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-shima?, localized as "Arimago Island") 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, Jaryū Hyaku-nen Sensō?). Several locations revealed were:
- DomrémyWP (ドンレミ, Donremi?)
- VaucouleursWP (ヴォークルール, Vōkurūru?)
- La CharitéWP (ラ・シャリテ, Ra Sharite?).
- DijonWP (ジュラ, Jura?)
- LyonWP (リヨン, Riyon?)
- MarseilleWP (マルセイユ, Maruseiyu?)
- ThiersWP (ティエール, Tiēru?)
- BordeauxWP (ボルドー, Borudō?)
Orléans
OrléansWP (オルレアン, Orurean?) 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. Jubastacheit is an artificial intelligence made to control the Einzbern Castle, Golem Jubstacheit (ゴーレム・ユーブスタクハイト, Gōremu Yūbusutakuhaito?). It manufactures humanoid golem terminals, and Acht is the eighth generation. [2]
Italy
Rome
RomeWP (ローマ , Rōma?) is one of the locations in the Eternal Madness Empire (永続狂気帝国, Eizoku Kyōki Teikoku?) in AD:0060.
Torino
The neatest district of southern Torino (トリノ?) 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 VictorieiWP 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, Shigishoara?) is a Romanian provincial city to the northwest of the capital Bucharest. It is the birthplace of Vlad III and his parental home is preserved.[3] It is 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 centuryWP by a settlement of SaxonsWP, and it is a rare city that displays strong vestiges of the Middle Ages, rare for even within Europe. The old town district in particular is a precious place where buildings from the Middle Ages still remain as they were in the past.[3] 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.
Trifas
Trifas (トゥリファス, Turifasu?) 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.
Trifas was conceived using Sighisoara as a model, while also made so as not to be eye-catching as a tourist attraction in comparison.[3]
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, Avaron?) 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] It is said that King Arthur and Francis Drake are said to dwell in Avalon and "across the ocean", the city of the dead, and will eventually return to lead England to true glory.[5]
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, kinsoku-chi?) 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, V&V Indasutory?) 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 Plutocracy
Western European Conglomerate (西欧財閥, Seiō Zaibatsu?).
North America
Present Mountain
Present Mountain is the place where Heinrich Zepter fled to.
Snowfield
Snowfield (スノーフィールド, Sunōfīrudo?) 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, Gurēto Kyattsu Birejji?), 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.[6] There is also a Great Cats Garden that has crocodiles.[7]
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.[8]
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
Reverse Side of the World
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 (世界の裏側, Sekai no Uragawa?) is the world as it was before humans lived there, the fabric of the era where Phantasmal Species 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". The Phantasmal race, having understood that the Age of Gods was over, ceded the Earth's surface to humans and moved to this place. [9]
In Fate/Apocrypha, Sieg in his Fafnir dragon form has migrated the Greater Grail to the Other Side of the World. In the Reverse Side of the World, the Holy Grail cannot activate its function of "using the Third Magic". 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 of Heroes where Heroic Spirits exist is cut off from the time axis, so she effectively had an infinite number of attempts to try.[9] Manaka Sajyou encounters Sieg when she sends her consciousness through the "Reverse Side of the World" in Fate/Labyrinth.
Shapeless Isle
The Shapeless Isle (形なき島, Katanaki Shima?) 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
- ↑
[] 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?
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2
[] 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】
- ↑
[] 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。 - ↑
[] Fate/EXTRA - Francis Drake (Rider) Matrix [T] Class: Rider
Master: Shinji Matou
True Name: Francis Drake
Noble Phantasm: Hunt of the Golden Hind: Golden Stag and the Eventide Tempest
Keyword: Invincible Armada, Logbook
Strength: D, Defense: C, Agility: B, Magic: E, Luck: EX
Anti-Magic: D, Rider on the Storm: A+, Settler of the Stars: EXKewords 01 - Hunt of the Golden Hind: Golden Stag and the Eventide Tempest
This Noble Phantasm is Rider's ace in the hole and forms the basis of her day-to-day life. With her flagship, The Golden Hind, at the fore, a vast flotilla of smaller craft expand ever outward and exterminates her enemies with overwhelming firepower. Its attributes contain vestiges of not only the fleet that eventually defeated the mighty Spanish Armada, but also of the stories involving the golden stag and the eventide tempest that had spread throughout the whole of Europe.
The eventide tempest is the encapsulation of all storms, from blizzards to cyclones, which manifest in the imagination of men as beasts and soldiers, saviors and monsters. Depending on who is speaking, the leader of these apparitions ranges from a fallen King Arthur to the Norse god Odin to the first murderer of men, Cain. in England, it is believed that Francis Drake rides the endless storm despite the fact that the role assigned to her is usually given to malevolent figures of history and myth.
