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Warning: this page contains Massive Spoilers for Observer on Timeless Temple. You Have Been Warned.

In General

Beast I

Goetia

The Demon God King

^{Click here to see King of Men Goetia}

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Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Jalen K. Cassell (English)

"I existed as Solomon, the King of Mages. I am the King of Mages' avatar, as well as the system he created. I am the first familiar he created that became the foundation for you mages. I ruled a nation with Solomon and was left behind when he died, as a primordial curse. I used Solomon's body as a nest and achieved incarnation through a summoning spell.... I am the one who shall attain true wisdom, as was desired of me. I am the one who shall devour you to reach a new height, and create a new planet. I am the the one who shall gather 72 curses, and set flame to all of history. I am the Ritual for the Incineration of Humanity. I am Goetia, the King of Demon Gods."

The First Beast, representing Pity, the law of condescension and contempt for others. It is the aggregate body of the 72 Ars Goetia demons, originally invented by King Solomon as "a system to efficiently promote proper reason". They watched and analysed the entirety of human history, overwhelmed by centuries of suffering and death they perceived; over time, their relationship with King Solomon eroded as Goetia failed to understand why the King of Mages did not act to correct this.

After Solomon's death, Goetia was sealed away in his corpse and awakened to their own unique self. They usurped Solomon's name, body and title as the King of Mages, and embarked on a plan to correct the world: by converting all of Humanity into pure energy, enough to time travel 4.6 billion years ago to the origin of the planet, where they could manipulate the beginning of the world as they saw fit and "manage" the direction of human history forever.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: He introduces himself to the protagonists in the guise of Solomon near the tail-end of the Okeanos Singularity in the Turas Realta manga adaptation, whereas in the game, he doesn't physically show up until near the end of the London Singularity. This is mainly because the manga only covers half of the Singularities, with London not being one of them.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Downplayed in Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, as Goetia is played up far more as a Large Ham and expresses emotions more visibly—even in his Demon God King form—than his original depiction (who's described as personality-less) in the game suggested, ironically coming off as far more human in his behavior as a result.
• Adapted Out: He is replaced in Arcade by Draco since it's implied he died off earlier.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: He's basically a magical software programmed to manage the 72 Demon Pillars and watch over humanity through the ages. He's even called the Command Terminal by the Demon Pillars. Naturally, he goes outside his intended purpose once Solomon is no longer around to monitor him.
• Alas, Poor Villain: He gets an enormous case of this after becoming Human King Goetia, stating that his last wish is to take you down with him as Solomon's Temple collapses so that at least someone will see the end of his short but real story. That it so strongly mirrors what we've heard Mash repeat almost every Order, that all the things you do in the Singularities have great meaning because even if the people in them forget, you two remember, bites deep. Here is a being that pitied and felt sorry for mankind, forcibly trying to give them lives without an end, almost pleading you to remember and witness his end, and by defeating him and putting him to eternal rest, you comply.
• Ancient Conspiracy: The term "Grand Order" originally refers to the edict among mages to protect and continue their bloodline and subsequently Magic Crests. This is revealed to be part of Goetia's plan, as he "planted" the 72 demons into 72 families, setting them as Manchurian Agents that will serve as vessels for the demons when the time is right, hence the "order" to make the families survive till the modern day.
• Antagonist Title: He is the Observer on Timeless Temple, the (retroactive) name of the game's first arc, of which he is the villain.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the ritual for summoning the demons of the Ars Goetia, it gained sentience after being left to its own devices following its master's death and hijacked Solomon's corpse to engender its plan.
• Anti-Villain:
  • Solidly a Type III. He does everything he's doing because he genuinely believes it will make mankind happy and prosperous, unaware of how going through with his plan won't produce a better mankind, simply unevolving plant-like beings that will never accomplish anything. Nasu even clarifies on his blog that while he sounds very, very demeaning, he really isn't. He's just extremely frustrated that he cannot understand mankind, and even more frustrated that we have the indignity to resist his scheme since he doesn't understand why we wouldn't want what he's forcing upon us.
  • What spurred him into setting in motion his plan for humanity three thousand years ago in the first place? The events of Cosmos in the Lostbelt and how the future 201X and beyond ends once it happens.
• An Arm and a Leg: He's missing his right arm as Human King Goetia, which makes it so that he has to hover the ten rings of Solomon around him, as he doesn't have enough fingers for them.
• Battle Aura: He has a red demonic one shaped like Demon Pillars . This is a side effect of the 72 Ars Goetia Demons possessing Solomon's body.
• Battle Theme Music:
  • A dark, foreboding and bombastic theme that just screams "you're screwed".
  • The last fight against him as King of Men has a very beautiful and almost serene one that reflects the emotions of the scene.
• Beam Spam: One of his attacks is to fire countless rays of light from the Demon Pillar eyes within his arms, one of his other ones is a huge-ass beam that sweeps your entire party, and his Noble Phantasm, including Human King Goetia's, is a disgustingly powerful beam that stands as one of the most powerful Noble Phantasms ever.
• Big Bad: The true villain of Observer on Timeless Temple who manipulated everything happening from the shadows.
• Bishōnen Line: Goes from looking like, well, a demonic Solomon to a twenty-foot tall gold-and-white giant with a burning tree for antlers, to a man with incredibly long golden hair, covered in shining golden tattoos, encircled by the Rings of Solomon. Played with in that its final form is a Clipped-Wing Angel.
• Character Title: The final Order, created by sending his temple into 201X after Chaldea completed the impossible task of killing Tiamat, is called either "Solomon" or "Salomon", the Latin variation of his name, depending on game version.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: As Human King Goetia, he has no power left besides his own willpower and Solomon's rings, making him a far easier opponent than Demon King Goetia.
• Condescending Compassion: What his law of Pity essentially is. He genuinely wants to improve humanity, but due to believing he is so far above it, he can't see any point in their miserably short lives, so his idea of "improvement" is to destroy and replace them. His speech in the PV for Cosmos in the Lostbelt shows how oxymoronic his idea of compassion is, as he rallies Chaldea to fight for their future while simultaneously mocking them for bringing about the ruin he was trying to prevent.
• Continuity Nod: His plan, "Retroflow/Genesis Light Year" is named after one of Aoko Aozaki's attacks from Melty Blood. It's explained in an interview that his feats came close to being Aoko's True Magic and is a Call-Forward to her progress in mastering it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When he shows up at the end of the Fourth Singularity: The Mist City London, it's not so much as a battle as it is a hurricane throwing leaves in the wind. After you manage to kill a single Demon Pillar in the gameplay fight, he wipes out Kintoki, Tamamo, and Shakespeare in one blow; almost kills Mordred with another that took all of Hans' strength to block; annihilates Hans shortly afterwards with another shot; and then leaves after he's done telling you that you're less than piss.
• Death Glare: The only skill he himself uses in his battle is Assessment and Observation, which puts defensive debuffs and burns on your team. In the Prison Tower event, it's said that his gaze is so heavy looking down at his targets' character, they will drown in their own flaws. For Servants, it causes those aforementioned effects. For normal humans, it downright rips the target's mind out of their body, throws it into purgatory, and leaves it to rot there.
• Death or Glory Attack: His final attack as Human King Goetia (when he's reached around or less than 100,000 HP) involves him using the tenth and final ring and, in exchange for reducing his remaining HP to One, he instantly charges his NP and increases its NP damage to the point he can one-shot an entire row of Servants at once. Of course, if there are any Servants left in the back row (or the Servants were using Guts, Evade or Invincibility), he's pretty much screwed.
• Defiant to the End: After being defeated the first time, even as his body begins to crumble away he absolutely refuses to give up his ambitions, attempting to make one final charge against the Protagonist that they only barely manage to deflect. And even that's not enough, as he launches a final attack with the shattered remnants of Solomon's body.
• Developer's Foresight: In case someone is able to hack the game to make Beast I Goetia playable, he was given Extra attack animation along with victory lines to prevent softlocking and crashes. See him in action against Kiara if you are curious.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He invokes this on pretty much all of humanity. His main motivation is pity, but it's the kind of pity that comes from arrogantly feeling sorry for others because they aren't as great as he is. So he doesn't feel bad about destroying humanity because their lives are so empty and meaningless that ultimately he's doing them a favor. Naturally, most humans would object rather strongly to that idea.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: He never had all ten rings of Solomon, which not only denied him their Anti-Magic Set Bonus but also allowed the real Solomon to activate Ars Nova using the tenth ring he managed to keep. By the time he gets his hands on the tenth ring, he's already been reduced to his rapidly dying Human King form.
• The Dreaded: Once his identity as the Big Bad of the main storyline was outed, people dread even mentioning his name, fearing doing so will attract his attention. They resort to mentioning his title, 'the King of Magic' instead.
