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Solomon

The King of Magic

^{April Fool's}

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Jalen K. Cassell (English)

The King of Jerusalem and son of David. He controlled seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia in the Lesser Key of Solomon, and also created the modern system of magecraft used by magi today (before this, only those with a connection to the gods could use Magecraft). Solomon's death marked a great acceleration in the decline of mystery, leading to the demise of the Age of Gods, and ironically the decline of magecraft itself. He's the one behind the attacks on the Human Order.

He belongs to the Grand Caster class. For more information, please see Fate/Grand Order: Unplayable and Fate/Grand Order: Beast I.

The Demon Pillars

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The 72 Ars Goetia Demon Gods

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All voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita

The seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia, bound by King Solomon, and a recurring threat throughout the Grand Orders. While they are powerful demons who are each said to surpass Heroic Spirits in power, their true purpose is to act as literal and figurative pillars to support Solomon's Noble Phantasm, which can destroy humanity.

Five named demons appeared throughout the main story: Flauros (in Septem), Forneus (in Okeanos), Barbatos (in London), Halphas (in America), and Amon (in Camelot, turned into "Amon-Ra" through Ozymandias' magecraft). All of them appear in Salomon, the Final Order, as raid bosses, along with three new pillars: Naberius, Sabnock, and Andromalius. Each of them commands eight other demons, who are named but do not appear in gameplay, accounting for the entire total of seventy-two demons.

Four more named demons appear in Epic of Remnant being hunted down by Chaldea: Bael (in Shinjuku), Zepar (in SE.RA.PH.) Phenex (in Agartha), and Räum (in Salem). Other Demon Pillars that appeared in Interludes and events include Haagenti (in Medea Lily's second Interlude), Glasya-Labolas (as Nursery Rhyme's "mascot" in the Prisma Illya event), and Andras (in the GUDAGUDA Meiji Ishin event).

While Fate/Grand Order Arcade seems to loosely follow the Incineration of Humanity plot from the mobile game, the seeming absence of King of Mages makes the appearance of the Demon Pillars ominous until the Sixth Singularity where the true nature of them is revealed...

For more information, see their folder Here. Beware of spoilers

Professor Lev Lainur Flauros (Massive Unmarked Spoilers!)

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Man of Flauros

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Jalen K. Cassell (English)

A key member of Chaldea, who created the various systems they use to summon Servants and watch over history. However, at the end of the Prologue, he is revealed to have been the bomber that sabotaged Chaldea, and reveals to have a part in the incineration of Human History and subjects Olga Marie to a Fate Worse than Death.

He later returns to serve as the main antagonist of the Septem Singularity, creating the Eternal Roman Empire in an effort to topple the original Roman Empire from Nero Cladius and ensure the completion of said Singularity, and is the first of the Demon Pillars to be fought, Flauros.

He debuted in Clock Tower 2015, a short story published online in 2014.

For more information, see Flauros' folder Here. Beware of spoilers

Other Villains

First Singularity: Orleans

Fafnir

The Evil Dragon

The legendary Evil Dragon which Siegfried slew with Balmung, he appears in Orleans having been summoned by Jeanne Alter in response to the appearance of his killer. He eventually returns in the Fate/Apocrypha crossover event as both Sieg's Noble Phantasm and his true physical appearance.

Art Evolution: When Fafnir first appears in-story, he's essentially just the normal "Dragon" enemy with grey-teal scales and a unique glowing Power Tattoo on his chest. Sieg's Noble Phantasm shows he's actually a bit slimmer in body with greyer and spikier scales, a much more noticeably thinner snout, and curvier horns.
As Long as There Is Evil: Since Fafnir spawns wherever there is greediness, it cannot truly disappear from the world. In response, Sigurd and other dragonslayers simply will just slay him over and over again.
Ascended Extra: In a sense, since Sieg has essentially become him, he is technically the Main Ally of Inheritence of Glory.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Fafnir is far larger than any wyvern and towers over the majority of Servants, with most of them not even coming up to his knees.
The Dragon: Quite literally to Jeanne Alter in Orleans as her greatest source of muscle. The heroes have to go through him before they can enter her castle.
Dragon Hoard: Possesses one of the most iconic ones. He hoarded the massive Das Rheingold which Siegfried took after killing him. In "The Land of Mystique, Oniland! The Great Oni and the Kamuy's Gold", the Das Rheingold being fused with the titular gold due to Sitonai's summoning is part of what lets Moshirechik Kotanechik assume Fafnir's form at the end of the event.
Dragons Are Demonic: Fafnir isn't just an evil dragon. It is the Evil Dragon that is effectively the embodiment of one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Embodiment of Vice: It functions as one for greed because the original myths have people become the dragon Fafnir from blinding greediness. Thus it will manifest whenever people are too greedy as seen in "Lostbelt No. 2: The Eternal Icy Fire Century, Götterdämmerung" when Surtr decides to go far beyond his original purpose and desires to burn the entire world instead of just Scandinavia and subsequently transforms into Surtr-Fafnir or in "The Land of Mystique, Oniland! The Great Oni and the Kamuy's Gold" where the main villain of the event, Moshirechik Kotanechik Moshireshita Kotaneshita, makes use of the fusion of the Kamuy's Gold and Das Rheingold thanks to Sitonai's summoning and fed further by the desires and greed of the Oniland participants and of Elisabeth Báthory to assume the form of a giant golden Fafnir.
Legacy Character: There have been at least two Fafnirs, the original one and the one Sieg became. There were likely three in fact, as Sigurd's profile brings up the possibility that the Fafnirs that Siegfried and Sigurd fought were different dragons entirely. In one of Siegfried's interludes he explains that it's possible for Fafnir's offspring to become a new Fafnir if they grow powerful enough, and "Lostbelt No. 2: The Eternal Icy Fire Century, Götterdämmerung" reveals that extreme greed can also transform people into Fafnir when it begins to happen to Surtr.
Oh, Crap!: Jeanne Alter notes that Fafnir is actually shaking, presumably in fear, when they come face to face with Siegfried after Jeanne and Georgios remove the curse Jeanne Alter placed on him.
Promoted to Playable: In a sense, as Sieg transforms into Fafnir for his Noble Phantasm and outside of his Remote Body is him now.
Recurring Boss: Even after being killed again in-story, Fafnir tends to pop up again in events and interludes with varying degrees of importance.

