Regarding names. When talking about the myth of Dobrynya Nikitich, I use Russian names because it is a (supposedly) Russian Myth. When talking about the actual history, I use the proper names. Or at least that was my intent. If I screwed up, I apologize. :(
Tbh this is a minefield, I must say,to u, look out to not be pressured by both sides, cause how should I put this, I don’t trust both sides on this issue cause they all have the intention to have their version of history be the one to be recognized and at that point it’s not about history and what actually happened but politics and what they want to have happened , I know I sound rather pissy about it but having done research on both sides claims of the whole Ukraine situation, boi both have bogus claims backed by trust me bro sources, especcialy when the situation of kieven rus shit pops up do to 20th century rethoric of both sides, cause of well certain events in the 1930s and 40s from which both sides modern rethoric comes from in reguards to certain claims. But yeh my suggestion is just, when situations like this happen try to not take sides cause unfortunately when a political issue comes up there is always fog of war and the one with the best propaganda and information obscuration usually wins and u risk of getting caught up in lies, after all one example of this situation that only now its getting a bit of truth would be the Nero claudius situation its been 2000+ plus years and only now we see the hole of the false narrative of certain events because as much as people deny it historians are people that take sides there are really rare times in which historians wrote down history objectively, and it’s especcialy less trust worthy when the issue is a political one that goes on to this day cause they have all the interest to push the agenda of the group that profits them the most reguardless if it’s the truth or not. I know it sounds heartless on my part of being this hard on this but i know I have suffered political progapaganda for years of my life and boi am I tired of it, I just want the truth and 2sides squabbling like children because they want to be right reguardless of what actually happened irritates me to no end. Sorry for the rant but yeh good video
@@federicofilippini6780 or you just want to paint - nothing is simple. When reality is simple - there is invader who has history of wars, genocide, colonialism and imperialism and there is a victim of genocide. Wtf you are on aboute? What do you se as untruthful from Ukrainians? Narative like that is one step from "all are at fault let stronger one just kill the weaker".
@@federicofilippini6780 bothsidism some times is relevant but it is totally wrong in this case. You practicaly compare and equate rapist and victim. And that is just wrong
@@ReCursedy here the type of person I was talking about but ok I knew sooner or later u would come around to say this but ok say what u want I find both sides annoying in this discussion especcialy when both try to be the victim in this discussion, also wrong in what way? The fact both sides make up all they can to have the moral high ground when both sides are well, guilty of very efty crimes both against themselfs and others but sure nice false equasion, as I said both Ukraine and Russia are guilty I say this as an outside observer that has zero to gain on which side wins, which has the more guilt I leave it to after when we aren’t bombarded by both sides with constant propaganda cause as I said I want the truth and I am tired of people constantly accusing people of stuff just cause they don’t conform to what they think is the truth. And no using the word rapist and victim dosnt immediatly give your argoment validity sorry to tell u, if at all it tells me you came to this discussion already on one side and biased about it, sure i am a human and can be wrong, but let me ask u this logical question, between 2 sides that have some shit to gain in dipicting the others in a negative light and emotional baggage assorted with it and people like me that have no gain from the end of the conflict ending in one way or another, who is more trustworthy? But anyway I woudnt say it’s both side’s fault if there was undeniable proof that it’s only one side’s fault, if it was i would gladly tell u yes it was this guy’s fault but history has never been that simple nor straight forward in this stuff and there is a famous saying that applies very much so to this situation, the first victim of the battlefield is the truth. So sorry if I am skeptic about this entire war and reasons behind it but yes u saying I am wrong ain’t gonna chance my mind on this topic.
@@federicofilippini6780 wtf is our fault?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE GUILTY OF YOU HUMAN SCUM? trying to stay alive, defending ourself?! Are you realy that braindead to not see that you talking shit? You are just trying to paint yourself as "independed thinker" by trying to say: propaganda bad. Yes we have proganda as anyone have. Even you spilling your own propaganda of idiotism. Your stance is just genocide enabling. You shitted out a wall of text and there is nothing concrete about your argument. Only constant self jerking and saying: "both bad, propaganda bad, Im smart". If you want to be seen as smart tell me concrete reasons why are stepping so low to equate us with russians, wich is utterly disgusting and disrespectful
@@CrazyYurie That's fair, she was a very early welfare servant. What giladmachluf is referring to is that in her Noble Phantasm Assassin Scathach kicks Gae Bolg rather than throws it which is actually noted as the proper way to use the cursed spear in the Irish mythology surrounding it. Neither Cu nor her Lancer counterpart do it correctly and just throw it instead.
Well if it adds anything to her identity, her dislikes are "What I dislike? Something I dislike... Let's see...hmmm... Oh. I don't like to be kept waiting. Yeah." Yeah
Nastasia, the wife of Dobrynya that by all likelihood is the actual identity of the one we encounter is the daughter of Mikula Selyaninovich (since the bond mat that talks about the possibility of it being actually his wife says it the characteristics of both Mikulishna and Nikulichna ware applied to the Nasuverse version), a strong man blessed with the power of mother earth who in the Nasuverse is treated as a distinctly non human giant. Her descent is not specified to be draconic but that is a possibility as well. Oh you did not mention the word play that is there directly in the design: Dobro-nya ---> cat traits.
@@CrazyYuriealso the fact dobrinya makes reference to Constantinople and the fact someone lost themselfs and didn’t come back for years , that is actually a referene to dobrinya going a big travel saying to his wife he was going to Constantinople and coming back soon and he did not come back soon which makes her angry, infact in the game when they mention it in dialogue she gets real pissed, aka yes this is nastasia taking his place to be him, it’s similar more to a case of artemis and Orion but this time nastasia does it cause: she thinks of dobrinya to be too much of a womanizer and so she took his place to stop the flirting , also it’s highly likely the horse’s personality or in this case dragon it’s actually dobrinya’s personality, why I say this? In japan its mentioned a lot of mount and rider being one being same way a samurai is one with their sword, and if u apply this logic, it makes sense that dobrinya’s personality had to be put somewhere and the mount makes perfect sense to be the one getting his personality but not his memories.
(Minute: 16:27) So far, the residents of hell (Level: F) have been: - A clown-like demon who is known for making deals, but has not made any contracts. - The other half of the supposed "King of the Fairies" who looks more like an original character from another franchise. - A low budget Freddy Krueger who is also a simp for women. - A "Russia" dragon slayer who is more of a cat girl than a badass warrior.
It feels like with this character, the designers and writers worked backwards. Instead of creating a version of this famed historical figure, they had a design for a winter themed catgirl, wanted a russian servant for tunguska, found this dragon slayer, and shoved a square peg in a round hole, shaving off as much as they could to get it to fit and tacking on bits to add waifu points. This is one of the fate genderbends that really just makes you go, "Why?"
I think the dragon curse is a Fate invention called "Evil Dragon Phenomenon", where "one who slay the dragon will become dragon", Sigurd and Siegfried have the dragon typing and Sieg (who gain power from Siegfried) straight up become Fafnir. Which hint to the dragon being the real Dobrynya (like the case of Orion/Artemis).
