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La Chanson de France - Fate/Broken Europa

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Phigment said:
Older man, beard white as snow?

Clearly Saint Nicholas, Assassin.
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Noble Phantasm: Norse Wind: He Sees You When You're Sleeping (Rank A, Anti-Person)

Sooner or later, children learn the truth about Santa Claus: he doesn't exists, the presents they receive come from their parents.

This is not the truth.

With the crystallization of his legend, Saint Nick is capable of possessing any sleeping person in the world (it is said that in his natural form he's capable of possessing a great number of people at once, but the Servant container does impose certain limitations), guiding their actions in a somnambulistic trance. People under such influence experience what happens to them as hazy dreams, which, once they wake, are recontextualized into memories that make sense to them.

As such, Saint Nick is capable of guiding parents to buy just the right presents for their kids and make them think it was their own idea accomplished under their own will... or use this ability for more sinister purposes.

Servants are immune to this Phantasm, and powerful magi could, in principle, resist... if they somehow realize what's happening to them in the first place.
 
[X] The Polish unknowns take you a long time to track down - until they get into a fight with someone just as mysterious as they are. Only the remains of the battle give any indication as to what happened and why.

Don't have any original thoughts to add to the vote; the Polish pair seem intriguing and minimizing unknown factors is definitely a good strategy.
 
[X] The Polish unknowns take you a long time to track down - until they get into a fight with someone just as mysterious as they are. Only the remains of the battle give any indication as to what happened and why.
 
illhousen said:
Noble Phantasm: Norse Wind: He Sees You When You're Sleeping (Rank A, Anti-Person)

Sooner or later, children learn the truth about Santa Claus: he doesn't exists, the presents they receive come from their parents.

This is not the truth.

With the crystallization of his legend, Saint Nick is capable of possessing any sleeping person in the world (it is said that in his natural form he's capable of possessing a great number of people at once, but the Servant container does impose certain limitations), guiding their actions in a somnambulistic trance. People under such influence experience what happens to them as hazy dreams, which, once they wake, are recontextualized into memories that make sense to them.

As such, Saint Nick is capable of guiding parents to buy just the right presents for their kids and make them think it was their own idea accomplished under their own will... or use this ability for more sinister purposes.

Servants are immune to this Phantasm, and powerful magi could, in principle, resist... if they somehow realize what's happening to them in the first place.
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Cursed Skill: Orthodox Fist (Rank A)

Before he was the Bringer of Gifts, Saint Nicholas was a priest and a brawler, fighting in the name of his faith - even against his fellow bishops. How much hotter, than, must his fury burn against the faithless?

This skill represents an unarmed martial art empowered by holy fervor. Against those who merely argue against some details of his faith, Santa is a strong man, but one bounded by human capability. Against those given to the service of other gods, his fists shatter stone and his body rejects the impact of simple bullets and blades. But his full potential is reached against those who understand in fullness the Christian faith, and yet choose freely to reject i. Against these apostates his hands glow with the icy light of the polestar, and foes can no more strike him down than they might cut away an avalanche.

This skill represents an extraordinary danger to the Cult of Reason and many magi, but it is flawed. First, as the price of knowing this art, Saint Nick may not raise a hand against those who share fully in his theology. Second, in order to wield this style, Saint Nick must live a life entirely in accord with the commandments of his faith - even minor lapses will leave his blows harmless until he has spent a night praying for forgiveness. And most significantly, the power this style draws from is purely internal: It is not enough that a foe merely holds beliefs Nicholas would consider heterodox, he must be made aware of their heresies to unleash the Orthodox Fist.

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Of course, Saint Nicholas would be a Greek or Turkish servant, not a Polish one.
 
tzar1990 said:
Of course, Saint Nicholas would be a Greek or Turkish servant, not a Polish one.
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Spanish, according to the deep Dutch lore.

Yes, for some reason we have decided that Saint Nicholas lives in Spain of all places. Let's just hope our new apprentice isn't young enough to be kidnapped in his bag and taken back on the steamboat for being naughty :p
 
Rhydeble said:
Spanish, according to the deep Dutch lore.

Yes, for some reason we have decided that Saint Nicholas lives in Spain of all places. Let's just hope our new apprentice isn't young enough to be kidnapped in his bag and taken back on the steamboat for being naughty :p
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Please, no Zwarte Piet. We don't need that here.
 
Rhydeble said:
Spanish, according to the deep Dutch lore.

Yes, for some reason we have decided that Saint Nicholas lives in Spain of all places. Let's just hope our new apprentice isn't young enough to be kidnapped in his bag and taken back on the steamboat for being naughty :p
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Umm... I did a quick google, but I'm not finding any secret Spanish Santa lore, and according to wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas said:
Saint Nicholas of Myra[a] (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343),[3][4]Saint Nicholas - Wikipedia also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (Greek: Μύρα; modern-day Demre, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.[7][8] Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.[c] Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, prostitutes, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus ("Saint Nick") through Sinterklaas.
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Relics of Saint Nicholas may be in Turkey, Italy, Ireland, or France.

And I think Turkey would be a good choice for a surprise entrant, given that they were in talks to join the EU that stalled in 2016 - the same year Brexit occurred and fucked everything up for us.
 
