Vivian (ヴィヴィアン?, also spelled "Viviane"), the Lady of the LakeWP (湖の乙女WP, Mizūmi no Otome?), Class Name Caster (キャスター, Kyasutā?) is one of the seven Heroic Spirits summoned through Rounds of Lionheart in the True and False Holy Grail Wars.[4] She is a fairy known for bestowing Excalibur upon King Arthur. She is an alternate good personality of King Arthur's evil sister, Morgan le Fay.[3]
Profile
Background
Vivian was a Great Mother class fairy born in the inner sea of the planet.[5] Also known as the "fairy princess of the lake,"[6] Morgan le Fay was considered her counterpart, Vivian embodying goodness compared to Morgan's evil. This duality was also reflected in the nature of Excalibur itself.[7] It was believed by some that Merlin himself taught Vivian magecraft,[8] and they also had a love affair.[3]
It is thought Morgan inherited Vivian's Authority.[5] However, Vivian is in truth Morgan's alternate personality.[3] Morgan is described as being like she has three people within her. Having started with the "innocence of a fairy", she became "as magnificent as a warrior maiden", and "then suddenly possessed the brutality of a witch."[9] Vivian is one of these three personas. Morgan developed these three personalities as a way to reconcile the three roles enforced on her by her supernatural birth: Morgan the human, Artoria's caring sister; Vivian the fairy, the Lady of the Lake; and Morgan le Fay, the embodiment of Britain and holder of its Mystery.[3]
Vivian is also known as Nimue (ニミュエ, Nimyue?),[3] the fairy who raised Lancelot and gave him his sword Arondight.[10]
Vivian granted Artoria Pendragon Excalibur[6] and Rhongomyniad[11] after the loss of Caliburn. Vivian also became her guardian.[6] Near the end of Artoria's reign, when Merlin fled to Avalon to escape Vivian after scorning her, Vivian imprisoned him in a tower where he remains even now.[8][12]
As Artoria's dying wish, Excalibur was returned to Vivian by Bedivere.[6] According to legend, Vivian was one of the fairies who arrived to bring Artoria to Avalon after she died.[13]
The name of Summer Morgan's Noble Phantasm, Summer Pool Dozmary, indicates that Vivian's lake is Dozmary PoolWP.
Appearance
Personality
Vivian embodies goodness.[7] Ayaka Sajyou as a child reminded Arthur Pendragon of Vivian's kind and gentle voice.[14] However she can still be angered. When Merlin scorned her, Vivian's response was to pursue him as he fled to Avalon and then lay a trap for him that imprisoned him in a tower for eternity. Merlin describes himself trying to escape the "vicious claws of the witch".[12]
Role
Fate/stay night
Vivian in the Fate/stay night manga, illustrated by Dat Nishiwaki.
Vivian is briefly portrayed accepting the returned Excalibur at the end of the Fate/stay night manga adaptation of the Fate route.
Fate/strange Fake
Francesca Prelati and Francois Prelati refer to their teachers in magecraft as spirits who took interest in and watched Artoria through "water-viewing whispers," the duo feeling that Artoria's misfortune would upset their teachers. Merlin is noted to have taught their teachers magecraft.[15] While Prelati's teachers would have wanted to help Artoria in the Fourth Holy Grail War, they would have been unable to as there is not enough Mystery left in the world for them to reach Japan from Britain.[16]
She is summoned as a Caster through Richard I's Noble Phantasm Rounds of Lionheart under her alternate name, Nimue.[17] Initially, the first half of her name was obscured as ...ue (…ュエさん, …yue-san?).[18]
Other appearances
In Fate/Grand Order, Summer Archer Artoria named her Noble Phantasm after Vivian, Excalibur Vivian.
Abilities
Vivian is a Great Mother, a being equivalent to a Divided Spirit of the planet Earth's Soul and comparable to personified nature gods in scope.[5]
One receiving the blessing of Vivian possesses the ability to walk atop any body of water.[19] Her blessing on Lancelot in the form of the Knight of the Lake Skill allows him to temporarily add a + to any parameter other than Luck.[20]
The spell that she used to trap Merlin in his tower for the rest of time is known as the "Garden". A magic tomb bearing the inscription "Only those free of sin may pass", it is a powerful Bounded Field magecraft from the Age of Gods that is unable to be handled by anyone but the embodiment of Mystery.[3]
References
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: Interstellar Mountain City, Section 13: Thou, Disarray the Star Emotionally(V)
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Bradamante's Interlude: Dear Ancestor!
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Act II Intro
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Richard I's profile translated by ComunCoutinho
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Avalon le Fae: The Moment a Planet is Born, Section 4: Gloucester (I)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Fate/stay night - Saber profile
- ↑ 7.0 7.1
[] Fate/complete material II: Character material - Weapons: Black Excalibur, p.121 User: Saber
Excalibur’s appearance after being corrupted by evil. Excalibur functions by converting its user’s magical energy into offensive power. Because of this nature as a “sword that amplifies”, when Saber was blackened, Excalibur blackened with her.
In Arthurian legend, King Arthur received Excalibur from Vivian, a fairy of the lake. Just as the fairy Vivian who embodied goodness had her polar opposite in the evil Morgan, so too does Excalibur have the possibility of embodying both good and evil. However, whether Excalibur is filled with good or stained by evil, the fact that it is the strongest holy sword does not change.黒エクスカリバー
使用者：セイバー
エクスカリバーが悪の属性に染まった姿。エクスカリバーは所有者の魔力を取り込み攻撃力に変換し、増幅させ る剣であるため、セイバーの黒化に伴い聖剣も"黒化"した。
アーサー王伝説において、エクスカリバーは湖の妖精ヴィヴィアンがアーサー王に授けた剣である。湖の妖精に 善の属性を持つヴィヴィアンと、対極である悪の属性を持つモルガンが存在するように、妖精から授かったエク スカリバーも善と悪の両属性を持ちうる可能性があるのだろう。だがエクスカリバーが善悪どちらの属性に染ま ろうとも、これが聖剣の頂点に立つ最強の斬撃兵器であることに変わりはない。 - ↑ 8.0 8.1 Fate/Grand Order material IV - Merlin, p.396-409, translated by castor212 at Beast's Lair.
- ↑ Garden of Avalon - "A Tale of Knights: Kay"
- ↑ This reference needs to be fixed. Use "FGOSP2" instead of "Grand Order".
- ↑ Garden of Avalon
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Garden of Avalon - Prologue: At the Garden
- ↑ Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 2 Part 3
- ↑ Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver Volume 5 - "Knight of Fate Arc" Part 3-B
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 20: "Fantasy Becomes Reality"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Chapter 10: Day 2 "Separate Mornings, Separate Pasts I"
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Richard I (Saber) battles lines
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 7 - Chapter 22: "The First and Last Breather Day"
- ↑ Fate/Zero Volume 3: The Scattered Ones - Act 10 Part 1 -84:34:58
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Lancelot (Saber), Translation by Master of Chaos