Whore of BabylonWP (バビロンの大淫婦, Babiron no Dai Inpu?), Class Name Beast VI/S (ビーストⅥ/Ｓ, Bīsuto Shikkusu/Esu?), full name Beast VI/Sodom's Beast (ビーストⅥ/ソドムズビースト, Bīsuto Shikkusu/Sodomuzu Bīsuto?), is a Beast-class Servant appearing in Fate/Grand Order Arcade.
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Identity[]
Nero Claudius manifested as a Beast:[2] the great Whore of Babylon from Saint John'sWP Book of RevelationWP.[5][6][1] Nega-Messiah, the greatest atrocity as viewed in Christianity.[1] At times called the Beast of Revelations,[6][1] who is in turn equated to SatanWP.[1]
One of the two horns of Beast VI. Born from Depravity, it is said to manifest when the most prosperous city of an era reaches its zenith, so that it may savor its malignancy. It is the Beast from the New Testament that is said to have destroyed Babylon. Known as the "Beast of 666" and the "Enemy of God", it is said that she is the Beast that a certain Roman Emperor became. She is born from a "what-if" where Nero went against her fate of dying alone after witnessing that thrice setting sun.[7]
The one who lays waste to the most prosperous yet depraved cities of an age. It is not divine retribution or anything of the sort. It is because of the Holy Grail she possesses that the "city" prospered from the shadows in the first place.[1]
What she feels is most "delicious" is the flesh of the fruit the moment before it rots. In other words, a city-state filled to the brim with human desire. When all desires able to be expressed by humans are contained within a single city, as in the case of Sodom and GomorrahWP, it will be offered up to her as the greatest dinner of all.[1]
With these traits in mind, her class was determined, donning the temporary name of the great Whore of Babylon. Brought to life by mankind, she is the calamity who will find human history most satisfactory.[1]
Beast VI is an Evil of Humanity which manifests in civilizations which have reached the height of their prosperity and are now past their transitional period.[8] Her name is Beast VI/S. One of the seven Evils of Humanity, the Beast who embodies the Logos of “Depravity” (“堕落”の理, “Daraku” no Kotowari?).[1]
She is not the Beast VI who Arthur Pendragon is hunting. According to Arthur, when Beast III/L and Beast III/R are both present, Beasts VI/S and VI/G will manifest. Merlin sent Arthur into the world of Fate/Grand Order mobile to search for L and R, prompting S to appear in Arcade's world.[3]
Appearance[]
In her adult state, Whore of Babylon bears the appearance of an older and voluptuous Nero, corrupted with red and purple eyes, wearing nothing but blood, a red loincloth, and a golden plate on her belly. Her hands have claw-like nails, and she has red-and-white wolf tail and ears. Her Holy Grail Aurea Poculum, full of a vile black substance, floats above her.
Personality[]
What she feels is most "delicious" is the flesh of the fruit the moment before it rots. In other words, a city-state filled to the brim with human desire. When all desires able to be expressed by humans are contained within a single city, as in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, it will be offered up to her as the greatest dinner of all.[1] She savored the depravity of humanity with a sneering grin, laughing with satisfaction on occasion.[4]
After battling with her in Babylon, she admits that the main reason why she is here is because she got bored with the Bestia Coccinea doing all of the fighting and wanted a chance to fight Chaldea herself, leaving with an open invitation to follow her into the Convergent Singularity where she will become an Adult Beast.[9]
Her belief is that the Beasts are weak in comparison to humans; if humans are to be exterminated it will be by their own hand, which suits her just fine since she's more interested in devouring the Human Order right before it collapses.
She refers to Saber Nero as her "foolish self" and wants to tear off her uncle's head. She and the female Merlin are irreconcilable archenemies.[2]
Role[]
Fate/Grand Order Arcade[]
Referred to by Ozymandias as the Great Beast (大いなる獣, Ōinaru Kemono?), by Larva Tiamat as a "fellow calamity from the sea",[10] and by Noah as Sodom's Beast (ソドムズビースト, Sodomuzu Bīsuto?),[11] she is the origin of the Bestia Coccinea that have been impersonating Goetia's Demon Gods. She is the enemy behind the events of Fate/Grand Order Arcade and created seven Singularities in imitation of Goetia. But unlike Goetia's incineration of humanity, she pursues the total vanishing of the Human Order. Her ultimate goal is to consume it as a meal.[3]
Fourth Singularity: London[]
Differing from Fate/Grand Order, Goetia inside the body of Solomon does not appear, instead replaced by a shadowy figure that does not interact directly with Chaldea.
Event: Lady Reines' Case Files[]
In the Arcade version of the event, Beast VI/S was the one responsible for Rhongomyniad going haywire and transforming Gray into an exact copy of Artoria Lancer. This was not known at the time, but Lord El-Melloi II would later deduce it when meeting Sodom's Beast/Draco.[12]
Sixth Singularity: Lost Jerusalem[]
Draco was unable to reproduce the original Demon God that acted as the cornerstone of the singularity, so it was replaced by Demon God Allocer. The Allocer of the Singularity is eventually determined to be the Bestia Coccinea rather than a Demon God. Jacques de Molay utilizes the Holy Grail, which is filled with the Mud of the Beast (獣の泥, Kemono no Doro?). Ozymandias laments that his manifestation in the Singularity is his second time being forced to be the slave of a Beast.
