Fate/Apocrypha Vol. 2 + 3 (no spoilers)

[Canon]

After some discussion, it's been decided that Eternal Dreamer (EDreamer here) from NanoDesu Translations and I will be working together on the following volumes of F/A. He will be taking on volume 2, which has already been proceeding at https://fateapocryphathetranslation.wordpress.com so you'll find all future volume 2 updates there (the prologue and chapter 1 are already complete). As for me, I'll be moving on to volume 3. I'm still finishing up on volume 1 so I'll post about that at a later time, but it will be done on my blog https://canonrap.wordpress.com. Updates for both volumes will be provided in this thread.

As with the first Fate/Apocrypha TL thread, please avoid directly posting spoilers that are further than what has been translated in volume 2. And if you're reading any volume 3 updates I put up, I assume you're sufficiently spoiled already, so any discussion of volume 3 should go to the GD thread instead.

In any case, enjoy!


tl;dr

Volume 2

Volume 3

Updates and links will be provided in this thread.

[Christemo]

Based Canon.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Saint Canon.

[You]

A Servant’s Noble Phantasm was brought into this world when they were summoned, and was naturally compiled out of prana. Though there were sometimes necessary conditions for activating it, it was rare for the Noble Phantasm itself to require materials to construct it.

Problem solved it seems.

[Sarn]

Wow, I had lots of expectations, but that's better than all I hoped for. Amazing, really.
Ex-rank thanks.

[I3uster]

Saint Canon.

would you say he is canon-ized

or apocryphal

[Zenieth]

god damn, those puns

[LJ3]

Problem solved it seems.

Was there ever anything else that indicate otherwise?

I thought it would be pretty straightforward to assume NPs are made up of the same stuff as a Servant's body.

Thanks EDreamer and Canon.

[EDreamer]

Well, now that the official announcement is done and over with, I suppose I should make a post of my own as the other translator of this project now. Though I hang around BL as EDreamer, I go by Eternal Dreamer at NanoDesu Translations. (You guys can refer to me by either name or just plain ED if you want, I wasn't being very original when I made separate usernames.) Anyway, yeah, I'll be working with CanonRap from now on and I'll be the one translating Volume 2, so feel free to ask any questions or make any comments to me as you would to Canon. I look forward to translating Fate/Apocrypha, and I'll be able to live up to your expectations as Canon has until now.

[You]

Was there ever anything else that indicate otherwise?

I thought it would be pretty straightforward to assume NPs are made up of the same stuff as a Servant's body.

Thanks EDreamer and Canon.

Nope. Just good to have it on paper.

- - - Updated - - -

“I’ll use it to give a personal donation to my department. The budget has been constricted.”

This guy. Too good for this world.

Thanks ED for the translation.

[Rafflesiac]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Based Canon and EDreamer, I thank you both.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Was there ever anything else that indicate otherwise?

I thought it would be pretty straightforward to assume NPs are made up of the same stuff as a Servant's body.

It was ambiguous though, since we're not even sure exactly what a Servant's body is made up of. Magical energy powers it, but it does become a flesh and blood system. And all the talk about how they're just partial emanations of a spirit, and spirits are usually made up of ether, you have to throw ether in there too.

[Rafflesiac]

The hyperlinks to Volume 1 and Chapter 1-1 at the end of the prologue are misspelled; they're missing the first A of Apocrypha.

http://fateapocryphathetranslation.w...me-2/prologue/

It's the same for Chapter 1-1; the problem might be for every link of that kind.

[EDreamer]

Thanks for pointing that out, it's been fixed now. That includes other pages as well.

[Rafflesiac]

Siegfried is a rather tragic dude despite his heroism.
Sieg is now swole. I am okay with this.
Astolfo's pretty bro to give away his sword like that. I'd say careless as well, but that's a bit redundant.
"It was really quite refreshing!" Never change, you beautiful man.
[CELEWDNIKE INTENSIFIES]
Ahhh dammit, he's having a moment with Jeanne. Must the NTR start so quickly?
AHAHAHAHAHA Astolfo and Spartacus are the best jail buddies!
Sieg, the Hero of the Homunculi.
Ahh, so that's why they wanted Sieg. And that's what they did with Gordes's Command Seal; I was wondering how they controlled Spartacus.
Hooooh? Jackie's in action, is she? Looks like we'll be getting another fight.
Heh, Gordes drinking away his sorrows.
Celewdnike is quite the terrifying yandere.
Huh, Caules is an interesting guy. He seems very logical. Weird familiars, though.
Daww, Frankie's so considerate of electricity.
Wow, that was fast. The series is over, I guess.

[Sarn]

Great translation, Edreamer. Many thanks to you and your team.

Just noticed three things that might be mistakes:

1. "There could only be one reason why Saber of Red and her Master—the bounty-hunting necromancer Shishigou Kairi—were heading to Sighișoara. To kill Assassin of Black or to join forces with his Master."
Wouldn't that make two reasons?

2. "In the first place, it was abnormal for a Servant to be unbeatable by those with divine blood"
Probably means the opposite of what it should. I'd have put "without" divine blood.

3. "Caules thought from the bottom of his heard"
Probably meant "heart".

Looking forward to the next updates.

Edit: Should I report the mistakes here or should this thread be dedicated to CanonRap's translation alone?

[LJ3]

It was ambiguous though, since we're not even sure exactly what a Servant's body is made up of. Magical energy powers it, but it does become a flesh and blood system. And all the talk about how they're just partial emanations of a spirit, and spirits are usually made up of ether, you have to throw ether in there too.

I just assumed everything spirit mojo-related was made up of ether.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

...Okay? You assumed Servants are made of ether, but then assumed their weapons are made of prana, but then assumed that NPs and Servants would be made of the same thing? Confused.

[Mcjon01]

...Okay? You assumed Servants are made of ether, but then assumed their weapons are made of prana, but then assumed that NPs and Servants would be made of the same thing? Confused.

It's all the same imaginary stuff anyway.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

I like having my imaginary ducks in a row, though.