[X] The Polish unknowns take you a long time to track down - until they get into a fight with someone just as mysterious as they are. Only the remains of the battle give any indication as to what happened and why.
 
tzar1990 said:
Umm... I did a quick google, but I'm not finding any secret Spanish Santa lore, and according to wikipedia:



Relics of Saint Nicholas may be in Turkey, Italy, Ireland, or France.

And I think Turkey would be a good choice for a surprise entrant, given that they were in talks to join the EU that stalled in 2016 - the same year Brexit occurred and fucked everything up for us.
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Dutch Santa is called Sinterklaas, and he arrives here every year from Spain on his steamboat.
 
tzar1990 said:
Umm... I did a quick google, but I'm not finding any secret Spanish Santa lore, and according to wikipedia:



Relics of Saint Nicholas may be in Turkey, Italy, Ireland, or France.

And I think Turkey would be a good choice for a surprise entrant, given that they were in talks to join the EU that stalled in 2016 - the same year Brexit occurred and fucked everything up for us.
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In the Netherlands, we celebrate "sinterklaas" or Sint Nikolaas, translated Saint Nicholas, instead of having Santa during Christmas. Part of the story we tell children is that he usually lives in Spain (not Turkey or Greece) , and that he travels to the Netherlands by steamboat. Naughty children get put in a large bag usually used for presents by his helpers (and I agree, let's not unleash that entire discussion here). As for what the Spanish say about him, I have no clue. Also don't know why we Dutch claim he lives in Spain, maybe something to do with the 80 years war.
 
Rhydeble said:
Also don't know why we Dutch claim he lives in Spain, maybe something to do with the 80 years war.
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tzar1990 said:
Umm... I did a quick google, but I'm not finding any secret Spanish Santa lore, and according to wikipedia:



Relics of Saint Nicholas may be in Turkey, Italy, Ireland, or France.

And I think Turkey would be a good choice for a surprise entrant, given that they were in talks to join the EU that stalled in 2016 - the same year Brexit occurred and fucked everything up for us.
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IIRC it's a combination of Spain being a center of trade/luxury/exotic goods during the Spanish golden age, Bari (which houses Nicholas' remains) being part of the crown of Aragon at the time, and the Netherlands being a Spanish possession for a bit.

Hence, Nicholas went to Spain to get his gifts. Which morphed into him living there.

Random Member said:
Please, no Zwarte Piet. We don't need that here.
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Don't you like people who give kids treats like pepernoten, chocolate and all other kinds of sugary goodness? :<
 
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I don't know what all this nonsense about Saint Nicholas has to do with good, wholesome, secular Père Noël, but I'll have none of this Catholic propaganda in my home.
 
So, going back to dscussing the actual updates:

The part where V says Mad is torn because she felt like she was forced to betray her previous apprentice, and picked a new apprentice she wouldn't have to betray, is kind of thought-provoking. I don't know much about this Fate setting, but as I understand it, once the other competitors have been picked off, the winning summoner has to toss his or her servant into the magical woodchipper in order to claim the Ultimate Magical Wish Power. Which makes this a parallel situation; the Mads/Verc partnership is doomed to end in betrayal, if it lasts long enough.

(Also, Omicron really likes betrayal stories. See: Luppi in NN.)

Second, my understanding is that Fate is a gacha game. So, when the german summoner indicated that the result of the summoning was weird, I assume it means she summoned the ultra-rare foil bikini version of her intended servant, instead of the base version.
 
Phigment said:
Fate is a gacha game
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One of the most recent entry is a gacha game, but it's a franchise encompassing video games, light novels, anime, and mangas. What Omicron is actually taking inspiration from is the first entry in the franchise, which was an erotic visual novel.

Not really stellar endorsement now that I think about it, but there you go.
 
Phigment said:
econd, my understanding is that Fate is a gacha game. So, when the german summoner indicated that the result of the summoning was weird, I assume it means she summoned the ultra-rare foil bikini version of her intended servant, instead of the base version.
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The Alter version would be more likely than the Summer version.
 
Phigment said:
The part where V says Mad is torn because she felt like she was forced to betray her previous apprentice, and picked a new apprentice she wouldn't have to betray, is kind of thought-provoking. I don't know much about this Fate setting, but as I understand it, once the other competitors have been picked off, the winning summoner has to toss his or her servant into the magical woodchipper in order to claim the Ultimate Magical Wish Power. Which makes this a parallel situation; the Mads/Verc partnership is doomed to end in betrayal, if it lasts long enough.
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Only if you want to reach Akasha, lesser wishes can be done with just six souls (or less, even, the original war was done with three Servants, but magi back then did try to reach Akasha, and three was not enough for that).

Reaching Akasha is a great goal of basically all traditional, orthodox magi, but is more-or-less useless to the Cult. It's kinda like reaching Nirvana but for nerds: you completely remove yourself from the world. It is speculated that you get to influence the world in mysterious ways (at least one magus believed he could destroy the world if he could reach Akasha), but there is no concrete evidence for that. Meanwhile, with just six souls you probably could drastically rewrite recent history and put the world on track to your glorious vision of the future.
 
My shaky, half-baked and fanfiction-influenced Fate knowledge has left me the impression that if you reached Akasha, but didn't want to go through with the weird Nirvana thing, you could settle for getting a massive magical upgrade (known in setting as True Magic) and proceed to style on all of your former colleagues like an asshole Dumbledore. There's this one guy named Zeltrech who managed it, and Rin got an 'apprenticeship' (read: internship with terrible boss) with him or something after the main series ended?
 
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