Lancer of Daybreak

## Class Skills

Magic Resistance
C

Riding
A

## Personal Skills

Charisma
A

Divine Privilege
A+

Protection from Arrows
C

Tactics
B

## Noble Phantasm

Bishamonten's Eight Phases Wheel Charge Formation
Anti-Unit/Anti-Army
B

Communion of the Favored Swords
Anti-Formation
B

Hachiman's Bow
Anti-Army
A

**Lancer of "Daybreak"** ("黎明"のランサー, *"Reimei" no Ransā*?) is the Lancer-class Servant of Shirou Emiya of the Daybreak Faction in the Great Holy Grail War of *Fate/chaos revival*.

## Profile

### Identity

Lancer's True Name is that of **Nagao Kagetora** (長尾 景虎?), better known as **Uesugi Kenshin** (上杉 謙信?), the infamous *daimyō* of Echigo Province during the Sengoku Period, a period of internal conflict and strife in sixteenth-century Japan.

#### Legend

The third daughter of Nagao Tamekage, she was removed from the internal power struggle within her own clan when her father was slain in the Battle of Sendanno. Spending most of her early life studying in the Risen-ji temple, this is where she obtained her obsession with Bishamonten. At the age of fourteen, she was suddenly approached by Usami Sadamitsu, who leading an entourage of her late father's acquaintances, urged her to return to Echigo and contest her older brother's rule who wasn't an effective enough leader. At first, she was reluctant to take the field against her brother but was convinced that it was necessary to do so so as to prevent Echigo's total collapse.

At the age of 19, she became the head of the Nagao clan. When she was 21, she was tasked to provide refuge to her nominal lord, Uesugi Norimasa, but under the terms that she was to be adopted into the Uesugi clan, a change of name to **Uesugi Masatora** (上杉 政虎?) (she would later change her name again to **Uesugi Terutora** (上杉 輝虎?) to honor the thirteenth *shōgun*, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, before finally settling with **Uesugi Kenshin**), the title of *Lord of Echigo* and the post of Kanto Kanrei. She then began to wage war with the Hōjō clan as well as set out to cement his power in the region as much of Echigo was still independent of her.

However, she was approached by two lords from Shinano Province, Ogasawara Nagatoki and Murakami Yoshikiyo, who were seeking her assistance in repelling the powerful warlord, Takeda Shingen. This was the beginning of the most famous rivalry, which became legendary and is symbolic of Japan's history and the Sengoku Period as a whole. The two met multiple times in battle, most famously at the Battles of Kawanakajima, where they fought five times. Their fourth clash is their most violent one and specifically, the clash that brought both warlords' statuses to the legendary level.

Unfortunately, their rivalry was cut short when she heard that Shingen had died. "*I have lost my great rival. We shall not have a hero like him again!*" The words she uttered and the tears she shed out of respect for her fallen friend became a subject for debate but she insists that she has said it. Following this, she fought with Oda Nobunaga, the woman known as the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven but either died of gastrointestinal cancer, was assassinated, or a combination of both factors before she could fight her with full force by borrowing the help of Shingen's son, Takeda Katsuyori. In anticipation of her own demise, she had famously written a death poem a few months prior.

> "*Even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of saké;*
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> A life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream;
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> I know not what life is, nor death.
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> Year in year out—all but a dream.
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> Both Heaven and Hell are left behind;
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> I stand in the moonlit dawn,
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> *Free from clouds of attachment.*"
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### Appearance

A woman of extraordinary beauty, perhaps as a result of her being lauded as the God of War and her own insistence that she is the avatar of Bishamonten, Lancer has gained an appearance on the level of the divine. She has silver hair with a single black streak down the center and piercing golden eyes. She is a woman of around twenty-two years of age, making her a perfect fit when standing next to her Master and throughout the calm periods of the Great Holy Grail War when Servants aren't fighting, she is often confused to be his wife. This was especially so during the several days prior to the beginning of the conflict in which a majority of the young adults that represented the Daybreak Faction summoned their Servants en masse while on a cruise ship en route to the location of war.

### Personality

As a self-proclaimed Avatar of Bishamonten, Lancer has tried to protect people under the human rationality outlined as ‘*righteousness*’. Nonetheless, having been born with excessive strength as a person herself, Lancer during her lifetime has never managed to comprehend the exceedingly frail entities known as humans, despite being one herself. Without understanding human emotions such as sadness or anger in the slightest, Lancer wears a smile as her only compromise with her surroundings. As the recipients of her unapproachable behavior and words, Lancer's retainers fear her, yet that very same fear morphed to take form as a fanatical faith, and as a result, an even more inhuman way of life, reminiscent of the gods and buddhas, had been forced upon her.

To Lancer, the brief scenes of life and death interspersed among the lethal conflicts she took part in, were the only times she felt human at all. After having lived her life so detached from the mundane, she attained her divine seat as the God of War and was venerated accordingly. By now, there would be no way of ascertaining whether that had been her intention.

There is only one thing that is certain.

*—— Bishamonten is here.*

While she still does not have a good understanding, the influence of her Master has helped her gain a basic understanding of the creatures known as humans. For Lancer, her interactions with her Master have also awakened within her childlike emotions; during her life, she had always received love in many forms, however, she herself has yet to fully experience the feeling herself outside of the familial love she carries for those who fought at her side. Ever since she had been summoned, Lancer has slowly become more and more human....

### Relationships

Archer of Daybreak
"*Hrm. Well, even if you did it for a noble cause, stealing is still stealing. I'm honestly unsure if I feel safe with you on my side.*"
Archer of Twilight

Assassin of Daybreak
"*Intriguing. A dragon? You're not like what I envisioned... I guess the West has different images on those beasts than we do.*"
Assassin of Twilight

Berserker of Daybreak
"*Ah, now this is a dragon I'm familiar with. I've heard stories about you and I still think they're full of random jargon. Of course, with you here, I now cannot refute their truthfulness.*"
Berserker of Twilight

Lancer of Twilight
"*So you are a king? Then I challenge you, Lancer of Twilight! I am the one invading your country. See if you can fight me off!*"
Saber of Daybreak
"*If only we were on opposite sides... I would've loved to cross weapons with you.*"
Rider of Daybreak

Shirou Emiya
"*I've never served under anyone in my life so this is a new experience. Serving under you? You're the ideal man I would've lived to die for. As such, allow me to make an oath, Master. So long as I draw breath, my life shall be yours to command!*"
## Role

### *Fate/chaos revival*

Aboard the cruise ship *Anthem of the Seas*, Shirou Emiya along with a majority of the Daybreak Faction Masters, summon their Servants with Shirou calling upon Lancer using the cuirass of Lancer's own armor, a catalyst provided to him by his father, Kiritsugu Emiya. As the ship wasn't due to arrive in Rome for another three days, Lancer, as well as the other Servants, spent their first days in the world enjoying random excitement on the ship along with their Masters.