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*** The case of the Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and killed different Fafnirs.[[note]]In the Nasuverse, Fafnir is not a specific dragon but a LegacyCharacter who [[DemonicPossession takes over]] anyone consumed by their greed[[/note]] As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Attila/Altera/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun. That said, the similarities are certainly acknowledged, with Kriemhild instinctively hating Sigurd and Brynhildr when she is finally summoned to Chaldea.

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*** The case of the Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and Siegfried are shown to be different people who killed different Fafnirs.[[note]]In Fafnirs,[[note]]In the Nasuverse, Fafnir is not a specific dragon but a LegacyCharacter who [[DemonicPossession takes over]] anyone consumed by their greed[[/note]] greed.[[/note]] despite the fact both heroes are ''obviously'' derived from the same legend. As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Brunhild, and Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Attila/Altera/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun.latter. That said, the similarities are certainly acknowledged, with Kriemhild instinctively hating Sigurd and Brynhildr when she is finally summoned to Chaldea.
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*** The case of the Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and killed different Fafnirs.[[note]]In the Nasuverse, Fafnir is not a specific dragon but a LegacyCharacter who [[DemonicPossession takes over]] anyone consumed by their greed[[/note]] As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Altera/Attila/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun.

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*** The case of the Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and killed different Fafnirs.[[note]]In the Nasuverse, Fafnir is not a specific dragon but a LegacyCharacter who [[DemonicPossession takes over]] anyone consumed by their greed[[/note]] As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Altera/Attila/Etzel Attila/Altera/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun.Gudrun. That said, the similarities are certainly acknowledged, with Kriemhild instinctively hating Sigurd and Brynhildr when she is finally summoned to Chaldea.
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*** The case of the Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and killed different Fafnirs, which in the Nasuverse is not a specific dragon but a type of demonic beast that anyone can turn into if they become greedy enough. As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Altera/Attila/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun.

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*** The case of the Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and killed different Fafnirs, which in Fafnirs.[[note]]In the Nasuverse Nasuverse, Fafnir is not a specific dragon but a type of demonic beast that LegacyCharacter who [[DemonicPossession takes over]] anyone can turn into if they become greedy enough. consumed by their greed[[/note]] As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Altera/Attila/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun.

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** The Grail summons a Servant based on in-universe perceptions, concepts, and historical fact, so Servants drawn from mythology or stories are often a hodgepodge of every single story told about them. Some profiles even admit that the Servant is fictional (i.e. Assassin of Shinjuku) or are in an ambiguous state on which stories were true or made up (Brynhild is the most glaring example).
** Most legendary figures were alive at some point in in-universe history and eventually turned into a Heroic Spirit who can be summoned by the player. Literary figures, such as Edmond Dantes, Frankenstein's Monster, and Phantom of the Opera, are also claimed to have been alive at some point in in-universe history.

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** The Grail summons a Servant based on in-universe perceptions, concepts, and historical fact, so Servants drawn from mythology or stories are often a hodgepodge of every single story told about them. Some profiles even admit that the Servant is fictional (i.e. Assassin of Shinjuku) or are in an ambiguous state on which stories were true or made up (Brynhild is up.
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Volsunga saga versus the Nibelungenlied is an interesting one. The Nasuverse, despite their strong similarities and obvious links, features both Sigurd and Siegfried; they apparently both encountered and killed different Fafnirs, which in the Nasuverse is not a specific dragon but a type of demonic beast that anyone can turn into if they become greedy enough. As such, Sigurd's Brynhildr was not the same woman as Siegfried's Brunhild. Gudrun was also not the same person as Kriemhild, with Altera/Attila/Etzel apparently only encountering the latter, with no equivalent for Gudrun.
** Most legendary figures were alive at some point in in-universe history and eventually turned into a Heroic Spirit who can be summoned by the player. Literary figures, particularly from the nineteenth century, such as Edmond Dantes, Frankenstein's Monster, and Phantom of the Opera, are also claimed to have been alive at some point in in-universe history.



** As of ''Epic of Remnant'' IV: Salem, the [[spoiler:''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'']] is apparently real, at least some parts. More specifically, [[spoiler:the Cthulhu Mythos itself might not be real, but Lovecraft's writings ended up becoming eerily close to describing being(s) from outer universe to the point that they feel like prophecies of actual things out there. For example, the god "Sut-Typhon" what Räum tries to summon is so close to Yog-Sothoth that Lovecraft describing it was enough to give it a connection to this universe. Nyarlotheph is another one, with him helping BB with her never-ending summer plan.]]

