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Fate/Grand Order Main Characters Index
Three Knight Classes: Sabers (A-F | G-M | N-R | S-Z) | Archers (A-C | D-M | N-Z | Tam Lin Tristan) | Lancers (A-F | G-M | N-Z)
Four Cavalry Classes: Riders (A-F | G-M | N-Z) | Casters (A-F | G-M | Merlin | N-Z) | Assassins (A-F | G-M | N-Z) | Berserkers (A-F | G-M | Morgan | N-Z)
Extra Classes: Rulers | Avengers | Moon Cancers | Alter Egos | Foreigners | Pretenders (Oberon)
Unplayable and Arcade Exclusive: Unplayable | Arcade Exclusive
Other Notable Characters: Chaldea Security Organization (Protagonist | Mash Kyrielight) | Villains (Beasts | Beast I | Observer on Timeless Temple Villains | Epic of Remnant Villains | Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains (Crypters | Foreign God and Forces | Lostbelt Kings | ORT) | Ordeal Call Villains | Event Villains | Interlude Villains) | Other Characters

This is a page about the characters appearing in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order.

NOTE: Major spoilers (some unmarked) abound, as well as a minor NSFW alert (regarding unit artwork).

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  • Chaldea Security Organizationlist
    • The Protagonist (Ritsuka Fujimaru)
    • Mash Kyrielight (Shielder)
  • Villains
    • Beastslist
      • Beast ISpoiler
    • Observer on Timeless Temple Villainslist
    • Epic of Remnant Villainslist
    • Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villainslist
      • Crypterslist
      • Foreign God and Forceslist
      • Lostbelt Kingslist
      • ORT
    • Ordeal Call Villains
    • Event Villainslist
    • Interlude Villainslist
  • Other Characterslist

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The Heroic Spirits, split by class.

