YMMV / Fate Grand Order S 3 E 8 Fairy Realm Of The Round Table Avalon Le Fae

• Catharsis Factor:
  • You kill Beryl here. Unlike the majority of the fae, you fight and deal the finishing blow on him. Unless the fae's brutality made you forgot, remember that Beryl betrayed and killed the Good All Along Crypter leader Kirschtaria Wodime at the end of LB5.2. So, take your pick on who gets the honor of landing the finishing blow in the memory of Wodime. Caenis (Wodime's Servant) is a pretty popular pick.
    • This is even moreso after having killed Fan Favorite Scandanavia Peproncino: before his death, Pepe lays a Dying Curse on Beryl originating from the 300 Mors-infected humans Beryl had been experimenting on. This curse lasts the entire fight with Beryl and due to the considerable damage it deals combined with the Guts stacks Beryl has on his last health bar, depending on how the player organizes it it is very likely Pepe gets to deal the finishing blow from beyond the grave!
  • For many players, seeing the Faerie Britain Lostbelt get destroyed is widely celebrated given how utterly unlikeable Faeries are in general. This is in direct contrast to previous Lostbelts whose destruction are mostly seen as bittersweet since they contained quite a few redeeming qualities and sympathetic characters.
• Jerkass Woobie: Morgan and her three Faerie Knights are the most advertised and visible antagonists and engage in some truly heinous acts, but they're also the most tragic characters in the Lostbelt, pretty much entirely because the faeries they govern are even worse.
  • Barghest is introduced as fiercely loyal to Morgan and would dutifully slaughter an entire clan of faeries if her queen wished it. In truth she one of the few truly altruistic faeries and just wants a husband that doubles as a means for her to temper her nature as the Calamity of the Beast, but inevitably the Calamity wins out and makes her devour said husbands. The Manchester faeries misconstruing this as normal behavior and slaughtering their human population to eat them utterly breaks her, especially since this is after she betrayed Morgan hoping to save these very faeries thinking they were better people. Once she sees the truth, she lets the Calamity have its way.
  • Melusine is another Calamity trying to repress her true nature and is also fiercely loyal to Morgan, serving as her unstoppable air force. Unfortunately these actions are just a cover for her real master, Aurora. It's Offscreen Villainy, but Melusine probably committed countless atrocities in both Morgan's and Aurora's names, but did so out of an earnest desire to protect the Wind Clan... until she discovers Aurora's true nature and plans not accounting for the Wind Clan at all. Melusine realizes everything she did, including betraying Morgan in the end, was All for Nothing and she is forced to kill Aurora as an act of mercy, revoking her protection from her inner Calamity.
  • Baobhan Sith is by far the cruelest of the Faerie Knights, taking a disturbing amount of glee in torturing her people. She was also the sweetest faerie you'd ever meet in her younger days, being a fervent believer in Good Feels Good and wanting nothing more than to help people. Unfortunately this did nothing to endear her to her fellow fae because Baobahn Sith is a vampire, and faeries hate blood-drinkers. She still tried to help people in spite of this, and all she got for it was the fae taking advantage of her generosity until they decided to dispose of her; the only reason she turned bad at all was as a survival tactic imposed by Morgan teaching her catharsis in cruelty. In every previous incarnation, Baobhan Sith's life ended up with her limbs horribly mangled at best, with her last death ending in her being thrown into the Great Pit as an accidental sacrifice to Cernunnos.
  • But Morgan herself ends up having it the worst. Several campaigns as Asec the Savior, several faked deaths after slaying Calamities, several attempts to bring peace to Faerie Britain... all undone by one thing: faeries being faeries. They simply do not want to be ruled and will go to any lengths to stamp out things that hamper their purpose and freedom, even when their lack of direction would lead to extinction. Morgan kept trying despite this, but finally crumbled when her newly-crowned King and his Round Table were poisoned to death on their coronation day. That day Morgan decided she'd had enough and chose to pay the literal millennia of pain from the faeries back to them, and in the purest Irony this ended up being her most successful attempt at saving Faerie Britain... but it still ended the same way, with betrayal and death at the hands of her own people.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Remember Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, who would've vanished in a Puff of Logic if a bunch of kind souls didn't help her find a purpose to hold onto? Now, replace "Jeanne Lily" with all of faerie-kind and "Puff of Logic" with a Zombie Apocalypse: that's Faerie Britain in a nutshell. Repeating the success of Jeanne Lily with every last faerie, one at a time, is nothing but a shortcut to insanity; just ask Morgan. Even if the more-likeable faeries survived the end of the Lostbelt, faeries in Proper Human History have to live in isolation, so any Lostbelt refugees would gradually become a Nightcall after having their purpose compromised. So even being the sole case of beings able to leave a Lostbelt, there was ultimately no saving these people even if we wanted to.
• Magnificent Bastard: Oberon Vortigern is the polite Evil Uncle of Altria Caster. Summoned to the Avalon le Fae Lostbelt as Vortigern, he becomes amnesiac and is mistaken by the Autumn Forest fae as Oberon, being granted the latter's identity as a result. When he remembers his identity as Vortigern, he uses his Oberon identity to work together to their goals through deceiving Chaldea by making it look like Oberon took a hit from Morgan before working behind the scenes to deceive both Chaldea and the fae into reawakening Cernunnos, The Calamity of Curses, who acted as a seal towards his powers. Upon the final defeat of Cernunnos, Vortigern's power as the Vile King is unleashed, allowing him to perform his role as Fairie Britain's personification of self-destruction as punishment for the fae's sins and betrayal of Cernunnos through devouring the entirety of the Lostbelt, and would have destroyed Proper Human History through Oberon's hatred of humanity judging the stories of the Lostbelts, had it been not for Altria Caster summoning herself as Altria Avalon to assist Chaldea into defeating Oberon Vortigern, though remaining polite even when defeated.
• Rooting for the Empire: After finding out the true history of Faerie Britain, many players felt that Cernunnos and Oberon Vortigern were completely justified in their desire to destroy the entire Lostbelt.
• Ugly Cute: Cernunnos is an Adorable Abomination natch, and many players expressed their desire to hug his round, fluffy body, especially after it's revealed he was a Gentle Giant when he was alive who would probably let them cuddle. Some even hope that the devs will makes plushies of him so they can actually do so. Lo and behold, this is what ends up happening in real life; plushies of this tragic Celtic god are now available in Japan.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: This story is dark. The number of Hope Spots that get yanked away during the course of the Lostbelt is uncountable, the biggest one being that this is a rare case of a Lostbelt's inhabitants being able to leave and thus be saved from the Cosmos Denial and give players a measure of satisfaction that previous Lostbelts didn't have. The problem? None of the good and/or sympathetic characters live long enough to try escaping — the only good thing is that none of the Hate Sinks do either. This on top of everything else made players unanimous in letting Status Quo Is God take its course this time, wanting nothing more than this unholy blight of a Lostbelt and every blasted soul in it to disappear.
• The Woobie: Where to begin? Perhaps every named, sympathetic character qualifies because this Lostbelt is just that awful, with Altria Caster and Morgan having the worst of it for being the saviors who are meant to repent for this race of ungrateful, selfish, greedy, immature bastards.