Morgan (Unmarked "Lostbelt No. 6: Fairy Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae" Spoilers!)

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Winter Queen of Faerie Britain

^{Second Ascension}

^{Third Ascension}

^{Final Ascension}

^{The Winter Queen}

^{Young Morgan aka Aesc the Savior}

^{April Fool's}

^{April Fool's Fate/Grail League}

Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa

"So you have summoned me... Berserker, Morgan. I am the queen of Faerie Britain, who still curses Proper Human History. If that is not an issue, then I shall lend you my power as a Servant. The fact remains that I am a Queen. I expect you to serve as my subject. Or would you prefer that I treat you as a husband (wife)?"

Daughter of Queen Igraine and Uther Pendragon, sister of Altria Pendragon, niece of Vortigern, and a powerful witch. After being passed over the throne despite being Uther's eldest child and successor, she become obsessed with getting vengeance towards her sibling for doing so. To do so, she manipulated events to give birth to Mordred, who would bring about the end of Camelot.

This is an alternate tale from a disregarded history, where Morgan succeeded her father as ruler of Britain and thus, never becomes the vile witch that she would be famously known as. Under her rule, the world never leaves the Age of Gods, and humanity would then be replaced by many different Phantasmals, such as fairies. This would lead Alaya to consider her world a dead end, and be pruned, only to be brought back by the Foreign God's Trees of Emptiness. At least, so it seems at a first glance...

In truth, both the world of the British Lostbelt and the Morgan that originates from it are vastly different from Proper Human History. Born with the name Vivian in 4000 BC in the heart of Avalon as Gaia's agent, the Avalon le Fae, she was sent to Faerie Britain to correct the sins of the Six Faeries by ringing the Six Bells and forging Excalibur in their place, but was slain by local faeries soon after arrival. In 2017 AD, Beryl Gut arrived in the barren British Lostbelt and summoned Morgan le Fay of Proper Human History to destroy it. Morgan le Fay instead decided to save Faerie Britain from its doomed path by Rayshifting her memories and her love for Britain to her Lostbelt self in 4000 BC right before she was slain, giving Vivian knowledge of the future to avoid death. From there, Vivian took the name Aesc and worked for thousands of years as a hero to bring peace to Faerie Britain and the faeries on top of her mission, but she was persecuted at every turn. Eventually Vivian lost hope in her ideals and abandoned her mission as the Avalon le Fae and her role as Aesc the Savior in favor of protecting only the land of Faerie Britain. In 0 AD, she used the Tree of Emptiness Seyfert to change the British Lostbelt into a timeline equal to Proper Human History, conquered the Six Faerie Clans with her might, and ruled with an iron fist and a frozen heart as the tyrannical Winter Queen Morgan until 2017 AD when she could overwrite Proper Human History, the other Lostbelts, and the planet with her kingdom.

She appears in the main story as the Lostbelt King of "Lostbelt No. 6: Fairy Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae". She features in the "Sea Monster Crisis" event as an ally and "Chaldea Faerie Knight Cup" as the hostess and ultimate Super Boss.

For tropes on her Proper Human History self, go to the section on Beryl's Servant here and for her Summer version, see here under Aesc the Savior's tab.