Seventh Singularity: Babylon[]
Draco along with the Bestia Coccinea.
She goes by the false name "Draco". Nebuchadnezzar II.5 refers to her as his wife. The Counter Force summoned the Grand Rider, Noah, to face her. However, she injured Noah, leading to his temporary fusion with a certain Heroic Spirit in order to survive.[11]
She used the Holy Grail to send Nebuchadnezzar II's soul back in time to posses Gilgamesh's corpse, where "Gilgamesh II" then began to expand Babylon, turning it into a city of sin. Draco began feeding off the sin and amassing it in her chalice to become a fully fledged Beast. After manifesting she floods Babylon with a tidal wave.[11]
After battling Chaldea, Draco declares that she has only been playing so far and this is her larval state. She retreats, telling Chaldea that with her copies of the seven Singularities finished her path to Beasthood has been opened. She will be waiting for them in her final Singularity as a full-fledged Beast.[9]
Convergent Singularity: Lilim Harlot[]
Draco becomes a full-fledged Beast, revealing her True Name as the Whore of Babylon.[8][2][3]
She is ultimately defeated with the combined forces of Chaldea, Arthur Pendragon, Merlin, King Hassan as Grand Assassin, and Noah as Grand Rider.[3]
Abilities[]
Once the Whore of Babylon became a full-fledged Beast, the quantity of her Magical Energy is considered immeasurable, and her Saint Graph is First Planetary-Class,[2][3] superior to Goetia, who was Second Planetary-Class, and therefore any other villain Chaldea had ever faced in Fate/Grand Order up to the Atlantic Lostbelt.[13] She claims that due to this, she is an existence far above the likes of Grand Assassin King Hassan, Grand Rider Noah, and Arthur Pendragon.[3] She is the Beast that collects Humanity's sins of seeking out the Holy Grail and stocks them into her own Holy Grail to feed on.[11]
It is revealed that even after her defeat as Beast VI/S and her willing transformation into an Alter-Ego, she still has the potential to transform back into Beast VI/S, as her Singularity still retains a connection to the worlds and Remnants of Sodom's Beast are still accumulating power to feed her growth. This was deemed such a threat that Senji Muramasa, who served the Alien God, was summoned across worlds to Arcade in order to sever the Karma the Lilim Harlot Singularity had to the various worlds, leaving her Draco Alter Ego permanently weakened but no longer at threat of becoming a Beast, as well as becoming more like Nero in personality. Even after doing so and saving Draco from transforming, the already accumulated power of the Singularity instead became a second instance of Beast VI/S, although it was only an echo of her power and not as strong as the fully-grown original. It was thus able to be defeated by Chaldea and Draco without the aid of any Grand Servants.[14]
Combat[]
Whore of Babylon describes the combined efforts of Grand Assassin King Hassan, Grand Caster-candidate Merlin, and Mash Kyrielight as an "ugly showing". When Grand Rider Noah interrupts them, he says he isn't much of a fighter, and that he brought Arthur Pendragon as a special fighting hand instead. With two Grand Heroic Spirits and the Knight of the Holy Sword, they are able to fight the Whore of Babylon. Thanks to Arthur releasing an unknown number of the Thirteen Seals of Excalibur Proto, Beast VI/S is defeated.[3]
Skills[]
Class Skills[]
- Nega-Messiah (? Rank): Her Authority as a Beast. She addresses herself as the one who ridicules, slaughters and consumes the Messiah.[1]
Personal Skills[]
- Number of the Beast (? Rank): The Number of the Beast, 666, engraved on herself.[4]
Noble Phantasm[]
The adult Whore of Babylon's Noble Phantasm is Oblitus Rosae Theatrum.
Human Order Annihilation[]
She summons and controls the Bestia Coccinea and was able to create Imitation Singularities of Goetia's, which allowed her to pile up sins from them in addition to Humanity's sins of seeking out the Holy Grail and stock them into her own Holy Grail to use them as nutrients.[11] However, eventually the "wishes of the masses" will provide no nourishment to her. In order to mature into a full-fledged Beast, she linked various different worlds from parallel timelines with her Convergent Singularity Lilim Harlot; a singularity whose structure is that of a miniature world: a conceptual universe. In other words, a super-compact size model case of a universe, where only a single living organism exists, Beast VI, and contains seven domains based on the previous imitation singularities, inhabited by the seven Bestia Coccinea that block the gate to the throne where Beast VI awaits. It is a graveyard of prosperities adorned by the rot of many Human Orders, the prophesied end of human history that the world is fated to reach due to humanity's self-ruination through seeking comfort and enjoyment.
