Tomes of Magick: Land of Eight Million Dreams 

Adams little "uh oh" when he was called the leading correspondent on east Asia might be the funniest bit that's ever happened on the podcast.

I think Kubo and the Two Strings is probably the best western media representation of Japanese hsien

Scattered thoughts about the book: I do like the Hsien a lot, even though it's confusing how they're part of the Changeling line despite having nothing to do with Changelings in any way. I wish we had more detail about the Kiths (and a rabbit kith, so we could play moon rabbits) and what an average session looks like. The Yin and Yang worlds are a bit confusing too. Yin is just the Underworld, okay, gotcha. But the Yang world is the Middle Umbra *and* the Hight Umbra *and* the Dreaming all at once? And the Yomi hells are in between the Yin and Yang worlds? Too confusing. I rather like the fact the Hsien are firmly part of the Celestial Bureaucracy, reminds me of the Sidereal Exalted. I think one could tell a fun chronicle with the Hsien, Wu Lung and the Chinese mummies for example.

Given there was a lot of AD&D references, that got me thinking what if the Obyrith are the leftovers of Wyrm/entropy/Nephandi of WoD who sent their mental essence across the void between universes. creating the shard of ultimate evil and plunging the D&D multiverse into it's own slow death.

I gotta be real I got real confused I thought at first this was a podcast about being a legit mage and trying to ascend then you started talking about books and shit

You guys seem to be failing to think holistically about the worlds you're exploring lately. Belief in angels is so far removed from the spirituality interwoven into most eastern cultures that they are not remotely comparable. Much of the eastern nations still believe in and practices ancient forms of magic, like: literally, in real life. Take one look at how well Japan has done as a nation since abandoning war and living peacefully with their nature through Shinto teachings. Being brainwashed by the Lie of superstition is not an awareness of the forces that shape Concensus, so it makes perfect sense actually that these cultural paradigms would operate on entirely different structural foundation.