User blog:Inept Wiki User/Lostbelt No. 2: Götterdämmerung, Post-Release Information and Speculation

It has been about three weeks since the release of Lostbelt No.2: Götterdämmerung. This has come with a considerable amount of information, some of which remains unprocessed, and has given rise to various pieces of new speculation.

Following on from the pre-release entry, this is the information and speculation connected to the post-release period. Given the situation with the previous pages and external circumstances, initial construction will likely take some time, as will subsequent compilation and referencing. If there's anything to add, amend or reference, please say so in the comments below - it'd be much appreciated and I need as much help as I can get.

WARNING: Spoilers below for those not following the Japanese release of Fate/Grand Order Primary Construction and Referencing incomplete as of 07/08/2018



Background
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Setting
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Lostbelt No.2 - Eternal Ice-Flame Century Götterdämmerung


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Situated on the, the Norse Lostbelt (alternatively the Nordic/Scandinavian Lostbelt) diverged from the Greater History of Man in 1000 BC during , when consumed , acquiring the wolf's powers and subsequently slaughtering both gods and giants alike, intending to exceed his role and bring about the Twilight of the World rather than just the Twilight of the Gods. He was eventually stopped by Odin, who sacrificed himself to seal Surtr within a false sun, leaving the world in the hands of the last surviving goddess,, whom Odin had hidden from Surtr's eyes by fusing her with Scáthach through a karmic connection.

Lostbelts No.3 to 7
Section under construction While the Norse Lostbelt was the focus of this chapter, some additional information was revealed in the chapter concerning the other Lostbelts.

In the Lostroom Material observed at the 3rd Anniversary Festival, several Lostbelts were briefly described. Alongside the first two, three others were mentioned:
 * A millennial empire ruled by an emperor granted the immortality he desired.
 * A stage of lotuses where genesis and destruction have cycled many times.
 * A place where gods exist, in a great oceanic metropolis.

For previous speculation for the post-Prologue period, see Cosmos in the Lostbelt: Post-Prologue, Pre-Anastasia Information & Speculation

Crypter: Ophelia Phamrsolone


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Crypter Servant: Sigurd
Ophelia's contracted Servant and 'strongest knight', as suspected from previous hints, is the dragon-slayer of the, Sigurd. The son of and a distant descendant of Odin, he inherited and reforged Gram, the sword which his father pulled from the  and was broken when he was killed. After slaying a dragon, he gained wisdom by consuming its heart. He later fell in love with Brynhildr, rescuing the sleeping Valkyrie from the ring of fire Odin trapped her in, and took her as his wife, but due to certain machinations, he lost his memories after imbibing a special drink and was made to betray her, resulting in his death at her hands.

Being of Scandinavian descent and liking the works of, Ophelia aimed to call upon him when summoning a Saber. However, due to the karmic bond which Ophelia unintentionally formed with Surtr and the latter's presence within the Lostbelt, Surtr was able to hijack the summoning process and inhabit Sigurd's flesh.

During the early events of the Lostbelt, Surtr was in control of Sigurd's body, with Sigurd's will briefly surfacing at times to resist. While fighting on Ophelia's behalf, Surtr sought to free himself from Sigurd's body and manifest in his true form, which could only be achieved if Sigurd's spiritual core was broken. As Ophelia's command prevented him from self-harm, he plotted to have others do the deed. After Brynhildr wounded Sigurd's body during their battle, Surtr managed to escape the seal.

Following Surtr's escape, Sigurd regained control over his body and after having his damaged spiritual core temporarily fixed up by Skadi, he fought against the Fire Giant alongside Chaldea and their allies, together with his wife Brynhildr. The two eventually dealt the final blow which felled Surtr, but succumbed to the damage to their spiritual cores and faded away afterwards. Before disappearing, Sigurd told Brynhildr to not hold back next time they met, accepting her impulse to kill him as a sign of her love and intending to survive as a display of his love.

