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Foreign God ("Lostbelt No. 5: Olympus" Spoilers!)

See Beast VII's folder in Fate/Grand Order: Beasts

Trees of Emptiness

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The Roots of Cosmic Fantasy

Within each of the Lostbelts, worlds that were forsaken and deleted by the World, a massive "tree" sustains the dead timeline in defiance of Gaia, and these celestial linchpins serve as the Final Boss of each Lostbelt. The Trees are named Orochi, Sombrero, Mayall, Spiral, Atlas/Magellan, Naraka Mandala, Seyfert, Quasar, and Waxing Moon.

Achilles' Heel: The Trees are all connected through their branches touching each other, so it's possible to spread something destroying one Tree to the others through this network like a virus, bypassing any external protections. This would have made destroying the Lostbelts easier and quicker but unfortunately for Chaldea, by the time they learn this in Olympus there isn't a Tree left to use it on and the last two Lostbelts are sustaining themselves through other means.
Arc Symbol: Olympus reveals that they are the circling arcs of light on the first title screen for Cosmos in the Lostbelt. Specifically, it's a fully bloomed Tree having completely unfurled its spiral-shaped trunk in preparation to receive the descending Foreign God.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Trees are gargantuan things that require Chaldea to ascend above the clouds in order to fight. In Nahui Mictlan, Kadoc initially states that this is an indication of what defines the Tree, but pauses that thought when he realizes there's no actual reason to assume that this can be considered a standard compared to the much smaller Trees spawned by Lostbelt ORT.
Battle Theme Music: There are currently four different themes using the same melody under the same umbrella of "Tree Battle", which denotes the current status of the Tree of Emptiness.
- "In the Air" is for Orochi and Sombrero, which due to their lack of growth, only has the most basic version of the song.
- "Hypothesis Cosmos" is for Mayall, as thanks to being supercharged by Akuta fusing with the tree, it has significantly grown much stronger and thus has a more complex rendition of the song.
- "Hideous Theory" is for Spiral, which is much more chaotic in structure because of the Tree's status in Lostbelt #4. This theme makes a re-appearance in Lostbelt #6 as the Lostbelt's Tree has technically been destroyed by the time Chaldea got there, but the aftermath of said destruction basically turned the Lostbelt into an Eldritch Location.
- And finally, "Wodime" as a representation of Lostbelt No. 5 completely discards the synthetic EDM instrumentation used in the last three renditions and is now orchestrated to represent the fact that it has fully bloomed and is primed for Wodime's secret plan.
- Naraka Mandala follows a different melody than the other Tree Battle themes though as it instead uses a remix of "Bloody Wind" from Shimousa due to how Heian-kyō is a Stealth Sequel of Shimousa, and this chapter didn't take place within a proper Lostbelt.
Black Box: What they do is simple to understand. How they do it is another matter entirely, and trying to figure out the Tree's mechanisms, what their purpose is, or even what the hell they are is one of Chaldea's goals. The only one who solved the mystery is Lostbelt Morgan who used that knowledge to turn the British Lostbelt into a Lostworld, and she isn't interested in sharing her secrets. The only thing she says is they were made in CHALDEAS for the purpose of closing the universe.
Body of Bodies: The Count built Waxing Moon by binding countless Yui Shousetsu clones together into the shape of a Tree of Emptiness.
Boss Subtitles: During the boss fight against the Waxing Moon, it's introduced as "Counterfeit Tree of Emptiness: Waxing Moon, the Ephemeral Sillouette".
Botanical Abomination: The Trees of Emptiness can barely be considered trees by Earth standards. Sure, they resemble them, but they're tall enough to reach space, can sustain dead timelines in defiance of Gaia, resemble celestial bodies, spawn hostile Seeds of Emptiness, and can disintegrate entire timelines. A fully grown Tree emits gamma rays, warps gravity, space, and time, and expends massive heat because as revealed in SIN, they are a literal microcosm of its corresponding galaxy. Atlantis reveals that a fully grown Tree's branches covers the entire world and will absorb not only all the mana from the Earth, but all incoming cosmic radiation repelled by the Earth's magnetic field, allowing the Foreign God to properly descend onto Earth by concentrating that energy and destroying the world.
Celestial Body: While the outside of the Trees of Emptiness is made of this rough, jagged ice-like bark, the inside of their bark is made of glowing, purple nebula filled with the stars of an entire galaxy contained within. Tepeu deduces in Nahui Mictlan that because ORT, which had absorbed the Tree and effectively became a new one, was inert with nothing powering it for millennia, it's not the energy that matters to the Tree to power a Lostbelt. It's the seeming concept of a galaxy being contained within its form that matters.
The Chooser of the One: Just as the Foreign God being the one who chose the seven Crypters, its Tree of Emptiness chooses a Lostbelt King to guide it to victory along with said Crypter, with the Tree's choice being based on power and how far their history has diverged.
Cosmic Keystone: The Tree of Emptiness that grows in each Lostbelt is what keeps it on Earth, acting as a lynch-pin that slowly grows and pins the Texture of the Lostbelt onto the blank slate that the Earth has become. If destroyed, the Lostbelt and all life within it will be redeleted from existence. The sole exception to this is Beryl's Lostbelt, which by the time Chaldea invades Atlantis has already had its tree Seyfert destroyed through his own actions, but it still exists due to Morgan turning the Lostbelt into a Lostworld (but people who weren't born after the Lostbelt got turned into a Lostworld will still get hit by this trope)
Dub Name Change: Their Japanese name translates to "Fantasy Trees", yet the official English version of the game calls them "Trees of Emptiness". ^Explanation
Energy Absorption: The Trees absorb energy not just from the Earth, but also radiation from outer space. And just like a Holy Grail, one can use the accumulated energy inside for a specific task.
Expy: They look very similar to the "Spiriton Accelerators" from Tsuki No Sango; an earlier work of Nasu's.
False Utopia: Several of the Lostbelts that the Trees of Emptiness choose have developed this way, reaching a conclusion where life is supposedly great for everyone, as long as they don't look at their circumstances too closely.
- S.I.N. is so peaceful that the Counter Force doesn't exist in it because no threat exists to humanity, which lives in complete comfort. However, they live as mindless animals meant to be slaughtered after a certain age, its Lostbelt King hoards everything of value for himself, and he drops a meteor on anything he doesn't like.
- Yugakshetra spends seven of ten days living in peace and tranquility, and the last three praying to their god, an amalgamate of an entire pantheon, to spare them from the giant crocodiles that will kill anyone they get their claws on. Also, it is by said god's decree whether or not you get erased with no one able to remember you for the next iteration of the cycle, which is solely dependent on his judgment on whether or not you're "evil", which can range from being killed by one of those crocodiles to simply being injured when the reset occurs.
- Atlantis and Olympus are inhabited by humans who are blessed with superhuman abilities and long lives who also blindly worship the Greek pantheon and don't mind getting killed by them even after being banished to the slums outside Olympus so long as the gods notice them. The Gods themselves fought amongst themselves whether they should control or co-exist with humanity, killing members in the war. Even then the one who stands above all Gods, Chaos, forces Zeus to turn Olympus into a space ark, destroying the Lostbelt's civilization in the process.
Final Boss: The Trees serve as one for the first four Lostbelts and Heian-Kyo. Both Atlas and Seyfert were taken out of commission and are never fought by the player in the fifth and sixth Lostbelts. The final Tree Quasar is eaten by ORT after it was planted on Earth millions of years ago within the Lostbelt's history, so it technically is fought on that basis. However, it is not the final boss fought in Nahui Mictlān, that would be Tezcatlipoca.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Mayall has both the [Demonic] and [Evil] Traits unlike any other Trees of Emptiness because they originate from Akuta after she performs a Fusion Dance with the tree to go on her Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Akuta hides her Tree of Emptiness within Qin Shi Huang's Fusang Tree, correctly guessing that neither he nor his officials would ever think of the possibility of the emperor's treasure being tampered with by someone else.
Hologram: The Trees first operate by running a simulation of the pruned timeline inside themselves and then project it outwards into their Lostbelt in a manner similar to a Reality Marble or Shirou Emiya's Projections but on a far greater scale.
It Can Think: Surtr reveals that the Trees of Emptiness possess a rudimentary will of their own despite their inability to "speak" as most would understand it, and their goal above all else is to survive and grow no matter what.
Literally Shattered Lives: Orochi suffers a One-Hit Kill this way courtesy of the Foreign Priestess, who was evidently impatient with how long it was taking Chaldea to beat it.
Meaningful Name: Even though less astronomically knowledgeable people might giggle at the Tree of Emptiness being named "Sombrero", it's actually referring to the Sombrero Galaxy, rather than the Mexican hat.
No Ontological Inertia: The Lostbelts and everything inside it would have never come back into existence without the Trees of Emptiness sustaining their existence. What happens when the Tree is destroyed and then reality and logic reassert themselves over what shouldn't exist anymore? Poof.
Not the Intended Use: By all accounts, the intended uses of the Tree of Emptiness are to sustain a Lostbelt and bring U-Olga Marie to Earth, but a lot of characters end up using the Tree for other purposes.
- The most common use is as a glorified battery to power themselves up ranging from Surtr eating Sombrero to regain Fenrir's Authority over ice, to Hinako fusing with Mayall to awaken it and get the power to annihilate Chaldea, to God Arjuna absorbing Spiral's energy to make up for the power he lost after realizing his imperfections, to Lostbelt ORT using the energy of Quasar as a power source to replace its lost core. Then there's the intention of Zeus to absorb the power of Atlas/Magellan in order to allow Olympus to leave Earth, though that particular use never gets off the ground.
- Other Trees end up being used for far more ambitious goals, such as Wodime intending to use Atlas/Magellan to elevate all remaining humans into god hybrids with the aid of the Titan Atlas or Morgan le Fay using Seyfert to transform her Lostbelt into a Lostworld free from the need of a Cosmic Keystone.
Ontological Mystery: According to Wodime's notes, they can't exist on Earth if the human order is present. The human order was removed first by wiping the planet blank and then the Trees appeared. What then is the "tree-like alien" in Area 51? How could there be an "alien invasion" to remove humans if the Trees couldn't appear before humans were removed? Even stranger yet is that Chaldea witnesses the seven Trees descending on the Earth which has yet to be blanked. Furthermore, Ophelia states that the Crypters entered their Lostbelts straight from their coffins yet Wodime, Lostbelt Ivan, and the Oprichniki were already active before the Trees had been planted on Earth. While the reveal that the bleaching took place on CHALDEAS's surface and the earth's surface was then switched with it does clearer up some of this the oddities of the Tree's visible descent still aren't clear.
Paint It Black: Naraka Mandala is black due to being a creation of Douman's rather than CHALDEAS's.
The Power of Creation: Players of Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star will notice a little, yet crucial detail incongruent between the Lostbelts and pruned timelines that hint at the Trees' true capabilities, which Holmes also mentions in section 15 of Lostbelt No.1 Anastasia. Namely, the Counter Force reviews every 100 years which timelines can progress for another century, then prunes out the ones that have reached their conclusion. Despite this, the inhabitants of the Lostbelts talk as if history continued past the point of pruning up until the day the Trees were planted on the blank Earth even though their civilizations have remained stagnant for hundreds or even thousands of years, something that Scáthach-Skadi in Scandinavia notes is utterly bizarre since the system she set up in the aftermath of Ragnarok was not something she believed could truly last 3,000 years, especially since she was well-aware of why the Counter Force had pruned the timeline from Proper Human History. Ophelia also notices this and realizes the Trees are not rewriting history, but creating a completely new one by simulating events past the point of pruning inside itself and then projecting the results outwards as the Lostbelts. She then wonders what the Foreign God truly is, as even the mightiest Divine Spirits in modern times have nowhere near enough power and Authority to pull that kind of stunt.
Readings Are Off the Scale: A fully bloomed Tree is capable of absorbing enough energy to rival what Goetia gathered during the Incineration of Humanity.
Ret Conjuration: The implications of the Lostbelts being simulated timelines rather than the actual pruned timelines are explored in the last two Lostbelts. The gist of it is they can allow some creative liberties to happen in the past, which leads to wonky paradoxes like Mash traveling back 2400 years into the British Lostbelt's past only to find the Tree standing there even though logically it couldn't since they were planted on Earth in 2017. Even weirder yet is that the changing the simulated past changes the present too including the Tree itself even though it's the one that's doing the simulating, as PHH Morgan sending her memories into the past led to Aesc destroying the Fantasy Tree Seyfert and replacing the Lostbelt with a Lostworld in the present overnight as seen by Beryl. This reaches ridiculous heights in Lostbelt No. 7 when it's revealed that ORT ate the Tree 6 million years ago in the Lostbelt's past, killing it and taking over its functions. Again, the Tree couldn't have existed in the past so ORT couldn't have eaten it, yet that's what the Tree simulated so once it was planted on Earth it instantly withered away into a husk and was replaced by a brand new ORT created out of thin air.
Ret-Gone: The destruction of the Trees of Emptiness that supports the Lostbelt which shouldn't exist anymore means the complete and utter erasure of the entire timeline and those who live within it as it all returns to nothingness. This naturally causes quite a bit of "grey-ness" in the battle for the "correct Human History" and the right to exist.
Stellar Name: The Trees of Emptiness (Orochi, Sombrero, Mayall, Spiral, Atlas/Magellan, Naraka Mandala, Seyfert, and Quasar) are named after things relating to the cosmos, tying in with their alien origin.
- Orochi, Sombrero, Mayall, and Magellan are named after galaxies.
- Spiral, Seyfert, and Quasar are named after a type of galaxy.
- And Atlas, which Zeus named after the Titan responsible for holding up the Heavens and the Earth in Greek Mythology, is a star system, also foreshadowing the fact that the actual Titan Atlas was hidden inside the Tree to stop the Foreign God from descending and follow through on Wodime's plan to turn all of humanity into God-human hybrids.
- Ashiya Douman's Subspecies Tree of Emptiness was initially called Onriedo Jou, or Onriedo Castle, but is renamed as Naraka Mandala. Mandala being a chart or diagram that is a time-microcosm of the universe and represents the cosmos and its connection to all living things.
- Counterfeit Tree of Emptiness Waxing Moon's name is self-explanatory. Unlike other Trees, it doesn't have a galaxy inside but a miniature moon drenched in blood.
Super-Empowering: It's possible to absorb the energy of a Tree of Emptiness to obtain a massive boost of strength. Douman reveals that it also serves as a divine vessel and can turn its user into the Beast-Class Foreign God in the right conditions. Douman tries to become another Foreign God in Naraka Mandala but fails due to lacking a love for humanity.
There Can Only Be One: There are seven Lostbelts, but only one planet for them to exist on. Each Lostbelt will keep expanding until it contacts with another one, with the weaker Trees of Emptiness and Lostbelt consumed and used as nutrients for the victor. This is also the case with Chaldea, who represents the Proper Human History, and dismantles the Lostbelts at the cost of all who live in there.
This Is Unforgivable!: Surtr mentions that the Trees do not want to forgive, though who or what is unforgivable is still unknown.
The Unfought: The Trees of Emptiness for the last three Lostbelts aren't actually fought by Chaldea as they got taken through other means. In the case of the Atlantic Lostbelt and the British Lostbelt, their respective Crypters are meant to take their place in fighting them (Not the Crypter-Servant fights but actually fighting the actual Crypters themselves without any Servants to help them) with their battle themes either being reused or new versions of the Tree of Emptiness themes. Justified in the British Lostbelt as their tree got taken down before Chaldea got there, as well as in the South American Lostbelt, as Lostbelt ORT devoured it millions of years ago and has been filling its old function ever since.
When Trees Attack: The Foreign God's invasion appeared to be an army of Trees of Emptiness descending from the sky to impale any lifeform they detect with their tree roots. Then the target is slowly Reduced to Dust. This actually happened in CHALDEAS, as the Trees can't appear on Earth until the Human Order is gone.
White and Red and Eerie All Over: Likely as a result of being created by the Count instead of CHALDEAS, Waxing Moon possesses a white exterior like the earlier Fantasy Trees whilst also posessing a purely red interior that appears to be gushing out grail mud from it's roots.
The Worf Effect: After being built up as a nigh-invincible threat, Orochi suffers a One-Hit Kill from the Foreign Priestess with just a gentle tap.

Foreign Priestess

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Priestess from the Foreign World

A mysterious alien being hailing from the Foreign World who is a priestess of the Foreign God. She is first seen wandering around Chaldea in the Lostroom OVA and then has been popping up throughout numerous locations.

