Fate Grand Order Babylonia RPG

FGO Babylonia Lore Summary 1 20 Core Setting: 2655 BC Mesopotamia—end of Age of Gods. Holy Grail awakens Tiamat (Beast II) from Void; her “love” regresses humanity to womb via Chaos Tide/Demonic Beasts (Lahmu). Three Goddess Alliance (Ishtar/Ereshkigal/Quetzalcoatl) fractures; Uruk’s Northern Wall = last human bastion under Wise King Gilgamesh (Caster). 0 4 Key Events: Chaldea rayshifts; fight Gorgon (Potnia Theron in Cedar Forest), Kingu (fake Enkidu, Tiamat’s prototype child), Underworld trials. Climax: Tiamat ascends; Merlin’s dream shatters, King Hassan imposes Death concept, Gilgamesh sacrifices (Archer return), Ereshkigal burns divinity. Heroes seal Tiamat; bittersweet—Uruk scarred, gods withdraw. 21 Distant Anchors: Gilgamesh (distant ruler), Merlin (visions), Hassan (final strike), goddesses (echoes). Siduri/Leonidas minor quest-givers. 6 OC Routes (Limitless Possibilities): • Survivor: Northern villager scouts Tide, seeks family—ally Chaldea or join Uruk patrols. • Exorcist: Tide-resistant mage binds beasts; pacts with minor gods/spirits. • Wanderer: Time-lost rayshifter; hunts relics, romances defenders. • Beast-Tamer: Controls Lahmu; defects to heroes or spies for Kingu. • Priestess: Performs rituals in ruins; visions from silent deities. • Mercenary: Leads refugee caravan; betrays for Grail or redeems. • Underworld Guide: Kur native aids soul-crossings; Ereshkigal pact. • Frontliner: Wall defender; personal rivalries, sacrifices. • Chaos Hybrid: Tide-mutated human; redemption arc vs. Gorgon. • Divine Vessel: Minor goddess host; alliance fractures. Infinite branches: side-quests (save camps), romances (Siduri/OCs), betrayals (Kingu spy), what-ifs (early Tiamat pact). OCs drive story—canon looms mythic. 40 41

Beast Class: Evils of Humanity 0 1 From the Grail’s abyssal genesis arise the Beasts, Calamities incarnate—the Evils of Humanity (Jinrui Aku), seven existential blights born from mankind’s inexorable progress, each a Saint Graph vaster than Servants, archetype of the summoning rite itself. 24 21 Not malice, but twisted love: compassion’s pity devours suffering; regression’s cradle erases separation; pleasure’s depravity drowns in ecstasy—karma’s progeny, empowered by human advancement, they threaten Human Order through “salvation’s” annihilation. 20 Grand Servants, humanity’s fail-safe, counter their ascent—yet Beasts erode reality: Authority of the Beast (EX) wields conceptual dominion; Nega- skills negate order (Nega-Genesis regresses evolution, Nega-Summon voids Servants). 40 Parameters eclipse standards (all EX potential), independent of Masters, viral erosion transforms domains into their principle—pleroma of unbound voids or primordial seas. 42 Exemplars etch apocalypse: Beast I Goetia, pity’s incinerator whose Ars Almadel Salomonis rewinds history; 4 Beast II Tiamat, regression’s mother whose Chaos Tide and Nega-Genesis birth Lahmu legions; 0 Beast III/R Kiara and III/L Kama/Mara, pleasure’s dual depravity whose Samsara engulfs in ecstasy; 5 Beast IV Cath Palug / Koyanskaya, beastly predation; VI/S Draco and VI/L, comparative sin; VII U-Olga Marie, final regret—plus variants like Camazotz (Oblivion). 35 In Grand Order, rare playable Beasts (3+) 0 wield 1.0x multipliers, 10% stars, yet Authority rends classes. Thus Beast abides: humanity’s shadow-love, Grand-foes devouring order for “protection,” their crowns the dirge of Proper History and heralds of karmic unmaking. 🐉

