History Characters / FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces

** Raum in Salem mentions that the SHEBA lens acted of its own volition by summoning its namesake to stop him in accordance with its functions. This raises the possibility that Chaldea's other apparatuses might have their own will and independence too. Renforced with the main villian of the Lady Reines' Casefiles event, which is another (albiet incomplete), Chaldea system running wild.

* HiddenInPlainSight: From ''the very beginning of the game'' no less, albeit in its prenatal form as the globe apparatus within the center of Chaldea's Antarctica facility so it would be beneath anyone's notice until it's far too late to prevent its emergence.

One of the three Disciples summoned to aid Chaldea in excising the Lostbelts. Greatly displeased with U-Olga Marie being deemed expendable as the Foreign God's vessel and dying without showing even a fraction of her true might or potential, he rebuilds her remnants into four Beast VII derivatives: the E-Olga Marie Lostbits. He also serves as the shadowy mastermind of the "Codex on Waxing Moon Swordsmanship" Event where he copies Douman's schemes to create the Edo Pseudo-Lostbelt. He finally makes his onscreen debut in "Ordeal Call II: Id" where his True Name is finally revealed to be Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. Unlike his fellow Apostles, he's revealed to have been summoned as a Pretender-class Servant instead of an Alter Ego.\\\

** Of the "Codex on Waxing Moon Swordsmanship Event". Following the battle with Ushi Gozen in Yokosuka, she reveals the Singularity's creation and everything that was reproduced in it was all his doing. Much like with the Olga Marie Quests, [[OrcusOnHisThrone he chooses to avoid showing himself directly]] and leaves [[TheHeavy Ushi Gozen]] to handle managing the emergence of the Tree of Emptiness he grew.

* TheUnseen: He interacts with the protagonist and company in a side story on the bleached Earth, but is given no appearance on-screen as he does it via hijacked communicator. He later performs a similar trick via speaking through a Fantasy Tree seed in the "Codex on Waxing Moon Swordsmanship" Event. He [[UnseenNoMore finally confronts Chaldea personally]] in Ordeal Call II.

* WeWillMeetAgain: Content with the outcome of his "play" in the "Codex on Waxing Moon Swordsmanship" event, he leaves the scene and promises to meet Chaldea again soon at his next one.

** The level of control he has over the E-Olga variants is very ambiguous. At first, it seems like Flare will just be a silent subservient puppet, but then the Count claims that all he's doing is bringing her to life and setting her on the offensive by calling her the "forgery" of his "forge and rage", not to mention he is adamant about her being the true star of the show.

* ArcVillain: Of the Olga Marie Quests, where he creates several Elemental fragments of U-Olga in order to test both her and the heroes. It's implied that he is building towards her true resurrection, the resulting Olga of which will be impossible for him to predict in terms of behavior and abilities, not to mention impossible for the heroes to overcome. Potentially subverted, since as of Ordeal Call: Id, it seems as though E-Olga will be carrying right on without him, as his defeat means he may no longer be physically present to oversee her battle gauntlets... if he never finds a way to make a comeback, that is.
* BigBadWannabe: Despite all the tremendous amounts of buildup that Cagliostro had received prior to "Irreversible Trash Heap, Id", especially bringing back Olga Marie more dangerous than ever and separating her into four Elemental powers, he ultimately doesn't live up to the power of his own creations (or recreations in E-Olga's case) as he ends up looking quite desperate to upstage Dantès here and fails tremendously. He certainly puts on a phenomenally horrifying and grandiose show, make no mistake, but just about everything he attempted in Id lined right up with Dantès's plans to lure him into a trap. All his movements had already been correctly predicted by Dantès before Cagliostro even entered the Singularity. With Dantès's most powerful form on the Protagonist's side as a guest party member, Cagliostro's OneWingedAngel form can end up being utterly '''massacred,''' coming across as more of a PostFinalBoss than a true FinalBoss in order for Dantès to mercilessly make him pay for his crimes with his life... or worse, actually.

* GracefulLoser: He's actually elated when Chaldea finally manages to overcome Flare E-Olga, stating that he hopes they will enjoy battling the next three variants.

** Then there's the first and longest-lasting wrench in the plan, which is Olga Marie being thrown into CHALDEAS itself and somehow becoming a god in the process. At first, CHALDEAS improvised by using her as a BodyDouble to distract Chaldea, but eventually, that fell apart when she got amnesia in the South American Lostbelt and befriended Chaldea to the point of sacrificing herself to help her new friends, with the Count creating multiple elemental variations of her out of her fragments in a bid to revive her and increase her already-insane potential, though for what purpose is unknown, as is whether or not CHALDEAS even approved of her resurrection.

* BigBadWannabe: Despite all the tremendous amounts of buildup that Cagliostro had received prior to "Irreversible Trash Heap, Id", especially bringing back Olga Marie more dangerous than ever and separating her into four Elemental powers, he ultimately ends up looking quite desperate to upstage Dantès here and fails tremendously. He certainly puts on a phenomenally horrifying and grandiose show, but just about everything he attempted in Id lined right up with Dantès's plans to lure him into a trap. All his movements had already been correctly predicted by Dantès before Cagliostro even entered the Singularity. With Dantès's most powerful form on the Protagonist's side as a guest party member, Cagliostro's OneWingedAngel form can end up being utterly '''massacred,''' coming across as more of a PostFinalBoss than a true FinalBoss in order for Dantès to mercilessly make him pay for his crimes with his life... or worse, actually.

* CreativeSterility: He's a copycat without an iota of creativity in his Spirit Origin. The E-Olga Maries are reconstructions built using the original U-Olga Marie's fragmented Spirit Origin, his creation of Counterfeit Tree of Emptiness Waxing Moon and the Edo Pseudo-Lostbelt are blatant plagiarisms of Douman's schemes in Shimousa and Heian-Kyo, and his final boss fight has him take the form and abilities of Chaldea's past enemies.

* SelfDeprecation: When Kadoc calls Flare Marie (a revived and fire-enhanced derivative of U-Olga) a "tasteless production", the Count readily admits that he's well-reputed for his tastelessness.

* AlternateSelf: As Alter-Ego Servants, they are all either a fragment of a true personality or the result of two beings fused into one. Ashiya Douman fits the former, being a self-described "droplet of ego guided by a greater being". Kotomine fits the latter, being a Pseudo-Servant hosting the Spirit of Rasputin, and Muramasa is both, having been implanted with two Divine Spirits and his host being [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou Emiya]].

* SquareRaceRoundClass: While they're (almost) all ''summoned'' as Alter-Ego's, they don't all properly fit there.