In life, Solomon had no will of his own; He was a device to run the kingdom, that reflected the will of god and the people.

Solomon won the grail war with Olga's father and his wish was to become human. Not to become human as Solomon, but to become a new true human, Roman. But just as he became human, while losing his ability to see the future, he saw the end of mankind. He didn't know any further details but knew that it had something to do with him, and so set out to try and stop it.

Olga's father summoned him using that one ring Roman has. Solomon had left it behind aside from the others through one of his instructions from god.

Goetia is the sum of all 72 demons in control of Solomon's corpse. The demons were the ones in the visions complaining about why Solomon wasn't do anything about mankind. They/he got sick of mankind and after Solomon's death plotted this whole thing: Turning all of mankind over 3000 years into energy to power Ars Armadillo Salmonella which would allow him to go back in time to the birth of the planet and create a new world that is home to a new, perfect life form free of death, with Goetia serving as the new planet itself. The "mirror" stuff is actually the personality of different demons surfacing to talk to whoever's talking to "Solomon".

Goetia is defeated because Roman/Solomon uses his true first noble phantasm, Ars Nova, in which he returns all of his powers and rings to God and dies. This saps Goetia's power since he's using Solomon's body.

Da Vinci knew that Roman was Solomon but they kept it a secret as a trump card to use against Goetia.

Fou/Four is the fourth Beast, known as Primate Murder in other worlds. Merlin took him in in this world but let him loose to follow Chaldea's journey, and watching over them let him stay in this form (he mentions that he becomes very ugly in other worlds). He uses all the mana he's built up over all this time to bring Mashu back to life which is something that surpasses even the limits of true magic, but in exchange he loses his sentience and becomes a mere animal. He congratulates Mashu saying that they managed to defeat a Beast without swords.

Gilgamesh says that since he's not a Grand he doesn't know all that much about the Beasts. What he does know, however, is that they're said to appear in a chain: A world where a Human Evil appears is one that will be wrought with disasters as it heads towards the "ultimate evil". The fact that I (Goetia) has appeared probably means that VII has already appeared somewhere else in this world.

In the ending the world is back, but time has passed while all this shit was going on and so everyone else just instantly lost a year. The mages' association is in an uproar and sending people over to Chaldea to figure out what happened. Also there are still a bunch of masters in cold storage in Chaldea.

Most of the servants have left, but the ones like Da Vinci who'd been summoned before all this started, and a few who felt that they couldn't leave Guda behind stayed back (no names are mentioned, presumably the ones you have). Da Vinci says their patterns are all recorded anyway so if a ley shift ever happens again they can all be re-summoned. It's unsure if any ley shifts will happen ever again, though, as they'll probably need approval from a lot of places to do any.

>Goetia is defeated because Roman/Solomon uses his true first noble phantasm, Ars Nova, in which he returns all of his powers and rings to God and dies. This saps Goetia's power since he's using Solomon's body.

Oh, and this also results in the true complete death of Solomon himself, something that Goetia says has never ever actually happened in all of history; Solomon's entire existence is erased entirely, even from the Throne of Heroes.

Roman derived his name from "romanticism" (which is just "roman" in Japanese).

There's no mention of where Archeman comes from but Goetia refers to him as his archetype (Archeman: アーキマン, archetype: アーキタイプ).

>Roman/Solomon's death

He was just killed extra hard. He wasn't erased from history.

Fou(r) is this parallel world's version of Primate Murder that didn't grow up thanks to Merlin and Chaldea.

>Solomon looking like Olga's father

No mention of this at all. In fact there's no mention of what ever happened to the guy either. And no mention of Olga at all too.

People like Flauros were seeded by Goetia as lines of mages that would sprout into demons when the time for incineration came, so Flauros wasn't some human who was persuaded to join Goetia; He was one of the 72 demons and part of Goetia before he was even born. He was also a classmate of Roman's and Goetia calls him a dumbass for not noticing that Roman is Solomon.

It's unclear if Solomon ever even was a grand caster. Goetia's profile says that his class as Grand Caster was false, and Solomon's card identifies him as a regular Caster. They don't really mention anything about Grand Servants at all (the only mention in the story is from Gilgamesh starting his explanation of Beasts with "I'm not a grand so I don't really know but...").

FYI Fou(r) does identify himself as "the fourth beast" (第四の獣). And I haven't read Fragments but apparently the Beast in there is Beast IV (ビーストIV).

>Chaldea's casualties

The 200 dead are still dead.

It's mention that there are a bunch of masters (forgot the exact number, 40+, think 48?) in cold sleep who can be revived once they get help from outside.