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Absurdly High Level Cap: A story example. Upon Morgan's fourth ascension, she denotes that she's only at a third of her actual power as a Lostbelt King. Given she used Loophole Abuse to do pilgrimages more than once, each time powering her up abit more, it's safe to say that Morgan had no level cap and could plausibly go as much as she wished for the sake of gaining further power. To wit though, a little math would reveal that her level of power would've at least been around 240, considering getting up to fourth ascension requires her to be at 80 in the first place.
Actually a Doombot: After a hard fought duel in the battle to take Camelot, Morgan is finally defeated by Altria Caster and Chaldea, who begin to relax thinking the battle is won. Then Morgan suddenly reappears and reveals that what they defeated was just one of several copies running around at the moment. Two more copies show up and the three Morgans proceed to stomp the heroes' asses straight into the ground.
Affably Evil: She's extremely ruthless and self-centered, but she's also unfailingly polite and honest.
Age Lift: She's been queen of Faerie Britain for over 2000 years, making her at least 500 years older than her Proper Human History counterpart who was born around 500 AD. Following The Reveal, her physical age can be placed at least 6000 years old, but her mental age is at least several thousand years older. Beryl in Olympus sarcastically calls her an "old hag" because of this.
Alas, Poor Villain: Definitely suffers the most horrific and tragic death out of all the Lostbelt Kings as she doesn't get to go out in a blaze of glory defending her world like the rest of them do. Instead, she gets taken down by a cheap shot when her staunchest supporter Woodwose is tricked by Aurora into believing she betrayed him and mauls her in retaliation. She attempts to defend herself but is forced to stand down when Spriggan reveals he's holding her daughter Tristan hostage, leaving her open to her subjects who were driven into a frenzy by Aurora spreading lies about how Morgan is responsible for all the Mors and Calamities that plague Britain, as well as killing Lostbelt Uther to cause strife between the Six Faerie Clans when Morgan was the one who was protecting them all from the Calamities and was Lostbelt Uther's strongest supporter. Already on the brink of death, Morgan cannot do more as the mob beats her to death than feebly protest her innocence and beg that they return the throne to her, that she cannot bear to lose the country she tried so hard to save. Her pleas go unheard, and she dies vilified and betrayed by everyone else one last time.
All for Nothing: Act 3 of Avalon le Fae cements all her efforts as this. Everything she did was a desperate attempt to protect her beloved Faerie Britain from Cernunnos when he inevitably awakens and take over Proper Human History, but she dies without ever getting the chance to accomplish either. With Morgan dead, Cernunnos awakens and instantly turns Britain into a blazing hell with no survivors. This was within her expectations, and it looks like her efforts might pay off when Altria Caster uses all the magical energy Morgan accumulated throughout her reign to weaken Cernunnos enough for him to be killed by the Black Barrel Replica. However, Vortigern makes his move and finishes what Cernunnos started by smashing the entire island to pieces then sucking it into a Bottomless Pit, and once he's defeated as well the Lostbelt goes through the standard Cosmos Denial.
Alternate Self: This version of Morgan is from the British Lostbelt rather than being the one from Proper Human History, albeit having the memories of her PHH self added to her own. One result of this is that she's the Queen of Camelot and has her own Knights of the Round Table with no Arthur or Altria in sight. Despite this, she only uses PHH Morgan's memories for magic and ruling know-how and is fully aware of herself; notably this version is only referred to as simply "Morgan" in-game, as opposed to "Morgan le Fay" like in other Fate media. The relationship between the two from Lostbelt Morgan's perspective is similar to Stheno and Euryale, and she will refer to PHH Morgan with first-person pronouns in quotation marks like "I" or "myself" rather than someone else wholly separate.
And Then What?: This version of Morgan has been Ruler of Faerie Britain for a very long time, accomplishing something her younger Proper Human History self did not achieve. But the bitter experiences she accumulated to reach that point and her manner of ruling has changed her to the point she has grown bored with the passions that drove her younger Proper Human History self (though her profile warns if she's backed into a corner that part of her could resurface). In the story itself, Morgan acknowledges her efforts to preserve Faerie Britain could potentially doom the planet itself, but she is long past the point of caring.
Anger Born of Worry: The only times she pays attention to Baobhan Sith is if she messes up somehow and then scolds her afterward to the point that Baobhan Sith fears hearing "Why are you like this?" yet again. Unfortunately, it's the only way she can express her concern thanks to her Broken Bird tendencies.
Anti-Villain: Combination of the Noble and Woobie varieties. While she is a ruthless and brutal tyrant, the sheer amount of crap she's gone through in her life along with seeing what she was like prior make her extremely sympathetic. Furthermore, she still has some genuinely redeeming traits, such as her politeness and courtesy, always keeping her word, her love for her daughter, and the fact that she genuinely values her few loyal subordinates and treats them quite well, with most of the rocky parts of her relations with them stemming less from any sort of genuine Bad Boss tendencies on her part and more from depression and apathy.
Apple of Discord: She was the Apple during her time as Aesc. Her status as the Child of Prophecy and a Fey born outside of Britain led to a near 50/50 split amongst the natives on whether to accept her or get rid of her.
Arch-Enemy: Her greatest enemy in her eyes is surprisingly enough not Altria Caster, but the Isle of Britain itself that tries to destroy the land against her wishes, personified as Oberon Vortigern. Morgan has nothing but hatred for Oberon, but it's a bit complicated on his end.
The Archmage: As expected of Morgan le Fay, already an evil witch on par with the Grand Caster in Proper Human History, now something even greater since this alternate Lostbelt Morgan inherited the memories from her PHH counterpart and received tutoring from Odin himself. To say she's possibly the greatest magus to ever walk the earth is not an exaggeration; the Chaldean claims she's crossed over into the realm of the gods themselves, Altria Caster calls her a genius and the greatest of all the Avalon le Fae, and Beryl calls her a cheating monster with a Story-Breaker Power.
- She managed to reconstruct Rhongomyniad into magecraft, which is said to be a Mystery surpassing even the Animusphere Magecraft at the height of its power in the Greek Lostbelt.
- She turned her city of Camelot into a Mystic Code meant to regulate all the energy she's accumulated with her throne as the key and the controller. The theory behind it is so complex that it would take a genius to use it without hurting themselves, yet despite its immense size she made it without any flaws.
- Her Water Mirror spell mimics Rayshifting in function, capable of taking its targets through space and through time, has a power output on par with a super nuclear reactor (which Da Vinci claims is equal to about 2 months of electricity usage by Chaldea including Servant upkeep and Rayshifting, or approaching the Machine Gods of Olympus) and she can cast it from at least 150km away.
- Her Infinity Mirror is a Portal Network stretching across Britain that rivals True Magic.
- She also reverse-engineers Chaldea's summoning system, and is capable of conjuring up QP on the fly to pay Chaldea with by analyzing their energy signatures. And when she actually has Mash's shield to act as a summoning platform, she doesn't simply summon a Divine Spirit in the form of Taisui Xingjun, she outright creates a new Heroic Spirit which Chaldea can summon back as she was using the Round Table to summon him.
- Most impressively, similar to fellow Lostbelt King Zeus, Morgan sought to subvert her Tree of Emptiness and allow her Lostbelt to exist without needing to use it as a battery. But unlike Zeus whose method was still in the planning stages, Morgan succeeded over 2,000 years ago by reverse-engineering the tree's functions into a Cosmic Keystone of her own design, converting her Lostbelt into a "Lostworld" that runs equal to Proper Human History.
- She can also perform magical plastic surgery on the fly. Aesc used this to create a decoy while she made her escape.
The Artifact: Parts of Morgan’s profile treats her as if she was the exact same as PHH Morgan until the timeline divergence happened even though Lostbelt Morgan’s life was completely different. This is probably a holdover from when she was originally just PHH Morgan.
Ascended Extra: While Morgan has appeared in other Fate media, such as Fate/Apocrypha or Lord El-Melloi II Case Files, it has only been as a flashback character at best or The Ghost at worst. Lostbelt Queen Morgan marks the first time that Morgan has appeared as an active character in a Fate story, somewhat ironically because her pre-Lostbelt self remained a flashback character due to being gone.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: How did Morgan become queen 2,000 years ago and hold onto the throne in a world full of backstabbers? She just showed up, fought all six faerie clans on her own, and emerged triumphant.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Morgan analyzed the Tree of Emptiness and then combined it with her PHH self's analysis of Chaldea's Rayshifting formula to solve the whole plot of Cosmos in the Lostbelt. Upon her (supposed) defeat, she uses this knowledge to give hints and nudge Chaldea towards the truth, and that hint is compounded on by Daybit's Motive Rant in Lostbelt 7.
Barrier Maiden: She is both a non-fantastic and a fantastic version:
- For non-fantastic version, Morgan's iron-fisted rule looks like the primary problem of the Lostbelt on the surface, when in reality it's the solution: the Fae are very much The Fair Folk and will backstab and kill themselves into extinction if given half the chance, and Morgan's magical might is the only thing in the Lostbelt that can repel monstrosities like Cernunnos or the Foreign God. Morgan's tyranny is quite literally the only thing keeping anything in Faerie Britain stable, and once she dies, the Lostbelt devolves into a blazing hellscape in record time.
- For fantastic version, Morgan herself turns out to be the thing keeping the Faerie Britain from destroying the entire world. She is keeping Cernunnos sealed inside the Great Pit. The former is a god who can destroy the world with his curses and the latter will unleash the Abyssal Worm that can also destroy the world by sucking everything into a Bottomless Pit if Cernunnos is killed. And because the "Lostbelt" is actually a Lostworld, creatures can escape from there to the real world, meaning that the chaos they can cause can spread out and wipe out the remains of the bleached world.
Battle Theme Music: Her boss music simply titled "Tonelico" is a One-Woman Wail rearrangement of "Winter's Throne" with snippets of "Sword of Promised Victory" and "Memories of Winter" interspersed into the piece. The existence of this music and what it represents to Morgan is enough of a spoiler that players who have Morgan but have not beaten the second arc of Avalon le Fae cannot have it used as her Theme Music Power-Up.
Becoming the Mask: As her Valentine scene reveals her initial declaration as the master’s wife was a sarcastic comment meant to get a rise out of the others around them. But as time went on she actually did fall for them.
Being Evil Sucks: While her time as Aesc the Savior certainly fell into Being Good Sucks, her reign as the Winter Queen shows this applies just as much. While she's no longer bullied or persecuted like she was prior, she's also shown to be almost completely alone, whereas Aesc at least genuine friends and True Companions. Furthermore, her aloof and icy demeanor alienates her few loyal subordinates, with both Barghest and Woodwose turning against her because of it (although in the case of the latter, it also required some outside manipulation). Most tragically of all, it leaves her unable to connect with and properly raise the one person she loves most, Baobhan Sith, which would spiral into the chain of events that would lead to both her and her daughters particularly miserable final moments.
Being Good Sucks: Her time as Aesc the Savior is full of this. In exchange for setting aside her justified grudge against the rest of the Fae for the genocide of the Rain Clan and going out of her way to save them from various Calamities and trying to keep them from driving themselves into extinction, she's rewarded with relentless persecution and being hounded by the Fae for 'meddling' in Britain's affairs and telling them what to do, even though it's absolutely necessary for their survival.
Benevolent Boss: Surprisingly enough, yes. Despite her cold and aloof demeanor, Morgan's overall treatment of her subordinates is actually quite decent, at least for the ones who are genuinely loyal. She's stated to have given Melusine honors, favors, and support for her services, granted Barghest her title as thanks for her achievements in the Caterpillar Wars and is surprisingly tolerant towards Barghest's questioning of her. She also grants Woodwose a Mercy Kill along with praising him for his earnest efforts to serve her even after (at least from her perspective) he's turned on her for no reason, and as seen in her Valentines scene, displays genuine regard for them and their issues.
Berserk Button: If you have Oberon summoned, the normally polite Morgan actually starts cussing and calls him a "shitty bug" that she should have squashed a long time ago. Not even Altria herself draws such heated revulsion.
Better the Devil You Know: Played with. The Chaldean's chat with her brings up the idea that her ending (ruling Britain until the world dies) is much more preferable to what the Foreign God has planned. And naturally, after her death in Lostbelt No. 6, everything goes to shit.
Big Eater: While it doesn't get much attention brought to it, it's hinted Morgan has an appetite to rival Altria's as shown in her Birthday line, where she states that after they celebrate the protagonist's birthday together, they will hold the "greatest feast" in honor of their summoning anniversary, with no hint that she intends to share it with anyone other than the protagonist.
Black Magic: Being one of the most infamous witches in myth, it's no surprise Morgan has mastered her fair share of dark magic. Her attack animation shows off some of her arsenal of maleficium which includes, turning herself into a living voodoo doll to skewer her opponent using her own body, draining the life/mana out of her enemies, a maelstrom of darkness, and crushing her enemies' hearts into a bloody pulp from a gesture. In story, she forces an Existence Tax on the fairies that requires them to generate mana, and once a year should they fail to do so, they die on the spot as the spell drains their lives to compensate.
Blood Knight: As Aesc the Savior, she gained many of her companions by kicking their asses and Totorot comments that she'll happily throw down with any monster who looks at her funny just to kill time. Aesc is rather embarrassed at that assertion, but there's an explicit mention during Mash's travels with them that Aesc would delay them just for the opportunity to beat up a monster. She still seems to keep this notion as Morgan the Winter Queen, relishing in the idea of not destroying Chaldea in the first move (read: giving them a chance to win) before utterly trouncing them, one of her Battle Start quotes being hoping for a worthy foe and one of her victory quotes being an amused statement of there never being enough insurgents to kill in any era.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: She has an idiosyncratic way of looking at the world which looks very strange to someone more normal. For her, hatred is less personal enmity, and more incompatibility. Justice and evil is defined whether one stands with her or against her. Combining her views with her dampened emotions causes her to come across as more machine than human.
Boomerang Bigot: Subverted. At a first glance it looks like she's a faerie who hates other faeries, but Oberon mentions that by Proper Human History standards only Morgan and Altria Caster qualify as faeries. The Lostbelt faeries evolved over 14,000 years into an exceedingly close yet still distinct species, as Morgan has long since turned back on her purpose yet won't decay into a Mors and she still has her Glam Sight. When it comes to other PHH faeries like Gloriana and Britomart, Morgan is much more considerate and respectful towards them than her subjects.
Born Winner: Since this version of Morgan never knew true failure, she sees herself as one of these. Which gets horribly subverted when we learn of her past in her alias, Aesc.
Break the Cutie: Aesc started her journey as an idealistic girl who only wanted a peaceful Britain. Several thousand years later, countless failures to unite the warring faerie clans, and relentless persecution from those she wanted to help, Aesc finally fell into despair and gave up on believing in others, becoming a Fallen Hero.
