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    Thanks Castor, glad to finally see a full TL of their mats. Now I'm curious on how fawning Roman was during Cleo's interlude (if he was in it).
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    cleo's interlude is post solomon singularity
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    Interesting that they didn't list the other two NPs for Solomon, I wanted to see his versions of it since I don't think he originally intended them to be used as tools to convert human history to heat value and then to magical energy.

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    I had been officially peer pressured and broken
    Goetia CMT BMCMIIW

    Class: Beast I
    True Name: Goetia
    Gender: Male
    Source: Old Testament
    Region: Ancient Israel
    Alignment: Chaotic Evil
    Height: 178 cm
    Weight: 75 kg

    STR: A
    CON: A
    AGI: D
    MGI: A+
    LCK: B
    NP: A++

    Setting creation: Nasu Kinoko
    Character design: Yamanaka Kotetsu
    CV: Sugita Tomokazu

    Main works appearance: Fate/Grand Order
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    Class Skills
    Territory Creation: A
    Creation of a "Workshop" territory that is advantageous to himself as a magus.
    That ability of his that had created the Temple of Jerusalem is of the highest peak of Territory Creation.

    (funny how other's with rank A TC always has that additional line about them hasving"temple" instead of "workshop" but not Goetia. another case of copypasting mistake in this book? or maybe talking about Jerusalem temple already counts as "Temple"?)

    High Speed Incantation: A
    The ability to hasten magic incantation speed.
    Formerly his incantation speed is only average, but now it is comparable to High Speed Divine Words.
    That is due the inside being Goetia, and thus his weakness during alive... his characteristic weakness... isn't there.

    Tool Creation: C
    Creation of tools tinged with magic energy.
    Perhaps because he is specialized in contracts, his Tool Creation ability is on average level.
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    Personal Skill
    Evocation: EX
    Magic that evokes of spiritual bodies of the past, or perhaps the future.
    After the death of King Solomon, the concept of "Seventy Two Demon Gods", deserted, then nested inside the corpse of King Solomon and through long months and years was rebirth as "someone" who wears Solomon's skin.
    Although unable on performing heroic Spirit summoning or normal familiar summoning, he is capable of freely summonning to existence the "Seventy Two Demon Gods".
    Simply put, a converter that projects into reality the "imaginary demon gods" nesting within King Solomon's inner world.

    Revelation : -
    A Skill that hears of "the voice from the Heavens" and performs the most suitable of actions.
    Due to this being a Skill possessed by the soul, it cannot be used by Goetia nesting inside King Solomon's corpse.

    Rings of Solomon: EX
    The ten rings given by God. The mark of the king, the progenitor of magic.
    In the case of all ten rings present, any and all kinds of magic performed by mankind is invalidated and put under his subordination.
    There are 9 rings worn by Goetia. The remaining one is-----

    Clairvoyance: EX
    Eyesight of good quality. Apprehension of long distance target and elevation of kinetic vision. When the rank is high enough, even x-ray vision or future prediction becomes possible.
    Solomon's Clairvoyance gives him unobstructed view of both the past and the future. Due to Clairvoyance being a Skill embedded to the body, it can be used by Goetia.

    Independent Manifestation: A
    A special skill. A superior version of Independent Action.
    Furthermore, due to the existence fixation it also possesses the effect of resistance towards attack by means of instant death and time manipulation.
    Those with the skill does not receive influence from the incineration of Human Order by means of singularities, or from the compilation of Human Order by means of *****, manifesting as long the requirement is fulfilled.

    Nega Summon: EX
    Negates and completely demolish attacks from Servants.
    Complete cancellation (invalidation, invincible, absorption, reduction) of symbols of Heroic Spirits, the Noble Phantasms.... saves for one exception.
    In FateGO, thanks to that one "exception", the rank of the skill is heavily demoted.

    (OK this is weird why does the mats not include Authority of the Beast)
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    Ars Almadel Salomonis
    The Time of Birth has Come, He is the One who Masters All

    Rank: EX
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm

    Ars Almadel Salomonis.
    The third Noble Phantasm. The I of the original sin. The light that tells of the end of mankind.
    By converting the heat value of the entirety of human history, this lightbelt is compiled hundred millions of times, accelerated, and converged, making it possible of the retrogression of vast lenght of time.

    (From my limited knowledge of the language, Ars means Art, Almadel (or Almandal) being apparently some sort of altar, amd Salomonis is Solomon. Ars Almadel is also 4th book of the lesser of Clavicula Salomonis aka Key of Solomon. So it sort of literally means Solomon's Art of Altar and indeed, the book itself speaks about creation of altar to contact angels and scrying. I suppose the lightbelt is being likened to altar, and the heat value conversion is the ceremony here. Here's the picture of the Almadel from the book.)

    Ars Paulina
    The Time of Crowning has Come, He is the One who Begins All

    Rank: A
    Type: Anti-World Noble Phantasm
    Range: 999
    Maximum target: ? person

    Ars Paulina.
    The Second Noble Phantasm. The Time Temple Solomon. The last stage for FateGO's first part.
    It compiles the human history converted into magic energy, a governed space.
    It exists in the imaginary space separated from the normal flow of time.
    Goetia himself remains within this Temple, grinning and laughing as he assures each and every era being extinguished.
    It is a Reality Marble that Goetia fabricated by amplifying the remains of King Solomon; its structure is the same as Fate/stay night's Justicia's Great Holy Grail.

    (Ars Paulina is the third book of Clauvica Salomonis. It literally means Art of Pauline. Pauline itself apparently means anything that has connection to St. Paul the apostle. The book itself speaks of twenty four angels aligned with twenty four hours of the day, and 360 spirits of the degrees of zodiac. The 360 degree and 24 hours is probably likened to how we fight in a circle area inside Ars Paulina back at Solomon chapter.
    also was it Justicia or Justeaze again)

    Ars Nova
    The Time of Parting has Come, He is the One who Lets Go of the World

    Rank: D
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
    Range: -
    Maximum target: 1 person

    Ars Nova.
    The First Noble Phantasm. While Goetia knows that this is "the Noble Phantasm belonging to the other Solomon", he is not aware of the detail.
    No. He is unable to be aware of it.

    (It literally means Art of the New. Only relevant bit i could find is this bit on the fifth book, the Ars Notoria that contains a series of prayers intended to grant eidetic memory (photographic memory) and instantaneous learning to the magician. Quoting the Ars Goetia:
    Book of Orations and Prayers which Wise Solomon did use upon the Altar in the Temple. The which is called ARS NOVA, the which was revealed to Solomon by that Holy Angel of God called Michael; and he also received many brief Notes written with the Finger of God, which were declared to him by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his Great Wisdom, for by them in short time he gained Knowledge of all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad; from these Notes it is called THE NOTARY ART.)
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    Personage
    First pronoun: watashi
    Second pronoun: kisama
    Third pronoun: kisamara/shokun

    - Character
    A perfect (independent) ideologist.
    He acts as his desire demands, while sneering as those that become his victim grant him immense pleasure. An embodiment of cruelty, viciousness, and atrocity.
    He completely disapproves of humanity's freedom.
    He sneers from the heart at humanity's happiness.
    He draws breath only to reject humanity, the Magic King who curses of the Human Order.

    Such is the being he had integrated and establish himself as.

    <>

    He is not King Solomon himself, but the aggregation of the 72 demon gods.
    After Solomon's death, the 72 demon gods--sealed within Solomon's husk--had awaken their own independent idea, took away the name of Solomon (although from their point of view, they are the real Magic King Solomon), and set out on transforming the entirety of humanity to energy.
    Those 72 demon gods is a "system that efficiently advance the correct truth" created by Solomon, the progenitor of (human's) magic.
    They lament at the relationship between King Solomon and the humans, rage at it, for King Solomon had continued on ignoring the "imperfectness of humanity"; and they had became the curse that act to overcome it.
    The name is Goetia, the Human Order incineration system.
    A magic possessing will and intention, that plots and devises in order to reach true wisdom and plans on returning to the origin by making use of the entirety of human history.

    - Motives and attitude towards Master
    He makes it his purpose to become the one and only supreme existence on the planet.
    King Solomon, while knowing the helplessness and ugliness of humanity, accepted death without correcting it.
    However, the demon gods within him had refused to accept it, had concluded that humans have no value in the future, and had feared of the result where mankind faces extinction.
    Putting aside their own extinction, all things are destined to disappear in the end; and such an end disgusts them.
    Thus, Goetia put into effect a course of action by nesting inside the remains of King Solomon, as he was put into dilemma on the current state of things. As he declares that there is no value in humans, he as a demon god can only exist if he is to make use of humans.
    Despite being a lifeform of higher dimension, it is an insult for him to be under the one greatest waste of the universe, the humans. Goetia does not accept such contradiction and untruth, and he embarks on a journey of self-transformation.

    Reestablishing his purpose of serving humankind.
    The absolute proof that he is the most supreme of beings on the planet.
    Reaching the extreme that not even Solomon could acquire.
    Namely, the large undertaking of returning to God.

    "I shall kill the whole mankind. I must kill them. I must burn them. I must be the only one left on the surface of this planet. If you ask me why, then I shall answer you. That is because for you, it is the greatest meaning of existence, the ending with most worth."

    Goetia then dispatched the demon gods to the future, pounding into a great number of crumbling points within human history, and guide its foundation to disintegration.
    It appears that his goal is the erasure of humanity, but that is purely a means to the end. Goetia's goal is to "return to the beginning".

    He no longer hold any interest, be it to mankind or to the future.
    His desire is to go back before there was life on this planet, to go back to 4.6 billion years before, to observe the moment as the "celestial body" was born at this domain, and take in all of that energy.
    That is, he wants to make himself the "new celestial body".
    (From what did he start this reason and motive is told only on the original story on the game.)

    However, not even Goetia is capable of time travel.
    Soaring to the past requires an enormous amount of energy-----of magic energy.
    For example, the quantity of magic energy accumulated by certain intelligent lifeforms, flourishing for 2500 years.
    Should he able to convert the entirety of human history from 1000 BC to 2016 AD to magic energy, it will be enough magic energy to return and leap until the beginning of the planet.
    The destruction of mankind----the incineration is only for this one thing.
    For Goetia, mankind, from the time of his creation until the year of 2016, is no more than the first space rocket for the sake of returning to the sky of beginning.

