Sieg (ジーク, Jīku?) is the main protagonist of Fate/Apocrypha series, who acts as the second Master of Rider of Black during the Great Holy Grail War. He appears in Fate/Grand Order's Apocrypha/Inheritance of Glory event as a Caster-class Servant able to be summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru.
Profile
Background
Sieg was created by Yggdmillennia as one of their many homunculi suited to various purposes. Initially kept in a magical energy supply tank devised by Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia to grant energy for Servants and was originally known as Homunculus (ホムンクルス, Homunkurusu?), he was one of many allowed to be used by Caster of Black for usage as harvesting materials for his golems. Due to his unexpectedly high quality Magic Circuits, he was thought to be a good choice for Caster's Golem Keter Malkuth.[4]
Appearance
A standard characteristic of Einzbern Homunculi, Sieg's eyes are the same deep, dark red of polished, perfect rubies. His hair is brown, though it appears to darken ever so slightly as he 'ages'. At the outset, Sieg's physique is quite slender and frail, like a newborn infant, and equally as weak. His standard clothing consists of a black waistcoat, white shirt, black slacks, and a pair of black leather penny loafers.
After obtaining the heart of Saber of Black, his physical appearance changes slightly to mimic that of Saber. While his hair only darkens (and shortens) slightly, he grows far taller than he originally was, and the frailty of the past was replaced with a slender-but-hardy build much more suitable for fighting in a Holy Grail War. He also swaps out the loafers for a pair of half-boots.
Personality
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« Perhaps we don't deserve such a thing as free will. I don't really know if what I've done till now is right or not. But, even if there's no rest beyond this... Even if there's only despair beyond this... At the very least I want to walk my own path! We don't ask for salvation either! But I want at least the freedom to choose! » |
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Sieg comes into consciousness without anything to form a personality. He is scared of everything but himself, believing to be nothing. He calls himself transparent and colorless because he possesses nothing and had received nothing from his birth.
After escaping and receiving the hero Siegfried's heart, he becomes notably more selfless and brave as he gradually continues to develop as a person. Of his own volition, he decides to forsake a life of happiness, and instead aims to fulfill the desperate wishes of freedom his brother and sister homunculi who would die if nothing was done to save them. Eventually, he even willingly becomes a participant of the Holy Grail War in return for their promised freedom and safety as well as the sakes of both Astolfo who had previously saved him and Jeanne who protected him. Due to his young age, he is initially very much naive and clueless about things such as common sense, basic human behavior, and how the world works though is able to pass as an eccentric but otherwise normal, if slightly clumsy, human with a calm and logical personality in a very short amount of time. While typically very polite and humble, Sieg can at times display a blunt attitude during the rare instances he feels annoyed or frustrated. He also has a tendency to blurt out slightly rude observations without really meaning to which occassionally gets him into trouble with others.
He seems to have a high capacity for forgiveness as shown when goes as far as to unhesitatingly throw himself in harm's way to save both Caules and Fiore when their lives are in peril despite the Yggdimillenia's treatment of his brethren. But at the same time Sieg is extremely vengeful when those he cherishes have been harmed before him, not caring whether his enemy is a magus or a Servant, the only thing that matters in his mind is the fact that he will kill them.
After their final encounter with Assassin of Black and witnessing her, along with the children of Scotland Yard's horrific past's, Sieg's innocent belief of humans being slightly flawed but inherently good creatures crumbles, leading him to began to question humanity's true nature. While he takes Ruler's advice on not giving up on humans to heart, and ponders over the opinions of several other heroes on the matter, Sieg ultimately seeks his own answer to how he views humans and life as a whole.
Similar to Siegfried, he places little value on his own life and comes to view himself as something that can be used to save and help those around him, causing him to make reckless choices simply for the sake of what he believes 'he should do' instead of what he wants to do. He claims to have no interest in the normal, peaceful life Astolfo spoke of before, but it is revealed during a conversationg with Jeanne that deep down in his he does have a longing for it but willingly overlooked this fact for what he feels is a more worthwhile purpse that can grant meaning to his life as well as honor the hero Siegfried who willingly gave up his life to save the dying Sieg. Thankfully, both Ruler and Laeticia eventually encourage him to start considering his own value more as he realizes that just worrying about the value of humans and his unfortunate sense of obligation towards others without looking into himself would leave him truly empty in the end no matter what he ended up doing with his life.
