Jingyi brought himself out of the handstands as well when Hanguang-jun came down and moved into lotus pose. It doesn't take much to go through similarly smooth motions, then he's settled and rolling his shoulders back as his chest comes forward, and he settles into a breathing pattern, putting words in a semblance of order in his head.

"You can, in the main bloodlines, and in some of the branches. Depends if people were marrying in those with similar or I don't know, enhancing colours. Like the Jiang marrying more warm tones, reds or blues, over the years, and you strengthen the purples that way, or add in dark tones or really light ones. You'd only know when someone's in dragon form, you can never tell when we're human."

In fact it was part of the point. Human wise, none of them were differentiated in anything but the normal human ways, which were by and large far less dramatic than their draconic counterparts.

"Mmm, they're not cultivation styles, they're... elemental affiliations. You have five of them, that's divided five ways, and you're maybe at most equally good with all five, and equally weak, yeah? 'Cause your qi feeds all of them, even when you're not using four elements. And it's different from a charm or talisman or lighting a fire like that, this is something... about your spiritual energy, it's something that calls to and responds to you without needing seals, once you know it well enough."