GugalannaWP (グガランナ, Gugaran'na?), the Bull of HeavenWP (天の牡牛, Ten no Ōshi?), was the greatest of Divine Beasts in Mesopotamian MythologyWP and a familiar of Ishtar's.[4][5] Gugalanna can be manifested during Ishtar's Noble Phantasms, partially in the case of the Archer Pseudo-Servant's Gugalanna Strike and fully in the case of the lingering echo's Gugalanna Strike: Outrage.
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Background[]
Gugalanna was released onto the Earth by the god Anu after Ishtar clung to him in tears and asked for its release for her revenge on Gilgamesh, who insulted her and did not respond to her temptations.[4][6][7] The "Bull of Heaven" is a disaster of extreme magnitude that is clad in storms. When it appeared, it brought about a flood and dark clouds that covered the world, causing a seven-year famine and destruction to occur on earth, and in other words, was bringing the downfall of UrukWP. Against this Divine Beast none could match, Gilgamesh and Enkidu worked together to stand against it and repelled it splendidly, binding it with chains and destroying it with that weapon. The clouds faded and the land was saved from the flood, but naturally, Ishtar's rage had not lessened, and she requested death for either of the two of them from the gods because it was a sin for one with a human body to kill the beast of the gods. Ishtar's wish was granted, and one of the two, Enkidu, who was created by the gods, was unable to defy that decree, slowly weakened, and died.[4]
Appearance[]
Gugalanna is said to be the size of a mountain.[8] However, this might be an understatement. It is noted that its length is in the triple digits of kilometers range, and that each bone in the golden and blue beast is the size of a large city.[2] Due to this, just its hoof and leg alone towers above even the tallest Servants.[9]
Furthermore, its body is surrounded by a cumulonimbus over 500-kilometers in diameter.[2] In Ishtar's second Interlude, the Protagonist comments that he can't see where the bull ends and the clouds begin, such is the bull's size, and Enkidu states that its legs can easily level mountains. In its Younger form, Gugalanna's appearance is a comically small version of itself no larger than Ishtar's foot. It has blue horns, four spine protrusions, and two golden colored stripes.
Personality[]
Role[]
Fate/strange Fake[]
Gugalanna is summoned by the existence that has possessed Fillia. It has been brought forth from a Parallel World that appears to "not connect to anywhere."[10] It is implied to have been taken from the Ishtar of the world of Fate/Grand Order.[8]
It appears surrounded by a massive hurricane that conceals its true nature and appearance from outside observers. This hurricane was coincidentally named Hurricane Inanna by TV networks and the internet, in reference to an alternate name of Ishtar.[1] When False Lancer deflects a satellite sent falling towards Snowfield by Thia Escardos during their battle, Gugalanna briefly emerges from the hurricane to devour it.[2] Recognizing the threat it poses, Faldeus' organization plan to destroy both it and Thia with a nuclear weapon in a plan codenamed Aurora Fall.[1][11]
Fate/Grand Order[]
Seventh Singularity: Babylonia[]
When everyone comes up with the plan to use Gugalanna against Tiamat, Ishtar shamefully admits that she somehow lost him. It was implied to have been taken by Fillia into the world of Fate/strange Fake.[8]
Nahui Mictlan: Golden Sea of Trees Travelogue[]
Ereshkigal Alter summons the legs of Gugalanna to fight ORT.
Dead Heat Summer Race! The Ishtar Cup of Hopes and Dreams[]
Unable to summon Gugalanna due to the end of the Age of Gods, Ishtar decides to create a new one from scratch. She does this by planting Venus textures in a singularity located in Connacht. She then convinces her master and several servants to hold a race under the belief that it is a ritual that will erase the singularity. In actuality the racers, carrying parts of Gugalanna are tracing a sigil while carving magical energy into the land, combined with Ishtar’s divine wealth via her Quantum Power System will allow her to recreate the Bull of Heaven. Upon completion of the race, Gugalanna begins to reassemble into Gugalanna Mark II, but before it is complete Quetzalcoatl destroys it.[12]
Interlude: Return of Ishtar[]
Undaunted by this past failure, she attempts to make a Gugalanna Mark III within the Mesopotamian Singularity in her second interlude so she can win a rematch against Gilgamesh and Enkidu, only this time using knowledge from Chaldea to modify chronology and nexus according to her will to have the Goddess Singularity be under her "Venus regulations", granted her as much power as she had in the original Epic. She also recruits Mash and the Protagonist, even temporarily restoring the former's pre-Lostbelt Galahad powers, under the promise that the Singularity will not interfere with the Human History. However, the Mark III goes berserk and start attacking her because she didn't notice that the lapis lazuli horn needed to turn on and control it that she stole from Uruk's temple were replicas. She is ultimately forced to destroy it with the aid of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Mash and the Protagonist.[13]
Abilities[]
Gugalanna is said to be the strongest Divine Beast of SumerWP. It was such that the gods could not tame it, so only Ishtar was able to control it as she wills. Having required the combined might of Gilgamesh and Enkidu to defeat it, Gilgamesh holds it in high regard, originally hinging on it as a final safeguard in the battle against Gorgon and later as a key component in defeating Tiamat. Although he has no personal faith in Ishtar, Gilgamesh is wiling to side with her for the very reason of having Gugalanna as their battle power. Simply summoning it can cause great damage to the environment. It can raze a city within moments of activation, and it can burn the Tigris RiverWP dry.[8]
Ishtar directly compares 8000 Bel Laḫmu clumped together and body-slamming at the ziggurat's rooftop to Gugalanna's hoof.[14] Gugalanna's divine aura also crushes and swallow space, breaking the concepts of range and direction.[2] Ishtar manifests its power with the Noble Phantasm Gugalanna Strike.