Berserker Class: Knights of Madness From the Grail’s raging inferno erupt the Berserkers, Heroic Spirits of the Mad Enhancement—warriors and demigods of the Age of Gods whose legends burn with uncontrollable fury, rage, or divine curse that drowns reason in blood. Their parameters surge to unnatural heights: Strength and Endurance A-B (even EX in rare cases), Agility B-C, yet sanity fractures under Mad Enhancement (E-EX), the Class Skill that strips rationality, turning speech to roars and strategy to primal instinct. This seal amplifies might at the cost of control—higher ranks grant godlike power but render them near-impossible to command. Magic Resistance clings low (D-E), for the mad heed no spell; Riding absent, for beasts of fury need no reins. The triangle’s wrath spares them Saber and Archer’s double harvest yet yields to Lancer’s piercing precision and Assassin’s unseen blade. Noble Phantasms, crystallized frenzies, unleash cataclysmic ruin: God Hand’s twelve lives, Nine Lives’ barrage, Vasavi Shakti’s solar judgment, Heracles’ raw might—unsealed in blind wrath. Exemplars howl through eternity: Heracles, god-slaying giant whose God Hand defies death; Lancelot, knight of the lake whose Arondight drowns reason; Frankenstein, stitched creation whose Bride of Frankenstein births lightning; Cu Chulainn Alter, hound twisted by corruption; Nightingale, angel of Crimea whose Nightingale Pledge heals through carnage; Spartacus, rebel whose Crying Freeman rises against tyranny; Beowulf, dragon-slayer whose Hrunting rends all. In Grand Order’s chronicle, 50+ Berserkers rage, their BBBAA decks and Buster NPs the engines of reckless annihilation, fragile sanity yet unbreakable fury. Thus Berserker endures: storm of the unhinged soul, devouring reason to birth unstoppable ruin, their madness the dirge of fallen gods and the roar of unbound chaos. ⚡🩸

Caster Class: Knights of the Cauldron From the Grail’s arcane crucibles summon the Casters, Heroic Spirits of the Staff—magicians and sages of the Age of Gods whose legends weave the threads of creation, wielding grimoires, rods, and rituals to bend reality’s weave. Paramount in Mana (A-B, abyssal reservoirs of prana) and intellect, their parameters exalt subtlety over brawn: Strength/Endurance D-C, Agility B-C, their forms vessels for the symphony of spells that unravel foes from afar. Class Skills crown their mystery: Territory Creation (A-C, forging workshops where magecraft blooms exponential) and Item Construction (B-A, birthing talismans, homunculi, cursed relics). Frail in the triangle’s loom—Saber and Archer reap double harvest—yet their Noble Phantasms, crests of forbidden lore, unleash conceptual tempests: Ars Almadel Salomonis’ chronological incineration, Rule Breaker’s contract severance, Garden of Avalon’s eternal spring—unsealed to rewrite the battlefield’s script. Exemplars etch the ether: Solomon, demon-summoning king whose Ars Nova sacrifices self for cessation; Medea, witch-queen whose Rule Breaker steals authority; Nero Claudius (Caster), theater-magus of Aestus Domus Aurea; Shakespeare, word-weaver of First Folio; Mephistopheles, Faustian tempter; Tamamo-no-Mae, fox-sorceress of mirror-realms; Merlin, flower-dream incarnate. In Grand Order’s grimoire, 60+ Casters incant, their QAAAB decks and Arts NPs the harbingers of sustained devastation, support, and reality’s subtle overthrow. Thus Caster abides: architects of the unseen, frail in flesh yet omnipotent in artifice, their chants the dirge of overwritten fates and the dawn of conjured infinities.