Fourth Singularity: London

Makiri Zolgen

Fate/Heaven's Feel

^{As Matou Zouken in "Accel Zero Order"}

A powerful magus and the head of the Makiri family, better known as Matou, in Japan. He appears in London as the "M" of Project Demon Fog, serving under Solomon's direct orders to destroy the world. He later returns in Fate/Zero crossover event in his old form as an antagonist.

Arc Villain: Of London and "Accel Zero Order".
Bait-and-Switch: The "M" of the Big Bad Trio "P" (Paracelsus), "B" (Babbage) and "M". Due to the Red Herring earlier in London about Sherlock Holmes, Wrong Genre Savvy players might assume that "M" stood for Moriarty or Mycroft Holmes, used as an alias in several derivative works such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Call-Forward: He uses the same ritual that Kariya used to summon Tesla.
The Cameo: He also turns up during the Fate/Accel Zero Order event in his decrepit old state, as he would canonically be during the timeline of Fate/Zero, taking over as the Master of Lancelot after Kariya abandons his Command Seals and the Grail War to care for Sakura. Oddly enough, he goes down like a punk immediately as Dark Irisviel/Justeaze takes center stage as the actual Big Bad.
Character Title: His family name, Makiri, directly translates to "demonic fog" - as in "Death World in the City of Demonic Fog", the full title of the London chapter. Presumably, this is why London's entire title was censored in previews - mentioning it would directly spoil Zouken's involvement.
Connected All Along: In Fate/Grand Order Material III, it's revealed that he knew the living Paracelsus. The fourth material book also reveals that he was acquainted with the living Da Vinci.
Demonic Possession: Solomon forces him to become a vessel for Barbatos.
Evil Counterpart: To the Protagonist, being a magus who also has at least three Servants at his beck and call. However, whereas the Protagonist uses their Servants to repair temporal anomalies, Zouken is using his to create one under Goetia's orders.
Forced into Evil: Most of his actions in the London singularity are done under Goetia's orders, with him even bemoaning the fact he has no choice in the matter. The final singularity clarifies this: The Matous alongside Lev's family are likely one of the 72 Houses of Magi meant to act as vessels for the Demon Pillars one day.
I Was Quite a Looker: While he still looks quite sinister, the young Zouken here certainly looks a lot better than the shriveled old man he'd become—if any, he even looks like a mature Cu Chulainn. In fact, Takeuchi states in the Fate/stay night Complete materials (where this is some rough art for Zouken as a young man) that he used the phrase “a capable version of Shinji” as a guideline.
Last Breath Bullet: Just as he seems defeated, Zouken manages to summon Tesla, who proceeds to give the Protagonist a heck of a lot more trouble.
Made of Iron: For a human, he takes quite a bit of punishment. He's still alive after the party beats down his transformation into Barbatos, and then Mordred cuts him down again in human form. He still has enough strength to summon Tesla before expiring.
Manchurian Agent: Just like Lev before him, Zolgen is simply a magus whose Magic Crest and bloodline allow Goetia to coerce him into becoming one of his Demon Pillars.
Name Order Confusion: His name is written in the Eastern order, even in the NA version.
One-Letter Name: He used the codename "M" with his Servants to keep his identity hidden.
Really 700 Years Old: Da Vinci's Fate/Grand Order Material IV profile establishes that they were acquaintances while da Vinci was still alive, dating Zouken to at least 300 years old by the time Chaldea encounters him in the 1800s where he still looks pretty handsome.

Sixth Singularity: Camelot

Goddess Rhongomyniad/The Lion King

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Goddess of the Holy Spear

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Kari Wahlgren (Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot) (English)

An alternate version of Lancer Altria who never gave up the divine spear Rhongomyniad, becoming a fully Divine entity. She appears as the main antagonist of the Camelot Singularity, seeking to create a new Camelot and is willing to destroy countless lives to do so. Due to the circumstances that led to her divine creation, she is not summonable.