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** As of ''Epic of Remnant'' IV: Salem, the [[spoiler:''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'']] is apparently real, at least some parts. More specifically, [[spoiler:the Cthulhu Mythos itself might not be real, but Lovecraft's writings ended up becoming eerily close to describing being(s) from outer universe to the point that they feel like prophecies of actual things out there. For example, the god "Sut-Typhon" what that Räum tries to summon is so close to Yog-Sothoth that Lovecraft describing it was enough to give it a connection to this universe. Nyarlotheph is another one, with him helping BB with her never-ending summer plan.]]
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** In Fuyuki, Caster Cu advises the player not to engage shadow Heracles as even though he's been weakened, he's still ridiculously strong. Shadow Heracles then becomes a one-time boss of an optional area for players. He's likely to be a challenge for early game players as he's level 40, but his difficulty lessens as players progress through the game.
** With no warning, there is a level 50 repeatable Chimera in Germania, in the Rome chapter. The only clue being Germania is ''very'' off the beaten track.
** After beating Babylonia, Ibaraki-douji (who was TheGhost of this chapter due to running away from Uruk to form a bandit gang) is an optional boss in a one-time-only free quest.
** Ryougi Shiki appears as a Bonus Boss in SE.RA.PH as MONSTER after clearing all event missions, similar to her bonus boss status back in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. She turns into Saber Shiki after the first phase of the fight, paralleling how she had done so in Paradox Spiral after being sealed by Araya in ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners''.
** Completing the church free quest in Salem unlocks one final play the party performs for the townspeople, with an Ugallu, Nezha, and [[DualBoss Asterios and Euryale]] as the bonus bosses.
** There are a number of extra and generally optional boss fights for events. Some, such as in the "Chocolate Lady's Commotion" expanded rerun or the rerun of Dantes' event, are BossRush endurance fights while events like the ''CCC'' collaboration let you fight a more difficult form of the event's final boss. Often, there is no reward for doing so and at best it's nothing more than a single summoning ticket or a 4* Fou.
** One transition into ''Epic of Remnant'' are events having one last challenge quest that pits the player against the extremely powerful boss(es), which requires finishing the Final Singularity to access.

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* CardCycling: A player draws their cards from a deck of 15, 5 for each of a player's three servants, and every turn, a random hand of five is drawn out from it until it's exhausted, whereupon it refills and reshuffles. All effects that force the current hand to be redrawn from the deck, also force it to be discarded first, and the new hand to come from a refilled and reshuffled deck.
** The Mage's Association Uniform's "Command Shuffle" Mystic Code.
** Altria Pendragon Ruler's "Royal Card" skills.



*** The Indian Lostbelt [[spoiler: is centered around the idea of perfectionism and is constantly being reset by Arjuna Over Gods at a rapid pace, making it so that perceived flaws are being erased each time the Lostbelt is reset. Unfortunately these resets are only ''perceived'' flaws like family and affection, resulting in a world that is becoming more and more barren every loop.]]

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*** The Indian Lostbelt [[spoiler: is [[spoiler:is centered around the idea of perfectionism and is constantly being reset by Arjuna Over Gods at a rapid pace, making it so that perceived flaws are being erased each time the Lostbelt is reset. Unfortunately these resets are only ''perceived'' flaws like family and affection, resulting in a world that is becoming more and more barren every loop.]]
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** When progressing any sort of plot (main story or event), the mission will feature a GuestStarPartyMember in the form of [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration the NPC Servants that are with you in-story]] as temporary Support Servants. While inferior to a properly-invested Friend Support, these NPC Supports are still fairly strong and sometimes come with skills and stats that their summonable versions don't, and are (usually) set up with the tools you need to progress in case the gacha has failed you.

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** When progressing any sort of plot (main story or event), the mission will feature a GuestStarPartyMember in the form of [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration the NPC Servants that are with you in-story]] as temporary Support Servants. While inferior to a properly-invested Friend Support, these NPC Supports are still fairly strong and sometimes come with skills and stats that their summonable versions don't, and are (usually) set up with the tools you need to progress in case progress. In the gacha has failed you.event they aren't (or you don't have the Servants to support them), the game will occasionally hold "story progression" events that let you use Leyline Stones to fully revive your whole team without needing to use your Command Seals.

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*** For all phases of the fight, the entire party is given an unremovable damage buff. You're also given additional buffs durring a certain stretch of the fight. [[spoiler: These additional buffs appear durring the last few bars of the boss's first form and disappear once the boss transforms into its more powerful second form, so the game is pretty much telegraphing that this is where you should use your weaker Servants so that you can conserve your more powerful Servants for the last stretch.]]
*** The normal minimum party size can be completely ignored, meaning you can just field a single Servant. [[spoiler: This can be helpful is you have a Servant that's powerful enough to break through one of its break bars on it own, since the enitre party is automatically killed after every break, meaning that the player can reduce casualties and conserve firepower for when its really needed.]]

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*** For all phases of the fight, the entire party is given an unremovable damage buff. You're also given additional buffs durring during a certain stretch of the fight. [[spoiler: These additional buffs appear durring during the last few bars of the boss's first form and disappear once the boss transforms into its more powerful second form, so the game is pretty much telegraphing that this is where you should use your weaker Servants so that you can conserve your more powerful Servants for the last stretch.]]
*** The normal minimum party size can be completely ignored, meaning you can just field a single Servant. [[spoiler: This can be helpful is you have a Servant that's powerful enough to break through one of its break bars on it own, since the enitre entire party is automatically killed after every break, meaning that the player can reduce casualties and conserve firepower for when its really needed.]]



