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     Ritsuka Fujimaru 

Ritsuka Fujimaru

  • All-Loving Hero: Refuses to believe people are plain evil. When a Servant shows him their worst, ugliest side, he will search for genuine qualities in them.
  • Everyone Has Standards: His ability to empathize with thoroughly evil Servants is out the charts, but he's nothing short of repulsed to learn Gwynevere has groomed her son since birth to commit ritual suicide and merely regrets it failed, rather than destroying Gawyn's psyche. He's also horror-struck when Seath casually murders his own daughter Priscilla.
  • Fatal Flaw: Velka identifies his foremost sin as Inaction — when facing a crisis, Ritsuka tends to go with the flow and attempt to preserve the status quo while hoping everything will get solved without his direct intervention. Mainly, it's because the Last Master of Chaldea is a civilian teenager who's terrified to be mankind's last hope for survival and cannot deal with the life-or-death decisions he's expected to enforce when he wasn't raised with a magus mindset.
  • Humble Goal: He just wants to be happy, and for other people to be happy, and he doesn't want to die. That's it.
  • Mortality Phobia: Under his peppiness, Ritsuka is horrendously aware of being an extremely squishy, helpless human surrounded by gods and legends able to kill him with a sneeze, and forced to throw himself in highly lethal scenarii to restore mankind. It stresses him a lot. This phobia allows the amnesiac Seath to reconnect with his truest self yet ultimately spare him out of empathy.
  • Nice Guy: Will treat every Servant he meets with respect and understanding.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Being surrounded by Magi who don't care for the modern world and Servants from other time periods and worlds ensure his references will fall flat.
  • Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: As he admits a great deal of Servants weren't morally clean as they were living, he specifically points at Leonidas having slaves. He's also horrified when Arkon implies he was Born into Slavery to be used as cannon fodder.
  • Small Steps Hero: Freely admits he's not the kind of guy able to consider "the big picture", so he's happy to fix the problem in front of him at the moment.
  • Trauma Button: The events in London, particularly with Seath controlling him, give Ritsuka a fear in having a Servant's blood on his hands. Which is partly why he tries not to decommission Servants if he can help it.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ritsuka is arachnophobic in this story, as shown when he Screams Like a Little Girl after seeing the giant spiders during his time in the Roman Singularity. Seeing Quelaag for the first time resulted in him fainting.
  • Willing Channeler: When stranded in the London Singularity, he consents to briefly serve as the unnamed Caster's host since he cannot exactly refuse any help in his very precarious situation, and also because he doesn't want for the Servant to die. It — really backfired on everybody.

     Mash Kyrielight 

Mash Kyrielight

Class: Shielder

  • Line-of-Sight Name: Awkwardly admits she's not the most inspired to bestow a name — Fou is Fou because that's the noise he makes.
  • Morality Pet: Berserker Lancelot manages to express relief when he sees her unharmed after Chaldea getting curb-stomped by Gwyn.
  • The Squire: Has effectively become this for Verndari, another Shielder.
  • Worf Effect: Her Noble Phantasm, Lord Chaldeas, has been shown to be a very powerful defensive NP, being able to block a direct hit from Excalibur Morgan, an A++ rank, Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm, fired by a Grail-empowered Saber Alter. So the fact that Gwyn's Shard of Sunlinght Noble Phantasm is able to completely shatter it like it's made of thin glass is a firm indication that he's in a completely different league from any opponent they've faced prior.

     Cu Chulainn 

Cu Chulainn

Class: Lancer

  • High-Voltage Death: Is electrocuted to death by Gwyn, courtesy of him using Gae Bolg as a conduction rod to channel his lightning powers.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has this when he realizes his teacher Scathach has arrived in Chaldea.
  • Worf Effect: One of several powerful servants completely destroyed by Gwyn to establish his threat level.

     Scathach 

Scathach

Class: Lancer
  • An Arm and a Leg: Loses one of her arms to Gwyn.
  • Berserk Button: Just as in canon, calling her old or a hag. When Ash mentions that Cu said she was an old hag, she immediately attacks him.
  • Fantastic Racism: Has this against Undead, which is one of the reasons why she attacks Ash on sight when they first meet.
  • Nothing Personal: Very much waits for an opportunity to kill Ash for being an Undead, but only because her sworn duty as ruler to the Shadowslands binds her to set the restless souls at peace.
  • Worf Effect: She's one of the strongest Lancer class Servants around, (and really one of the strongest Servants around period), requiring the combined efforts of Cu Chulainn and 4 other Servants to best her in Fate/Extella LINK. Yet while she's able to put up a better fight than many of the others and is able to survive, she's still thoroughly outmatched by Gwyn, with their first fight ending with her losing one of her spears, and one of her arms along with it.

     Lancelot (Berserker)  

Lancelot

Class: Berserker
  • Karma Houdini: Verndari is pretty irate about the fact he got to die old after retiring as a monk, in spite of having an affair with his queen and slaughtering several of his companions, poor innocent Gareth who admired him more than anything among them.
  • Worf Effect: One of several powerful servants completely destroyed by Gwyn to establish his threat level. It's especially notable for him, as his appearance in Fate/Zero had him being able to withstand hits from the Gordius Wheel and the Gate of Babylon.

     Jeanne d'Arc  

Jeanne d'Arc

Class: Ruler
  • Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Downplayed since Jeanne doesn't really do hatred, but she finds Sulyvahn extremely distasteful for his dismissal of her as a brainwashed cretin for having faith and his horrendous crimes. On the other hand, she gets along very well with his Lily variant, since "Sully" is rather sweet and idealistic.
  • Worf Effect: One of several powerful servants completely destroyed by Gwyn to establish his threat level, in her case a single flick of his sword completely splits her and her banner in half.

     Oda Nobunaga 

Oda Nobunaga, the Fool of Owari

Class: Archer

  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: So Gwyn has been resurrected and flat-out vaporized almost a dozen Servants without even breaking a sweat, but not only Nobu refuses to devolve in gibbering terror, she outright laughs at him, proudly declares herself the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven and boasts his godhood is worth shit if he can bleed. Wow.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Potentially with Ash, since she often compares him to her blood brother Nobukatsu, for good and bad reasons.
  • Man of Kryptonite: Do remember her Noble Phantasm grows in power with her target's amount of Mystery and Divinity. Since the Dark Souls Servants originate from another world entirely and never left the Age of Gods, several readers have pointed she's basically a walking nightmare to them.
  • Morality Pet: Even after turning in a Beast of Calamity, Ash still remembers her name and cannot help freezing as he's about to strike her with his sword. It's made even more poignant by Ash's refusal to have friends because of his trauma over Greirat.
  • Odd Friendship: You wouldn't believe duty-driven, gloomy and fun-hating Ash would forge any kind of relationship with silly, cheerfully insane Nobunaga, would you? But she wouldn't be the Fool of Owari if she followed common sense, after all.

     Kiyohime (Berserker)  

Kiyohime

Class: Berserker
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Hides herself in Ritsuka's closet while Gwyndolin is watching over the Master's rest, paranoid about the Archer-class using that to get closer to the object of her affections.
  • Draconic Humanoid: Has the Dragon trait and is also capable of transforming into a dragon. This gets her killed by Gwyn.
  • Fantastic Racism: On the receiving end — many Dark Souls Servants despise her at first sight for having the Dragon trait, and she's outright killed because of that in the London Singularity.
  • Fear Is the Appropriate Response: When Gwyn manifests, she's shown to be utterly terrified and the first thing she does is immediately try and tell Ritsuka to run. As her immediate death right after and the resulting events show, she was very much right to feel that way.
  • The Glomp: After being summoned again by Chaldea following Gwyn vaporizing her, she immediately jumps in Ritsuka's arms. Considering the circumstances, it's hard to blame her.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Is subject to a One-Hit Kill from Gwyn in the midst of telling Ritsuka they need to run.
  • No Body Left Behind: Granted, while this is standard fare for Servants who are killed or die, in her case, she's instantly vaporized, to the point that when Ritsuka looks behind him, all he can see is an ashen outline of her form, reminiscent of the Human Shadows left by the Bombing of Hiroshima.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Right before she's killed, Ritsuka notes that she sounds utterly terrified in a way he's never seen of heard before, noting that "every syllable she spoke was punctuated by a tremble of her voice".
  • Sacrificial Lion: Is the first servant to fall at the hands of Gwyn, demonstrating both his power and his hostility towards Chaldea.

     Olga-Marie Animusphere 

Director Olga-Marie Animusphere

  • Colony Drop: As the Animusphere magecraft gets a major boost in the Scandinavian Singularity, she slaughters a whole army of wyverns by unleashing meteorites above their heads.
  • Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When Velka confesses she engineered the London Singularity to force Ash into suffering a mental breakdown, causing him to become a Beast of Calamity and resurrecting Gwyn to wreck havoc on the Chaldean Servants, Olga gets so furious she outright slaps the Goddess of Sin and verbally tears her to pieces.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Well, Nero certainly wants a fling with the "Pale Rose". Olga finds the prospect more horrifying than flattering, though.
  • Has a Type: Platonic example, with Romani pointing she appears to be a magnet for Berserkers. Considering her insecurity about communication, it's likely that a Servant unable to meaningfully communicate or afflicted with a hopelessly skewed mentality lets her feel more at ease, since she's not alone in finding them impossible to understand.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She won't stop snapping at everyone around her for any perceived disrespect, but she genuinely worries about civilian casualties in the Scandinavian Singularity and is horrified by the ignominious demise suffered by Kalameet.
  • Only Sane Man: Between her staff's antics and the Servants bickering or being trolls, Olga seems to be the only person to remember Chaldea's mission.
  • So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Played for Laughs since Servants from the likes of Nero really enjoy hitting on her and commenting on her great beauty, to Olga's dismay.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Olga's soul is saved by Ash as opposed to her being dunked into Chaldeas like in the source material.
  • Worf Had the Flu: After her soul was transferred in a puppet body, she lost two thirds of the Animusphere Magic crest — something that completely mortifies her. It doesn't stop her from pulling a major Colony Drop on an army of wyverns.
  • Worthy Opponent: Kalameet is quite excited to face her, as someone giving their utmost to ensure their people's future.

