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** Three months after the assault on Chaldeas, the protagonists travel to a Russia locked in permanent winter, inhabited solely by wolfpeople, to hunt down their only lead as to who is responsible for erasing history; the princess Anastasia and her endless army of Oprichniki.

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** Three months after the assault on Chaldeas, the protagonists travel to a Russia locked in permanent winter, inhabited solely by wolfpeople, to hunt down their only lead as to who is responsible for erasing history; the princess Anastasia and her endless army of Oprichniki.


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** Eventually, another currency known as rare prisms were added to the game. They're hard to obtain because they can only be acquired by burning the SR and SSR Servants from the gacha. An SR is one and an SSR is five. Fair enough, but everything worth buying costs at least three and for the really need stuff you need five. Fortunately, apart from the Crystallized Lore, some friend points and the new Fou cards, the shop is only for items that the player failed to get when they were released originally, possibly because they hadn't started playing yet. That being said, the friend points and the Fou cards are horrendously overpriced, meaning it's unlikely that anyone will actually want to buy them.
* AdaptationDistillation: While the crossover event with ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' includes elements from all the chapters/movies, most of the material, including the event map and BGM, is based off of the 5th movie, ''Paradox Spiral''.

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** Eventually, another currency known as rare prisms were added to the game. They're hard to obtain because they can only be acquired by burning the SR and SSR Servants from the gacha. An SR is one and an SSR is five. Fair enough, but everything worth buying costs at least three and for the really need stuff you need five. Fortunately, apart from the Crystallized Lore, some friend points and the new Fou cards, the shop is only for items that the player failed to get when they were released originally, possibly because they hadn't started playing yet. That being said, the friend points and the Fou cards are horrendously overpriced, meaning it's unlikely that anyone will actually want to buy them.
* AdaptationDistillation: While the crossover event with ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' includes elements from all the chapters/movies, most of the material, including the event map and BGM, is based off of the 5th movie, ''Paradox Spiral''.


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** "Da Vinci and the 7 Counterfeit Heroic Spirits" event revolves around how expensive the Mona Lisa CE was to the point where someone created a counterfeit just so people could actually have one. But later on [[spoiler: it's revealed that it was a cover-up for Jeanne Alter's real plan which was to summon fake Servants to accompany her. EMIYA, being a former eroge game protagonist points that she's been gathering a harem and wonders if she's actually trying to become an otome game protagonist. She of course denies it.]]

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** "Da Vinci and the 7 Counterfeit Heroic Spirits" event revolves around how expensive the Mona Lisa CE was to the point where someone created a counterfeit just so people could actually have one. But later on [[spoiler: it's revealed that it was a cover-up for Jeanne Alter's real plan which was to summon fake Servants to accompany her. EMIYA, being a former eroge game protagonist points that she's been gathering a harem and wonders if she's actually trying to become an otome game protagonist. She of course denies it.]]


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** Head writer Kinoko Nasu occasionally posts a blog entry on the main story, clarifying background details and explaining some events that were implied but not explicitly shown in the game.

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** Head writer Kinoko Nasu occasionally posts a blog entry on the main story, clarifying background details and explaining some events that were implied but not explicitly shown in the game.


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** The female version of Miyamoto Musashi comes from her own timeline which was implied to be pruned at some point. In addition, the sub-singularity she appears in is its own seperate timeline which is plot-critical as the villains are taking direct advantage of that to interfere with history.

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** The female version of Miyamoto Musashi comes from her own timeline which was implied to be pruned at some point. In addition, the sub-singularity she appears in is its own seperate timeline which is plot-critical as the villains are taking direct advantage of that to interfere with history.


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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The Lahmus that appear in the later half of Babylonia are [[HumanResources processed from human beings]]. Several are shown to be non-violent or briefly turn against their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy programming that orders them to kill everything]], with the human still being conscious and trapped in their own bodies that seek only slaughter.]]

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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The Lahmus that appear in the later half of Babylonia are [[HumanResources processed from human beings]]. Several are shown to be non-violent or briefly turn against their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy programming that orders them to kill everything]], with the human still being conscious and trapped in their own bodies that seek only slaughter.]]


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** Rashoumon, the first raid battle event (where the damage all players did collectively stacked up to reduce a global meter) had high difficulty spikes in its missions, and while you could still complete the first two, the third and final one was very hard to complete if you did not have specific setups. On top of that, if you died, you lost your damage progress completely. Come the "Celestial Demon Tales Onigashima" event, we had double the amount of mission choices (with smoothed out difficulties) and in the event that your team is wiped out, your damage progress is still recorded. The Rashoumon rerun in 2017 retains the Onigashima point system.

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** Rashoumon, the first raid battle event (where the damage all players did collectively stacked up to reduce a global meter) had high difficulty spikes in its missions, and while you could still complete the first two, the third and final one was very hard to complete if you did not have specific setups. On top of that, if you died, you lost your damage progress completely. Come the "Celestial Demon Tales Onigashima" event, we had double the amount of mission choices (with smoothed out difficulties) and in the event that your team is wiped out, your damage progress is still recorded. The Rashoumon rerun in 2017 retains the Onigashima point system.