    <>

    Thus Goetia-----the monster who calls himself the Magic King Solomon began his project.
    He created the Holy Grails as singularities that derails history, manipulated the magi that he himself designed (transforming them into demon gods on Goetia's purpose), and produced 7 detonation point.
    That is the cause of the Holy Grail War occuring in each era.
    By putting his plan into motion, mankind's future starting from 2016 was extinguished.
    With what he had achieved and more, his Class was determined.
    The likes of Grand Caster are but a false crown status.
    He is the greatest disaster, brought forth by mankind, that had extremely and effectively perversed the human history.
    His name is Beast I.
    One of the seven Evils of Humanity, the beast possessing the principle of "pity".

    ...A man's luxury to pity and be disappointed at others. That in itself is the beastly nature of Goetia.

    - Speech example
    "Solomon. Magic King Solomon. Perhaps you would commit it to memory were I to put it that way?
    "Burn. Until not even your ashes are left. That is your future."
    "Speak not of lives by human's social standard. By the time the premise of death comes knocking, such point of view no longer holds any value."
    "Do I enjoy this, you ask?
    Ha-----hahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    Of course, of course, OF COURSE, OF COURSE! I enjoy this tremendously! Think you I would thoroughly kill each and every one of you if I do not draw pleasure from it!? This pleases me. Your manner of death is delightful. Putting you to an end brings me such joy. And more than everything, your agony upon death is truly exhilirating!"
    //He may said all those things, but in truth, it was the exact opposite. At the very least, it is all dull and boring. Things such as human's manner of death are so worthless that he would never wish to see it.
    "Plead for help. Raise your mewling voice. For it is the time for you to drown in the sea of anguish! Behold this festival of flame that set ablaze the altar, rendered in its resplendence!"

    (Im slighlty liberal in Goetia's speech because his hamminess and imposing speech doesnt work in a literal translation; it just sounds weird instead.)
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    Historical depiction
    A figure who lived between BC 1000 to BC 931. The third king of ancient Israel.
    The great king who had brought about grand prosperity to ancient Israel. He was the man who employed 72 demon gods and had built the first temple of Israel.
    His policy as a king was excelling, but other than that he also had numerous anecdote as a magus.
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    Role ingame
    The Beast that took the name Magic King for himself.
    He gives off a sense of omnipotence that conforms everything in the universe, possessing an intimidating air that detests all mankind.
    He wears 10 rings on all of his fingers, but the one ring on the left hand of his middle finger is the only one that is a replica.
    Because he has King Solomon as his base, he has an intellectual (albeit terrifying) disposition.
    Be that as it may, as he is the aggregation of the 72 demon gods, his personality and nature also amounts to 72.
    Due to him being both an individual and a colony, when interacting with others a demon god that is similar to the other party comes to the surface. It is because of this that Goetia's nature was appraised as a "mirror".

    He is an omnipotent being that not even King Solomon managed to reach.
    Originally he has enough qualification as a king that rules over the people.
    However, being omnipotent means he is unable to understand human beings; being immortal means he is unable to struggle and reach an answer; and thus, he is unable to become the "king over humans".
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    Human King Goetia
    The "last opponent" who, after the last battle happened and everything had been settled, appeared in front of the protagonist from inside the Temple.
    However, by gaining lifespan he became able to comprehend humans, something that Goetia until now was unable to do; he had achieved the state of "human king", a wise king to surpass even King Solomon.
    He did not operate only with the violent emotion such as rage and resentment belonging to the previous Goetia, but also with the natural emotion as a human that he now had possessed, as he had arrived to understanding.
    He held no anger towards the protagonists that had defeated him.
    Even if he killed the protagonists, the fact that Goetia had crumbled and had been defeated would not change.
    That last standing of his is simply "the last obstinacy as the one who had persevered until this moment".

    Both in spirit and in action, rather than the last boss he has the feel of the main character instead.
    His body crumbled bit by bit during the battle; it was regrettable, but he did not lament over it. His only real feeling was "So this is what being alive means. What life means."
    "To show respect to this magnificent opponent, all the while swallowing the emptiness of losing everything, and clash as enemies until the end."
    That was what granted unto him, the sole greatest reward for his 3000 years of grand undertaking.

    -----O Lord. My gratitude of this joy, of being alive.

    (lit. 主よ。生命の歓びを。 if anybody got suggestion for better rendition on english, im open for it.)
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    Comment from Illustrator
    [MAP Goetia]
    I did it by shaping the demon pillar into a bundled echinodermata basket fish shape. Because it was such an enormous structure there are heaps of details on it.
    [Demon pillars]
    The design is developed from the same color design as Tiamat's Black Sakura [black and red streak] coloring. I was delighted when the variations of the demon pillars that I submitted with doubt in mind were all used. It was a pleasure, seeing the demon pillars arrangement keep on being created^^
    [Humanoid Goetia]
    The combining my draft for the humanoid Goetia and the desain for his shoulders and such from the staffs, the fusion and exchange between it, was quite a hard but enjoyable composition.
    (Yamanaka Kotetsu)

    I am filled with memories and emotion in various of ways.
    Speaking in terms of design, I do have some regrets left for ended up jamming various things in, but exactly because of that that his last form gives off a very refreshed feeling.
    (Takeuchi Takashi)

    (Takeuchi's speaking about clothed Solomon-Goetia, the one with a bunch of ornaments and clothing, vs HumanKing-Goetia, the naked blondie one)

    Solomon CMT BMCMIIW

    Class: Grand Caster
    True Name: Solomon
    Gender: Male
    Source: Old Testament
    Region: Ancient Israel
    Alignment: Lawful Good
    Height: 178 cm
    Weight: 75 kg

    STR: E
    CON: E
    AGI: B
    MGI: A++
    LCK: A++
    NP: A++

    Setting creation: Nasu Kinoko
    Character design: Yamanaka Kotetsu
    CV: Suzumura Kenichi
    Main works appearance: Fate/Grand Order
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    Class Skills
    Territory Creation: A
    Creation of a "Workshop" territory that is advantageous to himself as a magus.
    That ability of his that had created the Temple of Jerusalem is of the highest peak of Territory Creation.

    High Speed Incantation: C
    The ability to hasten magic incantation speed.
    Despite being fast, his tendency to worry prones to ruin it and sometimes makes him do a mistake.

    Tool Creation: C
    Creation of tools tinged with magic energy.
    Perhaps because he is specialized in contracts, his Tool Creation ability is on average level.
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    Personal Skill
    Evocation: EX
    Magic that evokes of spiritual bodies of the past, or perhaps the future.
    With his Evocation ability that spoke of the summoned spiritual existences, the "Seventy Two Demon Gods", and established them as capable familiars, he truly lived up to his title of King of Magic.

    Revelation : B
    A Skill that hears of "the voice from the Heavens" and performs the most suitable of actions.
    While "Instinct" is a sixth sense for combat purpose, Revelation conforms to all matters in regards of achieving a goal (such as selecting the most suitable road for travel route).
    Solomon had only ever received one Revelation, but based on that he had established the phenomena operation technique--that is, magic--that even an ordinary person could perform. (Until then, magic had been a work only for those related to the gods.)

    Rings of Solomon: EX
    The ten rings given by God. The mark of the king, the progenitor of magic.
    In the case of all ten rings present, any and all kinds of magic performed by mankind is invalidated and put under his subordination.

    Clairvoyance: EX
    Eyesight of good quality. Apprehension of long distance target and elevation of kinetic vision. When the rank is high enough, even x-ray vision or future prediction becomes possible.
    Solomon's Clairvoyance gives him unobstructed view of both the past and the future.
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    Ars Nova
    The Time of Parting has Come, He is the One who Lets Go of the World

    Rank: D
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
    Range: -
    Maximum target: 1 person


    Ars Nova.
    The First Noble Phantasm. A Noble Phantasm that belongs not to Goetia, but to the true King Solomon (Dr. Roman).
    The exploits that he had fulfilled until now, the miracles that he had accomplished until now, the magic that he had achieved until now; it is a poem of parting that lets go of it all.
    Upon the invocation of this Noble Phantasm, Solomon returns back to the heavens the graces that he had received from God, losing his eye that gazes at the world.
    The result is the death of King Solomon. And conversely, the disintegration of the 72 demon gods.
    It can be said to be the safety device that Solomon had prepared for the sake of destroying "magic", should the time in a distant future comes when it becomes an evil for human.
    ...When this Noble Phantasm is employed, Solomon would vanish from even the Throne of Heroes.

    Solomon's complete evanescence implies not of erasure of all traces of Solomon, but rather that that everything that he must do now had been completed.
    ...Each and every living existences have things they had left undone as their time is concluded and ended. No matter how flawless they had live their life, they would always leave behind a "remnant".
    Those "remnants" will then be carried over by the people that will continue even further, bringing to forth the path of human history.

    A complete evanescence means an ascenscion from this very path.
    To accomplish every task one is granted with, a state of existence where one no longer has any matter undone.

    There is no longer any need to defeat him, nor the need to rely on him.
    No longer will anyone ask of him,
    no longer will anyone bear the burden of his death,
    no longer will anyone ask for his help, for his accomplishment.

    That is what it means to disappear even from the Throne of Heroes.
    To be released from the duty of life, to have completed all the task one is burdened with in this universe.
    The messiah is the sole being among the mankind to have attained enlightenment, but the coward had attained and arrived on a "destination" of a different bearing.

    (guys is evanescence to snobbish of a word)
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    Personage
    First pronoun: watashi/boku (as Solomon)
    Second pronoun: kimi
    Third pronoun: kimitachi/shokun

    - Character
    Introvert, self-assured, passive.
    A gentle king that gives off a relaxed sense.
    "Confidence" is his main characteristic, but it's actually only his ability of "unable to read the mood." As a result, he only makes statements in a confident manner, but is actually a coward (chicken) in his basic nature.
    Diligent but not earnest, he lives by putting only 80% of his maximum effort.
    He poperly ascertained of the people, properly established the law, and properly governed the country.
    Although he is somewhat lacking in mettle, he is a wise and kind king full of love, respected and beloved by his people.
    However, all of those traits are not actually by Solomon's own will.
    From his birth, he had been ordained to be a king, to hear the voice of God and to live in accordance to it. There is no emotion within him; he is inhuman, deprived of the autonomy to symphatize with the joy and sorrow of the people.