** In gameplay, the Arctic Region Chaldea Uniform qualifies as this. While it's first and third skills are nothing impressive (a heal that removes defence debuffs for the first, and an evasion that will dodge the first attack that hits the targeted party member in the first three turns) its second skill is where it shines, as at max level it applies a 40% attack buff and 20% noble phantasm damage buff to one party member for one turn. These two buffs multiply together, which means that if you buff a servant who is about to use their noble phantasm, it will deal a massive 68% bonus damage, a massive boost coming from a single buff. Unfortunately this damage potential is only avaliable at the mystic code's max level (with the buff only granting 20% attack and 10% noble phantasm damage at level 1), and in order to get it to that level, you will need to sink an enormous 155 million experience points into it. For reference, the starting mystic code, and most mystic codes given out during events, only require around 8-9 million points to get to max level, with only the Chaldea Combat Uniform, Atlas Academy Uniform, and Mages Association Uniform being anywhere near comparable in terms of exp required (and even then they only require 70 million, less than half what the Artic Uniform requires, and almost all of their skills are barely affected by their level). This means that if a player wants to unlock the burst damage potential of the Arctic Uniform they'll need to use it almost constantly over many months of gameplay in order to level it up, time that could be spent using mystic codes that require far less investment.

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** In gameplay, the Arctic Region Chaldea Uniform qualifies as this. While it's first and third skills are nothing impressive (a heal that removes defence debuffs for the first, and an evasion that will dodge the first attack that hits the targeted party member in the first three turns) its second skill is where it shines, as at max level it applies a 40% attack buff and 20% noble phantasm damage buff to one party member for one turn. These two buffs multiply together, which means that if you buff a servant who is about to use their noble phantasm, it will deal a massive 68% bonus damage, a massive boost coming from a single buff. Unfortunately this damage potential is only avaliable available at the mystic code's max level (with the buff only granting 20% attack and 10% noble phantasm damage at level 1), and in order to get it to that level, you will need to sink an enormous 155 million experience points into it. For reference, the starting mystic code, and most mystic codes given out during events, only require around 8-9 million points to get to max level, with only the Chaldea Combat Uniform, Atlas Academy Uniform, and Mages Association Uniform being anywhere near comparable in terms of exp required (and even then they only require 70 million, less than half what the Artic Uniform requires, and almost all of their skills are barely affected by their level). This means that if a player wants to unlock the burst damage potential of the Arctic Uniform they'll need to use it almost constantly over many months of gameplay in order to level it up, time that could be spent using mystic codes that require far less investment.investment.
** One of the Class Score upgrades allows you to boost your Servant's Attack and Defense for a single turn through using a Command Spell on them. Considering that Command Spells are TooAwesomeToUse and are only used as a free party revive, this is less useful that it sounds.
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** One of Camazotz's titles, befitting being voiced by Creator/NobuyukiHiyama, is "[[Anime/GaoGaiGar King of Braves]]".
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** A crossover with ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' titled "Lady Reines' Case Files" which is filled with {{Nostalgia Level}}s.

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** A crossover with ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' ''Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' titled "Lady Reines' Case Files" which is filled with {{Nostalgia Level}}s.
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* ArcNumber: The number seven shows up a lot in this game as there are seven Singularities, seven Lostbelts, seven Crypters, [[spoiler:seven Disciples of the Foreign God]], seven normal classes, seven playable extra classes, and seven Beasts/Evils of Humanity.

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* ArcNumber: The number seven shows up a lot in this game as there are seven Singularities, seven Lostbelts, seven Crypters, [[spoiler:seven Disciples of the Foreign God]], seven normal classes, seven playable extra classes, and seven Beasts/Evils of Humanity.
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** Mash is not the only character played by Creator/RisaTaneda who fought enemies to protect her senpai. In fact, she's similar to [[LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood Yukina Himeragi]].

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** Mash is not the only character played by Creator/RisaTaneda who fought enemies to protect her senpai. In fact, she's similar to [[LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood [[Literature/StrikeTheBlood Yukina Himeragi]].



** Creator/RieKugimiya voices someone with flaming red hair who is not [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Shana]].

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** Creator/RieKugimiya voices someone with flaming red hair who is not [[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana Shana]].



** While the crossover event with ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' includes elements from all the chapters/movies, most of the material, including the event map and BGM, is based on the 5th movie, ''Paradox Spiral''.

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** While the crossover event with ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' includes elements from all the chapters/movies, most of the material, including the event map and BGM, is based on the 5th movie, ''Paradox Spiral''.



** Ryougi Shiki appears as a Bonus Boss in SE.RA.PH as MONSTER after clearing all event missions, similar to her bonus boss status back in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. She turns into Saber Shiki after the first phase of the fight, paralleling how she had done so in Paradox Spiral after being sealed by Araya in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''.

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** Ryougi Shiki appears as a Bonus Boss in SE.RA.PH as MONSTER after clearing all event missions, similar to her bonus boss status back in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. She turns into Saber Shiki after the first phase of the fight, paralleling how she had done so in Paradox Spiral after being sealed by Araya in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''.''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners''.



** From previous Fate works are Ozymandias, Hassan of Serenity, Iskandar, [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Karna]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Heracles and Cú Chulainn]][[note]]the fact that ''four'' versions of himself are in here actually put him behind ''Altria'' in most alternate versions of a single Servant[[/note]]. Some popular human characters also return as pseudo-Servants like Waver, Rin, and Taiga.

