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Celtober 2023 Day 2: Feast

Aengus was with the attendants arranging and giving orders, and every kind of drink and delicacy was given out correctly so that the company were cheerful and gay.

Altram Tige Dá Medar

[ceo-draiochta]

I'm not really sure on this one tbh. The concept of increased supernatural activity during Samhain is of course Irish, as is the concept of a magical mist or cloaks hiding supernatural beings.

But I believe the idea of there being a worldwide veil between this world and the other is a modern perception which I don't think is exclusively irish, faint memories in the back of brain tell me this was a victorian conception but I'll need to try and find a source on that.

To give a bit of context to what we're on about I will quote Morgan Daimlers book on Manannán Mac Lir:

"Féth Fíadha – Possibly the same thing as Manannán’s magical cloak [see below] but in a more general sense. Understood to be either a magical mist or else a magical cloak or garment that disguises both the Tuatha De Danann and some druids from mortal sight. Manannán taught the féth fíadha to the Tuatha De Danann when they retreated into the sidhe so that they could pass unseen when they travelled in the mortal world. Some sources would seem to make this a tangible, wearable object, for example, in stories like the Altram Tige Dá Medar we see a person’s ability to be concealed by the Féth Fíadha failing when a garment described as a veil is lost. In other cases, however, the Féth Fíadha is clearly described as a spoken charm or prayer, such as we see in Saint Patrick’s lorica. MacKillop compares it directly to the ceó druídechta, the druid’s fog and suggests the name means ‘lord’s fog’ from féth, fog or mist, and fíada, lord or master (MacKillop, 1998)."

The féth fiadha seems to more often be a concealment done on a personal or local level to get them through our world rather than a world or country spanning semi permeable membrane. While the veil and thinning of the veil would be a pretty common thing to say in the modern supernatural lexicon, the relationship this has with the individual veils of irish myth are not known to me. Though I do think this is a valid reading of what we know of the Féth fiadha but not the only one.

In my personal opinion I don't think using veils between whatever dimensions you believe in your personal cosmology is harmful in of itself. To conceive of an "astral" realm separated from this one by a semi permeable membrane, I feel is valid and relatively harmless with no real issuss of appropriation. What I think op is touching on though is that when this veil in your cosmology suddenly is effected by irish festival days like Samhain then ya that's a whole can of worms of implications, most of which aren't great.

So in short no not really. I will have to do some research to try and find where this english language concept of the "the veil" is from.

EDIT: From what I have researched the term seems to have been brought into popular use on celtiic spheres by Alwyn D. Rees and his brother. The framing of their work suggests that their intended use was at best pan-celtic.

friendly reminder that the whole of Samhain is an Irish concept but especially the "thinning of the veil" is also a strictly Irish concept. not celtic, not new age, not wiccan. the veil itself was called Féth Fíada which iirc translates to "mist knower" or "mist possessor". it was the famous mist that the Tuatha Dé Danann used to conceal themselves from human eyes. the veil isn't just the barrier between the "physical and astral planes", it's the barrier between the physical world and specifically the Irish supernatural world.

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Fuck it here’s some Manannan lore to curb my fury at this pseudo servant bullshit so! 

Manannan is, of course, one of the most well-known and popular Irish Deities, chiefly known as being a great Merchant, Sailor and a God of the Sea (and occasionally described as a Fomorian). He owned swine that could be resurrected when killed, and those who ate of their flesh would be granted immortality

The Isle of Man was the throne of Manannan, his stronghold was on the top of Barrule, and he held his court from Manannan's Chair at Cronk y Voddy

In Irish mythology, Manannan was killed in battle by Uillenn Faebarderg in the battle of Magh Cuilenn and is said to be buried in the Tonn Banks, off the coast of Donegall. Many shipwrecks have occured there and the spirit of Manannan is supposed to ride on the storm. The Tonns form one part of a triad known as "The Three Waves of Erin"

He’s associated with Alder, Hawthorn, Ragwort, Burdock, The Crane, Horses, Pigs, Salmon, the Triskelion and The Triton

On Misummer Eve, the Manx would bring a tribute of rushes to South Barrule for him!

