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* CentralTheme: ''Hell''. While Chiemon's assertions that this Singularity is Hell could be dismissed as his typical ramblings, the assertions of Rogue Ruler are less easy to ignore. They point out that the Protagonist has travelled through several iterations of the Underworld at this point, and every non-Servant that's appeared in the story so far, with the (possible?) exception of Shousetsu, is someone who died in the "Entreat the Darkness" route of ''Samurai Remnant''.
* CloneDegeneration: Shousetsu's clones all have memories from different points in her life, none of them with the complete story. This leaves the vast majority of them as barely functional {{Broken Record}}s, and the ones that ''do'' have sapience lack the crucial memories of their "Servant" Ushi Gozen having ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
* CloneDegeneration: Shousetsu's clones all have memories from different points in her life, none of them with the complete story. This leaves the vast majority of them as barely functional {{Broken Record}}s, and the ones that ''do'' have sapience lack the crucial memories of their "Servant" Ushi Gozen having ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
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* CentralTheme: ''Hell''. While Chiemon's assertions that this Singularity is Hell could be dismissed as his typical ramblings, the assertions of Rogue Ruler are less easy to ignore. They point ignore when he points out that the Protagonist has travelled through several iterations of the Underworld at this point, and by now. Additionally, every non-Servant that's appeared human character from ''Samurai Remnant'' that appears in the story so far, with the (possible?) exception of Shousetsu, event is someone who died in the "Entreat the Darkness" route of ''Samurai Remnant''.
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* CloneDegeneration: Shousetsu's clones all have memories from different points in her life, none of them with the complete story. This leaves the vast majority of them as barely functional {{Broken Record}}s, the few sapient ones lacking the crucial knowledge of "Rider's" ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, and the
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The story takes place after the "Entreat the Darkness" ending in ''Fate/Samurai Remnant'', specifically implied to be following the "Ray of Light" path before the fateful diverging choice of Iori not destroying the Waxing Moon[[note]]It's explicitly made notice that the "Masters" are in fact the Servant selves of those who died during the ritual. Chiemon, Shousetsu, Tsuchimikado, and Iori all died or would soon die on this particular combination of route and ending, while Dayu, Zheng, and Dorothea all survived and don't appear in the Singularity. Dorothea's survival in particular is only possible following the "Ray of Light" path.[[/note]]
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The story takes place after the "Entreat the Darkness" ending in ''Fate/Samurai Remnant'', specifically implied to be following the "Ray of Light" path before the fateful diverging choice of Iori not destroying the Waxing Moon[[note]]It's Moon.[[note]]It's explicitly made notice clear that the "Masters" are in fact the Servant selves of those who died during the ritual. Chiemon, Shousetsu, Tsuchimikado, and Iori all died or would soon die on this particular combination of route and ending, while Dayu, Zheng, and Dorothea all survived and don't appear in the Singularity. Dorothea's survival in particular is only possible following the "Ray of Light" path.[[/note]]
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** Longtime ''Fate'' viewers/players will also know that the Waxing Moon Ritual is a blatant ripoff of the Holy Grail War, but the ''Samurai Remnant'' cast has no way of knowing that. They finally get the proper context after chatting with Chaldea.
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** Longtime ''Fate'' viewers/players will also know that the Waxing Moon Ritual is a blatant ripoff of the Holy Grail War, War crafted by Tsuchimikado, but outside of Tsuchimikado himself, the rest of the ''Samurai Remnant'' cast in the event has no way of knowing that. They finally get the proper context after chatting with Chaldea.
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** The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. On the flipside, any mention of the Count being the GreaterScopeVillain (along with dialogue from the man himself) is omitted unless the player has defeated Flare-Olga Marie (the then-latest Main Story content), as that is where the Count is first introduced.
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** The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. On the flipside, any mention of the Count being the GreaterScopeVillain (along with dialogue from the man himself) is omitted unless the player has defeated Flare-Olga Flare E-Olga Marie (the then-latest Main Story content), as that is where the Count is first introduced.
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** ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has been hallucinating.
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** ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has been hallucinating.insists isn't empty.
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* WhamShot: Musashi appearing as a Shadow Servant as the PostFinalBoss. This should be ''impossible'', considering that Musashi was [[RetGone completely erased from reality]] at the end of Olympus. And yet she was somehow not only able to appear for one final duel against her prized student, but even guide him to Chaldea afterwards.
