History Characters / FateGrandOrderSabersAToF

He's a major ally during the events of Lostbelt Chapter 6.5: Traum.

* InconsistentTranslation: The official English names for two his skills (Kingship Travel and Holy Knight Emperor) are different from how they were translated in ''VideoGame/FateExtellaLink'' (Traveling the Path of the King and Emperor of Paladins, respectively).

* DeathFromAbove: Joyeuse Ordre lifts Charlie into the air upon use with magical wings of energy. But unlike in ''Fate/Extella Link'', Charlie instead descends upon his foes with a falling slash instead of shooting a SwordBeam from his thirteen swords.

An androgynous soldier and writer who lived in revolution-era France. An accomplished spy who was capable of infiltrating high society. They normally dress as a man, but used to dress as a woman. No matter the clothes, d'Eon can appear as any sex.\\\

* MoralityPet: Amusingly subverted. Pollux seems like a straight example to Castor on the surface. He's only ever consistently nice to her, and she appears to have the ability to persuade him to think differently even if he's {{Tsundere}} about it. But it's eventually revealed that Pollux is also the ''reason'' Castor's such a difficult person in the first place; in life and even as an Avenger he's normally a calm, humble, reasonable guy when they're separated. Castor's issue is that he's such a siscon that just seeing her surrounded by humans [[MySisterIsOffLimits makes him so angry and jealous he can't think straight]], such that poor Pollux is also the only reason Castor needs a Morality Pet in the first place!

* MoralityPet: Amusingly subverted. Pollux seems like a straight example to Castor on the surface. He's only ever consistently nice to her, and she appears to have the ability to persuade him to think differently even if he's {{Tsundere}} about it. But it's eventually revealed that Pollux is also the ''reason'' Castor's such a difficult person in the first place; in life and even as an Avenger he's normally a calm, humble, reasonable person when they're separated. Castor's problem is that he's such a siscon that just seeing her surrounded by humans [[MySisterIsOffLimits makes him so angry and jealous he can't think straight]], such that poor Pollux is also the only reason Castor needs a Morality Pet in the first place!

* MoralityPet: Pollux is one to Castor. He's only ever consistently nice to her, and she appears to have the ability to persuade him to think differently even if he's {{Tsundere}} about it.

* NonIndicativeName: While called the Gemini, they weren't exactly twins at all. They were quadruplets and weren't even fully blood related due to Leda both sleeping with a swanified Zeus and her husband Tyndareus. Resulting in Helen and Pollux by Zeus and Castor and Clytemnestra by Tyndareus

* PolarOppositeTwins: Castor is a rude {{Jerkass}} who hates humans and [[DefrostingIceKing takes a while to warm up to the player]], while Pollux is a more polite NiceGirl who doesn't mind humans as much and is friendly towards her master from the start. That said, there are occasional instances where Pollux isn't above threatening to kill people like her brother does.

The King of Britain, Lord of the Round Table, and the Once and Future King, and wielder of the holy sword of the planet. His true identity is the King of Knights of a parallel universe, who reached this world chasing after a certain powerful antagonist. He is a completely different person from the Altria Pendragon whom he shares similar, if slightly different, pasts and legends with.\\\

* CatchPhrase: She tends to describe things she likes as [[MemeticMutation "good civilization" and those she dislikes as "bad civilization"]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Altera's first instinct after being summoned by Lev with the Grail is to bisect him from head to groin as part of her destructive impulses.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:

* SocialDarwinist: Alter hates weak people. She especially hates people whose minds are weak, because if their mind is weak then they simply have no good use in them. That's why she can't comprehend the protagonist, who is weak but capable of summoning her. After all, if they can summon her, that means they're strong, right? She eventually decides that the protagonist is strong, they just need some training.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He was once King of Ulster, after all, and likely got the job due to constant warfare.

* BreakoutCharacter: Prior to his appearance in ''Grand Order'', he was only shown briefly at the end of the ''Fate'' route in the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', where he really only had a few lines. The Camelot Singularity turned him into one of the most beloved Sabers in the game afterwards for how well handled his role in the story was handled and how good he is gameplay-wise. He might not be as popular as characters like Jeanne Alter or Ereshkigal, but he stands as an incredibly popular Saber thanks to his role in Camelot.

