Ionioi Hetairoi

(" ") is the ultimate Noble Phantasm of Iskandar that creates a Reality Marble containing a desert and every soldier that ever fought under him. Through the usage of the For He Is Another Iskandar (Fake) Skill and burning out her Saint Graph, Iskandar's Shadow can forcibly manifest the Noble Phantasm.
==Characteristics==
===Iskandar===
It is described as the ultimate Noble Phantasm of Rider, a "super Noble Phantasm" as described by Tokiomi Tohsaka with the same rank EX-rank as Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon.
 The trump card of the King of Conquerors, it summons a Reality Marble that embodies Alexander the Great's dreams and philosophies as a king and the bond formed with his subjects, his life sublimated as a Noble Phantasm.Fate/Zero - Einzbern Consultation Room 4 Like how Saber's Excalibur can be called the physical actualization of her ideals as a king, Ionioi Hetairoi is the actualization of Alexander's commanding abilities and his kingship. It is an irregular Reality Marble compared to those used by others. Normally, only a magus or something beyond normal reality like Daemons are capable of materializing the environment inside their minds, and as Alexander is neither, reproducing it alone is impossible for him. It comes about through the combined efforts of his personal guard who all shared his dreams and pledged allegiance to him after many victories and defeats, even after death and becoming Heroic Spirits on their own as well. They and their king recreate the land in which they once marched and shared many joys and sorrows, as it is imprinted upon the heart of each soldier, allowing them to bring about a sand-filled expanse roaring with hot and dry desert winds under the scorching sun and cloudless, clear skies without anything to obscure the everlasting horizon. This Noble Phantasm drags the enemies into a terrain that has no obstacles on the desert battlefield. It also maximizes the Charisma of the King of Conquerors Iskandar.Fate/Grand Order material III - Iskandar, p.322-327 
Once fully materialized, the heavily armed cavalry of soldiers slowly appears as mirage-like images and completely manifests as a diverse fighting force with the fierceness of a true army. The entire fighting force is fully composed of a peerless array of famed and legendary warriors only heard reverently in legends, all of whom personally fought with Alexander on the battlefield. They swept across continents during life, and no matter what they faced, enemy or fortress, it was powerless before them. As a leader who only desired to become stronger and more magnificent, live more fully, and become a man more real than any other, he inspired them enough to leave upon them an impression of never-ending loyalty that not even death can conquer. They are able to break the rules of space and time to fight once more at the side of their king, and like him, they wager everything that they are on the king's dream. They are his greatest treasure within treasures that make up his right to rule, and more than mere followers and soldiers, they are his true friends. They display the violence that reveals Alexander's method of tyrannical kingship without restraint, and he only takes pride in it. Their thunderous cries and their spirit could split oceans, and even someone as proud and haughty as Gilgamesh is left silent upon seeing such a radiant army.Fate/Zero Volume 2: The Mad Feast of Kings - Act 8 Part 6 -102:54:10 He can also choose where to deposit them after releasing it, though only within one hundred meters.
IH.png|Iskandar and a number of his more notable soldiers in Sound Drama Fate/Zero, illustrated by Shidzuki Morii
IH3.gif|The army charging.
Ionioi Hetairoi.jpg|Iskandar's army, as depicted in Waver's memories in the Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files Manga.
The members that make up his army include the Lord of War, the Maharaorajah, the founders of many dynasties, and even his horse, the legendary charger Bucephalus. The Fate/Zero Drama CD introduced an illustration with a number of unique designs that were also given specific details upon Ionioi Hetairoi's deployment in the anime adaptation. Known names for members of the Hetairoi are Hephaestion, Ptolemy, Eumenes, and Mithrenes. It is unknown if someone like Waver Velvet, who pledged his eternal allegiance to Alexander during the Fourth Holy Grail War, will join its ranks after his death, or if it is limited only to those who pledged their allegiance during Alexander's lifetime. The nature of the Reality Marble is not something like simply summoning the soldiers as familiars, but rather the EX Rank of the ability comes from the fact that it is the consecutive summoning of multiple independent Servants.
They are all Master-less Servants, but they each have the Rank E- equivalent of the "Independent Action" Skill, meaning that they cannot leave the Reality Marble under normal circumstances and can only remain materialized for "thirty turns." They lack Skills and Class designations due to being summoned through Rider's ability, making it unnecessary to assign them anything based on the rules of the Holy Grail War, and, due to the limit of Rider's abilities, their Noble Phantasms cannot be materialized. There are also some Heroic Spirits that are stronger than the summoner himself, as while his deeds were great, it is not a testament of his personal martial prowess. Aside from the several people who are stronger than Rider himself, there are also those summoned that has greater military power than Rider and there are those who has Charisma equivalent to Rank B for being the kings of their own countries. They come to Rider's aid regardless because during his lifetime, Iskandar is not a hero who made particular deeds of arms as an individual, but is a hero who fought by commanding armies. The army numbers in the tens of thousands, allowing them to easily overwhelm the less than one hundred Assassins without the bulk of them having to act.