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* WhamShot: Musashi appearing as a Shadow Servant as the PostFinalBoss. This should be ''impossible'', considering that Musashi was [[RetGone completely erased from reality]] at the end of Olympus.Olympus and Iori has lost all memory of him/her. And yet she was somehow not only able to appear for one final duel against her prized student, but even guide him to Chaldea afterwards.
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* PostFinalBoss: The last Digression Quest, which unlocks Iori permanently, is a DuelBoss between Iori and a Shadow Servant of Musashi.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The story takes place after the "Entreat the Darkness" ending in ''Fate/Samurai Remnant''.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The story takes place after the "Entreat the Darkness" ending in ''Fate/Samurai Remnant''.Remnant'', specifically implied to be following the "Ray of Light" path before the fateful diverging choice of Iori not destroying the Waxing Moon[[note]]It's explicitly made notice that the "Masters" are in fact the Servant selves of those who died during the ritual. Chiemon, Shousetsu, Tsuchimikado, and Iori all died or would soon die on this particular combination of route and ending, while Dayu, Zheng, and Dorothea all survived and don't appear in the Singularity. Dorothea's survival in particular is only possible following the "Ray of Light" path.[[/note]]
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* WhamShot: Musashi appearing as a Shadow Servant as the PostFinalBoss. This should be ''impossible'', considering that Musashi was [[RetGone completely erased from reality]] at the end of Olympus. And yet she was somehow not only able to appear for one final duel against her prized student, but even guide him to Chaldea afterwards.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Iori ends up in possession of the Waxing Moon after everything is said and done, understandably putting Takeru on edge... but he just hands the imitation Holy Grail off to the Protagonist, reasoning to himself that his still-missing memories were excised because he'd already gotten what he wanted to wish for before he died.
* CloneDegeneration: Shousetsu's clones all have memories from different points in her life, none of them with the complete story. This leaves the vast majority of them as barely functional {{Broken Record}}s, and the ones that ''do'' have sapience lack the crucial memories of their "Servant" Ushi Gozen having ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
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* DebutQueue: Miyamoto Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui Shousetsu are summonable for a limited time as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.)
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* DebutQueue: Miyamoto Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui Shousetsu are summonable for a limited time as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.Servant just before the event.)
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* JerkassToOne: [[VitriolicBestBuds Not that Takeru was warm and fluffy to Iori before]], but they are noticeably colder to him after the events of "Entreat the Darkness".
* InternalReveal: Back in ''Samurai Remnant'''s "Entreat the Darkness" ending, the main characters weren't given the chance to learn Shousetsu's true nature as a Homunculus. They find out here.
* InternalReveal: Back in ''Samurai Remnant'''s "Entreat the Darkness" ending, the main characters weren't given the chance to learn Shousetsu's true nature as a Homunculus. They find out here.
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* JerkassToOne: [[VitriolicBestBuds Not that Takeru was warm and fluffy to Iori before]], but they are noticeably colder to him after the events of "Entreat the Darkness".
Darkness". They get better in the ending.
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** Back in ''Samurai Remnant'''s "Entreat the Darkness" ending, the main characters weren't given the chance to learn Shousetsu's true nature as a Homunculus. They find outhere.here.
** Longtime ''Fate'' viewers/players will also know that the Waxing Moon Ritual is a blatant ripoff of the Holy Grail War, but the ''Samurai Remnant'' cast has no way of knowing that. They finally get the proper context after chatting with Chaldea.
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** Back in ''Samurai Remnant'''s "Entreat the Darkness" ending, the main characters weren't given the chance to learn Shousetsu's true nature as a Homunculus. They find out
** Longtime ''Fate'' viewers/players will also know that the Waxing Moon Ritual is a blatant ripoff of the Holy Grail War, but the ''Samurai Remnant'' cast has no way of knowing that. They finally get the proper context after chatting with Chaldea.
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** The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. On the flipside, any mention of the Count being the GreaterScopeVillain (along with dialogue from the man himself) is omitted unless the player has defeated Flare-Olga Marie, the fight where the Count is first introduced.
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** The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. On the flipside, any mention of the Count being the GreaterScopeVillain (along with dialogue from the man himself) is omitted unless the player has defeated Flare-Olga Marie, the fight Marie (the then-latest Main Story content), as that is where the Count is first introduced.
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* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway. It's only after the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness begins to do something outside of his scope that he does something helpful.
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* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway. It's only after the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness begins to do something outside of his scope that he does something helpful.moves to stop it.
