Artoria Pendragon Lily

Artoria Pendragon (Lily), also known as , is a Saber-class Servant introduced as an alternate form of Artoria in Fate/unlimited codes.
She is summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Better known as Arthur Pendragon and King Arthur, a child born with the destiny to save the Isle of Britain, which was heading towards ruin due the fading of mystery. She is an "incarnation of the dragon", a red dragon who would protect Britain, created by the plan of the previous king, Uther, and the magus Merlin. As a result, her heart was replaced with a dragon's one, "Pendragon" (the last name used by Artoria's family)
In this state, she is known as the , who wielded Caliburn as an inexperienced knight that had had just began walking down the path of a king. To learn more about the world, Artoria traveled the land and engaged in many adventures. The people she saved in his time called her the Knight Princess for her brilliance and beauty.
Her party during the country-wide tour was made up of herself, her step-brother, Sir Kay, and the attendant magus Merlin. Their adventures usually started with Artoria meddling in something or Merlin's humor getting out of hand. Kay would usually end up being the one trying to undo the damage the other two had caused.
===Appearance===
Saber Lily is often called . She is like an adorable lily and her eyes brim with shining hope.
===Personality===
A girl-knight who is still somewhat inexperienced. She is a knight with a romantic, idyllic nature who practices daily in order to become the ideal king. Because of her inexperience, her girlishness has not been wiped away yet and her heart is filled with hopes and dreams. Although the training to become a king is harsh, she is happy as long as she can take care of the horses.
====Relationships====
;Mysterious Heroine X
:"Thanks to Master X and Master, I've gotten confident with my Noble Phantasm! One of these days I'll visit the Servant Universe and eradicate all the evil Sabers with Master X!"
:Despite the difference in style of acting and worldview, she respects her as a teacher of the sword.Fate/Grand Order material I Artoria Pendragon Lily's Profile 
;Merlin
:When Saber Lily is in danger, the Masked Britain gallantly appears. His identity is shrouded in mystery.
;Medea Lily
:"That person who's wearing that pretty violet outfit over there... Oh, so her name is Medea. I somehow feel closeness to her. And her title as a friendly witch is also lovely! Surely she must be a gentle and delicate person. There's no doubt she'll grow up to be a wonderful lady! yep! There's no way she would annoyingly curse enemies from afar."Fate/Grand Order Artoria Pendragon Lily's Lines
==Role==
===Fate/unlimited codes===
Saber Lily appears as an unlockable costume for Saber. Unlike Saber Alter, who is a unique alternate character, Saber Lily is simply a costume that changes nothing else about the character. Unique from other alternate costumes, her name changes along with the costume, and although her artwork shows her wielding Caliburn, she still wields Excalibur in-game.
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Event: Saber Wars====
Concerned that her Noble Phantasm hasn't improved with all of her training, Artoria Lily tells Ritsuka and Mash that she's leaving, believing she'll only be a burden to Ritsuka. But Ritsuka encourages her to stay and continue training. Mash decides to take Artoria Lily with them to their train on their next rayshift.
The three rayshift to a seemingly peaceful Singularity, where Artoria Lily continues her sword training. Mash tells her that her sword skills have nothing to do with her Noble Phantasm not improving, rather it's something else. Artoria Lily believes that is due to her lack of confidence because she is the "if" of the regular Artoria that existed between the time she drew Caliburn to the time she became King. Suddenly, a ship crashes down. Mysterious Heroine X emerges from the ship and calls Artoria Lily's attitude pathetic and fainthearted. She then fights her to show what a true Saber is. 
Though the group defeats her, X compares their fight to a warm-up exercise. However, the group notes how she struggled during their fight, which X attributes to her holding back. She then introduces herself, claiming to be the Saber of Sabers to the amazement of Artoria Lily and Mash. Unable to overlook her, X decides to take Artoria Lily as her student. After Artoria Lily accepts, X tells her to collect three kinds of materials with mysterious powers spread across the world to her ship, the Du Stallion II. Artoria Lily and the others accept the task. X tells them to defend the ship from monsters and Artorium from them, which she'll use to power up Artoria Lily.
