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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[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. ]