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* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Despite the early [[OffTheRails derailing]], the basic story formula of ''Samurai Remnant'' remains intact: learn the context of the Waxing Moon Ritual, take over Spirit Fonts, befriend Rogue Servants, fight off monsters/enemy Servants, rinse and repeat until the FinalBoss EldritchAbomination is taken down.
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* [[HumanResources Homunculus Resources]]: Servant Shousetsu has a second Noble Phantasm that embodies the ideal of a pure, heavenly world free of problems, which takes the form of it being filled with "perfected humans" -- in other words, [[MesACrowd thousands of her homunculus self]]. She's being forced to deploy it against her will by Ushi Gozen to form the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness in a horrifying scene that looks like it came straight out of ''[[Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]''.
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* RefusedByTheCall: Every Chaldean Servant is unable to enter the Singularity, even ''Mash''. Interestingly this turns out to have been a good thing, because part of Ushi Gozen's master plan was to steal ''[[ImmortalBreaker the Black Barrel]]'' and lured Chaldea to the Singularity to that end; da Vinci quickly puzzles out that either the Count, Rogue Ruler, or the Counter Force itself explicitly restricted Mash to stop this problem before it started.
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* BigBad: Ushi Gozen feigns loyalty to her Master this time. She's a filthy liar. No one is surprised.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Shousetsu and Chiemon, who are already fully familiar with Iori. Something also appears to be off with Takeru and the Crimson Codex, who seem unable to clearly recall the Rogue Servants of the previous Waxing Moon Ritual until they're given a definitive hint.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. When Ushi Gozen is confronted about the nature of the Singularity, her response differs depending on main story progress: a new player's Protagonist will label her as being vaguely in league with the Foreign God, but a player that has defeated Flare-Olga Marie will have Ushi Gozen explicitly namedrop the Count as the GreaterScopeVillain.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. When Ushi Gozen is confronted about the nature of the Singularity, her response differs depending on main story progress: a new player's Protagonist will label her as being vaguely in league with the Foreign God, but a player that has defeated Flare-Olga Marie will have Ushi Gozen explicitly namedrop the Count as the GreaterScopeVillain.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway.
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* InternalReveal: Back in ''Samurai Remnant'''s "Entreat the Darkness" ending, the main characters weren't given the chance to learn Shousetsu's true nature as a Homunculus. They find out here.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Shousetsu and Chiemon, who are already fully familiar withIori. Something also appears to be off with Takeru and the Crimson Codex, who seem unable to clearly recall the Rogue Servants of the previous Waxing Moon Ritual until they're given a definitive hint.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: For both of the games involved in the crossover.
** The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is.When Ushi Gozen is confronted about On the nature flipside, any mention of the Singularity, her response differs depending on main story progress: a new player's Protagonist will label her as Count being vaguely in league the GreaterScopeVillain (along with dialogue from the Foreign God, but a man himself) is omitted unless the player that has defeated Flare-Olga Marie will have Ushi Gozen explicitly namedrop Marie, where the Count as is first encountered.
** There is no attempt whatsoever to hide plot elements specific to ''Samurai Remnant''. Not only is it blatantly obvious which ending theGreaterScopeVillain.
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* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway. It's only after the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness begins to do something outside of his scope that he does something helpful.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Shousetsu and Chiemon, who are already fully familiar with
* LateArrivalSpoiler: For both of the games involved in the crossover.
** The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is.
** There is no attempt whatsoever to hide plot elements specific to ''Samurai Remnant''. Not only is it blatantly obvious which ending the
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway. It's only after the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness begins to do something outside of his scope that he does something helpful.
* SincerestFormOfFlattery: The Singularity's similarities to [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS3MI3Heiankyo Heian-kyo]], both as measured by Chaldea and as seen by the Protagonist, are not a coincidence. The Count rehashed it on purpose.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has been hallucinating.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: ''Twice.''
** ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has beenhallucinating.hallucinating.
** Shousetsu then gets it even worse. Just before she dies, she learns that she's not even the real Servant Shousetsu; that one is currently sealed in the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness deploying her [[MesACrowd clones en masse]], and the one we see die is just another of the clones.
** ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has been
** Shousetsu then gets it even worse. Just before she dies, she learns that she's not even the real Servant Shousetsu; that one is currently sealed in the Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness deploying her [[MesACrowd clones en masse]], and the one we see die is just another of the clones.
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: Once it becomes clear that Ushi Gozen is (once again) going by the beat of her own drum, Shousetsu uses her Command Seals to order Ushi Gozen to commit suicide effective immediately, and order that has no loopholes for her to exploit like last time... but it fails for an entirely different reason: [[TomatoInTheMirror Shousetsu never HAD Command Seals here and was hallucinating them.]]
