This is a list of major locations in the Nasuverse.
Africa
Egypt
The Atlas Academy is located somewhere among the mountains of Egypt.[1]
Resistance
Asia
Alimango Island
Alimango Island (アリマゴ島, Arimago Island in the English localization?) is a small island with a fishing village consisting of around three hundred families that appears in Fate/Zero. It is undeveloped, with dirt roads and only three or four old, beaten-up vehicles on the entire island. Father Simon runs a local church. Its name means "crab" in Filipino, and it comes from when the island was said to have contained a shrine to a deity of the sea. People left offerings to the deity, and it is said in folktales that a girl looking to feed her sick mother stole them and was divinely punished by being turned into a crab. It is said that those who eat crabs caught on the island will have any disease cured, after the story of the girl's mother finally recovering from her long illness. Far from the town in the jungle, there is a mansion that is said to be built next to the former location of the shrine. People of the town do not go near it due to legends also saying those who go near it too often will be cursed, so Norikata Emiya uses it to practice magecraft in secrecy. The entire population is killed by the Mage's Association and Holy Church after being turned into ghouls by Shirley.
Japan
Fuyuki
- Main article: Fuyuki City
Mifune
- Main article: Mifune City
Misaki
- Main article: Misaki Town
Europe
France
In Fate/Grand Order, the First Holy Grail happened in Orléans in AD:1431, in the Wicked dragon Hundred Years War (邪竜百年戦争?). Several locations revealed were:
- DomrémyWP (ドンレミ?)
- VaucouleursWP (ヴォークルール?)
- La CharitéWP (ラ・シャリテ?).
- DijonWP (ジュラ?)
- LyonWP (リヨン?)
- MarseilleWP (マルセイユ?)
- ThiersWP (ティエール?)
- BordeauxWP (ボルドー?)
Orléans
OrléansWP (オルレアン?) is a city in north-central France. Both Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais participated in the Hundred Years' WarWP to repel the English in the Siege of OrléansWP.
It is also the main headquarters of Gilles de Rais and Joan Alter.
Germany
The Einzbern Castle is located in Germany, in a mountain district near a certain river. [2]
Italy
Rome
RomeWP (ローマ , Roma?) is one of the locations in the Eternal Madness Empire (永続狂気帝国?) in AD:0060.
Torino
The neatest district of southern Torino (トリノ, Turin?) of Italy, there is an elegant villa built atop a small hill and the villa is considered to be Tokiomi's secondary residence. This is the location where Kirei Kotomine, Risei Kotomine and Tokiomi Tohsaka discuss about the upcoming Fourth Holy Grail War.
Romania
Bucharest
BucharestWP is the capital of Romania, formerly known as "Little Paris" during the early twentieth century. The bombs of the World War II, two earthquakes, and the megalomaniacal urban development of the dictator Nicolae CeaușescuWP destroyed many of the building of the period. While much of the beauty was lost, many old churches and historically valuable buildings from the old city can be seen travelling on the Calea Victoriei WP cutting through the city from south to north. As of the Great Holy Grail War, there is a series of murders that causes one newspaper to make a joking title of "The Return of Jack the Ripper?"
Considered another wound carved into the country by the Ceaușescu regime are the "children of Ceaușescu", the destructive legacy of the regime born from its policies. Romania once outlawed contraceptives and abortions, and had attempted to force all families to have at least five children. Many youths were unable to be raised and ended up as street children who delved into lives of crime and human trafficking. While the dictatorship ended in revolution, those lives who were born could not be returned, and they were devoured and scattered by criminal organizations and people of power, surviving by turning from the prey to the predators.
It has nearly six hundred years of history, and it possesses many spiritually powerful leylines suitable for summoning Servants. Using the Stavropoleos Church, the necromancer Kairi Sisigou is best able to summon his Servant.
Sighisoara
SighisoaraWP (シギショアラ?) is the birthplace of Vlad III, and the closet city to Trifas outside of Yggdmillennia's influence. Closer than Bucharest, it remains a good location for the Red Faction during the Great Holy Grail War until the completion of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. It was formed in the 12th century by a settlement of Saxons, and it is a rare city that displays strong vestiges of the Middle Ages, rare for even within Europe. The Red Faction uses the Church on the Hill as their base initially. It is a high-up church with a famous dome-roofed staircase said to contain one hundred and seventy-two steps.[3]
Trifas
Trifas (トゥリファス?) is a city in Transylvania, Romania and main setting of Fate/Apocrypha. It is a small city north of Sighisoara, the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, that has acted as the base of the Yggdmillennia clan since the Middle Ages. Its citadel and part of the city are surrounded by walls built to defend against the invasion of the Turks during the Middle Ages, and they are still perfectly preserved in the modern day. Many of the city's buildings have been repeatedly repaired and reconstructed since they were built in the Middle ages, making them no less valuable than those in Sighisoara.
