Recap / Fate/Grand Order S3 E6: Avalon le Fae

I sprint out, no matter how pointless the reason may be
Heartbeat resounding, searing, rushing
I believe only in impetus, in its clear, honest truth
There, listen for the sound of the bell

Forgive…Forgive…Forgive the sins I committed. "The faeries cherished freedom. The faeries guarded their love. In recompse, the children lost their world. Though it is destroyed over and again… your Britain will ever prosper. Spring's surprise, summer's quarrel, autumn's joy, and winter's battle. Death piled upon death to stand eternal. Be wary and never forget: No matter how sturdy the walls, a castle's foundations never changes. As the world took new form, the roots aged. And now, unseen and unfelt… The gnawing of the tiniest of insects shall bring all to ruin." Forgive…Forgive…Forgive the sins we committed.

— Morgan reciting the Prophecy of Destruction, The Abyssal Wyrm

Full title: "Lostbelt No. 6 - Fae Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae [The Moment a Planet Is Born]". Written by Kinoko Nasu.

Three weeks after finishing off the rogue disciple Ashiya Douman and preventing the Heian-kyō Singularity from turning into a Pseudo-Lostbelt, Chaldea receives yet another piece of impossible news. The British Lostbelt is somehow still extant despite the destruction of its Tree of Emptiness Seyfert which was felled on Wodime's orders by divine Magecraft wielded by the local Lostbelt King as well as its designated Crypter, Beryl Gut, who fled here after the destruction of the Greek Lostbelt. Worse yet, this Lostbelt if left unchecked for another 24 hours will become the epicenter of a calamity that destroys the entire planet itself.

With no other options, Chaldea is forced to pierce the dimensional wall of light protecting the Lostbelt and enter a strange alternate Britain where Morgan le Fae instead of Arthur Pendragon took the throne of Camelot and kept it in the Age of Gods. But can they stop the impending calamity and negotiate with Morgan to obtain a weapon capable of harming the incarnated Foreign God amidst this strange land filled with fairies, twisted versions of the Knights of the Round Table, disciples of the Foreign God investigating potential threats, and the traitorous Crypter? And will The Prophecy of the "Child of Salvation" come true, and give rise to the true king of Britain?

Due to the sheer length of this chapter, it was divided into three separate acts. Act 1 was released on June 11th of 2021, while Act 2 was released on July 14th. Act 3 was released on August 4th.

Watch the trailers for Act 1, Act 2.
Trailers narrated by Oberon Act 1, Act 2.
Trailer for Act 3 narrated by Morgan.

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Tropes in this episode;

• Accidental Hero: Altria Caster's dithering about her purpose pays off when Morgan extends an invitation to her and Chaldea as thanks for destroying Calamity of Norwich. Had Altria actually gone through with ringing the bells, Morgan would have taken that as declaration of war and instead start hunting them down in earnest.
• Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin: The sixth and final Pilgrim's Bell that Altria needs to ring mysteriously vanished along with the Mirror Clan, which turns out to be because it was destroyed along with them in Melusine's purge. The only way to replace it is by spawning it from the corpse of the current acting head of the clan — Gareth, because she's their Sole Survivor, and she just so happens to be killed right as Chaldea figures this out.
• 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.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: Fairies are born as extensions of Gaia, and were meant to live as one with nature. Therefore, culture is a foreign concept to them and something they are incapable of creating, forcing them to rely on their human slaves to produce along with leftovers floating in from Proper Human History. Even then, they don't actually understand what they're doing and the significance behind what they're trying to mimic.
• Alien Sky: The sky of this Lostbelt is an unchanging blend of orange and yellow and Altria expresses surprise at the idea that the sky could ever be blue. The story support version of Altria Caster's Noble Phantasm is specifically altered to have said orange sky to reflect her being a Lostbelt inhabitant.
• All There in the Manual:
  • Redra Bit's final moments in Faerie Britain are transcribed on Nasu's blog.
  • The backstory for Woodwose's predecessor, Wryneck, is also transcribed on Nasu's blog.
• Alternative Calendar: Fairy Britain uses the Fairy Calendar, which was changed to the Queen's Calendar when Morgan took over 2017 years ago. Interestingly, the Fairy Calendar goes back all the way about 14,000 years ago, right around the time Sefar invaded Earth, foreshadowing the true Point of Divergence happened then.
• Animorphism: The White Wolf that was accompanying the amnesiac Mash was in truth Grímr, or as Mash might have known him, Caster Cú Chulainn.
• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: While three of the Calamities are ravaging the lands. The inhabitants are noted after awhile to divide into three groups. Those who try to use a boat to get away and kill anyone who stops them, those who decide to comfort each other in their last moments whether human or Fae, and the remaining soldiers who all chose to go out fighting the Mors for as long as possible.
• Apocalypse How: Sections 24 and 25 shows the beginning of the end when Aurora and the fairies foolishly kill off the two charismatic figures, Morgan and Cnoc na Riabh, who could ^note In Morgan's case, did keep Faerie Britain from falling apart. Mors start appearing en masse throughout the land, with the Fang clan, the strongest of all the Fairy clans that could keep the Mors in check, nowhere to be found.^note Murian kills off ALL of the Fang clan in Section 22 as vengeance for her Wing Clan Sections 26 and 29 showcases the Black and Red Calamities respectively ^note  Barghest and Albion unleashed on the land, burning everything to the ground, with Cernnunos's awakening finishing off everything with its curses. Chaldea's loss would have been sealed had it not been for Merlin's powers turning back time. However, this delayed the inevitable, as Section 29 shows Chaldea putting a halt to the two country-destroying Calamities and the world-ending Great Calamity, only for Oberon Vortigern to rise in Section 30 as ANOTHER Great Calamity and finish off the few survivors and the land with his Insect of the Abyss form. By end of the story, the land, the faeries living there, and the British Lostbelt are GONE.
  • The narration of the apocalypse in Section 26 is chillingly described, after the Storm Border manages to barely escape Cernunnos's curses:
    "And so, the Chaldeans' ship barely managed to escape from central Britain. Barghest, now transformed into an enormous Calamity of the Beast, continued wreaking havoc in other cities. Having crawled out from the pit, Cernunnos continued exuding seemingly endless curses.
    
    The faerie villages that dotted Britain's forests burned to the ground, which itself began to crack and fall apart under the strain. Two hours have passed since the Storm Border first set out with the goal of saving Britain. They couldn't save anything.
    
    The residents of Norwich came to blows over who would escape on the two ocean liners, eventually devolving into murderous mobs of faeries and humans. In a barbershop on Main Street, a kind young human man comforted a faerie woman who had succumbed to panic.
    
    The residents of Oxford, who had moved there with the hope of becoming the next privileged class, were destroyed when there were unable to fend off a mors attack. Without the Fang clan there to protect them, they were utterly powerless.
    
    Although Salisbury managed to defend itself by keeping its gates closed, it was coming to an even more gruesome end than any of the other cities.
    
    Londinium continued to burn in silence. The few remaining Round Table Army soldiers welcomed the faeries who fled there, and did their best to fight off the mors. Though in truth, the Round Table Army soldiers were already badly injured and no longer able to fight...So the faeries who sought refuge there summoned up the last of their courage and defended the soldiers for as long as they were able.
    
