燃晚 ranwan

• lit. "to ignite the night"
• 天间墨色降微雨，怜生楚客道晚宁 / the sky darkens to the colour of ink and a gentle rain falls; have compassion for the drifting wanderers and wish them a night of peace
  • i believe the fandom came up with this? the names used here are 墨微雨 mo weiyu and 楚晚宁 chu wanning (i've bolded the relevant characters)

墨燃墨微雨 Mo Ran, Mo Weiyu

• 墨 mo
  • n. ink; paintings, calligraphed scrolls, letters
  • n. learning, literacy (ironically)
  • adj. black or a shade close to black
  • can also refer to 墨刑, which is the lightest of the five feudal punishments of ancient china (up until the han dynasty i believe). it involved tattooing characters onto a criminal's face and colouring them in with black ink
• 燃 ran
  • v. to ignite, to burn, to spark, to light
• 微雨 weiyu
  • n. a gentle, light rain. it's used to refer specifically to when rain turns the world hazy and blurred (look up videos of rainy days in jiangnan and you'll know what i mean. interestingly enough, cwn is meant to come from hangzhou or somewhere around there)

楚晚宁 Chu Wanning

• 楚 chu
  • the only connection i can think of for his surname is that his weapons are all named after poems by 屈原 qu yuan, and these poems all happen to be in the collection 《楚辞》 / the songs of chu
• 晚宁 wanning
  • 晚 wan (n. night) + 宁 ning (n. peace)
  • 时清纵未经筵召，岁晚宁无掌故来。 / this era is calm and well-regulated, though i have not been conscripted to become an official; my years are declining—are there none who will come to speak with me of anecdotes and?
    • from a poem by northern song poet 刘克庄 liu kezhuang. he basically meditates on the passing down of learning and knowledge, specifically his deep concern for the continuation of classical texts, as well as the selection of talented people

"if no one worships me, I'll worship myself!"

i love him, xie lian is peak adhd, whimsical and sassy! ppl always talk about hua cheng and the depths to his character but xie lian is also very well written and fascinating