Just wanted to say thank you for the explanation on Dobrynya and Russian imperialism. I had no idea Russiafication was prominent so far back or the fact that Dobrynya's story could be considered as Russian propaganda. It's always good to be caught up on real events while enjoying media.
Russification is a very old phenomenon. Granted it is something that plenty of other countries have engaged in too. The difference is that while most other nations now look back at such efforts with a mix of shame and discomfort, Russia is still doing it.
Yeah I'm pretty sure this is actually just Nastasia pretending to be her husband, it makes the weird characterization more acceptable to me. It'd also be cool if you did Yamato Takeru at some point.
Her design and whole explanation of being a genderbend just bcuz of nya at the end of the name and the artist usually drawing catgirls(fate explanation of her being the wife is ok i guess, but there was no mention of her being a giantess at all to my knowledge)baffled me Btw, Dobrynya's personality might be based on Nastasia's personality from The Three Bogatyr movies, she while isn't all that aggressive and wild like Dobrynya in fgo, she is very strict and gets angry when Dobrynya leaves for a job from my memory
I appreciate your discussion of current events and I think it's important that we connect our media with what is going on in the world. I personally wouldn't mind if you brought them up more. It's unfortunate that Dobrynya is incredibly inaccurate, but I think it was kind of obvious from the get-go, even in-game.
Thankfully it isn't something that is relevant with most of the characters. But since Dobrynya's story relates to a history that is still very much going on, I had to talk about it.
This seems like another case of FGO creating practically an Original Character and stamping the name of some little-known mythological figure with the excuse of being an "interpretation" of the original myth.
History and culture are so very important to us as humans. It does so much to shape who we are, to inform how we interact with each other and the world at large. The erasure of culture is a devastating crime that sadly happens far too often. For what it is worth, I genuinely appreciate that you were willing to broach the subject in such a frank manner, and I think you handled it well. I certainly wasn't expecting such a serious turn in the video, but I think it was important to acknowledge the real history that has been threatened.
Considering how little info there is I’m not surprised the lack of thought on the servant I like the fate character nothing more but does inspire me to look more deeper on servants plus talk about bad timing when releasing a servant
I had no choice - my conscience couldn't allow otherwise. I did consider making it a separate video from this one, but ultimately kept it with the timestamp warning - just in case people don't wish to hear such things. It is a sentiment I understand, since people are here about fun game stuff rather than real world tragedies. Even so, I do hope most if not all viewers end up watching it. Some stories need to be told.
@@CrazyYurie exactly some things need to be said and even if we are fun and games we still need to live in the real world It really is just something silly/sad/idk that was was clearly a more lazy servant would end up becoming more important related to what they are than who they are in the game
If this channel was about politics or current events, then it would be relevant to talk about such things regularly. But since this channel is about FGO and the wider Fate Franchise, It will only come up when it cannot be ignored.
yeah this is a big no, this is just a magical cat lady on a dragon made to appeal to teenage boys. No issue with eye candy, but when it's self serving it's just sad.
As much as I understand wanting to talk about more recent servants because algorithm lol, some characters just don't feel like they've had enough time to cook, and Nikitich feels like one of them, though I'm not sure if she'll ever even be used again in any events considering recent news... should def cover the servants that have been in quite a few events if possible, makes it easier on yourself as well as not having to remake videos if they fix a character in a later event.
This is actually the reason why I didn't do Zenobia and Jacques de Molay when they first came out... also that I was only just getting things started and didn't know if I'd have an audience at all. In hindsight I should have at least done Zenobia. It is a tough balancing act... wanting to get more viewers for obvious reasons, but also to do character with more "complete" characterization. x_x
FGO needs add Alyosha Popovich and Ilya Muromets. The Three Bogatyrs are very famous trio. I used to watch animated films about them when I was a child. Films are really good and so funny.
a small minor nitpick maybe, but there was literally no reason why they had to make dobrynya a genderbent. fate already has a lot of weird genderbents, but even some of the weirder ones have their reasons why they look like that(examples being the female musashi isn't from our timeline and okita's reason is literally a joke on fate genderbents) for dobrynya the only reason i can think WHY she's even a genderbent is because they just wanted a big titty catgirl who rides on a badass dragon. to copy someone else's comment here, they simply created the catgirl and then just slapped the dobrynya label onto her. there's barely any connection she has to her real world counterpart
You should be able to find it fairly easily (just look up Fate Dobrynya FF14), but the artist did make fanart of their FF14 character back before Dobrynia was revealed, and it's literally JUST a blond version of her, so the artist just reused the design for FGO. XD
This Servant being like this is weird...I wonder if the charakter designers didnt WANT to adapt them and thus made a mostly original OC with just some vague hints to the original.
I unironically like the dragon more than the cat girl, he is such a goofball especially when he is flirting(?) with Nastasia. Also the mental image of a dragon playing chess amuse me, I will have the headcannon that he is the real Dobrynya until proven otherwise.
@@CrazyYurie Burko (the horse) IS the dragon she is riding on. Apparently, the curse of Zmei Gorynych caused it to take the form of a dragon during Dobrynya's manifestation as a Servant.
Another good video. I am curious though on your grade. Would it change if, given the ending dialogue for Tunguska, this was actually Natashia instead of Dobrynya himself? It seems to be although the game is honestly really coy about it. I mean, the end dialogue makes it seem like he wants to talk to Koyanskaya but hasn't had the chance (which Nikitich doesn't much in the game even when she has some chances to) and her dislikes make it clear that she 'hates waiting' which is what his wife had to do for years. As well, his wife was inhuman which meant she could enter Koyanskaya's place without issue where Dobrynya was a human so he couldn't. It does seem like it points to her being the wife but the game seems to treat this as a 'coy' secret. It's just so odd since it makes no sense to keep it hidden, especially after the event. It kinda miffs me about this. I actually like Nikitich and her design. She is a refreshingly straight forward servant. She's fun. Yet she got and still gets a lot of flak for both her design and being a 'genderbend' when she probably isn't. I kinda wish the game just clarified this and the fandom backed up a bit. Still, a good analysis of her.
No, this was a pretty solid F. They would have to change not just that ambiguity about her identity, but also make changes to the skillset and the rest to reflect that. My grade didn't focus on any one thing - the whole package was a fail to me.
Also you don't have to feel bad about talking about Nobunaga's brutality. Real historian research his story and already saw a very clever plot. The enemy actually employed the battle monk to attack Nobunaga. This is actually what leads to the notorious act of destruction to any Buddhist religion done by Nobunaga. The reality is just him clearing out rebels but everyone even his citizens saw a priest getting killed so many times that it seem like he's a demon lord. Like historian would say there's going to always have one side that try to plotting the whole war to make "Enemies killing Enemies" Its effective too if still heard of Nobunaga's defamation. This is all fair in war because propaganda is what leads to rebellion and also his end. All i can say is that strategist win the war...
Reminder too the battle monk ALREADY hates him too for the jokes they make about them. Nobunaga knows how much of a hypocrite the battle monks are. They state their battle is for Buddhist but it's just for money... So Nobunaga roasted them that if they fight for Buddha he rather be a demon Lord to destroy them lol He's a great troll and I agree with him. WHAT kind of monk fights in war??? Religion should be neutral not aggressive...