    The residents of Gloucester disappeared relatively painlessly, one at a time. A young girl who had been freed from the western ranch some time before made the journey back to Gloucester after a series of trials and tribulations. She braved her way through the flames to rescue her former master- a failure of a faerie who had been helpless without her. After a tearful reunion, the girl and faerie joined hands, before being swallowed up by fissure in the ground."
  • An even grimmer end is described in Section 30 once the planet's collapse begins, as the Insect of the Abyss starts sucking EVERYTHING into its great maw, a conceptual Bottomless Pit that is essentially a black hole:
    "The Isle of Britain was collapsing. All the buildings the faeries had built in imitation of human civilization...all the corpses, from those heaped up in ages past to those freshly killed by the calamities...The insect sucked more of them into the air with every passing second...and swallowed them whole. The northern lands dissipated like snow. The southern lands drifted away like ash. Those few who somehow managed to survive all joined hands and fell into the void. It was though everything in Faerie Britain had been no more than a single night's dream."
• Apple of Discord: Consumption and breeding of humans in this Lostbelt is tightly regulated by Morgan. When the village of Cornwall finds out the protagonist is a human, they go from feasting together every night to literally tearing each other apart for the chance to eat them first.
• Arc Number: Six. It's the number of the Lostbelt, The Prophecy asks that the "Child of Salvation" slay six great calamities and ring the bell six times, there are six clans of fairies, and Galahad is heavily implied to be associated with Beast VI due to his title as Knight of Revelations. It's also revealed the six clans are descended from the six original fairies that were supposed to forge Excalibur but neglected their duties and were forbidden from Avalon as punishment for letting the world be destroyed by Sefar from their negligence, and the six bells are all in fact the "fossilized" remains of said six fairies.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: Fey nobility is typically treated as the worst the species has to offer, from the nobles who spearheaded the persecution against Aesc, the fey that takes part of the court of Camelot who looks down on everyone who doesn't live there.
• Artificial Human: Every human in this Lostbelt is one, as the species has somehow lost the ability to reproduce naturally. To solve this issue, the fairies have set up literal People Farms to produce them as livestock and slaves. It's later revealed that the first six fairies captured Cernunnos's priestess, the last human left after Sefar's rampage, and kept them alive as a template to clone humans from. This has the effect of making all human's on the island effectively clones, and preventing them from migrating to Proper Human History.
• As Long as There Is One Man: A negative example comes from Morgan’s time as Aesc. While she was able to get most of the Fey to follow her and her plans for a time all it would take us a handful of dissenters to eventually destroy all the progress she made.
• Asshole Victim: The entire Fang Clan may not have deserved to be destroyed by Murian for the genocide of the Wing clan, but their acting leader mocks Murian's status as Last Of Her Kind and plans to wrest control of Gloucester from her after she (ostensibly) offered them refuge in the aftermath of their exile from Oxford. He's the first one she squashes like a bug after her trap closes.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: The question of whether to save some of the fickle and human tasting Fae gets sidestepped when the Calamities all wipe out nearly everyone in the Lostworld, giving the heroes no time to find any potential survivors before it collapses.
• The Bad Guy Wins:
  • Although initially, it seems the point of divergence was Morgan being the Ruler of Britain, the real divergence is this trope: Excalibur was never forged in this timeline, leading to the White Titan Sefar succeeding in destroying all the civilizations, gods, and even the landmasses of Earth, then self-destructing from having completed her mission. The "Britain" of the Lostbelt isn't even the same Britain; it is in fact an artificial landmass made from the corpses of the dragon Albion and the god Cernunnos, used as a safe haven for the surviving Fae and Humans (It also lacks Scotland; just England and Wales). And even this doesn't last, since every attempt to unite the two races leads to the Fae betraying Aesc's attempts to do so due to their Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, leading to the original Lostbelt Britain to be pretty much empty after a calamity comes around that they couldn’t stop without Aesc. It takes Beryl summoning Proper Human History Morgan and her Rayshifting her memories to Lostbelt Morgan for things to start to change into what Chaldea first encounters.
  • While he is stopped before he is able to break into Proper Human History, Oberon Vortigern succeeds in his primary plan to completely eradicate Britain, something he gloats about in his final conversation with the Protagonist.
  • This can be applied to both Aurora and Beryl. As the last Faerie to die, the former is able to remain the most beautiful faerie of them all to the end while the latter ultimately got to satisfy every depraved urge he had before his end (with Daybit later even noting that of all the Crypters, Beryl is the only true winner).
• Badass Boast: Oberon Vortigern gives one to the heroes before their final duel to the death:
  Oberon Vortigern: Bringing about the collapse. Erasing the twilight. It's all just like a summer night's dream. My name is Oberon. Oberon Vortigern. I am the death waiting in opposition to all of you. I am a threat to all humanity. I'm not like the Beasts. I don't love anything. I'll prove that to you in this battle. Now, lift the curtain on this tragedy! This is where your pilgrimage comes to an end!
• Battle Amongst the Flames:
  • Tam Lins Gawain and Lancelot are ordered to assemble a force of knights and burn the Autumn Forest of Wales down to punish Oberon for aiding Chaldea. Chaldea, the Round Table Army, and Oberon arrive too late to stop the burning and instead do battle with Morgan's forces, resulting in the reveal of Tam Lin Gawain's True Name of Barghest.
  • The final battle against the Calamity of the Beast, Barghest, takes place amidst the burning ruins of Norwich.
• Been There, Shaped History: The summonable cast of this Lostbelt is unique in that they're not Servants at all, but living beings, in addition to the Lostbelt's history being powerful enough to run alongside Proper Human History. This makes Faerie Britain a very strange case of us not only seeing the culmination of their "legends" that makes them summonable as Servants, but in some cases even helping to shape the legends ourselves.
• Benevolent Monsters: The Nightcalls of the Mirror Clan haunt the Lake District, but unlike usual Nightcalls that are the faerie equivalent of insane zombies, the Mirror Nightcalls are fully lucid because they died with no major regrets (though they do still have Ghostly Goals). The friendly Nightcall that Chaldea meets there even notes the irony that the Mirror Clan Head Ainsel, who desperately wished she could save her people, was the only one who didn't become a Nightcall herself.
• Berserk Button: While faeries operate on Blue-and-Orange Morality and have specific beliefs and behaviors based on their natures, they all uniformly hate being told what to do. Their betrayals of Cernunnos and Morgan all ultimately stemmed from detesting how both parties tried to give them orders on how to live their lives.
• The Big Bad Shuffle: Morgan serves as the main antagonists for the first two acts, and when it looks like Aurora and Spriggan will take her spot for Act 3 after they overthrow her they're quickly kicked aside by Cernunnos awakening. Once he goes down Oberon reveals his true identity as Vortigern and serves as the Final Boss and the mastermind behind the Collapse.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Merlin shows up in the Darkest Hour, telling Altria and Chaldea the history of the Lostbelt and what they need to do to stop Cernunnos. He even rewinds time by putting Cernunnos into a dream like he did with Tiamat so they have enough time to defeat him and the other Calamities.
  • After the first battle against the Calamity of the Beast Barghest ends with the party thoroughly trounced, the Protagonist and Mash gain a Heroic Second Wind when Gawain and Lancelot from Proper Human History summon themselves to help.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Fae's default attitude in a nutshell: anything that aids in their purpose for existing is good, anything that interferes with it is bad and needs to go away as quickly and brutally as possible. Even if doing so is illogical or evil from the view of an outsider, the nature of Faeries mean it is basically the standard by which they act. A majority of them are like this and the few Fae that grew beyond this trope are swiftly killed for their trouble, or have unique circumstances around them.
• Book Ends: Baobhan Sith's first appearance has her throw a helpless faerie from Camelot's throne room to the great pit below, and her last appearance features a helpless Baobhan Sith herself getting tossed from the same place into the same pit. The only true difference is that the helpless faerie screamed and begged for mercy while trying to resist, while Baobhan Sith herself is too emotionally-drained to bother resisting and in fact welcomes it since she knows what's down there.
• Boss Bonanza: The final two chapters of the story feature only boss fights against Albion's corpse, Barghest in her true form, Beryl, Cernunnos, and Oberon Vortigern in that order.
• Bottomless Pit: The Great Pit is this, as the inside is described as a dark abyss and another dimension multiple times. The only thing inside it is Cernunnos and once he's destroyed and no longer plugging the hole up, its contents escape as the Insect of the Abyss, the last Great Calamity and the true form of Oberon Vortigern.
• Breather Episode: The visit to Edinburgh in Section 20 serves as one. It's a lighthearted baking contest that follows up the Wham Episode in Orkney and precedes Pepe's death in New Darlington and the climax of the Story arc.
• Brick Joke: Chaldea's first meeting with Barghest reveals that Altria knows her from long ago and thinks the two have a mutual dislike, but Barghest replies she doesn't know Altria then complains that even talking to her causes physical comfort on account of their significant height difference. It's revealed many sections later that they did meet years back when Altria was Ector's apprentice and had yet to travel as the Child of Prophecy, but Altria left such a small impression on Barghest that not only did Barghest completely forget about it, she also unknowingly used the same offensive remarks about Altria's height back then too.
• Call-Back: A lot of plot elements are lifted directly from the Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of Camelot, albeit twisted in a way that still makes this arc different.
  • The wall of light surrounding the Lostbelt is noted to be similar to the Ends of the World used by Goddess Rhongomyniad in the Camelot Singularity.
  • The very fact that this is the Sixth story arc of Part 2, which directly parallels Camelot being the sixth story arc of Part 1.
  • The central premise is, once again, fighting against a tyrannical ruler of Camelot and their Elite Knights.
  • The Lion King and Lostbelt Morgan are both Alternate History versions of central Arthurian figures who take control of Britain and rule it with an iron fist. Bonus points that they are siblings in Proper Human History.
• Central Theme: Responsibility. This whole Crapsack World started with 6 faeries not attending to their responsibilities when needed and refusing to be held accountable for it. The land is cursed so that every faerie who fails their responsibilities gets a Fate Worse than Death as a Mors. The prophecy that drives that plot is presented as a responsibility she struggles to accept at first. And as the story progresses, the theme takes a turn to "It'd be much easier to be dead but you have something you have to do", with multiple major characters like Altria, Barghest, Oberon, and Beryl revealing that they use their sense of purpose as a way to overcome their suicidal thoughts.
• Character Death: Given the very dark nature of this belt, it's a given that several named characters were going to bite it. But here are some very prominent ones:
  • The Crypters Pepe and Beryl finally meet their end here, with the former sacrificing his life to fatally impair the latter with his last-ditch curse and avenging Kirschtaria.
  • Muramasa sacrifices himself to forge Excalibur and spare Altria Caster from giving up her own life, freeing himself from the Foreign God's forced servitude.
