Tradition and Etiquette
A little more than 2000 years ago, the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang, concerned by assassination plots and treachery from his subjects and wildly consumed by his own mortality, commanded his people to set to work creating an 8000 strong army of terracotta warriors that would accompany him into the next world; this however, was far from his first attempt at ensuring eternal sovereignty. Some years before, emperor Qin had ordered alchemist Xufu to set out on an intrepid odyssey across exotic faraway lands in order to secure the Elixir of life– a sacred blade of enchanted grass that held the secret to immortality. Legend has it that Xufu began his journey with 3000 young virgin girls and boys who were to be sacrificed in exchange for the Elixir; together they journeyed for many months and eventually drifted upon a fertile island where the inhabitants…
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