Talk:Gilgamesh/@comment-73.239.244.88-20170526035928/@comment-182.30.68.35-20170527165823

It's a tricky battle of concepts that has never been confirmed one way or the other.

Ea's maximum power showed thus far is a conceptual attack that can rip apart the World itself to show the 'Truth' of the World before its genesis, taking in and crushing everything into the tumultuous void where everything originated to once again define and recreate heaven, sea and earth. Apparently, the one he used against Enkidu in Strange Fake would have torn apart the World if it wasn't for Enkidu using his own Noble Phantasm to channel Alaya and Gaia to keep the World together. Which may be hyperbole, but what's definite is that 'Ea' originated from before humanity was born, as it remembers the primordial state of the planet before it had ever became remotely capable of sustaining organic life, and in the Nasuverse, older is better.

Avalon is an 'absolute defense', creating a bounded field to completely shield the user in the domain of the fairies, Avalon, a location entirely separate from the physical world. The ability of the scabbard itself protects from 'all destructive interference in the physical realm, transliners from parallel worlds, and multidimensional communication as far as the sixth dimension'. It's at least True Magic level, as stated; not even the Five Magics can break through. Avalon does exist in the World, however; more precisely, it exists in the 'Reverse Side of the World', the place where the rules of the Age of Gods still apply in lieu of the rules of the Age of Man. It is 'a world cut off from the constant decay and destruction of the surface of the planet, and though it is nestled in human history, has no connection to other lands at all'.

On one consideration, Avalon is apparently perfectly fine, despite the incineration of human history in the First Grand Order. On another consideration, it IS tied to human history, and it would seem that the complete destruction of humanity via our villain's plans would probably affect Avalon as well; Merlin probably wouldn't be able to sneak out to give a helping hand otherwise.

...Thinking about it, Ea at its absolute full power might be able to break through Avalon's protection, but something at that level will probably also be a World-level apocalyptic scenario; the Counter Forces are NOT gonna take that lying down.