Using her imitations of Goetia's Singularities, she connects many different worlds together and "deceives" Chaldea by using her Convergent Singularity to draw upon the wishes of the countless "Chaldeas" and the Last Master, who defeated the First Beast Goetia, within her Holy Grail as nourishment to drink from. The wishes of the "saviours who brought salvation unto the world", the only "wish" that will suffice in growing her horns into a Mature Beast being "to save the world"; each battle Chaldea fought in the Singularities, the very act of competing for the Holy Grail, providing sustenance for her growth to Beast VI/S.[11][2]
Although she says this is a feat the other Beasts are incapable of achieving, she says it is little more than the main dish.[3] By the time she becomes a mature Beast, she had already consumed countless Chaldeas in her Singularity.[4]
Even after her defeat and transformation into an Alter Ego and ally, she still retains a connection to the Singularity and the Singularity to the various worlds. The Remnants of Sodom's Beast still remain deep in the heart of Lilim Harlot, accumulating power to turn Draco back into Beast VI/S. Through its connection to Draco, it summoned Abigail Williams, Skadi, Merlin, and Morgan le Fay to help gain power with new Remnant Singularities and Holy Grails, as well as to create trials to provide entertainment for Draco. It also summons Shadow Servants of Koyanskaya, Kama and Larva Tiamat to defend the Convergent Singularity. Only after Muramasa severed the connection between the world and Lilim Harlot, and after Chaldea and Draco defeated an echo of the second Beast VI/S created from the accumulated power, did the threat of the Singularity end,[14] though Chaldea and Draco needed to rayshift to and resolve Morgan's surviving singularity due to her having gone rogue beforehand and creating a country to rule as Queen.
Forms and Alternate Versions[]
Juvenile Beast[]
Bewitching Queen Draco (妖妃ドラコー, Yōbi Dorakō?) is Whore of Babylon's juvenile form as a Beast. By absorbing sins gathered through the seven Singularities she was able to become a full Beast.
Appearance[]
In her infantile state, Draco bears the appearance of a younger Nero, corrupted with red eyes and draconic features. She wears three crowns on her head and shoulders and a few strips of fabric that barely qualify as clothing, and carries a golden, jewel-encrusted Holy Grail full of a vile black substance.
Abilities[]
Despite being an infantile Beast, Draco possesses a ridiculous amount of Magical Energy and a third Planetary Class Saint Graph,[11] the same classification as Beast VII, and inferior to Goetia, who was second Planetary Class.[13] Although Beast VI is famed as the "The One that Devours Cities," her power surpassed "City" level, covering an entire continent. When preparing for combat, her already-massive magical energy reading increases further.[11]
Draco was able to use her Holy Grail to create a gigantic gravity shift amidst the Indian OceanWP which in turn generated a tsunami of unprecedented size, the likes of which have never been recorded in Proper Human History. Enkidu claims not even Tiamat is capable of invoking something as big, saying it surpasses even the Sea of Life. It is a wave that signals the end and reset of the World. It is revealed that this flood is a recreation of the myth of Sodom, and that the flood is actually the poisoned blood gushing out of her Holy Grail. She states that the ending was decided from the start, that "the most prospering city is fated to be devoured by a giant flood", and that the decadant Bayblon created by Nebuchadnezzar II.5 that piled was the sixth city(fruit) that would make it to her dining table.[11]
Noah was summoned in the Grand Rider class to suppress her Authority and exterminate her. While he held back the tsunami, Enkidu, Larva Tiamat, Mash Kyrielight, Lancelot, Sakata Kintoki, and Tamamo-no-Mae fought Draco within her own overflowing Grail. Draco mocked them for planning to take her down without the aid of a Grand Servant. Although they manage to lower her Magical Energy, the amount is negligible, and she's still considered to be in top condition. Although they seemingly repel her, Kintoki states they lacked a final push, and Draco states she was bored. Despite the conditions to strike her down having been met with the summoning of a Grand Servant, the Grand Servant in question had spent all his power suppressing the tsunami instead of fighting. Noah states that was because he had been severely injured by Draco right after being summoned, preventing him from fighting at full capacity later on.[11]
Skills[]
Personal Skills[]
- Migraine (? Rank): Just like Nero Claudius, Draco is affected by this skill.[11]
Noble Phantasm[]
The juvenile Whore of Babylon's Noble Phantasm is Babalon Domus Aurea.
Alter Ego / Beast[]
- Main article: Sodom's Beast/Draco
The Juvenile Beast VI/S reincarnated as an Alter Ego in Fate/Grand Order Arcade and as a playable Beast class Servant in Fate/Grand Order. Although both are identical in appearance and abilities, the Beast of Draco in Fate/Grand Order and the Alter Ego of Draco in Arcade are two separate entities.[4]
Development[]
The Whore of Babylon was first mentioned in Fate/EXTRA, where Gawain called Nero by the name as an insult. She was mentioned again in BB's Profile in Fate/EXTRA CCC, in the description of Aurea Poculum.[5][6]
A Servant voiced by Sakura Tange named "Mother Harlot" was discovered in the Fate/Grand Order game files in a datamine in 2015. Summer Nero foreshadowed the Whore of Babylon with her Seven Crowns skill, the description of which states "Behold, the seven necks smoldering in the roaring sea. Earth’s amassers of fortune, it is time to pour your desire into the golden goblet."[15] Her Noble Phantasm incantation also describes the theatre "rising up from the sea", while the Whore of Babylon would repeat the reference by calling herself a "calamity rising up from the sea".
In Koha-Ace, Nero appears riding a seven-headed Beast and holding a cup in her hand as a reference to the Whore of Babylon.
Creation and conception[]
Juvenile Whore of Babylon is designed by Arco Wada in Fate/Grand Order Arcade.
