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Sunder the Gold said:
Not that you aren't onto something, but...

If they weren't emperors, then who WAS? Who rules an empire, if not an emperor?

I know Rome had a two-man or three-man arrangement at one time or another, but...
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Had four at one point, but didn't last. Two emperors was originally a Emperor-protege thing, but grew independent under the same name on the basis that Rome and Constantinople was just that far apart. Then one of then just made it official and there was no way around it unless they wanted to selfdestruct. If they had no strong neighbours it'd probably have gone to a full civil war.

The issue was the Empire was too large, and geographically too distant from the capital. Any provincial governor could scrape up enough funds for their own army, and the legions are loyal to individuals than the state.

By the end they were putting down a rebellion Somewhere at any given time, and ignored others as long as the taxes kept coming.
 
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Gray-Productions said:
There's one thing I've always mused about Lyrical Nanoha and its Belka. They speak German and have flight superiority in most cases. I've always thought of them as Ace Combat's Belka during the Belkan War, finding magic as their newest superweapon and winning.

But maybe its just a reference.
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The Belkan Air Force's insignia is a triangle.
 
Subs are out and apparently Vivios 100 m dash without magic is as fast as Usain bolts.

Edit: Oh and dat Fate-service:p

Edit2: and the opening was updated as well.
 
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Deadly Snark said:
BTW, can someone remind me? Is it Raising Heart or it is Raging Heart?
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The wiki explain it.
Early fansubs rendered Raising Heart's name as "Raging Heart". The official spelling has since been confirmed as "Raising Heart" in the bonus information card that accompanied the anime DVDs. While the English release started out using "Raging Heart", it switched to "Raising Heart" later on; with the subtitles, only the first disc (containing the first five episodes) uses "Raging", but the dub only changes to the correct terminology upon the beginning of A's.

The different spellings exist because the character "ジ" is treated differently in different systems of romanizing Japanese. The seldom-used Kunrei system renders it as zi, while the more common Hepburn system renders it as ji. However, the consonant at the beginning of the syllable is neither English z, nor English j but a sound that does not occur in English; the closest English sound is that of j. Thus the English pronunciation of "Raging Heart" is probably the closest to the original Japanese pronunciation of the name. It is possible that the creators intended it to be the Device's name, and the final official English spelling is an artifact.
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Imho Raising Heart is a better name since, as Nanoha´s Device , Raising was/is used to Raise the Hearts of her opponents.(in a metaphorical sense)
 
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green-link94 said:
Subs are out and apparently Vivios 100 m dash without magic is as fast as Usain bolts.

Edit: Oh and dat Fate-service:p

Edit2: and the opening was updated as well.
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You know, I was just waiting for Vivio to point out that she might be the most knowledgeable person in the room concerning Olive. :lol

And that Fate-service...hell yeah. :D Also, it was the closest point ever (so far) that we got any NanoFate service. :p:lol
 
That was pretty good. I need to find better subs tho... th one I read labeled the king a queen & so on.
 
Since when did Einhart have a bind spell?

It's been a while, but that's not how I remember the fight going. Nor do I remember her ever using a bind ever again.
 
Nevermind how complicated a multi-array, target-surrounding, multi-chain bind should be for an Ancient Belkan Style practitioner, especially one who doesn't specialize in capture-type spells at all.

Makes me double-sour about how pathetic Els Tamin's abilities are, despite being an actual bind-specialist who uses a magical style better suited to binds and a device severely optimized for binding.
 
Sunder the Gold said:
I dropped it after the third (fourth?) Belkan Emperor was introduced. That is to say, the descendant of someone who was an emperor AT THE SAME TIME AS OLIVIE AND KLAUS WERE EMPERORS.

"Do you fuckwits understand what an Emperor IS?"
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veekie said:
The Emperor thing...anyone knows the original term in Japanese?
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The Japanese word used here is romanised as"ou" or "oh". It literally means "king" and whoever subbed it as Emperor went wrong somewhere...

Although it should be noted that most historical Emperors of Japan only ruled relatively small land areas.

Also, is Ancient Belka really modelled after Rome? Maybe it's based on the Holy Roman Empire instead... which would explain a lot of stuff, like why the devices speak German rather than Latin and why the empire seemed so tiny. That would also explain why the kings had "saint" or "holy" in their title, and allow for kings to be elected, which of course leads to all sorts of squabbles, since plenty of potential kings might not like the results.
 

There are also jokes about Red Subaru and Blue Nove.
 
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The Japanese word used here is romanised as"ou" or "oh". It literally means "king" and whoever subbed it as Emperor went wrong somewhere...

Although it should be noted that most historical Emperors of Japan only ruled relatively small land areas.

Also, is Ancient Belka really modelled after Rome? Maybe it's based on the Holy Roman Empire instead... which would explain a lot of stuff, like why the devices speak German rather than Latin and why the empire seemed so tiny. That would also explain why the kings had "saint" or "holy" in their title, and allow for kings to be elected, which of course leads to all sorts of squabbles, since plenty of potential kings might not like the results.
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In which case, it would have been neat if the Wolkenritter were Latin instead of German, because they seem to hail from the original Roman Empire equivalent to Olivie's Holy Roman Empire analogue.
 
Raising Heart is the official one, but it's hard to tell in Japanese anyway since they pronounce both the same.
 
Sunder the Gold said:
In which case, it would have been neat if the Wolkenritter were Latin instead of German, because they seem to hail from the original Roman Empire equivalent to Olivie's Holy Roman Empire analogue.
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It'd be weird for them to be Latin. War hammers and longswords weren't in common use in the Roman era, simply due to the fact that chain mail or plate over a gambeson did not exist in the original Roman Empire. Vita and Signum would be so out of place it wouldn't be funny.
 
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It'd be weird for them to be Latin. War hammers and longswords weren't in common use in the Roman era
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Neither was flight, talking weapons, bullets that contain highly-condensed magical energy, armor made of magical energy which takes the form of clothe and a few metal plates but which protects the wearer like an Iron Man suit of armor, werewolves, teleportation...
 
I know that, but another key issue is that the Wolkenritter, or at least Signum, give off the concept of knights and magicians. The concept of a knight just didn't exist in the original Roman Empire.
 
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I know that, but another key issue is that the Wolkenritter, or at least Signum, give off the concept of knights and magicians. The concept of a knight just didn't exist in the original Roman Empire.
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The Praetorian Guard (Latin: Praetoriani) was a force of bodyguards used by RomanEmperors.

The Wolkenritter are the Cloud Knights who guard the Mistress of the Night Sky. That could have been framed as a praetorian guard for an empress of the night.
 
Saw episode 3 at last. I liked it, and as a yuri shipper there's LOTS of subtext to go around...
 
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