Saber (Fate/Crossover - Esdeath)

**Saber** (セイバー, *Seibā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War and one of the main antagonists of Fate/Abyss Zone.

"*I don't understand the feelings of the weak. The law of the world is survival of its fittest. It's how the weak are weeded out. It just means those people that died were too weak. It's only natural for the weak to perish.*" - Esdeath

## Profile

### Identity

Saber's true identity is **Esdeath**, a high-ranking general of the Empire. Eventually, due to Night Raid's effectiveness as an assassination unit, she becomes the leader of the Jaegers under the orders of the Prime Minister. She was deeply in love and obsessed with Tatsumi.

As the high-ranking general of the Empire and leader of the Jaegers, she is the Empire's most powerful fighting force, beyond even Shikoutazer, thanks to her immense powers coupled with her blood-thirst and an absolute belief in "Survival of the Fittest", honed since her childhood. She is feared as "a born reaper" and "a natural disaster with a wicked consciousness", a claim backed up by her strength and combat skills that clearly give off the image of sadism and ruthlessness.

### Personality

Esdeath was a manipulative and barbarous sadist who lacked empathy for people of whom she deemed weak, since she lives by her father's philosophy ("The strong survive and the weak die"). She enjoyed putting her enemies through great pain, both physically and emotionally. She had no qualms about killing innocent people to get what she wanted, and rationalized her behavior with her father's old creed. Esdeath was known to treat her subordinates well, letting them do as they please, which in turn inspired their intense loyalty and devotion; this makes her followers the strongest offensive force of the Empire. To her credit, Esdeath has demonstrated genuine care for her subordinates - the Three Beasts and Jaegers in particular - and unhesitatingly authorized them to kill Tatsumi should he ever endanger their lives.

Esdeath loved to fight and held special respect for strong opponents, which shows when she openly recognized Susanoo as a warrior rather than a simple Teigu. Her love of battle has occasionally inspired her to take actions that would incite more hatred against the empire, in the hopes of being able to put down more rebellions. She has even stated that should the empire fall, she would simply start a war herself to satisfy her need for bloodshed.

Despite her reputation, Esdeath possessed great charisma, able to inspire many to fight for her. Even Run, who expected her to be a scumbag, softened his stance on her, despite his otherwise apprehension towards her sadism.

Although she was unabashedly bloodthirsty, she kept it from dominating her judgment. If she were to see that the battle is too much for her soldiers, she orders a retreat and doesn't risk heavy losses. While she will torture subordinates who fail, she can be forgiving to failed servitors, provided that they aren't complete failures, and gives them the benefit of the doubt if the failure wasn't their fault. However, during the final battle against the Revolutionary Army and the remaining Night Raid members, it becomes clear that beneath that charismatic military officer is a person of pure evil and bloodlust. This is proven when she used her real trump card to cover the Empire in a Russian Winter. Najenda noted that such a technique put Esdeath's subordinates, as well as their families, at risk. Her response of not caring, and once again rationalizing it with her belief of Social Darwinism, showed her cruelty and depravity.

Interestingly, in spite of this pure monstrosity, prior to the final battle, Esdeath spoke of dedicating the battle in the fallen Jaegers group's memory- even more significant with her initial casual dismal upon Seryu Ubiquitous's demise, internally admitted to missing them greatly and envisions the entire group in her memory. This demonstrates that while she would put her men and their families at risk, she does fondly recall those who were more significant than a lackey and having them valued in high regard; especially, in comparison to the Three Beasts.

### Relationships

#### **Akame**

One of Esdeath's foes from Night Raid, and the one to end her threat for good. As a Servant, she desires a rematch against her.

#### **Najenda**

A former friend turned enemy, as they lead both factions to fight each other.

#### **Leone**

Another of Esdeath's foes from Night Raid. She enjoyed beating her senseless, slashing at her to see how fast she can regenerate.