• Dream Walker: He shows up in Babylonia's prologue in the form of Roman in Mash's dreams in order to remind her that the grail can't save her life, while sadly telling her how meaningless her life is, because it will soon end. He then shows up in her dreams again in the prologue to Grand Time Temple Solomon, this time to try and sway Mash with visions of a utopian world, which Mash rejects.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • He can't comprehend why humanity would accept mortality and die until he's rendered mortal and near death himself, and he believes that Solomon was a tyrant who cared nothing for humanity and is thus blindsided when Solomon (as Roman) shows up and uses Ars Nova to perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Like Mash, Goetia did not know Ars Nova's true name, and thus could not properly invoke it, forcing him to create his own Noble Phantasm to replace it. He believed that the actual first Noble Phantasm was some grand feat that would help enable his plan to travel back in time and remake humanity from its origin. Due to this, and the idea that Solomon was an arrogant coward, Goetia never figured out what Ars Nova actually was until it was too late.
  • In Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, during the final fight as Fujimaru makes his approach, Goetia is flabbergasted by the willingness of the Heroic Spirits to protect him with their lives and continue fighting for humanity, declaring them all to have gone mad.
• Evil Feels Good: He exclaims that tearing down mankind and it's achievements, legend by legend, minute by minute, life by life, is incredibly fun. He says this because he is pretending to be Solomon at the time and his opinions on the king are horribly biased.
• Evil Laugh: You can hear him laughing after you defeat Halphas.
• Evil Plan: Rather than destroy mankind, he uses its incineration as a way of burning it as fuel. By gathering and burning all the energy mankind has ever created (notably, a far greater amount than what the planet itself has ever produced), Goetia will go back to the creation of the world 4.6 billion years ago and create a single race of perfect lifeforms that he will nurture and aid by taking control of the planet itself. While time travel on this scale would normally be an impossibility, because the Quantum Timelock system ensures that vital events in humanity's history are set in stone, Goetia accounts for this by creating singularities taking place in several vital Timelocks, messing with their events to weaken them and giving Goetia the chance to upheave the planet across every single timeline.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Thanks to his two voice actors and some special effects enhancing them.
• Expy: Of the demon Asmodeus (Ashmedai) in Talmudic legend. In the legend, Solomon used him to build the Temple. Another legend stated that Asmodeus tricked Solomon out of his magic ring and magically took his place. Yet another legend said that Solomon took so many wives because of the influence of Asmodeus.
• Final Boss: Of both, the Fourth Singularity: The Mist City London and the first part of the main game.
• Final Boss Preview: The London fight exists mainly to establish his power and be a set-up for a later, more climactic fight against him. Specifically, it's all the protagonist and company can do to stay alive against him and four of his Pillars, and once one is killed, he wipes out everyone except for Mordred, Mash, and the protagonist.
• Four Is Death: In his appearance in London, he is joined in battle by four unfought Demon Pillars. He also killed four Servants following the fight: Kintoki, Tamamo, Shakespeare, and Hans.
• Game Face: His battle sprite looks far more demonic than his cutscene sprites, presumably because he's channeling his demons' energy to fight.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Roman's use of Ars Nova destroys Goetia's immunity to Noble Phantasms and sends the entire magical system that keeps Goetia together into a catastrophic meltdown. During the final battle Goetia starts functionally immune to damage from critical hits and Noble Phantasms while his first turn is the last time he can bring the full unstoppable power of Ars Almadel Salomonis to bear before he can only perform a weaker version. His Noble Phantasm and critical hit resistance then falters after three turns at last leaving him truly vulnerable.
• Glamour Failure: When it comes to Mash in her dreams on the eve of Babylonia, wearing Dr. Romani's face, its disguise begins to fall apart when she realizes who he really is.
• Grand Theft Me: After Solomon's death thousands of years ago, the 72 demons of Ars Goetia possessed his body to enact their own plans for humanity, becoming Beast I.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Across the entire Nasuverse, Goetia is singlehandedly responsible for the eugenicist abyss of misery that is the modern world of magecraft. The original "Grand Order" was a directive to pass down the 72 original magic crests through the great mage families so that they could survive until 2016, when they would mature into the Demon God Pillars and enact the Human Order Incineration. As a result, mage culture became highly focused on each family generation producing a single powerful heir who could strengthen the crest then pass it to their single, powerful heir. Magic crest inheritance and the resulting family dysfunction are central plot elements in Fate/stay night and Witch on the Holy Night, among other franchise stories.
• Hive Mind: Goetia is, essentially, the combined will of all the Demon Pillars.
• Humanity Ensues: Even after his destruction and the subsequent crumbling of his temple, his will persists in Solomon's half-melted body, turning him into the Human King Goetia. He no longer has his demonic powers, only being armed with Solomon's ten rings, and ultimately dies, content, with a true understanding of mortality.
• Humans Are Special: After his defeat and becoming mortal thanks to Ars Nova, he adopts this view as he for the first time in his eternal existence strives and fights with all he has left just for the right for someone to see the end of his story.
• I Control My Minions Through...: Magical safeguards to keep them obedient. Some of the pillars weren't entirely onboard with the Incineration of Humanity (a few even join Chaldea's siege when Goetia's control over them starts to weaken), while others such as Raum are too dangerously eccentric to allow autonomy.
• Immortal Apathy: Every time he is challenged, he staunchly refuses to believe there can be any flaw with his plan to rebuild human history, ignoring that the ultimate consequence would be the removal of all impetus for progress (or, frankly, to do anything at all), leaving humans barely better than plants. It's only when he's on the brink of death himself that he moves on from this mindset.
• Irony:
  • As described in his FGO Materials entry, he actually becomes a being who would make for a perfect and flawless leader for all of mankind as Goetia, King of Men. The slight hiccup with this is that the moment he becomes like this, he's already one-and-a-half feet in the grave with absolutely no way of recovering.
  • His entire agenda is based around liberating humanity from misery and suffering, yet as detailed under the entry for Greater-Scope Villain, his most lasting contribution to humanity is being responsible for immense amounts of misery and grief through being responsible for the Social Darwinist, Mad Scientist mindset of most modern magi.
  • In the movie version, once Demon King Goetia is defeated by Fujimaru, he asks the latter why he would fight so hard against him. When Fujimaru replies he just doesn't want to die, Goetia can't help but laugh madly at the sheer irony before fading away, realizing that in fighting to eliminate the pain and fear of death in humanity, he only gave them more pain, fear, and death.
• Just Toying with Them:
  • He summons four Demon Pillars during his boss fight in London, but only uses one against the player and their Servants. The HP bar in the fight turns out to be the one of the Demon God that he is using, not Solomon's own, as shown when he does not fade at the end of the battle along with it. These make it very clear that he's not even approaching his full power during his fight, and chose to let them live because they aren't a threat.
  Mordred: "What, you're saying you only came here to piss on us!?"
  Solomon: "That's right! That's exactly right! Actually, you lot are even lower than piss! You mean nothing to me. Whether you live or die here is utterly inconsequential. Understand? I'm not overlooking you. You weren't worthy of my attention in the first place!"
  • Averted at the end of Babylonia. After Chaldea proves themselves as an actual threat by banishing Tiamat - a Beast just like himself - he decides to quit playing around and summons himself and his temple fully into 201X, intent on personally destroying them.
  • In Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, it's made apparent before Solomon's Heroic Sacrifice, that Goetia is more or less amusing himself by allowing the scuffle between him and Chaldea to continue for as long as it has (and also to buy a little more time to finish preparations for his final Incineration)—once he's done playing around, he instantly unsummons every Servant on Chaldea's side on a whim, leaving Chaldea completely powerless to stop him, showcasing that they never had a chance to begin with.
• Karmic Death: Their contempt for how finite human lives were resulted in them enacting a plan that resulted in their own deaths with Goetia himself possessing his creator's rotting corpse in an admittedly vain attempt to live just a little bit longer.
• Large Ham: If his battle quotes are any indication. But he actually has no personality of his own, and instead reflects whoever he's talking to. When you meet him in London, you're with Mordred and Andersen, so he appears as a profanity-laden trash talker.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Why Goetia started his plan in the first place. With Solomon's Clairvoyance, he saw that one day the Foreign God would descend to kill all humans and then rewrite history to its favor, so he decided that he would beat it to the punch.
• Light 'em Up: His third Noble Phantasm, Ars Almadel Salomonis, is a giant ring in the sky made up of billions of lights supported by all 72 demons of the Ars Goetia, allowing it to exist in all points of history simultaneously. Each light has equal power to Excalibur. That circle you see around the planet whenever you Rayshift? That's his Noble Phantasm. When focused into a single point, the heat of the Noble Phantasm alone, ignoring the actual output of the attack, can burrow a hole through a planet.
• Light Is Not Good: His true form is that of a gold-and-white giant. His final form as Human King Goetia has him covered in Solomon's golden tattoos, fighting with the light-based powers of Solomon's Rings.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: Believes such, but he can never articulate reasons why beyond "you don't have to be afraid of dying" and "there is no suffering in an eternal existence" and leaves in a huff whenever his stance on immortality is even lightly challenged. That said, he grows to see mortality as a beautiful thing in and of itself as he experiences it first-hand.
• Living Ship: More like "Living Defense System," but "Ars Paulina," where the Final Singularity: Solomon takes place in, is made up of Demon Pillars, coiled and wrapped together with little bits of stone buildings that make up the "Thrones" that the Servants fight on top of against the regenerating Demon Pillars.
