Karna

, Class Name , also known as , is the Lancer-class Servant of Feend vor Sembren of the Red Faction in the Great Holy Grail War of Fate/Apocrypha. Shirou Kotomine assumes command over him before he even meets his Master, and through his machinations he later officially becomes Lancer's Master.
He is also the Servant of Jinako Carigiri in the Moon Cell Holy Grail War of Fate/EXTRA CCC. Under Jinako, he is called due to Jinako having had modified his status to a made up Servant class based on Brahmastra being a beam-like attack.
He is summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Karna challenging Arjuna.png|Karna challenging Arjuna
Karna's mother pleading to him not to fight Arjuna.png|Karna's mother pleading with him not to fight Arjuna.
CE877.jpg|Karna and Arjuna riding their chariots while fighting each other.
Karna Mural.png|Karna's mural in Fate/Grand Order Memorial Movie 2023.
Karna Memorial 1.png|Karna removing his Kundala in Fate/Grand Order Memorial Movie 2023.
Karna Memorial 2.png|Karna using his Vasavi Shakti in Fate/Grand Order Memorial Movie 2023.
Karna Memorial 3.png|Karna in his ??? Form in Fate/Grand Order Memorial Movie 2023.
The , the invulnerable hero of the Indian epic , as a hero on the vanquished side. The central conflict of The Mahabharata is the war over influence between the royal family and royal family. Karna became famous as the rival of Arjuna, the great hero of Hindu mythology.
====Childhood====
Karna was born from the daughter of a human king, , and the sun god, Surya. Kunti was the wife of the Kuru king , but he was under a curse that prevented him from producing children, so his queens each had no choice but other methods to bear children. Kunti was a woman who had a that allowed her to copulate with and bear the child of any god and, by those means, gave Pandu children, but before she became the king's wife, she tested the mantra and bore a single child. That child was Karna, the golden hero who was born from relations with the sun god Surya. Kunti was a determined woman and, afraid of her first birth and anxiety over whether the god would acknowledge his own child.
Surya heard Kunti's words and gave onto the child his own power and attributes as he was born. As proof of being the son of Surya, he was given a golden armor and this is the source of the golden armor that made Karna invulnerable. Karna was born to become a great hero. Though she was shown such grace and faithfulness, Kunti abandoned her first son. For her, who was to become the queen of Kuru king Pandu, the existence of her son was nothing but unnecessary. This is how Karna, who was thrown away by his own mother, came to be ignorant of his own birth, but he lived with only the things he had been given by his father, the sun god Surya, held in his chest. Karna grew up with a low social status.
The form of Karna, who didn't know his own mother's face and who questioned whether his mother was motivated by dishonesty, couldn't be called beautiful. Though he possessed his father's brilliant authority, his form was stained black. His countenance was cruel, and his every action was violent. Because of his lack of human mother, he didn't learn the subtleties of human emotion and spent his days being considered a nuisance by the people around him. That was how Karna was raised, but he didn't hate his mother or his surroundings. Instead, he accepted everything. His mother and father were the ones who gave him life so he thought that no matter what kind of person his mother was, he did not hold contempt for her, as if there is anything he had to hate was himself alone. In contrast to his appearance, Karna was an exceedingly virtuous and perceptive child. Possibly the cause of that was because, while he was the child of a god, he was also a child without a single relative. Karna was blessed with the opportunity to question the poor, their lives, and their value. As a result, he chose, of his own free will, the path where he persisted in his own fastidiousness. He believed that as he was born with more than people should display a 'proof of my life' greater than those of people, if he doesn't do so, the people without power will not be rewarded. What Karna had was simply the conviction to live without bringing dishonor to his father's authority and without shaming the people who compensated him. "Though he may be relentless and ruthless, he is also full of majesty," is Karna's stance given form.
====Adolescence====
And Karna, who had grown to be a young man, participated in a conference of the family. At this conference, the five Pandava brothers indulged themselves in the martial arts they were so proud of and so famous for. The third son Arjuna's skill at the bow was especially magnificent, to the point that he was praised as having no equal. When the grounds were united as one voice looking for someone to equal the Pandavas, Karna leapt up to participate and displayed martial arts of the same rank as Arjuna's. Karna challenged Arjuna to determine which of them was superior. But to challenge Arjuna, a member of the royal family, one must be higher than a (military or royalty) and Karna seemed to be a (merchant class) or a (a servant). Karna, whose challenge was refused due to the difference in status, became a laughingstock. The one who saved Karna in this situation was the eldest of the one hundred princes of the Kaurava clan, who opposed the Pandavas, Duryodhana. He became interested in Karna and made him a king at that place.
This is how Karna was saved from disgrace, but his foster father, who had heard of his promotion, appeared and established his origins. The five Pandava brothers further ridiculed Karna, who displayed martial arts superior to their own, saying, "The son of a charioteer should have a sense of shame." These words enraged Karna. If it were about himself, he would accept and be resigned to anything, but he would not allow insults toward his foster father. Even if it was a foster father who announced himself out of greed, to Karna, he was the father who raised him, who Karna should take pride in. The antagonism between Karna and the five Pandava brothers had become something he could not step back from, but sunset had come and the curtain was drawn on the conference. From then on, Karna, as the friend of Duryodhana, who saved him and treated him as a king, lived as a guest of honor of the one hundred princes of the Kaurava clan.
====Kurukshetra War====
What awaited him beyond that was a cruel battle against the five Pandava brothers, and more specifically, against the great hero Arjuna. The antagonism between the Kauravas whom Karna entrusted his bow as a soldier and the Pandavas that Arjuna led intensified and finally became a war with their territory in the balance. That war is called the , and that is where Karna's life came to an end. Karna continued to wield his strength so that the one hundred Kaurava princes, and consequently Duryodhana, would be victorious. On the Pandava side, the only one who could oppose Karna was Arjuna, but even Arjuna could only be resigned to the fact that facing Karna directly was death.
Through several conflicts, pretexts, and mutual hatred, the war between this two camps arrived at . Things having reached this point, Karna's mother, Kunti, wagered one last gamble: to reveal his lineage to Karna and draw him to the Pandava camp. Kunti told only , who was a friend of Arjuna in the guise of a normal person, of this situation, and the two of them went alone to meet Karna. Kunti revealed that she was Karna's mother, spoke how fighting with the five Pandava brothers would yield no benefits whilst weeping, and persuaded him that by fighting together with Arjuna, he would attain glory. Karna, without failing to show the friend of his arch-enemy Arjuna, Krishna, quietly listened to his mother's arguments.
Afterwards he said: "I understand your words. To join hands with the five brothers and return to my proper form. That would be a story filled with light, without a single fault." Then, facing the rejoicing Kunti, Karna continued speaking in an even softer voice: "But I wish for you to answer one thing. Do you not feel that those words of yours were too late?" She was too late in declaring she was his mother. She was too late in looking back upon Karna. "If you do not feel that this is a shame, then please answer. You, who declare yourself my mother, if you yourself have done no wrong, then accept the past without feeling ashamed of yourself."
While Kunti was a selfish woman, that was due to her natural innocence and simple-mindedness; she was most definitely not a shameless woman. She knew her own deeds, throwing away Karna, who had just been born, for her own sake, were full of selfishness and reproached herself for that. And for that reason, she possessed a minimum amount of pride. She could not tell to Karna, who had been raised alone until now, who was grateful to his foster family, who had never once embraced hatred toward another, a horrible lie. Kunti broke off the negotiation without answering.
Karna swore not to lay a hand on the brothers of the Pandava family who were inferior to him in strength. The countless times Karna allowed the five brothers to go after this was due to this pledge. After that he concluded: "Return to the place that you obtained with your own hands. …Though it was only once, I am grateful that you called me your son." Karna opened the castle gate and escorted Kunti out. That was the love that Karna bore for his mother, Kunti. It was not love for his mother at this late point in time but Kunti's resolution to raise "her feelings as mother" in the end... even if it wasn't genuine... That is what he answered. Kunti risked the danger of having her past come to light. To the hero of generosity Karna, such determination is worthy of compensation.
And so, just before the final battle, Arjuna's father, Indra the Thunder God, who understood that Karna could not be persuaded, took the form of a , contacted Karna, and took his golden armor. Though Karna had lost the property of being unkillable that he received from his father, he never said he would stop proceeding to the battlefield. He did not care that when he had lost his golden armor he had hastened his own death. Indra, who was touched by how gallant a figure Karna struck, asked why. Why did he continue to the battlefield, having lost his armor, but without reproaching Indra, who had hatched this scheme out of love for Arjuna?
Then why do you advance toward the battlefield, asked Indra, to which Karna responded: "To me, defeat is bringing shame upon my father. Even though death awaits me, I cannot run away." That was how Karna always lived. To him, who lived his life with pride in those who gave him life and raised him, his life was not his own.
It was not the fire of the sun that Karna carried nor the absolute brilliance of Surya; to Karna, the sun was the imperfect charm that humans displayed. Indra, who saw the divinity of Surya himself in that form, gave Karna his spear. He had taken from this noble hero something greater than his life. Unless he gave something as compensation, his honor would be stained; above all—he was charmed with him: if it were this man, he could wield the greatest spear, that Indra had not given even to his own son. After Karna sent off the Brahmin and having lost his armor (flesh), he headed to the battlefield, as thin as a ghost.
====Death====
The final battle with Arjuna. Karna was already without allies; his charioteer, whom he trusted with his body, was already an enemy, in collusion with the Pandavas. He had a large number of heavy burdens, his feelings towards his younger half-brothers. Due to his curse, the wheel of Karna's chariot was stuck in a rut. The string of Arjuna's bow was drawn back to its limits. These brothers who, for a long time, were manipulated by an unseen destiny to compete for supremacy, could only in this moment strike one another with all their might and sure enough, Arjuna's bow shot down the sun. However, Karna did not hate anyone and accepted his death.
It is said that after his death, Karna became one with his father Surya. Called "the Hero of Generosity," he was a saint with the creed of not refusing when people came to ask or rely on him. The hero who, while possessing exceedingly high abilities, was within a tragedy where he was the enemy of his brothers by blood, received various curses, and lost his life without showing his true worth—that is Karna. 
===Appearance===
He is described as a young man with long and white unkempt hair that almost appear transparent. His gaze is said to be sharp like a steel blade with the red stone buried in his chest similarly projecting an enthralling lustrousness. It is also specified that what draws the eye more than anything else is the set of golden armor that he has become fused with, giving off a divine radiance. While every single part is said to be beautiful in its own right, once combined with Lancer they exude far more ferocity than attractiveness.