After the group defends the ship from monsters, X explains Artorium is used to power her ship and its Spirit Origin Enhancement Device, Adam Kadmon, which will be used to enhance Artoria Lily. Blackbeard then suddenly appears with a rather Gilles de Rais. Blackbeard wants Artoria Lily and Mash as his wives while Gilles wants X's ship parts. The group defeat Blackbeard and tie him up. Blackbeard offers to train Artoria Lily, telling her to use her Noble Phantasm on him. Agreeing to his offer, Artoria Lily cuts Blackbeard free and launches Caliburn at him. However, her lack of aiming results in Blackbeard being hit twice in the crotch, prompting him to give up "training" her.
The next day, Artoria Lily asks X about her origins. X takes this as having an ulterior motive, but Artoria Lily explains she only wanted to thank X for her help by making a popular dish from X's hometown. X explains that she is both from the future and the Servant Universe. She has come to the present to save the future, which amazes Artoria Lily since X decided to train her despite her mission. Nero Claudius, Tamamo-no-Mae, and EMIYA then suddenly arrive, believing the group to be aliens due to X's spaceship. Though Nero tries to negotiate peace, a fight ensues when X instinctively attacks her.
After Ritsuka's party defeats hers, Nero offers to be Artoria Lily's training partner. Artoria Lily accepts, but X refuses to allow it. EMIYA offers to train Artoria Lily instead, which she happily accepts. X allows this and for Nero to stay.
After X quickly defeated Paracelsus von Hohenheim, Okita Souji, Medea, Medea Lily, and Siegfried when they came for her ship, Artoria Lily questions her actions since she could've reached an understanding with them if she talked with them. The group then discusses how Artoria Lily can achieve her dream of becoming the ideal king due to being an "if". Sakata Kintoki, Charles Babbage, and Nikola Tesla then arrive. Artoria Lily asks them to leave because the area is reserved for sword training. Her request is denied, and Kintoki explains that a mysterious voice from a lens said X's ship was a source of evil. The group fights the three when EMIYA asks Artoria Lily to show him the results of her training. They defeat them, but Babbage gives a vague warning regarding X's ship. This prompts everyone to question X's real intentions for coming to the era.
X explains the future is doomed due to an economic crisis in her universe caused by the oversaturation of Sabers. Now understanding X's reasons for instinctively attacking any Sabers she sees, Artoria Lily wonders if she should be destroyed as well. X explains though that she must leave at least one Saber, otherwise, she wouldn't exist. She believes Artoria Lily to be that one. However, X is suddenly attacked by Ultra Heroine Z, is a paradoxical version of X to kill her after she fulfilled her mission in the past to kill all Sabers. Z reveals she caused X's ship to crash and spread its parts across the world. After X collapses, Z moves to kill Artoria Lily, prompting the group to fight her. 
Z asks Artoria Lily asks why she is protecting X despite now knowing of her mission, saying X was deceiving her to repair her ship. She then tries to get her to kill X while she's still unconscious. But Artoria Lily refuses and explains it was Ritsuka and Mash who were repairing the ship since she's can't do so. X saw that she was of no consequence, yet decided to help train and grow stronger. Exclaiming that she'll always be X's ally regardless of her goal, Artoria Lily declares her sword shines to protect those she loves as she prepares to fight Z. However, Z uses her Saber Infinite Hells Ninja Art to create seemingly infinite copies of herself that don't decrease no matter how many Artoria Lily cuts down. However, with the others supporting her, Artoria Lily defeats Z.
Afterward, X regains consciousness, and thanks Artoria Lily for saving her. She then admits to deceiving her, but Artoria Lily wishes to continue her training since X believed in her. Taken aback by her innocence and kindness, X postpones her mission to continue Artoria Lily's training.
====Interlude====
In her interlude , she happily wanders Marseille with Ritsuka and Mash, though she is depressed that England and France are at war during this time. Her innocence reminds everyone of the contrast between her and Saber Alter, which concerns Artoria as a future self she wants to avoid with Ritsuka's help. After being asked by Romani, she reveals that her feminine clothing is the result of Merlin's suggestion to wear them to hide her identity. The town gate is then suddenly attacked, which Artoria and Mash go to defend. After defeating the attackers, She is depressed that the townspeople have closed the gates behind them, but Romani tells her not to blame people, which Artoria agrees with. She is happy though that she can help Ritsuka, and believes that she'll be able to continue to fight for ideals if she stays with them.
