Angelos Akotantos (Cretan Greek, …. - 1450) - Icon of Resurrection of Christ.
The resurrection of Christ is represented as the descent to hell. The kneeling Adam, symbol of all humanity, is taken from the grave by Jesus to bring him back to life.
I came across this by accident as I was searching for a link to watch the show Ertugrul (Resurrection). The first version I came across was in Turkish with English subtitles, in the first scene within the first minute, the main character refuses the sword that is offered to him and responds by saying “there’s no sword other than Zulfiqar” and then makes a comment about Ali.
The blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday is a Polish Catholic tradition with roots dating back to the early history of Poland.
“In Poland, Easter provides the opportunity for a big feast following six weeks of Lenten fasting. Churches, homes and streets are usually decorated with displays of colorful flowers, palms and intricately painted eggs. On Easter Saturday, Poles prepare their baskets filling them with food that is blessed and eaten for Easter Sunday breakfast. The Polish Easter basket symbolizes God’s generosity, joy and abundance.” — Ren Behan, ‘Wild Honey and Rye: Modern Polish Recipes’
Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me.
My tender age in sorrow did beginne And still with sicknesses and shame. Thou didst so punish sinne, That I became Most thinne. With thee Let me combine, And feel thy victorie: For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
The Resurrection of Christ, Juan Correa de Vivar (1510-1566)
Resurrection’s setting material that was distributed to the cast and staff at the movie development stage to give them general idea of the character/world/mecha setting at the beginning of the story. Since this was made during development/conception stage, some of information here might differ from what we actually see in the movie (or what we will see in future installments, probably, when they finally come around). (so I guess you can take it as… inspiration for fanfic? hehe)
After Demon Emperor Lelouch is killed by Zero the leader of Black Knights, Holy Britannian Empire splits into small states and autonomous territories. Things are relatively stable here as aristocratic system has been pretty much abolished during Lelouch’s era, while any signs of domestic conflicts are suppressed by Britannia-born natives such as Cornelia and Gino, hence intervention from foreign countries is able to be kept in check. Granted, because its national strength is originally already strong, it isn’t necessarily reduced to poverty. Unexpectedly many of its rural regions are rich with resources. Among agricultural nations in the world, it stands at the top.
On UFN
As of Year 2 of Kowa, more than 80% of the world has joined UFN. The basic policy which is the members have to transfer their military force and entrust military operation to Black Knights has not changed. Following the dissolution of Chinese Federation and EU, there’s no country that prominently acts as its leader, but UFN’s founding countries such as Japan, China, and India, have strong influence in the union. Delegation for Japan, Sumeragi Kaguya, serves as the Chairwoman of UFN Supreme Council. The world’s stability is maintained with Schneizel, who’s still under “Work for Zero” geass, serves as Chief of Staff in UFN Supreme Council.
On Black Knights
A military organization entrusted with UFN’s entire military force. No matter how the world has began to engage in dialogues and negotiations, in the occurrence of terroristic activities, Black Knights acts as a suppression and deterrent. Toudou Kyoushiro serves as Commander in Chief, with Cornelia, Gino, Chiba, Xianglin, Honggu, as members.
✤ SETTING RELATED TO CHARACTERS ✤
Kururugi Suzaku
Spending his days as Zero. Frankly it’s hard. But, he has to do it. Suzaku himself sometimes wonders if there’s anyone who notices that he is Zero, but he believes that it is his mission to play the role irregardless. However, he only really revealed it to Nunnally whom he spent a lot of times together with. As the leader of Black Knights, he also takes over the duties of being one, but since this is his first time taking part in organizational management, he studies about it day and night. With the increase of his participation in politics, surprisingly he’s able to handle political affairs flawlessly, which might be because of his father’s blood.
Nunnally vi Britannia
Her official position is the Honorary Advisor at World Humanitarian Agency (WHA), an affiliated organization of UFN. There are ‘voices’ that encouraged her to join UFN Council, however since her brother is too notorious, and she herself once claimed to be Empress of Holy Britannian Empire, she settled with her current position. She believes that it is her mission to follow through her brother’s vision of the world, and works hard every day without complaining.
