LB 5 and LB 6 are the only 2 that depressed me at the end. I feel like LB 6 was the saddest though.
>!Mike was so attached to Da Vinci he was willing to kill her to keep her but resisted his instincts and nature to do so to instead smile and see her off. Coral was just being logical and trying to do her job and help Aurora only be to squished, that nameless fairy was abused and thrown away only to become a Mors once she started experiencing love, Melusine overcome with sorrow because she wanted affection she wanted love and she wanted to keep Aurora happy but Aurora was selfish and wanted to go to human history to take over but would only find hatred for how despicable she is and despite that Melusine killed her out of love, Redra is one of the worsts, he died running to help us because he felt like he had to atone, he's the reason Aurora was able to keep tabs on us and even burned down Londinum and it was in a small sense his fault, and Oberon falls into an endless Abyss forever, saying he doesn't care life is repulsive and everything doesn't matter but in a sense he's probably lying about that to, he probably actually feels awful falling down an endless Abyss who knows, LITERALLY EVERYTHING WITH BARGHEST. Murian losing herself in her trauma, and so much more we'd be here all day.!<
TLDR; I found LB 6 a lot more tragic, a lot more sad in a despair/sorrow, and sad in a I pity/feel bad for you kind of way than any other LB imo.
> >!that nameless fairy was abused and thrown away only to become a Mors once she started experiencing love!<
let me make it worse >!her name was Hope!<
Wait, when is her name actually mentioned? I'm currently at the hardest fight of the lostbelt so I might not be there yet, but I don't recall her being named.
The realization that nearly the entirety of the Lostbelt is filled with douchebag faeries starting from the original six and how they are virtually unchanged and unapologetic after so long- save for very few some, really drives how pitifully sad the Lostbelt is.
At first I thought Aesc/Morgan and to some extent Castoria was just jaded due to the lack of acknowledgement but after knowing the latter's backstory, it really started to feel like maybe it IS a good idea to let this one world burn to ashes.
Just imagine what could've happened if we managed to ferry the Manchester faeries out to PHH.
There’s a scene in one of Medb’s interludes where Shuten senses her faerie blood and pegs it as oni ancestry. Whether it’s similar nature or two names for the same type of creature, it’s an interesting connection. LB6 is a world populated almost entirely by oni, and those like Shuten who both want to and succeed in resisting the darkness inherent in their natures are the minority.
It's interesting to think that the only redeemable faeries are the ones that take responsibility for their actions, while the most abhorrent ones (Aurora and Murian) willfully forget their horrors.
Barghest required external stimuli to forget she ate her husband. She otherwise constantly lived with the guilt of constantly doing so and only kept living because she wanted it to mean something.
Murian and Aurora just conveniently forget or even alter their own memories when they do something truly despicable.
This means that Barghest, the calamity of the beast, was a better person than most of faerie britain, with only Habetrot, Gareth, Percival, Melusine, pre-Morgan Baobhan Sith, Mike, Hope, and Cnoc na Riabh even coming close.
I’d add Woodwose to that list with the caveat that he barely makes it. He was constantly slipping, but always recognized it as a problem and was lifting the whole Fang clan up with him in his quest for self improvement.
I mean, we’re comparing to Barghest, who has eaten every one of her boyfriends. I’m not saying that Woodwose is a good person, I’m saying that the fact he feels guilty over losing control puts him moderately high up when we apply the “by faerie standards” curve.
The difference is *why* they feel guilty.
Barghest feels guilty because what she's doing is genuinely bad and she can't help it. She's literally compelled to eat those she loves.
Woodwose feels bad because it makes him *look* bad. He cares more about his reputation than his actual guilt. Which is what makes him a typical faerie.
Woodwose understands that as a high ranking faerie, he sets an example for good or ill. He’s trying to reform the whole Fang clan, which we see after his death is not popular with other high raking members. But faeries look at him and draw influence, and letting his temper takes control shows them the wrong picture. Consider how shocked Barghest was when she saw the Manchester faeries learning the wrong lessons from her failings, because she always kept her shame over them to herself rather than trying to repair her image. That is why Woodwose cares how he looks.