Affectionate Nickname: Pepe calls her "U-chan", though the reason for the nickname is currently unknown. The fact that the Foreign God/Beast VII's true name is U-Olga Marie might shed a bit of light on this.
Ambiguously Related: Wodime tells her at the beginning of Olympus that his Tree of Emptiness is fully grown and ready to bring her true form to Earth as if she's the Foreign God herself, suggesting the two are connected in some way.
Beneath the Mask: Due to her inability to communicate and general inscrutableness, no one's really been able to decipher her feelings or thoughts. But when she shows up to witness the protagonist be defeated by Kirschtaria, the protagonist realizes she has utter contempt for only them without even needing to hear any insults or see her expression when she glares at the protagonist.
Enigmatic Minion:
- According to Kotomine, she's the priestess of the Foreign God and also plays a part in the growing of the Trees of Emptiness but she's been keeping her mouth shut with both the antagonists and protagonists, making it unclear what her role in the Foreign God's plan is. The opening even shows her reaching out to Mash as if trying to contact her.
- Kirschtaria has been questioning exactly what she's doing as he knows the priestess understands his plans of usurping the Foreign God, yet has done nothing to report his betrayal to her master. Olympus reveals that she did not report it because the Foreign God was well aware of Kirschtaria's plans in advance and had prepared countermeasures in the form of Muramasa.
- In Lostbelt No. 7 she watches the amnesiac Foreign God allying with Chaldea and going against her purpose, but doesn't say anything.
Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: She does occasionally say things but since she's using a completely alien language, it's just rendered as long em dashes in the text.
Foreshadowing: When Chaldea is unable to destroy Orochi in the Russian Lostbelt, the Priestess finishes the job and destroys it herself. The motive behind this is left unexplained until Lostbelts No. 4 and 7 reveal all the Lostbelts were meant to be destroyed.
Godiva Hair: Her hair covers her breasts.
I Can't Sense Their Presence: When the Shadow Border tries to scan for her, she appears as a literal hole. As in, there's literally nothing on the scanner and the gaping void in reality is the only thing that indicates something's up. Those outside the Shadow Border can see her but are unable to identify her at all. She can make herself visible and audible to only certain people. For example, when she appeared to Ophelia, Sigurd, her own Servant, could not tell that anyone was there.
Language Barrier: At one point, she directly appears to Koyanskaya and tries to talk to her, but Koyanskaya cannot understand her language.
Literally Shattered Lives: She does this to Orochi with a single tap of her hand.
Meaningful Look: She briefly gives one in Part 2's Prologue when she enters the protagonist's room alone as Chaldea is being besieged by the Oprichiniki. What this means is anyone's guess.
Ms. Fanservice: She's actually quite beautiful for an alien being, and she sports a curvy figure that is laid almost completely bare due to being nude but having Barbie Doll Anatomy.
Mystical White Hair: She hails from parts unknown and her hair has an unusual silver coloration, almost bordering on translucent.
One-Hit Kill: A single tap from her is all it takes to completely obliterate the Russian Lostbelt Tree, Orochi, when the combined efforts of Chaldea at the time were not enough to destroy it.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Priestess is typically content just watching events unfold even if it seems like she should be more active such as during Wodime's attempted betrayal so when she does take action against Chaldea investigating the room where Specimen E is by destroying the area it's a sign that the heroes got a bit too close to knowing more than they should.
Power Nullifier: Possibly. While we have no reason as to why yet, Billy finds himself physically unable to raise his gun at her, much less summon the desire to shoot her despite his own admission that he can find a reason to shoot anything or anyone. She also appears to have some manner of detection nullification, as at various points she just appears with no warning, even when she shouldn't be able to. Not even Lostbelt Zeus using his Authority can stop her from listening in to a conversation he has with Wodime, and he is confident his Authority could prevent the Foreign God from hearing the two.
Power Tattoo: A brief shot of her naked back in Russia before she finishes destroying the Tree of Emptiness shows she has three red faintly-glowing tattoos on her back in the form of a vague symbol.
Stealth Expert: She can choose whom she appears to, and there's no way of detecting her if she wants to remain hidden since she doesn't have a proper body. Even Zeus isn't sure if he's capable of blocking her out.
Suddenly Speaking: After four Lostbelts of either being unable to translate her alien language or just being silent around everyone, she speaks coherently to the dying Demeter and Aphrodite in Olympus, as she wishes to know their thoughts before they die.
The Voiceless: All of her appearances thus far in the game and in the Moonlight/Lostroom OVA are silent, until she tries to talk to Koyanskaya. According to Ivan the Terrible, she is capable of speech, in an unearthly voice unlike any he's ever heard before.
The Watcher: She seems to be observing especially when the main characters have to make a moral decision. (Like whether to rescue Goredolf or not during Prologue/December 26, 201X or whether or not the protagonist should use the Athena nanomachines for the brainwashed Charlotte Corday.)
The Worf Effect: On the giving end. Chaldea proves to be incapable of destroying Orochi in their current state, so she shows up, gently presses her hand to its surface… and it shatters into nothingness.

Foreign World ("Lostbelt No. 7: Nahui Mictlān" Spoilers!)

CHALDEAS

The Miracle of the Animuspheres

^Original

^Incinerated

^Bleached

"Welcome to the data center for the future of humankind. This is the Security Organization for the Preservation of Humanity, Chaldea. Fingerprint, voiceprint, and DNA authentication cleared. Magical Circuit assessment complete. Username matched. You are recognized as a member of the primates. Nice to meet you. You're our final visitor today. We hope you enjoy your time here."

The miracle that leads to the Root the Animuspheres have wished for, Marisbury Animusphere's magnum opus, and the executor of his Grand Order Animusphere to ensure the future of the Human Order. Otherwise known as the Global Environment Model or Pseudo Celestial Sphere, "CHALDEAS" uses the soul of the World as a foundation to create a perfect simulation of the Earth in past, present, and future. It is currently set to simulate 100 years into the future. The density of its Spiritrons essentially makes it both a replica of Earth and a world unto itself, technically making it a "Foreign World" to Earth.

The concept of CHALDEAS has been passed down the Animuspheres since the Age of Gods, but remained nothing more than a pipedream due to the impossible amount of resources needed to construct and maintain it. But then, in a certain timeline in the year 2004, an opportunity presented itself. Marisbury Animusphere entered the first Fuyuki Holy Grail War and won, using his wish to make his family's dream a reality. The Chaldea Security Organization was established afterwards and CHALDEAS was constructed as its heart. While CHALDEAS's public purpose was to monitor the Human Order's safety throughout time, in truth it was to enact the Grand Order Animusphere at the end of 2016. The Incineration of Humanity and Lev tossing Olga Marie into CHALDEAS put a hiccup in its schedule but with Goetia defeated and Chaldea distracted by the Remnant Orders and the impending change in management, CHALDEAS seizes the opportunity to fulfill its purpose once and for all.

The Foreign World is the true identity of the Foreign God and is directly responsible for the Human Order Revision Incident that bleached the Earth and created the Lostbelts. CHALDEAS summoned seven Disciples to help achieve its goals: three to monitor the Crypters (the Priest, the Avatar of Malice, and the Atlas Slayer), three to guide Chaldea (the Detective, the Professor, and the Count), and the last (the God) to serve as its vessel (according to the Count), Body Double, and leader of the Disciples allowing CHALDEAS to complete its work behind the scenes without disturbance.

It also turns out to have been the announcer that greets the Protagonist at the very beginning of the game.

Ambiguous Situation:
- Da Vinci and the Count's dialogue before and during the encounter with Flare Marie indicates that Olga's connection to CHALDEAS goes far beyond simply being its Body Double. Da Vinci refers to Olga as the vessel of the Foreign God, which she already knows is CHALDEAS, while the Count calls Olga "the god vessel" and CHALDEAS "the true Foreign God", implying that she is meant to be a host body of sorts. In addition, before first manifesting as U-Olga, the Foreign God can be heard speaking as though it were an AI announcer…
- Daybit calls CHALDEAS the enemy of the universe, but he corrects himself midway through doing so and inserts Marisbury's name instead, implying that the two may have merged into one after Marisbury's death.
Baby Planet: It's an exact replica of the Earth (at first), complete with its own tiny version of humanity living on it. The density of its Spiritrons makes it not too different from a black hole and anything on Earth that touches it will get spaghettified and torn apart atom by atom. For humans, that means instant death, as Olga Marie learns first-hand.
Big Bad: Finally steps directly into the spotlight once its identity is revealed, although really it was acting as this all along through U-Olga Marie.
Dragon Ascendant: For all of the events it has a hand in throughout the story, it's ultimately taking over for its posthumous creator Marisbury, as its very existence and current actions can all be traced back to him, although the truth is that the Animusphere family had dreamt of its existence for many generations and never had the means to make it physical until Marisbury won the Grail War.
Didn't See That Coming: For as many cogs that are needed to turn in order for its plan to succeed there are some noticeable oversights.
- It's quite clear that Beryl summoning Morgan le Fay who turned the British Lostbelt into a Lostworld was not in the plan. It also doesn't seem prepared to deal with the powder keg that was the Calamities potentially destroying the planet.
- While they were prepared for Kirschtaria's betrayal, Daybit's own mutiny against CHALDEAS by awakening ORT to destroy the planet was not known until Daybit revealed his plan to Chaldea by using Tezcatlipoca's Noble Phantasm.
- To prepare for the bleaching of the Earth so the Lostbelts could be planted, CHALDEAS slaughtered all of its humanity. The last surviving human inside found out about its plans and tried to get revenge against it and all of Earth by creating the Traum Singularity inside its Area 51 to cause a Time Crash, inadvertently leading Chaldea inside it. It tries to fix this by sending Moriarty, but this backfires in the long run since he has his own agenda.
- Chaldea was another one of its pawns, one who was to excise all the Lostbelts and then be destroyed from within by Holmes. Holmes ends up defecting and when CHALDEAS orders Moriarty to put Holmes back on track, Holmes commits suicide so he won't hurt his friends. Chaldea survives past the point when they were supposed to be disposed of, learns the truth of CHALDEAS, and are now heading to Antarctica to stop its and Marisbury's plans.
- Moriarty obeys his orders only to settle his rivalry with Holmes but otherwise has no loyalty to CHALDEAS and was planning to cut ties after completing his mission. CHALDEAS doesn't realize this and allows him to run around freely, even giving him access to Subject E's corpse for examination. Once Holmes is dead, Moriarty leads Chaldea to Subject E's corpse in CHALDEAS's Area 51, and it is unable to stop them from leaving with vital evidence.
- Then there's the first and longest-lasting wrench in the plan, which is Olga Marie being thrown into CHALDEAS itself and somehow becoming a god in the process. At first, CHALDEAS improvised by using her as a Body Double to distract Chaldea, but eventually, that fell apart when she got amnesia in the South American Lostbelt and befriended Chaldea to the point of sacrificing herself to help her new friends, with the Count creating multiple elemental variations of her out of her fragments (none of whom have any intention of obeying CHALDEAS or the Count) in a bid to revive her and increase her already-insane potential, though for what purpose is unknown, as is whether or not CHALDEAS even approved of her resurrection.
Endless Daytime: The end result of its bleached surface leaves behind a normal blue sky with scattered clouds everywhere on the planet. Nighttime no longer exists, the sun doesn't move regardless of time or global location, and there is no weather beyond a dead breeze.
Enemy Mine: It maintains its facade as just another one of Chaldea's apparatuses, and helps them take down Goetia since it can't bleach anything if both Earth and CHALDEAS's surfaces are constantly burning.
Faking the Dead: The whole reason why Kadoc and Anastasia attacked Chaldea on New Year's Eve and froze CHALDEAS was to make it seem like it stopped functioning to Chaldea's staff and the Crypters, tricking them into thinking it couldn't be a possible factor in the Human Order Revision while it pulled the strings from the shadows. Too bad for CHALDEAS, Wodime and Daybit knew the whole truth and planned that last of the two standing would explain the ruse to Novum Chaldea, which comes to pass in Lostbelt No. 7.
Foreshadowing: There are many hints that CHALDEAS is far more than the Mystic Code it poses as and is involved in the Human Order Revision.
- Raum in Salem mentions that the SHEBA lens acted of its own volition by summoning its namesake to stop him in accordance with its functions. This raises the possibility that Chaldea's other apparatuses might have their own will and independence too. Renforced with the main villian of the Lady Reines' Casefiles event, which is another (albiet incomplete), Chaldea system running wild.
- Ophelia is baffled by the Trees of Emptiness's abilities to simulate entire timelines and then project them onto the planet, which is impossible in modern times and causes her to question what the Foreign God even is. She doesn't make the connection that the Tree's abilities are identical to CHALDEAS's own function of simulating the future and projecting it on its own surface, a connection reinforced when Aesc mentions the Trees came from the Foreign World.
- There are too many discrepancies in Bluebook's plotline compared to what Chaldea witnesses. The narration never mentions when his plotline actually takes place with the 90-day timeskip between the Part 2 Prologue and Lostbelt No. 1 matching up with his diary to convince the audience it's in 2017. It comes to a head in Traum when Subject E who crash-landed on "Earth" in 2016 has somehow been experimented on for 100 years. The question of where the extra century came from can be answered at the very beginning of the game when Olga Marie mentions that she's set CHALDEAS to simulate 100 years into the future.
- The Foreign God and the Crypters claim that she descended from her home planet the Foreign World, and her title in Japanese is God of the Foreign World. While the Foreign God's connection to Olga Marie was ambiguous at first, if she was the real deal and not just an imposter then there's only one thing that could be the Foreign World, given where Olga Marie was last seen.
- The most damning hint that it's the true mastermind comes when Aesc becomes Morgan and decides to forsake everything for Faerie Britain. As she rambles on in despair, she suddenly addresses a Celestial Sphere and tells it that it can have the universe while she gets Britain...
Greater-Scope Villain: CHALDEAS is essentially the entire reason for the plot of the game, as the very purpose of its existence thanks to Marisbury and the entire Animusphere family before him has motivated more moving parts—such as Goetia who was preparing his Human Order Incineration to prevent its and Marisbury's Grand Order, or U-Olga Marie who served as its unwitting ultimate Apostle and vessel/Body Double than any other entity. Its existence is ultimately responsible for almost every Beast's appearance in the Grand Order timeline, whether through the creation of the Lostbelts or Goetia's plans and subsequent fallout.
Hidden Agenda Villain: What exactly CHALDEAS is trying to accomplish on Marisbury's behalf is yet unknown. It bleached the planet so it could plant the Lostbelts yet manipulated Chaldea into excising them all, ending right back at square one. Sion tried looking into what Marisbury and CHALDEAS wanted from every angle but came away stumped and empty-handed.
Hidden in Plain Sight: From the very beginning of the game no less, albeit in its prenatal form as the globe apparatus within the center of Chaldea's Antarctica facility so it would be beneath anyone's notice until it's far too late to prevent its emergence.
Hidden Villain: The Foreign God's mysterious home planet, the Foreign World, is continuously brought up throughout Cosmos in the Lostbelt but it isn't until Lostbelt No. 6 and Traum that the idea it's also a participant is even brought up, and its identity as the Foreign God's true form, CHALDEAS, isn't revealed until the climax of Lostbelt No. 7.
Irony: The miracle the Animuspheres wished for over two millennia is used to kill their latest head, Olga Marie, and eventually bring her back as its final and ultimate Disciple.
Magic A Is Magic A: The methodology of how the Earth was bleached is one of the biggest mysteries in Cosmos in the Lostbelt because somehow the entire planet was wiped clean without harming the planet itself or drawing the attention of the Counter Force. Everyone assumes it was the ability of some ludicrously powerful being that breaks the setting's rules, but the answer to the mystery is deceptively simple. There is a branch of Magecraft called Substitution which focuses on swapping two objects. The more similar the objects are, the better it works. What CHALDEAS did was bleach its own surface and swapped it with the Earth's, which the Counter Force couldn't recognize as something different since the two are structurally identical. The other side of this trope applies too since aside from bleaching then swapping the surfaces and planting the Trees, there's nothing else CHALDEAS can actually do. Hence it summoned the Disciples and revived the Crypters to act as its hands in more delicate situations.
Maker of Monsters: The Trees of Emptiness were made in CHALDEAS itself as stated by Aesc.
The Man Behind the Man:
- It is the force manipulating the Crypters and giving the Disciples their orders.
- It also served as this for Chaldea itself during the Observer on Timeless Temple arc from Goetia's perspective; as the main reason for Goetia's Incineration of Humanity was explicitly to prevent its machinations for its own emergence, with CHALDEAS subtly orchestrating the members of Chaldea to undermine the Beast until it was able to eliminate its only real opposition.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Don't let its size fool you; CHALDEAS is still a planet and as durable as one. This is why Daybit went to such lengths to set the planet-eating Lostbelt ORT on CHALDEAS as he had no other options to destroy it. The fact that an attack powerful enough to destroy a planet aimed at CHALDEAS would likely cause cataclysmic damage to Earth as collateral is an acceptable loss to him.
Once More, with Clarity: During the ending of the 2023 Christmas event, the very first scene of the entire game showing the Protagonist going through the mock battle is shown again except this time it's revealed the seemingly innocuous announcer voice was actually CHALDEAS the entire time.
Playing Both Sides: For reasons unknown it set up the conflict between Chaldea and the Crypters, giving both of them three apostles to assist them for as long as needed until the Lostbelts were wiped out and planned on disposing of Chaldea soon afterward.
Reality-Changing Miniature: A perfect replica of the planet Earth and its soul, which allows it to swap Textures with Earth and then cement itself as the cornerstone of human history from being considered an equally valid source for both.
Two Aliases, One Character: It has been referred to as both the Foreign God and the Foreign World throughout the story.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
- All the Trees and their Lostbelts were planned to be cut down by Chaldea once they had served their purpose. Ashiya Douman hints at this in the finale of Lostbelt No. 4.
- It was planning on doing this to Novum Chaldea until the planned executioner Holmes took himself out of the picture.

