Heyo everyone!! I'm posting some terms from le most AMAZING show Le Chevalier D'eon for others to reference~ ANY info here was gathered from watching it in Japanese, watching it in English, and reading the handy dandy little booklets that came with the DVD.
If there's a term I left out, poke me and I'll add it!
Terms from ‘Le Chevalier D’eon’
Poet: A poet is a magical master of words. The use lines from the Book of Psalms held in the Holy Bible to create new Psalms and do numerous things with their powers. (See ‘Psalms’ below)
An average poet can do much of the following (An ‘+’ will point out the ones only a veeeeeeery powerful poet is capable of):
*Create and control “Gargoyles” (See ‘Gargoyles’ below)
*Reverse the Gargoyle process – Thus saving the unlucky victim +
*Heal wounds – Even to the point of re-growing lost body parts
*Alter/destroy objects and structures
*Kill people at a distance
*Do battle with other poets
*Cheat death – Through a gamble with someone else’s life +
*Reach out to someone’s soul +
*Appear as an apparition +
Psalms: The Book of Psalms can be found in any Holy Bible, and it is from this collection of 150 poems that the poets draw their power. The Psalms used in the series are not actually certain poems, but are a collection of certain lines from different Psalms.
i.e., in The Psalm of Vengeance the line “Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may know themselves to be but men” is found in the Bible under Psalm 9, and another line “For the enemy hath persecuted my soul, he hath made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead” is found in Psalm 143.
The re-combined verses of the Psalms are where the Poets draw their power.
Gargoyle: A Gargoyle is a twisted servant of the Poet who created it. They are characterized by increased strength and agility, grey skin, gold mercury clouded eyes, and the symbol ‘H.’.O’ somewhere on their bodies. (See ‘H.’.O’ below.) Gargoyles are nothing more than mindless monsters subject to the poets will, and the only ways to kill one are too either break the seal reading H.’.O or to mortally wound and kill it (which is very hard to do). Said mercury also has a habit of leaking out of the gargoyle.
A Gargoyle can not be returned to it’s pre-gargoyle state by simple breaking the H.’.O seal, it will die because most of it’s body fluids have been converted to mercury. BUT a Poet can use the power of the Psalms to reverse the gargoyle process and re-convert the mercury.
The victims of Poets don’t have to be human even they usually are. Dogs and rats have been regularly used by Lorenza (See ‘Lorenza’ in the Character Post), and it’s possible that other animals could be used.
H.’.O: or “Homme : Oparte” is the symbol of the Poets. ”Homme” means “Man” in French, and “Oparte” means “To Wish” in Latin, so H.’.O is Man’s Wish or Desire. The words of two languages become one and take on a new meaning in the word “Metamorphose” or “Transform”. When this symbol is engraved on a person or animal, they become a gargoyle.
NQM: Pronounced “Naqam” it is a Hebrew word that means “To take vengeance”, but it also means to wish for the return to harmony after chaos. It is the symbol of Le Secret du Roi, and it shows a persons connection to the secret organization, usually displayed on a rosary, but it has also been seen on a pocket watch, shotgun, and sword.
Knight: A Knight was originally a mounted soldier, and was a rank given to nobles who went through certain training and preformed feats of valor. But when times became more peaceful, being a knight was more of a title than anything. The military title of someone that has been declared as a knight is “dragoon” or an armed soldier trained to fight on foot but transport themselves on horseback.
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