Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140918010005/@comment-6966973-20141227083630

Scarletta Agni wrote: Since the Sin Ark is apparently a parallel to Noah's Ark, what I'm wondering is...

What the hell does it look like?

All this time I thought it looked like the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri on an elliptical platform on top of some steps, but is it actually a boat? Is it a part of the boat? Like the mast or bow or somthing like that? An Ark in this case refers to a large boat, not an "Arch" that is basically a giant curved line. It's probably nowhere near as big as the "actual" Noah's Ark, but it would have to be pretty darn huge in order to carry... what is it, 72 deities, of various appearances we don't even know yet? The remains of it probably don't take up that much space, as it's small enough to be hosted within a temple in Levianta yet large enough for a person (like Elluka's corpse) to be placed within it. So it's pretty sizeable, really.



As for the inspiration, yeah, it's definitely based off of Noah's Ark, that much is obvious. But it's totally possible for the inspiration to be pulled from mulitple sources- using Okami as an example again, it has Shinto mythology and novels from as late as the 1800s, along with historical figures from the 600s or so. I'm not saying mothy would do the same thing, I just saw the weird parallel with a game I've been obsessing over for the past couple weeks and thought I'd point it out while it was fresh on my mind. I don't mean to say "OMG THERE'S TOTALLY A CONNECTION", it was just a somewhat random thing that crossed my mind at the time. I mean, I don't know much about Christianity, but I'm fairly certain that Noah's Ark didn't include having evil beings sneak on board. (unless you count mosquitoes or something as "Malice" ahah)

I gotta say, it would be kinda funny if mothy actually did pull inspiration from Okami, though I doubt it. Like I said, it was a spur of the moment thing, sorry for kinda throwing the thread off topic.