Servants as a Whole

  • An Adventurer Is You: Servants fall under many roles, although those roles aren't specifically tied to their classes.
    • A DPS (damage per second) can either be ST (single-target) or AoE (area-of-effect) depending on their NP, but there are a few DPS with non-damaging NP who can still fulfill the role thanks to their other offensive buffs that they can apply to themselves and from others (usually Critical Hit-focused buffs).
    • Support-oriented Servants can fall under many categories, and hybrid roles are often common. Their support can be offense - or defense-oriented or provide both. They can be Healers, Tanks, Debuffers, "Star Generators", etc.
  • Anti-Hero: A unique variation. Villainous Heroic Spirits are generally called "anti-heroes". However, an anti-hero in the Fate series does not mean the same thing as the usual definition of an anti-hero as an anti-hero in the Fate series means a Heroic Servant that has history looking down on them, and viewing them more as a villain than a hero that lacks conventional heroic attributes. Regardless, they are willing to assist the protagonist in saving the world if they get summoned by Chaldea.
  • Arc Hero: Almost every single chapter tends to have at least one or two of these in which they received the most amount of attention within the story.
    • Within the Observer on Timeless Temple chapters: Fuyuki had Cú Chulainn (his Caster version specifically), Orleans had Jeanne d'Arc, Septem had Nero Claudius, Okeanos had Francis Drake, London had Mordred, E Pluribus Unum had Florence Nightingale, Camelot had Bedivere, and Babylonia had Gilgamesh (in his Caster form).
    • The Epic of Remnant chapters played with this a little. While Altria Alter, Meltryllis, Chevalier d'Eon, Astolfo, and Miyamoto Musashi were examples that were very much played straightnote, the Archer of Shinjuku is a subversion for the Shinjuku chapter as he turns to have caused the Pseudo-Singularity in the first place despite having been the other major ally. Meanwhile, in the Salem chapter, Abigail Williams is a rather complicated example. She received the most amount of focus within her own chapter, but she turns out to be the final boss. However, unlike Moriarty, she did not cause the Pseudo-Singularity to appear, and she was more-or-less a victim of Räum's manipulations.
    • Cosmos in the Lostbelt has Avicebron for Anastasia, Napoléon Bonaparte for Götterdämmerung, both Jing Ke and to a lesser extent Spartacus for S.I.N., Sessyoin Kiara, Yagyu Tajima-no-kami Munenori, and Pārvatī for Ooku, Rama and Ganesha in Yuga Kshetra, Van Gogh as well as Nemo for Imaginary Scramble, Jason and Super Orion for Atlantis, Miyamoto Musashi and Caenis for Olympus, Sakata Kintoki for Heian-kyō, Altria Caster for Avalon le Fae, Taigong Wang for Tunguska Sanctuary, Don Quixote as well as Charlemagne in Traum, and U-Olga Marie as well as Kukulkan for Nahui Mictlā. Downplayed with Karna in Yuga Kshetra. He died around the start of the Lostbelt, but after he got resurrected near the end of the Lostbelt, most of the story would then put focus on the relationship between him and the Lostbelt King.
    • Ordeal Call has Kama for Paper Moon, Jeanne Alter for Id and Hakuno Kishinami (Male) as well as BB Cosmo for Archetype Inception.
  • The Atoner: According to Mash, just as there are Good-aligned Servants who can behave monstrously, a fair amount of Evil-aligned Servants are on some level regretful of their wicked natures and actions and wish to atone for them (which might also play into their wish for the Holy Grail).
  • Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Several of the real people that have become Servants have aspects of their lives changed to have them involved in all sorts of supernatural shenanigans, whether it's adventures involving monsters, practicing and using magic, or just having connections to mythical and fictional characters who are real in this story.
  • Character Exaggeration: Even without severe modifiers like Innocent Monster and Madness Enhancement, Servants derived from once-living historical or mythological persons are not wholly accurate facsimiles. This is most evident when one compares scenes featuring certain Servants with ones involving their living counterparts like Nero in Septem, Gilgamesh in Babylonia, and Minamoto-no-Raikou in Heian-kyo.
