The majority of everything he says has Rome or Roma mentioned like a verbal tic.Originally Posted by AmADo VII
Turns out I was misremembering the moment of clarity. Thought he compared his spear to Rhongo, but I can't find it.
Welp fanon it is I guess, and thus Romulus is complete meme.
Think that's in Lartoria's interlude
tho he just hops in saying ROMA mainly
The last time Romulus was anything approaching serious was his challenge quest.
Sion's last name in FGO, Sokaris is actually an egyptian god
Nitocris during her chapter in Oshiete FGO! mentioned Nefertem, which ties into the flowers that Nefertari (Ozy's waifu) is always wearing
Also, the end of Requiem vol. 1 teases a character that may be one of the egyptian gods as a servant
So, with this and examples in the posts above, we have plenty of egyptian gods referenced, but yet to see one in person (which may change with Requiem if the theories are right)
is Egyptian myth complicating or hard to do research? seems like only Sakurai is bother doing the research.
It's clearly not in Nasu's focus, which is why it doesn't feel as noticeable as all the syncretism milking between Buddhism and other religions or Seiba love.
I also will give Nasu credit for his Hinduism knowledge, especially since LB4 hits all the greatest beats. My only problem is how he overshadows it with Mahayana syncretism. Syncretism IRL is just something that happens and isn't necessarily bad or good, but still, representing a good deal of the gods through Japanese forms is not my cup of tea.
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The Egyptians are probably best suited for pseudo-Servants, though, since there's a whole thing about Gods taking on a human as an Eye and living human lives, like with the pharaohs.
Same
Yeah, well, the profiles of the three pharaohs we have treats them as "children and incarnations" of the gods (Ozy=Ra, Nito=Horus and Cleo=Isis)The Egyptians are probably best suited for pseudo-Servants, though, since there's a whole thing about Gods taking on a human as an Eye and living human lives, like with the pharaohs.
what about Darius? almost no one remembers he is also a Pharaoh.
LOL, true, he and Iskandar were pharaohs, but I don't remember any mention in their profiles about it
I think we only got that one interlude that had Iskandar hanging out with the pharaoh crew
There's also the HERMES computers of Atlas.
Though Egypt wouldn't be immune from syncretism.
There's always the chance they go for Hermes Trismagestus at least.
I mean isn't there literally another system called TRISMEGISTUS?
Yeah that's Chaldea's version, apparently a copy of Atlas' Tri-Hermes.
So the names of those could hold some significance later, like how SHEBA did.
Iskandar was also rollable in the Pharaoh gacha, if that counts for anything.
It's syncretism if you can call people making things up syncretism. Hermes is a greek god, Hermes Trismegistos is identified with Thoth in hermeticism, because being a god once is not enough wank.
I think Nasu isn't touching Egypt anymore because of intersecting material. 'Materialization of Soul' is surprisingly cheeky of him as a central mystery to base Fate around, but then Sion in Melty creates the philosopher's stones, which concepually is the same thing.
Hermes Trismegistus did not come from nowhere, though, and wasn't just made up.
But a lot of stuff about him that is now considered common knowledge is obviously made up. And there is a big difference between a manuscript of confirmable age, containing a historian's creative interpretation of a people's myths which leads to inconsistencies with other accounts, and a bunch of gnostics spitballing about another gnostic who may or may not have written the christian fan fiction Hermetica (dating to 200~AD) so they feel less pathetic about their miserable material-obsessed lives, and have something to write books about and a base to extort money through in cultlike fashion, while actually referencing the original work as little as possible, because they can't actually read it, because 15th century words are hard.
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I mean syncretism because two people worshipped the same god called something else due to language barriers, or two gods becoming effectively the same because the people mingled and tried to make sense of each other, that's one thing. Syncretism because this guy called himself Hermes (as in, I am delivering knowledge to you, which makes me like Hermes) which DEFINITELY also means he is Thoth because the god of knowledge is Thoth, that's just pathetic. Step up.
First, Hermes Trismegistus isn't JUST Hermes and Thoth, but also is identified by Christian, Muslim, and I think Jewish sources with the prophet Idris/Enoch. Also, about those made up ideas, they do come from somewhere, and even if they can't be verified to any written manuscript, they still do have a basis in ancient Gnostic thought, as you said, and in fact, the whole character of Hermes was essentially a means to harmonize Hellenic philospophy with Abrahamic scripture, and his purported knowledge was used to find the "actual" truth of Scripture, whether that be the Koran (which I know a bit more about) or the Bible.
In any case, yeah, he's kind of a mess, but he made sense to those who followed "his" teachings.
Tri-Hermes is just Nasu's Magi supercomputer
Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
Which does make some sense.
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