Hurricane[]
Gugalanna is clad in a massive storm, appearing in the center of a large hurricane 800 kilometers in diameter when summoned by Fillia.[10] When Gugalanna was approaching Snowfield City, its feet were compared to four huge tornadoes that strode across the land, shrouded in flashes of lightning.[15] After Thia Escardos witnessed Gugalanna block the largest and most powerful meteor in A Clockwork Abaddon with one of its horns, he deduced that Gugalanna itself might be even stronger than the hurricane that surrounds it. Obviously, comparing different forms of calamities is comparing apples and oranges, and cataclysmic earthquakes are inherently more damaging to the world than giant tornados, but looking only at their energy numbers, the bulky hurricane has the power of a hundred magnitude 9 earthquakes. After swallowing Thia's meteor, gold and azure light shone in the hurricane’s interior, explosively increasing its energy level without changing its size. The 50m/s winds became 80 m/s, momentarily approaching the historical wind speed world record of 100 m/s. Gugallana could easily break the record if it dedicated all of its power to raise the wind speeds, however, it avoided doing so.[2]
Skills[]
- Tumultuous Euphrates (激動するユーフラテス?)
- Overflowing Tigris (氾濫するティグリス?)
- Mesopotamia Drying Up (干上がるメソポタミア?)
- Blue Sky Sumer (蒼天のシュメル?)
- Storm Pillar Connecting Heaven and Earth (天地続げる嵐の柱?)
Noble Phantasm[]
Gugalanna's Noble Phantasm is Heavenly Echo Shrine, Gugala Inanna (天鳴神殿グガ・ラ・イナンナ?).
Forms and Alternate Versions[]
Mark II[]
When Ishtar creates Mark II, the storm has gale winds and the storm clouds surrounding it emit lightning capable of damaging and destroying Saint Graphs. Its manifestation caused earthquakes that were beyond ordinary earthquakes, said to be the earth itself crying in pain as it was sacrificed to form the Mark II. Ishtar claims that Mark II would easily able to destroy the Singularity it was in just be stomping on the distortion, though Mash and Da Vinci both objected to; Mash believing it to be equivalent to using a bomb to get rid of a stain, while Da Vinci noted that, although it would get rid of the Singularity, it would also destroy the land, Connacht, that the Singularity is on. Ishtar says its "divine radiance might be so intense that it crushes all sorts of tangible and intangible things.", and that with it complete, she will regain her Authority over the Heavens and return to being Inanna, her true self; a Ruler Ishtar that is the highest Goddess among goddesses who collects Authority from every other God to use as ornamentation. While the group of fourteen Servants present in the "Dead Heat Summer Race!" are able to put up a fight against the partially summoned Mark II, they are unable to bring forth the power to defeat a single foreleg by themselves themselves, the Bull being practically invulnerable to them due to an incarnated Divine Beast being law in this world. Only Quetzalcoatl is able to defeat partial-manifested Gugalanna due to her being beyond the capacity of humanity.[12]
The Mark II's Saint Graph Designation is Rider in Fate/Grand Order.[12]
Mark III[]
The Mark III was able to cause Earthquakes with its steps, and casually crush Mt. Ebih along with the Temple of Ishtar by stepping on it with its hooves, its massive size stepping so thoroughly that even the hardest gems get turned to dust. However, due to being activated with a replica of the original Lapis Lazuli horn, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Mash, Ishtar and the Protagonist are able to defeat it before it reaches Uruk, with Gilgamesh commenting that the Bull was past its prime and that he didn't even need to be here for the Bull to be defeated.[13]
It's Saint Graph Designation is Alter Ego.[13]
Development[]
Gugalanna was designed by PFALZ. He first utilized the design in his doujin Gugalanna - The Bull of Heaven in 2012. The design was first officially reworked and utilized in a TYPE-MOON work in Fate/Grand Order in 2017.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fate/strange Fake Volume 7 - Chapter 22: "The First and Last Breather Day"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Fate/strange Fake Volume 7 - Chapter 21: Day 3 "Beings Created in Man's Own Image"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 9 - Chapter 29: "Rhapsody of the Demigods I (Part 1)"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2
[] Fate/EXTRA CCC - Gilgamesh Matrix Class: None
Name: Gilgamesh
Master: [PC]
Noble Phantasm: Enuma Elish (The Star of Creation That Split Heaven and Earth)
Keyword: King of Heroes, friend
Strength: B, Endurance: C, Agility: C, Magic: A, Luck: A
Divinity: B (A+), Golden Rule: A, Collector: EXKeywords Enuma Elish (The Star of Creation That Split Heaven and Earth)
Gilgamesh's final Noble Phantasm which reveals creation--the beginning of everything.
The severing of space which comes from the Sword of Rupture, Ea, the sword crowned with the name of a god from Mesopotamian mythology.
The god, Ea, is believed to be the quasi-deification of the power of the planet which turned, smashed, and stabilized the surface of the earth when it was still covered in gas and seas of magma, during the primordial stage of the earth.
Many gods began building nations after the the primordial earth was stabilized into a world where living creatures could live, but Ea is a god who performed the act of building of planet before that.
Gilgamesh's sword, which is crowned with Ea's name, changes space itself by agitating space-time through the rotation of three layers of giant power fields.
