Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27247829-20160509050439

The title is definitely not a clear indication of the topic, so I'll cut my usual punchlines and jokes. Among the Servants in the Fate series, how do you know them? Have you studied about their historical/mythological/literary counterparts beforehand, or did you only do so after meeting their Fate counterparts?

As for me, well, some of you might have guessed already, I'm rather familiar with Mahabharata because of childhood. The prospect and the possibility of summoning them as Servants is pretty much the reason why I started playing this game even with my schedule. You can imagine my dissapointment when I found out that they aren't yet summonable when I first started playing, but I endured it because it's a franchise I'm familiar with.

For the opposite side, I'm rather embarassed to admit that I never, ever, did any reading about any Celtic Servants before I met their Fate counterparts. I only vaguely knew Cu Chulainn, but that's because of Stay Night first. Scathach? I first knew her from Shin Megami Tensei, but it left a 'meh' impression due to all of the Orpehuses, Orpheus Teloses, Thanatoses, Izanagis, and others. Not to mention, I was still young back then; I eventually began some little reading session about them after playing this game. Luckily, the library has many reference books I can borrow... 