Elizabeth Báthory (Fate)

**Elizabeth Báthory** appeared in the videogame called *Fate|EXTRA CCC*. Elizabeth Báthory (エリザベート・バートリー, *Erizabēto Bātorī*?, lit. "Erzsébet Báthory"), Class Name **Lancer** (ランサー, *Ransā*?), is an enemy Servant in the Moon Cell Holy Grail War in *Fate/EXTRA CCC*. She is unique in that she switches between four different Masters (Rin Tohsaka, Rani VIII, Shinji Matou, and Hakuno Kishinami) as a Lancer-class Servant. She later acts as the Berserker-class Servant of Meltryllis.

She is summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders of *Fate/Grand Order* under the **Lancer, Saber, Rider** and **Caster** classes.

The virginal fourteen year old aspect that had yet to become the monster Carmilla like her older aspect. She is given the keyword **"Dragon's Daughter"** (竜の娘, *Ryū no Musume*?), related to her nickname "Countess Dracula".

A real person, born in 1560, died in 1614. She was born into one of the noble families of Hungary, the Bathory family which uses the fang of a dragon as its crest. One of the models for the vampire Carmilla. A wicked woman who bathed in the living blood of more than 600 women in order to preserve her own beauty.

The Bathory house was the family who held the majority of the influence within Eastern Europe, and she increased that, possessing the blood of the house of Habsburg which made for a lineage that would make her a purebred noble. However, whether it is do to the consanguineous marriages within the Bathory line or the effect of their luxuriant living environment, the family contained many insane and cruel individuals. Pedophiles and Satanists were not uncommon among her relatives.

Elizabeth is not an exception and became quite infamous. In what is now present-day Slovakia, in Csejte Castle, which resided within her own dominion, she killed more than 600 women and, in order to preserve her beauty, bathed in the blood she wrung from them... She loved those repulsive blood baths. This woman who killed many members of her fiefdom, even at the very end of her life, did not consider this a crime. In those days, there was a trend among the nobility of Hungary to not even consider humans who weren't nobles as "humans" so there were no problems with her murders.

One day she let a maidservant comb the hair she was so proud of. But the comb got caught in her hair, and in a vehement rage, she stabbed the maidservant with a hairpin. The maidservant's blood happened to fall upon the back of her hand, and she noticed that the skin that blood touched was smoother than usual. From now on, to preserve my beauty, I will bathe in the lifeblood of women, she thought—and did so.

Collecting blood became part of her daily routine, and after she changed residences to Csejte Castle, it reached the point where young women of marriage age were disappearing from the rural villages within her dominion. (Or maybe, everyone came to know what was going on and were sneaking the women out in secret.) She became distressed since she was no longer able to collect blood from the rural villages and so collected the daughters of minor nobles under the pretense of teaching them proper manners or inviting them to banquets. And those daughters, coming together for the banquet, dressed in fancy dresses, completely unaware of what would happen, were struck on the head.

In addition to having their blood drawn, they would have hot irons thrust into their mouths, their entire bodies stabbed with pins, and other kinds of tortures. She would make her servants rip off the skin of their own daughters so she could enjoy the anguished faces of both the parent and the child. On the other hand, in regards to torturing men, tales of her enjoying killing them would not be surprising.

To Elizabeth, killing the common people in droves was a daily life "without any unusual events." If there is anything that could be considered her misfortune, it is that there were no people to rebuke her abnormality, to teach her that her deeds were atrocities. Several years after she started taking blood, her cruel acts came to extend even to the daughters of the aristocracy and she finally received the indictment that her character deserved. The year was 1611. At the trial conducted in the actual person's absence, she was given a guilty verdict and imprisoned within one of the rooms of Csejte Castle.

And the people completely sealed her, who was already feared as a demon, away. The people whisper. To see her figure is frightening. To hear her voice is frightening. Simply bringing to mind the memories which had lost her, the memories from which they had removed her, is frightening. The father who brought her into this world. Elizabeth's relatives. Her compatriots in aristocratic society, as if to hide their own feelings of guilt, concealed her prison with stone. The room that Elizabeth used in her final days... her prison in the basement of the castle contained nothing but a small slit to allow food to be passed to her. And, in that room without an exit or windows, that room which was plastered up from the outside, she continued to ask, *"Why?"* until her final moments.

