Thread:Per Ankh/@comment-30644608-20170225114637/@comment-24588058-20170301034659

Alright, I've tried to do some research on first playing cards in China. They are linked to Chinese Princess Tongchang (as I mentioned above), and when I make the artifact, I would place her as the originator. Unfortunately, I can't find much reference to her. The only page on Wikipedia is written in Chinese, and when I tried to translate it it just looks strangely written. That might be because I am using an online translator; I know they tend to do direct translation as opposed to proper translation, but at the same time it seems very opinionated rather than factual.

The only English thing I found on Wikipedia was on her father's page: "Princess Tongchang died in 870, and this caused a major display of Emperor Yizong's caprice at the capital Chang'an, as Emperor Yizong, in anger that the imperial physicians were not able to cure her, executed some 20 imperial physicians and had some 300 of their relatives imprisoned."

I also found out an interesting thing: Emperor Yizong of Tang (her father) got critically ill later that year (and died) after receiving a gift to the palace: a finger bone claimed to be from Gautama Buddha. His grandfather also died after receiving the same gift into the palace. Do you think this could possibly be an artifact?