Babylonia question (spoilers!)
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I got to the point in section 19 where Gilgamesh tells that people who die in a Singularity stay dead even after the Singularity is fixed, and the only thing that changes is HOW they died, and I'd like to ask people who are familiar with FGO's further story (spoilers are fine), does it eventually get refuted or is it actually true? (How the hell does Gilgamesh even know, being a living person from that era.) And if it is true, isn't it really illogical/contradictory? What does "fixing" a singularity even mean then, if all the damage is still done, just differently? As in, are we expected to believe that people like Charles VII or George Washington dying before they were supposed to in the proper timeline before it got screwed up by the incineration doesn't change anything and history is somehow still "corrected"? Not to mention thousands of people who may not have been famous themselves but who might've been ancestors of prominent scientists/politicians/artists/etc. Butterfly effect and all. What does it matter if we only change, say, "thousands of people died because of Jalter/Medb/Tiamat/Demonic Fog" into "actually those people died from a natural disaster or something"? The result is still the same: lots of people who originally weren't supposed to die at that time are dead.
Actually, if, for example, our player character's ancestors got killed in a Singularity, would that erase the protagonist from existence?
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If singularity is not properly restored, it would incinerate the entirety of human history. There wouldn't even be a "people say that they died from natural disaster", because humanity would be wiped out completely if its not restored.
Gilgamesh has high tier Clairvoyance, in the form of Sha Naqba Imuru, which is one of his Noble Phantasms.
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But how is it "properly restored" if history-wise important people can end up dead? Doesn't that itself contribute to the incineration, important parts of history getting messed up?
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Nasu backtracked a bit on this, with the statement that (a) Gilgamesh's statements are in-character knowledge, which is not always 100% accurate, (b) sometimes the costs are spread out, so that instead of one person dying, lots of people have a shorter lifespan, and (c) something about impossible things being easier to fix, so while everyone who died to the Three Goddess Alliance is dead, Tiamat's appearance was an impossibility, so everything she did just gets reverted (similarly, those who died in Camelot in the fights with the crusaders died, but the Lion King was an impossibility).
My headcanon? The world has X amount of energy it can spend fixing the singularities. It can rewrite reality so that things are back on track, but things that aren't necessary (nonessential people who died) get the minimal amount of changes (so people stay dead with a different explanation of how they died). Our purpose is to end the singularity before the changes get so big that the world doesn't have enough energy to fix the essential parts.
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THANK YOU, I like your headcanon. It does make more sense if interpreted like that.
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important events are shifted to someone else should the person behind them die prematurely. if they however die to something that cannot occur such as Tiamat or her Lahmu then the world will say it's too much energy to fix and just ignore their deaths, letting them live past that point in the corrected timeline. if the MC's ancestor died then the world would fix it so that it's after the next ancestor to the MC was conceived or have someone else do the deed to straighten that mess out. but what if the people were needed for the survival of the country such as the farmers in America? they'd get left alive even if they had died in a singularity. it's cheaper to give them full life spans than to retcon the entire timeline upto Chaldea's point.
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