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She holds no particular issues with fighting with Shirou, as she neither actively desires it nor is against it. She simply follows Sakura's orders without any deviation, so she will only attack when she is ordered. She does get angry when Shirou isn't putting his all into fighting her, going as far to ask if that is all she meant to him.

She is pleased with his victory over her in Sparks Liner High , even urging him to kill her before she can regenerate, but quickly falls back into her apathetic state upon seeing the result of the battle on him. She simply states it is her victory, and compares him to all of her other enemies who had risked their lives and died meaninglessly.

She is mostly emotionless, but also selfish and even more gluttonous than normal. Her taste for food changes completely, preferring fast food to the food she prefers normally. Kiritsugu was recruited by Jubstacheit and given Avalon , excavated from Cornwall, to summon the legendary King Arthur. While surprised that she is a young woman, it doesn't change anything about his plans.

He partners Saber with his wife and vessel for the Lesser Grail , Irisviel von Einzbern , to act as Saber's Master in the open while he acts from behind to win with his own methods.

Saber is unaware of Avalon, and it is given to Irisviel without her knowledge. Saber and Irisviel arrive together in Fuyuki by plane from the Einzbern Castle in northern Europe because Saber cannot dematerialize due to her unique status. Kiritsugu travels separately from them and meets up with his protege, Maiya Hisau. Following the challenge of another Servant, they quickly encounter their first opponent that night. Saber engages Lancer , and despite a mostly even fight, she is left with a wound from Gae Buidhe to her left hand that prevents her from utilizing her full strength and Excalibur.

Their fight is interrupted by the Rider , who declares the supremacy of his kingship and an invitation to join his army, but Saber claims her own kingship as a reason to never bow before another lord. The arrival of Archer , who claims that his own rule far exceeds their own, and Berserker , who takes an interest in Saber after battling Archer, confuses the situation even more.

After Lancer is forced to battle alongside Berserker to kill Saber through a Command Spell, Rider interrupts that fight so that she and Lancer may properly finish their duel at a later time. All of the Servants then retreat for the night without any further battle. Saber and Irisviel encounter the deranged Caster on their way to Fuyuki's Einzbern Castle, and he mistakes her for Joan of Arc due to a slight resemblance in their appearances.

While she manages to drive him off, she in unable to convince him of his mistake and he promises to save her soul from the curse of God. After Kiritsugu attempts to kill Lancer's Master, Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi , to remove the handicap caused by the wound left from Lancer, both he and Caster plan separate attacks on the Einzbern Castle.

Saber, while discussing strategies with Kiritsugu and Irisviel, starts to become disgusted with Kiritsugu's attitude toward the Holy Grail War, such as his action of attacking Kayneth when she already has a planned duel with Lancer and avoiding Caster so another Servant can kill him instead.

Caster shows up soon after, and he taunts Saber by slaughtering a number of children. Saber quickly goes to meet Caster in battle, and she finds that she cannot overcome his Noble Phantasm, Prelati's Spellbook , without the use of her hand. While she slaughters a multitude of his monsters, she is unable to close the gap on him at all. She is eventually met by Lancer, Kayneth having sent him to deal with Saber while he deals with Kiritsugu, and he decides to help her out of the honor of their promised duel.

Acting as her "left hand", they eventually manage to drive Caster back using Invisible Air to create a slip stream for Lancer to make a direct charge through the horde. After Caster flees, Lancer senses that Kayneth in danger after his lose to Kiritsugu, and Saber lets him leave due to their chivalry. After the battle, Saber saves Irisviel by inadvertently providing Avalon with energy after she had received a fatal wound from Kirei Kotomine.

Kiritsugu goes out on his own after everything settles down, leaving Irisviel and Saber alone in the castle. Their peace is quickly interrupted once again by the arrival of Rider on Gordius Wheel , who, rather than fighting, proposes a "battle without bloodshed", one of words between kings, to see who is suitable of obtaining the Holy Grail.

Battling with wine, they, and Archer who Rider invited while on his way to the castle, discuss their methods of ruling and kingship. In the King's meeting, Saber expressed that she wanted the Holy Grail to change the history of her country's destruction. On the final day of the Holy Grail war, Saber encountered Berserker and fought against him.

She realize that Berserker knows Saber's identity from their previous lives after catching Excalibur despite its invisibility. Saber demanded Berserker to reveal himself, Berserker answered by drawing Arondight and canceling his black fog. Saber was devastated as she learns Berserker's identity was her trusted friend Sir Lancelot. Rider's words haunt Saber as Berserker attacks Saber, causing her to believe that Lancelot's hatred towards her has driven him into madness.

