Shielder (シールダー, Shīrudā?), whose True Name is Mash Kyrielight (マシュ・キリエライト, Mashu Kirieraito?), is a Shielder-class Servant contracted with Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
Profile
Background
Shielder's True Name is Mash Kyrielight, a Demi-Servant human fused with the Heroic Spirit Galahad. She herself initially does not know the identity of the Servant fused with her.[1][2] In the year 2000, Mash was created from artificial fertilization and genetic editing. She is actually a Designer Baby, a magus genetically engineered under the orders of Chaldea's late director, Marisbury Animusphere, to be a prime vessel for a Heroic Spirit's soul. The project aimed to control the powers of Heroic Spirits by binding them to a compatible mortal vessel in order to produce Demi-Servants.[3]
In 2010, when Mash was aged 10, Chaldea performed their second Heroic Spirit summoning.[3][4] While the project succeeded in summoning and binding a spirit to Mash, the spirit failed to awaken.[3] Galahad decried Chaldea's brutal experiments but remained in the world to keep his host alive.[4]
After the research team deemed the project a failure, Mash was left to Chaldea's care. However, due to being a genetically engineered organism not dissimilar to a Homunculus, her life-span was set since her conception. She was given eighteen years to live and while she was aware of this fact, she kept it a secret between herself and Dr. Romani, her physician. By the start of the story, Mash has already lived sixteen years of her life giving her a mere two years left, at best.[3]
Appearance
Mashu has lilac hair, lavender eyes and fair skin.
In her casual outfit, Mash wears rectangular frame glasses, a grey hoodie over a black shirt over a white-collar shirt, a red tie, a black skirt and tights and brown shoes. In her Demi-Servant outfit Mash wears skin-tight black armor that resembles an extremely short mini-dress that exposes her butt and reveals her panties. There is a hole that exposes her stomach area. She also wears black gauntlets and boots, a garter on her right thigh, a large cross-shaped shield and she doesn't wear her glasses.
Personality
Mash is a mysterious, kind-hearted girl. She refers to Ritsuka Fujimaru as her senior (先輩, senpai?).[5] However, that smile belies a deep sorrow and resolve that has accepted her fate as a person with a set life-span since day one.
Role
Fate/Grand Order
Mash works at the Chaldea Security Organization. She was originally assigned as one of the forty eight Chaldea Master Candidates, as well as leading A-team for the "Spatial Singularity F" expedition.
Prologue
She encountered Ritsuka Fujimaru while walking with Fou.
Fuyuki: The Contaminated City in Flames
During the Grand Order conflict in Fuyuki City, Shielder encountered Shadow Assassin and Shadow Lancer but was saved by Cú Chulainn. Fujimaru and Shielder defeated both and entered a short skirmish with Caster. Shielder and the protagonist later encountered and fought Saber Alter, who attempted to kill both of them with Excalibur Morgan but it was blocked by Shielder's Noble Phantasm.
Camelot: The Sacred Round Table Realm
Romani Archaman explains to Ritsuka about Mash. A flashback of Mash's first meeting with Dr. Romani was told. She has been assigned with her full name, rather than her original code name "Summoning Experiment #2". In their first meeting with Dr. Romani, he teaches Mash about 'senpai' and 'kouhai' relationship. It's revealed by Romani that Mash is a designer baby and has limited life. The continual battle and Demi-Servant status put a further strain on her body.[3]
Her possessing the power of Galahad is revealed by Bedivere and Sherlock Holmes. The realization ultimately allows her to activate Galahad's real Noble Phantasm.[4]
Salomon: The Grand Time Temple
She is told that she has only three days of life left, but nonetheless accompanies her Master to the final battle. When invited by Goetia to a new world, she denies life to be worthless due to its destined termination, and stand her ground when Goetia launches its Noble Phantasm capable of annihilating anything on Earth. Even though her body could not withstand the immerse heat and is vaporized, her will to protect is indestructible. Her shield remains unscathed and continued to guard her Master.
