Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-33544229-20171215082342/@comment-25936766-20171215153433

NemesisOfMud wrote: In volume 5 and 4 we see that Anima has much more primitive technology, there are only a few weapons that also function as a gun and even then it's because they're just taped onto one, Wrong. Anima is the continent. Including Mistral.

The villages have less advanced tech, at least at first glance. But Mistral doesn't. Mistral is the kingdom, the most developed place in the continent, enough to avoid being periodically crushed by Grimm like the villages.

It's also the one place where Huntsmen are trained and such. And let me remind you of the Haven teams we saw before Vol.5: SSSN, and ABRN.

>With SSSN, there's Sun and his Gunchakus that combine into a staff, and Neptune who has a Lightning-Trident/Guan Dao. Scarlet's weapons are pretty simple, sure, and Sage's is just a huge sword, but you can't ignore Sun's or Neptune's weapons.

>With ABRN....alright, their weapons are even more simple, Bolin has a simple staff and Nadir has a gunblade, though a shitty one. Arslan's weapon is just a rope dagger as well. However, Reese has a freaking Hoverboard, that can separate into a pair of pistols. And that's actually pretty neat.

So saying Anima has more primitive tech, is just plain wrong. That only applies to the villages, and even then it's not exclusive to Anima, all villages are technologically-inferior to their respective Kingdoms.

also the Nuckelavee heavily depended on fear, that's why its new form didn't actually give it any new abilities, it just freaked out its victims more, If it heavily depended on fear it wouldn't have survived that long.

Given the collection of weapons in it's hideout and the many arrows on it's back, people (though apparently no Huntsmen) have tried to kill it, and failed.

the reason why people never tried to kill it earlier was due to more primitive technology and the fear of it that was spread by the few people that did see it, That only applies with the villagers. Not the Huntsmen, who are literally trained to kill shit just as strong and much stronger than that thing. And literally designed miles-more-advanced weapons than anything villagers have, before they even enter an actual Huntsman Academy.

In fact, 4 kids, who were barely entering the 2nd Year Huntsman-in-Training level, managed to kill it without a single casualty or even any lasting injuries. Logically, an actual Profesional Huntsman, of which there are many as we can see in Mistral's Mission Board in V5, would have done a much better and quicker job.

Yet apparently no Pro. Huntsman ever tried to kill it. "Fearsome reputation" is meaningless when they are trained to kill those things and would likely do it anyway even if just for the money. After all, the Nuckelavee has only ruined villages and killed villagers, not any actual Huntsman, let alone a Profesional.

That's the biggest problem, narratively. Mistral has Huntsmen. Profesionals. 4 newbies could kill it, so logically 1 Pro could have as well. And the Nuck is at least a decade old. Yet in those 10-so years, apparently no one has even tried, except for villagers. Even though, you know, a giant man-horse bigger than trees that has attacked multiple villages would most likely be a problem for the Kingdom.

I mean, if a large deadly group of hardened criminals are scared of it you know you should be, What "large deadly group of hardened criminals"? Raven's? Her bandits are absolute shit, the only exceptions are Raven and Vernal. The former got Huntsman Training, the latter is a freaking Maiden.

Not to mention that the only time we've heard her say they retreated after attacking a village (Shion), it wasn't just the Nuck, it was a group of Grimm.

Even if Raven and Vernal could've taken out the Nuck easily, it's harder to take out a horde, and it's especially harder to take out a horde while avoiding said horde killing all her puny bandits. And Raven cares about her tribe, she avoids things whenever possible if it would massacre said tribe.

and in transcript it is revealed there have been a few attacks it used in the final battle that would have been fatal if they had not been dodged. Such as? I'm pretty sure the only "fatal" attack that actually missed was the charge that failed because of Ren's Semblance.

For the rest of the fight all it did was try to slam it's hands onto RNJR, and if grabbing and slamming them repeatedly was not fatal, I'm 100% sure that hitting them with it's hands would be even less fatal.

Hell, even the horse kick, didn't do that much against Jaune. Jaune.

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I have to agree with the anon there. You're just grasping at straws to try to make it make sense, but no. It was just a mess. Narratively and stylistically.