
Saber's real name is Altria Pendragon (sometimes written as Artoria, Arthuria or Arturia). Saber is based on King Arthur Pendragon, a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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Additionally, Saber has been popular within the Fate series and anime in general. However, Saber's lack of character focus in the Unlimited Blade Works anime adaptation met mixed reactions. Her characterization and her relationship with the characters in Fate/Zero have also been met with a positive response. Saber has been voiced by Ayako Kawasumi in her Japanese appearances, and multiple actresses took the role in English-language dubs of the series' animated adaptations.Ĭritical reception to Saber's character and role in the series and her relationship with Shirou has been generally positive. Urobuchi created his scenario involving Saber and Kiritsugu because their relationship was little explored in the original visual novel. Saber was created by Kinoko Nasu after the series' leading illustrator suggested having an armored woman as a protagonist for the visual novel writer Gen Urobuchi commented on her character becoming darker depending on the situations. Saber also appears in the novel's printed and animated adaptations, reprising her role in the game. She is also present in the prequel light novel Fate/Zero, in which she is the servant of Shirou's guardian Kiritsugu Emiya during the previous Holy Grail War, and in the sequel Fate/hollow ataraxia. Saber is an agile and mighty warrior who is loyal, independent, and reserved she appears emotionally cold but is actually suppressing her emotions to focus on her goals. Saber's relationship with the story's other characters depends on the player's decisions she becomes a love interest to Shirou in the novel's first route and also serves as that route's servant protagonist, a supporting character in the second, and a villain called "Saber Alter" ( セイバー・オルタ, Seibā Oruta) in the third route.

Saber is a heroic warrior who is summoned by a teenager named Shirou Emiya to participate in a war between masters and servants who are fighting to accomplish their dreams using the mythical Holy Grail. Saber ( Japanese: セイバー, Hepburn: Seibā), whose real name is Artoria Pendragon ( アルトリア・ペンドラゴン, Arutoria Pendoragon) (alternatively, Altria Pendragon), is a fictional character from the Japanese 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night by Type-Moon. ( Fate/Zero, Ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works, Heaven's Feel films) ( Fate/Stay night: Unlimited Blade Works film, Fate/Apocrypha) Saber wielding Excalibur, as seen in Fate/Grand Order.