As Kariya ran out of prana, Berserker stopped his attack and Saber used this opportunity to stab him. Saber apologizes as she desires the Holy grail to change the past including Lancelot part. Berserker regained his sanity as his contract with Kariya ended, he wanted Saber to punish him because he was unable to forgive himself for falling in love with the Queen.

As he fades away, Saber wanted to say that he was a loyal knight but could not find the right words. He felt that Saber was the greatest amongst king for those who served her. After Berserker's defeat, she is determined to win the Holy Grail so she can save her people and Lancelot. Saber found the Holy Grail but she also meets Gilgamesh who was waiting for her. He proposes that she becomes his wife and easily incapacitates her. Saber refuses as the Holy Grail is just in front of her.

Kiritsugu arrives at this time and Saber begs her for the power of the command seal in order to defeat Gilgamesh and claim the Holy Grail. Much to her despair, Kiritsugu uses his last two command seals for her to destroy the Grail. Excalibur is used to destroy the vessel of the Holy Grail, but its contents spill out onto the earth, razing the land permanently and killing almost everyone caught in its mud.

With the Grail gone and unable to maintain her form, Saber is sent back to the battlefield of Camlann, as she remembers the words of Lancelot and Rider. She was the sixth and final servant to perish in the fourth Holy Grail War.

He had been having dreams of Excalibur in the days leading up to the start of the Holy Grail War after receiving his Command Spells due to the Grail having decided that Saber would be summoned. With both the catalyst, Avalon inside Shirou, and the circle, the summoning is complete.

After Saber quickly commences with the formalities of finalizing their contract, she engages Lancer. She manages to keep the upper hand with Invisible Air until he utilizes Gae Bolg. She is saved due to her luck, allowing her to survive with a large wound and figure out his identity. He withdraws afterward due to orders from his Master, and Saber heals herself to the best of her ability with the lance's curse affecting the wound.

Upon sensing more enemies, Rin and Archer , she quickly goes to engage them. At this point, the game splits into three routes, depending on previously cleared routes. In the Fate scenario, she is the main heroine and the love interest for Shirou.

With their contract, they share. Saber learns through them that Shirou is the adoptive son of Kiritsugu and his personality changed from the time she fought for him. It is eventually revealed that in the end of the Fourth Grail War, Saber only managed to destroy the physical form of the Grail. Saber still had the view that Kiritsugu was a cold and selfish person regardless of anything and that concept of him only worsened after he forced her to destroy the Grail without thinking about it.

However, her opinion changes after realizing that after the fire Kiritsugu saved Shirou and taught him his philosophies and ideals. Shirou convinces Saber that she should accept her life for what it is rather than wishing to change her life. Saber realizes that changing her fate is a cowardly wish unlike Shirou, who was brave to keep going after being on the verge of death. She decides to accept her past and move on and with the help of Shirou, she fights to destroy the Grail.

She used Excalibur to destroy the Holy Grail and its contents. After the destruction of the Holy Grail, Saber professes her love for Shirou and they bid farewell to each other. Saber vanishes to her original time, she finally accepts her past without the wish to change it thus breaking the contract with the world. She weakly smiles and tells Sir Bedivere:.

After her death, she goes to Avalon rather than being removed from the cycle of transmigration to be placed on the Throne of Heroes like other Heroic Spirits. In Realta Nua , if the player completes all three routes they will gain the last episode. In the last episode Shirou reunites with Saber in Avalon. It is stated that the last episode is the true ending of the Fate route. In Unlimited Blade Works route, she has a smaller role. Caster captured Taiga as a hostage and used her Rule Breaker to steal the contract between Saber and Shirou.

Saber initially shows resistance to Caster's torture and control until she submitted to her. After Archer killed Caster and Kuzuki Souichirou , Archer claims he planned all this so he can be free to kill Shirou.

This prompts Rin to form a contract with Saber to protect Shirou from Archer. Saber uses Excalibur to destroy the deformed Grail after Rin rescued Shinji.

Saber Alter is later defeated and killed by Shirou with assistance from Rider. Shirou kills Saber Alter with the Dagger of Azoth, releasing her from her wretched existence. There is also a simple ending titled Sparks Liner High that occurs when Shirou is unable to form a pact with. Saber Alter killed by Shirou Emiya. In this bad ending, Shirou unleashes the true power of Kanshou and Bakuya and wins the one-on-one duel with Saber Alter, but this causes him to have a mental breakdown and become catatonic.

Saber survives Shirou's final attack, but is grievously wounded to the point that even her advanced healing will take a crucial ten minutes before she can assist Sakura against Rin, thus leaving the outcome of their fight unknown. The manga adaptation of the visual novel follows the Fate route with a mixture of events from Unlimited Blade Works. It follows the events of Fate normally until the defeat of Rider.