@@CrazyYurie I watch the video seeing how you said Nobunaga story may trigger someone. TBH you did a great job introducing real history. I made it too long lol
@@infinitykiyen6270 Oh no, I said that I made some very subtle commentary on current events in the Nobunaga video. But I did it in a manner that was far more subtle than what I did in this video on Dobrynya - so much so that I'm not sure if people picked up on it.
You don't have to be sorry about stating real history. Like it is historical facts to say Russian was brutal like extremely brutal to any neighbours. Its hell to even have Russia near you in the past. The reason is justify but does not mean it makes them a hero. Like sure majority of their land is just eternal winter trash land but its still not a good excuse... They just choose domination instead...
One of my issues with her is the fact that unlike other characters with an Armor Noble Phantasm (Like Karna's Kavacha and Kundala, and Odysseus's Aegis) there is absolutely nothing in her design that points to it's existence. On top of that, it instead joined the ranks of NPs that were used as skills (Like Vlad III's Legend of Dracula) even though I am pretty sure that there might have been better skills (Like Instinct or Indomitable Will) to give to her. Anyway great video. I would recommend looking at the character's Valentine CE for the upcoming videos as they sometimes have a bit of extra lore regarding the character (Like Ozy's and Rama's).
I watched your whole video and at first I got a little offended from you calling Dobrynya a russian but your followup is based. Also you several times call Kyiv "kiev" and several times call it correctly. Also in ukrainian myth Dobrynya is called not nikitich but Mykytych from ukrainian name Mykyta (just interesting fact). It is also sad to see results of russian appropriation in the game I love
Also a lot of Tunguska regarding Dobrynya, Rus' and russia is just disgusting. Writers confuse Rus' and russia and make basic geographycal mistakes. The reffer to russia that didn't exist at the time in several points. It is specialy bad when she calls tunguska her northern motherland or something when Rus and Kyiv is far away from there! Writers realy fucked up and it was painful to read to me as a Ukrainian. Also if you need help to translate something from ukrainian or "sigh" russian I can help
But it also is sad that you at a start call them russian and russian hero and aknowledge them only in your "personal opinion part" when reality tales of Dobrynya and records of real person belongs to nations of estern/centre Eourope: Poland, Balkan states, Ukraine, Belarus, hell they have more connections with Bulgaria then with muscovy
I did that very deliberately. The original myth is a Russian one, and so I use the Russian names when talking about that. But when I move into the actual history, I swap to the proper names. With that said, I didn't actually know the Ukrainian name for Nikitich - I must admit I didn't look, because I just assumed it was some Russian story that was not at all appreciated by Ukrainians. Not very professional of me, I know, but that was my thinking based upon what I saw. In my initial thoughts about making this video, I was going to make a sarcastic joke saying that I was going to write a story about a white American hero from the 1300's who slew demons and giants to protect the American people. Naturally my "hero" would have some overly American name like "Theodore Jefferson" or something, and no mention whatsoever would be made of Native Americans. The point would be to compare such a blatantly historically false tale that tries to distort the past with the tale of Dobrynya Nikitich. Instead I decided to take things more seriously and to just lay out everything, so that people knew exactly what I meant. At the very least though, I do hope that the "opinion" section I did makes it *very* clear where I sit with regards to current events. I mean, I outright called it imperialism. Edit: Also, I too was very annoyed by the translation. I could and did forgive the JP devs, since they didn't know they were two months away from yet another imperial war. I'm much less forgiving of the NA localization, who should have known better.
@@CrazyYurie well its true that russians rewrited his legend and he is most known in the world as a russian creation, but records of him existing are spread widely. Polish people actualy consider him their hero because he preexisted to russia and same goes for Ukrainians. Don't know aboute Belarusians cause they are practicaly a colony now. Im thankful for your aknowledgment of russification. Before global war it was rare to see people actually caring aboute history of oppressed by russia states. Also russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 but like not realy anyone cared, war goes for 10 years already. At least now people start learning a little
Hell yeah, Jason next. Also, when the time comes to rewiew pseudo-servants, how will the fact that they have bodies of fate original characters affect raiting. Will you try to see if fate characters have any parallels or similarities with historical/mythological characters?
Since the Case Files rerun is coming up soon, this is something I have been thinking about. I think I will try to make some connection between the Fate Character and the character they are acting as.
It's kinda sad to see what could be very cool and very interesting legends and myths get twisted to serve political agendas. And since we have so little info about this character(no doubt thanks to Russian censorship) it's a real tragedy we don't know the whole story
Am I allowed to rant here too? Concerning her origins, I noticed Nasu or FGO don’t really care for some of these legends. Outside of Japanese and English legends they just OC-ify a lot of these characters. Till this day I still find it that Gilgamesh and the other Mesopotamia servants are just. White. The India bunch too..
His skin tone can be accepted as light skin was and is still a thing in the middle east... being blonde though is another story. While red hair is found in the region it isn't the best (Egypt liked to ritually kill red heads) and its more typically a northern European thing. Instead, his blonde hair is sort of Fate interrupting a symbol of divinity found within mythical kings of the region.
(Minute: 0:36-0:38) Truly one of those FGO moments: a Dragon mount called Dragon. Even something like Draco, Draka or Drake would have been better (not as creative, but better than nothing) (Minute: 0:44-0:49) Maybe the horse died on the way to Tunguska Sanctuary and the girl found a random dragon and decided to make it her new mount? Yes, I know I'm giving the FGO writers too much credit, but that would be my excuse for not having the horse. (Minute: 2:38-2:41) Another potential Pretender class Servant thrown away. In fact, the main Servant of Tunguska Sanctuary would have also fit into the Pretender class. (Minute: 6:58-7:05) I would rather say that they didn't even try or they didn't have to do much research. Still better than Drake's Golden Rudder at least. (Minute: 14:41-14:52) So....Jeanne d'Arc "Russian" version? Ironically, FGO resolves some of its conflicts with diplomacy or dialogue. And I feel that diplomacy would have served considering the enemy they had to face in Tunguska Sanctuary. Of course, it would only work if FGO's Dobrynya Nikitich had a diplomatic mindset and not a savage creature. Also, if the Dragon broke the peace treaty in the myth.... Does it mean that that Dragon mount called Dragon will become evil in the future? (Minute: 16:44-16:48) (Go into smart mode) Well...... Actually...... Just because she's a Dragon slayer doesn't mean she's immune to fire... Also, she is half-beast, so some of that beast skin would be burned (also, there is nothing in Tunguska Sanctuary that says Dobrynya Nikitich is immune to burning)
I am not going to lie. They would go better with a Russian historical figure than Russian folklore and legends (which is an actual bullshit). There are very good persons that they would bring into game as Peter the First, Yemelyan Pugachev or even Alexander Sregeyevich Pushkin. Also your Russian language does need some corrections
I agree. There are many servants that are options that have yet to be taken. Some countries have just been seriously ignored, or entire continents in the case of South America or most of Africa. As for pronunciation, I don't speak Russian, so I was just trying to get them right as I tend to do in these videos. But as an idiot American who only really knows English, I expect to mess up. The only other language I feel solid about when it comes to pronunciation is Japanese, because I took two years of that. I've forgotten most of it, but... I can at least pronounce things.