The symbol of the city is a large castle upon a small hill, the the Fortress of Millennia. The castle has remained under the ownership of Yggdmillennia and not once changed hands through the invasion of the Ottoman Turks, the outbreak of the Black Death, and the explosions of modern war. Despite the hardships that have befallen the city, the fortress and the clan still stand strong. They also employ menial homunculi to perform various chores and patrol the castle while wielding halberds.
The city has a population of twenty thousand, and they thrive mostly around agriculture and textiles. They live in fear of those living in the castle, and though the sights inside, the patrolling soldiers unthinkable in the modern age and statues with glowing eyes, would shock people, the residents of the city would never step inside in the first place. They are forbidden from even stepping outside of their homes whenever the lights of the citadel are lit, and with the advent of the Great Holy Grail War, the lights that had been off for a long period of time are once again bright. They can only pray for the safety of their homes and continue their daily lives.
United Kingdom
Avalon
- For the specific Noble Phantasm, see Avalon.
The land of Avalon as shown in Last Episode of Fate/stay night
AvalonWP (アヴァロン?) is the paradise in the Arthurian legends. It is a small world that was called the Land of the Eternal Spring and the Island of Apples in mythology, the utopia was thought to be derived from the island that produced the "Apple of Immortality" in Greek mythology.[4]
Avalon is somewhere in Britain, but at the same time not in Britain. It is in the exact same coordinates and takes up the same space, but still nowhere to be found on the “surface” of the planet where humans live. It is located at the Other Side of the World, it is the star of the inland sea and the soul of the planet called Earth. To be precise, it should be called a phase misaligned with multi-dimensions as it lies inside as well as outside after all.
It is a Utopia that may not be granted to beasts which possess wisdom, one that may never be reached. It is a world cut off from the constant decay and destruction of the surface of the planet and, although it is nestled in human history, has no connection to other lands at all. Daytime is filled with spring’s sunshine and the smell of summer; night is wrapped in the autumn air and stars of winter. It is where flowers of all colours bloom on gently sloping plains. A forest can be clearly seen in the far distance, enveloped by the overlooking sky; the view is evenly divided between the sky and the earth. There is no sign of human civilization in the lands. On earth there are countless flowers and bugs; in the forest there is water and green, and ethereally beautiful fairies lurk in the pond. The paradise people imagine is only an imitation of this place. Here, in this un-trodden place, the bounds of a tabooed land (禁足地, Kinsokuchi?) serve as the ends of the island. Though the island has no end, it seems to change like any other land. Further into the island the land turns barren, similar to Britain. It is where fairies got up and went to after the Age of Gods ended.
According to Merlin, the density of Magical energy is too strong. He thought it shouldn't be called a paradise, but it could be better utilized as a weapon instead. He compares the place to a vacuum, simply breathing in it is enough to end up dead. In one breath a human of the current age would burst from inside out.
Once Artoria Pendragon terminated her contract with the World by destroying the Holy Grail by her own will, she goes to Avalon. In the Last Episode, Shirou Emiya was able to reach Avalon and reunite with Artoria.
Aylesbury
Aylesbury, EnglandWP is a countryside village resembling a medieval town with unmatched concrete factories. Though the land was commercially worthless, development funded by V & V Industries (V＆Vインダストリィ?) to make a band of factories, even if out of date, has made the village previously in ruin from a declining population into an industrial area. The company is owned Van-Fem of the The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors, and he has used the area in order to prepare the area for the Aylesbury Valesti ritual. Though both the Mage's Association and Church are monitoring the area, all that has gone into it are legitimate funds and human labor, so they cannot act even if they know it is a farm for the Dead Apostles. So long as that human fairness holds, they cannot act until the supernatural has caused it to collapse.
While there is not a deadlock between all three groups, it can be said there is a careful balance of power. Both the Association and the Church are looking to take over the area on their own without any cooperation, so they are enemies in the conflict. The Association has more firepower than the Church, but magi are fundamentally the same type of existence as Dead Apostles. They share the same craft, but it can be said the Dead Apostles, who have reached a higher level of the supernatural, have the upper-hand against them. The Church specializes in in destroying vampires and can be considered the Ancestors' worst enemy, so they are vying for the Association to quickly overwhelm the Church.
