The Ravages of Time

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Synonyms: Huǒ Fèng Liáo Yuán

Japanese: 火鳳燎原

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Type: Manhua

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Jun 15, 2001 to ?

Genres: Action, Adventure

Themes: Historical, Military

Serialization: None

Authors: Chan, Mou (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.18¹ (scored by 2,100 users)

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Ranked: #489²

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Popularity: #1303

Members: 16,956

Favorites: 486

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ManhuaChan, Mou (Story & Art)

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The Ravages of Time is an adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, showing the fortunes of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, the Sun family, and the Sima family. The Simas are a successful and rich merchant family, led by the young Sima Yi, who has shown a flair for spotting profitable business venture ever since a young age. The Sima family, however, possesses a sinister side as they command the Handicapped Warriors, a group of mercenary assassins reputed to be infallible.

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Jun 7, 2023

ptsun-thu

Recommended

Preliminary (586/? eps)

I'm a fan of Kingdom (manga) and one day I saw many people on Facebook community recommended The Ravages of Time for those who love history and war, so then I checked it on google and you know what?.... Im just speechless, cuz this series, really goes beyond the word " to criticize".
It's the absolute masterpiece. The series is not simply about heroes fighting, about tactics or plans, but also goes much deeper and more complicated. The horror of intrigue, the dark and bright sides of war, the philosophical Confucian thoughts, human nature, and notions that are contrary to what we see in peacetime ...

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Dec 27, 2022

Allslsl

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Preliminary (578/? eps)

As a story, The Ravages of Time has greatly succeeded at three things:

1. Make a strategist-type character without making the rest of the casts seem like a complete buffoon.
2. Create a world where characters are allowed to lie and deceit each other, naturally causing a complex world
3. Keeping the moment-to-moment story stay interesting without a drastic downtime between every climaxes.

To explain:

1. Make a strategist-type character without making the rest of the casts seem like a complete buffoon.
This is something that plenty of war stories, even a widely beloved classic like Legend ... of the Galactic Heroes, seem like they can't help but fall into, where the story has a clear-cut line separating the casts between competent people that actually know what they're doing, therefore labelled as strategist vs the other commanders, whose only tactic is to charge over and over again and fall for what's clearly a trap. I get that someone needs to lose so that the strategist can show off their brilliance, but if you're hoping this other commander to actually become an intimidating presence your protagonist needs to watch out for, then you have a big problem, because at some point you need to sit down and think about how many men did he lost for nothing and why he's still given a command of an entire army despite of that.

2. Create a world where characters are allowed to lie and deceit each other, naturally causing a complex world
Now, why is it so great that characters can lie at one another? Well, lies don't come from nothing. There is an intention behind it, a motivation to do or get something, and no matter what that thing is it can cause a conflict, and conflict by nature can create an interesting story. As an adaptation of the Three Kingdoms, TRoT is a political story where every major casts are trying to not just survive but thrive on the chaos that ravage the land, each with their own goals and ambition, including but not limited to: killing all your brothers to become the sole inheritor of your father's land; saving the child emperor and rescue the crumbling Han dynasty from its seemingly inevitable collapse; and massacring villages and cities and end the ongoing chaos with a swift and brutal conquest.

3. Keeping the moment-to-moment story stay interesting without a drastic downtime between every climaxes.
Something that many stories almost can't help but fail at at least once or twice is keeping the moment-to-moment events to stay engaging without a huge down time between each climax, which I often feel keep happening in war stories because there's a need to build up too much exposition so that the next battles are set up properly, especially when the enemy is a completely new cast of characters. The Ravages of Time solve this by relying on two things behind-the-scenes politic and multiple main casts. By using behind-the-scenes politic, TRoT has basically created a 24/7 conflict that allow players from all levels of status and profession to fight one another through words, coercion, and small-scale violence, resulting an endless conflict that progress naturally to the decisive battle that serve as one of the climaxes amongst many others we'll see until the story ends. Meanwhile, multiple main casts allow the story to flow naturally between each event, very beneficial especially around after chapter 30 where the line between friends and starts to blur.

Overall, easy 9/10 at least. I believe that this series will be one of the big classic people will remember in the future, an excellent example of a huge and complex story.

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Jan 22, 2021

Knnotek

Recommended

Preliminary (546/? eps)

Okay I will readily admit that this story has it's flaws, but its peak it is the best manga I have ever read. Chen Mou has to find his story, the beginning is god awful I won't lie to you, but that changes, there is a whole damn genre change. I was suggested this 2 years ago, i didn't get past the 5th chapter, i was suggested it again and i dropped around the same place, but the third time I got to the razing of Loyang and holy shit it's incredible.

It's a hard read, you have to remember so many characters and there relations. ...

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