    Only when he becomes Romani Archaman that he finally acquires his original human nature.
    His root is that of a pessimist and realist. Even though he speaks of wishful thinking as a moodmaker, due to himself unable to think of that as more than pipe dreams, he is quite shameless in some respects.
    He loves humans, but because he's a coward in nature who "does not want to see sad things", he ends up limiting himself with superficial relationships. On the other hand, he is capable of being good terms with pretty much everybody. Your typical affable friendly guy.
    When being faced with a dilemma, he has the bad habit of choosing to stay undecided and devoting himself to just observe, or just straight up runs away, so that the status quo is maintained.
    Due to Roman himself is reflecting on that weakness of his, it only needs a few words, for someone in his surroundings to simply says "hang in there", for him to somehow holds his ground and displays a resolution worthy of the King of Magic.

    Incidentally, any Servants would end up having "I don't know the reason but this guy's the one at fault here" as their first impression for Roman; and due to that they will unconsciously complain about him.
    The only ones who don't judge him negatively are those who aren't Servants, the contrarians, and the Berserkers that don't perceive evil as evil.

    - Motives and attitude towards Master
    He conceals the fact that he had been Solomon, collaborating with the protagonist as a human.
    The first Heroic Spirit that Chaldea summoned. (Summoning Case No. 1)
    He had had the premonition of the arrival of humankind's extinction, unknown in its nature, and had been hiding himself in Chaldea as a researcher.
    The reason that he keeps his true colors hidden is because he is wary against the mastermind behind the incineration of human history, and at the same time due to him feeling responsible out of fear that somehow, he is the one to blame for this.
    While he does think that it is unjustifiable to the protagonist, he himself is completely unapologetic about it.
    "I mean, there's just no helping it. You can hate me all you want, I don't mind. Actually, it would only be natural if you do. To begin with, I'm just not someone worthy for other people to like."
    Due to him undervaluing (self-torturing) himself like that, he thinks that it's only natural for people to detest him rather than like him.

    <>

    Winner of the Holy Grail War of the year 2004.
    His wish upon the Grail is "to live as a human".
    In the midst of the Holy Grail War, Solomon thought of this.
    "Romance. Romance, is it! Such a pleasant word. A fresh concept, one yet to exist during my time."
    A phrase that had yet to exist in his age.
    A way of life where a single human freely embraces their dream.
    For such a world that displays such a thing to exist.
    It was because he felt, from the bottom of his heart, that it is such a magnificent thing, that Solomon decided to call himself "Roman".
    And after the Holy Grail War had concluded.
    Receiving the name Romani Archaman, Roman then set out to begin his second life. Alas, he was unable to experience the fullness, the joy of being human that he had not acquire during his live.
    For his freedom had been snatched away when he was shown a glimpse of the future, of the end of mankind, just as he had been made human.
    Ever since then, just like an infant newly born to the world, he had to chase an enemy whose true nature he knew not of in reselessness, embarking on a lone man's struggle.
    As he, in desperation, chased after knowledge, acquired technology, and ran as if weeping in the darkness, he made it in time for the fated moment (the 2015 rayshift experiment.)

    During the final stage of the first part, Roman is struck with an inner conflict when he had fathomed that Goetia was the mastermind.
    He has a way of defeating Goetia.
    If he could reach the Time Temple, confront Goetia before he is aware of the existence of the "last ring", and make use of Solomon's first Noble Phantasm, then he could make Goetia lost his invincibility.
    But at the same time, it would mean his own obliteration.
    The previous Solomon would just say "That, too, is fine, I suppose" and would simply be done with it. But the previous Solomon is not the current Solomon.
    He is Dr. Roman now.
    The king who had tasted his second life, who had been made known of the magnificence of life, is in anguish.
    To resolve himself for death.
    Could he overcome that fear, that remorse?
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    Historical depiction
    A figure who lived between BC 1000 to BC 931. The third king of ancient Israel.
    The great king who had brought about grand prosperity to ancient Israel. He was the man who employed 72 demon gods and had built the first temple of Israel.

    His policy as a king was excelling, but other than that he also had numerous anecdote as a magus.
    Solomon had once married an Egyptian female pharaoh, but after that, God appeared in his dream and said to him: "You are worthy. Tell me of what you desire. Ask, and I shall give it to you."
    Solomon desired not of gold or power; above all that, above anything, he wished for wisdom.
    God was content with his answer, for Solomon's very answer was a sign that he possessed the qualifications to reach "true wisdom".
    Solomon's eye was then awakened, and he was granted ten rings on both of his hands.
    It was the very mark of the wise man approved by God. Later on it would be known as the Rings of Solomon, the origin of the magic that employs both angels and demons.

    Even though King Solomon had accomplished that miracle only once, it is the one that reveals his wisdom. It was then made known to the people that "the king had been granted the protection of God's own"; once was more than enough.
    For anymore miracle would struck fear to the people and degrade it.
    Solomon's name as the Magic King was spread to the neighboring countries, all the while without using magic itself, and he left this world all the while known as the wise king.
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    Role ingame
    The character that acts as the navigator for the protagonist throughout the seven chapters.
    In the last chapter, after he had seen Mash's last moment with his own eyes, the coward then told to himself of the end, and deployed the first Noble Phantasm.
    He severed Goetia's strength, then vanished after entrusting what comes after to the protagonist.
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    Connection with other characters
    David
    His father. And yet, David and Solomon has a relatively indiferent parent-child relationship.
    Even if Solomon declares that he would incinerate humankind, David would say "Mm, Solomon does say things like that" and just coolly observe.
    It is the same with Solomon; even if David declares that Solomon is a failure of a human being, Solomon would say "Well, Father does say things like that" and call if off just like that.

    Cleopatra, Ozymandias
    Solomon was very fond of the Egyptian beauty, but didn't care much for the pharaoh.

    Galahad
    The same with him, someone who was granted by God "the chance to have his prayer fulfilled".
    Solomon had wished for wisdom, but Galahad had wished for nothing.
    Solomon questions "Why?" in regards of that matter, and bears a sense of inferiority that comes from his subconscious regret, thinking that "I should have done so."

    Goetia
    With all said and done, you, aren't you hating me a bit too much?!
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    Comment from Illustrator
    I'm really glad I had drawn him with a good expression.
    (Takeuchi Takashi)

    Thanks you very much for this Castor!!!
    This is a nice surprise when coming back tired from uni
    Ah, Doctor!!!!!! I really hope is you still alive and kicking, your profile is so good!!!

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    A couple of pointers on this line tho: there should probably be a "to" between "due" and "the" at the start, and "weakness during alive" doesn't really sound right, would be more correct to say "weakness during life" or "weakness from when alive", imo
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    Goetia CMT BMCMIIW

    Class: Beast I
    True Name: Goetia
    Gender: Male
    Source: Old Testament
    Region: Ancient Israel
    Alignment: Chaotic Evil
    Height: 178 cm
    Weight: 75 kg

    STR: A
    CON: A
    AGI: D
    MGI: A+
    LCK: B
    NP: A++

    Setting creation: Nasu Kinoko
    Character design: Yamanaka Kotetsu
    CV: Sugita Tomokazu

    Main works appearance: Fate/Grand Order
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    Class Skills
    Territory Creation: A
    Creation of a "Workshop" territory that is advantageous to himself as a magus.
    That ability of his that had created the Temple of Jerusalem is of the highest peak of Territory Creation.

    (funny how other's with rank A TC always has that additional line about them hasving"temple" instead of "workshop" but not Goetia. another case of copypasting mistake in this book? or maybe talking about Jerusalem temple already counts as "Temple"?)

    High Speed Incantation: A
    The ability to hasten magic incantation speed.
    Formerly his incantation speed is only average, but now it is comparable to High Speed Divine Words.
    That is due to the inside being Goetia, and thus his weakness from when he was alive... his characteristic weakness... isn't there.

    Tool Creation: C
    Creation of tools tinged with magic energy.
    Perhaps because he is specialized in contracts, his Tool Creation ability is on average level.
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    Personal Skill
    Evocation: EX
    Magic that evokes of spiritual bodies of the past, or perhaps the future.
    After the death of King Solomon, the concept of "Seventy Two Demon Gods", deserted, then nested inside the corpse of King Solomon and through long months and years was rebirth as "someone" who wears Solomon's skin.
    Although unable on performing heroic Spirit summoning or normal familiar summoning, he is capable of freely summonning to existence the "Seventy Two Demon Gods".
    Simply put, a converter that projects into reality the "imaginary demon gods" nesting within King Solomon's inner world.

    Revelation : -
    A Skill that hears of "the voice from the Heavens" and performs the most suitable of actions.
    Due to this being a Skill possessed by the soul, it cannot be used by Goetia nesting inside King Solomon's corpse.

    Rings of Solomon: EX
    The ten rings given by God. The mark of the king, the progenitor of magic.
    In the case of all ten rings present, any and all kinds of magic performed by mankind is invalidated and put under his subordination.
    There are 9 rings worn by Goetia. The remaining one is-----

    Clairvoyance: EX
    Eyesight of good quality. Apprehension of long distance target and elevation of kinetic vision. When the rank is high enough, even x-ray vision or future prediction becomes possible.
    Solomon's Clairvoyance gives him unobstructed view of both the past and the future. Due to Clairvoyance being a Skill embedded to the body, it can be used by Goetia.

    Independent Manifestation: A
    A special skill. A superior version of Independent Action.
    Furthermore, due to the existence fixation it also possesses the effect of resistance towards attack by means of instant death and time manipulation.
    Those with the skill does not receive influence from the incineration of Human Order by means of singularities, or from the compilation of Human Order by means of *****, manifesting as long the requirement is fulfilled.

    Nega Summon: EX
    Negates and completely demolish attacks from Servants.
    Complete cancellation (invalidation, invincible, absorption, reduction) of symbols of Heroic Spirits, the Noble Phantasms.... saves for one exception.
    In FateGO, thanks to that one "exception", the rank of the skill is heavily demoted.

    (OK this is weird why does the mats not include Authority of the Beast)
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    Ars Almadel Salomonis
    The Time of Birth has Come, He is the One who Masters All

    Rank: EX
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm

    Ars Almadel Salomonis.
    The third Noble Phantasm. The I of the original sin. The light that tells of the end of mankind.
    By converting the heat value of the entirety of human history, this lightbelt is compiled hundred millions of times, accelerated, and converged, making it possible of the retrogression of vast lenght of time.

