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| “ | I'm very "concernnunos" about this dangerous battle, so I'll retreat to Avalon. The Holy Sword must have already ended the battle. This can't "continnunos" forever... We're "donnunos" for. | „ |
| ~ Cernunnos's way of speaking according to Kinoko Nasu. |
Cernunnos, also known as the Enshrined Deity and the Beast God, is one of the overarching protagonists of the Fate series. He was the Celtic deity of wilderness who retreated to Avalon following the Sefar's invasion and the subsequent end of the Age of Gods.
His Lostbelt version serves as a major antagonist of Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt. Specifically, he is the overarching protagonist of the sixth lostbelt: Faerie Round Table Dominion: Avalon le Fae.
He also acts as a major antagonist in the 2023 summer event after accidentally being summoned by Oberon onto the Hawaltrian Island in three seperate forms: Burnunnos, Oceanunnos and Ceasunnos.
Cernunnos is fully revived to his old and good self after being partially fused with Tam Lin Tristan, making her summer version a 4-star Pretender-class Servant known as Cait Cu Cernpriestess. This indirectly marks his debut as a playable character.
Overview[]
Cernunnos was originally the patron deity of the English Lostbelt, who was betrayed and brutally murdered by its immortal inhabitants. At first, Cernunnos did not appeared in person, remaining dead in the backstory mostly and being the source of the Calamity of Norwich, though Kirschtaria Wodime mentioned him indirectly as a force to be reckoned with and must be stopped before it rose.
This, however, changed until the chapter's Part 3, where he (or more precisely, his souless corpse) became its main antagonist due to the effects of Morgan's tragic death, causing the calamities gone wild under the Vile King's manipulation. In Cernunnos's case , he transformed into the Great Calamity of Curse after Tam Lin Tristan brought him back as an undead monster.
After his revival, Cernunnos became a mindless monster as his mind was gone and is possibly controlled by a now-corrupted Baobhan Sith as his new core. All it remained is his instinct and hatred of faeries. He thus went on a mindless rampage against the immoral British faeries to destroy them all.
Biography[]
Within the history of the British Lostbelt, the six Fairies of the Beginning failed to forge Excalibur. He and his priestess returned to the World to enact punishment towards the fairies upon notice of this failure which had caused the world to be destroyed in the first place by the White Titan.
Still within the history of British Lostbelt, a forgotten legend was told that when the six Fairies surfaced, there was only a huge ocean, devoid of land and mountains. Cernunnos emerged from the ocean alongside an animal sitting on its shoulder that was presumed extinct. The Fairies desired land, but Cernunnos, being a God, demanded sacrifices, so the Fairies decided to offer their joys and their wills to the horned God. Granting the wish, the God brought the land that would be known as Britain and once finished, it succumbed to slumber.
It was later revealed the legend was a fabrication to cover up the Fairies' original sin. The Six Great Fairies tasked with forging the Holy Sword to defeat the White Titan in 12,000 BC failed to complete the task. All of Earth's civilizations and landmasses were wiped out by the White Calamity, leaving just an endless ocean behind. Cernunnos was sent from the Inner Sea of the Planet to punish the Fairies, though it was a gentle soul who did not wish to do so. Cernunnos also saved a single human woman, the only survivor of the White Titan's attack. The God allowed them to live on its body, but was unable to make new land as the six Fairies desired, so, under the guise of a festival, they betrayed Cernunnos' trust by poisoning it and used its corpse to form the foundation of a new British Isle.
Cernunnos' existence, along with its legend, is unknown to most of the Fairies due to Morgan eliminating all mention of it from the history records, hence the reason of why there is not concept of God nor priest in her Britain.
Though its soul is long gone, Cernunnos' corpse, located at the bottom of the Great Pit in the center of Britain, has been accumulating curses upon curses for thousands of years. Should it awaken it would mean the destruction of the entire planet.
Personality[]
The Lostbelt version of Cernunnos was originally a kind and reasonable deity like his Proper Human History counterpart, eagerly trying to discipline the faeries of the British Lostbelt. Nevertheless, their ingratitude and selfishness led to the tragic fate of his wife and later, himself, which nullified all of his kindness through his death and drove him into a souless corpse seeping curses to the entire land.
After his resurrection, Cernunnos became a mindless and vengeful undead monster filled with nothing but his own instinct and hatred of faeries that turned against him, just like how they turned against Morgan again and again. Eventually, all Cernunnos remained now was a souless corpse that began his mindless revenge against the horrible faeries and his path to destroy the whole land.
Trivia[]
- Cernunnos roughly stands over 2 kilometers, making him the largest Fate/Grand Order boss thus far.
- During the fight against Cernunnos, the Shadow Boarder keeps spinning around him, with Cernunnos himself being presented as a stationary 3-D model. As the Servants's positions remain largely static in the gameplay, this scene is infamously misinterpreted, with some players thought it was Cernunnos himself who was spinning in their perspective, not the Shadow Boarder. This misinterpretation has since gone memetic.
- Amusingly, as a reference of this misintepretation, the Noble Phantasm of Cait Cu Cernpriestess actually does feature Cernunnos HIMSELF spinning (for real, this time) while firing lasers from his eye.
- According to Kinoko Nasu, Cernunnos is designed to be as huggable and adorable as possible, like a plushy toy, in order to signify he is originally a kind and friendly figure.
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