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Character name: Chiron (Archer of Black)
Age: Immortal, but looks like he’s in his early 30s
Canon: Fate/apocrypha
Canon point: Just before the first invasion of the Hanging Gardens/before poor Vlad III gets forced to be a vampire
History: Wiki link

Please note that the final light novel has not been translated into English. The anime exists and is completed.

Three key adjectives:

Calm

Wise

Direct

Influential Events:
A Life Well Lived
Prior to being a summonable spirit to the Holy Grail War, Chiron lived his life as an immortal centaur. He was the result of the union of Cronus (a titan, in the form of a horse) and the nymph Philyra. As he was the product of an unwanted union, Chiron was abandoned by his mother and instead raised by Apollo and Artemis as well) This set of circumstances is why Chiron's calm, cool, collected personality is such a contrast to the wild, rowdy centaurs found elsewhere in mythology. He was instructed early on in the arts of divination, music, medicine, archery, weaponless combat and so much more.

In turn, Chiron's mastery of these arts along with his patient personality saw him gain the status of a skilled instructor. The gods themselves recognized this, and his pupils were the heroes of Greek mythology. Heracles, Asclepius, Persus, and most well known: Achilles.

Most of these heroes have passing mention of the education they underwent on Chiron's home of Mount Pelion. Consistently in mythology is is described as the wisest of all centaurs. Sadly less elaborated on is the fact that Chiron had a family of his own. With his wife, the nymph Charicio, they had three daughters (Eippoe or sometimes Melanippe, Endeis, Ocyrhoe) and a son (Carystus.) Little is expounded upon any familial relations, but given that there is no particular family drama, it is a safe guess that home life was quite stable.

For better or worse, Chiron is best known for his death due to Hydra poison. The particulars vary with how he came to be struck with one of Heracles' poison dipped arrows, but the end result is always the same: Chirons' wisdom prevails and sees him make an impossible decision. Due to his immortality (he is the child of a Titan, after all), he cannot die from the Hydra's poison, only writhe in agony. None of his own mastery in medicine could help either. The wisest course of action was to give up that immortality, sparing him eternal agony but also ensuring his death.

But for Heroic Spirits, death is only the start.

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Heroic Spirits are summoned to Holy Grail Wars, tethered to a master who provides them magical energy, and in exchange, the Heroic Spirit acts as a knight and protector for their master. Victory in the Holy Grail War promises the chance to make one's deepest desire come true. For Chiron, he has a simple, selfish wish: to regain his immortality. Not because he wants to live forever, but because in giving it up, he said farewell to the only real gift and connection he had to his biological parents.

Chiron's master, Fiore, is a young wheelchair bound woman fighting as a part of her family's desire for the Holy Grail. Her own wish is equally selfish, as they later discuss (she would like to have use of her legs back without giving up being a mage ). At the start of their partnership, Chiron simply explains away why he has only two legs instead of four, all very earnestly, and is also tasked pushing his Master's wheelchair around. He doesn't mind it at all, as it is simply part and parcel of his duty as a Servant.

Among the ranks of his fellow faction members (in Fate/apocrypha there are 2 factions of 7 servants each for Plot), he gains a reputation of being clear and level headed. Vlad III, one of the summoned servants, begins to rely on him as the group's strategist. Astolfo, Rider, regards him highly as well both from a medicinal perspective bu also for Chiron's wisdom. It is why early on in the story, Astolfo goes to Chiron for help.

Diagnosis: totally not made to last a human lifetime
Being part of a team means being pulled into other people's shenanigans whether one likes it or not. In Chiron's case, this means having one of his fellow faction members, Astolfo, show up out of no where dragging around an escapee homunculus and asking Chiron to give said homunculus a check up.

In doing so, Chiron discovers that this homunculus has about three years to live, if that. It is a diagnosis that he makes with a certain earnestness bordering on blunt, and there's little he does to soften the blow. That discussion continues with Chiron asking Astolfo why he has assisted the escapee, only to be informed that it is said homunculus' wish. Chiron, in turn agrees with Astolfo that helping him is the morally correct thing to do, but noting that this young man is now Astolfo's responsibility too. Astolfo doesn't seem to mind, and it brings forward the fact that Chiron is viewed as an authority within his own faction about what is right and what is wise.

