SetWP (セト?) is a Divine Spirit in Egyptian mythology.
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Background
Set's anger over his wife NephthysWP betraying him by having an affair with Osiris, which bore Anubis, caused him to get his revenge by cutting Osiris to pieces and dumping him into the Nile.[1] He cut Osiris into fourteen pieces and sent them in a coffin down the river.[2] Set's reason for killing Osiris was also related to the succession of the throne, and by getting rid of his rival via water Set possesses the nature of a water god.[2]
As Set usurped Osiris as king, and was then usurped himself by Horus, this makes the three of them similar to the three aspects of Hecate, Greek goddess of magecraft. It can be seen as the prototype of the Christian Trinity or Eastern Asura.[3]
Typhon is the Greek counterpart of Set.[2] Stories of Set and Typhon were spread East by Iskandar's invasions, making its way to India, then China, and finally Japan.[4] There is a shared mythological motif across many nations in which a snake battles a bovine, originating from Typhon battling Zeus. Ōkuninushi is the Japanese version of this.[2]
Appearance
Set is a strange mammalian creatureWP with aspects of various animals found in Egypt.[2]
Personality
Set's anger over his wife betraying him by having an affair with his brother Osiris, caused him to get his revenge by cutting Osiris to pieces and dumping him into the Nile.[1] Set enjoyed killing his own brother.[2]
Role
The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II
Long ago, as part of a collaborative effort between Wuzhiqi of the Summit Court, the Crudelis family of Atlas, and Ziz of the Wandering Sea, Ergo devoured the flesh of three gods and imbued their factors inside himself.[5] One of these gods was Set, who was provided by the Crudelis family, and Ergo gained Set's abilities.
The god who Akira Yakou's Divine Body is from is Set's Japanese equivalent:[4] Ōkuninushi.[2]
The Devil of the Wandering Sea
When Ergo puts on the mask that Genma Tobori gave him, it turns into Set's face. Inside his mind, Ergo finds himself standing in a desert next to the Nile river, the location where Set killed Osiris. Set tells Ergo how much fun he had killing his own brother, and now it is Ergo's turn to kill his brother Bai Ruolong. How well will he enjoy it?[2]
Abilities
Set manipulates wind and sand, and is a god of destruction feared as power incarnate. His Noble Phantasm is Per Djet: Pharaoh-Butchering Fourteen Coffins (神王屠る十四棺?), the Authority to split the enemy into fourteen pieces and inter them, representing how he killed Osiris. Set's coffin exists to inter gods and return them to the world.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fate/Requiem Volume 2: Shinjuku the Nostalgic City - Chapter 12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 6
- ↑ The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 5: Legacy of the Alchemist (Lower) - Chapter 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Interlude
- ↑ The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 4