** Mash believes that the reason why Bedivere [[spoiler:became a Heroic Spirit and thus can be summoned as a Servant is because of his actions during the Camelot Singularity. This is reflected by him being story-locked and completion of said Singularity will result in him being available in the regular Gacha pool]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** Due to JapaneseRanguage at work, her given name has been officially localized as either "Altria" or "Artoria". In Japanese, it's phonetically "A-ru-to-ri-a" either way. Notably, it's stated in her profile that her legend is partially based off that of Lucius ''Artorius'' Castus, a Roman. As a result, her name being spelled as "Artoria" makes more sense etymologically as it's the exact feminine version of Artorius in Latin. In this game, "Altria" is used as mandated by Type-MOON, which is especially noticeable considering that other localized main Fate entries that feature her, like ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'' and [[VideoGame/FateExtellaLink its sequel]] (which came out after the mandate) have used "Artoria". To throw in further confusion, [[http://fategrandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Cool-Mint_Chocolate_Bullet?file=Portrait_CE_0740.png Altria Alter's swimsuit version's]] chocolate from the next Valentine's event has "Artoria" inscribed in the case, which was later changed to read "Altria" instead. Her profile in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood Type Lumina'' also initially ignored the "Altria" spelling in favor of "Artoria", until it was changed.
** This is acknowledged in a bit of [[invoked]]{{Woolseyism}}[=/=]stealth [[WriterRevolt Translator Revolt]] upon the NA release of Shinjuku. In the original Japanese, a line of dialogue outright says that Saber's name Artoria is the feminine form of Artorius, and that it sounds fine and graceful. In English, her name remains Altria but is stated to be "a corruption" of the feminine form of Artorius, and that it fits a corrupted Saber, since she is Saber Alter at present.

* NoSell: During "Merry Christmas in the Underworld", while nearly every other Servant in Chaldea collapses from an underworld disease spread by Ereshkigal, Altera is unaffected due to a combination of her Natura nol Body skill and a resistance to Earth-type illnesses. Unfortunately, when she class changes to Archer, she loses a lot of this resistance, meaning she spends a lot of the event with a fever affecting her personality.

* ShoutOut: Given the retro RPG style her event, her outfit calls to mind the red ChainmailBikini worn by the Female Warrior from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII''... which Elizabeth is several sizes too small to wear.

* AntiVillain: It is hard to call him a villain in "Nightingale's Christmas Carol" event as he was merely sending Servants into the Santa Island out of a request for a new Santa after Nightingale initially rejected the call. The worst thing he tried to do was trying to become a Santa himself, even after Nightingale had accepted her new role.

* AwesomeButImpractical: One of his third skill's effect increases his Star Gather Rate for his one and only Buster card for three turns, being the second Saber introduced in this game to have less than two Buster cards. As a Quick-orientated Saber and being unable to perform Buster Brave Chains, the effectiveness of this skill is not as impressive as it should be.

* BattleTrophy: He has the Noble Phantasm Vulcano Caligorant, the god-capturing net of the giant Caligorant, due to defeating the original owner by making him be caught in it. The net is turned into a WhipSword in this Saint Graph.

* CostumePorn: His dressing resembles the best of evening gowns, from both genders.

* MasterOfNone: His stats are in the average range for his rarity as a Saber, leaning towards being a StoneWall with higher than average HP, but lower than average ATK, but his kit is all over the place with this in mind. His first skill is a Debuff Removal and a rather small NP Charge buff for three turns, his second skill inflicts the rare Terror debuff that at most has a measley 40% chance to work at max level alongside a 3-hit evasion, and his third skill buffs his Star Gather Rate for his only Buster card. The only part of his kit that truly works well with his QQAAB setup is his NP giving a Quick buff, but it is tied to Overcharge. Compared to his fellow single target Quick-focused Saber Okita (who, despite having a QQABB setup, has better-sustained damage, and better NP Gain and a Critical Star Drop Rate with her Quick cards since her Quick cards have a 5-hit count as opposed to Astolfo's 3-hit count), he doesn't really stand out. The only advantage Astolfo has over Okita is his utility (since his Noble Phantasm inflicts NP Seal, which allows him and his teammates to buy an extra turn or two), and his better solo potential (since he has Debuff Removal, something Okita cannot do; as well as having a 3-hit Evade for three turns as opposed to Okita's 1 turn Evade).