Glastonbury
King Arthur's tomb
GlastonburyWP is a town in England where the Glastonbury AbbeyWP is located. King Arthur's "tomb" is a site at the Abbey.
London
London
The Mage’s Association current headquarters is located in the Clock Tower, London. In Unlimited Blade Works scenerio, Shirou and Rin travelled to London.
Western European Conglomerate
North America
Snowfield
Snowfield (スノーフィールド?) is a suburban town in western United States that is the main setting of Fate/strange fake. North of Las Vegas, it is currently a thriving city with a population of 800,000, but it was previously an area home to a scant few indigenous peoples at the beginning of the 20th century. For over one thousand years, it had been the home of Tine Chelc's people, who protected it from settlers until the government and magi joined forces to overrun them to prepare for the False Holy Grail War. Though it was an area that had very few records before then, it rapidly began to develop as a boomtownWP seventy years ago, and the land went through a complete transformation by the time of the 21st century.
There is a vast ravine north of the city, a dense forest, unusual in such an arid area, to the west of the city, a tract of lakes and marshes east of the city, and a vast desert unfolding south of the city. It does not contain any farmland despite being surrounded by land suited for agriculture, standing out as a strange existence from its surroundings like a "cleft." It is described by some as a town with its sights set on the future, with the correct mixture of the natural and artificial.
The central district of the town appears as grand as New York or Chicago with towering buildings and a pair of six-lane causeways, the city's primary north-south and east-west arterial roads, meeting at a large scramble intersection near the city center. Both roads seem to form a crucifix from above, extending into all four of the surrounding environments. The city hall tower stands as the tallest building, the Center Park contains a fountain and is populated by families mid-day, and the Snowfield Central Hospital is a large, white building that looks like an art museum, furnished with the finest equipment in the city and various specialists.
Others
Ahnenerbe
- Main article: Ahnenerbe
Great Cat's Village
Great Cat's Village (グレートキャッツビレッジ?), also called GCV and the Cat Kingdom, is the mysterious, unearthly kingdom of cats, home of NEKO Spirits like Neco-Arc. It is an underground kingdom that exists both in the world and nowhere at once, said by some to be the dream of a certain mighty cat. While its size fluctuates from village to cottage to company, it is basically a village.[5] There is also a Great Cats Garden that has crocodiles.[6]
It has a single military unit, Abaddon's Beret, a self-defense force composed of Neco-Arcs specifically chosen for their uncontrollable overflowing savage nature, excellent physical ability, and unmatched intelligence. Though the envy of Neco-Arcs, they are not actually that useful in battle. Neco-Arc Chaos also has his own Dark Chaos Corps.[7]
Land of Steel
- Main article: Land of Steel
- Leaves of Yggdrasil
- Western Continent
- Great Rift
- Witch Swift Umbrella
Moon
- Main article: Moon
Moon Cell
- Main article: Moon Cell
Other Side of the World
Majority of the Phantasmal Species has long abandoned the human realm and moved to the Other Side of the World (世界の裏側, Sekai no uragawa?).[8]
In Fate/Apocrypha, Sieg in his Fafnir dragon form has migrated the Greater Grail to the Other Side of the World. Manaka Sajyou encounters Sieg when she sends her consciousness through the "Other Side of the World" in Fate/Labyrinth.
Shapeless Isle
The Shapeless Isle (形なき島?) was the home of Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. It was an island far beyond OceanusWP, known only to the three grey witches, the GraeaeWP. With rumors of the beautiful sisters and the monster Gorgon, many were drawn to the island. Some wished to confirm the legends of the Gorgon, some sought glory from slaying it, some were guided by an oracle's prophecy, and others equipped themselves with swords, spears, and bows and arrows to travel there without speaking of it to anyone. None of them returned or even died normally, but instead were turned to stone while alive and had their lives end in that place.
References
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[] Fate/EXTRA material - Encyclopedia: Atlas Academy [Place name], p.155 The Academy at Atlas【Location Name】
The Atlas Institute is an association of magus and alchemists based somewhere in Egypt’s Atlas Mountains. It is also known as the Giant’s Pit.
Of the three divisions of what had once been the Mage’s Association, the institute of accumulation and measurement.
They were a group of practitioners of alchemy, not of the modern alchemy that became dominant since the medieval times, but the progenitor of magecraft, the alchemy that investigates the truth of the world.