60% of the facility was wrecked by the demons. There are only about 20 staff left (it's not mention if there were any casualties from the Time Temple so it's unclear if there were 20 left to begin with or 20 left after the demons attacked here).

>David

He did seem to have noticed that it was someone else claiming to be Solomon (when he appears in the story he says something like "even if the enemy is my son, or someone claiming to be him")

>Olga's father

Just to elaborate on the guy: In the flashback at the beginning of the chapter it's revealed that they just totally won the grail war normally, and reached the grail. But Malihoweveryouspellhisnamebilly doesn't want to activate the third magic and reach the origin and use the Einzbern's wacky shit, and uses the grail as an actual real wish-granting machine. Apparently it CAN work as a real wish-granting machine. He uses it to get money while Solomon uses it to become human (this isn't revealed at that point though), and covers up what he did by making it look like Saber won the grail war (no real details on what he did).

When Soloroman uses Ars Nova this results in the 72 demons splitting up from Goetia. Some continue fighting, some "abandon life", some refuse to rejoin with Goetia, Gusion Eligos and Caym want to debate with the servants, Allocer and Orobas become shields (!?) and die protecting the servants, etc.

Goetia empathised with Mashu. All but one of the 72 demons had agreed on the whole "go back in time and remake the world" plan and Goetia wanted her to agree with their plan for reassurance, and offered to bring her with him to the start of the new world if she did so.

Goetia has clairvoyance because this is a skill that rests in the body, but not the ability to hear the words of God since this is a skill that rests in the soul.

Solomon (Roman)'s high-speed incantation skill is a C because he gets over-anxious and makes mistakes.

>Goetia is "Pity"

There's an additional line below that in his material which elaborates on what it means: "the sheer arrogance of people pitying and being disappointed in other people".

In both Tiamat and Goetia's cases it's mentioned that they gained the class of Beast (number) at some point (Tiamat when she decides to reset all life, Goetia when he starts his instrumentality project) so yeah, it seems possible that Beast is a class, with Beast-number being a category in said class, that multiple beings can attain.

Solomon's Material refers to him as a "grand mage" (冠位の魔術師) which is what he called Merlin in Babylon. I'm still unsure if this means Grand Caster or that Clock Tower rank thing someone mentioned before. His card says Caster though.

Solomon seems to be strong-willed but this comes from how he just speaks his mind all the time without caring. At heart he's a chicken (exact words). He takes thing seriously but doesn't put his heart into it, and perpetually puts no more than 80% into doing everything. But even than he was loved by his people as a wise, gentle, and loving king. However, none of this was from his own will, as he had no way of living except as a king listening to the voice of god. He is a non-human that only reacts to the emotions of people around him.

Oh and Fou(r) says that because he's not at full power he can only give Mashu a normal lifespan.

(So if he was at full power he could make her immortal or something?)

>- Solomon's rings (the ending takes the time to pan over them)

Tapping on the chapter button gives you a message saying that the time temple is completely destroyed, except for the throne which still exists there (and the rings are on the throne, yeah)

>Nega Messiah

It's not in his Material but Goetia has one of those nega skills too, his is Nega Summon (the one he uses on turn 1 that makes him super resistant to NPs)

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The Tower at the End of the World (Merlin bond CE)

The last paradise, filled with flowers of all colours.

Day brings with it the sunlight of spring and the smell of summer, while night brings the air of fall and the stars of winter. Flowers and insects on the ground, water and greenery and animals in the forest, and beautiful faeries in the water. A small world, also known as the mythical land of endless spring, or the island of apples. A utopia shut off from all beasts with knowledge.

Avalon. Another name for the soul of the planet Earth itself, the inner sea of the star.

It is here that that man closed off his own path, shutting himself into the tower, choosing a future where he could not die until the end of the star. Because he had seen what he had to seen. No, because he had seen more than enough beautiful things.

"Now go, Cath Palug. I'm staying here. But you should go free, to touch truly beautiful things."

The man let his last companion out through a window, without showing any emotion. And so the mage continued to gaze at the world from that one window.

This is the entirety of a fairy tale of the end of the world.

(Note: "End" in the title means end as in edge or extremity, while in the last line it means end as in the end, finishing. Also in Japanese, planets are stars, so yes, "star" refers to Earth)

An Impossible Future (Lancer Medusa)

I was born into this world.

Yes, from the moment I was born, I was different from my sisters. They are true goddesses. Unlike living beings, they were complete from the moment they were given form. But I was born. Like a human. As a living being that grew and changed form with time.

Even so, there was I time where I thought I'd grow into a form fitting to stay beside my sisters. That the day would come where I could wear the same garments as them, gain the same form as them, and act like a goddess.

Feel free to laugh at me. At my small misunderstanding.

