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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 of Humanity. This is especially true with Salem, with the House of Seven Gables as a major location, the story progressing over the course of seven days, Chaldea sending a party of seven to investigate Salem, seven deaths, seven hangings, seven trials, and seven being the number counted down from in its theme song, "Heretics of Purity". [[spoiler:Räum charges Abigail with seven crimes to get her to break down and awaken the Outer God in her and the protagonist unintentionally fulfills the seventh and last role in the plan to awaken Abigail's Outer God.]]

* CuttingOffTheBranches: No matter the player's track record in summoning Servants over the sprawling course of the game, the story's canon continues as if each and every Servant up to that point has been successfully summoned once. Some main stories and Events will also factor in if other main stories and Events have been cleared, but not always (there's a lot of them to sort through, after all), and the story typically proceeds as if everything prior to a certain point has been done.

** The easiest way to obtain Saint Quartz for the gacha to obtain Servants is to spend real money. Furthermore, for some events, you basically must have gacha-exclusive [=CEs=] to farm its currencies effectively. Thankfully you can just borrow a friend's. On the other hand, the game is designed in a way that it's possible to complete the storyline by using lower-tier servants from the Friend Point Summoning system up until the Camelot singularity where there is a massive DifficultySpike (and even then, certain servants such as the 3-star Euryale will carry the team well thanks to her being an anti-male Archer).

* ChaoticStupid: This is the ultimate alignment of the majority of Fae in the British Lostbelt. They have 0 regrets about their actions, and will act not out of self-preservation but merely to satisfy their whims. Tellingly before [[spoiler:Morgan adjusted the Lostbelt timeline, the entire Lostbelt was already lifeless and barren, the Fae of Britain have long ago destroyed themselves before Morgan's interference.]] Even with Morgan's rule [[spoiler:they are still absolute bastards and have driven the world to ruin thanks to the actions of the 6 original Fae, not only that but the current Fae are no better with most of the current calamities awakening thanks to their specific actions. This includes: slaughtering humans which drove Barghest over the edge, and torturing Tristan before sending her plummeting into the pit where Cernnunos is, her curses being the spark that allows Cernnunos to awaken.]] Needless to say, there are VERY good reasons as to why the world pruned that timeline, and why [[spoiler:the land of Fae Britain wants to destroy itself using Vortigern.]]

* CosmicKeystone: In ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt,'' [[spoiler: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:The Argonauts of the Atlantis chapter start as more of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits than anything: rather than the greatest heroes of Myth/ClassicalMythology, they're composed of whatever Heroic Spirits Jason and Chaldea could find alive and willing, resulting in a mishmash of mostly underpowered Servants from all over history. By the end of the chapter, through raw guts they've taken on an army of supermen and monsters led by two of Greece's most cunning heroes, ''killed two gods'', and opened the path to Olympus. Though sadly, [[KillEmAll they all died in the process.]]]]

** This theme is at its most apparent in the final battle. [[spoiler:In Solomon, Mash rejects Grand Caster's vision of a WorldOfSilence because, while the people are smiling in their immortal state, it's all false because they don't know what it's like to live ''because'' of their mortality. Dr. Roman reveals himself to have been the true Solomon, the real King of Magic and not the Ars Goetia in his guise. Because he lived his human life only by the will of the Israeli people and God, Solomon wished on the Holy Grail to be incarnated as a normal human, so that he could live a second life by his own volition. Mash's visceral HeroicSacrifice motivates Fou to sacrifice all of his power and intelligence to bring her back from the dead, leading him to muse that her humanity was enough to "defeat" him, the Fourth Beast. Even Goetia has an AlasPoorVillain moment after his demonic power is lost and he is reduced to a human in Solomon's half-melted body, finally understanding mortality first-hand and fighting the Protagonist one last time so that his last moments won't be meaningless, even if he's already lost.]]

(translation) ''!Nandakōiukotokane naruhodone naruhodone! (How it becomes like this, I understand, I understand)''

** Qin Liangyu to Shin Ryougoku ,although her SelfAppliedNickname "Lian" is pronounced at it is in Japanese.

** In Myth/CelticMythology, Diarmuid ua Duibhne was killed by a demonic boar. This game shows that the boar was closer to an AnimalisticAbomination, who ''eats'' magic runes and strikes fear even to dragonkind.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: ''[[UpToEleven Every single Heroic Spirit you've encountered thus far]]'' summons themselves to the Final Order to help subdue the seventy-two Demon Pillars to clear a path to Solomon.]]

*** The Atlantic Lostbelt [[spoiler: is basically ''all of the previous Lostbelts'' turned UpToEleven: not only has humanity completely kowtowed to the strength of the Gods like the first two Lostbelts, but they've also become consumed with ideas of perfection and perverse affection towards the Gods and as a result have become nearly mindless like in the previous two Lostbelts. Rather than GodNeedsPrayerBadly, it has become humanity ''needs God badly'', and humanity has essentially become extensions of the Greek God's will rather than the previous relationship of considering them akin to a force of nature. The second part reveals the causes of this; the humanity that worships them is because the humans who were against it were killed along with the Gods who were against it. What remains, essentially, are beings that have done everything and now all they have left to do is but worship the mighty and superior gods.]]