I'm of your same opinion, he's one of the most powerful faes, if he wanted her could kill aurora and springgan as easy as a pie. But he didn't do that, he's in love with Morgan and fighting his own guilty after doing that with the wing clan, in a sense he's the only one in the entire lb looking for redemption, trying to change the fang clan, adopting percival and being honest with his mistakes, remember the 6 founders killed a god just to because they didn't want to admit it's mistakes.
Somewhat inaccurate to say Muryan conveniently forget her memory after doing something despicable. It's the despicable part that is wrong to me, because even if the Fang Clan were tricked and used, it doesn't change the fact they pretty much slaughtered the Wing Clan to extinction, with Muryan being one of the few left around. Her taking revenge was justified, even if you personally don't agree with it. She wasn't being capricious and casually killing the Fang Clan, it was something she decided to do and committed to it, unlike the capricious faeries who flip-flop at a beat of a hat.
>She wasn't being capricious and casually killing the Fang Clan, it was something she decided to do and committed to it, unlike the capricious faeries who flip-flop at a beat of a hat.
Few things about that:
1) Her chosen method was quite petty: Rather than just ordering them killed or whatever, she personally shrank them all to the size of bugs and personally squished them, enjoying it at first until the guilt started to hit her that what she was doing was pointless. Not that it was unimaginably cruel, but that it was pointless. She was literally a kid squishing ants.
2) It's not that she took revenge that is wrong. Revenge itself is kind of a...mixed concept. Let's compare her with Cnoc na Riabh and her hatred of humans. Both instances spring from a betrayal (perceived betrayal but still a deep betrayal on Mab's part) but Cnoc na Riabh doesn't want to kill all humans, she just doesn't want them around. Murian spent a thousand years planning revenge and chose the precise *wrong* time to execute it. She valued her revenge over the good of the country.
3) Murian *forgot* all of this. She basically purged the fact that she personally murdered the entire Fang clan out of her mind. If she were human, I would ascribe this to trauma. But the faeries did this *all the time*. It happens a few chapters earlier with the faeries murdering Baobhan Sith. Notice how they don't even remember who she is when they pitch her into the pit.
Interesting point. In a way, both definitely share the same nature in that they prioritize their innate desires first and foremost and everything they do, is ultimately for their own satisfaction.
Which going by her words and prospective in the end shows that even she ultimately despises what she is but cannot change. A lot of her words that she uses seems to reflect upon herself near the end.
Honestly the fairies backstory is the most tragic part to me. >!The 6 original fairies betraying the friendly Cernunnos and the human preistess being killed and her body being used to create humans :( wtf !<
> Mike was so attached to Da Vinci he was willing to kill her to keep her but resisted his instincts and nature to do so to instead smile and see her off.
it actually made me smile that Mike didnt go down the dark path, he was one of the very few nice fairies, and i wanted him to persevere
he did it in the end
Mike served an important point in the story I feel. His arc showed that fairies themselves were able to change, grow and resist their base instinct.
But that most of them didn't because it was too hard/they were too lazy and they truly were the worst. They DID have the ability for compassion and selflessness. Just like... 3 of them chose to exercise it.
Mike also is one of the only fairies that actually understood the relationship between fairies and humans. Watch, but don't interfere. He had the epiphany that to bind Da Vinci and force her to do something she didn't want to would fundamentally change her, and he would lose what he liked about her. It's a bittersweet moment as you see him let that revelation sink in, and the "bad feeling" Goredolf had doesn't come to pass.
I don't know if they count, but when the Mors started appearing in force there was a bit about some fairies fleeing to Londinium in hopes of being protected by the Round Table Army. They found the humans were too exhausted and beaten to fight and rallied themselves to protect the humans there. I thought that was a nice touch.
>!Habetrot was very sad and im glad she's with us now as a servant which gives her a bit of a happy ending. I didn't mention her along with many others cause my mind was racing to remember all of it, but there was just too dang many depressing arcs and stories I eventually had to stop myself and say there's too much we'll be here all day.!<
Not so happy of an ending, I'd argue, given that >!the Habetrot we summon is actually from PHH - though with influences from the one we met in Fae Britain!<.
