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Spell Card Name question

May I know Danmaku Chimaera means which meaning, as I search through Wikipedia, it gaves alot about Chimaera's explanation... - KyoriAsh 08:44, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

A chimera is a creature in Greek Mythology which had the parts of, the heads at least, of a goat, a lion, and a snake. The Nue is its Japanese counterpart, essentially. - Universalperson. —Preceding undated comment added 15:24, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't know what the general policy is for this sort of thing, but I thought it would be fun to add comments. Feel free to revert it if it is against policy or something, but I personally think they're pretty good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omicron27 (talkcontribs) 06:23, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Heian Dark Cloud

Seems likely that this spell card and her last card are references to this:

"The most famous story involving the nue takes place in the year 1153, at the imperial palace in Kyōtō. Emperor Konoe begins having terrible nightmares every night, to the point that he falls ill, and it seems that the source is a dark cloud that appears on the palace roof every night at two in the morning. The problem is eventually solved by Yorimasu Minamoto, who stakes out the roof one night and fires an arrow into the cloud, out of which falls a dead nue. Yorimasu then takes the body and sinks it into the Sea of Japan."
Source: http://www.obakemono.com/obake/nue/
It's worth noting that 1153 is in the Heian Period.