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Fashion Report Card: Alexander Wang Divides, Preen Impresses in Debut

 Could Alexander Wang live up to heightening hype? Some critics were cold and unimpressed. But Preen was welcomed in America with all but a parade down Fifth Avenue. Lela Rose's Katherine and Audrey Hepburn theme proved puzzling, and rag & bone veered too far from what they do best. Who else got slammed?
Could Alexander Wang live up to heightening hype? Some critics were cold and unimpressed. But Preen was welcomed in America with all but a parade down Fifth Avenue. Lela Rose's Katherine and Audrey Hepburn theme proved puzzling, and rag & bone veered too far from what they do best. Who else got slammed?
Alexander Wang
Alexander Wang's show has had steady buzz for two weeks, peaking when word came out that former model Erin Wasson was styling his show and DJs AM and Aoki were spinning his after-party. But did the man live up to the hype? Sort of. Cathy Horyn lamented that "the clothes had a street currency but not much of a designer vision," while WWD said "the collection wasn't the eyesore that it could have been." Flattering. The Daily, on the other hand, was eager to appoint Wang the new king of the hipsters, claiming his "aesthetic is one of cool, insouciant chic." Style.com noted that there were some standout pieces, "like the elusive just-right, thin heather-gray T-shirt and terrific, slouchy light denim jeans." But WWD asked the most important question: "Will his customers shell out big bucks for clothes that resemble what's probably sitting in her closet?"
Watch a slideshow of the Alexander Wang collection.
With London designers gaining more fame and accolades, it was no surprise to see some of them showing in New York. Duo Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi of Preen debuted here to applause. WWD loved "their covetable tough-chic ideas on dressing." "The designers still wowed the audience with their mix of cool luxury with just the right touches of sensuality," raved the Daily. British Vogue thought the show clever, even if they did misinterpret the theme. Style.com proclaimed, "What Thornton and Bregazzi do best is a mash-up of classics: silk blouses, trousers, and bathing suits, like the showstopper worn by Anja Rubik." And Horyn noted that "fans of Preen have seen the clothes grow in sophistication and surprise."
View a slideshow of the Preen collection.
Lela Rose
Lela Rose tried to channel both Katherine and Audrey Hepburn, which seemed to confound critics. "What, exactly, does that mean?" Style.com asked. British Vogue answered, "Rose deftly mixed the femme (Audrey) with the homme (Katherine), oftentimes in the same look." The combination seems to have worked for Rose, said the Daily: "The designer's strengths are her use of exquisite fabrics and the ability to dress women in a perfectly flattering way." And though some of her pieces were a bit saccharine for WWD, the metallic polka dots and jeweled necklines had "an appealing quirky quality."
See a slideshow of the Lela Rose collection.
rag & bone
With a safari and Bond-girl theme, David Neville and Marcus Wainwright of rag & bone united the critics: Everyone felt the designers veered too far from their base of upscale Americana. "If the designers misstepped, it was with dresses," Style.com said, adding that "familiar shapes like a floaty trapeze frock and a baby-doll smock lacked the subtle subversiveness of the duo's more androgynous looks." Horyn chided: "The show had some cute effects, like windbreakers, but it lacked direction." But British Vogue dissented, claiming the collection would have even "Pussy Galore purring in approval." But the Daily wouldn't budge, complaining that "some of the dresses were so neutral that they strayed too far away from the brand's luxe yet hip image."
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National Service: Supporting Veterans and Military Families Fact Sheet
Service members make tremendous sacrifices and learn invaluable skills while protecting and serving our nation — they build a stronger America. Many veterans face challenges in translating those skills into meaningful community engagement, and too often, our industry leaders fail to make strong connections to one of America's greatest assets.
The Corporation for National Service (CNCS) can help with the reintegration of the more than 1 million veterans who will be returning home during the next five years. National and community service transforms those who serve and exposes people to society's challenges and empowers them to act. Participants gain valuable professional, educational, and life benefi ts, and the experience can have a lasting impact. Our veterans are uniquely qualifi ed to lead in these efforts through our Veteran and Military Family Corps national and community service models.
Engaging Our Military Community in Service
At CNCS, we are utilizing the talent and leadership of veterans to solve problems at home by engaging them in service through AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, the Social Innovation Fund, and other programs. More than 2,000 AmeriCorps and VISTA members will provide community-based support services to Veterans and Military Families in 2013.
By supporting local solutions, CNCS investments provide the resources that help organizations expand services, build capacity, raise funds, and develop new partnerships and programs in more than 350 communities. In 2012, approximately 1.5 million Veterans and Military Family members were impacted by the service of our AmeriCorps members and Senior Corps volunteers, reaching every state in the nation.
CNCS Programs Provide a Powerful Return on the Investment
CNCS' unique value is a "triple bottom line" return on investment: National service benefi ts the recipients of the service, the people who serve, and the larger community and nation. CNCS multiplies the impact of its federal investment by leveraging hundreds of millions of non-federal dollars, mobilizing millions of additional volunteers, and operating our programs with a high degree of accountability, transparency, and efficiency.
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In 2009, the Washington Commission for National and Community Service partnered with the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs to launch the fi rst CNCSfunded Vet Corps program in the nation to engage veterans in AmeriCorps national service positions.
In 2012, AmeriCorps' 31 Vet Corps members provided 52,000 hours of service to 7,100 veterans and military family members, creating a valuable resource to support veterans at 30 colleges across the state, improving their educational outcomes, and making a positive difference in communities across Washington state.
Serving Military Families and Veterans
Volunteers and national service participants provide critical support to veterans by connecting them to jobs, housing, health care, and other benefi ts. Volunteers support our troops here and abroad by writing letters, sending care packages, and donating calling cards. We are also increasing economic opportunities for military spouses and providing educational support for military children. Now, as part of the expanded mandate of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act and our new Strategic Plan, we are increasing our support of programs that serve veterans and military families and engage veterans in service. Through grants, special initiatives, days of service, and other efforts, we are committed to assisting those who have bravely served our nation.
Each CNCS Program Addresses the Unique Challenges Military Families and Veterans Face:
- AmeriCorps programs — Vets helping Vets. More than 17,000 veterans have served in AmeriCorps since its inception, helping other veterans and military families access benefi ts and services; obtain job training and conduct job searches; provide safe and affordable housing; and mentor and tutor children of service members.
- More than 500 Senior Corps projects and 8,000 volunteers serve at hundreds of Veterans Affairs facilities every year, assisting elderly and disabled veterans, helping military retirees acclimate to life after service, and providing transportation to those in need of medical treatment. Through Senior Corps programs, more than 650,000 veterans and military family members have been served.
- AmeriCorps NCCC has supported more than 50,000 veterans through special service projects, special events and disaster relief/recovery. More than 2,000 veterans received the support of relief services in the Gulf after Hurricane Katrina. Likewise, many veterans have continued their service through NCCC by participating in disaster relief and recovery efforts across the nation.
