{"id":100129,"date":"2023-12-12T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/?p=100129"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:59:09","slug":"notes-on-the-recent-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/?p=100129","title":{"rendered":"Notes on The Recent Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically we&#8217;ll be changing names, nothing on effects.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the initial posting of what we initially called &#8220;Bestowed&#8221; and &#8220;Brightfleet&#8221;, Eva, one of our main translators, thought long and hard about it, and cited she&#8217;d much more heavily reference the actual element of this theme:<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re literally Mahjong Tiles. And most of the theme&#8217;s playstyle is based on combo plays involving the winning hands involving the Dragon Tiles.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll be going with the following names:<\/p>\n<p>Tenpai Dragon Baidora<br \/>\nTenpai Dragon Fadora<br \/>\nTenpai Dragon Zhongdora<br \/>\nSangen Risedragon Bident Dragion<br \/>\nSangen Superdragon Trascend Dragion<br \/>\nBrimming Sangen Manor<br \/>\nSangen Kaimen<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">To Cite:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tenpai itself refers to basically being a Tile short of a winning hand. Think of it being Check without being in Checkmate. You&#8217;re there but not quite. The Japanese characters refers to a cup or chalice given by the Emperor as a Gift.<\/p>\n<p>Sangen refers collectively to the &#8220;Dragon Tiles&#8221;, or &#8220;The Three Foundation (Tiles)&#8221;. The Japanese here is basically a &#8220;An illusion of the light&#8221; like a Parhelion or Anthelion or a Mirage. But they&#8217;re specifically a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. For the Dragons:<\/p>\n<p>Baidora is the Baiba tile (&#8216;The White Slate&#8217;). Fadora is the Facai tile (&#8216;Green Abundance&#8217;). And Zhongdora is the Hongzhong tile (&#8216;Red Centre&#8217;). Together these are one of the key groups of Tiles in Mahjong, the Sangen as I noted above.<\/p>\n<p>Bident Dragion is the &#8220;Shousangen&#8221; hand, which is basically a smaller winning hand using the Dragon Tiles, utilizing two of the colors.<\/p>\n<p>Transcend Dragion is the &#8220;Daisangen&#8221; hand, which is the bigger winning hand using the Dragon Tiles, including all three.<\/p>\n<p>Brimming Sangen Manor refers to a Sangensou, i.e. A Mahjong Parlor. Any further usage of what Sakazuki Michiru is supposed mean eludes me but seems to be simply the Japanese idea of the &#8220;Cup Runneth Over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sangen Kaimen refers to Kaimen, in which the Dealer draws tiles based on the roll of the dice.<\/p>\n<p>Considering all these, it is much wiser to reference these cards directly as Mahjong references, especially since it&#8217;s meant to emulate Mahjong plays with these tiles.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Dora itself is a term in Mahjong referring to bonus tiles that add extra points to a scoring hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/learning-chinese-by-playing-mahjong-%E9%BA%BB%E5%B0%87-majiang\/\"><strong>Source 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riichi.wiki\/Jihai#Sangenpai\"><strong>Source 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mahjong-ny.com\/features\/terminology\/\"><strong>Source 3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_mahjong\"><strong>Source 4<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically we&#8217;ll be changing names, nothing on effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":100131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-lore","9":"category-looking-ahead"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.ygorganization.com\/2023\/12\/qYo9XJi.png?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100132,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100129\/revisions\/100132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ygorganization.com\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}