It's true power is not something to be used against a single living creature but against the world. Even among the many Noble Phantasms possessed by Servants, it is one considered to be at the top, the sword "which tore apart the world."
King of Heroes
Another name for Gilgamesh. It does not mean a king who is a hero but is used with the implication that he is the king over heroes.
The story of Gilgamesh, is who mankind's oldest hero, is copied within the mythologies of all the countries of the world. The origin of all myths, the model on which heroes are based...calling him such would not be an exaggeration.
More or less, the heroes of various myths are derived from Gilgamesh's legend. As such, Gilgamesh possesses the prototypes of the Noble Phantasms that heroes carry... the original treasures from before every legend was arranged. Though it may be a paradox, unless the original, Gilgamesh, possesses it, it cannot be handed down as the Noble Phantasm possessed by the later heroes who were derived from him.
When humanity was still small. Within the treasury of the king, who governed his kingdom and lived in as much luxury as he desired, was collected every single treasure in the world.
Inside that treasury, there is the treasured swords that saved later heroes, and there is preserved the cursed swords that stole the lives of heroes.
The reason that Gilgamesh is called the King of Heroes is here. Noble Phantasms are primarily one to a any single hero. Not only does he possess an approximately infinite amount of them, he also owns the "legends" that other heroes are wake against, as if it were natural. It should be impossible for an average hero to cross swords with him.
As a Heroic Spirit, he is an absolute warrior in battles against Heroic Spirits. While there are several heroes who hold the title of king, such as the King of Knights and the King of Conquerors, but in regards to being crowned with the title "King of All Heroes," in all of heaven and earth, he is the only one.
Friend
As he became a young man, Gilgamesh's violent disposition only grew. Of course the people of Uruk, but even the gods who dispatched him, were greatly perplexed by his violence.
"Gilgamesh is not fulfilling his original role." "That insolent creature needs someone to admonish him."
Having come to that conclusion, the gods sent a single life to the surface. Its name was Enkidu. It was a person made by a god and given her blood, the same as Gilgamesh.
It had neither a sex nor a fixed form. Enkidu, being made from clay by a god, was "Uruk's greatest weapon," able to change its shape at will. According to the god which was its mother's will, Enkidu confronted Gilgamesh before the temple of Uruk. With their exchanging of blows like a storm, their battle occurred within the city.
After that fierce fighting, they both collapsed to the ground without consideration for where, praised each other's valor, and became peerless friends.
Gilgamesh, who had been without equal, for the first time found someone he could call "a friend."
After that, while his vainglorious attitude did not change, Gilgamesh, remonstrated by Enkidu, softened his tyranny.
Gilgamesh, who had acquired someone who understood him in Enkidu, defeated the guardian of the forest and beast of the gods, Humbaba, and, as the most excellent king on the earth, took possession of every single treasure.
At this time, the dazzlingly powerful Gilgamesh was an existence that not even the gods could avert their eyes from.
A goddess fell in LOVE with this Gilgamesh. It was the goddess of fertility Ishtar. She proposed to Gilgamesh, but he quickly refused. Because he knew that how whimsical and cruel a witch who rendered men useless Ishtar was.
Ishtar, enraged by Gilgamesh's insults, as her revenge, clung to her father, the god Anu, in tears and released the greatest of divine beasts, "the Bull of Heaven," onto the earth.
"The Bull of Heaven" is a disaster of extreme magnitude clad in storms. When it appeared, a seven-year famine and destruction occurred on earth. In other words, the downfall of Uruk.
Against this divine beast which none could match, Gilgamesh and Enkidu worked together to stand against it and repelled it splendidly. Once again, the goddess lost face. Naturally, Isthar's rage had not lessened, and she requested death for either of the two of them from the gods. Because for one with a human body to kill the beast of the gods was a sin.
Ishtar's wish was granted, and one of the two, Enkidu, who was created by the gods, unable to defy that decree, slowly weakened and died.
...The sole person who understood the king, Enkidu. Just how large a shadow his loss cast over Gilgamesh is told in his lifetime afterward.