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- The Washington County Youth Services Operation Military Kids (OMK) identifi es youth from military families and helps them combat isolation and increase their engagement with their local communities. OMK Vermont helps the community understand the full cycle of deployment and its impact on children and families.
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Shepherdstown High School's place in West Virginia athletic history never will be usurped.
Can't be.
For one, there no longer is a Shepherdstown High School. Second, there are multiple classes in place that didn't exist when the Cardinals won the state baseball championship in 1970 as a Class A-sized school, having to compete against schools of all size.
The recognition of the little school's feat remains in what is currently a middle school, a wall hanging with the names of the players and some of their ballcaps.
The orchestrator of Shepherdstown's state baseball championship is no longer with us, however.
Jimmy Kessel, the coach of the Shepherdstown team of 1970, died recently at the age of 78.
"He was in Jefferson County athletics since the '60s," said Bob Rizzo, a longtime former coach in the same school system.
Rizzo, a dear friend who honored Kessel by asking him to be a godfather to one of his children, used to kid Kessel for as long as they were friends about a win by Harpers Ferry High School over Shepherdstown during the Cardinals' historic season. Rizzo coached the baseball team at Harpers Ferry that year.
"I had a curveballer," Rizzo said. "He threw curveball after curveball."
Kessel, who grew up in Petersburg and is a member of that community's high school hall of fame, was a straight-on coach.
Even though Kessel coached the football and baseball teams at Shepherdstown, he just loved football, Rizzo said.
"He ate, drank and slept football, believe me," Rizzo said. "He spent a lot of time with it, like all the old coaches used to.
"It's hard to believe he started in '62. I didn't realize that till the other day. Time flies."
Kessel coached up until this past football season, serving as an assistant football coach at Washington during its brief existence.
"He loved football," Rizzo said. "That was his first love.
"He went to the playoffs, that trip to (Cabell Midland). He was very uncomfortable then, but he helped them out with offense."
Kessel left quite a legacy in the Jefferson County School District even as he blended into the background as an assistant coach and left the positions of stature for others.
When the former high schools consolidated into Jefferson in 1972, Kessel was chosen to lead the Cougars during their first season. He led the squad to a 7-3 record as Jefferson played its games that season on the football field at Charles Town.
"His love, as far as coaching went, was football," Rizzo said. "It was a struggle putting the schools together. Everybody just assumed when you put the three schools together, 'Boom, we're going to be No. 1 in football.'"
It wasn't until the next decade that Jefferson finally made the state football playoffs, a time when only the top eight teams in the rankings advanced, unlike this era's 16.
An Air Force veteran, Kessel used to play for his base baseball team.
"He was a good ballplayer in the military," Rizzo said. "He used to tell me he traveled to all the military bases to play.
"He was a good athlete."
Rizzo reminded that Kessel was part of a bygone era in Eastern Panhandle athletics when Musselman, Hedgesville, Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown had a pretty intense rivalry in Single-A athletics. Musselman and Hedgesville, of course, are among the state's largest schools now, and Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown are no longer high schools, their students moving on to attend Washington or Jefferson.
"It was sad for my wife and I because we knew him for a longer period than most people in Jefferson County," Rizzo said.
Still, there are many others who remember Kessel for what his leadership as a coach and teacher helped to instill in them as people.


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When the Colorado Avalanche made the playoffs two seasons ago, it was thought by many that things had turned around in the Mile High City. Clearly, that was not the case.
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I'm surprised how quiet it is outside, the kids all inside the local Catholic school. Mom's back home to tend to the children not yet in school or to work, Dad's off at work, the retirees in the neighborhood, staying inside, out of single digit temperatures. Off in the distance the wail of a police siren. The ground is hard and knotted, the houses stare silently forward, not acknowledging anything that exists in their peripheral vision. The morning light falls down upon their steps, without sound. That lack of sound does not seem odd, it is simply Winter.
The sounds continue into evening, a summer shower off of the lake, releasing the scent of flowers into the damp air, crickets sawing away in the grass with a sound you can almost feel as a tickle on the skin, There is the wave of a neighbor, as they take in the paper, the clink of a couple of glasses of mint julep, there in the small traveling island of silence that follows us to the front porch.
We know who has had a new child, by the toys that sprout in the yard, like colorful flowers, and we note when a house grows silent, a sign gone up for a quick sale, the owner having passed away, time consuming not just courage but muscle and bone, until nothing was left but a frail form draped in a white sheet, like a piece of furniture unused. We didn't notice the exact time of leaving, but can't help but speak of the remains.
From the floor in my little office, comes a rumble, a growl. There is no one on the street, no person walking past. Yet four minutes later, the UPS struck arrives, the dog can hear it even as it makes it's turn from the main road onto this little side street, a canines super hearing that can detect his arch enemy the UPS truck or a crumb dropping in the kitchen. He barks ferociously at the driver, who, through the glass window, simply smiles, knowing that roar is a black lab with no will to bite. I open the door for the box, a rush of cold air coming in, the front room now smelling of trees, as it goes silent again, the dog turning around twice on the couch, before drifting off to sleep again.
The only sound now, that of breath and the tick of that old clock. I don't deliberately listen to it, the ticks seemingly beyond the realm of hearing, then in a moment, with that one tick your ears respond to, you are acutely aware, of the long diminishing train of time you did not hear. How many ticks in this house in a hundred years. How many after I am long gone? Yet, I feel the presence of others that have lived here, for they perhaps aren't truly dead, but simply were worn down by the minute clicking of small gears. The echo of those that sat in this room, do not disturb me, they are part of this house, the sound of wood, the creak one of murmuring bones, the air that taps on ancient glass, speaks of deep winds that witnessed more than time.
At the end of this day, the shop growing cold, I take a quick walk before dinner. As the neighborhood ticks outside, a slow and steady beat, comes the sound of the trains, the tracks a half mile away, carrying a sound on the air that is as comforting as childhood. I watch the movement that is static serenity and labored exhaust, a click, click as it moves away, through eternal trees, faded to thick sky, the train displacing air. What is that formula about the displacement of air? Or was that only in water that Archimedes of Syracuse calculated human displacement of. I put my hand on my hip and only displace air. Reductio ad absurdum, the absurdity of human logic where a two pound piece of forged steel on a hip weighs more than the form carrying it.
It's the last place I ever expected to live, but I am blessed to be here. I ascend the stairs, the air smelling of trees, clutching the old key to the back door, there on a little ring with a train etched on it. In the growing dark, I don't really see it, but I feel it, there in my hands, clutching that little anchor to a life in a small village, a life unexpected, but as welcoming as home.. The house sighs as I open the door; I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, moving away from the mirror into the warmth, my form darting out of the mirror, the sound, tick, tock, tick, breath that breathes life back into this old house.


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In 1975, the word hi-tech was new; the Chronosplit defined it. Electronic, accurate, with a dual digital display, its radical design fused form and function perfectly.