Above Good and Evil: How she sees herself, given that she's a Divine Spirit.
Alternate Self: It's made clear that she is not simply a corrupted Lancer Altria, but rather a Divine Spirit that still resembles her original self.
Arc Villain: Of Camelot. She herself has no ties to the Big Bad, but her presence is such a threat that should her plan succeed, the world will still be screwed.
Assimilation Plot: Her ultimate goal isn't so different from Goetia's, seeking to convert all of mankind into energy that shall live forever within Rhongomyniad under her rule.
Bad Boss: She had the knights who refused to join her executed (even her brother figure, Kay) and later sought to execute Gawain for failing her, only sparing him because he survived an attack from Rhongomyniad that was meant to kill him. She also threatens to execute Agravain for simply wondering why she doesn't let Mordred reside within the Holy City, and Mordred herself is given a Gift that would slowly kill her and if it doesn't she would die anyway if the Lion King's plan is completed. Only Lancelot doesn't get any of this treatment.
Battle Theme Music: "Goddess of Rhongomyniad", a battle remix of "The Lion's Throne" underscored by an ominous chorus and driving bass beat to emphasize her inhuman nature and otherworldly power.
Beyond the Impossible: Roman gets a reading on one of her Rhongomyniad blasts and declares it has a Power Level of 3,000,000 before adding that most Noble Phantasms usually average out between 1,000 and 3,000. Later on, her releasing Rhongomyniad's power to fight the protagonists is so powerful it starts negatively affecting equipment in Chaldea across space-time. This is due to the fact she's a true Divine Spirit unhindered by the weakening effects of the Servant summoning system. By the end, it's only stopped by the combined might of Lord Camelot and Bedivere's Switch-On Airgetlam, aka Excalibur.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: While she has a concept of good and evil, her transformation into a Divine Spirit means she no longer has the humanity to see things as a normal person would. She instead operates under a skewed perspective of her being right and anyone disagreeing with her being wrong. She doesn't understand why people think she's a monster for her actions due to this.
Butterfly of Doom: The Lion King was created by a certain event in the life of Altria: it is eventually revealed that the reason she came to be was because her version of Bedivere never managed to return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake. Where the Proper Human History's Arthur died from her wounds, this version did not because she kept Rhongomyniad, which allowed her to survive the Battle of Camlann and eventually become a fully Divine goddess thanks to Rhongomyniad's power.
Condescending Compassion: She cares deeply for humanity, enough that she wants to "preserve" the best of them in her sacred lance. The catch is she wants them more as specimens than people. The protagonist can rage at her that they aren't butterflies to be pinned to a board.
Dimensional Traveler: It is stated that she wandered across many alternate realities after her original reality was destroyed before she wounded up in the Sixth Singularity.
- In fact, after Camelot she shows up in Arcade Jerusalem as an ally to the arcade version of Chaldea.
Dying as Yourself: Bedivere and the protagonist defeat her and return Excalibur to Altria, somewhat restoring her humanity and memory. As she only lived thanks to Rhongomyniad, she'll eventually vanish.
Evil Counterpart: In many ways, she's what the main Altria could have become if she had allowed her desire to rebuild Camelot with the Holy Grail's wish, consequences be damned, to consume her.
Evil Versus Evil: She's actually fully against Solomon and his plans, the problem is that her own plans for "saving" humanity aren't exactly what most humans would call salvation.
Fantastic Nuke: She uses Rhongomyniad's light in order to destroy towns and villages from afar, leaving only large craters where they once stood. In fact, the way she uses it to keep her territories in line is not unlike how modern countries use nuclear weapons as deterrents. The only times its light was counteracted was when Arash used his suicidal Anti-Country Noble Phantasm to intercept it, when Ozymandias threw his Ramesseum Tentyris into a barrier created by Rhongomyniad while Nitocris intercepted the beam itself with her Mirror of Nitocris, and Mash using Lord Camelot for the first time, with all times save the last, ending in the deaths of the Servants in question.
Flanderization: An In-Universe example. Thanks to Rhongomyniad making her a Divine Spirit, she's become an amplified version of the kind of king Altria was in life; a cold and unemotional ruler. Unlike her normal incarnation, who only did so because she felt it was important to put others before herself, the Lion King has fully lost her humanity, meaning she becomes a more extreme ruler who lacks compassion, emotions, and human perspective, while still acting in a cold and aloof way. She still maintains many of Altria's heroic beliefs, but the lack of emotions has intensified to the point where she is almost robotic in how she acts, and her lack of humanity distorted those beliefs in uncomfortable directions for many of her knights, leading to many refusing to side with her, and some who did feeling guilt for doing so.
Friendship Favoritism: The Lion King would execute anyone who would make a mistake or question her. Lancelot does both, yet she never punishes him. Instead, she rewards him by answering his question and she gives him a second chance to make up for his mistake.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Despite having become a Divine Spirit, she doesn’t even have the Divinity skill, let alone Divine Core of the Goddess or one of its variations, and she also lacks the Divine and Divine Spirit traits.
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: The most puzzling thing about her is how she even got involved in the first place. As far as can be gathered, while Ozymandias, the Hassans, the fake Richard Lionheart, and each of their respective factions were busy fighting each other, she suddenly appeared in the Jerusalem Singularity, steamrolled them all with the Knights of the Round, and set up Camelot right where the former Holy City stood before beginning her own plan to "save" the human race. The oddity of her presence is further emphasized when observing other versions of the same Singularity, which remains known as the Jerusalem Singularity in both Arcade and the simulations the Foreign God put Kirschtaria and the other Crypters through in order to earn the right to return to life.
Glowing Eyes of Doom: Because of her divine nature, her eyes are now a permanent glowing yellowish-green.
Graceful Loser: Her plan is foiled when Bedivere returns Excalibur and shatters Rhongonmyiad. However, she notes that she now has Excalibur and could use it to wipe out the Chaldea group but instead gives them some advice on how to find the last singularity and lets them be pulled from the collapsing singularity. Implicitly, her reasoning is if she can't carry out her plan, she might as well bet on the long shot.
Heel–Face Turn: Shows up during Solomon to aid the protagonist and Chaldea, providing the final push to beat down the nine Demon Pillars under Amon.