• Character Title: The "Avalon le Fae" refers to the fairy that is destined to correct the course of Britain from the sins and consequences of the Six Fae. As it turns out, both Altria Caster and Morgan are different Avalon le Faes with Morgan in fact being the first one and Altria her replacement.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Chapter 9 ends on one. After successfully defeating the Calamity of Norwich, a mysterious light suddenly appears over Norwich. Before anyone else can react, Mash uses Mode Camelot to defend the city as a massive blast strikes from the heavens and disappears after blocking it. Habetrot shows up and reveals it to be Morgan's Water Mirror spell that was meant to be used on the Calamity, so Mash is still safe but somewhere else. Spriggan then extends an invitation from Morgan to Chaldea and Altria Caster, who accepts.
  • Chapter 24 ends with a similar cliffhanger as even though Morgan has apparently died, there is an even greater calamity with Cernunnos awakening from its long slumber.
• Climax Boss:
  • Morgan serves as this as the Final Boss of Act 2 of the story, with the first fight with her having all the necessary gravitas while the second is a Hopeless Boss Fight that's ultimately resolved outside of battle. Yet even with her apparent death, there's still the matter of Altria Caster taking her place as the new ruler against the various scheming fairies and the threat of another Calamity greater than anything before it.
  • Cernunnos serves as this for Act 3. There's still Oberon Vortigern to deal with afterwards.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Altria notes while in the Garden of Lost Will that Merlin's prison is a similar type of Garden magecraft created by Morgan called "Heavenly" (Those Without Sin).
  • The first time the heroes discuss the Great Pit, Muramasa estimates it to be about eight kilometers deep. The protagonist has the option of saying it's almost as deep as the Mariana Trench, which prompts Da Vinci to ask if they've ever been there before.
  • After Morgan's death and before Cnoc na Riabh's coronation, when Barghest muses to Mash about how she's a terrible knight, Mash objects, saying that Barghest was loyal to Morgan, but stood up to fight her in the name of protecting Britain. She then adds that Barghest isn't the first knight she's known who made a choice like that.
• Cosmic Keystone: Averted in that the Tree of Emptiness that originally brought this Lostbelt back has already been felled and despite continuing on the Lostbelt is destined for destruction regardless of Chaldea's interference. The problem is that Chaldea needs to find a way to stop the Lostbelt's destruction taking the rest of the planet with it.
• Crapsaccharine World: Reconstructed to a degree. While awful in many respects due to the temperaments of most fairies and what the island itself is made up of, a multitude of characters from the very young to the very old, from the elite to the oppressed, take note of how Fairy Britain was a beautiful country in its own way. When it's ultimately destroyed at the end, it's treated as a tragic occasion, and Oberon Vortigern's puckish chiding that the protagonist should be glad he crushed it is framed as cruelly judgmental.
• Crazy-Prepared: Da Vinci and Holmes have spent the time after the Greek Lostbelt's destruction preparing to enter and investigate the British Lostbelt even though it will collapse on its own with its Tree's felling, since they're interested in obtaining Morgan's Rhongomyniad as a weapon against U-Olga Marie.
• Creative Sterility: One of the main flaws of the Faerie ruled world is that, because Faerie's can essentially will what they want into existence by using some of their natural mana, much of the world has stagnated due to lacking creativity or understanding of craftsmanship, with multiple non-Lostbelt natives outright stating that Faeries lack the idea of culture. Furthermore, because human's are not the primary species but are still important to Faeries, almost everything in the Lostbelt is copied from human ideas or creations without any idea why or how it works. Early on in the story the Faerie letting Da Vinci live with him mentions he didn't know how to make bread by hand until she reminded him, and he didn't know that his home was designed like an inn until she pointed out how he could use that for his advantage. Da Vinci compares this to how the knowledge and experience of working on a car becomes lost as people just use what was made or left behind instead of learning from it. Spriggan even complains about the lack of true culture within Faerie Britain.
• Darker and Edgier: Cosmos in the Lostbelt in general is this to Observer of Timeless Temple and Epic of Remnant. So when Kinoko Nasu is in charge, this is basically the trope implemented to all of the other Lostbelts. And it shows: A world put under tyranny not because of the Lostbelt King's cruelty but because without it the inhabitants would tear each other apart to extinction. Along with the climax of the arc that's basically watching an apocalypse unfold with the heroes only capable of containing it in the Lostbelt.
• Darkest Hour: Two of them in occur in this chapter.
  • The first is once Cernunnos fully awakens and begins drowning the world in his curses while Barghest and Albion rampage. Chaldea is at a loss how to proceed until Merlin appears and tells them what they need to do.
  • The second is Oberon Vortigern finally initiating the planet's collapse and then sucking Chaldea into his Insect of the Abyss.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Tristan offers to serve as Chaldea's guide through his homeland. Unfortunately, this is Fairy Britain which is completely different to what he knows, and he accidentally leads them to the Nameless Forest where they're all hit with a case of Laser-Guided Amnesia.
  • All of the malignant faeries are like this, only wanting instant gratification and not thinking of the long term consequences that could potentially spell out their doom.
  • Boggart's use of the Black Barrel blows a massive hole in his own defenses.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Due to the length of the chapter, a time gate has been placed following the completion of chapter 9, where you face the Calamity of Norwich.
• Dismembering the Body: After they killed Cernunnos through treachery, the original Six Fairies ripped apart his Priestess' body and used the dismembered parts to create humans for their land as she was the only human to have survived Sefar's rampage across the world.
• The Dog Bites Back: In the time loop iteration following the one where the fairies all went out of their way to kill Morgan just as she was very close to saving Britain, she becomes a tyrant that claims magical taxes on the fairies' lives and subjugates them horribly.
• Doorstopper: This chapter is so monstrously long that the Camelot Singularity's script is only as large as the first 30% released◊, and printing the whole chapter on paper would take nine reams of printer paper as the devs show here◊. In order to release it in game, the team had to divide it into three acts.
• Downer Ending: While previous Lostbelts all end in a bittersweet note, this one's ending is really bleak. The entirety of the Faerie British Isle is torn to pieces by the Calamities, with the only three characters surviving it until the world's end being Melusine Albion, who is just barely holding herself together, Oberon Vortigern, who is stuck inside the Insect of the Abyss so that it can't escape outside, and Aurora, who is slowly dying anyway. Furthermore, Chaldea's secondary mission to retrieve Rhongomyniad ends up failing as the lances were all used to try to kill Cernunnos and they were unable to save anyone from the Lostworld. Sion also hints in the ending that Chaldea's good luck streak of conquering Lostbelts without casualties is about to end. The only good that came out of it is stopping the world from being destroyed and they were able to get an alternate tool, a physical version of Excalibur, to defeat the Foreign God.
• Dramatic Irony: Altria Caster says she's glad the real Tristan isn't an Ax-Crazy murderer like Baobhan Sith, and that the real Gawain wasn't a blindly loyal soldier like Barghest. It wasn't very long ago that Chaldea met versions of Tristan and Gawain guilty of the accusations Altria made.
• Dub Name Change
  • Morgan's strongest Knights are called the Fairy Knight in the Japanese version and the Tam Lin in the English version, named after a man from a Scottish Ballard held captive by the Queen of the Fairies.
  • Morgan's 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 for her connection to Odin because "Aesc" is a variation of the Ansuz rune.
• Easy Levels, Hard Bosses: Compared to Heian-Kyo or Olympus. Most of the non-boss battles are much easier compared to the bosses who can trounce you if you're not careful about each boss' gimmicks.
• Eldritch Abomination: The Calamity of Norwich faced before the end of Act One. It's a massive shadow with "arms" of stone with eyes in them, and it inflicts curses to anyone who touches it.
• Eldritch Location:
  • That EX Difference Depth isn't for show unlike the other Lostbelts. The history of Fairy Britain is so different that it actively rejects anything from Proper Human History from sheer incompatibility. Servants cannot be summoned like in SIN with the sole exception of the Knights of the Round Table Tristan, Gawain, and Lancelot due to locals creating legends with their names, Servants who are already summoned but do not exist physically like the Demi-Servant Mash or Da Vinci in her backup body are greatly weakened, and technology past the Stone Age flat out doesn't work as even the shiny new Storm Border constructed using Hephaestus Klironomia in Atlantis almost completely shuts down, turning it into a glorified motor boat. The effect on the Lostbelt is so great that there is no concept of foreign countries. No, not that all the lands outside of Britain are united under Britain or destroyed, it's that no other countries exist at all outside of Britain. Then, comes the backstory where thanks to Morgan's efforts, this isn't technically even a Lostbelt anymore, but a Lostworld, a timeline that ran completely parallel comparable to Proper Human History, and how folks who were born in the Queen Era of this world can exist within Proper Human History if they actually managed to escape there. The Reveal that Sefar successfully completed her mission explains why history is so different. Sefar destroying every civilization and then absorbing it all to be harvested by Velber meant the accumulation of history in the Lostbelt was essentially reset to zero. In other words, there's zero common ground between this Lostbelt and Proper Human History unlike the previous five.
  • The Great Pit is this even in comparison to the Lostbelt. Ostensibly it's just a giant sinkhole the size of a city, but it's much worse because of how it was formed. When Cernunnos was murdered and his corpse used to create the new Britain, the corpse refused to let any land made of faerie corpse settle on top of it because of its anger towards the traitors. The faeries quickly built new land to get away from it as fast as possible because Cernunnos was still cursing them even in death, eventually causing the Great Pit to form around his corpse. All the while, the corpse was absorbing curses from dying fairies across the land, eventually turning the Great Pit into a Bottomless Pit filled with nothing but Cernunnos and its curses that is so dangerous that Mash nearly dies going inside even with Galahad's abilities. The worst part is that if Cernunnos is destroyed, then the void will be unsealed and escape to become the Insect of the Abyss, the concept of falling forever into that hole.
• Elves Versus Dwarves: Wind clan faeries and Earth clan faeries don't get along in adherence with typical fantasy tropes. The complete timeline in the "Reminiscence" booklet reveals that, in keeping with how petty faeries can be, this dislike entirely stems over merely squabbling over who gets more sunlight. This grudge lasted for 12,000 years.
• The End of the World as We Know It: Analysis in the prologue reveals that if left alone, the British Lostbelt will collapse by itself in 24 hours, but it will start a chain reaction that will cause the planet itself to turn into a black hole then collapse into nothingness. The climax of the chapter reveals there are two doomsday scenarios. The first is Cernunnos drowning the world in its curses, the second is the aforementioned Collapse Event which is Oberon Vortigern sucking the planet into the Insect of the Abyss.
• Establishing Series Moment: The protagonist's visit to Cornwall succinctly sums up the nature of fairies in a nutshell. They play at being nice and civilized, but they'll easily start tearing each other apart at the drop of a hat. The citizens of Cornwall basically slaughter themselves until there are no survivors left, a scenario that repeats itself frequently as the player progresses through the chapter.
