In Korean folktales, stories often begin “back when tigers used to smoke.”
The phrase works like “once upon a time,” pointing to a distant, mythical past when the world was stranger and animals could behave like humans.
This image belongs to the Korean minhwa tradition, where tigers and magpies often appear together in humorous scenes. The tiger could represent authority, while the magpie often stood for ordinary people, turning folk art into a playful form of social satire.
@JaeBsoNasty It's easy to make something "balanced" when you smother all uniqueness with tacked on homogenizing universal mechanics.
And despite that pick rate for a large chunk of the roster are abysmal anyways.