Artoria Pendragon

Artoria is considered to be the "King of Knights" and she is able to summon any heroic person of her time that had been considered "chivalrous" or "knightly".

While Artoria is a hero well known as a model for knights, it is said that she actually existed as "Dux Bellorum", the leader of War, and was a great general who led the twelve kings of Northern England, Gododdin, while preventing foreign invasion from forces such as the Scottish and the Picts. This identity of the real great leader behind the legend of King Artoria has many variations that have melded into the persona she is seen as now.

Artoria is a strong-willed young woman who usually speaks truthfully but will lie if necessary. She constantly insists that she is a knight and king above all, and that her gender is of little importance to her and her role. She is resolute in following her own morals, regardless of the more viable, yet underhand, tactics being available. Artoria prefers direct, fair confrontations based upon codes of chivalry. A firm believer in justice, Artoria cannot stand when evil goes unpunished.

Seeing humans reduced to demons who commit countless atrocities when their lives are threatened was something she witnessed all the time in her life. But precisely because of that, humans need to prove they can still live on with dignity no matter the difficulties that surround them. A knight is the one who can testify to that. Illuminating the battlefield by inspiring awe with his justice, a knight lets those reduced to demons to regain their honor and pride, and become proper humans once more. It is therefore the duty of a knight to put aside their feelings to focus on the greater good.

### Artoria Pendragon (Saber)

This form of Artoria is considered the "true" her as it embodies much of who she was long ago when she was still alive.

Artoria needed to act as the son of the king, as the one to govern the many territories and control the knights had to be male. While some people did grow suspicious of her, only her father, Merlin, and Kay knew the exact truth of her identity. She literally covered herself in steel to seal that truth for all her life, and due to her immortality from the protection of the fairies, no one questioned her small body or face that seemed like that of a girl. She was honored by the knights as a good-looking king, thought of as an invincible warrior whose looks or body size had impact on her standing.

She strictly kept to the oath that a king is not human and that one cannot protect the people with human emotions. She never narrowed her eyes in grief while sitting on the throne, and she settled every problem while working hard in government affairs. She managed to balance the country without any deviations, and she punished people without a single mistake. Even after, or possibly because of, winning battles in victory, commanding citizens without disorder, and punishing hundreds of criminals, one of her knights murmured "King Arthur does not understand human feelings."

When she returned from her last war, she discovered Britain is being torn asunder by civil unrest. Despite her valiant efforts to placate the dissent, she was mortally wounded by the traitorous knight Mordred during the Battle of Camlann. Her dying body was escorted to a forest by Sir Bedivere. Artoria ordered a grieving Bedivere to dispose of Excalibur by throwing it back to the Lady of the Lake.

### Artoria Pendragon (Lancer)

This Artoria is a version of her that, after emerging as a king, made the Holy Lance her main armament instead of the holy sword and reigned over Britain

Although she has a human form, it is possible to say that she is no longer a Human Heroic Spirit. This version of her is a Heaven Heroic Spirit that personally returned her Holy Lance at Camlann Hill, returning it to the earth. While in the middle of reigning in the Holy City of Camelot, the great enterprise called the Incineration of the Human Order is looming, so the “King of Knights” had acted in order to save what’s most important, mankind.

Due to the properties hidden within the Holy Lance, Artoria has changed into an existence close to that of a Divine Spirit’s, a goddess if anything. While she has become more composed, and moreover, more rational than the Artoria of the holy sword, her human nature has not been parted with. Rather, there exists placidity in her choices partly because she became an adult, attaining the ideal way a king ought to be.

### Artoria Pendragon (Caster)

This version of Artoria Pendragon is one who was the "Child of Prophecy" chosen by the "Staff of Selection" rather than the Sword of Selection.

Sixteen years before her birth, a seer foretold that in sixteen years' time the Child of Prophecy would ring the six bells, overthrow the evil Queen Morgan, and unite humans and fairies as King of Britain. Artoria was found on a boat as a baby around that time along with the Staff of Selection, and raised in Tintagel by Ector knowing the staff marked her as the Child of Prophecy that Ainsel spoke of. She was taught magecraft by Merlin in her dreams.

Unlike other versions of Artoria, this Artoria does not have the dragon and king traits nor does she have the Pendragon surname, as she does not have the same history as the Artoria who became King Arthur. She is a fairy created by the planet itself to be Britain's savior after the previous Child of Prophecy failed.

