Pretender

, , is an Extra Servant Class. According to E-Aqua Marie, Pretender was a Servant Class made by CHALDEAS, and as such she knows its fundamentals by heart, and can even give a Class Score to reinforce Pretenders.Fate/Grand Order: Ordeal Call - Abnormal Gravitational Field: Olga Marie Quest 2
==Qualifications and characteristics==
Pretenders are those who became heroes while feigning another identity. Disguised individuals, like the masked , do not qualify for the class, but rather those who acted while fulfilling the role of another. If "Person A" dies with unfulfilled ambitions and "Person B" acts in the role of "Person A" until the end without exposing themselves, "Person A" retains all of their fame. "Person B," the interior of this false persona, never receives any exposure or comes into the light, so they are left as the only one able to fulfill the role of "Person A," the exterior of the false persona.TYPE-MOON Ace Volume 14 - Pg. ??? - Oberon was added with the new class "Pretender" so what are the prerequisites for being one?Nasu: Simply put, someone who became a hero while feigning being something else. A hero like Zorro who acts while under disguise of a mask does not qualify as a Pretender. For example, let's say a certain A has died with their ambitions unfilled, and in his place a certain B continues their writings, leaves their comments and fulfills the role of A into the end, ultimately leaving all the fame with A. Meanwhile, B who was the interior of this persona cannot find any spots to occupy and ultimately the only one who becomes a hero is A, the exterior. This is what the Pretender class, one who wears a role, entails.———オベロンは新たなエクストラクラス『プリテンダー』として実装されましたが、プリテンダー該当するサ ーヴァントの条件とは何でしょうか？奈須：端的に言うと『何かを偽ったまま英雄になった者』です。自分の正体を仮面で活躍した怪傑ゾロのような 英雄は、プリテンダーには該当しません。たとえば、志なかばで倒れたAの死を隠してかれの代わりに文を描き 、コメントを残し、最後までAとして振る舞うことですべての名声がＡに集まった。その一方で、中身であるＢ には一切スポットが当てられず、あくまでも英雄になったのはガワであるＡだけ。それが”役を羽織った英雄” であるプリテンダーというクラスなんです。(Translator)
First observed in the World of Fate/Grand Order by Chaldea Security Organization, the Class is deduced and named by Sherlock Holmes. The Class is described by Holmes as "A Heroic Spirit who is not an opponent to man or beast, but the world through spinning impersonations." He says those qualifying are among Heroes and Anti-Heroes who "have given false representation, deceiving and misleading others to do great deeds." Beyond merely being a "counterfeit," Pretenders are "someone who deceives even the soul until more power and greater achievements than the real thing remain."Fate/Grand Order - Lostbelt 6 - Section 30
Faker gained the Pretender Class as well as her parameters and Skills partially altered, as a result of having her Saint Graph mixed with Mnemosyne.Fate/Grand Order – Hephaestion Profile final section, translated by Comun
According to E-Aqua Marie, the Servant Class of Pretender was made within CHALDEAS.Fate/Grand Order: Ordeal Call - Abnormal Gravitational Field: Olga Marie Quest 2
The reason Pretenders don't cause "distortions" in the Holy Grail War system is that they come disguised as existing classes.Famitsu - Fate/Grand Order 8th Anniversary interview with Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi translated by ComunCoutinho at Reddit Depending on the Servant, their True Name on their Saint Graph maybe be obscured. The revelation of a Pretender's True Name is shown to have multiple different methods, which are:
* - Tenochtitlan
* - Hephaestion Mnemosyne
* - Oberon Vortigern
* - Typhon Ephemeros
* - Alessandro di Cagliostro
==Known Pretenders==
True Name 	False name 	False Class(es) 	War 	Master
Alessandro di Cagliostro	Cagliostro (Alter) 	Avenger/Caster 	Grand Order	Alien World/Ritsuka Fujimaru
Oberon Vortigern 	Oberon 	Ruler/Archer/Rider/Caster	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru
Hephaestion Mnemosyne‎ 	Hephaestion 	N/A 	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru
Tenochtitlan 	Tlaloc/Huitzilopochtli	Ruler/Berserker 	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru
Typhon Ephemeros 	Typhon 	Alter Ego 	Grand Order	None
==Pretenders with modified Saint Graphs==
Servants possessing the Class of Pretender through the modification of their Saint Graph rather than a standard summoning.
True Name 	War 	Master 	Saint Graph
Abigail Williams (Santa) 	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru	Santa
Cait Cú Cerpriestess 	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru	Summer Saint Graph
Eliza the Nine-Tattooed Dragon	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru	Halloween
Lady Avalon 	Grand Order	Ritsuka Fujimaru	Summer Saint Graph
==Other qualifying heroes==
True Name	Current Class	Notes
==Development==
Pretender was first introduced in Fate/Grand Order in 2021.
==References==
Category:Servant classes
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