Adult Whore of Babylon is designed by Kotetsu Yamanaka in Fate/Grand Order Arcade.[16]
Yamanaka Koutetsu: She has unhealthily pale skin, a face with no energy, and her eyes are the only part of her that shines. For her expressions, I was trying to make faces of mockery, contempt, delight, and Nero's characteristic solitude and despondency, with a layer of sordidness you can't find anywhere else in the Arthuria archetype. The armor pushing up her chest has wolf breasts on it. The crimson covering Beast VI's limbs and fur starts from her neck. The flames coming out of her feet have the yellow color of sulfur, with dashes of green gold to resemble the Japanese harlot Sasae.[17]
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 Fate/Grand Order Arcade: Convergent Singularity - Corruption Fruit City: Lilim Harlot - Beast VI/S load screen
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Fate/Grand Order Arcade: Convergent Singularity - Corruption Fruit City: Lilim Harlot - Section 7: Capital of Lust
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Fate/Grand Order Arcade: Convergent Singularity - Corruption Fruit City: Lilim Harlot - Section 8: Banquet of Depraved Civilization
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Fate/Grand Order Arcade — Profile of Sodom's Beast/Draco, translated by Justiciar_Jyggalag at Reddit.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fate/EXTRA CCC — Matrix of BB, translated by Master of Chaos at Beast's Lair.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2
[] Fate/EXTRA CCC - BB (Moon Cancer) Matrix Class: Moon Cancer
Name: BB
Master: None
Noble Phantasm: Cursed Cutting Crater (C. C. C.)
Keyword: Advanced Level AI, Khakkhara of Domination
Strength: ★, Endurance: ★, Agility: ★, Magic: ★, Luck: ★
Golden Grail: EX, Self-Modification: EX, Potnia Theron: EXKeywords 01 - Cursed Cutting Crater (C. C. C.)
An attack on the world by BB in control of the Moon Cell.
Also called the spiritron imaginary pit.
A World Purge through event rewriting that makes maximum use of the EX skill "Conception of All Animals" BB has acquired.
The goddess who is the mother of earth mother goddesses that created earth is, in other words, the 'root' that created all creation. This anti-world Noble Phantasm outputs that information through an ultra-precise 3D printer and crushes the present world with the world the user desires.
The space eroded by BB becomes imaginary space and a curse that consumes reality. "CCC", as the name suggests, is a cursed pit that bores out reality.
In addition to scattering all objects inside on an atomic level and reconstructing them, it is capable of overwriting and reprinting information in fields such as luck and coincidence. While theoretical, it is also thought possible to distort the time axis by interfering with gravitational fields and rewrite the law of cause and effect.
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When used in combat, BB's familiars, the shapeshifters, engulf the target and, after turning into a sphere, are wiped out of existence along with the target and the whole dimension.
Normally, a structure in which sense of values can be shared cannot be created in the Far Side of the Moon, which is an imaginary space. What established BB's internal world as the Sakura Labyrinth was the power of this Noble Phantasm.
02 - Advanced Level AI
Artificial intelligences configured according to their programs.
In this age, they are treated as things that "function as programs", but "do not exist as actual beings". In other words, things that "are" right in front of your eyes but "are not". They are merely mechanisms for smooth progression of human lives.
The same applies in the SE.RA.PH. They are virtual lifeforms that are created along with the commencement of the Holy Grail War and disposed along with its conclusion.
Humanoid virtual lifeforms at the SE.RA.PH include NPCs that perform single objectives, AIs who have been granted capabilities for self-judgement, and advanced level AIs who have been entrusted with capabilities for self-judgement and management of sections.
Advanced level AIs are beings made to efficiently promote the Moon Cell's primary objective of "human observation". As perfect reproductions of humans, they have been programmed with even souls, but the souls only "exist" and their contents are colorless.
Virtual lifeforms made in the SE.RA.PH are reset with each round of the Holy Grail War. NPCs and AIs return to zero, but advanced level AIs retain just their personas while their records are reset—as if they never existed.
When the Holy Grail War is over, the only one left alive is the Master standing at the top. This applies not only to the Masters but also to the virtual lifeforms made in the SE.RA.PH.
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It appears that BB, like Sakura, is an advanced level AI entrusted with management of Masters' health. However, as she is rampaging for reasons unknown, the methods of "managing the Masters" have become extreme.
03 - Khakkhara of Domination
The teacher's pointer that BB carries.
A device that lets her make full use of her authority as an advanced level AI. Although limited to the Far Side of the Moon, this allows BB to modify the spiritron laws within the SE.RA.PH.
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"Ten Crowns of Domination" worn by the Beast of Babylon converted into a teacher's pointer.
This is the male principle corresponding to the female principle of the seven-headed beast, and its true nature is a phallus (erect rod).
The symbol of the king of the world who was granted throne and authority by a great dragon and received the right to, for 42 months, spit out as many insolent words as desired and desecrate all things.
The beast's heads were the seven hills of the Roman Empire... Capitolium, Palatium, Aventinus, Esquilinus, Caelius, Quirinalis, Viminalis. In other words, they meant the Roman Empire itself, and the ten horns symbolized the emperors... Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasianus, Titus, Galba, Otho, Vitellius.０１ - C. C. C.