02 - Invincible Armada
The name given to the Spanish naval forces during the period of history known as the Age of Discovery.
The Invincible Armada consisted of an estimated 65,000 men serving on more than a hundred large warships, each of which weighed in at over 1,000 tons. Its might was such that it earned Spain the reputation of being "The kingdom on which the sun will never set."
03 - Logbook
The sailing logs of a renowned explorer who successfully circumnavigated the globe.
The logs themselves are illegible, with pages cracked and flaking. However, it seems that the author of these logs was a ship's captain who made their name as both an adventurer and fleet commander.０１ - 黄金鹿と嵐の夜
ライダーの奥の手にして日常とも言える宝具。
主船・黄金の鹿号（ゴールデンハインド）を中心に、無数の小船を展開、圧倒的火力を持って敵を殲滅する。
スペインの無敵艦隊を破った「火船」の逸話と、ヨーロッパ全域で伝承される「嵐の夜（ワイルドハント）」の逸話がミックスされた宝具。
ワイルドハントとは暴風雨や吹雪など嵐の化身で、猟犬や山羊、馬や武装した兵士、怪物などの姿で現れるとされる。
これを率いる者は、伝説では悪魔化したアーサー王や古代の神オーディン、最初の咎人カインなどであるとされ、そうした者たちの中でもイギリスで広く信じられているのがフランシス・ドレイクである。
原則的にはその土地の荒ぶる英雄や有名人、古代の神などがワイルドハントの首領となる。
余談ではあるが、スコットランドでは嵐の夜の長はアーサー王とされている。
０２ - 無敵艦隊
大海賊時代におけるスペイン海軍の異名。
千トン級以上の大型艦１００隻以上を主軸とし、合計６万５千人からなる英国征服艦隊。
スペインを「太陽の沈まぬ王国」と謳わしめた無敵の艦隊である。
０３ - 航海日誌
世界一周を成し遂げた、ある偉大な航海者の公開日記。
内容はところどころかすれて読めないが、著者である船長は冒険家にして私掠船艦長、そして艦隊司令官であるようだ。Skills Anti-Magic [D]
Cancels single-action spells.
It also bestows magical resistance equal to that normally provided by a physical talisman such as an amulet.
Rider on the Storm [A+]
Talent that lets one sail objects recognized as ships.
As the ability to lead is essential in her position, this unique skill also has an effect on Charisma and Military Tactics.
Settler of the Stars [EX]
This unique ability is given to those heroes whose exploits became turning points in human history.
Any difficult voyage and insurmountable challenge cease to be "impossible" and became "events to be realized."対魔力[D]
一工程による魔術行使を無効化する。
魔力除けのアミュレット程度の対魔力。
嵐の航海者[A+]
船と認識されるものを駆る才能。
集団のリーダーとしての能力も必要となるため、軍略、カリスマの効果も兼ね備えた特殊スキル。
星の開拓者[ＥＸ]
人類史においてターニングポイントになった英雄に与えられる特殊スキル。
あらゆる難航、難行が“不可能なまま”“実現可能な出来事”になる。Details 01 - Character Background
The person who circumnavigated the globe and paved the way for England to become the dominate superpower in the Age of Discovery through its substantial earnings. This person was also the one who was given credit for the virtual destruction of Spain's Invincible Armada, which caused the nation once thought of as "the kingdom on which the sun will never set" to teeter on the edge of collapse.
She is a person who has dedicated her life to hedonistic pursuits and sees no difference between a paragon of virtue and a rogue scoundrel. She revels in all things gaudy, whether they are in war or in her private life, and is content to chase after ephemeral pleasures and leave nothing of worth behind, much like the passing of a raging storm.
She is particularly entranced with treasures of gold and silver, but her true love lies not with enduring treasure, but those treasures that explode like fireworks and then quickly fade away.
As she so often declares, "I chase after gold so that I can scatter it like a storm!"
It is for this reason that she is wholly incompatible with the Hero of Legend that symbolizes "an inexhaustible treasury." She would also be at odds with the fox-eared Caster, as Caster is the epitome of eternity.
As a devoted libertine, all that matters to her is the inevitable crash at the end of it all. A Legendary Spirit who is completely indifferent to the frailty of human existence, she is content to indulge in her own whims and desires until death comes to greet her.
She died of dysentery at the age of 55. Her dying wish was that she be buried in her full armor.
02 - "Franciscus Draco"
Sir Francis Drake is generally considered the first person to successfully circumnavigate the globe (the first person known to have attempted this feat -- Ferdinand Magellan -- was killed halfway through his voyage).