• Logical Weakness: His Nega-Summon skill allows him to negate, absorb, disable, and just generally ignore the Noble Phantasms of Servants summoned from the Throne. However, if a Noble Phantasm is used that wasn't from the Throne, then he can't negate it. Such is the case with Ars Nova, as it was activated with the ring that God told Solomon to send into the future, making it the actual Noble Phantasm and not a copy.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: A serious and literal version. Goetia shared in Solomon's Clairvoyance and was disgusted by man's inhumanity to man. Lacking Solomon's wisdom and humanity, the vision of the breadth of human history, with its attendant suffering, along with the doom presented by the Foreign God, eventually moved Goetia to start its grand plan to remake humanity.
• Magical Eye: The other reason he let you live at the end of the Fourth Singularity: The Mist City London is because merely having eye contact with him will eventually result in your soul being ripped out of your body.
• Magic Ring: After Roman makes him unstable and mortal by returning everything he had to God, consequently also causing all the Demon Pillars to start dying, all he has left to fight you with as Human King Goetia are the ten rings of Solomon, which hover around him. Each ring functions as a Skill that casts various buffs and debuffs, and the closer he gets to death the more he starts to use different rings' effects.
• The Man Behind the Monsters: He is the one leading the Ars Goetia Demon Pillars, as they disrupt history and bring the world to ruin. It's subverted as it's revealed it's the monsters that were controlling Solomon's dead body.
• Mark of the Beast: Quite literally. The black facial markings are a result of Goetia's possession and aren't there when Solomon himself was summoned as a Servant.
• Mighty Glacier: Goetia has incredibly impressive stats, with an A in everything except Luck, which is B, and a mediocre D in agility. Of course, given his Demon Pillars and absurd NP, he doesn't exactly NEED to move much if he wants to kill somebody. Granted, he can still Flash Step and do Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
• Mind Hive: Sherlock notes that in London, he seemed to switch his demeanor on a whim depending on who he was talking to. This is because Goetia, who is the combined will of all 72 Demon Pillars and possessing Solomon, was rotating in different Demon Pillars. That's why 'Solomon' was dramatic and hammy in London, but much more subdued when talking to Mash before the final battle, as Flauros was being in control of the body at that time.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Unintentional on his part, but Holmes confirms in Shinjuku his death set in motion the numerous other forces seeking to eliminate humanity in 201X upon his death. The trailer for Cosmos in the Lostbelt is narrated by Goetia from beyond the grave, where he basically laughs about how humanity brought this new crisis on themselves by defeating him.
• Nightmare Face: Jesus Christ, someone save us◊.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When Romani returns to his Solomon form, Goetia's disbelief gives way to dark laughter and joy at the chance to make Solomon pay for what he views as the man's sins, and in the following cutscene he absolutely goes to town on Solomon, unleashing both Beam Spam and Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs before declaring he'll kill him with Ars Almadel Salomonis, which is only stopped by Solomon unleashing Ars Nova.
• No-Sell: He's immune to all Noble Phantasms as a result of his Beast skill, Nega-Summon. However, Solomon's NP of returning his gifts to God puts an end to every piece of his legacy, including the magic system that encompasses Goetia, causing it to fall apart. This means that during its boss battle, it is immune to all NP damage for the first few turns, until the skill completely falls apart.
• "Not So Different" Remark: In his Solomon disguise he tries to state that he is not too different from Mash, but as Mash begins to grasp the meaning of mortality, his comparison begins to fall flat.
• One-Winged Angel: In the Final Singularity he's fought in Solomon's body as a Caster first, and then reveals his true form Demon God King Goetia as a sign of respect after you beat him.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He notes upon revealing his true form that he doesn't really have a "true" name, as Solomon never named him, and states that "Solomon" (due to possessing his body) and "Goetia" (after the ritual to summon the Demon Pillars) are both equally applicable, though he tells the protagonist to use the latter.
• The Only One I Trust: According to one of its component personalities, the only human being Goetia ever trusted was the Queen of Sheba. This makes a certain amount of sense: Goetia is, after all, in one sense Solomon's offspring, and the Queen of Sheba, as Solomon's lover and intellectual equal, possibly even his wife, was in some sense its stepmother.
• Our Demons Are Different: Compared to the Demon Pillars, his design is remarkably closer to what would normally be considered demonic, though his color scheme makes him look more akin to an agent of some god than a true demon.
• Out-Gambitted: By GOD himself, who sabotaged Goetia's plan from the very beginning by simply having Solomon toss one of his ten rings forward in time so that the Demon Pillars wouldn't have access to it. The usually stoic inhuman collective can't help but whine about the blatant unfairness of all its schemes being foiled by such a seemingly minute detail, but the fake ring their Solomon guise wore suggests that they at least knew about the missing relic and chose to ignore it as a valid factor.
• Poor Communication Kills: Goetia honestly means well and if its attitude is hostile it's only because it's frustrated that humans are being difficult about accepting this awesome gift it wants to give them. As an immortal being, it cannot understand death and the meaning it gives to life and the one person who might have been able to help it, the true Solomon, was himself very bad at talking to people and seemingly just brushed off Goetia's concerns.
• Possessing a Dead Body: The true Goetia is puppeteering Solomon's corpse after his death.
• Post-Final Boss: King of Men Goetia, where Goetia is already a foot in the grave but still puts up one hell of a fight.
• Power Incontinence: Solomon's Clairvoyance gave Goetia the power to see all human suffering across all time, past present and future. And, utterly devoid of human perspective, or Solomon's direct connection to God through the Revelation skill, it was the ultimate source of its madness.
• Powers via Possession: Inverted; Goetia (the possessor) has access to Solomon's repertoire of powers, from his Clairvoyance to all his Noble Phantasms, save Ars Nova and his Revelation skill, as a result of taking over his corpse.
• Power Tattoo: He has them on his eyes and running through his arms—likely an indication of his control over the demons of the Ars Goetia.
• Pure Magic Being: Technically speaking, Goetia is not a demon like the Pillars. He is a living summoning spell, one powerful enough to summon and control the 72 Demon Pillars who are individually stronger than a Heroic Spirit.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: One of his attacks, which covers the screen in purple energy from the feedback of the blows.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Despite being offset by silver armor, he still has a noticeable amount of these colors on him, which helps denote how nasty he is. His normal, non-possessed form, lacks the red aura but maintains the red and black.
• Red Baron: In full, the Demon God King. After being made mortal, he becomes known as the Human King/King of Men.
• Red Right Hand: While wearing Solomon's body, ribbons of demonic red energy flare behind his limbs like puppet strings, black markings cover his skin, and a series of red demon eyes appear in his braided hair. The true king Solomon has none of these when he appears later on.
• Royal "We": Subverted. Goetia appears to be using this while in his guise as Solomon, but it's actually a subtle reference to his nature as a Mind Hive.
• Seers: Solomon's Clairvoyance was one of the powers granted to Goetia by possessing his corpse. This Clairvoyance grants him the power to see the past, present, and future, allowing him to see where and when Quantum Time-Locks would form and plant Holy Grails there to create a Singularity and undo the Foundation of Humanity. He started this whole plan in the first place because he saw that humanity's future was filled with fighting, suffering, and death only to all end with the Foreign God's descension, so he decided that incineration and recreation of a better humanity was decidedly superior for them then what was waiting beyond 201X. In the trailer for Cosmos in the Lostbelt, he comments that he's observing Chaldea's battle against Team A from beyond. Notably, however, he only has Solomon's Clairvoyance, not Revelation, a skill which is a part of the soul rather than the body. This is part of why bearing witness to so much human suffering with his Clairvoyance without seeing the beauty of life and mortality drove him to evil.
• Soul Jar: The Temple of Solomon, Ars Paulina, acts this for him and his Demon Pillars. As long as he controls it, and his Demon Pillars twist and braid around its physical form that is Solomon's body's Magic Circuits, they can never be truly destroyed and will resurrect as many times as they desire. However, with Ars Nova activated and all of Solomon's gifts returned to God, he lost possession of the Temple and thus his Demon Pillars died for real from Servants and from the Ritual System that binds the Pillars together being made to self-destruct.
• Speak of the Devil: None of the Servants speak his name after the Fourth Singularity: The Mist City London, with everyone referring to him as the King of Magic. They're all afraid of bringing his attention by saying his name. Dantes even chastises you for saying it out loud in the prison.
• Squishy Wizard: Subverted. His stat sheet gives him E-rank Endurance, the lowest possible rank for a Servant, but if his battle animations are any indication, whatever damage he would take seems to be redirected to his Goetia demons. This is because Solomon's body is being used to disguise his real identity as Goetia, whose own physical stats skew closer to a Mighty Glacier.
• Start of Darkness: Goetia was ordered to promote reason and order by Solomon, but its Clairvoyance allowed it to witness all human suffering, while its inhuman perspective meant it could not understand the ways in which the joys humans experience in life are ultimately greater than and well worth the pain of living they endure. Between this compassionless pity, and a certain resentment at being forced to serve and observe beings it considered less than itself, Goetia went quite mad, and started up its Evil Plan.
• Stone Wall: Human King Goetia lacks his typical weakness to Cavalry Classes and instead just takes neutral damage from all Classes who'll have to chip away at his 1,000,000 health.
• Summon Magic: It's noted that Goetia's particular variant of summoning involves creating a reflection of one of the 72 pillars that comprise its being and projecting it onto the world, rather than "true" summoning magic. Its custom Nega-Summon skill as a Beast also makes it incredibly skilled at countering normal Summoning magic, making it immune to all Noble Phantasms, except one.
  • The movie takes it a step farther and shows that he can very literally show Servants the boot with his Nega-Summon skill, promptly unsummoning them in an instant and leaving them completely helpless to stop it.