Chrysaor (Gorgon)

Monsters are vanquished by heroes.

The fearsome Gorgon, or the thing that wielded the power of the monster Gorgon, killed many humans before it finally came to an end.

The men and gods used the monster's corpse in many ways.

Lethal poison and medicine that could revive the dead was made from its blood.

The blood that fell onto the desert turned into venomous snakes.

Its head became an unparalleled weapon.

The hero Heracles said that its hair would send an army running if raised and shown three times.

Much later, the Conquerer King Iskander is said to have put a mark depicting the Gorgon's head on portraits of him.

The monster's corpse became an unparalleled power, a sort of symbol that would be used for a long time.

What, then, are the two wonders that were born when blood spilled from the wound dealt by the hero Perseus?

Pegasus and Chrysaor.

Were they really gifts from the god of the sea, as the legends say?

Or were they the last thoughts of a monster that didn't want its corpse to be defiled?

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Nasu blog

2016/12/26 : Human Foundation Restored

>『Fate/Grand Order』第一部、多くのプレイヤーの戦いによってめでたく完結となりました。

>This is the end of Fate/Grand Order PART ONE

Story for the final chapter remained the same as in the initial planning phase; It was always going to be about Goetia and Roman and Mashu and Fou(r).

Chapter 7's script was done in the first week of October while the final chapter was done in the last, but November was spent putting together Christmas and 7 so they only had one month to actually make the final chapter.

Christmas was in November because Nasu wanted the final chapter to come immediately after 7, even it was dumb from a business POV. They prioritised story over Christmas.

Yeah confirmed nothing for the rest of the year (he says to go collect EXP or something)

He recommends reading the boss materials because they might be relevant.

The final chapter's scenes with the servants showing up: Chapters 2 and 4 were done by Sakurai, 3 and 5 by Higashide. He told them to keep it at 10 kb of text, 15 at most for each chapter with 25 at most for two, but they both gave him 20 kb per chapter. He complained but they pointed out that he said the chapter would be 40 kb then wrote 120 kb.

There is a "yearly item supply", a sort of "item budget" thing, inside the game, which determines drops. They loosened this in the Time Temple so that you can just get all the shit you want. He actually fucking says "just like assets in real life" >現実の資産同様

>There is a "yearly item supply", a sort of "item budget" thing, inside the game, which determines drops.

(Wait what. Drops are artificially limited? They're not by chance?)

He says that while you may think that Ars Armadillo Salmonella may instakill your entire front line, but if you use your experience up to this point there are ways to get past it.

"This is the last battle, don't skimp on the command spells!"

He praises Sugita's performance and how he uses different voices for different demons. He especially likes Goetia who's filled with rage, but this is not the sort of anger that comes from hate but is screaming "why".

He now has Andromalius speaking in his head whenever he buys stuff off Amazon ("Why seek more!?" "Why hoard!?" and not mentioned on the blog but "Dispose of everything unneeded!" is presumably relevant too)

Most of the demons only got emotions at the very end, but Flauros got his emotions very early on. That's why he was able to troll Chaldea while the other demons were mostly machine-like.

That's also why Flauros never excepted their loss, and didn't give up, till the very end (posted this before but he's the last demon to die). He was also the one demon that empathised with Mashu.

Yamanaka Kotetsu was commissioned to do the demons after he did the main visual for the UBW movie.

The designs were perfect so they got him to do Tiamat.

Tiamat is supposed to be the "ultimate form of the Sakura-type character".

There are also rough cuts of a little girl version of the Femme Fatalle, wait for chapter 7's Material.

The reason why Tiamat has 11 Lahums stronger than demons is because they're her equivalent of the demons, but while Goetia has 72 she only has 11 so quality over quantity.

"Thanks, Yamanaka-san! Now all we need to do is wait for Holmes to get in!"

About the OP, Shikisai: When making the song they explained how the story would end to Sakamoto, and she made the song based on the game's themes.

Also, Nasu wrote the plot to FGO while listening to Sakamoto's song Scrap. He thinks Roman's ten years is close to what's depicted in Scrap and actually told Takeuchi that he wanted to use it as FGO's OP, and Takeuchi is the one who said they might as well get her to make an original song.

When commissioning the OP Nasu's requested something like Scrap.

>The story bit at the end

Short story where Guda goes back to their room, has a vision of Roman, and bids him farewell again (also referring to him as "Doctor Romantic").

俺/わたし は 顔を上げて/うつむいて、唇を噛んで、 こみ上げるものを必死に堪えた。

He fits in versions for both genders (俺/ore is presumably Gudao and わたし/watashi is presumably Gudako; "Ore" looks upwards and "watashi" looks downwards as they fight back their tears.