Avenger (Fate/Grand Order - Edmond Dantès)

Avenger (アヴェンジャー) an Avenger-class Servant able to be summoned by the Protagonist in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.

Identity
Avenger's True Name is Edomon Dantesu (エドモン・ダンテス), known popularly as Monte Kurisuto-haku (モンテ・クリスト伯) and the Gankutsuō (巌窟王). Treated as a literary creation by Alexandre Dumas, he came to be known as the individual who "possesses the world's greatest popularity as a revenger." Living as a seaman in, he was torn away from his love Mercédès after being imprisoned in the hellish on a false charge derived from an unscrupulous conspiracy. Through possessing a mind of steel, he did not fall into despair during his imprisonment and met the similarly imprisoned, who guided Edmond and was later confirmed in modern times to have really existed.

After escaping his prison, he obtained the treasure of island, learned that his love and covetous affection towards Mercédès had been trampled upon and snatched away from him, and began a tragic revenge plot while concealing his identity. He soon came through Paris while dragging those who deceived him, now leading figures reigning over France, into hell. At the end of his journey, he was reformed through his anguish and regret, leaving with his mistress Haydee. Through his stern way of life, tragic revenge, his trampled love towards Mercédès, and his journey of reform, he has been applauded by the people, from not only France but worldwide, and remembered as "the most famous revenger in the world"."

Personality
"My name is King of the Cavern (Monte Cristo). Unknown to love, unknown to compassion, established as the black flame of grudge that blazes itself dazzlingly only by means of hatred and revenge; nothing but an Avenger who rages until he turns everything to ashes. My favorite mistress, Haydee, is nowhere in this world, so this body shall remain a nemesis for eternity--"

- Avenger

While his True Name is Edmond Dantès, Avenger perceives himself to be a different person from the seaman from Marseille. While in life he had abandoned his evil nature at the end of his gruesome and tragic revenge in Paris, he who has manifested as a Servant is still acting as the "image of a nemesis", so he claims "In that case, I am not Edmond." His catchphrase is "--wait and hope."

Fate/Grand Order
Avenger first appeared as the antagonist of the Garden of Order event.

Development
Rui Komatsuzaki is the character designer for Avenger.

Rather than go for the traditional image of a "cool old Count" for Dantes's character that Nasu feels was "brought to utter perfection" by in their  anime, they wished to distance themselves from that characterization and instead went for a twist with a "younger count." He is a "Super High School-tier Heroic Spirit", developed with the idea of having a "cool dark hero" and out of Nasu's desire for having a Komatsuzaki-developed Servant. Nasu feels that Dantes's "true worth" is in his third stage appearane, the "condensation of his chuuni essence."