Durga

, Class Name , is an Archer-class Pseudo-Servant summoned by Rani XII in the System Grail War in the Inner World of Paper Moon in Fate/Grand Order. She is later summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru under Chaldea's FATE system, comprising the First Ascension and Second Ascension of the Saint Graph, while Kali comprises the Third Ascension.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Durga is the Hindu goddess of war. She is another facet of Parvati.Fate/Grand Order material V - Parvati, p.340-349 translated by castor212 She is Shiva's divine consort. She is depicted as a beautiful goddess with a third eye and several arms in modern times.
It is said that Durga was born from the converging of the light of the gods' wrath when a powerful demonic deity assaulted the heavens. The gods gave her each of their symbolic armaments like a trident, a chakram, a spear, etc. With those god-given armaments, she attacked the demonic deity and at the end of their fight she successfully vanquished him.
====History====
Using a certain young woman as her host, she became the Pseudo-Servant Durga. The goddess of war born from the wrath of the gods.
Durga is a being born from the light of many gods' wrath, starting from Shiva and Vishnu. Since she came into being for the sake of killing the demonic deity Mahisha who attacked the heavenly realm, for that purpose, she naturally received numerous armaments from the gods. Since the powers of many gods were concentrated towards the single objective of "creating something that can slay a demon god", one can surmise just what kind of being was born through that process.
Existing as an opposite to the gentle goddess of grace, Parvati, she is the goddess of slaughter and battle who focuses solely on destroying and slaying demonic beings. That is Durga. Her existence is akin to that of a weapon of slaughter created by combining the powers of the Indian gods.
===Appearance===
===Personality===
She is always clad in a quiet anger and serene air of intimidation, giving off an atmosphere that she would snap at fly at any evil being that approaches her.
Although her tone and behavior are polite, she acts as a "system that kills demons" and rarely shows her personal desires. Loving mortals is Parvati's job, in her opinion. (It's not that she is incapable of love, on the contrary, she likes mortals, but she tries to not let that show since her and Parvati's roles are different)
"Divine duty" is used with the meaning of "task/mission".
====Relationships====
;Parvati
:"You are the Goddess of Grace. Originally, fighting should be my role. You have no need to possess Shiva's spear, but...I guess I can't say that in the current situation."Fate/Grand Order Lines Translated by Reddit user Konchew
;Passionlip
:"Those ten claws are...I see, you might be like a relative to me."
;Ganesha
:"While I may not be your mother herself, I surely have the right to scold you for your slovenly lifestyle. ───Sit right there, Ganesha. (metallic sound)."
;Vritra
:"The Wicked Serpent and King of the Asura. I'll overlook you for now, but if something were to happen, I will kill you as Indra's representative. Make sure you don't do anything funny."
;Senji Muramasa
:"Gh...When I get close to him, my heart aches for some reason... While the cause may be unknown, I will withdraw for now. Afterwards, I will observe every single move of his from a hiding place and determine the cause. For the time being, please don't let him talk to me."
;Galatea
:"Aphrodite Unit...is she a god-gifted armament from the West, I wonder. While I am interested, she probably won't be up to standard with this goddess."
==Role==
===Fate/EXTRA CCC===
Durga is the second component of Passionlip. Passionlip's gigantic nails are the incarnation of Durga's ten divine blades.
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Paper Moon: Imaginary Compass Inner World====
In order to hide her identity, Durga initially works within the Inner World of the Paper Moon under the guise of a R.A.N.I Series AI known as DX and claims to be a Public Security Type AI created to maintain the peace.Fate/Grand Order: Ordeal Call - Paper Moon: Inner World of the Imaginary Number Compass, Section 13: The Eye's Prospects/centrifuge
Rani XII reveals it was only possible to begin the System Grail War thanks to Durga’s summoning. The Grail War was also not for the Paper Moon’s maintenance, but an experimental ritual. The Paper Moon’s functions ceased as a result of the ritual commencing. Once the ritual is finalized, though, the Paper Moon will resume operations, albeit different from before.
Rani XII refusing any objections to her plan requests the others resume the Grail War. She insists she is only an overseer while Durga is a member of the system unrelated to the “war” part of the Grail War.Fate/Grand Order: Ordeal Call - Paper Moon: Inner World of the Imaginary Number Compass, Section 14: Extermination Goddess/how to avoid destruction
Kama calls it bold for her to say that when Durga attacked Medusa and Lainur. Durga states she was only fulfilling her divine duties. Lainur had the potential to be an obstacle for his analysis, contact, and intervention with the system’s core pillars while Medusa acted on visible intent to harm Rani XII. Both were valid targets for extermination, so Durga eliminated them.
Kama suspects Durga is more fundamental to the Grail War than she lets on. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have bothered disguising herself an AI. Rani XII mentions the X in “DX” is for an unknown variable while D is Durga. Regardless, she confirms the Grail War wouldn’t be possible without Durga.
Durga request Dust of Osiris concentrate all of her resources on her mission. Dust of Osiris agrees to stop holding back and concludes the issue is Durga is a goddess representing the results of extermination, not the process of battle. She starts charging something to rectify that.