However Cath Palug, Beast IV, having traveled with her for extensive period, admires her. Since death within the Time Temple is not registered in the real world, Cath Palug is able to transform its prana gathered through centuries into her fate, giving her the lifespan of a normal human and reviving her. She later reappears in the crumbling Time Temple and pulls Fujimaru out.[6]
After passing over seven singularities and overcoming many battles, she grew up as a single fully-fledged human, a Servant that is not merely a borrowed article. The battle surrounding the incineration of the anthropic principle will soon come to an end. What sort of conclusion will her journey reach? The beast of the planet continues to silently watch over that snowflake-like scenery.[2]
Salem: The Taboo Epiphany Garden
Anastasia: The Permafrost Empire
Other appearances
Before her identity is revealed, she is called Child of the Shield (盾の子, Tate no Ko?) in Fate/GUDAGUDA Order. Demon Archer guesses Shielder's identity to be one of the ArgonautsWP, while Sakura Saber randomly guessed Shielder to be Pearl the Iron Wall.
Abilities
Mash is a product of Chaldea's genetic engineering, a designer baby crafted to be born with a particularly strong set of Magic Circuits so as to become a suitable vessel for a Heroic Spirit. However, due to her nature, her life-span has been set to only eighteen years with her body cells increasingly deteriorating.[3] Since awakening the spirit sleeping inside her, her body has become more resilient, but that has done nothing to stop her deterioration. Mash carries a large cross-shaped shield as her primary weapon. She also carries a sword in her waist, but she has never been shown actually using it.
Class Skills
- Magic Resistance (A Rank): A rank and lower magecraft is nullified, no matter what high-thaumaturgy it is.[1]
- Self-Field Defense (C Rank): A power displayed when protecting allies or an allied camp. Exhibits damage reduction surpassing the defensive limit value, but she herself is not included as a target. Also, the higher the Rank more the protective range spreads.[1][2]
- Possession Inheritance (? Rank): An unique Skill that Demi-Servants possess. Succeed Phantasm. One of the Skills that the possessing Heroic Spirit owns is inherited and sublimated in a self-taught manner. In Mash's case, it is "Mana Defense". A Skill of the same type as "Mana Burst", magical power is translated directly into defensive power. For a Heroic Spirit possessing a huge magical power, it would probably become a sacred wall that protects a whole country.[1][2]
Personal Skills
- Transient Wall of Snowflakes (—): The ability to apply defense buff to the entire party. The user's mental fortitude is converted into physical defense. Because Mash misunderstands how to use her Noble Phantasm, it's true worth cannot be shown.[1] The skill updates to Exalted Impervious Wall of Snowflakes in the Camelot Singularity.[2]
- Obscurant Wall of Chalk (—): A defensive skill that allows one to arbitrarily apply invincibility to someone in the party. Noble Phantasm also increases a bit. Following how it is called "hazy," the target temporarily shifts out of the time axis to avoid an attack. If the rank was higher, attacks from a higher-order dimension could also be ignored. That principle is close to a certain defensive self-targeted Noble Phantasm.[1]
- Shield of Rousing Resolution (—): A skill that temporarily raises one's own defensive power and draws in an opponent's attack. It is only bestowed upon those who muster their courage and protect the back of those who egress before anyone else. This is not a skill that comes from the Noble Phantasm, but rather the form Mash's mentality takes.[1]
Noble Phantasm
Before discovering Galahad as the Heroic Spirit possessing her, Mash isn't able to access the full power of her defensive Noble Phantasm due to her ignoring its True Name. In this state, Mash is only able to deploy Lord Chaldeas thanks to her instincts.[2] This barrier is strong enough to block Excalibur Morgan, but Mash claimed that it wouldn't be able to block Altera's Teardrop Photon Ray on its own, as she needed the help of Boudica's Chariot of Boudica to block it.[7]
Once Mash learned her true nature in the Camelot Singularity, Mash finally accessed Galahad's Noble Phantasm, Lord Camelot. It consists of an "ultimate protection" employing the Round Table, "where the Knights of the Round Table sat at the center of the Castle of White Walls, Camelot", in the form of a shield. Its strength is proportionate to the will power of the user, so as long as her heart doesn't break, the castle walls too shall never crumble, allowing her to block any attack.[2] Lord Camelot has been shown blocking all types of different attacks, such as protecting Gilgamesh, Merlin, Ishtar, Ereshkigal and herself from Tiamat's Nega-Genesis or protecting Ritsuka Fujimaru from Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis,[8][9] an attack that shoots Hundreds of Millions of A-Ranked beams of light each as strong as the Holy Sword wielded by the King Arthur from the Fuyuuki Singularity.[10] However, Lord Camelot doesn't make Mash invulnerable, as Mash's body wasn't strong enough to resist the extreme heat of Ars Almadel Salomonis, which vaporized her, leaving only her shield.[9]
Forms and alternate versions
Ortenaus
Ortenaus (オルテナウス, Orutenausu, localized as "Ortinax"?) is a system designed to supplement Demi-Servants. Mash makes use of it after Galahad leaves her.