Join or Die: According to Gawain, once she summoned all the Knights of the Round Table save Galahad (who apparently refused the summoning) and Bedivere (who was both unable to be summoned in the first place given he was still alive and her memory of him was gone), she told them her plans and gave them a choice of siding with or against her. Agravain, Gawain, Lancelot, Tristan, Mordred and Gareth all sided with her, while Percival, Kay, Gaheris, Bors and Pellinore rebelled and were subsequently cut down in the ensuring battle.
Kick the Dog: Unlike the rest of her knights, Mordred was given a blessing that wasn’t asked for and had the side effect of destroying her soul every time she used her Noble Phantasm. This is notable since the other blessings didn’t have this kind of consequence, with Tristan’s being the only exception in that it warped his personality and even that consequence was necessary for Tristan to even function after the deaths of the other Knights of the Round Table. She also forbids Mordred from entering Camelot at certain times of the day, forces her to stay outside fighting Ozymandias' forces and the Hassans otherwise, and didn't even give her a home in the city unlike the other knights, which Mordred herself notes is all but a death sentence since everything outside of Camelot will end up incinerated in the end. Even Agravain, who otherwise is the epitome of My Master, Right or Wrong, questions the Lion King's choices on this.
Knight Templar: She will not stop or compromise her plan for anything, and demands absolute loyalty from her subjects on pain of death. It is later revealed that this is less because she's blindly convinced of her own justice, but because she's so detached from human morality she doesn't grasp (or care) how her actions could be perceived as wrong.
Lack of Empathy: Ultimately the Lion King has little love for humans as individuals. Even her ultimate plan is to preserve a number of ideal specimens of humanity forever inside Rhongomyniad. She ends up making them less people and more a museum piece that will exist forever so that alien life may one day glimpse the species that was known as humanity.
Leitmotif: "A Lion's Throne", meant to convey the sheer divinity and majesty she holds and has a battle remix as "The Farthest Fight" for her first boss battle.
Lesser of Two Evils: Her actions were the best she could do in the Camelot chapter, as she knew Solomon would raze the world to the ground in nearly a year. Even her knights knew this, with most of them still unable to accept the atrocities they commit in the process.
Light Is Not Good: As the Lion King, she is just as much - if not more - of a tyrant than the Alter versions of Altria.
Orcus on His Throne: Played with. While she doesn't leave her throne room for the entirety of the Singularity, she's still able to personally launch attacks against Chaldea by using Rhongomyniad as a Wave-Motion Gun.
Outside-Context Problem: The Lion King has nothing to do with Solomon or the Singularities themselves, and wasn't summoned by the World or the Grail. She is a currently-existing Divine Spirit from an Alternate Universe who, sensing Solomon's plan, broke into the Jerusalem Singularity under her own power, steamrolled Solomon's planned threat (a false Richard Lionheart), converted the Holy Land into Camelot, and got to work driving humanity extinct on her own, supposedly positive, terms.
Pet the Dog: Subverted. After forcing the Knights who chose to remain loyal to her to murder those who were not, she offered each of them unique "Gifts" to help them cope with their guilt, with Agravain alone refusing one. Even ignoring how Tristan's Gift warped him into an unfeeling, emotionless living weapon, and Mordred's Gift was intended to kill her off, the Gifts were more properly a form of insurance for Rhongomyniad. Da Vinci notes that if a knight with a Gift were to try to fight her, they would be immolated by it.
- Played straight in the final moments of Agravain. Her most loyal man dies in her arms, weakly protesting that he still has so much work to do, and she eases his pain as he passes.
Physical God: She's Altria Pendragon having fully ascended to the level of a Divine Spirit, and unlike previous examples shown in-story (Artemis using Orion's Saint Graph, Stheno and Euryale being so weak their summoning actually strengthened them), she's wielding the full power that comes with that status without anything limiting her. She is the most powerful being in the Sixth Singularity save perhaps King Hassan (a Grand Servant), greater than even Ozymandias (one of the most powerful Servants in Fate canon) and until Babylonia is the most powerful opponent Chaldea encounters over the course of the singularities aside from their brief run-in with Solomon in London.
Really 700 Years Old: She's a beautiful woman who appears to be in her early to mid-twenties, but given Bedivere's words "This one thousand five-hundred year journey... all for a chance to stand in front of you again" as well as the knowledge that she's been wandering between different universes after Bedivere's failure to return Excalibur, she's actually existed for over one thousand and five-hundred years.
Red Baron: She's mainly known as the Lion King in Camelot.
Sore Loser: She's rather miffed when the Singularity is resolved because it means she won't be able to challenge the Protagonist and their Servants to a rematch.
Transhuman Treachery: After transcending her humanity to become a Divine Spirit, her mentality becomes warped from her original self and results in the Lack of Empathy and Knight Templar attitude she takes throughout the Camelot Singularity. Of course she herself believes her actions are for the betterment of humanity.
Vagueness Is Coming: Once she's defeated by Chaldea, she gives them a hint about the unusual Seventh Singularity and a threat inside it that makes Solomon confident that the Incineration of Humanity will not be undone. It's the Second Beast and the Primordial Mother, Tiamat.
Wham Line: About two-thirds of the way through the Singularity, she drops one that further tips off the player that something isn't right about this version of Altria:
"Who is this... Bedivere?"
When She Smiles: Bedivere expresses to her that his unshakable motivation and resolve to achieve his goal come from the moment he saw her smile at his happiness, back when she was still the King of Knights, Altria Pendragon. She also legitimately smiles and laughs near the end of the Singularity when Roman is so happy with the information she gave them he mentions he wants to give her a thank-you kiss, replying that maybe she will accept it if they ever meet again.
You Have Failed Me: She has a very dim view of failure, threatening to execute Gawain after his first defeat to Chaldea and relenting at the very last minute only because he survived being blasted out of the castle walls and sent flying all the way to the city walls, essentially saying that if he's tough enough to survive that, he might still prove useful. The only one she seems to show any signs of forgiveness towards is Lancelot, but even then it's clear that Lancelot is still only barely shown enough leniency to escape execution.
You Can't Fight Fate: The reasoning behind her actions in Camelot is that she doesn't believe it's possible to stop Solomon from incinerating the World and the Human Order, and so she decided she would do the next best thing and leave humanity with a monument for future alien races to see rather than let them just be wiped out without a trace.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mordred was very useful in putting down the knights who wouldn't follow her, but the Lion King doesn't see much utility for keeping her around short of outright killing her.
Your Soul Is Mine!: She's been putting the souls she wishes to save into her spear Rhongomyniad, which is also her tower. It's complicated.