** Although Astolfo is a Quick-focused Servant his third skill bizarrely provides a Critical Star Gather Rate buff for his Buster cards, of which he has only one. But said skill also has a Critical Strength buff and a straight ATK buff, so it's not as though it's useless.

* PetTheDog: Despite her corruption, once in a blue moon she does display hints of her old self through the apathy and coldness. Her Bond Level 2 line even states that deep down she still is the same person, but her Master has to dig deep to reach it. Happens almost literally in Shinjuku, where she befriends an actual dog. The end of Shinjuku also has her, after spending an entire event of sniping at Jeanne, suddenly showing great concern when it seems like Jeanne might die.

* SNKBoss: She's the hardest Memorial Quest Boss from Part 1. She has two Break Bars, and each of her three health bars have far more HP than any other boss with break bars (especially those bosses you need to deplete all of their health bars), her attacks do serious damage, she can debuff your Servant's DEF with her normal attacks and she's eventually able to charge her NP Gauge multiple times. She also was given a specific AI pattern where she targets Caster Servants more often, which makes her harder to survive against, especially with the at-the-time newly released Merlin.

* ArmorIsUseless: Like her Altria Alter version, as she ascends, she loses more and more of her armor. Also subverted like Altria Alter, as Altria Lily's HP stat is on the lower side of the 4* spectrum.
* AscendedExtra: She first appeared as an alternate look for normal Saber in ''VideoGame/FateUnlimitedCodes'', but wasn't given a backstory beyond jokingly being suggested to be the result of Saber succumbing to Caster. ''Fate/Grand Order'' gives her a backstory and makes her into one of the main characters.

** In the series of welfare Servants of 4* rarity that are given for free for limited-time events, she's an artifact of her time. First, she was distributed to players as a promo Servant who pre-registered into the game before ''FGO'' was launched, but with only one copy for a level one Noble Phantasm until "Saber Wars" ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall which is lampshaded during the event]]). Her stats are too low for a 4* Servants and are much closer to a 3* Servant's and she's also the one of two welfare Servants to have different looking Ascension stages like regular Servants, whereas every other welfare Servant keeps the same appearance, and having non-exclusive Ascension materials like any other Servant -- the other exception being Paul Bunyan. She's also the only welfare Servant to be re-released in a different event since her premier ("Saber Wars") which also gives five total copies of her so players can upgrade her to max NP level by the end of the event even if they didn't pre-register (and giving other players their first spare welfare card).
** While several characters receive multiple versions throughout the history of the game, no two versions share the same rarity ''and'' class at the same time (not counting Prototypes), except Altria Alter and Altria Lily who are both 4* Sabers, and Abigail and Abigal (Summer) who are both 5* Foreigners. As mentioned above, Altria Lily's stats are much closer to a 3* Servant's and she's mainly a 4* for aesthetic purposes rather than gameplay.

* GroinAttack: Caliburn's beam hits a spot on the enemy that tends to be the same height as their groin. [[AscendedMeme Acknowledged]] in "Saber Wars", where most of her training with Caliburn consists of repeatedly shooting poor Blackbeard in the balls. Her AnimationBump makes it a little less obvious as the beam pierces through one of the enemies, but it still aims low enough where it can still hit them in the crotch.

** Lore-wise, his Excalibur has several seals that prevent him from using the SwordBeam function. In-game, one of said seals automatically unlocked is Bedivere's, which only happens when fighting against opponents more powerful than him. Yet, in gameplay one can use Excalibur Proto against even the weakest of foes. Some of the others seals unlocked include Mordred, which happens when he is fighting against evil when the enemy's alignment or motive doesn't matter, and Lancelot, which cannot be unlocked if facing an Elemental, yet it gets unlocked if you were to face them such as the Karasu Tengu enemy or Servants like Kiichi Hougen and [[spoiler:Yu Mei-ren]].