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: Once it becomes clear that Ushi Gozen is (once again) going by the beat of her own drum, Shousetsu uses her Command Seals to order Ushi Gozen to commit suicide effective immediately, and an order that has no loopholes for her to exploit like last time... but it fails for an entirely different reason: [[TomatoInTheMirror Shousetsu never HAD Command Seals here and was hallucinating them.]]Seals]].
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. When Ushi Gozen is confronted about the nature of the Singularity, her response differs depending on main story progress: a new player will label her has been vaguely in league with the Foreign God, but a player that has defeated Flare-Olga Marie will have Ushi Gozen explicitly namedrop the Count as the GreaterScopeVillain.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. When Ushi Gozen is confronted about the nature of the Singularity, her response differs depending on main story progress: a new player player's Protagonist will label her has been as being vaguely in league with the Foreign God, but a player that has defeated Flare-Olga Marie will have Ushi Gozen explicitly namedrop the Count as the GreaterScopeVillain.
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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Chiemon, as usual, is a violent lunatic who insists that the Singularity they're in is Hell and that he's somehow the OnlySaneMan after seeing how deep Iori's amnesia runs. Naturally no one pays his ramblings any mind... except Chiemon ends up being ''completely right''; [[TomatoInTheMirror everyone in the Singularity except for the Protagonist is a Servant, and Chiemon is the ONLY "Master" who realized this.]]
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. If a player is in ''Ordeal Call'' then Ushi-Gozen will also mention the Count.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen Ushi Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is. If When Ushi Gozen is confronted about the nature of the Singularity, her response differs depending on main story progress: a new player will label her has been vaguely in league with the Foreign God, but a player is in ''Ordeal Call'' then Ushi-Gozen that has defeated Flare-Olga Marie will also mention have Ushi Gozen explicitly namedrop the Count.Count as the GreaterScopeVillain.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: Chiemon is the only Master in the Singularity who knows what's really going on and ''isn't'' part of the greater plot. But he's not obligated to help stop it, because the Waxing Moon going haywire and bleeding into the world outside the Singularity is exactly what Chiemon wants, so he opposes Chaldea anyway.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. While this happens for most of the Rogue Servants in the Waxing Moon Ritual, [=Boss/Gilgamesh=] has been replaced by a completely new character who couldn't be ''any more different'' from the prideful King of Heroes: a calm and polite chap with golden-eyes, tanned skin, blue hair, and Indian-style clothing. This "Rogue Ruler" actually takes his role of observing and arbitrating the ritual seriously, and he knows a concerning amount of details about the Protagonist having brushes with multiple Underworlds.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. While this happens for most of the Rogue Servants in the Waxing Moon Ritual, [=Boss/Gilgamesh=] has been replaced by a completely new character who couldn't be ''any more different'' from the prideful King of Heroes: a calm and polite chap with golden-eyes, tanned skin, blue hair, and Indian-style clothing. This "Rogue Ruler" actually takes his role of observing and arbitrating the ritual seriously, and he knows a concerning amount of details about the Protagonist having brushes with multiple Underworlds.Underworlds.
* TomatoInTheMirror: ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has been hallucinating.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Once it becomes clear that Ushi Gozen is (once again) going by the beat of her own drum, Shousetsu uses her Command Seals to order Ushi Gozen to commit suicide effective immediately, and order that has no loopholes for her to exploit like last time... but it fails for an entirely different reason: [[TomatoInTheMirror Shousetsu never HAD Command Seals here and was hallucinating them.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: ''Everyone'' is a Servant, including the "Masters" who aren't really Masters at all. The Protagonist is the only living being in the whole Singularity. Everyone is floored by this reveal, ''especially'' Shousetsu who outright shows us her Command Seals to prove it wrong... only for everyone else to see an empty wrist and draw the conclusion that Shousetsu has been hallucinating.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Once it becomes clear that Ushi Gozen is (once again) going by the beat of her own drum, Shousetsu uses her Command Seals to order Ushi Gozen to commit suicide effective immediately, and order that has no loopholes for her to exploit like last time... but it fails for an entirely different reason: [[TomatoInTheMirror Shousetsu never HAD Command Seals here and was hallucinating them.]]