Only I can kick your ass
One of the most important parts of the Holy Grail War for Chiron is the fact that he has to fight against one of his students, Achilles. He realizes this from early reports, and immediately, Chiron accepts that only he is capable of taking down his former student. He muses on fate being a funny thing that it has pitted them against each other this way, but there is also a sense of responsibility too. While it is logical for him to say "Yes, I'm the only one with the skill to do this because I taught him" it is another for him to feel obligated. He could easily leave it to someone else, but he does not.

In their first major encounter, Achilles hesitates to attack Chiron, recognizing this for the fucked up horror that it is. Chiron chides him for such hesitation, noting that nothing can be done about it, so they may as well accept how things will be. It goes without saying that Achilles is no fan of this fact, but there is a tacit agreement between the two that they are the only person who can defeat the other.

It is a bittersweet thing, and Chiron is well aware of it.

In another world...
Chiron's experiences in agoge continue the characterization that he is given in Fate/apocrypha. Please see CRAU below for the major impact of the game's events on him.


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Previous game: Agoge
Important notes:

The most important thing that happened in Chiron in Agoge is that he determined the wish he had for the Holy Grail (to regain his immortality) was not a worthwhile wish. In Agoge he encountered another version of himself, one who didn’t die from a poisoned arrow, and saw all of the heartbreak and bullshit that his other self was forced to go through for millennia. In looking at that, and in talking with his fellow Servants in the game, this was the only logical conclusion that could be reached from where he sat. As a result, Chiron decided that whenever he returned to fight for the Holy Grail, he’d not worry about what he’d wish for in winning.

Chiron also greatly improved at fighting with a diverse array of people. While this began in Fate/apocrypha canon, thanks to being on a team of 7, Chiron’s canon point of entry for Agoge meant that he did not go through all of the team work there. Moreover, the variation of missions in Agoge (trench warfare, diplomacy, gladiator matches etc.) made sure he had a robust portfolio of cooperative skills. For a centaur who lived on a mountain most of his life and seems to have had limited interaction with such things, it’s a very big deal.

Having a larger cast gave Chiron the freedom to not only socialize with his fellow servants (Mordred, Achilles, and Siegfried from his canon were present) but to select his own Master as well. He avoided doing so for some time, as for a while there was little threat to his person. It was not until the group was dispatched to the trenches of WWI that Chiron had to quickly make a contract, or else fade out as Servants do when they are without a Master to supply magical energy and cannot maintain their own reserves. In the months prior, Chiron had begun to gain CR with Daenerys (Game of Thrones) which saw them exchange perspectives on a number of things, including leadership. When Chiron revealed to Dany what his circumstances were in the trenches, she simply offered to take on the duties of Master without batting an eye. Chiron agreed, and from there, the two became tied to each other. The original contract was meant to simply last through the WWI mission, but the two had real respect for each other, and so the contract remained in place until the end of the game.

In that Master-Servant relationship, the two continued to act as friends and confidants, and even saw their roles switched when faced with a world dominated by spiders and their gender politics. The equality between them spoke not only to Dany's own character, but to the kind of people Chiron prefers to be around - those with a strong sense of morals and the ability to act on them.

Please ask for more information if you require it! I am mostly interested in pursuing the CRAU of Agoge because of the first point, it was a huge character realization for him.

Chosen path: Ranger
3 Abilities:
Import of transformation runestone from previous game that allows Chiron to switch between centaur and human forms. If this is not allowed, then swap this out for create trap
Hunter’s mark
Alarm
Why this path?: In short, the ranger path hems very closely to Chiron’s canonical designation of the Archer class within canon. That, in turn, allows me to keep exploring his character in the direction he seems to be heading in.

As an additional note, I’m currently playing a ranger in my current tabletop, so some of it is ease of knowing the class info.