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** From previous Fate works are Ozymandias, Hassan of Serenity, Iskandar, [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha [[Literature/FateApocrypha Karna]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Heracles and Cú Chulainn]][[note]]the fact that ''four'' versions of himself are in here actually put him behind ''Altria'' in most alternate versions of a single Servant[[/note]]. Some popular human characters also return as pseudo-Servants like Waver, Rin, and Taiga.



** Gilgamesh. Having first featured in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' as an antagonist with a rather minor role in two of the routes, Gilgamesh has since appeared as a major antagonist in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', as one of the four playable Servants in ''[[VideoGame/FateExtra Fate/EXTRA CCC]]'' and as one of the Servants in ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', as well as other minor features. To date, he has appeared, in some manner, in ''almost every single entry in the Fate/ series''. He's also the main companion of the Babylonia chapter, as a Caster.

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** Gilgamesh. Having first featured in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' as an antagonist with a rather minor role in two of the routes, Gilgamesh has since appeared as a major antagonist in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Literature/FateZero'', as one of the four playable Servants in ''[[VideoGame/FateExtra Fate/EXTRA CCC]]'' and as one of the Servants in ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', as well as other minor features. To date, he has appeared, in some manner, in ''almost every single entry in the Fate/ series''. He's also the main companion of the Babylonia chapter, as a Caster.



** Almost all the characters who aren't Ryougi Shiki from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' show up in Garden of Order's event-exclusive Craft Essences. Two of them (Touko and Azaka) even show up in the trailer.

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** Almost all the characters who aren't Ryougi Shiki from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' show up in Garden of Order's event-exclusive Craft Essences. Two of them (Touko and Azaka) even show up in the trailer.



** [[Creator/RisaTaneda It's not]] [[LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood a coincidence]] that Mash says "senpai" a lot.

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** [[Creator/RisaTaneda It's not]] [[LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood [[Literature/StrikeTheBlood a coincidence]] that Mash says "senpai" a lot.



** Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto once again play [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners a couple]] in a Type-Moon work.
** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime and all other adaptations, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]].

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** Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto once again play [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners a couple]] in a Type-Moon work.
** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime and all other adaptations, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]].



** Altria diplomatically comments on how she has "opinions" about Holy Grail Wars, but will assist in this one however she can. Those "opinions" are likely negative due to the colossal debacles that were the [[LightNovel/FateZero 4th]] and [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight 5th Holy Grail Wars]].

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** Altria diplomatically comments on how she has "opinions" about Holy Grail Wars, but will assist in this one however she can. Those "opinions" are likely negative due to the colossal debacles that were the [[LightNovel/FateZero [[Literature/FateZero 4th]] and [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight 5th Holy Grail Wars]].



** Lord El-Melloi II (Waver) tells you that he will help but there is only one man he will serve, Iskandar, due to their relationship in ''LightNovel/FateZero''. He also helps the young version of Iskandar in the Rome chapter for this reason.

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** Lord El-Melloi II (Waver) tells you that he will help but there is only one man he will serve, Iskandar, due to their relationship in ''LightNovel/FateZero''.''Literature/FateZero''. He also helps the young version of Iskandar in the Rome chapter for this reason.



** The crossover with ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92YMDisG1OU The official reveal]].

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** The crossover with ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''.''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92YMDisG1OU The official reveal]].



** A crossover with ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' titled "Inheritance of Glory". It seems to actually have a place within the ''Apocrypha'' timeline, taking place after the story but before its DistantFinale.

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** A crossover with ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' titled "Inheritance of Glory". It seems to actually have a place within the ''Apocrypha'' timeline, taking place after the story but before its DistantFinale.
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** Applied on a party-wide sense during the Setsubun 2018 event. For the first time in the game: 1) ''you are not allowed to have any support Servant'' (either from your friend list or even in-story), 2) all Servants deployed in one round will be out of commission for the next 4 hours and 3) all this while keeping the usual cost limit. If you've been heavily reliant on your friends' support units (particularly Merlin) or been giving too much attention on your gold Servants, the cool-down will basically force you to creatively use your remaining, less-frequently used units (i.e. the less celebrated silvers, bronzes, and even the gold ones [[TierInducedScrappy who are understandably seen as too much trouble to use]]).

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** Applied on a party-wide sense during the Setsubun 2018 event. For the first time in the game: 1) ''you are not allowed to have any support Servant'' (either from your friend list or even in-story), 2) all Servants deployed in one round will be out of commission for the next 4 hours and 3) all this while keeping the usual cost limit. If you've been heavily reliant on your friends' support units (particularly Merlin) or been giving too much attention on your gold Servants, the cool-down will basically force you to creatively use your remaining, less-frequently used units (i.e. the less celebrated silvers, bronzes, and even the gold ones [[TierInducedScrappy who are understandably seen as too much trouble to use]]).use).

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** In the first April Fools' day since the launch of the game (and all April Fools following it), they replace all Servant cards in-game with [[http://imgur.com/a/tAfOE artwork done by Riyo]], the artist of "How to Play F/GO." Some of the game's artists also provided artwork for this.

