Ashtart Origin (アシュタレト・オリジン, Ashutareto Orijin?), Class Name Avenger (アヴェンジャー, Avenjā?), is a Masterless Avenger-class Servant Universe Servant appearing in Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
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In Proper Human History, they have the Mother Goddesses. Whereas the male gods ensured Humans they would have power and prosperity, the mother goddess promised them life and struggle. Similarly, in the goddesses of the Origin Universe were originally no more than concepts - the religious respect people had for the zone that enabled them to survive. Over time, those concepts gained personality and became true goddesses that took more direct approaches in the Origin Universe's affairs. Those particular circumstances of their birth, so to speak, may explain both why these goddesses were so incredibly powerful, and why they were so hostile to outside civilizations. While beings like that would consider their own worshippers within their domains worthy of their full protection, they would also consider anyone who lived outside their domain to be no better than vermin. They say that the ancient goddesses would often fight among themselves, and that the loser would frequently be completely destroyed. But even among all these goddesses, there was one who was especially powerful. She reigned supreme until the Universe Update. She was the last goddess to survive in the Origin Universe, the Primordial Goddess (原始の女神, Genshi no Megami?).[3]
Two thousand years prior to the events of Saber Wars II, Ashtart Origin came back to life at the ancient shrine in the Forbidden Zone. When the Servant Universe transitioned from the Origin Universe to the Shining Blue Galaxy, its ancient civilization was supposed to leave that dimension, and in turn, the Primordial Goddess was supposed to fall asleep and become an ordinary galaxy. But the greedy Primordial Goddess refused to obey the Universe Update's rules, and stuck around as a goddess of evil. The newly awakened goddess had become like a Demon. A demon that despised all of Humanity, all of Servantkind, everything about the Shining Blue Galaxy. She spread her Origin Universe further and further, steadily eating away at the Shining Blue Galaxy. To counter this existential threat, the secret Galactic Police put together an elite team. This team consisted of ●●●●●●, one of the final seven Masters in existence, and some of the most skilled Servants in the universe. A Saber famed for slaying a dragon. A Lancer known as the siege expert. A literal starry-eyed Archer. A goddess Assassin from the same ancient time period. A Rider who claimed to be a Berserker. A Mister Universe, aka Merlin. And Space Toshizo, the intergalactic pirate. Together, these eight individuals, the Anti-Goddess Unit A Team defeated Ashtart Origin.[4] After her defeat, the Primordial Goddess split her core into two Alter Egos, a good half (Ashtart) and an evil half (Space Ishtar).
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Personality[]
Ashtart Origin ia a goddess of vengeance who loathes all Servantkind.[5] She wasn't angry that her Origin Universe was gone. No, her rage, her hatred, was directed entirely at a condition inherent to all people: oblivion. Humanity's tendency to forget old faiths and relegate history to forgotten annals.[4]
Role[]
Fate/Grand Order[]
Saber Wars II[]
During the Saber Wars II event, Ashtart Origin reawakens and tries to destroy the Shining Blue Galaxy. She is defeated by the combined efforts of Ishtar Ashtart, Calamity Jane, and Ritsuka Fujimaru.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Abilities[]
Ashtart Origin is a Primordial Goddess over five billion years old, making her the oldest deity from Servant Universe mythology.[2] They say that the ancient goddesses would often fight among themselves, and that the loser would frequently be completely destroyed. But even among all these goddesses, Ashtart Origin was especially powerful. She reigned supreme until the Universe Update.[2] Professor Tokiomi says that she could send the universe back to the stone age, destroying the whole universe.[7] As the ultimate Divine Spirit, Ashtart can accomplish what every Saber has dreamed of:[6] Cutting the entire universe cleanly in half by overwriting every rule that governs the Shining Blue Galaxy.[5][6] Her very existence threatens to destroy the laws that govern their reality.[11] She would accomplish this with Bel Maanna, which could completely erode the Shining Blue Galaxy in about one hundred and twenty-eight days.[4] With her full heart, Ishtar Ashtart, absorbed, she would spread her perfect Origin Universe far and wide. A beautiful paradise called Edin, red plains populated only by those who sing her praises.[9] Since Ashtart Origin is beyond any Servant's ability to defeat, she is an enemy that all of Servantkind has never once successfully defeated.[8]
Combat[]
Two thousand years prior to the start of Saber Wars II, the secret Galactic Police put together an elite team to stop Ashtart Origin. This team consisted of ●●●●●●, one of the final seven Masters in existence, and some of the most skilled Servants in the universe. A Saber famed for slaying a dragon. A Lancer known as the siege expert. A literal starry-eyed Archer. A goddess Assassin from the same ancient time period. A Rider who claimed to be a Berserker. A Mister Universe, aka Merlin. And Space Toshizo, the intergalactic pirate.[4] Because Ashtart Origin is beyond Servant understanding, normally, they might not have been any way for them to match her. However, thanks to Calamity Jane's Sentinel Stellaris, which allows her to find the hidden weakness of her opponent, and make them a reality, she could tell all others what they needed to do to beat her.[8] In the end, they executed the Star Four Card,[8] a tactic which consisted on Sigurd the Dragon-slayer Sword using his demonic sword's Ten Suns form to obliterate her Spiritual Core while Jane was pinning her down.[5][8] Although Sigurd's own Saint Graph started crumbling after destroying her spirit core, it wasn't still enough to stop her. Sigurd stated they'd need a much bigger weapon for that.[8] Although the Servantkind is a collective entity that is no greater threat to her than an insect colony would be to a Servant,[5] the Primordial Goddess accepted her defeat with her Saint Graph shattered and faded away.[8] Ashtart believes that it must have been her good side's naivety holding her back. If this goodness was her fatal flaw, ridding herself of it would ensure she does not fail again.[5]