• Super-Empowering: Can grant others the ability to manifest as one of his Goetia demons via a Holy Grail (usually with them as a vessel, though not always), each of whom are able to surpass Heroic Spirits in power.
• Super Prototype: Goetia is, fundamentally speaking, the first Servant ever summoned back during Solomon's reign, self-described as the "Supreme Summoning Spell" as the aggregate of the 72 demons of the Ars Goetia. But, whereas Servants—even those of Grand-category—operate within limits that can rarely, if ever, be bent based on their history and sort of character; Goetia possesses no such limitations as they are freely able to reprogram themselves right down to their personality to suit whatever mission they are tasked to accomplish, and almost has no weakness that can be exploited by any Servant barring Solomon given his skill of Nega-Summon, which allows him to No-Sell other Servants and their Noble Phantasms—which is taken a step farther in the movie by being able to directly interfere with the stability of other Spirit Origins by his command. It's made abundantly clear that, if not for Solomon's Heroic Sacrifice to take away Goetia's stability, he would have functionally been an Invincible Villain.
• Taking You with Me: He decides that he's going to end his mortal life by bringing down the protagonist as he dies. Unlike most villainous examples of this trope, Goetia doing this is almost portrayed as a sign of redemption - having become human, he finally understands why Mash was so fixated on The Last Dance, and now wishes to do the same as his body dies out.
• Teleport Spam: He teleports himself every time he attacks during his King of Demon Gods battle, either to spam a lazer barrage from afar or to get near a servant and use his Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs on them.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Normally, skill-sealing or buff resistance is considered one of the lamer tricks, since most enemies have an A.I. Roulette going and most of these effects don't last long. However, the first problem in fighting Goetia is the fact that he sticks a massive buff on himself at the start of his turn. This means that some normally mediocre or unusable Servants like Mephistopheles or Mata Hari see use against Goetia because they can turn his buff off before he uses it.
• Turned Against Their Masters: The entire Goetia were the ones from the Babylonia Tablet vision who questioned why Solomon refused to better humanity and help them go beyond their inherent contradictions. His response "Not at all" was viewed as arrogant indifference to humanity, leading them to hijack his body and collect the bands of light to do what they believe Solomon would not due to his perceived arrogance.
• Underestimating Badassery: When he first meets the protagonist and Shielder at the end of London, he beats them in a Curb-Stomp Battle and deems them Not Worth Killing unless they somehow destroy all seven Singularities. This comes to haunt him since they indeed do that and when he finally decides to confront them, they've become strong enough to beat him with Dr. Roman's help.
• Ur-Example: Goetia was created as Solomon's response to the decay of the Age of Gods and True Magic, the very first spell that served as the foundation for all later Magecraft. By the laws of accumulating Mystery over time, this gives the 3000 year old Goetia a significant power boost on top of already being strong enough to simultaneously control the 72 Demon Pillars.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • He's pretty calm and collected at first, then Dr. Roman arrives and reveals his true identity as the real Solomon. Goetia goes absolutely apeshit once he learns this, screaming how much he hates Solomon for being a lazy, incompetent king while forcing him to watch humanity's misery for eternity and beating the crap out of him. Once Solomon sacrifices himself to use Ars Nova, he breaks down even more, cursing his creator for stripping his power away while also insisting he can complete his plans. By the time he's become Human King Goetia, he's so emotionally broken down from losing everything that all he can do is just tiredly state how he's going to take you down with him while giving you a half lidded stare.
  • His breakdown in the movie version is slightly different. With Nega-Summon now deactivated thanks to Ars Nova, Fujimaru is free to summon Servants once again. An endless stream of Servants answers his summons and protects the last Master from Goetia and the Demon Gods as he slowly makes his way to Goetia's position. Goetia is baffled why the Servants would oppose his goal of eliminating death even as he keeps beating them away, and eventaully devolves in screaming You're Insane! over and over again.
  • The Demon Pillars on their own all take the meltdown of the magical system keeping them a collective consciousness differently. Some continue to fight in the name of their goal, some flee for their lives, some side with Chaldea before turning on the others, and some even stop fighting entirely having decided to not spend their final moments raging against the end in favor of a genuine talk with Chaldea's servants in search of a sense of closure.
• Villainous Legacy: As detailed in Sorting Algorithm of Evil above, Goetia's manifestation as the first Beast means that even if he is defeated, the other Beasts will manifest themselves. He is directly responsible for awakening Beast II, Gilgamesh suspects Beast VII has already manifested somewhere in the world thanks to Goetia's own manifestation which is proven true when it's revealed VII summoned Holmes in the Fourth Singularity, VI/S in another timeline takes up his work to achieve her own goals, while the Demon Pillar Zepar awakens Beast III/R after his death, which in turn awakens the other half of Beast III as an after-effect from the Foreign God (who is able to attack Earth only because Goetia was defeated) bringing back an altered version of the Hindu pantheon in a Lostbelt.
• Villainous Valour: Goetia believes so righteously in his goal and convictions that he will never give up to see them through. When Roman destabilizes his existence with Ars Nova, Goetia still carries forward with his plan, knowing that he simply needs to hold you off long enough to pin down the coordinates for his time reversal. Even after his first defeat, when his Demon Pillars are breaking away from him in droves and he's weakened to the point that a Command Spell-reinforced Protagonist can finish him off, Goetia still refuses to stand down, only failing to execute his plan because his space-time coordinates had a small margin of error. And even then, Goetia refuses to die when he is killed, his residual consciousness possessing Solomon's rapidly decaying body for one last fight against you.
• Villain Respect: Zigzagged relentlessly, given the nature of its law of Pity. Goetia's initial appearance as King Solomon is degrading and cruel, but some of his later interactions with Mash express a certain amount of sympathy for her plight, as an artificially-created being like itself, yet one not merely doomed to be subject to the mortality Goetia despises but to have a brief lifespan made still shorter via the Demi-Servant process. It even offers to take her with it when it reforges a new world out of the ashes of all human history. Yet, when Mash demonstrates how she has learned and grown during her journey by rejecting its vision for the world, first in dreams and then in person, Goetia reacts with anger and offense, ultimately disintegrating her with Ars Almadel Salomonis. And, of course, Goetia has nothing but hatred and contempt for its creator. It's played straightest when Goetia is dying and has become the King of Men, both before and after its final final boss fight, where it has finally become human enough to abandon the law of Pity, and fight and die like a man.
• Voice of the Legion: He's voiced by both Sugita and Suzumura, giving his voice this influence. It's because Goetia is possessing Solomon's body. The effect stops once Goetia reveals his true form.
• Walking Spoiler: He's the actual villain of the game and was using Solomon's body for his own ends. Knowledge of the events of the Final Singularity: Grand Temple of Time Solomon of which he is the Final Boss of also spoils the backstories and fates of several of the protagonist's allies, all of whom are connected in different ways to Goetia.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's supposedly the weakest of the seven Beasts, but having the congealed intellect of 72 Demon Gods spoofing the wisdom of Solomon allows him to craft elaborate and almost foolproof plans whereas his "stronger" counterparts like Tiamat and Primate Murder are content to just rampage through what's in front of them until things get dire enough for the Grand Servants to make an appearance. Notably the steps needed to defeat Tiamat are far more elaborate and dangerous compared to Goetia, but Goetia has the plans needed to really pose a major threat. It's also partially because when you fight him he has access to both the body of Solomon and the accumulated energy from humanity's incineration, boosting him past whatever passes as "normal" for him.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Buff Block and Skill Seal. His opening move, where he buffs himself in a way to massively supercharge Ars Almadel Salamonis to instantly wipe your frontline, is stopped cold by both of these. You'll still have to soak it, but Evade and Invincibility will work on it. Once that's done Goetia is basically a big damage sponge with attacks that can rapidly fill a servant's noble phantasm in a special scenario where your servants are getting damage buffs in the first place. Without that frontline wipe the task of taking him down is very much simplified. Additionally, Anti-Purge Defense which as of 6th Anniversary Memorial Quest is exclusive to Altria Caster's Noble Phantasm essentially downright prevents him from performing any meaningful damage from it, though the debuffs from it still apply, and the party is still left open to Goetia's attacks.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: What he wanted was to make a perfect world without death for humanity, he just doesn't know the worth of mankind's mortality until the second boss fight with him as the Human King Goetia, where he asks you to remember him now that he will perish. In fact, he wholeheartedly believes Solomon, who witnessed mankind's past, present and future alongside him and yet believed nothing needed to be done about the suffering evident everywhere (in part because Goetia's own inhuman mindset couldn't comprehend the good things about a mortal existence) to be nothing but a great coward and fool who never cared for humanity.
  Goetia: Everything will begin once more from Genesis, and a planet without the concept of "death" will be made. That is our great undertaking. We did not destroy mankind out of hatred.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: By the time he becomes Human King Goetia, see Alas, Poor Villain, though he shows signs of it before then as well, with his earnest, deep-seated pity for mankind and his great desire to create them a better, deathless world.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Has already destroyed the Earth of 201X with his demons. Although this is later revealed to be phase two of his plans.