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** In the first April Fools' day since the launch of the game (and all most April Fools following it), they replace all Servant cards in-game with [[http://imgur.com/a/tAfOE artwork done by Riyo]], the artist of "How to Play F/GO." Some of the game's artists also provided artwork for this.


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** The seventh year was a baseball minigame titled ''Fate/Grail League'' in accordance with the World Baseball Clasic being held in Spring 2023. Unlike previous years, Riyo only did a select number of Servant art and every other Type-Moon artist who draws in a SuperDeformed artstyle instead handled the roster as all the Servants were dressed up to play ball.
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Shield Hero dub came out after First Order, please don't try to shoehorn examples in reverse chronological order.


** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime and all other adaptations, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]]. Mendez also voices [[Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Raphtalia]], a Demi-human that's an ally of Naofumi, whose main weapon is a shield. She went from guarding the Shield Hero to ''being'' the shield hero.

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** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime and all other adaptations, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]]. Mendez also voices [[Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Raphtalia]], a Demi-human that's an ally of Naofumi, whose main weapon is a shield. She went from guarding the Shield Hero to ''being'' the shield hero.
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** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]].

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** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime, anime and all other adaptations, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]]. Mendez also voices [[Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Raphtalia]], a Demi-human that's an ally of Naofumi, whose main weapon is a shield. She went from guarding the Shield Hero to ''being'' the shield hero.
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** [[Creator/RisaTaneda It's not]] [[LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood a coincidence]] that Mash says "senpai" a lot.
** Merlin's [[Creator/TakahiroSakurai voice actor]] voiced Arthur for the ''Anime/FatePrototype'' OVA and Drama CD. Some people suspected that since the Merlin of Fate/Prototype is female, she'd be voiced by Altria's VA as part of the gag... and wouldn't you know it, they were ''right''. Proto-Arthur's Seal of the Round Table is undone with Kawasumi's voice during his NP! The gag goes further as Kawasumi does the voice for Fou, while at a presentation, it was mentioned that the ''Prototype'' version of Fou is voiced by Sakurai.
** Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto once again play [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners a couple]] in a Type-Moon work.
** For the English dub of the ''First Order'' anime, Creator/EricaMendez once played [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Yuuki, a young girl who was known as the "Absolute Sword"]]. Now she's playing Mash, a young girl who might as well be called the "Absolute Shield". [[spoiler:They're also both SecretlyDying and both ''do'' die, though Mash manages to come back]].
** The voice actor of Antonio Salieri, Creator/ToshihikoSeki, is occasionally mistaken for Creator/TomokazuSeki due to sharing a surname, yet unrelated. The latter is the voice actor of Mozart.
** Creator/KenjiAkabane is known for his role as the Producer in Anime/TheIdolmaster and one of the idols he manages is Takane Shijou, a long white haired woman voiced by Creator/YumiHara, an almost exact parallel to his role as Kadoc and the character's relationship with Anastasia.
** Sieg gets excited about the idea of ninjas and the presence of Servants in Chaldea. Fuuma Kotaro is also voiced by his voice actor Creator/NatsukiHanae.
** Creator/JunFukuyama voicing pretty boy Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di might make you want to yell '''[[Anime/CodeGeass "ALL HAIL EMPEROR QIN SHI HUANG DI!!"]]''' For a bonus, he's also voiced Ying Zheng in Manga/{{Kingdom}}.
** Da Vinci and Jeanne are both voiced by Creator/MaayaSakamoto. So for Da Vinci's English debut in the virtual reality game, Jeanne's actress from the ''Apocrypha'' dub, Creator/ErikaHarlacher, also plays Da Vinci.
** For the Babylonia musical, the casting agency brought in Saki Akai, an actual professional wrestler, to play Quetzalcoatl. After the musical, she named one of her finishing moves after the Luchadora Rider when she went back to wrestling.
** Creator/NobuoTobita and Creator/SatomiArai voicing Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, referencing their work together in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' as Kamille Bidan and Fa Yuiry[[note]]Only in the compilation movie trilogy, though.[[/note]].
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** Aztec God Tezcatlipoca is even worse than she is, with one of this animations having him unload almost ''a full clip'' from his pistol and only hitting his target ''once'' before he just decides to melee him. It's made doubly hlarious given Tezcatlipoca is as fascinated with firearms as Quetzalcoatl is with Lucha Libre, and pointing out his aiming issues is a BerserkButton of his.

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** Aztec God Tezcatlipoca is even worse than she is, with one of this animations having him unload almost ''a full clip'' from his pistol and only hitting his target ''once'' before he just decides to melee him. It's made doubly hlarious hilarious, given Tezcatlipoca is as fascinated with firearms as Quetzalcoatl is with Lucha Libre, and pointing out his aiming issues is a BerserkButton of his.
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** [[spoiler:The forces of the Lostbelt have completely wiped everything off the world by the end of the prologue for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt''.]]

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* CreatorsCultureCarryover: Even though Chaldea's employees and the Servants they summon hail from all over the globe, they all treat Japanese holidays like Golden Week and White Day as commonplace things to celebrate mainly because the developers and primary target audience of this game are Japanese and subsequently tailor the aforementioned holidays into the game.