• Eternal Hero: Aesc in the faerie legends is implied to be a reincarnating type. They take on different names over the course of history such as Ector the Immortal, Archduke of Residual Heat Wryneck, Grímr the Sage, and the Knight of Beginnings, Totorot. They were responsible for stopping the Summer War 4,000 years ago as well. Da Vinci wonders if this is some sort of defense system by the island to prevent great disasters. It's later revealed that Aesc is actually a faerie who goes into hibernation after averting a crisis every 20 years in order to escape being pursued by the faeries and some of the aforementioned names are actually completely different individuals who joined her cause but ended up blurred together in legend with the passing of time.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: The final act sees the ENTIRE named and unnamed cast of the Lostbelt dead, with Chaldea themselves as the only survivors. This comes after the revelation in 6.2 that due to the unique nature of the Lostbelt, some of its inhabitants can actually leave, making it possible to save them (or at least the few that weren't assholes). This doesn't happen — all of Faerie Britain devolves into bloody infighting after Morgan's death, Cernunnos's awakening decimates the whole land, and anything that remains is finished off by Oberon Vortigern. Despite Chaldea being able to save inhabitants of a Lostbelt for once, there's no one left to be saved by the time of the Cosmos Denial, and the Storm Border leaves with the same headcount that it entered with.
• Everyone Has Standards: Whatever animosity the clan heads have against one another and the different sorts of fairies, they would still begrudgingly work together to solve the Norwich refugee crisis than send the hapless refugees to be unnecessarily massacred at Beryl's National Slaughterhouse Theatre.
• Face of a Thug: The werewolf fairy, Douga, looks the most menacing in the Cornwall penal colony, but he's actually very friendly, and the only one who is more interested in befriending the protagonist instead of eating them after they're outed as a tasty human...He gets his head ripped off for trying to calm everyone down and objecting to the slaughter.
• Faerie Court: Naturally given that this timeline has faeries as the dominant species, society is maintained by the various clan leaders and nobility, almost all of whom are eager to manipulate each other in order to accomplish their goal. It's unclear if the Mirror or Rain clan ever had similar ambitions in mind, since both clans are rendered extinct by the present. Chaldea has to frequently negotiate with each clan leader to accomplish an objective.
• The Fair Folk: The Fae are far from those found in children's stories. Requiring the consumption of human flesh to stay alive, Fae are ultimately driven by the purpose they were born with and most of them are more than willing to go to murderous lengths to follow through with it, as well as seeing someone being nice to them as a tool to exploit rather than a friend to be made.
• For Want Of A Nail: The nail being Excalibur. It's the only thing in any timeline capable of felling Sefar, including in the Olympian Lostbelt where Zeus combined with his fellow Olympians to fight the White Titan to a stalemate. Here, because the six fairies meant to forge it decided to slack off instead, Sefar rampaged unimpeded and fully scoured the earth. The whole reason anything exists at all is that Cernunnos took pity on the six instead of punishing them for their dereliction of duty, providing them with a safe haven. They repaid him by poisoning him and tearing apart his priestess to get extra land and make a new humanity to use as a food supply.
• Gaia's Vengeance: The Britain of this Lostbelt is made from the corpses of Cernunnos, Albion, and thousands of lesser faeries, and none of them were happy about it, resulting in their curses generating Calamities every 100 years.
• Gambit Pile Up: Everyone has their own agenda in this Lostbelt, and when they all clash it creates a one hell of a clusterfuck. To list:
  • Chaldea and the Round Table Army are trying to prop up Altria Caster as the Child of Prophecy.
  • Morgan is trying to keep her throne, and is focusing on hunting down Altria whom she sees as the greatest threat.
  • Cnoc na Riabh and Boggart are trying to overthrow Morgan so they can seize the throne for themselves.
  • Aurora wants to kill everyone else who stands out more than her.
  • Murian wants to get revenge on the Fang Clan for massacring her Wing Clan 1200 years ago.
  • Spriggan is a chaotic opportunist who goes along with the flow to seize more power and wealth for himself.
  • Muramasa has been sent by the Foreign God to kill Morgan and destroy the British Lostbelt, and allies with Chaldea because they share a purpose.
  • Koyanskaya is hunting for the location of Albion so she can absorb it and take another step towards Beasthood.
  • Beryl wants to capture Mash for himself, and also spends time killing, torturing, and doing other horrible things for his own amusement even if it makes Morgan look bad.
  • Oberon Vortigern is planning to destroy Faerie Britain by killing Morgan and then Cernunnos so he can become the last Great Calamity, and manipulates all of the above into fighting each other until they're too weak to oppose him.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • All playable characters with a Reused Character Design not only have different skills and voice lines, but either cannot use their NP, or it has a completely unique name. Gareth for instances has different skill names and voice lines, Redra Bit cannot use his NP because he isn't actually Red Hare, and Percival's NP has different effects because he uses the Spear of Selection, unlike his normal version. Similarly, despite being Caster Cú Chulainn, Grímr requests not to be called that because of the way the Lostbelt works, and his name is listed as such on the Support List and hud.
  • Much like the above, the NPC Muramasa is an Alter Ego instead of a Saber, and has the God Slayer EX skill instead of the Blaze EX, which replaces his NP charge on attack buff with Invincibility Pierce and damage up against Divine enemies. The Foreign God summoned him for the specific purpose of slaying Atlas while also being a reliable fighter for afterwards. However, Muramasa remarks that this Lostbelt is one of the worst he could be sent to, and it shows in gameplay. While Alter Ego would normally be a good class that gives him boosted damage against a wider variety than if he were a Saber, the majority of enemies in the Lostbelt are either Three Knights Classes, which Alter Egos are weak against, or Berserkers and Avengers, which he would have been just as effective at dealing with as a Saber, meaning that his class is often times a hinderance instead of a boon. This is especially the case with Melusine, with whom he goes from being strong against to being weak against. Also, because there's no religion or faith in this Lostbelt, there almost no chances for him to take advantage of his anti-Divine damage. The one time it's aplicable in a fight he can take part in is against the Calamity of Norwich, which turns out to be part of the Divine Spirit Cernunnos.
  • Altria Caster's strength growing as she rings each bell is reflected by her NPC Support growing from a Level 80 Servant with all of her skills at Level 8 and NP at Level 3 to a Level 120 Servant with all of her skills at Level 10 and NP at Level 5 after ringing all six bells.
  • Mash being able to draw out Galahad's power as "Tam Lin Galahad" is represented by not only using her pre-Ortinax form, but also being Level 100 with all her skills at Level 10 and her NP at Level 5.
  • Muramasa's main gameplay strength is being able to fire off his NP back to back, but primarily is best when farming or killing waves of enemies in standard three wave fights. This aspect of his playstyle is discussed and acknowledged when the group goes to the Lake Territory and finds the remains of Albion, where Muramasa comments he could fire off his NP three times in a row before he'd be unable to keep fighting the mors that are attacking them.
  • Following the fight with them, Muramasa and Grímr criticze the other for their weaknesses that lead them to lose to the others; Muramasa complains about Grímr lacking any kind of team support as a Caster, and Grímr complains about Muramasa lacking any defensive options. Gameplay wise, Muramasa is a Glass Cannon with no defensive skills at all, and Grímr (who is actually Cú Chulainn) has no party wide support skills. Grímr even references having a Guts skill during the argument.
• Genius Loci: Just like in Proper Human History, the Britain in this Lostbelt possesses a will of its own incarnated in the form of Vortigern, and it is very unhappy with how its inhabitants have a new land of sin and corpses where it once stood.
• Go Out with a Smile: Several characters do this:
  • Beryl, at the end of his rope, stamina depleted, body falling apart and bleeding profusely, uses the last of his strength to shuffle his way to Mash and profess his love for her. Mash admits by his standards he likely truly does, but she rejects the idea that she could ever understand his "love" or that anyone ever could. Beryl takes this in, gives a repugnant smile, then falls over dead.
  • Aurora, stabbed multiple times by Melusine and left alone in the ruin remains of her bell tower as the world falls apart, dies with a serene smile on her face, deludedly thinking how she's the most perfect existence in the world, while also musing to herself that she at least raised Melusine when no one else would, grateful that the dragon was faithful in its own way to the clan head.
  • Oberon Vortigern gives this to the Protagonist in a dream sequence during their final battle, wishing them and Chaldea luck in their adventures after his defeat, having grown to like them. As he falls forever in his Insect of the Abyss, he smiles hatefully as he notes that his goal of destroying Fairie Britain was at least accomplished but the smile turns melancholic when he sees the skies of PHH, grudgingly noting how beautiful it is...
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Sion is insistent that Chaldea negotiates with Morgan to obtain her version of Rhongomyniad because Only the Chosen May Wield. As a divine Mystic woven in the depths of the Reverse Side of the World, it's the only thing they know of that's capable of harming the incarnated Foreign God. It's later revealed that Morgan is also the only one who can wield Rhongomyniad, so once Morgan bites it, the weapon is useless to Chaldea.
  • Muramasa joins forces with the Protagonist because he realizes that, even as powerful as he is as an agent of the Foreign God, Morgan and her knights are too strong and pose a major threat to the Foreign God, that teaming up with Chaldea is the only way any of them can come out alive.
  • The situation in the Collapse arc is so bad that Chaldea originally intended to ignore Barghest escaping to Proper Human History because her emergence would merely be disastrous instead of world ending. Only when Merlin points out that Barghest escaping would be comparable to Goetia's Inceneration of Humanity do they realize they HAVE to stop her.
• Götterdämmerung: Gods with the exception of Cernunnos don't exist anymore in the Lostbelt because fairies have no need to pray for salvation when they're so naturally strong. Or rather, they all got slaughtered by Sefar except for Cernunnos who was the only one smart enough to run and hide. The only one that's mentioned is Odin, because he was summoned from Proper Human History as a Pseudo Servant.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • Like the previous Lostbelt, the divergence occurred at the time of Sefar's rampage, only this time she was not being opposed by Excalibur, which led to the entire planet getting wiped out.
  • The Six Fae who were supposed to forge Excalibur in the first place. Their decision to slack off led to the sword not being ready in time for Sefar's assault and their decision to kill Cernunnos to make a new Britain led to his body building up with curses, turning the entire Lostbelt into a ticking timebomb that can take the entire planet with it.
• Hate Sink: Holy Smokes, where to start?! In a story where most of the cast, no matter their alignment, get at least some sympathy points, there are these moments/people that stand out within a World of Jerkass:
  • Beryl, as expected, is a repugnant piece of garbage. Outside of him murdering anyone he's capable of whether Fae or Human, Beryl goes out of his way to experiment on the Mors and deliberately invents a strain of the curse that affects humans, taking pleasure in the pain he caused. His backstory also reveals that he murdered his own mother after he saw that she was of no use to him anymore after she taught him everything she knew about magecraft, curses, etc. Before the events of the main story, he tortures Mash by breaking her fingers, JUST to see if that would get a reaction out of her while she was still developing cognitivism and got thrown out by Dr. Romani as a result. He finally pays for all the shit he's done throughout the Lostbelts when Pepe turns his Mors experiment against him and he undergoes a long painful death that puts him down for good.
