Sorry for the absence so I'll add my 2 cents as well since I was watching streams.
No, he didn't. He literally doesn't name drop a single DAA in that quote.
Doesn't need to? We know full well Nvrsqr is explicitly described as one of the beings Artoria can kill exactly by how Nasu stated it. If he wasn't, Nasu would have straight up said it by name. If anything, he's most likely bringing up ORT as the main example considering how bullshit it's supposed to be and canonically is.
If you want to interpret that it means Gae Bolg only surpasses Gungnir specifically in the capacity of penetrating Aias and nothing else, then be my guest. But that's a tough pill to swallow considering that according to your logic Gungnir would be as powerful as the sun.
It doesn't matter for Odin, it matters for Gae Bolg because it being as powerful as the sun is nonsensical.
You know what? If it is ridiculous and that's supposed to be the actual case? Then there you go. It's not the first nor the last time this happened to series like this(Look at how Bleach works in any real capacity VS. wise vs. how it's seen in it's own series and it's obvious right then and there). If we are going with Soaring Gae Bolg = Gungnir and Gungnir is Star level, then that is what Gae Bolg is too. It's not even all that impossible to fathom either as Cu is the Son of Lugh Lambfada who is a Sun God in the Nasuverse lore. And Sun Gods are supposed to be WAY stronger than their equivalent Divine Spirits(Which is why most of them are Demiurge Tier to begin with like Quetzalcoatl and Amaterasu)
"represents the rays of heat from the sun"
"which is like the rays of heat from the sun"
These are similes, not literal statements.
So you missed the part where it explicitly states it's a "radiation type Noble Phantasm" with a "Pseudo-Sun" inside?
Excalibur Galatine.
Gawain's Anti-Army Noble Phantasm. A Pseudo-Sun is contained in the hilt.
Unlike Excalibur's centralized attack, Galatine is a broad wave, radiation-type attack that completely annihilates the enemy army. That would still matter... heavily.
How is that proof that Galatine is as powerful as the sun?
Considering the fact that the Pyramid is made from Ozymandias and Ancient Egypt, giving it alot of Mystery and Mana? It's not hard to gauge when we know that ANYTHING that is touched by a Heroic Spirit or as a byproduct can hurt other Heroic Spirits and actually is given weight and mass among other things:
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Five eyes, located in various places on Berserker’s shoulders, neck and abdomen, all turned to glare at Archer of Red and Ruler. The two female Servants instantly separated to the left and right respectively as if flicked away. Not caring about that, Berserker of Red swung his sword with all his might.
Pieces of the ground that he blew away and smashed apart flew at Ruler and Archer like high-explosive projectiles.
“Guh—!”
“Kuh…!!”
Rocks tore through their skin and even damaged part of Ruler’s armor. An attack without prana accompanying it could never harm a Servant. But prana had been loaded to the point of bursting into the sword he swung, and it had even contaminated the broken pieces of stone.
It was the same as a Servant throwing dirks with prana loaded into them… Though, it was the first time Ruler had witnessed of the phenomenon of prana clinging even to fragments smashed apart with a sword.
So why WOULDN'T that matter how easily they are burning under Excalibur Galatine?
How much weaker do you think Sieg's Balmung is than the real Siegfried? Because even if it was a hundred times weaker (a massive high ball) if would still give Clarent an absurd level of power, if Balmung's full power was truly equal to the sun's.
How much weaker it was?
The fact that the very first use basically reduced him right back to Siegfried and even Mordred knew it was a half-assed one? Considering the fact they never clashed like that again speaks volumes she would be dead the next time due to the Anti-Dragon capabilities.
The fact that both the Sub and the Dub of the Anime Apocrypha Battle:
And the Apocrypha Materials even say the same deal:
Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Dragon Revelation Command Spells [Others], p.176
[T] Dragon Revelation Command Spells [Others]
Dead Count Shapeshifter. The unique Command Spells engraved on Sieg. They can also be used as normal Command Spells, but there was absolutely no need for Sieg to force Astolfo to do anything with a Command Spell, so he used them all to turn himself into Siegfried. To explain it simply, they basically let Sieg summon Siegfried every time he uses one. The catalyst is Siegfried’s living heart. However, while Siegfried’s body could withstand the dragon blood within it, Sieg’s body can’t. That is reason that the spots on Sieg’s hand where the Command Spells disappeared from turned black. Even after he used them all up, power Sieg obtained from Frankenstein’s “Blasted Tree: Lightning Branch of Crucifixion” managed to barely maintain his human form, but that too was used up when Sieg used this Noble Phantasm at the end.