@@CrazyYurieyou are not an idiot don't degrade yourself like that. Your videos are great and well researched I watch near all of them. And you made grear points in this video too. Knowledge of language may be realy usefull and cool but it is not a main attribute of someones intelect. I know 2 languages from childhood but it is not a good thing cause one was forced upon me same as with english in Ireland. So sometimes languages are overrated :,(
@@ReCursedy Thanks for saying so. I do have a tendency to call myself an idiot - usually as a joke though. You could say it is a defense of sorts... it keeps other people from calling me an idiot if I do it to myself so often.
Honestly, claiming that Moscow couldnt claim the history of a country it was a part of is a bit.... Unfair? It is true that Moscow laid claim to the culture that it was a part of it all along, so as far as they saw it at the time, they just created a new seat of power (not to mention that the real rullers at the time were Mongols). Also, why Peter the First? He had nothing to do with russification, being ifamous for doing exact opposite and destroying astablished russian culture and even moving the capital from Moscow to the city he built himself Saint Petersburg (notice how the name is gemanic). Also he mostly was at war with the Sweden, and his motives at the time had nothing to do with "russification" (again, he was a fanboy of Europe, he was trying to take and replicate Europian culture). My opinion is that "russification" in general is a modern propaganda term used for old Russian Empirialism. I do belive that some of such ideas were practiced, hoewer they began WAY after teritories in question became part of a Russian Empire, so I disagree that there were any spesific wars fought with that goal. After all, by the time such measures began to be taken, Russian Emperors already declared Russia to be a Third Roam (ye, that old favorite of literaly every major nation).
Claiming to be the heir of a legacy is one thing. Claiming to be the sole heir of a legacy is quite another, which is very much what Muscovy did. They explicitly deny the legitimacy of anyone else claiming that legacy. Russification wasn't so much the justification for Russia's wars of expansion, but rather a policy that was undertaken to forcefully assimilate non-Russian peoples who ended up within the territories of the Russian Empire. These efforts led to uprisings, independence movements, and ultimately the wars for those nations to break away from the Russian metropole. In other words? Russification led to wars - as it continues to do so, and probably will do so again so long as Russia clings to its dreams of empire. Also Russification is not a "modern propaganda term" - it is an umbrella term for a variety of policies and laws undertaken for the purpose already described. I suggest that you delve into researching topics yourself rather than just assuming that something you don't like is "propaganda". You will find that politicians regularly misrepresent and abuse history for their own benefit, but they cannot escape the facts that have existed for millennia.
@@CrazyYurie I consider "russification" a propaganda term because it seems to have appeared in the recent years, in order to justify anti-russian policies. Not to mention that Moscow never claimed to be "the only" inherent of culture. Did they try to get other parts of Rus under their control without a regard for the local rules? Yes, absolutely, but it was done in order to fight the enemy, who's main tactic was to "devide and concure". Not to mention Russia doesn't cling to an "dream of an empire". Modern conflict is exclusively money related, most specifically to fossil fuels. Is it disgusting? Absolutely! But only in cence that the rest of us have to be given "reasons" as to why the opposition is bad, while in reality, the people counting money refrain from responsibility because "history". We are not supposed to see people in our time, sacrificing others for their own gain, but instead we should look at "evil nations" that were evil all along! When it comes to a Dobrinya, I do believe that it was an invention of its publishers, and I do believe that whoever did this, did not do this with a goal to turn something not Russian into Russian. What I'm trying to say, is that putting a tinfoil hat, and saying "it's all a long historical conspiracy" is rather unbased in this situation. Even if it is, people responsible are LONG dead (thanks, communist revolution) and claiming that there is still some responsibility to be had... Well it's the good old Sins of the Father.
@@CrazyYurie Not only Russia, US as well. I had a friend that lived in the area, and they claimed to have seen Blackrock construction sites. Granted, it is a "word", so should be taken with a LOT of salt, but I can see that being true. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzivska_gas_field
@@crazyguy4209 In other words, you have no idea. And since that is the case, i'll go ahead and fill you in. Ukraine's primary resource of note is food, because its soil happens to be quite good for growing crops. It is a major provider of foodstuffs, particularly wheat. This is why, when the war began, people were freaking out about food supplies to food-insecure countries - notably Egypt, and so they made a deal to ship grain from Odessa out of the Black Sea. There are other resources of course, but internationally they are negligible compared to Ukraine's position with foodstuffs. Now, if this person who "heard things" about oil in Ukraine was telling the truth, and that is the apparent reason for starting a war? Please explain the logic as to why the country with some of the world's largest reserves of Oil and Natural Gas would throw half a million lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, the complete ruin of their trade relationships with the nations that they SELL the Oil and Gas to, the exodus of millions of their best, and many many more costs... all to get a little bit more of something they already have an obscene amount of? Many wars throughout history are fought for economic reasons. This is not one of them.
I’m very pleased to see a bashing of a poorly elaborated on servant to be turned into an eye opening history lesson. Great video, I very much respect the research you put in!
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Regarding names. When talking about the myth of Dobrynya Nikitich, I use Russian names because it is a (supposedly) Russian Myth. When talking about the actual history, I use the proper names. Or at least that was my intent. If I screwed up, I apologize. :(
Tbh this is a minefield, I must say,to u, look out to not be pressured by both sides, cause how should I put this, I don’t trust both sides on this issue cause they all have the intention to have their version of history be the one to be recognized and at that point it’s not about history and what actually happened but politics and what they want to have happened , I know I sound rather pissy about it but having done research on both sides claims of the whole Ukraine situation, boi both have bogus claims backed by trust me bro sources, especcialy when the situation of kieven rus shit pops up do to 20th century rethoric of both sides, cause of well certain events in the 1930s and 40s from which both sides modern rethoric comes from in reguards to certain claims. But yeh my suggestion is just, when situations like this happen try to not take sides cause unfortunately when a political issue comes up there is always fog of war and the one with the best propaganda and information obscuration usually wins and u risk of getting caught up in lies, after all one example of this situation that only now its getting a bit of truth would be the Nero claudius situation its been 2000+ plus years and only now we see the hole of the false narrative of certain events because as much as people deny it historians are people that take sides there are really rare times in which historians wrote down history objectively, and it’s especcialy less trust worthy when the issue is a political one that goes on to this day cause they have all the interest to push the agenda of the group that profits them the most reguardless if it’s the truth or not. I know it sounds heartless on my part of being this hard on this but i know I have suffered political progapaganda for years of my life and boi am I tired of it, I just want the truth and 2sides squabbling like children because they want to be right reguardless of what actually happened irritates me to no end. Sorry for the rant but yeh good video
@@federicofilippini6780 or you just want to paint - nothing is simple. When reality is simple - there is invader who has history of wars, genocide, colonialism and imperialism and there is a victim of genocide. Wtf you are on aboute? What do you se as untruthful from Ukrainians? Narative like that is one step from "all are at fault let stronger one just kill the weaker".
