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Having finally finished Dies Irae, I can finally put forward all the stuff I've found. Here we go, there's a fair amount.
Let's start with the obvious stuff and get into the bigger stuff as we go down.
Reinhard's Weaknesses
Base Weaknesses
First off, Reinhard is vulnerable to "self-inflicted injury". What this means, apart from that he can hurt himself by punching himself, he can be harmed by the members or weapons of his own Legio . And this does not mean "4-C everyone in Legion". It means that even if these members would normally be nowhere near powerful enough to bypass his durability and spiritual armour, they can still hurt him.
The italicized part is shown when the bayonett that harmed Reinhard in the first image is the weapon of a group of skeletons who Sakurai Kei had been fighting and defeating a few seconds before .
Hadou God Weaknesses
First, Reinhard is incapable of using his full Hadou God power against anyone not named Mercurius.
Second, Reinhard is so powerful that he actually damages himself as well when he fights in this stage.
Trifa Power Additio
Trifa can hide his presence (including his soul) from the senses of others. Even when he was a few metres away from Brenner, she didn't sense him until he allowed her to.
Additionally, Trifa has resistances to magic and temporal attacks .
Briah Weaknesses
Briahs can't be used indefinitely (unless your name is Reinhard of course). A few hours is their absolute max .
Reinhard's Soul Resurrection
As we all know, Reinhard can endlessly resurrect the souls of those who die within Gladshiemr. However, Reinhard's soul resurrection is not completely done on his own. It is Mercurius who is behind most of it . Although Reinhard is capable of forcing their resurrection, it takes a lot longer to resurrect them.
We can actually see that Merc is the main one responsible for this in two occassions. First,Beatrice requests Mercurius/Karl Kraft not to resurrect Eleonore immediately once she defeats her. Second, Reinhard himself asks Mercurius to resurrect his Eleonore and Machina, rather than simply doing it himself, and thus making everything go the way he wants it to, because if he was to do it himself it would take too long .
LDO Immortality
I've brought this up before, but I'll bring it up again.
The LDO are not immortal, at least not on their own. They can halt their bodies ages, but their soul will eventually self-destruct. There are two reasons why they serve Reinhard. One is that they can resurrect the dead. Two is that they become immortal, something they can only do through Reinhard. If they were already immortal and could truly live forever, they would not even bother.
Both Rusalka and the narrator straight up say it. And they clearly state that the souls will "perish" or be "annihilated". Not that Rusalka will kill herself. The self-destructive urge is something different.
Reinhard's Type 8 Immortality
So, apparently because Reinhard is Mercurius's Apoptosis, Reinhard cannot die unless Mercurius dies first.
Except it sure doesn't seem like it. In the Marie route, Ren kills Reinhard with Rea's help , and Mercurius is alive throughout the whole thing.
I have seen nothing that implies Reinhard can't die unless Merc does first. The closest thing I've found to that is stuff saying Reinhard will die (or at least lose his Hadou God status) if Mercurius dies.
Additionally, this whole "apoptosises can't die unless their host dies" is further contradicted by Shirou and Ren. Shirou is Ren's apoptosis, yet in all routes except Kei's, Shirou dies before Ren.
Kasumi route -> mutual kill by Wilhlem
Marie route -> Mutual kill with Schreiber
Rea route -> Suicide to open the last swastika.
Now apparently, Rindou survives an attack from the Tenmas in KKK because of her being Habaki's apoptosis. But that blatantly contradicts what is shown in DI several times. So I think that we should assume that is either the result of Hajun repainting the world, or PIS, and remove the Type 8 from Reinhard.
Spears ignoring distance
Rigth, let's finish with a big one.
So far we've all thought that Reinhard throws his spear, and then it hits you instantly because it skips distance. The reasoning for this annoys me. For reference, the reasonings I've seen for this are
1) "Rindou Koga can do it, and seeing as she is using the Longinuslanze Testament, Reinhard should be able to do it too."
