Why does Sigurd’s Gram in Cosmos in the Lostbelt not look like the Gram that Gilgamesh pulled out of the Gate of Babylon in Fate Stay/night?
The sword was broken and then reforged so it's likely that Sigurd simply made adjustments to the swords form.
Punching Gram a lot will do a good number on it eventually. Considering Sigurd's strength, it might have been reforged multiple times.
If Beni-enma has her own cooking class for Servants, why doesn't she have dialogue lines for Tamamo Cat, Boudica, and EMIYA (aka the Chaldea Kitchen Team)?
All of those servants are competent cooks, there's no reason for them to attend.
Cat does have a voice line for Beni where she calls her "sensei" meaning that they do know each other. Why Beni doesn't have a line for Cat is unknown.
How in God's name did the Mage's Association manage to turn off the servant summoning system? seriously half the servants there were crazy yandere's who would burn the world to the ground for another five seconds with the protagonist. They would have walked in said 'we are taking over now and you are all under arrest for saving the world' and promptly get slaughter by the small army of god like beings who would all die for the protagonist. Maybe if you said one of the people on the inside betrayed them and shut down the system I could believe it but that they just let them?
Chaldea was trying to cooperate with the Mage's Association, to deny the criminal allegations put against them. With the Singularities corrected, they wouldn't have a need for their summoning systems at that time, so they shut it down. Not shutting it down after its purpose had been fulfilled would almost certainly have been seen as incredibly suspicious.
How did the Huns get to West Africa, before Atilla's conquests at that?
By traveling with some trading caravans or mercenaries? During that age people were often far more mobile than we're accustomed to think, leading to things like black vikings happening every now and then.
Why did Koyan wait until LB 3 to use the lipstick tube? With Goredolf aboard the Shadow Border, she could’ve teleported herself (and the Oprinchki) in whenever. Hell, why blow her cover at all? Goredolf was simping for her pretty hard, and she could’ve stayed as his ‘secretary’ long enough to kill everybody if she kept her cover for a day or two.
Because she is a sadist and has a very short fuse for patience, combined with a thing for immediate pleasure despite how much it could backfire at her in the next second. She is also cocky, so combine that as well, you get a very short-sighted creature with a knack for self-destruction.
Sadistic yes, but she kept that in check for a good period of time (Holmes claimed that her disguise was perfect until she came to Chaldea), so why break cover so quickly? There’s still the issue of the lipstick tube… once Goredolf was on the Border, it was game over for Chaldea since Koyan could teleport in and finish everybody off (she still had the Oprinchki, Mash was depowered, and that rifle was strong enough to injure/kill Arjuna’s Sacred Beasts).
Given the reveal that she wanted both The Foreign God and Ritsuka for her last two tails, it seems that she was deliberately holding back. She likely needed both alive and/or in absorbable condition but because she was hired by F.G first she couldn't outright side with, and later betray, Chaldea and thus made half-hearted attempts only.
How do EMIYA and Solomon function under the same metaphysics? The logic behind EMIYA being summonable in the Fifth Fuyuki Holy Grail War is that because the Throne of Heroes exists outside of time, all heroic spirits exist in it at all times, and thus because there is a future where Shirou Emiya becomes a hero and brokers a deal with Alaya, he can be summoned by a servant summoning or the counter force at any point in time, because again, there is only one Throne of Heroes and EMIYA is always in it. Next we come to Solomon, whom is summoned and after a chain of events we all know, erases himself from the Throne. But there is only one timeless Throne of Heroes. If at any point his existence in it was removed, he should likewise never exist in it at any point, and not be able to be summoned no mater the point, past present or future. There should not be "no longer able to be summoned" because that only functions in a system operating in time.
Don’t think about it too hard. You're only going to hurt yourself.
A temporal loop? While the Throne is outside normal spacetime, it has been suggested throughout Fate works that it is not entirely timeless and static. For example, how else Tamamo and Himes became pen-pals and attended Beni-enma's Hell's Kitchen after their deaths? If so, then FGO/Solomon could not be summoned under any circumstances, unless Marysbury is the one doing the summoning. Eventually, Solomon erases himself from the Throne, thus closing the loop and becoming unsummonable (in FGOverse)in the first place.
Considering that Solomon uses what is basically a straight-up Miracle to erase himself from the Throne of Heroes, this would imply he is essentially dipping his hand into the Throne of Heroes and just removing his existence from it. Plus, since we know that the Abrahamic God is a real being in this setting due to how all myths/religions are true, it seems that by using his final ring to do so, he's basically bypassing the laws of existence through divine power. Most likely there is some time travel/temporal work at play too.