In the mid-Seventies, TAG Heuer inventors were seeking new horizons. After pioneering an electronic stopwatch accurate to 100th of a second, they wanted to make an electronic chronograph just as revolutionary. Their challenge was to combine the time and stopwatch functions in a contemporary design.
People's lifesyles were changing fast. So was design. Funky watches—mostly best forgotten—were in. The Chronosplit was different: simplicity itself. An LCD, with its own light, showed the time. Below, an LED displayed the stopwatch function in red. The displays could be used together or separately.
Calling it "futuristic" is an understatement; "Space Age" does it more justice. Fans rate it the most technically novel digital watch of the era. TAG Heuer produced limited editions, including fifteen with the Ferrari logo, and the great Enzo wore one. That is surely the utlimate seal of approval.


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Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to Susan Sutton's article in the May 3rd edition of the Blade-Empire.
Ms. Sutton's supposition is that guns have taken our most talented leaders.
Does she believe that the people who use the firearms hold no blame and it is all about the guns? What has happened to the concept of personal responsibility for one's actions?
Compared to the 55,000,000 plus babies who have been aborted since 1973, with our government's blessing, the number of people killed by firearms is miniscule.
Where is the outrage and where are the tears for this mass murder? Who knows what one of those innocent children might have become?
Before you go after my second amendment rights, guaranteed by the Constitution and The Bill of Rights, why don't you acknowledge that abortion is the largest stain on our country? Where are the articles about this travesty? I, for one, do not understand why it is okay to kill babies en masse, but feign outrage over the actions of a few disturbed people. Blaming all gun owners for the despicable actions of a few is shallow and shameful.
Respectfully yours,
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Other casualties: The Juiced series and the Stuntman franchise, as well as the PS2 version of Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed. The PSP and the Wii versions of Destroy All Humans are presumably still on the the way.
The why: "We have taken actions to strengthen our pipeline and position ourselves to compete aggressively with compelling, high quality games," said THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell.
Additionally, two unannounced titles for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have been scheduled for release in the 2010 fiscal year.
We're bummed about Stuntman. That series always seemed to have so much potential.
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I have a question on the pull-pull rod connectors. I swear I screwed them all the way in. I first screwed them in by hand as far as they could go. I then use some pliers and screwed until the little bolt stopped going in (3-4 more turns). However, I'm looking at the build video and some of the photos and it looks others are quite a bit more screwed in. Should I debond and try again?
it's certainly not ideal, but I've lost pull pull cables from various failures and setup mistakes in the air several times. they were all my fault, but my point is that under most conditions losing one side of a pull pull cable in the air is not a complete disaster. very easy to land the plane as the other side of the cable usually keeps the rudder somewhat centered. '
This would fall under the category of my fault though wouldn't it. Just curious if anyone else's were the same length. I pretty much followed the same procedure for all the rods (aileron, elevator) and got about the same amount threaded on each. Hand threaded 1-2 and then torqued down 3-4 more. On the elevator if I had gone any further the CF rod wouldn't have fit.
Went back and looked at threads compared to one that's not used, definitely not half used. More like 1/3. I guess I'm overthinking it (as I tend to do). I'm just confused how people were able to get it to thread deeper. I kept turning and it kept not going deeper. I marked the threads just to be sure.
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3DHS 57" 330SC setup question
I'm very new and a slow learner when it comes to all things 3D. While I've been flying my 57" 3DHS 330SC now for about a year, after attending the 3DHS Octoberfest last weekend in Austin...well I have some question.
I'm always on a budget but when I got my plane I was in between jobs and the purchase was to keep my mind from being idle and going crazy. So the budget concern was even greater.
When it came to the motor I purchased a Scorion 3032-12. Scorpion said it was their cross for 3DHS receommended Hacker motor. The specs on the motor sounded pretty good to me and it save me approx $25 to $30 on this purchase.
Scorion 3032-12 Motor Specifications are as follows:
Stator Diameter 30.0 mm (1.181 in)
Stator Thickness 32.0 mm (1.260 in)
No. of Stator Arms 12
Magnet Poles 14
Motor Wind 12 Turn Delta
Motor Wire 20-Strand 0.21mm
Motor Kv 687 RPM / Volt
No-Load Current (Io) 2.06 Amps
Motor Resistance (Rm) 0.039 Ohms
Max Continuous Current 70 Amps
Max Continuous Power 1200 Watts
Weight 223.6 Grams (7.89 oz)
Outside Diameter 37.50 mm (1.476 in)
Shaft Diameter 4.97 mm (0.197 in)
Body Length 49.9 mm (1.964 in)
Overall Shaft Length 88.5 mm (3.484 in)
I'm using an APC 15x7 prop
I'm using a Castle Creations ICE 75 speed controller (not the "Lite" version).
I'm using Turnegy Nano Tech 4S 4000mA packs.
I get about 6 minute flight times of what feels like rather conservative flying. I'd say 50% of the flight is at 50% throttle or less and feels slow in the air. The other 50% of the flight is at or near full throttle trying to learn knife edge spins and other more 3D type manuvers.
Anyway I've been happy but then I went to Octoberfest last weekend in Austin and I saw other electric 57" 330SC's in flight. They seemed to fly way longer than my 6 minute flights. Their airspeed seem to be way faster than mine throughout most of their flights.
At first I thought it was an optical conclusion but the more I watch the more I beleived my eyes. It is as if something with my setup is whimpy.
I may never be a big 3D flying type guy but I like trying. I aslo like making nice pretty lines in the sky, old school airshow type flying. I saw these guys doing it in Austin last weekend with more speed, zest, zeal, and with longer flight times.
Anyone have any ideas? What has this beginner yet to learn?
except that most people increasing the cell count reduce the capacity of each cell so that they arrive at the same all up weight. when doing it this way there's no change in flight times or power or whatever. the 4S setups are completely awesome, and I've flown some good 5S and 6S setups.
...and the typical 4S setup (4S 4000mah) probably has more flight time than the typical 6S setup (6S 2200) because there's more electrons on board (4 x 4000 being higher than 6 x 2200).
The 57 that I was pounding on all weekend at Octoberfest has the timer set for 6 minutes and I was being brutal to it with respect to power usage. 4S 3750mah packs.
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Ken Schutz has held executive leadership positions in cultural institutions for more than 20 years. He has been with the Desert Botanical Garden since 2001 and during his tenure he has managed construction of $17 million in new facilities at the Garden, more than doubled local attendance, initiated a number of exciting new education and research projects, and raised more than $10 million in gifts and pledges for the Garden's endowment. Prior to moving to Phoenix, he served as the Executive Director of the Science Museum of Western Virginia, and before that he was Director of Marketing and Development for the Baltimore Zoo. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.S. degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. from Bucknell University.