The Demon God Pillars

In General

The 72 Demon God Pillars

The 72 Ars Goetia Demon Gods

^{Raum ("Pseudo-Singularity IV: Salem" Spoilers!)}

All voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita

The seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia, bound by King Solomon, and a recurring threat throughout the Grand Orders. While they are powerful demons who are each said to surpass Heroic Spirits in power, their true purpose is to act as literal and figurative pillars to support Solomon's Noble Phantasm, which can destroy humanity.

Five named demons appeared throughout the main story: Flauros (in Septem), Forneus (in Okeanos), Barbatos (in London), Halphas (in America), and Amon (in Camelot, turned into "Amon-Ra" through Ozymandias' magecraft). All of them appear in Salomon, the Final Order, as raid bosses, along with three new pillars: Naberius, Sabnock, and Andromalius. Each of them commands eight other demons, who are named but do not appear in gameplay, accounting for the entire total of seventy-two demons.

Four more named demons appear in Epic of Remnant being hunted down by Chaldea: Bael (in Shinjuku), Zepar (in SE.RA.PH.), Phenex (in Agartha), and Räum (in Salem). Other Demon Pillars that appeared in Interludes and events include Haagenti (in Medea Lily's second Interlude), Glasya-Labolas (as Nursery Rhyme's "mascot" in the Prisma Illya event), and Andras (in the GUDAGUDA Meiji Ishin event).

While Fate/Grand Order Arcade seems to loosely follow the Incineration of Humanity plot from the mobile game, the seeming absence of King of Mages makes the appearance of the Demon Pillars ominous until the Sixth Singularity where the true nature of them is revealed...