** Taken UpToEleven during the Lostbelts. Instead of going back in time and correcting human history, [[spoiler: [[GrayAndGreyMorality you’re essentially invading alternate worlds and destroying them along with their inhabitants to bring back your own world.]]]]

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The translation of the female version of King Arthur's name. Despite stating in-story that it's (supposed to be) the feminine version of "Artorius", and that the feminine form "Artoria" already exists, TYPE-MOON has insisted on the {{Engrish}} version "Altria", which is what Google Translate spits out when you feed it the Japanese version of her name. The localization team have flat out stated they ''hate'' having to use that name, but are forced to and have no control over it.

* TheArtifact: Despite the above, the April Fools artwork by Riyo of the bronze Servants still retain the plain summoning circle background that was used since the launch of the game.

* BreatherEpisode: Though no less action-packed than other chapters, America has notably little to do with the overarching plotlines compared to [[WhamEpisode London]] and [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Camelot]] and goes back to the simple "fight Servants, get Grail, solve Singularity" formula of the first several chapters.

* BootstrappedTheme: Altria's {{Leitmotif}}, "Sword of Promised Victory", has gone from being her theme specifically to the theme that represents Arthurian legend in general, with it being used for boss music remixes against the Lion King's Knights and Faerie Knight Gawain, partially used to represent Morgan like [[spoiler:when she attacks Olympus with Rhongomyniad in the story]], and its incorporation into various themes relating to the Knights of the Round in anime adaptations.

* BootstrappedTheme: Altria's {{Leitmotif}}, "Sword of Promised Victory", has gone from being her theme specifically to the theme that represents Arthurian legend in general, with it being used for boss music remixes against the Lion King's Knights and Faerie Knight Gawain, partially used to represent Morgan like [[spoiler:when she attacks Olympus with Rhongomyniad in the story]], and its incorporation into various themes relating to the Knights of the Round in anime adaptations.

* CelestialDeadline: Even though Chaldea survived the incineration of the world, all systems ''still'' point to human history permanently ending two years later, giving the protagonists that small amount of time to save the world before that predicted event happens.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Averted for the most part, but played straight with the translation of the female version of King Arthur's name. Despite stating in-story that it's (supposed to be) the feminine version of "Artorius", and that the feminine form "Artoria" already exists, TYPE-MOON has insisted on the {{Engrish}} version "Altria", which is what Google Translate spits out when you feed it the Japanese version of her name. The localization team have flat out stated they ''hate'' having to use that name, but are forced to and have no control over it.

* AwesomeButTemporary: An InUniverse example with the Klironomia from the Greek Lostbelt. Essentially nanomachines that are harvested from the Greek Gods, if imbued into a strong enough person (like a Heroic Spirit), it gives a general boost to the users combat capabilities, while also giving a unique attribute based on the God that it came from; Ares' makes Musashi more offensively powerful, while Mash gets Athena's, giving her a general boost to her card types and making her tankier. The downside is that while the Klironmia is very powerful (the heroes went from barely being able to beat an out of practice Olympian Citizen to beating more dangerous foes after getting some), it also requires the Kilronomia to be in supply for it to last, with Atlantis in particular having a major plot point be the heroes efforts to find them before Odysseus can.

* AdultFear: A fairly low-key moment from the Part Two prologue: [[spoiler:Mash and the protagonist get worried about Da Vinci when she's been stuck with Goredolf (who's been blatantly sexually harassing her) for twelve hours. Presumably, he'd [[MegatonPunch feel her left hook]] if he tried anything, and there are ''plenty'' of other reasons to be worried, but nonetheless, it invokes the realistic fear of a woman being stuck with some creep while her friends can only worry. Even if she has got a giant nuclear metal fist.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: In "Chaldea Summer Memory", the player can pick one of three options for each building to develop on the island. Typically, the final one is awesome but impractical (and usually suggested by Mordred), while the first one is BoringButPractical and the second one is slightly more elaborate or luxurious; mechanically, each one is usually successively more expensive in total despite accomplishing the same thing and progressing the story. For example, the first building is a place for the master to live -- either a wood cabin (simple, since the party begin in a forest), a stone building, or an ''iron cube'' that they quickly find out gets too hot to live in.

* ButNotTooBi: While there are plenty of female Servants who openly lust for the protagonist regardless of their gender, most of the male Servants don't do the same, even the confirmed bisexuals like Iskander or Gilgamesh. The few overt examples of male Servants being even implicitly interested in the male version of the protagonist are those like Astolfo, who looks identical to a girl right down to the clothing and Fergus, who makes it clear he is not interested in pursuing a relationship.