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* AmusinglyAwfulAim: Nagao Kagetora can't hit ''anything'' with a ranged weapon, which is why she eschews any kind of bow or gun in favor of becoming a MultiMeleeMaster.

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Kagetora can't hit ''anything'' with a ranged weapon, which is why she eschews any kind of bow or gun in favor of becoming a MultiMeleeMaster. MultiMeleeMaster.
** Aztec God Tezcatlipoca is even worse than she is, with one of this animations having him unload almost ''a full clip'' from his pistol and only hitting his target ''once'' before he just decides to melee him. It's made doubly hlarious given Tezcatlipoca is as fascinated with firearms as Quetzalcoatl is with Lucha Libre, and pointing out his aiming issues is a BerserkButton of his.

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* AntagonistTitle: The Solomon and Anastasia chapters are named after their respective major villains.

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The Solomon and Anastasia chapters are named after their respective major villains.villains.
** The very title of the game itself is this, ''twofold'' no less.
*** As detailed under AncientConspiracy above, ''Observer On Timeless Temple'' reveals that the 'Grand Order' of Mage society was created by [[spoiler:Goetia, the BigBad of part 1, as a means of turning 72 Mage families into ManchurianAgents via their Magic Crests that he could 'activate' to aid him in the Human Order Incineration when the time was right.]]
*** The Seventh Lostbelt of ''Cosmos In The Lostbelt'' drops TheReveal that the emergence of the Lostbelts is [[spoiler:entirely part of the ''Grand Order'' '''Animusphere''', masterminded by [[EvilAllAlong Marisbury]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist Animusphere]] and carried out by [[BigBad the "Foreign World" CHALDEAS]] for the purposes of ensuring human history's preservation.]]
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** In the third arc, the Earth has been completely wiped on the surface. The only things [[spoiler:the Alien God]] couldn't erase was a magical workshop that has never been penetrated and a few scant underground bases, none of which can actually do anything to reverse the now sterile Earth.

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** In the third arc, the Earth has been completely wiped on the surface. The only things [[spoiler:the Alien Foreign God]] couldn't erase was a magical workshop that has never been penetrated and a few scant underground bases, none of which can actually do anything to reverse the now sterile Earth.



** [[spoiler:Exacerbated even further with ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', as the Alien God's arrival completely upends the status quo on Earth and crushes every single nation, turning the world into a bizarre white blankness and reveals that aliens and other beings exist out there. The prologue for the first Lostbelt indicates that the few surviving settlements are still trying to figure out ''what the hell is going on'' as one {{Muggle}} sets out to record everything for posterity.]]

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** [[spoiler:Exacerbated even further with ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', as the Alien Foreign God's arrival completely upends the status quo on Earth and crushes every single nation, turning the world into a bizarre white blankness and reveals that aliens and other beings exist out there. The prologue for the first Lostbelt indicates that the few surviving settlements are still trying to figure out ''what the hell is going on'' as one {{Muggle}} sets out to record everything for posterity.]]



*** Salem: In a twist, this technically takes place in the present day when a black expanse suddenly absorbs the Massachusetts towns of Salem and Danvers. When the protagonists go inside, they discover it's a historical reenactment of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 AD. [[spoiler:The mastermind behind the reenactment, surviving Demon Pillar Raum, intends on transforming minor historical figure Abigail Williams into a host for an Outer God for him to use against the [[GreaterScopeVillain Alien God]] and open the way for the other Outer Gods to flood the Earth.]]
* CosmicKeystone: In ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt,'' the titular Lostbelts are sustained by "Trees of Emptiness", miles-tall constructs implied to be related to the Alien God driving the plot. These Trees of Emptiness are what prevent the Crypters' seven Lostbelts from being pruned like they normally should be and destroying one will lead the Lostbelt to fade away as it should have. [[spoiler: With the exception of the Sixth Lostbelt thanks to its development into a Lostworld it doesn't need a tree and can only be pruned after the majority of it is destroyed physically.]]