He is further identified with several trickster figures: the Gilla Decair and the Bodach an Chóta Lachtna ("the churl in the drab coat"). Manannán is given several names, bynames, epithets and surnames. His name is spelt Manandán in Old Irish, Manannán in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and Mannan in Manx Gaelic. Some of the names equated with Manannan include: Oirbsiu or Oirbsen, Duartaine O'Duartaine, Cathal O'Cein (Cathal is derived from battle and means "great warrior"), Gilla de ("Boyservant") and Gilla Decair ("Troublesome boyservant") 

His most common epithets reinforce his connection with war and the sea:

Mac Lir, which means "son of the sea" or "son of Lir/Lyr”

Mac Alloit or Mac Alloid, which means "son of the soil or land" (effectively making him a son of sea and land)

chief of your [Tuatha De] kings

senior of your [Tuatha De] hosts

lord of champions

shining light of your batallions

tutor in valor, in feats of arms, in magic

foster son of the Dagda

the great and mighty

There are a shitton of places named after him all over Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. In Ireland, most of them are on the coast or contain water features. They include Mannin Lake (Loch Mhanainn) in County Mayo, Mannin Bay (Cuan Mhanainn) in County Galway, Mannin Island (Manainn) in County Cork, Cashelmanannan (Caiseal Mhanannáin, "Manannán's ringfort") and Sheevannan (Sí Mhanannáin, "Manannán's fairy mound") in County Roscommon and then Derrymannin (Doire Mhanainn, "Manann's oak") in County Mayo, and Carrickmannan (Carraig Mhanainn, "Manann's rock") in County Down. 

Also in Ireland, Lough Corrib takes its name from Manannán's alternate name Oirbsiu or Oirbsen. The placenames Clackmannan (Clach Mhanainn) and Slamannan (Sliabh Mhanainn) in Scotland may also refer to Manann

He appears in all four cycles of Irish Myth, most famously in the tale of Fand and Cu Chulainn’s affair. Some of these tales include:

In the Ulster Cycle: Tochmarc Étaíne ("The Wooing of Étaín"), Serglige Con Culainn ("The Wasting Sickness of Cúchulainn"), Tochmarc Luaine "The Wooing of Luan"

In the Cycles of the Kings: Immram Brain maic Febail ("The Voyage of Bran son of Febal)", Echtra Cormaic maic Airt ("The Adventure of Cormac mac Airt"), Compert Mongáin ("The Birth of Mongán")

In the Mythological Cycle: Lebor Gabála Érenn ("The Book of Invasions"), First Recension, Altram Tige Dá Medar ("The Nourishment of the Houses of Two Milk-Vessels")

other Old Irish texts: Sanas Cormaic ("Cormac's Glossary"), The Voyage of Bran, Compert Mongáin, His Three Calls to Cormac ("Cormac's Adventure in the Land of Promise")

Manannán was associated with a "cauldron of regeneration". This is seen in the tale of Cormac mac Airt! Here, he appeared at Cormac's ramparts in the guise of a warrior who told him he came from a land where old age, sickness, death, decay, and falsehood were unknown (Tír na nÓg) ).

He is lord and guardian of the Blessed Isles, Mag Mell, and Emhain Abhlach, the Isle of Apple Trees, where the magical silver apple branch is found. When he visits the land of the living, his movement is compared to the wind, a hawk or swallow, and sometimes takes the form of a thundering wheel rolling across the landscape

