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Which aspect of Hindu mythology is the Calre.A named after? GSF Spoilers

Asking for my Gundam SEED Freedom rewrite. It's pretty easy to tell that Rudro.A and Shive.A are named after Rudra and Shiva respectively, but Calre.A is a lot harder to pin down. And I want the names to be adjusted so when they come up in narration and dialogue, readers will have an idea on how to pronounce them. I have changed the Rudro.A and Shive.A to Rudro and Shiva, but I'm at a loss for what to change Calre.A to.

Is it Garuda? Ganesha? Kartikeya? Or something else?

The three above have thematic significance for the Calre.A too and would all be meaningful names. Garuda is an eagle demigod and Calre.A has wings. Ganesha is a god of wisdom and is to be revered before any other deity, which reflects both Orphee as the "leader" of the Accords (not counting Aura who controls all of them) and Ingrid as the smartest of the Accords. Kartikeya is the commander of the Devas, and that's relevant to Orphee for the same reason Ganesha is.

Of course, it's possible that Calre.A is so hard to pin down because it's named after all three, to reflect its design, Ingrid, and Orphee all at once, but... I still need to name it just one thing. What should I do?

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u/Karyu_Endan — 14 days ago

Need help with a custom GB4 build

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to make a Gundam of my own creation in GB4 accurately depicting something I came up with for my GSD fanfic universe's adaptation of Gundam SEED Freedom. I'm not going into details about what this mobile suit is here to avoid spoilers unless someone asks me about it in the comments, but the long and short of it is, I'm at a loss about a certain part and need help replicating it in-game.

I need two drill funnels that launch from the backpack. All the backpacks and builder parts I've experimented with that have funnels don't have drills. I'm not even sure if such a part exists in the game (I'm using the Geymalk funnel builder parts atm as a substitute), but if such a thing does exist, please let me know about it.

Thank you.

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u/Karyu_Endan — 2 months ago

Didn't think I could out-grind Branded after getting Droll'd Turn 1, but Regained is a house of a card.

So here I was playing pure Primite again, having updated the deck to include a Vanilla for every attribute, and discovering Ringowurm as an incredibly powerful extender. And I won the coin flip for my Diamond 3 rank-up duel, and feeling good about opening The Bystial Lubellion and Ether Beryl. I unfortunately couldn't access most of the Primite engine for this duel, however, since I got Droll'd after Lubellion searched Magnamut. All I could do Turn 1 after that was forego Lordly Lode to set Drillbeam with Ether Beryl instead - Lordly Lode cannot activate under Droll on account of its search of a Primite card on activation being mandatory - and get Branded Regained on the field by dumping Labradorite Dragon to the grave as banish fodder for Druiswurm, which itself was just tribute fodder for Lubellion.

Then I see my opponent activate Fallen and Virtuous, and I dread having to grind out a game against Branded after getting Droll'd. Thankfully, Drillbeam could negate the pop, and Branded Regained can generate tons of advantage if it's allowed to stick, through both its effects.

That being said, I see in retrospect that my opponent misplayed a few times. They had Called By The Grave in hand and could have used it to banish Druiswurm and prevent me from reviving it with Regained (and Regained can't revive Lubellion either, since it can only be summoned through its own effect). I suppose they might have been worried about triggering Regained's draw effect if they banished Druiswurm, but they knew I had Magnamut in hand and was going to banish a Light or Dark (specifically, their own Albion to cut off their search in EP) to proc the effect anyway. Instead, they let the revival go through and discard Called By for Super Poly... and used Druiswurm as material for the Dogma Devourer... triggering Druiswurm's send to grave effect. And they used Druiswurm as material a second time on Turn 4 with Alba-Lenatus too. They really made the same mistake twice in one game. And on top of that, they didn't shuffle Drillbeam back to deck with the Dogma Devourer, instead opting for Druiswurm and Lubellion. Even though I showed them a second Ether Beryl in hand when I activated Drillbeam the first time and was going to set it from grave on my next turn. I could have very easily lost this game if my opponent paid more attention to my hand and read the Bystials more carefully.

Anyway, Turn 3 shows off, more or less, the amazing synergy that Ringowurm provides the Primite engine AND the Bystials. Any normal summon can be converted into a level 8 vanilla (link it off for Spirit with Eyes of Blue, add Mausoleum of White, use it to send Blue-Eyes, tribute Spirit for Blue-Eyes), then Ringowurm can SS itself, then you synchro Bystial Dis Pater. Ringowurm can banish itself for a token that can act as Tuner or non-tuner, then since Ringowurm is Light, Dis Pater can revive the Ringowurm you just banished. Or proc a draw from Regained if you're so inclined.

Rather than do either though, I used Dis Pater to revive the Labradorite Dragon I banished Turn 1. I was thinking about using it and the token to synchro summon Ancient Fairy Life Dragon to draw a card, but that doesn't out the Dogma Devourer... Transcendasurus Glaciasaurus DOES out the Dogma Devourer, however. It being 3600 ATK just narrowly edges out Dogma's 3500 and I can beat over it. Here I was, thinking about cutting this guy since I rarely need to Synchro 12 and most of the fusion monsters are generally better beatsticks anyway, but Glaciasaurus came in clutch this game where I was constantly denied access to Primite Fusion. That's why I left that token on board.

Lastly, this hardly ever comes up, but Bystial Dis Pater is a Bystial, so Branded Regained can revive it from the grave after it's used as material for Alba-Lenatus. Lol.

This was an intense game overall, and has standout examples of how the Bystials, the Primite engine, and Ringowurm all synergize with each other. I hope you learned a least a little about this deck from watch this game. I sure did playing it.

u/Karyu_Endan — 4 months ago