ムーンセルを掌握したＢＢによる、世界を犯す攻撃。
霊子虚構陥穽とも。
ＢＢが獲得したＥＸスキル『百獣受胎』を最大限に活用した、事象書き換えによるワールド・パージ。
大地を創造した地母神たちの母にあたる女神とは、即ち、万物を生み出した「根源」である。
この宝具はその情報を超精密立体プリンターとして出力し、使用者の望むままの世界で、いまある世界を握りつぶす対界宝具である。
ＢＢに侵食された空間は虚数空間となり、現実を蝕む呪いとなる。『Ｃ．Ｃ．Ｃ．』はその名の通り、現実をえぐり切り取る呪いの大穴なのだ。
その場にある物体を原子単位までばらばらにして再構成する他、運不運、偶然といった場の情報を書き換えて再出力する事もできる。
理論上の話になるが、重力場に干渉すれば時間軸を歪めて因果律を書き換える事も可能とされる。
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戦闘に使用した場合、ＢＢの使い魔であるシェイプシフターが対象を包み、球体化したのち、対象と共に次元ごと消滅する。
本来、虚数空間である月の裏側において、価値観を共有できる構造体は創造できない。
ＢＢの心象世界をサクラ迷宮として成立させていたのも、この宝具の力である。
０２ - 上級AI
プログラムによって構成された人工知能。
この時代では『プログラムとして機能しているが』
『存在として成立しないもの』とされている。
つまり、目の前に『有る』が『無い』もの。
人間の生活をスムーズに進めるための機構にすぎない。
それはSE.RA.PHにおいても同様で、彼らは聖杯戦争開始と共に作られ、終了と共に廃棄される仮想生命体とされる。
SE.RA.PHにおける人間型の仮想生命は、単一の目的だけをこなすＮＰＣ、自己判断資格を与えられたＡＩ、自己判断資格とセクション管理を任された上級ＡＩがある。
上級ＡＩはムーンセルの主目的である『人間観察』を効率的に進めるために作られたもの。
人間を完全に再現しており、魂すらプログラムされているが魂は『有る』だけで、その中身は無色のまま。
SE.RA.PHに作られた仮想生命たちは、その回の聖杯戦争が終了するとリセットされる。
ＮＰＣやＡＩはゼロに返るが、上級ＡＩはパーソナルだけ残し、その記録はリセット————無かった事にされる。
聖杯戦争が終わった時、生き残るのは頂点に立ったマスターだけ。
それはマスターだけではなく、SE.RA.PHに作られた仮想生命たちも共通なのだ。
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ＢＢは桜と同じく、マスターたちの健康管理を任された上級ＡＩと思われる。
しかし原因不明の暴走により、『マスターを管理する』 方法が極端なものになってしまったようだ。
０３ - 支配の錫杖
ＢＢが持つ教鞭。
上級ＡＩとしての権限をフルに使用できるデバイス。
月の裏側限定ではあるが、これによってＢＢはSE.RA.PH内の霊子法則を変更する事ができる。
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バビロンの獣がかぶる『十の支配の王冠』を教鞭に変えたもの。
これは七つの首の獣が女性原理に対応する男性原理であり、その本質はファロス（まっすぐな棒）だからである。
大いなる竜から王座と権威を与えられ、さらに４２ヶ月の間、どれだけ不遜な言葉を吐いてもよく、あらゆるものを冒涜する権利を与えられたという世界の王の象徴。
獣の首はローマ帝国の七つの丘……
カピトリウム、パラティウム、アウェンティヌス、エスクイリヌス、カエリウス、クイリナリス、ウィミナリス、すなわちローマ帝国そのものを意味し、十の角はその皇帝……
アウグストゥス、ティベリウス、カリグラ、クラウディウス、ネロ、ウェスパシアヌス、ティトゥス、ガルバ、 オト、ウィテリウス……を象徴している。Skills 01 - Golden Grail [EX]
The golden grail that BB owns. Also called the Holy Grail.
A negative grail that grants its owner's impudent and selfish wishes.
The grail held by the great whore of Babylon who appears in the Revelation to John. Though it is a fake Holy Grail, it is for that reason that it has become a "genuine" Holy Grail that grants the desires of humans regardless of right or wrong.
To the Christians who considered honorable poverty a virtue at that time, a grail molded from a symbol of wealth like gold no doubt had connotations of corrupt wealth, avarice, and vanity of trying to adorn oneself.
As the grail held by the great whore of Babylon who personifies the Roman Empire, this grail clearly symbolizes treasures on earth, which is the inverse of the Christ's words "Do not store up treasures on earth."
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"I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns."
According to the Book of Revelation, this is the description of the beast of destruction that appeared in the Holy City and the woman straddling that beast. A huge beast with sevens heads like a hydra appeared from the sea and landed at the Holy City. This beast and the woman, while two, are as one, and it is impossible to think of them separately.
As the woman was said to give birth to all evil, those who were imprudent or greedy could not resist her allure and became corrupted by that grail.
On a side note, the red Saber who calls herself the emperor was regarded the same as this beast and viewed as an enemy by the believers after her death.
02 - Self-Modification [EX]
A skill that allows restructuring of oneself.
AIs made by the Moon Cell were given an absolute command: "You must not improve own function."
However, BB, who escaped from that yoke due to her breakdown, began to expand her own functions. To boost her calculation power, she preyed upon/disassembled NPCs, AIs, and finally, Servants with black noise, then used as her own memory.
