Speaking of hosts, IIRC all of the Einzbern homunculi, with the exception of Acht, are female or something right?
Speaking of hosts, IIRC all of the Einzbern homunculi, with the exception of Acht, are female or something right?
I thought the early stories were exceedingly unclear on what the Grail even was.
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But is it a chalice? I'm failing to find an English translation of the relevant passage online.
Well, that aside, if you're discussing whether Nasu uses the Grail as a womb metaphor, it doesn't ultimately matter whether other authors do, except for determining whether or not he came up with the idea.---
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Okay, so in the English translation I found, it appears in lines 3222 to 3237. It's made of gold and decorated with jewels. It's not called a Holy Grail, although there definitely seems to be a religious undertone. To me, the bleeding lance reads more like a classic Christian miracle. Anyway, the grail is described as a dish. I looked at the Old French, but since I can't read Old French, I couldn't see whether there was anything there that would clarify whether it was a dish or a chalice.
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Here you go.
For sure, but the point I was objecting to was the Grail mythos at large, not what Nasu intended.The word “grail” is derived through Old French from the Latin gradale (by degrees) and refers to a type of deep platter from which foods were served—course by course—at a medieval banquet. “Grail” is first recorded in English in 1330 with alternative spellings: greal, graal, and graile.
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That there was never a route where Shirou teamed up with Shinji/the Matous. I don't really care how it would turn out or how it would work, but Shirou and Shinji's characters playing off each other is great and it's criminal we got so little of it in Stay Night.
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Between am growing inside the grail and Kirei talking about how he has to 'bless what is born' I think there's a little bit of womb metaphor in there.