Name: Artura Pendragon, but you can call her “Saber”
Race: Human/Dragon Reactor/Former Servant
Age: Physically about seventeen, she “Died” in her late twenties-early thirties.
Height: 5’2
Weight: 115
Eyes: Emerald Green
Hair: Blond
Appearance: Saber is a petite young woman who appears to be in her late teens. Since she has been allowed to age, she has longer hair than previously seen in FSN. She is radiantly beautiful, drawing the attention of almost all of those around her. Despite being petite, she has a regal bearing that makes her seem taller than she actually is.
She has developed slightly from her FSN appearance, but she’s still a slim girl. Working with Archer and Rin has also caused her to develop more muscle tone than previously seen in her CGs. She prefers to wear jeans, T-shirts, peasant blouses, sturdy boots, practical sneakers, or shorter skirts that she can move in if she has to dress up. She generally dresses in blues, whites, or earthen tones. She’s also taken to wearing purple from time to time because a friend of her pointed out that she really has the coloring for it.
Scale: Servant
Strength: A (If Prana Burst is active. If not, she's a D on Human scale.)
Agility: B
Speed: B+
Magic Resistance: A
Magic Ability: A- Prana burst, everything else she’s an E. Due to her Dragon Furnace, she produces absurd amounts of prana. If she applied herself, she’d be an absurd magus, but she prefers to use her Magic Core to enhance her fighting abilities.
Other Abilities: Riding: B – She can pretty much ride anything that’s not a phantasmal beast.
Instinct:A
Noble Phantasms:Excalibur Anti-Fortress A++ (In her current form she can get off three Excaliblasts without needing a chance to “recharge”).
Invisible Air Anti-Unit C
Avalon EX (It also keeps her from aging now that its activated again and gives her regenerative abilities).
Origin: Read the FSN and Zero for the background.
During the Fifth Holy Grail War, Saber was taken by Matou Sakura and darkened with the corruption of the Grail to fight for her new Master. During the ending battle, she was defeated by the combined efforts of Emiya Shirou and Rider. Shirou killed her, as Saber had wished, and Saber thought the story would end there.
Ilya had a different idea though.
Having Archer’s “Soul” inside of the Einzbern homunculus, Ilya gained a perspective that she hadn’t been able to before. Shirou dying after a manly fistfight with Kotomine and Rin incapacitated from having Sakura shiv her, Ilya made a gamble and approached Sakura while in the Dress of Heaven. Sakura was still full of prana due to eating most of the War’s Servants while all Ilya had was Archer.
Archer’s soul inside of her would have been enough to keep Shirou’s soul from dying and going back to the Akashic root, but Ilya wanted more than that.
She wanted both Onii-chans to find “their happy ending” and told Sakura this. Sacrificing herself, Ilya, backed up by Sakura, was able to bring both Shirou and Archer back to life, and as a “gift” to Archer, Ilya also brought back Archer’s first regret at not becoming a hero: Saber.
Saber awoke, alive again and no longer a Servant, still dressed in the Alter armor. Dazed and confused as the cavern began to crumble around them, she was going to stay to end her life again. She did not believe she deserved a second chance, but Archer, reborn himself, pulled her to her feet and demanded that she come with him.
Confused and conflicted with her second chance, Saber became vastly depressed with her realizations of when she had been corrupted about her life. She also understood that she could not change the past no matter how much she wanted to. Both Rin and Archer told her about alternate realities and that changing something in the “past” would just create another reality. It would not change the course of history that she desperately wanted to change.
She lived with the Emiya house with Shirou, Sakura, and Rider, sort of middling along and “existing”. Archer, who’s Ilya’s parting words were him to save the first person he
couldn’t decided that Saber needed help of a different sort. Through the other, they were both able to repair themselves and become strong once again.
Their relationship wasn’t romantic (Archer somehow ended up with Rider, much to Saber’s chagrin, she thought Rin was a better match for him), but they were close. Calling them friends wouldn’t be quite right, but the two of them had the partnership and relationship that they should have had in the beginning. Saber worked for Archer in his shop as his assistant, learning to make her keep in this strange, modern world while helping guard Fuyuki in Rin’s absence while she studied in London.
She found herself in Nexus after fighting Gilgamesh (she wasn’t quite sure how he survived, but he became a powerful CEO of a multi-international company called Golden Rule) after the King had proclaimed that both Saber and Archer were his. One moment she was driving Gilgamesh back with Archer backing her up, and the next she found herself in an alley with a vampire driven mad by her scent. She defended herself with Excalibur, not the blast, but beheading the vampire.
To make her way, she was drafted by the local police force to help deal with the supernatural threat.
Weakness: With Avalon, Saber is almost invulnerable unless the strike is instantly fatal. If Avalon can be taken away from her, she can be killed with more mundane means. Being hungry.
Likes: Archer, Rin, Emiya Shirou, Well prepared food (she will even admit she has gotten spoiled to Archer, Rin, Shirou, and Sakura’s cooking), the color blue, nicely tailored suits, stuffed animals, lions and other cats, video games (Taiga got her into WoW), Taiga, sparring, swordsmanship, chivalry, honor, Diramuid, Iri (she still thinks of her friend from time to time). Gambling. Being able to admit that being a woman means she can still be strong.
Dislikes: Gilgamesh. Rider (“That woman is a harlot and Archer can do much better than her.”). Dishonest tactics. People who are overly clever. Dishonesty. Dishonor. People who cheat. People who underestimate her because of her gender. Badly prepared food. Being hungry. Fussy dress clothing.