An innocent and very energetic girl, this Artoria has the figure of a perfectly commonplace girl who hates to lose, is strong in the face of criticism and adversity, values the surrounding atmosphere more than anything else, and hides her true feelings from everyone. Her pessimism about her destiny and inferiority complex resulted from her treatment by the people of Tintagel. For sixteen years, she endured as they forced their expectations on her while abusing for being a burden. The only person who cared for her was Ector. Yet despite her mistreatment, Artoria was left severely traumatized when the Fang Clan razed Tintagel to the ground. Any scene that reminds her of that trauma causes Artoria to be consumed by rage and hatred towards the perpetrators.

### Goddess Rhongomyniad (Ruler)

This version of Artoria is from a world where she became a Divine Being and named after her Holy Lance, Rhongomyniad.

The “Lion King”, who has the same appearance as the Lancer version of Artoria, was not able to die when she was fated to die, and as a result, became a wandering ghost while keeping onto the Holy Lance. Because she held onto the Holy Lance for so long she transformed into the “Goddess Rhongomyniad” and the powers she held in life exponentially climbed.

Compared to the regular Artoria who merely suppressed her emotions as King, this Artoria has little if any emotion left in her. As a result of her becoming a Divine Spirit, and prior to her death and merging with her other selves, she had lost all sight of human value and reason. Goddess Rhongomyniad does not see the value of human life, only seeing value of humanity as a whole. She believes her means of freezing and storing purely good human souls to preserve humanity eternally is the ideal of protecting them and bringing them happiness.

## Power

As a Servant, a shadow of who she was in life, Artoria has been considered the strongest Heroic Spirit. She is considered an equal with Gilgamesh despite the latter being named the King of Heroes and his Noble Phantasm allowing him to summon all of the weapons that all heroes use or have used. In her Ruler class, which she gains divinity equal to the Chief Gods, she is actually more powerful than Gilgamesh and the only possible downfall being Ea, but even that could be defended by Avalon, the sheathe to Excalibur.

### Magic

Artoria was born with the spirit of a dragon, giving her innumerous amounts of magic in her base classes while it is only enhanced much farther in her Ruler class. The amount of magical energy she has is the main reason her sword Excalibur is considered the strongest holy sword ever created. It is such that before actually becoming a goddess she was considered tied to the gods for the time that she had ruled Camelot.

However, due to the characteristic of a draconic spirit, she is naturally uncomfortable around the Uzumaki possessions that are attributed to having killed dragons in their life, such as Arondight and Balmung.

### Noble Phantasms

#### Around Caliburn (Caster class)

"Around Caliburn: The Star of Hope That Embraces You" is the unique Noble Phantasm of Artoria's Caster class. The Staff of Selection manifests Artoria's mental world upon the physical world in a type of reality bubble. The "tolling of the bells from Paradise," strengthens and protects anyone fighting alongside her that she recognizes as an ally, but it does not affect herself.

It is not an offensive ability but one that is meant to support her team.

#### Avalon (Saber/Ruler class)

"Avalon: The Everdistant Utopia" is the hallowed scabbard of Excalibur, the embodiment of the utopia King Arthur seeks, originally stolen from her shortly before the Battle of Camlann due to the machinations of Morgan le Fay. It is a luxurious piece of equipment made of gold and decorated with blue enamel that seems more like a treasure to show dignity and nobility like a crown or staff than a weapon.

The holder of the scabbard is granted potent healing, allowing for critical and fatal wounds to be rapidly repaired to restore the wielder's health. Minor injuries are restored easily, and even large missing portions of the body and destroyed vital organs like the heart can quickly be restored at the critical moment before death. Targeting anything other than the holder's head in order to destroy their brain is futile, requiring for a decisive strike to be landed in order to cause any true damage. Its function as a Noble Phantasm is an "absolute defense" that completely shields its user in the domain of the fairies, Avalon, the unreachable utopia that King Arthur dreamt of and was said to have gone to after her death. It is the greatest protection in the world that goes beyond defending or reflecting, completely isolating its user in a world completely separate from the regular world.

While in Saber class, Artoria is restricted to only being able to activate it for a single person that she has to be in close proximity with. However, as a Ruler and a Goddess, Artoria is not held back by such restrictions and she is able to heal and protect anyone in a large vicinity. She completely transcends all mortal restrictions and becomes a person worth her divinity and worship.

#### Excalibur (Saber/Ruler class)

Excalibur is a Divine Construct, the pinnacle of holy swords, and the strongest holy sword whose equal is the strongest demonic sword Gram; one of the ultimate god-forged weapons, a Last Phantasm, forged by the planet as the crystallization of the wishes of mankind stored and tempered within the planet. It was guarded by extensions of the planet, Fairies, before briefly being passed on to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake and later returned to the lake before her death (depending on the class background).