Though they are like appendix building additions that do not heed self-collapse, as the result, BB has changed into a hyper level AI with enormous capacity.
That condition resembles a city on reclaimed land that continues to build while submerging or Frankenstein's monster.
03 - Potnia Theron [EX]
Conception of All Animals.
The authority of the goddesses that BB compiled and absorbed from the abyss of the mooncell.
It embodies the power of all creation possessed by the mother goddesses—originating from a forgotten goddess approximately 8000 years ago (the goddess of Çatalhöyük) and branching to Tiamat and Cybele, Ishtar, Inanna, Anat, Astarte, Gaia, Hera, Artemis, Aphrodite, Demeter, Athena, etc.
Many are depicted with mural crowns. This is because many of these goddesses were also guardian deities of cities.
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The symbols of this authority include holes opening the earth and the sky (caves and the moon), whirling tides and waterspouts of the sea, calderas of the volcanoes, etc., and from these, evils that bring all manners of death are birthed. However, after these evils have spread death, they promise certain good harvest and fertility. This authority is none other than the power of bringing death as well as giving life.
The earth mother is worshipped by the people and protects them as a guardian deity, but at the same time, she is the very sacrifice that nurtures them with crops born from her body and beasts of the fields and the forests.
The earth mother nurtures men with her flesh and blood, kills men as time passes to restores herself with her own nourishment, and once again nurtures men with her restored flesh and blood.
This process is the cycle of the food chain, and this cycle of life and death can be said to be the true nature of the earth mother. With this authority, most of the goddesses gave birth to countless monsters and giants, posing threats to gods and men, or they gave birth to heroes, thus protecting people.
As representative examples, Tiamat and Gaia became threats, while Hera is a mother of heroes.
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Those born on this earth cannot defy the authority of the mother goddess, as that would mean rebelling against the very system of life. However, when they leave this earth, head to space, and end the childhoood as intelligent lifeforms, they will have broken this authority.
The wish of Çatalhöyük is the coming of that day.０１ - 黄金の杯：[ＥＸ]
ＢＢが持つ黄金の杯。聖杯とも。
持ち主の厚顔で自分勝手な願い事を叶える負の聖杯。
ヨハネ黙示録にある、バビロンの大妖婦が持っていた杯。
偽聖杯であるが、偽の聖杯であるからこそ、正邪問わずに人間の欲望を叶える“本物の”聖杯となっている。
当時の清貧を美徳としたキリスト教徒にとって、金などという財の象徴で形作られた杯は、まさしく汚れた富と強欲、そして己を飾ろうとする虚偽を意味するものであった。
ローマ帝国の化身であるバビロンの大妖婦が手にする杯という時点で明瞭であるが、この杯はキリストの「地に富を積んではならない」と言う言葉を反転させた、地上の富を象徴している。
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“わたしは、赤い獣にまたがっている一人の女を見た。
この獣は、全身至るところ神を冒涜する数々の名で覆われており、七つの頭と十本の角があった。”
これは黙示録曰く、聖都に現れた滅びの獣と、その獣にまたがっていた女の描写である。
七つの頭を持つヒュドラの如き巨大な獣は海より現れ、聖都に上陸したという。
この獣と女は二つで一つであり、切り離して考える事はできない。
女はすべての邪悪を生み出すものとされ、短慮なる者、欲深き者は彼女の誘惑に逆らえず、その杯によって堕落したという。
余談ではあるが、皇帝を名乗る赤いセイバーはその死後、信徒たちにこの獣と同一視され敵視されたという。
０２ - 自己改造：[ＥＸ]
自身を改造するスキル。
ムーンセルによって作られたＡＩには“機能を向上させてはならない”という絶対命令が備わっている。
しかし、故障によりそのくびきから逃れたＢＢは自己機能の拡張を始めてしまった。
計算能力を高めるためにＮＰＣ、ＡＩ、はてはサーヴァントまで黒いノイズで捕食・分解し、自らのメモリとして使用。
自己崩壊をいとわない後付け増築だが、結果、ＢＢは膨大な容量を持つ超級ＡＩと化した。
その有様は沈水しながらも建築を続ける埋め立て地の都市か、フランケンシュタインの怪物のようでもある。
０３ - 百獣母胎：[ＥＸ]
百獣母胎。
それはＢＢがムーンセルの深淵より編纂し、取り込んだ女神の権能である。
約８０００年前のすでに名の失われた女神（チャタル・ヒュユクの女神）より発し、 ティアマットやキュベレー、イシュタル、イナンナ、アナテ、アスタルテ、ガイア、ヘラ、アルテミス、アフロディーテ、デメテル、アテナなどに派生した、母なる女神の持つ万物を生み出す力の具現である。
多くは城壁冠の形をとってイメージされる。
これはこれらの女神の多くが、同時に都市の守護神でもあったからだ。
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大地や空に開いた門（洞窟や月）、海の渦潮や竜巻、火山の火口などに象徴され、そこからあらゆる死をもたらす害悪を生み出す。
ただし、その害悪は死をまき散らした後、確かな豊穣や多産を約束するもの。
この権能は死と同時に生を生み出す力に他ならない。
大地母神は人々によって崇められ、それらを加護する守護神であると同時に、その身から生まれ出る穀物や作物、野や森の獣によって人々を養う犠牲そのものでもある。
大地母神は自らの血肉によって人を養い、そして時を経ればその人を殺して自らの糧として己の血肉を回復し、またその回復した血肉で人を養う。
この過程は食物連鎖の円環そのものでもあり、この生と死の循環こそが大地母神の本質と言っていい。
ほとんどの女神はこの権能で、無数の怪物や巨人を生んで神々や人の脅威となり、あるいは英雄を生み、それから人々を守った。
その代表例は、脅威となったならばティアマットやガイア、英雄の母ならばヘラである。
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この大地に生まれたものは、母なる神の権能には逆らえない。それは生命のシステムそのものに反逆する事だからだ。
しかし大地を離れ、宇宙を目指し、知性体としての幼年期を終えた時こそ、この権能が打ち破れる事だろう。
チャタル・ヒュユクの願いは、その日が訪れる事にある。Setting 01 - Spiritron Imaginary Pit
Spiritron Imaginary Pit.