Knights of the Lion King

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Clockwise from top: Tristan, Agravain, Gawain, Lancelot, and Mordred. Not pictured: Gareth

Former members of the Knights of the Round Table, who chose to follow the Lion King and slaughter their fellow Knights to protect her. Having already forsaken morality, they are resigned to following her designs for the Holy City to the bitter end. Consisting of Lancelot, Gawain, Tristan, Mordred, Agravain and Gareth, these Knights serve as major antagonists in Camelot.

Alternate Self: Though most explicit with Mordred and Tristan, none of the Knights of the Lion King are the versions seen in either Chaldea or any of the other Singularities. Their other versions are aware of the Knights though and Tristan in particular is deeply regretful for their actions.
Empowered Badass Normal: Well, "normal" is relative considering most of them bar Agravain were already superhuman in abilities, but all of them (except again Agravain) received a Gift from the Lion King that made them even more powerful than their normal selves.
Knight of Cerebus: Fittingly in both Camelot and the Story as a whole, while things weren't exactly peachy beforehand, when the Chaldea arrives at the Holy City's gate and the Selection is carried out by Gawain, the story becomes far more mature and dark and the gameplay becomes that much more challenging.
My Master, Right or Wrong: They are the Knights of the Round that chose to side with the Lion King no matter what to save humanity, even if it meant throwing aside their morality and their bonds with the other Knights who they outright killed. Gareth and Tristian ultimately broke under the strain while Lancelot jumped ship the instant he decided Chaldea possibly had a better way of saving humanity.
No-Sell: Tristan's Gift of "Reversal" means that what was once an weakness to poisons in life, was reversed into an outright immunity, as the Hassan's found out when they tried to exploit it, getting all of them bar Cursed Arm killed. From a gameplay perspective, this also meant he was strong against Lancers instead of weak to them as Archers normally are.
Posthumous Character: Gareth is already dead by the time Chaldea arrives in the Singularity.
Sanity Slippage: This happened to both Tristan and Gareth in Camelot Zero, brought on by the weight of their crimes against their fellow Knights, with Tristan being so shaken he was unable to move until the Lion King granted the Gift of "Reversal" to him, while Gareth constantly scrubbed her hands out of guilt, the stress ruining them, before being driven to Suicide by Cop fighting the Fake Richard Lionheart. Mordred, due to a combination of factors such as Gareth's death, her Gift of "Rampage", and the knowledge she will soon die no matter what happens, is reduced to The Berserker, attacking various enemy factions with no real care for herself or the lives of her men.
These Hands Have Killed: Gareth and Tristan's reactions to the slaughter of their former comrades, and things only go downwards from then on for the both of them.
Total Party Kill: By the end of the Camelot Singularity, they've all been killed with the exception of Agravain, and even he's on death's door and passes away peacefully in the Lion King's presence.

