Summary[]
Archer of "Red" is the Archer-class Servant of the Red Faction in the Great Holy Grail War. While she is originally summoned by Rottweil Berzinsky, she later becomes one of the Servants of Shirou Kotomine. She also appears in the First and Third Singularities of the Grand Orders, Orleans and Okeanos.
Her True Name is Atalanta, the Chaste Huntress of Greek Mythology. While she was born the princess of Arcadia and daughter of King Iasus, she was abandoned in the mountains immediately after birth due to being born a female when her father wanted a male heir, surviving only due to Artemis' divine protection as the goddess took pity on her. She was then raised by a sacred bear of Artemis and thus devoted her life to her in worship and gratitude.
She is famous for three tales: joining Jason's Argonauts, slaying the Calydonian Boar, and the dispute over her marriage, which ended in her forcibly being married after being cheated in a race for her hand in marriage, breaking her vows. As punishment, it was said that she was transformed into a lion, and she retains the traits of a lion as a Servant in the form of her ears and tail.
Powers and Stats[]
Dimensionality: 3D
Threat Level: At least Demon+, likely Dragon- | Dragon-
Powers and Abilities:
- Martial Arts (Can fight well in CQC, using her bow in conjunction with kicks and knee strikes. Is also knowledgeable in wrestling, having defeated Peleus, Achilles father in a match once)
- Weapon Mastery (A master bow user whose skill reaches the "domain of the gods")
- Enhanced Senses
- Enhanced Awareness and Enhanced Hearing (Has animal-like senses that are better than other Servants. Could sense through Jack the Ripper's mist by using her sense of hearing and ability to sense other Servants)
- Enhanced Vision (Telescopic Vision and Night Vision; (Her eyesight is as good as a falcon's. Could shoot her target in the dark with near-zero visibility and in the middle of a dense forest)
- Transformation with Agrius Metamorphosis
- Resistance to Magecraft (Has the Magic Resistance Skill, which makes it so that any magecraft up to a certain degree becomes "useless")
Same as before, minus Magic Resistance.
- Enhanced Senses (Enhanced Smell; Her sense of smell is better than a Yaga's, who can sense other Servants by their scent and how long they were last in a given area. Can locate Demonic Beasts by scent, and can smell one's inner goodness)
- Shapeshifting (Her Self-Evolution allows her to evolve in ways that enable her to overcome and kill her attacks if not assist her in that task, such as developing claws, wings to fly, have the boar of her pelt to intercept weapons, become the very boar itself for further power, etc.)
- Possible Aura (Catastrophic; As she can become the very Calydonian Boar, Atalanta can likely rot those in her surroundings like crops with her mere presence)
Physical Strength: At least City level | Mountain level Striking Strength with Class 5 Lifting Strength (Lifted a pair of stone pillars with one hand)
Attack Potency: At least City physically (Can hold off Spartacus and even pin down his hand with his sword. In the Turas Realta manga of FGO, she assisted in the help against Heracles to be pushed against the Ark to finish him off. As a Servant with actual legend and mystery to her name, Atalanta should be no weaker than a Servant of more recent histories such as EMIYA). Mountain with charged arrows and Phoebus Catastrophe (Her arrows, when charged at their fullest, become higher than A-rank and are capable of piercing and harming Siegfried with such force to send him flying, whereas neither Achilles nor Karna could do no further than give mere scratches. Phoebus Catastrophe is a B-ranked Anti-Army Noble Phantasm, which as a direct attack should make it comparable to the Thrown Version of Gae Bolg. It's also strong enough that even a "superior Servant" would not be able to come out of it unscatched) | Mountain physically (Stronger than before, can pressure and keep up with Jeanne and a weakened Achilles), Island with Tauropolos Skia Thermokrasía and charged arrows (Tauropolos Skia Thermokrasía is an A-Rank Noble Phantasm, which should make it comparable to Durindana. Her charged arrow shots are also stronger than before, with them being able to supposedly pierce and harm Karna. Implied to have more firepower than her arrows, being able to punch holes through a Demon God Pillar)
