Rhongomyniad

is a tower of light that anchors the layers of the World. The authority of the tower is granted in the form of a lance given to Artoria Pendragon.
==Characteristics==
===Tower===
It is actually not meant to be used as a weapon to strike down external invaders. It is only the shadow of its true form, said to be a tower that fastens the outer layer of the World onto the planet. The Holy Lance Rhongomyniad makes that tower, a "pillar of light", as its main body, existing to ensure the World's stability.Garden of Avalon - Chapter 02: The Light of the Stars, p.40-52
Originally, this Holy Lance is a "pillar of light" that fastens together the two sides of the World itself: the outer layer of the World (reality) and the Reverse Side of the World (illusion). It has been said that, in the unlikely event that this is undone, reality will be torn off from the surface of the World to reveal the Reverse Side of the World, re-enacting the Age of Gods. Being the "king" that stood at the final moments of illusion and the Age of Gods, King Arthur possesses this Holy Lance that conceals such a tremendous power.
===Lance===
 is the Holy Lance of King Arthur.Fate/Grand Order material IV - Artoria Pendragon (Lancer), p.080-089, translated by Clyton at Beast's Lair.Fate/Grand Order Profile of Artoria Pendragon (Lancer Alter), translated by Master of Chaos at Beast's Lair. An anchor of storm that fastens the planet together. A Divine Construct armament. Rhongomyniad is regarded as the "spear of the end", the light of destruction coming down from the heavens,Fate/Grand Order - Artoria Pendragon (Lancer)'s Interlude: "Sacred Lance King of Knights" whose power is said to rival the Holy Sword.Fate/Grand Order - London: The Death World in the City of Demonic Fog - Section 13: Beyond the Fog
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────Because of the existence of the Thirteen Restraints that are supposedly 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.
 In order to perform the release of its True Name, there is a need to lift at least half of a total of Thirteen Restraints. By releasing the True Name without fulfilling this requirement, the Holy Lance will emit a fragment of the power of the light that shines in the far away. When releasing its complete True Name invocation, its Rank and classification changes.
After Artoria's death at Camlann, Morgan le Fay created the Mystic Code Add to seal Rhongomyniad and keep its Mystery from fading.
 Add would be passed down a line of gravekeepers until it came into the hands of Gray in the 1990s.
The Lance also appears to have the ability to shapeshift into different forms to an unknown degree. In addition to creating a giant Tower in the image of its lance form instead of as a pillar of light, as well as the different fanged appearance it shows when wielded by Lancer Alter, the lance has been shown to transform into a ceremonial rapier,Craft Essence - Heroic Spirit Formal Dress: Artoria Pendragon (Lancer) a parasol that doubles as a sword/rapier, a small spear and a type of wand,Artoria Pendragon Swimsuit (Ruler) Battle Animations as well as the various weapon forms showcased by Add once its first seal is released. It is also speculated that the Noble Phantasm Bright Ehangwen is capable of both movement, flight, and artillery laser bombardment due to some usage of Rhongomyniad, or that it is even Rhongomyniad itself but transformed into a ship, though Ruler Artoria refuses to comment on such questions.Fate/Grand Order - Artoria Pendragon (Ruler) Profile
Mnemosyne, using a Holy Grail and Ritsuka's memories, was able to transform her into an high-tech armoured shell with numerous cannons which was somehow still an expression of Rhongomyniad's capabilities, capable of firing numerous powerful magical energy projectiles and homing golden lasers, which she could overcharge with a red energy to control to come back around to hit a target a second time from a different angle.Fate/Grand Order - Lady Reines's Case Files - Section 11: Towards the Extremities of Records and Memories Her fake Rhongomyniad was too good a replica, however, as Mnemosyne replicated its power and function but not its restraints. When fed the infinite power of an entire Holy Grail and Ritsuka's memories which hold unique power within the Patchwork London Singularity, the fake Rhongomyniad began to mutate from the overcharge into something beyond Mnemosyne's control and ability to predict and calculate. Inverting its normal function from an anchor that maintains Textures into a "net" capable of tampering with Textures from Ritsuka's memories. This turns it from a fake Rhongominyad to a - a dark twin of the actual Rhongominyad. Releasing bombardments of red lightning and magical energy as well as a great storm clouds and fogs, the Nega-Rhongominyad was able to use Mnemosyne's records of Ritsuka's memories to tamper with the Textures to create vast amounts of monsters, more than the Rail Zeppelin could drive through without resorting to using its Mystic Eye Projector; even when done so it could not destroy all of them and the monsters were quickly replaced. The creatures followed the Lance's survival instincts to tear apart the Singularity and everything inside it for magical energy to the Lance, and were considered endless in number - as if the whole Texture of the Singularity's world was fighting against Ritsuka's group even though it was disappearing.Fate/Grand Order - Lady Reines's Case Files - Plus Episode: Pseudoepigraphica's Return - Chapter 8: WhodunnitFate/Grand Order - Lady Reines's Case Files - Plus Episode: Pseudoepigraphica's Return - Chapter 9: Crimson Red Holy Spear