    (From my limited knowledge of the language, Ars means Art, Almadel (or Almandal) being apparently some sort of altar, amd Salomonis is Solomon. Ars Almadel is also 4th book of the lesser of Clavicula Salomonis aka Key of Solomon. So it sort of literally means Solomon's Art of Altar and indeed, the book itself speaks about creation of altar to contact angels and scrying. I suppose the lightbelt is being likened to altar, and the heat value conversion is the ceremony here. Here's the picture of the Almadel from the book.)

    Ars Paulina
    The Time of Crowning has Come, He is the One who Begins All

    Rank: A
    Type: Anti-World Noble Phantasm
    Range: 999
    Maximum target: ? person

    Ars Paulina.
    The Second Noble Phantasm. The Time Temple Solomon. The last stage for FateGO's first part.
    It compiles the human history converted into magic energy, a governed space.
    It exists in the imaginary space separated from the normal flow of time.
    Goetia himself remains within this Temple, grinning and laughing as he assures each and every era being extinguished.
    It is a Reality Marble that Goetia fabricated by amplifying the remains of King Solomon; its structure is the same as Fate/stay night's Justicia's Great Holy Grail.

    (Ars Paulina is the third book of Clauvica Salomonis. It literally means Art of Pauline. Pauline itself apparently means anything that has connection to St. Paul the apostle. The book itself speaks of twenty four angels aligned with twenty four hours of the day, and 360 spirits of the degrees of zodiac. The 360 degree and 24 hours is probably likened to how we fight in a circle area inside Ars Paulina back at Solomon chapter.
    also was it Justicia or Justeaze again)

    Ars Nova
    The Time of Parting has Come, He is the One who Lets Go of the World

    Rank: D
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
    Range: -
    Maximum target: 1 person

    Ars Nova.
    The First Noble Phantasm. While Goetia knows that this is "the Noble Phantasm belonging to the other Solomon", he is not aware of the detail.
    No. He is unable to be aware of it.

    (It literally means Art of the New. Only relevant bit i could find is this bit on the fifth book, the Ars Notoria that contains a series of prayers intended to grant eidetic memory (photographic memory) and instantaneous learning to the magician. Quoting the Ars Goetia:
    Book of Orations and Prayers which Wise Solomon did use upon the Altar in the Temple. The which is called ARS NOVA, the which was revealed to Solomon by that Holy Angel of God called Michael; and he also received many brief Notes written with the Finger of God, which were declared to him by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his Great Wisdom, for by them in short time he gained Knowledge of all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad; from these Notes it is called THE NOTARY ART.)
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    Personage
    First pronoun: watashi
    Second pronoun: kisama
    Third pronoun: kisamara/shokun

    - Character
    A perfect (independent) ideologist.
    He acts as his desire demands, while sneering as those that become his victim grant him immense pleasure. An embodiment of cruelty, viciousness, and atrocity.
    He completely disapproves of humanity's freedom.
    He sneers from the heart at humanity's happiness.
    He draws breath only to reject humanity, the Magic King who curses of the Human Order.

    Such is the being he had integrated and establish himself as.

    <>

    He is not King Solomon himself, but the aggregation of the 72 demon gods.
    After Solomon's death, the 72 demon gods--sealed within Solomon's husk--had awaken their own independent idea, took away the name of Solomon (although from their point of view, they are the real Magic King Solomon), and set out on transforming the entirety of humanity to energy.
    Those 72 demon gods is a "system that efficiently advance the correct truth" created by Solomon, the progenitor of (human's) magic.
    They lament at the relationship between King Solomon and the humans, rage at it, for King Solomon had continued on ignoring the "imperfectness of humanity"; and they had became the curse that act to overcome it.
    The name is Goetia, the Human Order incineration system.
    A magic possessing will and intention, that plots and devises in order to reach true wisdom and plans on returning to the origin by making use of the entirety of human history.

    - Motives and attitude towards Master
    He makes it his purpose to become the one and only supreme existence on the planet.
    King Solomon, while knowing the helplessness and ugliness of humanity, accepted death without correcting it.
    However, the demon gods within him had refused to accept it, had concluded that humans have no value in the future, and had feared of the result where mankind faces extinction.
    Putting aside their own extinction, all things are destined to disappear in the end; and such an end disgusts them.
    Thus, Goetia put into effect a course of action by nesting inside the remains of King Solomon, as he was put into dilemma on the current state of things. As he declares that there is no value in humans, he as a demon god can only exist if he is to make use of humans.
    Despite being a lifeform of higher dimension, it is an insult for him to be under the one greatest waste of the universe, the humans. Goetia does not accept such contradiction and untruth, and he embarks on a journey of self-transformation.

    Reestablishing his purpose of serving humankind.
    The absolute proof that he is the most supreme of beings on the planet.
    Reaching the extreme that not even Solomon could acquire.
    Namely, the large undertaking of returning to God.

    "I shall kill the whole mankind. I must kill them. I must burn them. I must be the only one left on the surface of this planet. If you ask me why, then I shall answer you. That is because for you, it is the greatest meaning of existence, the ending with most worth."

    Goetia then dispatched the demon gods to the future, pounding into a great number of crumbling points within human history, and guide its foundation to disintegration.
    It appears that his goal is the erasure of humanity, but that is purely a means to the end. Goetia's goal is to "return to the beginning".

    He no longer hold any interest, be it to mankind or to the future.
    His desire is to go back before there was life on this planet, to go back to 4.6 billion years before, to observe the moment as the "celestial body" was born at this domain, and take in all of that energy.
    That is, he wants to make himself the "new celestial body".
    (From what did he start this reason and motive is told only on the original story on the game.)

    However, not even Goetia is capable of time travel.
    Soaring to the past requires an enormous amount of energy-----of magic energy.
    For example, the quantity of magic energy accumulated by certain intelligent lifeforms, flourishing for 2500 years.
    Should he able to convert the entirety of human history from 1000 BC to 2016 AD to magic energy, it will be enough magic energy to return and leap until the beginning of the planet.
    The destruction of mankind----the incineration is only for this one thing.
    For Goetia, mankind, from the time of his creation until the year of 2016, is no more than the first space rocket for the sake of returning to the sky of beginning.

    <>

    Thus Goetia-----the monster who calls himself the Magic King Solomon began his project.
    He created the Holy Grails as singularities that derails history, manipulated the magi that he himself designed (transforming them into demon gods on Goetia's purpose), and produced 7 detonation point.
    That is the cause of the Holy Grail War occuring in each era.
    By putting his plan into motion, mankind's future starting from 2016 was extinguished.
    With what he had achieved and more, his Class was determined.
    The likes of Grand Caster are but a false crown status.
    He is the greatest disaster, brought forth by mankind, that had extremely and effectively perversed the human history.
    His name is Beast I.
    One of the seven Evils of Humanity, the beast possessing the principle of "pity".

    ...A man's luxury to pity and be disappointed at others. That in itself is the beastly nature of Goetia.

    - Speech example
    "Solomon. Magic King Solomon. Perhaps you would commit it to memory were I to put it that way?
    "Burn. Until not even your ashes are left. That is your future."
    "Speak not of lives by human's social standard. By the time the premise of death comes knocking, such point of view no longer holds any value."
    "Do I enjoy this, you ask?
    Ha-----hahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    Of course, of course, OF COURSE, OF COURSE! I enjoy this tremendously! Think you I would thoroughly kill each and every one of you if I do not draw pleasure from it!? This pleases me. Your manner of death is delightful. Putting you to an end brings me such joy. And more than everything, your agony upon death is truly exhilirating!"
    //He may said all those things, but in truth, it was the exact opposite. At the very least, it is all dull and boring. Things such as human's manner of death are so worthless that he would never wish to see it.
    "Plead for help. Raise your mewling voice. For it is the time for you to drown in the sea of anguish! Behold this festival of flame that set ablaze the altar, rendered in its resplendence!"

    (Im slighlty liberal in Goetia's speech because his hamminess and imposing speech doesnt work in a literal translation; it just sounds weird instead.)
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    Historical depiction
    A figure who lived between BC 1000 to BC 931. The third king of ancient Israel.
    The great king who had brought about grand prosperity to ancient Israel. He was the man who employed 72 demon gods and had built the first temple of Israel.
    His policy as a king was excelling, but other than that he also had numerous anecdote as a magus.
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    Role ingame
    The Beast that took the name Magic King for himself.
    He gives off a sense of omnipotence that conforms everything in the universe, possessing an intimidating air that detests all mankind.
    He wears 10 rings on all of his fingers, but the one ring on the left hand of his middle finger is the only one that is a replica.
    Because he has King Solomon as his base, he has an intellectual (albeit terrifying) disposition.
    Be that as it may, as he is the aggregation of the 72 demon gods, his personality and nature also amounts to 72.
    Due to him being both an individual and a colony, when interacting with others a demon god that is similar to the other party comes to the surface. It is because of this that Goetia's nature was appraised as a "mirror".

    He is an omnipotent being that not even King Solomon managed to reach.
    Originally he has enough qualification as a king that rules over the people.
    However, being omnipotent means he is unable to understand human beings; being immortal means he is unable to struggle and reach an answer; and thus, he is unable to become the "king over humans".
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    Human King Goetia
    The "last opponent" who, after the last battle happened and everything had been settled, appeared in front of the protagonist from inside the Temple.
    However, by gaining lifespan he became able to comprehend humans, something that Goetia until now was unable to do; he had achieved the state of "human king", a wise king to surpass even King Solomon.
    He did not operate only with the violent emotion such as rage and resentment belonging to the previous Goetia, but also with the natural emotion as a human that he now had possessed, as he had arrived to understanding.
    He held no anger towards the protagonists that had defeated him.
    Even if he killed the protagonists, the fact that Goetia had crumbled and had been defeated would not change.
    That last standing of his is simply "the last obstinacy as the one who had persevered until this moment".

    Both in spirit and in action, rather than the last boss he has the feel of the main character instead.
    His body crumbled bit by bit during the battle; it was regrettable, but he did not lament over it. His only real feeling was "So this is what being alive means. What life means."
    "To show respect to this magnificent opponent, all the while swallowing the emptiness of losing everything, and clash as enemies until the end."
    That was what granted unto him, the sole greatest reward for his 3000 years of grand undertaking.

    -----O Lord. My gratitude of this joy, of being alive.