In Fate/EXTELLA, he has the following costume:
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In Fate/EXTELLA LINK, he has the following costumes:
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===Personality===
His personality is cold and unforgiving. Although conversing with him may give the impression that he is indecisive and somewhat boring, in reality he is always deep in thought and has a loyal heart. He gives an impression of being cold and cruel because he believes that most things and events are “normal”, and therefore he does not interfere. Due to this characteristic, he does not really have negative emotions such as hatred and jealousy. Because his behaviors target people’s “true nature that should not be put to words”, he is disliked by many.
Karna’s strongest weapon was his ‘will’. Possessing a strong will and a strong heart, he was the Hero of Charity who had never resented a single person despite experiencing all kinds of misfortune. He was a man who had given things special than anyone else, but never once was treated special himself. Neither proud nor arrogant, he was a hero who merely carried out a way of life that would not shame the name of his father from the moment he was born to when he was finally shot down.
Karna would follow the orders of his Master with no particular objections. On the other hand, Karna is to put in the simplest term: a soldier. When commanded, he behaves as though the very concept of defiance does not exist. To the Lancer of Red, there is no liking or disliking to an order that has been given to him, to the point he will just ignore to consider how said order relates to the situation, as only the fact that he serves the Master who summoned him is what is really important. In other words, he does not raise objections about orders, as those thoughts have already been removed from his mind. Even so, he shows some small doubts regarding the elimination of Jeanne given her task to preside over the war, but he convinces himself that as defeating a Ruler would be a very difficult endeavor, that makes all the more reason why would be worth fighting her.
He has no wish for the Holy Grail, but he desires to battle Siegfried once more and to save his Master.
According to Jinako Carigiri, Karna's Master in the Moon Cell Holy Grail War, Karna is a totally serious person who couldn't tell a joke, is terrible at cleaning, is completely hopeless at gaming, and most of the time prefers to criticize her sloppy way of living. Nevertheless, he still cares for her greatly, and always defends her from others.
====Relationships====
;Arjuna
:"...Standing shoulder to shoulder with that man? While promising, it also invites inevitable conflict. This is the first time I’ve ever felt this way. In any case, this is the ideal my mother wished for. I'll try it out, for now."Fate/Grand Order Lines
:"Arjuna... For some reason, I've been thinking back on the things I learned from my mentor, Drona. It brings back fond memories." 
:Karna and Arjuna were brothers, then turned enemies.
:Since Karna is closer in mentally to his training days, they are slightly closer than usual. Although they are "rivals who killed each other in the Great War," now they are more like "students who studied under the same master". 
;Arjuna and Bhima
:"I am surprised that not only Arjuna, but you’ve come here as well, Bhima. It makes my body tremble and ache. It is a strange feeling… It is a strange feeling."
;Arjuna Alter
:"An Arjuna who does not tolerate any kind of evil... He was always quite uncompromising, but that seems to have come out all the more in this version of him. At the same time, he used to at least understand the value of moderation... Hmm. I wonder what he will consider to be evil now that he has come here to serve you, Master. I will continue to monitor the situation. As will my spear."
;Duryodhana
:The only man who helped me when I was laughed at for my status. A benefactor and a friend. From the general public's point of view, he may be an asshole, but I trust and respect him.
:"Duryodhana— A man with honest deeds backed with selfishness, with unyielding strength that puts his goals head first, and dreadful generosity to win one over as he is the greediest among all. Well, there were exceptions, that’s the type of man you are. If I were to fight alongside you once more... Hmph, it will be very interesting."
;Ganesha
:"I would never have crossed paths with Ganesha...but I have some strange affinity for this Ganesha in Chaldea. She's like an older sister who is something of a handful...or a friend I can't just leave alone...someone very dear to me... Heh. If so, that would make me happy."
;Ashwatthama
:"Ashwatthama, huh? A man to be feared on the battlefield, as he is always coolheaded no matter the circumstance. Huh? He looks annoyed? I'm sure that's just his fighting spirit overflowing. My hope is that I might focus my strength and passion into my weapon with an intensity to match his." 
:"Ashwatthama. He's my partner in crime AND sparring partner many times a day. I need a friend like him to reach true Santahood. I'm quite blessed." 
:Same as above. This one has more of a delinquent feel to it. "You still have that spark from when we first met ... Heh it's starting to get fun. Alright I'm in. Let's go." 
;Vritra
:"Vritra. No matter what you take or hide away, humans will always overcome the hardships you create. Even without the help of gods or Santa Claus. That is how resilient humans are."
: The enemy of Christmas, the mighty evil dragon. A being "no weapon can harm" Santa Karna might have born a boxer as a result of that.
; Santa Servants
:"They may be different than me, but they are all formidable Santa Clauses. There's a lot I can learn from all of them."
;Gilgamesh
:"The golden man, huh? His arrogance never falters, and he never doubts his decisions. I may not care for him, but I certainly must concede that he is a true king. Surely he must have ruled over a strong nation with stalwart citizens. I'm a bit jealous about that."
;Romulus-Quirinus
:"To be honest, I learned so many things from the divine father of Rome. That's right, a man's fist contains infinite possibilities. That's why he's a Lancer, and I'm a Saber right now. I would like to have a match with him one day."
:The Roman Branch of the Heracles school is a rival. 
;Dioscuri
:"Master, did you know? The younger of those twins is an expert boxer. I would very much like to go a few rounds with her, but then the older brother always butts in and puts a stop to it. It's quite annoying. Well, I do have to admit that having strong love for your sibling is a good thing..." 
;Siegfried
:Karna holds a mutual admiration with Saber of Black. Through their fight, they both realized that they're both very similar and experienced many trials. When Karna saw Saber's facial expression, he was suddenly filled with reminiscences. He compares Saber's gaze to someone he fought and acknowledged their battle was simply inevitable. Karna saw in Siegfried in the face of a pure warrior trying to carry out his duty even while feeling anguished by something. It seems it was similar to what he saw in the legendary bowman who he fought in the past. In their duel, Karna experienced a feeling of exaltation was drawn, something Lancer had not felt in a very long time. Though Lancer talked mostly, he sensed that both he and Saber were enjoying this battle. Lancer felt he was lucky to encounter his first battle with Saber.
;Thomas Edison
: He’s very similar to his old friend Duryodhana. Unbelievably identical in the ways they get ahead of themselves and the ways the act like it’s the end of the world when they fail. But it’s always pleasant to see how quickly they get back on their feet.
;Helena Blavatsky
: Someone he knows through Edison. Some Servants in Chaldea refer to this duo as “Edison’s two mommies”.
;Tamamo-no-Mae
:They are on good terms with each other for some reason. Tamamo no Mae often approaches him for casual conversation, which something Karna appreciates (but not all that much).
==Role==
=== Fate/Apocrypha===
==== Beginning Stages of the War====
Red Faction.png|The Red Faction on top of Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
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Sieg Vs Karna.jpg|Lancer and Sieg face each other
Vasavi Shakti Apocrypha.gif|Lancer activates Vasavi Shakti against Sieg
Lancer is summoned by Feend vor Sembren as one of the Servants of the Red Faction. His Master, however, doesn't show himself, instead, acting through one of the other Masters, Shirou Kotomine. Shirou orders Lancer to eliminate Ruler as he views her to be his biggest obstacle to his plans. Lancer then faces Ruler on a highway, heading towards Trifas, where the Grail War will take place. Ruler is able to easily discern Lancer's identity, and also understand quite well that he possesses a pure and noble character. Lancer without hesitation draws out his spear, intending to kill Ruler in a single attack. However, he is stopped by Saber of Black and his Master, Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia. While Gordes attempts to have both Ruler and Saber to fight Lancer fail, Lancer declares that he had no issue with facing both Servants simultaneously.
Ruler however refuses to participate in the battle, due to her role as the Ruler, leaving Saber of Black and Lancer to face each other alone. However, Saber is able to keep up with Lancer, due to his Noble Phantasm negating many of his attacks. Lancer and Saber to realize their similarities and recognize each other as worthy opponents. They battle until dawn and when they leave, they promise to battle once more. After returning from his battle with Saber of Black, Lancer unusually whispered with some slight emotion, "I’d like to fight with him again." Shirou had decided to respect his wish, as, in the first place, the only ones who could fight more than an even match against a formidable enemy like Saber were Lancer or Rider.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 2Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 3Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 4
====Battle At Castle Yggdmillennia====
Lancer later participates in the first large battle between the Red and Black Factions. He faces Lancer of Black, the commander of Servants of Black. Lancer of Black is able to match Lancer of Red's abilities with the advantage he gets from being in his territory and using his Noble Phantasm, Kazikli Bey, to an extremely dangerous degree.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 2: Round Dance of Black / Festival of Red - Chapter 2 Later in their fight, Lancer of Black even manages to pierce Lancer of Red from the inside with this Noble Phantasm. Lancer of Red, however, manages to keep up, utilizing both his armor and Mana Bursts to combat Lancer of Black. Towards the end of their battle, Lancer almost uses one of his other Noble Phantasms, Brahmastra Kundala, but ceases the battle once the Red Faction acquires the Holy Grail, returning to Assassin of Red's Hanging Gardens of Babylon.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 2: Round Dance of Black / Festival of Red - Chapter 3
====Confronting Lancer of Black & Shirou's True Identity====
There, he, along with Rider and Archer of Red, face the Sevants of Black: Lancer, Archer, and Caster. Lancer of Red battles Lancer of Black, this time being far superior due to Lancer of Black no longer being in his own territory. However, the battle is changed when Lancer of Black's Master, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, forces Lancer of Black to utilize his Noble Phantasm, Legend of Dracula and fuses himself with his Servant to form the Nameless Vampire. The Servants of both factions temporarily unite to eliminate this new threat, with their abilities boosted by the recently arrived Ruler's Command Spell. However, just when victory seems to near, all of the Servants of Red suddenly collapse, due to their contracts transferred from their original Masters to Shirou, who made the Masters of Red give him their Command Spells. Shirou also destroys the Nameless Vampire and reveals himself to be the Ruler of the previous war. Unlike the Rider and Archer of Red, who are angry towards Shirou, Lancer is far calmer and agrees to listen to him. Caster of Black also joins them, believing the Red Faction to be far more helpful to his goals, while Archer of Black and Ruler leave.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 3: Triumphal Return of the Saint - Chapter 1
====Joining Amakusa Shirou's Camp====
Lancer is later shown alongside the other Servants of Red, discussing with Shirou about the contracts of their alliance. Lancer agrees to help Shirou and do as he commands, on the condition of being allowed to face Saber of Black, now residing in the body of a homunculus named Sieg, again, which Shirou agrees with.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 4: Cup of Purgatory - Chapter 4
====The Final Battle====
During the assault on the Hanging Gardens by the Black Faction and Ruler, Lancer is seen defending the Gardens, engaging Rider of Black and his Master, Sieg. In order to give Rider the opportunity to destroy the defenses of the Gardens, Sieg engages Lancer alone, transforming into the Saber of Black. During their battle, Lancer notices Caules Forvedge Yggdmillennia and interrupts the battle to talk with him. He asks Caules to take the former Masters of Red to safety, wanting to protect them out of honor. Caules agrees in return of Lancer promising to not kill Sieg if he defeats him. After this, Lancer and Sieg continue their battle, with the former telling the latter that he will give his all due to his promise to Saber of Black. In their battle, Lancer utilizes his full abilities, using all of his Noble Phantasms. In the end, he finally uses his strongest Noble Phantasm, Vasavi Shakti, that forces him to give up his armor in return for gaining the incredibly powerful spear used by Indra, the King of Gods himself. However, the attack is blocked by Rider of Black, who uses Akhilleus Kosmos, a Noble Phantasm given by Rider of Red, that creates an entire world as a shield. Using this opportunity, Sieg attacks Lancer of Red and delivers the final blow to him. Sieg shows his respect by saying that it wasn't his victory alone and that even if they were enemies, Karna treated him as a person. Karna responds that's normal for a Heroic Spirit, showing his considerate character and saying to Sieg that he won because he is a living person with a goal, unlike a shadow from the past like him.
