#Cnoc na Riabh Yaraan-Doo

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Foreigner class Cnoc na Riabh Yaraan-Doo (Knocknarea) for the Servant Summer Festival 2023 in Fate Grand Order.

Illustrator: Takayama Kisai.

[kaibutsushidousha]

I saw that Knocknarea's actual name is "Yaraan-doo", but who is that? I tried looking it up but can't find anything remotely relevant.

Yaraan-doo is the Aboriginal version of the Southern Cross. Here's a source.

The implication with Yaraan-doo is that this version of Cnoc na Riabh is classed Foreigner because she comes from an unknowable world very far beyond the realm of human comprehension: Australia.

[raionmimi]

What is your opinion on Cnoc na Riabh being Yaraan-doo also?

I haven’t read much, but from my understanding, it makes sense she’s third in line, born from Cnoc na Riabh, the name of Medb’s grave. I’ve been wanting to know how the faeries are born from each other for years, so it’s nice to finally get a little glimpse of that.

Yaraan is also the tree where the first human died, paralleling with Mab’s lover being a human who died. It was taken by Yowi to be lifted into the Milky Way, adding to the foreigner concept. The place the tree used to be was known as Yaraan-doo from then on. Death was essentially alien to earth prior, so nature lamented over it becoming a permanent concept.

I found it a really lovely myth, especially because the first man died because he refused to kill an animal. Just like the LB fae are all softer than Medb, as they are born into a life not really knowing what death is until it occurs and literally changes them. It’s a sort of naïveté that can only come from someone born amongst fae and not humans, so they’re more vulnerable and more easily shocked when they, harbingers of death, are exposed to the very nature of their birthright

And it started with Cnoc because Mab was initially fine keeping human slaves. She took on a human lover, but the second that human died, death was brought to her. So her next life, Cnoc hated humans because she herself introduced them to it. In her third life, Yaraan-doo doesn’t consider herself a warrior at all apparently.

I think this is one main factor of why Medb was more of an actual warrior to them. She’s got a human trait (though we have no idea how she was born, she only mentions that she’s got fae blood), so I think her being more aware of what it means for a person to die makes her more resilient to want to fight to live.

But

If she’s actually Cnoc na Riabh, it’s way funnier because she’s just a foreigner possessed by the alien known as Australia (Hell)

[kyousukebei]

4★ Cnoc na Riabh Yaraan-doo (Foreigner)

[call-me-noa]

4* Foreigner Yaraan-doo/Cnoc na Riabh ascensions

[raionmimi]

When the Mab fae line is reborn, they legally have to change nationalities so they can spread their reign

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