     Saber Alter 

Artoria Pendragon

Class: Saber

  • The Comically Serious: Everything about Santoria aka Saber Alter playacting as Santa Claus. She brings Christmas-themed disguises for Mash, Ritsuka and Olga to serve as her assistants, feeds Ritsuka carrots because he's her reindeer, uses Mash's shield as a sled, with the utmost gravitas.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Speaks rather harshly to Kalameet, but it's to help him to find his confidence anew and encourage him to defend his opinions.
  • So Last Season: Despite being a top-class servant empowered by a Holy Grail, she's utterly eclipsed by later threats, such as Lancer Artoria Alter, Ash as a Beast of Calamity , and Gwyn . It's made particularly apparent with the latter, as while her Excalibur Morgan was defeated by Lord Chaldeas, Gwyn is able to effortlessly shatter it with a single shot from his weaker Noble Phantasm, while he's not operating at full strength.
  • Starter Villain: As in canon, she's the first Arc Villain faced by Chaldea.
  • You Fight Like a Cow: During her duel with Ash, upon seeing his relatively mediocre swordsmanship and his propensity to use magic, she quietly mocks him, stating that if he spent less time learning magic, his swordsmanship skills might be above average.

     Medea 

Medea

Class: Caster

  • Always Someone Better: In canon, Medea is one of the most prominent examples of The Archmage in the setting, with Dr Roman explicitly referring to her as one of the 5 greatest Magi to have ever lived, with only Solomon, Merlin, Circe, and Morgan confirmed to surpass her (with the former two being candidates for Grand Caster and Morgan being on par with them). Yet here, while the two haven't directly interacted yet, it's shown that she's vastly outpaced by Seath the Scaleless, best evidenced by the fact that he's able to casually one-shot Servants with Magic Resistance that would allow them to almost completely No-Sell her own Magecraft.
  • Commonality Connection: Amiably chats with Sulyvahn about their passion for the arcane, their hatred for the Gods and their utter unpopularity as Servants for their black deeds.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: She could rationalize Chaldea first summoning her, the Witch of Betrayal, as them being unaware of what kind of monster they would bring to darken their doorstep, the summon process is a game of luck after all. But when Gwyn slaughters many Chaldean Servants, Ritsuka decides to re-summon them. All of them. He knew exactly who he would call besides him, and he nonetheless chooses to invite Medea back. For all her stoicism, it's obvious it means a lot to her.

     Medusa 

Medusa

Class: Rider
  • Big Brother Bully: While her sisters love her and vice versa, Euryale and Stheno tease her a lot, much to her chagrin.
  • Chain Pain: Uses nail-like daggers as their main weapon.
  • Commonality Connection: They share a few traits with Gwyndolin, such as having a snake motif, being rather quiet, and have different monstrous forms that come forth from extreme anger and rage. They become rather good friends with Medusa even helping Gwyndolin when he becomes an Alter.
  • Daddy Hada Good Reasonfor Abandoning You: The reason why Chrysaor found themselves alone and feeling empty from lacking a parent? Because Medusa had already died by the time they were born.
  • Ship Tease: Gets this with Gwyndolin, something her sisters teases her about.
  • Your Son All Along: Medusa eventually realizes that 'Chris' is actually her son, Chrysaor. Justified since she only knows about them after the Throne gave her the information that they were born after her death. Not helped that she genuinely believed Chrysaor wasn't in the Throne and that they appeared to her looking like her.

     Chris/Chrysaor 

Chrysaor

Class:
  • Alternate Self: Averted. While suggested 'Chris' might be a Dark Souls version of Medusa, even looking like Medusa's Saber variant, the latter and even her sisters claim she isn't. That's because Chris is in fact Medusa's son.

  • Beyond the Impossible: Discussed. While the Throne is accepting of many, including spirits and Oni's, both Da Vinci and even Medusa claim that Chrysaor shouldn't even be capable of being in the Throne. Their reasoning being that unlike Medusa, who was a Goddess at the very least, Chrysaor was born a monster fully.

  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: As a natural born monster of the Gorgon, Chrysaor has a different view on life. They mostly follow their instincts, believe in strength and reject ideals, the strong should be with the strong, and that making friends is pointless. Even their desire to see their mother, Medusa, is to at first fight them and not caring if they kill her or vice versa despite loving her. It's also because of this view that they have no problem with Nahr Alma and Sulyvahn.

  • Cool Uncle: Subverted. If anything, Chrysaor finds their aunts, Stheno and Euryale, bothersome and only tolerates them as their family.

  • Cool Sword: Owns the very sword the Saber-varient their mother uses. With the Gorgon blood in her, Chrysaor can use it to cut through armor and defenses through sheer strength.

  • Green-Eyed Monster: Back when they were younger, Chrysaor saw children with their parents and considered killing them simply because they were envious they had parents while they didn't.

  • Happily Adopted: After being born, Chrysaor is soon discovered by Asclepius who, for a time, raised them until Chrysaor left. Chrysaor admits to seeing them as a father, but feels strange about it.

  • Historical Gender Flip: Subverted. They were born fully male but turned themselves female to emulate their mother. Their background suggests they've done so since they were a child.

  • Hidden Depths: Despite believing in strength, Chrysaor shows another side that shows she doesn't mean just physical might. One doing a good job at say, healing, she finds alright as that's just another form of strength.

  • I Miss Mom: Their main problem.

  • Names To Run Awayfrom Really Fast: Up until Typhon came and took the mantle, Chrysaor was the Father of Monsters.

  • Monster Progenitor: According to Medusa, Chrysaor would eventually give birth to different monsters in Greek which includes Echidna. They also have a Noble Phantasm that lets them grow monster parts of their lineage.

  • Muscles Are Meaningless: Like their mother, Chrysaor is much stronger than they appear and easily tear apart demons from Dark Souls apart with ease.

  • Odd Friendship: Despite believing making friends are pointless, Chrysaor ends up enjoying her brief time with Hannleth and upon the Goddess's death, they fight for her to protect others instead of leaving. Being protective of her.

  • Only Knownby Their Nickname: For a good chunk of their debut, they go by Chris. It turns out it's short for Chrysaor.

  • Parental Issues: You'd think that with Medusa dead they wouldn't have issues in the first place. Turns out Medusa being dead did give them issues, causing Chrysaor to seek their mother out in hopes to fight her to the death. Even modifying their own body to look exactly like her to Medusa's surprise. Thankfully, they get better and leave on good terms.

  • Speaks Fluent Animal: Along with having the power to control monsters, Chrysaor can also speak with them.

  • Strong Family Resemblance: Looks exactly like their mother, Medusa. Mainly because they swapped their gender and then modified their body to be an exact copy. Though when accused of copying Medusa's face by Chrysaor's aunts, they angrily claim that this is their face, suggesting they were born similar to her as a child.

     Mordred 

Mordred

Class: Saber

  • Dragon Ancestry: Has this, courtesy of being a clone of Artoria. It's one of the reasons why Seath kills her after regaining his memories.
  • Excellent Judge of Character: She cannot stand the sight of Gwynevere, claiming she's far too alike Morgan le Fay. And as later shown, Gwynevere is just as horrendous as a mother to Gawyn than Morgan was towards Mordred, both of them treating their children as mere tools for their plans.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Ash does not get along with her at all, viewing her actions in ending Camelot and killing Artoria as a prime example of the greed and selfishness that he despises.
  • Worf Effect: On the receiving from both Gwyn and a newly non-amnesiac Seath the Scaleless. In the case of the former, she's throughly outmatched despite being a top-tier Servant, having to work alongside several other top-level Servants to even slow him down. In the case of the latter, Mordred's B-rank in Magic Resistance, along with her armor and A-rank in Endurance should make her practically Nigh-Invulnerable against most Casters. So the fact that Seath is able to completely obliterate her with a single blast, while also being restricted to Ritsuka's body, firmly establishes him as The Arch Mage, well beyond ones like Medea.

     Percival 

Percival

Class: Lancer

  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Downplayed, as while he doesn't defeat Gwyn, his strike from Longinus Count:Zero is the first attack to inflict significant injury on him, to the point that Gwyn admits afterwards that they've pushed him farther than the Demons of Izalith ever did.
  • Oh, Crap!: He's appaled when Mordred compares Gwynevere to her mother Morgan le Fay, thinking the joke isn't funny at all — then he realizes Mordred isn't making a joke.
  • Weapon of X-Slaying: His Noble Phantasm, Lance of Longinus, is confirmed by Doctor Roman to have Anti-Divine properties by virtue of having covered by the blood of Christ.
  • Worf Effect: On both the giving and receiving ends. On the giving end, after Gwyn's shown himself to be nigh-unstoppable prior, Percival is able to inflict a grave injury on him with Longinus Count:Zero. On the receiving end, despite having Magic Resistance of B++, which should allow him to almost No-Sell even Greater Magecraft like Medea's Rain of Light, he's one-shot by Seath the Scaleless using a magical attack.

