| ID | 279 |
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Class | Lancer |
| True Name | Caenis |
| Gender | - |
| Source | Greek mythology |
| Region | Europe |
| Alignment | Neutral Evil |
| Height | 174cm |
| Weight | 59kg |
| Strength | A |
| Endurance | B+ |
| Agility | A |
| Magic | D |
| Luck | B |
| Noble Phantasm | C |
| Character Setting | Sakurai Hikaru |
| Illustrator | Azusa |
| Character Voice | Komatsu Mikako |
| Major Appearances | Fate/Grand Order |
| Related Character | Caenis |
A Skill that nullifies Magecraft spells that were done with a chant of two verses or below. It cannot defend against large-scale Magecraft such as Great Magecrafts and Ritual Spells.
Caenis, who is the Hero of Tyranny, possesses a special Madness Enhancement on the occasion of this materialization. They normally have reason, but if their anger accumulates and completely goes beyond the limits of their tolerance, they will completely become a storm of spears to the point that trying to come to a mutual understanding with them is absolutely impossible. It is not something at all where they might kill even their Master, but rather they will have the tendency to try to proactively kill their Master in order to end their own materialization.
Caenis the Heroic Spirit originally did not possess a Divine Core, but the Sea God Poseidon bestowed a special grace onto that Spiritual Foundation of theirs. So as a rare exception, the Caenis who is summoned as a Servant possesses a pseudo-Divine Core, and they further possess the Spiritual Status of not a Heroic Spirit Servant, but a Divine Spirit Servant.
A Skill that temporarily amplifies one’s strength. It is primarily an offensive special characteristic possessed only by monsters and Mystical Beasts. It increases one’s Strength Parameter by one Rank upon usage. The duration for this increase depends on the Rank of “Monstrous Strength”.
A Skill that demonstrates the way an usurper ought to be and how obsessed they are in pillaging/usurping with force.
| Rank | A |
| Type | Anti-Army Noble Phantasm |
| Range | 1~50 |
| Maximum Number of Targets | 100 people |
An Anti-Army Noble Phantasm that has Caenis’ very own existence sublimated as a Noble Phantasm. They carry out a metamorphosis into “a bird that has golden wings” that they transformed into on the occasion of their death, and they cause damage to the enemy camp by charging into it while flying.
| Rank | B |
| Type | Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm |
| Range | 0 |
| Maximum Number of Targets | 1 person |
An absolute defense that is accompanied by the nature of immortality. A Conceptual Defense. It is primarily a Noble Phantasm of the Constantly Invoked-Type.
A blessing granted to Caenis during the occasion where, after her virginity was forcefully taken away from her by the Sea God Poseidon, she transformed into a man in accordance with her wish. An invulnerable body that can stay unscathed even if it was stabbed or cut and can make Caenis ignore iron blades. It even nullifies every weaponry-based attack made on Caenis, but it cannot nullify wide surface attacks done with a large mass or an enormous energy behind it. (It also cannot nullify the entire damage from an attack equal to or greater than an Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasm.)
As a secondary effect, it is possible for Caenis to exercise the Authority to cross over the seas. Due to this, they can even cross over into a Lostbelt.
| Rank | EX |
| Type | Anti-Fortress / Anti-Sea Noble Phantasm |
| Range | 1~70 |
| Maximum Number of Targets | 600 people |
Caenis pulverizes their target(s) by means of a super-massively large ocean current, and there is no difference whether the target(s) is on the ground or mid-air in the function of this attack. It is a powerful Offensive Noble Phantasm even under normal circumstances like described above, but if it is a situation where the target(s) is on water, underwater, or is close to a large quantity of water, the attack’s power will increase even more. It is a limited reproduction of a very small fraction of the Authority over Oceans that the Sea God Poseidon possesses, and it is primarily regarded as something that has an extremely large area of effect equal to, or possibly greater than, an Anti-Country Noble Phantasm.
| First-person pronoun | ore / “watashi” during the extremely rare occasions where Caenis returned to their past mentally |
| Second-person pronoun | omae / temee / “anata” during the extremely rare occasions where Caenis returned to their past mentally |
| Third-person pronoun | yakko / aitsu / “kare / kanojo”, etc. during the extremely rare occasions where Caenis returned to their past mentally |
A warrior who keeps anger within themselves.
Something that they hate is the sea.
Something that they hate is the gods.
Caenis has so much anger to the extent that they have Class Aptitude for Avenger. However, one does not sense such a thing from them normally. If they are in a good mood, it seems that they will respond to things cheerfully. Even if they are in a bad mood, if someone talks to them, they will at least respond to them, and would further take the trouble to go along with them with some trifling small talk. They like sweets, so if someone begins to talk about a topic on different kinds of candies, it seems that they will be greatly delighted.
However… if their anger happens to flare up even for a moment, Caenis will become unmanageable. The state of that resulting fury, which does not even make them balk at killing their own Master, can even sometimes compare with a Berserker’s.
Caenis hates the matter of serving others. If their partner is on par with a monarch, they would go through with supplanting them on the spot and decapitate their head, before they would ascend to their throne as an usurper.
It seems that the matter where Caenis was obedient to Kirschtaria Wodime in the end, even while saying this and that towards him… can only be described as an exception among exceptions. The reason is that Caenis, who should be repudiating every monarch, noticed something in regard to his soul.
A Master who has summoned the Divine Spirit Caenis must be careful. They are essentially in a vessel that is not fit to be someone’s subordinate. One had better be always on attention regarding their state of mind.
“I’m Caenis. My True Name is Caenis, and I’m a Divine Spirit.
