Heracles

Appearances

Parameters

Skills

• Mad Enhancement (B): Trades reason for a rank-up to all parameters.
• Battle Continuation (A): Can survive and continue fighting after mortal injuries.
• Valor (A+): Negates mental interference; boosts melee damage (sealed by Mad Enhancement in some cases).
• Divinity (A): Son of Zeus; high divine aptitude.

Noble Phantasms

• God Hand · Anti-Unit (Self) (B): Twelve lives representing the Twelve Labors; grants resurrection and immunity to previously suffered attacks below a rank threshold.

Personality

Under Mad Enhancement he is nearly mindless rage, yet traces of protectiveness toward Illya remain. Without madness he is a tragic, duty-burdened hero.

Story in Fate

Summoned by Illya as an overwhelmingly strong Berserker, Heracles becomes a near-unstoppable wall of regeneration and raw power in the Fifth Holy Grail War.

Relationships

• Illyasviel von Einzbern — Master he instinctively protects.
• Zeus — Divine father in myth.
• Hera — Persecutor who drove many of his labors and madness.

Trivia

• God Hand's twelve lives map to the Twelve Labors.
• His axe-sword is a nameless stone weapon in stay night.
• Alcides is an alternate identity emphasizing human side.