Manannan had a crapton of magical artifacts; he gave Cormac mac Airt his goblet of truth; he had a ship that didn’t need sails nor oars named "Wave Sweeper" (Scuabtuinne); he owned a cloak of mists that granted him invisibility (Féth Fíada, which also changed into every colour you could think of and when Manannan was angry would produce a thunderous clap when flapped), a flaming helmet, and a sword named Fragarach ("Answerer" or "Retaliator") that could slice through any armour and upon command when pointed at a target could make that target answer any question truthfully. He also owned a horse called "Enbarr of the Flowing Mane" which could travel over water as easily as land. Some sources say that, to Manannán, the sea itself was like a flowery plain

Mannanán bestowed upon the warriors of the Tuatha Dé the Féth fíada, Fleadh Goibhneann (the Feast of Goibniu), and Mucca Mhannanain (Mannanán's swine) whose regenerating flesh provided food for feasting by the gods, similar to Odin's boar Sæhrímnir in Scandinavian myth. He also owned a speckled cow that he and Aengus retrieved from India (some sources say it was Greece) along with a dun cow, two golden goblets (Grails), and two spancels of silk 

In "The Fosterage of the House of the Two Pails”, Eithne refuses to eat or drink anything from the houses of Mannanán and Aengus except for the honey-flavored, intoxicating milk from the Speckled and Dun Cows

In the Dinsenchas, Manannán is also described as the father of Ibel, after whose death Manannán cast draughts of grief from his heart that became Loch Ruidi, Loch Cuan, and Loch Dacaech

You can find an early Manx poem about Manannan titled Manannan-beg-mac-y-Lheirr, "little Manannan, son of the Sea". The tale "Manannan at Play" features the god as a clown and beggar who turns out to be a harper. Manannán (here in his trickster guise of the Bodach), plays a number of pranks, some of which result in serious trouble; by the end of the tale, he compensates for the pranks that got him in trouble

Some folklore that he appears in include “O’Donnell’s Kern” where he appears as a kern or serving man at the courts of various historical persons from 16th Century Ireland. As a kern, he is repeatedly described as wearing thinly striped clothing and leather brogues (shoes) soaking with water, having ears and half his sword protruding from his mantle, and carrying three scorched holly javelins (elsewhere described as a single javelin) in his right hand. In this guise, he again appears as a trickster, walking into his hosts' homes uninvited and undetected by the guardsmen

I’ve spoken of this next tale plenty of times so I won’t go into full details but he is a chief figure in the Fenian “The Pursuit of the Gilla Decair and His Horse.” Two other tales would be “O’Neill’s Horse Race” and “Giant” where he, as Orbsen, is said to be a giant who fought another giant named Uillin on a spot marked by a standing stone in Moycullen

In Book of Fermoy, a manuscript of the 14th - 15th century, Manannan is described as “a pagan and lawgiver among the Tuatha Dé Danann, and a necromancer possessed of power to envelope himself and others in a mist, so that they could not be seen by their enemies.” He was such a magnificent Sailor among the European continent that it was said he could predict the weather simply by looking at the stars

(For some extra lore: Fand, his beautiful wife, started her life as a sea bird and was herself a deity of the sea but was later reduced to a simple Fae Queen)

[avicebro]

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make them look like a knock off Gilgamesh

[orangerosebush]

Irish mythology and AF

The most obvious reference to Irish mythology in the Artemis Fowl series is the inclusion of the fae folk — the People.

In Irish mythology, the godlike Dé Danann (the gods of the Irish pantheon) are vanquished by the human armies of Ireland. The Dé Danann end up fleeing to live underground in fairy mounds, and it is there that they morph into the Aos Sidhe, a new form of existence in which they have gone from being gods to being fairies. Similarly, the People were far more powerful when they lived above ground before the war (e.g. the power level of Qwan as opposed to the power level of modern warlocks in Haven) and now have been driven to live below the Earth in Haven.

The next characteristic of Irish mythology that pops up is the power of invisibility. In Irish mythology, the Dé Danann were said to be able to summon the Féth Fíada. Féth denotes mist whereas Fíada translates to knower/lord/master, essentially meaning that this is a magical mist that allows the Dé Danann to cloak themselves from mortal presence. This mirrors the People’s ability to shield themselves from the mortal eye.