  • Double Unlock: Certain non-limited Servants are not available for summoning, since they are not part of the gacha's general pool, also known as the permanent pool by the fans. However, those usually unavailable non-limited Servants are available in class banners and specific Pick Up banners, but more importantly, they can be unlocked by story progression, making them summonable in the Story Summon Gacha. Those Servants are also called "story-locked".
    • "Singularity F: Flame Contaminated City: Fuyuki": Altria Pendragon (Saber Alter), Cú Chulainn (Caster).
    • "First Singularity: Hundred Years' War of the Evil Dragons: Orleans": Gilles de Rais (Caster).
    • "Second Singularity: Eternal Madness Empire: Septem": Nero Claudius.
    • "Third Singularity: Sealed Ends of the Four Seas: Okeanos": Medea (Lily).
    • "Fourth Singularity: The Mist City: London:" Nikola Tesla, Altria Pendragon (Lancer Alter).
    • "Fifth Singularity: North American Myth War: E Pluribus Unum": Cú Chulainn (Alter), Queen Medb, Li Shuwen (Lancer), Thomas Edison.
    • "Sixth Singularity: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot:" Altria Pendragon (Lancer), Tristan, Gawain.
    • "Seventh Singularity: Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia": Quetzalcoatl, Gorgon, Jaguar Warrior.
    • "Pseudo-Singularity I: Quarantined Territory of Malice, Shinjuku": EMIYA (Alter).
    • "Pseudo-Singularity II: Subterranean World of Folklore, Agartha": Rider of the Resistance (Christopher Columbus).
    • "Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa": Yagyu Tajima-no-kami Munenori, Katou "Black Kite" Danzo.
    • "Pseudo-Singularity IV: The Forbidden Advent Garden, Salem": Caster of Midrash (Queen of Sheba).
    • "Lostbelt No. 1: Permafrost Empire, Anastasia": Antonio Salieri.
    • "Lostbelt No. 2: The Eternal Icy Fire Century, Götterdämmerung": Sitonai.
    • "Lostbelt No. 3: The Synchronized Intellect Nation, SIN": Yu Mei-ren, Red Hare, Li Shuwen (Assassin).
    • "Lostbelt No. 4: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus, Yuga Kshetra": Aśvatthāman, Asclepius.
    • "Lostbelt No. 5: Interstellar Mountainous City, Olympus": Caenis.
    • "Lostbelt No. 6: Fairy Round Table Domain, Avalon le Fae": Fairy Knight Gawain (Barghest), Fairy Knight Tristan (Baobhan Sith), and Habetrot. Habetrot is noticeable for being the first story-locked Servant who can be found in the Friend Point Gacha.
    • "Chapter 6.5: Parting Memories' Manifestation Realms, Traum": Kriemhild, Don Quixote.
    • "Ordeal Call No. 1: Inner World of the Void Compass, Paper Moon": Bhima, Duryodhana
    • "Ordeal Call No. 2: Wastehole of the Unsalvageable, Id": Marie Antoinette (Alter), Alessandro di Cagliostro
    • "Ordeal Call No. 3: Neo-Primate Succession War, Archetype Inception": Hakuno Kishinami. Much like Habetrot, Hakuno can be found in the Friend Point Gacha.
  • Enemy Mine: Rivalries and miscellaneous enmities are put on hold for the sake of saving human history. For the most part.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation: Zig-zagged. While the Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors aspect of classes is mostly a gameplay abstraction, it is occasionally referenced outright in events and even main story chapters, albeit usually in sillier events and chapters and usually as a joke.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Generally speaking, a lot of Servants were first introduced as antagonists. However, they eventually get summoned to Chaldea afterwards to assist them in restoring humanity, and a lot of them tend to help-out in events.
  • Historical Badass Upgrade: Disregarding any changes that might have been made to the life story of anybody that was a real person, as a whole, being turned into a Servant makes all of them much more badass than they were before becoming a Servant.
  • Historical Beauty Upgrade: While not universal, as a general rule of thumb, if a character wasn't very attractive in real life/myth/the source material, Fate will make them much more attractive.
  • Historical Domain Character: Alongside Public Domain Character, this is pretty much the point of the Servant summoning system, taking renowned people and characters from throughout history and turning them into combat-capable Servants for fighting.