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Beverly has 28 years of experience in non-profit management in Arizona, including 12 years as Executive Director of the Phoenix Boys Choir (1984-96) and three years as Director of Major Gifts for the American Cancer Society's Southwest Division (1996-1999). As a former Peer Consultant for Arizona Commission on the Arts, she has facilitated board retreats for 17 organizations around the state. Beverly holds a B.A. degree from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina and did graduate work in interdisciplinary humanities at Arizona State University.
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Brian holds a bachelor of science in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Missouri in Columbia. His client list of large estate gardens and smaller gardens is extensive, and his personal garden in Paradise Valley was on the Patrons Circle Spring Garden tour as well as Phoenix Home and Gardens Grand Tour of Gardens. Brian brings to the garden a "new set of eyes" to create a new world class vision for the garden and it's future.
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Director of Research
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Michael, a Certified Public Accountant, joined the Desert Botanical Garden in April, 2011 after having served as Vice President for Financial Services/Controller at the Missouri Botanical Garden for nearly 22 years. He also worked as an auditor for many years before that, serving numerous not-for-profit clients. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from Northern Illinois University, and brings an understanding of the complexities of fund accounting, particularly for botanical gardens with a research element. Michael began training for work in the natural science arena when he was about 8-years old, watching birds, chasing butterflies and collecting other insects in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois. His passion and appreciation of the natural world, paired with his professional training and experience is an ideal fit for the needs of the Desert Botanical Garden.
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Director of EducationTina Wilson has been with Desert Botanical Garden since 2005. Prior to her arrival she taught at Broward College in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and served as the Horticulture Extension agent for Woodford County in Versailles, Kentucky. She has over 13 years of science education experience and is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a M.S. degree in plant science.
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Smoke could be seen rising from the upper half of Building 9, where the roof was in flames.
Minutes later, photos from the scene showed there was little left of the whole upper section of the building where only remnants of the roof remained and the apartments there were gutted.
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Whipping winds made it difficult for crews to fight the flames.
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Lancer (ランサー, Ransā?) is the Lancer-class Servant summoned by the Wolf in the False Holy Grail War of Fate/strange fake. Lancer is one of the Servants able to be summoned by the Protagonist in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
Lancer's True Name is Enkidu (エルキドゥ, Erukidu?), the only friend of Gilgamesh. Born from a clod of earth, Enkidu was clay shaped by hands of the Gods, his father the king of gods, Anu, and his mother the goddess of creation, Aruru. He was neither male nor female, but merely a monster made of mud that descended onto the earth and awoke in the wilderness. He opened his eyelids in response to a voice calling him from afar, taking in the sight of the expanses of land and sky and the towering city in the distance. The voice was unknown to him, but it was neither the maternal hand nor the paternal rebuke.
He was given superb power, but his parents were unable to give him a soul. He had no intellect after awakening, so his existence for years afterward consisted of rushing through the wilderness with the animals. He had a purpose, given the task of being the chains to return the keystone, Gilgamesh, to their control, but he could only live ferally without a soul. Lacking the will of a human, his happiness came from being free in the wild, neither perfect nor flawed. He would still stop to look at the city occasionally, hearing the voice that was neither his father's nor mother's calling him from beyond the wilds.
Anu brought him a woman, the divine harlot, after despairing over his lack of rational thought.[2] The asexual lump of clay fell for the beauty of the woman, which transcended the bound between man and woman, and they spent six days and seven nights together. The mud puppet, ignorant of mankind, slowly allowed his form to approximate that of a human, which seemed to become that of the beautiful harlot sharing his food and bed in attempting to assume her beauty. He made her paradoxical beauty his own, losing much of his strength and divinity, though still far above humanity, in exchange for wisdom and reason.[3] He had never looked in a mirror, so the humanoid form became a good instructor for him to learn about himself. He acquired knowledge and rational thought, all the truths of heaven and earth. Filled with the soul needed to fulfill his task, he spoke his name for the first time and the world became something extremely simple in that instant.
Finally recognizing his role and task, imposing the wrath of the gods and divine judgement upon a fellow puppet of the gods, he decided to seek out the arrogant Gilgamesh. The one he found was still a child, so he had to wait until Gilgamesh reached adulthood in order to fight and reprimand him as an equal. He watched the city while waiting, hearing the familiar voice from within. He watched his growth by the day, and Gilgamesh's fair nature confused him and made him question the gods' judgement. He came to realize they were correct as Gilgamesh grew and became a tyrant, but he understood the reason behind it.
Understanding that Gilgamesh's arrogance stemmed from his solitude, he sought to reprimand him, but did not state the real reason to avoid hurting his pride. He met Gilgamesh in front of the temple of Uruk, and they clashed in a fierce battle that lasted for several days. Gilgamesh was angered by a "clod of mud" being equal to him, humiliated that he had to use his treasures. He soon came to enjoy the battle, bringing them out without regret. After fierce fighting that left them both spent, they both collapsed to the ground without consideration for the location. Gilgamesh did so laughing, noting that there could be no winner without two corpses, and Enkidu fell in imitation of him, like a mirror.
Praising each other's valor, they became peerless friends who went on to have many adventures. One of his few achievements of the time was to have Gilgamesh make use of his treasures in battle. They combined their strength to defeat the guardian of the forest and beast of the gods, Humbaba, for the reason of protecting Uruk rather than anything to do with the gods. Enkidu commented that the people were suffering under them, so he questioned the point of such an action. Enkidu came to understand Gilgamesh's path at that point, that he would observe humanity's future from his solidarity.
Enkidu attempted to declare that he was a tool for Gilgamesh's use, claiming that he would stand by his side until the end of the world. Gilgamesh instead called him a fool, telling him that those who live together, talk together, and fight together are neither people nor tools, but what is called a friend. Obtaining that word was precious to him, and it was the moment he acquired a "self" in the true sense of the word. Afterward, Ishtar proposed to Gilgamesh, but he rejected her. Angered by his insults, she begged Anu to release the Bull of Heaven to punish them.
After working together to destroy it, Ishtar requested they be put to death for slaying a beast of the gods. Her request was granted, and Enkidu, created by the gods, was unable to defy the decree. He slowly weakened and was returned to clay, as Gilgamesh desperately held on to the crumbling clod in his arms. Gilgamesh was angered, exclaiming that he should have been punished instead, but Enkidu reiterated that he was only one of the numerous weapons in his collection. There would be no need to grieve because he would find countless greater treasures, so there is no worth left in him to deserve any tears from the king.
He believed that Gilgamesh was a hero who had a soul and free will since the beginning, who had true life and worth unlike his expendable self. He had always yearned for that and hated that they were such different beings despite being created by the same father. Gilgamesh exclaimed that he did have worth, declaring "In all this world, only one shall be my friend. Thus---not for all eternity shall his worth ever change." As the rain gradually let up, he returned to his original state, naught but a clod of earth in the wilderness, leaving behind nothing but the thunderous cry of the king.[2] The rest of Gilgamesh's lifetime afterward showed the large shadow cast over him from losing the sole person who understood him.[4]
Lancer is able to take a myriad of forms, but his usual form is that of a sixteen-year-old androgynous person with long, beautiful hair that shimmers with a light-green color.[4] He is summoned only wearing a plain tunic, so he seems rather unremarkable compared to those normally called Heroic Spirits. He is not summoned with any items, and his clothing does not look valuable in any way. While heroes are not determined by their wealth, being summoned completely barehanded is abnormal.
