Saber

Artoria Pendragon
Saber Saber Alter
Series	Fate/stay night
Age	Immortal 15 (Physically) 35 (Chronologically)
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Female
Species	Heroic Spirit
Height	5'1"/155 cm
Weight	92.5 lbs/41 kg
Alignment	Lawful Good (Saber) Lawful Evil (Saber Alter)

Saber, also known by her true name Artoria Pendragon, is one of the main Characters from the visual novel-based franchise Fate developed by Type-Moon.

“	Even if he is not a Master, our contract will not go away. I have sworn to protect him and be his sword.	„
	~ Saber

Backstory[]

Saber is Artoria Pendragon, better known as King Arthur. Artoria was born as the heir to the throne of Britain, though her father wanted a boy to be his heir, so he left her in the care of the wizard Merlin. One day, Artoria pulled the sword Caliburn from the stone, revealing her as the heir to the throne and new king of England. Several centuries later, the Holy Grail War started, and seven mages each summoned a spirit from the past to fight for them in a tournament for the Holy Grail, which granted the winner one wish. Artoria was summoned into both the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail War as a Saber, first to magus assassin Kiritsugu Emiya, and second to Kiritsugu's adoptive son Shirou.

Powers & Abilities[]

Physical Abilities[]

Superhuman Physique:
Accelerated Healing Factor:
Enhanced Senses:
Master Swordsmanship:

Noble Phantasms[]

Invisible Air: Bounded Field of the Wind King: A mysterious wind that hides Excalibur's identity. It is a Bounded Field, closer to regular magic than a Noble Phantasm, presumably created by Merlin. The powerful winds around the blade distort light, rendering Excalibur completely invisible and its shape near-impossible to discern, keeping her opponents confused and unable to properly gauge its size and length, or even what kind of weapon it is. Once they figure it out, however, it becomes useless in this regard. It takes on Excalibur's sharp edge, and Saber can use it to form a defensive wall of wind large enough to envelop a building. Once the barrier is released, the compressed wind surges around her and can be released as a single-shot weapon, known as Strike Air: Hammer of the Wind King. She can also use it to propel herself forwards at greater speeds.

Class Skills[]

Magic Resistance: An innate ability that grants protection against magical effects. Unlike the Resistance effect that merely rejects magical energy, this ability cancels the magic altogether. Due to possessing the blood of dragons, Saber has a stellar A-Rank in this ability, rendering her virtually invulnerable to all modern magi's spells and even of Caster's from the Age of Gods. This also applies to indirect magic attacks, such as magical hypnosis, petrification, and spatial manipulation.
Riding: The ability to ride mounts. Saber is proficient in this ability due to riding horses throughout her life, resulting in B rank Riding and allowing her to ride practically any horse or modern vehicle with complete control, even things from far beyond her time such as the heavily modified Yamaha V-Max Kiritsugu customized for her though due to having lived in the Age of Man, this does not extend to mounts such as those under the Phantasmal species. While under Kiritsugu, her Riding rank rises to A, further increasing her ability to ride all known regular mounts and vehicles but still falling short to ride those of the Divine and Phantasmal species. Using the bike mentioned above, her previous master made for her and enhancing it with her Mana Burst ability, she was able to keep pace with Rider's chariot and easily dodges the latter's attacks while veering through traffic, reading the airflow to allow her to accomplish such feats with her eyes closed.

Personal Skills[]

Charisma: The natural talent to command an army, which increases the ability of allies during group battles. It is said that a rank of B in this skill is sufficient to lead a nation as its King.
Instinct: The power to "feel" the most favorable developments for oneself during battle. Saber has an A-Rank in this skill, granting her a refined sixth sense that is close to real precognition that allows her to avoid a death blow from Cu's Gae Bolg as well as Sasaki Koujirou's Tsubame Gaeshi and finding an opening in their second encounter, in addition to halving the hindrance that visual and auditory obstructions would generally provide.
Mana Burst: A skill that allows for an increase in performance by infusing one's weapons and body with magical energy, for both defensive and offensive purposes, effectively recreating the effects of a jet burst. Saber uses this skill mainly for her sword techniques, defense, and high-speed movement, propelling herself across the battlefield at high speeds while reinforcing her entire body with magical energy. With A-rank, even a stick can become a great weapon. Due to this and with her own innate high magical capacity, she can even fight off and take Berserker's blows, though ultimately would lose due to Shirou's inability to provide her with sufficient mana.