While Sieg had his own reasons for opposing Amakusa Shirou's wish for salvation, the main reason Sieg chose to trap himself on the Reverse Side to prevent mankind's extinction that would have resulted from the priest's wish at the end naturally wasn’t solely for humanity’s sake in and of itself. In the first place, Sieg himself admits he hadn't experienced enough to completely believe in humanity though he accepted their nature and simply chose to strive to believe in the good they are capable of like the heroes he came to know such as Astolfo, Chiron, and Karna. But mostly it is because he witnessed Jeanne D'Arc's struggles and eventually came to understand her that he acted. For her who had everything taken from her due to betrayal in life, who received the worst treatment conceivably possible for a human, and yet never cursed anyone in the end and even gave up her life to protect their future, Sieg wanted to 'become her strength' and thus carried out her will, acting for the first time on his own personal desire rather just giving himself for someone else's sake because it's what he felt he should do.
When encountered during the Inheritance of Glory event, he's developed even more. His personality is relatively the same as it was at the end of the Great Holy Grail War, but he's notably wiser and tempered by his past experiences. He is still somewhat awkward at interacting with others by himself as seen when he first meets the protagonist and attempts to make himself appear as a solemn dragon, an act he fails comically at as he often has to take many pauses to properly explain the current situation, flounders between the rough 'ore' prounoun and the more dignified 'ware' when referring to himself multiple times in the same conversation, accidentally joyfully roars loud enough to briefly deafen the protagonist when they agree to assist him.
Relationships
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Role
Fate/Apocrypha
Sieg, originally just an unnamed homunculus, first begins to gain sentience around the time the Black Faction has summoned all of its Servants. Originally, he is conscious without the ability to form thoughts, only a weak "instinct" protesting about a great pain. Without the ability to form thoughts or have recognition of anything, he cannot assert himself or clearly be called "alive." Simply by existing, he is able to receive "information", leading to "time" to process the information that eventually creates "knowledge" within him. He becomes conscious, and he is able to realize the simple fact that he is a living creature. The cycle of learning begins to repeat at a great speed, bolstered by his Magic Circuits. He recognizes many beings, including humans, homunculi, and Servants. The humans ignore him, the homunculi, his comrades, view him with faint emotions, and the Servants, monsters, display a wide variety of expressions.
There is no great change in his situation with the acquisition of knowledge, but he slowly begins to organize it within himself and begins to feel strange with the more information he obtains. Without realizing it to be fear in wanting to turn away from that which is in front of him, he cannot even understand it being an act of cowardice because he has yet to understand the idea of courage. After the scouting of Kairi Sisigou and Saber of Red leads to battle with several of Caster's golems, Caster and Roche Frain Yggdmillennia appear before Sieg, discussing the process of inserting Magic Circuits into the golems. Identifying them by their "codes", names, Sieg is able to recognize that they have appeared before him numerous times, and using his information, he is able to determine the insertion of Magic Circuits equates to the destruction of that which is consumed to supply them. Having not previously understood death, he becomes scared upon drawing the conclusion that destruction equals death.
As he is selected along with two others for Caster's usage, the part of him that had been scared clearly notes that he will soon die. Though he initially believes that there is no recourse, he decides to act due to being able to do what the other homunculi cannot, obtain information, think, and fear the conclusion. With the coincidence of obtaining an identity along with the coincidence of being chosen to die, his fate begins to move as he moves his arm for the first time in his life. Affirming his situation as he attempts to move, he makes both his hands move to beat against the reinforced glass. Realizing the futility in trying to break it physically, he scans his Magic Circuits to work a spell that weakens the glass enough for him to escape, breaking it and allowing him into the world from which he had been isolated. Injured from the glass, he removes his breathing apparatus and takes his first breath.
He quickly reminds himself that escape from the glass was only his initial goal, quickly seeking to escape. The ability to stand was not imbedded into his functions, so he can only fall and feebly craw along the floor. Slowly managing to stand, he is filled with great pain as he begins his first steps. He does not know his path, only knowing that he will die if he stays, and he can only walk forward with great trepidation of further pain as he ignores the "whispers" of the homunculi behind him. With skin as soft as that of a newborn, simply walking is enough to bloody his feet as he searches for a destination. Thinking himself to be a meaningless existence as his weak body struggles along, he can only believe that he will die without meaning in the same way he was born without meaning.