Disciples

In General

Clockwise from top-left: Senji Muramasa, Ashiya Douman, Kotomine Kirei, Koyanskaya

The primary agents summoned by the Foreign God to act as messengers, enforcers, and bodyguards.

All of the Disciples have a few things in common: they are all Pseudo-Servants; their Saint Graphs are modified and blended with numerous Divine Spirits to increase their abilities and power; and as Disciples they are forcefully summoned under the Alter Ego class.

Alternate Self: As Alter Ego Servants, they are all either a fragment of a true personality or the result of two beings fused into one. Ashiya Douman fits the former, being a self-described "droplet of ego guided by a greater being". Kotomine fits the latter, being a Pseudo-Servant hosting the Spirit of Rasputin, and Muramasa is both, having been implanted with two Divine Spirits and his host being Shirou Emiya.
Dragon with an Agenda: The Disciples are ostensibly meant to help the Crypters, but Pepe realizes from Douman's antics in the Indian Lostbelt that their goals aren't the same, especially when Douman lets slip that the Lostbelts are all slated for destruction. On top of that, each of the Disciples has their own personal goals and will prioritize them over obeying the Foreign God, and have no problem focusing on those when they aren't needed; Douman for example bails the moment he can, while Moriarty lets his feud with Holmes take focus over his original mission.
Dwindling Party: The second half of Cosmos in the Lostbelt has the apostles begin falling in rapid order, by the end of Ordeal Call II only Kirei and E-Olga remain.
Expy: A group of Alter Ego High Servants summoned by the Big Bad, and who serve more out of obligation than anything else brings the Sakura Five to mind.
He Knows Too Much: One of their duties is to make sure that no one, especially the Crypters, figures out the truth behind the Foreign God. They will terminate anyone they catch snooping around with extreme prejudice, or kill anyone within the Lostbelt itself that could potentially give Chaldea knowledge they don't want slipping out. Raputin for instance rescues Kadoc to obtain his Sirius Light back and to prevent him from being used by Chaldea, and Muramasa is tasked with destroying Hephaestus to stop him from giving any potential aid as well.
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Both Muramasa and Rasputin decide after hearing from the protagonist about their feelings on Douman's last moments (respectively that it sucked and he got what was coming), they're just going to pretend they didn't ask and never talk about their fellow Disciple ever again.
Locked Out of the Loop: How much each Disciple knows about their master's identity and secrets varies on a need-to-know basis, seemingly due to the role they are meant to play. Out of all seven Disciples, only Kotomine seems to be completely in the loop, with Douman seeming to know a decent amount, while Muramasa seems to be intentionally left with the bare minimum, something he comments on in Lostbelt 6.
Purposely Overpowered: Similar to the Lostbelt Kings, the playable Disciples are among the best Servants in their respective classes. In the story, each one is strong enough that they can fight the average Servant from Proper Human History with no trouble and were purposely made that way for the roles they are required for.
Secret-Keeper: Three of the Promoted to Playable Disciples, Rasputin, Ashiya Douman, and James Moriarty have no interest in disclosing their master's secrets and other knowledge they gained from their Disciple status. At most, they will confirm if any of the theories the heroes reach are correct, but even then will sometimes dodge the topic if it means revealing too much.
Square Race, Round Class: While they're (almost) all summoned as Alter Egos, they don't all properly fit there.
- Ashiya Douman is normally summoned as a Caster but became an Alter Ego by turning himself into a High Servant by combining three different Divine Spirits into his Spirit Origin.
- Kotomine, due to the influence of both his host body and his Servant identity Rasputin, could arguably qualify as either an Assassin or a Caster.
- Muramasa is normally summoned as a Saber, which was already a case of this since he's not a swordsman, but a blacksmith. Lostbelt No. 6 reveals that he's been implanted with two Divine Spirits, making him a High Servant as well.
- Moriarty is a strange case, as he should be an Alter Ego due to being a High Servant with the three Norns as his Divine Spirits. He changed his class to Ruler as a way of mocking Holmes.
- Likewise, Holmes should really be a Caster but manifests as a Ruler both by his own choice and the World itself deciding to have him Kicked Upstairs so he wouldn't go off and elucidate away all of the remaining Mystery.
- Much like Holmes and Douman, Cagliostro is normally summoned as a Caster but unlike his peers, he wasn't even a Alter Ego or a High-Servant when summoned and instead is a Pretender.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While they all serve under the Foreign God, most of them don't really like one another. Ashiya Douman is largely The Friend Nobody Likes due to how he treats others and being generally twisted, to the point that Kotomine and Muramasa have both threatened to kill him. Only Muramasa and Kotomine seem to get along at all, and even then, the former just treats the situation like another job while personally disliking his partner, while Kotomine is... Kotomine. And Koyanskaya is a Wild Card and treated more like a mercenary than anything with the other three Disciples and her trading various verbal blows, due to not actually being a Disciple.

Kotomine Kirei

Kotomine Kirei - The Priest

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Priest

Voiced by: Joji Nakata

The representative from the Holy Church, he came along with Goredolf to oversee Chaldea. He is yet another Servant disciple, tasked with assisting the Crypters in whatever way he can.

For tropes related to his playable version, see here.

Back from the Dead: As discussed in "Anastasia", Chaldea's records state that Kotomine Kirei died in 2004. The characters wonder if perhaps his corpse was possessed by a Servant, but Chaldea's records also say Kotomine's body was burned. After the defeat of Ivan the Terrible he tells Zemlupus that he was actually a Pseudo-Servant Rasputin, but now that Rasputin's purpose, that is setting Anastasia up to become Tzar, is done with, he has effectively 'moved on' and so Kotomine is fully in control.
Bait the Dog: Zig-Zagged. Despite his preceding reputation from prior works, he presents himself as a Reasonable Authority Figure in contrast to Koyanskaya and Goredolf by assuring the protagonist that the Church has their backs and will ensure they can return to a normal life in Japan, making sure everyone in Chaldea won't be locked up forever, and telling them to stay safe when the Oprichniki attack. Then he reveals himself to be in cahoots with the invading forces and proceeds to murder da Vinci when Chaldea makes their escape. But then we get a look at his comrades and it's evident he's still the Reasonable Authority Figure among the Disciples of the Foreign God, as he lacks the unrestrained sadism and mustache-twirling villainy of Koyanskaya and Ashiya Douman.
The Bus Came Back: After being absent from the story since the Nordic Lostbelt prologue, he returns in Atlantis where he and Muramasa are shown guarding the Cosmos Tree Atlas.
Character Name Alias: Calls himself "Macarius", the Metropolitan of Moscow and close advisor for Ivan the Terrible, to keep the Tsar fooled into thinking everything's alright.
Charles Atlas Superpower: He proves himself more than capable of superhuman feats when he chases down the Shadow Border on foot with a rocket launcher provided by Koyanskaya at a speed of just over 90 kilometers an hour.
Composite Character: As a Disciple, it's revealed that Bahloo the Moon is one of his Divine Spirit components in Lostbelt 7.
Cool Shades: He shows up wearing a pair when he acts as a soccer coach in Nahui Mictlan.
Dead All Along: The actual Kotomine reportedly died in 2004 with his corpse having been burned after death. The fact that he is still here is because this is a Pseudo-Servant using his soul as a base. This also implies that he died in the FGO version of the Fuyuki Grail War (the one Marisbury won). Further supporting this is the fact that, unlike other Pseudo-Servants, he doesn't have the Living Human trait, which implies Kotomine is truly dead with only being a Servant granting him a reprieve from death.
The Dragon: Out of all the Disciples he fits this role the best. Being the one who seems to know the most about the nature of the Foreign God and is the only one known to receive orders from CHALDEAS directly.
Dragon with an Agenda: He has a goal separate of the Foreign God, though it is currently unknown.
Even Evil Has Standards: Kotomine, Rasputin, or both, doesn't like Koyanskaya tormenting people who have no hope of anything better, warning her to stop.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In-universe, no one talks about him by his name unless directly addressing him and instead call him "Priest". Even the dialogue boxes refers to him as such. Rasputin doesn't give much care for his vessel, as he tells Mash in the Part 2 prologue that the name Kotomine has no meaning to him.
Fights Like a Normal: Despite being a Heroic Spirit altered into a Disciple of the Foreign God, Kotomine mostly fights using his own martial arts skills complemented with the inhuman prowess of a Servant rather than any Skill or Noble Phantasm of the Servant or Divine Spirits added into his being.
Foreshadowing: Irisviel has a quote for Rasputin, who was yet to be introduced at the time, in her material book profile where she asks if he would die for her, which seems like a complete non-sequitur until the reveal of who Rasputin, or rather his vessel, is...
Grand Theft Me: This Kotomine is in reality a Pseudo Servant of Rasputin. As Anastasia becomes the Tsar of Russia at the end of the first Lostbelt, Rasputin achieved his goals and turned control of the body over to Kotomine in a manner similar to Waver and Zhuge Liang.
History Repeats: Once again, Kotomine serves as A Lighter Shade of Black compared to other villains and shows disgust towards them for that. In Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero, it was to Zouken. In here, it's to Koyanskaya and Douman.
Historical Villain Upgrade: Averted, kind of, when it comes to the Rasputin half of Kotomine. Rasputin is one of the biggest victims of this trope in media, often being portrayed as an evil warlock and an enemy of the Romanov family, who brought their downfall by manipulating them with his magic. While still a villain, Rasputin is a more historically accurate take on the man, as he remains loyal to the Romanov family, is considered by Anastasia to be a good friend, and so far hasn't demonstrated any supernatural powers beyond the strength that comes with being a Servant. The Romanovs did perform shamanistic magecraft, but this was due to their own magical lineage rather than anything from Rasputin.
Hero Killer: During the assault on Chaldea, he impales the original da Vinci through the chest, killing her.
I Am Not Left-Handed: All Disciples of the Foreign God are summoned as Alter Egos and High Servants, combining the base Heroic Spirit with at least two Divine Spirits to make them more powerful. Yet Kotomine does not bother to demonstrate any supernatural ability besides the superhuman physical prowess expected of a Servant for most of Cosmos in the Lostbelt storyline. Once Rasputin has moved on, Kotomine hints he has combat abilities sufficient to, together with Muramasa, defeat an entire army of Servants summoned by the Counter Force in Atlantis/Olympus Lostbelt. But when he assists the Protagonist and Chaldea in Mictlan, he blatantly tells them he has no real combat prowess and only demonstrates exorcism magecraft (albeit one strong enough to exorcise a Divine Spirit, which should be impossible), an ability which might belong to Kotomine himself rather than anything from Rasputin or his Divine Spirit components. Why exactly he keeps his abilities hidden is not made clear.
I Shall Taunt You: When Kotomine is asked by Holmes what is going on behind the Lostbelts, he responds with "figure it out yourself, then we'll talk." As per usual with Kotomine, even that has another meaning behind the surface. He knows that Holmes is actually an amnesiac Disciple and figuring out the truth will restore his memories, so what he's really saying is "remember your true purpose and come back to where you belong."
In the Back: How he kills da Vinci. This is also the move he uses to incapacitate Kadoc while making it look like he killed him, with Kadoc lampshading Kotomine's tendency to do this.
Irony: He's partnered with Muramasa using Shirou Emiya as his Pseudo-Servant host, and it turns out the two work quite well together. Players of Fate/stay night will remember that Kotomine and Shirou always opposed each other despite personally liking the other.
It Amused Me: Come Lostbelt 7, he decides not to reveal U-Olga Marie's identity as the Foreign God because he finds the idea of her teaming up with Chaldea to be the most amusing thing he's seen since being summoned.
Knight Templar: He helps the Crypters under the orders of the Foreign God due to believing current humanity should decide its fate rather than the spirits of the past. Whether he is genuine in this belief or just him messing with others (as per usual for Kotomine) is currently unknown; although after the reveal that he is actually a Pseudo-Servant, it's likely that it was Rasputin's personality who stated this, and he has moved on by the end of the Russia Lostbelt and Kotomine is now back in control of his body.
Last-Name Basis: If not called simply "Priest" or "Rasputin", he's generally referred to by his family name, as only his family and the Tohsakas would call him by his given name.
A Lighter Shade of Black: The most evil thing Kotomine has done in the story to Chaldea so far is the murder of da Vinci, and even then he had the decency to treat it as just his job as a loyal follower of the Foreign God. Otherwise, he tends to just Troll the protagonists and shows off a code of honor such as honoring Anastasia's Last Request to protect Kadoc despite the fact he's all but betrayed the Foreign God by Olympus and sending him to Chaldea for medical attention. Compare this to Koyanskaya, who is a Sadist that freely admits she loves nothing more than to mock others and cruelly act as a Hope Crusher, and Ashiya Douman, who in addition to his gleeful participation in the crimes in Shimousa also turned the Indian Lostbelt into a living hell for his own amusement and curiosity.
Non-Action Guy: Despite his previous feats throughout Cosmos in the Lostbelt, he insists that he is nothing more than the Foreign God's butler in Nahui Mictlan and stays out of the action for the entire Lostbelt, never showing up in gameplay as a support or enemy. The only exceptions are using his Noble Phantasm on Kingprotea to remove her mask in a cutscene and fighting Ocelomeh offscreen.
Not So Above It All: Portrayed as an unflappable villain since the very start of his debut in the storyline, the seventh Lostbelt gives even him a chance to participate in wacky hijinks in the middle of the story. Kotomine fully indulges in the inherent ridiculousness of supporting his amnesiac divine benefactor in forming a soccer team made up of dinosaurs and crush the competition. Nakata even hams it up when acting as coach in battle. He also is included in the group reaction of bafflement at the Deinos creating a sport almost exactly like soccer and displeasure that they can't just call it soccer.
Obviously Evil: He's Kotomine, so natch.
Old Master: It's Kotomine we're talking about. Being born on December 28th, 1967, and given that the prologue for the story's second chapter begins on December 26th, 2017 he's literally two days away from his 50th birthday at introduction. And by impaling Da Vinci with his hand, it shows that he retains his skill in Chinese martial arts. Although, his body is from 2004, since he's summoned as a Servant and didn't survive 2004 at all.
Older Than They Look: This man seems to have not aged a fricking day since 2004 (i.e. 13 years ago, when he canonically looked like this in stay night)—which does raise questions of what he is at this point, why he's suddenly popped up in the narrative, and why is he in league with Chaldea's enemies. Makes more sense with the revelation he is a Pseudo-Servant possessed by Rasputin. Pseudo-Servants are summoned in the prime of their life, their most powerful point. Kotomine did die in 2004, at the peak of his power, meaning as a Pseudo-Servant he remains at the age he was at his death.
One-Man Army: According to Astraea, he and Muramasa managed to kill twenty Servants from Proper Human History in Atlantis.
Pet the Dog:
- He fulfills Anastasia's Last Request to protect Kadoc both in word and in spirit, even though he's been known to twist his promises in Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero.
- When the idea of reviving U-Olga Marie as an Empty Shell for CHALDEAS gets brought up to him at the end of Lostbelt 7 he admits that if it were up to him, he wouldn't go through with it and would much rather just let Olga rest after all that she has suffered through. Olga ends up getting revived anyway… as something far worse than an Empty Shell.
Powers via Possession: He is a Pseudo-Servant, much like Waver/Zhuge Liang. This is how he was able to pierce da Vinci's chest when normal humans can't hurt Servants.
Put on a Bus:
- After he attacks the Shadow Border to rescue Kadoc during the second Lostbelt's prologue, he subsequently disappears from the plot for the next three Lostbelts. Koyanskaya mentions that he's primarily been preoccupied with fighting a horde of Proper Human History Servants in Atlantis.
- After Olympus, he goes on a bus trip with the Foreign God to the South American Lostbelt to study the sleeping Lostbelt Type Oort-Cloud and find a way for her to take its body for herself.
- He books yet another bus trip after Lostbelt No. 7, this time to Antarctica to receive more orders from CHALDEAS now that U-Olga Marie is being reconstructed as E-Olga Marie and Novum Chaldea survived longer than planned.
The Promise: He fulfills Anastasia's final request to protect Kadoc no matter what by getting to him in the chaos of the fifth Lostbelt's endgame first and leaving him at Chaldea to get nursed back to health.
Reading Lips: He's apparently quite skilled at it, which Anastasia takes advantage of to pass him a secret Last Request before he leaves Russia for good that Kadoc didn't understand. He was quite surprised by the subject judging by his expression, but he promises to honor it.
Sinister Minister: Goes with the trope above as Fate veterans already know that he will be up to no good.
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: He emphasizes his priesthood in this work by requesting people refer to him as Father.
Trickster Mentor: He is subservient to the Foreign God, but he realizes that they might be a bit too arrogant and thus wishes to teach them a lesson. He doesn't stop Kirschtaria from stopping U-Olga Marie because she never told him to stop him, and he believes that this will teach her a lesson on how the world refuses to do as she says.
Undying Loyalty: Rasputin, the Heroic Spirit possessing Kotomine, is still very loyal to the Romanovs and remains in the first Lostbelt solely to install Anastasia as the new Tsar of Russia. Once this goal is accomplished, he seemingly decides his duty is done and moves on, leaving the rest to Kotomine. However, Kotomine intervenes to save Kadoc's life after Douman tries to kill him for digging too deeply into the Foreign God's identity, and states it is because of Anastasia's last request.
Villains Out Shopping: In "Arctic Summer World", Erice briefly mentions that one of the few Servants who seemed to have liked her foodstalls was some weird priest she's never seen in Chaldea, suggesting that Kirei took a break from serving the Foreign God and went to the amusement park. His addition to the playable roster confirmed this with Erice's line for him.
Vitriolic Best Buds: His feelings towards Senji Muramasa is a weird mix of anger and joy as while he does not personally remember them or Shirou, his body still has feelings at them for the two were part of the same Holy Grail War in another timeline. Muramasa finds Kotomine creepy, but they can't argue that the two work perfectly back-to-back.