  • Aurora, the leader of the Wind Clan begins the story seemingly as one of the more reasonable higher ups. But it's eventually revealed that she's a lying manipulator who's willing to go through any lengths, up to and including genocide of another tribe to achieve her purpose. And what's her purpose? Being the most loved person around. It’s so bad, that fellow Hate Sink Spriggan calls her out on how idiotic she is for her actions.
  • The original Six Fae responsible for forging Excalibur, were too lazy to do so and the world was wiped out. Due to this, they were forbidden to re-enter their home of Avalon, as 'Only those without sin may pass' (and the sin of Sloth to the point of letting the world get destroyed is a big one). When Cernunnos, the last remaining God, helped them out instead of punishing him like he was told to, they repay his kindness by murdering him, using his body for land and torturing his priestess into becoming an infinite supply of food for them. The reason for this? They have the absolute nerve to complain to Cernunnos that he wasn't giving them new land fast enough and were tired of Cernnunos's priestess telling them to reflect on their actions, pushing them into homicide. They try to turn their sins on them instead, stating "Well, if you two were so great, why didn't you push us to forge the weapon BEFORE Sefar wiped the world clean?"
  • The Tintagel Fae that Altria had the huge misfortune of being raised by. Every single one of these pieces of garbage treated poor Altria like livestock, forcing her to live in a shoddy shed, even selling off all of her possessions that the planet gifted her with when she first arrived. Anything of value that Altria got her hands on was quickly taken away by the Fae. Thanks to Altria's Fae Eyes, she was forced to see the inner ugliness of the Tintagel Faes' thoughts and they are ALWAYS negative towards her. Even Oberon Vortigern was particularly disgusted by their behavior. It's no surprise that towards the end of Altria's flashback, the village broke out into civil war in a misguided effort to cut down on mouths to feed, burning their own village to the ground, with Woodwose killing any stragglers in disgust.
• High Fantasy: This was Nasu's first attempt at writing a traditional fantasy story which he was excited about, and what was meant to be a simple good vs. evil story with Morgan as the Arc Villain expanded into the Doorstopper it is today after Oberon's inclusion finalized his desire to go all in on Worldbuilding in earnest. He managed to hit most of the usual beats with some Dark Fantasy mixed in, including:
  • The Chosen One is a Farm Girl, and she goes on The Quest triggered by The Prophecy predicting that she will rise up to defeat the Evil Overlord.
  • Long ago, there was an apocalypse that formed the present-day Standard Fantasy Setting. There are several Standard Fantasy Races coexisting together, including the classic Elves Versus Dwarves.
  • The scale encompasses all of Faerie Britain, and the heroes' adventures across the country multiple times as they support The Chosen One in her quest.
• Historical Gender Flip: Subverted. In this Lostbelt, there are Fairy versions of Tristan, Lancelot, and Gawain, all of which are female. However, as revealed by the actual Tristan, these are just fairies who have the Knights' Origin Graphs added onto themselves.
• History Repeats: Just like how Uther was poisoned and killed at his coronation 2,400 years ago, Cnoc na Riabh is poisoned and killed at her own coronation when she tries to succeed Morgan. All because the heads of the Clans can't stand the thought of being united under a single leader. And all of this was preceded by the Six Fae poisoning Cernunnos at a feast they claimed was to revere him as their god.
• Hobbes Was Right: The one time the Fae live long enough to reach the modern age in the Lostbelt was when Morgan, sore from multiple betrayals and deaths, became a full-on tyrant and put the Fae on a tight enough leash that they couldn't indulge their self-destructive ways. Though it's downplayed in that Morgan's cruelty, even if it was deserved, was only delaying the inevitable since Oberon Vortigern would end the world anyway if Cernunnos or the Fae themselves didn't. Morgan herself is aware of this possibility but is long past the point of caring.
• Hope Spot:
  • The heroes defeat the Calamity of Norwich, find Mash, who regains her memories, and manage to seemingly avert the prophesied destruction of the city. Barely a minute later though, and Morgan's water mirror activates and Mash is gone, and Morgan sends a letter that puts the heroes in a Sadistic Choice about what to do.
  • Once Morgan is taken down, Altria refuses to become queen and gives the throne to Cnoc na Riabh, who seems poised to usher in a golden era of peace for Faerie Britain, and Chaldea will take one of Morgan's Rhongomyniads after the coronation is over. Then Cnoc na Riabh is assassinated during the coronation ceremony by Aurora, Chaldea and Altria are framed for her murder and become public enemy #1, and the Faerie clans start fighting each other afterward, proving why Morgan subscribed to Hobbes Was Right. It's already bad enough, but then the worst happens; Oberon's plan comes to fruition as Cernunnos finally awakens and the Great Calamity begins. Oh, and even if it had gone all right, Rhongomyniad as a Divine Construct can only be used properly by Morgan herself, meaning it's basically a fancy ornament in the hands of Chaldea.
  • A second one occurs if the player chose not to suspect Oberon in the unskippable dialogue trees. Normally after Cernunnos is defeated, everyone begins to celebrate thinking the Collapse has been prevented, only to be shocked when it finally begins in earnest. If the player chose to suspect Oberon, then the protagonist will wait for Oberon to show up after Cernunnos is defeated, and is unsurprised when the Collapse starts and he betrays them.
• Hopeless Boss Fight:
  • The first fight against Woodwose is this since no matter what you do, you cannot break his bar as he'll just regenerate it over and over.
  • The fight against three Morgans is this, reflecting quite nicely with what's happening story-wise. They have three Health Bars each, constantly dropping debuffs on your party, a passive that gives them neutral defense to all attacks, and as their Break Bars trigger they start getting extra charges on their AOE NPs. By the time they're down to their final health bars if you slog it out that far? They each get permanent Attack, NP Charge, Invulnerability Pierce, and Guts buffs on, meaning they will crush you eventually.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the vastly different history of this Britain, most cities maintain locations and modern names identical to their Proper Human History counterparts^note The exceptions are Edinburgh, which has been moved into England due to the disappearance of Scotland, and New Darlington, which is entirely original. Also, football exists (or soccer for Americans). It's implied these were in part influenced by Lostbelt Morgan receiving the memories of Proper Human History Morgan, including of Proper Human History Britain.
• In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Fairies are capricious and merciless by nature, and will happily backstab each other, as the visit to Cornwall demonstrates. And you're lucky if they have a worthwhile reason for doing so; sometimes they'll backstab you for the most pettiest of reasons or for the sheer hell of it; the Six Original Fae betrayed Cernunnos and his priestess simply for annoying them with lectures of "reflecting on their actions". It's so bad that when Beryl first arrived in the Lostbelt, they had literally driven themselves to extinction from infighting. Morgan's iron-fisted rule is the only reason why they've survived to the present day in this time loop iteration, but even her best efforts are not enough, because they are so capricious, that they work to undermine her when possible. Once Morgan is killed, the Faeries' can't help but start sabotaging each other, and by the time Chaldea faces Cernunnos, a vast amount of Faeries have killed each other, or died to the Calamites.
• Internal Reveal: This is when and where Tristan learned of what his counterpart did in the Sixth Singularity.
• I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: Even when Mash is still under the effects of the Nameless Forest, she still remembers on some level that she came to destroy the Lostbelt and starts crying when she sees the devastation her Black Barrel Replica causes to the land and its inhabitants. It happens again when the Protagonist and party meet up with Mash in Norwich. The reunion is cut short by Spriggan's forces dragging her away and she cries as she is escorted elsewhere, despite not currently remembering the Protagonist.
• It's All About Me: Most Fae are focused on their own personal enjoyment and fulfillment of their purpose. To the detriment of almost anything that gets in their way. Attempting to be well-meaning to them does not end happily; they simply do not care of the consequences of their actions, and being told to care brings out the devil in them like nothing else.
• Kill the God: It's another day to bring down gods on Earth. This time, it's the Celtic god Cernunnos, who is brought down by Altria Caster using all the energy Morgan gathered during her reign to injure Cernunnos, followed by Mash shooting him with the Black Barrel Replica.
• Land of Faerie: In this Lostbelt, because Morgan favored the preservation of the Mystery of Britain more than humanity. This would have all humans to be replaced as the apex species with mythological creatures such as fairies, werewolves, orcs, and many more. Humans still exist, but they're treated as livestock raised for consumption, and their population is regulated by Morgan, making it very similar to the Scandinavian Lostbelt.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The franchise repeatedly revisits Arthurian Legend, and this chapter is no different as several Knights of the Round Table show up alongside other prominent figures such as Morgan, Uther, and Vortigern. Meunière comments that he's sick of having to deal with King Arthur's legend for the umpteenth time.
• Leave No Survivors: Woodwose orders this to the Fang Clan when attacking Londinum, specifically stating no man, woman, or child should be left for being traitors to Morgan's rule. Luckily, the heroes defeat them. The undercover spies amongst the rebels repeat similar sentiments, which are even more heinous since they slaughter most of the Round Table Army's noncombatants and medical personnel while the heroes and most of the army is away occupying Oxford. Unfortunately, despite Gareth's best efforts they're successful thanks to Tam Lin Lancelot's sudden intervention fatally injuring Gareth.
• Legend Fades to Myth: No one in this Lostbelt except for Merlin knows how the world became this way. The most they know is a fairy tale about how a shooting star passed by 14,000 years ago followed by surface of the Earth being destroyed. Players of Fate/Extella will recognize the "shooting star" as Velber passing by and deploying Sefar to harvest the Earth's resources.
• Level Drain: Murian's Faerie Territory of Gloucester inflicts this on everyone who's inside, taking away their "trained" strength, effectively setting everyone at level 1 until they leave. Sure enough, battles in Gloucester set all of your Servants' levels to 1 and all enemies are level 1.
• Meaningful Name: Barghest's lover Adonis, who she met and took in when he was a child, is named after a famously beautiful man in Classical Mythology who two goddesses raised and fell in love with.
• Mercy Kill: What the heroes have to end up doing to the fairies
  • The Nameless Fairy, later revealed to be named Hope, is transformed into a Mors despite her best efforts to fight off the effects and her willingness to help the heroes escape the murderous Fae of Cornwall Village. The heroes reluctantly fight her before she is finished off by Oberon.
  • Barghest, after transforming into the Black Calamity is put down by Chaldea to stop her murderous, gluttonous rampage throughout Britain, with her shedding tears as she dies. She honestly wanted to save her fellow Fae in her personal village of Manchester, before learning the awful truth of her people and simply wanted to love others normally, which her curse did not let her do since she ends up eating her lovers.
  • Before being morphed into a sadistic monster that utilizes curses to bring death to the fairies, Baobhan Sith, and by extension Cernunnos, was a genuinely nice and helpful character who only wanted to make the fairies happy. Their reward for their efforts is pain and death from the ungrateful Fae. So when Baobhan Sith is tossed into the Great Pit, her essence ends up fueling the Divine Core of Cernunnos as she's absorbed into the dead deity, both going on a rampage. By the end of the battle, Mash shooting down Cernunnos with the Black Barrel was a long overdue mercy, FINALLY allowing both tortured souls to rest at last.