     Goetia 

Goetia

Class: Beast I (Pity)
  • Big Bad: Just as in canon, Goetia is the main overarching antagonist behind the story in Observer on Timeless Temple.
  • Stronger Sibling: Well for a given definition of "sibling", but Goetia is one of two Beasts that lay claim to the title of Beast I, the other being Ash, but despite being the earlier of the two to manifest, he's confirmed by Word of God to be the stronger, having a Saint Graph of Second Planetary Class, while Ash falls a bit short of Third Planetary Class.
  • Villain Takes an Interest: Starting in Okeanos, he's shown to have taken an interest in Ash specifically, culminating in their meeting in London, where he shows Ash the cumulative total of human history so he can make his judgment regarding humanity.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Upon visiting the Dark Soul world and checking it's history, Goetia becomes disgusted...Because the humans of Dark Souls are exactly what he wants humans to be. True immortals. Only to discover that the Darksign has long since etched itself into the world with humans forever cursed from his ideal.

Dark Souls

     Arkon 
Class: Saber
  • Artificial Human: As a Knight of the Silver Legion, Arkon and all his fellows are mass-produced homonculi to give the Gods an army for the extermination campaign against the Dragons.
  • Born into Slavery: Subverted — when Ritsuka worries about the Silver Legion being created as cannon fodder without the slightest care for their sapience, Arkon insists they were offered the choice to stay and fight, and anyone wanting to cop out was allowed.
  • Conflicting Loyalty: Following Gwyn's resurrection, Arkon staunchly refuses to fight the Chief God he spent millenia faithfully serving but he also agreed to lend his help to Chaldea in restoring the Proper Pan-Human history. He briefly considers suicide to solve his dilemma, and is only stopped by Ritsuka suggesting he might focus on the Singularities and stay away from the battle against Gwyn.
  • My Country, Right or Wrong: Arkon is extremely proud of serving Anor Londo's royal family and will defend his masters no matter what. He helps Gwynevere to hide in Chaldea, waves her horrendous abuse of Ash as her being a Goddess and above human laws about child-rearing, and almost committed suicide to not be forced to fight Gwyn.
  • Only Sane Man: Holds this place in the Guda-Guda and Halloween events, as he's constantly raging over the other Servants indulging in zany antics.

     Arleno 

  • Evil Redhead: Downplayed, as while he's technically trying to help the heroes, his cruelty, callousness, and prejudice make it very hard to consider him 'good'.
  • Fantastic Racism: Is extremely racist towards nonhuman entities, as evidenced by his brutal and callous killing of Kalameet.

     The Ashen One/Ash/Gawyn 

The Ashen One a.k.a. Ash a.k.a. Gawyn

Class: Saber (Singularity F-London), Archer (GudaGuda), Beast I:L (Mercy), Avenger (London-Present)
  • Beast of the Apocalypse: After Goetia shows him all of human history, his resultant Face–Heel Turn, combined with the fact that he still loves humanity in his own way, causes him to become a Beast of Calamity, specifically Beast I:L, representing the Logos of Mercy.
  • Birds of a Feather: Him and Altera immediately hit it off when she's summoned in Chaldea, as walking weapons wondering if that's even possible for them to grow out of the restrictive role and mindset forced upon them.
  • Brought Down to Badass: What's he left as after Gwyn devours most of his Saint-Graph as a Beast. At his peak, he's stated to have power on par with a full-fledged Chief-God. Afterwards, with most of his Saint-Graph having been stolen by Gwyn, he's stated to have been reduced to around the same tier as a high-level Divine Spirit,with Word of God stating he's around the same level as Ishtar in her servant form, which still puts him as a top-tier Servant even among their upper echelons.
  • Crazy-Prepared: As a result of his journey prior to the events of the story, Ash possesses a wide variety of artifacts and weapons in his Bottomless Box.
  • Face–Heel Turn: After Goetia shows him all of human history, Ash has his contract with Ritsuka severed and turns on Chaldea. This lasts until Velka breaks his spirit, by which he has become majorly despondent.
  • The First Cut Is the Deepest: He only allowed himself to grow close to Greirat, only for the thief to die on an errand Ash suggested for him to take. Ash keeps blaming himself for his friend's demise and refuses to make another friend out of fear that they will die too by his fault.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: While Ash isn't a Jerkass, he isn't well-liked amongst a number of Chaldean Servants due to due to his Blue-and-Orange Morality regarding his views about greed and selfishness with the exception of Ritsuka due to being an All-Loving Hero and Nobunaga because of an Odd Friendship. He's nearly come to blows with Francis Drake due to clashing philosophies as well as Mordred due to him hating her because in his eyes, she represents the type of greed he despises. Not really helping how even if some have tried to explain to him how there's more to life than duty, he doesn't really want to hear it. It becomes more pronounced after London as he became the Beast of Mercy and betrayed Chaldea, earning the ire of many because in their eyes, Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil with Rituka being the only reason why he doesn't get the axe.
  • Gender Bender: Has the Ring of Reversal, allowing him to become a woman. However, he doesn't seem to care for the experience, courtesy of D-Cup Distress, and claiming it's only a cosmetic change.
  • Hates Their Parent: Really, who can blame him for threatening Gwynevere with a sword when she brainwashed him since birth to commit ritual suicide? And he's not that fond of his birth father Llew either for going along with her plan.
  • Hearing Voices: In the London Singularity, he starts remembering his mother Gwynevere's voice grooming him as a ritual sacrifice, which deeply unnerves him. It doesn't get better when he swaps his Saber Class for the Avenger one, as he constantly has to remember the memories of the many souls he consumed.
  • Heroic BSoD: Olga brings up that Ash has locked himself away a few floors down after the events of London, clearly rattled from what Velka had done to him.
  • Hidden Disdain Reveal: Ritsuka and Mash are stunned by his casual admission that he would have killed Gwyndolin on the spot if they weren't working on the same goal, undoing mankind's incineration. From Ash's viewpoint, the Dark Sun is very much guilty of prolonging the Age of Fire and dragging mankind's suffering until the world broke, making any friendship impossible between them.
  • Identical Stranger: Physically, he looks so much like Gawain, a Knight of the Round Table, that Gawain's younger sister Gareth finds herself confusing them and actually wonders if Ash is her older sibling's alternate counterpart. With the Ring of Reversal equipped, Ash is stated by Word of God to be a "shorter-looking Barghest".
  • Kill It with Fire: He uses his pyromancy so often that Ritsuka bluntly accuses him from being a pyromaniac. To everybody else's horror, he bonds with Nobunaga over bomb-making.
  • Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: Was birthed for the sole purpose to link the Fire and allow the Gods to linger in the world well after their expected departure, but failed to do so and ultimately decided it was better to snuff the Flame and usher an Age of the Dark for mankind to rise. Sulyvahn thinks it's the most hysterical thing ever.
  • Lethal Chef: Well, he's an undead so he doesn't actually need to eat for sustenance and his taste buds are shot to Hell. As a consequence, he never learned to cook. Tamamo Cat later decides to teach him how to bake cookies and he sets the kitchen aflame by using his pyromancy instead of the oven.
  • Literal-Minded: He really doesn't get metaphors, so when Ritsuka describes Mash as "badass" he wonders why the Master is comparing her to a mule.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: As a Warrior of Sunlight, he reveres and admires the Nameless King deeply. Learning he was responsible for slaying his Patron Saint causes him a lot of distress, in spite of the god insisting he was alright with that.
  • Odd Friendship: Has developed this with Oda Nobunaga.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: There is some understandable concern for Ash after Priscilla starts restoring his memories, as in comparison to the stoic warrior focused on duty, he starts acting jumpy around certain things and is even begging Jeanne to help him.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: While Ash as Beast I:L is monstrously powerful, having power on par with a Chief God, and he's far beyond any previous opponent Chaldea's faced, he falls short compared to some of the other Beasts, with Word of God confirming that both Goetia and Tiamat surpass him in terms of might, with Goetia having a Saint Graph of Second Planetary Class, while Ash falls a bit short of Third Planetary Class.
  • Put Them All Out of My Misery: The conclusion Ash comes to after Goetia shows a vision of human history to him.
  • Super Drowning Skills: He never saw the ocean before he was sent to the Oceanos singularity, so he's obviously unable to swim.
  • That Man Is Dead: After remembering who he was before rising from the grave, Ash considers his former identity "Gawyn" as stillborn since he was never given the opportunity to be more than a tool to link the Flame.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After fully unsealing his capabilities after his discussion with Solomon, he becomes a Beast of Calaminty with power on par with a Chief God, with Word of God stating that he was only a couple steps below 3rd Planetary Class, making him almost as strong as U-Olga Marie when she first descended in Olympus. Even after he loses the majority of his power to Gwyn, he's still much stronger than he was prior, with Word of God describing him as being on par with Ishtar in her Servant container, making him one of the strongest Servants around.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: As a result of his nature back in the Dark Souls universe allowing him to come back to life after dying, Ash falls under this in the Fate universe and is lampshaded by Scathach during her Trial Quest.
  • Would Hurt a Child: First attempts to murder Jackie in the London Singularity, as he can hear the many souls serving as her gestalt in agony. It immediately causes Atalanta Alter — a Friend to All Children — and Priscilla — Jackie's Parental Substitute — to put him on their shit list.

