conceivably the publication of Fate/Stay Night (2004), a popular visual novel back in the day (in which you can see nasu's first prototype of shirou taking shape), might have had something to do with it
conceivably the publication of Fate/Stay Night (2004), a popular visual novel back in the day (in which you can see nasu's first prototype of shirou taking shape), might have had something to do with it
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
In the original novel that kind of thing did not happen, of course, from time to time Fujimura made a joke because Shirou lived with many beautiful women, but only advances and romantic things happened with the heroine of the route, that kind of thing did not begin to happen until Hollow Ataraxia and even then not to the same extent as the current ones.
Reminds me, if Ragnarok, the time when the Norse gods died, occurred around 1,000 BC, then how are ones like Odin and the like still doing things after that? And how is it that they aren't primarily worshipped till around 2,000 years later? Were the transmissions from Valhalla slow like that one episode of Futuruma? Or did they reincarnate like some versions of Ragnarok imply despite not really matching up with history? And if they did die around 1,000 BC, who worshipped them exactly? The earliest I can find for when Odin was worshipped is around 200 BC but he should've already been dead by then.
They could simply have been worshipped at that time before, and the cults were simply passed on without modern historians not knowing about it. At this point in the number of justifications regarding the Age of Gods's discrepancies with the not-so-accurate dates of our history. You should know by now that what we record in history is not always what actually happened during that time. Orlean's section 2, or the very mentions of Tiamat in Babylon about it being "different from what is recorded historically", by instance. It's just a generalized excuse to justify this kind of thing.
And, they could still interfere with things by human faith yet, that's the whole stuff about Divine Spirits still being able to act during AoG's final years before man's civilization was fully established in the primacy. At the beginning of Babylon, by instance, Da Vinci already says that at the time they're in, Gods are already absent figures in interfering directly with the world on their own. But the worships and faith placed upon them, still allowed interference in smaller scales.
Divine Spirits still exist thanks to the belief of the people, and besides, we know so little about the history of Norse religion/Germanic paganism IRL that there is a ton of wiggle room for Type Moon. That does not excuse Scathach-Skadi, though...
I'm curious. Did Fate/Zero mention how the Hassan sacrificed to Gilgamesh was chosen among Hundred Face's? Did purple hair just decide to send Zayd because fuck Zayd
I don't have much trouble with most of the liberties they take with the Norse, mostly just find it confusing in how Ragnarok occurs about 2,000 years before the major sect that worships those gods arises. Did Ragnarok just destroy the texture of the Norse gods then, and that's what it means by them 'dying'? It does make some sense.
I remember Da Vinci mentioning how the Norse stuff was largely a mystery still to mages, so it really annoys me when we have the likes of Scathach-Skadi who could give some answers on the matter but doesn't seem to even when we summon her.
Oh, oh, I actually know this one. Basically, among the various personas, many possessed unique skills and abilities not shared by the others, Zayd did not, so he was basically considered the most expendable as all his abilities could be duplicated by one of the others.
Or wherever the Throne of Gods might be. I mean, Pa human Zeus also interacts with Europa, at least according to her, and is watching Chaldea.
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I'm pretty sure Ragnarok is the mechanism by which the Norse texture was destroyed to make way for the new texture, and the gods' physical bodies were destroyed in the process, leading to their remaining as Divine Spirits up to the Viking Era. It's also worth noting that these gods were worshipped in various forms across the region since potentially Neolithic times, so to say they were destroyed before they were majorly worshipped seems a bit off to me.
Also, my annoyance with Scathach-Skadi is that she is clearly based off pseudo-comparative mythology bullshit from the '70s.
The idea that humans couldn't have continued to worship gods after they died/disappeared/whatever after the AoG is dumb and moot, with the main piece of counterargument being: real life.
There's no reason why Nasuverse humans would just go "nope the gods obviously fucked off we're not gonna worship shit".
Sounds like his unique skill was being expendable.
Do we know where the last place the AoG remained was? If islands retained it longer than other places, wouldn't somewhere like New Zealand be the final place? From what I remember, the AoG was still active in Japan till around 1,000 AD but New Zealand wasn't even settled till over 200 years later.
And do we know if Antarctica had an AoG? I can't imagine it did since there were no humans but we don't know what it might have been like back then and there was certainly a lot of mystery that surrounded it till the late 1900's, with a lot of old stories from back then having it as some mystical land. Has anything been said on the matter?
As far as we know Britain and/or Japan should be the last ones to leave the AoG, but we obviously haven't had every part of the world explored so we can't say for sure. But I think you're a bit too hung up on the presence of humans, and faultily so. Whether there are humans there are not doesn't matter for the AoG, that's why it's the age of gods in the first place. You could argue that a human presence is necessary for the AoG to decline later on, but at the same time I see it happening across the entire world as a sort of chain reaction, if nothing else then because of the decline of mystery and true ether, it just happens at different speeds.