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Grand Servants (グランド サーヴァント, Gurando Sāvanto?), also referred to as Grand Class (グランド クラス, Gurando Kurasu?), are existences summoned by the Counter Force in order to prevent the extinction of mankind by the Beasts.
Characteristics[]
Grand Servants are summoned by the World itself through Ritual: Heroic Spirit Summon to save humanity.[1] Its purpose is to pit seven Grand Servants against one powerful enemy, rather than fight each other like Servants in the Holy Grail War ritual, which was adapted by humans for their own purposes.[1] In other words, their duty is to face a threat endangering all of humanity or the world, the Beasts.
Grand Servants are granted a Saint Graph of a rank above normal Servants, making regular Servants "cheap, convenient, multi-purpose familiars" in comparison as described by Hans Christian Andersen.[1][2] He says "If [Servants] are weapons meant to fight individuals, [Grand Servant] is a weapon meant to fight the world."[2] According to Da Vinci, Servants, the Heroic Spirits of the Human History, are by themselves considered to be super existences. Amongst them, there are those whose Saint Graph are on different level, and the ones who have the highest levels even amongst the most exceptional ones are called Grand Servants.[3] While Servants are a degraded form of the Grand Servant ritual, the difference between Grand Servants and Servants is rank of the vessel and authority rather than their comparative ranks as Heroic Spirits.[2]
Summoning by humans[]
During their time in Olympus, the Godbreaker Alliance manages to create the Grand Summoning Vessel Aether (大召喚器アイテール?), Godbreaker Spell Protocol - Designated Summoning of the Heroic Spirits of the Grand Class (破神術式・冠位英霊指定召喚?). It is a Chain Summoning ritual utilizing the natural ease of Singularities and Lostbelts to allow for Chain Summoning, requiring seven summoning arrays spread across Olympus to create a city-wide spell protocol, in order to create the Grand Summoning Vessel through which the Grand Servant would inhabit. However, the array requires a Mana source greater than that of even the naturally dense mana of the Lostbelt-advanced Age of Gods, which necessitated access to Olympus' Divine-make leylines through which the Godbreaker Alliance could access the crystal mountain of Mount Olympus that contained unlimited mana that had been accumulated with the divine leylines.[4]
Daybit Sem Void contracts with Tezcatlipoca, identified as a Grand Servant,[5] in the South American Lostbelt, but exact details on the specifics of the summoning and contract are unknown.
Qualifications[]
The Grand Servants are described as the "seven strongest from that era," the "first seven at the pinnacle of Heroic Spirits" that each hold the title of Grand (グランド, Gurando?) position.[2] The primary qualification is ability and anecdotes of a high standard that stand at the top of their Class. Each Class, with the exclusion of Grand Assassin, has multiple candidates, and the final decision on which Heroic Spirit is summoned is based on what needs to be overcome in that era. King Hassan was the only one who qualified for Grand Assassin, so the Class initially sat empty after he abandoned his position,[6] until Tezcatlipoca took it.[7] Grand Caster is further shown to require the specific trait of needing powerful Clairvoyance.[8] Similarly, servants who qualify for Grand Archer gain EX-ranked Independent Action.[9]
It is a position said to be impossible for Divine Spirits to hold. Romulus-Quirinus is a super-exception, as he was deeply involved with Human History and remained Human as he became an ultimate god.[10] Similarly, Tezcatlipoca can be summoned normally due to using a human body as his base.[11] Tezcatlipoca also became Grand Assassin after King Hassan gave up his position, since he was the closest thing due to also being connected to death and mountains.[7]
For a Grand Servant, who exists for the sake of saving mankind itself, taking an action like joining Chaldea Security Organization means they must throw away their right to the rank of Grand. This action does not mean the immediate removal of the Grand-class Saint Graph, so they will not lose their power until performing an actions that use its might. They will be left with a normal Servant's Saint Graph once it has been fully utilized.[12]