Finally, the time stop is the most easy-to-discern influence from Irish mythology on the People’s abilities. In an old Irish anecdote entitled, “The Taking of the Otherworld Mound”, the story follows the Dé Danann man, Oengus/Mac Óc, as he attempts to find a fairy mound for himself in the final days of the rivalry between the Dé Danann and the humans.

The Dagda, the king of the Dé Danann, tells him that there are no more fairy mounds available, and Oengus pleads with him to allow him to stay in the Dagda’s mound for just one day and night. The Dagda agrees, but when he returns during the next day, Oengus bars the door and slyly tells him, “that the whole world is day and night, and that is what has been granted me [in this fairy mound]".

By interpreting a day and night to mean all eternity (as day and night make up all of time), Oengus tricked the Dagda into giving up his fairy mound, forcing the other to roam the Earth for all eternity (side note: the Dagda was Oengus’ father so… the holidays might be a bit awkward).

In John Carey’s essay on this tale and the role of thaumaturgy, or time magic, in Irish mythology, Carey writes:

“[There are other versions of this tale, and] the differences between the... versions are significant, but a basic theme is common to them all: that Oengus won the [fairy mound] from its former owner through the power of the word, whether by verbal dexterity or magic... Furthermore, the speeches through which Oengus gains his triumph all have to do with the manipulation of time: in the Old Irish tales, he tricks the incumbent into granting in perpetuity what he thinks he has only yielded for twenty-four hours; in Altram Tighe Da Mheadar, he places Elcmar under an enchantment which will last until the end of time (the fusion of moon and sun). Similar formulae occur elsewhere in the literature, indicating that the underlying concepts had a broader significance in the tradition.”

In short, a common theme in Irish mythology is the manipulation of time, which is similar to the time stop in the first book of Artemis Fowl. We also can see parallel through the inclusion of elements such as wordplay (e.g. the series is full of puns, Artemis bests the People through exploiting the loophole in their own Book via a technicality of language, and the importance of the orders given by a human to a fairy once the fairy has been given permission to enter a dwelling).

All in all, there are a few connects to Irish mythology that I am aware of, and I encourage others to add on based on their own knowledge!

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Hi! I said I’d post stuff from the Mabinogi Campfire Event so here it is. This the bag that we were given after first getting in. It had some stuff in it, lanyard to the badge, the event booklet for stamps and schedule, tickets to get lunch, dessert, and drinks and the little Apocalypse Cards. I didn’t take too many pictures at the event because I kept forgetting RIP but I took a few of where the merchandise was (the display case which was kind of dark), one of the Mini Game stands (I tried to remind myself to take pictures of the others but I forgot RIP) and of one of the Staff who was cosplaying as Millia and the Ferghus who was doing a Mini game. Everyone was cool at the event, I’m not a huge social person. I mostly just hungout with the friends I was meeting up. I handed out some bracelets I made (super embarrassed, I’m sure if someone got one and read this, they’d know it was from me) for the event and a few for GMs Katherz, Nkeona, and Mewlynne. They were all very sweet and happy so I’m glad. I wanted to give something in return since they were doing this event and giving out free stuff. 

