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 [[File:DragonDragoonUtahimeFive-MercurysDoor.png|200px|thumb|Baltas tries to open the door.]]
-{{nihongo|'''Mercury's Door'''|メルクリウスの扉|Merukuriusu no tobira|lit. Door of Mercurius}} was a door in the [[Cathedral City]] said to house a great power. In truth, it housed the [[Black Mud]], a manifestation of the [[flower]] bent on destroying the world. [[Baltas]] was tasked with guarding the door, but he did not remember who by or why.
+{{nihongo|'''Mercury's Door'''|メルクリウスの扉|Merukuriusu no tobira|lit. Door of Mercurius}} was a door in the [[Cathedral City]] said to house a great power. In truth, it housed the [[black sludge]], a manifestation of the [[flower]] bent on destroying the world. [[Baltas]] was tasked with guarding the door, but he did not remember who by or why.
 ==History==
 ===Origin===
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 On June 6, 998, Cerulea and the other lords resumed their attempts to open the door. Cerulea instructed Baltas to interact with a touchpad by the door and gave him some [[Old World language|Old World writing]] to read. Suddenly, a hologram of [[Accord]] appeared and informed Baltas that the voice data was incorrect, teleporting him elsewhere.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 7}}
 ===Destruction of the door===
-[[File:DragonDragoonUtahimeFive-MercurysDoorShatters.png|thumb|200px|Mercury's Door shatters.]] When the magical girls known as [[Intoners]] came to open the door due to false memories implanted by the flower, the lords ambushed them.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 8}} The door resonated with the girls' [[Power of Song]] while they fought the lords. However, three of the girls were killed in the fight, and another was mortally wounded. In a moment of despair, the Intoner [[One]] managed to shatter the door by singing, releasing the Black Mud that was housed within.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 6}}
+[[File:DragonDragoonUtahimeFive-MercurysDoorShatters.png|thumb|200px|Mercury's Door shatters.]] When the magical girls known as [[Intoners]] came to open the door due to false memories implanted by the flower, the lords ambushed them.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 8}} The door resonated with the girls' [[Power of Song]] while they fought the lords. However, three of the girls were killed in the fight, and another was mortally wounded. In a moment of despair, the Intoner [[One]] managed to shatter the door by singing, releasing the black sludge that was housed within.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 6}}
 ===Aftermath===
-The Black Mud began to gather up the dead Intoners, mending them and using them to summon [[daemons]].{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 10}} It was eventually stopped by Zero and her dragon companion [[Michael]]. {{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 12}} Baltas, the door's guardian, went on a rampage, but was burnt up by [[Gabriel]], the daemonised version of One's dragon friend, [[Gabriella]]. {{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 15}}
+The black sludge began to gather up the dead Intoners, mending them and using them to summon [[daemons]].{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 10}} It was eventually stopped by Zero and her dragon companion [[Michael]]. {{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 12}} Baltas, the door's guardian, went on a rampage, but was burnt up by [[Gabriel]], the daemonised version of One's dragon friend, [[Gabriella]]. {{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 15}}
 ==Behind the scenes==
 ===Etymology===
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 Mercury is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld and the "messenger of the gods".
-*'''God of divination''': When One touches the door, she receives a vision of the Black Mud coming out from behind it.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 8}}
+*'''God of divination''': When One touches the door, she receives a vision of the black sludge coming out from behind it.{{Bookref|U5|Volume 2, Chapter 8}}
-*'''God of boundaries''': Mercury's Door serves as a boundary, keeping the Black Mud in.
+*'''God of boundaries''': Mercury's Door serves as a boundary, keeping the black sludge in.
 *'''God of trickery''': In ''[[Drag-On Dragoon 3 Story Side]]'', Zero theorises that the flower planted false memories into her sisters to trick them into opening the door.{{Bookref|DOD3SS|Chapter 3}}
 *'''Messenger of the gods''': Dragons in ''Drakengard'' are referred to as {{nihongo|messengers of God(s)|神の遣い|Kami no tsukai}}.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 285: Key Words}} In ''Drakengard 3'', it is revealed that dragons are the only beings capable of killing the flower.{{Gameref|DOD3}}{{Gameref|DOD3|Zero's Chapter, Verse 1}} Thus a parallel can be drawn between dragons and Mercury('s Door) both opposing the flower.
 ====The Spirit in the Bottle====
-Alternatively, Mercurius could be referring to the demon from [[wikipedia:The Spirit in the Bottle|The Spirit in the Bottle]], a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Mercurius is a giant demon trapped in a small bottle. Parallels can be drawn between the demon Mercurius being trapped in the bottle and the Black Mud being trapped behind the door in the manga.
+Alternatively, Mercurius could be referring to the demon from [[wikipedia:The Spirit in the Bottle|The Spirit in the Bottle]], a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Mercurius is a giant demon trapped in a small bottle. Parallels can be drawn between the demon Mercurius being trapped in the bottle and the black sludge being trapped behind the door in the manga.
 ===Fan translations===