Saber

Saber
A.K.A.	Arturia Pendragon
Age	???
Voice Actor	Ayako Kawasumi
Relatives	???
Series	Fate/Stay Night
Player

• Name: Saber
• Age: ???
• Sex: Female
• Likes: Food & Lions
• Dislikes: Treachery
• Master: Letty Carmichael
• Seiyuu/Voice Actor: Ayako Kawasumi
• Physical Stats:
  • Height: 5'1"
  • Weight: 93 lbs.
  • Eyes: Blonde
  • Hair: Green

APPEARANCE

Saber is a beautiful young woman with long blonde hair and green eyes. She wears a mid-age blue dress with silver armor to her arms, chest, and bottom of her dress.

PERSONALITY

Saber is a strong-willed young woman who always speaks resolutely. She is courageous, determined, and set on winning the Holy Grail. Throughout the story, Saber insists that she is a warrior first and that her gender is of little importance to her. She is an exceptionally powerful fighter and is often downright merciless towards her opponents. Interestingly enough, she appears to become very uncomfortable whenever she is treated as a girl, likely because of her background as a knight. Saber can also be quiet and shy in social situations and unwilling to show emotions, as she has suppressed them so strongly and views herself as a knight foremost. Even though she attempts to hide them, her insecurities become more and more apparent.

A comedic aspect about her is that she is shown as having a humongous appetite, finishing large servings of rice within one minute.

Saber is loyal, independent, and reserved; she appears cold, but is actually suppressing her emotions to focus on her goals.

SKILLS

• Alertness: Very Good (+3)
• Athletics: Very Good (+3)
• Riding: Incredible (+4)
• Two Handed Sword Combat: Amazing (+5)
• Stealth: Abyssmal (-1)
• Languages: English & Japanese

SPECIAL ABILITIES, POWERS

Saber's Magic Circuit

The Saber class is considered the "Most Outstanding", with excellent ratings in all categories. She has the capacity to qualify for the Caster class, but "magecraft is not the way of the King" and she lacks the patience to actually learn magecraft.

Saber was born with the prana of a dragon, shown by the “Pendragon” name, as Uther ordered Merlin to grant his successor the factor of the dragon . She is the holder of the Element of the Red Dragon who carries the blood and very magical power of a phantasm in a human body, granting her a heart and unique Magic Circuits that transcend what can be achieved by normal humans and magi. Saber's Circuits are called a Magical Core, which is a fundamentally different from those of a normal magus. While a magus' body can be considered a machine which creates magical energy, hers acts as a factory which creates magical energy. It functions as an enormous prana core with tremendous capacity that generates energy independent from her body, but it will not function without the proper energy to act as a "starting key."

When she is almost out of energy in Fate after using her Noble Phantasm, Excalibur, she has a great amount of undiluted magical energy within the core, but it is meaningless without enough energy to start it. It requires a "fire" to burn in order to activate it, and it doesn't matter how small it is, as it will resume activity once a path to send magical energy is connected.

Magic Resistance

The humongous magical power from Saber's dragon blood grants her a very strong Magic Resistance that is the highest amongst the Servants, especially due to it having increased in magnitudes upon becoming a Servant. It is capable of completely neutralizing any magic below A rank, including grand sorceries involving magic arrays and instant contracts not only from modern magi of the highest level but also those from the Age of Gods. She notes that divine mysteries greater than herself, such as True Magic and members of the Phantasmal Species with divinity, can overwhelm it. It is possible that it will not function to its fullest extent if she is targeted by “Dragon-slaying Sorceries.”

The extraordinary rank of her Magic Resistance is even able to resist an action forced onto her powered by one stroke of the Command Spell, sufficient enough to shake the very foundation of the Servant System, although only just barely. She is left in pain as compulsion and resistance clash intensely within her body from a single command, but she is able to use all of her strength to resist it. She cannot handle having two used at once, so the tremendous force of dual Command Seals will ravage and crush Saber’s form and resistance to make her follow the second command without being able to stop it.

She cannot be directly wounded by magecraft, so she will charge in without fear to quickly determine the outcome of the battle with a slash. This is especially true against those of the Caster class, putting her at an overwhelming advantage and giving them little chance of victory should they face her directly.

Prana Burst

Saber's entire fighting style and strength are based around her Prana Burst ability. It infuses and accumulates prana into her weapon and body, momentarily injecting an arbitrary vector that allows for an exceptional boost of her abilities by instantaneously releasing the prana to reinforce herself. It can be called a jet blast of prana to increase her movements in close combat, and executing large-scale body reinforcement through Prana Burst is only possible with her immense magical power. It would allow for even a stick to become a weapon of great power at her rank, but normal weapons without strong divine protection will not be able to endure the prana-fueled attack and will be destroyed with one blow. Her power increases with her available energy, so she can gain a six-fold boost in power and speed should she convert the energy for her armor into her Prana Burst.

She uses the prana for her sword techniques, guarding, and movement. Her body is naturally physically frail, and she is even weaker than a normal human should she not utilize the ability. It is the secret that has allowed her to brandish her large sword with the combat style of a power fighter, and she is able to reinforce the ability of her body to such a great extent using prana that she can fight head on with monsters such as Berserker even with the thin body of a small girl. Each of her powerful blows contains enough prana that they are visible, and if Lancer's strikes are like an accurate sniper rifle, her own can be compared to a powerful shotgun.

