Descendants of Fate (film)

***Descendants of Fate*** is an upcoming fan fiction film based on the *Fate Grand Order* series by Type Moon that acts as the sequel to *Messenger of Fate: My Name is Joan* (2020). It is the second installment of the *Descendants of Fate* film series.

It is scheduled to be released in 2022 before being moved forward to 2021.

## Premise

After finding the sword Excalibur, British college student Aretha Arthurine Pendragon discovers her destiny and is joined by Joan Darcy and Rin Tosaka, a final-year history student. After bringing the two magical swords together, Aretha and Joan are warned by the Leader of Fate of the need of them to gather a group of girls of their age who are descendants of powerful historical figures and deities; chosen by similar magical weapons to defend the world from an ancient evil which is destined to end all life on Earth in 72 hours. The trio discover and recruit the girls and work together to save the world.

## Plot

In 2020, Morgana le Fay, a wicked sorceress and the mortal enemy of King Arthur Pendragon, awakens and begins to distort time and space. She arrives in London with legion of her demonic servants called the Mortes Milles. Upon arriving at Cambridge University, she is confronted by a British college student named Aretha Pendragon. The sorceress chases Aretha until she pulls out the Sword in the Stone, the sword revealing itself to be the mythical Excalibur, Arthur's sword. Aretha uses the sword to defeat Morgana before a rift in space-time takes her to see the Leader of Fate on the Moon. The Leader of Fate gives Aretha the rank of “Saber”, which was chosen by Excalibur, and tells her that the world has until 72 more hours before Morgana destroys the world. The Leader also informs that to defeat Morgana, Aretha must join another two girls who she tasked to go to London from Paris to recruit a group of girls who are chosen by magical weapons to defend the world.

In Paris, Rin Tohsaka was tasked by her lecturer Ritsuko Fujimaru to prepare a final history project before getting her history degree, where she must research and describe the roles and significance of some historical and legendary figures in empowering the new generation, which should cover at least three from this list: King Arthur, Joan of Arc, Emperor Nero, Quetzalcoatl, Ishtar and Grand Duchess Anastasia. Knowing that she herself is a descendant of Joan of Arc, Joan Darcy teams up with Rin to help her in her project. While enjoying their university break, Joan and Rin, realizing their new mission, go to London to meet Aretha at her apartment. Joan and Aretha show their magical weapons to each other, revealing that they have been chosen by the Leader of Fate for an important mission to save the world from its impending destruction. Discovering that Aretha is a descendant of the legendary King Arthur after seeing her show Excalibur to Joan, Rin has Aretha help her in researching her history project. Struck with a brilliant idea, Rin teams up with Joan and Aretha to form a team called the "Descendants of Fate", with a mission to save the world from evil and "a side mission to complete Rin's final-year history project".

The girls are then taken by an unknown high-tech transport to a rift on the Moon where they meet the Leader of Fate. The Leader briefs them on their mission and reveals the locations of some of the girls they need to gather. The Leader provides the high-tech transport, called the Mooncell Automaton, to the girls, to get them to these locations. She demonstrates the transport's ability to teleport, as its Circuits of Space-Time were not fully charged yet to travel through time.

The girls bring the Mooncell to Rome, Italy, where one of the girls has been located. They are attacked by a group of Mortes Milles who are then defeated by a teenage girl wielding a large sword. Joan, Aretha and Rin follow her to a Roman bath house where they relax. After being shown Excalibur by Aretha, the Italian girl with the sword introduces herself to the team as Claudia Nero, descendant of Roman emperor Nero. Realizing that the Colosseum is under attack by a large wave of Mortes Milles, which includes a gigantic form of the demonic specters, the team leaps into action to fight them off. In the battle, Claudia cuts off one of the giant demon's arms with her sword, Aestus Estus, before Aretha finishes it off with Excalibur's beam. Rin, Joan and Aretha welcomes Claudia into the Descendants before heading for their next destination: Egypt. Inspired to complete her report with "extra credit", Rin continues with her research to include the additional historical and legendary figures listed.

