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Hey everyone! So I was recently reading through the Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War manga by Fuyuki Nea, and found some interesting stuff that I decided to calc. I'm not sure what the community consensus is on the canonicity and relevancy of manga like this, but it was officially licensed by Nintendo and roughly follows the story of the game, so I figured it might be applicable in some manner.
Anyway, the scenario here is that Seliph and a newly recruited Ares are locked in battle with the "Goddess of Thunder", Ishtar. After her normal thunder spells are unable to finish the pair off, Ishtar decides to whip out her strongest attack: her signature thunder spell, Mjolnir. She lands a direct hit on Seliph and Ares with it, leaving behind this massive crater.
In order to determine how strong the blast was, we first need to determine the size of the crater. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. The canonical heights of Fire Emblem characters is something that is rarely, if ever, revealed, so I had to do some tricky pixel measurement and a bit of guesswork to get a good measuring stick here.
Long story short, I started with this panel, where we can see the character Febail firing his bow, Yewfelle. Yewfelle's a pretty big bow, so we'll assume that it's the average longbow length of 180cm.
Doing some pixel measurements here, 180/333=0.54, 0.54*324=175.1, meaning Febail's height is about 175.1 cm. We can then use this number to find Ares height.
175.1/257=0.68, 0.68*294=200.3. Using Ares' newly found height of 200.3 cm lets us then find the length of his sword, Mystletainn. 200.3/353=0.57, 0.57*267=151.5. So Mystletainn is 151.5 cm long.
Small tangent here, but if you're wondering why I didn't, say, use everyone's horses to calculate their heights, let's just say that drawing horses isn't the illustrator's strong suit. Even giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and very small horses, all of my calculations using that method resulted in all the characters being over 7 feet tall, so I gave up on that.
I mean, look at this thing.
Anyway, now that we have Mystletainn's length, we can finally measure that crater.
151.5/53=2.86, 2.86*974=2784.2, 2784.2/2=1392.1, and 2.86*22=62.9.
Keeping everything in centimeters, 62.9*1392.1²*π=~382,949,392.65cc
We'll assume that the area surrounding Seliph and Ares was vaporized, given that Mjolnir is a plasma based attack, and plug our previously found number into the equation for vaporization of rock using the values given here.
25700*382949392.65=9841799391105, or around 984 million kilojoules. That's equivalent to 2.35 kilotons of TNT, or small town level.
On a side note, if you're wondering how Seliph and Ares weren't obliterated, it's because Mystletainn provides Ares with extra magic resistance. Shout outs to in-game mechanics!
Anyway, the scenario here is that Seliph and a newly recruited Ares are locked in battle with the "Goddess of Thunder", Ishtar. After her normal thunder spells are unable to finish the pair off, Ishtar decides to whip out her strongest attack: her signature thunder spell, Mjolnir. She lands a direct hit on Seliph and Ares with it, leaving behind this massive crater.
In order to determine how strong the blast was, we first need to determine the size of the crater. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. The canonical heights of Fire Emblem characters is something that is rarely, if ever, revealed, so I had to do some tricky pixel measurement and a bit of guesswork to get a good measuring stick here.
Long story short, I started with this panel, where we can see the character Febail firing his bow, Yewfelle. Yewfelle's a pretty big bow, so we'll assume that it's the average longbow length of 180cm.
Doing some pixel measurements here, 180/333=0.54, 0.54*324=175.1, meaning Febail's height is about 175.1 cm. We can then use this number to find Ares height.
175.1/257=0.68, 0.68*294=200.3. Using Ares' newly found height of 200.3 cm lets us then find the length of his sword, Mystletainn. 200.3/353=0.57, 0.57*267=151.5. So Mystletainn is 151.5 cm long.
Small tangent here, but if you're wondering why I didn't, say, use everyone's horses to calculate their heights, let's just say that drawing horses isn't the illustrator's strong suit. Even giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and very small horses, all of my calculations using that method resulted in all the characters being over 7 feet tall, so I gave up on that.
I mean, look at this thing.
Anyway, now that we have Mystletainn's length, we can finally measure that crater.
151.5/53=2.86, 2.86*974=2784.2, 2784.2/2=1392.1, and 2.86*22=62.9.
Keeping everything in centimeters, 62.9*1392.1²*π=~382,949,392.65cc
We'll assume that the area surrounding Seliph and Ares was vaporized, given that Mjolnir is a plasma based attack, and plug our previously found number into the equation for vaporization of rock using the values given here.
25700*382949392.65=9841799391105, or around 984 million kilojoules. That's equivalent to 2.35 kilotons of TNT, or small town level.
On a side note, if you're wondering how Seliph and Ares weren't obliterated, it's because Mystletainn provides Ares with extra magic resistance. Shout outs to in-game mechanics!