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** The Knights of the Round Table. All of them have the potential to be summoned as Servants in this game and they're some of the most deadliest opponents seen so far.

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** The Knights of the Round Table. All of them have the potential to be summoned as Servants in this game and they're some of the most deadliest opponents seen so far.


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** The ''[[VideoGame/FateExtra Fate/EXTRA CCC]]'' crossover was seemingly billed as yet another funny gag event, with goofy title card and all. However, once you actually start the event, it's revealed that this is a gaiden chapter for the ''Epic of Remnant'' storyline, and the goofy title card is switched out for the real one. [[spoiler: You even get to fight a Beast!]]

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** The ''[[VideoGame/FateExtra Fate/EXTRA CCC]]'' crossover was seemingly billed as yet another funny gag event, with goofy title card and all. However, once you actually start the event, it's revealed that this is a gaiden chapter for the ''Epic of Remnant'' storyline, and the goofy title card is switched out for the real one. [[spoiler: You even get to fight a Beast!]]


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** Way back in Orleans, Mozart claims that there is nothing more beautiful than a parting smile. Mash gives the protagonist one in Salomon, [[spoiler:while she's holding back the full brunt of Ars Almadel Solomonis to protect her senpai, knowing that she's not going to survive it]]. It's indeed a beautiful smile.

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** Way back in Orleans, Mozart claims that there is nothing more beautiful than a parting smile. Mash gives the protagonist one in Salomon, [[spoiler:while she's holding back the full brunt of Ars Almadel Solomonis to protect her senpai, knowing that she's not going to survive it]]. It's indeed a beautiful smile.


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* CastHerd: You're unlikely to see, say, Iskandar interact with Scheherazade or Francis Drake with Oda Nobunaga. Instead, they tend to be given their own little subgroups like the Knights of the Round[[note]]Altria, Mordred, Gawain, Lancelot, Tristan, Bedivere, Agravain, Merlin, and Arthur[[/note]] or the GUDAGUDA Servants[[note]]Okita and Nobunaga, who are later joined by Chacha and Hijikata[[/note]], though some characters can belong to multiple herds. The red mantled Archer, for example, is EMIYA around the cast from ''Fate/Stay Night'' but Nameless around Tamamo or Nero while Gawain can also show up with the ''Extra'' cast. Singularities can shake things up, however, and allow things like David showing up in Okeanos and flirting with Atalante. There are generally the exception, however, rather than the rule.

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* CastHerd: You're unlikely to see, say, Iskandar interact with Scheherazade or Francis Drake with Oda Nobunaga. Instead, they tend to be given their own little subgroups like the Knights of the Round[[note]]Altria, Mordred, Gawain, Lancelot, Tristan, Bedivere, Agravain, Merlin, and Arthur[[/note]] or the GUDAGUDA Servants[[note]]Okita and Nobunaga, who are later joined by Chacha and Hijikata[[/note]], though some characters can belong to multiple herds. The red mantled Archer, for example, is EMIYA around the cast from ''Fate/Stay Night'' but Nameless around Tamamo or Nero while Gawain can also show up with the ''Extra'' cast. Singularities can shake things up, however, and allow things like David showing up in Okeanos and flirting with Atalante. There are generally the exception, however, rather than the rule.


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** The story progressively becomes darker with each singularity, as more and more innocent people become caught up in the multiple conflicts with Celts slaughtering anyone who gets in their way, to Lion King being a heartless tyrant, killing anyone not deemed worthy of her city to [[spoiler:almost everyone in Uruk either being forcibly converted into one of Tiamat's Lahmus or killed by them.]]

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** The story progressively becomes darker with each singularity, as more and more innocent people become caught up in the multiple conflicts with Celts slaughtering anyone who gets in their way, to Lion King being a heartless tyrant, killing anyone not deemed worthy of her city to [[spoiler:almost everyone in Uruk either being forcibly converted into one of Tiamat's Lahmus or killed by them.]]


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** Abigail Williams carries some prejudice towards Native Americans both because of the aforementioned conflict and also because her parents were killed in a raid. Though event and My Room dialogue indicates she's slowly getting over it by interacting with Geronimo.

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** Abigail Williams carries some prejudice towards Native Americans both because of the aforementioned conflict and also because her parents were killed in a raid. Though event and My Room dialogue indicates she's slowly getting over it by interacting with Geronimo.


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* EldritchAbomination: The game is full of these. Beside the Demon Pillars and [[spoiler:the Beasts]], in Salem we have the trope namers themselves [[spoiler:as it is a Lovecraftian horror story, with one possessing Abigail Williams after Raum summons it. An Eldritch Abomination summoning a bigger Eldritch Abomination. Yikes!]]

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* EldritchAbomination: The game is full of these. Beside the Demon Pillars and [[spoiler:the Beasts]], in Salem we have the trope namers themselves [[spoiler:as it is a Lovecraftian horror story, with one possessing Abigail Williams after Raum summons it. An Eldritch Abomination summoning a bigger Eldritch Abomination. Yikes!]]