They’re not so much as mages as they are individuals with abnormal powers who treat their own bodies like humanoid machines, using them like vessels for working their minds more accurately, more powerfully, more quickly.
They believed that humans are a rare sort of computers with motor functions (the five senses), that we humans are intelligent lifeforms that evolved to collect and analyze information and directly solve the problems created from that as manual labor.
The correctness of this idea was proven unexpectedly in the world of Extra where magecraft died out.
The alchemists of Atlas have poor magic circuits, and did not lead their lives relying on magic power.
As they did not rely on it (or to be more precise, could not), they were able to continue their pursuit of knowledge as disciples of magecraft even after the depletion of mana.
However, for a long time children had stopped being born, and the Atlas Institute, with its old alchemists taking their lives, was at the end of its ropes irrespective of the mana depletion.
All that remains of the Atlas Institute is a single homunculus. The last Atlasian succumbed to disease after creating the homunculus, and only her creations were left in her cave.
The Atlas alchemists disappeared, and their research facilities which were built using unknown techniques stretch out in an underground city which is now, more or less, a giant graveyard.アトラス院【地名】
エジプトはアトラス山脈にある魔術師・錬金術師の協会。巨人の穴倉ともいう。
かつて機能していた魔術協会───その三大部門の一つ、蓄積と計測の院。
中世から主流となった現代錬金術とは異なる、魔術の祖、世界の理を解明する錬金術師の集団だった。
魔術師というよりは自身の肉体をマン・マシーンとして扱う異能者たちで、自身の肉体を『正しく、強く、速く』知性を働かせるための容れ物として扱っていた。
人間とは運動機能（五感）をもった類い希なる計算装置である。情報を収集し、解析し、生まれ出る数々の問題に、労働力としてダイレクトに対応できるよう進化した知的生命体が我々人間である、というのが彼らの信条だった。
その正しさは魔術の絶えたEXTRA世界で奇しくも証明された。
アトラスの錬金術師たちは魔術回路が乏しく、魔力に頼った活動をしてこなかった者たちである。
魔力に頼っていなかった（正しくは『頼れなかった』のだが）彼らは魔力枯渇の後でも魔術の徒として探求を続けられた。
しかし長く次代の子供たちが誕生しなくなり、古参の錬金術師たちの自決死が続いていたアトラス院は魔術枯渇とは関係なく滅びようとしている。
アトラス院にはもはや一人のボムンクルスしか存在しない。最後のアトラスはボムンクルスを鋳造した後に病死し、洞窟には最後の作品だけが残された。
錬金術師たちが消え、未知の技術体系によって作られた研究施設だけが連なる地下都市は、さながら巨大な墓標のようだとも。 - ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Characters, p.135
Q: Where does the main Einzbern family live? The “von” in the is supposed to be German, right?
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[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Sighisoara [Place name], p.169 [T] Sighisoara [Place name]
The name of a real place. It is a Romanian provincial city to the northwest of the capital Bucharest, and it is where Vlad Tepes…Vlad III’s parental home is preserved. It has a long and old history, having been formed primarily as part of colonization from Germany in the 12th century. The old town district in particular is a precious place where buildings from the Middle Ages still remain as they were in the past.
Trifas was conceived using this city as a model, while also made so as not to be eye-catching as a tourist attraction in comparison.シギショアラ【地名】
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[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: The Everdistant Utopia [Noble Phantasm], p.063 [T] The Everdistant Utopia [Noble Phantasm]
Avalon.
The paradise in the Arthurian legends; a scabbard bearing the name of the Faerie Land.
The utopia Avalon was thought to be derived from the island that produced the "Apple of Immortality" in Greek mythology.
Avalon mended all wounds and halted the wielder's aging process. After unleashing its true name, Avalon would break into hundreds of shards and shield the wielder from all interference.
The sheath of the holy sword was excavated by the Einzberns from Cornwall. It was given to Kiritsugu as a catalyst to summon King Arthur.
It was a Noble Phantasm reaching the realm of True Magic. Avalon shut out all physical interference, operation of parallel worlds, and multi-dimensional communication (up to the sixth dimension).