Lancer then warns Sieg about Jeanne being in danger as she is about to face her worst possible matchup, Caster of Red. Once Karna starts to fade, Astolfo pays Lancer his respects, as he was the Hero of Charity who behaved like a true Servant until the very end. Despite being defeated, Lancer is satisfied by his fate, having been given a chance to face a worthy opponent and fulfill his promise to Saber of Black and save his original Master in the process, so he dissapears with a smile asking Astolfo to take care of Sieg.
===Fate/EXTRA CCC===
Karna formed a contract with Jinako Carigiri during the Moon Cell Holy Grail War on the Near Side. Though she was technically disqualified during the early rounds, Jinako stayed within her room and avoided deletion because the system would not delete participants in that location. She was still ultimately doomed once the Holy Grail War would be completed and everything besides the winner was to be deleted, so Karna gave her his armor to allow her to return to the real world due to the nature of the sun overwhelming that of the moon. They were brought into the Far Side by BB along with the other remaining Masters but Jinako is one of the few masters who retained their servants. It was generally thought by others that Karna is a Lancer class. Hakuno Kishinami can interact with Karna only when Hakuno enters Jinako's room.Fate/EXTRA CCC - Chapter 1: Subordination Garden -Backyard of Eden
When Hakuno Kishinami picked up the fragment data, a confused Jinako ran away somewhere in Sakura's Labyrinth. She recovered parts of her memories and complained about Karna's late rescue. Karna could not fully materialize himself due to lack of mana.Fate/EXTRA CCC - Chapter 3: The Lip of Love and Hate - Alter Ego / M
Julius B. Harwey also appears but he distracts Jinako and Karna while BB's shadow devours Jinako. Karna helplessly watches as Jinako is devoured by BB shadow and is forced to help BB's cause.
When Hakuno and the servant faced Karna for the first time in the 10th floor, Karna overpowers them. Jinako reveals that Karna has been placed under a special class known as Launcher. After Hakuno collected Jinako's first SG, Karna teleported away.Fate/EXTRA CCC - Chapter 4: Anesthetic Castle of Obstruction - Sick, Home Sink
After collecting all of Jinako's SG, Hakuno must dive into her mind to face her and Karna. Karna expressed that he is grateful of Monji Gatou when he sacrifice himself to save Jinako. As a loyal servant, he fight Hakuno's servant. After his defeat, he can be encounter in Jinako's room.
Before the school was deleted, Jinako was hiding in her room with Karna. Jinako screams as she thinks she is about to die again. Karna revealed to Jinako that she didn't die in the Moon Cell Holy Grail War and she was saved thanks to his golden armour. Surprised with this statement, Jinako asked why he didn't say anything. Karna said he was waiting for the right timing and asked if Jinako wants to return to the real world. Jinako cries out saying she wants to return. Listening to her answer, Karna was happy that he interfered for her sake. Karna draws out his spear and cuts the space leading them to a different area, an exit for Jinako.Fate/EXTRA CCC - Chapter 7: I Love You
Jinako notices Karna's body to fade and he says to Jinako that regardless of breaking Moon Cell's rule, this would be his fate. Jinako ask why he is willing to save her and Karna replies that he serves her regardless of what kind of person she is. As Jinako cries, Karna ask if he did anything wrong and Jinako says nothing is wrong but she claims Karna to be an over protective father. Jinako thanks Karna for what he done for her and bids farewell before she made Karna depressed.
Karna starts flying away and wishes Jinako to live and he believes that there is someone waiting for her out there before disappearing.
===Fate/EXTRA CCC Foxtail===
Gawain fought against Meltryllis and Passionlip when they invaded the school. When the fight appears at a disadvantage, Karna helps Gawain. They teamed up and cut down Passionlip.Fate/EXTRA CCC Fox Tail - Chapter 7: Alter Ego Karna was present in Jinako's room when Hakuno first went there to ask for her help.Fate/EXTRA CCC Fox Tail - Chapter 10: Jinako Karigiri Karna was later defeated by Gawain.Fate/EXTRA CCC Fox Tail - Chapter 28: Gawain vs Karna (1)Fate/EXTRA CCC Fox Tail - Chapter 30: Gawain vs Karna (2)Fate/EXTRA CCC Fox Tail - Chapter 31: Gawain vs Karna (3)
===Fate/EXTELLA ===
Karna returns as a playable character. He is second in command of Tamamo-no-Mae's party, with the members being Tamamo herself, Elizabeth Báthory, Medusa and Lu Bu. He is a Top Servant that Tamamo recruited after finding SE.RA.PH summoned him. If questioned by others regarding Tamamo's cruel personality as a ruler, he see through her, and claims she is just a girl in love. So long as she is with Hakuno, her path will be the right one.
====Flame Poem====
When Nero Claudius invades Mare Luxuria, Karna challenges her to combat, though Elizabeth interrupts him. He eventually does fight Nero, but she defeats him.Fate/EXTELLA - Flame Arc - Chapter 3: Sword of the Millennium Capital -Mare Luxuria, the Capital of Lust-
====Orchid Words====
Karna enters the throne room, having heard Hakuno has awoken, and wished introduce himself. Tamamo introduces him as one of her generals, praising him highly. The next day, Karna reports Nero's forces have yet to conquer Mare Mellum entirely. He calls the unclaimed sectors, Neutral Sectors, and advises seizing them before the enemy does.
When Alter's forces arrive, Karna, Medusa, and Lu Bu struggle against them to prevent conquering more of Tamamo's territories. He later reports to Tamamo that an enemy Servant destroy territory he was guarding. Reaffirming the enemy Servant will destroy everything, he reveals they've established a base in Mare Origo. He continues that so long as that Servant is there, the enemy will have the advantage in firepower. He puts their chances of defeating the Servant at fifty-fifty if they can get to him. He then reveals the enemy Servant to be Gilgamesh.
After Tamamo returns from defeating Gilgamesh, Karna reports Gilgamesh's defeat saved a portion of Mare Luxuria from his bombardments. He advises Tamamo to use the Regalia to see all of SE.RA.PH, where upon she realizes Altera's forces are attacking on two fronts. He confirms that while Gilgamesh was bombarding Mare Luxuria, another force was attacking Tamamo's territories. He continues Lu Bu is currently pursuing that other force. After Tamamo tells him and Medusa to rest, Karna praises Mare Luxuria for its flowers and revelry, and says he's honestly had wonderful time before leaving.
====Dawn====
Karna, along with Tamamo and Medusa, invades Mare Origo. He later fights Altera, and his defeat forces Tamamo's remaining forces to retreat. The next day, he helps defend Mare Luxuria against Altera's forces, but he's defeated again.
====Golden Poem ====
Karna, along with Medusa and Lu Bu, invades Mare Aurum. During the invasion, he faces off against Gawain, but he's forced to retreat when Nero helps Gawain. Later he fights Nero again, but she forces him to flee once again. After Medusa and Lu Bu leaves, Karna tells Hakuno and Nero that Tamamo refuses to let any close enough to her to negotiate. He reveals the invasion was to test the strength of Nero's forces, and also to stop Lu Bu's rampage. He then gives Nero Mare Luxuria's coordinates and reveals Tamamo also possesses the Regalia. He also tells Hakuno that there's another of them at Tamamo's side, and realizes they aren't surprised by his words. Karna then decides to stay in Mare Aurum to watch Nero's deeds.Fate/EXTELLA - Golden Poem Arc - Chapter 2: Authority's Purpose -Mare Aurum, the Capital of Roses-
During the meeting between Nero and Tamamo and their generals, Karna is surprised by the speed by which Altera's forces are conquering SE.RA.PH. He also commends Gawain's combat prowess during their battle.
After Nero destroys the Ark of the Stars, Karna explains to Medusa that Nero's actions not only ceased the activity of Velber's forces but also stopped the Zero Dark. He is impressed Nero was able to get the gods to alongside her.
===Fate/EXTELLA LINK===
Karna is now a member of Karl der Große's party. He fights Charlemagne and then retreats.Fate/EXTELLA LINK - Day 1: Battle for the Imperial Capital On day 2 he fights Hakuno's party again. This time buffed by Gilles de Rais.Fate/EXTELLA LINK - Day 2: Splitting Forces He is defeated by the combined efforts of Arjuna and Charlemagne.Fate/EXTELLA LINK - Day 6: The St. Metropolita, East GateFate/EXTELLA LINK - Day 6: The St. Metropolita, West Gate
===Fate/Grand Order ===
====Arjuna & Karna Trial Quest====
Karna confronts Arjuna, whose amnesiac, after the latter told Ritsuka he lost his thirst for battle. He tells him that he isn't unafraid of death, rather he accumulated so much glory so easily that he grew tired of life. He refuses to let Arjuna to take such a path, calling him the only person he cannot accept. Arjuna fires at Karna, unable to stand his presence. Karna is elated to see such a reaction, saying such righteous anger is more fitting for Arjuna.
