network: @auo

[gilgamess]

I am experimenting with the broadcasting abilities of this device. It would seem it can create text of this nature simply when I communicate the words to it? Fascinating! Ahahaha! Indeed, it even captures my laugh! Ahaha... how delightful...

[ well, u know, it's delightful to him, anyway. brain-to-text laugh is some good and important technology. ]

Well, it would seem that this network is not censored, so shall we speak freely? What do you all make of this city-state? It would seem an eclectic one. The people and the wildlife seem... though somewhat unorthodox, contented. No, more than contented. They seem quite proud. A mixed society with a strong identity tied to a city-state. And yet the world is an eccentric one, you might say.

But is the eccentricity merely a curious byproduct of a world which has been evolving since the most ancient times and now also has futuristic technology, or is there something more deliberate or coordinated at work?

Thoughts and findings?

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@rhea'li

[lightduties]

[No, the concept of using user names hasn't quite made its way to him.]

i was told something rather interesting
that this world is the first of all worlds
and there is a sense of responsibility to other worlds due to this
though i do not know how exactly that responsibility manifests
does that mean meddling in the affairs of other worlds?

text; @auo (he's mentally writing the text tho haha)

[gilgamess]

The first of all worlds...

[ had he heard about or realized this? Gilgamesh thinks. his understanding was that the world was both very ancient, yet also futuristic, and his impression was that they were in a future (relative to their own) on a very ancient world... but for it to be the first. truly, he considers this. ]

"Meddling"... or perhaps something more akin to trade. Or... could it even be, perhaps, military aid? Indeed, my kingdom, Uruk, was the first of all kingdoms in my world, Earth.

[ well, Maybe Not Exactly, but the beginning of human literature/written history counts. ]

Of course, we took something of the same attitude: alliances with other kingdoms, joining in military operations or taking the lead on those. Could it be that something like this is happening with Magisteria? If so, I should think there might be more answers within the Government district.

[lightduties]

[Earth? What sort of society names their star after the ground? Although... military aid? There's some merit to that line of thought; Libra had been a soldier in a war that had taken down a dragon. And...]

tis true i know those from my [he almost types 'star' but corrects himself to use the local terminology] world who were drawn here are exceptional warriors
though tis passing strange they would seek aid from those whose ties to the mortal world have already been severed

[gilgamess]

[ smh, Rhea'li. so much... there, if only Gil knew his thoughts. ]

That is perhaps less at odds with the system I am familiar with. In my world, it is customary to summon spirits who are great heroes from legend, myth, and the past. Though mage society is secretive, wars are fought using such entities. Indeed, I myself am an ancient hero who was summoned to Chaldea to fight on behalf of humanity's last Master, as were many others.

[ tho, u know, Gil is the gr8est and others be mongrels and such. ]

However, this custom within my world... is not one that is known to the world at large.

[ and he is not really familiar enough with Magisteria yet to know more about how exactly "summoning" worked here. but Rhea'li did seem to be onto something that many of those "summoned" (if it could be called that) here to help the natives did seem to have powers or be some manner of hero/legend or were at least talented/capable. Gilgamesh had encountered Musashi, a fellow Servant. Lucy, from what he could discern, was not a legend or hero, but she did seem to be quite savvy/competent... that Ratio guy was a nerd -- one with a bad personality, but still... something something they all brought different talents to the table, presumably... ]

[lightduties]

[Rhea'li considers those words with some interest. He had no idea that Gilgamesh is a spirit; he seems rather flesh and blood here. More importantly, it implies that long after his passing, he did not pass into the Lifestream (or his star's equivalent of it). And he is rather unlike a primal...]

there is a practice from my home that shares similar traits
oft in times of strife against an opponent believed to be too powerful
peoples would summon beings called primals that they believed to be manifestations of their gods
but the practice is dangerous
for primals would enthrall their summoners and drain the land of energy

so if you are a spirit
are you the actual hero from legend?
or are you a manifestation that bears memories of the hero long passed?

[gilgamess]

[ Probably best not to get started on Fate/ vs after-life. In Gilgamesh's era, apparently souls descended to Kur, kept in cages tended by the hand of Ereshkigal, but then apparently later, that's not the case? People die when they are killed, except not. Also, grand heroes such as Gilgamesh go the Throne of Heroes, which is where their spirit origins are summoned from, or something, etc etc Fate/... ]

How curious! The Servant system I speak of was not for summoning gods or goddesses... yet there was a method, were they adjusted to become Servant classes rather than deities at their true and pure power.

[ Again... Fate/... gods can't be summoned as Servants. Except they can be, kind of, if shrunken in a Servant class/vessel, as it were. Or something. ]

Indeed, I am the hero Gilgamesh. Who else should I be? The original heroic spirit, the first king. Could this personality belong to any other?

[ Which is to say, yes, the ancient hero-king of Mesopotamia in Fate-verse was indeed this golden twunk right here. Though Fate/ also plays with the idea of whether various heroes really existed, and that the conception of popular imagination affects how they might appear. Which goes no way whatsoever to explaining the golden twunk-ness.

That's just because Gilgamesh is a demi-god, his mother a goddess, and, like Ereshkigal, goddesses were often known for golden hair and red eyes. ]

Summoned to Chaldea in the form of a Caster class -- this is how I manifested at a time of Uruk's great need, to oppose the Three Goddess Alliance that threatened my kingdom. Now, I, the Wise King, bring my talents and knowledge to Magisteria.

[lightduties]

[Rhea'li's relationship with gods and goddesses is... complicated. And the true nature of such beings...]

what do you mean by form of a caster class?
does the summoner exert some influence over your manifestation?

[Is Gilgamesh also a god killer?]

[gilgamess]

[ A goddess killer, more precisely, but it amounts to the same. And the goddess he took down -- albeit with the help of Ritsuka and Mashu and their allies, and the necessary assistance of King Hassan -- was one incredibly OP mamma. ]

Indeed. Depending on what role we are summoned into, one's powers and even personality may differ. My traditional class is that of the Archer. In that role, the summoning is of me at the prime of my power... the version of myself prior to the journey of my legend.

[ Back when he was younger, more powerful, but less tempered. Some would say, in other words, an even more egotistical and vastly more assholic version of Gilgamesh. Whereas here he is the wiser and relatively ... "friendlier"... form thereof. ]

[lightduties]

[Gilgamesh really does sound like a primal the more he talks about it. Legendary to peoples past? Check. Summoned to fight on behalf of his summoner? Check. Powers and personality influenced by the summoner? Check.]

if you are most powerful as an archer
then why summon you as a caster?

[gilgamess]

[ Technically, because the series needed another 4-star Servant, and Fate/ is always recycling characters into different iterations, So. ]

When my kingdom was under threat, I put away certain of my powers and behaved as a mage, summoning Servants of my own.

[ In other words, although he himself was reduced in power, as a mage, he was better able to summon allies, making for a more powerful force overall. Gilgamesh's power from his Archer incarnation was also diminished because he gave away numerous of his treasures/weapons to his people during the time of crisis. ]

When a Master summons me from that era, I am summoned in the form of me who was a mage. Thus, a Caster class.

Besides... power is not everything. Though less powerful... well, this version of me is wiser, having seen and experienced the Deep and all the world, and having experienced all tribulations.

[ He's more tempered, more cautious. Though his other self may have more raw power, his ego has also proven his undoing in some situations. ]