Latio Crudelis Hiram

Latio Crudelis Hiram
Japanese name:	ラティオ・クルドリス・ハイラム
Appearances
Primary franchise:	Fate
Appears in:	The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II
Characteristics
Species:	Human, Magus
Gender:	Female
Age:	25
Magecraft
Magecraft:	Atlas Alchemy
Affiliations
Organization:	Mage's Association - Atlas Academy
Family members
Bloodline:	Crudelis
Ancestor(s):	Unnamed
Grandfather:	Unnamed grandfather
Father:	Log Crudelis Hiram
Brother(s):	Cipher Crudelis Hiram
Creation(s):	Tangere

Latio Crudelis Hiram (ラティオ・クルドリス・ハイラム, Ratio Kurudorisu Hairamu^?) is a magus from the Crudelis family of the Six Sources of Atlas in The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II.

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Background

Latio is the current heir to the Crudelis family, one of the Six Sources of Atlas equivalent to the Lords of the Clock Tower. Latio's brother Cipher Crudelis Hiram was raised as the Crudelis heir but drowned in the sea of Alexandria three years before the start of the series, giving Latio the heirship instead. Other magi of Atlas have considered Latio suspicious ever since then, considering how she only became heir after her brother died. Ever since his death, Latio has stopped staying in Atlas all the time and started taking various jobs everywhere as her condition to leave for the outside world. Unknown to everyone including Latio herself, three years ago when she and Cipher entered the underwater Library of Alexandria, one of Latio's Memory Partitions was overwritten by the mind of her ancestor which had been waiting inside the library. The partition killed Cipher to get rid of the traps laid in the Library, and then had Latio's other paritions continue to run unaware that anything had happened.

Her family was involved in the creation of Ergo, and she now seeks to obtain him as her inheritance.

Personality

Latio speaks in the third person, referring to herself as "Latio" instead of "I".

Appearance

Latio is around 25 years old, and Gray finds her so pretty that she looks artificial.

Role

The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II

The Devil of the Wandering Sea

• Latio and Reines El-Melloi Archisorte.
• Latio meeting with Reines and Luvia.

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Latio visits Reines El-Melloi Archisorte, wishing to cooperate despite Reines being the sister of her enemy. She explains to Reines about Ergo and the three gods inside of him, and how there is currently a Divine Body - an organ of a god - from one of Ergo's three gods in Japan. Latio requests that Reines take data from the Divine Body's owner in exchange for Latio sharing the analysis results. Latio needs that data to obtain Ergo and Reines needs it to save him, so they can cooperate until the analysis results are shared.

Reines, Latio, and Luvia traveled to Egypt to meet up with El-Melloi II's group, where Latio would remain an ally until El-Melloi II delivered information on Ōkuninushi, the god of the Yakou Divine Body. As El-Melloi II's group was boarding their plane in Tokyo, Reines called him to inform him that while investigating the Wandering Sea her group had come across a locked-door murder mystery, with the victim being a pharaoh.

Legacy of the Alchemist

The pharaoh was Ptolemy, and the "murder" was his heart - which serves as the key to a second, magical Library of Alexandria - being stolen from his mummy. After the incident, Latio activates a mechanical bird which serves as a second body for Ptolemy and allows his mind to communicate with the living. Latio wants to retrieve the key because she is looking for information about Ergo from her ancestor's research in the library. Since her brother Cipher died, her grandfather lost his will to get involved with the outside, naming her father Log as the family representative and becoming a lifeless cog to his research. Meanwhile, Latio was named successor and inherited Cipher's Ergo research. She has come to the library to learn the truth of Cipher's death.

Sion Eltnam Sokaris believes that Latio is a traitor to Atlas who has leaked her research to the outside, which is Atlas's greatest sin. When everyone reaches the deepest point of the Library of Alexandria, the mind of Latio's ancestor within her Memory Partition awakens. Latio attempts to trap Ergo in a sarcophagus and link him to Osiris' Divine Body to use him to power a supercomputer and answer Atlas' questions about the end of the world. Sion uses Ergo's gods as the equivalent of a Holy Grail to power a Servant summoning, with both of them briefly becoming the Masters of Ptolemy just long enough for Ptolemy to use his Noble Phantasm to stop Latio and seal the library.

Abilities

Latio is an Atlas alchemist, meaning she is constantly using Thought Acceleration and Memory Partition to estimate the future a few seconds ahead. Aside from that, she can fight using alchemy that employs her own bones as catalysts. The Six Sources of Atlas are a title for families of long-standing tradition, which in the Crudelis family's case, is the use of their own bones as Exoforms (エグゾフォルム, Eguzoforumu^?), similarly to how the Eltnam family employs their own nerves as Etherlites.

Her familiars are monsters made of bone, taking multiple forms including spiders, wolves, and bird skeletons that ignore the laws of physics to be able to fly. Lord El-Melloi II's magical bullet aren't enough to make the familiars tremble. Judging by the capabilities of each individual familiar, Latio's overall war potential is confidently assumed to surpass any modern day general. Although Spiritual Evocation also has developed the skill to use human bones as familiars, Latio's version is another category of skill, not only due to being different in both quality and complexity, but also due to not using any kind of departed soul. They do not count as Undead, which Gray notices while fighting them because of her anti-Undead speciality.

And a particularly powerful member of these monsters is a bone giant named Tangere, measuring above 2 meters in height and weighting close to 200kg. 2 of Latio's Memory Partitions are allocated to him, enabling him to speak with an overly masculine voice. Quoting Latio, "allowing him to develop by his own judgement resulted in this degrading personality". To save magical energy, he usually takes the form of a normal-sized skull. Aside from combat, he's also capable of analysis and inspection, being able to simultaneously compared multiple categories of mythology and magecraft.

Tangere's high combat capabilities are mainly defined by high defensive and regenerative abilities coupled with estimating the future, allowing him to counter attacks he never seen before "as if he knew they were coming". For instance, Gray's Battering Ram, which is equivalent to a Servant's D-Rank Mana Burst Skill and able to smash a tank's armor, sent him flying without crushing him; and Rin Tohsaka, one of the most powerful modern mages in terms of raw damage, managed to pierce his head with a fully chanted Jewel Magecraft spell capable of killing Heracles once, but he took the hit without collapsing and regenerated in an instant.

Additionally, something of the same nature as the bone familiars could be used to mend the aged, collapsing hull of a ship and sail it without a proper crew. When operated this way, the hull is fortified enough to take a hit from a rocket launcher without being damaged or pushed. Although the mechanism is decidedly less powerful than Tangere, it utilizes a similar logic to defend the hull.

Instead of fully relying on her familiars for combat, Latio also partakes in close-ranged combat using a bone sword. She directly manipulates the bones inside her body to perform a sequence of superhuman jumps, all while estimating the opponent's dodge trajectories with Thought Acceleration and Memory Partition.

Incidentally, the Atlas Institute has a rule forbidding weapons created inside the Pit from being taken outside, but the Exoforms are merely bones, not counting as weapons. For that reason, she was able to overwhelm Gray, Rin Tohsaka, and Ergo in a 3-on-1 fight without infringing Atlas' regulations.