Morgan le Fay

, Class Name , is the Ruler-class Servant of Beryl Gut in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Morgan was the older sister of King Arthur and mother of Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, Gareth and Mordred. In the ancient history of British Fairies, she was said to be the "Good Fairy of the Lake," but after compilation of Arthurian legends, she became regarded as a wicked woman who opposed King Arthur. On the other hand, she is identified with Vivian, the fairy who endowed King Arthur with the holy sword and protected him after his death.
She was a fairy of the lake and the evil polar opposite of Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, a "Great Mother" class fairy born from the inner sea of the planet. It is thought that Morgan inherited Vivian's authority, but in truth Vivian is an alternate good personality of Morgan's who Morgan developed as a way to cope with the conflicting roles given to her by her supernatural birth. 
Morgan was the daughter of , birthed by Igraine, the Child of Fairies from the British Isles... Later, she and Artoria became proper sisters (Morgan's mother, Igraine, married King Uther). At least, that is what the legend says. However the truth is that Morgan was not born until after Igraine and Uther were married, and she is the true blood daughter of Uther as well. What's more, she was not a human but the spawn of the island of Britain itself, just as Vortigern was. Morgan kept this a secret and was raised as a human, and she would have inherited the throne from Uther—until Artoria was born.
In the end, Artoria is but a "human king" created by the humans. Morgan, aware that she was the "True King" inheriting the mysteries of the British Isles, eventually came to hate her father King Uther, her sister Artoria, and humans who disobeyed her, and played a major role in the collapse of Britain.Fate/Grand Order - Morgan Profile - Translated by ridethelightning469
The king chosen to be the King of Britain was bestowed with a mysterious power, a black primeval cursed energy native to Britain,Fate/Grand Order material I - Artoria Pendragon Alter (Saber)'s profile translated by Kinalvin at Reddit but its power had waned. Uther was said to be the last of its keepers, which is why he came up with his plan to sire Artoria, a manmade child of a human and a dragon. To everybody's surprise however Morgan inherited the primeval black power, and so she was considered the "owner" of Britain and a greater “King of the Island” than King Arthur. She had heard the will of the island and believed the throne of Britain was hers by right. Morgan was recognized as the proper daughter of King Uther, but despite inheriting the power was not chosen to succeed him as king. Although the older sister and of the same status, Artoria received the love and hopes of their father in Morgan's eyes, driving her to eventually become a witch queen who craved for vengeance for the rest of her days.
Morgan laid a trap that, due to a certain someone's womanizing, caused Artoria to lose Caliburn. However Artoria would later go on to replace it with Excalibur, which she received from Vivian.
According to legends, at some point she attempted to seduce Lancelot.
Her children were Gawain, Gaheris, Gareth, and Agravain, whom she had with of . All of them would become Knights of the Round Table, though Agravain was sent by her as an assassin.Garden of Avalon - "A Tale of Knights: Lancelot" Once Camelot was built, she went into seclusion and was not heard of much by the knights.
Morgan enchanted Artoria with a spell to extract sperm from her, and Morgan developed it within her own ovary, making the child into a homunculus-like clone of Artoria (via Merlin’s magic). Mordred was soon born and aged rapidly, and Morgan raised her in secret while telling her of her right to the throne. She told Mordred to never remove her helmet and recommended her to the Round Table. She directed Mordred to hide her status and obey the King until she could defeat Artoria and take her place. While Mordred was initially idealistic and served as a proper knight, Morgan shattered her innocence with the truth of her birth to guide her towards the path of rebellion.
Morgan's machinations were also responsible for Artoria losing her scabbard, Avalon, which was even more valuable to her than Excalibur as it prevented her from taking any damage. This loss was the catalyst that led to Artoria's death, which would come when Mordred rebelled against Artoria and they killed each other in the Battle of Camlann.
Despite her hatred of Artoria, according to legend Morgan was one of the fairies who arrived to carry King Arthur's body to Avalon upon her death. At some point after Artoria's death, Morgan created Add to serve as a seal on the Holy Lance Rhongomyniad that would keep its Mystery from fading. She based the artificial personality within it on Kay, the knight with the least adoration for King Arthur from the Round Table. That trick seemed more like a plot to “prevent the return of King Arthur” at that time. It was like a strange trick to say “I’ll help with your revival, but I don’t want it to succeed.”
Several centuries later Morgan became an enemy of the Twelve Paladins of Charlemagne.
===Appearance===
Morgan is a young woman with long blonde hair coupled by a crown and a veil covering her face. She seemingly wore a black dress that exposes her navel and abdomen. As a Ruler, her appearance is depicted as a silhouette of her Lostbelt counterpart's 3rd ascension.
