Nanoha - Q&A

[Kaijo]

Originally Posted by Arkeus

what you translated doesn't support at all what you said earlier though.

You'll have to be more specific. There were a few things in my initial timeline that were a bit off, because I was remembering incorrectly (such as the Cradle existing since Al Hazard, instead of being constructed later). But what I translated doesn't go against the general gist of it.

I'm just gonna point to the Nanoha wikia as the source to work off of, which you can choose to believe or not. It's the product of work from a lot of people connecting the dots on the few details we have to get a general picture of how things went. In a more simplified form, fixing some of my errors, without any of my occam's razor stuff:

Belka built an empire using Al Hazard technology.
Their world was eventually either destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, and the empire collapsed. These were known as the Warring Ages.
Belka resettled a new world, and launched the Reunifcation war(s) with the Saint Kaiser's cradle to get all their worlds back.
Ingvalt was the leader of one world that fought against Belka. Seemed he had a connection to Olive, who existed 300 years ago (what I like to call 0225 BC).
She was gonna do something with regards to the war and the cradle, which meant the end of her life.
The Belkan part of the war ended sometime after.
Time passed, and 0075 BC, the TSAB is founded, to ban bad weaponry from the wars and focus on magic.

That's it in a nutshell. If Vivid information doesn't fill out the details, then odds are we won't get much else along these lines, so we'll ultimately be left in doubt. And as I mentioned, the one glaring error at this point is the 300 years ago of Schach's DNA test, and the 100 years ago Einhart mentions. Either the writers messed up, or one of them is deliberately wrong.

And as people said in another thread, the writers may not have even really sketched this out, and are making it up on the fly, and we might even get confirmation of details. So it's up to logical deductions to flesh things out. Time will tell.

[Arkeus]

A few things:

Old Belka was at the same time as El Hazard, not after.

I am pretty Sure Ingvalt was also from Belka, just another faction of Belka.

[Keroko]

I'm porting this discussion to the Generic thread to avoid dragging the Q&A thread further off-topic, see you there.

[Aaron008R]

I tried looking at the FAQ thread, but I haven't been able to find out about these:

Spoiler for questions with StrikerS spoilers:

What was the name of the other spell Vivio copied from Nanoha aside from Sacred Cluster?

And...

Was Plasma Arm the only shown spell copied from Fate?

Thanks in advance.

[Keroko]

[Aaron008R]

Yup, just what I was looking for! Thanks!

[MeisterBabylon]

Curses, Railgun. I see Plasma Arm and all I think of is Mugino.

[Nanya01]

Okay, just a question from me.

Of all the Numbers that were cloned... Nove, Sette and Cinque (since Uno, Due, Tre and Quattro were based on Jail's genetics), do we have any clue who they were cloned from?

I know Nove was based off of Quint's DNA. But what about Sette and Cinque?

[mechdra]

How many moons are there in Midchida?

[Keroko]

Depends on what screenshot you look at. Sometimes 2, sometimes 3.

Yuuno's star chart says 2 though, so it's best to go with that.

[al103]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Depends on what screenshot you look at. Sometimes 2, sometimes 3.

Yuuno's star chart says 2 though, so it's best to go with that.

Yuno star chart show ones that are relevant to situation. By picture from booklet - 4. Though as they mirror Mid, just in different color they are certainly not normal moons.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by al103

Though as they mirror Mid, just in different color they are certainly not normal moons.

That's just lazy artist using a template several times.

[DezoPenguin]

Originally Posted by Keroko

That's just lazy artist using a template several times.

Then, of course, there's the booklet art for SSX. On the front cover (of the booklet, not the larger case of the CD set), there's 3 in the air behind Subaru, Caro, Erio, and Tea. Then, when you flip around to the other side where you see the same poses from behind, there's an additional 5, one of which looks more, size-wise, like Earth as seen from our moon...

[Arkeus]

Originally Posted by DezoPenguin

Then, of course, there's the booklet art for SSX. On the front cover (of the booklet, not the larger case of the CD set), there's 3 in the air behind Subaru, Caro, Erio, and Tea. Then, when you flip around to the other side where you see the same poses from behind, there's an additional 5, one of which looks more, size-wise, like Earth as seen from our moon...

They are just trying to hide the Death Stars' Factory

[spawnofthejudge]

What is Shari's title? (I'm remembering "Device Meister" for some reason, but I'm unsure)

[Keroko]

Device Meister, you remember it from her card, which calls her a 'Device Meister A (master)'

[Rising Dragon]

Was it ever explained why Quint Nakajima was barren?

[Keroko]

I don't think it was ever confirmed that the problem lied with Quint in the first place.

[Nya~n]

now you make it sound like genya's sterile xD

[Keroko]

Mostly because that's exactly what I'm suggesting.

The problem doesn't always have to lie with the women, after all.