## Abilities

She possessed a powerful Teigu called Demon's Extract that allowed her to manipulate ice and mold it from nothing. Due to her ego and immense mental willpower, she was able to withstand the Teigu's overwhelming insanity and obtain its abilities. She used it to create icicles, freeze people to death and more. When she was still starting out with her teigu, she has been able to freeze an entire lake within moments with her ability. And during her conquest, she was able to freeze thousands of Rebel Soldiers in an instant. However, using her Teigu on a massive scale like that render her unable to use it for a while and must rest. Esdeath has developed numerous Trump Cards:

Mahapdama / (Mahakadoma): Her first Trump Card which allowed her to freeze time, which gives her a moment to make a move during it's effects. Esdeath particularly stated that using this Trump Card used too much of her energy which is why she can only use it once a day. So far he has only shown to use this Trump Card 3 times before her death.

Ice Calvary: Esdeath's second Trump Card here he created her own army of ice soldiers. Despite not shown in the manga, Suzuka mentioned she created thousands of these ice soldiers. Esdeath also mentioned she took a few days making a total of the Ice Calvary's numbers. Each of the Ice Calvary also stores her energy which she can withdraws and can empower herself and unleash her third Trump Card.

Ice Commander in Chief: Stated as her Third Trump Card (though not completely confirmed). She draw all of her stored energ from the Ice Calvary and enhance her power. Shown when she froze the hole continent without showing any signs of fatigue, confirming that her power has already reached the level of a cataclysmic natural disaster.

Esdeath was considered the finest soldier in the Empire's army and one of the world's strongest, She single-handedly overpowered the entire Revolutionary Army consist of over 100,000 soldiers including ten Teigu users. Ever since her childhood as a Danger Beast tribal hunter, Esdeath became extremely proficient in wielding blades, such as hunting knives and daggers which she used to dissect Danger Beasts for valuable material. Growing up in a region with low temperatures, Esdeath, as well as other members of her tribe, acclimated to harsh winters rather well. As a General of the Empire, Esdeath is tremendously adept with a rapier and was capable of swift, piercing strikes that could dismember large Danger Beasts in an instant. Even without having to resort to her Teigu, she could fight on equal level with Akame and an Evolved Incursio enhanced Tatsumi. Esdeath was a extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant as well, possessing tremendous physical strength, agility and speed as well as immense stamina and endurance, such as being able to smash through a large portion of a mountain when she was young and being able to send Tatsumi, being enhanced by Incursio, crashing to the ground with a single kick. She managed to take down multiple Teigu users using pure might and skill.

Esdeath has also displayed superhuman durability and stamina,as seen when she managed to easily mow down hundreds of Revolutionary soldiers by herself and was later able to brush off the Trump Card of Heavy Pressure as "nothing but sound" and continue on fighting and even when she began facing the Teigu Troops and then Akame in consecutive battles,Esdeath still managed to dominate them during their battles with no signs of weakening despite being considerably injured and tired.

Esdeath has also displayed immense mental fortitude and strength, as seen when she was not at all panicked at the fact that she was being surrounded by hundreds of Revolutionary Army soldiers without any allies or back up to support her and maintained her cool as she thought out her battle strategy and later upon being subjected to Spectator's Trump Card and being placed in a powerful illusion, Esdeath managed to easily maintain control of her Psyche and later managed to break through its illusion through sheer mental brute strength.

Esdeath had sharp senses and was very aware of her surroundings, being able to detect someone's killing intent at a long distance, identifying suspicious characters in a group, as well as spotting hidden individuals even if they weren't directly within her line of sight. Her sense of smell was strong as she was able to confirm Tatsumi's presence after checking the scent when she reunited with him on top of Mt. Fake. She was considered as a master strategist with an uncanny skill in psychological warfare.

Esdeath has an extensive knowledge of human physiology due to having been a torturer for a long time; as seen when she dissected the body of Chelsea after her death looking for anything telling. Overall, she is quite intelligent and invents new torture methods and moves, such as her trump card Mahapadma.

And due to being raised by her father in the lifestyle of the Partas Clan, Esdeath has also displayed immense skill in battling,subduing and taming Danger Beasts, as seen when she was able to easily hunt, track and kill various Danger Beasts since early Childhood and displayed immense natural instincts in detecting their course of actions,habits and weaknesses, Esdeath has also shown to have the needed Skills to tame Danger Beasts and use them for transportation.