After the two battle, Karna asks Ritsuka to guide Arjuna. He warns he will be their enemy if Arjuna remains at their side. The reverse is also true. Karna notes how a hated enemy is a necessary ingredient of myth. He leaves saying he's truly used to playing that part.
==== Fifth Singularity: E Pluribus Unum ====
Karna is part of the American forces serving under Thomas Edison that oppose the Celtic army. Edison asked for his help, which he accepted because the former reminded him of his friend.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 15: The King in the High Castle
He attacks Ritsuka's party after they destroyed Helena Blavatsky's robot entourage. Karna uses Brahmastra to wipe out Ritsuka's party but Mash blocks it to save the group from certain death. However the shockwave of the attack knocked out Ritsuka, Mashu and Florence Nightingale Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 3: Fragment of the Star Karna joins Helena as she transports the group to Denver so Edison can convince them to join him. The group eventually reaches Denver, where a castle was built when the Celts took the White House. Karna stops Nightingale from charging inside with her gun ready. He warns that temporarily defeating an enemy here may cause a greater evil to prosper. She lies she won’t use her gun, so Karna monitors her. He tells Helena to do the same for Ritsuka and Mash.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 4: King of Presidents
Inside the castle, Edison asks for Ritsuka’s aid in defeating the Celts. Before he took command, the Celts outnumbered the Americans. But he also reveals he will use the Grail to create his ideal America on a different timeline. This act could destroy the other eras. Nightingale tries to attack Edison, but Karna restrains her. Edison then gives Ristuka three minutes to decide. Ritsuka refuses to join, so Edison has his robots subdue the group. Overwhelmed by the sheer number of robots, the group is sent to the underground prison.
Karna later appears to stop the group from escaping with Geronimo. Neither of them wished to meet each other under these circumstances. Karna then fights the group, not letting the mechanized infantry interfere. He is defeated, and the group escapes. He stays with Edison since he asked for his help, but he wonders what can be done to avoid a catastrophe.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 5: Cool Hand Florence
When the group return to Denver to confront Edison, Karna bars them from going any further. After explaining his loyalty to Edison, he fights the group. Edison soon orders him to return to the throne room.
There he fights the group again with Edison and Helena. They’re defeated, but Edison refuses to give up and tries to drink an elixir to transform himself. Karna throws it on the floor, however, refusing to let Edison continue on his current path. Nightingale informs Edison that the Celtic army is infinite while his is limited. It is then revealed that Edison’s tyranny resulted from his mind being affected by accumulated thoughts of the presidents entrusting him with America’s future. As Edison struggles about what to do now, Karna tells him he was heading towards the correct location even when lost. He calls him a light shining onto the world for using inventions to save others, unlike other heroes who saved others by slaying something. Edison apologizes to Karna and Helena for his behavior and joins the group.
Later, the group strategizes on how to defeat the Celts. The Celts will be invading Denver via the northern and southern routes. If they conquer any more of America, then the era will no longer withstand its separation from reality and collapse. The group decides with a two-prong attack with two armies to attack along the northern and southern routes. One to hold off the Celts while the other breaks through to the White House. The group leave the decision of what Servants will go with what army to Ritsuka.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 16: The Fellowship
Ritsuka announces their decision the next day. The north army will have Elizabeth, Robin, Edison, and Helena, while the south army will have the others. The north army then departs to await the battle three days from now at dusk. Before leaving, though, Edison thanks Karna for his help. Karna asks Ritsuka to let him lead the vanguard so he can get Arjuna’s attention. He then leaves with the vanguard before the others.
As the south army arrives in Montgomery, Karna informs them through Mash that his vanguard defeated an enemy vanguard yet a few broke through.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 17: War His unit comes to the south army’s aid when they’re confronted by Arjuna’s forces. Before their fight, Karna asks Arjuna to save the world if he is victorious in their battle. The half-brothers fight until Cú Chulainn Alter suddenly impales Karna with Gáe Bolg. He uses the last of his strength to launch Vasavi Shakti at Cú Chulainn Alter while he’s distracted by Merlin‘s illusion. It wasn’t strong enough to kill him though, and Karna disappears bidding Ritsuka farewell.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 18: The Killing FieldsFate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 19: North American Myth War (Beginning)
==== Event: Sanzang Coming to the West ====
Karna and Arjuna are underworld guardians meant to be Xuanzang Sanang's final trial to restore her lost enlightenment.
====Summer Event: Chaldea Summer Memories====
Karna and several other of Ritsuka’s Servants are accidentally rayshifted to a remote island where they’re unable to contact Chaldea. He laments how crabs can only walk sideways, yet admires how they look their opponents in the eye as something all martial artists should learn from. He then calls hermit crabs mobile shut-ins for carrying their homes on their backs, believing Jinako should learn from them.
As everyone waits for Blackbeard's observation report of the island, Karna tells a bored Tamamo-no-Mae that all her dreams are about to come true, directing her to look at the shore. Tamamo is disappointed when it turns to be more giants crabs. After the crabs are killed, the group learns from a near-dead Blackbeard that their location is still unknown, and it’s nearly impossible to leave by ship.
At the group barbecue, Sasaki Kojirou whispers to Karna, asking him to use his eye beams on the meat. Karna does as asked, but the meat is charred. He apologizes for miscalculating the temperature.
If Marie Land is built, Karna stops on top of the elephant slide. He doesn't know why he finds it calming.
When the men's secret village is discovered, Karna declares he'll shred the bassline like a wild beast and shred Ritsuka's enemies after Cú Chulainn says they'll make great tunes if he were to go wild on the bass. He doesn't understand it was a joke Cú Chulainn made in response to Ritsuka pointing out the village's name, Backspear Village, is similar to a certain band.
If the iron fortress is built, Karna stops a ceiling trap by propping it up with his spear, but he can't move
He later helps defeat the giant demon boar when it appears as construction for the escape ship is nearly complete. He compares the intimidation of its body to that of Varaha. After the giant demon boar returns and is seemingly killed, everyone boards the ship and sets sail.
====Summer Event: Chaldea Heat Odyssey====
During a storm, however, the men are thrown overboard. Karna and Sasaki eventually washed back on the island after 2,000 years passed there. Beowulf saves them from being nearly eaten by demon boars. To thank him for his hospitality, Karna and Sasaki agree to be his subordinates.
When Ritsuka, Mash, and Martha come to his ruins lair, Beowulf has Karna and Sasaki bar the group's way to him. Karna explains his and Sasaki's orders to the group, suspecting Beowulf wants to test the group's abilities. After the fight, Karna and Sasaki bring the group before Beowulf. Martha defeats Beowulf and frees the boar piglet he held hostage.Fate/Grand Order - Chaldea Heat Odyssey, Brilliant Summer: Legend of the 21st Century Savior
Later, Karna, Sasaki, and Beowulf join the others as they prepare to escape the island. As they do, they're contacted by Romani Archaman. They learn they were only gone for an hour before rayshifting back to Chaldea.
====Final Singularity: Solomon====
Karna is amongst the "E Pluribus Unum" Singularity Servants to aid Chaldea against the Demon Gods Pillar.Fate/Grand Order - Solomon: The Grand Time Temple - Section 6: V/Halphas, the Armory
====Valentine Event The Bountiful Chocolate Gardens of Valentine ====
Karna helps plant cacao trees to produce more chocolate. He feels as if he, Cú Chulainn, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, Vlad III, and Bazett Fraga McRemitz were once together in a different world upon seeing the materials that Cú Chulainn provided Diarmuid to build scarecrows with are Craft Essences depicting Bazett.
Later, he, Cú Chulainn, Vlad, and Diarmuid find themselves unable to harvest cacao plants crossbred with mandrakes thanks to its scream. Semiramis told them the plants must be harvested today, as they'll likely wilt by tomorrow. Cú Chulainn go gets Nero Claudius and convinces her to sing by saying music helps plants produce a greater yield. With Nero's song countering the screams of the cacao mandrakes, and their ears protected by runes, the Lancers are able to her harvest the plants. Everyone soon finishes and Nero leaves, satisfied that she could help. Karna however points out that they have another field to harvest. Cú Chulainn leaves to go get Elizabeth Bathory.
====Event: inheritance of Glory====
Following the conclusion of the Great Holy Grail War, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, still fused with Vlad III, remained in the Greater Grail. Stilling wishing to acquire the Grail, he manifested mindless replicas of the war’s participating Servants (except the Rulers) to fight endlessly in a recreation of the war inside a recreation of Trifas.Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Apocrypha: Inheritance of Glory - Section 7: Decisive Battle : Ever-Floating GardenFate/Grand Order - Fate/Apocrypha: Inheritance of Glory - Section 2: Castle Defense : Millennia Fortress
Karna defends the Hanging Gardens of Babylon when Ritsuka's party comes to assault it at night. He effortlessly breaks Avicebron's shield protecting Fafnir (Sieg) and keeps blowing away Jack the Ripper's mist. Fortunately for them, Karna is struck into the Gardens by Mordred and Frankenstein, who launched themselves from the ground with an amplified Mana Burst. Inside, Karna joins Semiramis in fighting Ritsuka's party. The two are defeated and rematerialize with a sense of will thanks to Sieg's influence when morning comes. Semiramis then guides everyone to where the enemy resides, the Grail's chamber.Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Apocrypha: Inheritance of Glory - Section 6: A Dream-like Moment
At the Grail’s chamber, the group meets Darnic, the mastermind behind the recreated Great Grail War. Sieg explains who and what Darnic is. He tries to convince him to surrender, saying a broken Grail cannot reach the Root nor activate the Third Magic. Darnic refuses and reminds the group that he already controls 87% of the Grail. He declares that as long as he possesses the Grail, none of them will ever disappear, but they will once he’s gone. He then proposes using the Grail to incarnate them if they agree to join him. But they all refuse his proposal on their own principles as heroes. Expecting that to be their answer, Darnic connects to a replica of the Grail that emerges from within the Grail to Sieg’s shock. He then fights the group by having the replica Grail continually spawn replica Servants. The group struggle at first since the replica Grail is using their class affinities against them, so they decide to do the same.Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Apocrypha: Inheritance of Glory - Section 8: Golden Yggdmillennia: Tree of a Thousand Realms
After the replica Grail is destroyed, Darnic refuses to give up when he’s struck by Kazikli Bey from the supposedly sealed Vlad. Unlike the others though, he retained his memories of the Great Grail War due to Darnic fusing with him during it. He eventually convinces Darnic to accept that his broken dream can never be recovered. After Darnic and Vlad disappeared, Semiramis teleports the group back to the ground.Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Apocrypha: Inheritance of Glory - Section 9: Thus, It Went Into Hibernation Mode 
On the ground, Karna prepares to leave, claiming he has nothing left to say. Ritsuka asks if it's because saying goodbye would make him sad. Karna disappears, wondering if he's that easy to read.
