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Reality Marble: Trivial Well!

You read the title. Consider yourself trapped within the confines of my own personal world. A land of random facts and observations. Since this is the Type Moon wiki, I will limit these trivial thoughts to appropriate topics and warn you now, spoilers ahead.

The Lancer Effect

In both the Fourth and the Fifth Holy Grail Wars, Sabre's first opponent was Lancer. In both cases they made use of a red spear Phantasm to bypass her armour and strike a critical blow. Since Arturia is the only servant who retains memory across wars, she really should've learned from experience. From there, depending on your route for the original visual novel, both Lancers end up impaling themselves upon said red spear by the will of their Master. Hard to believe that this is probably the best outcome for Cu Chulainn.

Unlucky 13

Let's do some quick mathematics here. The Berserker of Fate/stay night possesses the Noble Phantasm known as God Hand which according to this wiki grants the target 11 extra lives on top of their original. This gives Berserker 12 lives total. However, in the Fate Route, Berserker is killed 6 times by Archer (5 in the anime) and is then killed a further 7 times by Caliburn. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to spot that these numbers add up to 13, not 12. Even in the anime where Archer took one less life, it is made up by Rin blowing Berserker's head off. So why is it that the numbers come up to this when he apparently has one life less? T'is a mystery, but despite all that raw power, Berserker is felled in every route.

Six degrees of Seperation

In and interesting observation, The Cancelled Fate/Apocrypha was revealed after the existence of Fate/Extra and Fate/strange fake were made known. In doing so it revealed that the lancer who appears in Fate/Extra is based on the one for the cancelled project. This is not unusual as many authors will recycle themes or ideas even from successful works, never mind cancelled ones. What is surprising however is that Apocrypha also displays an iteration of Jack the Ripper who, while unrelated in design, was revealed in Fate/strange fake by the author of Baccano!, Narita Ryougo, as the Berserker. While the two versions of Jack have virtually nothing in common, it is interesting to find the pair appearing in similar works, both sharing traits of the berserker and the assassin classes. Furthermore, Apocrypha reveals to us Seigfried, legendary hero who bathed in Dragon's blood and the wielder of Balmung, which, according to Gilgamesh and his Gate of Babylon are the predecessor to Sabre's own Caliburn. Apocrypha successful connects all the canon and non-canon works of the Fate series together through its cast.

Sha Nagba Imuru - The All Knowing, All Powerful Star (13.5.12)

For those who don't know, this is a Noble Phantasm held by Ko-Gil in a card game section of Hollow Ataraxia. Checking the translation "Sha Nagba Imuru" literally translates to "He who saw everything". Which is a good reference to its affect (Apparently it lets him look at his opponent's deck) But, this is where it gets fun. Sha Nagba Imuru is the opening line to the Epic of Gilgamesh. In this way, the all knowing and all powerful star may be a direct reference to Gilgamesh himself and the fact that it is only possessed by his younger form connects to it being at the start of the book, not later on. While in essence a Phantasm of little importance, a trivial note at best, these direct connections to Gilgamesh and his origins point toward it being another Phantasm that is solely his, as opposed to the masses of weapons that do not signify him personally.

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