Development
In 26th September 2016, Risa TanedaWP announced she will retire from voicing acting Mash, due to her health condition. It was announced that Takahashi RieWP will take the role of Mash.[11]
Creation and Conception
- Main article: Tachie
Known as the Stray Servant (はぐれ サーヴァント, Hagure Sāvanto?), Shielder was a heroine candidate during the development of Fate/stay night who was left unused in the final version. She was considered along with Rider and Caster to be a possible heroine, but she was cut due to the plot beginning to stray so as to keep it manageable for the player. As Saber is a "Servant of the Sword", she was to be her rival as a Shielder, "Servant of the Shield."[12] She would have been an "abandoned puppy" type heroine who killed her Master during the Fourth Holy Grail War and went on a rampage, surviving into the Fifth Holy Grail War in a similar manner to Gilgamesh.[13]
Her scrapped role for the visual novel was originally only detailed in Fate/side material, but later it was planned that she would be a character in what was to be the original story of Studio DeenWP's Fate/stay night adaptation. Her character design by Takashi Takeuchi was completed at that time, but the anime was later changed to an adaptation of the Fate route and the character was again abandoned. There was a plan for an anime original film featuring the character, but the storyline and designs went unused.[14] The design was later revived for Grand Order in 2015 for Kinoko Nasu to allow her to be one of the main heroines along with Saber and Ruler.[15] Nasu wrote her scenario in Fate/Grand Order.[1]
The notes from the anime original film were collected and revised in the Fate/unpublished material booklet released on the fifteenth anniversary of Fate/stay night in 2019. This version of the character, Tachie, is the main heroine, sharing the Shielder class and Galahad as the Servant inside her.[16]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29
[] Fate/Grand Order material I - CHARACTER profile: Mash Kyrielight, p.012-017 [T] Mash Kyrielight
Class: Shielder True Name:
Gender: Female Source: Fate/Grand Order Region: Chaldea
Alignment: Lawful Good Height: 158cm Weight: 46kg
Strength: C Endurance: A Agility: D Mana: B Luck: C Noble Phantasm: ?
Scenerio Writer: Nasu Kinoko/Character Designer: Takeuchi Takashi/Voice Actor: Taneda Risa
Major Appearance Works: Fate/Grand Order
Class Skills
Magic Resistance: A
A rank and lower magecraft is nullified, no matter what high-thaumaturgy it is.
Riding: C
She can perfectly ride things with the right breaking or adjustments.
Self-Field Defense: C
A power displayed when protecting allies or an allied camp.
Exhibits damage reduction surpassing the defensive limit value, but she herself is not included as a target.
Also, the higher the Rank more the protective range spreads.
Possession Inheritance: ?
Succeed Phantasm. An unique Skill that Demi-Servants possess.
One of the Skills that the possessing Heroic Spirit owns is inherited and sublimated in a self-taught manner.
Personal Skills
Wall of Fleeting Snowflakes
Defense buff applied to the entire party. The user's mental fortitude is converted into physical defense.
Because Mash misunderstands how to use her Noble Phantasm, it's true worth cannot be shown.
Hazy Walls of Chalk
A defensive skill that allows one to arbitrarily apply invincibility to someone in the party. NP also increases a bit.
Following how it is called "hazy," the target temporarily shifts out of the time axis to avoid an attack.
If the rank was higher, attacks from a higher order dimension could also be ignored. That principle is close to a certain defensive self-targeted Noble Phantasm.
Shield of Rousing Resolution
A skill that temporarily raises one's own defensive power and draws in an opponent's attack.
It is only bestowed upon those who muster their courage and protect the back of those who egress before anyone else.
This is not a skill that comes from the Noble Phantasm, but rather the form Mash's mentality takes.
Noble Phantasm
Lord Chaldeas: Imaginary Noble Phantasm Pseudo Deployment/Cornerstone of Anthropic Principle
Rank: D Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm Range: 1 Maximum Target: -
Lord Chaldeas.