====Yuga Kshetra: Samsara of Genesis and Terminus====
Rama and Karna are summoned together by Ritsuka with the Spirit Origin briefcase. Neither of them recognizes the topography and feels the air is dry and exhibits a feeling of loneliness. Sherlock Holmes asks them about the Cube that Chaldea observed, but only Karna has a vague feeling of seeing it before. While investigating, Rama, Nezha, and Karna notice they’re not at full strength after slaying a pack of wild beasts.Fate/Grand Order - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 2: Meeting Hope in a Lonely World
Ritsuka’s party proceeds to a nearby town, Bichu, where they meet Asha and her dog, Vihan. Her father, Ajay, brings her and Vihan into their home when the Kali attacks the town. As the group slays the Kali, white creatures arrive and target the Kali before turning their attention towards the group. After slaying the creatures, the group is banished by the town elder, Prakash, for slaying the Holy Beasts and the Kali, calling them God’s messengers.
In the nearby plains, Ritsuka's party search for a place to camp when they noticed Asha has followed them to thank them. They learn epics like Mahabharata don’t exist in the Lostbelt when Asha doesn’t recognize either Rama or Karna’s names. Asha then suggests the group camp in a cave she plays in and offers to guide them. She refers to the Cube as God’s Skyboulder, believing God created it. The townsfolk dare not approach its location due to the Kali. Asha reveals the Kali appear more frequently when the Kali Yuga approaches, which is tomorrow. After the Kali Yuga, everyone will be killed by God, but those loved by him will be resurrected for the new Yuga.
Later, after camp is set up, Asha explains the Lostbelt's Yuga Cycle. She also explains the Kali increase in number depending on the current Yuga, and those killed by them lose God’s blessing. She then recalls a self-proclaimed god came to her town a few days ago before heading to the mountains. The group decides to investigate, suspecting the person is a Divine Spirit and a Stray Servant. Karna then ensures Asha returns home safe. After Karna returns, Rama hopes the self-proclaimed god is Sita, especially since she's Lakshmi's avatar. Karna tells him not to get his hope up since the god could easily be of another pantheon.
Ritsuka's party search the mountains with Nezha searching from the air. Karna soon senses something whose intentions he cannot discern. He tosses his spear in its direction, grazing Scandinavia Peperoncino. The group speak with him when Nezha suddenly crashes before them and disappears. Her killer, another Nezha, then arrives and attacks the group. However, despite overwhelming them, she leaves upon spotting Peperoncino. The group eventually finds a talking elephant god statue that attacks them. Karna breaks the statue to reveal Ganesha inside. They both recognize the other and ask each other what they're doing in the Lostbelt. Karna however finds it strange he said that since he never met her before, yet he vaguely feels they were friends. Ganesha refuses to help the group and goes back into the statue. Ritsuka’s party removes her from the statue by force. Afterwards, Ganesha confirms it’s been five days since she came to Bichu while it was peaceful, and she agrees to help.Fate/Grand Order - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 3: A Mountain Where One Encounters God
The next morning, the group travel back to Bichu. However, they notice the environment has become completely desolate within a single day. They eventually return to Bichu to find it completely destroyed. They try to protect the survivors from an increasing number of Kali when Ashwatthama suddenly appears. As he fights the group, the other Nezha, William Tell, and Asclepius arrive.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 4: Kali Yuga/The Demon of the End William points to the approaching Vimana with God Arjuna, the sole god in India, riding it. God Arjuna calls Chaldea and their allies failures and begins gathering energy for Mahāpralaya. Karna tries to challenge him to combat, but God Arjuna ignores him. Rama throws Brahmastra at him, only for it to bounce off harmlessly. Kama and Karna prepare to fight God Arjuna when Peperoncino arrives and advises against it, calling God Arjuna an amalgamation of the Hindu gods. Peperoncino tries to help the group escape when they’re confronted by Ashwatthama. He reveals he was Peperoncino’s former Servant, but now he is one of God Arjuna’s Lokapala. Karna eventually hits him with Vasavi Shakti in the ensuing fight, and the group escape without finishing him off. Peperoncino warns them that God Arjuna has been preparing to destroy everything in the Lostbelt and then remake it. They reach the Border when God Arjuna initiates the restart. Karna exits and uses Kavacha and Kundala to protect the Border from God Arjuna’s Mahāpralaya. Though he doesn't understand it, he is confident he will meet everyone again. He asks Ganesha to take care of Ritsuka for him before he is erased.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 5: Kali Yuga/A Revolving World
When Ashwatthama uses Mahākāla Shakti to send Ganesha and Lakshmibai back to the beginning of God Arjuna's rule to become God's Skyboulder to prove God Arjuna's fallibility, he also enters the place where God Arjuna sends the "evil" he erases to meet Karna there. Ashwatthama wants them to leave immediately before they're torn to shreds, even though time is meaningless in this space. But Karna wants to train so he can face God Arjuna on even ground out of respect and despair for the hardships his brother went through to reach his current state. Ashwatthama accepts, and the two spare countlessly until Karna is at last satisfied. Ashwatthama then relinquishes his body and Spirit Core so Karna can return.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 18: Together With You, At the End of the Eternity Known as a Moment
Upon returning, Karna addresses Ganesha as Jinako Carigiri and commends her for how she's grow in the time he was gone. Ganesha responds with a smile and tears of joy. Through Ashwatthama’s Spirit Core, Karna knows almost everything that has transpired since his absence. Seeing him, God Arjuna descends to face Karna. He asks Karna why he opposes him, as they had both witnessed the Kurukshetra War. He declares his purging the world of “evil” as just, claiming his world is right. The end of final yuga then approaches something God Arjuna believes heralds the beginning of a world of harmony and peace. Karna refuses to say anything about his brother’s world since he never witnessed, instead he’ll let those he trusts speak for him. After Ritsuka and Sherlock reject God Arjuna’s world, Ashiya Douman arrives. Following a battle between Ritsuka’s party and God Arjuna and Douman, Karna sees he cannot harm God Arjuna, even with Shiva’s power. Then in response to God Arjuna’s boasts of perfection, Karna asks his brother why he absorbed the gods in the first place. He believes God Arjuna truly wanted to create a just world, but he knows Arjuna would never choose such an inhumane path. He therefore deduces Arjuna’s inner qualities were inverted somehow, calling God Arjuna the result of his greedily consuming the gods. So he doesn’t see God Arjuna as a perfect god, but a man who is both Arjuna and not Arjuna. Karna’s words anger God Arjuna, but Douman convinces him to retreat.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 19: Final Dark God 
Ritsuka's party follows God Arjuna in the Border to Fantasy Tree Spiral when they’re stopped by the . Captain activates his Noble Phantasm to transform the Border into the Nautilus to cross the poisonous waters, revealing himself to be Captain Nemo.
Reaching landfall, Ritsuka’s party arrives at Spiral. Rama decides to give his Brahmastra to Karna, adding that his utter lack of fame in the Lostbelt makes it impossible to fight at his full strength even without Krisha’s curse that he absorbed from Ashwatthama. Karna replies the lack of fame affects him as well, but Rama points to Ganesha as the one person who knows in her soul Karna’s heroics. Rama then gives Karna his Brahmastra to grant him Vishnu’s power, imploring Karna to save Sita in his place. Taking Shiva and Vishnu’s powers as his own, Karna’s Saint Graph transforms. God Arjuna and Douman then appear. God Arjuna is delighted to learn that Karna has both Shiva and Vishnu’s powers, and believes he is becoming a perfect god like himself. Karna refutes this by saying neither of them is close to being perfect gods. He then points to God Arjuna’s fixation on his name as proof that his brother is still human deep inside. Douman then fully activates Spiral. God Arjuna absorbs some of its power before fighting Karna. He questions his own infallibility though after Karna asks him if he ever looked at his own faults, losing his perfect godhood. Despite all of his power, he loses to Karna because he stopped being a god recognized by the people. He realizes the contradiction of wanting to destroy all evil while his evil, his obsession with Karna, remained in his soul. Karna calls God Arjuna a victim of the Lostbelt, but he doesn’t pity him, only feeling shame that he couldn’t defeat the ordinary Arjuna. He recounts how Arjuna always sought completion, but he feels having nowhere left to go upon reaching completion to be woefully incomplete. God Arjuna realizes from Karna’s words that he was a walking paradox from the beginning. He then disappears, disappointed he couldn’t be the one Karna wanted to face.
To the shock of his allies, Karna declares he will betray them when Peperoncino decides to defend Spiral. He then returns Brahmastra to Rama after getting him to realize Krishna’s curse disappeared with God Arjuna. Now back to his original state, Karna confesses he spent all his magical energy in his fight with God Arjuna. Only through sheer force of will does he remain. Karna then joins Peperoncino and readies to return his body and Spirit Core to their original owner. Ganesha tells him that she plans to return to her regular NEET self once everything is over. Karna tells her however to use the opportunity now afforded to her as god to go out and experience new things. Though this is goodbye, he feels the two of them will fight together again, as long as she remains Ganesha. Ganesha dislikes the idea of fighting again though and bids Karna farewell. Karna bids her farewell as well and returns Ashwatthama’s body and Spirit Core to him.
===Other appearances===
TMAPRIL 2015 YARIO.jpg|YARIO in TYPE-MOON April Fools' Day 2015, illustrated by B-suke.
He also appears in Chibichuki!.
In TYPE-MOON's April Fools' Day 2015, Lancer is in a group called YARIO and is part of the Imperial Roma talent agency, his class is .