* IneffectualLoner: Downplayed compared to some examples out there, but it's revealed in Arthur's first Interlude that he's basically this. He's friendly towards everyone in Chaldea, but he makes a point to never truly get close to anyone because of his mission to hunt down the Beast VI takes priority and that he'll eventually have to leave once it's done. He eventually grows out of this however thanks to the Protagonist's influence.

* MaleMightFemaleFinesse : While his female counterpart's animations have graceful and elegant swordplay, his animations consist of an array of powerful strikes. It's also integrated into their stats, as Arthur has higher overall Strength and Endurance compared to Altria.

* MyGreatestFailure: He is reluctant to reunite with any of his former opponents from his very first Holy Grail War due to how he helped facilitate their deaths for what he thought was a noble cause only to find out that he was grossly deceived and that they and all their Masters were killed for nothing. Said foes and allies don't actually begrudge him for that, but Arthur has a hard time forgiving himself, going so far as to disguise himself when joined the third Nero Fest because he knew that Arash, Ozymandias, and Brynhildr would be present at the Event.
* NiceGuy: The most striking difference between him and his counterpart. Arthur is unerringly chipper and supportive in contrast to Altria's more reserved nobility. This is because of his interaction with a young Ayaka during ''Fragments of Sky Silver'' where talking to her made him realize that there was simply ''no sense'' in spending his days mourning Camelot when the world his kingdom left behind was still there to protect, something he carries into ''Fate/Prototype'' proper and a realization Altria sadly had no equivalent of in ''Fate/Zero'' until her interactions with Shirou in ''Fate/stay night''.

* TheArtifact: Excalibur's reputation as a virtually unrivaled Noble Phantasm was undercut over the years as newer Servants like Karna showed off Noble Phantasms compared to literal nukes. ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'' would later address this, revealing that Excalibur has several seals on its power, much like the Excalibur Proto version, and was even used to repel Sefar, an alien superweapon that defeated many pantheons including the Olympians 14,000 years ago.

* BoringButPractical: Her skillset was very basic, having been introduced to the game near the beginning. While she wasn't be shattering any damage records, her combination of Charisma and Mana Burst made her a reliable farming Servant for much of the game's content. The BalanceBuff to her Intuition A adds an NP charge on top of that to make it even easier to farm with the help of a Merlin. The uptime on Shining Path EX is also nothing to sneeze at either, with its five-turn cooldown allowing her to NP spam quite reliably. This trope doesn't apply anymore with the upgrade of her Mana Burst A into Dragon Reactor B, giving her the unique ability to turn all of her cards into Buster cards for one turn.

* GuardianEntity: Her material profile reveals that she isn't a person that can be summoned normally as a Servant (presumable due to being in Avalon), but the World has allowed Chaldea to summon her in order to act as a Guardian Spirit.

* {{Irony}}: Due to her past summonings, she has bad affinity with a Holy Grail and wishes to destroy it. Yet at the end of "Lords' Las Vegas Tournament" event upon hearing about Musashi's antics with a Holy Grail, she thinks of trying to eat from a Grail as well.

* LightningBruiser: After all the upgrades she has received over the years, her playstyle shifted from a JackOfAllTrades (or MasterOfNone as its worst) to a hard-hitting Buster Servant who has the unique ability to turn all of her cards into Buster cards, has a 20-30% NP Charge skill and has a good looping potential due to her NP's OC effect, all of her skills have a minimum cooldown time of only five turns, and she has the second-highest HP of all Sabers.