It is hard to tell if he is a man or woman at first glance. His face retains vaguely childlike features that are able to be interpreted as that of either gender. His lustrous skin and soft features are reminiscent of a woman, but his loose tunic further obscures his sex by hiding his physique, making it impossible to see his chest and hips, and making it difficult to discern if he is even actually human. He has firm and taut limbs, and his body seems like a coiled spring ready to rocket forth.
With an androgynous and neutral voice, his face can be called beautiful and elegant despite his gender, but at the same time gives off a strange and uncomfortable atmosphere. While his face looks human, it also appears inhuman due to the fact that it looks "too perfect." While the feeling cannot be put into words and it is not immediately apparent to the eye, his form evokes a similar feeling in the observer as a mannequin or puppets constructed by magi. His nature becomes less apparent the more one looks upon him, but his beauty as a being of perfect harmony is undeniable. He is a paradoxical being that possesses the impurity characteristic of mankind and the immaculacy inherent to nature. Defying classification as man or woman, human or beast, god or demon, his body is like the velvety boughs wrapping the statue of Venus.
Lancer seems to greatly appreciate nature, and he finds it as a relief that the world still beautiful as ever even after being covered by cities like Uruk. He is happy to sit while his Master is resting and simply allow himself to enjoy the magnificent natural landscape and the "song of the river." He enjoyed running in the wild during his days as a beast, with only the voice of Gilgamesh drawing him towards Uruk.
Even when dealing with the person who hurt his Master, he speaks serenely in a polite manner without any provocation. He follows his Master's wishes exactly without issue, leaving the magus to his own devices. At the final jeering from the magus calling his Master a mongrel, Lancer simply turns his head and looks at the magus with eyes saturated with "rejection." He instantly dissolves the malice in his eyes upon the magus' departure, and focuses on his Master.
Much like Gilgamesh, he regards their friendship highly. He held that he was a weapon in life, and that his fate was to be supplanted by the next. Any worth or mystery was to be limited only to his age, but Gilgamesh changed those thoughts. Gilgamesh accepted a penalty of a fate of solitude thereafter, but granted Enkidu with a soul with his words. He believes that he sinned in knowing Gilgamesh, whose greatest sincerity was to remain aloof without acknowledging the strong or the weak, but he ended up leaving a lasting mar upon that integrity.[2]
He is extremely surprised upon learning Gilgamesh has been summoned, and initially cannot even believe in such a turn of fate. After calmly opening his eyes, slowly standing up, and having a brief moment of silence, he has a feeling rampaging in his chest that goes through emotions of confusion, frustration, and finally overwhelming joy. He believes it is destiny that they will battle once again in the Holy Grail War, and he is confident that the tapestry woven between Enkidu and his King would not tear just because a fight or two. Even after a thousand melees together, their bond would remain just as strong as ever.
Fate/strange fakeEdit
Lancer is summoned by a Wolf originally meant to act as a catalyst for another magus. Before the magus can slay the wolf to retrieve the Command Spells, the wolf's most basic instinct, the will to survive, causes it to let out a bellow that acts as both magecraft and a summoning ritual for Lancer. While the magus is confused and intimidated by Lancer's appearance, he cannot deny Lancer's presence as a Heroic Spirit. Lancer quickly tends to his Master, speaking to him in an "animal language" to complete their contract, and prepares to take him to heal his wounds.
The magus, outraged at the farce of a chimera becoming a Master, attempts to fire upon him in rage. Lancer tells him to lower his weapon because his Master wishes him no harm, and even though Lancer can tell what had happened from his Master's wounds, he wishes to make it clear that his Master holds no malice against the magus. The magus makes a final plea to work together towards the Holy Grail rather than with that "mongrel", which earns the magus a gaze saturated with a crushing sense of "rejection" that causes him to flee with a squeal.
Brought forth by the gods as a beast during Gilgamesh's rule, it was rumored that Enkidu was more powerful than Gilgamesh, the Hero who ruled the nation, when he unleashed his wrath. Gilgamesh dismissed it entirely because he considered "having a contest of strength with a beast" to be complete nonsense. He merely laughed at the rumor due to the absolute faith in his own might and because he was certain that there existed no one stronger. The fate of everyone was altered upon the encounter between the divine harlot and the beast, bringing him the form and wisdom of a human. He stood before the great King, and they quickly became inseparable friends after an epic melee that shook the Heavens and Earth. While the views of the Golden King and the mud puppet could not be more different, the duo went on innumerable adventures while sharing in each other's joy and sorrow.
Upon applying minimal treatment to his Master's wounds at a small river ten kilometers away, he takes a survey of the area. He immediately shifts his sight to the northwest upon detecting a familiar presence, a Heroic Spirit in golden armor, exiting a cave that was covered by a magus' Bounded Field. Much like they were brought together in the past, it seems that fate is about to be altered once again. Certain that the presence in the north was his King, he smiles, silently opens his arms as if to bear his heart to the world, and announces: "Let us continued the duel on that plaza once again… Let us relive that joy." He begins to sing a song that shakes the earth, and acts as the signal that the War has begun.
"Who would understand you after I die? Who else would march forward by your side? My friend… when I think that you will live on all alone henceforth, I can't help but shed tears…"
—Enkidu final words to Gilgamesh
After Saber destroyed Caster, Gilgamesh recalls Enkidu's death upon witnessing Excalibur's light. He is described as foolish and ridiculous, having set his heart to stand next to the gods even with a body of mud and soil. Through his hubris and disrespectful arrogance that offended the gods, he suffered divine retribution and lost his life. Gilgamesh was unable to forget his death and the tears streaming down his face. Gilgamesh assumes Enkidu had regretted taken to his side but to his surprise; his tears were for him and how lonely it will be for him. Gilgamesh realized that this man, who was human but wanted to surpass humanity, had lived, was even more precious and more brilliant than all the treasures he had collected.[5]
He is also the main reason for Gilgamesh to reject Rider's invitation for a joint world conquest, Gilgamesh states Enkidu is the only person who he considers as his friend and companion in the past and future, he further declares that there is only one true king.
Fate/Extra CCCEdit
Enkidu's past from his own perspective appears to Hakuno Kishinami in a dream if Gilgamesh is their Servant. As his records fade away, he speaks to Hakuno, noting that he is naught but a long-gone regret of the past. He tells them that it is their future and their story, the story of someone who is human unlike him. He asks them to ask Gilgamesh if he still loves humanity, still remembers the name of his friend, and if he has "finally cast aside the mistakes of a distant age and laid them to rest."