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** Singularity F was transformed into one after being ravaged by its Holy Grail for so long. Even after removing the root cause, the inferno still rages on and it's still a Singularity on later returns with monsters roaming about. Altria comments in her interlude that the Fuyuki Grail's curse has tainted the entire land and Lancer Vlad believes there to be something sustaining the fires that needs to be destroyed.

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** Singularity F was transformed into one after being ravaged by its Holy Grail for so long. Even after removing the root cause, the inferno still rages on and it's still a Singularity on later returns with monsters roaming about. Altria comments in her interlude that the Fuyuki Grail's curse has tainted the entire land and Lancer Vlad believes there to be something sustaining the fires that needs to be destroyed.


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** Servants in general are resistant to any extreme natural weather regardless of how clothed he or she is due to their nature as familiars. Subverted by Summer Servants who changed to swimsuits to adapt to the summer heat, and Altera the Sun(ta) who lost her Saber self's Natural Body skill making her less tolerant to cold and caught a fever, which makes her somewhat loopy as she tries to adjust to it.

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** Servants in general are resistant to any extreme natural weather regardless of how clothed he or she is due to their nature as familiars. Subverted by Summer Servants who changed to swimsuits to adapt to the summer heat, and Altera the Sun(ta) who lost her Saber self's Natural Body skill making her less tolerant to cold and caught a fever, which makes her somewhat loopy as she tries to adjust to it.


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** It works backwards from the normal interpretation such that the gameplay limitations affect the story. The FGO Material books note in passing that your Servants like Karna and Heracles[[note]]Though not enemy versions[[/note]] do not have access to their other Noble Phantasms, mostly because it'd be hard to program and would be overpowered. However, in Heracles' Interlude it's shown that the protagonist can't even power his Mad Enhancement properly, let alone God Hand. Then in Agartha, Astolfo can't use his other Noble Phantasms and d'Eon's isn't as strong as it should be. [[spoiler:When the latter two get outside sources of energy, they're able to fight significantly more effectively against Penthesilea's amazon warriors.]]

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** It works backwards from the normal interpretation such that the gameplay limitations affect the story. The FGO Material books note in passing that your Servants like Karna and Heracles[[note]]Though not enemy versions[[/note]] do not have access to their other Noble Phantasms, mostly because it'd be hard to program and would be overpowered. However, in Heracles' Interlude it's shown that the protagonist can't even power his Mad Enhancement properly, let alone God Hand. Then in Agartha, Astolfo can't use his other Noble Phantasms and d'Eon's isn't as strong as it should be. [[spoiler:When the latter two get outside sources of energy, they're able to fight significantly more effectively against Penthesilea's amazon warriors.]]


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*** Siegfried has Das Rheingold to supply him mana, which translates into giving him a full NP gauge at the start of battle and the Armor of Fafnir to give himself 200% defense.

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*** Siegfried has Das Rheingold to supply him mana, which translates into giving him a full NP gauge at the start of battle and the Armor of Fafnir to give himself 200% defense.


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** The relationship between how skills and Noble Phantasms work in gameplay as opposed to the story varies. Mash's Noble Phantasm for example, offers two forms of damage reduction rather than the invincibility that it should, while Okita's tuberculosis actually makes her more likely to land critical hits!

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** The relationship between how skills and Noble Phantasms work in gameplay as opposed to the story varies. Mash's Noble Phantasm for example, offers two forms of damage reduction rather than the invincibility that it should, while Okita's tuberculosis actually makes her more likely to land critical hits!


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** Saber Gilles de Rais's profile states that he's more famous and thus more often summoned as his evil Caster version. Caster Gilles is locked to the Story Summons gacha after completing the Orleans storyline, and rare even then because there are so many other 3-star Casters; Saber Gilles can be summoned on any gacha at any time, is one of very few 3-star Sabers, and is a meme for being such a common Servant.

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** Saber Gilles de Rais's profile states that he's more famous and thus more often summoned as his evil Caster version. Caster Gilles is locked to the Story Summons gacha after completing the Orleans storyline, and rare even then because there are so many other 3-star Casters; Saber Gilles can be summoned on any gacha at any time, is one of very few 3-star Sabers, and is a meme for being such a common Servant.


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* HeadbuttingHeroes: Two of your three main allies in Shinjuku are Altria and Jeanne Alter, who flat out hate each other. At multiple points they nearly try to kill each other.

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* HeadbuttingHeroes: Two of your three main allies in Shinjuku are Altria and Jeanne Alter, who flat out hate each other. At multiple points they nearly try to kill each other.


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* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: In Salem, the protagonist, Mash, and the Servants have to perform a stage play everyday as they are disguised as an acting troupe, each piece written by Shakespeare and Andersen.

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* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: In Salem, the protagonist, Mash, and the Servants have to perform a stage play everyday as they are disguised as an acting troupe, each piece written by Shakespeare and Andersen.