Kouzuki Kallen
Even though she knows that the current Zero is Suzaku, since there’s nothing she can do about it in particular, she’s taking wait-and-see stance. As of now she’s a second year student in Asia Maritime University. The reason she entered this university, is because both land and sky reminded her of war, so she decided to study about sea. She got good at swimming, and now fishing is her hobby. She’s trying to get a sailing licence for small boats. A Black Knights’ reserve officer.
On Lloyd, Cecile, and Nina
Llyod lost his nobility status after the abolishment of the aristocracy by Emperor Lelouch. Since he sided with “Demon Emperor” Lelouch, even though he did it under threat, he wasn’t allowed to become a public official. As he lived his life like a bum, Arthur and Cecile provided shelter for him. Kanon who couldn’t bear to see his situation, established the “Institute of Defense Planning and Advanced Development Studies” (IDPADS), in which he became a director candidate of. However, because of his poor communication skill, his candidacy was opposed by the line management, and after he kept being demoted to one position down after another, from executive director to general manager and so on, he finally settled as chief clerk. Cecile who once held professorship at Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering in University of UFN, joined the IDPADS because she couldn’t just ignore Lloyd’s fell from grace, and became the head of Planning and Development there. At the same time, Nina who also has lost her old position, joins the institute. Through researching Core Luminous, Lloyd discovers that it’s possible to shut off Yggdrasil-drive externally, which is a different approach from Gefjun Disturber. However, because it’s a basic research that neither generates quick money nor is suitable for private sectors, his research was ignored by the institute. Cecile is currently working on building KMF for civilian use. “Moosa” is the first prototype that has been completed. Nina is studying to the bone to find a way to use FLEIJA for peaceful means.
Cornelia li Britannia
Commander of Black Knights’ 11th Army Brigade. A lieutenant general. The poor treatment she receives despite her career and rank as lieutenant general is largely due to her being a member of Holy Britannian Empire royal family. In other words, since another member of said royal family, Schneizel, has already seated in important position, there’s a worry that giving more power to them could lead to anti-Britannia activities, not to mention the Massacre Princess Euphemia was also her sister. Rightfully, she was supposed to be given an army with a size of division, but currently she’s in command of a brigade due to political considerations. Initially she was arranged to an extremely low rank, but after one objection after another coming from other officers claiming they can’t possibly have higher rank than Cornelia, she’s settled as Lieutenant General. In fact, looking from achievements alone, she should be a General or Chief of Joint Staff next to Toudou.
Gilbert G.P. Guilford
He hurt his eyes at Second Decisive Battle of Tokyo, but as of now he wears special-built contact lens to cover his eyes. This is something he only wears during battles, in normal daily life he often just wears sunglasses. Is furious with how Black Knights treats Cornelia. He was supposed to be the Inspectorate General of Military Training at Black Knights’ HQ, but he volunteered to be a resident military officer at Britannia’s autonomous territory. One of the reasons is so that if anything happens to Cornelia, he would be able to help her immediately. He runs an orphanage named Darlton Memorial School with his own expenses. He’s collaborating with surviving member of Glaston Knights, Claudio S. Darlton.
Gino Weinberg
Black Knights’ Chief of Air Force Staff. His rank is air marshal, equals to Cornelia. He’s appointed to many other jobs including corporate consultant and specially appointed professor at universities. Even with the collapse of the aristocratic system, it seems his household was able to survive with ease because of its economic power. He thinks it’s good to have peace, but the increase of office works over physical works concerns him.
Ougi Kaname
The first Prime Minister of the newly reborn, independent Japan. Everything he does is colored in miracles, he’s on the high road to success even though he himself has no desire for it, a lucky man loved throughout history. With various matters, including being viewed as a ‘legendary’ great man known not just in Japan but in the whole world, wearing him down… he resigned and entrust things to his juniors. He refused all kind of public official positions, and is considering to pursue his original passion in teaching and as well as focusing on child support. In the wake of this incident, he realized that he couldn’t escape from his past self, and thought how he had to take the responsibility once and for all.
Tamaki Shinichiro
Opened a cafe bar right after Zero Requiem, but the average purchase from each customer was low, so he increased the number of barkers, offered set meals during lunchtime, etc, and the cafe unexpectedly became a hit. The success got into his head, he named the cafe “Zero” without permission to use the name and turned it into a collaboration cafe, which not only invited even more customers…. but also complaints from Black Knights. As a result, for public appearance sake the second store will be opened under the pretext as a memorial hall.