== Abilities==
Karna is the "Hero of Charity", one of the most powerful beings in Indian mythology.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 10: Ambivalent States Even the thunder god Indra had no other choice but to devise an intricate scheme in order to send him to his grave. As the great invulnerable hero of the Indian epic Mahabharata, Karna is famed as the rival of Arjuna, the great hero of Hindu mythology. Ashwatthama is also famed as being equal if not superior to Karna, to which he agrees saying that even while he was receiving the teachings of his teacher Drona, it wasn't like he was the strongest warrior around at all. Based on his strength in life, the great hero Karna was truly exceptional, and his name has been echoed in every corner of the world. Despite Karna never having been openly recognized when he was alive due to many prejudices, Sherlock Holmes states that his heroic deeds were so great, that it is no exaggeration to say that in the India from Proper Human History, there is not a single person who has not heard his name. He says the same about Rama, who according to Geronimo, is another hero who at full power would be an equal match to Karna.Fate/Grand Order - E Pluribus Unum: The Grand Battle of Legends in North America - Section 6: Rama Got His SwordFate/Grand Order -turas réalta- - Chapter 38: "Fifth Singularity II" Karna along with Rama, Arjuna and Parvati were Da Vinci's top choices of which Servants she would have liked to summon in the Indian Lostbelt with the Spirit Origin graph. Even without the home advantage, he and Rama would still remain among the best servants she could have hoped to summon in India. No matter if his fame was equal to zero, Karna was unmistakably a great hero.
Although Karna was a great hero, he was not known to possess a spear, instead he was famed for riding a chariot and using a bow, as such he is a warrior who is praised for functioning as an Archer and Rider simultaneously.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 5: Evil Dragon and the Holy Woman As a Heroic Spirit, Karna has qualifications to be summoned in the Lancer, Archer and Rider classes. As a Lancer, he boasts the power level of "Special" A rank, and he contends for the highest place among all Servants. Karna is one of the seven Top Servants summoned by the Moon Cell, and Hakuno Kishinami regards him as a strong hero even among those standards. In fact, Karna is a high-class Heroic Spirit said to be on par with Gilgamesh, a heroic spirit of same rank as King of Heroes奈須氏は『EXTRA CCC』での彼の実力について「確かにギルガメッシュと同格の英雄ではありますが、なんたってマスターがアレですからね(笑)どうなるかはお楽しみという事で」、「カルナはギルガメッシュと同格の非常に強力な英霊です。ストーリー前半における最大の壁として主人公達の前に立ち塞がります」とコメントしているFate/EXTELLA - Iskandar's Side Story and Romani Archaman states that the readings of his Saint Graph are off the charts. Having a nature related to the Sun just like Cú Chulainn and Gawain, Hakuno estimates that Karna must be on their level in power. In fact, Hakuno Kishinami, Leonardo B. Harwey, and BB all regard Karna and Gawain as Heroic Spirits on the same power level, able to equally match each other. Therefore, the only factor that gives either of them an edge is the difference between their Masters. Due to this, in Fate/EXTRA CCC where Karna is summoned under a third-rate Master, BB had initially assumed that Gawain, just like Karna, would pose no threat to her. However, when Gawain finally faced her, his incredible firepower far surpassed her expectations. She speculates that it must have been due to the difference in the power of their masters. Being strong enough to match Gawain, Rin states that Karna should be strong enough to deal with Passionlip. Even BB was worried of him, and she claimed that if Gawain and Karna joined forces, even she would be overwhelmed. In Fate/EXTELLA, Gawain stated that Karna's Magical Energy was very similar to that of his Noble Phantasm Excalibur Galatine, and that it must have come from a very powerful servant who draws strength from the sun just like him. He warns Nero Claudius to be worry of him, saying that his flames could singe even her.
During the Great Holy Grail War, Karna was the undisputed strongest alongside Achilles. Jeanne d'Arc estimates that Achilles boasts power and ability that rivals Karna, who she considers to be dangerous beyond compare. Shirou Kotomine also states that Achilles could match Karna, and confirms that Karna possesses the strength necessary to oppose Vlad while empowered by a fame boost from the fight taking place in his home country, thanks to possessing power which exceeds even said fame. After Mordred learned that, she considered the possibility of her Father being the servant Shirou was talking about. Compared to the other servants of the Red Faction - putting aside Mordred who was operating independently - both Karna and Achilles were truly unparalleled. As such, it is truly a case of two star players in a single team. Semiramis is not far behind, as it is noted that she could probably put up a good match against Karna, with the strength of her mysteries.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 4: Cup of Purgatory - Chapter 2 
Although the Heroic Spirit Karna is unmistakably top class, his Magical Energy consumption is quite bad. Karna isn't capable of maintaining his Mana Burst (Flame) for more than ten seconds with his golden armor continuously active, along with the divine spear he wields. A normal Mage probably wouldn’t be able to move even a single finger while supporting him. Even a first-rate Master would be exhausted to the point that they couldn’t use their own Magecraft. Although this is very unlikely, but if there is a Master who cannot win even after forming a contract with this Servant, that would be a human with top-ranking hopeless nature, unsuited for combat. During the second half of the Great Holy Grail War, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, who was directly connected to the Greater Grail, became Karna's master. This granted Karna an abundant mana supply, allowing him to utilize his full power at full throttle, unlike anything seen previously. 
===Combat===
Having stepped so far into the realm of Gods, Karna boasts great martial prowess. Karna is extremely confident in his abilities, and claims he'd have no trouble in fighting both Siegfried and Jeanne d'Arc simultaneously. He speaks not out of haughtiness or arrogance, because to him, it is a simple truth that he cannot be defeated. Karna's combat strength is equal to that of multiple first-class servants working together. Whereas it took a team comprised of Mordred, Sieg, Chiron, Jeanne d'Arc and Astolfo perfectly following a coordinated tactic to defeat Avicebron's Adam, it is noted that Karna or Achilles should be able to face a giant such as this head-on and achieve victory with ease. Despite this, within the Hanging Gardens of Babylon where Semiramis' power and Authority is truly absolute, Semiramis would be able restrain Karna with just a single wave of her hand.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 4: Cup of Purgatory - Chapter 1 Vlad III in his Legend of Dracula form was also strong enough to punch Karna, sending him flying into a wall. Although the damage of his punch was insignificant to Karna thanks to his armor, he was surprised at how he had managed to overpower him with just his overwhelming physical strength alone.
Karna is extremely quick-witted and agile, although even inside the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, where the fame of all Servants besides Semiramis is reduced to zero, Karna is still said to be only one step slower than Achilles. Lancer's spear is a massive length of iron, which he utilizes its sharp tip and immense weight to bring about destruction. Having a long range with his spear naturally slows the speed of the attack, as a small amount of time is lost with every thrust as the spear must be pulled back. However, even Siegfried, whose swordsmanship has long surpassed mankind, was unable to completely defend himself from Karna's assault. Although he managed to ward off the spear's barrage by maneuvering his sword with the smallest possible movement, and by closing the distance one step at a time, Karna managed to strike Siegfried seventy-eight times in different vital points every single time. Thanks to Karna's immense physical Strength and transcendent technique, each of his strikes pack destructive force equivalent to an A rank attack. Although Siegfried's arms should have been torn apart, and his eyes gouged out, thanks to Armor of Fafnir, they were all registered as shallow wounds that could be healed in an instant with Gordes regenerative thaumaturgy. Once Siegfried stops acting careless and relying solely on his armor, he is able to match Karna blow for blow. Every attack was met by its opposite, entwining together and scattering into sparks. The superiority of Lancer's technique still exceeded Saber's by a slight degree, but Saber was tougher in body. Having exchanged hundreds and thousands of blows,Fate/Apocrypha Volume 4: Cup of Purgatory - Chapter 3 in a battle that prolonged for several hours without any of them using their other Noble Phantasms, all things considered, they were more or less an even in terms of strength. A moment's carelessness could lead to a pierced heart or severed head. Anyone would be hard-pressed to tell who had the upper hand, but there was the matter of Gordes. Due to the healing thaumaturgy of his Master, Siegfried could always recover from damage. However, Karna's own ability to recover was also considerable, even by himself. An indication that he was powerfully bound to his Master and supplied by substantial Magical Energy.
Prior to the start of the events of Fate/EXTELLA LINK, Karna was Oraclized by Karl der Große, getting brainwashed and becoming his pawn in the process. During his first fight with Charlemagne, the young hero proves to be strong enough to fight on par with Karna and chase him away, gaining his praise as a worthy opponent. The next time they meet, Karna has the support of Gilles de Rais. To remove the buff empowering Karna, Gawain momentarily fights Karna, preventing him from going after Charlemagne. After Charlemagne successfully destroys the Mana Point giving Karna extra power, he joins Gawain and helps him defeat Karna, making him retreat. In the final battle of the story, Karna also had the support of the St. Metropolita, which was supplying him with extra Magical Energy. Due to having even more power than usual, not even the combined efforts of Arjuna and Charlemagne were able to overpower him. On the contrary. Karna was at a clear advantage against them in close range combat.
In the Fifth Singularity, Karna is shown slowly overwhelming Arjuna in close-range combatthe distance between the two, due to Archers shining in long-range combat. However, as expected of the great Arjuna, the two were nearly on par with each other. Their battle was described by Dr. Roman as the very reenactment of mythology, and "off the charts in every way." Nothing less from a Top Servant. In Cú Chulainn Alter's 2nd Interlude, even when working together with Medb, Karna and her were unable to overpower Cú Chulainn Alter, despite the mad warrior having been previously poisoned by Semiramis. Whereas Saber Alter is later shown to be be capable of blocking a strike of full power Cú Chulainn Alter rather easily, while Cu Alter poisoned by Semiramis was still strong enough to kill Karna by throwing Medb chariot Np at him.Fate/Grand Order - Cú Chulainn Alter's 2nd Interlude: Kill Like a Beast, Fight for Carnage
Summer Martha is powerful enough to incapacitate Karna and Sasaki Kojirou simultaneously in a fight. 
In the Indian Lostbelt, Karna, Rama, and Nezha are unable to perform at their best due to a lonely aura covering the entire world, despite them being summoned in their home country. This doesn't mean they can't fight, but that they definitely can't use 100% of their power. Nezha states that the effects are negligible, and that they should have no serious issues in combat, to which Karna agrees. Karna regards Nezha (Berserker) as a formidable fighter, and even when working together with Rama and Mash Kyrielight they were unable to overpower her. Karna states that if the battle had been prolonged, one of them would have ended up resorting to releasing the full power of their Noble Phantasm. Even with the support of Rama, Ganesha, and Mash, Karna was unable to overpower Ashwatthama in close range combat, and was forced to use Vasavi Shakti in order to buy some time to escape. To face Arjuna Alter, Karna put himself through the same ordeals Arjuna seemingly had went through when he gained the Indian divinities, only deciding to fight him once he had pushed himself as far as he possibly could. After fighting Ashwatthama thousands of times over in a realm where time is meaningless, Karna finally reached a state that would allow him to face Arjuna Alter. Although sending Ganesha and Lakshmibai into the past had reinforced the concept that any god who could miss something like this for so long must be defective, even after gaining Shiva’s godly strength from Ashwatthama's Saint Graph, Karna was still unable to harm Arjuna Alter. In the myth, Shiva was strong enough to get rid of , the poison Vasuki the serpent king vomited on the Ocean of Milk, by drinking it. However, Karna, who was only borrowing a portion of Shiva’s power at the time, doubts if he would be able to do the same, although he states that he could jump over it and get to the Fantasy Tree by himself if necessary.