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** This is acknowledged in-universe for many real-life victims of this trope, through the "Innocent Monster" skill. Innocent Monster is given to Servants whose public perception is warped by rumors spread long after their death, warping the Servant's nature to obey these rumors even if they never actually did anything to deserve them. For example: Antonio Salieri was Mozart's friendly rival and collaborator in life, but because historical fiction likes to blame him for Mozart's sudden death, Salieri has received the highest rank in Innocent Monster and his Servant form has become an Avenger who resents Mozart with his entire being.

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** This is acknowledged in-universe for many real-life victims of this trope, through the "Innocent Monster" skill. Innocent Monster is given to Servants whose public perception is warped by rumors spread long after their death, warping the Servant's nature to obey these rumors even if they never actually did anything to deserve them. For example: Antonio Salieri was Mozart's friendly rival and collaborator in life, but because historical fiction likes to blame him for Mozart's sudden death, Salieri has received the highest rank in Innocent Monster and his Servant form has become an Avenger who resents Mozart with his entire being.


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** Arjuna is altered somewhat to be not quite a villain, but is definitely less heroic than his rival Karna. He's arrogant, can be quite under-handed, and is jealous of Karna's natural virtue, while he struggles to suppress negative emotions.

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** Arjuna is altered somewhat to be not quite a villain, but is definitely less heroic than his rival Karna. He's arrogant, can be quite under-handed, and is jealous of Karna's natural virtue, while he struggles to suppress negative emotions.


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*** His first interlude suddenly dropping out of nowhere a kind of classification of Heroic Spirits that had never been heard before in the ''Fate'' extended universe; that Heroic Spirits are separated on how their legends are formed. He would describe the last unknown attribute, a direct opposite of "Star", but got cut off. He has two other lectures during his interlude, one about how the Archer class works and and the last one on how a Servant-Master relationship works.

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*** His first interlude suddenly dropping out of nowhere a kind of classification of Heroic Spirits that had never been heard before in the ''Fate'' extended universe; that Heroic Spirits are separated on how their legends are formed. He would describe the last unknown attribute, a direct opposite of "Star", but got cut off. He has two other lectures during his interlude, one about how the Archer class works and and the last one on how a Servant-Master relationship works.


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** You know the last section in a given Singularity is the last one if the usual Saint Quartz reward is replaced by an item chest (which contains a Holy Grail).

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** You know the last section in a given Singularity is the last one if the usual Saint Quartz reward is replaced by an item chest (which contains a Holy Grail).


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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In the mainstream ''Fate'' franchise, most Noble Phantasms of Servants are treated as such, since they expend so much mana. In this game, however, it is [[AvertedTrope averted]] by virtue of the fact that the NP gauges of all servants can be filled/refilled as necessary, making Noble Phantasms spammable attacks as long as you have the skills and resources to do so. The only Servant this applies to is Arash, and this is because [[DeathOrGloryAttack his Noble Phantasm causes death after execution--even if it is high-damaging]]. Jeanne d'Arc officially has a Noble Phantasm that does this as well, La Pucelle, but she doesn't use it in this game at all, which is probably for the best.

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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: In the mainstream ''Fate'' franchise, most Noble Phantasms of Servants are treated as such, since they expend so much mana. In this game, however, it is [[AvertedTrope averted]] by virtue of the fact that the NP gauges of all servants can be filled/refilled as necessary, making Noble Phantasms spammable attacks as long as you have the skills and resources to do so. The only Servant this applies to is Arash, and this is because [[DeathOrGloryAttack his Noble Phantasm causes death after execution--even if it is high-damaging]]. Jeanne d'Arc officially has a Noble Phantasm that does this as well, La Pucelle, but she doesn't use it in this game at all, which is probably for the best.


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** In Chapter 4, [[spoiler:Makiri Zolgen/Matou Zouken is ordered by Solomon to host Demon God Barbatos. He get better afterwards, though]].

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** In Chapter 4, [[spoiler:Makiri Zolgen/Matou Zouken is ordered by Solomon to host Demon God Barbatos. He get better afterwards, though]].


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* LastChanceHitPoint: Guts status will at the very least make the Servant with it survive otherwise a fatal blow with one HP. However, some skills can inflict Guts that will also heal the Servant by small amount.

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* LastChanceHitPoint: Guts status will at the very least make the Servant with it survive otherwise a fatal blow with one HP. However, some skills can inflict Guts that will also heal the Servant by small amount.


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** Merely showing what the classes are for BB, Meltlilith, and Passionlip are major spoilers for ''Fate/Extra CCC''. Kiara Sesshouin's inclusion spoils [[spoiler:not only her desire to become an Alter Ego at the end of SE.RA.PH, it also spoils what her Noble Phantasm is, several twists in ''CCC'', and her passive skills reveal her candidacy as one of the Beasts.]]

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** Merely showing what the classes are for BB, Meltlilith, and Passionlip are major spoilers for ''Fate/Extra CCC''. Kiara Sesshouin's inclusion spoils [[spoiler:not only her desire to become an Alter Ego at the end of SE.RA.PH, it also spoils what her Noble Phantasm is, several twists in ''CCC'', and her passive skills reveal her candidacy as one of the Beasts.]]


