TheFoxsCloak

Originally Posted by TresserT

Someone explained this very thoroughly a couple of weeks ago.

In typemoon there are two views of the universe. The Actual Universe and the Observable Universe.

The AU is like a giant stone tablet with everything that ever has or will happen etched into it. There's no past or future, everything just is and is layed out clearly all at once. Likewise, events don't "unfold"- every "possibility" is actually just another etching. These etchings take the shape

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Originally Posted by fumei

Originally Posted by Sione

Wait, which Lostbelt has A-rays again?

LB6 has A-Reis, or "sub-bells" depending on what TL you've read. In LB6 the term used in JP was 亜鈴, where "sub-bell" is the literal reading (and has some relation to fairies at least, cuz of bells), whereas "arei" is the transliteration. They were the "great mother/father" fairies that could reshape the world, and from which the more powerful fairies in LB6 inherited their powers. The reason for using

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Originally Posted by Petrikow

Originally Posted by Petrikow

Pruning and translations

It's time for a sequel:

Partially the reason I started looking into this was the term we discussed first: 濾過異聞史現象 (NA; Felling Theoretical Phenomenon).
After some deliberation (mostly out of respect of the translators), I've decided to talk a little about why I feel this term has received possibly the most confusing translation they could have possibly gone for.

I'll break this down into 4 points:

1. It is unclear:

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Originally Posted by Petrikow

The talk we had earlier about 濾過異聞史現象 (on NA: Felling Theoretical Phenomenon) in relation to 剪定事象 (on NA: Pruning Theoretical Phenomenon) as well as their translations really got me thinking more about what the hell is going on here.

At first I was just thinking about the whole theoretical thing, but eventually I realized this misses the point. The real reason why especially the translation for 剪定事象

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Originally Posted by Justiciar Hux

Originally Posted by Byegod

Apparently you only need to think yourself as human to be a fucking beast according to kiara

Kiara's has buddhist principles behind it though. In a roundabout way, she does love all of mankind immensely, but only because they're "parts of myself" to her view.
This is best seen with her CCC NP, which is essentially a wide-scale but corrupt version of Saver's Amita Amitabha; she transmigrates everyone's souls into herself, but rather than being out of compassion for humanity,

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