He pauses in confusion as he realizes Rider of Black has come before him, unable to move out of fear. Soothed by Rider's concern, he recognizes Rider and unconsciously mutters for Rider to help him before fainting. Before fading out, he only wishes that he will continue to be alive. Rider decides to help him, bringing him Archer of Black's room to hide him from Caster's pursuit. Archer realizes the situation, letting them in and preparing to look him over due to his expertise on medicine. He states that Sieg overused his circuits and tore through his veins in destroying the glass and further collapsed from exhaustion. He tells Rider of Sieg's physical condition and short lifespan, and Rider affirms that he will keep helping him until the end, as he would not be able to survive on his own.
Sieg awakens during their conversation, so he gets up at Rider's prodding. Extremely nervous, he is unable to understand Rider's meaning as he asks about helping to grant Sieg's wish. As he thinks about it, he believes a powerless being with no history has no right to have a wish in the first place, having given up such a right in the first place. Although he believes he does not deserve such a thing or that it will be granted, he asks Rider to save him. He is shocked when Rider agrees immediately, but becomes moved enough by Rider's innocence to have no doubt in his words.
He clashes with Saber of Red during a large battle. She calls him a fake Heroic Spirit, and he acknowledges that he cannot match up to a proper Heroic Spirit. In order to save his comrades who were left behind, he decides to utilize his Saber's Noble Phantasm, Balmung, clashing with her Clarent. He does not care about winning or losing, only that it is a necessary action. He who does not have a life in the first place thus cannot be said to be risking his life. Red Saber comes out victorious, but only due to the special properties of the weapons and the distance from which they attacked. It is possible utilizing Balmung even a few steps closer may have changed the outcome. She is infuriated because he still lives, and moves to finish him.
Fate/Grand Order
Fate/Apocrypha: Inheritance of Glory
The event takes place after the Great Holy Grail War, but before Sieg and Jeanne reunite. Sieg, still in the form of Fafnir, is having difficulties keeping control of the Greater Grail, summoning a spiritual body replica of Ritsuka Fujimaru's consciousness from the Shadow Border to aid in the task. As Fafnir he created a terminal of Sieg to properly interact with Ritsuka.
Servant Sieg is more of a terminal than an imitation. Just like the Avenger - Jeanne Alter, he will probably disappear once the anthropic principle starts to move properly and his role come to an end.[1]
Fate/Labyrinth
Manaka Sajyou in her dimensional travel saw a solitary and kind dragon (孤高なりし優しき竜, kokō narishi yasashiki ryū?), waiting for another for a very long time in the Reverse Side of the World. Manaka finds the dragon's appearance to be beautiful, but the dragon does not respond to Manaka, as both of them saw the end of the world.
Abilities
He possesses first-class Magic Circuits.[3] Sieg is a being whose purpose was to have Magic Circuits as the foundation of his body, so his ability to comprehend information is great. He is able to go from being less aware than a baby to gaining knowledge at an abnormal speed in a span of days. He is made to take in mana from the atmosphere and provide it to Servants, and he is able to manually cut the link upon gaining intelligence. Instinctively knowing magecraft, he is able to use the spell "Logic path/open (理導／開通, Ridō/kaitsū?)" to wish for a result of "destruction" on the glass holding him, causing his magical energy to transform it in a way for the least "destruction" required. Able to understand the mineral the glass is constructed from, it becomes as brittle as a weak piece of wood. When Sieg tries to protect himself from Gordes, he uses this technique to defend himself. His palm became the barrel of a gun - the sheath of a sword - and what it fired was a bullet or perhaps blade that would not only destroy Gordes' arm, but mercilessly devour his heart. it is also said that Sieg can use basic magecraft, such as suggestion and healing magic.
Unlike regular homunculi built to be functional, perfect lifeforms, he possesses many physical defects, and while his circuits are first-class, his body is not able to utilize them without failing. Meant only to supply magical energy and not act as a fighter, he is physically weak and will only live three years at most.
After gaining Saber of Black's heart, his appearance physically changes and he gains a stronger constitution which leads Rider of Black to claim he can live for more than 100 years. He has special black Command Seals which appeared on the back of Sieg's left hand known as Dead Count Shapeshifter: Dragon Revelation Command Spells (竜告令呪, Ryū Tsuge-reiju?) which allows him to take the form of the Heroic Spirit Siegfried for 180 seconds (3 minutes). He can only take form using the Command Spell for a limit of three uses.[5] However they can be used as normal Command Seals, but does not use them that way towards Rider.
His parameters, experience, technique, personal skills, Noble Phantasms all are replicated perfectly but he cannot match a true Heroic Spirit. His usage of Balmung does not appear impeded by this. He requires adequate magical energy stored in his body and the use of a Command Spell to take on Saber's form.