Durability: At least City (Took a kick from Spartacus, though it was noted she would have died if it fully connected. Can take a hit from Jeanne d'Arc, who can clash with Golem Keter Malkuth, whose strong enough to hurt and send Mordred flying with a force strong enough to crack her armor) | Mountain (Stronger than before. Can take hits from Achilles)
Speed: At least Supersonic, likely higher (Her arrows can travel faster than sound even when prioritizing firing rate over power. Faster than Chiron, and is only rivaled by the likes of Achilles in pure running speed. Reacted to and dodged both Spartacus and Vlad's attacks, the latter having stakes that are fast enough to block her arrows and can keep up with Karna in battle. Avoided Chiron's arrows, who can match the speed of her arrows.) | At least Supersonic, likely higher
Intelligence: High. Atalanta is a peerless huntress skilled in archery, tracking, restraining wild beasts, camouflage and all other skills needed for a hunter. Her skill with a bow is said to tread into the realm of Gods, with her only peer being the model for Sagittarius, Chiron. Her skill is so great that she is able to strike targets in a dense forest from an extreme distance that they appear as moving dots during nighttime with perfect precision. Her technique is as natural as flowing water, allowing her to rapid fire arrows in a similar fashion to a machine gun and fire through gaps between her allies without hitting them. During her fight against Spartacus, she demonstrated her quick thinking by quickly setting up what would normally be a killing blow, by disarming him before using her superior speed to grab his sword and pin him down by exploiting his regeneration, in the process showing she isn't solely limited to archery when it comes to close combat. When utilizing Agrius Metamorphosis, her way of thinking changes into that of a wild beast, making her combat style increasingly deadly as thoughts regarding how to kill an enemy are sped up. When combined with her Self Evolution skill, she is able to kill an enemy even faster due to constantly evolving to accompany her increased speed of thinking.
Stamina: High (Comparable to her Red Servant peers like Karna, who can fight for several hours without tiring in the slightest. With her A-rank Independent Action Skill, she could last up to a week without a master, long enough to find another to keep herself anchored if needed.)
Range: Melee range physically. At least kilometers with arrows (Shot an arrow at Orion on a bow from an island, with said ship being a considerable distance away)
Weakness: Is obsessive with protecting kids and their safety, potentially causing her attention in battle to be swayed or disrupted. Removing the pelt will cause her to go back to her Archer form, making her weaker though this still leaves her with her Archer skills and abilities making it more of a minor hinderance.
Key: Archer | Alter (Berserker)/Agrius Metamorphosis
Arsenal[]
Taurpolos (Bow of Heaven): A bow gifted to her from Artemis, Greek Goddess of the Hunt and Moon. The bow is longer than she is tall and boasts extraordinary power. Every arrow that is shot is painted in black prana, making it hard to detect as well as being able to shoot at faster than sound speeds, regardless if she prioritized rate of fire or making powerful singular shots, the latter also being able to deal attacks beyond A-rank when drawn to its fullest. Additionally, Atalanta is also capable of controlling the path of her arrows with her prana, making it difficult to avoid her arrows.
Noteworthy Techniques and Abilities[]
Independent Action: The ability to remain independent and exist in the world without the magical energy supplied by a Master, allowing the Servant to act autonomously and the Master to save their own magical energy for spells. Atalanta's A-rank Independent Action allows her to act even without a Master and stay in the world for up to a week without one. However, when it comes to the use of high-cost Noble Phantasms, backup from one's Master is necessary. She also possesses this skill as a Berserker.
Magic Resistance: An innate ability that grants protection against magical effects. Unlike the Resistance effect which merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether. Atalanta's D-rank Magic Resistance can only cancel Single-Action spells but will falter against more complex and stronger spells. However, she loses this skill as a Berserker.