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• Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: The way Phenex speaks after stopping talking in poetry is to constantly switch his pitch, even mid-word. Da Vinci even jokes that Goetia would get sick of him talking after a while.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: In Arcade, the first Demon Pillar appeared in Orleans due to Amadeus transforming into Nabareus, when the first one is fought in Septem in the original game.
• Adaptational Wimp: The twenty-two demons as described in the Lesser Key of Solomon all had different designs, designations and powers from each other. In contrast, all of the Demon Pillars look very similar and are part of a greater Mind Hive where most of them aren't as distinct from one another.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Zepar, having ultimately been broken by Kiara and reduced to loving her due to her Beast nature, ultimately goes out pleading for Kiara to let him "live" (despite being reduced to just being a presence in her pinkie).
• Alternate Character Reading: The Japanese term for them (majin) can be read as either "Demon God" or "Demon Pillar" - the latter presumably being a reference to how they are actual pillars that support Solomon's Noble Phantasm.
• Animal Motif: Räum, after being separated from the other Demon Pillars, is primarily associated with crows. Specifically, while possessing Randolph Carter's body Räum is able to transform his head into that of a great crow and even transform completely into a flock of crows. In his Demon Pillar form, he is surrounded by an aura of crow feathers. Also, he hates cats.
• Anti-Villain: Andras. His entire motivation was not wanting to die and lose his newfound sentience after the Pillars were separated from Goetia. His singularity was not born of nefarious intent, but of his joining with fellow regretful spirits to create a world where time does not progress. He also develops what really sounds like a Villainous Crush on Hijikata.
• Arc Villain: The four remaining Demon Pillars each serve as one for an Epic of Remnant chapter.
  • Bael cooperated with Moriarty in Shinjuku to get his revenge and in return, helped Moriarty with his plan.
  • Zepar manipulated Kiara into becoming his host and turned Seraphix into a pseudo-singularity in an attempt to regain his power, however Beast III-R quickly overtakes him as the main villain and eventually wipes him out.
  • Phenex works together with Scheherazade in Agartha as they both have the same goal in mind, to kill themselves once and for all so they don't have to deal with the trauma of dying several times over.
  • Räum orchestrated the entirety of Salem's events to draw out an Outer God in hopes of gaining an ally for its plans with humanity and to oppose the Foreign God.
• Art Evolution: Before America, all the Demon Pillars were using the same design and attack animations that had debuted with Flauros. After America, they became individually more distinct with Halphas having a completely different appearance and attack animation compared to its predecessors and by the time the Solomon singularity came out, all the Demon Pillars, including the pre-America ones, have completely different color schemes and unique attack animations.
• Back from the Dead: Demon Pillars are fully capable of being brought back from the dead as seen in the Salomon Singularity, including ones you've just fought before. After they become mortal, however, none of them but Phenex can do this, as after such, Crocell notes Balam, Bifrons, Furcas, Haagenti, Sabnock, Shax, Uvall and Vine being unable to revive and thus using them as fuel for himself.
• Balance Buff: In a weird sense, a boss is on the receiving end of this; Barbatos' health was quadrupled by four during the raid on the Solomon Singularity, due to how everyone was farming him with such ease. It did nothing to help him in the long run, being the first of the Demon Pillars to fall in the battle in a relatively short time given the nature of the event.
• Battle Theme Music: Each Demon Pillar you fight in Solomon's temple represents one of the singularities the protagonists have visited and so each one is accompanied with a battle remix of the singularity's map theme.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Zepar wanted to turn this universe's version of Kiara into a version similar to her CCC incarnation to make her a suitable host. He succeeded in changing her, only for Kiara to then subjugate Zepar and take his power for herself.
• Bishōnen Line: Similar to Goetia himself, the Demon God Pillars Bael and Phenex appear as shirtless hunk humanoids after being beaten as "evil" Moriarty and reviving using a corpse respectively. Lampshaded when even the protagonist mistakes Bael for Goetia, and played with since this isn't their final forms — they revert to a Demon Pillar for the true final fight, meaning this intermediate form was a mere disguise.
• Blessed with Suck: Phenex retains the Resurrective Immortality the Demon Pillars have lost, but now that he has emotions he feels pain each time he dies. As a result, he instigates the creation of the Agartha pseudo-singularity with Scheherazade to become Deader than Dead.
• Body of Bodies: Concept art for the Demon God Pillars shows that some of their skins are sculpted to look like they are made out of thousands of human bodies, though this aspect is rarely seen in various adaptations.
• Book Ends: Flauros is the first Demon Pillar fought, and is the last to cease activity during the Solomon Singularity.
• The Corrupter: The Demon Pillar Zepar wished to create a proper host for itself to hide in so it could regain its power. And the person he chose was the Alternate Universe version of Sessyoin Kiara, one who was a kind and sweet nun working as a therapist, and according to Word of God, would have become a modern day saint if left on her own. To make her a more suitable host however, he used the second magic to show her alternate versions of herself in which she was twisted and morally bankrupt, including the timeline EMIYA Alter originates from, this being after he spent time suppressing her compassion and conscience and driving her mad with his presence. So after seeing this, the old Kiara effectively died, and in her place was one on par with her CCC self, who then proceeded to break, enslave, and finally devour Zepar herself.invoked
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • Medea Lily squishes Haagenti with her magic into something incredibly tiny as the final ingredient for her infinite pancake. He is still Pancakes as of ~CEO Crisis 2020~; 4 years into the game.
  • Zepar spends much of the end of his life in despair from being perpetually overstimulated and constantly tortured by Kiara before being devoured in a pitiful state and thusly erased from existence.
• Dark Is Evil: The original battle sprite for the Demon Pillars before Halphas in America was a predominantly black body, and there's little good about them. In Solomon, Naberius keeps this coloration, while Sabnock takes on a dark-grey color and Forneus becomes a dark purple. Zepar and Glasya-Labolas appear as the original coloration like Naberius, while Crocell appears in the dark-grey variant like Sabnock and Gaap is dark purple like Forneus.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: Amy, Andromalius, Dantalion, Gremory, Murmur and Osa are noted to have self destructed.
• Defiant to the End: Even as Roman uses Ars Nova to destabilize the Demon Pillars and render them mortal, several of them (Crocell, Marbas, Valefor, Amon to name a few) choose to go down fighting the Heroic Spirits to the end.
• Demonic Possession:
  • Each of them manifests by possessing someone, whether the vessel does so willingly or has the transformation forced on them. Ozymandias, however, is able to gain control over Amon by turning it into a Divine Spirit, renaming it "Amon-Ra".
  • Zepar possesses the human Kiara in Seraphix as part of his plan to regain his body and ends up showing her what she can actually do in another universe. Unfortunately for him, she took those lessons to heart and decided to pay him back for the possession.
  • Thanks to his resurrective abilities, Phenex can Body Surf into different hosts, as shown when he's defeated while possessing Scheherazade and simply takes over the dead body of a resistance man.
  • Averted by Räum, who simply stole Randolph Carter's body while the latter's spirit had vacated it for his own reasons. He even goes so far as to say he is Randolph Carter now.
• Despair Event Horizon: Focalor, Furfur, Halphas, Malphas, Marchosias, Stolas and Vepar are noted to have "abandoned survival" after Ars Nova is activated.
• Devour the Dragon: Demon Pillar Crocell mentions in Solomon after the collective is disrupted by Ars Nova that he chose to devour his fellow Pillars Sabnock, Shax, Vine, Bifrons, Vual, Haagenti, Furcas, and Balam to power up and go down killing as many Heroic Spirits as he can.
• Die Laughing:
  • Halphas lets out an Evil Laugh as he's defeated in America and again in Solomon.
  • Bael laughs as he fades away near the end of Shinjuku, fully confident that the protagonist and the planet are still doomed thanks to Moriarty's seventh bullet/meteor.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Bael wants to avenge Goetia not because he has a problem with him being defeated, but that the protagonist, a Ridiculously Average Guy and not a legendary hero or villain, is the one to defeat Goetia. For Bael this was unacceptable.
• Dual Boss: In Arcade, the boss fight against Barbatos in London, instead of 1 Pillar, its two. They also have two different health bars.
  • Forneus is fought alongside Medea Lily at the end of the Okeanos Singularity. Bael is fought alongside Moriarty in the second to last quest of Shinjuku. Glasya-Labolas appears to aid Nursery Rhyme in the Prisma Causeway event.
• Everyone Has Standards: Zepar was willing to instigate a Grail War to restore his body, but even he was disgusted by what Kiara did to the Servants and humans in Seraphix where she continually forced them to suffer for her pleasure. He also looked down on Räum's plan to save humanity by summoning an Outer God into the world.
• Evil Counterpart: As Solomon's familiars, they're technically the antagonistic equivalent of Servants. In terms of gameplay, they even come with their own skills, type advantages, and weaknesses.
• Evil Is Not a Toy:
  • Knowing that Kiara had great influence and power in other worlds, Zepar chose her as a host. However, it soon found that she was far worse and stronger than it was and ended up enslaved and broken by her.
  • Given what Abigail does once the Outer God within her fully awakens, it's very likely Räum would have suffered an unenviable fate had he not been slain beforehand.
• Evil Knockoff: The first Demon Pillar the protagonist defeats in SE.RA.PH is commented on as being "off" compared to the others they've faced, as if it was lacking any real intelligence or soul. That's because it's not a "real" pillar in the sense of being one of the 72 Demon Gods of the Ars Goetia, but rather a creation of Kiara thanks to assimilating Demon Pillar Zepar.
• Face Death with Dignity: Having accepted that it will die with the regrets of being unable to live, Andras chooses to accept its death at the end of Gudaguda.
• Fighting a Shadow: Solomon resummons them every time they die.
• Final Boss: Forneus is the last enemy of the Okeanos arc alongside Medea Lily, while Halphas is the last enemy fought in America after Cu Chulainn (Alter) transforms into him. Flauros serves as this for Septem as well, with Altera serving more as a Post-Climax Confrontation afterwards. Agartha's last foe is Phenex, fought no less than 3 times in the final node at that.
• Flat "What": Haagenti's response to Medea Lily admitting that she wants to use it as a cooking ingredient.
• Four Is Death: Inverted. Four Demon Pillars survived Goetia's defeat: Bael, Zepar, Phenex, and Räum.
• Fun with Homophones: In Salem, Räum finally reveals his true form and chants that the party should pray. "Pray. Pray, prey, prey..."
• Fusion Dance:
  • Although it's only mentioned and not seen in Solomon, Demon Pillar Gaap mentions that Marbas, Valefor and Amon performed a triple union in order to combine their power and fight the Heroic Spirits.
  • Bael is responsible for the fusion of Phantoms in Shinjuku to make Servants capable of fighting the protagonist.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: The eight main Demon Pillars are backed by sixty-four other Pillars, which are mentioned by name by the main Pillar of that battle. Due to the number of enemies, this would require beating only the main pillars that are fought in the battle.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: The CCC event is one massive one to Zepar, who saw his banal goal of body restoration turn into a sadistic display of suffering for Kiara's amusement.
• Good Colors, Evil Colors: The pillars summoned by villainous characters are summoned in red/black and red/white colors to show their villainous nature. Amon summoned as Amon Ra by the heroic Ozymandias has gold and blue to signify how it's not villainous in its current state.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Alloces and Orobas opt at the very end to shield the Servants from other Demon Pillars. These two in specific are interesting choices to do such, as members of the Gazing Star, the sect that would consume humanity and are pivotal to the human incineration plan: Individually, both are amongst the most benign of them all; Alloces' office teaches the art of astronomoy and liberal sciences while providing good familiars, while Orobas in particular can give true answers of the past, present and future, and is faithful to his conjurer; it's very well possible that Chaldea's goals - to see the past, present and future - were likened to what he was made for.
  • Gusion calls off his, Caim and Eligos' attacks after Barbatos, Paimon, Buel, Sitri, Beleth and Leraje fall, instead choosing to converse with the Heroic Spirits until the very end, declaring themselves divided from Goetia.
• Hell Is That Noise: The scream a Demon Pillar makes when using its party-wide attack.
• Herd-Hitting Attack: All of their attacks hit all members of the party.
• Humanity Ensues: Once disconnected from Goetia, the pillars all develop emotion. Some kill themselves due to the inherent contradiction of their actions and their new humanity (Agares, Vassago, Samigina), others still believe that what they do is correct and continue fighting the Servants to give Goetia a chance to enact the plan (Crocell, Marbas, Valefor, Amon), a few begin conversing with the Servants, and others end up pulling a Heel–Face Turn and siding with the Servants, allowing themselves to either die shielding them (Alloces and Orobas) or converse with them (Caim, Eligos, Gusion). Zigzagged with Räum, who adapts to and even enjoys living in human society and adopting the trappings of human culture using the stolen body of the Gentleman, but still remains fairly ignorant of the human condition and contemptuous of human beings as individuals.
• Humanoid Abomination: Bael and Phenex take on much more human forms when they appear in Shinjuku and Agartha respectively. They still look very demonic with the white scales covering their bodies, lack of several facial features, and several Demon Pillar eyes rotating around their bodies.
• Humans Are Bastards: Played interestingly. Unlike the other Demon Pillars who survived the destruction of the Temple of Time, Räum had the easiest time adjusting to his newfound humanity while the other three drowned themselves in various emotions (Bael desired revenge above all else even his own life, Phenex wanted to die for good and take whoever he had to with him, and Zepar was consumed by pleasure due to Kiara). As a result, his heinous actions in Salem are all done with fully-intact sanity and still with the mindset of saving humanity.