2) "Valerian hit Wolfgang Schreiber with the spear while he was in Briah and thus always faster than his opponent"
3) "Valerian hit Wolfgang Schreiber with the spear when his Briah was creating infinite distance around himself"
4) "It is stated that the spear can do things "distance and dimension not withstanding""
Ok, I'm pretty sure these reasons are wrong.
1) Rindou Koga is from a different world that operates under a different Law (for those not familiar with the Masadaverse, a Law is basically the God determining how the world works, like Mercurius making the world reset itself, Marie letting people reincarnate, Hajun causing everyone to start killing each other, Nerose Satanel's denying everyone free will). If the mechanics of the verse have changed, I see no good reason why the spear should be considered to be the exact same spear, especially seeing as Rindou's profile makes no mention of her version of the LT being always faster, never-missing, and existence erasing like Reinhard's is. And for people who say "The spear was made by Mercurius, a 1-A Hadou God, so of course it would remain the same between repaintings", that's bull. The Law of the Throne God will overwrite everything that does not have equal or higher Taikyoku. Mercurius and Reinhard have infinitely less Taikyoku than Hajun, there is no way that the spear could resist Hajun's Law rewriting the world.
2) Wolfy is standing still in shock, so he's not outspeeding anything.
3) When the VN shows Valerian attacking Schreiber, it clearly shows him using his hand to impale him through the chest. The counter argument to this is that an image of the LT is shown moments before this image, which I couldn't screenshot because it happens to quick. However, every other time the Longinus is used, there is some mention of a blinding flash of golden light, which is notably absent during this sectio, and also, the spear literally cannot hit Reinhard's generals. It swerves out of the way to avoid them. When Eleonore gets between Valerian and Rea, the spear swerves out of the way to avoid her. This would neither be necessary or possible if the spear simply skipped distance to hit its target instantly. All this leads me to believe the spear image there was the visual equivalent of hyperbole, and Valerian wasn't even using the spear when he killed Schreiber.
However, if you insist that the spear image means that the spear was used, even if Wolfy is clearly shown being impaled by Valerian's hand, the spear literally can't hit Schreiber and there is a certain "Golden Schwan Lohengrin" chant missing that should be necessary for Valerian to fire the spear, there is an alternative explanation. Wolfy's ability lets him "always be faster than his opponent". Except in this case, Valerian was not Wolfy's opponent. Wolfy was entirely focused on Ren and Shirou as his enemies. In fact, Valerian was using his afore-mentioned ability to hide his presence, so no one even knew he was there until he had already impaled Wolfy through the heart . Thus the explanation is simple - Valerian was unaffected by Wolfy's briah because to Wolfy, Valerian didn't even register as existing, let alone being an opponent.
4) Not meaning what you think it means. The context of this quote is that the spear has just pierced through Wilhelm Ehrenbur 's Briah. "Dimension" has been used in DI several times to refer to other worlds, such as Reinhard's castle existing in another dimension. Similarly, the Creation Figments of Briahs are also refered to as "realms", "worlds", and "domains". Additionally, if something will chase you forever, while also being faster than you, why would distance matter anyway? It's a leap to say that it straight up ignores distance.
And now that I've done my best to disprove the reasoning behind distance-ignoring lance, I'll post a bunch of photos of all the time it has NOT ignored distance:
Ren straight up catches the Longinus as it flies past.If it simply warped over and hit him, this would be impossible.
Beatrice's lightning, at least in this case, proves to be faster than the spear. Again, impossible if it simply skipped over distance.
Rea and Trifa have a really quick conversation between the spear being fire and the spear hitting. Also, the spear "rends the air" . Both these would be impossible if the spear ignored distance - i.e. teleported over - to hit them instantly.
In between the spear being thrown and it hitting, Ren manages to run up and push Sakurai out of the way.
The spear scratches Kei as it goes past. Key words "goes past" - this would be impossible if it simply skipped distance.
Ren dodges the Holy Lance - again, something impossible if it really skips distance.