Simply striking the enemy's weapon causes the energy to penetrate it, and it fills the area with light.

Chivalry

Saber’s ability is maximally unleashed while engaging in an honorable face-to-face single combat. It is a method of battle that is full of chivalric honor, and it is also one that suits her sense of aesthetics. She does not dislike strategizing, but she tends to loath fabricated strategies that have no concrete basis due to her experience as a capable military commander. She will fine tune her strategy meticulously, and she will further adapt her actions in response to the ever-changing dynamics of combat while in battle. She naturally dislikes cowardly actions, no matter if it involves strategies or not.

Due to her nature, she feels inclined follow the etiquette of a knight to properly introduce herself to an opponent should they give their own name. Despite the potentially devastating effects it could have on future battles, she feels that she cannot disgrace the faith of a knight. She would never normally reveal her true name no matter what torture she were to receive, but that is only for the sake of victory that is not worth more than her pride.

Riding

Saber has a very high rank in Riding because knights are soldiers proficient in mounted warfare. Chariots and normal mounts can easily be ridden, but she is unable to control Pegasi, Griffons, Dragons, and other Magical Beast and Divine Beast ranked members of the Phantasmal Species. She can not handle such high level beings because her class isn't Rider, and due to the fact that she was a King in the Age of Man, she does not have the fortune of having “Legends of Riding Phantasmal Species.” She is able to control modern machinery like motorcycles and automobiles in a similar fashion to mounts. The Riding skill is applicable because they are treated as "modern mounts", but it is unclear if it is applicable to aircrafts.

The ability allows her to completely understand the control of all ridden equipment both known and unknown to her. Even having never driven a car, she is able to make quick decisions that allow her to easily control it on her first time driving. Even if she doesn't know the actual function of a button, she is able to understand the effect it will have once pressed. She is confident in the prospect of piloting a passenger plane or any other mount by sitting on a saddle, seizing a bridle, and managing the rest with instinct.

NOTABLE ITEMS

Excalibur, Sword of Promised Victory

Excalibur: Sword of Promised Victory is the strongest and most majestic holy sword that symbolizes King Arthur. It is her greatest and most powerful Noble Phantasm, which is a divine construction, the pinnacle of holy swords, forged by the planet as the crystallization of the wishes of mankind stored and tempered within the planet. It is the crystallization of the prayer named "glory" and everything etched in the hearts of those who are scattered at the sword's radiance; the nostalgic, sorrowful, and exalted dream of those who were placed on the bloody hell called a battlefield, of all warriors past, present, and future fully exposed to the fear of death and despair, and whom still cling to a desire: "to be exalted."

It is one of the ultimate god-forged weapons, a Last Phantasm, which was guarded by extensions of the planet, Fairies, before briefly being passed on to Arturia by the Lady of the Lake and later returned to the lake before her death. It replaced the destroyed Caliburn, and its sheath, Avalon, provided partial immortality for its wielder. She eventually lost Avalon, and replaced it with Invisible Air, which she uses during the Holy Grail Wars to hide the sword and her identity. It is a typical western sword with a length of ninety centimeters and a width of twelve centimeters, and it has Fairy Letters inscribed on it to show that it was not the work of mankind.

Excalibur is a weapon of directive energy that converts the prana of the wielder into light, intensifying the kinetic energy by convergence and acceleration, allowing for the use of Divine Spirit level thaumaturgy. It is an "ultimate killing technique" that releases light holding energy equaling Arturia's total amount of prana from the tip of the blade once the sword is swung. While the result is what looks like a large band of light, only the tip of the attack, which is a wave of light that can mow through the surface of the Earth, is capable of doing damage, as the band of light is the result of the "dislocation" of everything the attack destroys in its path. Its speed and power are among the greatest compared to other Noble Phantasms. Its prana consumption is extremely high, and it cannot be fired consecutively.

It ranks as an anti-fortress Noble Phantasm due to its magnitude and destructive power. Its concentric area of impact is broad enough to incinerate an entire military cohort, turn the ground into scorched earth and leave a great disorder in land that would never fade, cut into the clouds. Both hands are needed to use the attack, so losing access to her hands means being unable to use the ability. Its destructive power can also be a negative trait that limits its usage, as it can easily damage the surrounding area and kill a large number of people if used under the wrong conditions. It is also unable to be used against opponents who fight at an extremely close range.

WEAKNESSES

• Command Spells: Her master has a command seal on his hand, allowing him to force her obedience three times. This spell is used to override her personal feelings on the matter; she has to do what she is told, no matter what it may be. However, after the third command spell is used, the contract with her master is broken and she may act however she wishes. Due to her anti-magic ways, she can resist a command spell with all of her might, but more than one will overwhelm her if she does not agree with it.
• Improper Summon: Saber is not a dead heroic spirit like the rest of the servants summoned during the holy grail war. She is trapped at the brink of her death, summoned as a whole person. She can not go invisible like a normal servant can. Otherwise, she has the usual benefits of a servant.
• Mana Dependant: Saber requires mana to even exist in this world, which means her Master needs to keep her well supplied.

GALLERY

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  Saber Casual Wear

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  Excalibur

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  Command Seal