Excalibur is a "sword that amplifies", converting its user’s magical energy into offensive power and releasing it. It is a weapon of directive energy that converts the magical energy of the wielder into light by accelerating it with her factor of the dragon, intensifying the kinetic energy by convergence and acceleration, allowing for the use of Divine Spirit-level thaumaturgy. It is an "ultimate killing technique" that releases light holding energy rivaling Artoria's entire magical energy supply from the tip of the blade once the sword is swung. To an observer, it looks like a giant beam of light, but the attack's target point is only at the tip. It is the "ultimate slash" that cuts through everything in the "area" the light goes through.

Saber with Excalibur was nearly invincible against any other Heroic Spirit and even Gilgamesh, who has a copy of the sword, remarks that even he would not be able to utilize the sword's technique the same as she and would never try to test that fact... again. But for Artoria in her Ruler class, the Excalibur technique becomes a world-ending attack of untold proportions due to her enhanced magical output.

#### Invisible Air (Saber/Lancer/Ruler class)

Invisible Air has two functions.

The first is "Invisible Air: Barrier of the Wind King", which is a sheath of wind that covers Excalibur and conceals it so that it cannot be easily recognized. It is a Bounded Field closer to magecraft than a Noble Phantasm that is made up of multiple layers of wind compressed into super-high pressure air with a massive amount of magical energy, which distorts the refraction of light and renders what is inside completely invisible. While on Excalibur, it takes on the shape of the blade and renders it as an invisible sword that doesn't appear even as sparks fly off of it. It lacks the capacity to annihilate the enemy like Excalibur, being more suited as a "sharp tool" in battle. It isn't used for any particular strength, but it is easier to use in battle than Excalibur.

The second function is "Strike Air: Hammer of the Wind King" which happens once the barrier is released so that Excalibur can be used, the previously compressed wind surges around her chaotically, creating a vacuum as it diffuses into the air with enough force to knock over normal people and shake heavy, firm trees like a typhoon. Acting like a hammer made out of wind, it creates a gale made out of super high pressure condensed air that is powerful enough to easily crush and blow away armies and fling a stone slab weighing several tons into the air as if it were nothing. It is a long range attack with a constant amount of damage that is not influenced by Saber's physical condition or her level of magical energy. It can only be blocked by overwhelming it with a higher amount of magical energy.

While this is a Phantasm that is mostly applied to the Excalibur, it has also been done to the Rhongomyniad a multitude of times and because of this even her fellow Heroic Spirits are unsure at times which weapon she is using. Because her Ruler class has access to nearly all abilities of her other selves, with the exception of the Caster class, she enhances the second function of Invisible Air as not a hammer but a cannon and she can completely obliterate castle walls by releasing the technique.

#### Rhongomyniad (Lancer/Ruler class)

"Rhongomyniad: The Lance that Shines to the Ends of the World" is the Holy Lance of King Arthur. An anchor of storm that fastens the planet together, a Divine Construct armament. Rhongomyniad is regarded as the "spear of the end", the light of destruction coming down from the heavens whose power is said to rival the holy sword Excalibur. Its original power is restricted according to the Thirteen Restraints, and yet, it is the pillar of the Farthest Ends, shining to extol the brilliance of the planet. In order to perform the release of its True Name, there is a need to lift at least half of a total of Thirteen Restraints. By releasing the True Name without fulfilling this requirement, the Holy Lance will emit a fragment of the power of the light that shines.

The white spiral shell that makes up the lance can also be shifted into an weapon in of itself, transforming into a giant white tree that grows into the sky and reaches its 'branches' down and out as sharp speared-limbs and thorned-tentacles to impale targets, or to create a large twisted-root-like barrier of spikes to both attack over a large area at once and to deter and harm aggressors. The Goddess Artoria has also shown that the outer shell can be used to create buildings and structures, which is how she created the Holy City of Camelot in a single night. The walls of her fortress are incredibly durable, and they repel without taking a scratch any malicious attack due to the Camelot castle only granting access to those with righteous hearts.

Because of all of this, Rhongomyniad is considered to be equal to Excalibur - or greater without the Thirteen Restraints holding it back.

The Goddess Rhongomyniad's most recognizable attack with the lance is Holy Judgement. The magical energy of this attack has a value of over 3,000,000 - even though the highest-ranked Noble Phantasms usually only range between 1000 and 3000. Differing from the pillars and beams of light in other usages of the Lance itself, Holy Judgement takes the form of a massive physical golden construct of energy in the image of Rhongomyniad's spiral shell that appears from far above in the sky, made of dozens of giant intertwined and criss-crossed gold strips that twist and spin like a drill as the attack slowly descends from the sky like a meteor. The construct is shown to be far larger than mountains, wider than anyone could possibly hope to dodge or outrun, and which lights up the sky and environment like a second sun with its golden glow and clear all clouds from the horizon with its end.