They say that her voice could be heard through the stone that imprisoned her, but it's is also said that due to the soldiers finding it annoying, the transom was sealed, and she could no longer be heard. After that, there was no one who saw her firsthand while she was alive. August 21, 1614, the soldiers noticed the smell of rotting food, confirming that her life had ended.

From thereon, she became the legend known as the Blood Countess.

Elizabeth takes appearance of a young fair girl with mid-back length pink hair tied with purple ribbons and light blue eyes, which turns ice blue on occasions. She has slender figure and is cladded in a cyber-goth-loli dress with white detached sleeves, with a circular skirt and several belts on the top connected to her collar that cover her chest area similar to Passionlip's, and wears knee-high shoes with two sharp spikes. She has long pink claws instead of fingers. Her most prominent features are the immoral devil horns (actually dragon horns), and the protruding fangs of a little devil (actually dragon fangs), along with a long draconic tail and pink scales scattered throughout her body. She wields lance that can double as a microphone stand. Her design doesn't seem to reflect her as a proper Heroic Spirit.

In Fate/Grand Order, during the first Ascension, she looks the same as she does in previous installments.

In her second Ascension, her outfit changes slightly. The black, circular skirt becomes monochrome plaid. The torso portion of the piece is replaced by a black corset with three tiny, pink bows running up the central line. The three belts concealing her chest are replaced by a proper piece of white cloth with black vertical lines. Finally, the pink scales on her arms and legs turn light pink, and a bow of the same color is now tied around her tail, where the tip splits in two.

In the final Ascension, her clothes change dramatically, going from cyber-goth-loli to 'Sweet Lolita' style, a similar clothing style differing in the main color being light pink rather than black. Her shoes change, keeping their spikes but no longer being knee-high. The skirt and torso change from back to pink, and said skirt is made out of multiple layers (light pink with some polka dots and roses on its border, bluish white, shock pink, and pink with light pink stripes), all frilly. Her tail's bow changes into bluish white with a rose ornament, which is the same as the one on her sternum. The scales on her arms and legs change yet again, now looking like pink pearls. The trait that stands out the most is her brand new hat, shock pink with light pink stripes. It looks like a giant top hat, overly decorated with rose ornaments in a strip around it, and capable of concealing her dragon horns. On its border rest three animal ornaments, two squirrels and one pig, all cute-looking, in reference to the nicknames she gives to Hakuno Kishinami in multiple occasions.

A sweet-type Servant who calls herself an idol. Noble, high-handed, cruel, merciless - she displays inhuman manners just like in legends. Since she was raised as nobility, she has no such a thing like common morality. An anti-hero of evil, but she herself is a young girl that dreams of love. Her timid nature is her own ruin: as a consequence of it, she helps her comrades and overlooks her enemies, and thus ends up displaying human goodness that places her on the borderline of "well, you could even call her a Heroic Spirit". "Could it be that you're actually a good person?" - she herself hates to be referred in such a manner. Also, due to the Skill "Mental Disorder", Elizabeth could not recognize others as human beings, but it seems she somewhat reformed herself - or maybe just matured - and became a more understanding anti-hero by the time of *Fate/Grand Order*. She may seem sadistic, but to her harming and causing pain to others is no different from breathing. To Elizabeth, inducing the suffering of humans (who are all lower level creatures than herself) is her duty. She is an incarnation of nobility, and seriously carries out her responsibility to rule and manage the masses. From this perspective she is very diligent and responsible towards her work. The problem is that to her, ruling and managing the masses means nothing more than their torture.

Her personality is considered to be similar to Luviagelita Edelfelt. She self proclaims herself as an idol and her demonic singing makes her both a rival for Saber in both name and reality. Elizabeth makes a habit of referring to Hakuno, depending on their gender, as either a "little squirrel" if they are female or as a "pig" if they are male when speaking to them.

Andersen describes her as personification of narcissism and an unsightly woman with an unsightly appearance, upbringing, ideology, disposition, and senses. Though she appears prideful, it is not directed towards anyone. Others do not see the truth behind it, but she is a "laughingstock" who, in treating humans as pigs, is doing nothing but holding her head high in front of a bunch of pigs. She does not understand love, so she is the "most unmanageable monster of this world", and although she takes pride in her beauty, she can be called rotten like trash within.