===Personality===
Morgan is lecherous, cruel, and selfish, a true model of vice. A woman who cannot live without cursing others. She believes that Britain rightfully belongs to her because she wields the primeval black curse. Morgan greatly hates her sister and possesses a great obsession for Mordred to take the throne from her. 
She changed greatly throughout her life from a "fine lady" to a "frightening thing" according to Kay, and he describes it as if she had three women inside of her. Having started with the "innocence of a fairy", she became "as magnificent as a warrior maiden", and "then suddenly possessed the brutality of a witch." Kay believes she may have had similar burdening circumstances as Artoria due to their parentage.Garden of Avalon - "A Tale of Knights: Kay"
One of these three personalities is known as Vivian. Morgan developed these three personalities as a way to reconcile the three roles enforced on her by her supernatural birth: Morgan the human, Artoria's caring sister; Vivian the fairy, the Lady of the Lake; and Morgan le Fay (or Fata Morgana), the embodiment of Britain and holder of its Mystery.
Artoria considers Morgan not only her sister, but also like a mother to her and a reflection of herself. Artoria also says Morgan has a more kingly disposition than her, and was more loved by Britain than her.Fate/Grand Order- Morgan Lines - Translated by ridethelightning469
Morgan was never able to find a place she belonged. She was born as Britain's chosen heir, but lost that role to King Arthur. For Morgan, Britain was everything, and without it, she herself was worthless. When the humans kicked her out of Britain, Morgan herself lost her worth.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 24: Morgan
==Role==
====Lord El-Melloi II Case Files====
Morgan Le Fay's old weapon Erosion becomes a central point for the plot of Atlas Contract Incident. She instructed Gray's village on how to use it until the time when King Arthur would return. The blade itself possesses the ability to separate the mind and soul from the flesh. It was intended to separate Gray’s mind and soul from her body, allowing the spirit of King Arthur to inhabit her body in the final stages of the ritual.
Waver Velvet speculates that Morgan was the one who established the ritual to bring back King Arthur from the dead. She traveled to Wales where Blackmore Cemetery was and built the village to take care of the ritual after she was gone. Waver even thinks the statue of the worshipped in the village is modeled after her. However, that was long ago and she's gone so he also says he can't even begin to comprehend her motives in doing so (the whydunnit).Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 2 Part 3
He theorizes that all the contradiction in the stories about her are because the name "Morgan Le Fay" spread through Europe and became a placeholder name that assimilated many legends of fairies, witches and earth goddesses, just like the ones assimilated into Black Madonnas and the many Christian Saints that were born through the same process of assimilation. Waver mentions the theory that Morgan and the Celtic goddess of death were once one and the same and either Morgan derived from her or her legends were assimilated. It’s also mentioned how there is a contradiction in the legends about how Morgan planned a coup d’état against Arthur but, when they died, Morgan was one of the fairies that carried their body to Avalon promising the return of the once and future king.
When Gray and Waver ask Kay about if the Morgan he knew would establish such a thing as the ritual of Gray's village after having tried a coup d’état against Arthur, and if the legends about Morgan being one of the fairies who carried King Arthur's body to Avalon are true, his answer is that he doesn't know because he was already dead at the time but he never got to understand her, leaving Waver's theories unconfirmed.
===Fate/Apocrypha===
Mordred mentions that Semiramis, an evil schemer, possesses the same "smell" as Morgan. Kairi Sisigou has dreams of Mordred's past showing how Morgan encouraged her to join the Knights of the Round Table, and later revealed to Mordred that she was King Arthur's son and encouraged her to turn against Arthur.Fate/Apocrypha Anime - Episode 6: "Knight of Rebellion"
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Interlude: It Begins With Loss====
At the end of Tristan's Interlude, Artoria suspects that Morgan was the one behind its events.Fate/Grand Order - Tristan's Interlude: It Begins With Loss
====Lostbelt No. 6: Avalon le Fae====
Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 3: AuroraFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 4: Gloucester (I)Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Act II IntroFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 10: CamelotFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 14: Eve of the Decisive Battle (I)Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 17: Manchester
Morgan was summoned as a Ruler-class Servant by Beryl Gut when he first arrived in the British Lostbelt. Morgan was heartbroken when she saw the desolate wasteland of the Lostbelt, seeing what had become of her beloved Britain. She decided to go back in time to fix it, to create her perfect kingdom that was the Britain she felt she deserved. Within hours of being summoned, while Beryl was asleep, Morgan figured out what Lostbelts were, what Chaldea was for, and how Rayshifting worked. She used Rayshifting to send her memories and knowledge to her Lostbelt self thousands of years in the past. Because Rayshifting without a Coffin can only send information and not physical matter, Ruler Morgan died when she did this.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 21: Lost Will
===Other appearances===
Morgan makes a brief appearance in the manga version of Fate/stay night.Fate/stay night Manga Chapter 72: "A Night's Dream"
In Garden of Avalon, Morgan is mentioned in Kay's and Lancelot's stories. Lancelot says that she resented her younger sister for receiving all her father's hopes and affection, becoming a witch queen that sought vengeance all her life.
