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− | The Blue Flame Clan | + | ''“Technologies have taught us how to manage vast assemblies of nonhumans... We have literally, not symbolically as before, to manage the planet we inhabit, and must now define a politics of things.”'' Bruno Latour, "On Technical Mediation" |
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+ | The Blue Flame Clan began as a splinter sect of the [[Shadows_of_Shen_Zhou:Blue Jade Ink Society|Blue Jade Ink Society]], a criminal organization that seeks to undermine the powerful who stray too far from Confucian principles. The founding members of the Blue Flame Clan came to view this as a futile mission, for one cannot expect the leaders of an unenlightened society to behave properly. The solution to this problem is to fight ignorance. Philosophically, the Blue Flame Clan trended more toward Daoism and held deeper reservations of legalism than its parent organization, as they believe we must increase our understanding of the world may we live in greater harmony with it. | ||
In its early years, the Blue Flame Clan pursued this by rediscovering lost knowledge, much of it destroyed by Ying Zheng, who destroyed a great deal of knowledge for the sake of expediency. This put them into conflict with other groups seeking ancient lore. One of their key rivals, the [[Shadows_of_Shen_Zhou:Falling Wren Society|Falling Wren Society]], viewed the Blue Flame Clan as criminal as the Blue Jade Ink Society. For their part, the Blue Flame Clan viewed the Falling Wren Society as being more interested in romanticized nostalgia than actually useful knowledge. | In its early years, the Blue Flame Clan pursued this by rediscovering lost knowledge, much of it destroyed by Ying Zheng, who destroyed a great deal of knowledge for the sake of expediency. This put them into conflict with other groups seeking ancient lore. One of their key rivals, the [[Shadows_of_Shen_Zhou:Falling Wren Society|Falling Wren Society]], viewed the Blue Flame Clan as criminal as the Blue Jade Ink Society. For their part, the Blue Flame Clan viewed the Falling Wren Society as being more interested in romanticized nostalgia than actually useful knowledge. | ||
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Other, less public branches of the clan are then deployed for espionage, acquisitions, and other shadowy operations. Though their anti-legalist tendencies prevent them from being truly cut-throat in the promotion of progress (at least thats what they tell themselves) | Other, less public branches of the clan are then deployed for espionage, acquisitions, and other shadowy operations. Though their anti-legalist tendencies prevent them from being truly cut-throat in the promotion of progress (at least thats what they tell themselves) | ||
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