     Basile, the Rat King 

Basile, the Rat King

Class: Ruler

  • Misanthrope Supreme: Downplayed here. He doesn't like humans at all, but he does make some exceptions, such as with Artoria and Vlad.
  • This Is My Human: His opinion is that the person who summons him is the Servant rather than a ruler such as him.

     Black Dragon Kalameet 

Black Dragon Kalameet

Class: Berserker

  • Badass Adorable: An Everlasting Dragon responsible for many human civilizations burning to the ground, but people tend to forget this detail when they get to speak with Kalameet in all his cheerful, dorky enthusiasm.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: As he remembers a time in which disparity was nonexistent, Kalameet struggles a lot to understand how mankind can even function as a species.
  • Contemplate Our Navels: Most of his discussions in the Scandinavian Singularity revolves around his attempts to understand royalty, disparity, and why mankind should be allowed to prosper while dragons are fading.
  • Delightful Dragon: So delightful that Chaldea actually feels kinda bad about opposing him and his dream to build a Kingdom for his species.
  • Draconic Humanoid: His default form is a giant version of the Black Dragon Armor from the first game.
  • Duality Motif: Subtle yet present. He ponders on his altered nature as a creature of the Abyss and a dragon, and when he's in humanoid shape he dons black hair with yellow blond streaks and heterochromic orange and red eyes.
  • Fantastic Racism: Since the gods have slaughtered his entire race, he completely loathes them to the point he almost snaps at Caffrey — a young girl — merely for approaching him in the cafeteria.
  • Friendly Enemy: When they get the opportunity to speak with him, the Chaldeans cannot help to find his childlike earnestness and wish to let his people ascend as more than beasts endearing.
  • The Good King: His driving question is learning what makes a true King. For all his Blue-and-Orange Morality, he displays hints of being this, since he's A Father to His Men and open to dialogue with humans.
  • Graceful Loser: As Da Vinci and Olga swear to win the battle against him, he's fully at peace with the prospect of losing to Chaldea since they are defending their people's future, just like him.
  • Jabba Table Manners: Well, he's a Dragon, nobody ever taught him how to use cutlery. Da Vinci tries to gently introduce him to cooked food by giving him a burger, only for him to splatter sauce everywhere and lick his fingers. He's actually more of a messy eater than Sif.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Deems people he respects his siblings, to their bafflement. It's mainly directed towards Artoria Alter, as she has draconic attributes and has been corrupted just like him.
  • Mundane Object Amazement: Constantly marveling at human engineering and crafts, and wondering why humans are not always in a state of permanent "wow!" in front of their achievements. He squees over a handmade woolen scarf.
  • Stock Shōnen Hero: Except for him being a dragon, Kalameet is a tremendously powerful fighter who nonetheless displays a childish, naive reasoning, believes in everyone peacefully coexisting one day no matter the species, and tends to battle people to gauge their worthiness. Heck, when summoned in a humanoid shape by Chaldea, he even displays messy hair!
  • Trademark Favourite Food: Just like his chosen sister Artoria Alter, he appears very fond of burgers — likely because it's cow meat.
  • Tragic Dream: He wishes for Dragons and humans to be truly equal one day. Unfortunately, there's too much Blue-and-Orange Morality involved for it to ever happen. It later evolves in creating a Kingdom of Dragons, but it still cannot happen since the Singularity will be erased and ruin all his efforts, and a third party actually was ready to force him to commit suicide, out of disgust towards his ambition and because he only was meant to test Olga's resolve.
  • Undignified Death: Rivals Morgan in terms of how pitiful his end is, as instead of going out in a blaze of glory against a Worthy Opponent who shares his resolve, he's not even allowed to fight before being forced to kill himself by Arleno out of a combination of Fantastic Racism and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, as the entire purpose of the Singularity was to test Olga's resolve. And just to twist the knife, not only does Arleno outright say it to his face afterwards, they outright state the only reason he was allowed to persist in his dream for as long as he did was to make him a better test for Olga and Chaldea. He dies broken and in utter despair, and can only lament as to whether he ever had a chance to actually win.
  • Unstoppable Rage: He utterly loses his shit when Ledo says that they don't know why they slaughtered the dragons yet followed through with the deed anyway. It takes some harsh words from Alsanna to calm him down.
  • Visionary Villain: He wishes to create a Kingdom of Dragons, for Dragons. Unfortunately, he chooses to establish this Kingdom in the Scandinavia Singularity, turning him in a threat to PPH history and driving him to clash with Chaldea.

     Black Iron Tarkus 

Black Iron Tarkus

Class: Saber

  • Achievements in Ignorance: His claim to fame was managing to walk his way through the once-believed impossible Sen's Fortress without realizing the gravity of where he was.
  • Berserk Button: Doing anything he perceives as rude causes him to unleash a flood of killing intent. To avoid the pummeling, it's better to apologize and explain your reasoning.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Hopelessly sweet and polite no matter how rude you are to him. He's also built as a brick house and grew up routinely slaughtering wyverns, giant rats and demons in his childhood village.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Chaldea's tech staff cannot believe that a Pioneer of the Stars could be such of a himbo.
  • Kindhearted Simpleton: Tarkus isn't the sharpest sword on the rack, but he has a good heart, as shown in his first interaction with Olga's team in the Scandinavia Singularity.
  • Knight in Shining Armor: He might be a tad naive and sheltered, but he genuinely has the martial might and sheer kindness to embody the archetype. As he protects Marie from Altria Lancer Alter, he claims protecting a queen is what a knight does.
  • Momma's Boy: Keeps relying a lot on his mother's advice from when he was a kid.

     Dark Sun Gwyndolin 

Dark Sun Gwyndolin

Class: Caster, Archer

  • Ambiguously Related: So it's established that Yorshka is his sister only through adoption, but her origins are rather muddled beyond that, as it's unclear if she's a daughter of Priscilla — Gwyndolin's niece — or some matter of a clone for the white-haired crossbreed.
  • Asshole Victim: Sulyvahn would like for everyone to remember Gwyndolin was upholding a decaying, corrupt rule that was doomed to fade in spite of the oceans of blood spilled to preserve it.
  • The Baby of the Bunch: It's hinted that his siblings constantly doted on him before everything went to pot. Nowaday, the Nameless King and Gwynevere dismiss the possibility of him growing up to be a competent fighter and insist he's still as helpless as they remember him — something Ritsuka notes as rather condescending if well-meant.
  • Closet Key: Ritsuka certainly feels something after beholding Gwyndolin in a highschool girl's swimsuit.
  • Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: When Quelaag lifts his mask, she's horrified to see his eyes have lost their gleam. It's just after he admitted he's completely worn down by loneliness and age.
  • The Fog of Ages: Since his World had a rather wobbly relationship with time, Gwyndolin is very, very, very old. He doesn't remember how much because he stopped counting after a hundred thousands years.
  • Groin Attack: Suffers a rather painful one from Artemis during NeroFest.
  • Jerkass Gods: Downplayed — he doesn't really care about saving mankind and is mainly helping out of sheer spite towards Sulyvahn, but he's nonetheless helping and keeps to himself instead of needlessly antagonizing the other Servants.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: His family worried he would be bullied for his snake legs, so raised him in relative seclusion. Unfortunately, it left Gwyndolin heavily dependent on his blood kin for love and mental support, so he was deprived of this net when the gods all departed from Anor Londo.
  • Other Me Annoys Me: His counterpart as a Moon deity is the ditzy, shallow and gluttonous Artemis. Needless to say, Gwyndolin is mortified by her antics and doubles down on the regal behaviour to compensate.
  • Raised as the Opposite Gender: After his firstborn son's betrayal, Gwyn decided the title of "Prince" was permanently soiled and as such, he couldn't have another male heir. It did a major number on Gwyndolin's mental health, as he loathed having to dress and perform as a Goddess but was too desperate to please his father to complain.
  • Ship Tease: Stheno and Euryale have certainly noticed he spends a lot of time reading with Medusa and tease her about finding herself a lover.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Dons the persona of an aloof, haughty deity who barely seems to care about mankind, but he's hopelessly lonely beneath this mask, as he lets slip his bitterness and despair over his family abandoning him in his dialogue.
  • Square Race, Round Class: He does wield his bow with effective results, but there's no denying his kit is more heavily focused on Sorcery and illusions, and his physical stats very much befit a Squishy Wizard. Olga outright calls him a grade-A Caster stuck in the Archer class.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Deeply unhappy about Chaldea's team having Sulyvahn with them when they meet, he makes very clear he will murder the Pontiff as soon as Aldrich will cease to be a threat to the Roman Singularity.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Gwyndolin makes it clear that he would not forgive Sulyvahn and Faraam for their betrayals. That being said, he's much more conflicted with Faraam in this regard, since the latter is his Cool Big Bro and both of them still care about the other.
  • Trauma Button: His reaction to Chaldea summoning Aldrich as a Ruler is to go berserk and flat-out try to murder him. Ritsuka later acknowledges it would be cruel to force Gwyndolin to be polite towards the person who ate him alive and gives the god his blessing to avoid Aldrich as much as he wants.
  • Troll: When he learns that Ash is a follower of Artorias, he makes a point of describing the latter as being constantly drunk and promiscuous just to fuck with him.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The Nameless King is quite dismayed to learn the mischievous younger sibling who wouldn't stop following after him for pranks and mimicry has turned in a depressed shut-in.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Everything he did was to please his family, only for it to bring him no joy since they all left Anor Londo. It ultimately causes him to suffer a breakdown when Gwyn resurrects with the intent to slaughter anyone having failed him, and Gwyndolin knows he will be among these people.
  • Worf Had the Flu: When he first appears in the Roman Singularity, he casually summons thirty illusionary bodyguards to watch over Stheno and a huge boat for Chaldea's team to go back to their friends. And that's without a contract with a Master, or being summoned as a Caster at the time — he was an Archer with all his parameters downgraded.

