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[castor212]

but he jobs more with gae bolg

[Trubo]

Cu Chulain is a noob without Gae Bolg

But, that running form

[SpoonyViking]

The Einzberns could probably do it, [...]

They can. They did exactly that in "Apocrypha".
Why Manaka, though?

[Iceblade44]

Because the world's her bitch

[fumei]

Gil has appreciable sword skills, this is the canon, your arguments are invalid.

He also has the original rubber spine.

That's no FGO opening I ever heard

[Arashi_Leonhart]

They can. They did exactly that in "Apocrypha".

that's a christian hero

[SpoonyViking]

that's a christian hero

True, but I doubt he's classified as a Western hero by the Grail.

[You]

True, but I doubt he's classified as a Western hero by the Grail.

Q: Even though the setting is Japan, why are there so few Japanese Heroic Spirits? Is it because the Holy Grail is a Western (Christian) concept?
A: Exactly.

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[Criarino]

I was playing tsukihime again and came after a certain question:
with or without glasses?

[R.Lock]

I was playing tsukihime again and came after a certain question:
with or without glasses?

Yes.

[Rafflesiac]

Senpai isn't Senpai without her glasses!

[SpoonyViking]

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Huh. I stand corrected, then.

[RoydGolden]

Kind of odd though since the Holy Grail isn't the literal holy grail of Christianity, just a wish-granting device with the name slapped on. Surely other culture's mythologies have the concept of a wish-granting something-or-other?

[Iceblade44]

Kind of odd though since the Holy Grail isn't the literal holy grail of Christianity, just a wish-granting device with the name slapped on. Surely other culture's mythologies have the concept of a wish-granting something-or-other?

It's not the real Holy Grail yeah, but it's borrowing it's concept. That's why it's called the Holy Grail. Thus those limitations was built in like only Western Servants or that Rulers must be Saints.

[8000]

What was the point of that limitation though? Fear of overzealous buddhist Servants?

[You]

Kind of odd though since the Holy Grail isn't the literal holy grail of Christianity, just a wish-granting device with the name slapped on. Surely other culture's mythologies have the concept of a wish-granting something-or-other?

True but you're forgetting who made the grail

(TM Ace 4)
奈須：「エクストラ」の聖杯戦争には、東洋の英雄がサーヴァントとして召喚されています。禁じ手、解禁です 。
――本当ですか！？　イレギュラーな存在は、アサシンの佐々木小次郎だけだったはずでは……？
奈 須：「Fate/stay night」の聖杯戦争における召喚システムは、西洋の魔術世界でつくられたものだから、西洋の英霊しか召 喚できないようになっているんです。でも、「エ クストラ」は世界そのものがイレギュラーだし、聖杯戦争のシステム自体がこれまでとは異なるので、東洋の英 霊もアリにしようということになりました。
Nasu: In EXTRA's Grail War, Eastern heroes can be summoned as Servants. The ban is removed.
----Really?! Wasn't Assassin Sasaki Kojirou the only irregular existence...?
Nasu: The summoning system of Fate/stay night's Grail War was created in the world of Western magi, so it can only summon Western heroic spirits. But EXTRA's world itself is irregular, and the Grail War system is different from the previous ones, so Eastern heroic spirits are possible too.

If western magi like the Einzbern made a western grail using western magecraft then its going to summon......

[SpoonyViking]

Wait, wait, I know this, don't answer! Uh... Indo-European heroes? :-P

[Arashi_Leonhart]

It probably also helped that Nagato was a Kakure Christian and Zouken at that time probably would've bent over for Justeaze

[Iceblade44]

Zouken's a Russian, he'd be fine with a Western motif

[forumghost]

Wait, wait, I know this, don't answer! Uh... Indo-European heroes? :-P

No, the answer is Persian Demons silly.