Lev Goetia (レフ・ゲーティア?), Class Name Pretender (プリテンダー, Puritendā?), is a Pretender-class Servant appearing in the Grand Orders of Fate Grand Order. His False Name is SolomonWP (ソロモンWP, Soromon?), and he manifests as a Grand Caster (グランドキャスター, Gurando Kyasutā?) facing Ritsuka Fujimaru and the Chaldea Security Organization in a Grand Duel to grant Chaldea access to the Grand Caster Grand Graph and form a Servant contract with Ritsuka Fujimaru.
During the Human Order Incineration Incident, he adopted the appearance and name of Romani Archaman (ロマニ・アーキマン?), travelling through the Lostbelts under the alias The Chaldean (カルデアの者, Karudea no Mono?). His role was predominantly "behind the scenes," only studying and helping the humanity of each Lostbelt in minor ways, always acting against the interests of CHALDEAS in Fate/Grand Order.
Profile
Background
Known as the Chaldean originally, he officially adopted the name Romani Archaman during the South American Lostbelt. He is a mysterious individual claiming to be affiliated with Chaldea Security Organization.
He spends his time traveling through the Lostbelts ahead of the Shadow Border, helping the inhabitants and spreading the name of Chaldea. While appearing like Romani Archaman, Mash believes that he is not Romani due to the look in his eyes. Kirschtaria Wodime claims that he is pretending to be the doctor but not doing a good job at it.[3]
His true identity is Lev Lainur Flauros, the last survivor of Goetia's 72 Demon Gods who was thought to have died in the Final Singularity. In the battle of the Temple of Time, the members of Goetia learned the truth about Solomon and admitted defeat. That signified being appeased with the life story and determination of King Solomon, and holding no objections to their termination. [1]
However, Lev, the only one who was a friend of Romani Archaman rather than King Solomon, couldn't be okay with dying there. Lev Lainur, unable to come to terms with his termination due to his twisted friendship… respect and regret, rage and rivalry… to Romani Archaman, chose the path of the lone mage aiming to destroy the negative legacy of the previous Chaldea.[1]
"I stole that man's dream. Therefore, I ought to compensate him with enough labor to match the weight of such dream."[1]
Appearance
The Chaldean looks exactly like Romani Archaman, though his eyes are golden yellow, and the teal green of Roman's shirt and collar has been replaced by a plain black. Scars can be seen on both of his arms. It's commented on by all the inhabitants of each Lostbelt that he was dressed in a shabby white uniform and ragged cloak, which helps Ritsuka identify him when he appears before them in Atlantis.
As Pseudepigrapha Solomon, he looks like the real Solomon but with markings on his face and only one of Solomon's Rings on his hand.
Personality
Solomon on the outside and Goetia (one demon going by the name of the collective) on the inside. On the bleached Earth, he examined the Lostbelt under the guise of Romani Archaman and plotted his path toward destroying CHALDEAS. This resulted in him frequently getting there before Chaldea and casually saving the oppressed people before leaving. He was one of the few characters who knew CHALDEAS was the cause of all problems.
He claims to be nothing more than a substitute for Solomon in his duties. The 72 demons are long dead, convinced that their role was finished, but this one demon contested the idea that they were out of things to do, borrowed only one of the ten rings left behind on the throne, and descended to the bleached Earth. He refused to abandon mankind.