Breakout Character: Enough of one to rival the likes of Jeanne Alter and Ereshkigal in terms of popularity, and easily the most popular of the Lostbelt Kings, even beating out Scáthach-Skadi. Fans were already interested in her Proper Human History counterpart due to her role in Arthurian Legend and connection to Altria, and her Lostbelt self was moderately popular upon her release with Lostbelt No. 6 Act 1 due to her appearance, her playable version's personality, and her excellent gameplay, but didn't get much of a chance to make an impression since she was Out of Focus in Act 1 and her gameplay was initially overshadowed by Arjuna Alter's due to large overlap. It was only after her first banner ended that her popularity exploded; the "Grand Nero Fest 2021" event had plenty of opportunities for her to show that she could stand as a good unit in her own right, and the release of Koyanskaya of Light skyrocketed her value and made her one of the most valued AoE Servants in the game. In addition, the release of Act 2 revealed her massive Hidden Depths, especially her horrific backstory and relationship with her Faerie Knights and Aesc's companions. Many fans afterwards lamented they did not roll for her when they had the chance, and the developers have noticed — they've given her TWO Summoning Campaigns within ten months of her debut. And then she got added to Arcade just one and a half years after her debut, where as Skadi took four years. Six months after that, she got a second version released featuring her much desired swimsuit form packaged alongside her younger self Aesc the Savior in new outfits.
Brilliant, but Lazy: By the time Chaldea meets her, Morgan is all but sedentary in discourse and action. Despite having immense magical prowess that could allow her to dispense most threats with ease and enough emotional intelligence to perceive what vexes the few members of her inner circle that she's fond of, her weariness from thousands of years of struggle causes her to do and say little. Thus she has the dubious distinction of being the only Lostbelt King that the protagonists never managed to defeat or sway to their side while also being the only one who was murdered by a third party due to having allowed them to grossly outpace her.
Broken Ace: Morgan is stated by Beryl to be a legitimate rival to the Foreign God and lives up to it in stature and feats. She's also a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds that had the most horrible Dark and Troubled Past and suffered the worst Trauma Conga Line of the bunch (which is saying a lot considering the more unfortunate Lostbelt Kings like Ivan), which sent her catapulting across the Despair Event Horizon and turned her from a Wide-Eyed Idealist out to save Britain, humanity and the fairies into The Caligula who doesn't care at all if her actions lead to everyone dying horribly.
Broken Bird: On a personal level she's this. She lost almost every single one of her friends, and the last one Habetrot left her half because she wanted to accompany Mash and half because she disagreed with her plans to subjugate Britain, leaving her alone for the next 2,400 years. The only person dear to her she has left is Baobhan Sith, except she has extreme trouble showing her love separate from anger because of her trauma and spends more time shutting herself away physically and emotionally.
Brought Down to Badass: While it's an accepted fact that incarnating in a Servant container limits a Heroic Spirit's power, Morgan is one of the few to comment on it and make a direct comparison upon her Final Ascension, noting that even all the resources granted to her have left her at 'about a third' of her original power at most. She's still a monstrously powerful Servant and among the best Berserkers in the game, and her genius in magecraft remains as sharp as ever.
The Caligula: She's a tyrant who oppresses Faerie Britain, and is regarded by her subjects as the embodiment of evil. It's not as if her behavior is unwarranted, however.
Call-Back: Her tragic time-travel attempts to "fix" Britain are reminiscent of Altria's original wish in the Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero duology. Unlike her sister, who learned to accept her failure and moved on, Morgan gave in to despair and is haunted by resentment and guilt.
Character Title: She along with her replacement Altria Caster are the Avalon le Fae, fairies born to destroy Britain by correcting the repercussions of the Six Fairies' sins.
The Chosen One:
- As elaborated on in the light novel Garden of Avalon, Morgan was the inheritor of the primeval, black cursed mana of the British Isles that was thought to have died with Uther and marked its wielder as the chosen King of Britain and owner of the island itself. Despite Morgan being the black mana's wielder Uther chose Altria as his successor, in Morgan's eyes depriving her of her birthright.
- She was the first Avalon le Fae, the fairy who would correct the faeries' sins. Unfortunately, she abandoned her role after several failures and falling into despair, forcing Gaia to create Altria Caster as a replacement.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed, but her third Bond Line has her mentioning that the protagonist doesn't need any other Berserkers now that she's here and that they should dismiss the rest, admitting that she's been "thinking strangely" about this for some time.
I have wondered about this for some time... Why are there Berserker-class Servants here other than me? Fire them all. We don't need them.
Clone by Conversion: When Aesc finally snapped at the faeries' final betrayal at Londinium, she used her magecraft to erase the memories of the faerie who sold her and her allies out and change her appearance to look just like her. This faerie was executed screaming for mercy, while Aesc used this opportunity to go into hiding and prepare for her big "comeback" as Morgan.
Combat Pragmatist: Pretends to perish when the protagonists defeats "her" during the climax of the Sixth Lostbelt's second part, only to try and ambush them once their guard is down with another one of her copies. When that fails, she sends more duplicates after the group to overwhelm them with sheer force.
Composite Character:
- In the classic versions of Arthurian legend, it was Morgan's sister Morgause who was the mother of Gawain, Mordred and their siblings. A lot of modern media combines them and Fate is no exception.
- Her summonable counterpart is herself a combination of her original Aesc persona with the memories that PHH Morgan sent back to her. This along with the years she had to deal with the Faeries of her Lostbelt is why she differs so much in personality to her PHH counterpart.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Goddess Rhongomyniad, the main villain of the original Camelot Singularity, to complement how Avalon le Fae's position in Cosmos in the Lostbelt is a Plot Parallel to said Singularity.
- In terms of origin, Rhongomyniad came to be after Bedivere failed to return Excalibur to the Faerie of the Lake, allowing the spear to take over Altria's body, whereas Morgan as the Lostbelt's Faerie Queen came to be because she chose not to forge Excalibur in the first place.
- Their ultimate goals are opposite to each other. Rhongomyniad's plan was to use the spear itself as a space ship to escape the Incineration of Human History, housing the Lawful Good humans she had gathered and preserving them for all eternity within the spear; by contrast, Morgan's sole aim is to preserve the land of Faerie Britain at all costs, regardless of what happens to her people or if the world comes to an end because of Faerie Britain's continued existence.
- The way both of them are defeated is also related to someone they cared about. In Rhongomyniad's case, Bedivere returning Excalibur to her breaks her control over Altria, allowing Chaldea to defeat her once and for all; in Morgan's case, she gets blindsided both by Woodwose's despair induced surprise attack and by Spriggan using Baobhan Sith as a hostage, giving his guards the opening they needed to mortally wound her.
- Finally, the way both meet their ends. After giving Chaldea one last warning about the nature of the Babylonian Singularity, Altria spends her last moments comforting Sir Agravain, praising him for his unwavering loyalty to her and they both go out gracefully. Morgan's death however is anything but comforting, spending her last moments trying to return to her throne after being mortally wounded she's stabbed to death by her court after Aurora spreads lies about her past as Aesc and her handling of the Calamities, unable to do anything but beg her subjects to stop while Baobhan Sith is forced to watch as her mother is gutted.
Control Freak: With Calamities descending upon her country and her people slowly mutating into Mors due to the dwindling number of humans on the planet, Morgan's more preoccupied with gaming the prophecy regarding the "Child of Salvation" so that whoever they are won't challenge her rule than she is about saving the kingdom and its people.
Cool Chair: She owns an absolutely massive throne that she can summon out of thin air to sit on whenever she uses her Noble Phantasm or a skill. The throne itself is the key to wielding all the energy she's gathered from the fairies, and coded so only the Avalon le Fae are capable of using it.
Cosmic Plaything: She may have been chosen by the land of Britain in Proper Human History and Gaia in the Lostbelt, but Lostbelt No. 6 shows fate and everyone else was determined to screw Morgan over no matter what she did in every timeline. For starters, her role as The Chosen One in her Lostbelt is to end the land of Faerie Britain by forging Excalibur, something both incarnations of Morgan (PHH and Lostbelt) were fiercely against, not to mention that doing so involves her having to sacrifice her life and very existence. She then tried three times to subvert that fate and save Britain via time travel, but failed every attempt because the fairies she was trying to save slaughtered her and her companions. To add insult to injury, she's killed off for good by getting betrayed one last time by her power-hungry subjects looking to carve up her kingdom for their own ends. Even turning into a despot and oppressing those who would betray her did nothing but delay the inevitable. And then Act 3 shows that even in death, life can't help but kick her down one last time. All her preparations for the Cernunnos's awakening still weren't enough to actually defeat him by herself and she very likely would have died from the sheer strain of fighting him; and if, somehow, she had managed to defeat him, she would have still had to contend with the Abyssal Worm coming out of the Pit to finish what Cernunnos started. By the end of the story, her country is set on fire, smashed to pieces, sucked into an abyss, and then erased from existence. All that suffering and hard work over the course of thousands of years and failures, and she has nothing to show for it in the end. The cherry on top is that the only tangible proof of her Lostbelt's existence is not even something she herself created but rather its own version of Excalibur, forged by Altria Caster, the one thing she had fought against doing all those centuries.
Crazy-Prepared: Lostbelt Morgan is a prime example why you should never allow a magus time and resources to prepare. Knowing that someday she would have to face an apocalyptic, existential threat to Faerie Britain, Morgan harnessed immense amounts of magical energy, invented many powerful spells (including time-travel and a self-duplication spell) and created twelve copies of a Divine Construct. The lattermost of which could threaten Olympus itself with a single shot so Morgan was as prepared as she ever could be to fell Cernunnos.
Curtains Match the Window: Her pale blue eyes and hair match exactly, although she wasn't born that way.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: She deconstructs several as the story of the Lostbelt goes on.
- Messianic Archetype: Morgan was sent to Britain to repent for the Fairies' sin of not creating Excalibur and went further by trying to save the fae. However, because she wanted to save the fae she has become blinded to the fact that the Fae are too corrupt and selfish to listen to a savior and are beyond saving with them have tried many times to kill her with third time being what makes her snap. And devolved into a tyrant who would willingly let Timelines be destroyed and even turn against former companions like Mash.
- Big Bad: Her status as a tyrant who abuses her subjects makes many think that things would automatically become better once she’s overthrown. However, the public having an easily prominent figure to go against means that the more subtle and worst manipulators like Aurora and Oberon can easily set up the events that would lead to her death and the fall of Britain.
- Evil Overlord: While at first, she's set up as your typical fantasy style tyrant like Sauron, the revelation of her past shows her to be a sad, miserable woman who's been utterly broken by trauma. Furthermore, living amongst ruthless, scheming minions leads to her being betrayed and backstabbed, with her few loyal subordinates turned against her and her beloved daughter being used against her. Given that she was willing to give up everything for Baobhan Sith, it's all but outright stated that what she really wants is not power, but self-worth and love.
- The Pollyanna: During her time as Aesc she can be cheerful even in the face of persecution. However, as revealed by her conversations with Mash and Habetrot all of that was just a coping mechanism to keep her from going insane and it all goes down the drain the third time she tried to save the Fae.
- Determinator: She was by far the most hardworking of all the Lostbelt Kings, powering through betrayal after betrayal as Aesc and then having to rule the perfidious faeries as Queen Morgan to ensure Faerie Britain's survival. Not only was all of this a wasted effort from the start, as the Calamities would kept getting worse the longer Faerie Britain existed, her actions also ended up endangering the world outside of her own realm precisely because of her turning Faerie Britain from a Lostbelt to a Lostworld.
- Broken Ace: Despite being The Archmage who can pretty much trash anyone who looks funnily at her with just a flick of her wrist, her own emotional and psychological scars means that she's unable to see the web of intrigue her treacherous subjects prepare against her through the use of those closest to her until it's too late for her to do anything about it.
Death from Above: Her Extra Attack and her Noble Phantasm involves dropping massive blue magical spears on her targets that explode, the spears themselves looking identical to the spears Altria Caster manifests with Carnwennan. In Olympus, she shows she can do this to great effect, deploying her Rhongomyniad magecraft on Beryl's signal to destroy the entire city.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Done in a subtle way, but it's clear that she's come to genuinely crave for the protagonist's affection in a more genuine and intimate way beyond blind worship. She continues to demand that they shower her in attention and gifts but unlike the first bond line when she says so matter-of-factly, she's slightly blushing while bashfully avoiding eye contact whenever she makes her usual demands by the time you reach her fourth bond and birthday lines.
Despair Event Horizon: She crossed this during her third attempt to fulfill her role as the Avalon le Fae along with creating an ideal nation of peace and almost succeeded when her companions were slaughtered by the fairies she was trying to save. She came to the conclusion that Hobbes Was Right, and slowly fell from the warm-hearted Aesc the Savior to the cold tyrant of the present day.
Despair Speech: She gives one in the aftermath of her Round Table's mass poisoning by the faeries. It starts with her laughing madly, and goes downhill from there.
Aesc: Ha... Haha. Ahaha. Hahaha. Ahahahahahahaha!!! I give up. If even all this has failed, if it's all come to nothing, then I can never believe in people's so-called goodness, nor even understand it. Even if I did, what would be the point? Everything I did, everything I worked for...was just a waste of time. After all the times they betrayed me, I should have known better. But I still clung foolishly to a sliver of hope. And now, because I wasted my time caring about something so utterly absurd, I've failed yet again. If my intent is to keep Britain alive... If that's what I want, then I was a fool to think being its savior was the way to accomplish it. No more. I will find another way. A better way. ...That's it. I won't deliver the faeries absolution; I won't deliver salvation. Enough of this faerie of paradise, of being Avalon Le Fae. I should have ruled this land from the start.
Determined Defeatist: Her dying monologue reveals that she knew deep down her chances of actually winning were slim. She still tried her hardest to create a beautiful kingdom so at the very least, it would live on forever in Chaldea's memories when they inevitably came to destroy it.
Detrimental Determination: She will never stop trying to shape Britain into her home, no matter how long it takes or what she has to give up, and this determination is as admirable as it is the source of her greatest woes. It is what gave her the strength to traverse the storm of wailing voices that Altria Caster struggled against for all her life, but she suffered countless tragedies over the course of thousands of years and crumbled into a hollow shell of her once noble self. Despite all she lost and gave up, she still can't find it in her to let go of Britain and just do her duty to end her suffering, and dies a miserable death for it.
Deus Exit Machina: In the "Sea Monster Crisis" event, Morgan spends most of the event away from Chaldea as she was simply hitching a ride on the Rayshift, instead spending her time relaxing with some stray Con. When she makes her presence known as Chaldea is struggling to defeat Dagon, she turns the whole thing around by summoning Taisui Xingjun without any prior planning.
Morgan: It's infuriating. I can't even calmly stroke this thing because it's too noisy.
Mash: Morgan!?
Da Vinci: I've always felt like there was someone who was Rayshifting without my permission, but it turned out to be you! No, well, not now, anyway-
The Protagonist: We need your help!
Mash: I'm asking you to do the same! Please help us!
Didn't See That Coming: This applies a few ways for her.
