Vivian

, the , is a fairy known for bestowing Excalibur upon King Arthur. She is an alternate good personality of King Arthur's evil sister, Morgan le Fay.
==Profile==
===Background===
Vivian was a Great Mother class fairy born in the inner sea of the planet.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 4: Gloucester (I) Also known as the "fairy princess of the lake," Morgan le Fay was considered her counterpart, Vivian embodying goodness compared to Morgan's evil. This duality was also reflected in the nature of Excalibur itself. It was believed by some that Merlin himself taught Vivian magecraft,Fate/Grand Order material IV - Merlin, p.396-409, translated by castor212 at Beast's Lair. and they also had a love affair.
It is thought Morgan inherited Vivian's Authority. However, Vivian is in truth Morgan's alternate personality.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Act II Intro Morgan is described as being like she has three people within her. Having started with the "innocence of a fairy", she became "as magnificent as a warrior maiden", and "then suddenly possessed the brutality of a witch."Garden of Avalon - "A Tale of Knights: Kay" Vivian is one of these three personas. Morgan developed these three personalities as a way to reconcile the three roles enforced on her by her supernatural birth: Morgan the human, Artoria's caring sister; Vivian the fairy, the Lady of the Lake; and Morgan le Fay, the embodiment of Britain and holder of its Mystery.
Vivian is also known as , the fairy who raised Lancelot and gave him his sword Arondight.
Vivian granted Artoria Pendragon ExcaliburFate/stay night - Saber profile and RhongomyniadGarden of Avalon after the loss of Caliburn. Vivian also became her guardian. Near the end of Artoria's reign, when Merlin fled to Avalon to escape Vivian after scorning her, Vivian imprisoned him in a tower where he remains even now.Garden of Avalon - Prologue: At the Garden
Bedivere lake.jpg|Bedivere at Vivian's lake.
Lancelot in front of the lake.jpg|Lancelot at Vivian's lake.
As Artoria's dying wish, Excalibur was returned to Vivian by Bedivere. According to legend, Vivian was one of the fairies who arrived to bring Artoria to Avalon after she died.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 2 Part 3
The name of Summer Morgan's Noble Phantasm, Summer Pool Dozmary, indicates that Vivian's lake is .
===Appearance===
===Personality===
Vivian embodies goodness. Ayaka Sajyou as a child reminded Arthur Pendragon of Vivian's kind and gentle voice.Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver Volume 5 - "Knight of Fate Arc" Part 3-B However she can still be angered. When Merlin scorned her, Vivian's response was to pursue him as he fled to Avalon and then lay a trap for him that imprisoned him in a tower for eternity. Merlin describes himself trying to escape the "vicious claws of the witch".
==Role==
===Fate/stay night ===
Vivian is briefly portrayed accepting the returned Excalibur at the end of the Fate/stay night manga adaptation of the Fate route.
===Fate/strange Fake===
Francesca Prelati and Francois Prelati refer to their teachers in magecraft as spirits who took interest in and watched Artoria through "water-viewing whispers," the duo feeling that Artoria's misfortune would upset their teachers. Merlin is noted to have taught their teachers magecraft.Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 20: "Fantasy Becomes Reality" While Prelati's teachers would have wanted to help Artoria in the Fourth Holy Grail War, they would have been unable to as there is not enough Mystery left in the world for them to reach Japan from Britain.Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Chapter 10: Day 2 "Separate Mornings, Separate Pasts I" 
The Caster summoned by Richard I's Noble Phantasm Rounds of Lionheart is named , with the first half of their name obscured. The visible second half is spelled the same as Vivian's alternate name .Fate/strange Fake - Volume 7
===Other appearances===
In Fate/Grand Order, Summer Archer Artoria named her Noble Phantasm after Vivian, Excalibur Vivian.
==Abilities==
Vivian is a Great Mother, a being equivalent to a Divided Spirit of the Earth's Soul and comparable to personified nature gods in scope.
One receiving the blessing of Vivian possesses the ability to walk atop any body of water.Fate/Zero Volume 3: The Scattered Ones - Act 10 Part 1 -84:34:58 Her blessing on Lancelot in the form of the Knight of the Lake Skill allows him to temporarily add a + to any parameter other than Luck.Fate/Grand Order - Lancelot (Saber), Translation by Master of Chaos
The spell that she used to trap Merlin in his tower for the rest of time is known as the "Garden". A magic tomb bearing the inscription "Only those free of sin may pass", it is a powerful Bounded Field magecraft from the Age of Gods that is unable to be handled by anyone but the embodiment of Mystery.
==References==
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