Christopher knows blacksmithing.
While we're talking about Fanatic, I need to share this news with you. http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/497171/Supermoon-triggers-end-of-world-Sunday
Aawww, too bad we won't see that moon with the remnants of hurricane Bertha sweeping over Brittain and all…
Ii know there’s a good joke About the start of the environment turn in there, but it’s just not coming to me.
I've had the last hero refuse to end their turn, because at the start of the environment turn their golems and Dr. Tremata would be destroyed.
I think that "Absolution" refers to the Absolution of the world, through the destruction of all evil in it. With that in mind, what about this interpretation: Upon recieving her wings, Fanatic came to the incorrect conclusion that she was an angel with a unique comission to carry out the Lord's judgement, thus purging or "absolving" the world. Her encounter with Apostate was a blow to her pride, but she is described as "refreshed in the knowledge of her steadfast rightousness" after coming out of her 3-day meditation. But of course, pride cometh before the fall. When her sword was shattered by Citizen Truth, several truths were revealed to her:
- Her goal--namely, Absolution--is a flawed one. This world is a fallen one; it will never be cleansed of sin, that is what the next world is for.
- She was out of place in even trying to absolve the world, for absolution comes through faith in Christ alone. Thinking that she could absolve the world by her own power was born of the prideful desire to do God's job for him.
- By trying to play God, Fanatic herself sinned, and she needs absolution just as much as any of the villains she fought, or any of the heroes she fought alongside.
She still wields the half-sword as a reminder of her fall, to keep herself humble. She might also keep it to remind herself of her own need for absolution, and not her own. Symbolically, her original drive for Absolution was half-true, as there was guilt that needed to be absolved, but she was wrong about whose. Now she wields only half of her sword, the (symbolically) true part.
No longer the haughty "angel," Fanatic is now humble enough to join a team of other heroes as equals, rather than believing herself superior or self-rightous, the beliefs that hampered her interactions with the other heroes before. These heroes are, fittingly, the Prime Wardens; the guardians of all that is good in this fallen world. That is Fanatic's new mission. She has abandoned her "comission" to deal out the Lord's wrath, and has taken up the Golden Rule of loving her neighboor as herself. She will now work "for the defense of the innocent and the advancement of the greater good." or self-rightous, the beliefs that hampered her interactions with the other heroes before. This is moderation: not prideful judgement (Original Fanatic), not self-doubt and shame (Redeemer Fanatic), but love for others.
My theory: Fanatic is Dave Strider.
Absolution is Caledfwch, the LEGENDARY PIECE OF ****
That's an interesting take on Absolution, Pinecone. I always saw it as an emblem of her own absolution. A way of justifying the violence she must commit in the path of righteousness.
The reason I think that she's talking about absolving the world is that she says "absolution you shall deliver" to her sword. And swords, well, they are used to kill people. So if the sword is simultaneously killing and taking an active role in the "absolution," it doesn't make sense that she would be absolving herself of violence by committing violence.
Suicide is a sin. Fanatic wouldn't do that.
I know. What I meant is that it's difficult to absolve oneself of violence while committing violence against others (villains specifically)
Absolution doesn't have to be for something she's done, it could be for her perception of herself.
Fanatic knew whe was different, and thought she would be hunted for it. It could be that she grew up in a harsh environment and her fight against evil could be a search for Absolution for herself, from what she is, or from perceived faults that she can't control.
Many unstable minds (and stable ones too) see in themselves all sorts of faults that may or may not exist but are perceived as terrible unforgivable things.
Give Fanatic a harsh upbringing with a heavy sense of obligation given that her life was spared, and a penchant for instability we see (at least in her early career) and I think it is possible that Absolution is her sword and her quest, to try and earn approval and forgiveness.
I always saw that as meaning that she was absolving those she used the sword against of their sins. So she, Fanatic, was releasing them of their guilt through purifying punishment, her sword, so in the end they could reach peace in the afterlife. She saw herself as an agent of good… the Ultimate agent of good, ridding the world of evil and redeeming, through Absolution, those who committed evil deeds.
I see the broken sword as a symbol of her moderation. The evil can be punished and perhaps even redeemed without the need for such a final solution. Her sword is no longer the only means to Absolution.
I thought it was wry humour
"For your sins, I offer you Absolution."
Here’s a different theory: what if the sword is absolving a specific person. Not Fanatic, but the original wielder of the sword and armor.
Oooooooooh…what if Apostate originally wielded those?
Little detail I noticed while perusing the art of cards shown in the tactics rule book, On the Staff of ra card, which shows some trophy cases with stuff like an omnitron peice, shows a shattered condemnation, broken almost idenically to Absoultion, with the pieces are also collected in the case.