The Noble Phantasm deployed by Mash in accordance to her instincts, without understanding the True Name of the Heroic Spirit possessing her.
As for why it is crowned with the name of Chaldea, one would think that is because the wish that lies on Mash's basis is "to see the future of mankind".
Character
○Personality
○Motivation · Attitude to the Master
○Affiliated Characters
Lev Lainur
Dr. Roman
Comment from Illustrator
マシュ・キリエライト
真名:シールダー 真名:召喚形式の不備により照会できず
性別:女性 出典:Fate/Grand Order 地域:カルデア
属性:秩序・善 身長:158cm 体重:46kg
筋力:C 耐力:A 敏捷:D 魔力:B 幸運:C 宝具:?
設定作成:奈須きのこ/キャラクターデザイナー:武内崇/CV:種田梨沙
主な登場作品:Fate/Grand Order
クラス別能力
対魔力:A
騎乗:C
自陣防御:C
味方、ないし味方の陣営を守護する際に発揮される力。
防御限界値以上のダメージ削減を発揮するが、自分はその対象には含まれない。
また、ランクが高ければ高いほど守護範囲は広がっていく。
憑依継承:?
サクスィード・ファンタズム。デミ・サーヴァントが持つ特殊スキル。
憑依した英霊が持つスキルを一つだけ継承し、自己流に昇華する。
保有スキル
今は脆き雪花の壁
時に煙る白亜の壁
奮い断つ決意の盾
宝具
仮想宝具疑似展開/人理の礎
ランク: D 種別:対人宝具 レンジ:1 最大捕捉:—
ロード・カルデアス。
憑依した英霊の真名が分からぬままマシュが本能に従って展開した宝具。前方に強力な守護障壁を展開する。
カルデアスの名を冠しているはマシュの根底にある願いが"人類の未来を見る"ものからだと思われる。
人物
○性格
○動機・マスターへの態度
○台詞例
○人物像
○ゲーム内における役どころ
○因縁キャラ
レフ・ライノール
Dr. ロマン
Comment from Illustrator
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 This reference needs to be fixed. Use "FGOSP1" instead of "Grand Order".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Fate/Grand Order - Camelot: The Sacred Round Table Realm - Prologue
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 This reference needs to be fixed. Use "FGOCamelot" instead of "Grand Order".
- ↑
Fate/Grand Order website - Characters: Mash - ↑
[] Fate/Grand Order, Final Singularity, Chapter 15 - Beast IV Mashu:
――――――。
――――――。
???:
――――――。
――――――。
――――――。
-- a relief. It's good that you haven't yet departed, Mashu.
Your annihilation was absolute.
You'd reached the termination of your life.
Even so, your consciousness yet lingers within this Void (虚無, Kyomu?).
Even so, you have labors yet to complete.
And therefore, I shan't tell you that "you've done a good job, and earned your rest."
The time, however, has come for me to bid you "bye-bye."
Mashu:
――――――。
???:
There isn't time to dally, and so I'll say it bluntly: I intend to bring you back to life.
I am that which presides over the principle of "Comparison" (比較, Hikaku?).
I am the Beast borne of the Distinction (特徴, tokuchou?, lit. "distinct feature") of "advancing beyond one's opponent," which comes unto maturation by the conflict that arises amongst Men, supping upon their Envies (妬み, Netami?) and Regrets (悔しさ, Kuyashisa?).
The Beast of Calamity, Cath Palug (災厄の獣キャスパリーグ, Saiyaku no Juu Kyasu Pari-gu?).
In a different world, I am the one that would be called the Slayer of the Primates (霊長の殺人者, Reichou no Satsujinsha?).
Removed of the Civilization of Man, I would be a harmless animal.
And thus, I was once confined to a solitary isle, uninhabited by humans.
However, the Magus charged with the duty of caring for me was a loathsome wretch.
Forcing me from the comfort of the Tower of Imprisonment (幽閉塔, Yuuhei-Tou?), he released me unto the world without.
... but, it was thanks to that that I arrived upon Chaldea.
And there, I discovered you and Gudako.
Mashu:
-- y-you are --
???:
Perhaps you find this troubling?
But, well, the Magus did once claim that goodwill is fundamentally something to be forced upon others.