Beast U-Olga Marie claims to have fought and defeated seven Grand Servants in the South American Lostbelt.[Note 1]
The Lostbelt Qin Shi Huang, having manifested as a Xian, gains a Saint Graph that would be ranked as a Grand if they were in Proper Human History, but Sherlock Holmes is left baffled why Qin is Ruler.[13]
Ingesting Servants through its Vampiric traits, ORT gains the ability to summon itself as Grand Foreigner by copying the Heroic Spirit summoning formula.[14]
Known Grand Servants[]
Other qualifying heroes[]
| True Name | Grand Class | Current Class | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taigong Wang | Grand Rider | Rider | Self-proclaimed |
| Taigong Wang | Grand Caster | Rider | Self-proclaimed |
| Merlin (Prototype) | Grand Caster | Caster | Refuses the call of the Counter Force |
Development[]
The Grand Classes were first listed in the code of Fate/Grand Order as implementable classes, later properly introduced in the story as of the London Singularity.[1]
Notes[]
- ↑ During her weakened state, U-Olga Marie dreams about the her fight with the seven Grand Servants. In gameplay, the player controls her and battles the following NPCs, each representing a different Grand Servant class; Grand Saber Artoria Avalon, Grand Archer Super Orion, Grand Lancer Romulus-Quirinus, Grand Rider Taigong Wang, Grand Caster Merlin, Grand Assassin First Hassan, and Grand Berserker Tezcatlipoca. It is worth noting that First Hassan, Super Orion, and Romulus-Quirinus gave up their Grand Servant status prior to the events South American Lostbelt, and that Artoria Avalon's role as Grand Saber was scrapped in the final release of Lostbelt 6. This data questions the veracity of U-Olga Marie's dream and suggests that the NPCs were just placeholders for the actual current Grand Servants.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fate/Grand Order - London: The Death World in the City of Demonic Fog - Section 8: The Death of the Mage's Association
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fate/Grand Order - London: The Death World in the City of Demonic Fog - Section 13: Beyond the Fog
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Section 18
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City - Section 5: Thou Art the Harvest that Reaps the Stars（II）
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yuga Kshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 11: Treta Yuga/Asclepius, the God of Medicine
- ↑ Nasu and Takeuchi Q&A leak.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Fate/Grand Order - Tezcatlipoca's Voice Lines
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia: The Absolute Frontline in the War Against the Demonic Beasts - Section 2: Humanity's Oldest Fortress City
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material X - Super Orion's profile translated by savepoints at Reddit.
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Romulus-Quirinus profile
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Famitsu - Fate/Grand Order 8th Anniversary interview with Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi translated by ComunCoutinho at Reddit
- ↑
Chaldea Ace Creator's Interview Nasu: Personally, I feel that joining Chaldea means that you must throw away the right to being a Grand that exists for the sake of saving all mankind. Still, even after discarding that position, the strength of King Hassan’s Saint Graph itself is still Grand-class. It doesn’t mean that once he loses his Grand position and becomes a normal Assassin, his Saint Graph would immediately lose power. So, by using all the might in that superb Saint Graph, the strike that “granted the concept of death” could be performed. And afterwards, King Hassan’s Saint Graph became that of a normal Servant’s.
奈須：個人の判断でカルデアに肩入れするということは、人類全体を救うために存在する"冠位"の資格を捨て る必要があります。ただ、その資格を捨てたとしても "山の翁" 自身の霊基の強さは依然として冠位級なんです。冠位を捨てて普通のアサシンクラスになったから といつて、 自身の霊基の強さが落ちるわけではないんです。そして、その『優れた霊基」を全て使つての「死 の概念の 付加」となります。ティアマ卜に死を教えたことで ”山の翁” の霊基は 通常のサ—ヴァン卜たちと同じ出カ のものとなりました。
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - SIN: The Synchronized Intellect Nation - Section 16: Crimson Beauty Under the Moon
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Nahui Mictlan: Golden Sea of Trees Travelogue - Section 22: The One Who Rules the Planet