If Saber went hikikomori, no one would reach her.全て遠き理想郷【宝具】
アヴアロン。
アーサー王伝説における常春の土地、妖精郷の名を冠した鞘。
アヴアロンはギリシャ神話において、“不死の林檎” があるとされる島から連想されたという理想郷。
持ち主の傷を癒し老化を停滯させるだけでなく、真名を以って開放すれば数百のパーツに分解し、所有者をあらゆる干渉から守りきる。
聖剣の鞘はアインツベルンがコーンウォールより発掘し、アーサー王召喚の触媒として切嗣に与えたもの。
魔法の域にある宝具で、あらゆる物理干渉、並行世界からのトランスライナー、多次元からの交信（六次元まで）をシャットアウトする。
セイバーがこれで引き篭もったら手におえない。 - ↑
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Great Cat's Village [Place name], p.057 Great Cat's Village [Place name]
The mysterious, unearthly kingdom of cats. Also known as the GCV. An underground kingdom that is both everywhere in this world, and nowhere.
Its size is constantly fluctuating from village to cottage to company, but in the end it's basically a village. There are some that say it is the dream of a certain mighty cat.グレートキャッツビレッジ【地名】
不思議な不気味な猫の王国。通称GCV。この世の何処にでもあり、どこにもない地下王国。悪の都パンゲアのモデルなのでは、とネコアルクたちは噂している。
ビレッジやらコテージやらカンパニーやら、頻繁に規模が変わるが基本はビレッジ。ある偉大なネコが見た夢なのでは、とも。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: I want to go to the Crocodile Garden [Technique name], p.191 I want to go to the Crocodile Garden [Technique name]
Neco Arc's killer move. J214A. She attacks horizontally by… turning into a rocket!
It seems that there may be some connection to the technique "Farewell, Ciel-sensei! Our friendship ended in the Crocodile Garden!" that appeared in Neco Arc's command list in the third character popularity poll.
Also, this is totally unrelated, but all of Neco Arc's techniques are extremely powerful. Something like the True Ancestor Beam can't be fully observed with the naked eye. Of course, this technique is no exception – its fearsome effectiveness is seriously troublesome.
Incidentally, aren't there crocodiles in the Great Cats Garden…?ワニ園に行きたいわたし【技名】
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[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Elite Neco Corps [Technique name], p.059 Elite Cat Troops [Technique name]
The Neco Arcs summoned by Neco Arc. The GCV's only military unit.
It is a self-defense force composed solely of specially chosen Neco Arcs whose overflowing savage nature, excellent physical ability, and unmatched intelligence cannot be controlled. These chosen few are known as Abaddon's Beret, and are the envy of all the Neco Arcs.
Of course, that's completely unrelated to its power as a technique. There is a high degree of randomness involved, so it's really only useful as a provocation.
Probably, this was done in order to faithfully translate the idea that even Neco Arc cannot control the Neco Arcs into game mechanics.
Also, recently there have been rumors swirling about a Dark Chaos Corps, but…?エリートネコ部隊【技名】
ネコアルクが召喚するネコアルクたちの事。GCVの唯一の軍事機能。
野性をたぎらせ、優れた身体能力と知性を抑えられない選ばれたネコアルクたちによる自衛部隊である。選ばれた者はネコアルクたちから羨望をこめてアバドン☆ベレーと呼ばれる。
技としての性能は論外。ランダム性が高い為、挑発としてしか使い道がない。これはネコアルクですらネコアルクを制御できない、という事を忠実にゲーム化した為だろう。
また、最近は更なる暗黒混沌部隊が組織されたというが……？ - ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Other Side of the World [Others], p.173 [T] Reverse Side of the World [Others]
The place where the evil dragon Fafnir finally arrived at the very end of the novels. The Phantasmal Races, having understood that the Age of the Gods was over, ceded the Earth’s surface to humans and moved to this place. The world where humans currently live (including the laws of physics) is like a fabric that thinly extends across the surface of the planet. Beneath that fabric exist the planet known as “Earth”. On the other hand, the Reverse Side of the World is the world as it was before humans lived there… that is, the fabric of the era where Phantasmal Races strode the land. In other words, the Earth is the bottommost layer of the planet, and it is covered by the “Reverse Side of the World”—the place where the laws of the “world” as it once was reigns, and covering that is the “Present World”.
In the Reverse Side of the World, the Holy Grail cannot activate its function of “using the Third Sorcery”. In the first place, that function was for the sake of granting Shirou Kotomine’s wish. In other words, it is programmed to target humans, and doesn’t count Phantasmal Races as valid targets.
Jeanne d’Arc is a Heroic Spirit who, from the start, lost her human body long ago. Because of that, the chances of her reaching the Reverse Side weren’t completely zero… However, that is merely the kind of “not zero” like, as a comparison, somehow managing to pass through a wall with the tunnel effect, but the Throne where Heroic Spirits Exist is cut off from the time axis, so she effectively had an infinite number of attempts to try.世界の裏側【その他】