King of the Lostbelt: Scáthach-Skadi
The King (or rather Queen) of this Lostbelt is the Divine Spirit - (＝), a fusion of Scáthach, warrior queen of the Land of Shadows in the proper history, and Skaði, huntress of the and one of the  via marriage to, brought about by Odin during the Lostbelt's Ragnarök.

In the Lostbelt's timeline, during the events of Ragnarök, after Surtr devoured Fenrir and proceeded to massacre the gods and leading giants, Odin used a karmic connection to hide Skadi in Scathach's body to keep her safe. He granted her power and authority before sacrificing himself to seal Surtr away in a false sun. Left as the last surviving deity, Skadi was left to rule over the remaining humans and giants in a world where Ragnarök was left half-finished and the subsequent renewal hadn't occurred.

Having to use much of her power to maintain the seal on Surtr, Skadi's domain was left covered in ice and flame. She was able to create habitable zones with her remaining power, where human settlements could be made, but there was a limit to how many could be sustained and how many people could be sustain within them without endangering the set-up. Additionally, while Skadi was able to command the giants not to attack the villages via masks she had them wear, she could not completely control them with her remaining power and they also needed sustenance. As such, she reluctantly imposed an age limit on humanity. Once they reached 25 or if they failed to reproduce once 15, they would be removed from the village and left to be eaten by the giants.

Though aware that her Lostbelt was an unnatural existence, Skadi was committed to her obligations and loyal to her world and people. A largely benevolent ruler, she held no enmity towards Chaldea and was not in favor of a massacre but recognized the threat they posed to the Lostbelt and intended to stop them. She also imprisoned Sitonai rather than killing her, perhaps seeing her as a stepdaughter due to Freyja's essence in her composition.

After Surtr escaped the seal, Skadi assisted in the fight against him, temporarily fixing up Sigurd and Brynhildr's damaged spiritual cores. When Ophelia used the Sirius Right to sever her connection to Surtr, condemning herself to death in the process, Skadi used her runes to keep her alive for a few minutes, long enough for her to have some last words with Mash.

Following Surtr's defeat, Skadi had a chance to use her full authority to improve the Lostbelt and blocked Chaldea's path to the Fantasy Tree, but having expended most of her power, she was ultimately defeated. Accepting her defeat, following the Fantasy Tree's destruction, Skadi had the Lostbelt's denizens go to sleep before allowing it to disappear as they slumbered.

Valkyrie


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The other remaining Norse presence in the old datamine and one suspected to appear, Valkyrie is a Servant which encompasses the Valkyries as a whole, with a representative which changes during Ascension. The Valkyries are divine war-maidens who serve Odin, tasked with collecting the souls of fallen warriors and bringing them to Valhalla to serve as Einherjar, the Allfather's army for Ragnarok. Though they have differing individual personalities, they lack independent volition and operate in connection with one another in a group mind.

Only three of the original vakyries survived the Lostbelt's Ragnarök;, and  - the same three who appear as representatives when Valkyrie is summoned under the FATE system. Skadi wasn't able to create full-fledged valkyries but was able to mass-produce units dependent on her mana, which were connected to the original three who acted as commanders.

Of the three surviving valkyries, Thrúd and Hild perished in battle against Brynhildr while Ortlinde eventually fell alongside her queen.

Surtr
is the king of the (fire giants) and the fire realm,. Wielding a blazing sword (sometimes held to be, particularly in recent works), Surtr's role in Norse mythology is largely limited to his involvement in Ragnarök. At the climax of the final battle, Surtr is meant to engulf the nine realms in flames, after which the world will sink beneath the wave before rising again renewed. In Fate, he is apparently also a remnant of the original giant 's wrath.