    (lit. 主よ。生命の歓びを。 if anybody got suggestion for better rendition on english, im open for it.)
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    Comment from Illustrator
    [MAP Goetia]
    I did it by shaping the demon pillar into a bundled echinodermata basket fish shape. Because it was such an enormous structure there are heaps of details on it.
    [Demon pillars]
    The design is developed from the same color design as Tiamat's Black Sakura [black and red streak] coloring. I was delighted when the variations of the demon pillars that I submitted with doubt in mind were all used. It was a pleasure, seeing the demon pillars arrangement keep on being created^^
    [Humanoid Goetia]
    The combining my draft for the humanoid Goetia and the desain for his shoulders and such from the staffs, the fusion and exchange between it, was quite a hard but enjoyable composition.
    (Yamanaka Kotetsu)

    I am filled with memories and emotion in various of ways.
    Speaking in terms of design, I do have some regrets left for ended up jamming various things in, but exactly because of that that his last form gives off a very refreshed feeling.
    (Takeuchi Takashi)

    (Takeuchi's speaking about clothed Solomon-Goetia, the one with a bunch of ornaments and clothing, vs HumanKing-Goetia, the naked blondie one)

    Solomon CMT BMCMIIW

    Class: Grand Caster
    True Name: Solomon
    Gender: Male
    Source: Old Testament
    Region: Ancient Israel
    Alignment: Lawful Good
    Height: 178 cm
    Weight: 75 kg

    STR: E
    CON: E
    AGI: B
    MGI: A++
    LCK: A++
    NP: A++

    Setting creation: Nasu Kinoko
    Character design: Yamanaka Kotetsu
    CV: Suzumura Kenichi
    Main works appearance: Fate/Grand Order
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    Class Skills
    Territory Creation: A
    Creation of a "Workshop" territory that is advantageous to himself as a magus.
    That ability of his that had created the Temple of Jerusalem is of the highest peak of Territory Creation.

    High Speed Incantation: C
    The ability to hasten magic incantation speed.
    Despite being fast, his tendency to worry prones to ruin it and sometimes makes him do a mistake.

    Tool Creation: C
    Creation of tools tinged with magic energy.
    Perhaps because he is specialized in contracts, his Tool Creation ability is on average level.
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    Personal Skill
    Evocation: EX
    Magic that evokes of spiritual bodies of the past, or perhaps the future.
    With his Evocation ability that spoke of the summoned spiritual existences, the "Seventy Two Demon Gods", and established them as capable familiars, he truly lived up to his title of King of Magic.

    Revelation : B
    A Skill that hears of "the voice from the Heavens" and performs the most suitable of actions.
    While "Instinct" is a sixth sense for combat purpose, Revelation conforms to all matters in regards of achieving a goal (such as selecting the most suitable road for travel route).
    Solomon had only ever received one Revelation, but based on that he had established the phenomena operation technique--that is, magic--that even an ordinary person could perform. (Until then, magic had been a work only for those related to the gods.)

    Rings of Solomon: EX
    The ten rings given by God. The mark of the king, the progenitor of magic.
    In the case of all ten rings present, any and all kinds of magic performed by mankind is invalidated and put under his subordination.

    Clairvoyance: EX
    Eyesight of good quality. Apprehension of long distance target and elevation of kinetic vision. When the rank is high enough, even x-ray vision or future prediction becomes possible.
    Solomon's Clairvoyance gives him unobstructed view of both the past and the future.
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    Ars Nova
    The Time of Parting has Come, He is the One who Lets Go of the World

    Rank: D
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
    Range: -
    Maximum target: 1 person


    Ars Nova.
    The First Noble Phantasm. A Noble Phantasm that belongs not to Goetia, but to the true King Solomon (Dr. Roman).
    The exploits that he had fulfilled until now, the miracles that he had accomplished until now, the magic that he had achieved until now; it is a poem of parting that lets go of it all.
    Upon the invocation of this Noble Phantasm, Solomon returns back to the heavens the graces that he had received from God, losing his eye that gazes at the world.
    The result is the death of King Solomon. And conversely, the disintegration of the 72 demon gods.
    It can be said to be the safety device that Solomon had prepared for the sake of destroying "magic", should the time in a distant future comes when it becomes an evil for human.
    ...When this Noble Phantasm is employed, Solomon would vanish from even the Throne of Heroes.

    Solomon's complete evanescence implies not of erasure of all traces of Solomon, but rather that that everything that he must do now had been completed.
    ...Each and every living existences have things they had left undone as their time is concluded and ended. No matter how flawless they had live their life, they would always leave behind a "remnant".
    Those "remnants" will then be carried over by the people that will continue even further, bringing to forth the path of human history.

    A complete evanescence means an ascenscion from this very path.
    To accomplish every task one is granted with, a state of existence where one no longer has any matter undone.

    There is no longer any need to defeat him, nor the need to rely on him.
    No longer will anyone ask of him,
    no longer will anyone bear the burden of his death,
    no longer will anyone ask for his help, for his accomplishment.

    That is what it means to disappear even from the Throne of Heroes.
    To be released from the duty of life, to have completed all the task one is burdened with in this universe.
    The messiah is the sole being among the mankind to have attained enlightenment, but the coward had attained and arrived on a "destination" of a different bearing.

    (guys is evanescence to snobbish of a word)
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    Personage
    First pronoun: watashi/boku (as Solomon)
    Second pronoun: kimi
    Third pronoun: kimitachi/shokun

    - Character
    Introvert, self-assured, passive.
    A gentle king that gives off a relaxed sense.
    "Confidence" is his main characteristic, but it's actually only his ability of "unable to read the mood." As a result, he only makes statements in a confident manner, but is actually a coward (chicken) in his basic nature.
    Diligent but not earnest, he lives by putting only 80% of his maximum effort.
    He poperly ascertained of the people, properly established the law, and properly governed the country.
    Although he is somewhat lacking in mettle, he is a wise and kind king full of love, respected and beloved by his people.
    However, all of those traits are not actually by Solomon's own will.
    From his birth, he had been ordained to be a king, to hear the voice of God and to live in accordance to it. There is no emotion within him; he is inhuman, deprived of the autonomy to symphatize with the joy and sorrow of the people.

    Only when he becomes Romani Archaman that he finally acquires his original human nature.
    His root is that of a pessimist and realist. Even though he speaks of wishful thinking as a moodmaker, due to himself unable to think of that as more than pipe dreams, he is quite shameless in some respects.
    He loves humans, but because he's a coward in nature who "does not want to see sad things", he ends up limiting himself with superficial relationships. On the other hand, he is capable of being good terms with pretty much everybody. Your typical affable friendly guy.
    When being faced with a dilemma, he has the bad habit of choosing to stay undecided and devoting himself to just observe, or just straight up runs away, so that the status quo is maintained.
    Due to Roman himself is reflecting on that weakness of his, it only needs a few words, for someone in his surroundings to simply says "hang in there", for him to somehow holds his ground and displays a resolution worthy of the King of Magic.

    Incidentally, any Servants would end up having "I don't know the reason but this guy's the one at fault here" as their first impression for Roman; and due to that they will unconsciously complain about him.
    The only ones who don't judge him negatively are those who aren't Servants, the contrarians, and the Berserkers that don't perceive evil as evil.

    - Motives and attitude towards Master
    He conceals the fact that he had been Solomon, collaborating with the protagonist as a human.
    The first Heroic Spirit that Chaldea summoned. (Summoning Case No. 1)
    He had had the premonition of the arrival of humankind's extinction, unknown in its nature, and had been hiding himself in Chaldea as a researcher.
    The reason that he keeps his true colors hidden is because he is wary against the mastermind behind the incineration of human history, and at the same time due to him feeling responsible out of fear that somehow, he is the one to blame for this.
    While he does think that it is unjustifiable to the protagonist, he himself is completely unapologetic about it.
    "I mean, there's just no helping it. You can hate me all you want, I don't mind. Actually, it would only be natural if you do. To begin with, I'm just not someone worthy for other people to like."
    Due to him undervaluing (self-torturing) himself like that, he thinks that it's only natural for people to detest him rather than like him.

    <>

    Winner of the Holy Grail War of the year 2004.
    His wish upon the Grail is "to live as a human".
    In the midst of the Holy Grail War, Solomon thought of this.
    "Romance. Romance, is it! Such a pleasant word. A fresh concept, one yet to exist during my time."
    A phrase that had yet to exist in his age.
    A way of life where a single human freely embraces their dream.
    For such a world that displays such a thing to exist.
    It was because he felt, from the bottom of his heart, that it is such a magnificent thing, that Solomon decided to call himself "Roman".
    And after the Holy Grail War had concluded.
    Receiving the name Romani Archaman, Roman then set out to begin his second life. Alas, he was unable to experience the fullness, the joy of being human that he had not acquire during his live.
    For his freedom had been snatched away when he was shown a glimpse of the future, of the end of mankind, just as he had been made human.
    Ever since then, just like an infant newly born to the world, he had to chase an enemy whose true nature he knew not of in reselessness, embarking on a lone man's struggle.
    As he, in desperation, chased after knowledge, acquired technology, and ran as if weeping in the darkness, he made it in time for the fated moment (the 2015 rayshift experiment.)

    During the final stage of the first part, Roman is struck with an inner conflict when he had fathomed that Goetia was the mastermind.
    He has a way of defeating Goetia.
    If he could reach the Time Temple, confront Goetia before he is aware of the existence of the "last ring", and make use of Solomon's first Noble Phantasm, then he could make Goetia lost his invincibility.
    But at the same time, it would mean his own obliteration.
    The previous Solomon would just say "That, too, is fine, I suppose" and would simply be done with it. But the previous Solomon is not the current Solomon.
    He is Dr. Roman now.
    The king who had tasted his second life, who had been made known of the magnificence of life, is in anguish.
    To resolve himself for death.
    Could he overcome that fear, that remorse?
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    Historical depiction
    A figure who lived between BC 1000 to BC 931. The third king of ancient Israel.
    The great king who had brought about grand prosperity to ancient Israel. He was the man who employed 72 demon gods and had built the first temple of Israel.

    His policy as a king was excelling, but other than that he also had numerous anecdote as a magus.
    Solomon had once married an Egyptian female pharaoh, but after that, God appeared in his dream and said to him: "You are worthy. Tell me of what you desire. Ask, and I shall give it to you."
    Solomon desired not of gold or power; above all that, above anything, he wished for wisdom.
    God was content with his answer, for Solomon's very answer was a sign that he possessed the qualifications to reach "true wisdom".
    Solomon's eye was then awakened, and he was granted ten rings on both of his hands.
    It was the very mark of the wise man approved by God. Later on it would be known as the Rings of Solomon, the origin of the magic that employs both angels and demons.