- Despite being monstrously strong as an opponent, she specialized in brute force over her hold over her allies or how loyal they were to her, or dealing with subterfuge against her. Woodwose gets tricked by Aurora into believing that Morgan sent him to die, which has him give her a mortal wound. After which, Aurora steps in and throws out Blatant Lies to rile her remaining entourage against Morgan.
- She revived Beryl as thanks for giving her a second chance at ruling Britain. Despite her disdain of Proper Human History and it's mages, she ends up reviving one of the few people who could massively screw her over and does. Part of Avalon le Fae's drama stems from Beryl's hedonistic tendencies.
- Despite stating that the Protagonist must serve her as a retainer or as a husband[/]wife, she said so out of disdain for Proper Human History mages and sarcastically. In her Valentine's Scene, she notes how ironic it is that her statement turned into truth as she genuinely cares for the protagonist.
Didn't Think This Through: Her decision to allow Beryl to run around free and be close to Baobhan Sith is arguably the biggest mistake she ever makes as his actions lead to Woodwose's near death and gives Aurora plenty of ammunition to manipulate Woodwose into thinking that Morgan betrayed him while Beryl ends up teaching Baobhan Sith curses that end up leaving her crippled and a prime target for Spriggan to hold hostage.
Disc-One Final Boss: She's the main antagonist for the first two acts of Lostbelt No. 6. She dies by the end of Act 2, but there's still one-third of the Lostbelt to go.
Dramatic Irony:
- One factor of her Lostbelt is that the Fairies lost their Glam Sight, which gives them the ability perceive lies. If they kept them, they would've been able to see through Aurora's lies about Morgan causing the Calamities, wanting to keep the Mors conflict going and being responsible for the destruction of the Fang Clan, as well as being able to tell Morgan was telling the truth when pleading her innocence. Not that it's likely they would care anyways.
- For all her preparations to deal with Cernunnos, she never managed to find the last piece of the puzzle: What would make Cernunnos wake up in the first place. The answer? The soul of her adopted daughter Baobhan Sith, who after suffering trauma after trauma, seeing her mother being butchered by her court and then being tossed to the Pit became an acceptable sacrifice for Cernunnos as her hatred of the Fae was attuned to Cernunnos' own. If Morgan had taken a step back from ruling Faerie Britain and looked after her daughter even briefly, Cernunnos might never have risen.
The Dreaded: This Morgan is not just an Alternate Self. This is Morgan of the Lostbelt who has inherited the memories of the original Morgan from Proper Human History, gaining experience and knowledge of magecraft that she then honed for millennia and tempered with her hatred of the faeries. The final result of this was a supreme magus far eclipsing her old self, openly called the World's Strongest Woman who would turn that power on whoever or whatever she wants with no hesitation. Everyone in the Lostbelt, Chaldea included, regards her with fear and awe even as they rally against her — even Merlin, the current fill-in for Grand Caster after Solomon removed himself from the Throne of Heroes and who messes with Physical Gods on a regular basis, doesn't want to mess with her if he can help it.
Dub Name Change: Her identity as Savior was named Tonelico in the Japanese version, but it was changed to Aesc in the English version. Etymologically both names mean "ash tree" in different languages (Japanese vs Old English, respectively). It also creates Foreshadowing of her connection to Odin because "Aesc" is a variation of the Ansuz rune.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: She suffered hard from this as Aesc the Savior. Despite fighting to stop the Calamities and the Great Calamities, as well as all her attempts to unite the faeries and humans into an ideal nation, nothing Aesc did ever stopped faeries from hating her and stringing along others into trying to murder her simply because she's from Avalon. It got to the point she'd start running off to hibernate as soon as the most recent Calamity was defeated just to head off the mobs gearing up to hunt her down. As a result, Aesc began to think negatively about her own few ever-loyal companions and friends, seeing them as only caring about her role and not her as a person, and even before ultimately snapping admitted to Mash in a heart-to-heart she had already given up on her ideal.
Empathic Weapon: Her old Spear of Selection that Lostbelt Percival wields became this. As Aesc's failures, sorrow and grief compiled, so too did the spear change to suit her feelings up to the point it basically no longer runs on magical energy but instead drains the lifeforce of it's user to function. It's existence also changed from "a spear that saves the fairies" to "a spear that kills the fairies", and the feelings Aesc had also flow into the user as well. In the modern day, it's name changed to "White Light" due to the magic trailing behind the blade flowing like tears.
Empty Eyes: As a sign of her trauma her eyes don't reflect light anymore, best seen when comparing her face to 3rd Ascension Altria Caster's during their Noble Phantasms.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- At the end of "Lostbelt No. 6: Fairie Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae, Act 2", she has a confrontation with Spriggan who turned the other Fairies in her court against her. The thing that lowers her guard and results in her dying? Spriggan was holding Baobhan Sith hostage. Morgan even states that she would have made Faerie Britain an absolute dystopia if not for her desire to see Baobhan Sith happy, thus making it the Faerie Britain it is. And as much as she ignores Baobhan Sith on her own devices, she is the only one she truly cares and loves.
- She also cherishes Habetrot, or Tam Lin Totorot as she was known during the time of Aesc, and openly calls her both a friend and a source of strength for her with a warm smile even though she last saw Habetrot over 2000 years ago. That speaks volumes, coming from a queen who holds herself above all others.
- In a similar vein to Baobhan Sith, it's shown that, despite her earlier cold and aloof demeanor, she genuinely cares for and likes Woodwose. Notably, even after he viciously mauls her for (from her perspective) no reason, she doesn't react with anger, but calmly stabs him to give him a Mercy Kill while praising him for his ability as a warrior, his earnest efforts to serve her, and even complimenting how beautiful his fur was and how its current unkempt state doesn't suit him. This is enough to shock him out of his madness and realize she never turned on him, while also giving him enough clarity to pass away peacefully despite turning into a Mors. It's justified considering that not only was Woodwose the only clan head genuinely loyal to her up to this point, he's the reincarnation of Wryneck, one of her most trusted companions from her time as Aesc.
- To an extent, the Protagonist. Once you reach her Bond 4 line, she starts speaking about a castle to share with you, and at Bond 5 and clearing Avalon Le Fae Act 2, she mentions that she would by all means avoid her failure to save either you or her Kingdom, opting to save both.
- The Rain Clan as a whole were one to her. They raised her as one of their own, had no ulterior or selfish motives and simply wanted to give her love and fond memories for when she does her pilgrimage. This act is what motivated her to try and make a Britain that matched the Rain Clan's hopes, as well as in Aesc's profile going as far as to mention that she hated all the faeries except the Rain Clan.
Even Evil Has Standards: She's a tyrant, not a warmonger. Blue-and-Orange Morality though it is and as much as she hates the Fae, Morgan understands that war is very bad for a kingdom's stability, which is important since Faerie Britain's "stability" is a horrendous juggling act as it is. It gets to the point where she makes a personal appeal to Altria Caster not to follow the prophecy and essentially bribes Chaldea to try stopping the war that the prophecy would start, and once the war starts anyway, Morgan comes out swinging to try ending it as fast as possible.
Evil Costume Switch: As queen, she wears a far skimpier and more intimidating outfit than she did as Aesc the Savior.
Evil Counterpart: For several characters:
- To Merlin, as they're both partially inhuman mages of incredible power. Merlin wishes for humanity to succeed and prosper, while Morgan is determined to put everyone underneath her boot.
- She also serves as this to Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, according to both her profile and various material books. She is considered a wicked fairy of the lake, as opposed to Vivian's goodness. The prologue to the second part of the Lostbelt reveals that in Proper Human History, Vivian and Morgan are actually two personalities in one body, a Jekyll & Hyde situation.
- To PHH Altria. They share the same burden: the guilt of not being able to save Britain. However whilst Altria moves on with the help of events of Fate/stay night, Morgan did not.
- She could also be one to Gilgamesh. Both of them are despots focused on ruling their Kingdoms and the rest of the world with utterly dominating demeanors to everyone they deal with. But they both veer off into different directions. Gilgamesh is more emotional, arrogant, dresses in red and gold, is Chaotic Good, began the start of the end of the Age of the Gods, as well as his rule beginning horribly before developing further thanks to Enkidu, becoming more benevolent and getting a moral compass. Morgan is more cold, entitled, dresses in blue and black, is Lawful Evil, managed to keep the Age of the Gods continuing with her rule, and her rule was initially meant to be benevolent, but thanks to the behavior of the fairies, she became a cruel tryant in response to what they needed to function as a kingdom. It's also very telling how they went out and how their subjects viewed them as well as how their kingdoms got affected in the aftermath. Gilgamesh was a Universally Beloved Leader and not even Tiamat's advent broke his people's spirits, willing to stand by under his name along with his death being a Bittersweet Ending to the Singularity as the people who survived are eventually going to move on and progress to the future even without his guidance while Morgan was feared and hated save for a select few individuals and her death caused Lostbelt Britain to drastically unravel and lead to a Downer Ending for everyone except Chaldea (and even then the amount of shit they endured is going to leave them with copious amount of mental and emotional scars).
- To fellow Lostbelt King and mage, Scáthach-Skadi, who had a similar domain with a tepid symbiosis between Phantasmals and humans. However, while Skadi was diminished due to her efforts to contain Surtr, struggled with keeping human populations under control, and genuinely loved her subjects; Morgan is a completely unimpeded ruler whose callous mismanagement of her domain has caused a human population decline, and only truly loves and cares for the Land of Britain, not its people, fairy or human. As another difference, Skadi tolerates the existence of the Giants, loving them too but not destroying them up to the point she feeds her humans to them once they reach a certain age. Morgan despises the fairies and views them with contempt, allowing her Knights to commit various atrocities against them with her only real action against humans being controlling their birth rate, otherwise not caring at all compared to Skadi's love for her subjects.
- After The Reveal, she's also one to the Archer EMIYA as agents of the Counter Force (EMIYA an agent to Alaya, and Morgan an agent to Gaia respectively). Both of them started out as heroes determined to do good and save as many people as they could against all odds, only to be betrayed and killed by the very people they sought to save. They followed their ideals to the bitter end, and became cynical, hollow shells of who they once were. While EMIYA became unscrupulous and pragmatic at his worst, Morgan became a true villain and buried her heart deep beneath her anger and pain.
- And lastly to Altria Caster, her sister and fellow mage-who-would-be-king. To hammer the point home, once Altria reaches Third Ascension they have very similar outfit designs and identically angled closeups in their Noble Phantasms. As it turns out, Altria Caster was created by Gaia as a replacement when Morgan fell into despair and abandoned her role as the Avalon le Fae.
Evil Versus Oblivion: She's the Oblivion to the Foreign God's Evil. Morgan acknowledges that her campaign to replace Proper Human History will end in the planet's collapse, but even so she will not stop. The Chaldean considers Morgan to be the Lesser of Two Evils compared to whatever horrors the Foreign God is planning.
Evil Virtues: Courtesy, Conviction, Courage, Determination, Diligence, Love, Gratitude, Honesty, Respect, Patience, Temperance, and Valor, if all these virtues weren't submerged in an ocean of inconsolable cynicism, rage, grief, and depression, Morgan would have the makings of a truly noble hero among heroes, (and did during her time as Aesc the Savior).
Evil Wears Black: The antagonistic version in Lostbelt No. 6 has a color scheme of primarily black with a little blue much like in Fate/Apocrypha, and unlike her playable self who wears white, blue and black in equal measures.
Excalibur in the Rust: According to "Tale of Rain and Stars" Command Code, the spear Morgan wields used to be a genuine magic staff that had suddenly morphed into a proper weapon during the various wars she took part in. Even though it looks like more of a physical weapon than a magical tool, Morgan possesses so much magecraft knowledge that it still works as it once did.
Eye Color Change: Similar to her change in hair color, she was born with the same emerald-green eyes as Altria, but as she gained power they faded to a pale, watery blue.
Failure Is the Only Option: Zigzagged. The Chaldean claims Morgan has a legitimate chance of attaining “true victory” during their conversation, only telling Morgan to pay more attention on the hidden parties inside her Lostbelt. Ultimately this comes to pass as Morgan was brought down by treachery and not the Calamities. However, Lostbelt No. 6 Act 3 reveals the deck is so absurdly stacked against her, it is fairly unlikely she could have won to begin with as she was fighting not only the treacherous fairies but the land itself. Faerie Britain is literally built on sin, betrayal, and death, and the Calamities are essentially the original Isle of Britain trying to commit suicide and punish the faeries for their crimes, to the point of incarnating its will in the form of Vortigern twice to serve as two different Great Calamities in response to her actions. The harder she tries to save the land, the harder it fights to destroy itself. Had by some miracle she defeated Cernunnos and survived, she would have faced off against the last Great Calamity, Vortigern the Abyssal Worm, who is constantly surrounded by bugs, which she has a crippling fear of.
Faking the Dead: Aesc the Savior was thought to have died 2400 years ago. She's actually been alive the whole time under her real name.
The Farmer and the Viper: She resurrected/made a copy of Beryl as thanks for allowing her to get as far as she did. He repays her by slaughtering her humans (which are vital to Fairy Britain), creating a Mors Curse that affects humans and can infect them, and finally leading to her own death by turning Woodwose against her, an act he shares with Aurora.
Fatal Flaw: Apathy. Her time as Aesc the Savior has more or less completely eroded her emotional capacity to care for anything, fairy or human, and this allows many problems to persist in her Lostbelt that eventually fester to end her life.
- She no longer cares enough to look after every little Calamity or event with the fairies that occurs, which means that various plots can slip under her notice. For example, had she investigated the Mirror Clan's disappearance, it would've likely lead to the apprehension of Aurora and Melusine and remove a huge thorn in her side as well. The same could be said of Portune's death, which could've lead to the discovery of Vortigern earlier. Spriggan, a normal human being, is also capable of kidnapping Baobhan Sith and cornering Morgan.
- She also cannot give enough emotional support to those she considers close to her. Baobhan Sith in particular complains that she doesn't get enough quality time with her and her worsening actions that lead to the Fairies hating her and Morgan are all an attempt to get her approval. Woodwose is also exceedingly loyal, though his loyalty can erode when Morgan doesn't assuage his insecurities, which are used to lead him against her. Barghest suffers similarly when Morgan bluntly denies her request to aid the Fairies, as Morgan doesn't explain why she sees them as expendable and try to reinforce her loyalty, which also leads to Barghest betraying her.
- Even when directly told the world will collapse into itself, Morgan doesn't deem fit to look into it further and takes it at face value of her success. In reality, the collapse is the emergence of the Abyssal Wyrm Vortigern, who would devour the whole planet.
Folk Hero: Her old name Aesc would be worshipped as a legendary hero throughout Faerie Britain thousands of years later.
Foreshadowing: The Lostbelt's history is so thoroughly different from Proper Human History that there is no good reason for her have even heard of Altria and the Round Table, and yet she knows about them in detail centuries before she supposedly first contacts PHH in the form of Beryl. As it turns out, she received memories of Proper Human History from her counterpart who sent them back in time to help her.
Former Teen Rebel: According to her profile, she was once a cruel hedonist like her Proper Human History self, but time and responsibility have dulled her edges, it also hints that should she ever be pushed to her breaking point, she just might revert to her old self. Though this doesn't really line up with what's shown in the story.