Anyway so here’s the stuff that I brought and got for free from the Mini Games: - Bag: Free to all attendees - Hat: From Merchandise Store (Brought an extra for hubby) - Booket: Free to all attendees, had the schedule and a page for stamps for raffle tickets - Ruairi, Mari, and Tarlach Acrylic Stands: Everyone’s probably already seen these being given out from Contests, they were being sold at the Store. - Talvish & Altram Pins: From Mini Games, Talvish was for participating in a Avalon Race Mini game and Altram you got from Knocking Over a Goblin in a Mini Game - Phine Pin: Was being sold at the Store (I brought an extra for a Friend) - Apocalypse Cards: Free to all attendees, was in the bag. - Lanyard & badge: Free to all attendees, the badge was determined by what level the character you put as your main was (or total on your account I guess) or if you were a +1 - Mabinogi Sunglasses: Free, were given when went to get lunch - Friend of Ferghus Bracelet: Prize from having Ferghus successfully repair your weapon (Me and a friend kept going back till we won LOL). - Mabinogi Logo Coasters: From the Merchandise Store - 3 Lost Warriors Pencil case: From Merchandise Store - Nao Tumbler: Prize from Mini Game Avalon Race (Long af line, very nice quality) - Talvish & Casywn Post-It Notes: From Merchandise Store - Drink Ticket: Free to all attendees, was in the bag. There was also a Dinner Ticket, Cake Ticket and another Drink ticket which I used (forgot to take pictures of it) to get food, a soda and desert (cake RIP I only got a small piece but my friend shared their cake with me ♥) - Nao Vinyl Sticker (For car I think, Decal): From Merchandise Store

And I think that’s it, I didn’t get the water bottle (RIP probably should) some stuff sold out before me and my friends got in line. One friend got the very last Art Book (it looked gorgeous but not for me). I had to leave early (long drive home RIP) so I couldn’t stay to get the Mouse at the end or for Raffle. I gave my tickets to a friend hoping they might win (they didn’t :C sad face). Overall, it was fun. Talked to a few people, I didn’t get his name but this guy in a shark onsie was pretty cool. I definitely would try to go again to another Mabinogi Event if held in California C: Hope I can see the Mabinogi Staff again at AX Booth next year (and my friends there or sooner c:) Love you guys, glad we could meet up and hangout and it was a blast. ♥♥♥

PS: Sorry I no pictures of me but I hope everything else is good C:

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Of Gods and Dice: Goibhniu

I hope anyone reading this is having a nice weekend. Today, we are continuing our analysis of the presentation of the Celtic Pantheon in Dungeons and Dragons, Fifth Edition. As always, these examinations are being done to illustrate Celtic Studies failings to create approachable texts for use for creators making movies, games, or stories based on ‘Celtic’ Myth. They are discussions of our failing as a field, rather than the failings of individuals to penetrate our rather impenetrable works.

Today, we are looking at Goibhniu, described as the God of Smiths, and Healing. He is Neutral Good, has the Callings of Knowledge, and Life. His Holy Symbol is a “giant mallet over sword.” Presumably it means ‘a sword.’

Anyways, so, thankfully we have once again returned to the warm comfort of figures who have a literary basis to their depiction rather than purely linguistic or archaeological records. Goibhniu is an Irish (probably) Deity who is mainly described as one of the Smiths of the Divine Tribe. He mass produces perfectly accurate, perfectly lethal spears in Cath Maige Tuired, and boasts that he could forge weapons and shields for the entire army even if the battle raged for seven years. This is probably one of the most overtly powerful claims and displays of divine might we see in the Irish texts to be honest. He also has one other major appearance where he is described as creating a magical feast called the Feth Fiadha which protects the Divine Tribe from Death, and Age, described in Altram Tige Dá Medar. There is an edition of this on JSTOR by Lillian Duncan in Eriu volume 11 if you would like to read it yourself.

Anyways, so, this is obviously where both halves of Goibhniu’s Divine Function is coming from. His function as a God of Smiths is obviously coming from his function as a smith, and his function of a God of healing is likely from the Feth Fiadha. I probably would not describe his function of this as a God of Healing, since that suggests he is fixing illnesses, when it is more like warding off mortality. 

This is also where his Domains are coming from. Both of them are alright, I probably wouldn’t give him the Life Domain simply because he is not close to being on the same level as Dian Cecht. The Knowledge Domain is the best way with the core rules to represent his function as a Smith God since the base game lacked a Domain for the creator Gods, but in a new book the Forge Domain has been presented, which I would suggest as an alternative for the Knowledge domain.