Man, that was a lot of stuff.
Let's start with the obvious stuff and get into the bigger stuff as we go down.
Reinhard's Weaknesses
Base Weaknesses
First off, Reinhard is vulnerable to "self-inflicted injury". What this means, apart from that he can hurt himself by punching himself, he can be harmed by the members or weapons of his own Legio . And this does not mean "4-C everyone in Legion". It means that even if these members would normally be nowhere near powerful enough to bypass his durability and spiritual armour, they can still hurt him.
The italicized part is shown when the bayonett that harmed Reinhard in the first image is the weapon of a group of skeletons who Sakurai Kei had been fighting and defeating a few seconds before .
Hadou God Weaknesses
First, Reinhard is incapable of using his full Hadou God power against anyone not named Mercurius.
Second, Reinhard is so powerful that he actually damages himself as well when he fights in this stage.
Trifa Power Additio
Trifa can hide his presence (including his soul) from the senses of others. Even when he was a few metres away from Brenner, she didn't sense him until he allowed her to.
Additionally, Trifa has resistances to magic and temporal attacks .
Briah Weaknesses
Briahs can't be used indefinitely (unless your name is Reinhard of course). A few hours is their absolute max .
Reinhard's Soul Resurrection
As we all know, Reinhard can endlessly resurrect the souls of those who die within Gladshiemr. However, Reinhard's soul resurrection is not completely done on his own. It is Mercurius who is behind most of it . Although Reinhard is capable of forcing their resurrection, it takes a lot longer to resurrect them.
We can actually see that Merc is the main one responsible for this in two occassions. First,Beatrice requests Mercurius/Karl Kraft not to resurrect Eleonore immediately once she defeats her. Second, Reinhard himself asks Mercurius to resurrect his Eleonore and Machina, rather than simply doing it himself, and thus making everything go the way he wants it to, because if he was to do it himself it would take too long .
LDO Immortality
I've brought this up before, but I'll bring it up again.
The LDO are not immortal, at least not on their own. They can halt their bodies ages, but their soul will eventually self-destruct. There are two reasons why they serve Reinhard. One is that they can resurrect the dead. Two is that they become immortal, something they can only do through Reinhard. If they were already immortal and could truly live forever, they would not even bother.
Both Rusalka and the narrator straight up say it. And they clearly state that the souls will "perish" or be "annihilated". Not that Rusalka will kill herself. The self-destructive urge is something different.
Reinhard's Type 8 Immortality
So, apparently because Reinhard is Mercurius's Apoptosis, Reinhard cannot die unless Mercurius dies first.
Except it sure doesn't seem like it. In the Marie route, Ren kills Reinhard with Rea's help , and Mercurius is alive throughout the whole thing.
I have seen nothing that implies Reinhard can't die unless Merc does first. The closest thing I've found to that is stuff saying Reinhard will die (or at least lose his Hadou God status) if Mercurius dies.
Additionally, this whole "apoptosises can't die unless their host dies" is further contradicted by Shirou and Ren. Shirou is Ren's apoptosis, yet in all routes except Kei's, Shirou dies before Ren.
Kasumi route -> mutual kill by Wilhlem
Marie route -> Mutual kill with Schreiber
Rea route -> Suicide to open the last swastika.
Now apparently, Rindou survives an attack from the Tenmas in KKK because of her being Habaki's apoptosis. But that blatantly contradicts what is shown in DI several times. So I think that we should assume that is either the result of Hajun repainting the world, or PIS, and remove the Type 8 from Reinhard.
Spears ignoring distance
Rigth, let's finish with a big one.
So far we've all thought that Reinhard throws his spear, and then it hits you instantly because it skips distance. The reasoning for this annoys me. For reference, the reasonings I've seen for this are
1) "Rindou Koga can do it, and seeing as she is using the Longinuslanze Testament, Reinhard should be able to do it too."