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* MadeOfMagic: A majority of the entities in the story. Servants of course, qualify as this. There are also beings created by mages, as well as Phantasmal Beasts, naturally occurring pure magic beings such as Dragons, Wyverns, elementals, and Chimera. Technically they should be super rare in the modern era but the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt combined with TimeTravel, Chaldea's PostModernMagic, and the Holy Grail has resulted in quite a few changes to the rules.

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* MadeOfMagic: A majority of the entities in the story. Servants of course, qualify as this. There are also beings created by mages, as well as Phantasmal Beasts, naturally occurring pure magic beings such as Dragons, Wyverns, elementals, and Chimera. Technically they should be super rare in the modern era but the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt combined with TimeTravel, Chaldea's PostModernMagic, and the Holy Grail has resulted in quite a few changes to the rules.


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** Third, in the One Year Anniversary, the game finally allowed the players to make use of the grails it hands out in every story chapter and some events. By using them, you can raise a Servant's level cap. To go from a cap of 60 or 65 to 70 you need one Grail, then one grail for every five levels up to 90 and then one for every two levels past that up to 100. This allows some low rarity Servants to have drastically improved effectiveness, though at an equal level their stats will still be inferior to Servants that can reach that level naturally. However, their skills can make up for it, along with requiring less money and materials to upgrade their skills, and low party cost make them very effective indeed.

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** Third, in the One Year Anniversary, the game finally allowed the players to make use of the grails it hands out in every story chapter and some events. By using them, you can raise a Servant's level cap. To go from a cap of 60 or 65 to 70 you need one Grail, then one grail for every five levels up to 90 and then one for every two levels past that up to 100. This allows some low rarity Servants to have drastically improved effectiveness, though at an equal level their stats will still be inferior to Servants that can reach that level naturally. However, their skills can make up for it, along with requiring less money and materials to upgrade their skills, and low party cost make them very effective indeed.


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* MeleeATrois: During chapter eleven of Agartha, [[spoiler:the party has been fighting Megaros on top of a ship for several fights in a row when suddenly recurring boss Penthesilea shows up. The party panics for a moment, but upon seeing what appears to be Heracles she goes berserk and begins a three way fight. The ensuing fight occurs in three rounds first against generic amazons, then against Megaros and finally Penthesilea. During the first and third round, Megaros is attacking the amazons and you indiscriminately while during the second Penthesilea will attack Megaros just as often as she hits you, though given the health total difference between you and a boss it's more harmful then helpful. Still cool to see, though.]]

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* MeleeATrois: During chapter eleven of Agartha, [[spoiler:the party has been fighting Megaros on top of a ship for several fights in a row when suddenly recurring boss Penthesilea shows up. The party panics for a moment, but upon seeing what appears to be Heracles she goes berserk and begins a three way fight. The ensuing fight occurs in three rounds first against generic amazons, then against Megaros and finally Penthesilea. During the first and third round, Megaros is attacking the amazons and you indiscriminately while during the second Penthesilea will attack Megaros just as often as she hits you, though given the health total difference between you and a boss it's more harmful then helpful. Still cool to see, though.]]


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** The second story of Fate/Accel Zero Order written by Nasu is humorous like other events and a lot lighter compared to the one written by Urobuchi. Apparently defeating [[spoiler:Dark Irisviel]] at the Greater Grail Cave scattered her essence and you must collect them to make your Servant Iri whole. The first enemy you fight is [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu]] and he proceeds to grope Mash and {{Lampshades}} Iri's revealing dress. Each of the Iri clones all have their own unique personality and lines, all of them comedic.
** Chaldea Summer part 2 is very different from the tropical, relaxed tone of part 1 since your island is completely destroyed and turned into an utterly bleak wasteland and you have to rebuild the boars' civilization.

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** The second story of Fate/Accel Zero Order written by Nasu is humorous like other events and a lot lighter compared to the one written by Urobuchi. Apparently defeating [[spoiler:Dark Irisviel]] at the Greater Grail Cave scattered her essence and you must collect them to make your Servant Iri whole. The first enemy you fight is [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu]] and he proceeds to grope Mash and {{Lampshades}} Iri's revealing dress. Each of the Iri clones all have their own unique personality and lines, all of them comedic.
** Chaldea Summer part 2 is very different from the tropical, relaxed tone of part 1 since your island is completely destroyed and turned into an utterly bleak wasteland and you have to rebuild the boars' civilization.


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* PhysicalGod: In true ''{{Franchise/Nasuverse}}'' tradition, pureblood gods shouldn't be Servants. In true ''{{Franchise/Nasuverse}}'' tradition, they cheat a lot. Usually these end up as a GodInHumanForm[[note]]Formally known as a ''bunrei'', which is like an avatar or splinter of the full god[[/note]] and are significantly nerfed. However!

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* PhysicalGod: In true ''{{Franchise/Nasuverse}}'' tradition, pureblood gods shouldn't be Servants. In true ''{{Franchise/Nasuverse}}'' tradition, they cheat a lot. Usually these end up as a GodInHumanForm[[note]]Formally known as a ''bunrei'', which is like an avatar or splinter of the full god[[/note]] and are significantly nerfed. However!


