Oh, but once the world-building's done the rest is pretty easy! I'm bad at that part, though. *g*
I do wonder if Mai wouldn't just end up putting all the royal ornaments in storage and making her own as necessary -- which would probably boil down to a specially-engraved topknot crown thing, and a scarf embroidered to protect against spirits.
. . . she'd probably not sleep in the official Fire Lord bedchamber, either. If they managed to invade her dreams anyway, she at least wouldn't be surrounded by all their stuff.
So yes, haunted artifacts are going to be the best thing -- except possibly for haunted places, because I've had it in my head for a long time that the Dai Li and the Earth Kingdom royal family are the embodiment of Ba Sing Se's spiritual essence. And the reason why Ba Sing Se isn't completely overwhelmed by spirits is because the Dai Li scare off the small ones and deal with the big ones. (It's also a nice explanation for why the Dai Li all have the same general face-shape. When you join, they take you up to the palace, knock you out, and stick you in a stone room for a few hours so you can commune with the city and commit to becoming one with it and stuff like that, and when you wake up you put on your uniform and are suddenly unrecognizable to anyone outside the Dai Li.)
He and Iroh were probably in Ba Sing Se or somewhere, and then he got a message from Mai saying You two, STAY HIDDEN. Your relatives have just been assassinated. DON'T COME BACK HERE YOURSELVES. We don't know who killed them, and we're too busy to find out -- if you want to help, send things and people who can deal with spirits, preferably by way of the Bei Fongs. And then there's talk of a cease-fire, and rumours that the Fire Nation troops are withdrawing.
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I do wonder if Mai wouldn't just end up putting all the royal ornaments in storage and making her own as necessary -- which would probably boil down to a specially-engraved topknot crown thing, and a scarf embroidered to protect against spirits.
. . . she'd probably not sleep in the official Fire Lord bedchamber, either. If they managed to invade her dreams anyway, she at least wouldn't be surrounded by all their stuff.
So yes, haunted artifacts are going to be the best thing -- except possibly for haunted places, because I've had it in my head for a long time that the Dai Li and the Earth Kingdom royal family are the embodiment of Ba Sing Se's spiritual essence. And the reason why Ba Sing Se isn't completely overwhelmed by spirits is because the Dai Li scare off the small ones and deal with the big ones. (It's also a nice explanation for why the Dai Li all have the same general face-shape. When you join, they take you up to the palace, knock you out, and stick you in a stone room for a few hours so you can commune with the city and commit to becoming one with it and stuff like that, and when you wake up you put on your uniform and are suddenly unrecognizable to anyone outside the Dai Li.)
He and Iroh were probably in Ba Sing Se or somewhere, and then he got a message from Mai saying You two, STAY HIDDEN. Your relatives have just been assassinated. DON'T COME BACK HERE YOURSELVES. We don't know who killed them, and we're too busy to find out -- if you want to help, send things and people who can deal with spirits, preferably by way of the Bei Fongs. And then there's talk of a cease-fire, and rumours that the Fire Nation troops are withdrawing.