Archer (Fate/Crossover - Claude von Riegan)

**Archer** (アーチャー, *Āchā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"Yet we have the strength to scale the walls between us, to reach out our hands in friendship so we can open our true hearts to one another. That's how we win!"* — Claude von Riegan

## Profile

### Identity

Archer's true identity is **Claude von Riegan**, the heir to the noble family who leads the Leicester Alliance and the house leader of the Golden Deer. He is one of the three deuteragonists (alongside Edelgard von Hresvelg and Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd) of Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

He served as the deuteragonist in Golden Deer route and Verdant Wind chapter, a minor character in Silver Snow chapter, a major antagonist in Crimson Flower chapter and a supporting protagonist in Azure Moon chapter.

In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Claude acts as the deuteragonist of the Golden Wildfire route, a supporting character in the Azure Gleam route, and a supporting character (if Byleth is recruited) or a minor antagonist (if Byleth is not recruited) in the Scarlet Blaze route.

### Appearance

Claude has pale darker skin with brown hair and green eyes. He wears his yellow cape, the color of his house, on the side of his uniform. After the five-year timeskip, he has a shorter haircut and has grown sideburns.

### Personality

Claude is described as easygoing at the surface, but has a side that forces others to keep their guard around him. His introduction to Byleth at the Officers Academy emphasizes this as he refrains from divulging his potential professor any information about himself to give himself a "sense of mystery" and to entice them to choose his house in order to get to know him better. While appearing lazy and casual, he is far more astute than he lets on and is always a few steps ahead of his peers during conversations.

He tends to get along with those he interacts with, but his nonchalant attitude to his duties as heir to the Leicester Alliance seems at odds with each other and sometimes frustrates his fellow nobility classmates, namely Lorenz. Despite this, he has a wealth of knowledge of the Alliance's current state of affairs and has enough diplomatic sense to understand the ramifications of certain potential actions of Alliance against the neighboring country of Almyra.

He is a cunning strategist and is particularly skilled at mind games to throw his opponents off. He openly converses with Byleth of a ploy to give his house rivals food poisoning to give his house an advantage in the first mock battle. While he does not do so, he simply stated it to rile his rivals. He cares greatly for those under his command, valuing their lives and advises them to retreat rather than fight to the death, as shown in the Crimson Flower route numerous times. He abhors killing, only doing so if completely necessary; his tactics generally rely on incapacitating the enemy. His skills as a tactician have grown significantly after the time-skip that his guise of neutrality intimidates other nations' advisers, such as Hubert, as they know he has ulterior motives in hand.

Claude dislikes blind faith in gods, as he prefers to rely on the strength of men. On the other hand, he enjoys archery, long rides, subjects of curiosity, poetry, scheming and organizing feasts.

## Abilities

Claude is skilled with archery, wielding a weapon called Failnaught. A regalia bow that debuted in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

At a young age, he was often picked on for his lineage, which helped him develop his strategic prowess. During the timeskip, he utilizes his political acumen to maintain a veneer of neutrality and keep the Adrestian Empire at bay for five years. He is renowned for his strategic prowess, being dubbed "The Master Tactician". During Azure Moon, he developed a scheme to prevent the Imperial forces from capturing the capital of the Alliance, Derdriu, which involved sending a messenger to Fhirdiad prior to the kingdom forces even recapturing the city, knowing they would come to help. After the war had ended, he became the new king of Almyra, and in addition to establishing new trade routes, his efforts set aside the prejudices between Fodlan and Almyra, and wiped all that had once formed the order of the world.

His magic has limited uses per battle. He has a weakness in Lances and Faith Magic | Using a Hero’s Relic can be taxing on the wielder, wearing away at their soul, and a result of over-usage, can risked the chance in the user transforming into a Demonic Beast.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Failnaught; "Relic of the Riegan"**

Failnaught is a bow that appears in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and is one of the Heroes' Relics. It is linked to the Crest of Riegan.

Grants units with the Crest of Riegan access to Fallen Star. If the user of this weapon does not have the correspondence crest to this weapon, they risked transforming into a Demonic Beast.

### Gallery

#### Fate/???

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## References

https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Claude

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Claude\_von\_Riegan

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Claude\_von\_Riegan

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