The image of him as a Neutral Good Deity is sort of interesting since I would have likely have presented him as Lawful rather than Neutral since he is obviously very invested in the Irish social system, being a Deity related to Smiths who existed in one of the higher social classes. Just like Dian Cecht is credited as the source of a legal text regarding physicians, Goibhniu is credited with being the source of a legal text on smiths. I expect that this is sort of obscure information however, so I expect whatever source drawn on for this presentation did not mention it.

The Holy Symbol being a giant mallet over [a] sword is alright. Again, as always, Holy Symbols are a requirement of the mechanical side of the game, so, I don’t really regard this section as super important. If, for instance, we were talking about the other three Pantheons presented who actually have iconographic themes in history, I would be going over this in more detail, but for the Irish we lack that. I would probably use a spearhead with three small hammers around it to go with the boast that he can forge a spear head with three blows, but, again, it’s all up to the individual author.

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The UBW backstory isn’t that bad

Ok as a big Medea fan I am tired of people talking badly about the UBW anime backstory for her so let’s talk about the visual novel, the anime, and her backstory from hollow ataraxia.

What does the VN talk about? Barely anything.

This is what we learn from the VN about Altram. We learn that he was ultimately afraid of her and then cursed her so that she would have less power than him. She convinces him to use all of his command seals on silly things, and then kills him with her Rule Breaker. She kills him because “she did not like the fact that the contract with him still existed”, because he didn’t want to fight and remained passive, because he was an idiot. Then she meets with Kuzuki and the rest is history.

In terms of a story this isn’t very interesting. She kills him because he’s passive? That doesn’t fit with her, someone who in the Fate route just sits at the temple until everyone has basically died. She killed him because he was an idiot? Ok, but that doesn’t fit cause why wouldn’t she just try to make him a puppet or just continue to trick him like she does with his command seals? So, this just points to her killing him because he was afraid of her magical strength over him? Which again, ok she could have taken this as an insult for cursing her, but anyone in the caster class is likely to have more strength than their masters so. It just doesn’t stand that well, especially for Medea. Never mind the fact that Medea Lily likely would have been summoned by this master than normal Medea, because he doesn’t have any evil to him.

So why is the anime better than the visual novel?

Altram in the anime is a greedy, power hungry spoiled brat. He has women on his arms and daddy’s credit card backing him up as well as the Mage Association. The “I am afraid of you because you have more power than me” goes a step further because instead of simply cursing her, he uses a command seal so that she cannot use rule breaker on him, and this likely replaces the curse in the anime.

However, there is more fear here than in the visual novel. When she shows her power, he’s afraid of what she can do to him if he steps out of line. He believed he could use Medea as a tool like his money to win the war but when she proves to be stronger than him his fear makes him dump her, because immediately after we see him and Kirei settling on her getting killed by Lancer.

This makes Altram a new Jason in many ways. Never mind the fact that if one compares Altram’s look to Jason’s in Fate/grand order they look very much alike -   they have similar characteristics. They are both pretty boys who wish to use other people to get what they want, and once they have gotten those things or things go awry, they point the blame somewhere else. When Jason starts to lose his popularity, he and the rest of the city blames it all on Medea, as detailed in her backstory in Hollow Ataraxia. When Altram realizes he cannot work with Medea because he is afraid of her, he tells Kirei it’s because she does not care for human life (even though in the visual novel we rarely see her kill—she doesn’t fully kill the humans she drains the mana from which Kuzuki critiques her for, she lets Rin and Shirou go).

Altram becoming ‘a new Jason’ also makes Medea’s actions make a lot more sense. When she tries to work with him and give him advice based off of his workshop, he ignores her.  She kills him because she knows that he is a Jason, and she’s already gone through all of this bullshit and would rather not. Also, by killing Altram it also acts as killing Jason. Furthermore, having a really shittier master just makes her time with Kuzuki even better and makes her falling for him so quickly more believable as she’s constantly dealt with assholes.