@@federicofilippini6780 bothsidism some times is relevant but it is totally wrong in this case. You practicaly compare and equate rapist and victim. And that is just wrong
@@ReCursedy here the type of person I was talking about but ok I knew sooner or later u would come around to say this but ok say what u want I find both sides annoying in this discussion especcialy when both try to be the victim in this discussion, also wrong in what way? The fact both sides make up all they can to have the moral high ground when both sides are well, guilty of very efty crimes both against themselfs and others but sure nice false equasion, as I said both Ukraine and Russia are guilty I say this as an outside observer that has zero to gain on which side wins, which has the more guilt I leave it to after when we aren’t bombarded by both sides with constant propaganda cause as I said I want the truth and I am tired of people constantly accusing people of stuff just cause they don’t conform to what they think is the truth. And no using the word rapist and victim dosnt immediatly give your argoment validity sorry to tell u, if at all it tells me you came to this discussion already on one side and biased about it, sure i am a human and can be wrong, but let me ask u this logical question, between 2 sides that have some shit to gain in dipicting the others in a negative light and emotional baggage assorted with it and people like me that have no gain from the end of the conflict ending in one way or another, who is more trustworthy? But anyway I woudnt say it’s both side’s fault if there was undeniable proof that it’s only one side’s fault, if it was i would gladly tell u yes it was this guy’s fault but history has never been that simple nor straight forward in this stuff and there is a famous saying that applies very much so to this situation, the first victim of the battlefield is the truth. So sorry if I am skeptic about this entire war and reasons behind it but yes u saying I am wrong ain’t gonna chance my mind on this topic.
@@federicofilippini6780 wtf is our fault?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE GUILTY OF YOU HUMAN SCUM? trying to stay alive, defending ourself?! Are you realy that braindead to not see that you talking shit? You are just trying to paint yourself as "independed thinker" by trying to say: propaganda bad. Yes we have proganda as anyone have. Even you spilling your own propaganda of idiotism. Your stance is just genocide enabling. You shitted out a wall of text and there is nothing concrete about your argument. Only constant self jerking and saying: "both bad, propaganda bad, Im smart". If you want to be seen as smart tell me concrete reasons why are stepping so low to equate us with russians, wich is utterly disgusting and disrespectful
A *"How accurate is FGO's Scathach?"* would be very interesting considering how little content there is about her outside of FGO
Scathach is a personal favorite of mine. When it is time to get to her, I plan to give her close attention. :3
Are we counting Assassin Scathach here? Since technically she's using the Gae Bolg correctly while Lancer Scathach is not.
@@giladmachluf3663 I'll have to think about this. I know very little about Assassin Scathach, tbh.
me with 3 scathach 1/7 scale figures: Yes hahaha
@@CrazyYurie That's fair, she was a very early welfare servant. What giladmachluf is referring to is that in her Noble Phantasm Assassin Scathach kicks Gae Bolg rather than throws it which is actually noted as the proper way to use the cursed spear in the Irish mythology surrounding it. Neither Cu nor her Lancer counterpart do it correctly and just throw it instead.
Well if it adds anything to her identity, her dislikes are
"What I dislike?
Something I dislike...
Let's see...hmmm...
Oh. I don't like to be kept waiting. Yeah."
Yeah
Another hint that she is actually Nastasya. :o
Nastasia, the wife of Dobrynya that by all likelihood is the actual identity of the one we encounter is the daughter of Mikula Selyaninovich (since the bond mat that talks about the possibility of it being actually his wife says it the characteristics of both Mikulishna and Nikulichna ware applied to the Nasuverse version), a strong man blessed with the power of mother earth who in the Nasuverse is treated as a distinctly non human giant. Her descent is not specified to be draconic but that is a possibility as well.
Oh you did not mention the word play that is there directly in the design: Dobro-nya ---> cat traits.
I did hear about the pun with the name, but... I guess I did forget. x_x
@@CrazyYuriealso the fact dobrinya makes reference to Constantinople and the fact someone lost themselfs and didn’t come back for years , that is actually a referene to dobrinya going a big travel saying to his wife he was going to Constantinople and coming back soon and he did not come back soon which makes her angry, infact in the game when they mention it in dialogue she gets real pissed, aka yes this is nastasia taking his place to be him, it’s similar more to a case of artemis and Orion but this time nastasia does it cause: she thinks of dobrinya to be too much of a womanizer and so she took his place to stop the flirting , also it’s highly likely the horse’s personality or in this case dragon it’s actually dobrinya’s personality, why I say this? In japan its mentioned a lot of mount and rider being one being same way a samurai is one with their sword, and if u apply this logic, it makes sense that dobrinya’s personality had to be put somewhere and the mount makes perfect sense to be the one getting his personality but not his memories.
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So far, the residents of hell (Level: F) have been:
- A clown-like demon who is known for making deals, but has not made any contracts.
- The other half of the supposed "King of the Fairies" who looks more like an original character from another franchise.
- A low budget Freddy Krueger who is also a simp for women.
- A "Russia" dragon slayer who is more of a cat girl than a badass warrior.
It feels like with this character, the designers and writers worked backwards. Instead of creating a version of this famed historical figure, they had a design for a winter themed catgirl, wanted a russian servant for tunguska, found this dragon slayer, and shoved a square peg in a round hole, shaving off as much as they could to get it to fit and tacking on bits to add waifu points.
This is one of the fate genderbends that really just makes you go, "Why?"
Agreed.. and it is quite unfortunate.
I think the dragon curse is a Fate invention called "Evil Dragon Phenomenon", where "one who slay the dragon will become dragon", Sigurd and Siegfried have the dragon typing and Sieg (who gain power from Siegfried) straight up become Fafnir. Which hint to the dragon being the real Dobrynya (like the case of Orion/Artemis).
Still kind of poor excuse when there's so much going on already with no real answers
No, I'm pretty sure this was because Siegfried drank some of the dragon's blood.
Edit: he ate its heart too.
@@giladmachluf3663technically their are three Siegfried
@@durrangodsgrief6503 Siegfried, Sigurd and who?
@@giladmachluf3663Sieg, ha can literally become Siegfried for short periods of time.
Just wanted to say thank you for the explanation on Dobrynya and Russian imperialism. I had no idea Russiafication was prominent so far back or the fact that Dobrynya's story could be considered as Russian propaganda. It's always good to be caught up on real events while enjoying media.
Russification is a very old phenomenon. Granted it is something that plenty of other countries have engaged in too. The difference is that while most other nations now look back at such efforts with a mix of shame and discomfort, Russia is still doing it.
Yeah I'm pretty sure this is actually just Nastasia pretending to be her husband, it makes the weird characterization more acceptable to me. It'd also be cool if you did Yamato Takeru at some point.
I need to play Fate/Samurai Remnant first!