Instead of Shirou being immediately kidnapped by Ilya while Saber is weakened, Saber manages to recover somewhat from her use of Excalibur before the Emiya household is assaulted by Caster. She initially shows resistance to Caster's torture and control, but eventually succumbs to it and falls completely under her control. She is used to battle against Archer while Rin attempts to reach Kuzuki, and she is able to overwhelm him until she temporarily retreats upon Archer starting to unleash Unlimited Blade Works.

Kuzuki bringing a defeated Rin stops the battle, and Archer is forced to also become Caster's Servant in exchange for Rin's safety. Caster reneges on the promise by ordering Saber to slay Rin, but she is saved by Shirou. She is eventually rescued by Shirou with the help of Rin, Lancer, and Archer. Archer, having been waiting for his chance to eliminate Caster, slays both her and Kuzuki before turning his attention to Shirou.

Saber tries to protect him from Archer, but lacks the energy to fight him. Rather than forming a contract with Rin, Rin manages to convince Archer with words, allowing Shirou to become her Master again. It continues to follow the Fate scenario afterward, Shirou developing feelings for Saber and her for him as well.

She is the confirmed main heroine and the love interest for Shirou. Avenger is the main source of the endless loops, the loops are based on the Third Holy Grail War so he used the participants of the 5th grail war to recreate the scenes. Her role is very similar to Fate route in Shirou's story, Saber and Shirou discuss about their situation together.

Shirou understands that he became Saber Master, he explains to her that he has no use with the Holy Grail and his only wish was to keep innocent people from getting caught up in the war. Saber finds his plan honorable and follows his orders. In Shirou's ending, Saber destroyed the Holy Grail and fades away. In Gilgamesh's ending, Saber is slowly corrupted by the Holy Grail blackened mud when Gilgamesh forces her to submit to him.

Saber is summoned by Shirou, and she. He, having nothing to wish for, finds it meaningless, and he only wishes to stop the other Masters. Saber is confused, but offers not objections to his goal. She briefly explains her own goal of selecting a new king to replace her, not caring about her own fate afterward. Shirou cannot believe such a wish is correct, but she rebukes him by saying only the Holy Grail can decide upon the worthiness of the wish.

She eventually encounters Berserker, and Ilya, having knowledge of Saber's wish, says that it is not bad to cling to impossible wishes, but questions if her wish is actually just. Saber simply believes that the result of the War will decided if it is just. Ilya calls her goals purely selfish in nature, citing that the justness she had protected all that time made the world as it is in its current state.

Telling Saber that there is nothing in her past to be ashamed of as Shirou has said many times, that she lived it the best way possible, Saber cuts her off and challenges them to battle. Saber emerges victorious, she contemplates Ilya and Shirou's words, wondering about if that which she. She later encounters Gilgamesh, claiming that he will give her the Holy Grail and her miracle by becoming his queen.

She no longer needs the Holy Grail, and her wish now has nothing to do with it. Rejecting his offer, she has only come to defeat him, citing that Shirou risked everything to teach her that she did the best with her life.

He also taught her to destroy the Holy Grail, as people do not require magic to make their dreams come true. Gilgamesh pledges to cleanse her of such simple views, and the two engage in battle. After destroying the Holy Grail, she will no longer be a Heroic Spirit. Believing there was no such reason to have done so in the first place, she ruminates on not seeing the simple fact that she stood by her country while her countrymen did not stand by her.

She begins to fade without the blessing of the Grail, finally returning to the hill. She tell Shirou that she is grateful and that she cares for him deeply. Though her country was far from a utopia and that she could not save everyone, he told her to be proud of her accomplishments. She decides to move on from the hill with those words in her heart, bidding him farewell and hoping that his dreams will come true.

Saber is corrupted by Dark Sakura, realizing that the hatred now corrupting her is the true form of the Holy. Saber Alter becomes Sakura Matou 's Servant. Grail she was seeking. She decides to take up All the World's Evil, entrusting her blade to it.

Sakura asks her how it feels to be reborn as her Servant, and Saber says that it feels like she has awoken from a very long dream, finally prepared to face the reality she had long ignored.

Sakura is surprised that someone of Saber's stature conforms to her so well. Saber believes that as a king who believed in the ideals of her people and then sacrificed herself for those ideas is in the best position to truly understand despair. She decides to make her sword Sakura's own in order to sow the hopelessness she desires. She eventually encounters Shirou, telling him that she will destroy all who pass.

She believes such a warning to be pointless considering that he would never simply walk away from the fight. He notes that Saber has yet to make a move to kill him, but she simply refutes that she will not attack until he steps before her.