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*** Salem: In a twist, this technically takes place in the present day when a black expanse suddenly absorbs the Massachusetts towns of Salem and Danvers. When the protagonists go inside, they discover it's a historical reenactment of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 AD. [[spoiler:The mastermind behind the reenactment, surviving Demon Pillar Raum, intends on transforming minor historical figure Abigail Williams into a host for an Outer God for him to use against the [[GreaterScopeVillain Alien Foreign God]] and open the way for the other Outer Gods to flood the Earth.]]
* CosmicKeystone: In ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt,'' the titular Lostbelts are sustained by "Trees of Emptiness", miles-tall constructs implied to be related to the Alien Foreign God driving the plot. These Trees of Emptiness are what prevent the Crypters' seven Lostbelts from being pruned like they normally should be and destroying one will lead the Lostbelt to fade away as it should have. [[spoiler: With the exception of the Sixth Lostbelt thanks to its development into a Lostworld it doesn't need a tree and can only be pruned after the majority of it is destroyed physically.]]
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** Observer on Timeless Temple has [[spoiler:Tiamat AKA: Beast II]] in the Babylonia chapter. [[spoiler:As the first Beast to truly fight the heroes the final third of the chapter becomes a mad dash for the cast to do everything in their power to stop Tiamat from destroying humanity with her defeat only coming after getting two Grand Servants invovled along requiring[[WorldsStrongestMan Gilgamesh]] to take her down.]] It's notable that after her defeat is when [[BigBad Solomon]] finally begins to take Chaldea seriously.
** Epic of Remnent has [[spoiler:Sesshōin Kiara AKA Beast III/R]] in Seraph. [[spoiler: being the end results of one of the stray Demon Pillars biting off way more then they can chew Kiara comes with the revelations of Chaldeas dark side in Seraphix as well as noticably outright killing the main character if it wasn't for some time traval shenanagins done by Meltryllis.]]
** Cosmos in the Lostbelt has two of them, the first being [[spoiler:Kirschtaria Wodime]] at the end of Olympus. [[spoiler:His defeat marks the moment the Crypters stop being a leading force in the plot as the survivors go off to do their own things while the Foreign God steps in to take the BigBad mantle for themselves]] and begins the second half of the storyline. The second one is [[spoiler:ORT]] in Nahui Mictlan, being the final major antagonist from the final Lostbelt The fight against them is the longest in the game, functioning like a single-player raid boss with multiple phases as every character left standing puts in everything, they have to try to stop it culminating in [[spoiler:U-Olga Marie sacrificing herself to put an end to the Ultimate One]] their defeat marks the end of [[spoiler: the illusion that aliens were responsible for the bleaching of Earth as Chaldea know knows of CHALDEAS being the Foreign World.]]

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** Observer ''Observer on Timeless Temple Temple'' has [[spoiler:Tiamat AKA: Beast II]] in the Babylonia chapter. [[spoiler:As the first Beast to truly fight the heroes the final third of the chapter becomes a mad dash for the cast to do everything in their power to stop Tiamat from destroying humanity with her defeat only coming after getting two Grand Servants invovled involved along requiring[[WorldsStrongestMan Gilgamesh]] to take her down.]] It's notable that after her defeat is when [[BigBad Solomon]] finally begins to take Chaldea seriously.
** Epic ''Epic of Remnent Remnant'' has [[spoiler:Sesshōin Kiara AKA Beast III/R]] in Seraph. SE.RAPH. [[spoiler: being the end results result of one of the stray Demon Pillars biting off way more then they can chew Kiara comes with the revelations of Chaldeas Chaldea's dark side in Seraphix as well as noticably noticeably outright killing the main character protagonist if it wasn't for some time traval shenanagins travel shenanigans done by Meltryllis.]]
** Cosmos in the Lostbelt has two of them, the first being [[spoiler:Kirschtaria Wodime]] at the end of Olympus. [[spoiler:His defeat marks the moment the Crypters stop being a leading force in the plot as the survivors go off to do their own things while the Foreign God steps in to take the BigBad mantle for themselves]] and begins the second half of the storyline. The second one is [[spoiler:ORT]] in Nahui Mictlan, being the final major antagonist from the final Lostbelt Lostbelt. The fight against them it is the longest in the game, functioning like a single-player raid boss with multiple phases as every character left standing puts in everything, everything they have to try to stop it it, culminating in [[spoiler:U-Olga Marie sacrificing herself to put an end to the Ultimate One]] their One]]. Its defeat marks the end of [[spoiler: the illusion that aliens were responsible for the bleaching of Earth as Chaldea know now knows of CHALDEAS being the Foreign World.]]

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** Jeanne Alter was originally conceptualised as a one-off villain for the First Singularity. She was so well-received that she was reincarnated as one of the few Avengers in the game, becomes a main ally in the Shinjuku chapter, got an additional costume, and has made additional appearances in bonus stories and events (such as her Santa Lily Alter [Lancer] and Swimsuit [Berserker] forms).

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** Jeanne Alter was originally conceptualised conceptualized as a one-off villain for the First Singularity. She was so well-received that she was reincarnated as one of the few Avengers in the game, becomes a main ally in the Shinjuku chapter, got an additional costume, and has made additional appearances in bonus stories and events (such as her Santa Lily Alter [Lancer] and Swimsuit [Berserker] forms).



** The One Who Rules the Planet refers to two people the first is [[spoiler:ORT as due to the way history played out they are a vital component for the Lostbelt's existence on multiple levels (It ended up stealing the energy of the Tree of Emptiness there making it the new CosmicKeystone and its core became the second sun of the land after Camazotz ripped it out) along with being the strongest being there that nobody outside of Camazotz could stop it from doing what it wants.]] The second is [[spoiler:U-Olga Marie the self-proclaimed Sovereign of Earth who as shown by her amnesic self has a built-in desire to rule the earth and is something that never changes about her even as she wrestles with her conflicting emotions once she regains her memories.]] This comes to a head when the two face off as [[spoiler: Olga proclaims right before she sacrifices herself to kill ORT that she is [[TitleDrop the one who rules the planet]]]]



** Cosmos in the Lostbelt has [[spoiler:Kirschtaria Wodime]] at the end of Olympus. [[spoiler:His defeat marks the moment the Crypters stop being a leading force in the plot as the survivors go off to do their own things while the Foreign God steps in to take the BigBad mantle for themselves]] and begins the second half of the storyline.