Let that my actions be an emulation of that.
Expending the stores of Mana (魔力, Maryoku?, lit. "Magical Energy") that I've collected to myself across the centuries, I shall here enact a Miracle (奇蹟, Kiseki?) irreplicable even by way of the True Magics (魔法?).
"The Complete Resurrection of the Dead" (死者の完全な蘇生, Shisha no Kanzen-na Sosei?).
Or rather, any deaths that come to pass within the Temple of Time (時間神殿, Jikan Shinden?) aren't in fact counted as applicable within reality.
I shall now be conducting a transference of my Force of Providence (運命力, Unmei-Ryoku?).
It shall persist to the extent that your remaining lifespan -- less than three days in duration -- will be entirely overwritten.
However, as I am yet to fully mature, I can grant you only a lifespan comparable to that of the Humans (人並, hitonami?).
And by the consummation of this act, I shall be as merely a beast.
Neither Sapience (知性, Chisei?) nor Distinction (特性, Tokusei?) shall remain.
Until now, my responses to you in conversation have indeed held meaning, but henceforth, they may be little more than the cries of an animal.
But this isn't something you should unnecessarily concern yourself with.
From your perspective, after all, nothing will have changed.
But, I suppose I can't help but feel a bit of loneliness in that.
For this reason, I desired that my final act would be to bid you alone a personal farewell.
Goodbye, Mashu Kyrielight.
This journey that I've undertaken at your side was to me a refreshment.
It is owing to that that I was able to retain this form until the end, even as I might have normally degenerated unto unsightliness.
Mashu:
W- wait --
Fou, -san -- Fou-san -- !
???:
... Once, a certain Magus uttered these words on unleashing the Cath Palug upon the world.
"Go forth and seek beauty," he said.
-- Yes.
I have indeed witnessed a beautiful thing.
There exist evils that may be defeated without the crossing of blades, and answers that be reached only absent of the spilling of blood.
I congratulate you, good folk of Chaldea.
By your efforts, the 4th Beast (第四の獣, Dai-Yon no Juu?) is here defeated.マシュ:
――――――。
――――――。
???:
――――――。
――――――。
――――――。
――――――良かった。まだ残っていたね、マシュ。
君は完全に消滅した。
命の終わりに辿り着いた。
それでも、意思がこの虚無に残っている。
それでも、君が成すべき事がまだ残っている。
だから「お疲れ様」とは言わないよ。
「バイバイ」と、お別れは言うけどね。
マシュ:
――――――。
???:
時間もないし率直に言うと、君を生き返らせようと思う。
ボクは「比較」の理を受け持っていた。
人間同士の競争と成長、妬みや悔しさを糧とし、「相手より強くなる」特徴を持つ獣だ。
災厄の獣キャスパリーグ。
違う世界では霊長の殺人者、とも呼ばれたね。
ボクは人間社会にいなければ無害な動物だ。
だから人のいない孤島に閉じこもっていた。
けれど、ボクの世話をしていた魔術師は酷いヤツでね。
快適だった幽閉塔からボクを追い出して、外に放ってしまったんだよ。
……でも、そのおかげでボクはカルデアに辿り着いた。
そこで君と、ぐだ子を発見した。
マシュ:
―――あな、たは―――
???:
君は迷惑に思うかな。
でもまあ、善意とは基本、押し売りするものだと魔術師は言っていた。それに[#倣:なら]うとしよう。
数百年溜め込んだ魔力を使って、魔法ですら到達しえない奇蹟をここに起こす。
『死者の完全な蘇生』。
とはいえ、時間神殿での死は現実ではカウントされない。
ボクがこれからする事は運命力の譲渡だ。
君のわずかな、あと三日とない寿命を塗りつぶすほどの。
ただし、ボクはまだ成長していなかったから。
君の寿命を人並のものにしかできない。
これによってボクはただの獣になる。
知性も特性もなくなるからね。
今までは君たちの会話に意味のある合いの手をいれていたけど、これから先はただの鳴き声になるだろう。
別に気にした事でもないさ。
君たちにとっては何も変わらないんだから。
でもまあ、寂しい気持ちも本当だ。
だから最後に、君にだけはお別れを言いたかった。
さようなら、マシュ・キリエライト。
君たちとの旅は、ボクにとって清々しいものだった。
たいてい醜悪な姿に変わっていたボクが、最後までずっと、この姿のままでいられた程に。
マシュ:
待っ、て―――
フォウ、さん―――フォウさん―――!