Now, so let’s consider the things ufotable could have done for Medea’s backstory:

a)       Kept it the same as the VN

b)      Done what they did by fleshing out Altram

c)       Done her actual backstory, or the fate version as detailed in hollow ataraxia

d)      Skipped over the master part and focused on Kuzuki

 I think we’ve talked about why option a) is just ok. Ultimately it doesn’t fit with Medea’s character and it is boring. It is also short and doesn’t have very much to animate. This could have given us more time to flesh out her relationship with Kuzuki, which would have been nice, but it would have felt boring.

Option b in my personal opinion is the best. Sure, there were some problems with that. They should not have included the Bazzett wink or even Lancer to be honest as they don’t explain how she gets out in the first place. They could have kept the curse instead of the command seal against using rule breaker. The children dying part was kind of unnecessary as well. There are flaws in the story: however, I do enjoy Altram a lot.

Option c is unrealistic. In Hollow Ataraxia, it takes a long time for them to do Medea’s backstory, as they start from the beginning to when she leaves Jason (which isn’t even her entire story!). The anime used less than half of the episode for Medea. To fit her entire story is not possible. Some scenes could have been done, sure, but they would feel short and rushed. They could “flip” through but if you don’t know the myth that well it would feel cheap and confusing to people who have no idea who Medea is before watching fate/stay night. Furthermore, having her tell her story in Hollow Ataraxia is important as she becomes a mini-Angra Mainyu by the end as everyone blames their problems on her.

The main reason why option C is bad is: it isn’t important to the story. What is important to the story is why Kuzuki Souichirou, teacher and non-mage himself, has Medea as his servant. This needs to be fleshed out in unlimited blade works or it would not make sense at all to first time viewers. Furthermore, what do we need to know about Medea really to understand her? Not much: she’s an evil witch who wants to go home and uses skeleton monsters. That’s it. We don’t need to know her entire backstory because it doesn’t apply to the plot: in unlimited blade works, she’s an evil witch from Greece and the bad guy who will use underhanded tactics to get what she wants. It sucks that we don’t get her backstory, but as I mentioned before, having her backstory in Hollow Ataraxia makes a lot more sense.

To further this point, let’s look at another hero who is big in unlimited blade works but doesn’t have their backstory explained but rather teased: Cu Chulainn. Like Medea, he doesn’t explain his story until Hollow Ataraxia. Like Medea, it doesn’t matter what his stories were, because they don’t matter to the plot. All the reader or viewer needs to know is that he’s a strong well known Irish lancer. There.

So finally, option d), have more time with Kuzuki. I feel like this is the one I would have preferred the most but I understand why they didn’t put it in. It’s obvious to the viewer that Medea likes Kuzuki, but less the other way around, which I feel was a missed opportunity as I still see people say that the relationship is one-sided or unrequited. If this was added it would make Medea’s death sting even more, make Kuzuki’s fight for her even more believable. However, this is also a problem of the VN (and even in Hollow Ataraxia) so I can’t really touch much on it.

There we go. I feel like a lot of people consider this “to be where UBW got bad” which, ok, sure, as I mentioned there are problems in the way they handled it. However, if I had to choose between the rather ok version we get in the visual novel, the one we got or a rushed version of her myth, I’m going to choose the one we got.

Thank you for reading! Feel free to message me if you wanna talk about this.

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I mean, he doesn't really fit with the class card thing, does he? Being a weird faux-Servant thing whose powerset is 'sword REALLY well' doesn't seem to fit Prillya.

Realistically because he was only summoned by Medea and that’s why he was summoned should suggest he would not even be able to exist in the prillyaverse, however, grand order kinda throws that out the window. The real question would be if the Ainsworths would be interested in making a class card of a “servant thing whose powerset is ‘sword REALLY well’”. Which is likely no.

Also there’s probably something to do with the compatibility of cards with the user (Altram uses Medea’s card, for example), and so likely it would only come to be if somehow Medea’s card got wonky or her card influenced an assassin card and thus he came to be.