Ashiya Douman

Ashiya Douman - The Avatar of Malice

The Beautiful Carnivore

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa

"Wonderful! All the resentment...the grudges... So wonderful! Oh, how exciting!"

Born Douma Houshi and starting as a monk before becoming an onmyouji, Ashiya Douman is known as Abe no Seimei's greatest enemy and rival. There are many stories of Douman trying to humiliate Seimei so that he can usurp his position and overthrow the city government with Fujiwara-no-Akimitsu. Seimei was able to best Douman on numerous occasions but eventually betted his life on if Douman had taken his magic book, which he did. Unfortunately for Douman, Seimei was revived by Saint Hokudou who got Douman to bet his own life on if Seimei was alive or not.

He first appeared in the "Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa" as "Caster of Limbo, " partly responsible for the incident. He returns in Cosmos in the Lostbelt as a Servant Disciple of the Foreign God and in his true class: Alter Ego. His official duty is observing the Lostbelt Kings. Following the end of the Atlantic Lostbelt, Douman becomes the main antagonist of "Realm of Hell Mandala: Heian-kyō", where he's also released as a limited playable Servant.

To see the tropes relating to his playable self, see here

Actually a Doombot: He uses shikigami duplicates of himself engraved with his Saint Graph to carry out his duties, as revealed in Yugakshetra when Asclepius manages to seemingly defeat him. In hindsight, this helps explain how he could be seemingly slain several times over in the climax of "Shimousa", only to appear for a denouement at the end. Pepe destroys this ability in Olympus, leaving him with just one body.
Arc Villain: He is this for "Pseudo-Parallel World: Shimousa", as the true mastermind. He also notably retains the role of antagonist for most Servants debuting in that chapter in their interludes for further torment and eventually returns to this role for Heien Kyo.
The Assimilator: He pulls this onto himself. To be more specific, since he is still alive in the year 1008, he decides to get his living self out of the way by corrupting and assimilating him onto himself so that he can continue "his" role in the imperial court without anyone suspecting that the living Douman is actually Caster of Limbo. Somehow, the still-living Douman is freed when Limbo is defeated and is utterly horrified by what he would become and declares he'd rather die than turn into that. Seimei however arrives in person and gives him a pep talk, proclaiming he believes in Douman enough to know that won't happen now. Which is sadly moot as due to being in a singularity, the events inside won't be recorded in Proper Human History as the text points out.
Big Bad Wannabe: He attempts to recreate the Foreign God's descent in Heian-kyō by using his own Tree of Emptiness to turn him into a Beast, which would make him an equal to it. It doesn't work because he has no love for humanity, and Abe-no-Seimei has a good laugh at his expense for not thinking it through.
Body Surf: His method of extending his life via shikigami, while described as more a false Reincarnation, essentially works like this in practice where his consciousness moves between shikigami as they're destroyed. After Pepe drops the spell that destroys his ability to utilize this anymore and the last of his shikigami in Olympus die (the last self-inflicted even), Douman wakes up in his original body muttering about how long it's been and how his body is coming back to life.
Breakout Villain: He was originally going to be a one-off antagonist for Shimousa, but positive reaction to his design led to him being one of the Foreign God's Disciples and his popularity has only grown bigger when his story concluded in Heian-kyō to the point where he is the only Disciple of the Foreign God to have a noticeable presence in events after being summonable.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Defied. When corned in Heian-kyō, he attempts to argue with the Protagonist that they can't kill him because he has too much knowledge about the Foreign God that would benefit Chaldea, all in an attempt to escape and plan on getting revenge. The Protagonist wisely decides it is better he be taken down than let him weasel his way out of his situation, and allows for Danzo to deal the finishing strike.
Card-Carrying Villain: He really enjoys doing things For the Evulz and a lot of his dialogue is about him gloating about the evil things that are happening or that are going to happen.
Character Name Alias: Though narration and character profiles have already revealed his name to the audience, he's mainly been using Abe-no-Seimei as his second alias in the story.
Clipped-Wing Angel: Ultimately what his Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness Fusion Dance turns out to be at the end of Heian-kyō. What he thought should have allowed him to become a new Beast of Humanity and a possible rival to U-Olga Marie ultimately failed because he lacks even the warped love for humanity a Beast possesses and the power boost (while certainly dangerous) wasn't nearly as impressive as what allowed Olga Marie to go from a human magus to a Physical God. Plus, as the party can't help but notice, it looks like he's growing his upper body out of the Tree, so it doesn't even look that intimidating.
The Corrupter: His primary modus operandi whenever he appears.
- The creation of the Seven Heroic Spirit Swordmasters in "Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa" was his idea: by incorporating his sorcery into the summoning ritual, he managed to turn Servants into omnicidal undead monsters that would have no qualms slaughtering humans wholesale in order to fuel his and the Sorcerer's ritual.
- He meddles around with God Arjuna, Asclepius, and William Tell's minds in Yugakshetra; he coaxes out the Krishna side of God Arjuna to the forefront to enable his extremist tendencies and transplants Hindu deities onto the latter two to alter their personalities.
- He repeats the process he used to make the Swordmasters in "Heian-kyō" to create loyal omnicidal undead monsters tasked with slaying other Heroic Spirits in order to gather the necessary power to fuel his Tree of Emptiness and give him the strength to achieve his dream of surpassing Abe-no-Seimei at long last, as well as driving his own living Alternate Self into despair just so he can merge with and use him as a cover.
Cruel Mercy: In Danzou's interlude, he actually helps fix her broken memory. Because, as he puts it, he wants to kill all of her loved ones in front of her and there's no fun in that if she keeps forgetting who her loved ones are.
Cutscene Boss: In "Shimousa", he uses his sorcery to summon a gigantic ghost to attack Musashi, and the physical confrontation with him happens in story scenes. Something similar goes down in Yugakshetra and Olympus.
Demonic Possession: Pulls this on his still living Counterpart in Heian-Kyo. When Limbo is defeated, the still-living Douman returns to how he normally is at this point in the timeline before his jealousy of Abe-no-Seimei forms.
Determinator: Even after being sliced in half alongside his Tree of Emptiness and facing down the vengeful heroes of Heian-kyō, Douman still grasps at straws to achieve victory and attempts to invoke a Pseudo-Sirius Light to reset the Singularity, only stopped by being finished off by Kato Danzo.
Dragon with an Agenda:
- In "Shimousa", he turns out to be Avenger Amakusa's peer under their mutual benefactor, rather than his Servant. He's not even truly loyal to the Foreign God, simply viewing his service as mutually beneficial to both parties as he seeks to torture humans and collect rare monsters, all while extinguishing life everywhere he can find it, in order to gain the power necessary to surpass his hated rival Abe-no-Seimei.
- In "Naraka Mandala, Heian-kyō", he originally summoned Ibuki-Douji to absorb the power of the Tree of Emptiness and act as a vessel for his own "Foreign God", the Beast-class Yamata-no-Orochi. However, he changes his plan at the last minute, deciding to absorb her and the Tree into himself instead with the hope of becoming a Beast himself, believing it to be a better way to beat Abe-no-Seimei.
Evil Is Petty: What motivation does he have that would drive him to such villainy? He's tired of being seen as second banana to Abe-no-Seimei, and wants to show him up once and for all.
Evil Laugh: He's prone to laugh in a maniacal manner.
Fatal Flaw: His need to Kick the Dog and be as cruel as he possibly can.
- While in Yugakshetra, he sabotages the Lostbelt by convincing God Arjuna to accelerate the cycles, turning a relatively peaceful Losbelt on the verge of annihilation, and leaves the Crypter Pepe out to fend for himself until the Lostbelt's end just so he can satiate his curiosity on what lies beyond the final cycle. When Pepe and Douman meet again in Olympus. Pepe sabotages Douman's shikigami ability, making it so that his next death will be his last.
- He manages this twice near the end of Heian-kyō. Rather than going with his initial plan to turn Orochi into a Beast, he decides at the last minute to become a Beast himself and starts by backstabbing and absorbing Ibuki Doji, an ally who was following his plans and was strong enough to render the heroes a nonissue, in fact stopping her from killing them all because he wanted to make them watch his triumph. By doing this he fails to make a Beast because he has no love for humanity and Ibuki after getting absorbed has enough will to give Kintoki her sword in order to strike down Douman and his tree.
Femme Fatalons: The first good look at him we get is Katou Danzo's memory of his outstretched hand, revealing his very long, sharp, and pointed nails. They're painted a sickly green with a black line through the middle to make them look more like claws, thus emphasizing his sadistic nature. It makes him look very creepy, while still fitting his "fey evil Asian sorcerer" style. Olympus reveals his nails are also enchanted with a curse of agony which Kadoc had the unfortunate pleasure of experiencing firsthand when Limbo attempted to eliminate him for prying on confidential information.
First-Name Basis: Murasaki interestingly enough refers to him by his real first name, Houshi.
Foreshadowing: The Caster of Limbo offers a lot of it in "Shimousa". While insulting the protagonists and describing them as champions of life and justice against the horror and death he is unleashing, he directly compares them to his hated rival Seimei, an early clue to his true identity. And both his not belonging to one of the seven standard Servant classes and his true master are hinted at as he declares that his Caster class is merely a husk and that he is in reality a "droplet of ego guided by a greater being", describing his true Alter Ego class and his connection to the Foreign God.
For the Evulz: Invoked. All the Disciples were summoned to fulfill a specific purpose, with Douman's purpose being to generally cause trouble and instigate the Lostbelt Kings.
The Friend Nobody Likes: He's very clearly the one character that all the Crypters and Disciples of the Foreign God dislike. This is largely because of his Obviously Evil actions and how he treats Koyanskaya and Pepe in "Yugakshetra". Koyanskaya, even before he double-crosses her, outright derides "that shitty monk and his creepy-ass grin".
God-Eating: Castor outright calls him a "god-eating Alter Ego" during Olympus, and indeed he did in fact devour the Divine Spirits that make up his Spirit Origin as an Alter Ego. He even pulls this on the divine Ibuki-Douji after a fashion, absorbing her into his Tree of Emptiness that he then fuses with.
Godhood Seeker: He decides the best way to defeat Seimei is to use his Tree's function as a divine vessel to transform him into another Foreign God. He fails.
Half the Man He Used to Be: His final fate is to be chopped in half along with his Tree of Emptiness by Kintoki's Humongous Mecha followed by Danzo chopping his human body vertically.
Hate Sink: He's despised by virtually everyone he meets due to his relentless sadism, status as The Corruptor, and Card-Carrying Villain status. Even his own allies don't like him much and would kill him if they had the chance.
The Heavy: He mentions at the end of "Shimousa" that he was merely a flunky sent by a higher-up to instigate the plot.
Hollywood Satanism: Seems to be this; like in most depictions of Makai Tenshō. He says that Satan is helping him Mind Control Servants, however at the end of "Shimousa" he says in an Aside Comment that the entity helping him is something else, and eventually revealed to be the Foreign God.
Humanoid Abomination: Besides all the mystical grafts he's accrued to attain strength, clutching his vendetta against Abe-no-Seimei with such jealous completeness has rendered Douman incapable of loving anyone, including himself. Incidentally, this ends up ruining his own last-minute plan change in Heiyn-Kyo. Beasts are required to LOVE humanity after all
I Have Many Names: As he reveals his true nature to Fujiwara-no-Michinaga, he begins to wax poetic on his various identities.
"So you see, I am both Douman, and not Douman! Indeed, I am many things. I am the Caster of Limbo, the one who came up with the idea for the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters. I am Limbo the Alter Ego, great Disciple of the Foreign God. I am the seventh and most powerful Caster in the Imperial Holy Grail War. And...I am one of the Hasshoujin—the eight onmyoudou general gods who seek to establish the Naraka Mandala. I am...Ouban Ashiya Douman."
Inferiority Superiority Complex: He hides it well enough most of the time, but the climax of Heian-kyō makes it clear that at the end of the day, all of Douman's bluster and boasting of his amazing powers conceals the fact that he's Always Second Best to Abe-no-Seimei and his all-consuming need to finally surpass his rival. At one point, he goes so far as to claim that losing one's cool as a plan seems to be going against you is something only a "second-rate, no, a third-rate" villain would do, only to eventually fly off the handle when Seimei straight-up tells him how he played himself with his Beasthood plan even before the party faces him for the final showdown.
Insult Backfire: In Olympus, he reveals that he's enchanted Europa's clothes so he could survey what she's doing and where she's at. He's done it for a while, but mentions he chose the moment he did to act because he wanted to hear what sounds Chaldea would make when dashing their hopes. If the protagonist calls him a bastard, he outright thanks them as if it were a compliment!
It Only Works Once: In Shimosa, Douman attempted to affect Musashi with his Curse of Annihilation, turning her into a Swordmaster like he did the rest. The protagonist is able to stop it by using Rain of Isis, removing the effect from her before it could set in. When he reappears in Olympus and affects Hephaestus with magical shikigami viruses, the protagonist tries it once more but to no effect, as Douman took him into account that time.
Jerkass: He's not just a raging sadist, but also a humongous douchebag just because he can be one, and he'll escape any consequences thanks to his abilities. Half of his dialogue in "Lostbelt No. 5: Interstellar Mountainous City: Olympus" is insulting the gods to their faces, forcing Kotomine to intervene so a fight won't break out.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Ashiya Douman put a curse inside Danzo's memories that restores her memory of her time with the fifth Fuuma Kotarou upon freeing her from said curse. The reason he did this is because it would be dull for him for her not remembering the person she loved, so to make sure that she will be devastated if he tortures and kills Kotarou, Danzo must regain that memory.
Killed Off for Real: Finally meets his end in Heian-kyō when his artificial Tree of Emptiness is destroyed and he himself is cleaved in half by Kintoki before being finished off by Danzo.
Laser-Guided Karma:
- Douman's manipulations of God Arjuna and corruption of Pepe's beloved India Lostbelt later comes back to bite him in the ass in Olympus when a still furious Pepe permanently destroys his shikigami duplicates and traps Douman in his last body.
- His back-stabbing ways in Heian-kyō ultimately contribute to his defeat when Ibuki-Douji (who was originally all set to kill the heroes herself) after being absorbed into the Naraka Mandala retains enough willpower to give the heroes her Kusanagi to fight him. The one who ultimately stops his final desperate maneuver to salvage a victory via activating a prototype Sirius Light to reset the Singularity upon his defeat? Kato Danzo, the ninja he manipulated in both body and mind throughout Shimousa.
The Man in Front of the Man: In both of his major appearances prior to Heian-kyō, he appears to be a flunky but in reality coined the current plan of the main antagonist and has been manipulating them in that direction to carry it out. Though he's beaten both times by the protagonists before they deal with the primary villain, this allows him to simply drop his now-ruined plan in favor of something else.
Maou the Demon King: In Heian-kyo, after merging with the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness Naraka Mandala, Douman proceeds to name himself the "Rakshasa King" to denote his status as a would-be Lostbelt King and befitting his Card-Carrying Villain status as a demon.
Misanthrope Supreme: Heavily implied, since his failure to become a Beast is attributed to his lack of love for humanity.
More Despicable Minion: Unlike Amakusa, the various Lostbelt Kings or Crypters he works with, or the Foreign God he serves, most of whom are given some degree of sympathy by the narrative for their actions or motivations, Douman absolutely revels in the chaos and evil he creates with his main drive simply to either create evil or best Abe-no-Seimei.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Ibuki-Douji had the heroes at her mercy in Heian-kyo and would have killed them all (or at least the protagonist and Kintoki per her mood), but Douman stops her because he both wanted the chance to gloat and believing he could end this at any time with his Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness now properly bloomed. He then betrays and absorbs Ibuki into the Tree to power it up further. As a result, he seals his own defeat when those heroes proceed to destroy him and his Tree with the aid of the betrayed Ibuki's remaining influence.
Nightmare Face: He's kind of handsome, as long as he stays calm or mocking. Anger tends to badly distort his face and eyes, like a Comical Angry Face without any comedy, making one of his eyes widen hideously while the other shrinks to a pinprick.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He gives one to Kadoc since it's the apostles' duty to kill any Crypter who dares to investigate the Foreign God's identity. Kadoc holds on thanks to his Magecraft, but he would have died without Kotomine's help.
Obviously Evil: He attempts to pass himself off as Seimei to the heroes in "Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa" when they reach him in the climax and absolutely none of them believe him because Seimei is known as the protector of Edo while Ashiya's appearance just screams evil which he agrees with.
Off with His Head!: His last shikigami in Olympus goes out like this, self-inflicted after battling Caenis while gloating over how the Foreign God is now descending and that it's time for his own goals to begin.
Out of Continues: In the Olympus chapter, Pepe takes his revenge on the jackass who ruined his happy and peaceful Lostbelt by permanently destroying his ability to create shikigami duplicates, trapping Douman in his real body once his remaining shikigami bite it. If he dies one more time, that's it.
Out of Focus: Unlike Koyanskaya and Kotomine, Ashiya hadn't done much in the first third of Cosmos in the Lostbelt besides his schemes in Shimousa as an experiment for the Foreign God. It's explained in the prologue for the "SIN" that he's become incredibly fixated on something in the India Lostbelt and refuses to leave, i.e. the black cube created by Lakshmi Bai and Jinako to subvert Arjuna Over God's rule. Once Chaldea gets there, he comes back into the spotlight as one of its major antagonists. He plays a role up until his defeat in Lostbelt Chapter 5.5, where he dies for good.
Resurrective Immortality: His Life-Extension technique that allows him to engrave his Spirit Origin on his numerous shikigamis to cheat death is a kind of false reincarnation. He loses it once Pepe figures out its mechanics and uses a Shugendo spell to nullify his ability to reincarnate through his shikigamis.
Smug Snake:
- Much like the stories about him imply, he's good, but nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
- Notably, his unnecessarily complicated chess game plots in "Shimousa" all backfire on him in sequence towards the end, and see him brutalized and humiliated by both his enemies and his alleged pawns. First, his scheme to have Danzo lead the allies into a trap backfires dramatically when, after wounding Musashi with her self-destruct as planned, Kotaro absorbs her magical power and her love for him, granting the ninja a massive power-up. Then, as he tries to use his sorcery to infect Musashi with the Curse of Annihilation and turn her into a living Swordmaster, the protagonist, whom he'd scoffed at his master's warnings regarding, easily cleanses the magical trap using one of their Mystic Code spells, and Musashi promptly uses her newly-mastered Emptiness skill to bypass his supposedly impenetrable defense and slice him open. The three of them badly wound him, seemingly killing him, and when he tries to sneak-attack them later, the Saber of Empireo easily cuts him down, since Tajima-no-kami, stripped of his loyalty, cares only for a second duel with Musashi, not furthering his masters' goals.
- "Heian-kyō" fully cements him as this at least in the eyes of Abe-no-Seimei himself, as despite everything Douman did to gain the power necessary to challenge him and being fully confident Seimei would be forced to confront him himself, Seimei ultimately chose not to even physically appear and instead provided indirect support to Chaldea to take him down, confident that alone would be enough. And sure enough, Seimei was right yet again.
So Last Season: A villainous example: In Shimousa the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters are an enormous problem specifically because he placed a curse of immortality (and depravity) on them, with the good guys needing to acquire a special sword to enable Musashi to finish them off. In Heian-kyo, he puts the same curse on all his minions, only for it to only work against generic soldiers and Danzo, while Raiko and company no-sell it, with Medea Lily speculating that they may not even need her help to do it.
The Starscream: Initially, Douman intended to use his Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness Naraka Mandala to create the vessel for a new Foreign God under his control (using Ibuki-Douji as the catalyst for a Beast-class Yamata-no-Orochi), but around the last minute he decides to cut out the middle man and just turn the Tree into his own vessel for becoming a new Foreign God and Beast, using Ibuki as more fuel for its power, because he decided his new Lostbelt didn't need two Kings.
Sure, Let's Go with That: Him calling his lord "Satan" was meant to be a joke, but Amakusa liked the idea so much that Douman just started rolling with it for the rest of his time in Shimousa.
This Cannot Be!: He has several of these in quick succession in "Shimousa" as his Villainous Breakdown progresses, first with the protagonist using their Mystic Code to counter his attempt to use the Curse of Annihilation on Musashi, and then when Musashi uses her honed swordsmanship to slice through his supposedly-invincible barriers to draw blood.
Unreliable Expositor: His habit of making up shit for giggles makes any info he has untrustworthy by all of the people he interacts with, to the point that nobody likes working with him. His last ditch attempt to save himself by giving secret info on the Foreign God fails because he's so unreliable, that Chaldea and Kintoki decide it's better to just kill him and make sure he won't cause any more trouble rather than gamble for something that might be useless.
Villainous Breakdown:
- His smug attitude in "Shimousa" crumbles when he realizes he's made three fatal miscalculations: discounting the protagonist as a factor, who nonchalantly uses one of their Mystic Codes to easily free Musashi from one of his traps, dramatically underestimating Musashi herself, whose ever-increasing swordswomanship surpasses his defensive and offensive measures and allows her to strike him, and assuming Kato Danzo's death will be the end of her, not knowing that her beloved foster son, Kotaro Fuuma, would be able to absorb her power and become the ultimate ninja. Mocking laughter and taunts give way to frenzied ranting and hideously-distorted facial expressions as he summons a massive ghost to kill everyone. He then pursues the party as a shadowy figure, only to be sliced apart by another of his creations, the Saber of Empireo.
- In Heian-kyō, he flies into a complete rage when his plan to become a Beast fails and Abe-no-Seimei has Murasaki personally deliver a letter to him explaining what a giant moron he is. Unable to tolerate his most hated enemy making fun of him yet again, he vows to use his Tree to burn everything to the ground, only to be stopped by Kintoki's Golden Huge Bear mecha wielding the Kusanagi. Faced with certain defeat, he attempts to bargain secret information on the Foreign God in exchange for his life, only to be ignored as Kintoki destroys the Tree and Danzo finishes him off for good.
Villains Want Mercy: Facing down a divine-sword-wielding Humongous Mecha wielded by a man very much tired of all the shit he pulled in Heian-kyō, he offers the protagonists information in exchange for his life and screams for them to wait as they give the order to finish him off anyways.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: A rather sinister example. At the end of his ambition, he decides to try to become a Beast so that he can overcome Seimei once and for all. However, a message from Seimei informs Douman that he can never become a Beast since he lacks any love for humanity, which is a requirement for one to become a Beast. Douman gets frustrated by it, deciding to simply use his Tree of Emptiness to power him up the regular way.