The official name of this stage.
Formerly just an imaginary number space for storing malignant information, "this place" was established as a real number space in the present, past, and future by the fact that BB had reached the Moon Cell core. It was reconstructed by her hands into the “far side of the moon” where even Masters can exist.
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With the power of the primordial goddess at hand, BB succeeded in quantifying the "nothingness" before the birth of life. She transformed into the master of the imaginary number space where both time and space and ambiguous.
Although the Moon Cell cannot be hacked no matter how much time is taken, BB took over it by placing herself in "unlimited time".
02 - The remnants of peaceful days
During the preliminaries, when Kiara liberated her free will, she was unable to control that status condition and went into overload.
Since NPCs can only do routine work, they ignored self-destructing Sakura as something "non-existent", and since the Moon Cell's check only takes place at the end of the day in the preliminaries, Sakura was at risk of termination.
Witnessing this condition, [Kishinami Hakuno] called out to her, "Are you okay."
The observation that she "is here" by another let Sakura recover the unconscious on the verge of termination, and due to the nursing afterwards, she gained an ego that clearly "wanted to be here". Her self-termination was averted.
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What happened afterwards no longer need to be said.
When the next day comes, everything will be erased by the Moon Cell. Wanting to continue this one day miracle, Sakura used her advanced AI privilege to repeat "the day she came to know [Kishinami Hakuno]" for 69 days.
However, as days passed, Sakura became distressed by her self-contradiction as an AI and the facts surrounding [Kishinami Hakuno].
"Masters participating in the Holy Grail War will all die except one. No, to begin with, [Kishinami Hakuno] is..."
Sakura continued to be distressed by her selfish desire to continue the loop for eternity and her feelings for [Kishinami Hakuno]. In conclusion, she chose to seal the 69 days worth of memory... the "love" she acquired, so she could return to being a normal AI. AIs cannot delete records. Because of that, she moved the memory to a backup frame to reset herself.
She believed that to be the most correct choice for [Kishinami Hakuno].
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But even if recollections of the mind are lost, memories recorded by the body live on. Though she should have forgotten everything and returned to being a normal AI, she was shaken by unidentified emotional values every time she talked with [Kishinami Hakuno].
Meanwhile, the backup to whom the memories were transplanted couldn't tolerate herself like that, and she decided to act as BB the rebel who destroys the Moon Cell's system for a certain objective then made her move.
The timing when she seized the Far Side of the Moon was "the Holy Grail War: the end of fifth round ~ before the start of the sixth round". The four who were not eliminated yet—[Kishinami Hakuno], Leo, Rin, and Rani—and the irregular, Jinako, were kidnapped to the Far Side in the middle of the Holy Grail War while they were still alive.
Masters Matou Shinji, Gatou, and Julius were moved to the imaginary space "0.00001 seconds before" the moment the firewall terminated them after their defeat from the Holy Grail War, prolonging their instants of life.
In either case, C. C. C. is a dream by BB. If the dreamer disappears, the world ought to return to the reality where nothing happened.
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On a yet another side note, everyday scenery of the prologue that [Kishinami Hakuno] saw in the nightmare was an artificial paradise modeled on the discarded 69 days.
After pulling [Kishinami Hakuno] to the Far Side, BB placed the digital body in the old school building, put it in a deep sleep, and locked them in an unwaking dream.
Normally, they would have lived peacefully in the looping everyday life, but the strong bond with their Servant or [Kishinami]'s will rejecting the peaceful everyday caused cracks in the artificial paradise, and [Kishinami Hakuno] came to notice the abnormality.
To put [Kishinami Hakuno] in a deep sleep once more, BB reset the school building and tried to remake the dream, but [Kishinami Hakuno] escaped the reset as well and leaped into an even deeper part of the imaginary space.
It was a bottom deeper than the bottom of Id. "Death of the collective unconscious" beneath the unconscious. What saved [Kishinami Hakuno] who leaped into a region even BB cannot reach was the voice of the Servant whose fate was shared with theirs.
