Artoria

Biodata

Background / History

Artoria chooses a physical body after the Greater Grail offers one to those who wish to remain in the modern world. The arrangement initially costs recipients their mana and Noble Phantasm abilities. She apologizes to Gray, who was created as a vessel for her, and plans to visit her homeland and find the family responsible for Gray’s intended revival 39 53.

During Chaldea’s struggle to restore Human Order, Artoria accepts the responsibility of being King Arthur. She undertakes the Lion King’s mission to recover Ozymandias’s Holy Grail and faces the prospect of fighting the Lion King herself 87. Later, she fights alongside Chaldea in Britain, where she and Artoria Caster independently prepare Excalibur attacks against Cernunnos 320.

Personality

Artoria values chivalry, but does not insist on a fair fight against enemies she considers inhuman, such as the Harvest Star Vanguard. She attacks it first on Yuan Shikai’s advice 343. She also trusts his judgment under pressure: when he asks her to charge Excalibur against Sefar, she follows the plan despite doubting the sword can succeed at its current strength 350.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship and Instinct

• Maintains a sustained assault through disciplined sword training; Alcides observes that her rhythm comes from years of daily practice 965.
• Uses Instinct to evade or cut through Alcides’s arrow barrage 964.

Sword of Promised Victory — Excalibur

• Releases a powerful sword attack against the Harvest Star Vanguard, though it causes little damage to that particular enemy 343.
• Destroys Sefar after Yuan Shikai applies a tenfold Vengeful Counterattack enhancement to the sword. The release leaves Artoria unconscious and almost fatally drained 350 351.
• Entrusts Excalibur to Yuan Shikai for protection when he leaves on another journey 544.

Dragon Heart

• Keeps Artoria alive after the amplified Excalibur strike exhausts her body 351.
• Continues sustaining her while she recovers from the battle against Chaos; she wakes after three days 544.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Excalibur / Sword of Promised Victory — her holy sword and principal Noble Phantasm 320 350.
• Ehangwen — a flying warship she uses to clear sea monsters during an island race; she finishes second behind Beast Ereshkigal 248 249 250.

Relationships

• Yuan Shikai — her husband and combat partner; he amplifies Excalibur against Sefar, and she later gives him the sword for protection 350 544 617.
• Gray — a former prospective vessel for Artoria. Artoria apologizes to her after receiving a physical body, and the two are later seen talking together 39 53 325.
• Morgan — Artoria’s sister; Morgan supports her after the Sefar battle 291 351.
• Artoria Caster — another version of Artoria. They notice one another while preparing separate attacks on Cernunnos 320.
• Knights of the Round Table — remain devoted to their king, although they lament that Artoria has become Yuan Shikai’s wife 617.