    Even though King Solomon had accomplished that miracle only once, it is the one that reveals his wisdom. It was then made known to the people that "the king had been granted the protection of God's own"; once was more than enough.
    For anymore miracle would struck fear to the people and degrade it.
    Solomon's name as the Magic King was spread to the neighboring countries, all the while without using magic itself, and he left this world all the while known as the wise king.
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    Role ingame
    The character that acts as the navigator for the protagonist throughout the seven chapters.
    In the last chapter, after he had seen Mash's last moment with his own eyes, the coward then told to himself of the end, and deployed the first Noble Phantasm.
    He severed Goetia's strength, then vanished after entrusting what comes after to the protagonist.
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    Connection with other characters
    David
    His father. And yet, David and Solomon has a relatively indiferent parent-child relationship.
    Even if Solomon declares that he would incinerate humankind, David would say "Mm, Solomon does say things like that" and just coolly observe.
    It is the same with Solomon; even if David declares that Solomon is a failure of a human being, Solomon would say "Well, Father does say things like that" and call if off just like that.

    Cleopatra, Ozymandias
    Solomon was very fond of the Egyptian beauty, but didn't care much for the pharaoh.

    Galahad
    The same with him, someone who was granted by God "the chance to have his prayer fulfilled".
    Solomon had wished for wisdom, but Galahad had wished for nothing.
    Solomon questions "Why?" in regards of that matter, and bears a sense of inferiority that comes from his subconscious regret, thinking that "I should have done so."

    Goetia
    With all said and done, you, aren't you hating me a bit too much?!
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    Comment from Illustrator
    I'm really glad I had drawn him with a good expression.
    (Takeuchi Takashi)

    Thanks for the translation. I don't know how to feel about King Solomon being a coward though.
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    Goetia CMT BMCMIIW

    Class: Beast I
    True Name: Goetia
    Gender: Male
    Source: Old Testament
    Region: Ancient Israel
    Alignment: Chaotic Evil
    Height: 178 cm
    Weight: 75 kg

    STR: A
    CON: A
    AGI: D
    MGI: A+
    LCK: B
    NP: A++

    Setting creation: Nasu Kinoko
    Character design: Yamanaka Kotetsu
    CV: Sugita Tomokazu

    Main works appearance: Fate/Grand Order
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    Class Skills
    Territory Creation: A
    Creation of a "Workshop" territory that is advantageous to himself as a magus.
    That ability of his that had created the Temple of Jerusalem is of the highest peak of Territory Creation.

    (funny how other's with rank A TC always has that additional line about them hasving"temple" instead of "workshop" but not Goetia. another case of copypasting mistake in this book? or maybe talking about Jerusalem temple already counts as "Temple"?)

    High Speed Incantation: A
    The ability to hasten magic incantation speed.
    Formerly his incantation speed is only average, but now it is comparable to High Speed Divine Words.
    That is due to the inside being Goetia, and thus his weakness from when he was alive... his characteristic weakness... isn't there.

    Tool Creation: C
    Creation of tools tinged with magic energy.
    Perhaps because he is specialized in contracts, his Tool Creation ability is on average level.
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    Personal Skill
    Evocation: EX
    Magic that evokes of spiritual bodies of the past, or perhaps the future.
    After the death of King Solomon, the concept of "Seventy Two Demon Gods", deserted, then nested inside the corpse of King Solomon and through long months and years was rebirth as "someone" who wears Solomon's skin.
    Although unable on performing heroic Spirit summoning or normal familiar summoning, he is capable of freely summonning to existence the "Seventy Two Demon Gods".
    Simply put, a converter that projects into reality the "imaginary demon gods" nesting within King Solomon's inner world.

    Revelation : -
    A Skill that hears of "the voice from the Heavens" and performs the most suitable of actions.
    Due to this being a Skill possessed by the soul, it cannot be used by Goetia nesting inside King Solomon's corpse.

    Rings of Solomon: EX
    The ten rings given by God. The mark of the king, the progenitor of magic.
    In the case of all ten rings present, any and all kinds of magic performed by mankind is invalidated and put under his subordination.
    There are 9 rings worn by Goetia. The remaining one is-----

    Clairvoyance: EX
    Eyesight of good quality. Apprehension of long distance target and elevation of kinetic vision. When the rank is high enough, even x-ray vision or future prediction becomes possible.
    Solomon's Clairvoyance gives him unobstructed view of both the past and the future. Due to Clairvoyance being a Skill embedded to the body, it can be used by Goetia.

    Independent Manifestation: A
    A special skill. A superior version of Independent Action.
    Furthermore, due to the existence fixation it also possesses the effect of resistance towards attack by means of instant death and time manipulation.
    Those with the skill does not receive influence from the incineration of Human Order by means of singularities, or from the compilation of Human Order by means of *****, manifesting as long the requirement is fulfilled.

    Nega Summon: EX
    Negates and completely demolish attacks from Servants.
    Complete cancellation (invalidation, invincible, absorption, reduction) of symbols of Heroic Spirits, the Noble Phantasms.... saves for one exception.
    In FateGO, thanks to that one "exception", the rank of the skill is heavily demoted.

    (OK this is weird why does the mats not include Authority of the Beast)
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    Ars Almadel Salomonis
    The Time of Birth has Come, He is the One who Masters All

    Rank: EX
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm

    Ars Almadel Salomonis.
    The third Noble Phantasm. The I of the original sin. The light that tells of the end of mankind.
    By converting the heat value of the entirety of human history, this lightbelt is compiled hundred millions of times, accelerated, and converged, making it possible of the retrogression of vast lenght of time.

    (From my limited knowledge of the language, Ars means Art, Almadel (or Almandal) being apparently some sort of altar, amd Salomonis is Solomon. Ars Almadel is also 4th book of the lesser of Clavicula Salomonis aka Key of Solomon. So it sort of literally means Solomon's Art of Altar and indeed, the book itself speaks about creation of altar to contact angels and scrying. I suppose the lightbelt is being likened to altar, and the heat value conversion is the ceremony here. Here's the picture of the Almadel from the book.)

    Ars Paulina
    The Time of Crowning has Come, He is the One who Begins All

    Rank: A
    Type: Anti-World Noble Phantasm
    Range: 999
    Maximum target: ? person

    Ars Paulina.
    The Second Noble Phantasm. The Time Temple Solomon. The last stage for FateGO's first part.
    It compiles the human history converted into magic energy, a governed space.
    It exists in the imaginary space separated from the normal flow of time.
    Goetia himself remains within this Temple, grinning and laughing as he assures each and every era being extinguished.
    It is a Reality Marble that Goetia fabricated by amplifying the remains of King Solomon; its structure is the same as Fate/stay night's Justicia's Great Holy Grail.

    (Ars Paulina is the third book of Clauvica Salomonis. It literally means Art of Pauline. Pauline itself apparently means anything that has connection to St. Paul the apostle. The book itself speaks of twenty four angels aligned with twenty four hours of the day, and 360 spirits of the degrees of zodiac. The 360 degree and 24 hours is probably likened to how we fight in a circle area inside Ars Paulina back at Solomon chapter.
    also was it Justicia or Justeaze again)

    Ars Nova
    The Time of Parting has Come, He is the One who Lets Go of the World

    Rank: D
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
    Range: -
    Maximum target: 1 person

    Ars Nova.
    The First Noble Phantasm. While Goetia knows that this is "the Noble Phantasm belonging to the other Solomon", he is not aware of the detail.
    No. He is unable to be aware of it.

    (It literally means Art of the New. Only relevant bit i could find is this bit on the fifth book, the Ars Notoria that contains a series of prayers intended to grant eidetic memory (photographic memory) and instantaneous learning to the magician. Quoting the Ars Goetia:
    Book of Orations and Prayers which Wise Solomon did use upon the Altar in the Temple. The which is called ARS NOVA, the which was revealed to Solomon by that Holy Angel of God called Michael; and he also received many brief Notes written with the Finger of God, which were declared to him by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his Great Wisdom, for by them in short time he gained Knowledge of all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad; from these Notes it is called THE NOTARY ART.)
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    Personage
    First pronoun: watashi
    Second pronoun: kisama
    Third pronoun: kisamara/shokun

    - Character
    A perfect (independent) ideologist.
    He acts as his desire demands, while sneering as those that become his victim grant him immense pleasure. An embodiment of cruelty, viciousness, and atrocity.
    He completely disapproves of humanity's freedom.
    He sneers from the heart at humanity's happiness.
    He draws breath only to reject humanity, the Magic King who curses of the Human Order.

    Such is the being he had integrated and establish himself as.

    <>

    He is not King Solomon himself, but the aggregation of the 72 demon gods.
    After Solomon's death, the 72 demon gods--sealed within Solomon's husk--had awaken their own independent idea, took away the name of Solomon (although from their point of view, they are the real Magic King Solomon), and set out on transforming the entirety of humanity to energy.
    Those 72 demon gods is a "system that efficiently advance the correct truth" created by Solomon, the progenitor of (human's) magic.
    They lament at the relationship between King Solomon and the humans, rage at it, for King Solomon had continued on ignoring the "imperfectness of humanity"; and they had became the curse that act to overcome it.
    The name is Goetia, the Human Order incineration system.
    A magic possessing will and intention, that plots and devises in order to reach true wisdom and plans on returning to the origin by making use of the entirety of human history.

    - Motives and attitude towards Master
    He makes it his purpose to become the one and only supreme existence on the planet.
    King Solomon, while knowing the helplessness and ugliness of humanity, accepted death without correcting it.
    However, the demon gods within him had refused to accept it, had concluded that humans have no value in the future, and had feared of the result where mankind faces extinction.
    Putting aside their own extinction, all things are destined to disappear in the end; and such an end disgusts them.
    Thus, Goetia put into effect a course of action by nesting inside the remains of King Solomon, as he was put into dilemma on the current state of things. As he declares that there is no value in humans, he as a demon god can only exist if he is to make use of humans.
    Despite being a lifeform of higher dimension, it is an insult for him to be under the one greatest waste of the universe, the humans. Goetia does not accept such contradiction and untruth, and he embarks on a journey of self-transformation.