Other Abilities[]

Dragon Magic Core: Saber's heart has been modified into a reactor for dragon's blood, thus making her body act as a factory which creates Magical Energy.
Blessing of the Lady of the Lake: Saber has also received the blessings of Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, who bestowed Excalibur to the young king. As a result, she can walk on water as if it were solid ground without any movement speed or traction change. However, she does not know how to swim because of this blessing until Shirou Emiya taught her later.

Weapons & Equipment[]

Excalibur; Sword of Promised Victory: King Arthur's most famous divine sword. It is a crystallization of humanity's wishes forged by the planet itself. Much like Excalibur Proto, it is a weapon designed to protect the earth from the threat of chaos and destruction. Due to its incredible potential for devastation, its real power is restricted by multiple oaths. When activated, it converts Saber's magical power into light that is then released as a destructive wave of energy on the level of Divine Thaumaturgy. Despite this function's appearance, only the tip of this energy wave can do damage, as the rest of the light emitted by Excalibur is the dislocation of everything it has destroyed along its path. Excalibur also boasts one of the fastest activation speeds among Noble Phantasms, matching the charging speed of both the original Pegasus and Iskandar's chariot, completing its activation in less than a second. Saber has also demonstrated the ability to partially invoke Excalibur's power in both melee combat and its activated form, dispelling Invisible Air to cut down Assassin in a single strike and forcing Gilgamesh to dodge an attack with a thinner beam that was charged while in motion.
Avalon; The Everdistant Utopia: Excalibur's sheath, a Divine Construct of the same origin. Passively, Avalon bestows immortality and regeneration upon its wielder; they stop aging and can regenerate even from blows that remove most of their torso and heart. It cannot, however, restore a destroyed brain. Its real power is in its active use as an "absolute defense." It puts the user in Avalon, the land of the fairies, the unreachable utopia that the king strived to reach in life. It dissipates into magical particles and becomes a "portable fortress" that blocks off any interference, even up to the sixth dimension. It is on the level of true magic, and not even the Five Magics can bypass the barrier.
Armor:

Alternate Forms[]

Saber Alter[]

After being subjected to and blackened by the cursed mud of the Holy Grail, Saber was transformed into Saber Alter. In this more corrupted form, Saber is much stronger, capable of easily beating up Berserker, though slower in comparison. Excalibur also changes into Excalibur Morgan, which can use Vortigern: Hammer of the Vile King to form a massive blade of black light around her sword before striking the opponent with it.

Feats[]

Strength[]

Can lift or throw trailer trucks.
Her blows are comparable to shotgun blasts.
Clashed with Berserker while weakened.
Her sword swings can release shockwaves that dent metal.
Can fling around stones weighing several tons.
Her swings can level buildings.
Her fight with Lancer caused an earthquake.
In non-peak conditions and under the command of Shirou, Artoria clashed evenly with Shinji’s Rider, and when in peak condition, she effortlessly trashed her
Her heart is equal in energy to the Earth’s core (4.78 zettatons of TNT, possibly much higher)
Could block Archer’s Hrunting shots, and then cut him down
Seriously maimed Archer with one hit
Could clash evenly with Lancer Cu
Her Excalibur killed Rider after using Bellerophon vaporizing clouds (85 megatons - 5.339 gigatons of TNT)
With Mana Burst, she could evenly clash with Berserker
When powered by Rin, she effortlessly bent Fake Assassin’s longsword
Slashed Gilgamesh fatally at the end of the Fate route
Destroyed the Holy Grail monster at the end of Unlimited Blade Works (168 megatons - 351 gigatons of TNT)
Could clash evenly with Lancer Diarmuid
Could easily disperse many monsters summoned by Caster Gilles
Annihilated Caster Gilles and his monster with Excalibur (79.62-131.21 megatons of TNT)
Defeated Berserker Lancelot in a close-quarters battle
Defeated Tamamo-No-Mae, with the latter having the Regalia
Is stated to have fought Sefar