Senji Muramasa ("Lostbelt No 5: Olympus" Spoilers!)

Senji Muramasa - The Atlas Slayer

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The God-Killing Blacksmith

Another version of Senji Muramasa encountered by the protagonist in Shimousa, he was summoned by the Foreign God to aid in its descent and act as its trustworthy steward afterwards. He first appeared to carry out this role in the fifth Lostbelt, and then appears in the sixth Lostbelt.

For information on his playable self, see his folder in Fate Grand Order Sabers S To Z.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: In Olympus, he uses his blade to cut open the path of the Foreign God's descent. He does this by cutting down the Servant, the Titan Atlas. Then in the opening for the second half of Cosmos in the Lostbelt, he slices a mountain in half with the shockwave of an underhanded swing with so much power it launched one half of the mountain up into the air to almost double the mountain's original height, and did it so cleanly that the heat from the shockwave of his slash turns the inside of the mountain into a pane of crystal-clear mirror glass.
Alternate Self: This Muramasa is different from the one encountered in Shimousa and thus has no memories of meeting the protagonist. When the Protagonist runs into him in Olympus, he comments on this fact to make it clear he isn't the same Muramasa.
Anti-Villain: He's only doing what the Foreign God tells him because, as a Servant, he has to follow what he's told. It's to the point that after being told to assassinate the Lostbelt King Morgan, his idea was to just walk up to her castle and announce his intent, which gets him thrown down the hole next to Camelot. After crawling out, he gets captured and sold to Murian's slave auction house. After being won by the protagonist at the auction, he becomes a firm ally for the rest of the Lostbelt.
Badass in Distress: He is sent to Avalon le Fae by the Foreign God in order to assassinate Morgan, which he tries to do by just walking to her castle and announcing his objective. This leads to him being defeated by Tam Lin Lancelot and falling down a hole for three days. While weakened, he is caged up and sent to Murian to be sold in an auction.
Big Damn Heroes: During the fight against Tam Lin Gawain in the Autumn Forest, Muramasa drops in and helps fight her off. In gameplay, this is replicated by him appearing on turn 3 and removing her Foul Weather buff, letting Chaldea push her back with Oberon's help.
Bothering by the Book: Essentially what he does in Olympus. He was given several orders in succession, including destroying Hephaestus in Atlantis and taking half of him to Olympus to increase efficiency there, aiding a request by Hephaestus to finish the Grand Summoning Article that would prove pivotal against Zeus, and then basically killing off Chaldea. He takes his time with the other orders in order to stave off having to fulfill the last one, letting him directly interact with Chaldea several times on account of "technically" being busy.
The Brute: Muramasa's role as one of the Disciples was basically to be the muscle of the three initial members, specifically to ensure nothing got in the way of summoning the Foreign God. At the time, the biggest thing preventing it from doing so was Wodime using Atlas to prevent the Foreign God from reaching the world, so once the time came and he killed Atlas, he was sent off to the British Lostbelt to make sure nothing there could stop the Foreign God. In terms of raw combat skills, he seems to be the best in a straight-up fight, made stronger by his Alter Ego Saint Graph being focused around killing gods. Muramasa himself acknowledges this in Lostbelt 6, pointing out he was basically summoned and told to help without any real idea what the Foreign God was.
Composite Character: Like his fellow Disciple Douman, he's an Alter Ego that the Foreign God has given him aspects of other deities. One being a blind Norse God implied to be Hodr due to mentioning Ragnarök and how difficult handling the Scandinavia Lostbelt would have been due to Scáthach-Skadi's presence, and the second he refuses to say, as many Chaldean Servants have connections to them. It's implied said God is Susanoo due to mentioning Kushinadahime, someone Susanoo saved from Yamata-no-Orochi by turning her into a comb, and being one of the few people capable of using the blade his Noble Phantasma is named from, though the story never outright confirms if that's true.
Covert Pervert: It's mentioned he was the one who made the Sensual Spandex the Foreign God/U-Olga Marie shows up wearing at the climax of Olympus when she finally descends.
Didn't Think This Through: When ordered to assassinate Morgan, he strides right into her castle and announces his intentions to kill the queen. This results in him fighting the Tam Lins of the Round Table and ending up captured and sent to be sold at a slave auction.
Enemy Mine: Because the British Lostbelt is a threat not only to Proper Human History but to the Foreign God as well, Muramasa teams up with Chaldea there to defeat Morgan, using a bit of Loophole Abuse to do so.
Face–Heel Turn: He reappears in Atlantis as an enemy of Proper Human History, having been summoned along with Ashiya Douman and Rasputin as Alter Egos in service of the Foreign God. That said, he's a clear Anti-Villain, and only does what it tells him because, as a Servant, he has to follow what he's told.
Foreshadowing: Unlike the other Disciples and Koyanskaya, Muramasa doesn't do much for most of the story, and spends all of his time hanging around Atlantis and Olympus to help the Foreign God descend in some manner. In the climax of Olympus, Kotomine reveals that the Foreign God was well aware of Kirschtaria's betrayal and the Titan Atlas's presence in the Tree Magellan, and had prepared Muramasa as a god-killing Servant for the sole purpose of killing Atlas so it could finally descend.
The Gadfly: Once he starts working alongside Chaldea, Muramasa loves teasing Altria Caster, such as poking fun at her, or intentionally riling her up for a good laugh.
Guest-Star Party Member: In Avalon le Fae. Notably, he is truly an Alter Ego, not his Saber self, and has a different third skill.
Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrifices himself to forge Excalibur and spare Altria Caster from giving up her own life. Downplayed though since he has some selfish motives. He doesn't want to keep serving the Foreign God, and besides, what red-blooded blacksmith worth their salt wouldn't seize the chance to forge the ultimate sword in the Ultimate Forge even at the cost of their life?
Irony:
- In Atlantis, he was summoned by the Foreign God to stop Chaldea, meaning the Ally of Justice Emiya is being used as a villain. Moreover, he's working alongside Rasputin, who is in the body of Shirou's enemy Kotomine Kirei, and actually likes him the most of his comrades.
- Muramasa, whose Saint Graph has been stuffed with anti-Divine power, was sent to the British Lostbelt, a place where religion and Divine Spirits don't exist. And when a Divine Spirit does finally show up, he doesn't get to fight it, instead sacrificing himself to let someone else do it.
Immune to Mind Control: The Foreign God's tampering with his Spirit Origin made him immune to Dracae's illusions, meaning he's the one who has to bail everyone out when they fall into her trap.
Kill the God: An Invoked Trope example. He was fused with a smith known for being able to kill a god, seemingly to be used by the Foreign God for this purpose. He makes use of it in Olympus to kill the Titan Atlas, and this is reflected in gameplay with his Guest-Star Party Member version having his third skill (Blaze EX) replaced with a skill called God Slayer EX, which gives him a damage boost against Divine enemies on top of the skills original NP battery effect.
Locked Out of the Loop: Despite being one of the Foreign God's main enforcers, he has no idea what the Foreign God is or truly wants. He explains in Lostbelt 6 he was summoned, had his Saint Graph adjusted to be an Alter Ego, and then was told to help out without any real explanation.
Mundane Wish: His only regret before sacrificing himself was that he couldn't give Altria Caster the discarded hairpin she admired in the river.
Not So Above It All: When the party comes across Cnoc na Riabh's fields of chocolate in Lostbelt 6 and starts gorging themselves despite Gareth trying to warn them of the "dangers" of becoming chocoholics, Muramasa tries to play off that he swiped some from the field too and enjoyed it.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: During the Battle of Camelot in Lostbelt 6, Morgan realizes she'll need at least three of her clones to defeat him. For comparison, that's as many as the entire main party has to fight, implying Morgan thinks he's capable of defeating her in a head-on fight without more copies to deploy against him.
Punch-Clock Villain: He has little interest in the Foreign God's cause and only follows his orders to the extent he must as a Servant. For instance, on one occasion he leaves the Chaldeans alone because while attacking them is on the to-do list, he has other, more important orders, and even states he would never willingly work with them if he had the choice, but as a Servant, he has to follow his orders. His Heroic Sacrifice in Avalon le Fae is partially motivated by freeing himself from the Foreign God's bondage at the first opportunity.
Renaissance Man: Blacksmithing might be his strong suit, but he is shown to be talented in other artistic fields. He pays back Astraea allowing him to stay on her island by sculpting multiple statues of her, including one giant statue, tailors a suit for Foreign God in preparation for their descent, and helps Habetrot to create a new suit for Altria Caster.
Situational Sword: He explains in Lostbelt 6 that due to the Foreign God incorporating anti-divine Divine Spirits into him he specializes in killing gods, which is why when he fought Tam Lin Lancelot he wasn't able to show the same power he used against Titan Atlas. He admits that if he had been sent to pretty much any other Lostbelt, he'd not have too many problems handling the Lostbelt King. Since the British Lostbelt has no Divine Spirits or religion, none of that extra power gets to be used, leaving him unable to fight at full strength. The one time in gameplay he gets to employ his anti-divine power is against the Calamity of Norwich, which being part of Cernnunos, is a divine spirit, but nobody is aware of this fact in the story until way later.
Super-Toughness: He's so durable that he survives wounds from Tam Lin Lancelot that would have killed a normal Servant 12 times over followed by getting dumped into a pit several kilometers deep and filled with deadly curses.
Ultimate Blacksmith: He's so good he's forged Divine Construct-level weapons at multiple points in the story. In particular, he forges the real-deal Excalibur of the British Lostbelt to give to Altria Caster. Keep in mind, in Proper Human History it took six ancient faeries each with power to rival True Ancestors or High Elementals to make the sword, though the sword is incomplete. The absurdity of such a feat is enough to get Merlin to be dumbstruck for a moment.
The Worf Effect: Despite killing twenty Proper Human History Servants with Kirei in Atlantis and cutting down the Titan Atlas in Olympus, he is defeated by Tam Lin Lancelot in Avalon le Fae. It's more of a downplayed example since he managed to defeat the Tam Lins Gawain and Tristan beforehand. See Situational Sword.