Prior to her imprisonment in the ice capsule program constructed by Rin and Rani, Lancer displayed her immense claustrophobia and autophobia due to the traumas of her past punishment for her crimes, being locked away all alone in small chambers. She screams for Hakuno to slay her as she would rather die than be imprisoned in isolation again.

## Powers and Abilities

She wields a Dragon Lance named Sárkány Csont Lándzsa ("Dragon Bone Lance" in Hungarian), though she uses it more as a microphone than as a spear.

Elizabeth has been demonized by the Innocent Monster skill that uses the image produced from one's deeds in life to distort their past and way of being, which ends up transforming their abilities and appearance. Her form is due to the deeds she practiced in life, unlike Vlad III, another who holds the same skill, being looked down upon as a monster after death due to the work of a novelist. Though she looks like a demon, her horns and tail are those of a dragon, and though her fangs look like those of a vampire, they are also those of a dragon.

The form is not a forgery caused solely through the means of Innocent Monster, but rather brought about from the dragon's blood mixed within her. The source is crest of the Báthory family, a shield coat of arms patterned after a red fang that represented the dragon's gallantry, vigorousness, and the brutality of never letting the enemy live.

* **Magic Resistance** (A Rank): In actuality, she genuinely has dragon blood mixed within her. She herself does not realize she has this Skill, but the capacity equals that of Artoria Pendragon (Saber).
* **Territory Creation** (B Rank): Normally a skill of the Caster class, Elizabeth has acquired Territory Creation as a special exception because of her life experiences. She can create a castle to imprison young maidens and harvest their blood. According to the record, the lady of this castle would capture five virgins a day, execute three of them to bathe in their blood, and treat one as a pet so as to kill them with relish. The final one remaining was given the right to challenge her fate, the possibilities including: "Stay and be killed," "Be betrayed by the people I planned my escape with and be killed," "Be captured by the castle guards and be killed," "Fall from the castle and die by accident," "Barely escape with my life and bring the demon to justice." As a side note, the chances of achieving the fate where one "escapes successfully" is 1/1000.
* **Battle Continuation** (B Rank): Ordinarily, BC makes it possible to fight even in a near-death state, and to survive afterwards so long as the bearer does not sustain a fatal injury. In Elizabeth’s case, this skill manifests as her ability to keep coming back, no matter how many times she’s summarily defeated. “It’s not embarrassing to keep coming back because I have the BC skill, okay?!” she says in her defense. Sure, Liz.
* **Breath of the Dragon** (E Rank): A torrent of Magical Energy released by a Dragon, the strongest Phantasm Species. Super-sonic dragon breath. Although she has turned into a dragon due the Skill Innocent Monster, as expected it is somewhat unreasonable so the power is low. As for the cause why she has became a demi-dragon, one can mention the crest of the Bathory House (a dragon's tooth).
* **Charisma** (C Rank): Exemplifies her ability to coerce others based on her position as a member of the ruling class. Due to the grisly details of the myths surrounding Elizabeth, this skill is increased by one rank when used against females. Unusually, she has a streak of cleanliness against men, and while she is fond of using tools against them, she rarely directly touches them.
* **Sadistic Charisma** (A Rank): *Upgrade from Charisma*.
* **Torture Technique** (A Rank): At rank A, she possesses an excellent technique for tortures. A bonus midfier is added to her damage when she uses torture tools. She would shut the people she captured into iron maidens in order to wring the blood from them, drive them crazy with devices that would remove their fingers or implements that would bind their bodies, and on occasion, she would struck by and follow through with the idea to gnaw and bite off their fingers or arms, the napes of their necks, or nipples. Her cruel deeds are wide-ranging. In her case, apply another plus correction for damage dealt against woman.
* **Noble Phantasms:** She displays two different Noble Phantasms, **Kilenc Sárkány** and **Báthory Erzsébet**. The first is utilized under the Lancer class, while the second is utilized under the Berserker class. She continues to utilize Bathory Erzsebet as the Protagonist's Servant.