Using Balmung is enough to deplete his reserves completely, causing him to lose Saber's form even as his magic circuits desperately cling to "remain as Saber." His armor and Noble Phantasm disappear, causing Saber of Black to vanish from the world. The process brings extreme pain to his flesh, bones, and nerves, and he loses any ability to move or retaliate. It is possible to transform again, but his body cannot endure to do so consecutively.
However, after getting revived by Frankenstein's lightning imbued by her will a piece of her is reborn inside him it ceased to hinder him. Later granting him the perpetual motion machine ability of Bridal Chest, he used it, during his battle with Karna and later Shirou, Sieg managed to use Balmung so many times consecutively only because he continued to instantaneously pull out the sword’s power while replenishing his mana with “Galvanism”. While the Servant version of Siegfried cannot instantly replenish the mana he expends, his sword’s accumulation of prana is overwhelmingly faster than that of an average Anti-Army Noble Phantasm, but still not as fast as Sieg[6]. In terms of speed of his Noble Phantasm use, Sieg was closer to that of the real form of Siegfried than even the heroic spirit copy. The living Siegfried, on the other hand, had his inborn disposition combined with the transformation of his heart into a Magic Core due to being bathed in and drinking a dragon's blood, so he could draw forth magical energy and fire the slash wave even faster than Sieg. Unfortunately, the moment he was summoned as the Servant Saber, that special characteristic of his was highly degraded.[7] When Sieg battles Lancer of Red, he is able to use Balmung together with Galvanism to great effect and is able to activate Balmung consecutively. After witnessing two back-to-back attacks on the level of Brahmastra Kundala, Lancer decides that there is only one way to win and uses Vasavi Shakti. Balmung would have been penetrated in only two seconds, but Sieg used the power of his last command spell to dramatically boost it's strength, allowing it to reach an equal footing with Vasavi Shakti albiet very briefly. It becomes a battle of will from this point on, but since Sieg's opponent was Karna who was famous for his indomitable will, Vasavi Shakti was able to once again begin breaking through Balmung with ease. Before the killing blow, however, he was saved by Astolfo with Achilles' shield Akhilleus Kosmos.
Later, during his fight with Shirou and with no command spells left, an enraged Sieg used Galvanism in tandem with the sword skills he learned during his transformations as Siegfried to fight on somewhat even terms with the heavily injured and one-armed Shirou. He was forced to use a weakened version of Blasted Tree against Shirou in their final fight as his trump card after his sword was broken and he was impaled through the chest.
Also displaying the ability to transform into the dragon Fafnir due to him having Siegfried's heart giving him dragon blood as he used this to carry the Greater Grail to the Reverse side of the world where phantasmal beasts go where no human can venture so the wish for humanity does not occur as phantasmal beasts are invalid targets. As a result of the transformation he lost his physical form and his final state is that of his soul.
Development
Creation and Conception
Higashide wrote all Sisigou, Reika & Black camp’s character development, while Sieg, Kotomine Shirou & four new servants’s character development was already written by Nasu. The idea for Sieg came from Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi. Nasu wanted to introduce a male homunculus to Fate. In an interview, Takeuchi stated Homunculus and Jeanne are his favorite characters, along with Altria.[8]
Yuuichirou Higashide said that everything started from Sieg. When he was discussing wild ideas with Nasu, Higashide said "his Chest will glitter brightly, three full times!", to which he found it too stupid so he removed it when he was writing the story.[9]
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
[] Fate/Grand Order - Sieg (Caster) Profile [T] Sieg - Caster
Illustrator and Voice actor
Illustrator: Ototsugu Konoe
Voice Actor: Natsuki Hanae
Parameters
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: E
Magic: D
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: EX
Personal Skills
Artificial Hero (False): B+
Magecraft: C
Deadcount Shapeshifter: Dragon Mark Command Spell: EX
Class Skills
Independent Action: EX
Homunculus: C+
Noble Phantasm
Akafiloga Argrise: Scorching Dragon Breath・Melting of the Entire Land
Rank: EX
Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
Character details
Let's say that there was someone who reached out his hands towards an unreachable star, all while clenching his teeth(1).
This man stand on the side that shot down said star.
A mere homunculus, a mere human.
Level 1 Bond
Height/Weight: 165cm・53kg
Source: Fate/Apocrypha
Region: Romania
Alignment: Neutral Good Gender: Male
Both a Servant and a Master.
Level 2 Bond
The Holy Grail War that was held in Romania---
In that Great Holy Grail War, he was one of the homunculi minted for the sake of prana supply.