And that was AFTER all of the extra boosts he gotten, including Galvanism. So yes, the actual power output may actually be far, far weaker than it is under Sieg because that completely misses that all Clarent Blood Arthur is Mordred's Mana Burst being amplified to a ridiculous extent to work as a Beam equivalent(Which Mordred never clashed with Siegfried or Karna or anyone to truly matched that up, just Semiramis' barrier which blocked it perfectly).
It's not like Nero is the only Servant that faces Galatine's power without being incinerated: Lancelot, Mash, Bedivere, etc.
Hmmm considering Lancelot's Armor is the main reason he can survive being ran over by Iskandar's Bulls? You know, those same Bulls that with a single step of expending Lightning is the equivalent of Artoria and Diamuird's attack power?
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The power of the lightning Iskander’s Gordius Wheel expels is equal to what Artoria or Diarmuid could if they unleashed every single ounce of their strength
No, the chariot was not merely floating in air. Its wheels boomed loudly; it was not solid ground but lightning that the bulls stood upon.
Every time the bulls' hooves and the chariot 'stomped' upon the empty sky, violet lightning spread like a web, rolling the air upwards with deafening roars. The prana spurting from the lightning was probably what Lancer and Saber can only unleash if they use up every single ounce of their strength.
And they legit have a connection to Zeus? That Zeus. Yeah, that kinda makes Lancelot's Armor far more ridiculous than people think:
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It was a thunderbolt that suddenly visited the battlefield. It had the dizzying flash of lightning that contrived to make night into day, and a roar that boomed greater than any thunder.
"Aaalalalalalalaie!"
The lightning didn’t descend from the sky, but traversed across the ground. No – that thing that looked like lightning was the galloping chariot entangled by escaping electricity.
Lancer quickly flipped backwards and avoided the chariot in time. But for Berserker, who kept all his attention of Saber, he didn’t even have time to turn around and register what was going on.
Accompanying Rider’s war cry, the two divine bulls first kicked the black knight to the ground with their four front hooves, and then trampled the black knight mercilessly with their four hind hooves. Each hoof was enveloped with rolling purple lightning; just one kick would have been a very heavy hit. The divine bulls trampled upon Berserker eight times overall and his wounds must have been fatal. After Rider’s chariot roared past, Berserker didn’t even have the strength to stand. The figure with the black armour lied face up on the ground.
Rider sat on the stopped chariot and gazed down at his utterly defeated enemy. His spirited face was covered with smiles.
" – Oh? What happened to you, one with such a backbone?"
Berserker wasn’t dead yet. His body twitched feebly, and he slowly rose up from the ground. The black knight, who was stomped upon by the divine bulls, finally managed to bend his body around and crawl away from the chariot’s path. He had noticed Rider, and luckily avoided the decisive maximum impact of the chariot wheels.
This also ignores Arodnight buffs up his stats by one.
Mash has Lord Chaldeas and Camelot and considering that AAS would be far hotter than the Surface of the Sun...
And Bedivere was buffed over by Excalibur to the point we knew he was from Mordred could destroy him easily to him actually matching her completely so that would include the fact of it also buffing him.
Neither Artoria or Quetzalcoatl are capable of destroying Tiamat's Chaos Tide, the goddess herself says that she could only do a small permiter around her. And the Grail Mud may be referred as being the same as the Sea of Life, but the amount that Tiamat spawned is incomparable to the small quantity that Excalibur destroyed.
That's not what I was saying because destroying the Primordial Sea itself at all is the feat. That's exactly why Ushi Alter explicitly stated you needed something like AAS because the point of it and the point of why Quetz used it wasn't to destroy ALL of the Primordial Sea, it was to stop Tiamat from easily moving using it which went fubar when she could effortlessly regenerate it.
Again, Nvrsqr requires Continental Destruction despite his mass of it would barely cover the park he and Arcuied is fighting in, why would it be different for the Grail Mud(Which only covered the Lake in Fuyuki) or the Primordial Sea?