     Gravelord Nito 

Gravelord Nito

Class: Assassin

     Hanleth, Goddess of Bliss 

Hanleth, Goddess of Bliss

Class: Caster

  • Charm Person: A rather subtle effect, as being in her vicinity will encourage you to pay less attention to your current goal in order to enjoy yourself if you're lacking a strong will.
  • Fountain of Youth: Regresses Ash to Gawyn as she wants to give him a chance to enjoy his childhood for once.
  • In the Blood: As Gwynevere's daughter, she inherited her Charm Person ability on a lesser scale.
  • Professional Slacker: Hanleth claims herself to be one to distinguish herself from Ganesha.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Bluntly tells Ritsuka that Ash is never going to like her, consequence of his singleminded focus on duty leading him to sacrifice any chance for a hobby or relaxation. Hanleth is the goddess of bliss, everything she embodies is targeted by Ash's contempt and loathing, making them fundamentally incompatible at each level.
  • Trash of the Titans: Her office is thoroughly littered with dirty cushions, food wrappers and paper because she's just too lazy to clean after herself.

     Havel the Rock 

Havel the Rock

Class: Berserker

  • Anti-Magic: Constantly surrounded by a field nullifying any Sorcery in his presence. It makes him the worst possible opponent to fight for a Caster or a magus.
  • Does Not Like Magic: Just like in canon, he possesses an overwhelming hatred for sorcerers and magic, calling Ritsuka scum first thing after his summoning.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction and tells the party to run after Ash unleashes an Abyss-imbued Noble Phantasm against Hercules.
  • Super Drowning Skills: No matter how much you squint, heavy armour and water do not mix together.

     The Nameless King/War God Faraam 

The Nameless King/War God Faraam

Class: Rider

  • Blood Knight: He relishes the opportunity to battle a Worthy Opponent as befits a War God, and Jeanne d'Arc Alter repeatedly interfering with his fights ultimately pisses him to the point he betrays her. However, he's not happy about waging war on the selfish whims of a madwoman.
  • Brought Down to Badass: After rejecting Gwyn's ideology, he lost the major part of his Divinity — and he's still one of the most powerful Servants in the setting. Now picture him in his prime and hide under the bed.
  • Cool Big Bro: In spite of his betrayal, he keeps caring about Gwyndolin, mourning their lost closeness and opening a can of whupass on Artemis for giving his younger brother a Groin Attack.
  • Cool Uncle: He might feel unworthy to introduce himself as such because of his estrangement, but there's no denying he's very gentle towards Caffrey at the Nero-fest. And his supportive attitude towards Ash doesn't change after learning the undead is his nephew by Gwynevere.
  • Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Word of God reveals that he was this to his son, Gordin of Forossa. He left because he knew that if his parentage was known, he would never be able to step out of his shadow.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He may like dragons, but even he cannot stand Elizabeth's singing.
  • Friendly Enemy: Earnestly acknowledges and praises Chaldea's bravery and strength, and admits he would be open to be summoned by them as a Servant after the French Singularity is solved.
  • Heel–Face Turn: He betrays Jeanne d'Arc Alter after she interfered with one battle too many.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: After several millenia without any kind of communication with his family, he's completely floored by the sheer toxicity his siblings display as he remembers them much more innocent and mentally healthy.
  • Named by the Adaptation: While his name was wiped from history in Dark Souls, Gwyndolin (his brother) reveals that it is Faraam.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He understood his father was really going too far with his extermination campaign against the dragons and fucked off to protect himself. The thing is, Gwyn took the betrayal so badly that he lashed out against his other children, exiling Filianore, twisting Gwynevere's morals and forcing Gwyndolin to become a daughter.
  • Only Sane Man: When compared to the other members of Anor Londo's royal family, the Nameless King displays minor levels of mental trauma, has no taste for mind-breaking his allies and is quite polite and reasonable when dealing with humans. It might be caused by his estrangement from them.
  • So Proud of You: He's rather impressed when a shamefaced Ash confesses being a Warrior of Sunlight and a follower of his ideals, reassuring the Unkindled that slaying a God is nothing to regret, even if said God is the Patron of your covenant.
  • Taking You with Me: Jeanne d'Arc Alter winds up pushing his Berserk Button too far, leading him to attack her in spite of her slapping him with a Command Seal to not betray her. The Nameless King is just so done with her that he doesn't care if he's forced to commit suicide afterward, he merely wants her dead.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: His siblings and mother were blatantly hostile or outright ignored him when he was reunited with them until Filianore is summoned in the Lapland Singularity for Christmas. She doesn't care about the fact he was disowned, she's just happy to see him again.
  • Worthy Opponent: The Nameless King considers the Servants of Chaldea to be this.

     Pontiff Sulyvahn 

Pontiff Sulyvahn

Class: Caster
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Everything allowing history to progress is right and proper, while everything halting it in its tracks and forcing the world to be stagnant must be destroyed.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Decides hating Ash is pointless after learning the undead warrior was groomed since birth as a ritual sacrifice to link the Fire by his own mother, claiming it's basically hating a victimized child for something out of his control.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Has a difficult time understanding that others may not accept his cold logic and vile methods. Being more shocked that Ritsuka would restrict him when, in his eyes, he did no wrong. This is after being caught prepared to kill multiple Servants he deems as unneeded to Aldritch.
  • Evil Mentor: Mentions he taught the Lothric Princes and gave them the idea to reject their calling as Lord of Cinder.
  • The Fair Folk: His half-tree ancestry qualifies him as a Fairy, according Chaldea. He's certainly arrogant, doesn't care about conventional morality, and is obsessed by the concept of progress while loathing stagnancy. Although he differs from many of the native fae in that he lacks Glam Sight, he's capable of long-term planning and pragmatism in a way that many native fairies aren't, and he is most certainly not gullible, nor suffering from a case of Creative Sterility.
  • Foil: Strongly implied to be the Dark Souls alternate counterpart to Shirou Emiya. Where Emiya was born in fire, driven by a borrowed purpose he wouldn't let go of and resigned to a broken cycle he contributed to create, Sulyvahn was born in cold, driven mad by the outer world's rot as he sought a purpose of his own, and rebelled against the status quo no matter what. Both of them were ultimately left cynical extremists whose efforts to better the world were made worthless and led to their demise.

  • Hated by All: Extremely unpopular among Chaldean Servants for betraying his liege lord to a gruesome demise and selling his city to a cannibalistic crazed abomination in the name of progress. He's actually surprised when Medea is polite to him, and Ritsuka decides to ask him to transcribe the Dark Souls lore and mythos to keep him away from everybody else.
  • Identical Stranger: From the way Medusa startled when he put a glamour over his usual wooden puppet appearance, his human disguise turns him in a carbon copy of Shirou Emiya — who's strongly implied to be his Alternate Counterpart.
  • Logical Weakness: Extremely vulnerable to flames as he's half a tree spirit.
  • Nothing Personal: Claims he would have left Gwyndolin alone if the Dark Sun hadn't been an obstacle to his plans for ending the Age of Fire.
  • Papa Wolf: Unexpectedly intervenes to prevent Gwynevere from using her Charm Person ability on Ritsuka. Also mentions part of his grudge towards Ash is caused by the undead killing Prince Lothric, whom Sulyvahn had mentored.
  • Rage Against the Heavens: Very hostile towards gods and clerics. As Jeanne is making an attempt to understand his mindset, he bluntly declares she destroyed her own own potential by willingly shackling herself to a god's service.
  • Reformed, but Not Tamed: He is genuinely on the side of the heroes, but he still keeps to his more vile methods. Bonfire: XLV literally has him ready to feed Chaldean Servants he sees as weak or unnecessary to Aldritch, making it clear he hasn't acted out until now simply because he never saw a chance to. Ritsuka quickly puts his foot down when he tries.
  • Smug Snake: Sulyvahn is extremely smug, often mocking enemy and ally alike.
  • Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Verndari and Ash make no mystery of how much they despise him for betraying Gwyndolin. Sulyvahn doesn't get why they are so furious, as he believes it doesn't matter when you have no wish to uphold your sworn oath from the beginning.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: His Lily version summoned as a Ruler in the London Singularity assumes a big brother role to a bunch of kids and refuses to hurt anyone, because when you start doing wrong things for the right reason, you will end up doing them for the wrong reasons.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Why would you care about that pesky detail called "ethics" when the end of the world is looming over your head?

     Siegward of Catarina 

Siegward of Catarina

Class: Saber

  • Chef of Iron: As a Servant and a Knight, Siegward is more than able to kick ass in a Singularity, but he's quite happy to stay behind in Chaldea and man the kitchen.
  • Mundane Utility: Chaldea's opinion on him using his magic abilities and ingredients in order to enhance his cooking.
  • Supreme Chef: Despite being undead and lacking a sense of taste, Siegward is extremely good at cooking.
  • Totally Radical: Attempts to greet Boudicea and Emiya to Chaldea with slang taught to him by Astolfo. He only manages to sound very silly.