Upon taking his battle stance with Kanshou and Bakuya , she asks if he does not intend to copy her sword instead. Such things do not matter, as she is simply surprised that he has taken arms. Considering it to be an act of hostility, they battle with her coming as the victor.

Saber Alter defeating her former self. After having collected all the Servants within Sakura, she notes that Saber has been draining twice the prana from her for some time. Saber is confused, until her original personality manifests itself.

She claims that he has not yet rid her self of her old self, and her old self claims that she is what she would have been like on the wrong path. Saber believes that is twisted logic, and asks that even if she were to be defeated would her old self be able to handle that Shirou was killed by her own hands.

She tells her old self that she will not remain, that her and her ideals will be given eternal despair. Saber emerges victorious over her old self, and she tells the King of Knights not to cry, lest even she may tear up.

Her old self asks how it could end as such, but she simply says that it is not the end. It had already concluded long ago, all of her prayers and glory vanishing on the hill in Camlann. As her old self fades, Saber tells her to close her eyes before true despair, the birth of Angra Mainya, presents itself to her.

Saber says to sleep soundly, for she is the light inside of her. Saber appears after the retrieval of Caster. She then utilizes Excalibur to easily defeat them. Kuro, channeled from within Illya, then installs the Archer Class Card, and she manages to destroy Saber with a projected version of Excalibur. Saber has a large role in Carnival Phantasm due to her status as a Fate heroine, appearing in the Holy Grail War parody segments and those involving her relationship with Shirou.

Several jokes focus on her gluttonous personality, and it also features segments including Saber Alter and Saber Lion. The first response was to instead show her as a Master, followed by the Rider , Berserker , and Lancer classes. Takashi Takeuchi did an illustration of the Master version of Saber to go along with it. The Saber class is considered the "Most Outstanding" due to its excellent ratings in all categories, and Saber doesn't fall short of that reputation. She is left very underpowered for the majority of the Fifth Holy Grail War due to Shirou's extremely bad aptitude and being unable to provide her with mana due to his Magical Paths being obstructed.

She is not able to achieve the power she had during life, so she cannot be said to have the abilities of the greatest Servant in that state. She is stronger under Kiritsugu, but her luck is decreased because he cannot provide sufficient prana and it is instead affected by the Master's way of life.

After she forms a proper contract with Rin, she displays her original abilities without being affected by the Master. She is also strengthened under Caster, but doesn't display it due to being incapacitated by the Command Spell. Saber Alter, having been provided with Sakura's nearly infinite prana, can be said to have even more power than she had in life and gains the ability to overwhelm even Berserker in a head-on fight.

She is blackened by the mud from the Holy Grail in the form of the Shadow, and she is incarnated by the power of the Grail to have more concrete ties to the physical plane. This makes her into a powerful being, and while Blackened Servants cannot return to spirit form, Saber never had the ability even as a regular Servant.

She does gain the ability to travel quickly by sinking into the Shadow and moving elsewhere at Sakura's command. Due to no longer having to restrain her prana consumption, she has lost her limitations, causing her fighting ability and destructive power to jump significantly, comparative to a runaway train, but fine control is no longer possible for her.

She is the strongest in straightforward attack power, and she is probably, without dispute, the strongest Servant. Unlike other Heroic Spirits who can fit under multiple classes, she claims that she is only suited to the Saber class. She has the capacity to qualify for the Caster class, but "magecraft is not the way of the King" and she lacks the patience to actually learn magecraft. She is extremely skilled with a sword.

Even unarmed and faced with a surprise attack from Taiga, said to be an unmatched kendo expert, Saber is able to easily disarm her without even taking a stance. She takes up teaching Shirou, but only focuses on giving him as much battle experience as possible because she does not have an aptitude for teaching others. While her ability as a swordsman is proficient, it is not where her true strength lies, but rather her enormous amount of magical energy.

She believes that there is no Servant that surpasses her in close combat, and she is certain that she can clear an escape route from the battlefield under any disadvantageous situation.

Her initial Noble Phantasm is always Invisible Air , allowing her to hide her identity and main weapon, Excalibur , while also confusing opponents with an invisible sword.

She can also release it in a large blast of air and cover other objects with it. She eventually releases Excalibur when necessary, allowing her to unleash a large slash of light capable of wiping out almost anything it its path. She lost Avalon in life, but the genuine article still exists in the present. While it is kept from her during the Fourth Holy Grail War, it is returned during the Fate route of the Fifth War, giving her more energy and allowing her defend against any attack in combat.

She also lost Caliburn in the past, and while she can no longer use it, she is able to make use of Shirou's projection to slay Berseker. Saber utilizes armor woven by her prana and it can be called part of her body, so it can be called forth for battle and dismissed for normal interactions. The whole experience of working with XDS Solutions has been positive.

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