Originally, his fate was to die after being squeezed out of prana. But, as a result of struggling to survive, he acquired the power of Siegfried and became the eye of the typhoon called Great Holy Grail War.
Level 3 Bond
- Independent Action: EX
A subspecies of Possession Servant(2). Although prana is necessary when taking combat actions, outside that he is no different from an ordinary human. Originally, his age should also have been the same as that of a human, but...
- Homunculus: C+
A homunculus minted from misappropriated Einzbern techniques.
Even if just a coincidence, he was born with individuality and excellent magecraft skills.
- Artificial Hero (False): B+
A pseudo-hero(2) created by receiving the heart of Siegfried and having the electric current of Frankenstein's Noble Phantasm run through his body.
Although only for a short while, he can perform as a hero - a Servant - by means of a a combination with Dragon Mark Command Spell.
- Magecraft: C
An inborn talent that a homunculus who was minted from magic circuits has.
He employs a magic formula that can destroy any kind of solid material by understanding the target's structure and clash a complete opposite composition into it.
However, it has no applications other than this.
- Dragon Mark Command Spell: EX
Deadcount Shapeshifter.
By employing the Command Spells he possesses, it is possible transform into Siegfried (even if just temporarily) by using the heart of Siegfried that was inserted in him as a catalyst.
The time limit is of roughly three minutes.
Level 4 Bond
"Scorching Dragon Breath・Melting of the Entire Land"
Rank: EX Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm (self)
Range: 0 Maximum Targets: 1 person
(the breath's range is roughly 50)
Akafiloga Argrise
A Noble Phantasm that brings about a temporary shapeshift into the dragon kind "Fafnir". By emitting a powerful dragon's breath, massive damage is dealt.
A Noble Phantasm derived from having turned into a dragon and flied in the skies during his lifetime.
It seems that the person himself feels no special difference from when he is a human.
Level 5 Bond
He has nothing that resembles a past.
It may sound good to call him pure, what laid there is only the resignation of being born and having one's death determined just for the sake of an objective.
His appearance, knowledge and mentality was close to that of an adolescent, but he was (in a sense) a "perfect" existence quite removed from humans.
However, as he went along living, that perfection was lost little by little.
A certain priest loathed that, but he himself desired so and thus abandoned that perfection.
...said antagonism would ultimately bring the Great Holy Grail War to a closure.
Interlude
Having turned into the evil dragon Fafnir, Sieg carried the Greater Grail to the reverse side of the world in order to prevent the fulfilment of the Third Magic.
He continues to wait in the reverse side of the moon, all while holding on to the hope that she will come to meet him.
Servant Sieg is more of a terminal than an imitation.
Just like the Avenger - Jeanne Alter, he will probably disappear once the anthropic principle starts to move properly and his role come to an end.
(1) can also be translated as "bearing up with tragedy".
(2) probably meant Pseudo-Servantジーク - キャスター
イラストレーター・声優
ILLUST：近衛乙嗣
CV：花江夏樹
パラメータ
筋力：Ｅ
耐力：Ｅ
敏捷：Ｅ
魔力：Ｄ
幸運：Ｂ
宝具：ＥＸ
保有スキル
人工英雄（偽） Ｂ＋
魔術 Ｃ
竜告令呪 ＥＸ
クラススキル
単独行動 ＥＸ
ホムンクルス Ｃ＋
宝具
灼熱竜息・万地融解
ランク：ＥＸ