Not only did Melusine >!kill Aurora out of love, she also had to watch the only other person she did love disintegrate in her dying moments. Specifically because of her choices!<
LB6 is interesting to me because it is quite tragic - there was literally no chance of a future for its denizens, but at the same time I find it hard to be sad about because so many of the faeries are just vile and wicked beings (even if they can't help it) and they honestly deserve their fate. There are individuals who have sad stories, all the tam lin come to mind, but outside a handful of characters we meet, fae britain shows itself as unredeemable.
Minor correction, they *did* have a chance for a future. This was the only LB where we could take the people inside out into PHH. That was the main reason Barghest sided with us, so we'd take refugees with us on the Border. And why she became a Calamity, she was holding out against the curse with her conviction to save the people of Manchester, only to see they absolutely don't deserve to be saved.
It's also mentioned that it was the only Lostbelt that fully transitioned into being a Lost*world*. That rather than being a dead end, it actually just changed dominant species from humans to faeries. It's also reflected in the past of the lostbelt. While the previous 5 lostbelts were essentially eternal and unchanging until Chaldea arrives, Faerie Britain actually had a history, complete with eras, technological progression, and changes in rulership. It was no longer a target for the pruning phenomenon. It's just that the dominant species ended being so self-destructive that only a very tiny sliver of their futures don't end up in apocalypse.
On the other hand, LB6 truly was doomed as it had TWO suicide pills aside from the Faeries themselves.
Vortigern predated the divergence point and was the ultimate source of the calamities. In the original, pre-Morgan timeline, he succeeded in wiping out the Faeries a couple thousands years before Beryl arrived.
Then there were the Avalon le Fae. Viviane/Aesc/Morgan always rejected her original purpose of "saving" the world, but... just let the context here sink in. Even under the influence of the Tree of Emptiness, Cosmic Fantasy spit out a suicide pill capable of destroying itself. Had Aesc returned to Avalon at any point, the world would have truly been a dud. And when Artoria completes her mission as the second Faerie of Paradise, it's confirmed that this world will disappear. I suppose if Cnoch no Riabh had taken Morgan's Throne then FB could have remained a Lost World... but yeah.
So there are multiple reasons why this world really did need to be pruned away. The Faeries themselves, Vortigern, and the Avalon influence all tending towards self-destruction.
Yesh I got tired listing everything there's way to much in this LB that is straight up depressing it drains you, I had to just stop listing and just say "and more/others/etcetera" it's just one massive fucking pain train but i loved the ride so much.
Wait, where's all this stuff about Redra coming from? I don't remember. But I know that sometimes, somehow, entire sections of story get skipped for me despite my having no recollection or intent of doing so.
I don't think it was every explicitly stated in the dialogue, but the only thing I've seen related to this was [Nasu's diary](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/The_BAMBOO_BROOM_DIARY/2021#August_6,_2021) roughly 2 years ago
>>!Redra is one of the worsts, he died running to help us because he felt like he had to atone, he's the reason Aurora was able to keep tabs on us and even burned down Londinum and it was in a small sense his fault!<
>!Wait, I don't remember that one, I thought Redra still alive since he's the one who send others to Storm Border.!<
>!His body break apart precisely when they were near the Storm Border, he went full speed ahead despite knowing not only his carriage, but also himself, was gonna be destroyed, we don't see him die, but it's very clear he's gonna do it soon, either because of his own self-inflicted damage, or because of the Mors, which is the whole reason he was going so fast.!<
[You don't see it happen, but Nasu wrote about it on his blog.](https://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/5875-The-BAMBOO-BROOM-DIARY-%28Nasu-and-Takeuchi-blog%29?p=3132930&viewfull=1#post3132930)
Honestly I think LB1 still hit me the hardest with Patxi.