    Reestablishing his purpose of serving humankind.
    The absolute proof that he is the most supreme of beings on the planet.
    Reaching the extreme that not even Solomon could acquire.
    Namely, the large undertaking of returning to God.

    "I shall kill the whole mankind. I must kill them. I must burn them. I must be the only one left on the surface of this planet. If you ask me why, then I shall answer you. That is because for you, it is the greatest meaning of existence, the ending with most worth."

    Goetia then dispatched the demon gods to the future, pounding into a great number of crumbling points within human history, and guide its foundation to disintegration.
    It appears that his goal is the erasure of humanity, but that is purely a means to the end. Goetia's goal is to "return to the beginning".

    He no longer hold any interest, be it to mankind or to the future.
    His desire is to go back before there was life on this planet, to go back to 4.6 billion years before, to observe the moment as the "celestial body" was born at this domain, and take in all of that energy.
    That is, he wants to make himself the "new celestial body".
    (From what did he start this reason and motive is told only on the original story on the game.)

    However, not even Goetia is capable of time travel.
    Soaring to the past requires an enormous amount of energy-----of magic energy.
    For example, the quantity of magic energy accumulated by certain intelligent lifeforms, flourishing for 2500 years.
    Should he able to convert the entirety of human history from 1000 BC to 2016 AD to magic energy, it will be enough magic energy to return and leap until the beginning of the planet.
    The destruction of mankind----the incineration is only for this one thing.
    For Goetia, mankind, from the time of his creation until the year of 2016, is no more than the first space rocket for the sake of returning to the sky of beginning.

    <>

    Thus Goetia-----the monster who calls himself the Magic King Solomon began his project.
    He created the Holy Grails as singularities that derails history, manipulated the magi that he himself designed (transforming them into demon gods on Goetia's purpose), and produced 7 detonation point.
    That is the cause of the Holy Grail War occuring in each era.
    By putting his plan into motion, mankind's future starting from 2016 was extinguished.
    With what he had achieved and more, his Class was determined.
    The likes of Grand Caster are but a false crown status.
    He is the greatest disaster, brought forth by mankind, that had extremely and effectively perversed the human history.
    His name is Beast I.
    One of the seven Evils of Humanity, the beast possessing the principle of "pity".

    ...A man's luxury to pity and be disappointed at others. That in itself is the beastly nature of Goetia.

    - Speech example
    "Solomon. Magic King Solomon. Perhaps you would commit it to memory were I to put it that way?
    "Burn. Until not even your ashes are left. That is your future."
    "Speak not of lives by human's social standard. By the time the premise of death comes knocking, such point of view no longer holds any value."
    "Do I enjoy this, you ask?
    Ha-----hahaha, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
    Of course, of course, OF COURSE, OF COURSE! I enjoy this tremendously! Think you I would thoroughly kill each and every one of you if I do not draw pleasure from it!? This pleases me. Your manner of death is delightful. Putting you to an end brings me such joy. And more than everything, your agony upon death is truly exhilirating!"
    //He may said all those things, but in truth, it was the exact opposite. At the very least, it is all dull and boring. Things such as human's manner of death are so worthless that he would never wish to see it.
    "Plead for help. Raise your mewling voice. For it is the time for you to drown in the sea of anguish! Behold this festival of flame that set ablaze the altar, rendered in its resplendence!"

    (Im slighlty liberal in Goetia's speech because his hamminess and imposing speech doesnt work in a literal translation; it just sounds weird instead.)
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    Historical depiction
    A figure who lived between BC 1000 to BC 931. The third king of ancient Israel.
    The great king who had brought about grand prosperity to ancient Israel. He was the man who employed 72 demon gods and had built the first temple of Israel.
    His policy as a king was excelling, but other than that he also had numerous anecdote as a magus.
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    Role ingame
    The Beast that took the name Magic King for himself.
    He gives off a sense of omnipotence that conforms everything in the universe, possessing an intimidating air that detests all mankind.
    He wears 10 rings on all of his fingers, but the one ring on the left hand of his middle finger is the only one that is a replica.
    Because he has King Solomon as his base, he has an intellectual (albeit terrifying) disposition.
    Be that as it may, as he is the aggregation of the 72 demon gods, his personality and nature also amounts to 72.
    Due to him being both an individual and a colony, when interacting with others a demon god that is similar to the other party comes to the surface. It is because of this that Goetia's nature was appraised as a "mirror".

    He is an omnipotent being that not even King Solomon managed to reach.
    Originally he has enough qualification as a king that rules over the people.
    However, being omnipotent means he is unable to understand human beings; being immortal means he is unable to struggle and reach an answer; and thus, he is unable to become the "king over humans".
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    Human King Goetia
    The "last opponent" who, after the last battle happened and everything had been settled, appeared in front of the protagonist from inside the Temple.
    However, by gaining lifespan he became able to comprehend humans, something that Goetia until now was unable to do; he had achieved the state of "human king", a wise king to surpass even King Solomon.
    He did not operate only with the violent emotion such as rage and resentment belonging to the previous Goetia, but also with the natural emotion as a human that he now had possessed, as he had arrived to understanding.
    He held no anger towards the protagonists that had defeated him.
    Even if he killed the protagonists, the fact that Goetia had crumbled and had been defeated would not change.
    That last standing of his is simply "the last obstinacy as the one who had persevered until this moment".

    Both in spirit and in action, rather than the last boss he has the feel of the main character instead.
    His body crumbled bit by bit during the battle; it was regrettable, but he did not lament over it. His only real feeling was "So this is what being alive means. What life means."
    "To show respect to this magnificent opponent, all the while swallowing the emptiness of losing everything, and clash as enemies until the end."
    That was what granted unto him, the sole greatest reward for his 3000 years of grand undertaking.

    -----O Lord. My gratitude of this joy, of being alive.

    (lit. 主よ。生命の歓びを。 if anybody got suggestion for better rendition on english, im open for it.)
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    Comment from Illustrator
    [MAP Goetia]
    I did it by shaping the demon pillar into a bundled echinodermata basket fish shape. Because it was such an enormous structure there are heaps of details on it.
    [Demon pillars]
    The design is developed from the same color design as Tiamat's Black Sakura [black and red streak] coloring. I was delighted when the variations of the demon pillars that I submitted with doubt in mind were all used. It was a pleasure, seeing the demon pillars arrangement keep on being created^^
    [Humanoid Goetia]
    The combining my draft for the humanoid Goetia and the desain for his shoulders and such from the staffs, the fusion and exchange between it, was quite a hard but enjoyable composition.
    (Yamanaka Kotetsu)

    I am filled with memories and emotion in various of ways.
    Speaking in terms of design, I do have some regrets left for ended up jamming various things in, but exactly because of that that his last form gives off a very refreshed feeling.
    (Takeuchi Takashi)

    (Takeuchi's speaking about clothed Solomon-Goetia, the one with a bunch of ornaments and clothing, vs HumanKing-Goetia, the naked blondie one)

    Solomon CMT BMCMIIW

    Class: Grand Caster
    True Name: Solomon
    Gender: Male
    Source: Old Testament
    Region: Ancient Israel
    Alignment: Lawful Good
    Height: 178 cm
    Weight: 75 kg

    STR: E
    CON: E
    AGI: B
    MGI: A++
    LCK: A++
    NP: A++

    Setting creation: Nasu Kinoko
    Character design: Yamanaka Kotetsu
    CV: Suzumura Kenichi
    Main works appearance: Fate/Grand Order
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    Class Skills
    Territory Creation: A
    Creation of a "Workshop" territory that is advantageous to himself as a magus.
    That ability of his that had created the Temple of Jerusalem is of the highest peak of Territory Creation.

    High Speed Incantation: C
    The ability to hasten magic incantation speed.
    Despite being fast, his tendency to worry prones to ruin it and sometimes makes him do a mistake.

    Tool Creation: C
    Creation of tools tinged with magic energy.
    Perhaps because he is specialized in contracts, his Tool Creation ability is on average level.
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    Personal Skill
    Evocation: EX
    Magic that evokes of spiritual bodies of the past, or perhaps the future.
    With his Evocation ability that spoke of the summoned spiritual existences, the "Seventy Two Demon Gods", and established them as capable familiars, he truly lived up to his title of King of Magic.

    Revelation : B
    A Skill that hears of "the voice from the Heavens" and performs the most suitable of actions.
    While "Instinct" is a sixth sense for combat purpose, Revelation conforms to all matters in regards of achieving a goal (such as selecting the most suitable road for travel route).
    Solomon had only ever received one Revelation, but based on that he had established the phenomena operation technique--that is, magic--that even an ordinary person could perform. (Until then, magic had been a work only for those related to the gods.)

    Rings of Solomon: EX
    The ten rings given by God. The mark of the king, the progenitor of magic.
    In the case of all ten rings present, any and all kinds of magic performed by mankind is invalidated and put under his subordination.

    Clairvoyance: EX
    Eyesight of good quality. Apprehension of long distance target and elevation of kinetic vision. When the rank is high enough, even x-ray vision or future prediction becomes possible.
    Solomon's Clairvoyance gives him unobstructed view of both the past and the future.
    -----
    Ars Nova
    The Time of Parting has Come, He is the One who Lets Go of the World

    Rank: D
    Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
    Range: -
    Maximum target: 1 person


    Ars Nova.
    The First Noble Phantasm. A Noble Phantasm that belongs not to Goetia, but to the true King Solomon (Dr. Roman).
    The exploits that he had fulfilled until now, the miracles that he had accomplished until now, the magic that he had achieved until now; it is a poem of parting that lets go of it all.
    Upon the invocation of this Noble Phantasm, Solomon returns back to the heavens the graces that he had received from God, losing his eye that gazes at the world.
    The result is the death of King Solomon. And conversely, the disintegration of the 72 demon gods.
    It can be said to be the safety device that Solomon had prepared for the sake of destroying "magic", should the time in a distant future comes when it becomes an evil for human.
    ...When this Noble Phantasm is employed, Solomon would vanish from even the Throne of Heroes.

    Solomon's complete evanescence implies not of erasure of all traces of Solomon, but rather that that everything that he must do now had been completed.
    ...Each and every living existences have things they had left undone as their time is concluded and ended. No matter how flawless they had live their life, they would always leave behind a "remnant".
    Those "remnants" will then be carried over by the people that will continue even further, bringing to forth the path of human history.

