| “ | Who is... Bedivere? | „ |
| ~ The Lion King's words when she was unable to recognize Bedivere from the Proper Human History, hinting her true identity. |
King Artoria Pendragon, also known as Goddess Rhongomyniad and the Lion King, is a major antagonist in the 2015 Japanese turn-based tactical role-playing science fantasy mobile game Fate/Grand Order.
An alternate timeline version of King Artoria Pendragon, Goddess Rhongomyniad diverged from her original counterpart by failing to discard the Holy Lance Rhongomyniad. As a result, she was slowly consumed by the Holy Lance's power until she became a Divine Spirit obsessed with upholding holy purity.
Goddess Rhongomyniad is a major antagonist in Fate/Grand Order: Observer on Timeless Temple, the first part of the story of Fate/Grand Order, specifically appearing as the main antagonist of its sixth chapter Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot and a cameo character in its eighth/final chapter Solomon: The Grand Time Temple.
By extension, she is the main antagonist of the 2020 anime film Fate/Grand Order - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Wandering; Agateram and the 2021 anime film Fate/Grand Order - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Paladin; Agateram, which collectively serve as a two-part adaptation of the sixth chapter, and a cameo character in the 2021 anime film Fate/Grand Order: Final Singularity - The Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, which serves as an adaptation of the eighth chapter.
The Lion King, like her other versions, is voiced by Ayako Kawasumi in Japanese and by Kari Wahlgren in English.
History[]
In the aftermath of the Battle of Camlann, Artoria was taken off the battlefield by Bedivere and brought to a wooded area to rest. Believing that it was time for her life to end, the King commanded her knight to take Excalibur and return it to the Lady of the Lake so that she could finally pass on. However, instead of obeying his King's command as he did in the original timeline, Bedivere instead neglected to cast aside the sword, as he was fearful of how a Britain without Artoria would end up.
Because Excalibur was not returned to the Lady of the Lake, King Artoria did not die like she was supposed to. Instead, her wounds were healed by her Holy Lance Rhongomyniad and she became a living ghost of sorts destined to wander the world until the end of existence. Over time, the Holy Lance corrupted her soul and transformed her into a Divine Spirit: a Goddess of exceptional power with no human reasoning. A millennia and a half later, Goddess Rhongomyniad began travelling across parallel realities after her own reality was destroyed as a natural result of diverging from the main timeline.
Personality[]
In many ways, Goddess Rhongomyniad is the result of the main Altria could have become if she, at the end of Fate/Zero, had allowed her desire to rebuild Camelot with the Holy Grail's wish, consequences be damned, to consume her.
Thanks to Rhongomyniad making her a Divine Spirit, she became a more extreme version of the kind of King Arthur was in life, to the point of semi-sociopathy. Unlike her normal incarnation, she fully lost her humanity, meaning she became an even more extreme ruler who lack any compassion, emotions or human perspective.
Even with her loss of humanity, Goddess Rhongomyniad still maintains many of Altria's heroic beliefs. However, her lack of emotions intensified to the point where she is almost robotic and cold. Her lack of humanity distorted those beliefs in uncomfortable directions.
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Trivia[]
- As a result of being variations of the same woman, Goddess Rhongomyniad and Artoria Pendragon Alter are voiced by the same voice actresses in Japanese and English.
- Coincidentally, Goddess Rhongomyniad shares many similarities in characteristics to all of the known Lostbelt Kings, most particularly Arjuna Alter, who also became a Divine Spirit and abandoned emotions. In addition, her divinity, authority and final plans are similar to those of the Lostbelt version of Zeus.
- Thus far, she is the only version of Altria who remains unsummonable in Fate/Grand Order.
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