In the Lostbelt's Ragnarök however, Surtr consumed and acquired the wolf's power (and the designation Surtr-Fenrir (スルト・フェンリル)). Deciding to bring about the Twilight of the World rather than just the Twilight of the Gods, he then proceeded to massacre both the gods and the leading giants before Odin sacrificed his life to seal Surtr away in a false sun. The only surviving goddess, Skadi, had to use most of her power to maintain this seal over the centuries, limiting her ability to repair the damaged world, with Ragnarok half-finished and the subsequent renewal never occuring.

During Ophelia's near-death experience, her Mystic Eye inadvertently brought her into contact with the sealed Surtr, leading to a karmic bond being formed between them. Ophelia's words to the giant caused him to fall in love with her, but being a being of destruction without a proper understanding of love, he sought to express it by showing her the destruction of the world at his hands. When Ophelia was revived as a Crypter and attempted to summon Sigurd, Surtr used the karmic bond and his presence in the Lostbelt to hijack the summoning process and inhabit Sigurd's flesh, inadvertently inheriting an aspect of Fafnir in the process. He also place a curse on Ophelia which when activated would force her to witness the destruction he would bring at his side.

Surtr sought to escape from the seal and Sigurd's flesh, to manifest in his true form once more. To do this, he needed Sigurd's spiritual core to be broken. As Ophelia had used a Command Spell to prevent self-harm, he planned to have others do it for him. After Brynhildr broke Sigurd's spiritual core in their battle, Surtr was able to escape and his main body broke free of the seal. He then proceeded to consume the Fantasy Tree in order to regain the powers of Fenrir which he had lost during the time he was sealed, acquiring a body engulfed in both fire and ice.

As he moved to bring destruction to the Lostbelt and the whole planet beyond it, he was confronted by Chaldea's forces and the Lostbelt forces led by Skadi. His initial attempt to destroy Village 23 was blocked by Berserker summoned by Sitonai and he was shot in the face by Napoleon's cannon. After Napoleon dealt a heavy blow to Surtr by overloading his Noble Phantasm, at the cost of his life, the freed and inspired Ophelia destroyed her Mystic Eye to sever her connection to Surtr and used the Sirius Right to deal with his flames, at the cost of her own life. Sigurd and Brynhildr dealt the final blow to the giant, exploiting the aspect of Fafnir which he had inherited due to inhabiting Sigurd's flesh.

Gelda
Gelda is a native human of the Norse Lostbelt, a thirteen year old girl whom Chaldea rescued from a giant, after she left her village in search of herbs to heal her sick friend Laura, and who subsequently introduced them to her village, Village 23. Unlike Patxi, her role in the story is apparently fairly limited.

When the Lostbelt was about to collapse after the Fantasy Tree's destruction, while the other humans went to sleep as per Skadi's command, Gelda remained awake, right up to the moment of the Lostbelt's erasure.

Humans, Giants and Gods
The 'three races of Primacy' within the Lostbelt are humanity, the giants and the gods.

Unlike the Russian Lostbelt where humanity had become a different species altogether, normal humans still exist in the Norse Lostbelt, in villages within habitable zones created by Skadi. However due to limits imposed by Skadi due to sustainability and energy issues, there are no humans over the age of 25. When the villagers reach 25 or fail to reproduce before 15, they are removed from the village and left to be eaten by the giants, with the humans being told that they will go to Valhalla (which no longer exists) after dying in this way. The valkyries apparently provide them with a limited education.

The giants (, singular Jötunn) have also survived, but their leaders were slaughtered by Surtr during Ragnarok. Skadi can control the giants via masks which she has had them all wear, enough to stop them from attacking the human villages, however she cannot exercise complete control as most of her power is being tied up with maintaining the seal on Surtr. As there are sustainability limits for the villages and the giants need sustenance themselves, humans removed from the villages are left as food for them. Fire, ice and mountain variants appeared during the chapter.