After losing her heart, all that was left of Ashtart Origin was her body. With her Soul gone, and her Saint Graph dispersed, it may have seemed like she had disappeared, but gods aren't bound by Servant rules. The Primordial Goddess didn't need her heart to survive. In other words, the Origin Universe that existed before the Shining Blue Galaxy, is the body that remained after she removed her own heart. The entire galaxy is actually her true body, Bel Maanna.[9] Despite Space Ishtar and Ashtart being Ashtart Origin's Alter Egos,[5] even when working together with Calamity Jane, they can't even scratch her.[9] Space Ishtar's surprise attack did absolutely nothing.[9] Once the goddess stops holding back, she releases her Saint Graph Galaxy, opening Bel Maanna's gates and returning every life-form in that Forbidden Zone to nothingness. In other words, she sent them to a place beyond the Event horizonWP.[9][13] It is only thanks to Mysterious Heroine X Alter helping them out with her mysterious powers that they are able to return in time a little bit to before she fired the attack.[9] This time, Ashtart uses her God Shadow Stream to counter Ashtart Origin's attack. With a single swing of her sword, Ashtart was able to blow away her rain of light beams.[13]
To defeat Ashtart Origin, Space Ishtar and Ashtart fused into one, becoming a new conceptual universe with the same scope and scale as her Origin; the Primordial Goddess Ishtar Ashtart. Because Ashtart Origin and Ishtar Ashtart are both the same concept, with the same Saint Graph, springing from the same source, their powers are exactly the same. Theoretically, a battle between them could only end in a draw. However, because Ishtar looks ahead to the future, contrary to Ashtart Origin, who is stuck in the past, she is able to slowly overwhelm her in combat. During the Saber Wars II incident, Ishtar Ashtart asks for Calamity Jane to use her Noble Phantasm and Ritsuka Fujimaru to further support her with Command Spells. Thanks to their combined efforts, she manages to blast Ashtart Origin a whole ParsecWP away. Space Ishtar finishes her off with a special bullet half the size of the universe she had made just for her.[13]
Skills[]
- Main article: Ishtar Ashtart#Skills
Noble Phantasm[]
Her Noble Phantasm is Edin Shugurra Quasar.
Forms and Alternate Versions[]
Bel Maanna[]
Her Saint Graph is conceptual like the constellations made up of stars that are thousands of light-years away.[9][13] Ashtart Origin's true form is the Goddess Shrine, Bel Maanna (ベル・マアンナ, Beru Maan'na?). Ashtart Origin isn't a goddess with enough Magical Energy for a galaxy; she IS a galaxy, one that's taken the form of a goddess. Ashtart Origin's true form is a giant seemingly expanding version of Space Ishtar. Actually, she is not expanding, she is the shrine. This Shrine in the Origin Universe IS the god's true form. It creates life, provides that life with culture, and protects the areas where life may grow.[9] The goddess IS the shrine and the shrine is the goddess.[11]
When the Primordial Goddess awakened during the Saber Wars II, she started gathering the stars to form her giant body. However, the nebulaeWP didn't seem to be gathering together too. If they had all collected in one place, Space Ishtar, Calamity Jane, Ashtart, and Ritsuka Fujimaru would have been sucked into the enormous Black holeWP they'd create. What they were seeing is a shadow, so the real body is far bigger than it looks, and it has a lot of empty space. To defeat Ashtart Origin, they would need to use projectiles large enough to actually hit her and do some damage. They'd have to be as big as a planet, or even another galaxy.[9][13]
Normally, there is no such thing as lasting death in the Servant Universe. Servants that disappear eventually respawn randomly in another part of the universe, or reincarnate in a new body, or even interfere in a Parallel World. That is what it means for a Soul to be tangible. But the shrine is ruled by the goddess. And in her world, the Origin Universe, people are born from mothers and eventually die for good. Those who die in her domain remain in her custody, and will never respawn unless she allows it. In time, as all life-forms eventually die out, her universe will become a desolate wasteland.[11] Ashtart Origin was able to make Sigurd the Dragon-slayer Sword and Calamity Jane immortal for thousands of years until she awakened again.[8]
Dark Maanna, Space Shinkageryu's headquarters, is a recreation of the goddess's shrine made using Servant technology. However, no matter how closely they duplicate the original, Professor Tokiomi states that a man-made shrine just doesn't have what it takes to become a goddess. Without a genuine goddess to serve as its base, it will never be anything more than an incredibly elaborate model.[11]
Even after defeating her, the shrine was still there. It was going to fall on top of Space Ishtar and Calamity Jane, crushing them to death. Mysterious Heroine X uses her second Noble Phantasm, her reborn Galactic Meteor Sword XEX. She destroys Bel Maanna with a single strike.[13]
Ishtar Ashtart[]
- Main article: Ishtar Ashtart
Development[]
Creation and Conception[]
Ashtart Origin was designed by Shidzuki Morii in Fate/Grand Order.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fate/Grand Order - Space Ishtar, Profile translated by ComunCoutinho
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Sargasso Abyss I
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Goddess Scripture 2 "Defining Ancient Goddesses"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Goddess Scripture 5 "Goddess of Love and Hate"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Dark Maanna
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Overture
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Queen's High School II
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, To the Beginning of Space
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Primitive Red Rose
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Goddess Scripture 3 "(No Label)"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Goddess Scripture 4 "Goddesses and Ancient Shrines"
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Goddess Scripture 6 "A Certain Professor's Reminiscence"
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II - To the Beginning of Space, Primitive Red Rose (cont.)