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maximilianjenus
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This was a fun read, some random comments.
Well, babylonia says the the striptease happenned too, just before the anime.
As I am a fan of some mythical figures (sup siegfred, arthur ) one of the reasons I like fate is that it has the mythical figures without being a retelling of their famous tales; no moresword in the rock for artoria, no more illiad for achiles, etc... just new fresh stories with the charcters I have loved for years. If a new one is done that has quetzalcoatl, please talk too about the mesoamerican emperor in the year 950ish AC, the one who legend was about being an outsider who came from the other side of the ocean and eventualyl had to leave for either racism/being contrary to human sacrifice and made a prophecy about people from the other side of the ocean coming back to conquer mesoamerica. I find that very fitting to explain why quetz, is a blonde girl in babylonia as the outsider was most likely a viking who might still have been alive at the time of the vinland sagas. |
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killjoy_the
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Ain't this a spoiler? I don't remember it showing up in the anime yet. |
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The Scream Man
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Great read man! Hey, dont stop at Babylonia, you could do a series on explaining the basics of Fate characters and how they end up in the series!
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SilverTalon01
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I knew quite a bit of this stuff, but I didn't know about Kingu. I thought that was something FGO made up. Nice write up. I'm glad I checked it out.
It has. It is his chain thing that he uses in every single fight. Maybe you were expecting something different because Gilgamesh says "Enuma Elish" when he uses Ea? Enkidu may not shout his NP's name out every time he uses it, but it isn't like Saber isn't swinging around Excalibur until she shouts the name. |
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killjoy_the
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...Yeah it's not like naming your Noble Phantasm is a big thing in the Fate lore
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BlackHowling
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Great article, Steve! This was a fun and informative read.
For the editor: Can you please add a link to Part 2 at the bottom of Part 1's article and vice versa at the top of Part 2's article? I read Part 1 from the website's sidebar, but did not realize Part 2 was out until I discovered it on Twitter. |
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maximilianjenus
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Goign by satuyrday's episode this was a case of being "spoiled" because he already knew what was going on; kingu used enuma elishi as a NP attack in that episode; so someone already in the knowing would think that was a spoiler while someone who had not been spoiled yet would assume what you sadi, the noble phantasm is the weapon and there were no psoilers there. it's the clannad ED all over again. |
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kameoosama
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ehhhh, I wouldn't call it one since we're just talking about what Enkidu's NP is about in more general terms, not how it's used against spoiler[Actual Tiamat] or like how it has a different name if they use it against you as "Kingu" in certain boss fights. like if we were talking about Arash and they explained his NP "Stella" and why it's a suicide attack I wouldn't consider it a spoiler just because the Camelot anime isn't out yet. Now if we went into the big chant that only happens when Arash uses it in a key story scene spoiler[to stop Lartoria's beam from decimating one of the villages the Hassans are protecting] in Camelot then maybe i'd say maybe consider marking a spoiler. |
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maximilianjenus
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I know i have talked a few times about quetzalcoatl the viking, but yeah, being mexican that was easily accesible to me, but might not be so much to international audiences so I am putting the wiki link to that specific part of the quetzalcoatl legend there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ce_Acatl_Topiltzin |
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Vaisaga
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How can you talk about Fate's Quetz without mentioning that she's a bacterial parasyte that came to earth on the meteor that killed the dinosaurs? Merlin's infamous futa moment too.
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