Seventh Singularity: Babylonia

Kingu

Fake Enkidu

Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi (Japanese), Marin Miller (English)

The son-consort of Tiamat in Sumerian lore, born to aid her in the battle of the gods after they killed her husband Apsu. Kingu's soul is placed into the body of Enkidu in the Babylonia chapter, acting as an antagonist in Babylonia. Has a non-speaking cameo as "One Night Dream" in the "Merry Christmas in the Underworld" event as the third first 40 AP Free Quest, "First Gate Skewering Christmas."

Ambiguous Gender: Averted. While Enkidu is written or portrayed with gender neutral terms to emphasize the fact that Enkidu was clay given life and therefore lacks gender, Kingu is explicitly referred to with masculine pronouns by people in the story after they learn he isn't the real Enkidu. Kingu even refers to himself as the "son of Tiamat".
Ambiguous Situation: It's hinted that the Enkidu who appears in "Death Jail Summer Escape" may have some connection to him, displaying a familiarity with Gorgon that the real Enkidu shouldn't have - and Gorgon herself briefly sees flashes of Enkidu as their long-haired second ascension sprite, like Kingu's appearance - but it isn't made clear if that "Enkidu" is really Kingu, or Enkidu, or some combination of them. The ambiguity is taken up a notch in Enkidu's Interlude where they reveal that since Kingu used their body in Babylonia, it's technically possible for them to be summoned now with Kingu's personality in the driver's seat, especially after incorporating the fragment of Kingu left behind.
Amplifier Artifact: Kingu is powered by the seventh Holy Grail within his chest. He's even stronger than Enkidu with it, but without it he's pathetically weak.
And Show It to You: The Laḫmu stab him in the back to remove the Holy Grail hidden within his chest.
Color-Coded Eyes: Contrary to when he was masquerading as Enkidu (where he shows off green eyes), his eyes remain purple when he reveals his deception. Enkidu even mentions after absorbing the fragment of Kingu left in their Interlude that if their eyes suddenly turn purple, it's likely due to Kingu's influence.
Dead Person Impersonation: He pretends to be Enkidu having undergone a Face–Heel Turn, claiming that he's returning to his original purpose as a Noble Phantasm of the gods. However, he gets quickly identified as a faker by Merlin, often being called "Fake Enkidu" by others before his true name is revealed.
Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: While they acknowledge him as an enemy, Gilgamesh and Siduri continue to treat Kingu as their beloved Enkidu even after his identity is revealed.
The Dragon: To Gorgon. Subverted with Tiamat. He was always a disposable pawn in her eyes. He also serves as Solomon's main agent within the Seventh Singularity, working to awaken Tiamat as per his advice. This foreshadows the seventh Grail being hidden within Kingu's chest.
Even Evil Has Standards: Even he’s disgusted by the way that Laḫmu kill their prisoners for no reason other than pleasure. This is partly what leads them to turn on him.
Fusion Dance: At the end of Enkidu’s interlude, they mention that Kingu from Babylonia has successfully merged with them at the Throne of Heroes. Reasoning that Kingu’s journey and ultimate sacrifice meant this his actions were worthy of legend, and that the legend of Enkidu was his as well, just as much as it is for the original. Enkidu even makes it a point that it’s possible someone would be able to summon Kingu somewhere down the line.
Gameplay and Story Integration: While he's still pretending to be an ally, his Enkidu form was the first-ever story support who's Level 100 - something that's only possible if the Servant in question has undergone Palingenesis. This is a sign that he's really the host of the singularity's Grail, and drawing power from it.
Heel–Face Turn: After being discarded by Tiamat, affected by Enkidu's lingering emotions, rescued by a Laḫmu who thought he was Enkidu, and Gilgamesh giving him one of his grails to replace Enkidu's lost one, Kingu decides to join the heroes and embrace being his own person.
Heroic Sacrifice: Becomes the Chains of Heaven in order to bind Tiamat in the final battle, dying in the process and being significant enough to be recorded into Enkidu's legend on the Throne, making them the same person. The chains don't hold Tiamat for very long, but they buy the heroes just enough time to start the final phase of their plan to defeat her.
Kingu: Mother's fury is a thing of the past. Now I will awaken the breath of stars— Enuma Elish! Humans, let us bind the gods!!!!!
Howl of Sorrow: Has one after Siduri transformed into a Laḫmu sacrifices herself to save him from other Laḫmu and weakly tells him how happy she is that he's alive due to her memories of Enkidu, causing him to have a breakdown due to both Enkidu's lingering feelings for Siduri and his own guilt at knowing he didn't deserve that kindness.