After Hakuno awakes, Gilgamesh also reveals that he had been dreaming of something nostalgic, the battle with the Bull of Heaven. Hakuno attributes it to Servants rarely sharing a mental link while sleeping. If asked if he remembers his friend, Gilgamesh claims that he hardly had friends, and that he would have forgotten the name of his friend if he had one. He disdainfully says "I can no longer speak the name.", but his voice contains no trace of anger. If asked if he loves humanity, he responds that it should be obvious from the way he treats Hakuno, and they take it as an affirmation.
Gilgamesh makes it clear that he was dreaming about the path traced by his own life, calling the events Hakuno glimpsed tainted by their own perspective and far from his truth. Although Hakuno is confused over the nature of the dream, knowing that it was not Gilgamesh's or their own perspective, they know the words spoken were the entirety of the truth, especially the King who uttered "Not for all eternity shall that worth ever change" to his friend. Hakuno apologizes to the one who the dream belonged to, noting that his wish for Gilgamesh to cast aside those memories will never be granted.[2]
Fate/Grand OrderEdit
Babylonia: The Absolute Frontline in the War Against the Demonic BeastsEdit
In Chibichuki!, Enkidu befriends a lonely Lugh Beowulf while Gilgamesh becomes jealous.
Other appearancesEdit
Lancer has appeared in a number of pieces of guest artwork in various TYPE-MOON material books.
In Type-Moon's April Fools' Day 2009, moon.cinemas.jp is a fake movie theater site listing a number of parody films. Lancer was featured in Chariot Man: A True Tank Man, a parody film of Densha Otoko. Lancer plays the role of Enkidu-chan, a girl who loves her dog. The story is expanded in TYPE-MOON 10th Anniversary Phantasm comic. She is "Gil's" next door neighbor, childhood friend and she is currently in love with Gil. She is seen waking Gilgamesh and suggested him to eat breakfast down stair. The every day occurrence in the morning, Kirei Kotomine uses his Super Bajiquan to "wake" Gilgamesh. Previously the explosive power has revealed her dog-print underwear to Gil and it left a painful experience for her. This time she wore spats and she considers it more elegant enough to impress Gil. Unfortuneately Gil was more concerned about the Saber figure than Enkidu. She is worried and shocked about the present suggestion to Waver.
Lancer's might is far beyond human comprehension, and Gilgamesh considers him to be his only equal in the world. He is a being made by the gods, an autonomous weapon similar in nature to an AI, given their blood much like Gilgamesh, and he was "Uruk's greatest weapon." Faldeus is surprised Enkidu can even be summoned, as he was more a Noble Phantasm of the Gods than a hero. Gilgamesh speculates that Enkidu could potentially be summoned as a Berserker-class Servant or in some other way that would make their coming duel less favorable, but he casts aside the thought. Faldeus comments that he would potentially reach the level of a god, regaining the power lost from gaining humanity.
He has a connection with nature, and he can speak in an animal language (獣の言葉, kemono no kotoba?) that allows him to understand, communicate with, translate the "words" of his Master and other animals. Even though the wolf is not capable of "thought" in the sense of humans, Lancer is able to communicate that the wolf bears no malice towards his creator. It is noted that when he sings, the landscape resonates to his song, and the entire land of Snowfield sings with him. It is a tremendous roar with the power to shake both heaven and earth, too beautiful to be called such, instead sounding like a lullaby sung by the earth itself. It lays waste to the laws of physics, sounding like the cry of a newborn and showing his power at the same time.
Lancer's special ability is Presence Detection (気配感知, Kehai Kanchi?) of the highest rank, which allows him to easily detect the presence of another Servant very far north of his position and recognize it as Gilgamesh almost immediately. It can also be used to sense the "presence" of water over ten kilometers away even without any sounds or visible clues. He can feel the direction in which it can be found, and details as to how it "caresses the land."
Lancer possesses two Noble Phantasms, however only one, Enuma Elish is uncensored in his status page.
Enkidu was made from clay by a god, so he lacks a gender or a fixed form. He can change shape at will, but he was complete from birth and neither grew or evolved unlike Gilgamesh. He generally uses his androgynous appearance despite being able to take forms as needed. He can be a spear, axe, shield, or beast should he need, and it allowed him to last several days in battle against Gilgamesh and the Gate of Babylon. Though it required using ninety percent of his clay, leaving him at the point of being unable to even form clothing, he forced Gilgamesh to empty the vault. The battle left them in a state where it was considered to be a draw because defenselessly charging would have left two corpses.[2]
Enkidu does not posses normal parameters, instead possessing the Transfiguration skill as an inherent characteristic of an "Automatic Doll." He is able freely change his ability scores according to the situation, manipulating his Strength, Endurance, Agility, Mana, and Luck parameters. He possesses a set pool of points to allocate into the parameters, and his high rank means a greater pool of points. When allocated evenly, he possesses all A-rank parameters, higher than even Karna and Heracles. The cost rises when bringing a parameter from A-rank to A+, requiring a two rank drop in all other parameters. His Magic Resistance also changes based upon his Mana rank.[1][6]
His background and final moments differ somewhat in his three appearances. His background in Fate/strange fake and Fate/Extra CCC differ in the time of his creation and events leading to their initial battle, his final conversation in Fate/Zero differs from that of Fate/Extra CCC.
The appearance in Fate/Zero was written to be vague and ambiguous as not to ruin the proceeding scene with Excalibur's activation. It was not possible to depict it as such in the anime adaptation, so the scene was not animated.[7]
Creation and ConceptionEdit
Lancer was designed by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Shidzuki Morii.
Narita was worried about his stats ranking being too high and above both Berserker and Karna, to which people are going to call him a Mary Sue. Narita was impressed with Kinoko Nasu's precised planning.[6]
- In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Lancer was ranked 105th.
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15
[] Fate/strange fake - Volume 1 - Servant status: Lancer
Class: Lancer
Master: Synthetic beast Silver Wolf
True name: Enkidu
Gender: None
Height/Weight: Control at will
Alignment: True Neutral
Strength: -
Endurance: -
Agility: -
Magic: -
Luck: -
Noble Phantasm: A++
Class Skills
■ Magic Resistance: -
Because of the skill "Transfiguration," the magical energy stat fluctuates accordingly.
Personal Skills
■ Transfiguration: A
Special skill inherent to Automatic Dolls for allocating ability scores from a set pool of points according to the situation.
The higher the rank, the greater the pool, but two ranks worth of points will be needed to bring A up to A+.
■ Presence Detection: A+
Highest rank of Presence Detection ability. Via the Earth, is able to sense the presence of things at long range. If close range, an equal or lower rank of Presence Concealment can be nullified.
Noble Phantasms
■ (Obscured in volume 2)
Rank: ???
Type: ???
Range: ???
Max Targets: ???
■ Enuma Elish: O Humans, Let Us Restrain The Gods Above
Rank: A++
Type: Anti-Purge Noble Phantasm
Range: 0~999
Maximum Targets: 1000 People
Ability of Enkidu's to transform its own body into a Divine Construct.
