50 Fun Facts About Fate/Grand Order

Which Renaissance genius appears in FGO as a woman, having taken the form of his own most famous painting?

Leonardo da Vinci became the Mona Lisa because the portrait was the ideal beauty he pursued in life, and he works for Chaldea as a Caster.

Which American inventor is summoned in FGO as a Caster with the head of a lion?

Thomas Edison leads the American forces as a self-anointed President-King in the fifth Singularity, building electric robots to fight a Celtic army.

Which notorious criminal of Victorian London appears in FGO as a small child, born from the spirits of unborn children?

Jack the Ripper takes a different shape in each class because the real killer was never identified; this Assassin craves a mother's love from her Master.

Which Japanese electronics giant, owner of FGO's publisher Aniplex, saw its profits soar partly thanks to the game?

Sony owns Aniplex through its music arm, and by March 2018 the app was bringing in an average of $2.5 million every day.

Which Japanese artist, creator of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, appears in FGO as a Foreigner with an octopus?

Hokusai is actually the little octopus: the young woman holding the brush is his daughter Oi, who worked as his assistant in his later years.

Which undefeated Japanese duellist, author of The Book of Five Rings, appears in FGO as a wandering female Saber?

Miyamoto Musashi is a young woman here because she comes from a timeline that no longer exists, while the male swordsman of history remains a separate person.

Which fictional detective helps the player inside the hidden Atlas Institute during FGO's Camelot chapter?

Sherlock Holmes opens a trapdoor to the Atlas Institute for the fleeing heroes, and later unmasks his rival Moriarty as the mysterious Archer of Shinjuku.

Which Elizabethan privateer, the first English captain to sail around the world, appears in FGO as a female Rider?

Francis Drake was a man in history but is a woman in the game, where she has already seized a Holy Grail from Poseidon before the player reaches Okeanos.

Which composer, long rumoured to have murdered Mozart, is summoned in FGO as a masked Avenger?

Antonio Salieri and Mozart were friends in the game's telling; the murder legend that later spread across the world is what twists him into an "Innocent Monster".

Which Servant class does Mash Kyrielight, who travels with the player from FGO's opening chapter, belong to?

Shielder is a neutral class, so Mash neither deals nor takes extra damage against the game's standard classes.

Which Extra class does Jeanne d'Arc hold in FGO, reserved for impartial Servants with no wish for the Holy Grail?

Ruler exists to referee Holy Grail Wars, which is why its Servants must be impartial; Jeanne's vengeful double, Jeanne Alter, is an Avenger instead.

Which warrior queen, who led a British revolt against the Roman Empire, is a chariot-riding Rider in FGO?

Boudica is proud that her name means "Victory" in her own language, and she treats a young Master like a doting older sister.

In FGO's class-advantage system, Saber-class Servants deal extra damage to which class while taking extra from Archers?

Lancer closes the loop of the three Knight classes: swords beat spears, spears beat bows, and bows beat swords.

Which FGO Servant class deals extra damage to nearly every other class but takes extra damage from them in return?

Berserker Servants draw their strength from Mad Enhancement, an ability that trades away consciousness and sanity for a large boost in power.

In FGO, what is a Servant's signature trump card called, played as a special Command Card once its gauge is full?

Noble Phantasm attacks grow stronger when a player pulls duplicate copies of the same Servant from the summoning pool.

Which FGO summoning currency did a Japanese player known as Daigo claim to have spent $70,000 buying?

Saint Quartz pays for random Servant summons, and Daigo compared the bill to cinema tickets: "I've spent $70,000 on FGO. But it moves me."

Which of FGO's Command Card types is a medium attack that charges the gauge for a Servant's ultimate move?

Arts cards sit between the heavy Buster and the light Quick, which instead generates Critical Stars that raise the odds of critical hits next turn.

What is the default name of FGO's protagonist, a newly recruited Master who can be played as male or female?

Ritsuka Fujimaru can be renamed by the player, and fans usually call the male and female versions Gudao and Gudako instead.

Which Chaldea character is revealed to be Beast IV and gives up that power to revive Mash in FGO's first finale?

Fou is the small dog-like creature that journeys alongside the party through every Singularity before the reveal.

Which head of Chaldea's medical department is revealed in FGO's first finale to be the real King Solomon?

Romani Archaman won an earlier Holy Grail War as Solomon and wished to live as an ordinary human, then gives up his existence to weaken the final enemy.

Which Demon God is unmasked as the true villain of FGO's first story arc, having possessed King Solomon's corpse?

Goetia burns human history as fuel to restart the world from its Genesis as a planet without death, and is itself the union of King Solomon's 72 Demon Gods.

Which primordial mother goddess is the Beast who wakes from a deep slumber in FGO's Babylonia chapter?

Tiamat is the salt-water sea of Mesopotamian myth, who with the freshwater Abzu gave birth to the gods, only for them to turn their blades on their own mother.

Which legendary king of Uruk commands the battlefront as a wise Caster in FGO's Babylonia chapter?

Gilgamesh appears as the wise king who has returned from his quest for immortality, taking up a mage's role and summoning heroes to protect his city.

Which Japanese city, the setting of Fate/stay night, is the burning first Singularity that opens FGO's story?

Fuyuki is codenamed Singularity F, a 2004 version of the city left in flames, where the Greater Grail at its core is guarded by a Saber.

FGO's first numbered Singularity, where players meet Jeanne d'Arc, is named after which French city?

Orleans gives its name to a chapter set in 1431, the year of Jeanne's execution, when France is overrun by evil dragons.

Which Roman emperor, portrayed as a woman, do players fight beside in Septem, FGO's Second Singularity?

