#nothing scarier than irl crimes against humanity and active genocide

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This quote:

The Wen Clan took the sun as their symbol to signify that they “contended with the sun in radiance and matched it in longevity”. Their seat was as vast as a city, and was named the “Nightless Heavens”; it was also sometimes called the “Nightless Capital.”

—Chapt. 17: Elegance VII, fanyiyi

...actually made it click for me just how many irl empires are associated with an un-setting sun. The Japanese Empire and it's "rising sun" flag. The saying of the world before the global liberation movements of the mid- to late-1900s: "The sun never sets on the British Empire." Very interesting parallels being made.