Her design and whole explanation of being a genderbend just bcuz of nya at the end of the name and the artist usually drawing catgirls(fate explanation of her being the wife is ok i guess, but there was no mention of her being a giantess at all to my knowledge)baffled me
Btw, Dobrynya's personality might be based on Nastasia's personality from The Three Bogatyr movies, she while isn't all that aggressive and wild like Dobrynya in fgo, she is very strict and gets angry when Dobrynya leaves for a job from my memory
I appreciate your discussion of current events and I think it's important that we connect our media with what is going on in the world. I personally wouldn't mind if you brought them up more. It's unfortunate that Dobrynya is incredibly inaccurate, but I think it was kind of obvious from the get-go, even in-game.
Thankfully it isn't something that is relevant with most of the characters. But since Dobrynya's story relates to a history that is still very much going on, I had to talk about it.
This seems like another case of FGO creating practically an Original Character and stamping the name of some little-known mythological figure with the excuse of being an "interpretation" of the original myth.
History and culture are so very important to us as humans. It does so much to shape who we are, to inform how we interact with each other and the world at large. The erasure of culture is a devastating crime that sadly happens far too often. For what it is worth, I genuinely appreciate that you were willing to broach the subject in such a frank manner, and I think you handled it well. I certainly wasn't expecting such a serious turn in the video, but I think it was important to acknowledge the real history that has been threatened.
It won't happen often, but it will happen sometimes. Another example that immediately comes to mind is Zenobia and what ISIS did to Palmyra.
Considering how little info there is I’m not surprised the lack of thought on the servant I like the fate character nothing more but does inspire me to look more deeper on servants plus talk about bad timing when releasing a servant
Poggers job giving context of the original story to the modern era👍
Very proud of you for bringing real world into this one specifically
I had no choice - my conscience couldn't allow otherwise. I did consider making it a separate video from this one, but ultimately kept it with the timestamp warning - just in case people don't wish to hear such things. It is a sentiment I understand, since people are here about fun game stuff rather than real world tragedies. Even so, I do hope most if not all viewers end up watching it. Some stories need to be told.
@@CrazyYurie exactly some things need to be said and even if we are fun and games we still need to live in the real world
It really is just something silly/sad/idk that was was clearly a more lazy servant would end up becoming more important related to what they are than who they are in the game
Koyanskaya: don’t betray her trust otherwise I’ll never forgive you and hunt you down
13:26 I like that you mentioned this part. It's important to talk about *WHEN* relevant and important.
If this channel was about politics or current events, then it would be relevant to talk about such things regularly. But since this channel is about FGO and the wider Fate Franchise, It will only come up when it cannot be ignored.
yeah this is a big no, this is just a magical cat lady on a dragon made to appeal to teenage boys. No issue with eye candy, but when it's self serving it's just sad.
As much as I understand wanting to talk about more recent servants because algorithm lol, some characters just don't feel like they've had enough time to cook, and Nikitich feels like one of them, though I'm not sure if she'll ever even be used again in any events considering recent news...
should def cover the servants that have been in quite a few events if possible, makes it easier on yourself as well as not having to remake videos if they fix a character in a later event.
This is actually the reason why I didn't do Zenobia and Jacques de Molay when they first came out... also that I was only just getting things started and didn't know if I'd have an audience at all. In hindsight I should have at least done Zenobia. It is a tough balancing act... wanting to get more viewers for obvious reasons, but also to do character with more "complete" characterization. x_x
FGO needs add Alyosha Popovich and Ilya Muromets. The Three Bogatyrs are very famous trio. I used to watch animated films about them when I was a child. Films are really good and so funny.
a small minor nitpick maybe, but there was literally no reason why they had to make dobrynya a genderbent. fate already has a lot of weird genderbents, but even some of the weirder ones have their reasons why they look like that(examples being the female musashi isn't from our timeline and okita's reason is literally a joke on fate genderbents)
for dobrynya the only reason i can think WHY she's even a genderbent is because they just wanted a big titty catgirl who rides on a badass dragon. to copy someone else's comment here, they simply created the catgirl and then just slapped the dobrynya label onto her. there's barely any connection she has to her real world counterpart
Not sure how accurate this is, but I did hear from someone that the artist designed Dobrynya after their FFXI OC
I too believe in trusting randos on the internet
I've actually heard this before too. :o
@@CrazyYurie Fair 'nough, I probably should've put the emoji I originally planned there to make it clear I was goofing
You should be able to find it fairly easily (just look up Fate Dobrynya FF14), but the artist did make fanart of their FF14 character back before Dobrynia was revealed, and it's literally JUST a blond version of her, so the artist just reused the design for FGO. XD
@@eonnexus I mean, I like my FF14 character too, but I'd only wish to re-use their design when it was relevant.
This Servant being like this is weird...I wonder if the charakter designers didnt WANT to adapt them and thus made a mostly original OC with just some vague hints to the original.
Amazing video! 👏
3:48 Giants are a type of monster in some places
is she Catholic btw
Is Dobrynya Catholic? I seriously doubt it. Either Eastern Orthodox or a Slavic Pagan Religion I expect.
Meanwhile I can see you might incur the wrath of two Koyanskaya for attempting to roast their mother
Would love to see a how accurate for Siegfried and Kriemhild
I very much plan to do both when Traum is released on NA.
Dobronya the servant i never get because someone stole my luck from the drawer
@@madambutterfly1997i know but I need luck please
@@madambutterfly1997 hey I play limbus company i become an sinner
Speaking of Bad Civ, I really should do an Altera video sometime.
Sorry, that might have been me, I stole all muscles and his chat 's luck to get koyan dark and mel :3
@@President-of-Funny Hey I got Melu in 10 tickets, so you didn't steal my luck!
I unironically like the dragon more than the cat girl, he is such a goofball especially when he is flirting(?) with Nastasia. Also the mental image of a dragon playing chess amuse me, I will have the headcannon that he is the real Dobrynya until proven otherwise.
I think he might actually be the real Dobrynya. I just couldn't really prove it, and so didn't push it into the video.
The real dobrynya might be the 3 headed dragon she summoned for this one, her white dragon is probably just the horse
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Burko (the horse) IS the dragon she is riding on. Apparently, the curse of Zmei Gorynych caused it to take the form of a dragon during Dobrynya's manifestation as a Servant.
@@kziila0244 And yet she calls it... Dragon. I don't get it. x_x
I’d love for you to do one on Valkyrie (brunhilder optional)
I plan to, though Brynhildr isn't optional! :o
Awesome I look foward to it
I thought Dobrynya being a cat is a joke because her name ended with "nya(ニャ)", cat language
Another good video. I am curious though on your grade. Would it change if, given the ending dialogue for Tunguska, this was actually Natashia instead of Dobrynya himself? It seems to be although the game is honestly really coy about it. I mean, the end dialogue makes it seem like he wants to talk to Koyanskaya but hasn't had the chance (which Nikitich doesn't much in the game even when she has some chances to) and her dislikes make it clear that she 'hates waiting' which is what his wife had to do for years. As well, his wife was inhuman which meant she could enter Koyanskaya's place without issue where Dobrynya was a human so he couldn't.
It does seem like it points to her being the wife but the game seems to treat this as a 'coy' secret. It's just so odd since it makes no sense to keep it hidden, especially after the event.
It kinda miffs me about this. I actually like Nikitich and her design. She is a refreshingly straight forward servant. She's fun. Yet she got and still gets a lot of flak for both her design and being a 'genderbend' when she probably isn't. I kinda wish the game just clarified this and the fandom backed up a bit.