Enkidu is an autonomous weapon created from the clay of the gods. In SE.RA.PH. terms, he is close to an AI. As a result of being complete from birth, he neither grows nor evolves. He could take various forms as needed, but it is said his usual appearance was that of a 16-year-old person who could be seen as a girl or a boy with long hair which faintly shines a light-green color.01 - 『天地乖離す開闢の星』
開闢―――すべての始まりを示す、ギルガメッシュの最終宝具。
メソポタミア神話における神の名を冠した剣、乖離剣エアによる空間切断。
エア神はまだ地球が原始状態だった頃、マグマの海とガスとに覆われた地表を回し、砕き、
安定させた星の力が擬神化したものとされる。
多くの神は原始地球が安定し生命が住まう世界となった後で国造りを始めるが、
エアはその以前、星造りを行った一神とされる。
エアの名を冠したギルガメッシュの剣は、三層の巨大な力場を回転させる事で時空流を起こし、
空間そのものを変動させる。
その真の威力は一個の生命相手に用いるものではなく、世界を相手に用いるものだ。
サーヴァントたちが持つ数ある宝具の中でも頂点の一つとされる、“世界を切り裂いた”剣である。
02 - 英雄王
ギルガメッシュの異名。
英雄の王、という意味ではなく、英雄たちの王、という意味合いで用いられる。
人類最古の英雄であるギルガメッシュの物語は、世界各国の神話に模倣された。
あらゆる神話の原典、英雄たちのモデル……と言っても過言ではないだろう。
大なり小なり、様々な神話の英雄たちはギルガメッシュ伝説から派生したものだ。
であるなら、ギルガメッシュは英雄たちが持つ宝具の原型……各神話ごとにアレンジされる前の、
大本の宝を所持している事になる。
逆説ではあるが、原典であるギルガメッシュが持っていなければ、発展系であるその後の英雄たちの手に
宝具は伝わらないからである。
まだ人類が少なかった頃。王国を治め、贅沢を欲しいままにした王の蔵には
世界中のありとあらゆる財宝が集められた。
その蔵には後の英雄たちを助けた宝剣の原典があり、英雄たちの命を奪った魔剣の原典も貯蔵されている。
ギルガメッシュが英雄王と呼ばれる由縁はここにある。
宝具とは本来、ひとりの英雄にひとつのもの。
それをほぼ無限に所持しているばかりか、彼は英雄たちが苦手とする“伝説”さえ当然のように所持しているのだ。
並の英霊に太刀打ちできる筈がない。
英霊にして、対英霊戦における絶対強者。
騎士たちの王、征服する王、と王の称号を持つ英雄は数あれど、“全ての英雄たちの王”の名をいただくのは
天地においてこの男だけである。
03 - 友人
青年になったギルガメッシュの暴力性は増すばかりだった。
ウルクの民はもちろん、彼を遣わせた神々でさえ、ギルガメッシュの横暴さに困り果てていた。
“ギルガメッシュは本来の役割を果たせていない”
“あの不埒者を戒めるモノが必要だ―――”
そう結論した神々は、ひとつの生命を地上に送りこんだ。
名をエルキドゥ。
ギルガメッシュと同じく、神の血を与えられた神造の人である。
ソレには性別はなく、また定まったカタチもない。
神に作られた粘土であるエルキドゥは自在に姿を変える“ウルク最強の兵器”だった。
エルキドゥは母である神に従い、ウルクの神殿の前でギルガメッシュと対峙した。
両者は嵐のように刃を交え、戦いは都市中におよんだ。
激闘の末、両者はどちらともなく地に倒れ、相手の武勇を褒め称え、無二の友人となった。
対等の存在がいなかったギルガメッシュにとって、はじめて“友”と呼べるものが出来たのである。
以後、ギルガメッシュはその独尊ぶりは変わらずとも、エルキドゥに諫められ圧政を軟化させた。
エルキドゥという理解者を得たギルガメッシュは森の番人、神の獣フンババを下し、
地上で最も優れた王としてあらゆる財を手中に収める。
この時、ギルガメッシュは眩しく強大で、神々でさえ目を逸らせない存在だった。
そのギルガメッシュに、一人の女神が恋をした。
豊穣の女神イシュタルである。
彼女はギルガメッシュに求婚するが、ギルガメッシュはこれをあっさりと跳ね除ける。
イシュタルがどれほど移り気で残忍で、男を駄目にする魔女かを知っていたが故だった。
イシュタルはギルガメッシュに侮辱されたと激怒し、報復として父であるアヌ神に泣きつき、
最強の神獣“天の牡牛”を地上に放ってしまった。
“天の牡牛”は嵐をまとう超高層の災害である。
これが現れた時、地上には七年間の飢饉と破壊が訪れる。
即ち、ウルクの滅亡である。
この、敵う者のいない神の獣にギルガメッシュとエルキドゥは協力して立ち向かい、見事撃退する。
女神の面目は再度丸つぶれにされたのだ。
イシュタルの怒りは当然収まらず、彼女は両名どちらかの死を神々に求めた。
人の身で神の獣を殺した事が罪だからである。
イシュタルの願いは聞き届けられ、両名のうち一人、神に作られたエルキドゥは
その命に逆らう事が出来ずゆっくりと衰弱死した。
……王のただ一人の理解者、エルキドゥ。
彼を失った事がギルガメッシュにどれほどの影を落としたのかは、後の彼の生涯が語っている。
エルキドゥは神の粘土で作られた自律型兵器だ。
SE.RA.PHで言うのならAIに近い。
生まれた時から完成していたため、成長も進化もしない。
必要に応じて様々な姿に変化したが、基本は緑色に淡く輝く髪を長く伸ばした、
少女とも少年とも取れぬ十六歳ほどのヒト型だったという。Skills 01 - Divinity [B (A+)]
A judgement regarding whether or not one's body possess the property of being divine.
Though he possesses the greatest rank of divine spirit aptitude, Gilgamesh himself hates the gods, so the rank has gone down.
02 - Golden Rule [A]
Not the bodily golden ratio, but one's destiny in regard to how much money follows one around in life.
At rank A, it's possible to call it a soul of gold. With this Goldy attitude, even while living like a multimillionaire, he won't have any money troubles during his life.
03 - Collector [EX]
The ability to acquire items of higher quality. It's the good luck of frequently obtaining even rare items, but because it only applies to Gilgamesh himself, it does not bless the Master.
Gilgamesh is a collector of treasure. "I collected all the treasures of the earth," is Gilgamesh's favorite phrase, but that is not a metaphor. He collected and stored away a sample of all the technology that was developed during his age and sealed them.
That which Gilgamesh stored, rather than being treasure, is "the origin of the intelligence of mankind" itself. If it does not exist in Gilgamesh's treasury, then it is "something produced by a new breed of humanity, according a completely new concept," "something made from the technology of the culture born from the intelligent life from another heavenly body," one of the two.
