmutation, hence why Dan Feng was so surprised it failed, because it shouldn't have, but Dan Feng would have been smart enough to realize that the preceptors had something to do with it and they had set him up. Nothing he said would have made them give up. The preceptors are very mum about what it is what Dan Feng actually did because of they bring it up then the other Vidyadhara elders would have their heads as like Dan Febg stated the array should have worked as it has worked countless times before, the only reason why it would fail would be if it was tampered with.