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen what a Tree of Emptiness is.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen mentioning Caster of Limbo or what a Tree of Emptiness is.is. If a player is in ''Ordeal Call'' then Ushi-Gozen will also mention the Count.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen mentioning the Count or what a Tree of Emptiness is.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen mentioning the Count or what a Tree of Emptiness is.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The event requires you to beat just Fuyuki to play it, but the story takes place all the way in ''Ordeal Call''. A new player isn't going understand Ushi-Gozen mentioning the Count or what a Tree of Emptiness is.
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* OffTheRails: The story appears to be a WholePlotReference to ''[=Fate/Samurai Remnant=]'' at first, but things swiftly derail in the second chapter when it's shown that Iori is '''not''' a Master and Takeru is instead a Rogue Servant. Discrepancies continue to mount from the apparent absence of Masters with only Shousetsu, Chiemon, and Giant Ghost!Tsuchimikado making an appearance, as well as the Rogue Servants having been replaced with counterparts that don't match the original's Class.
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* OffTheRails: The story appears to be a WholePlotReference to ''[=Fate/Samurai Remnant=]'' at first, but things swiftly derail in the second chapter when it's shown that Iori is '''not''' a Master and Takeru is instead a Rogue Servant. Discrepancies continue to mount from the apparent absence of Masters with only Shousetsu, Chiemon, and Tsuchimikado as a Giant Ghost!Tsuchimikado Ghost making an appearance, as well as the Rogue Servants having been replaced with counterparts that don't match the original's Class.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. While this happens for most of the Rogue Servants in the Waxing Moon Ritual, [=Boss/Gilgamesh=] has been replaced by a completely new character who couldn't be ''any more different'' from the prideful King of Heroes: a calm and polite chap with golden-eyes, tanned skin, blue hair, and Indian-style clothing. This "Rogue Ruler" actually pays takes his role of observing and arbitrating the ritual seriously, and he knows a concerning amount of details about the Protagonist having brushes with multiple Underworlds.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. While this happens for most of the Rogue Servants in the Waxing Moon Ritual, [=Boss/Gilgamesh=] has been replaced by a completely new character who couldn't be ''any more different'' from the prideful King of Heroes: a calm and polite chap with golden-eyes, tanned skin, blue hair, and Indian-style clothing. This "Rogue Ruler" actually pays takes his role of observing and arbitrating the ritual seriously, and he knows a concerning amount of details about the Protagonist having brushes with multiple Underworlds.
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The Waxing Moon Ritual nears its end, with only two Servants remaining. The Rogue Archer, Tomoe Gozen, fights valiantly against her foe... but ultimately falls to the might of Rider. But what should've been a victory is instead heralded by Edo's leylines shifting, summoning a new batch of Rogue Servants in place of the old. Rider's Master, Yui Shousetsu, is becoming annoyed -- this pattern has been repeated several times now, and they're no closer to achieving their goal of a just world than before. Rider theorizes that the Waxing Moon will only be sated by Servants summoned by proper Masters, not the Rogues, but Yui irritably points out that there ''are'' no other Masters...
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The Waxing Moon Ritual nears its end, with only two Servants remaining. The Rogue Archer, Tomoe Gozen, fights valiantly against her foe... but ultimately falls to the might of Rider. But what should've been a victory is instead heralded by Edo's leylines shifting, summoning a new batch of Rogue Servants in place of the old. Rider's Master, Yui Shousetsu, is becoming annoyed -- this pattern has been repeated several times now, and they're no closer to achieving their goal of a just world than before. Rider theorizes that the Waxing Moon will only be sated by Servants summoned by proper Masters, not the Rogues, but Yui Shousetsu irritably points out that there ''are'' no other Masters...
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu and Chiemon are the only ones to get their original Servants again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in with ties to the original Servant (where applicable). The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Spartacus as the Berserker, because they know Musashi reprising her role is [[DeaderThanDead impossible]].
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* CentralTheme: ''Hell''. While Chiemon's assertions that this Singularity is Hell could be dismissed as his typical ramblings, the assertions of Rogue Ruler are less easy to ignore. They point out that the Protagonist has travelled through several iterations of the Underworld at this point, and every non-Servant that's appeared in the story so far, with the (possible?) exception of Shousetsu, is someone who died in the "Entreat the Darkness" route of ''Samurai Remnant''.
* ClosestThingWeGot:While the Masters from The Servants seen in ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed switched up. Shousetsu and Chiemon are the only ones Masters to get their original Servants again, and Takeru is now the a Rogue Saber; Servant; everyone else is a fill-in with ties to the original Servant (where applicable). The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Spartacus as the Berserker, because they know Musashi reprising her role is [[DeaderThanDead impossible]].