• Mood Whiplash: Following a linear content engagement timeline would have players participate in similarly Arthurian-adjacent events immediately before the release of the Sixth Lostbelt like the "Bedazzled! Grail Concert! Crane Returns an Idol's Favor" with Mysterious Idol X (Alter) and the "My Super Camelot" Grail Front featuring Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. These are both rather lighthearted affairs. Avalon le Fae is not.
• Near-Villain Victory: Oberon Vortigern is manipulating both sides so that Morgan and Cernunnos will die and then he can unleash his true power to destroy Faerie Britain as is his duty as Britain's incarnated will. However, he also wants to destroy Proper Human History as well for his own selfish reasons. While he destroys Faerie Britain, he's stopped by Chaldea and Altria Avalon in the nick of time before he can cause the planet to collapse.
• Never My Fault: This trope is abused HEAVILY by the Fae of Britain, as they NEVER want to own up to their own mistakes and would rather blame others for their problems. It becomes so extreme that they end up wiping themselves into extinction several times, the final one causing their own Lostbelt to disappear.
• No Item Use for You: In the Fragments that feature Mash, you are unable to use Mystic Codes or Command Seals in those fights due to the Protagonist not being there and you're stuck with only Mash and Habetrot. Thankfully, you get buffs to compensate for this.
• Noodle Incident: The Resurrection Calamity that happened about a century prior to Chaldea's arrival remains vague on what exactly happened beyond Darlington was completely levelled during the incident and its lord Graymalkin perished with no successor, necessitating the creation of New Darlington and Baobhan Sith appointed as its new lord.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Divine Constructs can be wielded only by their proper owner. Even if Chaldea managed to nab one of Morgan's Rhongomyniads, it wouldn't be useful for anything except as a wall decoration. This is why Sion was so insistent that Chaldea try to negotiate with Morgan instead of just beating her, as she was the only one that could use it.
• Only the Pure of Heart: Both the gates of Camelot (just like when it appeared in the Sixth Singularity) and the way to Avalon have the condition of "only those without sin" may pass through. Notably, the restriction on the former was lifted by Morgan herself in what Tam Lin Lancelot explicitly notes was a Pet the Dog moment, as otherwise no faerie or human could have ever hoped to enter the city aside from Altria Caster herself, as both of them are the Avalon le Fae and thus the only "sinless" beings in this world. This leads into the later reveal that all the inhabitants of the Lostbelt are still paying for the sins of their ancestors which were the very crux of how the Lostbelt came to be.
• Our Fairies Are Different: True fairies are born as extensions of nature, and can be thought of as Divided Spirits of Gaia, which explains how True Ancestors like Arcueid and Xians like Yu Meiren can be considered fairies. The faeries of the Lostbelt are different from the ones in PHH as they've lost their Fae Eyes and will decay into a Mors if they turn their back on their purpose. There are currently six different faerie clans in this Lostbelt. These clans include the Wind fae^note Faeries that look like elves. Noted to be the most peaceful clan out of the six., the Earth fae ^note Faeries that look like dwarves. Noted to be very talented in building and constructing., the Fang fae ^note Faeries that look like werewolves. Noted to be physically strong skilled hunters., the Wing fae ^note The traditional butterfly wing faeries though there are not many of them left, the Mirror fae ^note Noted to have disappeared a while ago, but they had the gift of prophecy., and the King fae^note Cnoc na Riabh, who is technically the only "true" King fae while the rest are those she inducted into her ranks. There were other clans, such as the original northern faeries and the Rain fae, but they've been wiped out in the various clan wars.
• Paradox Person:
  • Mash becomes one of these after being sent back into the past by Morgan's Water Mirror spell to the Fae Era. As Aesc explains, the reason she's fine for now is thanks to the Tree of Emptiness being essentially a generator of endless possibilities that can ignore the fact that Mash exists when she shouldn't, which has technically created an alternate version of the second timeline from when PHH Morgan used Mental Time Travel to help Aesc. Once the Fae Era ends with the Tree's destruction and the Era of the High Queen begins, which will end up erasing the alternate second timeline, however, the world will notice the paradox of Mash being present when she still technically hasn't arrived in the Lostbelt's future and erase her. Aesc gets around this by sealing Mash in a coffin of ice hidden away in Orkney and erasing all traces of Mash's name from the records, while anyone who has memories of her specifically will forget her, until the timeline progresses past the point Mash arrives in the Lostbelt and gets sent back to the past at Norwich. Unfortunately, this also leads into the tragedy of another character...
  • Habetrot becomes one of these by virtue of choosing to hold onto her memories of Mash and going into hibernation/petrification until she can meet Mash again in the present. However, if Habetrot ever acknowledges openly that she knows/remembers Mash from the Fae Era, or Mash herself ever puts those pieces together and acknowledges it openly, the World will recognize Habetrot as a paradox from the now-erased alternate second timeline and erase her.
• Penal Colony: Tristan's hometown of Cornwall has been turned into one of these in this Lostbelt, though downplayed in that technically anyone can come here if they want. However, most of the faeries here are those who fell out of favor with the clans or couldn't afford to pay the existence tax, so they're essentially just waiting to die.
• Plot Tailored to the Party: The enemies of the chapter love abusing debuffs, encouraging the player to use Altria Caster's NP to clear them.
• Point of Divergence:
  • Excalibur was never forged by the fairies in this timeline. With planet's ultimate defense out of the equation, Sefar was free to rampage until everything was destroyed. By the time she finished her mission and self-destructed, there were only 9 living beings left in the world: the six fairies, Albion, Cernunnos, and his human priestess.
  • A second divergence takes place after Morgan destroys the Tree of Emptiness, and is able to turn the Lostbelt into a Lostworld, making it a divergent timeline that exists alongside PHH and supplanting the original Lostbelt timeline, which would have resulted in Britain turning into a civilization-less plain due to the Calamities destroying all progress. As a byproduct of this, any being created or existing before the divergence is unable to escape Faerie Britain, because they are bound by the Lostbelt's existence like other chapters, while anyone born after is capable of leaving as they came into being after the Lostbelt was changed.
• The Prophecy: Merlin reveals a prophecy to the protagonist in a dream at the beginning, which is then frequently brought up as a plot point throughout the story as everyone is awaiting the "Child of Salvation" to arrive, slay six Calamities and ring six Bells, and ascend to the throne of Britain to become king. Though most people have come to the conclusion that Altria Caster is said Child, she refuses to take the first step in fulfilling the prophecy and ring the Bell as she doesn't have the self-confidence to take on Morgan. Fairies in Morgan's faction decide to rig the prophecy and prevent anyone else from taking the throne by creating their own Child of Salvation via an amnesiac Mash who they proclaim to be their Galahad. It's also implied that Tam Lin Tristan/Baobhan Sith has magic and serves as Morgan's daughter as another precaution to game the prophecy because of the stipulation that only fairies with magic can be the Child.
• Prophecy Twist: Characters misremembering Ainsel's prophecy or conveying it inaccurately through accident or intent leads to understandable confusion and inferences on how events will play out. A common assumption is that the Child of Prophecy, the person who will defeat Morgan, and the "true king" who shall take the throne are all the same person. Habetrot, who actually wrote down the prophecy while it was still fresh and relatively unaltered by Gossip Evolution, claims that Altria's clearly defined role in it formally begins and ends with ringing the six Bells. While Morgan seems doomed any which way the prophecy comes true (Habetrot does note that nothing in the prophecy explicitly states Morgan has to die, though she also notes from personal experience Morgan is the exact sort of person who won't stop fighting for her cause until she's dead), several characters like Woodwose view the vague distinction between the Child of Prophecy and the "true king" as proof that the role as ruler of Britain is up for grabs. However, the greatest twist in regards to the prophecy is that it never says that the monarch who succeeds Morgan will rule very well or very long, and indeed every potential candidate who stands above the nation following Morgan's death falls in quick succession.
• Psychological Torment Zone: Baobhan Sith steals the Garden of Lost Will magecraft from Morgan's castle to use against Altria and the protagonist, trapping them in their own personal hells intended to psychologically chip away at them into despair and mental torment. Altria figures out the nature of the trap from the start but notes that she can simply cut her means of escape in exchange for not having to go through this torment since Baobhan Sith will not have the capacity to maintain it that long and does so after rewatching her worst childhood experiences in Tintagel. The protagonist, on the other hand, is stuck with hallucinations of Chaldea staff giving voice to their worst subconscious thoughts: Vindicating impostor syndrome over being a civilian and not a true member of Chaldea as everyone is only relying on them because they're the only one currently available for fixing, the fear that they'll be easily discarded for a Master like Kadoc and left alone on the sidelines, the belief that nothing they do will really help PHH or that murdering all those timelines will go anywhere, etc. However, remembering Dr. Roman's words eventually gives them the fortitude to avoid Despair Event Horizon and avoid giving into their worst impulses. Mash then breaks the cage spell and frees both of them.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Your average faerie acts like this thanks to their innocent nature, so they have a child-like demeanor and speech patterns, treat everything like a game, and eschew long-term planning skills in favor of immediate gratification. They'll slaughter people, yet act like it was a game they want to keep playing.
• Pure Is Not Good: One of the chief traits of faeries are that they are "innocent and pure" and have no conscience or sense of good and evil. Meaning that for them they take as much emotional investment to befriend you as they would ripping you apart, and it doesn't take much for them to flip between the two.
• The Purge: Unsurprisingly for a race that will slaughter each other at the drop of a hat if given half a reason, the faeries have done plenty of these in the past.
  • The War of Spring was essentially started by the jealousy of the clans on the southern half of Faerie Britain for their northern cousins living on Albion's corpse being "other" from them. They killed all of the original northern faeries and took the land for themselves.
  • The Rain clan were destroyed by an alliance of the other clans save the Mirror clan for harboring the first Avalon le Fae.
  • The original incarnation of the Round Table Army was slaughtered in the wake of Uther's poisoning at his coronation.
• Purpose-Driven Immortality: Fairies are ageless and do not require sustenance; instead, they are born with a purpose in their hearts, and for faeries born in Faerie Britain they can keep living forever as long as they hold true to it. Losing this purpose will cause the fairy to lose their names, their mental faculties, and then decay into Mors; conversely, faeries that remember their purpose but are unable to fulfill it will drive themselves mad from the paradox, and if they die in this state, they will mutate into a Nightcall. Unfortunately for everyone that's not that particular fairy, their "purpose" can run the full gauntlet and there are few things a fairy won't stoop to in order to avoid losing their purpose.