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Gameplay and Story Integration:
- Morgan's Noble Phantasm, Roadless Camelot, is said to burn with her hatred of humanity, the fairies and the Knights of the Round Table. She hates humanity for not seeing her as the proper King of Britain, and she's kept them so corralled that Fairies are the dominant species in her Lostbelt. She also hates the Fairies for how much they've hurt her and screwed her over during her days as a Folk Hero, and as such subjugates them mercilessly and couldn't care less when they start to turn into Mors or die. Finally, the Knights of the Round Table were her foes and enemies, partially inherited by her Proper Human History self. As such, her Noble Phantasm deals appropriately higher damage when its targets have the Man, Fairy, or Knight of the Round Table Attributes.
- Her classification as a Berserker could be due to how Altria or some alternate form of her occupies pretty much every class. What better class for the one who brought down Camelot and Arch-Enemy of her sister than something that deals high damage no matter the classes she's incorporated into? Potentially somewhat subverted with the Foreigners Mysterious Heroine XX and Mysterious Idol X (Alter), given how far fetched they are from Altria's personality.
- Morgan has surprisingly good synergy with Altria Caster, though when one stops to think about it, should be expected since Morgan was once the Avalon le Fae before she abandoned that role for Altria to fulfill later.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Despite Morgan's paralyzing phobia of bugs, especially caterpillars, there is no "Insect" attribute or similar to give this any gameplay effect. Feel free to deploy her against the Abyssal Worm Oberon-Vortigern or any other insectoid enemy.
Glass Cannon: Downplayed. She's potentially the most destructive of the Lostbelt Kings, and wields insanely diverse and potent spells, but her Endurance ranked at E isn't just for show as she's the only Lostbelt King to be overthrown and killed by her own subjects. That said, it takes a lot of punishment (getting surprise-mauled by Woodwose, who's one of the most powerful Faeries in the Lostbelt and comparable to a True Ancestor, getting hacked up by Spriggan's forces while her guard is down, and only finally dying once beaten and stabbed by a rabid mob of faeries that she's too mangled to fight back against) in short order for her to go down, which makes sense given her Guts Skill.
The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: While more aloof than her Proper Human History self on the surface, it doesn't take much for any version of Altria to get on her nerves. The only exception to this is Altria Caster with Morgan acknowledging the resolve of the new Avalon le Fae and how she found her own cause to fight for.
Go Mad from the Revelation: The combination of her PHH selves memories and knowledge, Mash's information brought from the future, and watching her efforts for peace die in front of her, cause Aesc to finally lose it, and decide to enforce peace through whatever means necessary. In doing so, she essentially "snapped" and went mad doing so, forming the basis for her Berserker class designation.
God Save Us from the Queen!: Humans in her kingdom? All but extinct with the remaining used as livestock and slaves (though the extinct part is not her fault). The fae races who remain? Largely detest her due to claiming magical taxes on their lives and subjugating them horribly. It's later revealed that they've always hated her even though she was trying to help them, so she's giving back as good as she got.
"I will not tolerate you. I will not save you. Merely obey. Hang your heads. I will protect a Britain of absolute subservience."
Gone Horribly Right:
- Morgan urged Baobhan Sith to be cruel and evil as a way of protecting herself from the other Faeries who would take advantage of her kindness. In doing so, Morgan raised her to become a crazed murderer who caused people to hate her and make Morgan look worse for adopting and enabling her cruelty. It gets so bad, that even Morgan has to reprimand her.
- Morgan orders her forces to raze the Welsh forest where Oberon and the insect fairies reside to the ground as part of her plan to stamp out any opposition rallying around Altria. Morgan's forces are very thorough with this order, burning the entire forest to the ground and leaving no insect fairy alive. Unfortunately, those fairies were what was keeping Oberon's true identity as Vortigern suppressed and allows Oberon Vortigern to truly end the Faerie Britain that Morgan built once and for all.
- Morgan's reason to resurrect Beryl was to keep him as her own insider within the Crypter's circle, counting that his vicious nature would keep him on her side when the time came to sabotage Wodime's Lostbelt. Said vicious nature however would later on be turned against her as his actions would lead to Woodwose being alienated from her and Baobhan Sith's own painful death.
Good Counterpart:
- Well, less "good" and more "not as evil" to her Proper Human History counterpart due in part to her succeeding her stepfather as ruler of England, which negated the events that would have led her to become the petty and manipulative witch that she would be famously known as. Her profile states that "the Morgan of Proper Human History was lecherous, cruel, and selfish, a true model of vice, but this Morgan has eliminated those traits and has become a talented woman who has lost her way."
- She's an Abusive Parent in Proper Human History to Mordred, but the Lostbelt version of Morgan refers to Mordred as "quite capable" and calls Gawain and Gareth "splendid knights", though this is partially because she's surprised at the thought of even having children in the first place.
Gory Discretion Shot: How her death is shown. The end result isn't pretty, and the only thing the audience learns is that by the time the mob was finished, her corpse was unrecognizable as ever having been her.
Green-Eyed Monster: Part of her motivations are her jealousy toward Uther choosing Altria as the King of Britain instead of her.
Half-Human Hybrid: Subverted. While initially considered one, both her Proper Human History counterpart and this Morgan are full-blooded faeries.
Happily Adopted: When Vivian was sent from Avalon to Faerie Britain as a baby, the one who picked her up was the Rain Clan head, who then raised her with love and care. The Rain clan was exterminated by other clans for harboring the Avalon le Fae, but their love for her is part of what makes Morgan so different from Altria Caster who was raised like livestock, as Aesc remembers the pain of watching people who cared for her die for her, versus Altria Caster feeling guilt for not being strong enough.
The Hero Dies: Her first attempt to save Britain ended in utter failure before it could even get started. By the time Beryl arrives in his Lostbelt for the first time, there's nothing left but a barren wasteland and the Tree of Emptiness.
Hero's Evil Predecessor: Her Reused Character Design is an interesting inversion of that trope, as it retroactively establishes that Altria looks like her rather than the other way around.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: A heart-to-heart between Aesc and Mash reveal that she thinks poorly of herself despite how cheery she acts. Aesc was unable to reconcile her ideals with how she was becoming more cynical and closed off as a result of the persecution she faced, and claimed she was a witch pretending to be a savior that never cared about anyone else all along. If she didn't realize how much Habetrot changed, it must be because she doesn't have friends, only tools she can use to save Britain. It's clear from her actions though and Morgan's lines to Habetrot in Chaldea that she really was once noble and pure-intentioned despite thinking otherwise.
Aesc: I've never been Aesc the Savior. I'm just Aesc the Witch.
History Repeats:
- Her campaign as the cold, heartless ruler of Faerie Britain is ironically the most successful attempt at saving Britain. Unfortunately, it also ends the same way her well-meaning campaigns did — betrayed and killed by her own subjects.
  - Going further with the above, Morgan dies the same way she originally did in the original Lostbelt 6 Timeline: Killed by overwhelming force through a combination of Fang, Earth, Wing, and Wind Clan Faeries. In particular, the Fang Clan Head Woodwose viciously mauls her, the Earth Clan Head Spriggan kidnapped Baobhan Sith to make Morgan lower her guard and lets his guards make mincemeat from her, the Wind Clan Head Aurora spreads lies and false information that turns the rest of Morgan's entourage against her, and the Wing Clan Head Murian had slaughtered most of the Fang Clan, destroying one of the vanguards that could've turned the tides of the war.
- In a sense, like with her Tam Lins namesakes, she shares a similar fate with her PHH counterpart with those who she hired or raised ending up betraying her. For her PHH Counterpart, this is shown by how Agravain goes against her wishes and Mordred not going along with her plans until Altria rejects her. Lostbelt Morgan suffers this from Tam Lin Gawain and Lancelot, as well as Woodwose. Perhaps the only difference, mentioned by Lostbelt Morgan herself, is that PHH Morgan might've ended up getting what she wanted while Lostbelt Morgan died and lost everything.
- Just like with the Camelot Singularity, Faerie Britain came to be because of an integral character's refusal to do the one job they were meant to do. In Camelot, it was Bedivere refusing to return Excalibur to the lake, while in Faerie Britain it was PHH Morgan refusing to destroy the Tree of Emptiness, then Lostbelt Morgan refusing to complete her Pilgrimage as the Avalon le Fae to properly end the Lostbelt.
He Who Fights Monsters: Like Arjuna Alter, she started out well-intentioned, but various traumas caused by her subjects have made her just as monstrous as she believes the fae to be.
Hopeless Boss Fight: The final battle against 3 of her isn't meant to be won, but the game initially makes it look like you might have a fighting chance. It isn't until you somehow manage to get to one of the Morgans' last HP bar that she puts up an infinite Guts buff, to hammer home the point that no, you are not going to win. The battle ends when your entire party is wiped out.
Hot Witch: Morgan le Fay in the original myths was always referred to as stunningly beautiful. It's carried over to the franchise, as her profile refers to her appearance with similar words and she has the same face as Altria who herself is also regarded as beautiful.
I Gave My Word: One of her few good points as a ruler is that she's honest and always follows through with her promises, including protecting guests she invites. When Chaldea arrives in Camelot and it becomes clear peace isn't an option, she threatens Beryl when he tries to goad everyone into attacking Chaldea, and ensures they are able to safely leave the city before she moves to defeat them.
I Have Many Names: While she goes by Morgan now, she went by Aesc when she was young, and it's implied that Vivian is her actual birth name that became attributed to her alternate personality as Lady of the Lake. And then there's how she inherited the memories of Morgan le Fey and all her alternate titles as Case Files shows, whom she is an Alternate Self of.
I Just Want to Be Loved:
- The summonable Morgan, as shown by her interactions with the Protagonist, wants to have a meaningful relationship with someone after spending two whole millennia ruling Britain by herself and being hated or mistreated by everyone around her. She even wants to build a home for herself and the Protagonist to live in, granted she wants a castle instead of a normal house but she's a queen so that is to be expected. She also saves Baobhan Sith for this reason, since she was the only fairy (aside from Habetrot) who cared about her.
- Going by the musings of Oberon-Vortigern, this was also true for Lostbelt Morgan on respect with Proper Human History Britain itself as despite her proclaimed hatred of it for rejecting her, she still allowed elements of its culture to reach her island. If anything, one can see Faerie Britain in part as a product of Morgan longing to have the same type of love that her sister had in her reign of Camelot.
- Ultimately, what Morgan desires above all else is to be loved and accepted, and to have a place to call home. Oberon Vortigern sums up Faerie Britain as a story Morgan conjured up just to find a place to belong.
I Kiss Your Hand: Her Final Ascension artwork shows her presenting her hand for the protagonist to kiss.
Ice Queen: While she is not completely emotionless, her long-lasting rule has made her weary of her old cruel and vicious self, making her abandon her old joys of hedonism and sadism to focus purely on ruling Britain.
Icy Blue Eyes: She has blue eyes that are permanently dull and faded to reflect how cold and weary she's become, unlike the focused yet warm green of her sibling. They did use to be the same green, but turned blue over the course of thousands of years after she was broken.
Identical Twin ID Tag: The only differences between Aesc and Altria Caster are the color of their chest ribbons (black for Aesc, and blue for Altria), the symbols on their hats, and Aesc wields a wooden staff instead of the Staff of Selection.
Ignored Epiphany: Played with. She realizes that she personally has no need to hold a grudge against Altria, as she wasn't involved with Uther and Merlin's ploy that involved killing her father and sleeping with her mother. But because she's a result of that ploy, Morgan can't help but hate her anyways.
Morgan: That wretched red dragon - so Altria is here too? Born of Uther and Merlin's ploy... Even if she is not to blame for this, I cannot forgive her. Someday I shall crush her.
Immortality Begins at Twenty: All faeries are naturally The Ageless, but Avalon le Fae have a different version. Most regular faeries are Born as an Adult; Avalon le Fae life cycles are human-like so they're born as babies and then physically mature until they reach adulthood at which point they stop aging. Morgan exploited this so the other faeries wouldn't connect the teenage Aesc with the adult Morgan and realize they were the same person.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: A self-inflicted example. She can turn herself into a living voodoo doll and then summon ethereal blades to pierce through her with her opponent suffering the consequences while she's unharmed.
Implied Love Interest: During her days as Aesc it's implied that she and Lostbelt Uther were rather close. The tales about Aesc has the two of them be lovers, when it's brought up that part of Aesc's last attempt at uniting Britain peacefully involved marrying Uther to Mab, Habetrot notes that it would be better if Uther got together with Aesc considering his feelings for her (which Aesc quickly denies) and his assassination marks the moment Morgan gives up on saving Britain peacefully.
In Spite of a Nail: It's implied that Aurora was the one who masterminded the assassination of Uther and the chaos that followed meaning that whether in the original history of the Lostbelt or the new one as a Lostworld Morgan ultimately gets killed in a coup instigated by Aurora right as her goal was in reach.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: Among the Lostbelt Kings, she possesses the most fragile ego, and quietly craves adulation and validation from those around her. This is a carry over of both her memories of PHH Morgan and Aesc's own experiences.
Informed Attribute: Said to be as much of a genius in politics as she is in magic. This is not seen very well outside of her shrewd maneuverings regarding the sieges of Sheffield and Londinium, and by the time she actually gets off of her throne to address the rebellion directly, Aurora's coup has her dead to rights.
Invincible Villain: The Chaldean concludes that Morgan is so powerful that neither he, Chaldea, or her destined replacement Altria Caster can actually defeat her. He turns out to be right, and Morgan is brought down not in battle, but by treachery in a scheme concocted by her conniving underlings.
Irony:
- Despite this version of Morgan being a Berserker, she's actually much more calm than her Proper Human History counterpart who was described as a Mood-Swinger.
- In her Bond 5 line, she lampshades the irony of her gaining a person who is important to her, her daughter, only for her reign as queen to subsequently end.
- 2,400 years after "death," Aesc finally gets the respect she deserves from the faeries… because they want her to reincarnate and save them from her current identity Morgan.
- Despite Morgan being The Archmage and comparable to or even surpassing the Grand Casters, one of which even taught her in PHH, she lacks one of the major factors that qualifies them for the seat: she does not possess Clairvoyance. This ends up playing a big part in her downfall as both Aesc and Morgan as she is utterly terrible at short-term planning or reading people, a fatal shortcoming in a realm populated by the passionate and impulsive fae.
- This applies between Morgan, who has a destructive NP but is protecting Fae Britain, and Altria Caster, who has a protective NP but is destined to destroy Fae Britain.
- The thing that started her journey to save Faerie Britain was Morgan refusing to forge Excalibur, since that would destroy Faerie Britain. The Lostbelt is destroyed anyway to the point that not a speck of land remains, and the only surviving proof that Morgan's kingdom existed is the very Excalibur she was supposed to forge.
Irrational Hatred: Her hatred of Altria can be summed up as this, hating her because she's the product of Merlin and Uther's ploy to birth the next King of Britain despite it being properly her spot as both the firstborn child and inheriting Britain's Mystery. These are grudges held by her Proper Human History self, not her current Lostbelt self, and she knows it; she just can't help but hate PHH Altria anyway. She lampshades it in her quote on Altria, seen above in Ignored Epiphany.
Ironic Hell: Superficially, Lostbelt Morgan managed to do what her PHH counterpart could not: ensure Camelot's survival and prosperity as its once and future monarch and preserving the Age of Mystics in Britain, ruling it as a Fae Kingdom. In reality however Morgan's Faerie Britain has none of the soul of PHH Camelot, being a kingdom that only holds together thanks to her iron fist, with most subjects fearing and/or hating her rule and with the active rejection of the original Britain, which keeps trying to destroy the Fae made mockery of itself by sending Calamity after Calamity. If PHH Camelot was the tragic kingdom of hope, Faerie Camelot is its pale hopeless counterpart.
It's All About Me: Ever the egotist, she demands complete fealty and attention from those around her. Her first bond line has her demanding the protagonist as her spouse devote everything they have towards her, and is genuinely confused when they reply that's too much to ask for. Her idea of good and evil is also divided between "Those who aid my reign" and "those who'd oppose it" respectively.
Kick the Dog: Her entire reign is one to the Fairies of Britain. Also mixed in with Kick The Son Of A Bitch as a good portion of fairies are proven to deserve the kicking.
- She limits the amount of humans present in her Lostbelt, as the Fairies require them for nourishment. More humans means more fairies, so limiting them starves the fairies and creates the Mors, Fairies who lose their name and purpose who devolve into monsters. The issue has gone on for centuries and she has no issue with it continuing.
- She also forces an "Existence Tax" on the fairies, forcing them to amass a certain level of magical energy. Once per year, when she calls it due, those who fail to amass enough simply die on the spot with their life collected for the tax.
- She decides to have the Welsh Forest burnt to ash with no survivors as a way to punish Oberon for supporting the Child of Prophecy. Nearly every fey that lives there are harmless insects with a mentality closer to a child. This act is what convinces Barghest that Morgan ultimately doesn't care for the people of Britain, only the land itself.
Lady of Black Magic: She's the Lostbelt version of Morgan Le Fey, it comes with the territory.
Laughing Mad: Aesc devolved into insane laughter after her Round Table was poisoned by the fairies and she realized that everything she did was for naught, marking the point when she was truly broken for good and crossed the Despair Event Horizon.
Leitmotif: She has one for each phase in her life.
- "Winter's Memory" for when she was known as Aesc, a gentle guitar piece to represent her innocence who tried her best to preserve Britain.
- "Winter's Throne" for her self in the present, an imperious tyrant who keeps Faerie Britain subjugated under an iron fist.
A Lighter Shade of Black: She’s a brutal tyrant and doesn’t deny it, but between her honesty, her pragmatism and her HORRIFIC backstory, she’s honestly MUCH better than the traitorous, unrepentant Fae seeking to replace her.
Living Lie Detector: Her Glam Sight can see through the lies and intentions of others.
Loophole Abuse:
- During her time as Aesc, she did go through doing her Pilgrimage for the sake of powering up her magecraft and the possibility of pruning the Lostbelt. However, while she ultimately never completed her pilgrimage to craft Excalibur, she did learn that she could redo her pilgrimage and ring the bells again. And again. And again. Remember that each time a bell is rung, it powers up an Avalon Le Fae's Divine Patterns and grants them greater strength and power. The end result is that Morgan used this way to get obscenely strong and even chides the idea of Altria completing one pilgrimage qualifies her as a threat given how many pilgrimages Morgan has completed.