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** Cosmos in the Lostbelt has two of them, the first being [[spoiler:Kirschtaria Wodime]] at the end of Olympus. [[spoiler:His defeat marks the moment the Crypters stop being a leading force in the plot as the survivors go off to do their own things while the Foreign God steps in to take the BigBad mantle for themselves]] and begins the second half of the storyline. The second one is [[spoiler:ORT]] in Nahui Mictlan, being the final major antagonist from the final Lostbelt The fight against them is the longest in the game, functioning like a single-player raid boss with multiple phases as every character left standing puts in everything, they have to try to stop it culminating in [[spoiler:U-Olga Marie sacrificing herself to put an end to the Ultimate One]] their defeat marks the end of [[spoiler: the illusion that aliens were responsible for the bleaching of Earth as Chaldea know knows of CHALDEAS being the Foreign World.]]

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* ConspiracyRedemption: The former director of Chaldea had implemented several experiments that sicken the protagonist, but unfortunately there's not much they can do to fix what he did. Chaldea's restructuring over the course of the game is made to be a lot more humane thanks to the protagonist, Roman, and da Vinci. Chaldea has been noted as an oddity by Servants and the Mage's Association because of this, as they try to protect the strange and ostracized Heroic Spirits instead of condemning them to their fate.

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** This directly gets brought up in the main story as of Nahui Mictlan because [[spoiler:everyone associated with or has some knowledge of Marisbury Animusphere makes a distinction between the original organization of ''Finis'' Chaldea and what was baptized as ''Novum'' Chaldea by the remaining members who fled Antarctica and accumulated new members from then on. The latter is seen as the organization now absolutely dedicated to taking down Marisbury's Grand Order that started in Finis Chaldea because his conspiracy is far too awful to allow its progression]].
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** The fourth title screen swaps out the ray of light for a mysterious blue crystal circle with a purple aura inlaid with various blue swirls. The "Ordeal Call" trailer indicates this [[spoiler:is what awaits Chaldea at their old Antarctic base should they successfully overcome the trials imposed upon them by the Human Order.]]

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** The FinalBoss of Lostbelt 7 basically has a unique mechanic that can lead to an {{Unwinnable}} state. [[spoiler: The boss is a Marathon boss with a raid boss health bar that the player must deplete over the course of several battles. However, every Servant who dies, except for Mash, is "Data Lost", preventing you from using the same Servant again in another team. Naturally, the player would be unable to continue if they don't have enough usable Servants left.]] If the {{Unwinnable}} state is reached, the game declares a game over and resets the boss fight from the very start so that the player can re-strategize.

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** The FinalBoss of Lostbelt 7 basically has introduces a unique mechanic that can lead to an {{Unwinnable}} state. makes it unlike any boss fought before. [[spoiler: The boss is It's a Marathon boss MarathonBoss that with a raid boss health bar that the player must deplete be depleted over the course of several battles. However, every fights, and any Servant who dies, that dies against it cannot, except for Mash, is "Data Lost", preventing Lost" and cannot be fielded again.]] To compensate for this unique mechanic, and the fact that you from using the same Servant again in another team. Naturally, can't bring friend summons to this fight, the player would be unable to continue if they don't have enough usable Servants left.]] is given several advantages:
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If the battle becomes {{Unwinnable}} state is reached, [[spoiler: because the player has no more Servants left]], the game declares a game over and resets the boss fight from entire battle to the very beginning, allowing the player to restrategize. There's also a button that forces a reset so the player can quickly start over if they realize they're in a hopeless situation.
*** For all phases of the fight, the entire party is given an unremovable damage buff. You're also given additional buffs durring a certain stretch of the fight. [[spoiler: These additional buffs appear durring the last few bars of the boss's first form and disappear once the boss transforms into its more powerful second form,
so the game is pretty much telegraphing that this is where you should use your weaker Servants so that you can conserve your more powerful Servants for the last stretch.]]
*** The normal minimum party size can be completely ignored, meaning you can just field a single Servant. [[spoiler: This can be helpful is you have a Servant that's powerful enough to break through one of its break bars on it own, since the enitre party is automatically killed after every break, meaning
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** The FinalBoss of Lostbelt 7 basically has a unique mechanic that can lead to an {{Unwinnable}} state. [[spoiler: The boss is a Marathon boss with a raid boss health bar that the player must deplete over the course of several battles. However, every Servant who dies, except for Mash, is "Data Lost", preventing you from using the same Servant again in another team. Naturally, the player would be unable to continue if they don't have enough usable Servants left.]] If the {{Unwinnable}} state is reached, the game declares a game over and resets the boss fight from the very start so that the player can re-strategize.
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* ArcNumber: The number seven shows up a lot in this game as there are seven Singularities, seven Lostbelts, seven Crypters, seven normal classes, seven playable extra classes, and seven Beasts/Evils of Humanity.

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* ArcNumber: The number seven shows up a lot in this game as there are seven Singularities, seven Lostbelts, seven Crypters, [[spoiler:seven Disciples of the Foreign God]], seven normal classes, seven playable extra classes, and seven Beasts/Evils of Humanity.

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