Meanwhile in Egypt, two girls, Isma Ishtari and Corazon Quezada, join an archaeological dig near the Pyramids during their internship. A group of Mortes Milles attack the site, sending the two girls running for safety into a pyramid where they become trapped. Trying to find a way out, they unexpectedly discover an elaborate tomb which hides a magical bow. The girls find the bow near a large sarcophagus, in which a Mortes Milles enters and possesses the mummified corpse inside it. The reanimated mummy gives the girls a hard fight, despite Corazon having a magical shield, that she had acquired from an expedition in her home country of Mexico, with her. While Corazon fends off the mummy, Isma taps into the bow's power, and a sword materializes. Isma takes both the sword and the bow, and begins to feel the power of a goddess flow through her and give her strength to fight the reanimated mummy. Then, the real owner of the sarcophagus, a 3000-year-old Egyptian princess named Menace, destroys the mummy and the Mortes Milles inside it, and reveals that the mummy in fact belonged to her dueling instructor. She entrusts the magical bow to Isma and reveals to the girls that they are in fact given powers from deities: Isma is given powers from Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, while Corazon has already possessed powers from the Aztec serpent god Quetzalcoatl through her shield. Before disappearing, Menace frees the girls from the pyramid and informs them of the arrival of the Mooncell Automaton which eventually picks them up from the desert. Corazon and Isma befriend Joan, Aretha, Rin and Claudia in the Mooncell as they head to their next destination: Moscow, Russia.

In Moscow, a mysterious, cloaked young woman prays at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour when several Mortes Milles attack the city. A voice in Russian urges the woman to take a mystical sword contained in the cathedral and use it to fight the Mortes Milles. The Descendants arrive at the GUM shopping mall in Moscow, where they shop for souvenirs and some food when a swarm of Mortes Milles attack the mall. The Descendants engage them in battle all the way out of the mall before arriving at the front gate of the cathedral where they see the cloaked woman, with the sword on her hand, having defeated a group of Mortes Milles which entered the cathedral. The Russian woman takes off her cloak and raises the sword which glows. A three-headed dragon appears from out of nowhere and destroys all the Mortes Milles in the area before it is seemingly absorbed into the glowing sword. The woman introduces herself as Anastasia Ekaterina, a descendant of the Romanov family. As the girls explain their mission to her, Joan and Aretha welcome Anastasia into the team and Rin offers her a chocolate pudding and chocolate pretzel after giving the rest of the team the same thing for a snack. However, the girls discover that they only have 45 minutes left before Morgana destroys all life on Earth. They head back to the Mooncell, but on the way back to London, the craft is caught in a rift which sends them to Morgana’s dimension.

Trapped in Morgana's dimension, the team encounters Morgana, where they learn that she was a former Caster (a title also given to Anastasia Ekaterina) who seeks to destroy all life on Earth after the Leader of Fate stripped her of her title and banished her to the other dimension. The team manages to escape with the Mooncell from the dimensional pull and find themselves in London where Morgana, in a huge, semi-draconic form, appears with a legion of Mortes Milles. The Descendants fight back as the sky becomes dark with Morgana’s dark energy. The Leader of Fate intervenes in the fight to weaken Morgana, and the girls use their magical weapons to finally destroy Morgana, dispelling the Mortes Milles and saving the world.

With the world repaired by the Leader of Fate, the girls are about to return to their normal lives when Rin asks the newly-gathered Descendants to do her a favor: help her in her history project. During her final year history project presentation at the University of Paris, Rin shows her new friends to her class and tells them that they are in fact descendants of historical figures who strive to defend their world from evil. Thanks to the Descendants sharing memories of their ancestors’ past lives which are part of Rin's project, Rin’s presentation was given a rousing success, and she finally gets her history degree. The Descendants congratulate Rin on her achievement, and Joan later treats the group with a sightseeing tour around Paris.

