dangermousie | (no subject)

Was reading wikipedia articles on various real-life historical figures the protagonist runs into in The Myth and learned that one of them had a concubine who travelled everywhere with him, battlefield included, and then after a bad defeat one day performed a sword dance in front of him and then stabbed herself to death, so as not to distract him from war.

Ummmm.

I can see where wuxia stories get their inspiration for awesome insanity.

Seriously. All that historical stuff I was reading was like kdrama on LSD.