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* Shuichi's [[Role]] is Recorder and his [[Rule]] is Collection. | * Shuichi's [[Role]] is Recorder and his [[Rule]] is Collection. | ||
* His [[Sacred Artifact]] is a clay tablet that can store vast amounts of information. It is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Library_of_Ashurbanipal|Library of Ashurbanipal]] that contains thousands of clay tablets and fragments that contain texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC, like the [[Wikipedia:Epic_of_Gilgamesh|Epic of Gilgamesh]] and the [[Wikipedia:Enūma_Eliš|Enūma Eliš]]. | * His [[Sacred Artifact]] is a clay tablet that can store vast amounts of information. It is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Library_of_Ashurbanipal|Library of Ashurbanipal]] that contains thousands of clay tablets and fragments that contain texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC, like the [[Wikipedia:Epic_of_Gilgamesh|Epic of Gilgamesh]] and the [[Wikipedia:Enūma_Eliš|Enūma Eliš]]. | ||
** The Sacred Artifact itself is most likely based on the '''[[Wikipedia:Tablet_of_Destinies_(mythic_item)|Tablet of Destinies]]''' which belonged to [[Wikipedia:Enlil|Enlil]], Sumerian God of Wind and Storm, an artifact that will always return to him no matter how many time its ownership has changed. In one of the myths, the tablet was stolen from Enlil by Abzu the divine bird who is also roughly an equivalent to {{Transient icon|Ziz}} of Jewish mythology until it was reclaimed by Enlil's son Ninurta. | |||
** His charge skill "Record of Nineveh" references ancient Nineveh, the place where the library is located in the Assyrian Empire; the site now is in modern-day northern Iraq, near the city of [[Wikipedia:Mosul|Mosul]]. | ** His charge skill "Record of Nineveh" references ancient Nineveh, the place where the library is located in the Assyrian Empire; the site now is in modern-day northern Iraq, near the city of [[Wikipedia:Mosul|Mosul]]. | ||
** {{Transient icon|Marduk}} has a small similar-looking tablet tied around his neck. | ** {{Transient icon|Marduk}} has a small similar-looking tablet tied around his neck. | ||