The white spiral shell that makes up the lance can also be shifted into an weapon in of itself, transforming into a giant white tree that grows into the sky and reaches its 'branches' down and out as sharp speared-limbs and thorned-tentacles to impale targets, or to create a large twisted-root-like barrier of spikes to both attack over a large area at once and to deter and harm aggressors, such as to blockade and destroy a massive bridge, as shown by Goddess Rhongomyniad in her defence against Bedivere in the Second Camelot movie. These shell limbs can be cut through using Excalibur, however, and usage of this attack depletes the shell around the weapon itself, revealing the weapon's core to be a long thin white spear connected with the handle underneath the lance covering.Fate/Grand Order THE MOVIE - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot
The Goddess Rhongomyniad has also shown that the outer shell can be used to create buildings and structures, which is how she created the Holy City of Camelot in a single night. The walls of her fortress are incredibly durable, and they repel without taking a scratch any malicious attack due to the Camelot castle only granting access to those with righteous hearts. This is a similar effect to Mash's Lord Camelot, which is a derivative of her summoning the white walls of Camelot to block attacks. Even Lawful Good Servants such as Bedivere can't hope to damage the Camelot gate. It took Xuanzang Sanzang using her "Final Buddha Palm" Noble Phantasm, which summons the fist of the Buddha, as a suicidal attack to destroy Camelot's front gate. Even then, the attack only succeeded due to Xuanzang having no malicious intent towards the Lion King, and using her power to "save" rather than to "defeat." Something Da Vinci states only her could do.Fate/Grand Order - Camelot: The Sacred Round Table Realm - Section 17: Replica Moreover, Goddess Rhongomyniad can further protect her fortress by activating walls made out of the same light as Excalibur. Thanks to these walls of magical energy, not even Ozymandias' Dendera Electric Bulb is able to reach inside the city, forcing the Sun King to transform half his Spirit Origin into magical energy to shoot his ultra-long-range divine punishment nine times more in order to break through them.
By turning the Holy City into the Tower of the Ends of the World, the entire area becomes the Ends of the World.
 As the Tower of Light, the World that is made up accordingly with the physical laws of the present will peel and fall off, and the many phantasmal laws that were the way of the past would be expressed. In other words, in exchange for creating the complete world known as the tower, the world outside must be destroyed. The activation of the tower generates a space-time fracture by causing a gravitational collapse in all corners of the era. However, due to said activation taking some time, Ozymandias manages to shatter it with Ramesseum Tentyris before it completely manifests, as before its huge mass, the tower was nothing more than "an ancient rickety ship". However, this was only the lance's "sheathe", and as such, it was required to destroy the Lance in order to stop the gravity fluctuation.
==Variations==
===Artoria===
Battle of camlann.jpg|The final conflict between Artoria and Mordred in Fate/Zero. 
Artoria piercing Mordred.gif|Artoria killing Mordred with Rhongomyniad in Fate/Apocrypha.
King Arthur used this lance against Vortigern in his Dragon form, and the spiral light of the lance pierced through the heart of the dragon.Garden of Avalon - Chapter 02: Story of Knights, p.54-59 King Arthur also used Rhongomyniad in her final battle to kill Mordred. It is said that no matter the toughness of Mordred's armor, it amounted to nothing before the lance as it pierced her chest.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 2 
Bedivere states that none of the Knights of the Round Table ever questioned the lance's nature, and so, they never learned of its significance or power, meaning that only King Arthur and Merlin among them were ever aware of what it is.
===Artoria (Lancer)===
===Artoria Alter (Lancer)===
===Goddess Rhongomyniad===
Holy Judgement (Camelot).jpg|Holy Judgement
The Tower (Movie.gif|The Tower of the Ends of the World
Bedivere vs the Lion King final battle.gif|Artoria firing Rhongomyniad at Bedivere
The Lion King shooting Lasers in the sky.gif|The Lion King shooting lasers of light in the sky.