* ClosestThingWeGot:
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Shousetsu and Chiemon, who are already fully familiar with Iori.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Given the ending of the "Entreat the Darkness" route in ''Samurai Remnant'', Takeru and Gramps are understandably reluctant to fill in any blanks for the amnesiac Iori. The pensiveness triples when Iori remembers his swordplay from ''Samurai Remnant'''s endgame, confirming to Takeru that this is actually the same Iori and not an AlternateTimeline equivalent.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Given the ending of the "Entreat the Darkness" route in ''Samurai Remnant'', Takeru and Gramps are understandably reluctant to fill in any blanks for the amnesiac Iori. The pensiveness triples when Iori remembers his swordplay from ''Samurai Remnant'''s endgame, confirming to Takeru that this is actually the same Iori and not an AlternateTimeline equivalent.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Shousetsu and Chiemon, who are already fully familiar with Iori.
Iori. Something also appears to be off with Takeru and the Crimson Codex, who seem unable to clearly recall the Rogue Servants of the previous Waxing Moon Ritual until they're given a definitive hint.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Given the ending of the "Entreat the Darkness" route in ''Samurai Remnant'', Takeru and Gramps are understandably reluctant to fill in any blanks for the amnesiac Iori. The pensiveness triples when Iori remembers his swordplay from ''Samurai Remnant'''s endgame, confirming to Takeru that this is actually the same Iori and not an AlternateTimelineequivalent.equivalent.
* OffTheRails: The story appears to be a WholePlotReference to ''[=Fate/Samurai Remnant=]'' at first, but things swiftly derail in the second chapter when it's shown that Iori is '''not''' a Master and Takeru is instead a Rogue Servant. Discrepancies continue to mount from the apparent absence of Masters with only Shousetsu, Chiemon, and Giant Ghost!Tsuchimikado making an appearance, as well as the Rogue Servants having been replaced with counterparts that don't match the original's Class.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. While this happens for most of the Rogue Servants in the Waxing Moon Ritual, [=Boss/Gilgamesh=] has been replaced by a completely new character who couldn't be ''any more different'' from the prideful King of Heroes: a calm and polite chap with golden-eyes, tanned skin, blue hair, and Indian-style clothing. This "Rogue Ruler" actually pays takes his role of observing and arbitrating the ritual seriously, and he knows a concerning amount of details about the Protagonist having brushes with multiple Underworlds.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Given the ending of the "Entreat the Darkness" route in ''Samurai Remnant'', Takeru and Gramps are understandably reluctant to fill in any blanks for the amnesiac Iori. The pensiveness triples when Iori remembers his swordplay from ''Samurai Remnant'''s endgame, confirming to Takeru that this is actually the same Iori and not an AlternateTimeline
* OffTheRails: The story appears to be a WholePlotReference to ''[=Fate/Samurai Remnant=]'' at first, but things swiftly derail in the second chapter when it's shown that Iori is '''not''' a Master and Takeru is instead a Rogue Servant. Discrepancies continue to mount from the apparent absence of Masters with only Shousetsu, Chiemon, and Giant Ghost!Tsuchimikado making an appearance, as well as the Rogue Servants having been replaced with counterparts that don't match the original's Class.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: {{Inverted|Trope}}. While this happens for most of the Rogue Servants in the Waxing Moon Ritual, [=Boss/Gilgamesh=] has been replaced by a completely new character who couldn't be ''any more different'' from the prideful King of Heroes: a calm and polite chap with golden-eyes, tanned skin, blue hair, and Indian-style clothing. This "Rogue Ruler" actually pays takes his role of observing and arbitrating the ritual seriously, and he knows a concerning amount of details about the Protagonist having brushes with multiple Underworlds.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu and Chiemon are the only ones to get their original Servants again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know Musashi reprising her role is impossible [[RetGone due to her tragic fate in Olympus]].
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu and Chiemon are the only ones to get their original Servants again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. fill-in with ties to the original Servant (where applicable). The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Spartacus as the Berserker, because they know Musashi reprising her role is impossible [[RetGone due to her tragic fate in Olympus]].[[DeaderThanDead impossible]].
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* JerkassToOne: Not that Takeru was [[VitriolicBestBuds warm and fluffy]] to Iori before, but they are noticeably colder to him after the events of "Entreat the Darkness".
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* JerkassToOne: Not that Takeru was [[VitriolicBestBuds Not that Takeru was warm and fluffy]] fluffy to Iori before, before]], but they are noticeably colder to him after the events of "Entreat the Darkness".