• Immortals Fear Death: Andras, having gained self-awareness and lost its ability to come back from death with the loss of Solomon's body, fled the Grand Time Temple to avoid its destruction.
• In the Blood: 72 Magi families were chosen by Solomon and genetically imprinted on their DNA to one day become the Pillars. Several families spread out, where the gene lies dormant until the time where their awakening is required. The Zolgen, Mozart, and Lainur families are Magi families that serve this function for Barbatos, Amdusias, and Flauros respectively.
• Irony: Räum, in his guise as Randolph Carter, hates cats; Randolph Carter himself is an Author Avatar of H. P. Lovecraft, a noted cat lover.
• Last Stand: Several Demon Pillars undergo their own variations on this during the approaching end of their battle with the Heroic Spirits.
  • Crocell, as the last living member of the Chamber of Life, uses his fallen comrades as fuel before he furiously rushes in to fight 'till his last breath.
  • Amon, Marbas and Valefor undergo a three way fusion and continue to fight the Heroic Spirits.
  • Belial, Decarabia and Seere are noted as amongst the last to fall, followed by Dantalion, then Andromalius. It lastly ends with only Flauros, still fighting until the bitter end, before finally ceasing activity after Goetia's defeat.
• Light Is Good: Amon Ra's gold and blue appearance, with bright sand emerging at the bottom. It and Ozymandias are both Hero Antagonists at the point they are fought.
  • Gusion's pure white coloration, in contrast with Barbatos, given his Heel–Face Turn of sorts during the Salomon Singularity.
• Light Is Not Good: Halphas has a unique white coloration compared to other Demon Pillars and it is nonetheless one of the deadliest Demon Pillars having used Cu Alter as the summoning base. Amon and Bael have a dull yellow-gold coloration, while Andromalius has a white-gold coloration and Phenex a similar coloration to Halphas. Andras is golden in the second Gudaguda event. Haagenti is a bright pink. Barbatos and Gusion are normal Demon Pillars in stark white, though it may be subverted in Gusion's case.
• Logic Bomb: Agares, Gamigin and Vassago couldn't process the emotions they were exposed to upon becoming mortal, and the paradox of why the Heroic Spirits were fighting them, thusly dying afterwards from shock.
• Long Game: Bael's plan was three thousand years in the making as it perfected Servant-Phantom fusion and plotted out the Shinjuku pseudo-singularity to take its revenge on the protagonist.
• Misery Builds Character: Taken to its logical conclusion by Räum, who determines that of all things that can possibly force a human being to rise above their current station and achieve true salvation, it is pain and the suffering that results forcing them to confront their "sins" and become The Atoner before ultimately being better off for it. He thus decides he will force all of humanity through untold suffering to "save" them.
• My Death Is Only The Beginning: Räum is killed at the climax of Salem, but not before fatally injuring Lavinia and ensuring that Abigail's Outer God finally goes out of control with her despair. While she is able to take control of it by the end, the breach has slowly begun to open for other Outer Gods to encroach and attempt to turn others. The second of those infiltrated by Outer Gods, Hokusai, being an attempt to infect the protagonist directly shows that even Räum's death and Abigail regaining sanity has not stopped his plan.
• Non-Malicious Monster: Andras simply wanted to be left alone, no longer seeking a vendetta or higher goal after gaining self-awareness, only wishing to have its own identity as long as possible in a pocket dimension secluded from the rest of reality.
• Not Quite Dead: Zepar lost his body in Solomon, but his consciousness survived. Knowing they would hunt him down, his goal was to restore his body for when the time came. Too bad he chose the wrong host.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Andras compares itself to Chacha after encountering her and realizing she was like him.
• Now What?: The four Pillars that survive the final battle essentially have no real purpose now that Goetia is dead, and all four ultimately go their own ways with their own plans: Bael wants Revenge on Chaldea and the protagonist in particular for Goetia's death, Phenex wants to die permanently since it still has its Resurrective Immortality but feels the pain of every death, and Zepar and Räum both want to still try and change humanity but go about it in different ways, with Zepar trying to turn Kiara on its side to use her powers and Räum trying to turn Abigail Williams into the host for an Outer God.
• Number of the Beast: Flauros has 66,666 HP. The others encountered afterward, however, do not follow this trend, as 66,666 HP would be too easy for the player at the point where they are fought, while 666,666 HP would be far too difficult for the vast majority of the game and a typical player's progression; it's only in Camelot & Babylonia that HP totals in general even start tickling such heights.
• Opening Monologue: During the final battle in the Final Singularity, each pillar that represents their Throne will announce their name and purpose.
  Naberius: (Representing Orleans) Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Melting Furnace: Zepar. Botis. Bathim. Sallos. Purson. Marax. Aim. We nine pillars know sound. We nine pillars weave song. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, our luminous torch will never be extinguished!
  Flauros: (Representing Septem) Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Information Center: Orias. Vapula. Zagan. Valac. Andras. Andrealphus. Cimeies. Amdusias. We nine pillars obtain letters. We nine pillars obtain phenomena. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, our research will never be extinguished!
  Forneus: (Representing Okeanos) Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Observatory: Glasya-Labolas. Buné. Ronové. Berith. Astorth. Foras. Asmoday. Gäap. We nine pillars smell the scent of time. We nine pillars follow phenomena. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we will not allow this aggregation to cease...!
  Barbatos: (Representing London) Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Control Tower: Paimon. Buer. Gusion. Sitri. Beleth. Leraje. Eligos. Caim. We nine pillars assist with integration. We nine pillars maintain the terminals. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, nothing shall stop this integration...!
  Halphas: (Representing America) Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Armory: Furfur. Marchosias. Stolas. Phenex. Malphas. Räum. Focalor. Vepar. We nine pillars mourn the flames of war. We nine pillars honor the dignity of the fallen. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we shall not allow eyes to be shut away from this truth...!
  Amon: (Representing Camelot) Active. Active. The nine pillars of the Gazing Star: Bael. Agares. Vassago. Samigina, Marbas. Valefor. Alloces. Orobas. We nine pillars that shall build rationale. We nine pillars shall consume humanity. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we will not allow ourselves to forfeit this rage!
  Sabnock: (Representing Babylonia) Active. Active. The nine pillars that control the Chamber of Life: Shax. Viné. Bifrons. Vual. Häagenti. Crocell. Furcas. Balam. We nine pillars celebrate birth. We nine pillars praise the union. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we pronounce that disdain will never come to this adoration...!
  Andromalius: (Representing Events) Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Trash Heap: Murmur. Gremory. Ose. Amy. Belial. Decarabia. Seere. Dantalion. We nine pillars bury failure. We nine pillars cause discord. How resentful. How uncertain. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, this structure will not be closed...!
• One-Winged Angel: The Demon Pillars act as this when the host willingly transforms themselves into one to fight the player, as are the cases of Lev turning himself into Flauros, Makiri Zolgen turning into Barbatos, Cu Chulainn (Alter) turning himself into Halphas, and Scheherazade turning herself into Phenex.
• Our Demons Are Different: Most of them resemble a mass of darkness emerging from the ground and covered in giant red eyes/crystals. They are also literal pillars supporting Solomon's ring of light in all eras of history simultaneously.
• Out of Focus: Not a single Demon Pillar appears in Shimousa despite it being part of Epic of Remnant which is ostensibly about the surviving Pillars. This is because Shimousa is a parallel world and served as a prototype Lostbelt experiment. This is also because the second of the four pillars had been dealt with during the CCC crossover event which was in essence a story chapter in the guise of an event.
• Piñata Enemy: The Demon Pillars dropped various materials upon their defeats during the raid on the Solomon Singularity. Barbatos became famous for this, as his selection in particular was sought after by much of the active playerbase, especially given the release of Merlin around the same time, and being given the Assassin class helped make him easily farmable using the likes of Illya and Sanzang. Upon the start of the event, Barbatos was singled out by users so fast that he was buffed to be given an extremely heightened amount of health, but ultimately did nothing for it. Upon his death, much of the playerbase mourned his defeat before dividing and generally taking out the rest of the Demon Pillars equally, though Flauros and Forneus were the most commonly fought from there, both for additional reasons as well.
• Power Crystal: The second variant of Demon Pillars first seen with Halphas specialize in these, having red crystals around their base, and their strongest attack consists of summoning crystals around the party and detonating them.
• Powers via Possession: Played straight and inverted; the Demon Pillars not only grant their powers to their hosts, they can also access the powers of said hosts. This is a plot point in Agartha, where Phenex while merged with Scheherazade possesses immunity to attacks from [King] Servants. A half-dead Wu Zetian notes she wouldn't be able to hurt him because of this, but when he ends up ejected from Scheherazade and possesses a corpse, he loses that immunity as a consequence and opens himself up to her Noble Phantasm.
• Public Domain Character: Räum spends a majority of Salem disguised as Randolph Carter, one of H. P. Lovecraft's more famous human characters.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Several of them are mostly black with red down the lines where the eyes are. The other version aren't all black colored, but retain the red lines and eyes.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Each of them has a large number of red eyes with cross-shaped pupils.
• The Remnant: The four Demon Pillars who managed to escape the Grand Time Temple's destruction (Bael, Zepar, Phenex and Räum) are all that's left of the seventy-two Demon Pillars and Goetia. Andras is a separate case who already died by the time Chaldea found out about him.
• Resurrective Immortality:
  • In the Final Order, the eight pillars guarding Solomon resurrect each time they die. It takes nearly every single Servant you've met thus far all working together to subjugate them by killing them over and over. The same is for all the Demon Pillars, as long as Ars Paulina is under their control, they can use it to cheat death over and over again.
  • Phenex still has his own version of it in Agartha, which manifests in-game as a permanent Guts buff that restores 100% of his health and is unremovable.
• Reused Character Design: There are two different designs for the Demon Pillars, the first one is a large pillar of darkness covered in large red eyes, while the second instead has red crystals as its eyes. This is apparent when Solomon summons four of them to fight the player at the end of London, later when Medb summons twenty-eight of them as part of her Last Breath Bullet and for the final confrontation in his temple when the protagonists face off against all seventy-two of them. Though as the game goes on, the skins of each Demon Pillars become more distinct to the point of redesign like with Barbatos.
• Revenge: Bael's Evil Plan in Shinjuku is that he wants to kill the protagonist for destroying Goetia. Fittingly, he manifests as an Avenger-class Demon Pillar.
• Sense Freak: Demon Pillars are spiritual beings and are not familiar with things like physical pleasure which allowed Kiara to break Zepar after he possessed her, who laments that the pleasure of sex was too stimulating for it.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: When Bael reveals himself in Shinjuku and his desire to take revenge on the protagonist, da Vinci starts to state he has no reason to be truly so hateful and vengeful for the protagonist stopping Goetia's plans before Bael shuts up her with a loud "I know!" He admits that he knows his revenge is petty and won't fix anything that happened with the Demon Pillars' failure, but he doesn't care as long as he makes the protagonist pay.
• Sixth Ranger: Andromalius, as the representative of the various events, appears about halfway through the raid on Solomon as the Saber class Demon Pillar. In the main Singularity, Sabnock and Naberius (whom doesn't even appear in the raid like Sabnock) appear as the representative of Babylonia and Orleans respectively despite never showing up in either of them proper.
• Soul Jar: As long as Ars Paulina is under their control, they can keep coming back to life. However, when Ars Nova activated, they lost possession of it and couldn't resurrect after being made to self-destruct.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: Phenex talks in poems and his speaking patterns even affect text boxes as characters randomly change size, position, and color.
• Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: As the "Unknown"/Beast I class, the Demon Pillars are strong against Saber, Lancer, and Archer, but they are weak against Caster, Rider, and Assassin. The Demon Pillars you fight in Solomon's temple manifest as one of the standard Servant classes.
• Taking You with Me: As he dies, Raum mortally wounds Lavinia in a final attempt to break Abigail and unleash her power. It works.
• Time Master: In Salem, Räum has had control over everything in the Pseudo-Singularity, including the inhabitants and time itself. By the time Chaldea arrives, Räum had already run several simulations of the Pseudo-Singularity, the same seven days over and over again, and in the present each day within Salem is progressing faster and faster. Downplayed in that he only controls this bubble in time, and the world around him is aware, unaffected, and ready to interfere like Chaldea is — most of his Ghoul puppets are falling apart and he has little time left to manipulate Salem.
• Token Good Teammate: As the hive mind of the demon pillars falls apart, it is mentioned that Alloces and Orobas chose to turn against the rest, and die as a result. Caim, Eligos and Gusion declared themselves separate from Goetia and chose to instead converse with the Heroic Spirits.
• Too Many Mouths: Barbatos in Arcade has giant, alien mouths in place of eyes, making them the first to be completly different from everything else.
• Transformation of the Possessed: When they manifest in a host, willingly or not, said body is warped into a giant demonic tendrils covered in eyes.
• The Unfought: Zepar never gets to personally fight the protagonist, the primary opponent of the SE.RA.PH Singularity instead being his intended "vessel," Kiara.
• War God: Cu Alter refers to Halphas as the Demon God of War after summoning and transforming into him at the climax of America.
• You Will Be Spared: Zepar intended to do this to Kiara after he was done possessing her and was reborn. Unfortunately for him, Kiara decided to hijack the plan for herself.

