#flutrane

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No but actually, Flutrane would be vibrating with delight at all the different kinds of ships and submarines Earth has to offer-

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while i wait for my next class to start i also wanted to post about a possible plot hole i found in aoab while i was making my gods+prayers master doc…

throughout the series Flutrane especially is basically ALWAYS described as having only goddesses for her twelve subordinates. this is referenced quite a lot, such as in prayers (such as in the land-healing prayer, spring prayer, and washen prayer, which all contain“O Goddess of Water Flutrane, bringer of healing and change, O twelve goddesses who serve by her side”) or in her divine locations such as the Goddess’ bath which is obviously only occupied by goddesses and only allowed Rozemyne’s female retainers inside, and the general lore surrounding Flutrane.

However, in the fanbook 1 Q&A, Kazuki-sensei outright says that the unnamed god of trade is one of the 12 subordinates of Flutrane. I noticed this when i was grouping together the subordinate gods based off of the wiki and noticed that only this god of trade was male amongst Flutrane’s otherwise entirely female subordinates, and knowing about all the lore detailed above i thought it was a mistake somehow until i referenced the fanbook where she says he’s definitely one of her subordinates. is this a mistake somehow? because either all the other lore details about Flutrane’s subordinates being all goddesses is wrong, the “god” of trade was a mistake and she’s meant to be the “goddess of trade,” or the god of trade is someone else’s subordinate instead (unlikely due to how clear the Q&A stated “The God of Trade is subordinate to the Goddess of Water”.

It also seems to me like the supreme gods and the eternal five all tend to have subordinate gods/goddesses that match their own gender exclusively, with the main outliers being this god of trade and potentially the patron deity of travelers mentioned to be subordinate to Schutzaria in the same Q&A, though that one is more ambiguous with the phrasing and “patron deity” could very well be referring to a female goddess with its lack of clear gender marker. This makes the god of trade being subordinate to Flutrane stick out even more to me though, as he seems to be some kind of afterthought added in not considering the many previous references to Flutrane’s twelve goddesses?

overall, i think it would make the most sense for the “god of trade” to be a typo for “goddess of trade,” but there’s no real concrete evidence of that beyond Flutrane’s subordinates being repeatedly stated to be all female. i think it would be much more of a stretch to say that the god of trade is actually meant to be subordinate to the God of Darkness, Leidenschaft, or Ewigeliebe because “trade” doesn’t seem to fit with any of their main attributes or their other subordinate attributes either… i suppose the most likely would perhaps be Ewigeliebe, but generally i do feel as though trade would fit most within Flutrane’s retinue as a bringer of change, or perhaps even Schutzaria as trade just based off of my own personal view on the vibe a god of trade would have, but even then i would still assume that he would have been supposed to be a goddess to be under Schutzaria just as much as Flutrane..

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