The gods ( and ) perished during Ragnarok at Surtr's hands, with only Skadi and three of the Valkyries surviving. In the Lostbelt's timeline, wasn't devoured by  and instead sacrificed himself to seal Surtr after the fire giant consumed the wolf and went on a rampage, leaving his remaining power and authority to Skadi, entrusting the world to her. Odin's ravens, remained in the world, later guiding Napoleon to Chaldea's group.

Counter Force Servants
As with the previous Lostbelt, a number of Servants have been summoned to the Lostbelt to fight on behalf of the Human Order of the Greater History of Man, though less of them appear than in Russian Lostbelt.

Three Servants have been called forth this time; Napoleon (though this was largely due to Ophelia's hidden wishes), Brynhildr and Sitonai.

Napoleon
The one whom the Lostbelt's subtitle is derived from, Napoleon is an idol of human possibility, embodying the legends surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte more than the Emperor of the French himself.

While Napoleon is a Servant fighting on behalf of the Greater History of Man, his specific summoning was more due to him responding to Ophelia's wishes than the Counter Force. Deep down, Ophelia hoped for a hero to come and save her, knowing that her arrival had doomed the Lostbelt's world to Ragnarok and unable to find a way to avoid it.

Napoleon was guided to Chaldea's group by Huginn and Muninn, Odin's ravens, and subsequently fought alongside them during the events which followed, though he still loved Ophelia and wished to help her.

During the final battle with Surtr, Napoleon exceeded his limits and overloaded his Noble Phantasm to deal a heavy blow to the fire giant at the cost of his life. His last action before disappearing was to free Ophelia from Surtr's curse. His sacrifice and the possibilities it created inspired Ophelia to act against Surtr, leading to her own sacrifice.

Brynhildr
As strongly suspected, given the hints of Sigurd's presence and the Norse setting, Brynhildr was among the Servants summoned by the Counter Force to fight against the invading Lostbelt, manifesting around the same time as Napoleon. In life, Sigurd rescued sleeping Brynhildr from the ring of fire she was trapped in after defying Odin and the two fell in love, becoming husband and wife. However due to certain machinations, Sigurd lost his memories after imbibing a special drink and was made to betray her, eventually leading to her killing him and then herself.

During the initial stages of Chaldea's incursion into the Lostbelt, Brynhildr had been trapped in a castle, again surrounded by a ring of fire. After they freed her, she aided them in their struggle, fighting against her sisters in the process - something which pained her, though she understood it was necessary. In the battle against Ophelia and the Surtr-possessed Sigurd, Brynhildr was able to overcome the influence of Ophelia's Mystic Eye, damaging her own spiritual core in the process, and deliver a mortal wound to Sigurd, breaking his spiritual core and inadvertently releasing Surtr from his prison.

After their spiritual cores were patched up by Skadi, Brynhildr fought alongside Sigurd against Surtr. During this time, Brynhildr didn't display her usual killing impulses towards Sigurd, which she thought might have been due to the damage to her core or Skadi's runes. The two eventually dealt the final blow which felled Surtr, but they succumbed to the damage to their spiritual cores and disappeared not long afterwards, but before they did, Sigurd accepted Brynhildr's impulses to kill him as a sign of her love and said he would survive as a sign of his love for her, prompting a smile from her.

Sitonai
The last Servant summoned to fight for the Greater History of Man is a Pseudo-Servant possessing the body of Illyasviel von Einzbern as well as a High-Servant composed of Sitonai (Ainu),  (Finnish) and  (Norse). She has the ability to temporarily summon Berserker Heracles for a short time. Though Sitonai's personality was supposedly the dominant one, she apparently insisted on being referred to as Illya.

Skadi didn't wish to kill her, who due to Freyja's presence was apparently something like a stepdaughter to her, and instead sealed her in her dungeon. Sitonai was able to undo the seal fairly easily, first meeting with Chaldea's forces in the dungeon after they got captured in order to retrieve the Paper Moon. At this point, she attempted to hack Fujimaru's Servant contract with Napoleon in order to forcibly establish a karmic bond with him.