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Flauros (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Professor Lev Lainur Flauros

Man of Flauros

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Jalen K. Cassell (English)

A key member of Chaldea, who created the various systems they use to summon Servants and watch over history. However, at the end of the Prologue, he is revealed to have been the bomber that sabotaged Chaldea, and reveals to have a part in the incineration of Human History and subjects Olga Marie to a Fate Worse than Death.

He later returns to serve as the main antagonist of the Septem Singularity, creating the Eternal Roman Empire in an effort to topple the original Roman Empire from Nero Cladius and ensure the completion of said Singularity, and is the first of the Demon Pillars to be fought, Flauros.

He debuted in Clock Tower 2015, a short story published online in 2014.

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• Affectionate Nickname: He shortens Olga Marie's name to just "Olga", showing how close he is to her.
• Ambiguous Situation: Whether any of the other personalities aside from Flauros had many chances to interact with Olga Marie, thus bringing up the possibility that they all truly cared for her, even the human Flauros (before the Demon God Pillar took over).
• Arc Villain: The real enemy in Septem, considering that Romulus does not truly want to be Nero's enemy or conquer the Roman Empire. Flauros basically tells Romulus he has to do as Flauros commands, the pillar is battled after Romulus, and he is the one wielding the Grail. Then Altera comes and takes it by force.
• Back from the Dead: He returns, well and alive, for the Final Singularity. Then dies again as all the Demon Pillars self-destruct when the temple begins to collapse.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's introduced as humble and welcoming to the protagonist at the beginning of the game but as he's revealed to be alive in the Fuyuki singularity when he was claimed to have died during the sabotage explosion, he has Olga Marie killed by throwing her into the CHALDEAS device to rub in the protagonist and Mash's face sadistically to boot and acts very smug towards them in the Septem singularity.
• Book Ends: The very first Demon Pillar you meet is also the very last one to die during the Final Singularity, as well as the penultimate villain that dies during that chapter in general, shortly before Goetia himself.
• Character Overlap: At some point, he rayshifted into the Melty Blood timeline and he's in the newest Melty Blood manga, having teamed up with the Neko Arcs to construct something. Before he dies again.
• Defiant to the End: He's the last Demon Pillar to fall after Goetia's defeat, and he goes down fighting and furiously cursing the Protagonist and the Servants to the very end.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He's set up as the Big Bad, only for him to get killed in Rome, after which Solomon/Goetia takes center stage as the true mastermind.
• The Dragon: Both the game and the Solomon movie show him as the last major roadblock and spokesman for Goetia and the 72 pillars in general. He is also the pillar responsible for bestowing Grails upon those who would seek to use them to warp history.
• Driven to Suicide: In an alternate timeline shown in the Clock Tower 2015 story, Flauros committed suicide in order to prevent the other two personalities from wreaking havoc upon the world, with an implication that this is what's "supposed" to happen in most realities like the Fate/stay night one. Unfortunately, this did not happen in Fate/Grand Order, leading to the events of the game.
• Evil All Along: Lev is first introduced as Olga's primary supporter and advisor, but the ending of Singularity F reveals that he was genuinely never on Chaldea's side and was on Goetia's.
• Eyes Always Shut: His default expression, though they open in some of his sprites. The few times he opens them, he has bulging Fish Eyes reminiscent of Gilles
• Face–Monster Turn: The Clock Tower 2015 side story indicates that not only was Lev a good person at one point, but also his transformation to Flauros is not at all his choice and that he was outright fated to become it. The main difference between Grand Order Lev and his alternate selves is that he was not able to commit suicide in time to prevent his turn.
• Failed a Spot Check: Despite having spent years at the Clock Tower and later Chaldea as Goetia's mole, he was never able to deduce Roman's true identity. Needless to say, Goetia is pissed about this when the truth comes out.
• For Want Of A Nail: Implied to be the reason why Goetia's plans never succeed in any other Fate related media, particularly stay night timelines. By killing himself, he prevents himself from awakening as Flauros and permanently removes one of the 72 Demon Pillars from the equation.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Gets vertically sliced in half in the Rome segment by Altera. It happens again in the Melty Blood manga, but this time horizontally.
• Hate Sink: He's the very character that was designated for the players to hate with all their fiber beings, whereas he first murdered Olga Marie in cold blood and spent the rest of his time smugly telling how much doomed you are and how much he's going to beat you to pulp. Reappearing in the Temple of Solomon and Goetia 'developing' didn't fix his personality for the best either, which is why his first death by Altera was met with much rejoicing, and players made a beeline to kick his ass right after farming with Barbatos to avenge Olga Marie.
• The Heavy: He assumes the position of Romulus' court mage and ends up doing most of the heavy work in directing Servants to conquer Rome because Romulus doesn't really want to conquer the Roman Empire. He's also the agent of the singularity, by order of his master Goetia.
• Humanity Is Infectious: He was the first Demon Pillar to truly gain emotions, allowing him to taunt and mock the protagonists while also letting him empathize with Mash's limited lifespan, hence Goetia's attempts to recruit her.
• Kick the Dog: While appearing to be a quite helpful advisor, this guy's true evil is made all too clear not only when it's revealed that he was the one responsible for the sabotage of the Rayshift that necessitated Mash's transformation into a Servant and killed many more people, but ground zero of the bomb was right under Olga Marie's feet. And the incredibly cruel way he kills Olga Marie the second time went a long way toward making him a Hate Sink.
• Loophole Abuse: In the Clock Tower 2015 timeline, the original Flauros personality was able to defy the Grand Order's anti-suicide compulsion by causing his own Death of Personality. Because only he was destined to turn into a Demon Pillar, Flauros was able to safely destroy himself while leaving the rest of Lev alive, thwarting Goetia's plans at the very last moment before they could start.
• Manchurian Agent: The true Lev Lainur was a decent man who never intended to destroy humanity; unfortunately for him, Goetia destined him to become the seventy-second Demon Pillar, steadily overwriting his personality with that of Flauros. The Clock Tower 2015 version of Lev recognized what was happening to himself and managed to commit suicide in time; unfortunately, the Grand Order version failed to do this, and by the time we see him he's fully become Lev Lainur Flauros.
• The Man in Front of the Man: Served as this to Romulus during the events of Septem. The Founder had no choice but to follow the orders of his Court Mage and battle the forces of Nero in a bid to conquer Rome.
• Meaningful Name: In the Ars Goetia, Flauros is the demon that has knowledge of past, present, and future. He created the systems that Chaldea uses to observe the past and future, has three personalities representing those three things, and to reinforce this, he is the host of the demon.
• One-Winged Angel: He becomes Flauros' vessel in the Rome segment. He does it again in the Grand Time Temple and it's revealed that it's part of his DNA to become the host of Flauros.
• Recurring Boss: You first battle him near the end of Septem, then twice in the Grand Time Temple.
• Scary Teeth: Whenever he opens his mouth, it's shown that his teeth are jagged and shark-like.
• Smug Snake: When his Flauros personality rises, all his smiling face with eyes closed and bulging eyes became good enough accessories for how he would always talk about how futile your efforts are and how he'll take you down. You know, despite being the first Demon Pillar you face.
• Spanner in the Works: The Memorial Chapter Prologue confirms that Lev throwing Olga Marie into CHALDEAS is the one completely unanticipated action to throw a wrench into Marisbury's machinations, as it's the one thing during either storyline that Chaldea is completely unequipped to undo and subsequently has no choice but to simply let it play out for all the unintended consequences that result.
• Spell My Name With An S: The official game translation spells his name as Lev Lainur, while the official anime translation spells his name as Leff Lynor. Neither is necessarily an inaccurate way to romanize レフ・ライノール, but it's still inconsistent.
• Split Personality: He has three. One that represents the past, one the future, and one that mediates between the two as the present. The third one, Flauros, shares its name with the Demon Pillar Lev can also summon.
• Tragic Hero: All of his human personalities were likely good and thus did not deserve anything that the Demon Pillar put their shared body through.
• Turns Red: Does this before you fight him in the Temple.
• Walking Spoiler: Well, the sheer amount of unspoiled text doesn't imply anything at all now does it?

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