William Shakespeare

Appearances

Parameters

Skills

• Territory Creation (C): Builds a workshop as a stage for tragedy and comedy rather than a classical mage's atelier.
• Enchant (A): Imbues weapons and allies with conceptual 'story' power—turning ordinary blades into legendary props for a scene.
• Self-Preservation (B): Avoids fatal roles himself; prefers to remain the playwright watching others die beautifully on stage.
• King's Men (C): Support skill rooted in his troupe and patronage; bolsters allies cast as protagonists of his dramas.

Noble Phantasms

• First Folio · Anti-Unit (B): Reality-writing magecraft that forces a target into a scripted tragedy or comedy. The victim's fate is rewritten according to Shakespeare's narrative until the curtain falls.

Personality

Theatrical, witty, and cheerfully cruel as a dramatist. Shakespeare treats Holy Grail Wars as unfinished plays—he seeks beautiful deaths, ironic twists, and perfect curtain calls rather than crude victory. Affectionate toward 'protagonists' yet willing to sacrifice them for a better story.

Story in Fate

Caster of Red in Fate/Apocrypha, Shakespeare supports the Red Faction by scripting battles into tragic theater. Physically frail as a Servant, he compensates with Enchant and First Folio—magecraft that weaponizes narrative itself. In Fate/Grand Order he continues as a mischievous bard who frames singularities as acts of an endless play.

Relationships

• Achilles — Fellow Red Servant; Shakespeare revels in his tragic-heroic aura.
• Atalanta — Red Archer whose maternal fury he finds dramatically exquisite.
• Spartacus — Red Berserker whose rebellion he treats as pure stage spectacle.
• Jeanne d'Arc — Saintly foil; purity and martyrdom are irresistible dramatic motifs.

Trivia

• First Folio NP references the 1623 collected edition of Shakespeare's plays.
• Self-Preservation reflects his legend as observer-playwright rather than warrior.
• Enchant lets weak Servants briefly fight like protagonists of legend.
• Voiced by Satoshi Hino with gleeful, stage-actor flair in Apocrypha and FGO.