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu was the only one to get her original Servant again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know Musashi reprising her role is impossible [[RetGone due to her tragic fate in Olympus]].
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu was and Chiemon are the only one ones to get her their original Servant Servants again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know Musashi reprising her role is impossible [[RetGone due to her tragic fate in Olympus]].
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu was the only one to get her original Servant again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know firsthand what happened to [[RetGone Musashi]].
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* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu was the only one to get her original Servant again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know firsthand what happened to Musashi reprising her role is impossible [[RetGone Musashi]].due to her tragic fate in Olympus]].
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* AllThereInTheManual: Supplementary material stated that the world of ''Samurai Remnant'' is a pruned timeline. Da Vinci quickly figures this out from the wild divergences from Edo's history, but keeps it to herself.
* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu was the only one to get her original Servant again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know firsthand what happened to [[RetGone Musashi]].
* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Masters from ''Samurai Remnant'' are present, the Servants have mostly been changed up. Shousetsu was the only one to get her original Servant again, and Takeru is now the Rogue Saber; everyone else is a fill-in. The Protagonist realizes this even before they find Berserker, because they know firsthand what happened to [[RetGone Musashi]].
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* DebutQueue: Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui are summonable for a limited time as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.)
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* DebutQueue: Miyamoto Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui Shousetsu are summonable for a limited time as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.)
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Yui, who is already fully familiar with Iori.
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* JerkassToOne: Not that Takeru was [[VitriolicBestBuds warm and fluffy]] to Iori before, but they are noticeably colder to him after the events of "Entreat the Darkness".
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast toYui, Shousetsu and Chiemon, who is are already fully familiar with Iori.Iori.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Given the ending of the "Entreat the Darkness" route in ''Samurai Remnant'', Takeru and Gramps are understandably reluctant to fill in any blanks for the amnesiac Iori. The pensiveness triples when Iori remembers his swordplay from ''Samurai Remnant'''s endgame, confirming to Takeru that this is actually the same Iori and not an AlternateTimeline equivalent.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Given the ending of the "Entreat the Darkness" route in ''Samurai Remnant'', Takeru and Gramps are understandably reluctant to fill in any blanks for the amnesiac Iori. The pensiveness triples when Iori remembers his swordplay from ''Samurai Remnant'''s endgame, confirming to Takeru that this is actually the same Iori and not an AlternateTimeline equivalent.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The story takes place after the "Entreat the Darkness" ending in ''Fate/Samurai Remnant''.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: The Protagonist naturally has no problem identifying Servants they're familiar with, but this gets flipped around on them when "Raikou" recognizes ''them'' as the Master of Chaldea. It's a plot point in ''Samurai Remnant'' that Servants summoned by the Waxing Moon ''do not'' have extra memories implanted into them like in a traditional Holy Grail War, so "Raikou" being aware of Chaldea is a major sign that something isn't right.
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* IKnowYourTrueName: The Protagonist naturally has no problem identifying Servants they're familiar with, but this gets flipped around on them when "Raikou" recognizes ''them'' as the Master of Chaldea. It's Even discounting that this Raikou should be a different entity than Chaldea's, it's a plot point in ''Samurai Remnant'' that Servants summoned by the Waxing Moon ''do not'' have extra memories implanted into them like in a traditional Holy Grail War, so "Raikou" being aware of Chaldea is a major sign that something isn't right.
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* DebutQueue: Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui appear are summonable as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.)
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* DebutQueue: Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui appear are summonable for a limited time as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.)
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* DebutQueue: Iori joins as the Welfare Servant, an SR Saber. Ushi Gozen and Yui appear are summonable as an SSR Avenger and SR Caster respectively. (Yamato Takeru is excluded due to already having been the New Year's Servant.)
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Meanwhile, at the foot of Senso-ji Temple, lay Miyamoto Iori. He has no recollection of arriving here, nor why he would be laying on the ground like a corpse -- in fact everything leading up to those point is a haze. He also notes that his chest feels oddly hollow, as if he's been robbed of a very important part of who he is. The only thing he recognizes is how beautiful the moon looks tonight...
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Meanwhile, at the foot of Senso-ji Temple, lay Miyamoto Iori. He has no recollection of arriving here, nor why he would be laying on the ground like a corpse -- in fact everything leading up to those this point is a haze. He also notes that his chest feels oddly hollow, as if he's been robbed of a very important part of who he is. The only thing he recognizes is how beautiful the moon looks tonight...