For that reason, of course he has airplanes and submarines. The desires of the people from before Christ are not different, and it would not do for the crafts of ancient times when magic was in good health to be inferior to the crafts of the modern age. People generally realize the "tools of hope" that they dream of, and each time that occurs, it ended with them being confiscated by the king's hand.
The offensive skill Gilgamesh uses, "Gate of Babylon," shoots the treasure he collected like this like arrows. The gate to the golden capital opens, and his treasures are shot out from his treasure cellar.
This is a digression, but after the Noble Phantasms that are shot out are used, regardless of how far it has gone, it turns to Gilgamesh's treasure cellar. "Hah. I possess a Noble Phantasm which excels at the task of retrieval," says the person himself.01 - 神性 [B(A+)]
その体に神性属性があるかないかの判定。
最大の神霊適正を持つのだが、ギルガメッシュ本人が神を嫌っているのでランクダウンしている。
02 - 黄金律 [A]
身体の黄金比ではなく、人生において金銭がどれほどついて回るかの宿命。
ランクAともなれば黄金の魂と言える。
大富豪でもやっていける金ピカぶりで、一生金銭には困らない。
03 - コレクター [EX]
より品質の良いアイテムを取得する才能。
レアアイテムすら頻繁に手に入れる幸運だが、ギルガメッシュ本人にしか適用されない為、
マスターに恩恵はない。
ギルガメッシュは財宝のコレクターでもある。
“地上の宝はすべて集めた”がギルガメッシュの口癖だが、それは比喩でも何でもない。
彼は彼の時代において発生した、あらゆる技術の雛形を集め、納め、これを封印した。
ギルガメッシュが貯蔵したものは財宝というより、“人類の知恵の原典”そのものである。
英雄王の蔵にないものがあるとすれば、それは“新人類が生み出す、まったく新しい概念によるもの”
“他天体の知的生命体による文明技術によるもの”のどちらかとなる。
なので飛行機も潜水艦も当然完備。
西暦以前であれ人の欲望は変わらず、また、魔力が健在だった頃の古代の技術は
近代の技術に劣ってはいなかった。
人が夢見る“希望の道具”はたいてい実現し、その都度、王の手によって接収されていた訳だ。
ギルガメッシュが用いる攻撃スキル、『ゲートオブバビロン』はこうして集めた財宝を
矢として射出するもの。
黄金の都に通じる扉を開き、彼の宝物庫から財宝を撃ちだしているのである。
余談ではあるが、撃ち出された宝具は使用後、ほどなくしてギルガメッシュの宝物庫に戻っていく。
「フッ。回収用の優れた宝具があるのだ」
とは本人の弁。Setting Source
The demigod king who ruled over the Sumerian city-state of Uruk in the time before Christ. Not just a legend but also a real person, the king written of in mankind's oldest epic, "The Epic of Gilgamesh."
Possessing great divinity as two-thirds god and one-third human, without anyone to match him in this world, he was perfected as a transcendent being who attained everything in the world.
In his childhood, he was adored by the people as the ideal ruler, but as he grew, possible due to being treated as almighty, his consideration for the people waned, and he came to rule Uruk with absolute power.
However, simply being oppressive does not make one a tyrant, he made Uruk prosper properly, found a friend he could speak with, and in personally subjugating the phenomena that would harm the people, that heroic quality cannot be doubted.
He is the heroic figure who defeated the bull so large it was cloaked in the heavens and rendered the civilization of this fortified Sumerian city unshakeable.
The following is historical fact, which differs from "The Epic of Gilgamesh." According to a fragment of an inscription found in an archaeological excavation of the historical ruins of this Sumerian city, Uruk was a city-state that existed on the shore of Persian south of Mesopotamia, and he was the fifth king of that city's first dynasty. It obtained assets through ocean trade and subjugated the region of southern Mesopotamia. He was victorious in the fight against Aga, king of the Kish who controlled the north made strong the city-states of Sumer. However, as a result the reckless deforestation of the woods due to the building of ships, their agricultural land was destroyed.
For that reason, Gilgamesh, seeking the giant tree, the Lebanon Cedar, launched an expedition all the way to far-away Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon), fought against the people of woods, called Humbaba, gained victory against them, and brought that massive tree back with him.
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According to "The Epic of Gilgamesh," it seems that Gilgamesh, after the loss of Enkidu, fell into depression, his previous vigor gone.
The fact that Enkidu, whose strength had not been inferior to Gilgamesh's own, could die, was the shock that Gilgamesh received.
Gilgamesh, who was tormented over anxiety of death, finally set off on a trip to the realm of the death in search of perpetual youth and eternal life.
It was said that there lived a sage who had lived since placing a large amount of animals upon an ark before the coming of a deluge that assailed the earth.
This sage was said to be the only one of the earth escape from death and live until the present. Seeking him, Gilgamesh set across wilderness alone.
At the end of that long journey and many hardships, Gilgamesh finally managed to reach the realm of the dead. There, he met the sage, Utnapishtim, spoke with him, and in the end, Gilgamesh attained the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.
Gilgamesh came to rise above the "death" that had taken even Enkidu.
His heart's desire fulfilled, during his triumphant return to Uruk, Gilgamesh stopped by a spring. He cleansed himself; it seems he wanted to test the fruits of his labor while in perfect condition.
However. While he was bathing, unexpectedly, a snake with an empty stomach sniffed out the smell of the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.
By the time he noticed, it was too late. Panicked, Gilgamesh emerged from the spring, all that remained there was the skin that snake had shed.
Having lost the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life in this way, Gilgamesh was irritated for a long interval, but afterwards, he made his way back to his own castle, Uruk.