Karna's strongest weapon is his "will."
====Jinako's Servant====
During the CCC Incident, Karna's full potential is not drawn out due to Jinako Carigiri being a third rate Master. This is largely because by the time he makes his first appearance, he has already lost his greatest weapon, his golden armor. Due to this, even inside the Sakura Labyrinth where it is always night-time, and therefore Gawain is three times weaker than normal, Karna and Gawain are evenly matched in close range combat. Although Karna tried to activate his armor against him, Leonardo B. Harwey used his vanish_add(a) command to cancel out Karna's advantageous effect. After receiving a powerful blow from Gawain, Jinako ordered Karna to fire Vasavi Shakti, to which he reluctantly agreed.
=== Skills===
====Class Skills====
*Magic Resistance (C Rank): Negates Magecraft with an aria of two verses or lower. Cannot defend against large-scale Magecraft such as greater magecraft or Greater Rituals. However, when receiving the effect of the golden armor Noble Phantasm, it will not be limited to this.
*Riding (A Rank): All vehicles and all beasts excepting those of Phantasmal Beast and Divine Beast-rank can be freely operated. His figure driving a war chariot and running across the battlefield is depicted in the Mahabharata. Its rank is high enough to have aptitude for the Rider Class. 
====Personal Skills==== 
*Divinity (A Rank): As the son of the Sun Deity Surya, Karna possessed his father's brilliant Authority when he was alive, and thanks to having united with him after death, Karna possesses the highest Divine Spirit aptitude. Having recordings of the past three-way battle that determined the fate of SE.RA.PH, Hakuno Kishinami highly regards the enormous strength with which Karna ascended to the Moon Cell. Karna is sometimes called "the Hero of the Sun," and protrayed as an incarnation of the Sun itself. In that regard, his nature has some similarities to Gawain or Cú Chulainn. Cu Chulainn is the son of the Sun god Lugh, and Gawain wields the holy sword of the Sun, Excalibur Galatine. Hakuno estimates that Karna must be on their level. Furthermore, Karna boasts high defensive power in regards to sun deity-lineage's Heroic Spirits of Divinity B or lower. Karna is an incarnation of fire, and due to being the son of the sun, he cannot be burned even by flame spirits. Ozymandias claims that their combat compatibility is bad.Fate/Grand Order material IV - Ozymandias, p.068-079, translated by castor212 at Beast's Lair.
 
*Mana Burst (Flame) (A Rank): The power to put magical energy into weapons. In Karna's case, blazing flames become magical energy to dwell in the weapon used. This Skill is usually active and all the weapons that Karna grasps receive this effect. He can use this skill to fly, using the flames as boosters. At maximum power Karna was able to slice through Balmung's surging wave by imbuing his spear with flames, and he can use a charging attack, capable of crushing average Servants in one hit. Karna while using this skill calls out “O Agni”. He can use this skill to burn inside his body, the stakes that held him and restrained his body were all burnt away. The scene looked as if the flame god Agni had descended upon the earth. A stream of fire formed around Karna as if to burn away the ground, yet it didn’t harm even a single strand of his hair.
*Discernment of the Poor (A Rank): Insight to see through the opponent's character and attribute. He will not be deceived by excuses and deceptions from words. It expresses the power to grasp the true nature of the opponent possessed by Karna, who was blessed with the opportunity to inquire about the life and value of the weak due to being someone without a single relative. Shirou Kotomine personally restrained himself from lying as much as possible to avoid this skill and acted out by manipulating Lancer's real master.
*Uncrowned Martial Arts (— Rank): Arms competency that was not recognized by others due to various reasons. To the opponents, the rank of his sword, spear, bow, Riding and Divinity appears to be one degree lower than what it actually is. If his True Name is revealed, this effect will be terminated. A considerable weakness, considering Karna's attributes as a hero are not the kind of thing that can remain hidden. Also, this is a digression, but the rank of his Luck stat was reported by Karna himself.
:*Almsgiver's End (— Rank): Upgrade from Uncrowned Martial Arts in Fate/Grand Order.
===Noble Phantasms===
====Kavacha and Kundala====
Emitting the radiance of the sun, Karna wears the armor Kavacha and Kundala, a powerful defensive-type Noble Phantasm integrated in his body that emits the radiance of the sun. Because it's light itself taken shape, it is difficult to destroy even to gods. Although Karna boasts the greatest physical defense out of all the Servants that participated in the Great Holy Grail War, it is noted that by concentrating an enormous amount of Magical Energy, Atalanta can fire an arrow strong enough to wound even him. This is because Karna's armor doesn't nullify all attacks, but instead reduces the damage he takes to one-tenth. Thanks to his armor, Karna could easily match a thousand of Vlad III's stakes without paying any care to the ones that stabbed countless times all over his body. From his feet to his right shoulder to his left flank to his elbow, neither his movements nor his strength changed at all, as the armor reduced the damage taken to mere scratches that he could heal while fighting. 
When facing an attack more powerful than what his armor can safely handle on its own, Karna can cover his body with his Mana Burst (Flame) skill to further augment his defenses, as seen when he withstood a direct hit from Sieg's Balmung on two occasions. In his fight against Vlad, when facing larger amounts of stakes, Karna broke one thousand stakes with his spear, burned eight hundred with the flames covering his body, and stopped two thousand with that golden armor. Truly remarkable, considering that Vlad’s repeated attacks were half-hearted at all, and that any other Lancer besides Karna wouldn’t have been able to withstand it. Even inside the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, where the fame of all servants besides Semiramis is reduced to zero, Vlad III in his Legend of Dracula was strong enough to pierce through Karna's armor by throwing stakes with his hands, as seen when one of them pierced Karna's foot. Darnic believed that had Vlad used this Noble Phantasm during their first encounter in Romania, he would have easily torn Karna apart.
By forcefully invoking the True Name of this Noble Phantasm, Karna momentarily becomes the very radiance of the sun, due the nigh-indestructible armor being imbuded with Surya's power. Thanks to this, Karna was able to endure Arjuna Alter’s Mahāpralaya for 5 seconds, only to be destroyed right after. Rama was impressed he lasted as long as he did, and he said that was a feat akin to holding back all the waters of the ocean or catching a falling star with one’s bare hands. He states that there are a few heroes in all of history who could have withstood a cataclysm like that, even just for a few seconds.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yugakshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 6: The Relic Called Falsehood Karna states that no matter how powerful the Moon Cell may be, as long as it remains the moon, it wouldn't be able to destroy his armor.
====Brahmastra====
Brahmastra: An Anti-Army, Anti-Country Noble Phantasm granted to Karna. When summoned as a Lancer, it will manifest as a different projectile weapon. By calling upon the name of the god Brahma, it will pursue the enemy and surely hit, but because of a curse it cannot be used on opponents of greater ability than himself. Gawain was able to repel the beam with with an attack called Sword Flash of Loyalty.
====Brahmastra Kundala====
By enhancing Brahmastra with his Mana Burst (Flame) skill, Karna can launch his hidden Noble Phantasm and trump card known as Brahmastra Kundala. The Brahmastra, which already had a wide effective range to begin with, has its effective range further widened and its power exceptionally raised, comparable to nuclear weapons. This Noble Phantasm rivals his golden armor. When he was tasked with killing Jeanne d'Arc before she arrived to Trifas, he came to the conclusion that it'd be unwise to underestimate her and thus decided that he'd destroy her with this Noble Phantasm from the start before giving her time to excercise her "privilage". Having just arrived when he was about to unleash it, Gordes considered that it was so powerful, that it should have been wiser for Siegfried to fight alongside Ruler with her invincible "privilage" to defeat Karna. Although Jeanne d'Arc refused to work together with Saber of Balck due to her role as a Ruler, she wanted to cry out for Siegfried to stop fighting him relying simply on his Armor of Fafnir to nullify Karna's attacks, knowing what both of them were truly capable of. When fighting Vlad III, he began to wait for the chance to use this Noble Phantasm in order to increase the success of his finishing blow. Even when held back, it was to equal Sieg's Balmung.
====Vasavi Shakti====
In exchange for removing his tremendous defensive power, Karna is able to activate Vasavi Shakti, a one-shot only spear of light that takes down even gods. Originally the thunder spear of the King of the Gods Indra which not even he could handle properly. Its power is sufficient to kill gods. Therefore, Heroic Spirits are a matter of course; Monstrous Beasts, Phantasmal Beasts, Divine Beasts, Shields, Fortresses, Bounded Fields, and every single existence is equally meaningless before its might. However it fails to overpower Akhilleus Kosmos due to its unique properties. Even though the light of the spear melted, boiled and trampled upon its world, the Shield was able to endure it as Vasavi Shakti's power is enough to destroy a "single" existence whether that be a person, an army, a fortress or a God. But it's unable to destroy Achilles' world as killing a God does not mean killing a world. If the god is killed, then all that's left is a world without a god. Even without a god, the vast skies, earth, oceans will continue to limitlessly spread, mankind's triumphant song will continue to resound. What thwarted the spear was the world itself. After completely blocking the blast, the shield was destroyed as enduring the might of the spear was too much.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 5: Evil Dragon and the Holy Woman Fragment: Vasavi Shakti vs Akhilleus Kosmos Japanese Text
During his fight with Arjuna in Fate/EXTELLA LINK, Karna had the support of the St. Metropolita, which was supplying him with Magical Energy, giving him even more power than usual. Since Arjuna wouldn't have been able to charge his Noble Phantasm in time to defend himself from Vasavi Shakti, Charlemagne used his Joyeuse Ordre to offset it. Although it managed to offset most of the attack, he was left in a wounded state. When Karna fired Vasavi Shakti again a second time, Arjuna was now able to equally match it with Pashupata, having had enough time to get it ready. The resulting explosion of the two Noble Phantasms clashing sent Karna and Arjuna flying away.