Beast Enhancement: A skill identical to the Class Skill, Mad Enhancement, the source of the Berserker class's power. It is the equivalent of A-rank Mad Enhancement, raising all her parameters with the exception of luck, in exchange for most of her sanity and reason. As a Berserker that is summoned in this form not of rage, however, Atalanta becomes one whose existence is rare for someone to retain their sense of calm and reason. While one can communicate with her, it's impossible to persuade her with logical reasoning and she can't discern whenever one is an ally of the Human Order or not. Additionally, should her master go against the "rules" carved into her heart, she will throw away the master-servant relationship and will possibly even kill them.
Aesthetics of the Last Spurt: A skill derived from legends in which Atalanta always let her opponents run ahead of her in footraces, and yet always won. By allowing her opponent to take the first move, Atalanta can analyze their options and pass them by swiftly.
Calydonian Hunt: A skill whose canon effects are currently unknown.
Crossing Arcadia: A skill that allows for high-speed movement across a battlefield by rapidly jumping over any obstacles, including opponents. She also possesses this skill as a Berserker.
Wild Beast Skills: As a "monstrous human" under the effects of Agrius Metamorphosis or when summoned as a Berserker, Atalanta gains the following skills in addition to Crossing Arcadia:
- Self Evolution: A skill that allows Atalanta to constantly keep evolving to overcome any kind of obstacle in the way of accomplishing her goals. However while it surpasses Self Modification in speed, it's limited in application as it's specialized to adapt to the user's goals. It allows Atalanta to do things like grow wings, transform into the Calydonian Boar itself, fuse with her bow and much more. As she is constantly evolving to adapt she is capable of killing enemies even swifter than normal, especially when combined with the skill, Wild Beast's Logic.
- Wild Beast's Logic: Atalanta's way of thinking in combat as a result of transforming into a wild beast. The speed of her thoughts focused on killing an enemy is increased. While it's not very useful for finding weak points in her enemies, it increases the overall speed of killing an enemy.
Phoebus Catastrophe (Complaint Message on the Arrow): A "complaint letter" requesting for divine protection, sent to the moon goddess Artemis and the sun god Apollo, fired into the sky as two arrows. After the two arrows pierce the clouds, a faint light slowly fills the sky and calls upon a torrential rain of arrows upon her enemy. A single arrow can easily pierce Avicebron's golems, but Servants have the strength and speed to deflect or dodge; while their individual damage is low, their true power comes in their sheer numbers. However, Atalanta can limit her range to focus it onto a single enemy, vastly increasing its strength. When utilized like this, it is capable of easily reducing even Servants as strong and durable as Spartacus to a near-death state.
Agrius Metamorphosis (Boar of Divine Punishment): The pelt of the Calydonian Boar, a Monstrous Beast that Artemis released upon the Earth in a fit of rage against those who failed to honor her blessings. As the one who claimed its pelt as spoils of war, Atalanta possesses it as a cursed Noble Phantasm. Upon activation, it seals Tauropolos and transforms Atalanta into a "Monstrous Human", and gains a condition similar to A-rank mad enhancement, resulting in all her parameters save for luck ranking up at the cost of her reason. In addition, it also grants her the equivalent of A Rank in the Transformation skill, allowing her to gain various characteristics depending on situation and environment. She can transform the pelt into a pair of wings for flight and form a dark version of Tauropolos to fire arrows seething with black magical energy that have homing properties. She can fire these en masse, creating a massive barrage powerful enough to make Ruler consider using her Noble Phantasm to withstand it.
- Tauropolos Skia Thermokrasia (The Arrow that Eclipsed The Somber Sky): The Noble Phantasm she possesses as a Berserker. It's a single shot imbued with all her magical energy that forcefully absorbs her target. By absorbing Tauropolos into her body she is able to fire herself as a ballistic missile at her target. Upon impact her magical energy creates a explosion of a dark substance with adhesive qualities, which forcefully absorbs her target unless they possess an extremely powerful Magic Resistance skill.