Though a male in life, Francis Drake has materialized in Fate/EXTRA as a woman.
During the time of Francis Drake, England was considered to be a second-rate power with no real influence beyond its borders and no colonies of worth overseas. It was primarily due to his voyages and successes on the high seas that gave rise to the British Empire. The combination of the wealth he brought to the country and the detailed maps he produced while circumnavigating the globe allowed Britain to assemble a fleet that rivaled that of Spain's.
An oft-mentioned aspect of the Drake mythos is that of his ship, the Golden Hind. Not only was it the flagship of Drake's fleet, it was seen as a symbol of hope and a source of miracles. The exploits the Golden Hind made possible elevated Drake (known and feared by the Spanish as El Draque) to a level on par with King Arthur. Both are said to dwell in Avalon and "across the ocean", the city of the dead, and will eventually return to lead England to true glory.
During what was to be the final confrontation between England and Spain's Invincible Armada, Francis Drake was commissioned as a vice admiral in the English navy. Using an unorthodox strategy involving the use of fire-ships, he forced the Spanish fleet into open water where they could be bombarded with cannon fire.
In addition - and this is merely literary creation - there is also a story full of romance in which Drake was a companion of Queen Elizabeth and, just before setting sail for the world circumnavigation, switched places with the Queen, who could no longer go out in public due to receiving a wound on her face.０１ - 人物背景：
世界一周を成し遂げ、その収益でイギリスが大航海時代の覇者となる道を開いた人物。
また、強壮であったスペインの無敵艦隊を葬り去り、太陽の沈まぬ帝国と呼ばれたスペインを事実上瓦解させた。
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享楽主義者で、善人も悪人も区別なくあつかう性格。
とにかく派手好きで、私生活も、強壮も、嵐の様に吹きすさんだあと、何も残らないような刹那的快楽を良しとした。
金銀財宝を愛しているが、彼女が愛しているのは“永遠に続く財”ではなく“花火の様に消えていく財”。
「アタシが金貨を集めるのは嵐の様に使い切るためさね！」
とは本人の談。
そういった理由で、いかに黄金好きでも“使い切れぬ財宝”を象徴する英雄王とは相容れない。
同じ理由で永遠を定義する狐耳のキャスターとも相容れない。
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刹那的な快楽主義者であるため、果てにあるものは華やかな没落である。
この英霊は生（人生。人間としての意義、誇り）に執着するのではなく、死（万人共通に訪れる没落）を良しとした。
５３歳の折、疫病に倒れる。
死の直前、錯乱して病床で鎧を着ようとするなどの奇行が目立ったという。
０２ - 『悪魔』
フランシス・ドレイクは世界一周を生きたままなし得た人類最初の偉人である。
（一人目のマゼランは途中で死去）
史実では男性だが、EXTRAでのドレイクは女性として現れている。
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当時、技術的にはそれなりでも国力に乏しく、まともな海外植民地も持たない二等国だったイギリス。
彼らが世界に冠たる大英帝国として生まれ変わったきっかけは、ドレイクが成した航海からだ。
彼女が帰還後に積載していた香料だけでも６トンはあったとされており、これは当時のイギリスの国家予算を遥かに超えていた。
この財貨と世界周航で得られた詳細な地図が、世界の覇者スペインと戦いうるだけの艦隊をそろえる資金となり、東インド会社を設立させる基盤になった。
……もし世界を変える存在を定義するなら、この船は間違いなくその定義に該当する存在だろう。
ドレイクの船、黄金の鹿号は単なる一隻の船ではなく、そういった奇跡を成しえた希望の船なのだ。
この事もあって、エルドラゴ（フランシス・ドレイク）はイギリスの未来の王・アーサー王と同一視されることもあった。
冥界（アヴァロン、海の彼方）から帰還し、英国に勝利を約束する存在となった為である。
スペインの無敵艦隊との決戦時、フランシス・ドレイクは英国艦隊の副司令官として参戦。
火船と呼ばれる特殊な戦法を用い、スペインの英国征服艦隊を上陸させることなく大敗させた。
この事から、ドレイクはスペイン人からこう呼ばれた。
悪魔。
「太陽の沈まぬ王国」を歴史の盟主から引きずり落とした、太陽を落とした女、と。
……また、あくまで創作にすぎないが、ドレイクはエリザベス女王とは何度か交友があり、世界一周航海の直前、顔に傷を負った為に人前に出られなくなった女王と入れ替わった―――などという、浪漫あふれる話もある。 - ↑
[] 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……？ - ↑ 9.0 9.1
[] 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】