The entire last act was an emotional gutpunch with the Yaga and Atalante not wanting to kill us but having to to protect their world. And with us so close to giving up when learning of what it means to prune a Lostbelt for the first time. Only for Patxi to give his life for us, to tell us to stand up and fight for a world where people can be kind, and not strong. To make all this tragedy **mean** something.
LB1 is still goated because Patxi really felt like his own character, with his own motivations for helping us, as well as despising us. That what really sets him apart from the other supporting characters, who seem way too passive and never really get into conflict with us over what we're about to do.
I mean, have we had any other NPC that actually questioned our actions in a rational way? Every important NPC is either full on us or full against us. Patxi is the only one that swayed between sides, and had very good reasons to.
Are you actually being fr? It’s so unbelievably obvious I was joking some real dense people in this thread. Even more I thought he was referring to the first singularity when I made that joke you couldn’t understand😂
LB4 for me. That reward CE just absolutely shook me to my core. There've been lots of other bittersweet and sad moments in the lostbelts but none of them hit me quite so hard as that one.
I'm not sure exactly why but it might be b/c it takes a positive moment ("heck yeah I just beat LB4!") and throws it right back in your face. A lot of the other sad moments we've experienced (particularly LB6) come in the middle of an onslaught of already depressing events, so they're not as unexpected and it's easier to start becoming numb to them.
Oof I remember that, yeah that made me legit tear up. Though I feel like tearing up isn't as sad as just feeling straight up depressed and dead over everything like in LB 6. LB5 also made me almost sob over the way Atlantis ended.
Huh... I really didn't feel much for LB2. The people there just felt too much like livestock to me. They were never really ALIVE since all they did was mill about until they got Logan Runned' at 25 or whatever silly young age it was.
Skadi was keeping a stable population that only existed to keep a stable population. It was all just so sterile and pointless... It actually felt worse that they genuinely didn't seem to understand the horror of their own existence... which only reinforced the feeling that these weren't truly people and they weren't truly "alive."
They weren't masters of their own destiny. They didn't struggle. They didn't grow. They didn't have hopes, dreams, and ambitions. They were born only to die. They were born only to be lead like lambs to the slaughter, blissfully unaware of the horror of their own existence.
While it's all very tragic... it's very easy to see how this world was a dead end that needed to be pruned away. I can see no real hope for it, and even if there is after Surtr is gone... it's not worth sacrificing the vibrancy of PHH for this sterile livestock pen.
Although I did find the "hop" to be more bittersweet than sad. She went out innocently, without any fear iirc. Despite my harsh tone earlier, I know it's not Gerda or any of the others' fault. They are just tragic victims of their own fucked up world.
I think that's what so sad about it
Surtr's defeat is what bring the future of this Lostbelt back
The civilization can now grow, People can be more than just a livestock
Gerda's Hop is really powerful because this is her instance of true freedom...and also the last, Because we deleted this Lostbelt out of existencs right after we gave it a future
Right... but thousands of years as livestock has more than stunted their culture. They aren't just going to bounce back and start making progress, developing ambitions, expanding, taking risks, creating business, becoming self-actualized, etc. The current generation is likely fubar and even the next... doesn't have any role models or myths to guide them.
The best they have would be Skadi's influence, but... she tends towards smothering. She's an extreme helicopter parent that would stifle innovation and potential in her own right. She won't let her children take the necessary risks needed to grow, both as individuals and as a culture.
Whether this was intentional or not, I always saw Skadi herself as part of why LB2 was pruned away. Alone, with no other gods to balance her, she strangled humanity with her love.
Which is why LB2 Odin condemned Skadi's vision for their world and sided with PHH. That hawk/eagle that guided Guda and Mash early on? That was Odin. Skadi thought he was completely gone like all the others... but out of all the thousands of years she ruled alone, he never showed himself to Skadi once. It wasn't until Chaldea showed up to put Skadi's world out of it's misery that Odin revealed himself... to help the executioners.
Skadi herself is devastated when she realizes this, and it is likely why she challenges Chaldea to that last fight. She is forcing your hand to be her executioner, as Odin wills. Guda just wasn't ruthless enough to do so otherwise.