At Cerjeira’s behest, Bhima charges at Dust of Osiris to stop her. But it is too late as she uses a Command Spell to reconnect Durga as the Prime Defend AI and her own authority as the supervisor to forcibly drain Raniment from all Defend AIs. Now Durga is powered by Raniment in addition to her own magical energy and that of the Grail.
Ayus is horrified Dust of Osiris is no different from Makiri. She thinks as the general supervisor she should see all AIs as family, but they’re only resources to her. Dust of Osiris tells Ayus the source of her disagreement is her Alter Ego personality. She tries to say what AIs are by definition, but Ayus angrily cuts her off.
Durga requests her Master give her more power, asserting she only needs 7% more resources to realize her objective. Dust of Osiris complies and uses the final reserve Command Spell to create a Raniment pathway between Durga and herself. The bulk of the Raniment under her control has now gone to Durga. Durga concludes it’s now possible to complete her mission.
Both Dust of Osiris and Durga have similar yet dissimilar inner monologues. Dust of Osiris’s is that all exists for the perpetual production of Alter Egos for averting the world’s destruction. Durga’s meanwhile is that all exists for the sake of her love.
Durga tells Dust of Osiris if she committed one error it would be that she never considered the possibility that she is an Alter Ego. Dust of Osiris is confused by what she means. Durga declares she has the power necessary to realize her goal—to reunite with her husband Shiva.
She suddenly transforms into a woman with blue skin and ten arms wearing a cloak over her face. Dust of Osiris feels herself severely weaken, realizing this was Durga’s aim all along as the latter drains her of her Raniment.
Durga removes her cloak and proclaims she is Kali——the goddess born from Durga’s wrath. She asserts she exists solely to be reunited with Shiva, threatening to kill all those who get in her way.
==Abilities==
To be a deity is to contain multitudes. In Durga's case, Kali, the god of fury, and Parvati, the god of Beauty, are different sides of Durga. Their Saint Graphs may be different, but they all share the same Divine Core. It is said that the greater a Divine Spirit is, the more difficult it is for them to restrain their own nature. Due to Parvati not using Kali's or Durga's Spirit Origins, she isn't suited for fighting.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa's World-Changing Labyrinth - Act 2: The Audience Due to being a pure Divine Spirit, she is able to easily nullify the effects of Medusa's Cybele and repel them back at her attacker. As a result of having been born from the rage of the Gods and gaining power and Gifted Armaments from each of them, she is an "all-rounder" that displays qualifications corresponding to all seven classes and is capable switching between any of her ten divine weapons in response to the current situation.
===Combat===
In combat, Durga fights using the ten divine weapons gifted to her, such as Shiva's trident, Vishnu's chakram, and Indra's lightning. She additionally summons her mount Gdon and a white Naga snake to fight alongside her. 
===Skills===
====Class Skills====
*Magic Resistance (A Rank)
*Riding (A Rank)
*Independent Action (C Rank)
*Divine Core of the Goddess (B Rank)
*Divinely-Bestowed Arms (EX Rank)
====Personal Skills====
*Mahamaya (EX Rank): Great phantasmal power. The large phantasmal power serving as the root of magical power was deified as a goddess and even equated with Durga. In other words, Mahamaya is also another name for Durga.
*The Hard To Approach One (A Rank): This is what the name "Durga" means. It is said that this was also the name of a demonic deity and myths like the one below are told about it. Once there existed a demonic deity powerful enough to banish the gods. Begged for help by the gods, Shiva entrusted his wife with taking care of the problem. She fought the demonic deity's army by creating a thousand arms and even smashes a mountain thrown at her into seven pieces before finally killing the demonic deity by firing an arrow into his chest. For this achievement, she was said to have usurped the demonic deity's name and called herself Durga.
*The Third Eye (EX Rank)
===Noble Phantasm===
Durga's Noble Phantasm is Mahisasuramardini, a sublimation of the episode where she killed the demon Mahisha.
Kali's Noble Phantasm is Samhara Kali. An apocalyptic dance performed by Kali drunk on victory and blood. After slaying all the demon god, the blood-drunk Kali began a furious dance that cracked the earth and shattered the world. The gods asked Shiva to stop it, and though Shiva called out to her, she didn't hear. Shiva then lay down at her feet and used his body to absorb the impact. Kali finally regained her sanity after stepping on Shiva.
===Other Capabilities===
*Durga has a super voluminous conceptual hole, presumably a storage space to safely utilize the powers she received from numerous gods. Rani XII used the Grail to summon the first five Servants and stored their still unawakened Spirit Origins inside Durga’s pit. Then she used the remaining power for the first rotation, producing five Alter Ego Servants. The purpose of the Grail War is for Servants to fight one another so the energy generated by their dismissal can be absorbed into Durga’s pit, which is connected the Paper Moon’s world. Once the Grail War is over, Durga will use the energy of four dismissed Servants to rotate the world. The five Servants stored inside her pit will thus generate new Alter Egos, who are collected to join the forces to avoid the end of the world. Next, the second rotation is performed, and the Servants produced by it will become the participants of the next Grail War. This process will repeat for the theoretically infinite production of Alter Egos.
==Development==
===Creation and Conception===
Durga was designed by STAR Shadow Magician in Fate/Grand Order.STAR Shadow Magician Twitter 8:01 PM JST · Jun 25, 2023
==References==
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