Shinozaki Sayoko
The 37th generation head of Shinozaki-style. On the surface, it does custom-made accessories business under the name of Kageno Company. The truth is it’s actually a company that makes hidden weapons and do shady works. As part of their job, these Shadow Warriors have gone to various places around the world as bodyguards for important people and resolve numerous conflicts. It only has one lone member though. This time she entered the battle with the feeling that none of this would have had to happen had she been the one tasked to protect Nunnally-sama.
Lelouch
Have the capacity to memorize the situation he’s in, but no ability to make intellectual judgement.
C.C.
Travelling around the world to restore Lelouch to his original state. She needs to go to C’s World to do that, but most of the gates to enter C’s World have been destroyed due to either Charles’ experiment project or the war. In her journey to find a surviving gate, she travels to Zilkhstan where there was a branch group that was separated from Geass Order 300 years ago. She only keeps in touch with Jeremiah, Shirley, and Anya. She has money she has saved up back when she was still in Holy Britannian Empire, but its currency value now has plummeted. Her current main concern is to not make any movement that’ll make her stand out.
Shirley Fenette
Her parents are still alive and they somehow manage to get by after the war’s over. She once considered to stay in Japan, but she faced a lot of difficulties for being Lelouch’s former friend, so she went to study at an university somewhere else. She’s now in her second year at Faculty of Sport Science in UFN University. Her feelings for Lelouch remains unchanged, only that it has became pure. Not in an unhealthy sense, but in a sense she tempers her feelings to the point that now she’s able to wait for him while living her days normally undistracted. Her relationships with Miley and the rest haven’t changed. She also maintains friendly term with many others.
Jeremiah Gottwald
After Zero Requiem, he was banished from public official position and sentenced to death due to his time serving Demon Emperor Lelouch, but Zero (Suzaku) himself wrote a petition for him thus his sentence was commuted. After that, he was sent to work in a forced labor, but a year later the forced labor itself was banned due to the pressure from World Humanitarian Agency (WHA) in which Nunnally acted as its Honorary Advisor. He then went to help out Anya with her orange farm in South America.
Later, he took over the farm and renamed it to “Gottwald Plantation Orange Village”, where he became the owner of. Through illegal route in the military he gets his hands on Sutherland J, the center of Sutherland Sieg which he used in the past. He requests Lloyd to give it extreme remodelling. He thought he needs to organize some armed force in order to provide a shelter for Lelouch and C.C. who would have no place to go. But the people who were involved thought he was an emerging new mafia or drug cartel. Now he joined the battle because he wanted to see the healthy appearance of his master.
Anya Alstreim
Her family has fallen due to the abolition of aristrocatic system by Demon Emperor Lelouch. After the commencement of the new system, she was offered some positions by the UFN and Black Knights. The renewed Britannia also called her over, but all the posts she was offered are ridiculous so she declined. Started farming as a down-to-earth work. She used Mordred, which she forcibly took with her in place of her retirement pay, to cultivate the wasteland. It was actually initially a cannabis farm owned by a local mafia, but she turned it into an orange farm without permission. Just when she’s worrying over how she couldn’t make any progress with the farm due to her lack of management skill and farming know-how, she learned about Jeremiah’s discharge. Based on some absurd reasoning that he must know how to deal with oranges because he’s Orange, she conjoined with Jeremiah. Since then she has been releasing herself from all troublesome works like accounting and enjoying her life as an employee. This time she joined the battle because of Schneizel’s request.
✤ SETTING RELATED TO KNIGHTMARE FRAME ✤
Joint Strike Armored Knight Program
A program that had been on-going since the era of Demon Emperor Lelouch’s reign. The purpose of this program is to integrate the systems of weapons in each region starting from Knightmare Frame, and to improve maintenance and weapons compatibility. Though in reality it was only after Zero Requiem that the test machines are finally deployed, but the integration of Britannia-made system and Asia-made system that was centered in Japan, has not yet been completed.
Proposal for Frame Coat
Due to Joint Strike Armored Knight program, except for plans that had already been underway, new plans for Knight Giga Fortress will be halted unless there’s a clear prospect to them. The substitute plan is Frame Coat, which is to add additional armor and additional armament to the current existing Knightmare Frame in lesser cost.