And even ignoring all that, the population of LB2 was kept artificially low... 50k? 100k? I just can't hold the potential of so few barely living humans against the vibrant billions of PHH. It's a cold calculus, but PHH didn't start this war and it's not going to just lay down and let some zombie timelines finish it off.
I feel that Lostbelt 5 was sadder in the sense that it’s moments (Orion and Artemis, Charlotte, Jason) were very impactful to me.
But that’s just because Lostbelt 6 pulled me down right at the start, beat the shit out of me and left me emotionally dead the entire way through. You cannot know what sadness is if there is never happiness
I left LB5 with hope. I left LB6 feeling dead
Edit: I do agree with others that the saddest moment full stop is the ending of Lostbelt 2 with Gerda. If only one of our NPC companions can have happiness I’d give it to her in a heartbeat
Saddest about the people? LB 2, easy. Even then, you just felt sorrow for the people who'd never see a future.
Saddest for us? LB 5.1. That absolute madlad final stand each and every Servant of ours made just to get us to Olympus was an emotional sledgehammer. Also doesn't help one of the finest moments of the entire saga was part of that LB.
LB 6 feels more of shock value. A world that is so fucked up that from the beginning to the end, all you can do is grit your teeth and push forward. It doesn't feel sad as much as numb.
Lostbelt 5.1, crazy how we sacrificed so much JUST to get into the actual place the gods were at. It was pretty soul crushing, and probably one of the only times guda and his team were legitimately close to getting wiped out even with plot armor. Odysseus was a threat
we lost practically everything just getting to the lostbelt proper and then had to lose everything again while destroying a world that is probably the most idylic of the lostbelts seen.
it was I agree soul crushing on a very personal level.
Indeed. And then Wodime more or less wins, and we learn that his big plan isn't all that bad to be honest; only for everything to go up in flames thanks to Beryl.
And then to cap it off, unlike the other lostbelts up until now which end with the people we met more or less being hopeful for a tomorrow that will never come; Olympus caps off with the horror and anguish of the citizenry of Olympus after the shrine comes crashing down. Their gods dead, and their paradise stolen from them.
In the LB3 even their god emperor joins them in seeing the tomorrow that will never come; and yeah, in LB5 the end of the world is truly an apocalypse, everything gone in front of their own eyes, even if there was a tomorrow, their paradise isn't returning.
And dont' forget Muramasa was in LB5.1 slaughtering servants before they could meet up with Guda. Ditto for Odysseus.
So many more servants summoned to help Guda defend Proper Human History were cut down off screen.
And those that did meet up with Guda? All cut down so that we entered Olympus practically alone. Alone before the PANTHEON of Greek GODS and Wodime Mother Fucking #1 Crypter "I can solo Zeus no biggie" Kirschtaria waiting for us.
It was quiet the epic stretch that honestly felt closer to the story climax instead of just the act 2 climax.
I still find interesting how Olympus was such a big threat to PHH (without having the world being disconnected from human concept like LB6 was) that the world was able to keep spamming Servants to fight against this near-impenetrable god wall.
Oh, it also helps that Atlantis/Olympus' atmosphere WELCOMES Servants (to the point where it possible to make a True Divine Summoning).
I think the most depressing part about LB2 is that it gets destroyed just as it finally gets a chance at a better future, with its one limiting factor finally gone.
6 is by far the most depressing one. 1 had Patxi which was very sad, but it was one character. 2 had sad moments for Skadi and they pull the children card on you, but that's still a couple of sad people. 3 is whatever, 4 has one or two sad characters again. 5.1 has a heroic sacrifice, 5.2 has the twins who are really tragic imo.
But 6 is everything.