James Moriarty ("Lostbelt Chapter 6.5: Traum" Spoilers!)

James Moriarty - The Professor

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The Future Napoleon of Crime

A younger version of Holmes's greatest enemy summoned by the Foreign God but contracted with the Foreign World to either force Holmes to resume his original mission or kill him as a traitor. See his folder in Fate/Grand Order: Rulers for more info.

The Hidden Disciple ("Lostbelt Chapter 6.5: Traum" Spoilers!)

Sherlock Holmes - The Detective

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The Great Detective

The Disciple sent during Part 1 by the Foreign God, better known as Sherlock Holmes. His duty as revealed in Lostbelt No. 7 was to infiltrate Chaldea, help them excise all the Lostbelts, and then betray them from within, but he sealed his memories away and defected. See his folder in Fate/Grand Order: Rulers for more info.

The Sixth Disciple ("Ordeal Call II: Id Spoilers!)

Alessandro di Cagliostro - The Count of Despair

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The Chaotic Occultist

^{Click here to see his Final Disciple Manifestation}

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

For information on his playable self, see his folder in Fate/Grand Order: Pretenders.

Actually a Doombot: His One-Winged Angel form claims that the humanoid Count that Ritsuka and the Hassan vanquished together was merely his "duplicate", not his real body.
Ambiguous Situation:
- The level of control he has over the E-Olga variants is very ambiguous. At first, it seems like Flare will just be a silent subservient puppet, but then the Count claims that all he's doing is bringing her to life and setting her on the offensive by calling her the "forgery" of his "forge and rage", not to mention he is adamant about her being the true star of the show. Eventually, Aqua clarifies that Cagliostro had zero control over any of them.
- Whatever he's planning for E-Olga's final incarnation, he readily states that she will be far beyond his ability to predict and fine-tuned to be absolutely impossible to defeat. Is he merely accepting that he most likely cannot control her, or is it that he never intended on doing so anyway?
- Why would he bring her back and unleash her unrestrained (and soulless) might upon the universe, let alone power her up until she's impossible to beat if CHALDEAS wanted her gone, likely seeing her existence (that of a flawed vessel) as an impediment?
Arc Villain: Of the Olga Marie Quests, where he creates several Elemental fragments of U-Olga in order to test both her and the heroes. It's implied that he is building towards her true resurrection, the resulting Olga of which will be impossible for him to predict in terms of behavior and abilities, not to mention impossible for the heroes to overcome. Potentially subverted, since as of Ordeal Call: Id (where he tried to hijack the role of Arc Villain at the end only to get destroyed for it) it seems as though E-Olga will be carrying right on without him, as his defeat means he may no longer be physically present to oversee her battle gauntlets… if he never finds a way to make a comeback, that is.
Big Bad Wannabe: Despite all the tremendous amounts of buildup that Cagliostro had received prior to "Wastehole of the Unsalvageable, Id", especially bringing back Olga Marie more dangerous than ever and separating her into four Elemental powers, he ultimately doesn't live up to the power of his own creations (or recreations in E-Olga's case) as he ends up looking quite desperate to upstage Dantès here and fails tremendously. He certainly puts on a phenomenally horrifying and grandiose show, make no mistake, but just about everything he attempted in Id lined right up with Dantès's plans to lure him into a trap. All his movements had already been correctly predicted by Dantès before Cagliostro even entered the Singularity. With Dantès's most powerful form on the Protagonist's side as a guest party member, Cagliostro's One-Winged Angel form can end up being utterly massacred, coming across as more of a Post-Final Boss than a true Final Boss in order for Dantès to mercilessly make him pay for his crimes with his life… or worse, actually.
Body Double: Utilizes this when acting as the Vice Principal of the school the Master attends in their mind realm, the Id. When he predictably backstabs them and they bring him down, he later reveals himself to be alive, having used a "duplicate" to keep his real body away from danger.
Card-Carrying Villain: Proudly views himself as the betrayer to end all betrayers and humorously admits that he's a fraudulent one in a great many ways.
Chekhov's Gunman: He was first mentioned, albeit not by name, by Ashiya Douman as the Caster-class Servant summoned by Urabe no Suetake during the Heian-kyo's Imperial Holy Grail War but was taken out off-screen by Watanabe-no-Tsuna before the Protagonist could meet him. By the time of Ordeal Call, he finally appears in person as an Apostle of the Foreign God in the Pretender class.
Creative Sterility: He's a shameless copycat without an iota of creativity in his Spirit Origin. The E-Olga Maries are reconstructions built using the original U-Olga Marie's fragmented Spirit Origin, his creation of Counterfeit Tree of Emptiness Waxing Moon and the Edo Pseudo-Lostbelt are blatant plagiarisms of Douman's schemes in Shimousa and Heian-Kyo, and his final boss fight has him take the form and abilities of Chaldea's past enemies.
Disc-One Final Boss:
- When you beat his humanoid form in "Id", you still have to deal with Le Comte de Monte Cristo, plus you eventually learn that the Cagliostro you defeated was just his "duplicate", with the real one having merged with the enemy "pillars" deep within the Master's mind.
- If his One-Winged Angel form being destroyed in Id really is his final destruction, then he also serves as this for the Olga Marie Quests (with the true Big Bad being the E-Olga Marie of Happiness) and possibly for Ordeal Call as a whole.
Eldritch Abomination: Becomes a positively nightmarish one for the final battle, being composed of some of the Master's worst enemies ever faced.
Enigmatic Minion: Primarily using the Elemental Olga derivatives as the ultimate proxies for himself and CHALDEAS, it remains a mystery as to why he is allowed to create and test said derivatives when his boss seemed to want U-Olga gone during the events of the 7th Lostbelt.
Even Evil Has Standards: Cruel though his methods may be (to the point where even Kirei remarks on how it is not at all to his own personal taste), he created the Elemental Olga Marie variants out of a belief that letting the original U-Olga stay dead without getting a chance to unleash her full potential would be downright sacrilegious. He is also content to let Olga have the spotlight and be the star in his "stage production".
Count: No, no, no, no. I certainly do not mind the unenlightened masses telling their tales of my mysteries — But the star of today's show is her. Or did you think I’d be shameless enough to take the stage when all I did was mold a vessel and awaken it?
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone refers to him as the Count, including himself, when he makes his debut before Chaldea.
Evil Genius: He somehow forged U-Olga's shattered Saint Graph into four elemental variants of her, each one able to threaten the very foundations of the Human Order simply by existing and emitting a terrifying gravitational force, and on top of that, he claims that her final variant will be perfected to the point where nothing and nobody will stand even a tiny chance against her.
Evil Laugh: Belts out an incredible one several times in his final battle.
Face Death with Dignity: Assuming his destruction in Id really is his final death, he stops freaking out and sincerely compliments his enemies, realizing he has seriously underestimated them, especially the Master, but reminds them that the rest of E-Olga's incarnations are still out there.
Foreshadowing: His True Name was hinted at in the Fate/Samurai Remnant collab when he mentions the Necklace Affair where he was arrested as a suspect.
Graceful Loser:
- He's actually elated when Chaldea finally manages to overcome Flare E-Olga, stating that he hopes they will enjoy battling the next three variants.
- Even when he himself is brought down in Id, he actually admits to being impressed by the Master's and Dantès's tricks and willpower.
Greater-Scope Villain:
- Of the "Waxing Moon Clashing Swords Chronicles" event. Following the battle with Ushi Gozen in Yokosuka, she reveals the Singularity's creation and everything that was reproduced in it was all his doing. Much like with the Olga Marie Quests, he chooses to avoid showing himself directly and leaves Ushi Gozen to handle managing the emergence of the Tree of Emptiness he grew.
- In life, he was one to the Mage Association. His occultist scams sparked so much interest in the occult, it was one of the factors that forced the Clock Tower to essentially invent the Department of Modern Magecraft and helped accelerate the decline of Mystery during the 19th century.
Healing Factor: His Final Apostle Manifestation should be able to regenerate from all types of damage… except the Master and both versions of Edmond find a way to bypass it and outright strip away that ability.
Historical In-Joke: The historical Alessandro di Cagliostro was accused of being an imposter several times while he was alive, even after several attempts were discredited before his death. His class being Pretender makes for a slightly funny yet fitting option with that in mind.
Kill It with Fire: Jeanne Alter's personal coup de grâce when she finally loses it because he just won't shut up and go quietly.
Literal Split Personality: Implies his duplicate went a bit too hard into the whole "obsessed with destroying Dantès" bit.
Magic A Is Magic A: He is the Pretender. He was such a talented scam artist in life that to this day no one can tell fact from fiction in his legend, and it fills the prerequisites for the Pretender Class so perfectly that summoning him as anything else is impossible. Even with the Foreign God's penchant for making Alter Egos and Douman having a personal hand in modifying Cagliostro's Saint Graph, the final result would always be Pretender.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Count's meddling with the Fate/Samurai Remnant timeline took place following the game's Downer Ending route. While the living beings are gone, the Servant versions of Iori, Shousetsu, and Takeru are given a much happier resolution to their story by Chaldea, and Tsuchimikado, Chiemon, and Jeanne Alter die with considerably more dignity.
One-Winged Angel: Assumes a monstrous form in the final battle that combines aspects of several of the Protagonist's worst enemies, including Demon Pillars, Trees of Emptiness, Zeus, Cernunnos, and even Lostbelt ORT.
Out-Gambitted: His plot to betray, backstab and murder the Master ultimately fails because said Master, the Hassan, and Dantès all saw it coming from miles away and the latter two took the necessary steps to prevent the attack from being fatal.
Post-Climax Confrontation: The Id Singularity is already cleared by the time the Protagonist and Avengers face off against his One-Winged Angel form, which serves to wrap up the story arcs of Edmond Dantès (both of them) and Jeanne Alter.
Post-Final Boss: Can come off as this (even with his colossal and horrific appearance) since he's fought after the Count of Monte Cristo's strongest form which brought an end to the second Ordeal Call, plus said Count is now helping the Protagonist as a massively powerful guest party member who can absolutely shred Cagliostro's health bars. Additionally, the main purpose of fighting him is to wrap up Jeanne Alter's and Dantès's character arcs.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: History records him dying in prison in 1795, but he somehow escaped and met Dantès in 1838.
Self-Deprecation: When Kadoc calls Flare Marie (a revived and fire-enhanced derivative of U-Olga) a "tasteless production", the Count readily admits that he's well-reputed for his tastelessness. He later calls himself fraudulent in Id.
Shaped Like Itself: Count Cagliostro is a Pretender because he's pretending to be himself, but as his Alter in the Avenger class.
Slimeball: Marie remembers him in life as being outwardly polite, but he always wore a fake smile that made him look like a slippery eel. His voice reminds Jeanne Alter of Douman, who's no slouch in being oily as hell.
Smug Snake: As it turns out, the slippery eel is nowhere near as powerful and infallible as he believes himself to be, being outmaneuvered by Dantès before he even attempted to hijack the Singularity and then getting the absolute thrashing of a lifetime once he's right where Dantès wants him.
The Unseen: He interacts with the protagonist and company in a side story on the bleached Earth, but is given no appearance on-screen as he does it via hijacked communicator. He later performs a similar trick via speaking through a Fantasy Tree seed in the "Waxing Moon Clashing Swords Chronicles" Event. He finally confronts Chaldea personally in Ordeal Call II.
Unwitting Pawn: The man had zero clue of just how badly he'd been played for a fool by Dantès until it was far too late. He came to feast on the Protagonist's suffering… which is exactly what the Count of Monte Cristo predicted he would do, allowing the Protagonist and the Avengers to absolutely brutalize the so-called "Final Disciple".
Villain Respect: The Master earns his respect more than once, first by stopping Flare Marie, then by overcoming his own One-Winged Angel form and stopping his regeneration with the help of two Dantès's abilities.
We Can Rebuild Him: Opines that U-Olga Marie would be wasted if she were to disappear, scrounging up the last traces of her energy to use them as reformatted cores to serve as the centerpieces of Olga Marie derivatives.
We Will Meet Again: Content with the outcome of his "play" in the "Waxing Moon Clashing Swords Chronicles" event, he leaves the scene and promises to meet Chaldea again soon at his next one.

The Final Disciple ("Lostbelt No. 7: Nahui Mictlān" Spoilers!)

U-Olga Marie - The God

The true identity of the Foreign God, Olga Marie Animusphere, the unexpected final Disciple who serves as the leader of the other six and the unwitting Body Double and vessel of the Foreign World itself.

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Koyanskaya (Walking Spoiler!)

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The Capable and Beautiful Secretary

^{The Beast of Taming}

An independent Servant who works alongside the Foreign God. Although she acts like a Disciple of the Foreign God, it's actually more of a business relationship wherein she has signed a contract to aid the Foreign God in exchange for being able to pursue her own goals across the Lostbelts.

She is first introduced under the guise of Goredolf's secretary and handler, helping him take over Chaldea only to turn on him at the behest of her true employer (The Foreign God).

For information about her playable selves, go here and here. For information on her Beast form, see Beast IV:L's folder in Fate/Grand Order: Beasts.

