Ea

## Noble Phantasm

Sword of Rupture, Ea (乖離剣・エア, *Kairi-ken - Ea*) is the most powerful Noble Phantasm contained in the Gate of Babylon and the Gate of Tartarus. It is the pinnacle of all those used by Servants. Unlike all of his other nameless weapons that were able to be passed on to other wielders throughout history, it is a sword only Gilgamesh possesses, a unique existence that can only be possessed by him, that is suited only for a ruler's use and makes him transcendent. However, upon Chris Toussaint's request, he too could wield Ea with minimal difficulty.

It has an abnormal shape that doesn't match what would normally be classified as something specialized like a sword. It is something that was born before the appearance of the concept that the world calls a "*sword*," so it is not something that can truly be called a sword or have the shape of any known blade. While it has a grip, handguard, and is the same length as a longsword, the section that should contain a blade deviates from the normal form of an edged weapon. The "*blade*" itself and the tip of the sword, spun in a spiral shape, are dull. It has the shape of a cylindrical, drill-shaped pillar made up of three independently rotating segments engraved with crimson cuneiform lettering that spin slowly in an alternating direction like querns, the middle segment spinning clockwise and the top and bottom segments spinning counterclockwise. The drill design was modeled after bedrock excavators used to drill underwater tunnels. While Ea is categorized as a sword, its way of being is closer to a wand. Its three sections respectively represent the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. It exemplifies the world's way of being by having each one of them rotate in opposite directions. The "*cosmos*" is thus represented by matching all three of these representations. Everything together represents the universe.

Gilgamesh considers it his greatest and most trusted treasure next to Enkidu, one of the few esteemed treasures, which is only used against those he deems worthy of facing it.

The sword itself is nameless, with "*Ea*" simply being the name that Gilgamesh chooses to call it, and Shirou describes it as "*the only sword that does not exist in this world.*" It is something that does not appear in any modern legends, crystallized during the Age of Gods at the beginning of the world. It is the primordial sword that is the actualization of the works of a god recorded before humanity came into being, and it is that which divided the formless into distinct heaven and earth in ancient Mesopotamia. It is a Divine Construct created by a god, unable to be replicated by Unlimited Blade Works, and its status as a unique existence means it cannot be reproduced in any way. While Shirou is capable of determining every single Noble Phantasm from a vast number of different legends and origins brought forth from the Gate of Babylon, he is unable to tell the nature of Ea or even begin the process of analyzing it. Simply looking upon the weapon causes Shirou's senses to cease completely, and it makes even the greatest Noble Phantasms look like third-rate weapons. The names were given to the sword, and its ability by Gilgamesh is thought to be references to the Great God of Earth and Water, Ea, of the Mesopotamian and Babylonian myths, and the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.

Gilgamesh claims that the sword "*knows the truth*" of the World where it once existed, and by using its power, it is able to bestow its knowledge upon others. As it is "*The Sword That Cut the World Apart*", he calls it “*something that knows the hellish planet before genesis*”, the planet's primordial form before heaven and earth were split, where it was a land filled with naught but lava and gas and a hell of scorching heat and intense cold. Referring to it as hell, Gilgamesh states that it is the source of all legends of the land of the dead. The memory of the time before the existence of the planet, a place and time when organic existence had been impossible, is something possessed by all organisms, but it is no longer found in the imaginations or spoken memories of people. It is the first memory of life that is a genetically inherent and repressed knowledge which can only be shown to those looking upon the sword.

## Enuma Elish

The attack, **Enuma Elish: The Star of Creation That Split Heaven and Earth** (天地乖離す開闢の星(エヌマ・エリシュ), *Tenchi Kairisu Kaibyaku no Hoshi(Enuma Erishu)*), signifies the overloaded state under which it releases its maximum output. While nominally listed as the Noble Phantasm in his status, Ea is the actual Noble Phantasm. Originally, it had the Authority of nation-building.

Borne of the winds drawn unto the revolution of the three cylinders of Ea, a spatial severance is formed by use of the Sword of Separation. Compressed and intertwined stratifications of wind become a virtual dislocation of space-time, annihilating any who would stand in opposition. Aside from holding an elimination rank "*Armor Class*" statistic of a sufficient magnitude to Anti-Purge Defense, or enacting mutual negation via a counterattack that inflicts the same order of damage, the damage rendered cannot be defended against.

Upon activation, the tri-blade segments of Ea gradually begin to rotate faster with each revolution, acting in concert with the movement of the Heavens. As they begin rotating rapidly, each creaking with weight and power equivalent to tectonic movement, they create a shrilling howl once Gilgamesh or Chris commands it to "wake up." Whereas Excalibur releases air outward like a whirlwind, Ea begins to swallow, compress, and accelerate wind pressure into a storm of wind and light on the same magnitude as Excalibur. Emitting gaseous energy from the seams between the segments, the generated air pressure faults compressing and smashing against each other, it simulates spatial rends to create an artificial space-time dislocation that acts as a crushing torrent capable of pulverizing any opposition. The actual output of the attack equals or slightly surpasses that of Excalibur, but the swirl of air behind it and the enormous amount of seething and overflowing magical energy within it are on an entirely different level beyond measurement.

Performing the miracle of genesis, something that reveals creation - the beginning of everything, the attack opens an abyss capable of crushing anything. The center of the storm is not calm, but rather a hole to hell itself that returns all that enters its realm to the nothingness from which it originated. The wind pressure creates a vacuum that takes all things with form, the land, the atmosphere, and the sky, into the whirling void. The tumult of genesis takes everything that was nothing more than chaos, which could not form any meaning, and creates a new truth that divides and distinguishes Heaven, Sea, and Earth. Within the darkness where everything is returned to nothingness, only Ea is left to shine with brilliance like a Star of Creation amidst the destruction, the first thing illuminating the new world. The ability takes the world as a whole within the Reality Marble Ionioi Hetairoi, and cracks shatter and collapse it into the abyss like the ending of an hourglass. The entire world inside the Reality Marble would have been destroyed had the field not collapsed due to a lack of energy.

The attack power is based upon the users' strength. Since Chris does have a strength of a god, his attack power could kill an entire army with just one attack. Since Angelica's strength is lower than Chris', her Enuma Elish is weaker.