————Tsk. What’s with this “I’m Caenis” from me? He has the fucking nerve to mess with me here too.”
“My True Name is Caenis, and I’m a Divine Spirit. It seems that guy said I’m a Lancer. Well, do treat me favourably… Huh? Yo, what, it’s you, huh?! Haha. Whaaat, do you need me after all? Hey, it can’t be helped then; I’ll accompany you!”
“I’m… a Divine Spirit!!”
“There’s no blade, none whatsoever… that can reach me!”
A warrior as well as an usurper who appears in Greek Mythology. Caenis went on an adventure with many heroes as a member of the Argonauts. It has been told that————she was a woman, but later became a man.
It is said that Caenis was once a genuine woman, one who was famous for her beauty and had been praised as a beautiful maiden in Thessaly. She continued to reject numerous marriage proposals, but on some day, she received the love of the Sea God Poseidon (Neptune). Her virginity had been taken away by force. Legends say that the Sea God was satisfied and told Caenis “I will completely fulfill any of your wishes”, and she replied with “Please make me not a woman, so that I will not suffer something like this ever again”; thus, Caenis became an invincible man.
It is unsure whether or not Caenis truly became a man. It is said that after their death, Caenis/Caeneus transformed into a bird that has golden wings and disappeared into the sky, but there is also an anecdote where their corpse that was left behind was that of a woman’s. In either case————Caenis/Caeneus became a robust warrior before that and made a show of ruling the lands as an usurper.
During their lifetime, their name as a man is Caeneus. Caenis is their original name (as a female).
As a Heroic Spirit, they materialize as a Servant with a feminine figure. Just like the name they had around the time where they had lived as a woman, their True Name is also Caenis.
… It is said that Caenis transformed into “a bird that has golden wings” on the occasion of their death. That anecdote is being provided to them as a Noble Phantasm even in this materialization, but there is a possibility where the special characteristic of “being able to shapeshift their body as they please” that this Noble Phantasm contains can run out of control. It is perhaps that reason why they materialized with a female body and why their body is endowed with animal traits.
When Caenis advances through their Spiritual Foundation Ascensions, the Divine Protection and Blessing of the Sea God, which is their Noble Phantasm, appears more pronounced, and they attain a form that gets closer to their own self when they were alive. That is to say, they become a shining existence with no equal, a being coiled around with sublime armour, as if they are in the likeness of the Great Sea God Poseidon————It is the figure of “an invulnerable warrior.”
Moreover, as a result of having received a particularly strong grace from Poseidon, Caenis’ Spiritual Foundation is being constructed into a state where their Spiritual Status has substantially ascended. They no longer fit into the status of a Heroic Spirit… The summoned warrior Caenis has achieved a materialization as a Divine Spirit Servant.
In Part 2 of “Fate/Grand Order”, Caenis appears as one of Kirschtaria Wodime’s Servants. There is a reason why Caenis, who hates, detests and loathes every deity, resolved to serve Wodime to the point of being obedient, and it is not just because of his extraordinary charisma. It is partly because Wodime had personally conveyed to Caenis clearly his own intentions – the truth behind “The Reorganization of the Age of the Gods.”
To change all humans into gods and have the Age of the Gods reorganized————When all is said and done, the gods from the ancient times would all lose their way of being. Of course, that includes the olden Greek gods, as well as the Sea God Poseidon who Caenis treats as the target of their anger!
“That’s excellent, isn’t it? It’s the best way to deal with them!”
Caenis had greatly endorsed Wodime for this.
“If that’s the case, I will certainly wield the Divine Protection and Blessing of the Sea God that this body is endowed with as a Noble Phantasm to my heart’s content!”
(Their former travelling companions. Caenis has no need to speak of those fellows, but they do not treat them like strangers either.)
(A companion Caenis hangs out with in Chaldea. They get along with each other.)
(The bean sprout. Caenis does not make active efforts to deal with Jekyll head-on since it is troublesome to do so.)
(Their playmate.)
(Does a double take.) (Does a triple take.)
(Caenis does not take a liking to Kintoki because the latter grew up while being innocent of the ways of the world. In addition, they do not understand well on what his roots are, so they do not take a liking to his inexhaustible nature either.)
(The situation that happens when the two encounter each other is “Oh no, it’s Martha.” Given that Martha is importunate, Caenis runs away whenever they see her face.)
(Caenis’ spine tingles just by seeing Altera’s face. The reason why this happens is unknown to them.)
(Da Vinci has been on Caenis’ mind ever since they heard about the details of how————he wanted to change into a woman out of his own accord. As far as they are concerned, they are a being who cannot understand why he/she would do that, but it is for that reason that they find him/her very interesting.)
(It seems Romulus belongs to the same family as the God of War Mars; that is to say, Ares. Caenis subconsciously greets him because Poseidon’s Divine Protection within them is showing his feeling of admiration that says “I see.”)
(As a matter of fact, they would get along with each other, but given that they rarely come face to face with each other, Caenis is currently bored as a result.)
(As a matter of fact, they would get along with each other, but————they have not encountered each other in Chaldea even once.)
(“The mermaids in Chaldea are kinda… different. Too different, actually.”)
Comment from Illustrator #
Caenis was the first Servant for me where I was able to accept the responsibility of a character’s design in FGO, so I was up to the task of creating their design while being all the more excited. There were also a lot of things that I was of two minds over about when I was designing them, and there were a large number of drafts that ended up being rejected. I thought, ‘Heeey, I would be delighted if there is an opportunity to show these someday.’ Cheers for tanned skin, hurray!! (Azusa)