As someone who loved the games - especially IV - I have no idea what you’re talking about. Why is there a podcast? I just thought it was a game series.
When Liu An received Liu Bei, he offered Bei a meal and Bei gladly accepted. Finding that he had no meat, however, Liu An killed his wife and used meat from her body to prepare Liu Bei a meal. When Bei left later, he found the body with a section carved out and was deeply moved by Liu An’s actions, realizing what had been done.
When he rejoined Cao Cao, he told him of what happened, and Cao Cao too was moved by the story of Liu An’s actions. Cao Cao sent money to compensate Liu An for his wife.
Does the precious ornate dagger that Cao Cao loaned to (hilariously fail to) kill Dong Zhuo ever come up again ?
It doesn't really get commented on but I'd imagine the people he borrowed it from and to whom he swore he would kill the tyrant must have felt pretty raw about the whole thing. Seems it was sweeped because bigger things immediately starts unfolding (and Cao Cao murders a whole farm full of servants and a friend of his father because of a mild paranoid rage which is of course held as not morally great but not all that important in the grand scheme of things. Being a commoner in ancient China sounds rough).
The whole botched backstab incident is probably apocryphal... The farm massacre however maybe happened (with an alternative motivation of being robbed by the people there).
Does the precious ornate dagger that Cao Cao loaned to (hilariously fail to) kill Dong Zhuo ever come up again ?
It doesn't really get commented on but I'd imagine the people he borrowed it from and to whom he swore he would kill the tyrant must have felt pretty raw about the whole thing. Seems it was sweeped because bigger things immediately starts unfolding (and Cao Cao murders a whole farm full of servants and a friend of his father because of a mild paranoid rage which is of course held as not morally great but not all that important in the grand scheme of things. Being a commoner in ancient China sounds rough).
The whole botched backstab incident is probably apocryphal... The farm massacre however maybe happened (with an alternative motivation of being robbed by the people there).
DW8's Wei path opens up with the failed assassination attempt. The dagger looks pretty normal tho.
Does the precious ornate dagger that Cao Cao loaned to (hilariously fail to) kill Dong Zhuo ever come up again ?
It doesn't really get commented on but I'd imagine the people he borrowed it from and to whom he swore he would kill the tyrant must have felt pretty raw about the whole thing. Seems it was sweeped because bigger things immediately starts unfolding (and Cao Cao murders a whole farm full of servants and a friend of his father because of a mild paranoid rage which is of course held as not morally great but not all that important in the grand scheme of things. Being a commoner in ancient China sounds rough).
The whole botched backstab incident is probably apocryphal... The farm massacre however maybe happened (with an alternative motivation of being robbed by the people there).
DW8's Wei path opens up with the failed assassination attempt. The dagger looks pretty normal tho.
It's mentioned in the Romance that it is the "Seven Stars Dagger" he borrowed specifically from fellow conspirator Wang Yun, seemingly he needed a special one to play up the gift offering pretext (that he only ends up using after getting caught in flagrante) though there's maybe some symbolic significance. He's really specific he wants to borrow this one.
That's just a detail and the book doesn't care much for those sort of flourishes beyond their immediate use. Even the imperial seal, which is a recurring thing and a much more important object, only gets mentioned when directly relevant. There's no comment -apparently ?- about why it was tied to a dead body at the bottom of a wheel or why it was OK for General Sun Jian and his heirs to swipe and keep it for a number of years instead of returning it to the emperor that they all swear they serve at every opportunity.