  • Historical Hero Upgrade: Alongside Historical Villain Upgrade, this is pretty common among every Servant, including real people, mythical people, and fictional characters. Most of the time they get hero upgrades, portraying all the negative reputation as slander and unintentional misfortune, but there are a few Servants who get villain upgrades instead, with their villainy being hidden by how history is Written by the Winners.
  • Historical Domain Superperson: By default as historical figures can be summoned as Servants, which are magical beings. They also possess supernatural abilities as well.
  • Insistent Terminology: Despite being aware of each other’s identities, several Servants whom competed against each other in a previous Holy Grail War refer to each other either by their class, or whatever identity they knew them as.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler:
    • As Grand Order is overall a celebration of almost everything in the Nasuverse, anytime a character is brought in from another portion of the franchise, any and all spoilers involving them are laid completely bare for all players to see, from First Episode Twists to the resolutions of entire character arcs. The most notable aspect of this is that none of the pre-existing Servants' names are hidden behind their Classes, since each class has multiple Servants available, meaning new players going in will be fully aware of the identities of characters without needing to see the source material.
    • In addition to franchise-wide spoilers, the fact Grand Order is an on-going long-running game means that, as the story goes on and there comes to be more and more advertisement for story arcs and events, most of the characters that were originally Walking Spoilers eventually become common knowledge even for newer players.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A good chunk of the limited events are caused by allied Servants either screwing up or intentionally trying to take advantage of Singularities to further their own selfish ends.
  • The Nicknamer: Aside from "Master", several of them have their own preferred nicknames for the player character.
  • Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack: While Noble Phantasms have the ability to do damage, some of them instead provide various buffs or debuffs. How effective they are varies by character, and how well they synchronize with it.
  • Red Baron: Many of them have some sort of informal title or nickname, either one that they were known by historically/mythically or one that the series gave them.
  • Specifically Numbered Group: There are seven main classes, comprising the Three Knight Classes ("Sankishi") and the Four Cavalry Classes ("Yonkishi"). These classes are summoned by (normally seven) Masters in a Holy Grail War, and most Heroic Spirits fall under one of the seven classes. Anything extraordinary falls under the Extra Classes, which are much fewer in members per individual class. Extra Class Servants are rarely ever summoned in Holy Grail Wars.
  • Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Exclusive to this game, the Servants either hit 1x damage, 1.5x damage, 2x damage or 0.5 damage to each other, depending on their relationship within the class advantage/disadvantage diagram.
    • The Three Knight Classes form a triangle of such a relationship. Saber are strong against Lancers, Lancers are strong against Archers, and Archers are strong against Sabers. The triangle are also strong and weak against Berserkers.
    • Three of the Four Cavalry Classes, namely Rider, Caster and Assassin, form a second triangle. They are also strong and weak against Berserkers.
    • The fourth of the Four Cavalry Classes, Berserker, deals 1.5x damage against almost every class other than Shielder (1x damage) and Foreigner (0.5x damage), while taking 2x damage from every class except Shielder (1x damage) and Berserkers (1.5x damage). Berserkers are especially weak against Foreigners.
    • Ruler, Moon Cancer and Avenger form a third triangle. Ruler also receives 0.5x damage from the first two class triangles.
    • Pretender, Alter Ego and Foreigner form the fourth triangle. In addition, Pretenders deal 1.5x damage against the Three Knights Triangle and 0.5x against the Four Cavalry Triangle, while Alter Egos are the opposite, dealing 0.5x to the Three Knight Classes and 1.5x to three of the Four Cavalry Classes. Foreigners deal 2.0x damage to each other, and uniquely take 0.5x damage from Berserkers.
    • Shielders have no class advantage or class disadvantage against any class, including Berserkers.

