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What is the complete story of King Artoria in Fate?
I have decided to edit this question to remove the huge quote text from the Wikia and sum it up in my own words. you can read up on the original from of this answer here
Artoria (or Arturia as the ...
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How is the holy grail war from Fate/ Stay night kept a secret?
From the author Kinoko Nasu himself:
The Holy Grail War is unknown to the general population, but to what extent is it hidden from normal people? Are the Church people (supervisors) manipulating the ...
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Do Servants retain memories of their past Masters?
A Servant that has been summoned and then returned to the Throne of Heroes will not remember their first summoning during any subsequent summonings. Under normal circumstances, each time a Servant is ...
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Who are these soldiers from Rider's Ionioi Hetairoi?
The Seven Warriors
Ionioi Hetairoi means "The Companions of Ionia", so I would expect some, if not all, of these important-looking soldiers to be Alexander's bodyguards, which
consisted of ...
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Why is Saber the "strongest class"?
The Saber class has the highest overall base parameters of any other servant class. It is part of the original three Knight classes. The other two being Archer and Lancer. The three Knight classes ...
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Fate/stay night. Why is Saber called a King and not a Queen?
from bit and pieces of my answer here
Merlin's prophecy never stated that the King had to be a boy
Merlin, an Human/Incubus Hyrbid and a powerful Magus, had prophesied that their next child would ...
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How many character have similar appearance with Saber (Arturia)? And who are they?
There are plenty of them actually. They're known as Saberface or like MHX said, Arturia Species.
from Chibichuki!, Saber 4~8. Left to right: Saber Lion, Saber Lily, Saber, Red Saber, Sakura Saber, ...
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What is Kotomine Kirei's new raison d'être?
What Kirei Kotomine is talking about is allowing Angra Mainyu to be born.
first off, Kirei Kotomine feels nothing out of life and it has been like this since birth. he even tried to start a family to ...
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How can the counter guardians die?
do you think there are backups in the throne of heroes?
There is...so to speak. All Servants summoned from the Throne of Heros are actually copies of the originals.
Even the Holy Grail lacks the ...
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How can Achilles and Astolfo lend Noble Phantasm?
In actual legends, Achilles is known for giving away relics (e.g. For Patroclus to impersonate him, lending him his chariot and armor), and Astolfo is known for receiving them in his legend (which is ...
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Why does Kirei speak greek?
It's because of Christian liturgy. The "Kyrie eleison" is the name of a prayer, and one of the most ancient of gregorian chants.
It has its origins in Eastern Christian doctrine, it derives ...
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Who are the characters in the Audience?
Yes, these are from what I can tell, all servants from Grand/Order.
The Sakura you're talking about in the first image is actually BB, she's just wearing her nurse dress after her Noble Phantasm ...
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Who are these soldiers from Rider's Ionioi Hetairoi?
I would argue that the old man with a turban is actually the Indian king Poros, not Parmenion. For three reasons:
The obvious Indian appearance of the character
Parmenion was executed by Alexander, ...
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Has there ever been a Holy Grail War where the victor got their wish?
Yes, one: the only Holy Grail War in the world of Fate/Grand Order, whose victor was the founder of Chaldea and its first director Marisbilly Animusphere with his Caster Servant,
As for what he ...
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Does Fate/Strange Fake take place in the same timeline as any of the Fate/Stay Night routes?
From the afterword of the first volume:
I suspect many Fate fans are wondering, "This is set after the
original Fate, but which route's future is it?" I hate to say this,
but, "It's a fake, so ...
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How does Saber's summoning to the Fifth Grail War work?
How Summoning normally works is that a clone of a Servant is made from the Throne of Heroes and this Clone, and their memories/experience/changes in nature (ie. corruption) are discarded so the ...
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Where do the Alter characters come from?
all the Alter characters are, as you say, alternate versions of their originals with some having alternate legends.
however the idea of Alter extends from a canon character which is Saber-Alter from ...
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Is Violet inspired by Saber?
As of November 2022, you cannot find with Google any declaration from the character designer Akiko Takase (高瀬亜貴子) nor novel writer Akatsuki Kana (暁佳奈) that proves that Violet Evergarden is inspired by ...
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Corrupted Grail Fragments inside Sakura, and Illya's heart
Do the corrupted Grail fragments that Zokuen synthesised with his worms which were later placed in Sakura have a direct connection with Angra Mainyu inside the Grail?
yes, in the Visual Novel close ...
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Final trigger that ended the Age of Gods(FS/N), World binding anchors beside Rhongomyniad
so I need to know the original trigger that led to the end of the first one
As indicated on the wikia under World > History > Age of Gods the transition of the Age of Gods (genesis) to the Age of Man ...
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Where there any other Master who didn't know their Servant's identity from the start?
If you just want them to be unknown at the beginning, then in Fate/Zero Uryuu did not know who his Caster ("Bluebeard") was. Much like Shirou, Uryuu was not even aware that he was summoning a servant ...
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In Fate, why do some male historical figures get turned into females, but not vice versa?
The in-universe explanation for this is that these characters WERE female in history, it's just that the legends that became their legacy portrayed them as male.
In the case of Saber she was seen as a ...
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What's the last episode of Carnival Phantasm about?
Fate/Prototype is the original story created by Kinoko Nasu which would later after many changes be published as Fate/stay night. It can be considered as an alternate universe to the world of Fate/...
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What's the last episode of Carnival Phantasm about?
The final disc release of the Carnival Phantasm included the Fate/Prototype OVA, which is an extra (i.e. not directly related to Carnaval Phantasm) short animation that tastes/showcases off story bits ...
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Karna's prana consumption
Gilgamesh is not using hundreds of NPs. He's using the Gate of Babylon, just opening a portal, shooting a projectile and then retrieving it, it's actually very cost effective. The only weapons he can ...
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Karna's prana consumption
Paulnamid's answer covers your mistake about Gilgamesh, and briefly mentions what you've got wrong about Artoria. But to go into more detail on Artoria...
Artoria has the heart of a dragon. Or, ...
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What would happen if a master won the Holy Grail War but didn't have any wish?
Quite simply the Servant will demand their wish to be granted
Although too powerful to be controlled by humans, they are bound by three Command Spells, representing the Masters' "right to rule" ...
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In Fate, can a Master summon an Extra Class Servant during a Holy Grail War, or under any circumstances?
If I remember correctly, in the Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night universes, Avenger Angra Mainyu was summoned by the Einzbern in the third Holy Grail War instead of a Berserker. This would imply that it ...
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Why is Saber the "strongest class"?
This is my speculation, but I would argue that all other heroic spirits, while strong in one area, have weaknesses that are easy to exploit. And mostly, their specialities are situational and often ...
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How many Counter-Guardian does Alaya have?
Who knows. Counter Guardians are created when 'heroes' of the skill and power required to become a Heroic Spirit fail to attain the fame required to properly ascend to the Throne, and instead make a ...
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