Caster (キャスター, Kyasutā?) is a Caster-class Servant able to be summoned by the Protagonist in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order. She is given the title Caster of the Nocturnal Castle (不夜城のキャスター, Fuyajō no Kyasutā?).
Profile
Identity
Caster's True Name is ScheherazadeWP (シェヘラザードWP, Sheherazādo?). "One Thousand and One NightsWP", a collection of stories structured with embedded narratives. In the outermost frame of that story, Scheherazade fulfills the role as the narrator. Whether the "Scheherazade" that is here is a character from the stories, or the actual person who served as the character's model―――no one can be sure. There is no one other than herself who knows all the truths of "her own tale".[1]
King ShahryarWP had repeated a cycle of killing maidens he married every night. In order to stop that evil act, the vizier'sWP daughter, Scheherazade, offered herself up for marriage. As Scheherazade spent her first night with the king, a plan was set where her invited sister, DunyazadeWP, would beg her to tell a story. The king would listen to Scheherazade's narrated stories which Dunyazade spoke of with fascination, and plead for her to continue but, by then, dawn had already arrived. Scheherazade announced "Please hold onto that excitement for tomorrow's story". For that purpose, the king continued to let Scheherazade live so that he could listen to her stories, and evenutally―――[1]
In the present ending of the "One Thousand and One Nights", "Scheherazade bore three children, and the king learned of patience" was the manner in which the story ended. As aforementioned, this was a conclusion that didn't exist in the original tale, and there is a high chance that the "Scheherazade" here has not experienced this.[1]
But now, it is plausible that this is being narrated as―――The same as what was attained from that rainbow, that crushed the Phantasmal Metropolis/Illusory Citadel. Someone surely made a wish. Someone other than her―――a form given to the salvation of Scheherazade herself.[1]
The approximately thousand stories have been read until now, and its vast majority was added by preceding translators. One theory surmises that the original number of tales which formed the core were no more than two-hundred and ten stories, with no conclusion to them.[1]
Appearance
Personality
Scheherazade states that rather than the battlefield, she is more suited for the Master's room.[1]
Role
Fate/Grand Order
Agartha: The Mythical Subterranean Society
Abilities
Scheherazade has fairly low parameters aside from her Luck, Skills and Noble Phantasm, and she herself states that she is more suited for her Master's room rather than the battlefield.[1] Her Personal Skills are Narrator, Bedchambers of Survival and Counter Hero (specialized against kings). Her Noble Phantasm is Alf Layla wa-Layla.[1]
While being supported by Phenex, Scheherazade was capable of using her Noble Phantasm to create the Agartha singularity, an encroachment of fiction onto reality.[2]
Development
Namaniku ATK is the character designer for Scheherazade.