In the North American Singularity, this attack wasn't powerful enough to reach Cú Chulainn Alter due to Karna being mortally wounded from Cú's previous surprise attack. Even in this condition, Vasavi Shakti still caused Cú great damage, forcing him to retreat. During his fight with Gawain, where Karna was also weakened due to being Jinako Carigiri's servant, the Knight of the Round Table was strong strong enough to survive the attack, 
by forcibly activating his Numeral of the Saint skill which greatly reduces damage for 3 turns, and Leonardo B. Harwey further buffing his Endurance with a Codecast, Gawain was able to ward off the edge of the attack and avoid getting a direct hit. Although Gawain wasn't able to defend against it completely, he still had enough strength left to fire Excalibur Galatine as a counter attack, defeating Karna in the process. 
In the events of the Indian Lostbelt, this attack failed to kill Ashwatthama. Although it certainly hurt him, due to Krishna's curse, Ashwatthama started recovering from the damage at an alarming speed. Scandinavia Peperoncino also states that because Arjuna Alter outclasses both Karna and Rama in every way, not even Karna's Noble Phantasms would stand a chance against him due to Arjuna alter divinity far surpassing divine rank of spear. He said this despite Arjuna Alter being occupied at the time charging Mahāpralaya and without taking any defensive action to protect himself.
==Forms and Alternate Versions==
===Burning Three Gods===
The is a form taken in the Indian Lostbelt. Karna also calls it .
He achieved this form when Rama granted him Vishnu's power and it combined with Shiva's power that he inherited from Ashwatthama's Spirit Core.
====Abilities====
To face Arjuna Alter, Karna put himself through the same ordeals Arjuna seemingly had went through when he gained the Indian divinities, only deciding to fight him once he had pushed himself as far as he possibly could. After fighting Ashwatthama thousands of times over in a realm where time is meaningless, Karna finally reached a state that would allow him to face Arjuna Alter. Although sending Ganesha and Lakshmibai into the past had reinforced the concept that any god who could miss something like this for so long must be defective, even after gaining Shiva’s godly strength from Ashwatthama's Saint Graph, Karna was still unable to harm Arjuna Alter. To defeat Arjuna, Rama gave Karna his Brahmastra. He made this decision not only because he had been crippled by Krishna's Curse, but because whereas his fame was meaningless in an India where no one knew about him, there was still a person there, Jinako Carigiri, who knew about Karna's great status and power, giving him a higher chance against Arjuna than Rama.
With a portion of Vishnu and Shiva's power inside him, Karna manifests this new form that proves that he is no longer borrowing the power of other gods, but that he has made them his own. Although the amount of power Karna gained in this form was certainly incredible, Lakshmibai wasn't certain if it would be enough to defeat Arjuna Alter. Arjuna Alter also tried to increase his own strength, accessing the pocket dimension of the Fantasy Tree Spiral, revealing the galaxy inside. Arjuna states that the boost he gained from absorbing its tremendous amount of Magical Energy made him feel just as powerful as when he first absorbed the gods, if not more. Sherlock Holmes states that with that much sheer energy, Arjuna would be able to easily incinerate the Earth’s surface, as Goetia did. Super Karna was un-faced by this, saying that gaining power from somewhere else changes nothing, and made Arjuna question his infallibility, leaving Arjuna in his most vulnerable state. Although Arjuna should have outclassed Super Karna in every way, due to having every Indian god whereas Super Karna only had Shiva and Vishnu's power, their battle ended with Super Karna fatally wounding Arjuna. Karna states that Arjuna lost because he lacked something Karna himself possessed. Companions. To put it another way, a god is only a god if people are recognizing him as such. A god cannot be a god if they are all alone. Arjuna grew dependent on power from beyond this world in the Fantasy Tree, and wholly abandoned its people. He may have become a nigh-omnipotent god thanks to that power, able to create and destroy entirely by himself, but such a god is no god.
*In-game, Super Karna still has the same skills and Noble Phantasms than his regular counterpart.
===Santa ===
Due to various circumstances, Karna has become a Santa. Christmas, the one time of the year when everyone wishes for presents. Santa Claus is the one who receives those wishes, and once Karna realized that he has the power to fulfill it, he of course, does not hesitate to take on that role. In response to the children’s pleas of “Santa, please give us presents!”, he readily replies, “Is that so? Very well then, I shall give them to you.” as if it’s second nature to him. He is the type of Santa Claus who will fulfill wishes without excess or deficiency.
====Personality====
He’s cool and seems unfriendly, but he’s not a cold person. It’s just he’s having trouble conveying his kindness. Though he seems to be the same as usual, in a way, his current mental age is “younger”. While he maintains his usual coolness, he sometimes says and does things with the fervor of a shonen manga protagonist.
====Abilities ====
For some reason, his fighting style has turned into a hardcore boxing style. As a result, he remembered his training days when he was younger, when he used to compete with his brethren with his bare hands. It seems that his "desire for pure martial arts training and personal growth" has also slightly increased.
Karna has defeated all five previous Santas. Karna says that Artoria Pendragon Alter was truly first rate. All things considered, she was of course, at a high level, and it’s worth noting that the weight of her bulging gift bag was as much of a threat as a slash from the black Holy Sword. Karna believes the only reason he won is that the ring they fought in was too small for her sled to move freely.
Against Jeanne d'Arc Alter Santa Lily, the difference in their ranks was too great to the point it was a no contest. Karna didn’t fight her. She just ceded the ownership of the belt.
Altera was also a very strong opponent. Karna says it would’ve been dangerous for him had she been in perfect physical condition. The wool on her sheep’s body could absorb the impact from Karna's punches.
Quetzalcoatl was by far his strongest opponent. It was a head-on melee battle. Through mysterious steps, she unleashed numerous Christmas Killing Method attacks that couldn’t be countered with punches… Honestly speaking, Karna couldn’t guess what would happen next. Karna hopes to have a rematch.
Florence Nightingale was a terrifying opponent in a different sense. She threw syringes at a boxer… Even if it was out of courtesy, Karna couldn’t bring himself to take even one shot. It would be judged as a doping violation, and Karna would lose. Karna says that in some ways, it was the most nerve-wrecking match he had.
Class Skills: 
*Magic Resistance (A Rank): Nullifies spells of A-Rank or below. In fact he can't be harmed by modern magi. As a result of the Saber Class and the protection of Santa Claus the rank has increased compared to when he was a Lancer.
*Divinity (A Rank): Even after becoming a Santa, the fact that Karna is the son of Surya the sun god does not change. “Santa is the children’s sun. Therefore, I can say that Surya is Santa.”, he declared as a matter-of-factly while in the dining hall. Arjuna, who was eating curry behind him, had a puzzled look on his face upon hearing that.
* Hard Puncher (EX Rank): A skill that demonstrates the raw power of his fists’ strike. A sure-kill fist that can KO an enemy with just a single blow.
*Riding (— Rank): With his acquisition of the boxing style, he lost his Riding skill despite being of the Saber class. Even though he’s a Santa, Karna won’t ride a sled. As he is a boxer, he silently jogs (roadwork) along.
Personal Skills:
*Foot Santa (A Rank): An amazing skill that combines footwork and being a Santa. This is the foundation of Santa Karna’s fighting style. It’s a skill that demonstrates footwork and stepping techniques in boxing. In addition to having the ability to always manage the appropriate distance needed according to the situation, a high-speed footwork that can evade attacks and does not miss even the slightest opening the enemy has, it also allows him to walk as Santa Claus to ensure the delivery of gifts to his opponents, even in dangerous places such as lava fields or areas with heavy snowfall.
*Flashing Fist (A Rank): This Karna does not carry a spear, he only has his fists. But, that doesn't mean there is a decrease in his combat power. For he was trained by parshurama, an expert in all aspects of martial arts, so he is accustomed to fighting with empty hands. In fact, when he recalls the past when he was studying martial arts along with Arjuna and Ashwatthama, it gives him a fresh sensation that makes his body lighter than it was when he was burdened with the weight of his spear. The maximum speed of the punches he deliver exceeds the . Those who face it can only see the trails of his fists as a flash of light… maybe. It’s just like a flash of a sword without hesitation, that is to say, his fists are just like a sword. “And that is the reason why I am now a Saber!”, he cheerfully declared while in the dining hall. Ashvatthaman, who was eating chicken behind him, had a puzzled look on his face the whole time.
*Hero of Charity (Holy Night) (EX Rank): One of the reasons Karna was chosen to be Santa Claus. If the hero who always gives generously when asked, is given a mysterious gift bag filled with Santa Power then we have nothing to fear anymore. Well, it's not like there's much to be scared of anyway. A skill of similar nature to "Saint's Gift".
Noble Phantasms:
Karna's Noble Phantasms are Winning Arkaputra and Graharāja Santa Cross.
==Development==
In Fate/Apocrypha volume 5, Yuuichirou Higashide originally planned to have Karna to act slightly different in the Jumbo Jet Counter-Attack. There were plans to have something like a ‘Massive Jumbo Jet Target Shooting scene where Karna readies himself and sticks his spear in the ground, and when Semiramis asks what he is doing, he says, “Weapons are unnecessary. A true hero kills with his eyes!”’, but it was too much of a ridiculous gag and it ended up being cut.
Karna is one of Kinoko Nasu's favorite characters, and he was originally designed for the cancelled online Fate/Apocrypha game. At that time Nasu thought it is too good to be shelved away so he decided to put Karna into Fate/EXTRA CCC.
Arco Wada said the original design by pako was too complex to reproduce a 3D model, especially the flaming cape, so the design was changed but she kept the same impression as much as possible.
===Creation and Conception===
Karna i.png|pako original design.
SLB4-Karna.png|Fate/Grand Order concept art
Karna was designed by pako in Fate/Grand Order. His scenario writer is Kinoko Nasu in Fate/Grand Order. He was planned for the original canceled online game project.
Karna (Santa) scenario writer is Hazuki Minase in Fate/Grand Order.
===Comments from Illustrator===
====Karna====
"Having seeing him appear before in CCC and Apocrypha, I was very happy for the chance to draw him myself, too. 'A Lancer is not a Lancer if they’re not wearing tights!', I say even though those are not supposed to be tights. I believe Karna-san is designed as a man who is hot for the modern Japanese standards but wasn’t considered hot when he was alive. Just look at how he has no beard, is thin as a stick and has dead fish eyes. Although those are the elements that make him look so pretty in my drawings." (pako)
====Karna (Santa)====
"Usually when you look at the ingredients of a dish, you can tell if it's going to be a meal or a dessert, right? Then we have this year Santa, Karna, who is both a Saber and boxer right? Wasn't it supposed to be a space cat? Anyway I'm so excited." (pako)
===Reception===
*In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Lancer was ranked 217th.
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