Given that Goetia's plan also wouldn't work under this logic - if he succeeds, there's no cause to incinerate the civilisation, thus humanity isn't changed to be immortal from the beginning - it's a paradox loop of broken causality all the way down.
Since Akasha is essentially an archive of the World, it might also keep track of revisions to history and their order of occurence.
I understand how Merlin allows himself to be summoned by Chaldea, but how does he become a Grand Caster? Doesn't that require him to die and be recorded in the Throne of Heroes?
He is not a Grand Caster but instead a Grand Caster candidate. He has what it takes to be one and can act in a similar fashion to a Grand but because he is still alive he isn't actually one.
How did Flaurous's sabotage manage to take out Akuta? Given what she is there's no way a simple explosion should have managed to do more than minor injuries, if even that.
That might be just Akuta being lazy and playing along in order to not get to work as intended, since the original director who did know about her was already gone at that point...
Funnily enough, it seems that Chaldea is at fault here. Akuta may be ageless, but her regeneration and strength depend on the amount of mana she absorbs from her surroundings and/or blood. Until S.I.N. she was limiting her abilities, hence the, most likely magical, bomb either knocking her out or outright wounding her. Had she been left on the floor she would have recovered eventually, but then Chaldea in their attempts to save her life puts her in the freezer, where she cannot regain her consciousness nor have enough mana to absorb...
Wasn't she already in a coffin at that point from previous experiments by Chaldea? Also, since it was all according to Marisbury's plan, he could stuff her there beforehand or just make her play along.
Considering that turning its enemies into crystal is its entire modus operandi, why did ORT not do the same to Camazotz - turn him into crystal - and then just leave him alone, but instead kept on engaging him in combat? It didn't have to absorb him at all (and considering that Camazotz is truly immortal, it can't absorb him); just keeping him frozen as a crystal statue would've made him a non-threat.
Because that’s explicitly what happens when ORT kills you.
Crystallisation isn't so much a conscious effort, and more of a ORT's reality bleeding through and overwriting surroundings, akin to Reality Marble. Camazotz, being a full-fledged Beast, would have enough authority and power to shrug it off, at least, until he's killed for good (which ORT failed to achieve).
Still on the subject of ORT, why is being absorbed by it considered a Fate Worse than Death (pardon the Fate pun) for the Servants/Heroic Spirits? As far as I understand how the Nasuverse works, the summoned Servants are copies of the actual HS on the Throne, so it's baffling that ORT turning them into crystal and then absorbing them is enough to make them unable to be summoned again. Not to mention, with how instantaneous the crystallization happens, it would've been probably painless for the affected Servants.
It was directly explained in the story that eating them cuts off their connection to the Throne.
To elaborate, it isn’t so much that ORT was eating the Servants, so much as it was devouring whole chunks of the throne of Heroes itself.
WTF is the mechanics of Russian Lostbelt? Is it frozen the whole year? Then how the hell the whole ecosystem hasn't run out of food without plant life in a couple of years? If the inhabitants lost almost all manufacturing skills, to the point of being unable of making a basic new izba (the whole point was that it required a barest minimum of technological base to build, allowing the dirt-poor peasants to re-settle anywhere), how didn't they run of gunpowder and guns (both requiring some tricky know-hows)? Also, Paxti is anything but Russian name.
Yes, it's a permanent Ice age. Since magic was explicitly used in the creation of Yaga, presumably the surviving species were also magically adapted to the changes; one possibility is that subterranean and ocean/lake life forms became the new bottom of the food chain. It is possible that, not unlike S.I.N.,the technical know-how is preserved by a select few and centralised in the capital under Ivan's control. Also, in-universe Paxti's name could have originated from a refugees that sought salvation from the Ice age and made it.
Regarding the characters who were Put on a Bus after the events of Ordeal Call 2, why is Swimsuit Jeanne Alter (who's a Berserker) the only non-Avenger who ended up getting the "Link Lost" status? Why are other characters who are alts of the removed Avengers (Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, who's Jeanne Alter as a kid Santa; all variants of Medusa, who are human forms of Gorgon, the monster that comes to mind to most people when Medusa is mentioned; both original and Swimsuit Nitocris, being that Nito Alter is original Nito transformed by Camazotz during the events of Lostbelt 7; and original and Swimsuit Ushiwakamaru, the Servant whose body became a vessel for Taira no Kagekiyo) not given the "Link Lost" status themselves?