    Velka, Goddess of Sin 
  • Gruesome Grandparent: Has no qualms mind-raping her grandson and giving him lasting trauma.
  • Hated by All: Certainly not at the level of Sulyvahn and Aldrich, but considering her role in awakening all the souls within Ash and indirectly being responsible for resurrecting her husband Gwyn, she gets pretty damn close. Not that she even minds.
  • I Did What I Had to Do: Insists Ash would have suffered his violent meltdown anyway, consequence of his ideals about duty crumbling as the Singularities erode his beliefs, so the best strategy was for him to Freak Out in controlled surroundings.
  • Mind Rape: Her Noble Phantasm allows her to force the target to live through the consequences of their sin.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: As Ritsuka is having a Heroic BSoD over the fact everyone is expecting him to adopt a magus mindset when he was raised to be a decent person, and out of the sheer pressure of having to save mankind, Velka validates his fear and doubt and reassures him it's okay to stumble as long as you grow up.

     Verndari, the Looking Glass Knight 

Verndari, the Looking Glass Knight

Class: Shielder

  • Samus Is a Girl: When Verndari was first introduced, the readers were under the impression that they were a man. In the By The Bonfire segments, this turned out to be the opposite.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: The kingdom of Drangleic was extremely traditional about gender roles. That's why Verndari pulled a Sweet Polly Oliver and refused to remove her helmet unless forced.
  • There Is Another: Mash is very happy to not be the lone Shielder Servant and begs Verndari for fighting tips.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Outright assaults Lancelot for betraying Camelot and killing Verndari's friend Gareth in spite of the girl's deep admiration for him.

     Vordt 

Vordt of the Frozen Lake/Boreal Valley

Classes: Rider, Berserker

  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While we don't have much to go off of, in the original lore, all that's known of Vordt's relationship with the Dancer is that they're Outrider knights who travel together. Here, it's stated that the two of them were lovers.
  • Future Me Scares Me: As a Rider, he is...very not fond of the Berserker version of himself Chaldea fought in Rome.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His Rider iteration is pissed when the London Singularity forces him to work with Sulyvahn, who was responsible for his beloved's fall.

     Gwynevere 

High Queen Gwynevere

Class: Caster

  • Abusive Parents: No matter what she claims, grooming your son from birth to sacrifice himself to the Flame and preventing him to grow beyond a tool through copious exposure to your brainwashing ability is not good parenting.
  • Asshole Victim: Gwyn casually torturing her with lightning and bluntly declaring she deserves death for lowering herself to work with Chaldea comes off as rather karmic after the way she thoroughly destroyed Ash's mind.
  • Big Sister Mentor: A twisted example when she admits she groomed her youngest sibling Gwyndolin to dress and perform as female according their father's instructions, to the Nameless King's utter horror.
  • Blessed with Suck: She admits her being a Charm Person prevents her from growing genuinely close with anyone, even her own children, since she would inevitably turn them in adoring sycophants. Gawyn was never able to mentally grow independent from constant exposure to his mother since birth.
  • Charm Person: What makes her extremely dangerous is the fact that she's always seducing everything around her. And the longer you're exposed to her charm, the more you want to serve her — Seath openly compares her to an addiction.
  • Healing Hands: Her Healing Miracles are very powerful and her second most useful ability. This is a major part of why she's allowed to join Chaldea in spite of heavily contributing to Ash turning in a Beast, having a healer on the team is just too good to refuse.
  • Heartbreak And Icecream: After barely escaping her father's murderous rage and hiding in Chaldea, she's huddling in a cocoon of blankets, eating frozen treats and wondering why everything went so wrong.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Gwynevere is so beautiful that it actually warps reality — she can seduce the air into hiding or protecting her.
  • I Did What I Had to Do: How she justifies turning her own son in a ritual sacrifice, since the Flame was dying and someone had to link it. So she's merely sorry that it failed.
  • Interspecies Romance: Was briefly married to Seath as a reward for his contribution to magic. It's implied she was uneasy around him for his most unsavoury quirks.
  • Massive Numbered Siblings: As befits a goddess of fertility and bounty, Gwynevere birthed many children. At least nine characters have been named as her offspring.
  • Parents as People: Her record as a mother tends to see-saw between "atrocious" and "acceptable". What she did to Ash was nothing short of monstruous, but on the other hand she outright begged for her firstborn Priscilla to not be killed in the cradle and her younger daughter Caffrey appears to be a normal Cheerful Child.
  • Please Spare Him, My Liege!: She begged for her firstborn Priscilla to be allowed to live in spite of the baby awakening the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Her plea was granted, as long as Priscilla was kept secluded in the Painted World.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Gwyndolin disparages her as a coward who will run away when things start to get tough and crumble. It's actually translated as a Noble Phantasm allowing her to escape from dire threats, and that's how she fled her wrathful father to hide in Chaldea.
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: She's so used to be worshipped and revered for her beauty that she's left flummoxed when someone actually clutches to a grudge against her.
  • Troubled Abuser: The way she raised Ash to be nothing but an empty-headed ritual sacrifice horrified the readership but then Gwyn appears and that's when you understand why Gwynevere was so horrible a mother — she was raised by a malignant narcissist who couldn't stand anybody defying him, even his own children, and wouldn't acknowledge how much his decisions screwed the entire world. She has no idea whatsoever of what healthy parenting is.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sulyvahn gained access to Irithyll because he left Lothric with a letter of recommandation written by Gwynevere, establishing him as trustworthy and reliable for his service to her. She's quite distressed by the consequences it had for her younger brother.
  • World's Most Beautiful Woman: Gwynevere is a goddess of bounty and fertility, with the figure to go with her portfolio. Everyone seeing her falls under her spell unless they are strong-willed enough to notice her Charm Person ability.
  • You Remind Me of X: Percival is quite alarmed when Mordred seriously compares her to Morgan le Fay, and Kid Gilgamesh outright sneers at her for being a spoiled, bitchy goddess of love just like Ishtar.