2) "Valerian hit Wolfgang Schreiber with the spear while he was in Briah and thus always faster than his opponent"
3) "Valerian hit Wolfgang Schreiber with the spear when his Briah was creating infinite distance around himself"
4) "It is stated that the spear can do things "distance and dimension not withstanding""
Ok, I'm pretty sure these reasons are wrong.
1) Rindou Koga is from a different world that operates under a different Law (for those not familiar with the Masadaverse, a Law is basically the God determining how the world works, like Mercurius making the world reset itself, Marie letting people reincarnate, Hajun causing everyone to start killing each other, Nerose Satanel's denying everyone free will). If the mechanics of the verse have changed, I see no good reason why the spear should be considered to be the exact same spear, especially seeing as Rindou's profile makes no mention of her version of the LT being always faster, never-missing, and existence erasing like Reinhard's is. And for people who say "The spear was made by Mercurius, a 1-A Hadou God, so of course it would remain the same between repaintings", that's bull. The Law of the Throne God will overwrite everything that does not have equal or higher Taikyoku. Mercurius and Reinhard have infinitely less Taikyoku than Hajun, there is no way that the spear could resist Hajun's Law rewriting the world.
2) Wolfy is standing still in shock, so he's not outspeeding anything.
3) When the VN shows Valerian attacking Schreiber, it clearly shows him using his hand to impale him through the chest. The counter argument to this is that an image of the LT is shown moments before this image, which I couldn't screenshot because it happens to quick. However, every other time the Longinus is used, there is some mention of a blinding flash of golden light, which is notably absent during this sectio, and also, the spear literally cannot hit Reinhard's generals. It swerves out of the way to avoid them. When Eleonore gets between Valerian and Rea, the spear swerves out of the way to avoid her. This would neither be necessary or possible if the spear simply skipped distance to hit its target instantly. All this leads me to believe the spear image there was the visual equivalent of hyperbole, and Valerian wasn't even using the spear when he killed Schreiber.
However, if you insist that the spear image means that the spear was used, even if Wolfy is clearly shown being impaled by Valerian's hand, the spear literally can't hit Schreiber and there is a certain "Golden Schwan Lohengrin" chant missing that should be necessary for Valerian to fire the spear, there is an alternative explanation. Wolfy's ability lets him "always be faster than his opponent". Except in this case, Valerian was not Wolfy's opponent. Wolfy was entirely focused on Ren and Shirou as his enemies. In fact, Valerian was using his afore-mentioned ability to hide his presence, so no one even knew he was there until he had already impaled Wolfy through the heart . Thus the explanation is simple - Valerian was unaffected by Wolfy's briah because to Wolfy, Valerian didn't even register as existing, let alone being an opponent.
4) Not meaning what you think it means. The context of this quote is that the spear has just pierced through Wilhelm Ehrenbur 's Briah. "Dimension" has been used in DI several times to refer to other worlds, such as Reinhard's castle existing in another dimension. Similarly, the Creation Figments of Briahs are also refered to as "realms", "worlds", and "domains". Additionally, if something will chase you forever, while also being faster than you, why would distance matter anyway? It's a leap to say that it straight up ignores distance.
And now that I've done my best to disprove the reasoning behind distance-ignoring lance, I'll post a bunch of photos of all the time it has NOT ignored distance:
Ren straight up catches the Longinus as it flies past.If it simply warped over and hit him, this would be impossible.
Beatrice's lightning, at least in this case, proves to be faster than the spear. Again, impossible if it simply skipped over distance.
Rea and Trifa have a really quick conversation between the spear being fire and the spear hitting. Also, the spear "rends the air" . Both these would be impossible if the spear ignored distance - i.e. teleported over - to hit them instantly.
In between the spear being thrown and it hitting, Ren manages to run up and push Sakurai out of the way.
The spear scratches Kei as it goes past. Key words "goes past" - this would be impossible if it simply skipped distance.
Ren dodges the Holy Lance - again, something impossible if it really skips distance.
Man, that was a lot of stuff.