In a mid-credits scene, two new girls are brought to the Leader of Fate by a mysterious man.

## Cast

* Joan Darcy, a French college girl who is an indirect descendant and reincarnation of Joan of Arc. She wields the magical Sword of St. Catherine and is given the title of "Ruler" by the Leader of Fate.
* Aretha Arthurine Pendragon, a British college girl who is a descendant of King Arthur and the new owner of the magical sword Excalibur. She is given the title of "Saber" by the Leader of Fate.
* Rin Tosaka, a Japanese-born college girl from Joan's university in Paris who seeks to complete her final history project by working with the Descendants of Fate.
* Claudia Nero, an Italian university student who is a descendant of the Roman emperor Nero. After finding Nero's greatsword in Rome, she is given the title of "Crimson Saber" by the Ruler of Fate.
* Isma Ishtari, an Iraqi-born college girl who works with an Egyptian archaeological team during her internship. She obtains the powers of the Mesopotamian love goddess Ishtar after finding the legendary bow Maanna, and is later given the title of "Archer" for her superb archery skills.
* Corazon Quetza, a Mexican-born college girl who works in the same archaeological team with Isma. She was imbued with the powers of the Aztec feathered serpent deity Quetzalcoatl after finding a magical shield in Mexico and is given the title of "Rider".
* Anastasia Ekaterina Romanoff, a Russian college girl who is rumored to have descended from the House of Romanov. After discovering the legendary sword Kladenets, she is given the title of "Caster" who is able to summon the mighty three-headed dragon, Zmey Gorynych.
* Morgana le Fay, an evil sorceress who is the mortal enemy of King Arthur. A former Caster, she seeks to destroy all life on Earth after the Leader of Fate stripped her of her title.
* The Leader of Fate, a mysterious ancient being who conveys a message to gather descendants of powerful historical figures and deities who are chosen with magical weapons.
* Menace, a 3000-year-old Egyptian princess who offers the Emerald Sword to Isma. She is a crossover character from *Queen's Blade*.

## Sequel

*Main article: Descendants of Fate: The Golden Table*

## Trivia

* The film's major inspirations are the *Bill and Ted* movies and *The Kid Who Would be King* (2019).
* This is the only *DOF* film so far to not involve time-travelling to a singularity.

### References related to KB Fan Fiction franchises and works

* The film "overuses" classical music like the *Kaijuvengers* franchise based on Tsuburaya Productions' *Ultraman* series, due to having soundtrack snippets from the *Rock of Ages* games which are remixes of classical music tracks.
* The number A113 can be seen on a car's license plate.
* A poster of *Godzilla vs. Kong* is seen on Rin Tohsaka's bedroom wall.
* Action figures of Godzilla, Kong and King Ghidorah can be seen top of Rin's bed.
* A *Pteranodon* model resembling the one from *Dinosaur King* appears in Aretha's room.
* A news ticker tape text reads: "*T. rex*-like creature discovered in Japan". It is a reference to *Godzilla and the T. rex of Tokyo* (2011).
	+ This reference may also hint at the future appearance of Kijyo Koyo in the *DOF* series.

### References to other films

* The hymn sung by the choir while Anastasia prays and answers the Russian voice at the cathedral is "Faith of our Fathers" from *Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit* (2014).
* At the Moscow shopping mall, Corazon asks Rin, who is looking for chocolate pudding, to get chocolate pretzels too. This is a reference to the chocolate-covered pretzel gag in *Mallrats* (1995).
* During the Moscow mall chase scene, Rin drops a gumball machine to slow down the pursuing Mortes Milles, parodying a scene from *Godzilla* (1998).
* In the film's ending, Anastasia says, "Us together, in Paris". The quote originated from an engraving on a necklace in the 1997 film, *Anastasia*.