- In the ServaFes 2023 event, it's revealed that Morgan being summoned to Chaldea is the only reason inhabitants from her Lostbelt can be summoned as well. A re-read of the other Lostbelts and their Servants shows that (player's luck in summoning Morgan notwithstanding) this is actually true: in all other cases of Lostbelt Servants that weren't the Lostbelt Kings themselves, we've always summoned their Pan-Human History versions instead. Altria Caster/Avalon and Melusine are exceptions, the former because of her unique bond with the Protagonist, the latter because she already exists as part of PHH due to being a higher existence, but Barghest and Baobhan Sith have no such connections or PHH counterparts and can only be summoned with Morgan already present in the world to act as a secondary anchor. Altria Avalon even attempts to invoke the loophole by using herself as an anchor to summon Cnoc na Raibh, but ends up needing Morgan's help.
Madden Into Misanthropy: She grew to hate the fairies she tried to save after they backstabbed her one too many times and pushed her over the Despair Event Horizon. It's also implicitly why she's classified as a Berserker despite acting cold most of the time.
Magic Cauldron: One her skill animations has her turn her spear into a cauldron then whipping up a potion on the spot.
Magic Staff: She uses her spear to cast several different spells, but she also has an actual staff in her Bond CE that was given to her by Gaia that she eventually cast aside for her spear. It's the Staff of Selection, the same one Altria Caster uses.
Magikarp Power: In-Universe. In her early days as Aesc the Savior, she was about as powerful as Altria Caster compared to the Fae... which is to say, she was laughably weak, especially considering both Altria and Morgan have to use magecraft tools while the average faerie can cast magic just by thinking it. Unknown to the Fae is also the fact that the Pilgrim's Bells in the Lostbelt bestow a boost in divine patterns (their version of magic circuits) when rung, which would be a drop in the bucket for a normal Faerie — but an invaluable upgrade to a magecraft user. Between her PHH self's memories, Odin's tutelage, and several millennia of practice and ringing the Bells, Morgan went from "basically human" to something only one step behind a literal God of magecraft.
Marriage Before Romance: Morgan declares the protagonist to be her spouse immediately upon her summoning but doesn’t actually fall in love with them until her bond level is high enough. This is confirmed in her Valentine’s Day scene.
Me's a Crowd: She can split herself up into several copies. In the last boss battle against her, you face off against three Morgans at once in a Hopeless Boss Fight, given she averts Conservation of Ninjutsu. In the cutscene preceding that? There's ten copies of her running around at that same level of power as Morgan herself, absolutely demolishing the army fighting Camelot.
Meaningful Rename: As of the release of Aesc the Savior as a Caster Class servant, her choice to stop going by Aesc and instead being "Morgan" becomes this. Her profile states that she started going by the name when she was being referred to as "The Savior", if only because the name was given to her by her foster mother who raised her with love. It's only after her final breakdown that she chooses to throw away any further attempts of saving people and ruling with an iron fist like a tyrant that she embraces the name "Morgan".
Mental Time Travel: When Beryl summoned Morgan from Proper Human History as a Servant into the Lostbelt, she sent her memories back in time to Lostbelt Morgan in the past, giving Lostbelt Morgan the knowledge of Proper Human History she needed to rule over Britain.
Messianic Archetype: Deconstructed. She was sent by Gaia to repent for the faeries' sin of not forging Excalibur, but she went even further and tried to create a peaceful nation where no one would have to fight and kill each other any more. But the faeries hate her for being of Avalon, and try to kill her over the course of thousands of years to the point that she can't even sleep in peace for long before they find her current hiding spot and force her back on the run. By the time Mash meets her, she admits that behind her cheery exterior she puts up, she's already cracked from the relentless persecution and can no longer find it within her to try again should she fail one more time. When that last failure ends in complete disaster, she finally snaps after reaching her limit on how much shit she's willing to take from the people she's trying to save and abandons everything in favor of saving the land only.
Mistaken Identity: In Chaldea, other Servants tend to react to Morgan like she was Proper Human History Morgan le Fay herself, even if she is technically a separate person. Bradamante panics like the Paladins's Arch-Enemy has returned, while Gareth accidentally calls Morgan her mother.
Morality Chain: Severely Downplayed. But had it not been for wishing Baobhan Sith to smile, Morgan would have turned the Lostworld into a dystopia. Only stopping at the state it is in due to her wanting her adopted daughter to be happy.
Morph Weapon: She wields a massive black-and-blue pronged spear into battle, which can transform into a sword resembling Excalibur and change sizes as she desires.
Motifs:
- Mirrors. The back of her throne has a mirror which also shows up in her bond CE, two of her spells are named "Water Mirror" and "Infinity Mirror", and Saber Altria Alter calls Morgan a mirror of herself. Altria Caster is also a mirror of herself as Aesc, albeit more innocent as she lacks a PHH counterpart (Saber Altria notwithstanding) to give her memories and details to aid her.
- Winter as well, since she's known as the Winter Queen. In-universe it refers to how she descended from snowy Orkney in the north and conquered Faerie Britain like a blizzard in what would later be called the Winter War, but it also refers to her Ice Queen demeanor and the tragedy of her life.
Mysterious Veil: Her Lostbelt sprite wears a translucent black veil. Eventually, it was released as a costume dress that could be obtained through a trial quest after clearing Avalon le Fae.
Near-Villain Victory: Morgan is notably the first villain in the game that soundly defeats Chaldea. Even when faced with monstrosities like Tiamat, Goetia, or the Outer Gods, Chaldea has always managed to have some means of bouncing back and coming out on top. Morgan doesn't give them that chance; she takes her millennia worth of power and magecraft and beats Chaldea senseless with it, having the Protagonist dead to rights with no ambiguity. Morgan's abrupt death afterward (and the only reason the story didn't end right there) was due to Spriggan and Aurora pulling their respective gambits totally independent of anything Chaldea was doing.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Though a bit justified as she needed to keep up the facade that all is being destroyed in the Britain Lostbelt, after her time-travel shenanigans and going back to the modern day in Britain, where Beryl should be but isn't because he was erased thanks to said shenanigans, she decides to resurrect/make a copy of him. Keep in mind that Beryl is a barely contained psychopath and that his inclination to kill humans, corrupt Baobhan Sith, interrupt Kirschtaria's plan against the Foreign God and finally leads to her own death by turning Woodwose against her and you can see why resurrecting or making a perfect copy of him was one thing she shouldn't have fixed.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Probably the most tragic aspect of Morgan's character is that pretty much all her suffering comes precisely from her most positive and sympathetic qualities. Her desire to help others and try and see the best in them is what causes her to persist so long in her futile attempts to save and reform the Fae, the fact that her main desire is not power or conquest, but simply to be loved and accepted renders her incapable of taking any enjoyment in her reign as Winter Queen despite being in a position that almost any other Evil Overlord would dream of, and lastly, her genuine love for her daughter is what ultimately results in her death. Had she been a typical Evil Overlord, she would not only have survived, but actively thrived as the Winter Queen.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Though she's content letting society fall into decadence among the Fae in recent loops; when Chaldea proves they can attempt to actually upend her rule and threaten her land, Morgan wastes no time establishing the pecking order by being the one single villain that they can do absolutely nothing against either before or after with how thoroughly she stomps them into the ground by giving a glimpse of her true magical power and knowledge, averting the Conservation of Ninjutsu effect in the process as she summons multiple clones of herself all at roughly the same power as herself to obliterate the Chaldean offensive and leaves them entirely at her mercy. The only reason she doesn't flat out kill them all right there is due to the gambits that Spriggan and Aurora pull at that exact same moment that leaves her powerless herself to sacrifice her adoptive daughter to put them down, allowing the mob and Woodwose that comes down on her to absolutely brutalize her to death before she could wipe out Chaldea.
No-Sell: She has a unique passive skill called Glam Sight, which reduces the chance of her being hit by Critical Hits by 20%. When combined with her Beyond the Furthest End, which also decreases the enemies' Critical Hit Chance upwards of the same amount, it makes her able to shut down Critical Hits against herself fairly well, removing one of the greatest dangers to a Berserker.
Not So Above It All:
- Despite her otherwise dominating and unflappable demeanor, her line dealing with Archer Altria has her seem annoyed that she's having fun and she wants to join.
  Morgan: Hey, Altria. Enough is enough. That water gun you have there. Lend it to me as well!
- She also expresses joy at seeing Habetrot again (even if it's her Proper Human History version) before cursing out Chaldea for turning her Noble Phantasm into a BFG.
- In the "Sea Monster Crisis" event, even she can't resist playing with the adorable Cons. And when Habetrot gets called away for work, she sulks and curses out Chaldea for ruining their walk.
"Not So Different" Remark: She’s actually fairly similar to Altria Alter, in that she’s a tyrannical but surprisingly agreeable ruler of Britain. They are both dedicated to the task of being King, and they both wield dark variants of holy weapons. Because of this, Altria Alter calls Morgan a reflection of herself.
One-Man Army: Morgan fought and forcibly united the faerie clans under her banner. Da Vinci initially believes she used Rhongomyniad to do it, but when the Round Table Army expresses confusion on what that even is, she realizes that Morgan never once used that Magecraft on the clans; she crushed them on her lonesome with comparatively less devastating spells. She also singlehandedly killed multiple Camelot knights (each while weaker than a Tam Lin is still considered worth a thousand normal soldiers) that refused to return to the city and implicitly threw their lot in with the rebellion within a single night, and she can literally turn herself into an army via magical clones, each with comparable power to herself. Oberon himself realizes after seeing this last bit that Morgan is more powerful than every soldier in Britain combined.
Other Me Annoys Me: As Aesc she expresses annoyance that Morgan's go-to solution to Calamities is to send them back to the past. While the way the Lostbelt works means that the Calamities can't do anything to alter history, that doesn't stop them from being problems that Aesc has to clean up.
Orcus on His Throne: The only direct action she takes during the story herself is using the Water Mirror to try to deal with the Calamity of Norwich. Otherwise, she's perfectly content to give orders to the Tam Lin and clan heads to get what she wants. That's because in the long run, she's more than powerful enough to deal with just about anything that could be thrown at her, as proven when she finally stands up from her throne when the rebels breach Camelot and Barghest and Mélusine have either betrayed or abandoned their posts for their own reasons, proceeding to singlehandedly turn the tides with her magical clones.
Outside-Context Problem: In Olympus. Inhabitants of a Lostbelt cannot leave its borders until it comes into contact with another Lostbelt. Unbeknownst to everyone but Beryl, Morgan can still attack the other Lostbelts without leaving her own by launching a Rhongomyniad strike whenever she wants. Beryl exploits this by calling in a strike on his position in Olympus to destroy everything there; city, Tree of Emptiness, and Kirschtaria included. This forces Kirschtaria to divert his attention and energy blocking it, giving Beryl the opening he needs to stab him in the back fatally.
Parental Neglect: Played with. She might not be the Abusive Parent her Proper Human History was to Mordred, but her relation with her "daughter" ^note Tam Lin Tristan/Baobhan Sith at first seems to show that she doesn't really care about her at all, only showing any kind of praise towards her when she is doing her tasks. Her line dealing with Gareth and Gawain also have her note that she can't imagine having children, which speaks a bit of her relationship with Tam Lin Tristan. However, Morgan truly does care about Baobhan Sith due to how they first met, but it's a combination of her emotions not really being all "there" after her Despair Event Horizon that keeps her from being a truly attentive "parent". In her line about her, revealed after completing Lostbelt 6.2, she expresses joy at seeing her again while lamenting how she cries after being broken down.
Perpetual Frowner: Before the coronation of Lostbelt Uther and the Round Table, Aesc was mostly cheery with some Stepford Smiler on the side. After the coronation turned into a massacre, she sported a permanent Death Glare to show that she isn't as idealistic as she once was.
Person of Mass Destruction: As expected of a Lostbelt King. She wields the divine magecraft woven in the depths of the Reverse Side of the World, Rhongomyniad, which is capable of destroying a Tree of Fantasy, the entire mountain-sized city of Olympus, and possibly the Foreign God itself in one fell swoop. Judging how she seemingly can launch her magecraft anywhere Beryl signals her to, including striking the underground Olympus hidden beneath the Texture of Atlantis from all the way in Britain, it's implied that there's literally nowhere on the entire planet that she can't reach. The immense speed, range, and destructive potential of her strikes cause Goredolf to label her a human ICBM launcher. Fittingly, she has an EX Rank in NP.
Pet the Dog:
- She treats the protagonist with much more respect and affection than she does anyone else. She considers the protagonist's birthday as important as the day they summoned/"married" her, and celebrates it for the sake of their happiness. Of course, she demands that once they're done celebrating their birthday, they throw her a great feast to celebrate their summoning/"wedding" anniversary. She even considers them just as important to her as her own ambitions.
- Once you complete Chapter 10 of Avalon Le Fae, she gives you 100 Million QP in appreciation for your work in getting that far. That's saying something when she's still technically your enemy by that point.
- She adopted Baobhan Sith as her daughter and taught her how to treat the fairies. The reason this is a petting moment? She was once a kind fairy who did all kinds of tasks for others, and the fairies repaid her each time by killing her over and over to the point she's Out of Continues. Morgan saved her and adopted her as her daughter due to her kindness towards her and similar circumstances to her own.
- She also treats her Tam Lins well. She gave Barghest her title as thanks for dealing with the Caterpillar Wars, seems to be quite fine with Woodwose who is staunchly loyal, and granted Melusine favors and honors for her services.
- Her Valentines scene further showcases her relationship with her Tam Lins, as she values their input for Valentines ideas, cares for Barghest breaking her pair of heels and asks Baobhan Sith to make a new pair for her, and praises Melusine for waking up on time. She even makes the time for all of them to learn how to cook chocolate together. Even the chocolate diorama she makes of Fairy Britain contains figurines of herself, Baobhan Sith, Barghest, Melusine, Woodwose and Spriggan.
- Her time interacting with Mash as Aesc the Savior is also this. Given how Mash has described how the future will go (namely Morgan controlling Britain through an iron fist and Chaldea having to destroy the Lostbelt sooner or later), and how Aesc pretty much figured that's how she'll become, she could've easily chosen to kill Mash or leave her in the Fae Era. Instead, she chose to help her return to the future and fills her in on important information.
- Despite a dying Woodwose having gone feral and furiously mauling her in his mistaken belief that she betrayed him and the Fang Clan to die, Morgan doesn't respond with anger but instead calmly stabs him to finish him off while praising him for his ability as a warrior, his earnest efforts to serve her, and even complimenting how beautiful his fur was and how its current unkempt state doesn't suit him. This is enough to shock him out of his madness and realize she never turned on him, while also giving him enough clarity to pass away peacefully despite turning into a Mors.
Plea of Personal Necessity: She makes one to the angry mob about to kill her that without her, Faerie Britain will perish. It doesn't work and her death triggers Act 3 of the chapter as the Lostbelt is annihilated down to the last pebble at the hands of multiple Calamities now free to rampage without Morgan holding them back, proving she was right all along.
The Pollyanna: A tragic deconstruction in Aesc. After thousands of attempts and failures to save everyone, Mash arrives from the future and tells her that Aesc will die very soon and Morgan will rise in her place as the tyrant queen. Aesc acknowledges that Mash is telling the truth, but is in such denial that she clings onto the hope that this attempt will somehow work out. It obviously doesn't, meaning her failure hits her that much harder.
The Poorly Chosen One: Double Subverted. Chaldea's initial understanding of Morgan was that her tyrannical rule of Faerie Britain was what was meant by "abandoning her fate" as the Avalon le Fae, but in truth her rule is Necessarily Evil that makes the Lostbelt the most stable it's ever been. Act 3 reveals that the Avalon le Fae's actual job is to end the Lostbelt by correcting history through forging Excalibur, and since Morgan loves the land of Britain, she fights tooth and nail to avoid this ending; the "tyrannical" part was just a nasty side effect.
Power Loss Depression: Downplayed. Upon reaching her final ascension, she briefly laments that she's only a third of her original strength as a Lostbelt King, but then she decidedly accepts it and tells the protagonist to take her to a battlefield of their choosing as a reward.
Power Dyes Your Hair: Similar to her Eye Color Change, she was born with the same golden blonde hair as Altria, but as she gained power it faded to a combination of platinum and pale, watery blue.
The Power of Creation: Morgan casually creates a completely new Servant in Taisui Xingjun during the "Sea Monster Crisis" event with nothing more than her magical expertise and power. It's hinted this actually has great relevance to the overarching plot as Taisui Xingjun is the synthesized god of the mirror star to Jupiter, Taisui, and Morgan already has great knowledge on a certain Celestial Sphere that mirrors Earth to draw upon to incarnate such a person.
The Power of Hate: Her Noble Phantasm, Roadless Camelot, is fueled by her hatred of humanity, the fairies and Altria.
Power Tattoo: She sports a blue tattoo on her torso in her Third Ascension, the same mark that appears on Merlin's pants. The meaning behind this is unknown.
Pragmatic Villainy: If she finds something disagreeable yet necessary for her rule, she'll grit her teeth and put aside her personal feelings for the greater good. When the Calamity of Norwich is destroyed but Altria Caster does not openly declare herself an enemy by ringing the bell, Morgan extends an invitation to her and Chaldea to keep them from openly rebelling against her, knowing that it would be more beneficial if she can prevent the Child of Prophecy from becoming a bigger threat than she'd like.
Pure Is Not Good: As an Avalon le Fae, a faerie straight from the paradise of Avalon sent to bring absolution for the sins of the Six Fae, she is not at risk for falling to the curses that plague the inhabitants. She even goes so far as to state that she and Altria Caster are the only "sinless" beings in all of Faerie Britain and it doesn't matter how much blood they wade through to fulfill their purpose. Even when she was trying to do good as Aesc the Savior, however, she was Secretly Selfish in her motivations influenced by her Proper Human History self, and when she tragically couldn't achieve a happy ending for everyone she doubled down on becoming a full-on tyrant determined to at least preserve the land she was meant to destroy.
Purposefully Overpowered: As a Lostbelt King, this comes with the territory, doing her level best to compete with fellow Lostbelt King Arjuna (Alter) for the title of best Berserker. Morgan compares with him in all of the important ways: massive Buster hits with a Buster AOE NP, huge NP generation, gains lots of Critical Stars, loads of debuff aid, and even has a self-Guts buff. Where they differ is in Arjuna (Alter) having a purely selfish damage-dealing kit, whereas Morgan sacrifices some damage potential for support options and sustainability; her NP Charge and NP Overcharge skills affect allies as well, and some of her skills reduce the rate of incoming Crits against her and decrease enemy Attack, mitigating two of the biggest problems of fielding a Berserker. The worst thing that can be said about her kit is that her damage suffers against enemies lacking one of her damage bonuses (Human attribute, Faerie trait, Knight of the Round trait), but her supportive options can easily enable an ally to do the job for her, and enemies that she does have bonus damage against will melt under her NP.