Inelegant Blubbering: He's reduced to a mess of tears after the Laḫmu betray him and reveal that Tiamat never considered him her child, only a disposable tool. It's quite a pathetic sight after watching him strut around the Singularity proclaiming his superiority to everyone he sees.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Kingu finds his own personality influenced by the echoes of Enkidu's memories and emotions the longer he spends inside it. At first, he tries to deny and fight any influence they might have, but when Tiamat and the Laḫmu betray and discard him he starts having second thoughts.
Not Quite Dead: Enkidu's interlude reveals part of himself still lived on and bound a remnant of Tiamat. Enkidu absorbs the chains after killing the remnant and its Laḫmus, taking into himself some of Kingu's memories.
Odd Friendship: With Gorgon and eventually Gilgamesh after he views him as a friend and not due to Enkidu's lingering feelings.
Psychotic Smirk: Sports one quite often after his reveal, which makes it pretty obvious that he's not really Enkidu.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: He occasionally flashes these, usually when he's serious about trying to end the protagonist's life.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When Gorgon falls, he admits that this is the first time he actually wants to kill a human (read: the protagonist) out of hatred, even going so far as to change his class from Lancer to Avenger to better suit his new desire.
Super Prototype: Well, he thought he was this to the Laḫmu, the new humanity that would take over the Earth when humans were gone. The Laḫmu eventually turn on him and reveal he was just a pawn for Tiamat, though.
That Man Is Dead:
- When he reveals his true identity, he takes a moment to state he's nothing like the cowardly "old" Kingu of myth, proudly proclaiming he's the Superior Successor.
- When he reveals himself as an imposter, he repeatedly claims that the "real" Enkidu is dead and he's just using his stolen body. Some of it seems to be just as much trying to convince himself since Enkidu's residual memories and emotions keep coming up.
Unskilled, but Strong: According to Caster Gilgamesh, who remembers well how Enkidu actually fought, Kingu is capable of putting out comparable and potentially even superior raw output to Enkidu. However, he lacks the skill of the original, to the point Gilgamesh compares it to his own Archer self's fighting style, which Enkidu once called out as "wasteful." Its later revealed that Kingu had the Singularity's Holy Grail in him, serving as the source of his raw power. That said his Noble Phantasm, Nammu Duranki, looks visually identical to the real Enkidu's Enuma Elish.
Unwitting Pawn: He initially did not know he was just a soul that was never birthed from Tiamat that was put into Enkidu's body as part of her plans. Once he sees the "new humanity" known as Laḫmu and them ripping out the Grail in his chest, he realize that he was a pawn to be discarded. Solomon hints this to Kingu's face, cryptically asking if supporting Tiamat is what he really wants, but doesn't discourage the deception since it benefits his plans.
Walking Spoiler: Downplayed, but trying to even mention him reveals that he is actually possessing Enkidu's corpse.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: He's motivated by his desire to serve his mother, since he has nothing else as he's just a fake possessing a corpse. Her betrayal is the moment when he starts turning away from villainy.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: He has trouble dealing with the remnants of Enkidu's emotions that still reside in his body, angrily telling himself they shouldn't mean anything to him (especially Enkidu's feelings towards Gilgamesh) since he's not even the real Enkidu. As he was dying he even went to the Heavenly Hill where Gil and Enkidu first met, having been guided there by his emotions.
The Worf Effect: He's stronger than most Servants through the sheer virtue of possessing Enkidu's body - the actual thing, and not an emanation like human-summoned Servants are, along with a Holy Grail stored in his chest powering him, which according to Roman puts his magical energy on par with a Demon Pillar - but he's still unable to best Quetzalcoatl, a Divine Spirit with all her power who also has dominion over Enkidu, in combat, and in a battle Quetzalcoatl is only performing to buy time for the heroes to get to Gorgon, at that.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Kingu and Gorgon take care of the children of the humans they slaughtered at her temple, seeing them as innocents. Ushiwakamaru taunts him about how this goes against their ultimate goals.