The Counter Forces known as Alaya and Gaia's powers flow into a keystone made of light. Then giant amounts of energy are transformed into a form that the world can recognize and pierces the opponent in one hit. In response to things that threaten the destruction of the planet or humanity, the power is increased.
■ 対魔力:-
■ ???
■ 人よ、神を繋ぎ止めよう
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Gilgamesh Secret Garden conversations: 1, 2, 3, and 4
- ↑ Fate/strange fake
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
[] Fate/Extra CCC - Gilgamesh Matrix
Class: None
Name: Gilgamesh
Master: [PC]
Noble Phantasm: Enuma Elish (The Star of Creation That Split Heaven and Earth)
Keyword: King of Heroes, friend
Strength: B, Endurance: C, Agility: C, Magic: A, Luck: A
Divinity: B (A+), Golden Rule: A, Collector: EX
Enuma Elish (The Star of Creation That Split Heaven and Earth)
Gilgamesh's final Noble Phantasm which reveals creation--the beginning of everything.
The severing of space which comes from the Sword of Rupture, Ea, the sword crowned with the name of a god from Mesopotamian mythology.
The god, Ea, is believed to be the quasi-deification of the power of the planet which turned, smashed, and stabilized the surface of the earth when it was still covered in gas and seas of magma, during the primordial stage of the earth.
Many gods began building nations after the the primordial earth was stabilized into a world where living creatures could live, but Ea is a god who performed the act of building of planet before that.
Gilgamesh's sword, which is crowned with Ea's name, changes space itself by agitating space-time through the rotation of three layers of giant power fields.
It's true power is not something to be used against a single living creature but against the world. Even among the many Noble Phantasms possessed by Servants, it is one considered to be at the top, the sword "which tore apart the world."
King of Heroes
Another name for Gilgamesh. It does not mean a king who is a hero but is used with the implication that he is the king over heroes.
The story of Gilgamesh, is who mankind's oldest hero, is copied within the mythologies of all the countries of the world. The origin of all myths, the model on which heroes are based...calling him such would not be an exaggeration.
More or less, the heroes of various myths are derived from Gilgamesh's legend. As such, Gilgamesh possesses the prototypes of the Noble Phantasms that heroes carry... the original treasures from before every legend was arranged. Though it may be a paradox, unless the original, Gilgamesh, possesses it, it cannot be handed down as the Noble Phantasm possessed by the later heroes who were derived from him.
When humanity was still small. Within the treasury of the king, who governed his kingdom and lived in as much luxury as he desired, was collected every single treasure in the world.
Inside that treasury, there is the treasured swords that saved later heroes, and there is preserved the cursed swords that stole the lives of heroes.
The reason that Gilgamesh is called the King of Heroes is here. Noble Phantasms are primarily one to a any single hero. Not only does he possess an approximately infinite amount of them, he also owns the "legends" that other heroes are wake against, as if it were natural. It should be impossible for an average hero to cross swords with him.
As a Heroic Spirit, he is an absolute warrior in battles against Heroic Spirits. While there are several heroes who hold the title of king, such as the King of Knights and the King of Conquerors, but in regards to being crowned with the title "King of All Heroes," in all of heaven and earth, he is the only one.
As he became a young man, Gilgamesh's violent disposition only grew. Of course the people of Uruk, but even the gods who dispatched him, were greatly perplexed by his violence.
"Gilgamesh is not fulfilling his original role." "That insolent creature needs someone to admonish him."
Having come to that conclusion, the gods sent a single life to the surface. Its name was Enkidu. It was a person made by a god and given her blood, the same as Gilgamesh.
It had neither a sex nor a fixed form. Enkidu, being made from clay by a god, was "Uruk's greatest weapon," able to change its shape at will. According to the god which was its mother's will, Enkidu confronted Gilgamesh before the temple of Uruk. With their exchanging of blows like a storm, their battle occurred within the city.
After that fierce fighting, they both collapsed to the ground without consideration for where, praised each other's valor, and became peerless friends.
Gilgamesh, who had been without equal, for the first time found someone he could call "a friend."
After that, while his vainglorious attitude did not change, Gilgamesh, remonstrated by Enkidu, softened his tyranny.
Gilgamesh, who had acquired someone who understood him in Enkidu, defeated the guardian of the forest and beast of the gods, Humbaba, and, as the most excellent king on the earth, took possession of every single treasure.
At this time, the dazzlingly powerful Gilgamesh was an existence that not even the gods could avert their eyes from.
A goddess fell in LOVE with this Gilgamesh. It was the goddess of fertility Ishtar. She proposed to Gilgamesh, but he quickly refused. Because he knew that how whimsical and cruel a witch who rendered men useless Ishtar was.
Ishtar, enraged by Gilgamesh's insults, as her revenge, clung to her father, the god Anu, in tears and released the greatest of divine beasts, "the Bull of Heaven," onto the earth.
"The Bull of Heaven" is a disaster of extreme magnitude clad in storms. When it appeared, a seven-year famine and destruction occurred on earth. In other words, the downfall of Uruk.
Against this divine beast which none could match, Gilgamesh and Enkidu worked together to stand against it and repelled it splendidly. Once again, the goddess lost face. Naturally, Isthar's rage had not lessened, and she requested death for either of the two of them from the gods. Because for one with a human body to kill the beast of the gods was a sin.
Ishtar's wish was granted, and one of the two, Enkidu, who was created by the gods, unable to defy that decree, slowly weakened and died.
...The sole person who understood the king, Enkidu. Just how large a shadow his loss cast over Gilgamesh is told in his lifetime afterward.
Enkidu is an autonomous weapon created from the clay of the gods. In SE.RA.PH. terms, he is close to an AI. As a result of being complete from birth, he neither grows nor evolves. He could take various forms as needed, but it is said his usual appearance was that of a 16-year-old person who could be seen as a girl or a boy with long hair which faintly shines a light-green color.
01 - 『天地乖離す開闢の星』
02 - 英雄王
03 - 友人
01 - Divinity [B (A+)]
A judgement regarding whether or not one's body possess the property of being divine.
Though he possesses the greatest rank of divine spirit aptitude, Gilgamesh himself hates the gods, so the rank has gone down.
02 - Golden Rule [A]
Not the bodily golden ratio, but one's destiny in regard to how much money follows one around in life.
At rank A, it's possible to call it a soul of gold. With this Goldy attitude, even while living like a multimillionaire, he won't have any money troubles during his life.
03 - Collector [EX]
The ability to acquire items of higher quality. It's the good luck of frequently obtaining even rare items, but because it only applies to Gilgamesh himself, it does not bless the Master.
Gilgamesh is a collector of treasure. "I collected all the treasures of the earth," is Gilgamesh's favorite phrase, but that is not a metaphor. He collected and stored away a sample of all the technology that was developed during his age and sealed them.