While the Gilgamesh after this was severe, he ruled his state quietly, entrusted to to the next king, and went to his eternal rest.
Without telling anyone of the whereabouts of the spirit herb of perpetual youth and eternal life.
Mankind's oldest king of heroes, Gilgamesh. Discord with the gods, the journey for the perpetual youth and eternal life, a deluge which covered the world. In that epic is the basis of every legend.
The truth of his epic poem, which has many uncertain points concerning fine details exists on the other side of the veil of romance placed upon it by the present day.
This is another digression, but the snake is reborn with a new body every time it sheds its skin because it stole and ate Gilgamesh's spirit herb... is what is said. It seems that the way the snake goes about its life appeared to the ancient people as a kind of perpetual youth and eternal life that was not available to humans.01 - 出典
紀元前、シュメールの都市国家ウルクを治めていた半神半人の王。
伝説だけではなく実在したとされる、人類最古の叙事詩『ギルガメシュ叙事詩』に記された王。
三分の二が神、三分の一が人という高い神格を持ち、この世で彼に敵う存在はなく、
この世の全てを手に入れた超越者として完成されていた。
幼年期は理想の統治者として人々を心酔させたが、万能のおごりからか成長すると共に民を省みなくなり、
ウルクを絶対的な力で支配した。
しかし横暴なだけで暴君という訳でもなく、ウルクを正しく繁栄させ、語り合える友を見いだし、
民の害となる魔物たちを自ら討伐するなど、その英雄性には疑いようがない。
天を覆うほどの巨大な牡牛さえ倒し、シュメールの城塞都市文明を確固たる物にした傑物でもある。
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以下は『叙事詩』とは違い、史実のもの。
シュメール都市の遺跡より出土した碑文の欠片によると、ウルクはメソポタミア南方ペルシア沿岸に存在した都市国家であり、
彼はその第1王朝第5番目の王とされる。
海洋貿易により財力を得、メソポタミア南方地域を征服。
北方を制したキシュの王アカとの戦いに勝利し、シュメール都市国家群を堅固なものとした。
だが船建築の材料として森林を乱伐した結果、農地を荒廃させてしまう。
そのため、ギルガメシュは巨木のレバノン杉を求め遠くフェニキア(現在のレバノン)にまで遠征し、
フンババと呼ばれる森の民と戦いこれに勝利を収め、大量の木を持ち帰ったとされる。
02 - 出典
『叙事詩』によると、エルキドゥを失った後のギルガメッシュは暗く落ちこみ、かつての勢いは無くなったとされる。
自分に勝るとも劣らない力を持つエルキドゥですら死ぬ、という事実にギルガメッシュは衝撃を受けた。
“死”の不安に苛まれたギルガメッシュは、ついには不老不死を求めて冥界へと旅立つ事になった。
そこにはかつて、地上を襲った大津波を前に多くの動物たちを箱船に乗せて生き延びた老人がいるという。
地上でただひとり死から逃れ、また、今も生き続けるという賢人。
彼を求めて、ギルガメッシュは単身で荒野に旅立った。
長い旅路、数多の苦難の末、ギルガメッシュはついに冥界に辿り着く。
そこでナピュシテムという老人と出会い、語り、彼はついに不老不死の霊草を手に入れた。
エルキドゥを奪った“死”すら、ギルガメッシュは超越する事になったのだ。
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念願叶い、ウルクに凱旋する途中、ギルガメッシュは泉に立ち寄った。
身を清め、己が成果を万全の状態で試そうとしたのだろう。
しかし。
その水浴びをしている最中、たまたま腹を空かせていた蛇が不老不死の霊草の匂いをかぎつけた。
気がついた時にはすべてが手遅れ。
あわてて泉から出るギルガメッシュだが、そこには脱皮した蛇の抜け殻だけが残されていた。
こうして不老不死の霊草を失い、ギルガメッシュは長く焦燥したあと、己が居城であるウルクへの帰路についた。
その後のギルガメッシュは苛烈さこそあるものの穏やかに国を治め、次の王に都市を委ねて永眠した。
不老不死の霊草の在処を、誰にも話さないままで。
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人類最古の英雄王、ギルガメッシュ。
神との確執、不老不死を求める旅、世界を覆う大洪水。
その叙事詩にはあらゆる神話の原形がある。
こまかなところで疑問点の多い彼の叙事詩の真相は、いま以て浪漫のベールの向こう側にある。
また余談だが、蛇が脱皮する度に新しい体に生まれ変わるのはギルガメッシュの霊草をかすめ飲んだから……とも言われている。
古代人は蛇の在り方に、人間にはない不老不死を見たという事だろう。 - ↑
[] Fate/Grand Order - Ishtar (Rider) Profile [T] Ishtar - Rider
Illustrator and Voice actor
Illustrator: Shidzuki Morii
Voice Actor: Kana Ueda
Parameters
Strength: C
Endurance: C
Agility: A
Mana: B
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: EX
Personal Skills
Shining Water Garments: A
Accelerator Turn: B
Summer Breaker!: A
Class Skills
Riding: EX
Independent Action: A
Goddess's Divine Core: B
Noble Phantasm
An Gal Tā Seven Colors: Heavenly Peak-Visiting Rainbow of Venus
Rank: EX
Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
Profile
Goddess of Venus Ishtar, her summer guise.
She held a grand event after having been impressed by the wild enthusiasm... devotion of people towards summer festivals - truly a goddess-like goddess. Driving the Heavenly Boat Maanna that has been rearranged to a modern style, she is also a kung fu-type goddess who casually, and thrillingly, makes free use of her body.