The Goddess Rhongomyniad's most recognisable attack with the lance is Holy Judgement. According to Dr. Roman, the magical energy of this attack had a value of over 3,000,000 even though the highest-ranked Noble Phantasms usually only range between 1000 and 3000. The magical energy she wields with the lance surpasses space and time, as shown in her final fight against Ritsuka's party, where just her initial attacks were strong enough to reach Chaldea in the present-day, blowing pieces of SHEBA away. Differing from the pillars and beams of light in other usages of the Lance itself, Holy Judgement takes the form of a massive physical golden construct of energy in the image of Rhongomyniad's spiral shell that appears from far above in the sky, made of dozens of giant intertwined and criss-crossed gold strips that twist and spin like a drill as the attack slowly descends from the sky like a meteor. The construct is shown to be far larger than mountains, wider than anyone could possibly hope to dodge or outrun, and which lights up the sky and environment like a second sun with its golden glow and clear all clouds from the horizon with its end. The attack is more than just a stream of magical energy, but a physical object with physical weight, speed and drag to it, making it slow down when travelling due to its massive size compared to a beam of energy. This attack was once nullified by Arash's Stella,Fate/Grand Order - Camelot: The Sacred Round Table Realm - Section 12: Village in Flames a max-ranged remote attack that literally “splits the land”, ending all conflicts,Fate/Grand Order material I - Arash, p.146-155 (translated by ComunCoutinho at Reddit.) and then later again by Mash using Lord Camelot powered by a Command Seal.
===Gray===
The ability to use it has been passed down in a line descended from the relatives of King Arthur, and it is currently held by Gray. Her Mystic Code "Add" only existed as a temporary seal to stop the degradation of the weapon's Mystery in the first place.
Even though it may only be a shadow, due to the burden that it places on Gray who is but a human, it is regularly sealed within Add and only released when the need arises. The various weapons that Add is able to transform into is made possible from the overflowing power of Rhongomyniad. Though it may be sealed by the mystic code and placed under 13 restrictions, the Holy Spear continues to shine as bright as ever.Fate/Grand Order material VII — Gray's Servant Profile (translated by BananaShiki)
When activated, it can launch a beam of light.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 1: case. Adra Castle Separation - Chapter 5 Part 3 When Add absorbed memory photos used in the Shell Projection magecraft by Camus Peligor, the Shell Projection even affected it and changed its released form from a gigantic golden lance into a gigantic golden scythe with feathered wings that can be used to cut the dream world, being used more like Excalibur than Rhongomyniad.Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note - Special Episode: "Waver, Reunion, and the Magic Lantern"
====Rhongomyniad Mythos====
Three years after Case Files, Gray unlocks the ability . This is the true function that Rhongomyniad was made for, the ability to anchor the world in place. There is a world of fantasy, dreams, and myths that Rhongomyniad keeps pinned inside the Texture of the world. With Rhongomyniad Mythos, Gray can contain Mystery and make sure none of it leaks outside. A seal of Rhongomyniad Mythos's power is rare even for the Age of Gods. Without outside intervention it could take over a century for the effects to wear off.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 4: Legacy of the Alchemist (Upper) - Intermission
When the light of Rhongomyniad Mythos pierces Bai Ruolong, the spirit of Typhon inside him is "anchored" and Ruo's wings and Blaze of Etna armor that he gained from Typhon disappear.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 6
===Corpse King===
The Corpse King, who is a recreation of Artoria's mind created with Logos React, wields a dark Rhongomyniad. As Gray is the body of King Arthur and the Corpse King the mind, it only makes sense that they would have similar lances. Hers and Gray's lances are only shadows of the true Tower of the End, so it is not impossible for multiple shadows to exist.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 2 Part 4
The dark Rhongomyniad is covered in thorns resembling wolf fangs. Rather than light, its magical energy manifests as a whirling cyclone of wind.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 2 Part 5 In other words, it is similar to Artoria Lancer Alter's version.
===Mnemosyne===
Mnemosyne isn't a Servant, and is therefore incapable of "wielding" a Noble Phantasm. She gets around this by reenacting Ritsuka Fujimaru's memories regarding Rhongomyniad, forming about her avatar in combat a shell of high tech weapons that are somehow an expression of Rhongomyniad's capabilities. 
In the manner that Gray and Add are able to interfere with the processes of Fake Rhongomyniad via Sympathy, Mnemosyne is capable within the boundaries of her tower of suppressing Add's capabilities almost entirely.
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