Relating MS to the rest of the games' backstory
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:24 am
This board hardly gets any attention, so may as well put this here even though at most one or two people will be able to respond.
I was looking through the character list for Magic School on Elie's site, and spotted this description of Emma: "As the school counselor, Emma is especially kind and helpful (not to mention one of the only means to get healed of HP and MP completely). She even teaches the girls some magic spells during their journey."
The healing bit jumped out at me. Any chance Emma could be one of the normal, unremarkable incarnations of Althena? There has to have been some that were uneventful. She even has blue hair. I don't know the story well at all (I've only played the first chapter or so with a walkthrough, and read a translation of the manga), but I have the impression that Althena isn't really mentioned at all in this game, whose general scope is much smaller than that of the other games.
As a side note, I think there's some hostility between the beastmen and humans in this game, and a lot of separatism. Think this suggests it's closer in time to Dragon Song than to Lunar 1? I think it has to be between them, since after all it's a magic school, and seems to me it refers to Vane being aloft. I think a serious attempt to interpolate MS's information into Lunar history and backstory is long overdue, as there seems to be some stuff about the Mazoku in it.
(While I'm thinking of MS, G1, remind me to send you a piece of art that should go into your Vile Tribe collage...heheh.)
I was looking through the character list for Magic School on Elie's site, and spotted this description of Emma: "As the school counselor, Emma is especially kind and helpful (not to mention one of the only means to get healed of HP and MP completely). She even teaches the girls some magic spells during their journey."
The healing bit jumped out at me. Any chance Emma could be one of the normal, unremarkable incarnations of Althena? There has to have been some that were uneventful. She even has blue hair. I don't know the story well at all (I've only played the first chapter or so with a walkthrough, and read a translation of the manga), but I have the impression that Althena isn't really mentioned at all in this game, whose general scope is much smaller than that of the other games.
As a side note, I think there's some hostility between the beastmen and humans in this game, and a lot of separatism. Think this suggests it's closer in time to Dragon Song than to Lunar 1? I think it has to be between them, since after all it's a magic school, and seems to me it refers to Vane being aloft. I think a serious attempt to interpolate MS's information into Lunar history and backstory is long overdue, as there seems to be some stuff about the Mazoku in it.
(While I'm thinking of MS, G1, remind me to send you a piece of art that should go into your Vile Tribe collage...heheh.)