She assisted Chaldea at various points afterwards. In the final battle with Surtr, she summoned Berserker to block Surtr's sword when he initially attempted to destroy Village 23. After the battle, she dealt with the mysteries which were obscuring the tree, allowing Chaldea to reach it and fell it after defeating Skadi. As the Shadow Border was about to depart, she said farewell before disappearing.

Chaldea and Previous Allies
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Mash Kyrielight (Ortenaus)
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Others
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The Alien God
In this chapter, it is revealed that the Alien God had initially only chosen Kirschtaria Wodime for its purposes, but Wodime requested that it revive the other members of the A-Team, arguing that they could bring about additional possibilities while the Alien God warned him it would only create adversaries. Eventually the Alien God consented and extended its offer to the others as well. Among the other Crypters, only Ophelia was aware of this exchange.

Priestess of the Alien God
As with the Russian Lostbelt, the Priestess observed a number of events within the Norse Lostbelt. This time however, she apparently didn't intervene when Chaldea attacked the Fantasy Tree, which was damaged due to Surtr's actions and felled by Chaldea without her acting.

Kotomine
A Pseudo-Servant emissary in charge of the Territory of Russia, following the events in the Russian Lostbelt, Rasputin had accomplished his goal of putting Anastasia on the throne of Russia and moved on, giving his vessel Kotomine Kirei back control of his body.

At the start of the chapter, Kotomine personally attacked the Shadow Border, running after it alone with an RPG launcher, and succeeded in retrieving Kadoc Zemlupus.

Koyanskaya
As with the Russian Lostbelt, Koyanskaya was present in the Norse Lostbelt for a time. At one point, she talked with Ophelia and managed to rile her. She also encountered Chaldea's group again as they were escaping Skadi's castle, with numerous giants sent after them. After Surtr broke free of the seal, she had a brief talk with Caenis in which the latter referred to her as a beast and warned her that not everything in the Lostbelts was her ally.

Fantasy Tree
The Fantasy Tree sustaining the Norse Lostbelt was designated Sombrero. Unlike Orochi, it had properly taken root and had started budding, releasing seeds which were fought at various points in the Lostbelt.

After Surtr escaped from the seal, he consumed the Fantasy Tree in order to regain the powers of Fenrir which he lost due to his time inside the seal, usurping Skadi as King of the Lostbelt in the process. Following Surtr's defeat, the tree reappeared near to Village 23 but was left in a damaged state, enabling Chaldea to fell it without external assistance.

During the chapter, it was revealed that the Fantasy Tree of Wodime's Lostbelt, which had by then spread its roots across much of the planet, had been named Atlas, sharing its name with the Titan who holds up the skies in Greek mythology.

Crypters

 * For Ophelia Phamrsolone and Sigurd, see above.

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It was revealed in this chapter that the Alien God initially only chose Kirschtaria Wodime for its purposes. However Wodime argued that the others could also bring about additional possibilities and eventually convinced it to extend its offer of resurrection to the rest of the A-Team as well. Among the other Crypters, only Ophelia was aware of this exchange.

More information has also been revealed about the Sirius Right, the special Command Spell granted to the Crypters by the Alien God. Engraved onto their soul when they were resurrected, its use comes at the cost of the Crypter's life.

Caenis
As Wodime had mentioned he would be doing in the previous chapter, he dispatched Caenis to Ophelia's Lostbelt. Chaldea encountered her for the first time in Skadi's throne room, as she was delivering a message from Wodime. After Surtr broke free of the seal, Caenis had a brief talk with Koyanskaya, whom she referred to as a beast and warned her that not everything in the Lostbelt was her ally.

During her encounter with Skadi, the latter upset her by saying how she was loved by the sea before correcting herself and saying she was sullied by it. Napoleon wondered if she was able to claim the position of a Divine Spirit because of the blessing she received from Poseidon, though he didn't voice his thoughts.

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Speculative References