Morgan is reflected in the form of Excalibur should the user become tainted with evil, becoming Excalibur Morgan.
In Fate/Grand Order, Gaius Julius Caesar's profile mentions legends of Caesar having a child with a fairy, referring to how in some stories Oberon is the son of Caesar and Morgan le Fay.
==Abilities==
Morgan is a Human-Fairy Hybrid. Although her father was believed to be the Duke of Tintagel, her mother was actually impregnated by the British isles themselves. Just like Vortigern, she was an offspring of Britain. Due to this, she inherited the supernatural power that was thought to have died with Uther Pendragon. The black-stained Magical Energy used by Artoria Pendragon Alter's Excalibur is reminiscent of the Cursed Energy that lurks in Britain and Morgan inherited. Furthermore, Morgan is an A-Ray, a fairy equivalent to a Divided Spirit of the Earth's Soul and comparable to personified nature gods in scope. Even after Morgan's mother married Uther, she still kept her nature as the avatar of Britain a secret. It wasn't until Artoria was named the true King that she started attacking Camelot at every opportunity she had. However, while Morgan was undoubtedly a ruler that possessed great power, she was but a small pebble in King Arthur's path. 
As a Servant, Morgan qualifies for the Ruler class.
===Magecraft===
Vivian, Morgan's alternate personality, was taught Magecraft by Merlin. Eventually, Morgan became as powerful a Magus as him.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 2
Morgan has displayed the following uses of Magecraft:
*Rayshifting: Morgan can Rayshift things without a Coffin, something not even Chaldea could pull off. When Morgan was summoned by Beryl Gut, she grasped both what had taken place in the British Lostbelt's history, and the mechanisms of Chaldea's summoning system. She deciphered the secrets of Rayshifting, and used them herself. Information is the only thing which can be Rayshifted. Due to this, one must first use a Coffin to transform their body into Pseudo-Spiritrons, pure information, to Rayshift a living person to a Singularity. Impressive though this theory of Magecraft is, it is only made possible by Singularities existing outside normal space-time. Normally, even a Servant would disperse as soon as they Rayshifted anywhere that wasn't a Singularity. But Morgan was able to ignore this by sending her memories to her Lostbelt self.
*Garden: Morgan has the Garden, a Spell from the Age of Gods that can only be used by her, the avatar of Mystery. It is also the artifact where she sealed Merlin. According to Sherlock Holmes, it is a great Bounded Field in the form of a sarcophagus Spell inscribed with the words "Only those free of sin may pass".
*Homunculus: Morgan was able to enchant Artoria Pendragon and steal her sperm to impregnate herself, creating a homunculus clone: Mordred.
*Erosion: A Mystic Code in the form of a golden dagger, which under the guise of a golden blade used to cut mistletoe, has the ability to sever the mind and Soul from the body, as well as allow the user to slip someone else into the body, spirit, and soul of its victim. When used for sacrifices, Morgan was said to have used this dagger to direct the sacrifice’s heart. According to legend it can also turn into a sword or a scythe.Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 3 Part 2
==Development==
Kinoko Nasu had originally planned on using Proper Human History Morgan in Fate/Grand Order, but the art which Takashi Takeuchi presented to him didn't match the kind of personality that Proper Human History Morgan had. “You’re telling me…this aloof beauty is that debauched, sly, scheming witch…?” And so Nasu decided to come up with Lostbelt Morgan, and conceptualized how the story would change with her as the ruler of Fairy Britain instead.TYPE-MOON Ace Volume 14: Lostbelt 6 Reminiscence - Interview with Kinoko Nasu - Translated by Amplified
Morgan's appearance in the Fate/Apocrypha anime was based on Takeuchi's first draft design for her in Fate/Grand Order. Her face was covered with a veil because they didn't want her design to be too memorable yet in case they revised it, but the veil later influenced Lostbelt Morgan's Winter Queen costume.Fate/Grand Order material XIII - Morgan (Berserker) Profile - Translated by ComunCoutinho
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