The demon took the appearance of Romani Archaman because he believed that if he eventually saved the world, Romani Archaman would be the one who deserved the credits for it. He believes that, being on the side who admitted defeat, none of the accomplishments in the remainder of his life belong to himself.[1]
Relationships
- David
- "Seriously, you have King David here? I already told you King Solomon was a pest, and that man is no different. The thoughts of the ancient kings match that of the last state of humanity, the ideas of the men of your future. Do not let his soft mannerisms deceive you."[2]
- Olga Marie Animusphere
- "Why did I make Olga Marie suffer so much? Did you expect me, the one who saw the human history past 2017, to be able to be sincerely nice to the Animusphere blood? All kindness I demonstrated was out of necessity to accomplish my great achievement... I must add, however, that my frustration then was not my rage against the Animuspheres. I was frustrated at her weakness. I had more hope in her than I logically should."[2]
- Gilgamesh
- "I see Uruk's procrastinator king. In the Temple of Time, he came to me to deliver a snobbish speech despite having not done any significant work. He only wanted to show off how he pieced together that my Logos as Beast I was Pity. That MORON's arrogance will be his downfall."[2]
- Miyamoto Musashi
- "That swordswoman concluded her duties, huh? ... No, I don't need to ask for details. I can already imagine it was a magnificent end, like a large flower losing its petals to the wind."[2]
Role
Fate/Grand Order
Cosmos in the Lostbelt
Anastasia: Permafrost Empire
The Chaldean appeared in a village without warning while bandits were attacking it. He approached the bandits, and demanded to know their reasons for attacking the village. They attacked him in response, but despite being surrounded, the Chaldean sliced off the bandits' limbs in an instant. The bandits who were left ran away in terror. The Chaldean then treated the wounded Yaga, and headed for the mountains.[4]
Götterdämmerung: Eternal Icy Fire Century
The Chaldean repaired the bounded fields around Villages 23 and 67 keeping Giants out.[5] He also served as Napoleon Bonaparte's source of information, teaching him all about the Lostbelt and hinted at Brynhildr's summoning by reciting her legend.[6]
SIN: Synchronized Intellect Nation
After Qin Shi Huang's defeat, the Chaldean appeared to tell civilians hiding in a cave that it was now safe to come out.[7]
Yuga Kshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus
The Chaldean healed a village suffering from disease, and contemplated how odd it was that they wanted to reward him, an outsider, despite them having very little to spare. He was unable to comprehend why they were reacting to him differently than other people he had known in the past despite him doing the same thing he had always done, and wondered if maybe it was due to how he looks.[8]
Atlantis: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnought Gods
The Chaldean speaks with Miyamoto Musashi when Chaldea first arrives in the Lostbelt, telling her that he doesn't think they will be capable of defeating this Lostbelt as they had the others.[9]
He saves Ritsuka from being killed by Kirschtaria after the Crypter single-handedly defeated their Servants. Kirschtaria retreats to avoid a fight with him, commenting the Chaldean's impression of Romani is poor. The Chaldean then transports Ritsuka's party to a beach. He tells them not to speak of this encounter with the Border crew, warning there is one amongst them they cannot trust.[3]
Olympus: Interstellar Mountainous City
Musashi recounts to Fujimaru and Mash how she first met the Chaldean on the white, wiped-clean Earth after she left the Russian Lostbelt. The two of them journeyed to Atlantis together.[10]
Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain
The Chaldean enters Morgan's throne room in Camelot a few hours after Fujimaru, da Vinci, and Artoria leave. Morgan had set up wraith-repelling wards, but while he claims they were well-crafted, he didn't have time to waste with them. Calling himself a man who can only do things to the extent that a human can, he can't afford to go places he has no business being in.[11]
When Morgan asks if he has come to stop her from destroying Proper Human History, his response is no. The Chaldean tells her to destroy it if she can, because the planet collapsing from Morgan's plans is preferable to the future the Alien God has planned for it. The only reason he came to the Lostbelt was to see her praiseworthy work. After her 2,000 years of work, as someone who once stood in her place, the Chaldean wished to applaud how Morgan brought her world about.[11]
As he leaves, he does warn Morgan that while Chaldea and the Child of Prophecy cannot stop her, if a third party appears they just might.[11]
Nahui Mictlan: Golden Sea of Trees
The Chaldean told Tepeu about Chaldea, the Lostbelts, and Proper Human History.
The Chaldean rescues Fujimaru and an amnesiac U-Olga Marie from feral deinos. Fujimaru accuses him of going by Romani's name, which he acknowledges though says it is not a true reflection of his identity, but it's what inside that counts. Fujimaru tells him to stop using it because he doesn't deserve the name, but the Chaldean doesn't comply.[12]
When he realizes that Fujimaru has lost their Command Spells, he informs them that since they are no longer a Master they can no longer summon any more Servants, and so need a new survival strategy. Now that Fujimaru is no longer a Master, the Chaldean says that he no longer has business with them and begins to leave, but when Fujimaru asks where Mash is, he does tell them where she landed after leaping from the destruction of the Storm Border.[12]
As he leaves, the Chaldean tells Fujimaru that if humanity is able to destroy all seven Lostbelts, then he will finally acknowledge them as his enemy. Although he doubts they can defeat Daybit Sem Void and ORT. After he leaves, U-Olga asks if he's even a living being, since she detected no emotional wavelength from him and he didn't acknowledge her.[12]
After Chaldea fells the Lostbelt, the Chaldean meets with Grigori Rasputin on the bleached white Earth. Rasputin asks him what he will do now, since he said Chaldea would become his enemy if they cleared all seven Lostbelts, to which the Chaldean admits he was wrong. He thought that they would side with the Alien World CHALDEAS and Marisbury Animusphere in his plot, but sees now that they are also Marisbury's and the Alien World's enemies, just as he is.
The Chaldean also reveals that there are seven Apostles of the Alien World in total. Three to monitor the Crypters: the Priest, the Atlas-slayer, and the Malignant Incarnation. Three to monitor Chaldea: the Detective, the Professor, and the Count. And finally their leader, the God. U-Olga Marie probably didn't even realize herself that she was just a Servant of the true mastermind.