“Hey everyone, are you all having a fun time~~!? The best~~?
Yeah yeah, that’s good, that’s good!
Please keep at it more and more, until your limit okay~!”
Just like this, cordially and generously, she blesses all those who gathered on the venue - truly a goddess among goddesses.
Now, what exactly lies behind that smiling face.
Level 1 Bond
Height/Weight: 159cm・47kg
Source: Ancient Mesopotamian Mythology
Region: Mesopotamia
Alignment: Lawful Good Gender: Female
As usual, a fickly goddess who does not keep her feet on the ground. Seems that she has a white, high-leg swimsuit underneath that hooded jacket.
Level 2 Bond
Describe as freewheeling, elegant and bold, and cruel.
The same Goddess Ishtar, but by changing into modern clothes, her haughtiness・dreadfulness as a goddess has softened just a little.
It is only natural for a goddess to have learned one or two forms of hand-to-hand combat... of course that is not the case.
The reason why Ishtar can move so skillfully is because the body that became her vessel has properly learned both magecraft and martial arts.
Her battle style at this occasion is the kung fu that said body had learned rearranged into Ishtar’s own style.
“Uruk Arts! Is there even such a thing?” - such was the comment from a certain king that was sunbathing on top of a ziggurat.
Level 3 Bond
"Heavenly Peak-Visiting Rainbow of Venus"
Rank: EX Type: Anti-Unit Range: 0~??
An Gal Tā Seven Colors.
Since Maanna has turned into a modern vehicle, the True Name was also converted into a modern style.
Her style is to enjoy summer with all her might.
A rainbow Noble Phantasm that is said to convert her happy feelings (acquired by getting merrier while riding on the Maana Scooter and sightseeing various resorts around the globe) into magical power and scattering it across the world’s surface.
Fair even after changing clothes, the magical power that rains incessantly over the surface turns into glittering stars and bestow damage to enemies.
The concerned person feels very happy and fabulous, but this is a big nuisance for those on the surface.
Level 4 Bond
- Riding: EX
Capable of fully managing the Heavenly Boat Maanna, Ishtar’s Riding skill is extraordinary, on a whole different level than that of humans.
Of course, just because it is “extraordinary”, that does not mean it is “better・faster” than humans. At any rate, it is “amazing in many different ways”. An Uruk Drive that no longer cares much about things such as time and space.
- Shining Water Garments: A
A skill that changed the Great Crown into a swimsuit.
The Great Crown was something that would only affect Ishtar herself, but this can be spread throughout the entire party. In exchange, the output is low.
- Summer Breaker!: A
A goddess that breaks (in many different ways) the summer.
A downsized version of Goddess Metamorphosis.
Level 5 Bond
The bow that Archer Ishtar uses is the detached prow section of the Heavenly Boat Maanna, but this time, she changed the “oar” section of the Heavenly Boat into a scooter and is employing it as a vehicle. Its outward appearance is just like that of a modern scooter, but its performance is naturally goddess-class. It flies on the sky and even undergoes warp.
An enigmatic creature is constantly squirming about by Ishtar’s feet, but Ishtar maintains a “no comment” policy in regards to said creature.
Although she is keeping an eye on the Master that saved Uruk as a hero with a promising future, there are also times when she tilts her head in confusion thinking “how can such a pedestrian become a hero?” She is perceiving him/her as a curious human.
On this occasion, she employed him/her as a staff member of the Ishtar Cup out of expectations for his/her popularity (having the trust of the Servants), but...?
Interlude
Will she ever learn her lesson?
Summer festival, Ishtar Cup.
That was a great ceremony for the sake of resurrecting Ishtar’s familiar, the Bull of Heaven Gugalanna.
After having her reputation completely ruined by losing Gugalanna on the day when a calamity struck the Mesopotamian world, Ishtar probably has been vigilantly waiting for a favorable chance to get revenge.
And the result is what we see at this time.
I will say it again. Will she ever learn her lesson?
The Goddess Ishtar converted the precious ritual tools she secretly borrowed from the treasury of Babylon into a Holy Grail, pasted the texture of Venus over the land of Connacht with its power, and then planned to create Gugalanna once more by having powerful Heroic Spirits offer their gratitude (race) over the earth.
Remodeling the Ishtar Temple into a giant prana resources accumulation circuit(1) was also a part of this. The Ishtar QPS (Quantum-piece Power System) is a devilish money collection installation that sucks prone not only from people, but also Heroic Spirits, making it her own. The more QP is collected, more Ishtar’s divine rank goes up. That deed is truly that of an evil deity among evil deities.
(1) probably irrelevant, but the original Japanese text uses the same term for ‘integrated circuit’ hereイシュタル - ライダー
イラストレーター・声優
ILLUST:森井しづき
CV:植田佳奈
パラメータ
筋力:C
耐力:C
敏捷:A
魔力:B
幸運:B
宝具:EX
保有スキル
輝ける水の衣 A
アクセルターン B
サマー・ブレイカー! A
クラス別能力
騎乗 EX
単独行動 A
女神の神核 B
宝具
神峰天廻る明星の虹
ランク:EX
種別:対人宝具
キャラクター詳細
金星の女神イシュタル、夏の姿。
夏の祭典という人々の熱狂……信仰心に心を打たれ、一大イベントを開催した、まさに女神のような女神。
現代風にアレンジした天舟マアンナを駆り、軽快に、そして痛快に肉体を駆使するカンフー系女神でもある。
「みんな、楽しんでる~~!? 最高~~?
