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The Evils of Humanity, also known as the Human Evil and the Beasts of Calamity are the main antagonists in Fate/Grand Order and Fate/Grand Order Arcade.
They were first mentioned in Fate/Prototype with the Beast of Revelation, the biblical Anti-Christ who served as the overarching antagonist of Fate/Prototype. They are also the archenemies of the Grand Servants and the reason of their presence.
Overview[]
The Evils of Humanity are the ultimate targets of Grand Order and transcendental enemies that Heroic Spirit Summoning was originally meant to combat, classified as Beast-Class Servants (otherwise known as the Beasts of Calamity). It is with this that the Beasts are essentially the ultimate enemies all Servants and the Throne of Heroes itself.
They are seven great threats to the continuation of human order. While they have varied motivations and are not a "group" as such, their defining characteristic is that their existence and motives pose an existential threat to humanity as a whole.
The Beasts are existences born out of the innate flaws within human nature and wisdom itself (thus their name - "Evils of Humanity"), each being a different embodiment of a type of "sin" found in all humans. Despite their malice and desire to destroy/corrupt/remake humanity to their individual wills, each of the Beasts act out of an unique overwhelming yet extremely corrupt "love" for humanity.
The Beasts are transcendentally powerful and accumulate more power as mankind advances. While they are technically "Servants" due to their nature, they are powerful enough to not only survive but manifest themselves without any need of a Master. All the Beasts are able to corrupt humanity and their surroundings using their individual abilities, only most of them need time and planning to manifest their full powers.
It is later revealed the Beasts are further called "Heroic Spirits of Adversity" despite being embodiments of human malice. This is because the Beasts are considered a group of "necessary evils" who create existential threats for humanity to overcome, essentially forcing humans to progress and improve themselves to avoid ruin.
Known Beasts of Calamity[]
Beast I - Demon God King[]
- Main article: Goetia
Beast I (Lost) - Beast of Oblivion[]
- Main article: Camazotz (Lostbelt) Beast I (Lost), known as Camazotz, is one of the main antagonists of the seventh Lostbelt arc of Fate/Grand Order. He is the embodiment of the sin of "Oblivion" (as in the evil of being completely forgotten).
Beast II - Primordial Mother[]
- Main article: Tiamat (Fate/Grand Order)
Beast III-L - Mara[]
- Main article: Kama (Fate/Grand Order)
Beast III-R - Demonic Bodhisattva[]
- Main article: Kiara Sessyoin
- Main article: Kiara Sessyoin (Beast-III/R)
Beast III-R, formerly known as Kiara Sessyoin, is the infantile stage of the Third Beast, representing Desire (the evil of taking in love only for one's self). It acts as the main antagonist of the SE.RA.PH chapter.
In the world of Grand Order, the human Kiara Sesshouin was a simple therapist with some interest in computer science and an ordinary job working for the Chaldea Foundation on its Seraphix deep-sea platform.
However, in another life, she was a narcissistic and masochistic cult leader devoted to a twisted religion of desire, and a skilled computer hacker who hacked the Moon Cell Automaton with the goal of usurping its omnipotent power and imposing her twisted ideal of love upon the world. She would seize the power of creation itself and ascend to something close to a true demon, the embodiment of "All The Desires Of The World", only to be defeated.
Beast IV - Primate Murder[]
- Main article: Primate Murder
Beast IV (Lostbelt) - Tamamo Vitch[]
- Main article: Koyanskaya
Beast VI-G - Beast of Revelation[]
The Beast of Revelation is the overarching antagonist of Fate/Prototype. It was second Servant of Manaka Sajyou. Being the embodiment of the sins and desires of humanity, its materialization is apparently the true purpose of the Holy Grail.
Its true form is the red seven headed, ten horned Beast ridden by the golden Whore of Babylon. Its initial form is a sea of black mud that is desperately attempting to give shape to its body, starting with its seven brains and jaws.
Throughout the story of Fate/Grand Order, Arthur Pendragon from Fate/Prototype has been hopping through dimensions to hunt it. It has been killed twice, in 1991 and 1999, but it keeps coming back. It's heavily associated with the Anti-Christ in popular fiction and one of its skills is Nega-Messiah. As a result, there have been indications in side materials that if it manifests in full, Nero Claudius would have some kind of relation to it. It is further heavily implied by Arthur that Beast VI/G is related to the sin of "Greed" and is referenced as a "city-eater" that wants to "devour everything" only what this means is currently unknown.
Beast VI-S - Queen Draco[]
- Main article: Queen Draco
- Main article: Bestia Coccinea
Queen Draco is the main antagonist of the Fate/Grand Order Arcade fighting game. She is the embodiment of the sin of "Depravity" (as in the evil of how humanity becomes more corrupt as they grow and prosper) and is related to the other forms of Beast VI, especially the Beast of Revelation. She is referred by other characters as a "fellow calamity from the sea" and appears as a corrupted form of Nero Claudius. Her ultimate goal is to completely destroy the Human Order and "consume" it as a meal.