• Race Against the Clock: Outside the Lostbelt, Chaldea only has 24 hours before the British Lostbelt collapses, though due to Year Inside, Hour Outside below it's really 80 days once they get inside. In reality they only have 45 days inside to save the Lostbelt since due to the effect the Lostbelt has on technology, that's how long before The Storm Border loses too much power to escape from the Lostbelt, though they're able to extend their timetable by several days thanks to da Vinci sending back mystical fruits filled with magical energy with her carrier pigeon messages.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Several moments stand out throughout this story, but very notable ones include:
  • Spriggan calling out Aurora's lack of foresight and long term planning, citing that killing Cnoc na Riabh for the mere reason of disliking her, when she was the best chance of uniting Faerie Britain against the coming Calamities, to be monumentally stupid and denouncing her as a monster.
  Spriggan: Dammit! Of course I was going to to have her assassinated eventually, but there's a time and place for these things! Why did she kill Cnoc na Riabh now instead of waiting AFTER the damn Great Calamity!? Morgan's history proves beyond a doubt that the faeries need a king to keep them in line! What in the world was she think...ing... No. No, no, no...Don't tell me she...she wasn't thinking at all? She didn't give a single thought to the future, didn't have designs on rising to power, not the desire to run this country her own way...? She didn't think about any of that? She killed Cnoc na Riabh solely because she didn't like her!? I can't believe it! How in the world did that monster survive for two thousand years with such an empty head!?
  • Altria Avalon and Oberon Vortigern calling each other's motivations out during their final battle.
  Oberon Vortigern: Are you freaking kidding me!? I mean, I know I said this is what you should be doing. But did you seriously have to become a Heroic Spirit as an Avalon le Fae? I can't believe it. Just how much of a knight ARE you!? Still showing up now is a little pathetic, don't you think? I mean, you already had your dramatic exit. I don't know if that's your future form, or if you've become some kind of special guardian. Britain's gone, though. You lost. Your part in this play is long since over. Performers like you who can't cut it the first time around have no business returning to the stage.
  Altria Avalon: ...That's true. There isn't anything here for me to protect anymore. Nonetheless...Faerie King Oberon, he who desired Britain's destruction. I agree that it is painful to witness a dead world being artificially kept alive. You were right to bring this one to an end.
  Oberon Vortigern: I know, right?
  Altria Avalon: But, you were wrong to try to end others that had nothing to do with it. Even if these faeries were beyond salvation, and our future was devoid of hope...that doesn't give you the right to rob others of their present when the future still lies ahead. That is an act of cowardice far more painful to witness than merely trying to escape destruction. Isn't that right, Oberon? Your actions have been dreadfully earnest and, quite frankly, pathetic.
  Oberon Vortigern: (Standing in shock, unable to reply. Then smiles hatefully.)
  Protagonist: (Thinking to himself) She told him off twice over! Damn, this Altria doesn't hold back!
  • Oberon Vortigern summarizing Aurora's character up in two sentences:
  Oberon Vortigern: The very idea that you're Britain's most beautiful faerie is ridiculous. No, what you are...is Britain's most innocent usurper.
• Red Herring:
  • Initially, the players were led to believe that this Lostbelt was pruned because humans are no longer the dominant species in this Lostbelt as that would go to the fairies. However, in actuality, this Lostbelt was originally pruned because there was no life (human or fairy) in it at all.
  • Another example comes from the diverging point. With Morgan on the throne and Altria being a country bumpkin trained in magic by Merlin you'd expect the reason for the Lostbelt's change being that Altria didn't pull Caliburn and was never crowned king right? Turns out that the divergence took place far before either of them were even born.
  • Woodwose is introduced early as being one of the more antagonistic and violent faeries, with one of the early indicators being his slaughter of Altria's hometown Tintagel, and further appearances have his brutality contrasted with the likes of the seemingly benevolent Aurora. Following his defeat, however, flashbacks reveal that Woodwose isn't quite as malevolent as he first appears — he was a respectable mentor to the Salisbury rearing house children like Percival; he was unique in the Fang clan in his desire to quell their self-sabotaging bloodthirsty nature and regretted their massacre of the Wing clan; and as revealed near the end, it turns out that Aurora is far more villainous and Woodwose only had Tintagel exterminated when the villagers themselves razed the place and started madly killing one another, showing that Faerie Britain's problems run much deeper.
• La Résistance: Chaldea discovers a group of people rebelling in a campaign for Britain’s liberation, calling themselves the Round Table, led by a human named Percival. Despite him being human, Morgan ordered Percival to enter Camelot after she was impressed by him surviving against Tam Lin Lancelot in the games. Percival defied her and founded the rebel army instead. There exists a second rebellion in the North, led by the King's clan leader Cnoc na Riabh who intends to overthrow Morgan and become the next queen.
• Reused Character Design: Multiple faeries share resemblance to old characters, but it's made very clear that they share zero connection to the originals even as the protagonist remarks on it. The most blatant case of this is Redra Bit who reuses the exact same Red Hare art and even has a name that just uses a different word for the same animal, but is indisputably an inhabitant of Faerie Britain. Just to hammer in that Redra Bit is not Red Hare, his support version can't use an NP because Redra has no connection to Lu Bu.
• The Reveal:
  • Albion was seeded two story chapters ago when Beryl revealed to Tamamo Vitch that she could capture it and use it to empower her ascension into a Beast. It is revealed here to her that the dragon is Dead All Along but pieces of its rotting flesh (Technically, its severed left hand) gained a personality of its own as Melusine, otherwise known as the Tam Lin Lancelot.
  • After several years of hinting, it is finally revealed what Caster Cú Chulainn is. He's actually a Pseudo-Servant of Odin and has been since the beginning. When he was summoned to Singularity F as a Lancer and all hell had already broken loose, Odin contacted him to offer his power to him, which Cu accepted, becoming the Caster Pseudo-Servant with Cu in control. Odin then made it so Cu can retain his memories after going back to the Throne to later be summoned to the English Lostbelt. Odin was also in the Lostbelt's past as Grímr the Sage, helping Morgan, the memories of which Odin didn't share with Cu.
• "Save the World" Climax: After Act 3 is kicked off by Morgan dying and then everything going to shit, the plot focuses on stopping the Calamities from escaping the Lostbelt and into the outside world. The collapse alluded to for the whole chapter finally begins in the last section as Oberon Vortigern destroys Faerie Britain, and the heroes must stop him before he repeats the process with the rest of the planet in his mad attempt to deny Proper Human History.
• Scenery Porn: The land of Fairy Britain is beautiful, as Altria Caster shows◊ the Protagonist after escaping Cornwall.
• Screw Destiny:
  • A bad version. The Protagonist takes over and does everything that Altria Caster was meant to do, just because they want to be reunited with Mash. This in turn cripples her already small sense of worth. Meanwhile, Mash has lost her memory and started calling herself Tam Lin Galahad, with the people believing her to be the Child of Prophecy. She ends up averting Norwich's destruction to the Calamity despite what the prophecy says, though by that point, Altria Caster has started to step up as the Child of Prophecy.
  • There is a second version that happens that also shows the bad side of this trope. Aesc/Morgan forgoes her duty as the Avalon Le Fae to absolve the six original faeries original sin by forging Excalibur and erasing Faerie Britain from existence because she inherited her Proper Human History incarnation's desire to have Britain all to herself. At first she did so by trying to save the Faeries from the Calamities and when that ultimately ended in tragedy, she opted to become an oppressive ruler who cares nothing for the inhabitants of Britain, but simply the land itself, which also ended tragically for her as well.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Fou bolts the moment he hears the next Lostbelt is in Britain, and his absence is commented on when Chaldea arrives.
• Sequel Hook: Aside from the last Lostbelt in South America whose button is so glitched that nothing appears on it, Sion mentions that Koyanskaya managed to escape, and the possibility of the biggest Singularity ever recorded. The latter is the white dot in-between the buttons for this Lostbelt and Lostbelt No. 7, as a similar interstitial story between Lostbelts like Heian-kyo. Similarly, the copy Morgan sends to fight Chaldea ominously tells Chaldea that they should think about what Rayshifting was made for, and what Chaldea even is, setting up reveals in the next Lostbelt.
• Set the World on Fire: Barghest does this once she becomes the Calamity of Beasts and starts rampaging, and it only gets worse once Melusine becomes the Calamity of Flames and joins in too. The flames continue burning even after the two Calamities are defeated, until Cernunnos is finally defeated.
• Shout-Out: The group runs into seven Earth clan fairies who all say "heigh ho!"
• Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Not only does Oberon from A Midsummer Night's Dream show up and directly reference being from a Shakespeare play, the amnesiac protagonist are nicknamed Lysander or Hermia depending on gender as another reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, those being the names of two characters whose minds were messed with by fairies. Although in a twist of irony, "Oberon" also had his mind messed with by the fairies.
• Sins of the Father: Cernunnos' body keeps trying to destroy the fairies not for anything they, personally, did, but rather because their ancestors killed him, used his last priestess to create more humans to eat and his corpse as a new land, which their descendants continued until they forgot he had existed, and received no punishment for it. This hardly comes off as misplaced given how capricious the current fairies are. Merlin later even refers to it as the Faeries original sin.
• The Slow Path: Morgan's version of Rayshifting is one-way only so Mash ends up having to spend 2400 years in stasis in order to get back to the time period she started in.
• Stable Time Loop: Mash is thrown back in time by 2400 years, encounters Aesc and Habetrot, then called Totorot, and begins journeying with them as Aesc's first Tam Lin. Not only do Mash's actions influence Habetrot to take on that name and help her in Mash's personal past to allow for her being thrown back in time, Mash herself turns out to be the first Tam Lin who always sails to Orkney in a coffin in stasis. Her existence in the era preceding the current era in the Lostbelt fundamentally means there cannot be two versions of the same person recognized when she comes back to the present to join Chaldea and must wait out the events of the first act to happen where she is sent back before she can be reawakened. Aesc also comments that her future self, Morgan, will come to understand that the coffin's real purpose is in sustaining a time loop when Mash reawakens in the present day.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Tristan gets summoned mid-conversation, but no one notices he's there until he speaks up and even then they have to double check if he's not just an illusion. He's a little hurt by the whole thing.
• Sword of Plot Advancement: In keeping with the High Fantasy game tropes, Chaldea is sidetracked from their original goal of obtaining Morgan's Rhongomyniad magecraft into helping Altria Caster's quest as Avalon le Fae to forge the Holy Sword. It's eventually revealed that this was a net benefit overall as it allows them to overcome the Calamities and is a more useful tool than Morgan's Rhongomyniads. Because those can only be wielded by her while Chaldea can turn the Holy Sword Essence granted to them by Altria and Muramasa into a weapon against the Foreign God.
• Tempting Fate: Happens to Da Vinci twice within the span of a few sentences, while discussing her and the protagonist's determination to resist Dracae's treasures.
• Thematic Theme Tune: The second Cosmos in the Lostbelt opening song "Yakudou" was written with this chapter in mind according to an interview with Maaya Sakamoto, with Nasu confirming that the lyrics are written from Altria Caster's point of view.
