Nanoha - Q&A

[Koveras Alvane]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

What's Einhart's magic color?

Uncertain, since there is no official colored art of her with her circle yet. However, seeing how often the magic color matches the mage's hair color, chances are high that it is pale green.

Originally Posted by Tiresias

Question: Exactly how did Alicia died?

It's never said AFAIK. However, it was one of Precia's experiments that killed her and she was a familar expert back then. Dunno how it all fits together...

[Nanya01]

Magic color matching the hair?

Hmm...

Nanoha, Yuuno, Hayate, the Catgirl twins, Zest, Cyborg circle runes... Those don't match. Not sure on Erio's magic color tho.

Oh, and Shamal's doesn't match either.

[Koveras Alvane]

On the other hand we have Verossa (green), Lutecia (purple), Carim (golden), Teana (orange), Subaru (blue), Caro (pink), Fate (also golden), Vita (red), and Zafira (white). Plus, Agito (hair purplish red, circle purple) and Ginga (hair blue, circle indigo purple), whose magic and hair colors are close. That's almost a half of the characters whose color is listed on the Japanese wiki...

Erio's magic color is yellow, similar to Fate's.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Koveras Alvane

It's never said AFAIK. However, it was one of Precia's experiments that killed her and she was a familar expert back then. Dunno how it all fits together...

Was that from the original series or the movie? Since I just can't understand how a familiar-related experiment ended up with a big ball of light. Were they trying to tame Evangelion's Angel or something?

Originally Posted by Koveras Alvane

On the other hand we have Verossa (green), Lutecia (purple), Carim (golden), Teana (orange), Subaru (blue), Caro (pink), Fate (also golden), Vita (red), and Zafira (white). Plus, Agito (hair purplish red, circle purple) and Ginga (hair blue, circle indigo purple), whose magic and hair colors are close. That's almost a half of the characters whose color is listed on the Japanese wiki...

Erio's magic color is yellow, similar to Fate's.

You do realize that there's a chance for Einhart to be part of the other half

[Alavon]

Okay, I know a bit of "Type Zero" cyborgs so my question is:

Does having Quint's genetic material used to create them, are Subaru and Ginga clones?

EDIT: It's funny how in Nanoha Wiki, Subaru's age is "uncertain".....

[al103]

And even if 'Rossa hair is green his circle is most likely green because "scary support type" thing like Yuuno and Shamal and not because of hair. "Shall I take a peak inside of your mind?" don't have level of scary feel of *You just got tele-dumped in space* or *You just got your heart/spleen/linker core ripped from 10 miles away*, but still quite there.

Originally Posted by Alavon

Okay, I know a bit of "Type Zero" cyborgs so my question is:

Does having Quint's genetic material used to create them, are Subaru and Ginga clones?

All cyborgs are modified to receive implants without rejection, but besides that - yes. Nove is Quint clone too, just a little bit more modified from base.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Alavon

Okay, I know a bit of "Type Zero" cyborgs so my question is:

Does having Quint's genetic material used to create them, are Subaru and Ginga clones?

EDIT: It's funny how in Nanoha Wiki, Subaru's age is "uncertain".....

Not to be nitpicky, but did you meant to ask:
"Because they're created by Quint's genetic material, would that make Subaru and Ginga clones?"

If so, then the answer is probably. After all, some of the Numbers are clones of Jail himself. On the other hand, the Nanoha wiki also mentions another way besides cloning(Clonal Culture in the wiki) which is Pure Culture. It's never stated which one the Type Zeroes falls to, and I'm no genetic expert

[Alavon]

Originally Posted by Tiresias

Not to be nitpicky, but did you meant to ask:
"Because they're created by Quint's genetic material, would that make Subaru and Ginga clones?"

Yes, that's what I meant. :/ I have no excuse for that.

[Koveras Alvane]

Originally Posted by Tiresias

Was that from the original series or the movie? Since I just can't understand how a familiar-related experiment ended up with a big ball of light. Were they trying to tame Evangelion's Angel or something?

I have no idea either, as I said... As for being a familiar expert, I think this has been mentioned once in the context of her creating Rinis, one of the most sophisticated familiars to date.

Originally Posted by Alavon

EDIT: It's funny how in Nanoha Wiki, Subaru's age is "uncertain".....