===Other appearances===
Chibichuki Saber 4 8.jpg|Saber 4~8.
Saber Illya.png|Illya Install Saber class card.
In Chibichuki!, Saber Lily is part of the .
When Illya installs Saber Class Card in Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA, she wore Saber Lily armor instead of the original.
In Fate/Grand Carnival, Artoria Lily is the number one girl at Club M, loved by patrons and admired by her fellow female Servants. She is considered a miracle, whose mere presence immediately purifies any client before her. Jeanne d'Arc Alter thinks she talks bad about her clients behind their backs. She is taken aback, though, by how naturally nice Artoria Lily truly is.
==Abilities==
Saber Lily is still somewhat "half-assed" when comparing it to her grown counterpart. However, thanks to possessing the heart of a dragon, which belongs to the top-ranks of the Phantasmal Species, the amount of Magical energy she can generate inside her body overwhelms other Heroic Spirits.
When Saber Lily is in danger, the Masked Britain Bishounen gallantly appears. His identity is shrouded in mystery.
===Skills===
====Class Skills====
*Magic Resistance (B Rank): Negates magecraft of B Rank or below regardless of the kind of greater magecraft. Even though she has the "heart of a dragon" inside of her, it has not yet fully awakened. Because of this, this skill is one rank below the grown Artoria.
*Riding (C Rank): Can flawlessly ride those that received proper training, adjustment.
====Personal Skills====
*Journey of the Flowers (EX Rank): A blessing (Gift) towards the girl-knight who began walking on the path to be a king. Her traveling is filled with hope, making the hearts of those who fight along with her more proactive.
*Instinct (B Rank): The ability to always "grasp" the most suitable strategy during battle. Her sharpened sixth sense is already close to seeing premonitions of the future. Hindrances that interfere with her senses of sight and hearing are reduced by half. This good intuition occasionally has drawbacks. Since her intuition lets her understand the troubles of strangers, she unconsciously ends up giving a helping hand to each new person she meets.
:*Path Where Flowers Fall (A Rank): Upgrade from Instinct in Fate/Grand Order.
*Mana Burst (A Rank): This transfers magical energy into one's weapon and body, and by releasing the magical energy instantaneously, it increases one's ability.
===Noble Phantasm===
Her Noble Phantasm is Caliburn. Originally a sword for the sake of selecting the king. Its "Anti-Unit" classification does not refer to the enemy but instead points to the one who shall have ownership over it from now on. When the owner turns into a proper, perfected king, its power will become appropriate for a holy sword. Although inferior to Excalibur, this holy sword also converts the magic energy of the owner into heat value, releasing it as particles of light. If this is employed in battle as a weapon, and its True Name is released, firepower on the same scale as Excalibur will be displayed, but its blade will probably be unable to withstand Altria's magical energy and break.
==Development==
===Creation and Conception===
Artoria Pendragon Lily was illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi in Fate/Grand Order, the coloring and finishing touches of Stage 4 were done by Hirokazu Koyama and Shimaudon.
First appearing in Fate/unlimited codes as an alternate costume, Saber Lily was designed by Takashi Takeuchi as another form of the King of Knights with an "emphasis on her girlishness." In contrast to the blackened Saber Alter, she is called the pure and sweet "Princess of Knights" who is shown to carry Caliburn rather than Excalibur. Her design was inspired by the dress Caster placed on Saber after she was captured during Unlimited Blade Works. The design was filled with the feminine qualities that Saber lacks, and "Lily" in her name refers to her skirt being designed to resemble the petals of a lily flower. She originally had no background information within unlimited codes or other side materials, but Nasu Kinoko and Gen Urobuchi joked about her being a version of Saber fully tamed by Caster during a discussion.
===Reception===
*In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Saber Lily from Fate/unlimited codes was ranked 46th.
==References==
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Category:Sovereigns
Category:Lily Servants
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Category:Lawful Good Servants
Category:Earth Attribute Servants
Category:Dragon lineage
Category:C rank Strength Servants
Category:C rank Endurance Servants
Category:A rank Mana Servants
Category:B rank Agility Servants
Category:B rank Noble Phantasm Servants
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Category:Genderswapped Servants
Category:Voice - Ayako Kawasumi
Category:Knights of the Round Table
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