Thus, the contract was sealed, and [Kishinami Hakuno] woke up in the old school building left in the Far Side.０１ - 霊子虚構陥穽
霊子 虚構 陥穽。
この舞台の正式名称。
悪性情報を貯蔵するだけの虚数空間だった“ここ”は、ＢＢがムーンセル中枢に到達した事実をもって、現在・過去・未来において実数空間として成立。
彼女の手によって、マスターたちでも存在できる“月の裏側”として再構築された。
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原初の女神の力を手に入れたＢＢは生命が生まれる前の『無』を数値化する事に成功。
時間も空間もあやふやな虚数空間の使い手に変革した。
どれほどの時間を要しようがハッキングできないムーンセルだが、ＢＢは『無限の時間』の概念に自分を置く事で攻略した。
０２ - 日々の名残
日々の名残：
予選中、キアラの手によって自由性を解放された彼女はそのステータス異常を制御できずに過負荷を起こした。
ＮＰＣたちはルーチンワークしかできないため、自壊しかけていた桜を“無い”ものとしてスルーし、予選ではムーンセルのチェックは一日の終わりにしか行われないため、桜は消滅の危機にあった。
その異常を目の当たりにした岸波白野は彼女に呼びかける。大丈夫か、と。
桜は“自分はここにいる”という他者からの観測を受けて消滅寸前だった無意識を持ち直し、その後の看病によって明確に“ここに在りたい”という自我を獲得。自己消滅から免れた。
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その後の事はもはや語るまでもない。
翌日になればすべてムーンセルの手によって消されてしまう。この、たった一日の奇蹟を続けたがった桜は上級ＡＩの特権を使用して
“岸波白野と知り合った一日”を６９日間、繰り返した。
しかし日が進むにつれ桜はＡＩとしての自己矛盾と、岸波白野を取り巻くある事実に苦しむ事になる。
“聖杯戦争に参加したマスターは、ひとりを除いてみな死亡する。いや、そもそも岸波白野は————”
桜は幸せな時間を永遠にループしていたという我欲と、岸波白野への思いに苦しみ続けた。
結論として、彼女は正常なＡＩに戻るため、６９日に及ぶメモリー……獲得した“愛”を封印する道を選んだ。
ＡＩには記録を消す事はできない。
そのため、バックアップの機体にメモリーを移動させる事で自らをリセットしたのだ。
それが岸波白野にとって、もっとも正しい選択と信じて。
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だが精神の記憶は失っても、肉体が記録した思い出は生き続ける。
すべてを忘れ正常なＡＩに戻ったはずの彼女は、岸波白野と話すたびに正体不明の感情値に揺れ動かされる事になる。
一方、メモリーを移植されたバックアップはそんな自分を許せず、ある目的のためムーンセルのシステムを破壊する反逆者・ＢＢとして自らの方針を定め、行動を開始した。
彼女が月の裏側を掌握したタイミングは、現実時間で“聖杯戦争 五回戦終了～六回戦開始前”。
まだ敗退していなかった岸波白野、レオ、凛、ラニの四名、そしてイレギュラーのジナコは聖杯戦争の途中、生きている状態で月の裏側に拉致された。
間桐シンジ、ガトー、ユリウス、といったマスターは聖杯戦争で敗れた後、ファイヤーウォールによって消滅する“0.00001秒前”に虚数空間に移動させられ、一瞬の命を長らえていた。
どちらにせよ、Ｃ．Ｃ．Ｃ．はＢＢが見ていた夢である。
夢を見ていたものが消え去れば、世界はもとの、何事もなかった現実に戻るだろう。
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また、余談ではあるが岸波白野が悪夢として見た冒頭の日常風景は、捨てられた６９日間をモデルにして作られた人工楽園である。
ＢＢは岸波白野を月の裏側に引きずりこんだ後、旧校舎にその電脳体を安置させ、深い眠りに落とし、覚めない夢の中に閉じこめた。
通常ならループする日常の中で平和に過ごすのだが、サーヴァントとの強い繋がり、あるいは、安寧の日常を否定する岸波の意思によって人工楽園に綻びが生じ、岸波は異常に気がつくのだった。
ＢＢはもう一度岸波白野を深い眠りに落とすため、校舎をリセットして夢をやり直そうとしたが、岸波はそのリセットからも逃れ、虚数空間の更なる深部に飛びこんでしまう。
そこはイドの底のさらに底。
無意識の下にある、“集合無意識の死”である。
ＢＢでさえ手を出せない領域に飛びこんだ岸波白野を救ったのは、運命を共にするサーヴァントの声だった。
かくして契約は交わされ、岸波白野は月の裏側に残された旧校舎で目を覚ます事になる。 - ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Sodom's Beast/Draco Profile - Translated by Petrikow
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Fate/Grand Order Arcade: Convergent Singularity - Corruption Fruit City: Lilim Harlot - Section 1: Capital of Greed
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fate/Grand Order Arcade: Babylon Singularity, Node 7
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order Arcade - Larva/Tiamat's profile translated by ComunCoutinho
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 Fate/Grand Order Arcade: Babylon Singularity, Node 6
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order x Fate/Grand Order Arcade collaboration event - Spiraling Testament World: Lilim Harlot - Chapter 1: The Present Lies at the Bottom of an Olden Limbo
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Hell Realm Mandala, Heiankyo - Flash of Roaring Thunder, Prologue
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Fate/Grand Order Arcade - The Severance of Fate. The Crimson Beast and The Flame’s Mission
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material V - Nero Cladius (Summer) profile - translated by ComunCoutinho
- ↑ Twitter Post by Kotetsu Yamanaka
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order Arcade material - Profile of Sodom's Beast/Draco, translated by Comun on Reddit