種別：対人宝具
キャラクター詳細
届かぬ星に向かって、歯を食い縛りながら手を伸ばした者がいたとしたら。
彼はその星を撃ち落とした側である。
ただのホムンクルスであり、ただの人間だ。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを１にすると開放
身長/体重：１６５ｃｍ・５３ｋｇ
出典：Fate/Apocrypha
地域：ルーマニア
属性：中立・善 性別：男性
サーヴァントでもありマスターでもあり。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを２にすると開放
ルーマニアで執り行われた聖杯戦争───
聖杯大戦において、魔力供給のために鋳造されたホムンクルスの一人。
本来なら、魔力を絞り出されて死ぬ運命であったが、生き延びようと足掻いた結果、ジークフリートの力を手に入れ、聖杯大戦の台風の目となる。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを３にすると開放
○単独行動：ＥＸ
憑依サーヴァントの亜種。戦闘行動を取る際は魔力が必要だが、それ以外の一切において、通常の人間と変わらぬ存在となる。本来であれば、年齢も人間とほぼ同等のはずだったが……。
○ホムンクルス：Ｃ＋
アインツベルンの技術を流用して鋳造したホムンクルス。
偶然であるが、個性と優れた魔術の腕をもって生み出された。
○人工英雄（偽）：Ｂ＋
英雄ジークフリートの心臓を受け取り、フランケンシュタインの宝具電流が体内に流れたことによって作られた疑似英雄。
わずかな時間であるが、竜告令呪との組み合わせによって英雄───サーヴァントとして活動できる。
○魔術：Ｃ
魔術回路から鋳造されたホムンクルスが持つ、天性の才能。
対象の構造を理解し、全く逆の組成をぶつけることで如何なる堅固な物質も破壊する術式を使用する。
ただし、それ以外の用途は一切ない。
○竜告令呪：ＥＸ
デッドカウント・シェイプシフター。
自身が所有する令呪を使用することにより、一時的にではあるが組み込まれたジークフリートの心臓を触媒として、ジークフリートに変身することができる。
制限時間はおおよそ三分間。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを４にすると開放
『灼熱竜息・万地融解』
ランク：ＥＸ 種別：対人宝具（自身）
レンジ：０ 最大捕捉：１
（ブレスレンジはおおよそ５０レンジ）
アカフィローガ・アルグリーズ。
竜種“ファヴニール”への一時的な形態変化をもたらす宝具。強力な竜の息（ドラゴンブレス）を放射することによって、莫大なダメージを与える。
生前において竜となって空を飛び立ったことに由来する宝具。
本人的には人間時とさしたる違いはない模様。
アンロック条件：絆レベルを５にすると開放
過去らしきものは存在しない。
無垢と言えば聞こえはいいが、そこには目的のために生まれ、そして死ぬことが定められた諦観があっただけだ。
見た目と知識、精神的にも青年期に近いが、人間とは掛け離れたある意味で『完璧』な存在だった。
だが、生き延びていく内に少しずつその完璧さは失われていく。
とある神父はそれを憎んだが、彼自身はそれを望み、完璧さを捨て去った。
……最終的にその対立が、聖杯大戦の幕を閉じることとなる。
アンロック条件：「Apocrypha/Inheritance of Glory」クリア及び絆レベル5で開放
邪竜であるファヴニールに変化したジークは、第三魔法を成就させんとする大聖杯を世界の裏側へと運んだ。
いつか彼女が会いに来る、という希望を持ったまま、彼は世界の裏側で待ち続ける。
サーヴァントであるジークは、模造品というよりは端末に近い。
アヴェンジャーであるジャンヌ・オルタ同様、人理が正しく動き出せば、彼の役割も終わって消えることになるだろう。 - Independent Action: EX
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - CHARACTER Profile: Homunculus "Sieg", p.054-055 [T] Homunculus "Sieg"
- Age: 0 years old
- Height: 165cm
- Weight: 53kg
- Talents: None
- Likes: None
- Dislike: None
- Image colour: Transparent
- Enemy: enemy: Shirou Tokisada Amakusa
Comment from Yuichiro Higashide & Ototsugu Konoeホムンクルス ジーク
- 年齢：０歳
- 身長：１６５ｃｍ
- 体重：５３ｋｇ
- 特技：なし
- 好きなもの：なし
- 苦手なもの：なし
- イメージカラー：透明
- 天敵：天草四郎時貞
Comment from Yuichiro Higashide & Ototsugu Konoe - Age: 0 years old
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[] Fate/Apocrypha - Volume 1 - Character Profile: Homunculus [T] Homunculus
An artificial life-form created using techniques of the Einzberns in order to supply magical energy separately from the Yggdmillennia Masters.
He possesses first-class Magic Circuits, but he's a failed creation from birth.ホムンクルス
ユグドミレニアのマスターたちとは別に、魔力を供給するためにアインツベルンの技術で鋳造された人造生体。
一流の魔術回路を持っているが、生まれついての失敗作。 - ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Sieg [Person's name], p.168-169 [T] Sieg [Person's name]
The protagonist of the light novel “Fate/Apocrypha”. He was originally a homunculus made by Gordes to supply prana, created not to think anything and fated to die after having his prana wrung out by the Servants, but… Almost all details about him were depicted in the novels through the entire course of his life. After all, he has virtually no past to speak of.
Not only that, his life was set to be limited from the beginning as the premise of his birth. Even if he had thought of living a respectable life, he would only have live three years at the most. It’s precisely because of this that he continued to choose absurd, unreasonable and reckless choices for the sake of “what he thought he should do”.
