Talk:God Force

Translating error in the English game
Some versions of the original Fate/Extra English translation has mis-translated Lu Bu's noble phantasm into "The Five Warriors of Guan Yu."

The wiki page here names it "Five Warriors of the War God" which is a much closer translation, but still not as precise as it could be.

A translation that is both mythologically more sound, and more expressive of the original author's intentions, would be "Five Arms of the War God."

The kanji in the Japanese version of Fate/Extra is 軍神五兵 (gunshin goehei); the very last kanji, [ 兵 ], has a modern translation of "warrior," but also has a more obsure and archaic translation, which is "arms" or "weapon." Given the game's own mythological account of the weapon, this more obscure translation would have been a lot more fitting.

Possible reasons for the error
One of the contemporaries of Lu Bu in the Three Kingdoms period was Guan Yu, who has faced Lu Bu on the battlefield on at least one occasion. Guan Yu holds the informal title of "war god" / 軍神 / "gunshin" in some modern pop media, notably that of KOEI's Dynasty Warrior series. It is possible that North American translators mistook "gunshin" as a reference to Guan Yu - a confusion that's all the harder to disentangle since legend has it that in a twist of fate after Lu Bu's death, Guan Yu inherited his legendary steed.