That's because Combat Cyborgs can slumber in their vats for unspecified time before being activated. E.g. Nove's official birth year is 0060, but she was activated in 0069, therefore in terms of actual life years, she is just 6 in StrikerS, but her biological age is 15. Quint was killed in 0067, and assuming Scaglietti didn't create Type Zeroes, he couldn't have got his hands on Quint's genes for Nove until just 2 years before her activation.

Also, Scaglietti obviously has means to speed up the aging of the clones, as obvious from Zest's example and, presumably, Erio's. All in all, the ages of non-human-born characters in Nanoha are anything but certain...

[Moczo]

This came up in the FFT awhile ago and while it got an answer, it was never fully confirmed or denied. So I'll ask here to see if any information pops up:

Has Lindy's mage ranking ever been confirmed? If so, what is it and where did this happen?

[JINNSK]

Originally Posted by Moczo

This came up in the FFT awhile ago and while it got an answer, it was never fully confirmed or denied. So I'll ask here to see if any information pops up:

Has Lindy's mage ranking ever been confirmed? If so, what is it and where did this happen?

According to the MOVIE 1st pamphlet,it's synthetic AA+.

[Moczo]

'Synthetic'? Like... she's using some kind of artificial enhancement?

[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by Moczo

'Synthetic'? Like... she's using some kind of artificial enhancement?

Hayate's a Synthetic magic.

Probably indicative of Lindy's Wings not being normal wings or something.

[al103]

Usual ranks are ground-something or air-something, meaning that somebody that class in ground or air combat. "Synthetic" means that mage is not combat specialist, but specialist in other area which can be actually higher than noted rank with average rank between combat and other specializations being noted rank. Hayate is "synthetic" SS, but lower in combat rating. Her class is from specialization on power-hungry chant-requiring spells. Same with Lindy I think, she could stop dimensional ripple/quake in end of first season, but didn't participate in combat.

PS. Btw... to think of it... it means that Hayate is SSS in her areas of specialization!!! Damn, fusing with remains of Reinforce I linker core really did a thing on her...
PPS. We can't judge really, but most likely Lindy is B, maybe A in combat but AAA+ to S, or even SS in her area of expertize.

[Moczo]

Originally Posted by al103

Usual ranks are ground-something or air-something, meaning that somebody that class in ground or air combat. "Synthetic" means that mage is not combat specialist, but specialist in other area which can be actually higher than noted rank with average rank between combat and other specializations being noted rank. Hayate is "synthetic" SS, but lower in combat rating. Her class is from specialization on power-hungry chant-requiring spells. Same with Lindy I think, she could stop dimensional ripple/quake in end of first season, but didn't participate in combat.

PS. Btw... to think of it... it means that Hayate is SSS in her areas of specialization!!! Damn, fusing with remains of Reinforce I linker core really did a thing on her...
PPS. We can't judge really, but most likely Lindy is B, maybe A in combat but AAA+ to S, or even SS in her area of expertize.

Okay, that makes sense (though it demonstrates a deep misunderstanding on the part of somebody as to what 'synthetic' actually means ). So Lindy's official ranking is AA+, and the synthetic means that this ranking pertains to magical skills that don't fit well into a particular combat category, like Air or Ground. In combat, her ranking would be lower, in her specialty (presumably something like sealing, or whatnot) her rank would be higher, and together these average out to AA+.

Thanks!

[Akiyoshi]

Silly question but, Nanoha Wikia have mentioned that Wing Road is an IS, is that true?

Also where i can find specifications about Vibration Shatter?

[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by Akiyoshi

Silly question but, Nanoha Wikia have mentioned that Wing Road is an IS, is that true?

Also where i can find specifications about Vibration Shatter?

Shari (or Mariel) specifically commented that it was hard to work Wing Road into Mach Calibur because it was an Inherited Skill.

However, Subaru and Ginga's version seems to run on magic, since it got disrupted by an AMF in the 2nd episode.

And Airliner (Nove's version) is a non-magical version of Subaru and Ginga's Wing Road.

[Koveras Alvane]

Originally Posted by Akiyoshi

Also where i can find specifications about Vibration Shatter?

It's been only used once IIRC, on Cinque, so I have no idea if there is any other mention of it in the canon sources...

[al103]

Originally Posted by Koveras Alvane

It's been only used once IIRC, on Cinque, so I have no idea if there is any other mention of it in the canon sources...

IIRC in DVD booklet.

[Koveras Alvane]

Originally Posted by al103

IIRC in DVD booklet.

Was it translated?