She was responsible for the Arcade Timeline's event, which diverted itself from the main story of Fate/Grand Order starting from the American Singularity and had the Jerusalem Singularity afterward occurring without interruption.
Bestia Conccinea is the VI/S form of the Beast of Revelation that Queen Draco used in her plan to destroy the Human Order in the Arcade Timeline's event, later manifesting as a separate aspect of Beast VI/S after Draco herself was defeated by Chaldea.
Beast VII - VII of the End[]
- Main article: Alien God
Beast VII, also known as the Beast that Announce the End, the Evil of the End and the VII of the End, is a Beast-Class Servant mentioned in Chapter 14 of the Solomon Singularity, speculated to be the overarching antagonist in Fate/Grand Order as a whole.
Gilgamesh states that after the presence of Goetia, the VII of the End will have appeared somewhere in the world, as their manifestations are in some way interlinked. Any world in which an Evil of Man has manifested is said to tend unto the so-called Evil of the End, and thereby visited with accumulating calamities.
In the Olympus Lostbelt, it is revealed that the Alien God is actually the VII of the End itself.
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Trivia[]
- After making its debut through the Beast of Revelation in Fate/Prototype, the concept of a "Beast" class which embodied the sins of humanity would lurk in the background of Fate works for a decade (and has an unnamed presence in Fate/stay night and Hollow Ataraxia), before the concept returned in full in Fate/Grand Order.
- Like other major Servants from Prototype, the Beast of Revelation is the prototype of a Fate/stay night Servant, and in the Beast's case, the Avenger-Class Angra Mainyu. The biggest difference is that the Beast is the intentional product of the Grail, while Angra Mainyu corrupting the Grail was wholly unintentional.
- The author of Fate/Stay Night later revealed in an interview that Angra Mainyu would had grown to become the "Beast of Retribution" had the heroes not stopped it in time.
- Unlike the other Beasts like Goetia or Tiamat, the Beast of Revelation represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins, in this case Greed.
- As of Tokugawa's Labyrinth event, only Beast V's true identity is left ambiguous for now. Because of the hints made in the Chinese Lostbelt, fans often speculated that Koyanskaya is actually one of the Beasts. If that's true, she can only be Beast V as Beast III-L's identity was already revealed.
- However, after she was made playable, Koyanskaya was revealed to be a budding Beast, formerly being a candidate for Beast IV before losing to the Primate Murder. This causes Beast V's nature to be even more ambiguous.
- The ending of the first main story arc of Fate/Grand Order Arcade revealed that Beast VI is split into two known forms, with Beasts VI/S and VI/G in a pair, with Queen Draco being VI/S.
- As of April 2024, it is finally confirmed that the Beast of Revelation is Beast VI/G, according to dialogue in the playable version of Draco to Arthur.
- Each of the Beasts are a corrupt symbol of one of the Servant Classes from being the ultimate enemies of the Throne of Heroes.
- Goetia represents Caster from being the embodiment of the ultimate summoning spell and being associated with the ancient origins of Magecraft.
- Camazotz represents Lancer from being a scythe-wielder in his original human form.
- Tiamat represents Berserker from having an incomprehensible mind along with being a monstrosity that uses mostly overwhelming strength and endurance when in battle.
- Kiara represents Ruler from being a holy-like figure who manipulated the Servant system for her own selfish goals.
- Mara represents Archer being originally being a bow-wielder in Hindu myth.
- Primate Murder represents Assassin from his original purpose of being the ultimate "killer" of humans.
- Koyanskaya represents Alter Ego from her origins of being a separate empowered aspect of the sun goddess Amaterasu.
- Beast VI/S (and likely Beast VI/G) represent Rider from having the Beast of Revelation being a mount for its rider.
- The Alien God represents Foreigner from being associated with an alien entity who invaded from outer space.
- There is a theory in the Fate community that each of the main Beasts and/or the sins they embody are the antithesis to the main culture or religion of the human civilizations where they originated from.
- Goetia is a demon from the Old Testament whose arrogance in his sin of Pity causes him to have the ultimate goal of creating a new world without death where he is considered "God", a corrupt antithesis of how God in Abrahamic religions was the creator of the universe.
- Tiamat originates from the world's oldest known creation myth in Mesopotamia as the mother-goddess of all life only her sin of Regression has her want to revert everything in creation back into herself.
- Kiara and Mara are both influenced from Buddhism yet embody the sins of Desire/Lust, the antithesis to Buddhist teachings of not wanting any worldly desires.
- Primate Murder was inspired by the warrior-devouring monster called Cath Palug from Arthurian legends that emphasized the virtues of chivalry, honor, heroism. However, Primate Murder's sin is Comparison, where humans become jealous and resent others who accomplish more than themselves, a corruption of the virtues in Arthurian legend.
- Beast VI's two current known forms of VI/S and VI/G are embodiments of Depravity and Greed, the antithesis to teachings in ancient Christianity of avoiding materialism.
External Links[]
- The Beasts on the Fate Wiki
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