Even after he acquired greater longevity, that aspect of him didn’t change. The reason Sieg acted for the sake of humanity at the end naturally wasn’t for humanity’s sake in and of itself. In the first place, Sieg hadn’t experienced enough to completely believe in humanity.
However, Jeanne d’Arc waged her life to win the future. It is because he saw that and wished to “become her strength” that he acted, a greatly personal desire.
Additionally, his Magic Circuits alone were of such high quality that Avicebron had an eye on him and were in no way inferior to those of Darnic, Yggdmillennia’s head. However, he can only use them to destroy things through Structural Analysis. Even if he had survived, he wouldn’t have had any intention of studying magecraft since he doesn’t have a very positive image of it.
Having transformed into one of the Dragon Kind at the end, Sieg has already lost his physical body. His final state is the form of Sieg’s soul after he transformed by making a wish upon the Holy Grail.
Incidentally, the words Jeanne spoke at the end of the novel made Sieg finally understand the reason why he continued waiting for her all that time. The two of them take being thick-headed to a new extreme!ジーク【人名】
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[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Dragon Revelation Command Spells [Others], p.176 [T] Dragon Revelation Command Spells [Others]
Dead Count Shapeshifter. The unique Command Spells engraved on Sieg. They can also be used as normal Command Spells, but there was absolutely no need for Sieg to force Astolfo to do anything with a Command Spell, so he used them all to turn himself into Siegfried. To explain it simply, they basically let Sieg summon Siegfried every time he uses one. The catalyst is Siegfried’s living heart. However, while Siegfried’s body could withstand the dragon blood within it, Sieg’s body can’t. That is reason that the spots on Sieg’s hand where the Command Spells disappeared from turned black. Even after he used them all up, power Sieg obtained from Frankenstein’s “Blasted Tree: Lightning Branch of Crucifixion” managed to barely maintain his human form, but that too was used up when Sieg used this Noble Phantasm at the end.竜告令呪【その他】
デッドカウント・シェイプシフター。 - ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Saber of “Black” [Servant], p.162 [T] Saber of “Black” [Servant]
One of the Servants of the Black camp. His true name is Siegfried. He is an undisputed great hero and “dragon slayer” who appears in the “Nibelungenlied”. His tall stature, slender body and tanned-colored skin are proof of him having been soaked in the blood of a dragon. The reason the weak point on his back is exposed is because of a “curse” that forces him to do so. It conceptually prevents him from protecting his back. Even if Siegfried were to be protected by something like a spherical barrier, a hole in it would definitely open facing his back. However, there aren’t many heroes who possess the skill to pull off the tricky feat of aiming for Siegfried’s back while fighting him in the first place.
Just as the impression of his face gives off, he is reticent, but his bearing, which overflows with dignity, makes him seem well-bred. He is the type to talk with a simple, unsophisticated tone and hold back his words to the absolute minimum needed. That is the foundation of his personality, and it deepened the antagonism between him and his Master Gordes.
Siegfried’s legend came into existence around the 5~6th century and spread to many lands. At nearly the same time as the “Nibelungenlied”, the story of the hero Sigurd, the “Volsunga Saga”, came into existence. Wagner’s opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” is a masterpiece work that compiles these legends together.
In the light novels, Siegfried as he was portrayed in the “Nibelungenlied” forms the basic essentials of his character, and he only knows about the Norse Valkyries from second-hand knowledge.
With him possessing the noble lineage of royalty, being known for various his adventures and heroic tales and having met a tragic end, there are few heroes who are as heroic as him.
But it is precisely because he is such a heroic hero that he was unconsciously burdened by binds. A hero acts out of the supplications of the people, and therefore should not act without being asked. This is because a hero is such a being. Because they possess overwhelmingly immense power, they must not act out of their own will and try to grant their own wish. A hero is a being that fulfills the wishes of others, and must not ever tread any further than that.
When his wife and the wife of his brother-in-law wounded each other’s honor and a collision between them became inevitable, he once more granted everyone’s wish. He thought that it would be resolved if he, the cause of it all, died. In the end, it called forth even more tragedy, so it seems the curse of the Rhine gold took effect perfectly.