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Rasputinian Death: First she gets mauled by a berserk Woodwose, though she powers through and gives him a Mercy Kill. Then she gets blindsided at the sight of the nearly-dead Baobhan Sith held hostage by Spriggan and getting hacked by his knights, though again she powers through and kills them all even though she can barely stand, much less move. Finally, she's beaten and then stabbed to death by an angry mob of her own court. The sheer amount of damage she took to finally fall is likely why she has a Guts on her third Skill.
Really 700 Years Old: She doesn't look older than her twenties, but Morgan has been ruling Faerie Britain for over 2000 years. And since she and Aesc the Savior are one and the same, who was born 4000 years before she as Morgan established her reign, she's actually been alive for over 6000 years, though she has taken multiple several years-long naps between stopping various Calamities.
Red Baron: The Winter Queen.
The Red Mage: Similar to Galatea, she's a Berserker who plays with the typical conventions of the class by being more support-oriented while having good offensive power. Morgan primarily focuses on herself though, offering support to her allies more as a side effect. Notably, her attack is among the higher end for Berserkers, beating out Hijikata for the title of the fourth highest ATK for Berserkers.
Repressive, but Efficient: How Morgan's reign as Queen of Fairy Britain is. She may be brutal to the fairies she rules over and uncaring towards the human populace, but her system is also the closest the fairies have ever gotten to a civilization in the Lostbelt and it also keeps humans alive as a species. As soon as Morgan is defeated, things go badly for the people left.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: While she is content to sit upon her Throne and govern over Britain, she is more than willing to personally head out and handle any threats to her rule. Best shown by how she came across Baobhan Sith while going across her territories, or how she became Queen in the first place by beating an army of the six clans. She even makes fully functional copies of herself that have all her strength and magic that can handle threats as well, being equally as strong as she personally is.
Sad Battle Music: "Burnt Picture Book ～ Londinium Knight Battle" which plays when you fight against the shadows of Aesc and Lostbelt Uther to awaken Mash. It's a Lonely Piano Piece that represents Aesc's falling into despair and the rise of the Winter Queen Morgan in her place.
Screw Destiny: Morgan was given the Spear of Selection as sign that she was the Avalon le Fae, the one who would destroy the Lostbelt by correcting the Six Fairies' sins and overturning its premise. She instead abandoned her duties and decided to protect only the country and not its subjects after getting screwed over one too many times by the people she was trying to help.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Pretty much her contribution to the Caterpillar Wars 200 years ago thanks to her crippling phobia. According to Nasu, all she did was take one look and scream her lungs out, fire off Roadless Camelot just once before saying "I can't do this," then ran home and locked herself up. Barghest earned the title of Faerie Knight because she stepped up in Morgan's absence to put down the Calamity.
Secret-Keeper: Morgan knows a lot more about the overarching plot of Cosmos in the Lostbelt then she lets on, like where the Trees of Emptiness were made, how they work, and what their purpose is, but doesn't bother to say much. She does hint to the protagonist that there's something sinister behind Chaldea and Rayshifting right before she dies.
Aesc: The Tree of Emptiness. A lynchpin forged in the Foreign World for the sake of closing the universe. I already know its workings. The design concept is beautiful, but irrelevant to me. O' Celestial Sphere. The universe is yours. But Britain is mine.
Self-Inflicted Hell: One of the most tragic aspects of Morgan's character is that all of her suffering, rage and despair is due to her refusal to do her job as the Avalon le Fae and correct her Lostbelt's existence by forging Excalibur, in part because of her love of Faerie Britain and in part because she wants to have the praise and love she could not have in Proper Human History.
Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Subverted, but then played straight. Immediately upon her summoning, Morgan proclaims that the master will have to work hard as her retainer, or serve her as a spouse (denoting the master's gender in the process). Her Valentines has her state she said it sarcastically towards human magi (she said the same of Beryl too). But the Protagonist has her Becoming the Mask. This is discussed in the story as well, since Beryl is officially noted to be akin to Morgan's husband.
Shadow Archetype: She serves as this to Altria In essence, Morgan is what Altria would have been if she has lost all faith in her ideals and never move on.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: For all her brilliance and power, Morgan just cannot eke out a win in the long term.
- It is tacitly stated that Aesc fails in her initial Pilgrimage. The petty, backstabbing natives of Faerie Britain do her in before she can complete her mission. Salvation comes from her Proper Human History counterpart inserting Morgan's knowledge and experience into Aesc, giving her forewarning of Faerie Britain's bleak future.
- Aesc then decides to "save" Faerie Britain first before she completes her Pilgrimage. She is rewarded by scorn and outright hatred for "meddling" in Faerie Britain's affairs. She tries to fight off the Calamities one at a time before hibernating until she is next needed.
- Thinking that a unifying monarch would be best for Faerie Britain, Aesc founds the Round Table and has a human king crowned. They are all poisoned on the day of the coronation.
- Finally snapping from all the abuse, Aesc begins her tyrannical rule as Queen Morgan. She keeps Faerie Britain safe for over two thousand years including co-opting some of the Calamities.
- Despite bringing stability to Faerie Britain and being the only thing keeping her subjects from a genocidal internecine war, Morgan is murdered in her own throne room by her ungrateful lords holding her daughter hostage.
- In the original timeline, while Morgan could defeat Cernunnos, her crippling entomophobia (which is best showcased by the Caterpillar Calamity where loads of them were roaming around Camelot, Morgan only screamed and shut herself in Camelot until Barghest killed them all) would render her powerless against the Abyssal Worm, resulting in the destruction of Faerie Britain if not for Chaldea's intervention.
She Is All Grown Up: As Aesc, she was more cute than beautiful and rather petite as the identical looking Altria Caster bemoans. As present day Morgan, she's physically matured into an adult woman regarded as a great beauty, with the extra height and curves to match. Altria Caster hopes something similar will happen to her too.
Situational Sword: Downplayed Trope, since Morgan's Noble Phantasm does extra damage against Fae or Round Table Knights, and all Human-attribute enemies, while her Max Bond CE gives her bonus damage against Fae and Human-attribute enemies. That covers a wide enough range of enemies to avoid Crippling Overspecialization, but it does make it more niche. Though when it comes to overlapping the damage bonuses, this only applies to Altria Alter and her Santa and swimsuit versions.
So Proud of You:
- When she looks over Gawain and Gareth, she notes that while she can't imagine raising kids, she does denote that they became splendid knights without taking after her.
- When she learns about Mordred, despite her shock that her Proper Human History counterpart would go so far to try and defeat Altria, she confesses that she sees Mordred as quite capable and wonders how her counterpart could have failed (well, as far as having a Britain to rule rather than just destroyed) with such a piece in her pocket. Which ironically is probably the most praise Mordred has ever gotten from any version of her mother.
Sore Loser:
- Getting everything she wanted has not taught her any more humility than her Proper Human History counterpart. Her profile claims she's ripe material for a Villainous Breakdown, which is backed up by her claiming that she's about to melt down in one of her defeat lines.
- Within the story itself, this trope is painfully Deconstructed, keeping with how Morgan's journey serves a dark parallel to Altria's own in Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night. While sharing her sister's own grief of not being able to save Britain, Lostbelt Morgan differed in her unwillingness to cut her losses with the faeries and allow Faerie Britain to go as per her duty as an Avalon le Fae and to instead double down and rule the land as a tyrant, putting the admittedly treacherous and scummy faeries under her heel for thousands of years. In doing this though, she abandoned every ideal she had as Aesc the Savior and ends up becoming an aloof and cold person, unable to connect with even her loyal subordinates since her apathy is a way to keep her justified hatred of the faeries in check.
Spanner in the Works: A Lostbelt King and a Crypter's Servant being the same person should make managing their Lostbelt a breeze for the Crypter, but the events that led to Morgan becoming the King resulted in the Crypter's death, functionally leaving Morgan as a Stray Servant with undisputed control of the Lostbelt. This turns out to be even worse than the Crypter vs. King situations of previous Lostbelts as a free-acting Morgan becomes an obstacle to everyone's plans, fully content to idly rule her kingdom until the Great Calamity destroys it along with the entire world, and having the power of Rhongomyniad to repel Chaldea, the Crypters, and even the Foreign God if any of them take issue with that.
Speaks Fluent Animal: Her Valentine's Day scene shows that she can actually understand what Fou is saying.
Spell My Name With An S: An odd example, as her Noble Phantasm can also be phonetically read as "Roadless Camelot"; when interpreted, it also shows Morgan's desire to isolate Faerie Britain from the rest of the world.
Square Race, Round Class: She's a Berserker, but she functions more like a Caster in practice not unlike Nightingale. She has many support orientated skills for her allies, and even has Territory Creation as a passive skill, which is generally used by the Caster class. Even her fighting style reflects this as she fights more like a mage than others of her class who specialize in close quarters combat. Even her personality doesn't really match up considering that she is calmer than her regular Proper Human History self. However, once you learn who she used to be and what it took for her to become the queen, it becomes very apparent why she's a Berserker, and it ties into her Noble Phantasm which unlike Nightingale's is an offensive one.
Squishy Wizard: Crossing over with Glass Cannon. She has A+ Rank Mana and EX Rank NP alongside both B Rank Agility and C Rank Strength, but only a paltry E in Endurance. In gameplay though, she's not quite so "squishy" as she has the ability to lower enemy ATK and Critical Hit Chance alongside a Guts buff. In-story, she takes a hell of a beating from multiple parties before she finally goes down.
Stepford Smiler: By the time Mash meets Aesc in the past, she's still putting on a brave face and smile while proclaiming this time she's finally going to bring about a true peace for Britain, but in a heart-to-heart with Mash she finally drops the mask and admits she's actually burnt out after all her millennia of trying and failing to save everyone and only getting attempts on her life in exchange. It's reached the point she's already started secretly fighting solely for Britain itself out of a selfish desire rather than its people, and she even confesses she can't help but feel like even her loyal companions like Totorot only truly care about her role rather than her as a person.
Strong Family Resemblance: As Altria's sister she's another Saberface, and easily mistakable as Altria Caster Alter. The truth isn't far off, as Morgan in her youth was identical to Altria Caster. Her hair being done in a ponytail through a ribbon, as well as her Stripperiffic clothes also calls Mordred to mind who has a similar hairstyle, whose third ascension is similarly Stripperiffic and whose parents are Altria and Morgan. In the Lostbelt this resemblance is because faeries born of same purpose are always made from the same template, making them biologically mother and daughter by faerie standards.
Summon Magic: A common mage staple, it's naturally in her bag of tricks.
- Even in a world where the Camelot of Proper Human History didn't come to be, Morgan was able to call upon the Saint Graphs of PHH Camelot's knights, imparting the power of Gawain, Tristan, and Lancelot into Barghest, Baobahn Sith, and Mélusine respectively.
- The "Sea Monster Crisis" event shows she hasn't lost her touch when she gets her hands on an actual summoning medium, resulting in the summoning and essentially creation of Taisui Xingjun.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: In a similar vein to Camazotz, Morgan shows how much the fallacy is not worth it. While she's technically achieved her goal of being ruler of Britain, she's left with basically nothing worthwhile, as almost all of her friends and loved ones are dead by this point, leaving with her with millennia of trauma that leaves her utterly miserable and incapable of connecting with the few people she's still close to, and given the nature of Fairy Britain, it's pretty clear things are not going to get any better for her. Despite this, she continues to futilely persist in her efforts, in large part because after all the suffering and hard work she's put in, she can't bear the idea of giving up and admitting it was a wasted effort.
Sympathy for the Devil: Despite her tyranny she remains very sypmathetic due to her horrific past, and even her enemies find it hard to hate her.
- Altria Caster publicly condemns Morgan for forsaking her duty and indulging her selfish desires, but her inner thoughts reveals she has nothing but respect for her predecessor's magical genius and the kind savior she once was.
- Oberon Vortigern blames Morgan for causing him to be born, yet he empathizes with her desire to find a place to belong even if she had to create a fictional world like her Lostworld, something he finds similar to his hopeless quest to find Titania.
Teach Him Anger: She pushed Baohban Sith to be cruel and psychopathic as a way to protect herself as well as to punish those who tormented her in the past. Presumably it's also why she let her hang out with Beryl.
Time Abyss: She's chronologically 6,019 years old by the time of the game. To put that into perspective, Gilgamesh, the first and oldest heroic Spirit, clocks in at around 5,000 years. Though it should be noted that she spent a sizable amount of her time as Aesc cryogenically frozen in coffins of ice between pilgrimages and calamities.
Then Let Me Be Evil: Essentially the reason she's become a tyrant in the present. She tried to help the Faerie's of the British Lostbelt through kindness and altruism, but each time she tried, they backstabbed her in some way or ruined all the work she did to help them. Eventually she decided that if the Faerie's would backstab or screw her over each time, she'd become the thing they hate most, and force them to follow her or die.
Theme Music Power-Up: A short snippet of her boss battle theme featuring a One-Woman Wail plays whenever she uses her NP. Notably, the theme itself spoils enough of her true character that it only plays for the playable Morgan after she dies at the end of Avalon le Fae Act 2.