Still, a good analysis of her.
No, this was a pretty solid F. They would have to change not just that ambiguity about her identity, but also make changes to the skillset and the rest to reflect that. My grade didn't focus on any one thing - the whole package was a fail to me.
Also you don't have to feel bad about talking about Nobunaga's brutality. Real historian research his story and already saw a very clever plot.
The enemy actually employed the battle monk to attack Nobunaga. This is actually what leads to the notorious act of destruction to any Buddhist religion done by Nobunaga.
The reality is just him clearing out rebels but everyone even his citizens saw a priest getting killed so many times that it seem like he's a demon lord.
Like historian would say there's going to always have one side that try to plotting the whole war to make "Enemies killing Enemies"
Its effective too if still heard of Nobunaga's defamation.
This is all fair in war because propaganda is what leads to rebellion and also his end.
All i can say is that strategist win the war...
Reminder too the battle monk ALREADY hates him too for the jokes they make about them. Nobunaga knows how much of a hypocrite the battle monks are. They state their battle is for Buddhist but it's just for money...
So Nobunaga roasted them that if they fight for Buddha he rather be a demon Lord to destroy them lol
He's a great troll and I agree with him.
WHAT kind of monk fights in war??? Religion should be neutral not aggressive...
Wrong video? :o
@@CrazyYurie I watch the video seeing how you said Nobunaga story may trigger someone. TBH you did a great job introducing real history. I made it too long lol
@@infinitykiyen6270 Oh no, I said that I made some very subtle commentary on current events in the Nobunaga video. But I did it in a manner that was far more subtle than what I did in this video on Dobrynya - so much so that I'm not sure if people picked up on it.
You don't have to be sorry about stating real history. Like it is historical facts to say Russian was brutal like extremely brutal to any neighbours. Its hell to even have Russia near you in the past.
The reason is justify but does not mean it makes them a hero. Like sure majority of their land is just eternal winter trash land but its still not a good excuse...
They just choose domination instead...
One of my issues with her is the fact that unlike other characters with an Armor Noble Phantasm (Like Karna's Kavacha and Kundala, and Odysseus's Aegis) there is absolutely nothing in her design that points to it's existence. On top of that, it instead joined the ranks of NPs that were used as skills (Like Vlad III's Legend of Dracula) even though I am pretty sure that there might have been better skills (Like Instinct or Indomitable Will) to give to her.
Anyway great video. I would recommend looking at the character's Valentine CE for the upcoming videos as they sometimes have a bit of extra lore regarding the character (Like Ozy's and Rama's).
Damn it... you're right. I keep overlooking the Valentine CE's. x_x
I watched your whole video and at first I got a little offended from you calling Dobrynya a russian but your followup is based. Also you several times call Kyiv "kiev" and several times call it correctly. Also in ukrainian myth Dobrynya is called not nikitich but Mykytych from ukrainian name Mykyta (just interesting fact). It is also sad to see results of russian appropriation in the game I love
Also a lot of Tunguska regarding Dobrynya, Rus' and russia is just disgusting. Writers confuse Rus' and russia and make basic geographycal mistakes. The reffer to russia that didn't exist at the time in several points. It is specialy bad when she calls tunguska her northern motherland or something when Rus and Kyiv is far away from there! Writers realy fucked up and it was painful to read to me as a Ukrainian. Also if you need help to translate something from ukrainian or "sigh" russian I can help
Realy appreciating your aknowledgment of russia russification and colonisation. It helps ❤
But it also is sad that you at a start call them russian and russian hero and aknowledge them only in your "personal opinion part" when reality tales of Dobrynya and records of real person belongs to nations of estern/centre Eourope: Poland, Balkan states, Ukraine, Belarus, hell they have more connections with Bulgaria then with muscovy
I did that very deliberately. The original myth is a Russian one, and so I use the Russian names when talking about that. But when I move into the actual history, I swap to the proper names. With that said, I didn't actually know the Ukrainian name for Nikitich - I must admit I didn't look, because I just assumed it was some Russian story that was not at all appreciated by Ukrainians. Not very professional of me, I know, but that was my thinking based upon what I saw. In my initial thoughts about making this video, I was going to make a sarcastic joke saying that I was going to write a story about a white American hero from the 1300's who slew demons and giants to protect the American people. Naturally my "hero" would have some overly American name like "Theodore Jefferson" or something, and no mention whatsoever would be made of Native Americans. The point would be to compare such a blatantly historically false tale that tries to distort the past with the tale of Dobrynya Nikitich. Instead I decided to take things more seriously and to just lay out everything, so that people knew exactly what I meant.
At the very least though, I do hope that the "opinion" section I did makes it *very* clear where I sit with regards to current events. I mean, I outright called it imperialism.
Edit: Also, I too was very annoyed by the translation. I could and did forgive the JP devs, since they didn't know they were two months away from yet another imperial war. I'm much less forgiving of the NA localization, who should have known better.
@@CrazyYurie well its true that russians rewrited his legend and he is most known in the world as a russian creation, but records of him existing are spread widely. Polish people actualy consider him their hero because he preexisted to russia and same goes for Ukrainians. Don't know aboute Belarusians cause they are practicaly a colony now. Im thankful for your aknowledgment of russification. Before global war it was rare to see people actually caring aboute history of oppressed by russia states. Also russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 but like not realy anyone cared, war goes for 10 years already. At least now people start learning a little
Best dragon girl or futa not gonna lie 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
A Futa?!?
Dragon name Dragon lmao!!!
Yeah that's comedy
Hell yeah, Jason next. Also, when the time comes to rewiew pseudo-servants, how will the fact that they have bodies of fate original characters affect raiting. Will you try to see if fate characters have any parallels or similarities with historical/mythological characters?
Since the Case Files rerun is coming up soon, this is something I have been thinking about. I think I will try to make some connection between the Fate Character and the character they are acting as.
It's kinda sad to see what could be very cool and very interesting legends and myths get twisted to serve political agendas. And since we have so little info about this character(no doubt thanks to Russian censorship) it's a real tragedy we don't know the whole story
Am I allowed to rant here too? Concerning her origins, I noticed Nasu or FGO don’t really care for some of these legends. Outside of Japanese and English legends they just OC-ify a lot of these characters. Till this day I still find it that Gilgamesh and the other Mesopotamia servants are just. White. The India bunch too..
Of course you are allowed to rant. I'd only intervene if people get too aggressive. In other words, debate is good, but fights less so.
His skin tone can be accepted as light skin was and is still a thing in the middle east... being blonde though is another story. While red hair is found in the region it isn't the best (Egypt liked to ritually kill red heads) and its more typically a northern European thing. Instead, his blonde hair is sort of Fate interrupting a symbol of divinity found within mythical kings of the region.
Is this what you meant in the Sherlock video about a servant you wanted to tear into so people knew you meant business?
Now that you mention it? Yes. But when I said that line in the Sherlock video, I had others in mind.