* PowerCreep: As one of the first 5* Servants in the game, her vanilla skillset and low stats and hit-count made her inferior amongst her peers. Many later 5* Sabers could either do the same things better, or were much better suited to their respective niches. The only thing she had going on was her high [=AoE=] damage after her first NP upgrade, but even her 4* Alter and Lily variants could deal better damage for lower cost. Alter form who is a rarity lower than her could beat her damage output for a lower cost. She had to wait until the tenth Rank Up Campaign to receive another upgrade, three long years after her debut. Said upgrade gave her an NP Charge skill, which significantly improved her performance as a farming Servant. The Fifth Anniversary would eventually buff her Mana Burst skill into Dragon Reactor Core, which makes Altria one of the more consistent Busters Servants. Those two buffs have allowed her to stay relevant in the game's "Buster meta" of the later years, thanks to the addition of Append Skills and Koyanskaya of Light during the Sixth Anniversary, which make Altria one of the premier [=AoE=] Buster Sabers in the game thanks to the tools she already has, including her Overcharge effect since day 1.
* PowerLimiter: It's revealed in her Interlude that like the ''Prototype'' version of Excalibur, her sword also has thirteen seals put upon it that restrains its full potential. However, unlike the Prototype version, there's no need for a voting process as she can remove them one-by-one by herself. Her interlude focuses on meeting the requirements for the "one's comrades-in-arms should be champions" oath. She has never been able to use its full power thanks to the rather demanding restrictions. At full power it was the only reason the White Titan Sefar was even slain in the past but said seals have not been released since.

* {{Retcon}}: Her Excalibur was never mentioned to have a PowerLimiter on it in the form of the thirteen seals, like her ''Prototype'' counterpart. Originally the only limits Excalibur has was a combination of the massive mana cost to use it, and her Master's own power to allow her to use it. Currently, it has several seals that actively limit it's usage, relative to what it's being used against, allowing it to scale to so strengths capable of defeating Safer, but then scaling down to be parried by Cu's Gae Bolg.
* SealedEvilInACan: Part of her Interlude to powering up Excalibur is to make the MC and Mash into "Champions". She does this by releasing some daemons and a dragon for them to fight; that she had sealed away long ago. (When Roman complains that King Arthur was never said to have the power to summon, she mentions that [[AWizardDidIt Da Vinci gave her a magic scroll for that purpose]]).

* ArmorIsUseless: As she ascends, she loses more and more of her armor, culminating in her gothic dress, inspired by her 10th-anniversary doll. Subverted as indicated by her average HP stat among 4* Servants, especially compared to her vanilla counterpart who has one of the highest HP stats in the game.

** She received a Rank Up Quest for the 8th Anniversary that buffs Her Mana Burst A to Mana Burst (Inverted Scale) A, which overhauls the skill to give her a Buster buff and an On-Attack-Activate buff that gives her 10% NP Charge every time she uses a Buster card (including her NP) to hit an enemy both for three times, and an Ignore Invincibility buff, all for three turns. It should also be noted that when applied to her NP, it counts for all enemies hit with it, so she can refund a minimum of 40% of her gauge with just a full three-enemy wave clear and the base Overcharge on her NP.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her first appearance in ''Fate/stay night'' she was cold and apathetic with her only concern being fulfilling her Master's orders, with her appearance in ''ataraxia'' introducing her fondness for junk food to differentiate her from the uncorrupted Altria. Then comes this version. While she's still very cold and apathetic, she is more of a KnightInSourArmor with said fondness taken to extreme levels where she makes a hideout out of a burger restaurant basement. Really the only real difference between the two Altria's now is that one is a bit of a jerkass.

* CoolMask: She has a mask that covers the upper half of her face, and armor in the shape of fangs that covers her chin and jawline. She loses this after First Ascension.

** While several characters receive multiple versions throughout the history of the game, no two versions share the same rarity ''and'' class at the same time (not counting Prototypes), except Altria Alter and Altria Lily who are both 4* Sabers, and Abigail and Abigal (Summer) who are both 5* Foreigners. As mentioned below, Altria Lily's stats are much closer to a 3* Servant's and she's mainly a 4* for aesthetic purposes rather than gameplay.

* GlassCannon: MightyGlacier characterization aside, she's this trope in-game with middling HP but high ATK for her rarity (she's barely in the top 10, but above even some 5* Servants), a purely offensive skillset, and a very overtuned Noble Phantasm that ''starts'' at a 450% damage modifier instead of the usual 300%, making her NP stronger than even those that have had an upgrade from an Interlude or Rank Up Quest. One consequence is that Alter's NP did almost the same damage as her higher rarity non-Alter form's (prior to the latter's new upgrade) despite lower base ATK! Her skill upgrade also makes her this trope even more, now that she has left the MightyGlacier archetype.