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** In the next chapter, Babylonia, we see the even stronger goddess Quetzalcoatl, who basically toys with the city of Uruk and the party because she doesn't really want to kill anyone. She's convinced to change sides through the protagonist's stupidly dramatic lucha libre attack from the sky, but is prevented from killing the drama in the story by refusing to break her pact by attacking the other members of the Goddess Alliance directly. The playable version of her doesn't have access to her full power, but is still probably the strongest Rider we've seen.

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** In the next chapter, Babylonia, we see the even stronger goddess Quetzalcoatl, who basically toys with the city of Uruk and the party because she doesn't really want to kill anyone. She's convinced to change sides through the protagonist's stupidly dramatic lucha libre attack from the sky, but is prevented from killing the drama in the story by refusing to break her pact by attacking the other members of the Goddess Alliance directly. The playable version of her doesn't have access to her full power, but is still probably the strongest Rider we've seen.


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* PlanetOfHats: To a small extent: nine of the eleven individual Servants who came from Irish legends all prefer carrying pole-arms[[note]]Five of them are explicitly Lancers: the 2 versions of Cu Chulainn (one being the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Lancer and his ''Anime/FatePrototype'' iteration), Scathach, Diarmuid and Fionn. The only outliers are the Saber Servant Fergus, Diarmuid's upcoming Saber iteration, Cu Chulainn's Caster and Berserker versions, Rider Medb, and Scathach's Assassin version (from the Swimsuit event). Berserker!Cu carries a more menacing Gae Bolg, while Caster!Cu's staff can be considered a pole-arm too. Scathach as an Assassin is spamming even more Gae Bolgs. Finally, Fergus's weapon is less a sword and more of a jousting lance. It's really only Medb's riding crop (and Saber!Diarmuid) serving as outliers.[[/note]].

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* PlanetOfHats: To a small extent: nine of the eleven individual Servants who came from Irish legends all prefer carrying pole-arms[[note]]Five of them are explicitly Lancers: the 2 versions of Cu Chulainn (one being the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Lancer and his ''Anime/FatePrototype'' iteration), Scathach, Diarmuid and Fionn. The only outliers are the Saber Servant Fergus, Diarmuid's upcoming Saber iteration, Cu Chulainn's Caster and Berserker versions, Rider Medb, and Scathach's Assassin version (from the Swimsuit event). Berserker!Cu carries a more menacing Gae Bolg, while Caster!Cu's staff can be considered a pole-arm too. Scathach as an Assassin is spamming even more Gae Bolgs. Finally, Fergus's weapon is less a sword and more of a jousting lance. It's really only Medb's riding crop (and Saber!Diarmuid) serving as outliers.[[/note]].


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** You get seven log in bonuses for seven days of consecutive logging in before the cycle resets and every fiftieth day of consecutive logging in, you get 20 Quartz for free.

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** You get seven log in bonuses for seven days of consecutive logging in before the cycle resets and every fiftieth day of consecutive logging in, you get 20 Quartz for free.


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** During the Halloween 2015 event, there were initially time limited quests for four hours of each day of the event. This was scrapped due to the servers overloading from all the players trying to log in at the same time and was replaced by stacking one time quests.
** Some events had daily free quests that were unlocked day by day of the event, all for farming event currencies.
** The Rashoumon event has her two GiantHandsOfDoom cycling through each of the main seven Servant Classes for each segment of her health bar (which was required to be depleted by the end of each day of the event), starting with Archer and ending with Berserker. There are also daily missions to be done before the day ends, requiring players to fulfill a certain number of battles or damage done to Ibaraki.

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** During the Halloween 2015 event, there were initially time limited quests for four hours of each day of the event. This was scrapped due to the servers overloading from all the players trying to log in at the same time and was replaced by stacking one time quests.
** Some events had daily free quests that were unlocked day by day of the event, all for farming event currencies.
** The Rashoumon event has her two GiantHandsOfDoom cycling through each of the main seven Servant Classes for each segment of her health bar (which was required to be depleted by the end of each day of the event), starting with Archer and ending with Berserker. There are also daily missions to be done before the day ends, requiring players to fulfill a certain number of battles or damage done to Ibaraki.


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* PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: A heavily wounded King Goetia confronts the Protagonist as they're escaping [[LoadBearingBoss the collapsing temple]] in a last ditch attempt at TakingYouWithMe. The fight, while not exactly easy, is still ''much'' easier than the preceding fight.]]

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* PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: A heavily wounded King Goetia confronts the Protagonist as they're escaping [[LoadBearingBoss the collapsing temple]] in a last ditch attempt at TakingYouWithMe. The fight, while not exactly easy, is still ''much'' easier than the preceding fight.]]


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* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Appropriately for Londinium, the storyline is filled with GentlemanAndAScholar Servants who most of the time throwing passive aggressive rhetoric before getting down on fights with so much class. Mordred, whose solution to a murder mystery is to punch the suspects until they squeal and if they're innocent, punch someone else until they cough up, is figuratively and literally out of place.