The generated land is Alexander's preferred battlefield due to the wide plains allowing him to best display his numerical superiority and his preference of facing enemies directly. He generally leads the army at the front of the vanguard while atop Bucephalus, but he can also freely use Gordius Wheel within the confines of the Reality Marble if he wishes. Their battlefield, sublimed into eternity, can be actualized anywhere, and if he were to again set forth in tyranny, all of his servants would hasten to him no matter his location. He believes that equipped with weapons from the Gate of Babylon, it would become the most powerful army capable of easily conquering the modern world. Tens of thousands of soldiers paired up with unlimited Noble Phantasms would produce a most ideal result. It's a powerful Noble Phantasm that even Excalibur would not have guaranteed victory against.Fate/Zero Volume 4: Flames of Purgatory - Act 14 Part 1 -37:02:20 Rider is prepared to face any threat that may come against them, whether it is an Anti-Unit attack directed at destroying only him at the head of the army, or something large like an Anti-Army or Anti-Fortress attack, and overcome it so that they can easily trample the enemy before they can launch the next attack. He can freely organize the positions of those that enter Ionioi Hetairoi, grouping them to keep allies safe and align enemies directly before his army.Fate/Zero Volume 2: The Mad Feast of Kings - Act 8 Part 6 -102:54:10 He can also choose where to deposit them after releasing it, though only within one hundred meters.
It takes a great deal of energy to maintain it, and like most Reality Marbles, it can only be utilized for a few minutes at a time. Both the activation cost and the summoning of the Servants are taxing, but he claims that it wouldn't cost as much if most of the army isn't brought out. Due to Waver Velvet being unable to provide enough mana for its maintenance, he has to rely on his own reserves. Using it two nights in a row brings him to the point where he is forced to take spiritual form to conserve as much energy as possible, and even after receiving boosts in energy from three Command Spells, he still can only use it one more time. Once activated, it is maintained by the collective magical energy of the entire army, which means that it will not remain stable if a large portion of the army is destroyed in a single attack.
===Iskandar's Shadow===
While normally rejecting the army in its entirety, the experiences Iskandar's Shadow gains through her summoning under the Faker class - where she manifested Ionioi Hetairoi after being transformed into Divine Spirit IskandarLord El-Melloi II's Case Files Volume 10: case. Grand Roll (Lower) - Chapter 5 Part 6 - which she remembers due to Mnemosyne's ability to keep those memories between summonings, this gives her inspiration to manifest the Noble Phantasm via her For He Is Another Iskandar (Fake) Skill and the ability of the Pretender class to disguise her True Name and class as Iskandar.
The total time it can be manifested is only a few minutes, and only a fraction of the full army is manifested, being comprised of just foot soldiers willing to obey her, and they all have contribute to help maintain the bounded field. Notable figures such as Hephaestion, Eumenes, and Ptolemy cannot be found within the army, but she does summon Iskandar himself. As she is forcibly manifesting it, it burns out her Saint Graph.Fate/Grand Order - Lady Reines's Case Files - Plus Episode: Pseudoepigraphica's Return - Chapter 9: Crimson Red Holy Spear 
==Summoning==
The Heroic Spirits of Ionioi Hetairoi are called to the aid of Iskandar, granted fundamental knowledge needed for existing by the world itself, are then given a chance to accept or reject the summoning, and manifest as Servants upon accepting. In the case of Iskandar's Shadow, the knowledge gained of the causes her to reject the summoning.
It is within the boundaries of ordinary space to summon a single soldier into the normal world without them being crushed by its corrective impulses. This allows Iskandar to summon Bucephalus without needing to deploy the Reality Marble, and if he needs to communicate with the outside after it has been deployed, he can send a single soldier, such as Mithrenes, outside of it briefly to receive and relay messages. 
==Known soldiers==
===Iskandar===
*Bucephalus
*Eumenes‎‎
*Hephaestion
*Mithrenes
*Ptolemy
*Unnamed soldier
*Unnamed turbaned man
*Unnamed spearman
*Unnamed swordsman
;Soldiers that reject the summoning
*Iskandar's Shadow
===Iskandar's Shadow===
*Iskandar
==References==
Category:Noble Phantasms
Category:Anti-Army Noble Phantasms
Category:EX rank Noble Phantasms‎
Category:Reality Marbles
Category:Noble Phantasms introduced in Fate/Zero
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Category:Noble Phantasms of Alexander the Great
Category:Noble Phantasms of the Ionioi Hetairoi
Category:Summon Noble Phantasms