It's not impossible, ... But who knows.
Yay! Reasonable doubt! I can't express my joy.
...after what happened to Godot the DS was probably not a popular topic at the court.
Sorry, I was just trying to suggest the author had an opportunity to expand the backstory there, and didn't. That's no basis for conclusions, but it was the last opportunity for Guts (w/DS) to interact with those groups and expand on his relationships with them, for a good long while anyway. If we're going to get DS backstory, I'd guess it could only occur where Guts is/going, or with Rickert & Erica, since they're really the only characters in the story I assume would express knowledge or interest in the DS. It's plausible Rickert & Erica could turn up with the Holy See Alliance, thus putting them in range of Tudor...s? (plural?) I'd just get a kick out of seeing them interact with Schierke and Isidro, so I'd prefer them out towards Y's (like the game?). My silly story isn't necessary for that, and the DS backstory would probably be paired with it being reforged/repaired so it doesn't break, as Godot alluded to the last time he checked it... but getting them back in the story, I'm very curious how Miura will do it. My twisted reasoning was largely a wild guess at that.
Godot has no lord... The local guy he made equipment for most likely isn't related to the kingdom he used to live in. Don't forget he escaped that kingdom in order to save his life.
Can't translantions be
confounding? I was referring to the same "local guy" via the DH interpretation, and basing part of what I said on a comment Erica makes about Godot previously. DH went with "Daddy's real famous in town", blah blah, "local lord"; Puella renders it "called a master smith in this town", "the lords back then". I'm not sure where Godot's hut is in relation to this town, and the sequence of events in general. Could anyone enlighten me?
1. Young Godot does work for a local guy/lord, who lives in a town.
Is it the same town Erica brags Godot is known in; near the mine?
2. A King wants a sword to kill a dragon.
This is a different person than Young Godot's previously mentioned employer right? And is there any indication of how this king relate to that town, or the Young Godot town, if there are two different towns?
3. Godot makes the sword, pisses off "the castle".
Did he go to the castle, send the sword to the castle, mail them a picture of it? How much is absolutely stated? The DS either never changed hands, was returned to him, or he took it back somehow, because he's still got it when Guts shows up (how explicit is the timeframe?) fifty years later. ...Well, we can rule out it not changing hands, on account of
Supreme King Aolsier, duh.4.Godot escapes the castle. Subsequently, lives in the hut where Guts interacts with him.
Does it state he physically escaped custody, or "escaped" prosecution/a punishment? On one end of the spectrum he would have to physically break out of a dungeon and hightail it, possibly with a wagonload of large metal objects, on the other, perhaps his life is spared by the king (Supreme King Aolsier, it just roll off the tongue.) but told: "you'll never work in this town again", hence his current digs.
Nothing hints anything about Godot's "original workplace" in the manga. I don't think you should assume that.
No, there isn't anything like that in the background he and Erica supply. But thinking about it, the DS was made a long time ago. Was Godot at the hut when he made it, and if not, is it still a certainty it was made from the precious Elf Metal? All I remember is a statement that he settled there because of the ore, not that the DS was made from it. I had based my statement on that, but now that you pointed that out I can't recall if it was established that the DS was made from the ore in the cave. Did Skull Knight say so at some point? Naturally the lack of affirmative proof would not mean it was not so, but it seems worth mentioning. The first sword Guts used on the bulldog/pig apostle a Godot's place likewise isn't explicitly identified as being made out of local ore, but since it was made so recently at that location one assumes so. It didn't seem to gain any particular bonus from that, if it was made from...Elftainuim...Dwarfanite...ooh, I've got it,
Aolsier Metal.
SKA FTW! By the way, that image isn't from volume 14. I just have the american releases, and haven't gotten the 15th yet. I'd look through all of mine for the image, but it's too much work. If someone else is looking through theirs, perhaps we could split our already small collection in two, and check half of it. I think I could meet that challenge. Or, that image isn't in any of the volumes I'm familiar with.
