Lancer Artoria (F/GO mats)

True Name: Artoria Pendragon
Class: Lancer
Source: Legend of King Arthur
Region: Britain
Gender: Female
Alignment: Lawful Good
Height: 171cm
Weight: 57kg?

Scenario Writers: Kinoko Nasu and Hikaru Sakurai
Character Illustrator: Akira Ishida
Character Voice: Ayako Kawasumi
Appearance in Main Works: Fate/Grand Order



Parameters

Strength: B
Endurance: A
Agility: A
Mana: A
Luck: C
Noble Phantasm: A++


Class Skills

Magic Resistance: B
Cancels the use of spells with a chant that is three verses or below. Receives almost no damage even against High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.

Riding: A
She is able to operate all vehicles and beasts freely except for Divine Beasts and Dragon Kinds.


Personal Skills

Mana Burst: A
A Skill that temporarily strengthens oneself by infusing one’s body and weapons with their magical energy. Although it is possible to tremendously raise one’s physical abilities, magical energy consumption is not very efficient.

Charisma: B
The natural talent to command an army. Artoria, who ruled over Britain even while it was exposed to foreign enemies and completely repelling those enemies, possesses a high charisma.

Blessings from the Farthest Ends: A*
Artoria, who possesses the Holy Lance that exists as an anchor to the planet, is receiving divine protection from the Farthest Ends itself.

*Is EX-rank in the game


Noble Phantasms

Invisible Air: Barrier of the Wind King
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1~2
Maximum Number of Targets: 1 person

When she manifests as a Saber, this Noble Phantasm was something that conceals her sword, but when she manifests as a Lancer, it is treated as nothing more than a “Wind Noble Phantasm”.

Rhongomyniad: The Lance that Shines to the Farthest Ends
Rank: A++
Type: Anti-Fortress
Range: 1~99
Maximum Number of Targets: 900 people

The Holy Lance. An anchor of storm that fastens the planet together. A Divine Construct armament. Its true form is said to be a tower that fastens the outer layer of the World onto the planet. When releasing its True Name, its rank and classification changes. Its original power is restricted according to the Thirteen Restraints, and yet, it is the pillar of the Farthest Ends, shining to extol the brilliance of the planet────

The Holy Lance Rhongomyniad makes the “pillar of light” that fastens the outer layer of the World onto the planet as its main body. Because of the existence of the Thirteen Restraints that are endowed with the same processes of the “holy sword of the planet that saves the world”, it is barely in a state where it can take up a form as a Noble Phantasm.



First Pronoun: watashi
Second Pronoun: anata / sonata / kisama / kikou
Third Pronoun: kare / kanojo


Personality

King Arthur, the legendary King of Knights who governed over Britain. An “if” King Arthur who, after emerging as a king, made the Holy Lance his main armament instead of the holy sword and reigned over Britain. While in the middle of reigning in the Holy City, the great enterprise called the Incineration of the Human Order is looming, so the “King of Knights” acted in order to save what’s most important, mankind; while she possesses the same appearance as “Goddess Rhongomyniad”, she is essentially a different person.

Having lost her growth suspension caused by the holy sword, she grew to a physical age suitable for a king. She became an existence closer to a Divine Spirit’s because she is using the Holy Lance, but given that her usage period of the lance was merely about a decade, her mental/spiritual make-up has not changed in a big way. However, her body has changed in a big way.


Motivation/Attitude towards the Master

She, who was summoned to Chaldea as a Servant, knows the beauty of the world. For the sake of taking back the world that shines even without the Farthest Ends, she will fight together with the Master, certainly wielding all the power that she holds.


Character Image in “Fate/Grand Order”

A Heroic Spirit of a “different possibility” from the normal Artoria. Although she has a human form, it is possible to say that she is no longer a Heroic Spirit of the Humans. Due to the properties hidden within the Holy Lance, she has changed/altered into an existence close to that of a Divine Spirit’s, a goddess if anything. While she has become more composed, and moreover, more rational than the Artoria of the holy sword, her human nature has not been parted with. Rather, there exists placidity in her choices partly because she became an adult, attaining the ideal way a king ought to be.

This version of her is a Heroic Spirit of the Heavens that personally returned her Holy Lance at Camlann Hill, returning it to the earth. However, the Servant “Lion King”, who has the same appearance as her, was not able to die when she was fated to die, and as a result, became a wandering ghost while keeping onto the Holy Lance. Because the “Lion King” held onto the Holy Lance and transformed into the “Goddess Rhongomyniad”, changing into a complete Divine Spirit in the process, this version of her is different in the inside compared to the normal Lancer Artoria.


Others

There are various opinions about her physique or body weight when she is a Lancer. Also, when she is a Lancer, she is always mounting on a horse. This time, her steed is her horse “Dun Stallion”.


Connection with Characters

Artoria Pendragon (Lily)
Charming. Still, is that person also called another “if” of the me in history?

Artoria Pendragon
That person, does it seem like the things she is burdened with are equal to all of mine’s? That’s how it is, huh? Well, it is even less pitiful than what I had thought I would feel. The height of my pride is rising within my chest. As one would expect, since it would be rude to pat her head, I wonder if we can drink alcohol together instead?

Artoria Pendragon (Lancer Alter)
The King of Storms? The Wild Hunt, huh? I see, so it’s like that.

Knights of the Round Table
They seem to be mostly in good health. It’s good to occasionally take a breather too… Everything in moderation. Everything.

Mordred
(No reaction)

Merlin
Calm yourself.

Gilgamesh / Ozymandias
Calm yourselves!

Romulus
Um, what is it? It is probably good for you to moderate yourself on the Rome as well… As for that time, I give you my gratitude.

Bedivere
You constantly look after me, way too much. You yourself materialized as a Servant of Chaldea’s Master. You should live freely, even more in this time called the present… Do not cry, Bedivere. Raise your face. I am not the me that you know, and also, you are not the Bedivere that I know, but those tears... they often pierce into my heart.



Comment from Illustrator

For Lancer Artoria’s design, her design was settled ahead of Alter’s. I felt like I consciously drew her with the impression that Saber Artoria has legitimately evolved. Afterwards, during the time where it became necessary for a separate design for the Lion King in Chapter 6, it was decided that we proceed with a combination of all her Ascension states. As one would expect however, exposing her breasts in her last Ascension during Chapter 6’s Camelot is definitely not a holy attack.