Shanti Chawla, the central figure in “Pearl Party”, a private institute owned by Rakshata Chawla who’s the leader of UFN’s Science Committee, came up with the idea after seeing dress-up dolls. The fully equipped version is called Full Coat. Although it significantly lowers KMF’s mobility and greatly reduce its short-range attack power, it improves its defence and long-range attack power, so it is said to be suitable to be operated as mobile fortress and defending bases. For now Coat Lancelot and Coat Guren will be made as prototypes. Separated prototype is also due to Asia-made system and Britannia-made system being not integrated.
Moreover, Guren Seiten Eight Elements which give conspicuous service in previous war, was dismantled by Chairman Rakshata. *It is rumored that she did it because she couldn’t let slide how outsiders had modified it, though the truth is unknown. However, since Guren type is a symbol of people’s liberation, Guren Special Type is deployed as a higher grade version of Guren Seiten Eight Elements. In addition, Lancelot has the worst image as favorite KMF of Suzaku Kururugi who served Demon Emperor Lelouch, but the machine performance as a guiding weapon is highly evaluated, and it’s allowed to be build by adding siN to its name. There is rumor that a private company’s chief (Lloyd) is involved in its construction.
On Pearl Party
A private research institute founded by Rakshata who now held many positions including Chariman of UFN’s World Science Committee, Consultant of World Health Organization, Honorary President of UFN University, Advisor at UFN’s Volunteer Secretariat, Part-time member of the World Public Security Investigation Agency, and Consultant of United States of India’s Ministry of Health and Welfare. She gathered genius children from all over the world including her biological sister Shanti, to conduct research on development of new technologies and peaceful use of military technologies. During the foundation it received personal help from Schneizel and the south*.
*: ? I genuinely have no idea what this supposed to refer to.
Koujiro is actually referred to as “Taniguchi” (his family name) here, but I used his first name so that people won’t confuse him with Director GoroTaniguchi. Also, I skipped parts that seem redundant.
—In this movie, other than 1-year-post-R2 characters playing active roles, there are many new KMF models and new flying KMFs like Lancelot siN for example. However, considering that the world is peaceful after Zero Requiem, there should be no need for any of these new KMFs. Story-wise, what is the background of these KMFs?
Koujiro: There was a plan called “Joint Strike Armored Knights Program” that had been worked on since the time Lelouch became Britannia’s emperor, which was intended to boost armaments compatibility, including Britannia KMFs and other KMFs that had evolved uniquely to each region. As part of that plan, KMFs such as Lancelot siN and Guren Special Type were developed due to various circumstances and measurements. Though the world was supposed to have no need for such high specification KMFs, Schneizel who’s engaged in persevering the peace that Zero wants to maintain, considers all kinds of situations, and proceeds ahead with the plan.
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> Where did Zilkhstan’s KMF came from?
From the scenes in the movie, it can be seen that Zilkhstan owns Britannia-series KMF like Glasgow, Japanese-made KMF such as Gekka, or Europia-series KMF such as Alexander. “Koujiro: Aah, those KMFs are goods they take home from their mercenary business activities. They didn’t just bring home money, valuables, and information on various weapons, but they also invited engineers from other countries.” And so the KMF Nagid Shu Mein that Shalio piloted can be said to be the ‘fruit’ of that practice.
Even though they are outsourced, it’s still unprecedented for a small country to be able to keep their own KMFs. “Koujiro: As a country that go to battles as their source of income, they saw Britannia’s KMF during invasion of Japan, and thought how the next era will be the era of KMF, so they’ve been working on KMF since long time ago.”
> United Federation of Nations and Black Knights
Led by United States of Japan and Chinese Federation, UFN was originally created to contend with Holy Britannian Empire. Though it can be said that UFN has lost its original significance with Holy Britannian Empire becoming a republic in Kowa era, it’s still needed to maintain the peace in the post-war world, similar to the presence of United Nations in our real world. As the only military division under UFN, Black Knights retained the same name as when it was founded by Zero, but the nature of the organization differs greatly. “Koujiro: Although they just appeared for a bit in “Resurrection”, Glinda Knights that have taken the role as observer at the end of “OZ the Reflection”, exists in a form of mutual monitoring with Black Knights.”
> Is Kowa era really peaceful?
