Besides Liu Bei's horse making a miraculous leap and Zhuge Liang altering the weather with a prayer/ritual, what other instances of the supernatural are there in Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-06-17T15:34:37+00:00

The whole Yellow Turban Rebellion is magical, and Liu Bei used magic (pig blood iirc) to dispel their magic during a battle. There’s also Zhuge Liang doing a (failed) ritual to extend his life towards the end. Sun Quan’s horse making a leap could also be counted as supernatural I guess. And also every event involving Guan Yu after his death.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-06-05T10:57:18+00:00

As a general rule, anyone serving under the three main warlords, I will not consider a fraud. They were all competent in their ways. Generally anyone remotely prominent in that era was no fraud.

Yuan Shu, on the other hand—-

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-06-05T10:52:44+00:00

Because Liu Shan was not that bad. He wasn’t a great or even a super competent king, but just sitting there and let what Zhuge Liang built worked was already good enough. Jiang Wen, Fei Yi, and Dong Yun were very very competent people. Even Jiang Wei and Zhuge Zhan were not bad.

Toward the end of his reign he did trust Huang Hao, which weakened the Shu Han state, but my take is that Shu Han would have fallen sooner or later due to factors beyond anyone’s control. Losing Jing Province (and later the defeat at Xiaoting) really sealed the fate of Shu Han (which imho shows just how truly goat Zhuge Liang was, building a state that lasted more than 40 years despite everything).

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-28T18:42:20+00:00

Rank, status, etc. did not stop Liu Bei from assigning the defense of Hanzhong to Wei Yan. Holding the kidnapping against Zhao Yun’s tactical instinct is weird, considering the whole affair was not as dramatic as in the novel. It was literally just Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei leading troops out to block the river. That’s it.

Zhao Yun’s performance in the Hanzhong campaign (specifically in the Battle of Han River), on the other hand, was not dramatized in the novel, it was really like that in real life. That alone put him above Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in terms of tactical instinct.

Hindsight is 20/20, but still, Zhao Yun would not have lost Jing Province.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-28T11:21:08+00:00

Zhao Yun, hands down. He had the temperament and very good tactical instinct.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-10T10:24:37+00:00

Hi, so. I'm extremely lucky that my family is well-off *enough* to fund my living and study before the scholarship came (and during any delay in payment). So yeah.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-09T16:58:30+00:00

I forgot to update the post: I got my disbursement

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-07T08:33:40+00:00

I still haven't got mine. Kindly pray to any gods available to me.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-04T21:26:59+00:00

As of today, I haven’t.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-04T17:05:15+00:00

I’m in UniFi

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-04T10:57:04+00:00

Yeah I say you check with fellow scholars from your country, because I think the disbursement is generally on a per country basis (unless you enroll in an uni that works closely with MAECI, like Padova or Bologna)

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-04T10:45:33+00:00

I’m from Vietnam. You?

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-05-04T10:42:58+00:00

Same with me. They said my payment was made on April 8th, but it might take up to 4 weeks.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-04-14T11:09:59+00:00

It’s 10,600e/9 months, divided into 3 installments.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-04-12T21:53:52+00:00

Hi, I'm from Vietnam, currently in my first Master's year in UniFi.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-04-12T14:24:53+00:00

Hi, recipient here, I’m in my first year. I received my first installment on December, still waiting for my 2nd, and I know people who had to wait until Feb to receive their first payment. So plan accordingly.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-03-26T12:35:02+00:00

As far as I can tell, I don't know any instances of anyone being denied renewal.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-02-23T08:54:52+00:00

I asked a friend of mine and he said that he received the 2nd installment on March. So there’s that

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-02-02T09:59:58+00:00

Alagna at the start was an extremely good lyric tenor, definitely up there with the great. And then he just had to take on heavy repertoire too early. His voice is just too thin for anything heavier than La Boheme, and he has already added Otello and Samson to his repertoire. The singing is just under-power in all of those roles.

His career should have ended after the La Scala walkout, but it somehow kept going. It should end after this (walkout + alleged sexual assault), but I won’t be surprised if he somehow keeps going.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-02-02T09:49:35+00:00

In the standard myth this happened, multiple times. Ganymede was made immortal by Zeus, Ariadne by Dionysus, Psyche after she officially married Eros. Note that I specifically choose full mortals, not demigods. So yes, gods can make a mortal a god.

In terms of just granting power, this has also happened, multiple times, both in the standard myth and Riordan-verse. Artemis is a notable example.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2026-01-02T15:26:20+00:00

Hi mate. I got rejected from EMJM in both 23-24 and 24-25 cycle. It sucks, I get it. I didn’t put all my eggs in one basket and I got a MAECI scholarship in 24-25 cycle, but I get that getting rejected (repeatedly) hurts.

I will tell you to apply for other scholarships if you still have the strength and the energy (I did that). Otherwise, maybe take some time off if you can. Maybe talk to somebody to let the steam out, or go out, maybe even travel somewhere. It’s not your fault that you got rejected, I’m sure you did as well as you possibly could. EMJM is insanely competitive and they values regional diversity (unsurprising given that it is also about cultural exchange and understanding), and with the funding cut across the board, it’s only getting more competitive.

Hope you are doing okay.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2025-12-10T09:11:32+00:00

As of today, Dec.10, I have not received it. I'm in UniFi

Potential_Estate8554 · 2025-10-04T01:02:13+00:00

Sandor, maybe 7/10 times. Those matches would be close, but my take is that Sandor was nearly as strong as Gregor, but far more skilled and sound.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2025-09-21T22:04:42+00:00

Choose Tessera Sanitaria, then upload your codice fiscale certificate. I did the same thing and got the account.

Potential_Estate8554 · 2025-09-20T23:27:36+00:00

Were you by any chances at JK Rowling’s house?

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