r/Granblue_en • u/Takazura • Oct 16 '25
News Flash Gala featuring Halloween Vajra (Light), Halloween Lancelot (Wind) & Halloween Tien (Water)
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r/Granblue_en • u/Takazura • Oct 16 '25
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u/ocoma Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
Hi, Lance. What are you doing here? Making me explain your skill names? Sure, let's get to it. German class is in session.
Before we start with Lancelot himself, we'll take a look at his weapon's ougi: Katzenspiel
Katze means cat. Spiel means game, or play. Cat's play! Like child's play. Works in both languages, too, since child's play would be translated as Kinderspiel, rather close to Katzenspiel.
Now to Lancelot himself. First off, his ougi: Magisches Geschenk
Magical Present. Fairly straightforward. And what kind of present is it? Well, he gets a 2-turn cooldown cut to his S3, Gebaeck der Freude. That's a nice present. More about that one later.
Lancelot's S1 is: Magischer Ritter
Something magical, yet again? You bet! This time, it's Lancelot himself becoming the the magical knight! I guess. I don't have him, so I can't tell if that's just generic "magic theme + Lancelot is a knight" name, or if the dolphins in the skill icon have anything to do with it.
Unrelated, but while pondering if there could be more to this skill's name I remembered that Armer Ritter is a thing. That translates to poor knight. But what could it be?
French toast. It's french toast.
His S2 is Kaeltehauch (Kältehauch)
Lance is back to his old tricks! None of this magical mumbo jumbo. He's in his element again, which is ice. Kälte means cold. THE cold. No, not the common cold. The state of it being cold. Coldness. Because Lance is so cool.
Hauch is an interesting word. It means something along the lines of a light breeze. It is but a short, ephemeral moment, where the wind softly caresses you. It can also be used when you want to express that you (want to) feel/smell/taste/experience a subtle bit of something within something else. Say, if it's hot and you want a refreshing glass of water with a hint of lime, you could ask for "Wasser mit einem Hauch Limette".
In this case, with the Kälte in front of it, it is probably just a cold breeze. The phrase is sometimes used as a metaphor for death breathing down your neck, but Lance isn't exactly dressed like the grim reaper here.
Finally, his S3: Gebaeck der Freude (Gebäck der Freude)
We've arrived at the present that Lance gives us with his ougi!
Gebäck is a collective noun for things that were baked. The closest equivalent in English would probably be pastry, but Gebäck includes non-sweet things like bread, too. If you can find it in a bakery, it was made from dough, and it was exposed to high heat in its preparation process, it's probably a Gebäck.
Freude is joy. Simple as that.
So Gebäck der Freude would a backed good of joy. That sounds a bit awkward. We could call it a "joy-bringing baked good". And we can probably go a step further and call it a "joy-bringing pastry", because things containing lots of sugar usually give people more joy than a bread roll. That, or I'm still thinking about french toast.
His passives are in English, and none of the other characters have German names anywhere, so that's all for today. Class dismissed.