With two Apostles left, Rasputin and the Count, the Chaldean asks Rasputin if he intends to stop Chaldea. Rasputin says that he could do so, but it his not his place for they are their own stumbling block. If they cannot reckon with what they've accumulated so far, they will surely be put to judgment by Human Order itself.
Ordeal Call
Ordeal Call Prologue
When Novum Chaldea arrives at Antarctica, they find themselves blocked by a massive barrier similar to Galahad's Lord Camelot and powered by the Human Order itself, preventing them from reaching Chaldea's old base. The Chaldean appears on the Storm Border and informs them that it is a wall refusing to admit foreign bodies past now that CHALDEAS has begun its Human Order Assurance, and Novum Chaldea themselves no longer count as part of Proper Human History. This is due to them abusing Extra-class Servants, things outside of the Human Order's normal seven classes: Ruler, Avenger, and Alter Ego. Because they have used those impossible classes so much, Novum Chaldea is now being perceived as foreign entities themselves.
The Chaldean tells them that they must correct this distortion in order to approach CHALDEAS. They must uncover why these impossible attributes exist, and how their weapons and character can be of service to human history. Upon understanding and assessing this, Novum Chaldea will no longer be considered foreign. The Chaldean says that there are four distorted regions called Ordeal Calls, then corrects himself and says there are only three, and upon completing them the truth of the Celestial Sphere CHALDEAS will come to light.
Final Chapter Prologue
The Chaldean once more meets Chaldea on the deck of the Storm Border. He challenges them to a fight inside the Temple of Time, saying that if they defeat him, he will join them for the final battle. With that, he transforms into the Grand Caster: Pseudepigrapha Solomon. During the battle he summons Grand Saber Lord Logres to fight alongside him.
After the Chaldean is defeated, he agrees to form a contract with Fujimaru as a Pretender-class Servant. Mash asks whether to call him Romani, Goetia, or Lev, and he says that just "Solomon" will do. He explains to Chaldea that rather than fight CHALDEAS they should instead take over its controls, swap its and Earth's Textures back to normal, and then shut CHALDEAS down. However, they have a time limit: once CHALDEAS becomes the "real Earth" it will be impossible to swap the Textures back to normal. He then states that their limit is December 20th.
Flame Contaminated City: Fuyuki
As the Storm Border approaches the location of Chaldea's base, they discover that there is only a crater where the base used to be. They fear that they have nothing else to do now that they can't reach CHALDEAS, until "Solomon" reminds them that they have another way to reach it: long ago, in Singularity F, he as Lev had opened a portal connecting that Singularity to Chaldea's base, through which he had sent Olga Marie into CHALDEAS. By returning to Fuyuki and reaching that portal which still existed, they could return to Chaldea's base.[13] With Cú Chulainn working inside the Singularity and "Solomon" working outside it, they are able to bring the portal to Antarctica and open the way for the Storm Border to reach CHALDEAS.[14]
During the confrontation with Maris CHALDEAS at the core of CHALDEAS-Earth, it is revealed to Novum Chaldea that their world is actually a Lostbelt, and defeating CHALDEAS and reverting everything will also mean destroying their world as they had done to the previous Lostbelts. When Fujimaru resolves to keep fighting despite that and see the mission through to the end, "Solomon" joins the fight beside them.[15]
As the inhabitants of the Lostbelts begin fighting back against Maris CHALDEAS' Fantasy Trees, Maris CHALDEAS attacks Novum Chaldea with blasts of light. The Chaldean defends them, bending the light and redirecting it away from the Storm Border. He identifies the reason that Servants from Proper Human History cannot be summoned is Maris CHALDEAS is using Goetia's Nega-Summon. With his textbox now identifying himself as Lev Goetia, he uses Ars Nova to get rid of the last remnants of Solomon and therefore Goetia, including both himself and Nega-Summon. Lev's sacrifice opens the way for Servants to arrive and help in the fight against Beast VII just as they had against Beast I before.[16]
Abilities
The Chaldean is allegedly not a Servant according to Mandricardo. He declares he would fight Kirschtaria to save Chaldea despite Kirschtaria's overwhelming power in the Atlantic Lostbelt, Kirschtaria agreeing to back down to avoid such a conflict.[3] He reveals in the South America Lostbelt that he does not believe Chaldea to be a threat to him, but also that if they are able to defeat Daybit and the last Lostbelt then they will become his enemy. According to U-Olga, he does not have brain waves and she questions if he's even a living being. He is somehow able to travel to each individual Lostbelt, something limited to the Shadow Border, the authority of gods, and those granted authority by the Alien God. The Chaldean is said to have used a thin sword in the Russian Lostbelt, and was so skilled with it that he was able to slice off the limbs of a surrounding Yaga raiding party in an instant.[4] He was able to repair a wall in a village and erect a Bounded Field equal to the previous Age of Gods Rune magecraft Bounded Field in the Scandinavian Lostbelt. [5] Chaldean was able to remove Kirschtaria Wodime's Ultimate Magecraft of Astrology spell while saving Ritsuka and her servants, and was even able to make Kirschtaria Wodime to retreat.[3] During his Grand Duel, Solomon was at a level capable of summoning a Grand Servant as powerful as Lord Logres.