• The Theme Park Version: The concept of culture has been reduced to this thanks to the fairies' Creative Sterility. Humans must be the ones to create culture, but since they're just livestock and slaves they can't flourish enough for culture to gain any meaning. As such, there's things like cathedrals and temples with no gods to worship, inns and restaurants for fairies who don't need food, etc. Most of the fairies don't understand what the purpose of culture is, but go along with it because they find it fun, or because they are being forced to.
• Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack: While most Grand Order main story chapters have a theme that is then rearranged once or twice, this chapter deserves particular mention as 13 out of the 22 new tracks introduced here are all rearrangements of the first map theme. Most of the variations are subsequent map themes also used as incidental music to fit the appropriate scene, battle themes, or used as a Leitmotif for Morgan.
• Thin Dimensional Barrier: The wall of light surrounding the British Lostbelt is weaker in the south, allowing the Storm Border to drill its way through.
• Three-Act Structure: The chapter was released in three acts with this plot structure in mind. While the first two acts are simply labeled Arcs One and Two, the third act is aptly called the "Collapse Arc," referring both to the predicted collapse finally beginning, and how the house of cards Morgan built crumbles as soon as she dies.
• Time-Limit Boss: The fight against Albion is this as since she is attacking the Storm Border as well. The Storm Border has it's own HP bar, and you need to defeat that dragon before the Storm Border's HP bar reaches zero.
• To Serve Man: Humans are Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious for fairies. Just being around one spiritually boosts fairies, and eating one stops them from decaying into Mors. When the protagonist accidentally outs themselves as a human by commenting about feeling hungry, the fairies start feeding them, Altria Caster, and Tristan over and over again every hour to fatten them up as much as possible before they're eaten themselves.
• Torches and Pitchforks: As the majority of the Faeries across Britain all go insane with fear and anger when the Calamities begin, they start taking up the tropes namesake as they start demanding blood and death. Salisbury, which had been noted several times as one of the few areas in Britain that preaches for equality between humans and faeries, has every Faerie at first praising Aurora for standing up for them and demanding that their citizens be cared for from Mors attacks...to eventually demanding that ANYONE who came into contact with Mors be put to death and then SCREAMING that Aurora sacrifice her own life for their sakes. Aurora, watching this from her bell tower, notes sadly that her citizens have become so violent and starts showing uneasiness for the first time in the chapter, even recoiling in fear when she thinks that they have broken into her room. ^note Melusine flying in through the belltower's roof.
• Torn Apart by the Mob: This trope being the end result when faeries in Lostbelt Britain are worked up into enough anger and frenzy (and it doesn't take much for it to happen). Several times in the story, this trope rears its ugly head to remind the players just how scary the faeries can be when they are pushed:
  • The Cornwall faeries do this to each other when they try to fight over who gets to eat the Protagonist, with one faerie, Douga, killed when he tries to stand up for them, jump starting the conflict.
  • This is how Morgan meets her end at the end of Section 24. By the time they are done, Morgan's corpse is barely recognizable anymore.
  • When the calamities and Great Calamity begins, all of Faerie Britain devolves into civil war and tear each other apart in selfish attempts to survive.
• Tragic Dream: How Nightcalls come to be. Contrasting the Mors that begin from faeries who have lost their purpose, Nightcalls are faeries who fully retain their purpose but are unable to fulfill it, failing for so long and accumulating so much magic over time that they're eventually driven violently insane. Dracae is one such example, having the purpose of "nurture her offspring", which is impossible because there is no such thing as "birth" in the Lostbelt.
• Trail of Bread Crumbs: While the party wanders the wilderness, Tristan marks their trail with strings, but they find something destroyed them, leaving them hopelessly lost.
• Tranquil Fury: In Section 30, when the Protagonist once again questions Oberon Vortigern's motivations on destroying PHH, Oberon goes on to repeat himself that both faeries and humans alike disgust him and that he never cared about anything (Altria Caster's mission, Chaldea's group, etc). The Protagonist then follows up with the following question:
  Protagonist: I'm sure you didn't, but even so...What about your own star, Titania?
  Oberon Vortegern: (Surprised face, which then slowly morphs into rising hatred and an angry smile) That is exactly what I hate about you.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: After the party loses their memories in the Nameless Forest and splits up, the plot also splits into two: one follows the protagonist as they aid Altria Caster in her journey as the Child of Prophecy, while the other follows Mash as she explores Britain, meets Aesc the Savior, and discovers the truth behind her legend.
• The Unfettered: The majority of Fairies, due to both Purpose-Driven Immortality and Blue-and-Orange Morality. As Aesc puts it, fairies are pure and innocent, far too much so as to not know how horrible their actions are, like slaughtering an entire fairy village all because "they don't like it." They need to fulfill their purpose; those that give up on trying end up losing their name and eventually become Mors, but even then there are those who are on the opposite side and wholly devote themselves to their purpose even when it's impossible to fulfill, causing them to gather too much magical energy, becoming Nightcalls.
• Ungrateful Bastard: A problem shared by most Fae is that while they are capable of gratitude, it's only on the short-term as they will be quick to turn on whoever helped them in a heartbeat if they so desire.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Tristan, while trying to lead Chaldea through the Britian Lostbelt, accidentally leads them through the Nameless Forest where they're all hit with a case of Laser-Guided Amnesia. This causes Mash to become a pawn in Morgan's campaign to ensure her rule by propping her up as "Tam Lin Galahad" and the "Child of Salvation".
• Vagueness Is Coming: One of the big mysteries of this chapter is what exactly is the planet's collapse and its cause? Morgan is the only one who knows, but she's keeping her lips shut and takes the truth with her to the grave. Chaldea only finds out what it is exactly once it's already started; it's Oberon Vortigern sucking up the planet into his Insect of the Abyss form and it's classified as a collapse because everything will fall into it like a black hole.
• The Virus: The Mors act like this. It takes a long time for a fairy to decay fully, but once the transformation is complete they can infect any other fairy through mere contact, making even a slight touch a death sentence. Some fairies have taken to using Mors flesh as a poison coating their weapons. For humans and Servants, touching a Mors is harmless which is why some humans are drafted as soldiers even though fairies are much stronger on average. That is, until Beryl made the Mors poisonous to humans as well through his experiments, making it dangerous for everybody. However, this backfires when Pepe tricks Beryl into killing him and passing on the maladies to Beryl himself.
• Wham Episode: So, so many for both the Lostbelt and the story as a whole.
  • The entire Lostbelt was an absolute clusterfuck with one of the biggest Downer Endings in the entire game, but at the same time it wasn't a waste of time. Though Chaldea failed to get a Rhongomyniad, they gained just as useful, the Lostworld's version of Excalibur.
  • Section 19 serves as this for Act 2 since it reveals the truth behind Morgan and Aesc, Odin's involvement, and why the Lostbelt changed from the one Beryl saw when he first entered.
  • Section 25. Cnoc na Riabh is assassinated during her coronation, Faerie Britain is immediately plunged into civil war, and then the Great Calamity starts at the worst time possible.
  • Section 27 reveals the truth of why Sefar was able to destroy the world, and why the Calamities keep trying to destroy Faerie Britain.
• 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.
  • Cú Chulainn Caster says this after Chaldea escapes Cnoc na Riabh's assassination, marking the point when disaster can no longer be prevented, only contained.
    Cú Chulainn: There is no safe haven left in Britain. The Great Calamity has begun.
  • Murian discovers the true cause of the Calamities, implying a certain someone is behind it all.
    Murian: It's not “God” [Cernunnos] trying to destroy us, it's the island of Britain itself—
  • Another introduction right at the climax at of the chapter that connects all the pieces of the puzzle together.
    Oberon: My real name is Vortigern. Oberon Vortigern.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Since Chaldea doesn't go back to the Wandering Sea at the end of this chapter, Fou's refusal to enter Britain is left unexplained and unaddressed by the majority of the story. Nasu eventually stated it just boiled down to Fou disliking faeries for their emptiness and refuses to feed on them, so he didn't want to tag along if Chaldea was going to only deal with the fae.
• Wings Do Nothing: For a world where half the population is winged, not a lot of people can actually fly.
• World of Badass: It's noted by Tristan early on that even the plain civilian fae are on par with low-tier Servants at least, so the Protagonist having been de-powered at the start of the Lostbelt has to take greater pains than usual not to piss off the locals. This is without getting into the six Clan Heads comparable to True Ancestors, the Faerie Knights augmented by Round Table Saint Graphs, or the hellishly-powerful Queen Morgan herself; even Faerie Tristan, the weakest of the Faerie Knights, has a kill count in the hundreds of thousands. It takes the Protagonist joining a literal army and Altria taking several levels in badass before they can push back.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Due to how unique the Lostbelt is, it's actually possible for residents of the Lostbelt to persist outside of it, even after Cosmos Denial. However, the fae pretty much kill anyone worth saving and burn Faerie Britain to the ground with their actions, and in the end Cernunnos and Oberon Vortigern destroy what's left, leaving absolutely nobody left to save.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Sion says that time flows differently inside the British Lostbelt, so once Chaldea gets inside they can ignore the 24 hours left until the planet is destroyed and move at their own pace. For reference, Chaldea has 80 days within the Lostbelt before the world gets destroyed.
• You Can't Fight Fate: A lot of characters attempt to Screw Destiny, only for absolutely none of it to pan out in the end. Morgan and Faerie Knight Tristan are both murdered by their people one final time, Faerie Knights Gawain and Lancelot both succumb to their innate natures as Calamities, Altria Caster sacrifices herself making an opening to kill Cernunnos (and it's only by Loophole Abuse afterwards that she's able to resummon herself to help Chaldea one last time), in the end Oberon Vortigern trashes Faerie Britain so thoroughly that Cosmos Denial overtakes the Lostworld's resistance to pruning, leaving nothing behind for Chaldea to salvage from this debacle, and even Oberon Vortigern fails in his desire to destroy Proper Human History, not just the Lostbelt like he's meant to.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Chaldea's primary goal was to prevent the collapse of the planet, but they are ultimately unable to stop it from starting, only keeping the damage contained within the British Lostelt.
• Your Heart's Desire: This is the main danger of Dracae. She produces illusions of something that a person would give their life for to lure them in, then drags them into her river and kills them. Only Muramasa is immune, and it is specifically because of his unique Saint Graph thanks to the Foreign God that he isn't affected.

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"I expect that one day, guests from Proper Human History will come pay [Faerie Britan] a visit. When they do, I'd like to ask them what they think of it. Is it beautiful? Is it like a dream made real? I hope they think it is. Nothing could possibly make me happier. Welcome to Faerie Britain, fair guests. I hope you remember its beauty for the rest of your lives."

— Morgan