Grand Servants (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Class: Seven Main Classes (Originally)
Origin: Various
First appearance: Fate/Grand Order
Voiced by: Various

At the top of the Servant hierarchy, there are the Grand Servants, the most exceptional member of their Class that can only be summoned by the World itself to combat the Beasts. The Counter Force assigns viable Heroic Spirits to each, giving them an extra powerful Class container in exchange for them only using it against their intended targets when they are summoned as Grands. The list of Grand Servants past and present along with their Class requirements:

  • Grand Saber: Unknownnote
  • Grand Archer: Formerly Orionnote
  • Grand Lancer: Formerly Romulus=Quirinusnote
  • Grand Rider: Noahnote
  • Grand Caster: Merlin, formerly Solomonnote. All candidates must have all-seeing eyes such as Solomon and Merlin's Clairvoyance or Gilgamesh's Sha Naqba Imuru. Additionally, Taigong Wang claims to be a Grand Caster candidate, and Merlin (Prototype) is a legitimate candidate but has no interest in taking the position.
  • Grand Assassin: Tezcatlipoca, formerly the "First Hassan"note. The "First Hassan" is the only normal qualifying candidate, so this seat originally stayed vacant until Tezcatlipoca was forced to take it due to a shared connection to mountains.
  • Grand Berserker: Formerly Tezcatlipocanote
  • The Ace: The qualifications for these seats are said to be extremely strict and require the Servant to stand at the top of their Class in both power and fame. Each class has their own further requirements.
  • Avengers Assemble: How the Grands are supposed to function against Beasts, with the entire team being summoned to fight one when they emerge. Due to the maiming of the Counter Force caused by the Incineration of Humanity and the Fantasy Tree invasion, only one Grand can be summoned per Beast incursion, and that's if the situation in question allows them to appear at all. The player can witness a team-up approaching this intent during the "My Super Camelot" Grail Front event where the last campaign has Merlin (himself a candidate) protected by three former Grand Servants (First Hassan, Super Orion, and Romulus=Quirinus) among other powerful Servants.
  • Badass Boast: The Grands themselves rarely do this unless they're trying to distract or intimidate their enemies since doing so will make them obvious targets for Beasts. Other Servants, however, will sometimes proclaim that they are comparable to Grands.
  • Closest Thing We Got: In the event a Grand Class runs out of qualifying candidates, the Counter Force will start making anyone who somewhat fits the seat's criteria as a replacement, as is the case with Tezcatlipoca replacing the First Hassan as Grand Assassin even though he's a better fit for Grand Berserker.
  • Desperation Attack: They can shed the Grand-class Spirit Origin for a power boost if needed, leaving the seat vacant in lieu of becoming a regular Servant. They maintain a large amount of power even without the title.
  • Harbinger of Impending Doom: A Grand Servant appearing out of nowhere is never good news because it means a Beast is skulking about somewhere close.
  • Humans Are Special: Only humans or part-humans can become a Grand. Divine Spirits are forbidden from becoming one except under extreme circumstances.
    • Romulus=Quirinus maintains a deep connection to humanity despite his apotheosis to full Divine Spirit, and is said to be a god who remained human.
    • Tezcatlipoca exploits a loophole by creating a human vessel to possess, technically qualifying as a human despite being a Divine Spirit.
    • ORT outright managed to create a replica of the Throne of Heroes and granted himself the rank of Grand Foreigner.
  • King Incognito: Grands can hide their status, and they're indistinguishable for normal Heroic Spirits while in this state.
  • Oathbound Power: Grands are supposed to only exert their full powers against Beasts, and if they try doing so against anything else, the Counter Force reflexively strips them of their status. Even then, they seemingly have to do so in a specific way; First Hassan shows up to fight Beast II, but has to sacrifice his title in order to inflict the concept of death onto Tiamat, suggesting that him assisting such as that isn't what he was meant to do.
  • Oxymoronic Being: The Grand Assassin needs to be both deadly and prolific while still having traits of The Sneaky Guy. Because this criteria was so hard to fill, the position remained vacant for a time after the First Hassan sacrificed his container to inflict mortality on Tiamat.
  • Popularity Power: Another major aspect of being eligible for Grand status is being a famous historical or mythological figure.
  • Purposely Overpowered: The playable Grand Servants are among the best units in their respective Classes, and generally the best in their respective niches.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: While a Servant already needs to be the cream of the crop to be selected as the Grand Servant of their respective Class, Grand Servants are summoned with a special Grand Saint Graph by the Counter Force itself, granting them FAR more power and letting them kick a lot more ass than any regular Servant.
  • Recurring Element: Among the five known original Grands, three have a strong connection with the Biblical God. Interestingly, they're all members of the Cavalry Classes:
    • Grand Rider is Noah, the one who was chosen by God to build and captain the Ark that would survive the Great Flood.
    • Grand Caster was King Solomon, who was blessed with numerous gifts from God, including the magic power that earned him the title of "King of Magic."
    • Grand Assassin was "First Hassan"/King Hassan, the founder of the Hashashin order who only kills in accordance to the will of God. He is also implied to be Ziusudra, the last Sumerian King before the Great Flood, who in the Abrahamic religions is another name for Noah.
  • Specifically Numbered Group: Grand Servants only exist within the seven main classes, which is why Grand Servants of the Extra Classes do not exist, barring ORT who managed to replicate the Throne system through the Servant he absorbed and allowed himself to be summoned as a Grand Foreigner so long a single ORT cell was still active in the Lostbelt.
  • This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Besides fame and exceptional competency, a Servant is chosen to be a Grand if their kits have certain Skills or Noble Phantasms that can hard counter the currently active Beast(s). For instance, Super Orion's Anti-Wild Beast and Demonic abilities wouldn't do much against Beast III/R (Kiara), but they would've been of great utility against Beast IV:L who has both those traits and who he was originally summoned to battle, while Noah only truly works in the specific circumstances of the flooded Babylonia from the Arcade story, and would have been useless against Beast II.
  • Villains Act, Heroes React: A Grand Servant always is summoned on the heels of a Beast, never the other way around.
  • World's Strongest Man: Played with. Even if a Servant isn't one of these, they can still qualify to be Grands, and once they become such, they embody this trope more traditionally.

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  • Sabers
    • A through Flist
    • G through Mlist
    • N through Rlist
    • S through Zlist
  • Archers
    • A through Clist
    • D through Mlist
    • N through Zlist
      • Tam Lin Tristan
  • Lancers
    • A through Flist
    • G through Mlist
    • N through Zlist
  • Riders
    • A through Flist
    • G through Mlist
    • N through Zlist
  • Casters
    • A through Flist
    • G through Mlist
      • Merlin
    • N through Zlist
  • Assassins
    • A through Flist
    • G through Mlist
    • N through Zlist
  • Berserkers
    • A through Flist
    • G through Mlist
      • Morgan
    • N through Zlist
  • Extra
    • Rulerslist
    • Avengerslist
    • Moon Cancerslist
    • Alter Egoslist
    • Foreignerslist
    • Pretenderslist
      • Oberon
    • Beasts (Playable)list - Currently listed on the main Extra page until they get more than two entries.
  • Unplayablelist
  • Arcade Exclusivelist

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