Nero has to face her own legendary predecessors, each revived as a Servant, in a chapter subtitled The Emperor of Roses.

Which one-armed Knight of the Round Table joins the player in FGO's Camelot chapter wielding the silver arm Airgetlám?

Bedivere is not a true Heroic Spirit here but a human from the distant past, a what-if version of the knight who never returned Excalibur to the lake.

Which Knight of the Round Table is the Heroic Spirit fused with Mash Kyrielight in FGO, making her a Demi-Servant?

Galahad briefly seized Mash's body in anger at Chaldea's experiments, then chose to stay once he realised she would die if he left.

Which legendary wizard, born of an incubus and a human, serves as a royal adviser in FGO's Babylonia chapter?

Merlin entered legend as King Arthur's court magus, by turns guiding, tormenting and helping the king, and is known as the Magus of Flowers.

Which Irish hero, usually summoned with a spear, helps the player as a Caster in FGO's opening chapter?

Cú Chulainn fights with rune magic in this form, and feels miserable whenever his spear-wielding self mocks him as a "spearless me".

Which warlord, slain at Honnō-ji just short of ending Japan's civil wars, is a rifle-wielding female Archer in FGO?

Oda Nobunaga was mocked as the Great Fool of Owari in her youth, and her catchphrase in the game is a breezy "It can't be helped!"

Which Egyptian pharaoh is the Rider known as Ozymandias, who seizes a Holy Grail in FGO's Camelot chapter?

Ramesses II grew up with Moses as a foster brother in this telling, and survives a beheading because it happens inside his own temple.

Which Mesoamerican deity appears in FGO's Babylonia chapter as a cheerful goddess addicted to lucha libre wrestling?

Quetzalcoatl was hooked after watching luchadores fly through the air as if they had wings, a sight that moved the wind god to tears of gratitude.

Which goddess of beauty and war appears in FGO as an Archer in the body of Rin Tohsaka?

Ishtar is summoned as a Pseudo-Servant in a human body, and is also a goddess of Venus and of the good harvests that bring prosperity.

Which French marshal, Jeanne d'Arc's grieving comrade, uses a Holy Grail to create the vengeful Jeanne Alter in FGO?

Gilles de Rais fabricated her out of his own rage shortly after Jeanne's execution, so Jeanne Alter embodies his vengeance and not a real dark side.

Which medical pioneer, revered as the Angel of Crimea, serves the American Independence Army in FGO's Fifth Singularity?

Florence Nightingale meets the wounded player in a medical tent and at once prepares to amputate, until Mash heals them with a magic scroll.

Which Romanov grand duchess is the Caster summoned by Kadoc Zemlupus in FGO's Russian Lostbelt?

Anastasia made a contract with the fairy Viy as she lay dying, not to save her life but to kill those who had wronged her.

Which Chinese emperor, famed for seeking an elixir of life, reigns over FGO's Chinese Lostbelt as an immortal?

Qin Shi Huang succeeded in that quest in this timeline; he had once sent Xu Fu to sea with a fleet and 3,000 boys and girls to find the secret.

What name is given to the seven former Chaldea Master candidates who each oversee a Lostbelt in FGO's second arc?

Crypters were Chaldea's elite Team A, killed in the bombing that opens the game and later resurrected by the Alien God, who gave each a Lostbelt.

Which Latin motto of the United States gives its name to FGO's Fifth Singularity, a war across North America?

E Pluribus Unum, "out of many, one", titles a chapter set in 1783 and billed as the North American Myth War.

Which studio developed FGO from its launch until the game division was spun off as a new company, Lasengle?

Delightworks moved its whole game division, FGO team included, into Lasengle, whose shares were then acquired by the publisher Aniplex.

Which company released Fate/Grand Order Arcade in Japan, selling 10 million cards for it within a month?

Sega's arcade version swapped the mobile game's 2D sprites for 3D character models, and drew more than 300,000 players in Japan within months.

Which studio animated FGO's Babylonia TV series after fans voted that chapter their favourite quest?

CloverWorks went on to film the first arc's finale as well, with the main staff of the Babylonia series returning for it.

Which Japanese singer performed FGO's main theme songs, including the openings "Shikisai" and "Gyakko"?

Maaya Sakamoto also sang "Dokuhaku", or "Monologue", as the theme of the first Camelot film.

FGO grew out of a cancelled online game whose concepts were first reworked into which Fate novel?

Apocrypha absorbed ideas from the abandoned multiplayer project, and the 2014 revival that became FGO was codenamed "Fate Online Project Reboot".

Which writer of the original Fate/stay night revived a cancelled online game as FGO at Aniplex's suggestion?

Kinoko Nasu saw the idea shelved during planning, then revisited it in 2014 when Aniplex proposed reworking the concept into a mobile RPG.

Which Chinese company brought FGO to mainland China and drew most of its 2017 income from the game?

Bilibili later removed the artwork and most data for many Chinese-themed characters in 2021, after they were deemed historically incorrect.

What is the experimental time-travel technology Chaldea uses to send the player into the past in FGO?

Rayshift first carries the heroes back to 2004, to find out why humanity's future suddenly vanished from Chaldea's forecasts.

In FGO battles, what bonus is triggered by picking three Command Cards that all belong to the same Servant?

Brave Chain adds an extra, more powerful attack to the end of the turn, on top of whatever the three cards already did.

What are the equippable cards called that FGO players draw from the same summons as Servants for bonus effects?

Craft Essences have a Japanese name that literally means "Conceptual Formalwear", and give a Servant a small boost to HP and attack.