As a Servant, he is basically hard, solid and tough. “Armor of Fafnir: Blood Armor of the Evil Dragon” blocks all regular attacks up to B rank and all Noble Phantasm attacks up to B+ rank and, in addition, “Balmung: Phantasmal Greatsword, Felling of the Sky Demon” unleashes a wide-range attack that displays its true worth against an army. The blue jewel encased in the hilt of the sword contains prana from the Age of Gods, and it is possible to pull out the sword’s power to the maximum with just small quantity of it. During his battle with Karna, Sieg managed to use the Noble Phantasm so many times consecutively only because he continued instantaneously pulling out the sword’s power while replenishing his prana with “Galvanism”. The Servant version of Siegfried cannot instantly replenish the prana he expends, so his sword’s accumulation of prana is overwhelmingly faster than that of an average Anti-Army Noble Phantasm, though still not as fast as Sieg.
In the initial plans of the Yggdmillennia team, Siegfried would go out to the front lines and receive the attacks of enemy Servants as Vlad III’s protector. Vlad would be positioned to control the battlefield with “Kaziklu Bey: Lord of Execution”. Jack the Ripper would kill the enemy Masters and cause chaos in the enemy’s rear guard along with Frankenstein. Astolfo would guide the golems and control the situation with Avicebron, while Chiron would act as support by shooting at areas where a hole in the enemy lines could be made.
It was truly a perfect formation as an academic theory, but they were forced to tearfully change tactics due to Siegfried unbelievably leaving the battlefield before the war actually began.“黒”のセイバー【サーヴァント】
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[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Phantasmal Greatsword, Felling of the Sky Demon [Noble Phantasm], p.179 [T] Phantasmal Greatsword, Felling of the Sky Demon [Noble Phantasm]
Balmung. The Noble Phantasm of Saber of Black, Siegfried. The Nibelungs, a tribe which lived in an underground country, requested that Siegfried fairly and impartially divide up and distribute their treasure, and he accepted the request. Balmung was planned to be given to him as payment for this. However, two kings felt that the allocation of treasure was done unfairly (both kings felt they were being treated unfairly, so it’s highly possible that it was actually divided up fairly without Siegfried favoring either one) and fought Siegfried, but he killed them in return.
The remaining treasure which no longer had an owner became Siegfried’s, and Balmung also became his weapon. He wielded Balmung in every battle after that. It is also said that he won in the battle against Fafnir thanks to Balmung.
It is a sword of twilight that has reached A rank and possesses the quality of both a holy and cursed sword. Perhaps because it was owned by a king, it specializes in fighting against armies, shooting off a semi-circular slash wave. The blue jewel attached to the handle stores True Ether to use as a boost when activating the Noble Phantasm.
Now then, it does have a fast activation rate for a so-called beam weapon, but in a comparison of speed, Siegfried when he was alive was the fastest in activating it, with Sieg being the next fastest and the Servant Siegfried being the slowest out of them.
Sieg possesses the “Galvanism” ability, which the Servant Siegfried does not have, and can draw out the needed prana all at once when activating the Noble Phantasm. The living Siegfried, on the other hand, had his inborn disposition combined with the transformation of his heart due to being bathed in and drinking a dragon’s blood, so he could draw forth prana and fire the slash wave even faster than Sieg. Unfortunately, the moment he was summoned as the Servant Saber, that special characteristic of his was highly degraded.幻想大剣・天魔失墜【宝具】
バルムンク。 - ↑ Nasu, Takeushi, Ototsugu, Higashide Interview - English summary by Napul
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[] Apocrypha material - Sieg/Siegfield, p.006-007 [T] Sieg/Siegfield
Talk about Siegfield
Higashide: This the instant-Servant and homunculus, Sieg-kun. When I think about it, everything started from him. This is bit of a digression, but when we were talking about wild ideas with Nasu-san, I said, “His chest will glitter brightly, three full times!”, but when I was seriously writing the story, I found it too stupid so I removed it.
Konoe: Sieg-kun in his transformed hero form will be in the highlight scene of the final fifth volume as well! Please look forward to it! And each time Siegfried’s armor appears in an illustration, I receive no mercy as my arm dies due to the miraculous number of lines I have to draw. Good heavens!ジーク／ジークフリート
Talk about Siegfield
東出：インスタント・サーヴァント兼ホムンクルスのジーク君です。思えばコイツから全てが始まった。
余談ですが、奈須さんに妄想語らっていたときは「こいつの胸がピカピカ光るんですよ、三分過ぎると！」と言ってましたが、真面目にやるとあまりに間抜けなので消えました。
近衛：変身ヒーローであるところのジーク君は最終巻でも見せ場が！ご期待ください！
そしてジークフリートの甲冑が出てくる度に、驚異の線数で近衛の腕がしぬ、慈悲はない。ナムサン！