     Gwyn, Lord of Cinder 

Gwyn, Lord of Cinder

Saint Graph Designation: Ruler
  • Abusive Parents: None of his kids got through childhood without a few scars from his parenting. Faraam was kicked out and unpersoned for defying him, Gwyndolin was forced to live as a girl, and while Gwynevere seems alright, invokedWord of God confirms that her poor raising of Ash is because she assumes that Gwyn's way of raising children is normal.
  • Adaptational Villainy: His racism towards humans is considerably more pronounced, to the the point of slaughtering them on sight, whereas in the lore, though he feared and mistrusted humans due to the Dark Soul, he nevertheless seemed to have some respect for them, as evidenced by the fact that he entrusted the Four Kings with portions of his souls and, as per the Age of Fire comic, cared for the humans who were in his own kingdom enough to always defend them from those who would harm them.
  • Bolt of Divine Retribution: His lightning bolts are counted as one of his Noble Phantasms, Shards of Sunlight. Not only are they monstrously powerful, to the point that a single one of them is able to shatter Lord Chaldeas (which was able to block Saber Alter's Exaclibur Morgan blast) like it's made of glass, they're also capable of removing conceptual immortality.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Effortlessly vaporizes Kiyohime merely for being a crossbreed in spite of her being busy helping Fujimaru and not being hostile towards Gwyn at all. In a few seconds, he has shown himself to be a foe to Chaldea, and one who will be an absolute nightmare to face.
  • Evil Counterpart:
    • Could be considered one to Odin, as they're both Chief Gods who appear as old, wizened men whose fear of the inevitable end of their world causes them to take extreme actions to stave it off however they can, and whose actions turn ultimately turn out to be futile. The difference is that whereas Odin genuinely cares for humanity and is willing to continue to aid them even after his own domain is destroyed, Gwyn despises humanity and is unwilling to move on from his past even when given the chance.
    • Arguably one to Zeus as well, as they're both Demiurge-class deities with authority over lightning, who also take the form of large, bearded, imposing men. The difference is that whereas Zeus genuinely cares for humanity and views them as his children, to the point of even having progeny with them, Gwyn despises humanity and believes they should remain subservient to the gods.
    • In a way, to Lostbelt Morgan. They're both rulers of Lostbelts/Lostworlds that were destined to fade away or be destroyed and in both cases they went through extreme measures that ultimately turned out be futile. Other than that though, the two are very different. Whereas most of the damage caused to the Dark Souls world stemmed from Gwyn's own actions, to the point that it's directly because of him that his world lost any hope of survival, none of the problems associated with the British Lostbelt were Morgan's fault. Also, whereas Gwyn, from the start, displayed many cruel and selfish traits, most notably betraying his loyal allies, the Pygmies, out of paranoia and disdain for the Dark Soul, Morgan started out as a genuinely kind and compassionate figure, only turning to villainy after millennia of betrayal and abuse. It's further reflected in how they were viewed by their subjects. Where Gwyn was widely loved and adored, in spite of his unsavory actions and the damage they caused, due in part to deliberately rewriting the narrative to favor him, Morgan was hated and feared despite all she did for her kingdom, with her reign ending due to be unjustly vilified for actions she wasn't responsible for. Finally, their dynamics with their children are near polar opposites. Whereas Gwyn had several biological children, he was an Abusive Parent who cruelly mistreated them for often petty reasons and generally only valued them in regards to how they could serve him. Morgan only had one child (Baobhan Sith), who she adopted, but nevertheless deeply loved and cared for, to the point that she surrendered against her treacherous lords because they were holding her daughter hostage.
  • Evil Virtues: Determination, Respect, and Valor.
  • Fantastic Racism: In addition to his predjudice towards humanity, he also seems to be rather disdainful of the Gods of Proper Human History, viewing them as weak and foolish for having allowed the world to slip from their grasp and to grant their power to humanity. Notably, when one of the Servants opposing him states that he was granted his powers by a Gods own volition, Gwyn states that he will have to remind said God of their place.
  • Foil: To Odin. As stated previously, they're both Chief Gods who appear as old, wizened men whose fear of the inevitable end of their world causes them to take extreme actions to stave it off however they can, and whose actions turn ultimately turn out to be futile. Other than that though, they're very different. In addition their differing views regarding humanity, they also have completely opposing views regarding magic. Whereas Gwyn is not known to have used magic or sorcery, and his treatment of Gywndolin imply he has a certain amount of disdain for it, Odin is known as the God of Magic, having pioneered the use of the Primordial Runes, and is shown to have made extensive use of magic throughout his life. Even their weapons contrast each other, as where Gwyn's primary weapon is a sword, Odin's primary weapon is Gungnir.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: He thoroughly unbalanced the world by creating Firelinking, causing his people to suffer for aeons. His idea of parenting also causes his children to be messes, and indirectly influenced Ash's twisted worldview.
  • Hero Killer: Kills Atalanta (while posessing Ash), Kiyohime, Lobo, Arash, Jeanne, Berserker Lancelot, Astolfo, Jack, Vordt, Nursery Rhyme, Medea, Cu Chulainn, and Stahl, and in his brief one-on-one with Scathach, he maims her by cutting off her arm.
  • Hopeless Boss Fight: The first battle against him is best described as a one sided slaughter in his favor, with most of Chaldeas' forces dying to single blows from Gwyn. It's more comparable to a fight with a Beast of Calamity, Lostbelt King, or even ORT than anything Chaldea has gone through before.
  • Immortal Breaker: His lightning bolts are stated to be capable of stripping conceptual immortality from those that are struck, as he was able to render the Everlasting Dragons mortal by stripping them of their scales.
  • Invincible Villain: Narrowly averted, at first he comes off as completely unstoppable, plowing through even the strongest Servants present like they're nothing. Even when all the remaining Servants present combine their efforts to actually slow him down, they aren't able to actually do much to him, and when he finally decides to unleash the full scale of his might, none of the Servants present can do anything, save for Ash, who has to use his ultimate Noble Phantasm as a Beast to stop him, and even then, the effort required almost kills him.
  • Jerkass Gods: Very much so. For starters, his treatment of his children is utterly horrid, to the point of being on part with Lostbelt Zeus's. He banishes and disowns his eldest son for opposing the genocide of the dragons, forces his other son to live as a girl, to the point of having him wear a ring that forces him to use feminine mannerisms against his will, for no other reason than that he was born a moonlight sorcerer, which he considered feminine. He sent his youngest daughter, Filianore, as a "gift" to the pygmies alongside gifting them the Ringed City, and is implied to have forced her into an eternal sleep in order to try and seal the Ringed City, therefore the Abyss, away from the rest of the world. He entirely ignored the existence of Yorshka, leaving her to be named and raised by Gwyndolin. And that's just his family! He also betrayed his loyal allies, the Pygmies, for no other reason than paranoia and disdain for the Dark Soul, and forcibly shackles them to the gods, and is viciously racist towards humans in the present to the point of massacring them on sight.
  • The Juggernaut: Completely steamrolls Chaldea's forces, taking out almost a dozen servants in quick succession without even slowing down, effortlessly shatters Lord Chaldeas (which could block Excalibur Morgan, an A++ rank Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm), and it takes the combined assault of Ash (who's on the same tier as Ishtar in the Babylonia Singularity), Mordred, Percival, Nobunaga, and Scathach to fight him on equal terms, and even then it requires a direct hit from the Lance of Longinus, an Anti-Divine Noble Phantasm stated to rival the likes of Rhongomyniad, and by extension, Excalibur, to inflict significant injury, and even that doesn't take him out of the fight. When he uses "Bydtân Dechrau, it requires Ash using Claíomh bás solais, which is an EX-rank, Anti-World, and Anti-Divine Noble Phantasm described as being on par with Surtr's Loptr Laegjarn to stop him, and even then he's still not dead.
  • Knight of Cerebus: While the story already had some quite dark moments and events prior, Gwyn's appearance represents a dramatic uptick in the threat faced, being a borderline Invincible Villain who cuts an unprecedented swathe of destruction through Chaldea's forces, with well over half the cast present in the Singularity dying at his hands, establishing him as a threat far beyond anything Chaldea has faced prior.
  • Light Is Not Good: Gwyn is known as "the Lord of Sunlight" and he's shown to have Authority over Light, Heat, and the Sun itself, to the point that his primary Noble Phantasm consists of creating a miniature star, which in addition to destroying his enemies, has the ability to heal and revitalize him and his allies through it's life-giving rays. But as can be seen from the rest of the tropes on his page, he's also very much a Jerkass God, being an Abusive Parent of the highest order, and a vicious racist who massacre's Chaldeas Servants completely unprovoked for extremely petty reasons, with the most notable instance being his merciless vaporizing of Kiyohime, who posed zero threat to him and not displaying any hostility against him, simply for being part-dragon.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: More like big fish, but the overall gist of the trope still applies to him. For as powerful as he is, he's merely the Top God of one pantheon, the sole pantheon of his world. In the world of the Nasuverse, not only are there a fair number of other pantheons, many of which have supreme gods of their own who can challenge him on equal terms, there are also other beings, such as the Grand Servants, the Beasts of Calamity, and especially the likes of Sefar and the Ultimate Ones, who either have abilities on par with or outright exceeding even the mightiest Gods.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Gwyn has nothing to do with Solomon or the Singularities themselves, and wasn't summoned by the World or the Grail. He's a God from the Dark Souls universe who, after Velka's intervention, tears his way out of Ash before going on to pursue his agenda of claiming this world for the Gods again. Furthermore, as detailed in Hopeless Boss Fight and Wake-Up Call Boss, he's a massive step up from pretty much any of the previous enemies faced, with there being a grand total of 3 enemies across all of Arc 1 that could be said to pose a similar or greater threat, those being Goetia, Tiamat, and fellow Outside-Context Problem, Goddess Rhongomyniad.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: Fittingly, he's capable of truly epic destructive feats. During the fight, after unleashing a storm of lighting against a Lord Chaldeas reinforced by Caster Cu Chulainn's Runes, he completely flattens every single building within a 300 meter radius, with there not even being rubble left, just dust, a feat more akin to a small nuclear bomb. And as he states right after, that was only a mere fraction of his power. His primary Noble Phantasm, "Bydtân Dechrau firmly cements him as this, being an A++ rank, Anti-World Noble Phantasm.
  • Physical God: Like Tiamat, Cernunnos, and the Machine Gods of the Olympus Lostbelt, the Gwyn that appears here is not a Divine Spirit, but a genuine god with a physical body. While he did technically lose his body to the flame, consuming most of the souls in Ash has allowed him to reconstruct his form, meaning he's wielding the full power that comes with that status without anything limiting him. He's also by far the most powerful opponent Chaldea's encountered up to this point, with the exception of Ash as a Beast of Calamity.
  • Power of the Sun: His primary Noble Phantasm, "Bydtân Dechrau - The Fire of Origin That Grows the World", consists of him condensing his authority over sunlight into a new-born star within the palm of his hands and throwing it at his enemies, simultaneously destroying them while also healing and revitalizing his allies through it's life-giving rays. It's rated as an A++ ranked, Anti-World Noble Phantasm, putting it on the same rank as the downgraded version of Ea used by Gilgamesh in Fate/Grand Order.
  • Superpower Lottery: As befitting of a Chief God, Gwyn has pretty much won the grand prize here. Not only are all of his parameters extremely high, with his lowest, Luck, being rank A, he has several ludicrously busted Noble Phantasms and skills. He has an EX-rank in Magic Resistance, putting it on the same tier as the likes of Surtr and making him practically immune to pretty much any magic-based attacks, and his mana is also ranked EX. In addition, he also has an extreme conceptual advantage against both Dragons and Demons as a result of his exploits. Furthermore, his primary Noble Phantasm, "Bydtân Dechrau - The Fire of Origin That Grows the World", is one of the most powerful in existence, being an A++ ranked, Anti-World Noble Phantasm. To put that into perspective, Ishtar's Noble Phantasm, An Gal Ta Kigal Šè, which was powerful enought to destroy Tiamat's Femme Fatale Form which contained seven times the magical energy of a Holy Grail, clocks in as an A++ rank, Anti-Mountain Noble Phantasm. Even more impressive is his ability to remove conceptual immortality through his lightning, meaning that even the Beasts of Calamity aren't safe from him. And even ignoring that, a single one of them is shown to dwarf the likes of Excalibur, and Gwyn can fire off an entire storm of them with barely any effort on his part. Also, in a similar vein to Tiamat, he's immune to time-based attacks as a result of his Linking of the First Flame shattering the order of the world and rendering the concept meaningless.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Lostbelt Zeus, as they're both Chief Gods with authority over lightning, with the Saint Graphs Designation of Ruler, who view humanity with disdain and believe they should remain subservient to the Gods and vehemently oppose any attempts to challenge or end the Gods reign. They even use similar phrases to describe humanity, referring to them as "thinking reeds". Also, technically Inverted, at least from a chronological perspective, as he appears in Singularity IV, long before Lostbelt Zeus appears in canon.
  • Top God: Is confirmed to be the Chief God of the Dark Souls pantheon, putting him on the same tier as the likes of Zeus, Odin, Quetzalcoatl, Anu, and Vairocana.
  • Villain Respect: For all his many other faults, Gwyn does give respect when it's due to those who oppose him. After Percival injures him with Longinus, when Roman attributes it to luck, Gwyn indignantly cuts him off, stating that luck played no role in Percival's accomplishment, merely surprise on his part. He follows that up by freely stating that they've pushed him farther than the Chaos Demons ever did.
  • Villainous Valour: As flawed as he is in terms of his personality, one cannot deny that Gwyn is not one to cower or buckle under adversity. It's to the point that it's actually one of his skills, Voyager from the Depths: A++, where it's when all seems hopeless that he shines the most.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: While the previous opponents Chaldea has faced were, for the most part, never exactly weak or easy to defeat, Gwyn completely blows even the strongest among them out of the water. As a Chief God in a state close to his prime, he's nigh-unbeatable by normal Servants in a straight fight, effortlessly demolishing around a dozen servants without so much as breaking a sweat, with even top-tier servants like Berserker Lancelot, Scathach, and Brynhildr being swatted aside with ease.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Amazingly, yes. As powerful as he is, he's not at his peak, as a result of the First Flame eroding his soul. While's he's much stronger than he was when he fought the Chosen Undead as a result of consuming most of Ash's Spirit Origin, he's still not at his prime. Furthermore, Word of God has confirmed that the centuries of being dead have caused him to become very rusty. Considering the fact that even with those handicaps he was still able to blow through over a dozen Servants like bowling pins and required the combined effort of some of the strongest Servants around to even stalemate, it's safe to say that if he'd manifested with his full power and skills back up to par, Chaldea wouldn't have had a prayer of stopping him.