    A complete evanescence means an ascenscion from this very path.
    To accomplish every task one is granted with, a state of existence where one no longer has any matter undone.

    There is no longer any need to defeat him, nor the need to rely on him.
    No longer will anyone ask of him,
    no longer will anyone bear the burden of his death,
    no longer will anyone ask for his help, for his accomplishment.

    That is what it means to disappear even from the Throne of Heroes.
    To be released from the duty of life, to have completed all the task one is burdened with in this universe.
    The messiah is the sole being among the mankind to have attained enlightenment, but the coward had attained and arrived on a "destination" of a different bearing.

    (guys is evanescence to snobbish of a word)
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    Personage
    First pronoun: watashi/boku (as Solomon)
    Second pronoun: kimi
    Third pronoun: kimitachi/shokun

    - Character
    Introvert, self-assured, passive.
    A gentle king that gives off a relaxed sense.
    "Confidence" is his main characteristic, but it's actually only his ability of "unable to read the mood." As a result, he only makes statements in a confident manner, but is actually a coward (chicken) in his basic nature.
    Diligent but not earnest, he lives by putting only 80% of his maximum effort.
    He poperly ascertained of the people, properly established the law, and properly governed the country.
    Although he is somewhat lacking in mettle, he is a wise and kind king full of love, respected and beloved by his people.
    However, all of those traits are not actually by Solomon's own will.
    From his birth, he had been ordained to be a king, to hear the voice of God and to live in accordance to it. There is no emotion within him; he is inhuman, deprived of the autonomy to symphatize with the joy and sorrow of the people.

    Only when he becomes Romani Archaman that he finally acquires his original human nature.
    His root is that of a pessimist and realist. Even though he speaks of wishful thinking as a moodmaker, due to himself unable to think of that as more than pipe dreams, he is quite shameless in some respects.
    He loves humans, but because he's a coward in nature who "does not want to see sad things", he ends up limiting himself with superficial relationships. On the other hand, he is capable of being good terms with pretty much everybody. Your typical affable friendly guy.
    When being faced with a dilemma, he has the bad habit of choosing to stay undecided and devoting himself to just observe, or just straight up runs away, so that the status quo is maintained.
    Due to Roman himself is reflecting on that weakness of his, it only needs a few words, for someone in his surroundings to simply says "hang in there", for him to somehow holds his ground and displays a resolution worthy of the King of Magic.

    Incidentally, any Servants would end up having "I don't know the reason but this guy's the one at fault here" as their first impression for Roman; and due to that they will unconsciously complain about him.
    The only ones who don't judge him negatively are those who aren't Servants, the contrarians, and the Berserkers that don't perceive evil as evil.

    - Motives and attitude towards Master
    He conceals the fact that he had been Solomon, collaborating with the protagonist as a human.
    The first Heroic Spirit that Chaldea summoned. (Summoning Case No. 1)
    He had had the premonition of the arrival of humankind's extinction, unknown in its nature, and had been hiding himself in Chaldea as a researcher.
    The reason that he keeps his true colors hidden is because he is wary against the mastermind behind the incineration of human history, and at the same time due to him feeling responsible out of fear that somehow, he is the one to blame for this.
    While he does think that it is unjustifiable to the protagonist, he himself is completely unapologetic about it.
    "I mean, there's just no helping it. You can hate me all you want, I don't mind. Actually, it would only be natural if you do. To begin with, I'm just not someone worthy for other people to like."
    Due to him undervaluing (self-torturing) himself like that, he thinks that it's only natural for people to detest him rather than like him.

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    Winner of the Holy Grail War of the year 2004.
    His wish upon the Grail is "to live as a human".
    In the midst of the Holy Grail War, Solomon thought of this.
    "Romance. Romance, is it! Such a pleasant word. A fresh concept, one yet to exist during my time."
    A phrase that had yet to exist in his age.
    A way of life where a single human freely embraces their dream.
    For such a world that displays such a thing to exist.
    It was because he felt, from the bottom of his heart, that it is such a magnificent thing, that Solomon decided to call himself "Roman".
    And after the Holy Grail War had concluded.
    Receiving the name Romani Archaman, Roman then set out to begin his second life. Alas, he was unable to experience the fullness, the joy of being human that he had not acquire during his live.
    For his freedom had been snatched away when he was shown a glimpse of the future, of the end of mankind, just as he had been made human.
    Ever since then, just like an infant newly born to the world, he had to chase an enemy whose true nature he knew not of in reselessness, embarking on a lone man's struggle.
    As he, in desperation, chased after knowledge, acquired technology, and ran as if weeping in the darkness, he made it in time for the fated moment (the 2015 rayshift experiment.)

    During the final stage of the first part, Roman is struck with an inner conflict when he had fathomed that Goetia was the mastermind.
    He has a way of defeating Goetia.
    If he could reach the Time Temple, confront Goetia before he is aware of the existence of the "last ring", and make use of Solomon's first Noble Phantasm, then he could make Goetia lost his invincibility.
    But at the same time, it would mean his own obliteration.
    The previous Solomon would just say "That, too, is fine, I suppose" and would simply be done with it. But the previous Solomon is not the current Solomon.
    He is Dr. Roman now.
    The king who had tasted his second life, who had been made known of the magnificence of life, is in anguish.
    To resolve himself for death.
    Could he overcome that fear, that remorse?
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    Historical depiction
    A figure who lived between BC 1000 to BC 931. The third king of ancient Israel.
    The great king who had brought about grand prosperity to ancient Israel. He was the man who employed 72 demon gods and had built the first temple of Israel.

    His policy as a king was excelling, but other than that he also had numerous anecdote as a magus.
    Solomon had once married an Egyptian female pharaoh, but after that, God appeared in his dream and said to him: "You are worthy. Tell me of what you desire. Ask, and I shall give it to you."
    Solomon desired not of gold or power; above all that, above anything, he wished for wisdom.
    God was content with his answer, for Solomon's very answer was a sign that he possessed the qualifications to reach "true wisdom".
    Solomon's eye was then awakened, and he was granted ten rings on both of his hands.
    It was the very mark of the wise man approved by God. Later on it would be known as the Rings of Solomon, the origin of the magic that employs both angels and demons.

    Even though King Solomon had accomplished that miracle only once, it is the one that reveals his wisdom. It was then made known to the people that "the king had been granted the protection of God's own"; once was more than enough.
    For anymore miracle would struck fear to the people and degrade it.
    Solomon's name as the Magic King was spread to the neighboring countries, all the while without using magic itself, and he left this world all the while known as the wise king.
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    Role ingame
    The character that acts as the navigator for the protagonist throughout the seven chapters.
    In the last chapter, after he had seen Mash's last moment with his own eyes, the coward then told to himself of the end, and deployed the first Noble Phantasm.
    He severed Goetia's strength, then vanished after entrusting what comes after to the protagonist.
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    Connection with other characters
    David
    His father. And yet, David and Solomon has a relatively indiferent parent-child relationship.
    Even if Solomon declares that he would incinerate humankind, David would say "Mm, Solomon does say things like that" and just coolly observe.
    It is the same with Solomon; even if David declares that Solomon is a failure of a human being, Solomon would say "Well, Father does say things like that" and call if off just like that.

    Cleopatra, Ozymandias
    Solomon was very fond of the Egyptian beauty, but didn't care much for the pharaoh.

    Galahad
    The same with him, someone who was granted by God "the chance to have his prayer fulfilled".
    Solomon had wished for wisdom, but Galahad had wished for nothing.
    Solomon questions "Why?" in regards of that matter, and bears a sense of inferiority that comes from his subconscious regret, thinking that "I should have done so."

    Goetia
    With all said and done, you, aren't you hating me a bit too much?!
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    I'm really glad I had drawn him with a good expression.
    (Takeuchi Takashi)


    so, the pillars looking like mounts of flesh was just an aesthetic choice and not the remains of the incenerated humans, like some people were previously saying?

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    Dont think anything on the mats said that
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    Yeah that was just people who couldn't read the mats looking at the pictures and making a guess
    Quote Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions I
    Dumas flashed a fearless grin at Flat and Jack as he rattled off odd turns of phrase.
    "And most importantly, it's me who'll be doing the cooking."
    Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
    Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
    Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.


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    My headcanon is that they look like that because according to the Final Singularity, they were made from distortions in the human psyche.

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    I wonder why he made demons to help himself in the first place.
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    Pick one


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    >tfw you betray your ideals to get some


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    Well while they were demons, originally they didn't look they did when we faced them as enemies. Going by Goetia's and Roman's brief conversation in London, and taking from the original description of Solomon's summoning. The Demon Gods were probably originally spiritual entities and as Goetia said in London only appeared as they did now through incarnating themselves in flesh. As for there purpose, the 72 Demon Gods are a system that logically advances for truth as it said in the profile. According to what they said in the Final Singualarity they ruled alongside Solomon, effectively as a Ox-King, and assisted him in administrating his kingdom. They were effectively a super advanced computer AI basically.
    "Only in my company, will you not be a monster"


    anywhere than here

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceblade44 View Post
    Well while they were demons, originally they didn't look they did when we faced them as enemies. Going by Goetia's and Roman's brief conversation in London, and taking from the original description of Solomon's summoning. The Demon Gods were probably originally spiritual entities and as Goetia said in London only appeared as they did now through incarnating themselves in flesh. As for there purpose, the 72 Demon Gods are a system that logically advances for truth as it said in the profile. According to what they said in the Final Singualarity they ruled alongside Solomon, effectively as a Ox-King, and assisted him in administrating his kingdom. They were effectively a super advanced computer AI basically.
    Oh okay, so they weren't always the way they were when we fought them. What's even more incredible is that they survived after his death.
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    Pick one


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    Well they were supposed to. Solomon gave them the task to look after mankind after he had passed away. They were always immortal, that was something they had from the get go, and it was because they had no mortality they couldn't understand humans thus misunderstood the value of human life.
    "Only in my company, will you not be a monster"


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    Thanks castor these profiles were well worth the wait, also glad the book included a section on Goetia's Human King form as well.

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    Saint Martha: https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/...go_material_i/

    Li Shuwen (Lancer): https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/...file_from_fgo/

    Beowulf: https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/..._material_iii/

    Credits to the people who already translated bits and pieces of the above 3 Servant profiles in this thread!

    My plan is to work on Atalanta over there (very soon), then finish off the last two swimsuit Servants here, and go from there.

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