In the opening narration, it was said that after Zero Requiem, from the first year of Kowa to second year of Kowa, peace has lasted for one year. “Koujiro: It’s not that there wasn’t any military engagements. Although there wasn’t any major conflict between nations, there were battles on the level of minor incidents, and some conflicts that were contained by Black Knights.”
> Lancelot & Shinkiro
For the fans of “Code Geass” series, the representative of Suzaku’s KMF is Lancelot. The citizens depicted in “Code Geass” world also think the same. “Koujiro: Lancelot is KMF piloted by Kururugi Suzaku, Emperor Lelouch’s knight, in other words it was a symbol of evil KMF. Suzaku once tried to pilot a black Lancelot called Albion, but people were really frightened by it. Therefore, a Shinkiro-series KMF, Mahoroba Type 0 was developed. Yet because there’s a chance people will still be frightened by this, Suzaku used Mahoroba Type 1 that has different color and limited specs, made for ceremonial purpose.“
> Nagid Shu Mein
“Koujiro: Nagid Shu Mein is Zilkhstan’s original KMF. That being said, Zilkhstan itself didn’t have the technological capability to develop KMF, so it’s most likely designed by engineers from abroad like Britannia or India. It has feature that made use of float-system technology around its joints. Unlike other KMF it moves as if it has no weight, a bit more like floating, it has innovativeness that can’t be found in KMFs from other countries.”
> Gekkoei
A large flying KMF. It’s a double seat type and is assumed to be commander type KMF. “Koujiro: The order from Director Taniguchi for this KMF was “A ‘stage’ where Lelouch and C.C. can stand on together”. In the movie, Lelouch saw the machine and thought it was still incomplete, this is due to the lack of legs. In term of its weaponry too, at present it’s only equipped with machine gun.”
> Treatment on various aspects post Zero Requiem
In the previous decisive battle, UFN came out as the winner while Britannia the loser. Essentially, the losing side will be treated as the ‘villain’ by the winning side. Just like in our real world America (GHQ) as the winner of Pacific War purged Japan’s public officials as a measure, there’s a tendency for people who held key positions in Holy Britannian Empire to be ousted from their position after the war. “Koujiro:Cornelia is a member of royal family so it wouldn’t be strange even if she was positioned as general, but at the moment her rank is that of lieutenant general. The reason being there’s a concern if royal family was given too much power, it could give rise to another crisis.”
> Nunnally kidnapping incident in global perspective
“Koujirou: This incident known as “Puzzlement in Hashvess”, is a small incident that can be covered up by reporting it as Zilkhstan’s military training, which is how it’s seen from global perspective. For people who lives in that world, the peaceful times continue with no differences before and after the incident.”
> Changes in C.C.’s psychology
Initially, C.C. has a strong image as a non-human being with detached attitude, but in this movie she shows quite a deep attachment towards Lelouch. “Koujiro: When C.C. fought with Kallen in her Lancelot Frontier and lost to Kallen, there’s a line “To think I still care about winning or losing…” that she said with self-deprecating sentiment. At that point she has already deeply attached to Lelouch. On the other hand Kallen who responded to C.C.’s “It’s your win” with “Who cares about things like that” and cut the communication line, had temporarily sorted out her feelings.”
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—Shamna and Shalio are the ‘villains’ judging from their characters placement, but judging from their action they are not villainous.
Koujiro: “Code Geass” has no villain that is evil for the sake of being evil. Each character has their own hopes and desires, and takes action for to achieve that purpose. Shamna and Shalio are also like that. Kidnapping Nunnally and interrogating Zero, are done for the sake of realizing their wish.
—Boys and girls characters with extreme personality who insist to have their own way seems to be very “Geass”-like, however as they became adults, or rather as they grew up, the characters seem to grow milder, actually the characters that appeared in “Lelouch of the Resurrection” give off that kind of impression. So I wondered how the next story will be constructed.
Koujiro: That’s something Director Taniguchi has addressed in interviews, for example in Lelouch’s case, he said we shouldn’t make “rebellion” as Lelouch’s identity. I also well agree with him. The reason why Lelouch rebelled against his homeland Britannia in “Lelouch of the Rebellion” was because he had no choice but to do so. If for argument sake Lelouch seems to become mild in this movie, it’s probably because as a human, going through Zero Requiem had changed him. As with other characters, Code Geass characters changed dynamically as they get involved with other characters and overcome life events, so the impression may seem different from the time of “Lelouch of the Rebellion”.
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