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* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Appropriately for Londinium, the storyline is filled with GentlemanAndAScholar Servants who most of the time throwing passive aggressive rhetoric before getting down on fights with so much class. Mordred, whose solution to a murder mystery is to punch the suspects until they squeal and if they're innocent, punch someone else until they cough up, is figuratively and literally out of place.


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** The Holy Grails you've been collecting from beating each singularity and certain events can level even a 1* Servant past their usual limit up to level 100, if you have enough. The game calls this "[[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palingenesis Palingenesis]]." It really is rare, however as of the game's two year lifespan in Japan, only slightly more than 20 have been available through events and story quests. Since it takes 10 to max out a one-star, who a player uses a Grail on is a limited and permanent decision.

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** The Holy Grails you've been collecting from beating each singularity and certain events can level even a 1* Servant past their usual limit up to level 100, if you have enough. The game calls this "[[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palingenesis Palingenesis]]." It really is rare, however as of the game's two year lifespan in Japan, only slightly more than 20 have been available through events and story quests. Since it takes 10 to max out a one-star, who a player uses a Grail on is a limited and permanent decision.


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*** The quartz gacha has pull rates of 40% 3*/R Servants, 3% 4*/SR and 1% 5*/SSR while for Craft Essences it's 40% R, 12% SR and 4% SSR. A tenroll guarantees at least one SR card, but in practice this will almost always be an SR CE if the game is forced to make a gold card appear, which generally aren't considered particularly desirable. The odds of getting a rated up Servant or Craft Essence aren't officially advertised, but are believed to be around 70%.
*** The friend point gacha, while generally of little interest to most players due to how little of value is in it, actually has the rarest drop of all. Angra Mainyu, the game's only 0* Servant, is a very rare FP summon only Servant who was added with the Fate/Zero collaboration event. The official rates of pulling him are unstated, but are believed to be ''far'' lower than the odds of pulling even an SSR. However, he's a JunkRare that is only as strong as a 2*/C Servant. As a nod to his rarity, in Christmas 2017 he had a special line of dialogue to acknowledge players who had actually managed to get him.

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*** The quartz gacha has pull rates of 40% 3*/R Servants, 3% 4*/SR and 1% 5*/SSR while for Craft Essences it's 40% R, 12% SR and 4% SSR. A tenroll guarantees at least one SR card, but in practice this will almost always be an SR CE if the game is forced to make a gold card appear, which generally aren't considered particularly desirable. The odds of getting a rated up Servant or Craft Essence aren't officially advertised, but are believed to be around 70%.
*** The friend point gacha, while generally of little interest to most players due to how little of value is in it, actually has the rarest drop of all. Angra Mainyu, the game's only 0* Servant, is a very rare FP summon only Servant who was added with the Fate/Zero collaboration event. The official rates of pulling him are unstated, but are believed to be ''far'' lower than the odds of pulling even an SSR. However, he's a JunkRare that is only as strong as a 2*/C Servant. As a nod to his rarity, in Christmas 2017 he had a special line of dialogue to acknowledge players who had actually managed to get him.


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** The damage the Camelot singularity does to the timeline is unrelated to Solomon, so Chaldea has no idea what to expect and the fact that it's becoming incredibly erratic, like the times when it literally disappeared from the map and separated from the timeline of humanity, has caused them to rank it EX in value to restoring humanity. The impossibility of the Lion King's presence is the direct cause.

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** The damage the Camelot singularity does to the timeline is unrelated to Solomon, so Chaldea has no idea what to expect and the fact that it's becoming incredibly erratic, like the times when it literally disappeared from the map and separated from the timeline of humanity, has caused them to rank it EX in value to restoring humanity. The impossibility of the Lion King's presence is the direct cause.


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** The main plot hook of the story is that CHALDEAS gives humanity a year until the extinction event, so every adaptation dates the apocalypse depending on when it was originally made: for example, the original Japanese release of the game was in 2015, so CHALDEAS predicts humanity will be gone in 2016. The anime OVA has the end-date as 2017, and in the US version it's 2018.

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** The main plot hook of the story is that CHALDEAS gives humanity a year until the extinction event, so every adaptation dates the apocalypse depending on when it was originally made: for example, the original Japanese release of the game was in 2015, so CHALDEAS predicts humanity will be gone in 2016. The anime OVA has the end-date as 2017, and in the US version it's 2018.


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** Riyo's "How to Play" comics are full of lampshades on all the problems in the game, including the horrendous gatcha rates, the ascension material farming hell, the servers being unable to handle all the players, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the lack of a skip function for NP.]] Olga Marie and Mash are surprised that the author's allowed to get away with all this criticism.

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** Riyo's "How to Play" comics are full of lampshades on all the problems in the game, including the horrendous gatcha rates, the ascension material farming hell, the servers being unable to handle all the players, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the lack of a skip function for NP.]] Olga Marie and Mash are surprised that the author's allowed to get away with all this criticism.


