Caster (Fate/Crossover - Alfred)

**Caster** (キャスター, *Kyasutā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"Very well. This sigil was not meant for you, but we are far enough from the castle that if it can contain you here..."* - Alfred

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Alfred**, the mentor of Johannes, and a powerful Alchemist who was involved in the demon summoning ritual a decade ago. He's also a father figure for both Miriam and Johannes, or at least he was.

Alfred has lost his former self as he heads to the castle seeking the Book of Logaeth in Gebel's possession. Unfortunately he failed in his mission and died, but not before he inscribed enochian scriptures all over the castle which Johannes used to destroy it once and for all.

### Personality

Alfred is quiet and intelligent, Alfred's alchemic ability was unmatched even among his fellow alchemists.

He may also be somewhat guilt-ridden from being a bit of some of his acts. While Alfred is not responsible for any of the shard experiments and demon summonings, he did try to help the Unnamed Alchemist in their attempts to summon a demon by just telling them to invert the summoning rite in it. This sadly somewhat helped the alchemist in getting as far as he did and is the reason why so much damage came from them, he was the one who opposed the ritual to summon the demons. Alfred had spent a great deal of time bonding with the children, was researching ways to stop the crystals from spreading even before Johannes, and is heavily implied to be the one who put Miriam into her magically-induced slumber to both sabotage the ritual and save her life, showing his caring side.

Alfred makes note that his magical strength exceeds Johannes, and tells him to take Miriam and leave the castle or else they will die. Whether he means by the monsters or himself is unclear, but it's shown there. However, considering that Alfred is not entirly evil, he was referring to the demons, Gremory, Gebel, Dominique, or all of the above. He wasn't trying to actively kill Miriam or Johannes at all. However, his plan to destroy the castle by placing destructive runes around its structural weaknesses and blowing them up with the Liber Logaeth can play this straight, as it would probably kill them if they're still inside when everything goes boom, which is part of the reason why he's trying to make them leave, or else they might end up playing into Gremory and Dominique's plans.

Alfred accepted the fact that he'd likely die doing all of this, but he does pass along his research and plans to Johannes when they reconcile, allowing his apprentice to destroy the castle in his stead and to give him a good chance to stop the crystals for good and truly save Miriam, as atonment for what he had them go through.

## Abilities

One of the best of the Alchemists, that require a lot of knowledge and mastery of the arcane arts. Helped reverse the scriptures of the extremely complex Liber Logaeth, which took decades, in order to summon a horde of demons in the human realm. Created a time slowing spell that put Miriam in stasis for 10 years and found a way to stop the Shardbinder's crystal corruption spread.

Alfred can cast spells several meters with his urns and tens of meters with spells, which are imbued with the various effects such as Poison and Petrification.

His power is so great that he can magically go toe-to-toe with a shardbinder as powerful as Gebel.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Voltaic Ray: "Alchemist's Enchorian of Rune"**

Alfred's ultimate Noble Phantasm, which he obtained by breaking special green lanterns. All three can be fired at once, with the cost being adjusted to suit this change. when activated, the subweapon fires lightning balls that repeatedly home in on enemies until their duration ends. This is his strongest alchemy, as it attacks enemies repeatedly.

## References

https://bloodstained.fandom.com/wiki/Alfred

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Alfred\_(Ritual\_of\_the\_Night)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight