"Now, let's raise the curtain on this blasphemous comedy!" Gilles de Rais is a fallen French commander and sorcerer whose devotion to Jeanne d’Arc collapsed into blasphemy and atrocity after her execution. Summoned as a Servant, he uses Prelati’s Spellbook to call forth abyssal creatures while pursuing the faith and saint he believes the world betrayed. (More Fate Grand Order characters in profile)
AKA: Gilles, Holy Monster, Bluebeard, Demon Marshal
Class: Caster
Attribute: Man
Height: 196 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Origin: History
Region: France
Alignment: Chaotic-Evil
Gender: Male
Stats:
Strength: D
Endurance: E
Agility: D
Mana: C
Luck: E
NP: A+
Gilles de Rais was a French nobleman and military commander who fought beside Jeanne d’Arc during the Hundred Years’ War. He revered Jeanne as a holy savior and believed that her victories proved divine justice was present in the world. Her capture and execution shattered his faith, leaving him convinced that God had deliberately abandoned an innocent woman. Gilles withdrew from his former ideals and became involved with the sorcerer François Prelati, whose teachings led him toward forbidden magic and the atrocities that earned him the name Bluebeard.
As a Servant, Gilles embodies the period after Jeanne’s death when grief and religious hatred had overtaken him. During the Fourth Holy Grail War, he was summoned by the murderer Ryuunosuke Uryuu, whom he accepted as a kindred companion. Mistaking Saber for Jeanne, Gilles became obsessed with forcing her to acknowledge him and renounce the God he blamed for her suffering. He used Prelati’s Spellbook to summon monstrous creatures and eventually released a massive sea horror that threatened Fuyuki before Saber destroyed it with Excalibur. Gilles later appeared in the Orleans Singularity as an altered servant acting beside Jeanne d’Arc Alter, helping command an army of wyverns and Servants against France until Chaldea defeated him.
Appearance:
Gilles de Rais has pale skin and a tall, gaunt build with narrow shoulders and unusually long limbs. He has large pale gray eyes. His dark slate-gray hair is swept straight back from his forehead with long layered strands flowing behind his head, exposing pointed ears with elongated tips. His forearms and hands are unnaturally thin, with pronounced veins, elongated fingers, sharpened black nails, and several silver rings decorating his fingers.
He is wrapped in a voluminous dark navy robe that hangs almost to the ground in heavy folds. Large gray ornamental patterns resembling stylized crosses and thorned motifs decorate the front of the robe, while lighter gray trim outlines the edges of the layered fabric. The robe widens dramatically around his lower body, concealing nearly all of his legs beneath overlapping folds. Around his waist rests a broad ornamental band with a large oval crimson gemstone set into an intricate black setting, from which numerous thick purple tentacles emerge and coil around him. Several additional purple appendages curl outward from beneath the robe with smooth glossy surfaces and tapered pointed ends.
Encircling his neck is an enormous segmented collar composed of thick padded horn-like tentacle lobes. Each segment alternates between deep violet and vivid crimson bands before tapering into pointed tips that radiate outward in a circular arrangement around his shoulders and upper back. The collar extends well beyond the width of his body, creating a massive layered silhouette.
His sleeves hang loosely around his thin arms and end near exposed wrists, leaving his pale hands uncovered. He carries a large gold-bound grimoire with an embossed relief of a screaming face covering the front cover, framed by ornate raised borders and decorative corner fittings. Violet magical energy surrounds the book, while matching purple tendrils weave around his arms and robe. Near the lower hem of his robe, several striped crimson-and-violet horn-like tentacle protrusions curve outward in multiple directions, echoing the color pattern of the massive collar.
Personality:
Gilles de Rais is fanatical, theatrical, and consumed by religious despair. He once possessed strong faith, but Jeanne d’Arc’s execution convinced him that God either did not exist or deliberately permitted innocent suffering. He embraces blasphemy and atrocity as attempts to provoke a divine response, treating murder as both entertainment and a challenge directed toward Heaven. His manner can shift from formal admiration to uncontrolled excitement, especially when discussing Jeanne or witnessing suffering.
Jeanne d’Arc is the center of Gilles’s identity. He worships her as a saint and savior, while her death destroys his faith and drives his descent into sorcery. When encountering Jeanne again, he refuses to accept that she does not share his hatred of God and attempts to force her into the role he has created for her.
Ryuunosuke Uryuu is Gilles’s Master during the Fourth Holy Grail War. Gilles recognizes him as someone who shares his fascination with murder, and their relationship becomes unusually harmonious because neither imposes moral limits on the other. François Prelati introduces Gilles to forbidden magecraft and provides the spellbook that becomes his principal magical weapon. In Chaldea, Gilles can obey the Master as a Servant, but his violent impulses and fixation on Jeanne make him dangerous even when cooperative.
Noble Phantasm:
Prelati's Spellbook (Textbook of the Sunken Spiral Castle)
Gilles opens the forbidden grimoire and uses its pages as a gateway to an alien realm. Black water and immense tentacles erupt around his enemies as abyssal creatures are called through the book to crush and consume them.
Noble Phantasm Quote:
"Bwahahaha!"
Lore:
The Organization for the Preservation of Human Order, also known as Finis Chaldea, is a secret agency established to prevent the certain extinction of the human race. Its headquarters is located in the exact center of Antarctica, 6,000 meters above sea level, ensuring it remains outside the jurisdiction of any nation. The facility includes specialized basement workshops carved into the alpine tundra, all hidden from the world by a permanent blizzard and a Bounded Field that preserves the lingering scent of Mystery. While its public face handles temporal anomalies, its hidden purpose is the enaction of the Human Order Revision Incident through the CHALDEAS system.
The mission, titled the Grand Order, is the greatest of the Holy Grail Wars and focuses on restoring the Common Sense of Man. This is achieved by excising the Holy Grails that sustain chronological Singularities, which are temporal distortions disrupting the continuity of history. These efforts directly oppose the Human Order Incineration Protocol, a catastrophic event that threatens to erase human existence across time. Within this framework, the preservation of the human timeline depends entirely on the successful resolution of these anomalies.
Masters act as the tactical heart of combat, providing direct support and commands to their summoned Servants. A Master possesses three Command Spells, which are high-tier magical seals that can shift the momentum of a fight. These seals require 24 hours to recharge once used. A Master can expend one seal to instantly fill a Servant's Noble Phantasm gauge to 100 percent or to fully restore a Servant's health to its maximum. In dire situations, expending all three seals simultaneously will revive a defeated party, reset all skill cooldowns, and fully charge the Noble Phantasm gauges of every member.
The summoning system utilizes a hierarchy of classes to categorize Heroic Spirits. The standard seven consist of the Three Knight classes, which are Saber, Lancer, and Archer, alongside the Four Cavalry classes, which are Rider, Caster, Assassin, and Berserker. Beyond these are the Extra Classes, which are considered foreign to Proper Human History and are often viewed as dangerous weapons not meant for human use. Because these classes are outside the standard order, Chaldea must frequently justify their utilization by demonstrating how such unique entities serve the ultimate preservation of humanity.