Rider Class: Knights of the Mount From the Grail’s thunderous summons stride the Riders, Heroic Spirits of the Chariot—lords of the Age of Gods whose legends command phantasmal beasts, divine steeds, and colossal war-machines that trample the earth in apocalyptic charge. Bound to no single blade or bow, they exalt Riding (A paramount, taming dragons, pegasi, even Divine Beasts) and claim supple parameters: Strength B-C, Agility A-B, Mana B, their forms vessels for the mounted onslaught that devours Saber in double harvest. Magic Resistance flickers low (D-E, frail against sorcery’s grasp), a shadow upon their glory, while the triangle’s weave fells them to Assassin’s veiled stroke and Berserker’s mad tide. Noble Phantasms, crests of dominion, unleash vehicular cataclysms: Ionioi Hetairoi’s reality marble legion, Enkidu’s heavenly chains, Hippolyta’s belt of war—unsealed to rend horizons with rider’s wrath. Exemplars thunder eternal: Medusa, gorgon rider whose Bellerophon summons pegasus storm; Iskandar, conqueror-king whose chariot army storms infinity; Astolfo, paladin of joy astride Hippogriff; Ozymandias, sun pharaoh whose Ramesseum Tentyris buries foes in divine tomb; Achilles, swift hero of immortal chariot; Ushiwakamaru, tengu-tamer whose Papiroschka dances skies; Sakamoto Ryouma, revolutionary rider of the void-shark Kamehameha. In Grand Order’s epic, 50+ Riders charge, their QQAAB decks and Quick/Buster NPs the tempests of mounted annihilation, fragile yet ferocious in the Grail’s grand cavalcade. Thus Rider abides: thunder of the untamed mount, crushing Saber beneath chariot wheels, their reins the bridle of heavens unbound.

Assassin Class: Knights of the Veil 1 15 From the Grail’s abyssal whispers arise the Assassins, Silent Killers and Heroic Spirits of shadowed blades—wraiths of the Age of Gods whose legends evade the clamor of heroic epics, thriving in absence rather than glory. 1 3 Bereft of radiant feats, their parameters languish low—Strength and Endurance D-C, Agility exalted A-B—yet this frailty births their essence: predators of Masters, not frontal titans, their lifeline the ethereal shroud of Presence Concealment (A-C, veiling breath to ambush the unwary). 1 11 The triangle’s shadow crowns them lords over Rider’s mounts (double reap), while Caster’s spells pierce their veil with half-measure mercy, and Berserker’s frenzy yields even ground. 33 Noble Phantasms, thorns of obscurity, whisper instant death or cursed severance: Zabaniya’s delusional heart-snatch, Azrael’s fathomless rift, Tsubame Gaeshi’s multi-dimensional refraction—crystallized murders veiled until the kill. 21 19 Exemplars haunt the throne: the Nineteen Hassans—Hundred Faces’ myriad shades, Cursed Arm’s phantom limb, Serenity’s poisoned gaze, First Hassan’s deathly edict; Sasaki Kojirou, swallow-reversed phantom blade; Shuten-Douji, oni temptress of nightless revels; Jack the Ripper, fog-shrouded child of mist; Ryougi Shiki, root-eyes piercing lines of mortality. 46 51 In Grand Order’s grim codex, 47+ Assassins prowl, their QQABB decks and Quick NPs (ST/AoE instant-kills) the unseen reapers of stars and crits, frail yet fatal in the Grail’s veiled dance. 3 36 Thus Assassin endures: phantoms of the forgotten stroke, severing threads of fate from the gloom, their silence the dirge of overthrown crowns.

Lancer Class: Knights of the Lance 0 47 From the Grail’s shadowed forges emerge the Lancers, Heroic Spirits of the Spear—knights whose legends thunder across the Age of Gods, wielding lances and polearms in hit-and-run tempests that blend reach with unrivaled swiftness. 0 48 Second only to Saber in summoning rigor, they demand exalted Agility (A paramount), supple Strength and Endurance (B-C), their forms etched for the lethal dance of extended melee, where distance devours the unwary. 9 Class Skills etch their essence: Magic Resistance (C-E, a fleeting veil against sorcery’s grasp) 0 and absent Riding, for the spear’s dominion needs no mount—yet fragility shadows their speed, Endurance oft C-rank, a whisper of vulnerability amid the storm. 9 The triangle’s inexorable weave exalts them over Archer’s distant volleys (advantageous strike) while Saber blades reap double harvest from their advance. 38 Noble Phantasms, thorns of legend, pierce causality itself: Gáe Bolg’s barbed inevitability, Vasavi Shakti’s solar annihilation, Rhongomyniad’s divine anchor—sealed until desperation unveils their cataclysm. 2 7 In Grand Order’s saga, 55+ Lancers swell the ranks, their QQABB decks and Quick/Buster NPs the harbingers of fragile, ferocious ruin. 19 Exemplars etch the pantheon: Cú Chulainn, hound of Ulster whose curse-spear inverts fate’s thread; Scáthach, shadow queen whose gates temper immortals; Karna, sun-born prince whose Vasavi Shakti rends divinities; Enkidu, clay-born chain whose Enuma Eliš binds the wild; Brynhildr, valkyrie’s tragic blaze; Artoria Pendragon (Lancer), holy lance’s bearer. 2 48 Thus Lancer abides: ephemeral gales of the spear, devouring Archers in swift retribution, yet felled by Saber’s unyielding steel—reliable harvesters of the battlefield’s edge. 🏃‍♂️💨