That which Gilgamesh stored, rather than being treasure, is "the origin of the intelligence of mankind" itself. If it does not exist in Gilgamesh's treasury, then it is "something produced by a new breed of humanity, according a completely new concept," "something made from the technology of the culture born from the intelligent life from another heavenly body," one of the two.
For that reason, of course he has airplanes and submarines. The desires of the people from before Christ are not different, and it would not do for the crafts of ancient times when magic was in good health to be inferior to the crafts of the modern age. People generally realize the "tools of hope" that they dream of, and each time that occurs, it ended with them being confiscated by the king's hand.
The offensive skill Gilgamesh uses, "Gate of Babylon," shoots the treasure he collected like this like arrows. The gate to the golden capital opens, and his treasures are shot out from his treasure cellar.
This is a digression, but after the Noble Phantasms that are shot out are used, regardless of how far it has gone, it turns to Gilgamesh's treasure cellar. "Hah. I possess a Noble Phantasm which excels at the task of retrieval," says the person himself.
The demigod king who ruled over the Sumerian city-state of Uruk in the time before Christ. Not just a legend but also a real person, the king written of in mankind's oldest epic, "The Epic of Gilgamesh."
Possessing great divinity as two-thirds god and one-third human, without anyone to match him in this world, he was perfected as a transcendent being who attained everything in the world.
In his childhood, he was adored by the people as the ideal ruler, but as he grew, possible due to being treated as almighty, his consideration for the people waned, and he came to rule Uruk with absolute power.
However, simply being oppressive does not make one a tyrant, he made Uruk prosper properly, found a friend he could speak with, and in personally subjugating the phenomena that would harm the people, that heroic quality cannot be doubted.
He is the heroic figure who defeated the bull so large it was cloaked in the heavens and rendered the civilization of this fortified Sumerian city unshakeable.
The following is historical fact, which differs from "The Epic of Gilgamesh." According to a fragment of an inscription found in an archaeological excavation of the historical ruins of this Sumerian city, Uruk was a city-state that existed on the shore of Persian south of Mesopotamia, and he was the fifth king of that city's first dynasty. It obtained assets through ocean trade and subjugated the region of southern Mesopotamia. He was victorious in the fight against Aga, king of the Kish who controlled the north made strong the city-states of Sumer. However, as a result the reckless deforestation of the woods due to the building of ships, their agricultural land was destroyed.
For that reason, Gilgamesh, seeking the giant tree, the Lebanon Cedar, launched an expedition all the way to far-away Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon), fought against the people of woods, called Humbaba, gained victory against them, and brought that massive tree back with him.
According to "The Epic of Gilgamesh," it seems that Gilgamesh, after the loss of Enkidu, fell into depression, his previous vigor gone.
The fact that Enkidu, whose strength had not been inferior to Gilgamesh's own, could die, was the shock that Gilgamesh received.
Gilgamesh, who was tormented over anxiety of death, finally set off on a trip to the realm of the death in search of perpetual youth and eternal life.
It was said that there lived a sage who had lived since placing a large amount of animals upon an ark before the coming of a deluge that assailed the earth.
This sage was said to be the only one of the earth escape from death and live until the present. Seeking him, Gilgamesh set across wilderness alone.
At the end of that long journey and many hardships, Gilgamesh finally managed to reach the realm of the dead. There, he met the sage, Utnapishtim, spoke with him, and in the end, Gilgamesh attained the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.
Gilgamesh came to rise above the "death" that had taken even Enkidu.
His heart's desire fulfilled, during his triumphant return to Uruk, Gilgamesh stopped by a spring. He cleansed himself; it seems he wanted to test the fruits of his labor while in perfect condition.
However. While he was bathing, unexpectedly, a snake with an empty stomach sniffed out the smell of the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.
By the time he noticed, it was too late. Panicked, Gilgamesh emerged from the spring, all that remained there was the skin that snake had shed.
Having lost the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life in this way, Gilgamesh was irritated for a long interval, but afterwards, he made his way back to his own castle, Uruk.
While the Gilgamesh after this was severe, he ruled his state quietly, entrusted to to the next king, and went to his eternal rest.
Without telling anyone of the whereabouts of the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.
Mankind's oldest king of heroes, Gilgamesh. Discord with the gods, the journey for the perpetual youth and eternal life, a deluge which covered the world. In that epic is the basis of every legend.
The truth of his epic poem, which has many uncertain points concerning fine details exists on the other side of the veil of romance placed upon it by the present day.
This is another digression, but the snake is reborn with a new body every time it sheds its skin because it stole and ate Gilgamesh's spirit herb... is what is said. It seems that the way the snake goes about its life appeared to the ancient people as a kind of perpetual youth and eternal life that was not available to humans.
01 - 出典
02 - 出典
- ↑ Fate/Zero - Act 10 Part 5: -84:19:03
- ↑ 6.0 6.1
Fate/strange fake - Volume 1 afterward
Nasu: Enkidu has A rank in every stat
Narita: Isn't that even higher than Berserker in the 5th War?! People are gonna call him a Mary Sue!
Nasu: Calm down.
Narita: No but, all A's puts him above even Karna!
Nasu: Calm down.
Narita: Honestly, even I thought "his stats are way too high..."
Nasu: I told you to calm down!
Narita: Gahhhh!
Nasu: Conversely, Neme___s... base stats are all A, but for example if Strength was A+ then all other areas would lose two ranks...
Narita: So calm! You've got it planned out so precisely...!
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero Blu-ray Disc Box II English Translation booklet: Introduction, p.003-004
Special issue
Gen Urobuchi:
To give a specific example, allow me to explain Berserker's flashback scenes, which were probably the most heavily revised from the original. In the original novel, it is a scene that jumps to an entirely different time period that is inserted right in the middle of the duel at the end. It is precisely because the depiction of the fight had been placed in the back of the reader's mind as a concept that it was possible to depict and link this to his past as a separate narrative thread.
With that said, in the visual medium, because the audience takes in the battle in the underground garbage by means of sight and sounds, the scene has a sense of place which helps to make it seem as if they themselves are there. If the point of view were to suddenly shift to another time, another story, the tension that suffused that showdown scene would suddenly evaporate. Although humans can develop differing concepts in parallel, they can only focus on and process one view point at a time. If the anime version has ignored this difference and stayed slavishly true to the original novel and revealed Berserker's past in exactly the same way, the viewers probably would have felt a visceral sense of incongruity and instantly been thrown out of the moment.
The same goes for the flashback scene where Gilgamesh reminisces about Enkidu. In the novel, I took care to write it with deliberately vague, ambiguous imagery to depict Gilgamesh's flashback so as not to ruin the afterimage of Excalibur's activation scene that immediately preceded it. However, this sort of allowance isn't possible in visual media. Every scene is depicted with the same resolution and the same sense of presence as time unfolds at the same pace. So with that in mind, they had no choice but to place both the catharsis of Excalibur and the information dealing with Enkidu on the table and decide between. Of course, it was obviously the former that was more vital to the overall story.