     Ring of the Evil Eye/DS! Velber 

Velber

  • Alternate Self: Is the Dark Souls counterpart to the mainline Velber.
  • Adaptational Species Change: Averted, Wordof God claims DS!Velber is still from space. The humans it attacked assumed it was an evil spirit.
  • The Dreaded: Subverted. Whereas its mainline counterpart became a feared being in the Nasuverse, the Dark Souls Velber is simply known as an evil spirit killed by humans.
  • Fate Worse than Death: It's revealed Velber is technically still alive, but its soul split and put into different rings known as the Ring of the Evil Eye.
  • For Want Of A Nail: While Velber still arrives to scourge the world like it's mainline counterpart, unlike on Earth where Velber was left alone and allowing it to gain enough power until nobody could stop it, here, the kingdom it first attacked, Astora, immediately counterattacked it the second it attempted to kill them. Where the kingdom managed to defeat it before it could absorb enough energy to grow. Where afterwards it was then killed with its soul captured and split into many rings. Unable to grow and become like the White Titan from Fate.
  • The Greatest Story Never Told: Not itself, but the unknown hero who defeated it; just like in Proper human history, their identity and deeds were never known to the world, despite saving it and all its inhabitants from complete extinction.
  • Energy Absorption: Like it's mainline counterpart, Velber had the same ability which would allow it to grow immensely powerful. Unfortunately for it, it never had a chance to actually use it properly before it was defeated.
  • Life Drain: After being reduced to countless rings, said rings hold a fraction of its former ability which drains life out of its enemies.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Like in Proper Human History, the Dark Souls Gods didn't think much of Velber. The difference is that they wouldn't live to regret it as their Velber was killed before it could even touch them.

     Seath the Scaleless 

Seath the Scaleless

  • Abusive Parents: Seath manages to be the worst one seen, which is saying a lot considering the slew of others seen. The first thing he does after regaining his memory is murder his own daughter.
  • Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Is confirmed to be Priscilla's father, and that he sired her with Gwynevere, whereas in the original game, such things were only vaguely implied at most. On that note, he's also confirmed to have been Gwynevere's husband for a time.
  • Amnesiacs are Innocent: Downplayed as his "Haku" persona is very a snarky grump with very low levels of empathy, but he's genuinely helpful to Ritsuka and willingly offers useful information. When he remembers being Seath, every hint of sympathetic characterization he once held is immediately thrown on the trash heap and set on fire.
  • The Arch Mage: As the one who literally invented Sorcery and Magecraft in his world, it goes without saying that Seath is this. His prowess is such that, even when restricted to possessing Ritsuka's body, he's able to casually obliterate Servants with Magic Resistance high enough to almost No-Sell Greater Magecraft.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • On the giving end of one to the surviving Servants at the end of Londinium, casually obliterating Percival and Mordred, before killing Priscilla.
    • On the giving end of one again at the end of the Not-Yet summer Resort, easily defeating the reborn Lost Sinner.
  • Demonic Possession: It's first averted when he first asks Ritsuka to let him dwell within his mind after almost dying, being rather grumpy yet cooperative and willingly sharing information, but after regaining his memories, it's played brutally straight as he casually hijacks the Master's control over his body to slaughter several Servants, his daughter Priscilla among them.
  • Driven by Envy: Kalameet's account of the genocide led by the Gods against the Dragons points at Seath being so infuriated by his own lack of protective scales and immortality that he betrayed his species, out of spite for his fellow dragons enjoying health where he couldn't.
  • Evil Counterpart: Arguably one to Solomon, as they were both brilliant scholars who invented and pioneered the use of Magecraft that did not rely on the providence of Gods or the Divine and are regarded as the greatest sorcerers of their respective worlds. The difference of course is that whereas Solomon was a noble man who never abused his power for his own gain, Seath is a selfish monster, both literally and figuratively, who sacrificed others for his own gain. The contrast between them is best highlighted by the fact that whereas, in canon, Solomon willingly subjected himself to Cessation of Existence for the sake of humanity, Seath betrayed his own species and subjected countless innocents to horrific experimentation so that he could escape death. It's driven even further home when Olga, upon remembering who he is, explicitly describes him as a second Solomon.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Warns Ritsuka to never afford Gwynevere the opportunity to use her Charm Person power on him, comparing the goddess to an addiction.
  • Evil Virtues: Ambition, Determination, Diligence, and surprisingly enough, Empathy and Gratitude.
  • Grand Theft Me: Using what's implied to be the blood they took from Ritsuka in London, Seath appears in a body that's all but stated to be a copy of Ritsuka's own. With a few minor differences such as yellow eyes and white hair.
  • Interspecies Romance: Was rewarded for his collaboration with Gwyn in the extermination war against the dragons with a marriage to Gwynevere. It didn't last, she expresses discomfort when remembering it and he's nothing short of disgusted by her low-key Mind Rape of everything around her.
  • Lack of Empathy: Surprisingly averted, for as ruthless and selfish as he is, he is capable of genuinely empathizing with others, as he was able to understand Ritsuka's fear of death, hence how he was able to remember his true self and why he decided to not harm Ritsuka afterwards.
  • Mortality Phobia: At his core, Seath has always been driven by the desperate wish to survive just a bit longer. It allows him to resonate with Ritsuka, a mere human surrounded by legends and heroes and horrendously aware of his own frailty.
  • Offing the Offspring: Murders his own daughter, Priscilla.
  • Scissors Cuts Rock: Normally, Casters and other Servants that rely on Magic or Magecraft tend to be at a serious disadvantage against Servants of the Knight Classes, who tend to have Magic Resistance high enough to almost if not completely No-Sell it, seen in canon, where Medea had to rely on Kuzuki to deal with Servants like Artoria and Medusa. Seath, on the other hand, despite not having any work arounds to rely on, is able to completely obliterate Percival with a single attack despite the fact that he has Magic Resistance at B++ , which should reduce even Greater Magecraft like Medea's Rain of Light to Scratch Damage, simply through the sheer power of his attack.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Again, surprisingly averted, as despite being an utter monster, Seath is capable of showing genuine thanks to those that do him a good turn, as Word of God confirms that his sparing of Ritsuka is at least in part done out of gratitude for helping him survive.
  • Villainous Rescue: In the Not-yet-summer resort: Ending, right after the Lost Sinner has received a power boost from the Demon King and is on the verge of killing Ritsuka and everyone else present, he swoops in and takes them out while claiming the Grail Shard.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Terrifyingly enough, yes. For as dangerous as he is, it's heavily implied he wasn't operating at full power, due to a combination of having been in a near-death state prior, and being restricted to Ritsuka's body. Given that he's already displayed feats far surpassing Medea, who's described by Dr.Roman as one of the 5 greatest magi to have ever lived, one shudders to imagine his abilities at their peak.
  • World's Strongest Man: At least when it comes to Casters. While he's yet to interact with them, the feats he's displayed so far are the kind that, in canon, are matched only by the likes of Solomon, the King of Magic, and a candidate for Grand Caster. Rather fitting given, as detailed above, he's basically Solomon's Evil Counterpart.
  • You Will Be Spared: After regaining his memory and causing a bloodbath, Seath decides to leave Ritsuka alone and departs his body without hesitation. Word of God declares it actually was a very messed-up Pet the Dog moment, as Seath was genuinely grateful for the Master allowing him to survive and resonating with his fear of death.

Bloodborne

     Lucien 

Lucien, the Good Hunter

Class: Foreigner

  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Not Lucien, but rather his class: the Foreigner class doesn't show up in canon until Salem, where in this story it appears when he's introduced in the Roman Singularity.
  • Oh, Crap!: He's terrified when introduced to Fou, as his Insight allows him to glimpse the fluffy little gremlin's true nature as Cath Palug.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

     Isshin Ashina 

Isshin Ashina

Class: Saber

  • Rugged Scar: Much like when he was much older, Isshin retains the scar through his left eye.

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