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Hey it's me, Desdinova. I felt super inspired while working on Horizon Gate 4 so I decided to put some ideas for the setting onto paper. A little look into the Divine Oracle Metropolis while I figure out how to make a murder mystery work in a place that focuses on prediction of the future as its main area of research.

These oracle towers are monitoring devices that record all sorts of information for students and teachers to access ...

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Originally Posted by BladeOfEden

True, but if I were introducing someone to the series, I don’t think I’d have them follow that order. I did, and I had to rewatch the first few films to understand how everything fit together. I’ve tried rewatching them in the timeline order, and I feel like it works much better.

Originally Posted by BladeOfEden

No, what I’m saying is the original order was likely chosen in part to draw in readers, as there doesn’t appear to be any special reason for it, unless there’s something specific to the novels that I’m missing out

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"Did you know that there are three types of swordsmen, those who fight through overwhelming skill, those who fight through overwhelming strength and those who fight through overwhelming divinity"

The title of grand saber is relegated to those swordsmen who are so famous that they embody the very archetype of what a swordsman could be. There are three types of swordsmen, the lone master, the cunning hero and the holy king. Those off course correlate to miyamoto musashi, hercules ...

I finally got the full novel and since I know that I'll be translating it for myself while reading anyway, I thought I'd also share what I translated. I'm publishing it as a blog so it's easier to delete later if I screw something up. Do keep in mind that I'm an amateur though.

First 4 pages of chapter 1

Chapter 1: A subspecific Holy Grail War

【Observation Target/Change】
【Compilation Continuum Restoration/Observation Continuation/21st Century】
【Norway/Oslo

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Doth did the Glutton Gaze into the Records

And the Fragments of A Possible Time Gazed Back

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Guide:

=Servants I wish I could stop myself from ever creating out of shame and cringe factor

=Servants I am incredibly proud of (and also want to see get plapped)

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The Drug Demon, Aimo Koivunen (Berserker)

The Father of Refinement, Lazăr Edeleanu (Caster)Embodiment of the Crystalloid Intellect's Humanity,

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