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Yui, who already knows who Iori is.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Yui, who is already knows who Iori is.fully familiar with Iori.
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Collaboration with ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant''. Written by Jin Haganeya.
The Waxing Moon Ritual nears its end, with only two Servants remaining. The Rogue Archer, Tomoe Gozen, fights valiantly against her foe... but ultimately falls to the might of Rider. But what should've been a victory is instead heralded by Edo's leylines shifting, summoning a new batch of Rogue Servants in place of the old. Rider's Master, Yui Shousetsu, is becoming annoyed -- this pattern has been repeated several times now, and they're no closer to achieving their goal of a just world than before. Rider theorizes that the Waxing Moon will only be sated by Servants summoned by proper Masters, not the Rogues, but Yui irritably points out that there ''are'' no other Masters...
Meanwhile, at the foot of Senso-ji Temple, lay Miyamoto Iori. He has no recollection of arriving here, nor why he would be laying on the ground like a corpse -- in fact everything leading up to those point is a haze. He also notes that his chest feels oddly hollow, as if he's been robbed of a very important part of who he is. The only thing he recognizes is how beautiful the moon looks tonight...
With this divergence of events from the Waxing Moon Ritual that players are familiar with, it should perhaps come as no surprise that Chaldea has picked up a distortion in need of correcting. They have nothing to go on other than that it's similar to the Shimousa Pseudo-Lostbelt, requiring a Rayshift to enter and rejecting every Servant contracted to Chaldea, even Mash. With nothing but their combat summons, Chaldea on the comms, and the prospective aid of any Servants currently in Edo, the Protagonist goes it alone to unravel these mysteries.
'''Warning: spoilers for ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'' will be unmarked.'''
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!!Tropes featured in this story:
* {{Crossover}}: With ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant''.
* IKnowYourTrueName: The Protagonist naturally has no problem identifying Servants they're familiar with, but this gets flipped around on them when "Raikou" recognizes ''them'' as the Master of Chaldea. It's a plot point in ''Samurai Remnant'' that Servants summoned by the Waxing Moon ''do not'' have extra memories implanted into them like in a traditional Holy Grail War, so "Raikou" being aware of Chaldea is a major sign that something isn't right.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Yui, who already knows who Iori is.
The Waxing Moon Ritual nears its end, with only two Servants remaining. The Rogue Archer, Tomoe Gozen, fights valiantly against her foe... but ultimately falls to the might of Rider. But what should've been a victory is instead heralded by Edo's leylines shifting, summoning a new batch of Rogue Servants in place of the old. Rider's Master, Yui Shousetsu, is becoming annoyed -- this pattern has been repeated several times now, and they're no closer to achieving their goal of a just world than before. Rider theorizes that the Waxing Moon will only be sated by Servants summoned by proper Masters, not the Rogues, but Yui irritably points out that there ''are'' no other Masters...
Meanwhile, at the foot of Senso-ji Temple, lay Miyamoto Iori. He has no recollection of arriving here, nor why he would be laying on the ground like a corpse -- in fact everything leading up to those point is a haze. He also notes that his chest feels oddly hollow, as if he's been robbed of a very important part of who he is. The only thing he recognizes is how beautiful the moon looks tonight...
With this divergence of events from the Waxing Moon Ritual that players are familiar with, it should perhaps come as no surprise that Chaldea has picked up a distortion in need of correcting. They have nothing to go on other than that it's similar to the Shimousa Pseudo-Lostbelt, requiring a Rayshift to enter and rejecting every Servant contracted to Chaldea, even Mash. With nothing but their combat summons, Chaldea on the comms, and the prospective aid of any Servants currently in Edo, the Protagonist goes it alone to unravel these mysteries.
'''Warning: spoilers for ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'' will be unmarked.'''
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!!Tropes featured in this story:
* {{Crossover}}: With ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant''.
* IKnowYourTrueName: The Protagonist naturally has no problem identifying Servants they're familiar with, but this gets flipped around on them when "Raikou" recognizes ''them'' as the Master of Chaldea. It's a plot point in ''Samurai Remnant'' that Servants summoned by the Waxing Moon ''do not'' have extra memories implanted into them like in a traditional Holy Grail War, so "Raikou" being aware of Chaldea is a major sign that something isn't right.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After waking up, Iori behaves as he did at the beginning of ''Samurai Remnant'', having no knowledge of the game's events. This is in contrast to Yui, who already knows who Iori is.