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Truly one of those FGO moments: a Dragon mount called Dragon. Even something like Draco, Draka or Drake would have been better (not as creative, but better than nothing)
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Maybe the horse died on the way to Tunguska Sanctuary and the girl found a random dragon and decided to make it her new mount?
Yes, I know I'm giving the FGO writers too much credit, but that would be my excuse for not having the horse.
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Another potential Pretender class Servant thrown away. In fact, the main Servant of Tunguska Sanctuary would have also fit into the Pretender class.
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I would rather say that they didn't even try or they didn't have to do much research. Still better than Drake's Golden Rudder at least.
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So....Jeanne d'Arc "Russian" version?
Ironically, FGO resolves some of its conflicts with diplomacy or dialogue. And I feel that diplomacy would have served considering the enemy they had to face in Tunguska Sanctuary. Of course, it would only work if FGO's Dobrynya Nikitich had a diplomatic mindset and not a savage creature.
Also, if the Dragon broke the peace treaty in the myth.... Does it mean that that Dragon mount called Dragon will become evil in the future?
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(Go into smart mode) Well...... Actually...... Just because she's a Dragon slayer doesn't mean she's immune to fire...
Also, she is half-beast, so some of that beast skin would be burned (also, there is nothing in Tunguska Sanctuary that says Dobrynya Nikitich is immune to burning)
she is more Polish or Ukrainian than russian
I am not going to lie. They would go better with a Russian historical figure than Russian folklore and legends (which is an actual bullshit). There are very good persons that they would bring into game as Peter the First, Yemelyan Pugachev or even Alexander Sregeyevich Pushkin. Also your Russian language does need some corrections
I agree. There are many servants that are options that have yet to be taken. Some countries have just been seriously ignored, or entire continents in the case of South America or most of Africa.
As for pronunciation, I don't speak Russian, so I was just trying to get them right as I tend to do in these videos. But as an idiot American who only really knows English, I expect to mess up. The only other language I feel solid about when it comes to pronunciation is Japanese, because I took two years of that. I've forgotten most of it, but... I can at least pronounce things.
@@CrazyYurieyou are not an idiot don't degrade yourself like that. Your videos are great and well researched I watch near all of them. And you made grear points in this video too. Knowledge of language may be realy usefull and cool but it is not a main attribute of someones intelect. I know 2 languages from childhood but it is not a good thing cause one was forced upon me same as with english in Ireland. So sometimes languages are overrated :,(
@@ReCursedy Thanks for saying so. I do have a tendency to call myself an idiot - usually as a joke though. You could say it is a defense of sorts... it keeps other people from calling me an idiot if I do it to myself so often.
Honestly, claiming that Moscow couldnt claim the history of a country it was a part of is a bit.... Unfair? It is true that Moscow laid claim to the culture that it was a part of it all along, so as far as they saw it at the time, they just created a new seat of power (not to mention that the real rullers at the time were Mongols).
Also, why Peter the First? He had nothing to do with russification, being ifamous for doing exact opposite and destroying astablished russian culture and even moving the capital from Moscow to the city he built himself Saint Petersburg (notice how the name is gemanic). Also he mostly was at war with the Sweden, and his motives at the time had nothing to do with "russification" (again, he was a fanboy of Europe, he was trying to take and replicate Europian culture).
My opinion is that "russification" in general is a modern propaganda term used for old Russian Empirialism. I do belive that some of such ideas were practiced, hoewer they began WAY after teritories in question became part of a Russian Empire, so I disagree that there were any spesific wars fought with that goal. After all, by the time such measures began to be taken, Russian Emperors already declared Russia to be a Third Roam (ye, that old favorite of literaly every major nation).
Claiming to be the heir of a legacy is one thing. Claiming to be the sole heir of a legacy is quite another, which is very much what Muscovy did. They explicitly deny the legitimacy of anyone else claiming that legacy.
Russification wasn't so much the justification for Russia's wars of expansion, but rather a policy that was undertaken to forcefully assimilate non-Russian peoples who ended up within the territories of the Russian Empire. These efforts led to uprisings, independence movements, and ultimately the wars for those nations to break away from the Russian metropole. In other words? Russification led to wars - as it continues to do so, and probably will do so again so long as Russia clings to its dreams of empire.
Also Russification is not a "modern propaganda term" - it is an umbrella term for a variety of policies and laws undertaken for the purpose already described. I suggest that you delve into researching topics yourself rather than just assuming that something you don't like is "propaganda". You will find that politicians regularly misrepresent and abuse history for their own benefit, but they cannot escape the facts that have existed for millennia.
@@CrazyYurie I consider "russification" a propaganda term because it seems to have appeared in the recent years, in order to justify anti-russian policies.
Not to mention that Moscow never claimed to be "the only" inherent of culture. Did they try to get other parts of Rus under their control without a regard for the local rules? Yes, absolutely, but it was done in order to fight the enemy, who's main tactic was to "devide and concure".
Not to mention Russia doesn't cling to an "dream of an empire". Modern conflict is exclusively money related, most specifically to fossil fuels. Is it disgusting? Absolutely! But only in cence that the rest of us have to be given "reasons" as to why the opposition is bad, while in reality, the people counting money refrain from responsibility because "history". We are not supposed to see people in our time, sacrificing others for their own gain, but instead we should look at "evil nations" that were evil all along!
When it comes to a Dobrinya, I do believe that it was an invention of its publishers, and I do believe that whoever did this, did not do this with a goal to turn something not Russian into Russian.
What I'm trying to say, is that putting a tinfoil hat, and saying "it's all a long historical conspiracy" is rather unbased in this situation. Even if it is, people responsible are LONG dead (thanks, communist revolution) and claiming that there is still some responsibility to be had... Well it's the good old Sins of the Father.
@@crazyguy4209 Ok I'll humor you. What are the resources Russia is seeking to acquire from Ukraine?
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Not only Russia, US as well. I had a friend that lived in the area, and they claimed to have seen Blackrock construction sites. Granted, it is a "word", so should be taken with a LOT of salt, but I can see that being true.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzivska_gas_field
@@crazyguy4209 In other words, you have no idea. And since that is the case, i'll go ahead and fill you in. Ukraine's primary resource of note is food, because its soil happens to be quite good for growing crops. It is a major provider of foodstuffs, particularly wheat. This is why, when the war began, people were freaking out about food supplies to food-insecure countries - notably Egypt, and so they made a deal to ship grain from Odessa out of the Black Sea. There are other resources of course, but internationally they are negligible compared to Ukraine's position with foodstuffs.
Now, if this person who "heard things" about oil in Ukraine was telling the truth, and that is the apparent reason for starting a war? Please explain the logic as to why the country with some of the world's largest reserves of Oil and Natural Gas would throw half a million lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, the complete ruin of their trade relationships with the nations that they SELL the Oil and Gas to, the exodus of millions of their best, and many many more costs... all to get a little bit more of something they already have an obscene amount of?
Many wars throughout history are fought for economic reasons. This is not one of them.
*spoilers*
It sounds more like an F- to me lol
It kinda is. This is probably the worst servant I have covered so far.
I’m very pleased to see a bashing of a poorly elaborated on servant to be turned into an eye opening history lesson. Great video, I very much respect the research you put in!