The Untamed Meme... Day 5
5. Favorite sect or clan
All of the sects have their spectacularly dodgy, dishonest, distasteful and dislikeable sides, let's be honest - Society and the Powers That Be being dodgy, dishonest, distasteful and dislikeable is part of what the whole story is about after all. I am not, of course, trying to work out which would suit me best because the answer is, as always, I wouldn't survive them and, were I a character and therefore had the sort of magic called cultivation in canon, they would probably not survive me.
There are five Great Sects and an uncertain number of minor to very minor ones, and from the show we learn very little about the latter except that the two whose leaders actually have parts to play, play them as complete and utter toads. Of the Great Sects (who also have their share of toads, and snakes, and scorpions, and loathsome venomous worms, and you get the idea) I think it's a toss-up between the Lans...
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(...calm, quiet, and oh so beautiful, both the people and the setting, and the way they use music is just my sort of magical jam, but oh those thousands of rules!!!! I have a horrible feeling that one of them is "You Cannot Be A Lan If You Have No Memory Because Look At What We Will Make You Memorise.") and the Nies...
(...they sound like the best to live with per se, at least if you are an artistic, even effete but also thoroughly indulged sort and yes I am looking straight at you Nie Huaisang. Also there are none of the characters whose faces I want someone to squash. On the other hand, their sabres are a definite minus for me, given that they umm, KILL you while you are using them to kill other folk. That really takes the fun out of fantasy war, y'know).
I wonder if there's a nice little minor sect that no one mentions because they are all actually nice people? Probably... and they're probably all dead too. Not that that stops everyone in this world...