She made her first appearance in ''Grand Order'' as an antagonist in the Rome chapter, originally to coincide with the release of ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'', where she is a main character (though the timing got skewed when ''Extella'' was delayed by a few months). She later appears as an antagonist during the "All the Statesman" event in ''Grand Order'' as well as one of the protagonist's seven summoned Servants in the Anime/FateGrandOrderFinalSingularityGrandTempleOfTimeSolomon adaptation.

** Tactics was strengthened during the FGO 4th Anniversary event to Scourge of God, increasing her party NP damage buff to 20% at max level while increasing its duration to three turns and removing all enemies' defensive buffs. This greatly increased the skill's individual and teamwide viability as it no longer restricts all servants to having to perform their NP's on the same turn while also, when combined with Natural Body, making Altera herself an unstoppable offensive force as her damage can be neither mitigated nor defended against.

* CharacterExaggeration: Since she's already a major, serious character in another game and there's already quite a few "AmbiguouslyHuman, expressionless badass" characters originating from ''Grand Order'', Altera is mostly employed as a gag character outside of a few serious moments in the main story. Even before her "All the Statesman" and Christmas event debut, she appears during Blackbeard's Valentine's Day return gift cutscene solely to 1) slice him in half, letting the protagonist make a joke about [[spoiler:Lev's fate]] earlier in Septem and 2) to make another "[[CatchPhrase bad civilization]]" joke.

* MasterOfNone: She's evolved into this as a result of her fellow Sabers getting buffs that have elevated them higher then she is. Prior to the buffs other Sabers like Altria, Mordred, and Arthur got, she was a versatile Saber who could be used as a solid farmer, boss fighter, and general use in other modes due to focusing on a JackOfAllStats kit and stats, but her lack of unique kills like an NP battery caused her to largely be over shadowed by others of her play style. All of the other AOE Buster Sabers have since gotten unique buffs that make them powerful, on top of any already existing unique elements like Mordred's anti-Arthur focus or Arthur's anti-large damage. For example: Altria now does more damage then her with her Charisma and Instinct buffs, Mordred and Arthur now have better crit star usage then her, and later Servants like Ibuki-Douji have powerful kits and unique abilities to make them stand out. She isn't outright terrible by any means due to her having a solid kit with good potential, but among the AOE Buster Sabers, she's doesn't really stand out anymore without more unique buffs.

* NoSell: While nearly every other Servant in Chaldea collapses from an underworld disease spread by Ereshkigal, Altera is unaffected due to a combination of her Natural Body skill and an resistance to Earth-type illnesses. Unfortunately, when she class changes to Archer, she loses a lot of this resistance, meaning she spends a lot of the event with a fever affecting her personality.

* TangledFamilyTree: Altera has one of the series' most interesting "family" dynamics. She had a political marriage with Siegfried's wife Kriemhild, while Duzumid is a SelfProclaimedLoveInterest to her. She is treated as being a "big sister" to Brynhild and the Valkyries for reasons they don't personally know while Romulus=Quirinus thinks Altera as their "little sister" due to their connection with Mars. And revelations and events of ''Fate/Extella'' makes her "family" even more convoluted.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: As part of the promotion for ''Fate/Extella'', she had her theme music from ''Extella'' plays for the animation.

* AdvertisedExtra: She is the character featured in the game's app icon and is the center character in both the "Observer on Timeless Temple" and "Cosmos in the Lostbelt" character art, making one think that she is a central character in the story. However, while the various versions of hers are important characters, the regular Altria hasn't appeared in the story in person, only appearing in either flashbacks or in dreams.

->'''Illustrated by:''' Taiki\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuumaUchida (Castor) & Creator/MaayaUchida (Pollux)

** [[JustForPun Pun from his home storyline aside]], Arthur has higher Strength, Endurance and NP than Altria (with lower Mana and Luck and equal Agility), and his version of Excalibur is multi-hit [=AoE=], also carrying with it an automatic NP damage buff. Altria's standard version from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', by contrast, deals flat damage--and only her Alter version can deal multiple hit-damage, with no buffs at that.