
Originally Posted by
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Considering that Eternal Lament in FGO is technically weather manipulation, there’s precedent for TA-likes to be able to control weather conditions. If they forget it, that’s how they’ll explain it in the mats books.
You misread it—it’s the other way around. Crimson Moon created the first Saberface when Sefar showed up in order to give Excalibur a wielder. Arc is “based” on Artoria to the extent that both of them are based on Crimson Moon. It’s been established since Fate/Extra Mats that Artoria has a connection to/the blessings of the moon (Excalibur Galatine’s entry), and her possession of a Saberface (her own face, lol) is a representation of her destiny to wield Excalibur.
This has a lot of interesting implications, such as Crimson Moon possibly being one of the six fairies who forged/decided not to forge Excalibur, and maybe being the progenitor of one of LB6’s clans as a result. The idea of a Saberface representing the “blessing of the moon/Type-Moon” is great as both a meta-joke (the blessing of Takeuchi) and could create a meaningful connection between the existing Saberfaces. Nero is connected to the Moon via Caligula’s literal lunacy, and they’ll probably come up with a moon connection for vanilla Jeanne once she’s relevant again (read: never).
Either way, I like that they found a way to make Type-Moon (the character) heavily relevant even in Fate settings—it suggests that Crimson Moon weighed both possibilities of Gaia either strengthening or weakening at the divergence point (not spoiling this part, but it’ll be important to the Lostbelt arc’s finale), and had contingency plans for both. Let me just say that Saber being the “once and future king” and “returning to save Britain” may not be as nice as it sounds.
P.S: Moon Cancer/Pretender Arcueid-Crimson Moon when?