うんうん、良きかな良きかな!
もっともっと、限界まで頑張ってね~!」
このように、愛想よく気前よく、会場に集まった全ての者を祝福するまさに女神の中の女神。
その笑顔の裏に有るものは、はたして。
アンロック条件:絆レベルを1にすると開放
身長/体重:159cm・47kg
出典:古代メソポタミア神話
地域:メソポタミア
属性:秩序・善 性別:女性
相変わらずふわふわと地に足のつかない女神。パーカーの下は白のハイレグ水着なんだって。
アンロック条件:絆レベルを2にすると開放
自由奔放、優雅で大胆、そして残酷という女神イシュタルだが、現代服になっているため女神としての気位の高さ・怖さはちょっとだけ緩和されている。陽気さと寛大さが普段よりアップし、フレンドリーに。
女神たるもの、格闘技の一つや二つは修得しているのが当たり前……という訳ではもちろんなく。
イシュタルがここまで巧みに動けるのは依り代になった肉体が魔術も格闘技もしっかり修得していたからである。
肉体が修得していたカンフーをイシュタル風にアレンジしたものが今回のバトルスタイル。
「ウルクアーツ! そういうのもあるのか」
とはジグラットの上で日光浴をしていた王様からのコメント。
アンロック条件:絆レベルを3にすると開放
『神峰天廻る明星の虹』
ランク:EX 種別:対人宝具 レンジ:0~??
しんぽうめぐるみょうじょうのにじ。
アンガルタ・セブンカラーズ。
マアンナが現代風の乗り物になっているため、真名も現代風にコンバートされている。
夏を全力で満喫するスタイル。
マアンナスクーターに乗り、地球の様々なリゾートを観光してご機嫌になり、そのハッピーな気持ちを魔力に変換して地上にふりまくという虹の宝具。
衣装替えも見目麗しく、地上に降り注ぐ魔力は輝く星となって敵にダメージを与える。
本人はとてもハッピーかつファビュラスな雰囲気だが、地上はほんと大迷惑。
アンロック条件:絆レベルを4にすると開放
○騎乗:EX
天舟アマンナを乗りこなすイシュタルの騎乗スキルは人間とは次元の違う、別格のものである。
無論、『別格』だからといって人間より『上手い・速い』という訳ではない。とにかく『いろんな意味で凄い』のである。時間とか空間とかもうあんまり気にしていないウルクドライブ。
○輝ける水の衣:A
大王冠を水着に替えたスキル。
大王冠はイシュタル本人にのみ作用するものだったが、こちらはパーティ全員に行き渡る。そのかわり出力は低い。
○サマー・ブレイカー!:A
夏を(いろんな意味で)破壊する女神。
「女神変生」のダウン版。
アンロック条件:絆レベルを5にすると開放
アーチャーのイシュタルが使う弓は天舟マアンナの船首部分を取り外したものであるが、今回は天舟の「櫂」の部分をスクーターに変化させ、乗り物としている。スクーターは現代のスクーターそのものの外見だが、とうぜん、性能は女神クラス。空も飛ぶしワープもする。
イシュタルの足元には謎の生物がもそもそと動いているが、イシュタルはこの生物に関してはノー・コメントを貫いている。
ウルクを救ったマスターを将来有望な勇者として目をつけているものの、「なんでこんな平凡なのが勇者になるんだろう?」と首をかしげる事もあるとか。不思議な人間、と捉えている。
今回はその人望(サーヴァントたちに信頼されている)を見込んで彼/彼女をイシュタルカップのスタッフに雇用するが……?
アンロック条件:「デスジェイル・サマーエスケイプをクリアする」をクリアすると開放
懲りるという事を知らないのか。
夏の祭典、イシュタルカップ。
それはイシュタルの持つ使い魔・天の牡牛グガランナを復活させる為の大儀式だった。
メソポタミア世界を襲った災害の日にグガランナを無くし、面目を丸つぶれにされたイシュタルは虎視眈々とリベンジの時を待っていたのだろう。
そして、その結果が今回のこれである。
もう一度言うぞ。懲りるという事を知らないのか。
女神イシュタルはバビロンの蔵からこっそり拝借した貴重な祭具を聖杯に変換し、その力でコノートの土地に金星のテクスチャを張り、力ある英霊たちが大地に感謝を捧げる(レースをする)事でグガランナをもう一度作ろうと目論んだ。
イシュタル神殿を巨大な魔力リソース集積回路に作り替えたのもその一環。イシュタルQPS(クォンタムピース・パワー・システム)は人々はおろか英霊たちからも魔力を吸い上げ、自らのものとする悪夢の集金装置である。QPが溜まれば溜まるほどイシュタルの神格がアップしていく。その所業、まさに邪神の中の邪神。 - Riding: EX
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order Profile of Ishtar, translated by Master of Chaos at Beast's Lair.
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material IV - Ishtar, p.296-309, translated by Clyton at Beast's Lair.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia: The Absolute Frontline in the War Against the Demonic Beasts - Section 19: "Star of the Beginning, We Look Up at the Sky"
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Dead Heat Summer Race!
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Bridge Chapter: "One Day, Above the Sky"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 7 - Intro Chapter: "-----"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Fate/Grand Order - Ishtar Interlude 2: Return of Ishtar
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia: The Absolute Frontline in the War Against the Demonic Beasts - Section 21: "Absolute Demonic Front Mesopotamia (II)"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 17: "Breaking Dawn and Wakeless Dreams II"