Archer Class: Knights of the Bow 0 49 In the shadowed vaults of the Holy Grail’s summons, the Archer class manifests as the Knight of the Bow, heroic spirits whose legends whisper of projectiles that sunder horizons—bows of divine yew, arrows forged in celestial fire, or even chains of golden armaments loosed from ethereal gates. 0 11 Drawn from the Age of Gods when magecraft wove the threads of fate, these bowmen claim their vessel not by blade’s oath but by dominion over ranged devastation, scouting the veils of war with predatory grace. 0 Exalted in Independent Action (A-C, severing the master’s tether to roam as solitary predators) and Magic Resistance (C-E, a ward against the arcane tempests that felled lesser souls), Archers embody autonomy’s edge—high Agility (A-B) and Mana (B-C) fueling Noble Phantasms of apocalyptic scope: Gate of Babylon’s treasury-rain, Gáe Bolg’s crimson pierce, or Unlimited Blade Works’ forged armory. 49 51 Yet the triangle’s cruelty binds them: Lancer spears claim double tribute, while Saber blades yield beneath their barrage. 33 Exemplars carve eternity: Gilgamesh, golden king whose Ea rends creation’s genesis; EMIYA, counter guardian tracing blades from infinite forges; Atalanta, huntress whose Phoebus’ Rapidity outpaces dawn; Arjuna, Pandava archer whose Pashupata summons Shiva’s flames; Robin Hood, verdant phantom whose caltrops ensnare the mighty. 0 11 In Grand Order’s chronicle, over 50 Archers swell the ranks, their QAABB decks and potent NPs (Buster/Arts barrages) the vanguard of long-range annihilation. 19 Thus Archer endures: scouts of the unseen, hoarders of heaven’s wrath, their arrows the unraveling of thrones and the heralds of unbound skies.

Saber Class: Knights of the Sword 2 0 In the annals of the Holy Grail War, the Saber class endures as the paramount among the Seven Standard Containers, forged for heroic spirits whose legends echo the unyielding clash of blades from the Age of Gods. These are the swordsmen and swordswomen whose prowess in close-quarters dominion demands supremacy in Strength, Endurance, and Agility—parameters exalted to A or B rank, rendering them agile titans of melee whose every strike rends the veil between mortal and divine. 57 40 Bound by the Class Skills of Magic Resistance (B-E, a bulwark against the arcane tempests of Casters) and Riding (B-C, mastery over phantasmal steeds), Sabers embody the knightly ideal: honorable, versatile warriors who prevailed in the finals of the first four Fuyuki Wars, their blades the arbiters of fate. 19 Yet vulnerability shadows their glory—Archers pierce from afar, exploiting the Saber’s frontal assault. 25 Noble Phantasms, crystallized mysteries of legend, oft manifest as divine swords unleashing cataclysmic beams or reality-warping slashes—Excalibur’s promised victory, Balmung’s draconic twilight—sealed until True Names uttered in dire hour. 21 29 Exemplars include Artoria Pendragon, bearer of the oath-bound blade, whose unyielding justice forged Camelot’s fall; Siegfried, dragon-blood guardian whose Balmung devours horizons; Nero Claudius, the rose emperor whose Aestus Estus ignites imperial theater; and Miyamoto Musashi, wanderer of infinite worlds whose five-ring severance cleaves infinity. 14 43 In Grand Order’s tapestry, 57+ Sabers stand as FGO’s vanguard, their QAABB decks and Buster/Arts NPs the engines of balanced devastation. 0 Thus, Saber persists as the Grail’s favored progeny: not mere fighters, but legends incarnate, their steel the death-knell of chains and the dawn of unbound valor.