Speed[]

Outran a magically-empowered fighter jet.
Ran up a building.
Deflected and dodged cannon fire.
Dodged a barrage of gunfire.
Dodged many different swords attacking her from all directions.
Kept up with Lancer, who can strike 100 times in an instant.
Her clash with Diarmuid surpassed the speed of sound and was approaching light speed
With a Command Seal, changes into her armor in milliseconds and was moving at a speed “close to that of light”
Could react to Archer’s Hrunting which moved several kilometers in an instant
Could keep up with Rider Iskandar
Could react to Gae Bolg, which moves at light-speed
Could get out of the way of Fake Assassin’s Tsubame Gaeshi, which disregards the concept of space and time and is a multi dimensional refraction (Possibly Immeasurable)
Could react and block some of the Noble Phantasms fired from Gilgamesh’s Gates of Babylon
Reacted to Gilgamesh’s Enuma Elish after he fired it
Could keep up with Moon Crux Tamamo-No-Mae

Durability[]

Tanked blows from Berserker Heracles and Rider Iskandar.
Survived a low-power blow from Ea, which crippled most other Servants.
Stood up after almost being cut in half.
Survived have been nearly decapitated by Gilgamesh.
Survived being impaled through the heart.
Survived being hit by Heracles and being flung into a telephone pole, without looking too damaged
Survived a hit from Gilgamesh’s partially charged Enuma Elish
Survived getting hit by Lancer’s Gae Bolg
Could endure getting overwhelmed by Berserker Lancelot
Could endure a beating from Caster’s master who was amped by Medea’s magecraft that is stronger than modern magecraft and even the Aozakis
Endured getting tortured by Caster for a few days
Could fight and take hits against Tamamo-No-Mae

Skill[]

Gilgamesh didn't want to engage her in a sword duel.
Taught Shirou how to fight with swords.
Fought Fake Assassin, a master swordsman.
Trained both awake and asleep under the teachings of Merlin, the Mage of Flowers
Became the King of Britain at the age of 15
Formed and led the Knights of the Round Table
Defeated Vortigern, her uncle who became the White Dragon embodying the land of Britain itself and its rejection of the Age Of Man
Has ruled and defended Britain from countless outer threats like the Saxons for 20 years, even getting them to negotiate peace
Won two Holy Grail Wars under the command of magi, Kiritsugu Emiya and Shirou Emiya; a wide variety of Servants participated in both
Became a top tier Heroic Spirit, even being designated an ultimate doomsday device status by the Moon Cell as a Top Servant
Defeated characters such as EMIYA (Archer), Medusa (Rider), Heracles (Berserker) with Shirou and Rin, Lancelot (Berserker), Iskandar (Rider), and Gilgamesh (Archer) in each routes and in Fate Zero

Faults[]

Excalibur's attack requires charge time: Using Excalibur's light blast takes a little while to charge up, which can be taken advantage of.
Excalibur's light blast uses up a lot of energy: After she uses Excalibur's light blast, Saber becomes drained of most of her energy.
Anti-Dragon Weaponry: Saber's soul has a dragon alignment, so anti-dragon weaponry damages her more than normal.
Code of Honor: Saber refuses to use underhanded tactics in a fight.
Stubborn: Saber refuses to give up once she sets her mind to something.

Fun Facts[]

Saber owns a Yamaha V-Max motorcycle given to her by her first Master, Kiritsugu.
Three Sizes: B73/W53/H76