Talk:Mashu Kyrielight/@comment-35080849-20180403023122/@comment-24640403-20180405131920

basically, even before Stay Night was a thing, Mashu was supposed to be the antagonist, and was named "Shielder" as in Servant of the Shield, to stand opposite to "Saber" the servant of the sword

this idea was eventually dumped until they dug it up for FGO