Tragic Dream: Aesc dreamt of a world where there would be no more fighting and she could live in Britain without being beholden to her purpose as the Avalon le Fae. It could never come true because the faeries of the Lostbelt are selfish, unrepentant sinners, just like their ancestors the Six Sub-Bells of the Beginning.
Tragic Villain: Morgan's campaign was not a kind one. Through Mental Time Travel, she tried several times to save the people of Faerie Britain, both humans and fairies, on top of the fate she was given by Gaia. She failed every time not by her own faults, but by the people she was trying to save — the fairies simply don't want to be ruled, and make a point of backstabbing her in as spectacular a manner as possible to prove it. After one backstab too many, Morgan decided her "fate" was impossible and laser-focuses on saving the land and only the land, developing a ceaseless and bitter hatred of her people and not giving them a shred of care beyond running a functional kingdom.
Tranquil Fury: On the surface Morgan is eerily-machine like in her conduct, calm and lucid even as a Berserker, enough to make one wonder why she's not a Caster, an Avenger, or even a Ruler like her Proper Human History self. But it's just a Mask of Sanity; Morgan's Mad Enhancement is the same rank as Heracles' at B, driven into incurable, hate-filled insanity because of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her people. Choosing apathy over vengeance to better preserve her kingdom is all that keeps her from being a raving madwoman, and any poor soul she has the chance to "vent" at will learn firsthand how wrathful she really is.
Tsundere: As revealed later on, Morgan has a paradoxical love-hate relationship with Proper Human History, despising it for rejecting her as monarch of Britain but at the same time craving its acceptance, which is why Faerie Britain has so many parallels to its PHH counterpart despite the fact that Morgan would stomp them out were she as hateful of PHH as she said she was.
Underestimating Badassery:
- Zigzagged when it comes to Cernunnos. She's created the entirety of Camelot and her throne as one giant mystic code, with 12 Rhongomyniads and had 2,000 years worth of collecting energy from the faeries in the Lostbelt all for the sake of preparing for him should he awaken. Given what she was able to do with just one Rhongomyniad, this would appear to be overkill for him. But when it comes time for Altria Caster to use it, it's not enough. His flesh goes relatively unharmed and unpenetrated, while Altria suffers severe strain from even trying to use the throne. Where this gets zigzagged is when the story itself does denote that while an Avalon Le Fae could make use of the throne, it was ultimately made with Morgan as it's user in mind, whose had many times the pilgrimages than Altria had and thus was much stronger than her after one pilgrimage and could use Rhongomyniad better than she could. In the end, it's left unknown if Morgan could've truly destroyed Cernunnos with her preparations, while Altria had to change the Rhongomyniads to Excalibur in hopes of standing a chance.
- Morgan is confidant that she can purge the other Lostbelts as part of her plan to make Faerie Britain remain and override Proper Human History. However, each Lostbelt contains their own threats that at best could be comparable to the Calamity of Norwich (which she proved capable of dealing with) to at worst being comparable to Cernunnos or the Abyssal Worm in scale of destruction. As shown above, it's left unknown whether Morgan could've defeated Cernunnos even with her preparations, which then makes it unknown whether she could defeat other Lostbelt threats. Even so there are still cases where she has underestimated her foes. Kirschtaria stands out as a threat who could block her Rhongomyniad, Zeus has access to Noble Phantasms at the scale of Anti-Solar System and who would bring the threat of Chaos when he was killed, and finally she would have to contend with Lostbelt ORT if she wished to destroy the South American Lostbelt, as well as its Lostbelt King and the Foreign God.
Undignified Death: Is killed crawling to her throne begging for help by an angry mob after getting betrayed by Aurora. It is later mentioned that her body was mutilated beyond recognition after her death, all while her daughter was being held hostage and could do nothing but look.
The Unfought: Zig-zagged. While the heroes do face Morgan at the end of Avalon le Fae Act 2, it's ultimately revealed to be a copy and the real Morgan ends up killed by an angry mob a short time after her copies overwhelm the heroes. This was later Subverted with the release of the Chaldea Faerie Knight Cup where Morgan is fought for real as the event's Super Boss and she's every bit as powerful as you'd expect.
Uniqueness Decay: Played for drama. Morgan desires to be special and important, and almost everything both her Lostbelt and Proper Human History selves did was motivated by that wish. However, her traits borrow heavily (if unintentionally) from existing characters. She looks a lot like Altria, and her outfit and equipment heavily mirror those of her sister's Caster self, there are four other Servants who have access to Rhongomyniad, the situation in her Avalon Lostbelt is akin to that of the earlier Scandinavian one, her elite guard are just fairy equivalents of the Knights of the Round Table, she's a member of one of the ordinary Servant Classes, and she's not even the only "Saberface" who is a Berserker. It's almost comical when you look at her physical dimensions and see she's exactly 1 cm shorter and 1 kg lighter than Altria's grown up versions.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: She curiously does not have any comments towards Arthur Pendragon despite being a version of her hated sister from another timeline, and his implicit resemblance to one of her closest allies Lostbelt Uther.
Upbringing Makesthe Hero: Tragically Subverted, the loving upbringing she had under the Rain Clan is what causes her to try and go beyond her role as the Avalon Le Fae to save and remake Fairy Britain into The Good Kingdom where everyone can be happy like she was. While certainly a noble sentiment, not only is that incompatible with her actual mission, it completely blinds her to the fact that the rest of the Fae are beyond saving, leading her to persist in her futile efforts up to the points she eventually snaps and becomes the Fallen Hero and Evil Overlord, Queen Morgan.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: It's disheartening to see the optimistic, lively sweetheart Aesc that Mash met, and then compare her to the present day Morgan who is bitter, cynical, and almost certainly depressed from all the trauma she went through. Once she's removed from the shithole that is Faerie Britain and summoned into Chaldea, she starts to lighten up a bit and hints of her old self begin leaking through.
Villain Has a Point: From the first time the Protagonist meets her to when she's fought, she bluntly states that fairies never learn what's best and that she's completely justified in her rule through protecting the land over them because even if they die, they will have next generations thanks to their version of Resurrective Immortality. Yet whether or not Morgan is a bad queen and justified in her treatment of the fairies is a recurring question in Lostbelt No. 6. These get consolidated in the following points.
- There's no doubt that she oppresses the fairies, but at the same time they would literally drive themselves to extinction without her holding the peace together. Fairy Britain is built on bloodshed and war because dead fairies become new parts of the land which equates to more landmass, so without her rule enforcing peace, it would devolve into a Forever War that just empowers the Calamities further since the dead fairies curses would create them.
- Some of her polices are also actually beneficial by curbing trends that would cause certain fairy subspecies to go extinct, or that would deprive the Mystics of her land. For example, horse drawn carriages are actually banned in Fairy Britain save for extremely high class fairies, the reasoning being that if they became more commonly used, it would deprive the fairy horses of their Mystery and make them go extinct.
- Finally, the biggest point that Morgan repeats the most is that the fairies do not learn. They do not repent, they do not feel guilt or remorse for their actions. They do not respond to the carrot, only the stick. The proof of this is that they were born from the Six Fairies who were meant to make Excalibur decided to be lazy on the job and let the world die. They didn't care beyond that they lost land to live on, and even as Cernunnos tried to befriend them, they decided to poison and kill him to get something to live on. Their sins accumulated from there, and a majority of the fairies carry the same flaws that they will not choose the right path without being forced to. The Rain Clan, who raised Morgan with love and care, got obliterated by all the clans sans the Mirror and King Clans just for harboring her, and she's faced endless abuse, suffering and deaths each time she tried to save them as Aesc the Savior. Altria Caster is equally reluctant to fight Morgan due to facing similar abuse at their hands, and Barghest initially thinks she's a bad queen for her policy of the land over the people until she returns to her domain of Manchester to see what kind of hell it has devolved into without Morgan holding the leash.
Villainous Valour: Par excellence. Chaldea, the Fae, Gaia, and even Faerie Britain itself have the deck so absurdly stacked against Morgan that it isn't funny, and she simply takes it on the chin and fires back over the course of millennia. Her ultimate defeat isn't so much a demonstration of her dream's futility, but rather a testament to her sheer stubborn determination because of how close she was to winning in spite of it all; the only reason she even dies is because of multiple cheap shots due to unexpected betrayal and her daughter being taken hostage. Altria Caster even admits after Morgan's death that she's jealous that she could never possess even a fraction of Morgan's drive to push forward.
Walking Spoiler: Everything about her character changes after the revelation that she was once The Chosen One who was meant to save Britain, but failed several times. It recontextualizes her as a traumatized Tragic Villain who is still scarred by her failures, lack of appreciation for her efforts followed by betrayal from those she tried to save, and is ultimately lashing out at those she feels responsible. She is such a spoiler that the player cannot get her Theme Music Power-Up until after they've seen her full story and completed Lostbelt No. 6 Act 2.
Weak, but Skilled:
- She’s this in comparison to the other high-end Lostbelt Kings. Her mastery of magic is described as "godlike" to the point where she frequently does impossible tasks like reconstructing Rhongomyniad several times over, but in terms of raw strength she falls behind actual gods like Arjuna Alter and Zeus, to whom calling their Noble Phantasms just "Anti-World" would be a disservice. Its even noted in the story that Morgan isn't the most powerful being within her own Lostbelt, but she's stacked the deck so heavily in her favor, that defeating her head on is almost impossible, requiring political maneuvers by other factors to bring her down. The fact her Proper Human History self ensured she had a head-start, and Mash unwittingly gave her information about the future during her time as Aesc, also gives her an advantage no other Lostbelt King had; effectively giving herself more time and resources to prepare for the day Chaldea arrives in the Lostbelt.
- It’s also noted in an interview with Nasu that she was this in general, as just like Altria Caster, Morgan back when she started out as Aesc was very weak compared to the average Faerie and had to rely on crafty tactics not unlike Shiki Tohno.
Wham Line: Not so much the line itself since it's a simple introduction, but rather who is saying it.
Aesc the Savior: My real name is Morgan.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: When asked for her dislikes in My Room, she noticeably doesn't say Altria or Merlin, which would be the expected answers given her history with them, but rather caterpillars. "Just a little." In "Lostbelt No. 6: Fairy Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae", mention is made of a Caterpillar War in the past (the very one that saw Tam Lin Gawain get her title) that remains on record as the only time Morgan was seen screaming in public. This phobia extends to bugs in general, and she's banished all the insect fairies to the forest of Wales just so she won't risk having to see them.
With Us or Against Us: Her idiosyncratic form of morality boils down to whether or not you're getting in her way of ruling. If you support her regime, you're righteous; if you're opposed to it, you're evil.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In her Lostbelt, she once tried to be a hero for mankind and the fairies, trying to lead humanity to prosperity and helping the fairies as well. But as time went on, she suffered horrid fates and betrayals, failing horribly thousands of times because the fairies would rebel against her and kill her and her companions. The straw that broke the camel's back? When her newly founded Round Table was all poisoned to death right on their coronation day. From then on, she decided that saving Britain as a hero was impossible and that the "Subjugating the Fairies" was a much more plausible method.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Her determination, willingness to believe in the good of others even against all evidence to the contrary, and attempts to Screw Destiny so everyone can get a happy ending as Aesc might've worked out for her in something a more idealistic setting like The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Avatar: The Last Airbender. Unfortunately for her, Fairy Britain, and indeed the Nasuverse as a whole, doesn't really work like that.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Mash tells Aesc that even if their journey amounted to nothing in the face of inevitable failure, Aesc truly lived up to her name as the Savior. Sadly, Aesc would later suppress this memory to make sure there were no time paradoxes in the present.
You Can't Fight Fate: All Morgan wanted was for Faerie Britain to survive. Unfortunately for her, literally everyone and everything else would not rest until Faerie Britain was gone; Chaldea needs to protect Proper Human History, the Foreign God is mad about her Lostbelt becoming useless for its purposes, the native faeries are self-destructive to the point of self-genocide, Gaia wants history corrected by forging Excalibur so the Lostbelt can be pruned (the very thing Morgan was supposed to do), Faerie Britain itself is trying to commit suicide through the Calamities, and finally the Original Lostbelt Britain in the form of the Abyssal Worm, Oberon Vortigern, wants Faerie Britain destroyed because it's a perversion made of faerie corpses atop of where it once stood. Morgan puts up a truly impressive fight, but once she dies, all the conflicting forces have their way and the Lostbelt is destroyed in record time.
You Don't Look Like You: In a meta-sense, the reason for Lostbelt Morgan's existence is due to Nasu feeling like Takeuchi's design for her did not depict her as the conniving witch she has been characterized as and what have been implied with the Proper Human History version of her in previous works such as Fate/Apocrypha.

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