u/frederiaJ

Hello! Anime-mostly secondary here, with a faint memory of watching Fate, and sadly not enough time to engage with it more deeply rn. But still having a very strong curiosity of the worldbuilding.

Are Servants the ones who can run out of mana juice/energy to perform their moves? Obviously, Servants can run out of juice, and will need some passionate loving with their Masters to recharge. Very commonly-known fact. Yes.

But can human/mage Masters also tire out from the mana tax of sustaining their Servants and their moves?

'Cause like, take Gil in Zero for example. Him activating Ea or some other anti-world crap, does that have a cost on the Master? I imagine something like that would massively drain Tokiomi's mana or lifeforce (but he can take it, 'cause he's a big boy mage). Otherwise, I don't see how a strictly Anti-Personnel Servant like Diarmuid could even hope to take him or his Master on in any circumstance.

Same with Rider activating Ionian Hetairoi, I'm surprised Waver didn't end up choking on his own spit from the sheer mana drain for that Reality Marble. Twice!!!!

It's all so interesting, and I feel there's no better place to ask this stuff than here haha. I don't mind being spoiled, as long as I get lore! Thanks nerds.

I know the answer is probably "for plot convenice" "because Ohba wanted it that way", but still.

One day, Ryuk dropped his notebook in the middle of Tokyo, for whatever reason. Light by sheer coincidence/proximity picked it up. Becomes Kira shorty after.

During his early reign, he executed a burglar, responsible for murdering Misa Amane's parents, a family living presumably in Kyoto (based on her profile data). This made her see Kira as a savior.

Now this is the interesting part.

https://preview.redd.it/bj2sa203vl7h1.png?width=830&format=png&auto=webp&s=9edfadc49e3e75dabe9206cae6c862b27f7c18e5

I don't know how true these dates are, 'cause there is no source. *senator Armstrong voice* Very unfortunate.

But, by sheer coincidence, within the same year, she witnessed "justice" for her parents, and sadly nearly became another murder victim herself, until a Shinigami, who just so happened to be watching over her, intervenes, at the cost of his own existence.

And soon after, she meets and gains the bond of another Shinigami, Rem, as well as her Death Note and Eyes. And she moves to Tokyo (most likely for showbiz, and also some other things)... where Light also happened to be.

All of this before Light even speaks to L face to face.

My main point is, having 2 totally separate Shinigami/Death Note-related incidents occur within Japan, and later converging in Tokyo (Having Kira himself be initially pinpointed to Japan is already a "why Japan tho?" question, but having 2 Kiras in that same region? Bro?), it makes me think if Shinigami are some kind of Japanophiles. Other than that, what are the odds of something like that even occurring, even if we accept a scenario that the occult and supernatural (such as Shinigami and Death Notes) are a given certainty?

But hey, that's just a theory, an Imagay theory, thanks for reading.