Laḫmu

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"Children" of Tiamat

^{Bel Laḫmu}

Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama (Japanese), Lauren Landa (English)

The "new humanity" spawned by Tiamat, they are named for Lahmu, the firstborn son of Tiamat and Abzu.

They appear in Babylonia after the fall of Gorgon, where they eagerly take the destruction of humanity to new heights in their goal to fully awaken their mother.

Ax-Crazy: They're clearly not all there, cackling madly in their own language as they slaughter without mercy and then taking the time to mock Kingu in an understandable tongue as they're tearing into him.
Badass Arm-Fold: A couple of the New Eleven Offspring due this, during and right after their Curb-Stomp Battle with Ishtar, Merlin and Gilgamesh.
Black Speech: When they first speak in the anime, it sounds almost like Japanese, with hints of recognisable words in appropriate contexts, but not enough to actually make it comprehensible. It's even more incomprehensible in the game, where the text appears to be just utterly random keyboard-smashing that has no discernible way to actually translate into sound. It's the mad babbling of a new race of hideous god-humans, so entirely appropriate for this trope.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Their limbs end in sharp points which they put to good use stabbing people.
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: The Laḫmus' vocalizations, even before they actually start talking, always come out incredibly shrill almost like a child's. This contrast to their monstrous appearances and actions just makes them seem even more wrong.
Damage Sponge: They are harder to face than previous demonic beasts by virtue of soaking up a ridiculous amount of punishment to kill. This is a plot point; since it means that the human soldiers can't defend themselves against them with anything short of artillery, and the Servant characters aren't a match for them one-on-one, forcing the protagonist to confront situations involving them tactically.
Elite Mooks: The "Bel Laḫmu" form of the monsters you've fought all singularity. The only time you fight them in a traditional enemy mob, you have a Grand Servant there to help with the killing; otherwise the fight with two of them is seen as harder than that chapter's Final Boss. The New Eleven Offspring are and even greater example of this.
Evil Evolves: They go from mindless, animalistic killers to coordinated, sadistic monsters gibbering in the Black Speech, to speaking in human tongues and gloating about being the future "new humanity." Those who touch the infinite power of the Holy Grail evolve further, becoming Bel Laḫmu. Taken even further in the anime with the Eleven New Offspring, a group of Divine Spirit-tier Laḫmu created to defend Tiamat as she escapes the Underworld.
Evolution Power-Up: When they turn into "Bel Laḫmu", they gain wings and the ability to fly. The New Eleven Offspring can walk on two legs, have power on the level of Divine Spirits, drastically increased speed and durability, the ability to spawn Rubber Man Combat Tentacles from various places on their body and purple-black lasers.
Eyeless Face: The majority of their heads are taken up by their giant mouths with no eyes in sight.
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: The New Eleven Offspring can stand and walk two legs, showing their continued evolution towards replacing Humanity.
Humanoid Abomination: They may be meant as the replacement of humanity, and have a (small) degree of semblance to them, but to anyone not Tiamat they are twisted, grotesque parodies of it, be it physically or mentally, and are powerful enough to face down Servants one-on-one. Transformation into Bel Laḫmu pushes this up to eleven, to the point they're likely outright Eldritch Abominations.
Laughing Mad: Most of the time, they only giggle madly as they take their time tormenting and slaughtering humans.
Leitmotif: "Dis-communication", an absolutely unsettling tune with alarms constantly blaring during fights with them.
Mass "Oh, Crap!": Their appearance causes this in everyone else (barring Tiamat) remaining in the Singularity, with very good reason.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Their vertical mouths take up most of their head, so this is a given. Made even creepier by these teeth all seeming to be incisors (e.g. front teeth), suggesting that they're not quite meant to facilitate eating.
Outside-Context Problem: Caster Gilgamesh reveals that after the resolution of a Singularity, the world fabricates a new history where something happened to explain any deaths in the Singularity, because those people will remain dead in the repaired history—for example, mass casualties from a Noble Phantasm being changed to a natural disaster. However, as shown in Ibaraki-Douji's interlude, the Laḫmu were apparently so beyond the normal realm of possibility that the world is instead erasing those events entirely and resurrecting all their victims.
Psychopathic Manchild: Emotionally, the Laḫmu all seem to be like kids who just love torturing insects and other small animals for fun before finally putting them out of their misery. In this case, the small animals happen to be humans. The anime highlights this, with their translated Black Speech showing them expressing curiosity towards their victims even as they tear them apart and giddily exclaiming how much fun they're having.
Reality Warper: A variation in that they themselves are not, but their actions are. According to Ibaraki-Douji's Interlude, because the Lahmu are such abominations that should not exist, the World itself cannot make those killed by them fit naturally into the timeline like it can for anyone else who dies in a Singularity, and so the World just has those killed or turned into them revived as their original being.
Semi-Divine: In the Babylonia anime, the New Eleven Offspring Tiamat each on the level of Divine Spirits, making them on partly or even fully divine.
Ultimate Life Form: According to Dr. Roman, the Laḫmu are "perfected beings" for an organism and thus have no need to eat or reproduce to survive. They'll even ignore aggressors and greater threats that will kill them just so they can slaughter helpless, terrified innocents. This makes their slaughter all the more horrifying because they're not doing it because they need to, but because they just want to.
Was Once a Man: Many of the Laḫmu are revealed to have been humans twisted by the Chaos Tide into their new shape. The process seemingly destroys all traces of their former selves with the exception of Siduri.

Arcade

Demon Beast Incarnadines

In Fate/Grand Order Arcade, the plot of the game loosely follows the events of "Observers on Timeless Temple". However, the King of Mages not appearing in London gives the "Demon God Pillars" an unexplained appearance in the story. It isn't until "Singularity Six: Knight Order's Esteemed Expedition: Lost Jerusalem" that it is revealed that what Chaldea has been fighting against are not the Demon God Pillars, but instead Demon Beast Incarnadines, reproductions of the Demon God Pillars created by a different antagonist.

Currently the six are Naberius (in Orleans), Flauros (in Septem), Forneus (in Okeanos), Ma and Kiri (aka "Barbatos") (in London), Cultivation and Harvest (aka "Halpas") (in E Pluribus Unum), and Allocer (in Lost Jerusalem).

Dual Boss: During and after London, instead of just fighting one Demon Beast, there are two heads that need to be defeated.
Embodiment of Vice: Each of the Singularities are assigned one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and with how Queen Draco is trying to become a fully matured Beast, each of the Demon Beasts seem to represent the sins.
Evil Knockoff: They are essentially a product of different villain copying Goetia's plans by creating their own version of the Demon God Pillars.
Punny Name: "Ma" and "Kiri" individually mean "Demon" and "Fog" respectively. However, when you put them together, you get "Makiri". As in, Makiri Zolgen who was the host of Barbatos in London.

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