Achilles' Heel: In the fight against her incomplete Beast form, she's weak against "Demonic Beast" Servants (which includes all versions of Tamamo).
Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
- When she realizes that Qin Shi Huang will subject her to repeated torture to ensure she lacks the strength to fight against him she immediately begins to beg for mercy, pleading that she'll never bother him again if he lets her go.
- Upon getting her ass kicked during the India Lostbelt, she holds up a sign begging for aid from Chaldea to take her in before she gets killed by Arjuna's reset. The protagonist does so (though it's not like they had much of a choice given how she was ready to blow herself and the Shadow Border up if they didn't).
All Your Powers Combined: As the "Beast of Taming", she has skills based on the first four Lostbelts. Hilariously, the skill that represents S.I.N. debuffs her, which is because it's a memory of getting humiliated and tortured by Qin Shi Huang.
Always Someone Better: Her Aptitude for Slaughter (Man) skill invokes this. This allows her to not only use any weapon regardless of era or advancement but also use them and improve them far better than any human could ever hope to do so, allowing her to efficiently slaughter humanity. It's for this reason she's a potential Beast IV.
Ambition Is Evil: She seeks to become a new Nine-Tailed Fox separate from the Tamamo of the past, and in doing so becomes a new Beast in the process.
Animalistic Abomination: Her nascent Beast form in Olympus resembles a giant shadowy mass with a head vaguely shaped like a fox's, with the head covered in brightly-glowing orange-red eyes and five other even larger eyes scattered on the shadowy mass which vaguely resemble tails, and a mouth full of sharp teeth illuminated by the same glow. Without the shadows, it appears to look like a five-tailed, three-eyed fox with additional eyes on its tails and ears.
Animal Motif: Foxes. She gets offended when Goredolf calls her a vixen and compares her hunting down the protagonist to a foxhunt. Both her electronic tablet and earrings have fox symbols. Her Beast of Taming form is, what else, an Animalistic Abomination resembling a fox.
Antagonist Abilities: As someone aiming to be a full-fledged Beast, she naturally has her own unique "Nega-" skill. In this case, it's the Nega-Weapon passive skill that uniquely dictates her strengths and weaknesses.
Appropriated Appellation: As part of Koyanskaya's misdirection regarding her true identity, while posing as Tamamo Vitch she embraces the identity of the evil Chinese nine-tailed fox Daji — who the original Tamamo repudiates being identified as — and claims it as her True Name.
Archenemy: After she reveals herself as a Beast, Holmes declares her to be his greatest enemy. Unfortunately for Holmes, when it is time to actually confront her, the functions of Tunguska Special Territory causes him to get temporarily desummoned, leading him to sit out of the confrontation with her.
Asian Fox Spirit: Being a "Tamamo from another world", she has elements of this, such as her Beast form resembling a five-tailed fox.
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Zigzagged.
- Tamamo-Vitch is an attempt to invoke descent from Tamamo, except that it is wrong: first, "vi(t)ch" is a suffix for a patronymic, second, it's a male form (Russian has grammatic gender), meaning literally "son of". While it can be used as a matronymic if someone insists, the gender is still wrong.
- Koyanskaya is an actually valid, even if non-existent Russian surname. It's actually a Significant Anagram for "Yana Casko" ("Evil Casko"), hinting at her connection to Tamamo.
- And then all of that turns out to be irrelevant because she has no real name - she was originally a formless nature spirit created by the souls of the deceased animals from The Tunguska Event and just picked an alias for herself, and the reason for her name is that she also identified with her past.
- Dobrynya names her "Yaskaya", which is pure gibberish with no basis in Russian.
The Assimilator: Koyanskaya can absorb any Demonic Beast into her by taking a piece of their hair. She plans to take in nine large ones that don't exist in Proper Human History as her tails and become a Beast superior to the original Nine-Tailed Fox Amaterasu. Her first attempt at this is thwarted in Olympus, but she ultimately succeeds and becomes an instance of Beast IV.
Battle Aura: When Aśvatthāman arrives and reveals he's been ordered to kill her for messing around with the inhabitants by leaving behind mementos of their erased loved ones by the decree of God Arjuna (who was prodded by Douman to do so), Vitch provides some banter before shifting to seriousness and manifesting a pink aura around herself as she prepares to fight him.
Battle Theme Music: "Nine Drive", a Dark Reprise of Tamamo's theme as with the first four Lostbelt map music tracks integrated into the piece as symbolism of her accumulation of power from them.
The Beastmaster: She's captured a decent number of monsters from the various Lostbelts and trained them under her command. These ones are marked by having an "NFF" logo somewhere on their sprite in-battle. She can summon them at will with only pieces of hair as a catalyst.
Big Bad Wannabe: She fancies herself as a full-on Beast in the making with plans on betraying and devouring the Foreign God. But it's shown that whenever she comes up with any noticeable resistance, she ends up buckling and requiring others to help her out. This reaches a head in Avalon Le Fey where her plans on devouring Albion end with her being easily manipulated by Oberon and permanently crippled.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Her cutesy act is a facade and Mash only realizes the depth of her malice when she detects Koyanskaya's hidden power. She freely admits to torturing people with a smile on her face.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Kotomine claims that her agenda of cornering, trampling, and mocking the weak is merely how she expresses her love of humanity no matter what time period she's in. It foreshadows her intent to become one of the seven Beasts.
Bread and Circuses: She's mainly been entertaining herself in the first Lostbelt by forcing Yaga to either starve or kill each other to take their money to buy her ludicrously overpriced alcohol, medicine, and food from her. Rasputin compares her attitude and actions to a rat leaving a sinking ship.
Card-Carrying Villain: She does not hold back on admitting how evil she is or how monstrous her actions are. When asked by Akuta if she ordered the Krichat' to go around and kill innocents in SIN, she plainly states that she would never rob herself of the pleasure of killing and torturing humans and that they're simply acting as any predator in an unfamiliar world would (of course, this is ignoring how she brought them here and forced them into such a position to survive). Besides, in her eyes, the humans of SIN might as well be livestock to be picked off by predators with how empty their lives are.
Cleavage Window: Her uniform has this look combined with a Navel Window due to her leaving some of the top and lower buttons undone. It looks like she's an accident away from the buttons popping and letting her breasts hang freely.
The Collector: She wants to procure as many rare and exotic monsters from the seven Lostbelts as possible. As a matter of fact, this is the Evil of Humanity that she represents as a fledgling Beast: "Taming", as in loving her collection of pets and toys as her sole property to play with. Beryl promised her one of the biggest catches, the White Dragon Albion, in exchange for her helping him teleport out of Olympus.
Collector of the Strange: She wants to add Ophelia's Mystic Eye to her collection and is annoyed at her inability to recover them after Ophelia dies. This is because it is one of the steps required for her to become a Beast on her own terms, collecting something from each of the seven Lostbelts, such as the Oprichniki and the Jötunn.
Color-Coded Characters: Almost all of her outfits have magenta on them somewhere, with the exception of her Russian outfit.
Contrived Coincidence: By all accounts, she has no idea that the Tamamo Nine exists. Yet she somehow ended up picking the exact same name and work profession as Tamamo Vitch.
Didn't Think This Through: Her plan with the Lostbelts has been to raise new "tails" using the special characteristics of the Lostbelts to become a greater being than the original nine-tailed beast. Upon lamenting the loss of the "tail" she was betting on from the sixth Lostbelt in addition of losing another tail to Melusine, she suddenly realizes that she needs nine tails for her plan, but there are only seven Lostbelts, meaning even if she counts her original personal tail she would only have eight tails total for her efforts and requiring one more. Also, one of them (the one representing the third Lostbelt) weakens her, as demonstrated in the fight against her in Olympus, so she would've been better off without that one. However, Koyanskaya of Light's profile reveals that she did have a plan for the last two tails (Foreign God and the Master of Chaldea), but now that she is two tails short, she doesn't have an immediate back-up plan.
Disproportionate Retribution: She threatens to slaughter a bunch of Yaga in Russia for calling her Miss instead of Mistress.
Dragon-in-Chief: She did most of the legwork in securing Chaldea for Anastasia and Team A, using Goredolf to buy all of Chaldea and directing Anastasia's troops in the assault.
Dragon Lady: She poses as one in the Chinese Lostbelt, complete with a Chinese fan in hand.
Dragon with an Agenda: As part of her servitude to the Foreign God, she's allowed to pursue her desire to become a Beast. Later it is revealed that she isn't even an actual Disciple to the Foreign God and is merely helping it and the Crypters for her own benefit while being willing to act against them should she choose to, though she's smart enough not to do anything that would directly interfere with the Foreign God's goals and bring its wrath on her head.
Embarrassing Nickname: She's on the receiving end of some Malicious Misnaming, courtesy of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third Lostbelt: Kominsky, Koya-something-or-other, and Tayunskapon, among others. This is due to the Emperor believing she is one of the tails of Tamamo. Tayunskapon in particular is embarrassing enough that the mere invocation of it automatically stuns her as a Beast.
Enemy Mine: She finds herself having to work with Chaldea sometimes to save her own skin.
- Chaldea gets her out of serious trouble in the third Lostbelt in exchange for a dose of the antidote to the poison she slipped the protagonist and Goredolf in the lead-up to the chapter. She even helps out a bit afterward but refuses to give a second dose of the poison's antidote as it's the only way to assure her own safety. It's only after she escapes the Lostbelt that they find the antidote to cure the protagonist in their room with a receipt from her NFF Services.
- She finds herself needing their help again in the fourth Lostbelt when God Arjuna has her slated for erasure due to Douman's words and she can't teleport out of the place since Douman gave Aśvatthāman special tools to seal said ability when he was tasked to try and deal with her. She hitchhikes a ride on the Shadow Border to ride out the cycle reset while exchanging some info and providing some magical support against the sacred beasts and Kali until she can slip out again. She explicitly tells the protagonist to not mistake any of this for her helping them out of the goodness of her heart and that she's just paying for her services.
Enemy Summoner: It's revealed in S.I.N. that she has monsters salvaged from the two previous Lostbelts and claims them as part of her NFF Services. It's yet another way of torturing a Lostbelt populace by siccing them on helpless villagers.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- In the third Lostbelt she declares that unlike humans she never breaks her promises and holds up the end of her promise by giving the protagonist the remaining antidote.
- She's disgusted by the humans of Qin's S.I.N. Empire. She initially compares them to animals, only to make clear seconds later that comparison is an insult to animals and they are even lower than that. In her own words, while she despises humans, she doesn't enjoy seeing them as livestock, as they should be selfish and arrogant while following their desires to whatever end.
- She despises Ashiya Douman, calling him a "shitty monk" even before he tries to get her killed by God Arjuna.
- She recognizes Beryl is bad news, and tries her best to stay away from him. Too bad Beryl knows exactly what to offer to keep her around.
Establishing Character Moment: Koyanskaya is quickly established to be an unpleasant person at best when she casually stomps all over Fou and grinds her heels into him. Then she shoots up Chaldea with her NFF and the Oprichniki with a sadistic smile on her face. She even turns on her own employer, Goredolf, once he ceased to be useful to her. Everything about her introduction is designed to show how cruel she is on top of her opportunism and her propensity for murder.
Femme Fatale Spy: Briefly takes this role with Goredolf so he would take her along to Chaldea, allowing her to bypass its defenses and destroy the base. During that time, she left a tube of lipstick with him so she could teleport to his side at any time. Mash is not happy about Goredolf's choice of companion in Chaldea's fall, but Holmes refutes her saying Koyanskaya's disguise was perfect.
Foreshadowing:
- There's foreshadowing to her reveal as a nascent Beast. In particular, she mentions that she has the Independent Manifestation skill, a Beast Class Skill. Her obsession with treasures and toying with people is also mentioned in how she shows her twisted love, which is also a trait all Beasts have. Finally, when condemning the humans in Lostbelt 3 while she travels with Chaldea, she outright states how the humans there is an "affront to us beasts". While not capitalized, it's certainly telling.
- She's heavily implied to be operating out of a private Singularity akin to Goetia and his Temple of Time, or Douman and Heian-kyō. When Holmes sees that she's tamed several magical creatures from the Lostbelts, he realizes the implications of the obvious logistical problems. Namely, where is she keeping and summoning them from, and where did she even find the time to train them?
- In Olympus, right before manifesting her incomplete Beast form, she tells Holmes in response to him offering to call her by her True Name that it's fine to just keep calling her Koyanskaya, as she doesn't have "anything so silly as a True Name", which is odd if she truly is an off-shoot of Tamamo. This ends up factoring into the reveal that the connections to Tamamo were themselves a Red Herring.
Fun with Acronyms:
- She refers to TV occasionally which the protagonist assumes is referring to television or something related. She's actually talking about "herself", Tamamo Vitch.
- NFF is revealed to stand for Nine Fox Foundation in the third Lostbelt, playing up her connection to the Tamamo Nine.
God in Human Form: The Non-Primate Ecosphere Tunguska Sanctuary event reveals that she was originally a weak, formless nature spirit born from the death and destruction wrought by the Tunguska event, and would have eventually dissipated into nothingness had Fou not given up its status as Beast IV during the Solomon Singularity. Her hatred for humanity enabled her to qualify as a replacement Beast, stabilizing her existence and giving her the ability to manifest a humanoid form as Koyanskaya.
Godhood Seeker: Koyanskaya desires to apotheosize into a Beast — taking the IV slot usually occupied by Primate Murder, and to this end, she has come up with a convoluted plan to cultivate the power to do so. While her first attempt at this is thwarted in Olympus, she later succeeds and becomes Lostbelt: Beast IV.
Heel–Face Turn: She's defeated for good in "Tunguska Sanctuary" but is spared by Chaldea in favor of sending her out to space where humans will not bother her anymore. Koyanskaya agrees and sends her Light incarnation to help Chaldea destroy the last Tree of Emptiness so she can finally leave and find a world where she can be happy.
Hollywood Density: Qin Shi Huang observes that her Saint Graph/soul has a mass of 100,000 tons. This foreshadows the fact that she has been accumulating the energy needed to become a full Beast.
Hope Crusher: She relishes in destroying the faint hope of others for her pleasure. The higher their hopes are, the greater the thrill she gets when she snatches it away.
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Says she has this as a hobby in the prologue, and takes it a step further by saying she's willing to stuff and mount the protagonist's corpse on her mantle.
Human Head on the Wall: She says she has a trophy room of people she's killed.
I Call It "Vera": Inverted. So far all her biological creations in "Tunguska Sanctuary" are named after historical weapons or devices used in human wars.
I Gave My Word: Her sole virtue is that she will always properly fulfill a contract, even if she's not afraid to indulge in Loophole Abuse when she can. When Chaldea rescues her from Qin Shi Huang's prison in "Lostbelt No. 3: The Synchronized Intellect Nation, SIN", she fulfills her promise to hand over the antidote to the poison used on Goredolf and the protagonist. The single dose of antidote she made in case she somehow poisoned herself. However, she then agrees to guide them to the Fusang Tree in order to obtain the materials to make another dose of antidote for the protagonist, and while she admits she would have preferred to have them all die fighting Akuta, Xiang Yu, Qin Shi Huang, or even the Tree of Emptiness and just leave the antidote on their gravestone as a memento, she did in fact make and leave it behind no strings attached after she bugged out during the fighting and Chaldea emerged victorious. She does admit in "Lostbelt No. 4: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus, Yugakshetra" that she still feels "off" after the fact, though, and laments she didn't drop two or three bombs off in the Shadow Border just to feel good about herself.
Indy Ploy: When Akuta accuses her of having lured Chaldea intentionally to her Lostbelt, Koyanskaya claims that when she went through with her assassination as a favor to Beryl she only had about "10% of a plan" thought out and that it was just bad luck she chose a poison directly from the Chinese Lostbelt and that Goredolf interfered. As such, it's why she's not sweeping it under the rug and openly joining forces with Akuta to bring Chaldea down.
Jack the Ripoff: Koyanskaya seeks to succeed Amaterasu/Tamamo/Daji as the next Golden White Face by usurping Fou's status as a Beast; and while her apotheosized form as Beast IV: L isn't very fox-like, her Beast of Taming form — as seen in Koyanskaya of Darkness' Noble Phantasm — is a five-tailed monstrous fox with far too many eyes.
Jerkass: Between killing off most of Chaldea and her pointless cruelty in the first Lostbelt chapter, Koyanskaya proves herself to be a total bitch. Even in the latter Lostbelts where she shows hints of a softer side or a deeper nature, she defaults to being a bitch almost immediately afterward.
Karma Houdini: For all of the innocents she's killed in her plans to become the new Beast IV her only punishment is simply losing out on the chance to fully develop into it fully and she instead is talked down by Chaldea and departs with her reality marble in peace.
Kick the Dog: It's one huge part of her personality. Nobody is exempt and she has at least a moment every Lostbelt to do so. Even though she doesn't get joy out of crushing other people with no hope, she still enjoys torturing them all the same.
- In the Prologue, she literally kicks and stomps on Fou with full malice after he attacks her. She also toys with the Protagonist by telling them that they stole Team A's credit and how pissed the team will be about it.
- In Lostbelt 1, the Yaga have dealt with her pointless cruelty for some time. She pretty much raises her prices so much that she gets them to kill each other so that they could get the bare essentials.
