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[TTMACHINETT]

I might be wrong but is entomancy exists in the Nasuverse? and if so how it works?

[Comun]

Yes, and it's mainly used by Matou Zouken. Watch Heaven's Feel to see it in action.

[TTMACHINETT]

Yes, and it's mainly used by Matou Zouken. Watch Heaven's Feel to see it in action.

Ah you mean the Crest thing? Wouldn't those insects also counts as familiars? (also thx)

[Rafflesiac]

Can't forget BEES, THE BEES from Zero.

[JusticeAmongSwords]

Can't forget BEES, THE BEES from Zero.

You're giving me huge Fallout New Vegas flashbacks with that statement. Goddamn bees man.

[NMR-3]

What protections could reasonably be expected around a magus' manor? A Bounded Field to tip off the owner to intruders, I presume, but would there necessarily be other barriers or special security measures?

[Rafflesiac]

Depends on their magecraft.

Could be familiars, could be automata, could be curses, could be otherworlds, could be traps, could be a lot of things.

[eddyak]

Demons & other otherworldly creatures, undead, spirits, reality shifting, fairies/elementals/similar, poisonous mana in the air, regular poisons, a magical area that lends its owner all the advantages in a fight, pseudo Reality Marbles, anti-anti-trap bounded fields like they were ready to pull on Barthomeloi, et cetera.

[You]

Home Alone but its magical

[Mattias]

Imagine Shirou's normal morning wake up routine, only he has to stop every two steps to disarm some tripwire or claymore that Kerry setup overnight.

[Menwearpink]

What protections could reasonably be expected around a magus' manor? A Bounded Field to tip off the owner to intruders, I presume, but would there necessarily be other barriers or special security measures?

Hypnotic construction to the layout and furniture, a space that elevates the magecraft of the magus so they beat you up harder, curses that apply to you if you violate rules or are a intruder so on.


various bounded fields, bounded fields that help maintain/rebuild bounded fields like how erasing part of Medusa’s won’t actually remove it. Or maybe it’s a place that makes it that you’ll be misfortunate if you don’t do X so you step on lego bricks because bad fortune.


really the sky’s the limit.

[Comun]

The VN never states Caren is Kirei's daughter, it just gives Caren's father a backstory that overlaps a lot with Kirei's own, says Caren's name comes from a word in her father's native language, and has a moment of Angra (with Shirou's knowledge) saying "Yeah, I think I know this priest"; and lets the player connect the dots on they on their own.

That said, later gag materials, like the multiple editions of Tiger Colosseum and the 2006 patch to HA's own hanafuda, all casually refer to Kirei and Caren as father and daughter, as if there were an explicit reveal in the actual game. It's not a dodged subject anywhere outside of HA main story itself.

[All fictions]

And then the Fate wiki (which I know is unreliable at best) confidently gives a different version of the story...

Type-Moon wiki? The only Fate wiki I know is Fate Grand Order.

[Comun]

The part about her being raised by relatives is made up a Wikia user. Her HA backstory is that Kirei disappeared without a word when Claudia killed herself (Caren was 1 at the time) and left her to be raised by a Church. Without knowing his reasons, the people around Caren set their minds on their pet theory that her mother was seeing another man, and humiliated Caren for being (on their unproved assumptions) a daughter of adultery.

[Comun]

How are the people at Caren’s church supposed to know Caren’s mother was married to a Japanese man? None of them knew Claudia or Kirei, or else they would have figured out from the parents’ identities from the timing and obvious similarities the between the three.

[Dullahan]

she just asked for the birth certificate bro

[Hawkeye]

Then how did Caren know her father was Japanese? During HA, she says her name comes from her father's country. Someone had to have told her that. But, like you said, if they knew that much it should be really really obvious who her dad is.

And the place where Caren was raised did know who Claudia was, it's said the priest who raised her chose to give Caren her mother's maiden name. But, considering that Kirei is from a traditional family there's no way Claudia wasn't going by his name at the time, so they made the choice to give Caren Claudia's maiden name, instead of Kirei's Japanese last name. While still knowing that Caren's birth father was Japanese, but thinking it wasn't Kirei and Caren was born from wedlock.

It doesn't make sense!

Well it's not so much that people wouldn't/didn't know about Claudia and Kirei, but Claudia dies, Kirei up and vanishes, leaving his daughter to her fate. They don't know Kirei's a psychopath with no love for others, so they assume there's some reason he dropped Caren like a bag of crap and start making leaps in logic. So people assume she was born out of wedlock, not because her actual biological parents aren't married, but because they think Kirei isn't her birth father. Caren's name still comes from her father's native tonuge, but people can still assume she's the result of adultery. It's not all that hard to parse out.

[Dullahan]

the birth certificate had her father's name and nationality on it but her foster parents couldn't read the name because they only spoke italian so they just told her it was unknown rather than face the potential embarassment of misreading 言峰綺礼 and telling young Caren her dad was called "Genhou Ayanori" or something

[Comun]

What's there to mistake? 綺礼 is very obviously read Kanihatahiroshi.

[OnesFleetingGlory]

Was it ever explained how Caren was able to enter Angra's dream world? She's only mentioned to be treating Bazett during her coma, but not how she could interfere with the time loop.