Some of his spells are performed by invoking the names of Demon Gods, namely Zagan, Andrealphus, Kimaris, Valac, and Orias.[17]
Skills
Class Skills
- Territory Creation (D Rank): Constructs a territory advantageous to his magecraft. His capacity to build the Temple of Israel would put him at the top class of Territory Creation. This is a considerable downgrade from the original Solomon's A rank. That's because what counts as territory to Goetia is King Solomon and his throne, and with both lost, he's down to the common mage's level.[1]
- Item Construction (- Rank): To craft tools laced with magical energy. He was previously skilled enough to forge Holy Grails, but this skill is now completely lost.[1]
- High-Speed Incantation (EX Rank): The ability to speed up magecraft chants. His chant speed was originally average, but it currently reached a stage comparable to High-Speed Divine Words. Because he's now Goetia on the inside, the shortcoming he had in life… his weak personality… is no longer there.[1]
- Independent Manifestation (E Rank): The ability to manifest in the world of the living without external aid. A Skill he previously had at the highest rank and logically should have lost after Solomon's final passing. The 72 demons died after accepting they were no longer needed… that it was unnecessary to save humanity on a systemic level… but one demon alone crawled out of the gutter believing that there was one mission left to be done.[1]
Personal Skills
- Imaginary Number Satchel (A Rank): Magecraft exclusive to this version of Solomon. He creates Imaginary Space in his own shadow and uses the resources he had previously stored inside it to his combat advantage. His stockpile includes not only weapons and remedies, but also fortuity. Look at that gush of crit stars![1]
- Solomon's Rings (E Rank): Ten rings given by God for his ten fingers. Proof he's the king and the progenitor of magecraft. Lacks their past almightiness since there's only one of them. Nine rings were left behind in the throne with no king. When the ring is returned to the throne, the miracle will shine in full brightness once more.[1]
- Ashes of the Human King (EX Rank): Short-lived as it may have been, the system created to supplement Human Order once reached the status of King of Humanity. Sprinkling his ashes grants super effectiveness against the Human Order.[1]
- Clairvoyance (D Rank): Downgraded from what the original Solomon had, but he still has the power of distant sight, at the very least.[1] He tells Musashi in the Atlantic Lostbelt that his eyes don't see a future with her in it.[9]
- Nega-Summon (- Rank): In Proper Human History, he has lost the Authority of the Beast.[1]
Noble Phantasms
Solomon's Noble Phantasms are Ars Almadel Salomonis, Ars Paulina and Ars Nova
Development
Creation and Conception
Solomon was designed by Takashi Takeuchi in Fate/Grand Order.
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Fate/Grand Order - Solomon (Pretender)'s Profile, translated by ComunCoutinho
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Fate/Grand Order - Solomon's Voice Lines, translated by Reddit User ComunCoutinho
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Atlantis: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnought Gods - Section 11: Glimmers Like a Meteor
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Anastasia: Permafrost Empire, Section 6: Those from Chaldea
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Götterdämmerung: Eternal Ice-Flame Century - Section 10: Like the Spring Sunshine (Middle)
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Götterdämmerung: Eternal Ice-Flame Century - Section 12: You, Who Was Like The Spring Sunshine
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - SIN: The Synchronized Intellect Nation - Section 16: Crimson Beauty Under the Moon
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yuga Kshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 11: Treta Yuga/Asclepius, the God of Medicine
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Atlantis: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnought Gods - Prologue
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City - Section 5: Thou Art the Harvest that Reaps the Stars(II)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: Fae Round Table Domain - Section 10: Camelot
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Nahui Mictlan: Golden Sea of Trees Travelogue - Section 2: Golden Rainforest
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Final Chapter: Fuyuki - Chapter 1: Antarctica
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Final Chapter: Fuyuki - Chapter 2: Fuyuki, the Original Singularity
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Final Chapter: Fuyuki - Chapter 5: Ø
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Final Chapter: Fuyuki - Chapter 6: Neverending Meteor Shower
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Solomon's voicelines, translated by Smoof101


