Talk:Main Quest: Babylonia/@comment-37404257-20181218140807/@comment-32856683-20190101212311

I don't think it's a translation error since I have seen people being confused about this 'twist' ever since Babylonia launched on JP. And yeah, it makes absolutely no sense for fates to be so cruelly and absolutely interlinked to what happens in a Singularity. Just like IronViking says, the America arc is far too apocalyptical for it.

And Babylonia especially. For a moment I wondered whether this could have been a neat way to explain the end of the Age of Gods (that up until now somewhat roughly coincides with the Late Bronze Age collapse for some reason), but since the story takes place in 2600BC and not 1200BC, it is totally the wrong date. Actually, I'm still waiting for the Late Bronze Age collapse to be worked into Fate lore, because it is an actual freaking apocalypse where all civilizations in the mediterranean area except Egypt spontaneously combusted and no one really knows why. It's just a great opportunity for some epic plot.

I also wondered whether Mesopotamia being wrecked by the biblical flood could be the way Tiamat's genocide could have affected real history, but even in the Gilgamesh myth, it happened several generations before Goldie was born (he's just meeting his ancestor Utnapishtim, who was the protagonist of the Atra-Hasis myth, in his quest for immortality because the guy got it somehow granted).

It's also nonsense how Gil claims that with him the first dynasty of Uruk ended. There are actual semi-mythological king lists around that say that Gilgamesh's son Ur-Nungal takes over after Gilgamesh's death and from then on his dynasty continues for 130 years. Mesopotamia wasn't wiped out in 2600BC. In fact, it was at its most prosperous with a population estimated at between 0,8 to 1,5 million and absolutely no catastrophic event whatsoever in sight.

No matter how I look at it, this twist is just a stupid attempt at being edgy that doesn't do the story any good at all.