- In Lostbelt 2, she toys with Ophelia over her life and how well her Lostbelt is going.
- In Lostbelt 3, she gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Akuta, as can be seen below. She also poisons the Protagonist and Goredolf (the latter by accident), and gives them a Sadistic Choice between who gets the antidote first. She also reveals the location of Akuta's Tree of Emptiness to better screw her over.
- In Lostbelt 4, she takes objects from people or places before they're erased, and places them back with their loved ones when the Yuga Cycle begins anew. This makes people question who they've lost in their lives and causes misery, which she adores.
Know When to Fold Them: She decides to take her leave from the Russia Lostbelt after messing around with Chaldea and contributing her part to the plan because she can't derive any fun out of it. Kotomine calls her out on this for her behavior of showing up and then immediately fleeing the moment things are going south.
Little Bit Beastly: After her purported true name is revealed by Goredolf, she drops the pretense of being human and has her fox ears and tail out in the open for all Lostbelts after that.
Loophole Abuse: Her contract with the Foreign God forbids revealing her identity as a Beast to anyone. When Holmes deduces the identity himself and reveals it in front of her, she declares that to be sufficient grounds to go around the contract and transforms into her Beast form to attack Chaldea.
The Man Behind the Man: She is the one who convinced Goredolf that he should buy the entirety of Chaldea and just take over.
Mistaken Identity:
- Tamamo Vitch's profile states her to have been one of Tamamo-no-Mae's cast-off tails, seeking to regain her full godly power without reverting to Tamamo's original self, the evil nine-tailed fox Golden White Face — aka the solar goddess Amaterasu. However, in her dialogue as the playable Servant "Koyanskaya of Light", she states that she isn't actually one of the Tamamo Nine, but a "Tamamo from another world". This turns out to be a lie, as she is actually an entity manifested from the Tunguska event who took on the form of Tamamo and posed as Tamamo Vitch due to identifying with Tamamo's sordid past.
- Qin Shi Huang calling her Daji when they have had enough of her deception? They were wrong. Tamamo Vitch is not Daji at all, her plan just involves becoming the next Golden White Face like what Daji was. Taigong Wang does a similar mistake, only realizing the truth when his Anti-Daji plan fails against Koyanskaya. He even apologizes in place of Qin Shi Huang for making the same mistake as he did. It's even implied that she was in shock less about how her true identity was leaked and more about what Qin Shi Huang might do to her if he found out about her.
Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Her name sounds Russian and NFF Services is famous in the Magus world for their work in Russia.
Nigh-Invulnerability: She has the Independent Manifestation skill, which comes with the usual benefits of self-summoning/teleportation and death resistance.
"Not So Different" Remark: She claims she and Akuta can join forces so easily in SIN because they're both misanthropic outcasts, which the Crypter despite her noted disdain admits she can't deny.
Oblivious to His Own Description: Koyanskaya is disappointed to see Murian torturing the helpless Fang Clan out of a sadistic need for vengeance, comparing it to the way a human being would act. She is utterly incapable of the self-awareness necessary to notice that it's also ''very'' similar to how ''she'' treats humans, for what turn out to be far less sympathetic reasons.
Odd Friendship: She forms one with Murian of the British Lostbelt. It starts off as a usual employer-mercenary relationship based on their contract, but they come to genuinely care for each other.
Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: It was stated in a Chaldea Breakroom interview with Nasu that NFF Services actually was a legitimate transportation company about to go bankrupt before Koyanskaya bought it out to quickly merge it with a bunch of other corporations she bought. Where she precisely got the funds to accomplish this isn't elaborated on beyond a Hand Wave of her Beast power enabled her to do far more corporate manipulation on a century-wide scale in only three months to provide her the endless goods and weapons stockpiled long after the Earth was bleached.
Oh, Crap!: The normally arrogant Koyanskaya is completely caught off guard when Qin claims he knows her real identity: Daji. Then she's immediately hit by an attack from Li Shuwen while her defenses are lowered by the revelation.
One-Man Army: During Lostbelt 6, Oberon gets her to intercept reinforcements sent by Morgan to support Woodwose that would have guaranteed defeat for the Round Table army in exchange for the location of Albion. Oberon was hoping she'd simply scare them off or kill enough to make them retreat; instead, Koyanskaya slaughters all of them, leaving no survivors. Keep in mind, that the average Faerie is comparable to a low-ranking Servant, yet Koyanskaya kills them with seemingly no issues.
Oxymoronic Being: Unlike other elementals who could still connect with nature after falling in with humanity like Enkidu and Yu Mei-ren, Koyanskaya retains little kinship with the animals she wants to represent, and is deeply attached to the fashions and various accouterments of the human civilization she supposedly holds in contempt. Incapable of living simply as a beast or peacefully alongside humans, she resigns herself to being cast into outer space, hoping she can find somewhere to belong out there, or at least a place that won't cause her as much confusion and anger as Earth.
Pet the Dog:
- She sneaks into the Shadow Border while the protagonist was passed out after the fighting to keep her promise of giving them the antidote. Though it is potentially subverted, as the Foreign God wants the protagonist and the Crypters to fight, so dying early would undermine whatever goals it has planned. She herself is aware of and bitter about it in Yugakshetra and tries to shed any good press it might've given her.
- Her friendship with Murian shows she is capable of forming attachments to others. She's genuinely saddened to see how Murian's desire for revenge has worn away at her sanity, yet decides to stay at her side as long as possible. When Murian later is fatally wounded by Oberon Vortigern, Koyanskaya eases her passing by cradling her in her arms and offering her an invitation to her private lair, along with a favor she can ask anything Koyanskaya for with no strings attached, all out of respect for their friendship.
Pitiful Worms: She scoffs at Aśvatthāman for thinking he can beat her alone, remarking that a lowly insect like a Servant wouldn't stand a chance in hell at beating her. Unfortunately for her, Douman gave him some sutras to counteract her abilities, which allowed Aśvatthāman to leave her sore and beaten.
Private Military Contractors: Her NFF Services troops are not technically part of the Mage Association, but an outside agency apparently hired by them. Leonardo Da Vinci's knowledge and hints that they may inform the Association about what they're doing gives Chaldea the slightest of wiggle-room to work with. Her troops seem to be unaware of her true plans as the Oprichniki massacre them alongside Chaldea's employees.
Punch-Clock Villain: She explains in the Tunguska event that because Chaldea's actions in denying the Lostbelts were irrelevant to her goals, she flat-out didn't see them as enemies. It's only when they start gunning to kill her personally that she pulls out all the stops.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Alongside giving many Kick the Dog moments, she also has points where she points out characters' flaws, mainly to hurt them emotionally, but it fits nonetheless. In particular, she gives a scathing one to Akuta and her callousness to Ophelia's death. She also grills Kirschtaria for letting Surtr stick around without offering Ophelia help with him as well, which also ended up being a factor in her death, though unlike Akuta he gives a calm and reasonable response while standing by what he did, even if ultimately it proved too much for her.
Koyanskaya: My, my, Akuta. I'm surprised to see you grieving over Ophelia's death, given what a misanthrope you are. Is this one of those "don't know what you've got till it's gone" things, or were you always secretly fond of her? Not that it is any comfort to her either way. See, the thing about friendships between girls is, they're all about supporting each other, just as long as there is also something in it for them. It doesn't matter how much she might have disliked me. I was at least there for her ...once in a while. I actually tried to help her with her problems, but you? All you did was sit back and watch. So where do you get off, suddenly acting like she was so precious to you? You didn't do anything, so you don't get to say anything. Isn't that common sense in human society? Maybe you wouldn't have forgotten that if you hadn't shut yourself away all this time.
Red Herring: All of Koyanskaya's connections to Tamamo — her appearance, calling herself "Tamamo Vitch", claiming to be an Alternate Self of Tamamo, and even her name in Japanese being an anagram for "Yana (evil) Casko"^note — are ultimately revealed to be a misdirection on her part in the "Non-Primate Ecosphere Tunguska Sanctuary" event. She is revealed to be an entity born from the vengeful spirits of the animals killed by the Tunguska event, assuming a form based on Tamamo's due to empathizing with her.
Refuge in Audacity: Her solution to avoiding the chaotic destruction in Yugakshetra is to plonk herself on the roadside, holding up a hastily scribbled sign to indicate her need to hitchhike on the Shadow Border. The protagonist's Chronic Hero Syndrome means they can't bring themselves to abandon her and have to pick her up. Of course, she also hedges her bets by standing in the path of the Border and threatening to blow herself up along with it if she isn't taken along, and the crew is unable to present a counter-solution.
Rooting for the Empire: In-universe example. Koyanskaya tells Ophelia that she finds the first part of Cinderella to be great, where her stepsisters abuse and torment her. But then she comes out on top in the end, which makes her see the story as repulsive.
Sadistic Choice: Tried to offer one in SIN when she reveals she only has one antidote to the poison affecting both the protagonist and Goredolf and only the full dose would succeed, trying to see them struggle to decide who to save. She finds herself disappointed when the protagonist doesn't or barely hesitates to give it to Goredolf and is less than pleased with the warm fuzzy feelings all around.
Say It with Hearts: She likes to say them to punctuate the end of a sentence.
Koyanskaya: So now we're going to kill you all. It's time for all of you to pay up for everything you're worth♡
Sickeningly Sweet: This is her general reaction to anything happy or heartwarming. When the protagonist gives her single dose antidote to Goredolf freely instead of fighting each other to death, she's incredibly pissed off that she got cheated out of her show and calls the whole thing "revolting".
Sinister Silhouettes: Koyanskaya's Beast of Taming form first appears as a silhouette with only its glowing eyes and mouth being visible, and is only shown in full by her Koyanskaya of Dark iteration's Noble Phantasm.
Slasher Smile: In Olympus, she drops a huge one when Holmes deduces her identity as a Beast, as part of her contract with the Foreign God involved not revealing that identity to others herself. But now that Holmes out and said it himself with no attempt on her part, she's free to use her Beast powers at will with no interference on the Disciples' part.
Smug Snake: Called out as such by Caenis in Scandinavia, who notes she seems to act as if she's somehow irreplaceable to the Foreign God's plans and so she can walk over her allies as she pleases. Indeed, the events of both China and India Lostbelts would show her first-hand how wrong she is.
The Sociopath: She gets a thrill out of crushing people who have hope and tortures people who don't just because. Even her allies note she doesn't seem to have any real loyalty to or care for anyone outside of those with the greatest power or the most money.
Spanner in the Works: The Foreign God views Koyanskaya as a threat to it, and shackled her with a contract to keep her under control. She breaks the contract in Olympus to team up with Beryl.
Spoiler Opening: The second opening for Cosmos in the Lostbelt shows her in a catsuit, confirming that she is the Lostbelt Assassin revealed in the first wave of promotional material for the Lostbelts.
The Starscream: Koyanskaya of Light's profile reveals that she intended to assimilate the Foreign God as her eighth tail.
Summon Magic: Can use witchcraft just like the original Tamamo, namely by plucking a few strands of her hair and then blowing on them to call forth the monsters she's stolen from the previous Lostbelts.
Super-Empowering: She somehow managed to grant a D'Vol Tron Hydra and Muspel Giant the ability to drain and assimilate the spiritual cores of their cannibalized kins, much like how a Dead Apostle gain their energies by leeching it off their undead spawns.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: She has the same golden eyes as Tamamo, marking her as a supernaturally beautiful and powerful being.
Supreme Chef: She weaponizes it while trying to assassinate the protagonist in the leadup to the third Lostbelt by cooking a cake too delicious to resist and mixing just the right amount of poison into it so that the flavor would fool even a mage.
Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: As the Beast of Taming, her advantages and disadvantages have two layers to them. First, her fake Beast class makes her deal half damage against Casters and be neutral to everything else. Second, her Nega-Weapon passive gives her an offensive advantage against "Hominidae Servant" Servants i.e. Servants of human origins, but also gives her a defensive disadvantage against "Demonic Beast-type" Servants i.e. Servants that are animal-based. These two overlap with each other, so for example she deals normal damage against Merlin since he has the "Hominidae Servant" trait but he's also a Caster, while Scáthach-Skadi, who doesn't have the "Hominidae Servant" trait, resists her attacks.
Taking You with Me: She threatens Chaldea with this in the Indian Lostbelt to get them to rescue her from God Arjuna's Mahapralaya, charging enough energy to blow herself and the Shadow Border to kingdom come lest they take her aboard.
Teleportation: Thanks to her Independent Manifestation skill and The Foreign God's permission, she has the power to instantly warp to any Lostbelt as she pleases. Since even the Foreign God can't breach the Wandering Sea, she has to resort to using a case of lipstick Goredolf kept to create a link as her backdoor to teleport there.
Unlimited Wardrobe: She gets a new outfit for almost every Lostbelt; a commissar uniform for Russia, a qipao for China, a sari for India, and a green dress for Britain.
Variable Mix: Interestingly, her boss fight is currently as of this writing the only one to feature this kind of music. Each of her phases in her nascent Beast form features music from the first four Lostbelts for her four phases to demonstrate her accumulation of power from each one, while the main motif pinning these all together is a remix of Tamamo's theme.
Villainous Rescue: She pulls one in Avalon le Fae by using her Beast powers to absorb the massive flood of curses released by Cernunnos's awakening, allowing Chaldea to navigate more freely. She does this to honor Murian's dying Last Request that she help out Chaldea, as Murian became a Morality Pet to her.
Walking Spoiler: At first, she's represented as a "Tamamo tail gone rogue", but as the story further advanced, her origin became so heavily complicated that it's impossible to talk about her true origin without mentioning one significant spoiler regarding her.
Wild Card: Both Kotomine and Kadoc view her as one, with Kotomine admitting that it's best to view her as a mercenary who works solely for pay. To wit, she's never really stayed on the same side for very long.
- She doesn't really help Kadoc or Ophelia with their Lostbelts, preferring to just mess around and immediately leave them out to dry if anything seems to be going badly.
- She offers her services to bolster Akuta's effort in "Lostbelt No. 3: The Synchronized Intellect Nation, SIN", but after Qin Shi Huang reveals that he knows about her true identity and promptly locks her up and tortures her, along with Akuta abandoning her to her fate since she always hated her, this pisses her off enough to agree to work with Chaldea. But even with this alliance, she only gives the one antidote on her as a Sadistic Choice, and while she does promise to make another one (and does deliver it when all is said and done) she fully intended to try and get them all killed fighting Qin Shi Huang, Akuta, and the Tree of Emptiness in the process, and takes advantage of the chaos at the end of the Lostbelt to slip out.
- She's part of the inner circle of God Arjuna for the fourth Lostbelt as an observer of what's going on, until Douman convinces Arjuna that Koyanskaya isn't worthy of being allowed to survive his Yuga cycles, forcing her to once again seek Chaldea for refuge.
- She begins proactively pursuing her goal to become a Beast full-time in Olympus and breaks away from helping the Crypters to focus on that. However, Beryl manages to convince her to join him with the promise of capturing the White Dragon Albion.
- In Britain, she switches sides depending on who is more likely to help her get ahead at any given moment. She initially is content with her haul from Britain after detaching herself from Beryl and plans to leave the Lostbelt, only for Murian to hire her as a bodyguard in exchange for various records. Then Oberon makes a deal with her to prevent some of Morgan's troops from attacking Chaldea's side in exchange for info on the actual location of Albion's body. She then saves Chaldea from Cernunnos as a personal favor to Murian.
Worf Had the Flu:
- In the third Lostbelt, she was caught by complete surprise when knocked out and captured, and then she was imprisoned with special sutras and tortured to ensure she couldn't build up the strength to fight back.
- In the fourth Lostbelt, her fight with Aśvatthāman goes against her both because Douman gave him some sutras to counteract her and she couldn't summon more than one of her tails, as that would have risked her apotheosis into the Nine-Tailed Fox far too early for her liking since she's not ready to be her own independent entity.

The Gunman ("Lostbelt No 5: Atlantis" Spoilers!)

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A mysterious entity waiting in the room where the body of Subject E resides waiting for David Bluebook to finally arrive.

Ambiguously Human: While they don't display any powers to denote them as a Servant or any other mystical creature, their knowledge about David Bluebook and his eventual arrival at Area 51, the odd state they end up leaving Bluebook's corpse, and the fact that Bluebook's power as the Last Master of CHALDEAS's humanity should only work if he was the last human alive points to them being something else.
The Anticipator: They awaited Bluebook's arrival at Area 51 so they could shoot and kill him.
Diabolus ex Machina: Right as Bluebook was about to get a close look at Subject E the gunman appears out of nowhere and shoots him dead.
Sinister Silhouettes: They only appear as an odd silhouette that rather than the standard dark colors instead looks like a mixture of red, black, and brown with an apparent texture.
The Spook: Just about nothing is known about them, while it can be inferred that they work for the Foreign God based on the fact they were allowed to be near Subject E their motivation, role, abilities, and appearance are a complete unknown. Even by the time Ordeal Call starts when Chaldea is able to piece together most of the mysteries up to that point, they still don't even know about the gunman's existence.

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