Esdeath also had a pet dragon-like Danger Beast that she flew around on.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Riding (B Rank): A Skill that denotes a Servants ability to ride mounts and vehicles. Esdeath has mounted several animals and beasts in her time, such as her dragon-like Danger Beast that she uses. So she has an above average rank as she can excel in this skill.

* Magic Resistance (D Rank): Cancels Single-Action spells. Magic Resistance of the same degree of an amulet that rejects magical energy. Whilst Esdeath was powerful, she was not one who was capable of what could be called blocking Magic/Magecraft. Due to this, she only has a D-Rank since she is a Knight Class.

#### Personal Skills

* Torture Technique (A Rank): This skill should be known that Esdeath is an expert at the art of torture. She has studied every single vital point, every crippling area, and every other sensitive nerves for this practice. Her type of torture is to keep her victims alive while ensuring that they suffer an agonizing pain before their death.

* Sadistic Charisma (B Rank): A skill that was an upgrade from the Charisma skill. It represents how Esdeath shows fear and brutality towards others, while she can be caring and hopeful to her allies and soldiers in order to raise moral to guarantee their victory in battle.

* Killing Aura (A Rank): Esdeath gives off an menacing aura that is so overwhelming, that armies falter before her mere presence when making eye contact with her. Though she is able to keep her "sanity" in check, such as after chugging the Demon's Extract, while many others who attempted it to had gone insane and killed themselves at least from a little sip.

* Military Tactics (B+ Rank): Esdeath was a great tactician as well, having a great eye for strategies that make conquering and attacking far more easy. Such as when she build a bridge of ice to allow her soldiers to cross over without needing to waste time. This Skill also denotes her ability to easily improvise in her fighting style.

* The Empire's Strongest General (EX Rank): This compiling Skill, denotes Esdeath as having been the strongest general, a great huntress and a truly capable warrior who inspired fear to enemies and hope to allies. Esdeath is noted and visibly in combat, extremely powerful in terms of her ability with the rapier she owns, being able to easily match even Akame with not too much hardships.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Demon's Extract; "Demon God Manifestation"**

This Anti-Unit (Self) Noble Phantasm was an Elemental-type Teigu that gave its users the ability to instantly freeze anything by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms, meaning they effectively make things colder, ranging from slightly chilly levels to absolute zero. Users can also generate and manipulate ice.

Demon's Extract was created using the lifeblood of a super-class beast that lived in the Northern parts of the Empire. It was sealed off from all other Teigu due to the danger it posed to its potential users, as all who drank it went insane afterward. Esdeath was the only known user of this Teigu and had completely absorbed all the remaining blood into her body. When she died, Demon's Extract was destroyed.

#### **Mahapadma; "World of the Beast Frozen in Time"**

Esdeath's ultimate trump card in which she freezes time and space in her vicinity, stopping all motion except for her own. During this time, she is free to attack her foes as she pleases and is also useful for intercepting attacks that she or an ally/objective cannot dodge on their own. However, using this ability drains her stamina more than she would like, and she can only use it once a day.

#### **Ice Cavalry; "Army of Encased Glacial Armor"**

Esdeath is able to create an army of golems out of ice that respond to her commands. They're able to simulate foot soldiers, cavalry, and giant Danger Beasts, allowing her to challenge an entire army with them alone. However, she requires some time to accumulate the necessary energy to generate them in legion numbers. In addition, they require her orders to function at maximum efficiency. Should she be distracted or preoccupied (i.e. by entering battle herself), their reaction speed will slow dramatically, great lowering their combat effectiveness. They are also capable of regenerating themselves from being blown to pieces.

#### **Ice Storm Commander-In-Chief; "Wasteland of a Savaging Freezing Storm"**

Esdeath is able to focus her mighty power to create a powerful ice storm capable of covering an entire country with ice and snow. Although, she did it relying on the power that she puts into her Ice Cavalry, that took her a few days to create them (Which means that she should be capable of doing it by her own). From what she has said, it replenishes her powers constantly while the storm is active.

## References

https://akamegakill.fandom.com/wiki/Esdeath

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Esdeath

https://fiveworldadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Esdeath

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Esdeath

https://aminoapps.com/c/fate-stay-night-1/page/item/esdeath-the-empires-strongest/QEpW\_YWcYIerXlP1RBDbbL4gvB7QgMZ6j1