???:
……かつて魔術師はこう言ってキャスパリーグを送り出した。
「美しいものに触れてきなさい」と。
―――そうだ。
私は本当に、美しいものを見た。
刃を交えずとも倒せる悪はあり、血を流さなかったからこそ、辿り着ける答えがあった。
おめでとう、カルデアの善き人々。
第四の獣は、君たちによって倒された。 - ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Septem: Section 15 God's Whip
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order Babylonia Anime Episode 20
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fate/Grand Order - Solomon: The Grand Time Temple: Section 12: The Future
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - London: Section 13 Beyond the Fog
- ↑ Voice change regarding "Mash Kyrielight" character
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order interview
- ↑
[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: Stray Servant [Others], p.069 [T] Stray Servant [Others]
A heroine candidate that vanished without a trace during the plotting stage.
She was conceived of as an "abandoned puppy" type heroine, who killed her Master and went on a rampage.
As a Servant of the shield, she was going to be a rival to Saber, the Servant of the sword, but…
Just like Gilgamesh, she would have been a Servant that had remained behind after the previous Grail War.
Unfortunately, though, she had to be cut for the sake of keeping things manageable for the player.
After all, around this point, the plot itself was starting to stray. Not only Rider, but even Caster was a potential heroine candidate. It was terrifyingly chaotic.
Hmm? Fuji-nee? I don't know what you're talking about, Fuji-nee never had a main route even during the plotting stage.はぐれサーヴァント【その他】
プロット段階で消えたヒロイン候補。
マスターを殺して暴走している“捨てられた子犬係" のヒロインとして予定されていた。
盾のサーヴァントで、セイパーのライバルになる予 定だったのだが???いつのまにか消えていた子である。
ギルガメッシュと同様、前回から残っているサーヴァ ントとして考えられていたが、
とれ以上登場人物を増やしてプレイヤーを混乱させてもよろしくない、とカットされた。
この頃はプロットも迷走しており、ライダーはおろかキャスターさえヒロイン候補だった、という恐ろしいカオスっぷりだったのだ。
藤ねえ?藤ねえにはプロット段階からメインルートなんてねえよ。 - ↑ Fate/Unpublished Material
- ↑
Grand Order 4Gamer interview 4Gamer: So it really is a shield, then. Did you design her, Takeuchi-san?
Takeuchi: Yes. But that shield girl's design existed before this project began.
Nasu: It never came to be, but when Studio DEEN made their "stay night" anime, it was originally planned to have an original story. This heroine was formally made back then. We felt it was a waste to keep her locked away like that, and she fit right into the story of "FGO", so we decided to make her the main heroine this time around.
4Gamer: So, is her true identity to be revealed at a later date?
Takeuchi: It's too early (laugh). Trying to figure out a heroic spirit's true name-- their identity, is a big part of the enjoyment of "Fate".
Nasu: In "FGO's" case, the servant's identity becomes revealed once players get their hands on them. So I'd be happy if all the players would do their best to avoid spoilers.4Gamer: あれはやっぱり盾なんですね。彼女のデザインは,武内さんが手がけられたということでいいのでしょうか。
武内氏: そうです。でも,あの盾子のデザインは,この企画が始まる前から存在していたんですよ。
奈須氏: >世に出ることはなかったんですが,以前スタジオディーンさんが「stay night」をアニメ化されたとき,オリジナルの話を作る予定があったんです。このヒロインは,その時に正式に作られたキャラクターでした。そのまま眠らせておくのはもったいない気持ちがありましたし,「FGO」のストーリーにハマる感触もあったので,今回メインヒロインとして立ってもらうことにしました。
4Gamer: では,その正体が明らかになるのは,まだ先であると。
武内氏: 今はまだ(笑)。英霊の真名――正体を想像するのも,「Fate」という作品の大きな楽しみの一つですからね。
>奈須氏: 「FGO」の場合,キャラクターを手に入れた時点でサーヴァントの正体はどうしたってバレてしまいますから。なので,配信が始まった後もプレイヤーの皆さんにはなるべくネタバレを避けてもらえると嬉しいです。 - ↑ Fate/Unpublished Material