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* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler: What Salem is more or less. To elaborate, Salem was created to cause as much 'pain' as possible by Raum so that Abigail, who has the ability to channel an [[{{EldritchAbomination}} Elder God]], by using her guilt on the injustices that she caused and the fact that she doesn't remember ''what'' injustice she caused. Making her to be incapable of forgiving herself and humanity. In doing so literally creating a Christian HellOnEarth with Raum and Abigail as joint administrator]]

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* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler: What Salem is more or less. To elaborate, Salem was created to cause as much 'pain' as possible by Raum so that Abigail, who has the ability to channel an [[{{EldritchAbomination}} Elder God]], by using her guilt on the injustices that she caused and the fact that she doesn't remember ''what'' injustice she caused. Making her to be incapable of forgiving herself and humanity. In doing so literally creating a Christian HellOnEarth with Raum and Abigail as joint administrator]]


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** Riders, Assassins and Casters form another triangle. Riders are strong against Casters, Caster are strong against Assassins, and Assassins are strong against Riders.

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** Riders, Assassins and Casters form another triangle. Riders are strong against Casters, Caster are strong against Assassins, and Assassins are strong against Riders.


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** Ruler resists all classes except Berserker and Shielder, but deals normal damage to everyone except Berserker, who receives the same increased damage it receives from all classes except Shielder.

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** Ruler resists all classes except Berserker and Shielder, but deals normal damage to everyone except Berserker, who receives the same increased damage it receives from all classes except Shielder.


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** Beyond the Servant classes, there is a well-hidden second set of stats that sort Servants by what grade of Servant they are, with the designations Earth, Man, Sky, Star and Beast. They're mentioned in EMIYA's interlude and near the end of Chapter 4 by Tesla and Da Vinci, and the damage is at most modified by 10%, so it's not something you'd notice in normal gameplay.

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** Beyond the Servant classes, there is a well-hidden second set of stats that sort Servants by what grade of Servant they are, with the designations Earth, Man, Sky, Star and Beast. They're mentioned in EMIYA's interlude and near the end of Chapter 4 by Tesla and Da Vinci, and the damage is at most modified by 10%, so it's not something you'd notice in normal gameplay.


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** Certain Servants who has KryptoniteFactor against certain enemies due to their traits [[{{Irony}} carries those traits themselves]] like Karna, Siegfried, Jack the Ripper and MHX, making them weak against their own Noble Phantasms.

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** Certain Servants who has KryptoniteFactor against certain enemies due to their traits [[{{Irony}} carries those traits themselves]] like Karna, Siegfried, Jack the Ripper and MHX, making them weak against their own Noble Phantasms.


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* TemporaryOnlineContent: True to mobage tradition, certain Servants, Craft Essences, and Mystic Codes are only available for a limited time, as either missable event content or locked behind a limited-time gacha. However the developers eventually put event content like the latter two in the Rare Prism shop. The former returning to the game remains dependent on when they decide to do another limited rate-up gacha or rerun the event.

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* TemporaryOnlineContent: True to mobage tradition, certain Servants, Craft Essences, and Mystic Codes are only available for a limited time, as either missable event content or locked behind a limited-time gacha. However the developers eventually put event content like the latter two in the Rare Prism shop. The former returning to the game remains dependent on when they decide to do another limited rate-up gacha or rerun the event.


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** Nero has a choir version of her theme from VideoGame/FateExtra, "Everything is in Your Hands" (the version that plays in ''CCC'' to be specific) when she uses Laus Saint Claudius, and her Bride counterpart uses a different arrange. Her Swimsuit version uses a new arrangement of the same song for her Noble Phantasm.

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** Nero has a choir version of her theme from VideoGame/FateExtra, "Everything is in Your Hands" (the version that plays in ''CCC'' to be specific) when she uses Laus Saint Claudius, and her Bride counterpart uses a different arrange. Her Swimsuit version uses a new arrangement of the same song for her Noble Phantasm.


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* TimeTravel: The plot involves traveling to singularities/Lostbelts, which are a kind of corrupted version of history that have been partially severed from the normal flow of time and need to be repaired. Real time travel to whenever you please is not actually possible without using something like Kaleidoscope.

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* TimeTravel: The plot involves traveling to singularities/Lostbelts, which are a kind of corrupted version of history that have been partially severed from the normal flow of time and need to be repaired. Real time travel to whenever you please is not actually possible without using something like Kaleidoscope.


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** In Babylonia, [[spoiler: Gorgon uses one to make herself divine and also borrow one of Tiamat's authorities, making her more powerful then she usually would be.]]
* UrbanFantasy: Shinjuku is a return to the Nasuverse's roots with Servants duking it out in a densely populated urban environment. Also the Servant antagonists have directly recruited {{Muggle}} gang members as their mooks, providing them with drugs that give them temporary Magic Circuits and have been given genetically engineered Chimeras as enforcement.

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** In Babylonia, [[spoiler: Gorgon uses one to make herself divine and also borrow one of Tiamat's authorities, making her more powerful then she usually would be.]]
* UrbanFantasy: Shinjuku is a return to the Nasuverse's roots with Servants duking it out in a densely populated urban environment. Also the Servant antagonists have directly recruited {{Muggle}} gang members as their mooks, providing them with drugs that give them temporary Magic Circuits and have been given genetically engineered Chimeras as enforcement.

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