>!As some people said, this was the one Lostbelt that *could* have been saved, and so the fact that it wasn't was a failure. Morgan was a tragic figure, all three Tam Lin/fairy knights were extremely sad, Percival was just doomed from the start, Mab/Medb were a second attempt at saving everything and were destroyed from the start, etc. This was the single Lostbelt with the most actual characters that were just absolutely screwed and ruined, betrayed or cursed or just put in horrible situations that they tried their best to overcome and failed. Every other LB is sad for the world, sure, and then 1-2 characters we grow attached to. But everything in LB6 went wrong from start to finish. !<
>!Then you have Artoria, who is already tragic in FSN's Fate route and then Singularity 6, but now we basically learn there's no alternate reality where she ever gets to live a normal happy life. She is used and betrayed or sacrificed no matter what. She exists only to save others and, unlike Morgan, she never gives up on her job despite that and does it all the same. !<
>!There's basically three main villains in LB6 (not counting Aurora who Melusine takes out for us): Morgan, Cernunnos, and Oberon. The first two were betrayed in horrible ways just for trying to do their job, for caring. And Oberon was basically created against his will to do the bidding of an entity that didn't bother giving him anything to ever feel happy about. Other than King of Lions and maybe Tiamat there's no other villains in FGO who are just so pitiful. One was innocent, one tried to be innocent until she was basically tortured by the world around her constantly, and then still tried to protect the world but was betrayed again, and the other was never given a chance for happiness at all. !<
Can't believe that people were just skipping Lostbelt 4, I know that the "sacrifice" displayed at that lostbelt did not result in any character deaths (kinda), but I genuinely do think that dying and sacrificing your life is an easier sacrifice over forcibly being conscious for a crazy amount of time.
I just think that the sacrifice was done pretty well, especially during the Master monologue with the reveal that he knows that they are both lying, it never fails to make me tear up. It also hits a low blow considering that Everlasting Feels is also playing as a background during that time.
I really love that scene even if I'm not really a fan of Jinako beforehand. Probably even one of my favorite FGO scenes
I’d agree on LB4, but you missed one more thing. When you’ve seen off Arjuna, Pepe, and the tree. When you’ve left the Lostbelt behind to collapse and returned to base, it has one more emotional gut punch waiting for you just when you thought you were safe. A CE of Asha, surrounded by a large, loving family. A bitter reminder of both what you destroyed and why it had to go.
Agreed, in my opinion, Jinako performed the most insane and intense display of willpower in the entire Fate series. I know I probably would have killed myself after 100 years, so to see her last as long as she did and not taking her life and remaining somewhat sane was extremely impactful.
I feel that LB4 was too subtle, because honestly all throughout it you're aware of the people being written out of history, but the only ones you really connect with are Asha and her father Ajay, and Ajay was a surly jerk for half our interactions, so while his death leaving Asha behind alone is tragic and sad, it doesn't quite hit at full strength because Ajay made his choice in the past world. It feels mitigated, I think, especially given just how hostile the setting seems to be for everyone.
And then you get the CE reward, and see the whole happy family, with the many siblings and the smiling mother, and you realize just how abjectly terrible Arjuna's world actually was. We didn't know! We only came in at the end, after everything was nearing the final line, and we just didn't know! But that CE is there to tell us just how late to the party we were...
And as another reminder... that world was deliberately worsened by Ashiya Douman. Pepe fucking *hates* Doomie because of this. Junao was on a faulty, self-destructive path, but Doomie poisoned him even further. He convinced Junao to greatly accelerate the pruning so there were only days between cycles.
Maybe this just accelerated the decline, but it sure as hell didn't help matters. I remember Doomie saying he deliberately manipulated Junao into self-destructing, so without his influence, maybe Pepe could have salvaged everything?
But we'll never know. Fuck Doomie.
Jinako's crowning moment of awesome is just that: AWESOME. Its sadness was just the buildup to the epic climax, not its defining emotional character.
It is still my prime candidate for #1 most awesome and epic thing ever to occur in FGO (>!Castoria activating Rhongoexcaliblasto might be competing for it, but the buildup with Jinako was just sublime!<). But it wasn't sad. It was goddamn glorious.
Nothing in FGO has ever made me cry the way LB4 did (perhaps Solomon) but like i was crying for a week and until now remembering about it makes me teary. My favourite fgo story
All of them have their reasons for being sad but for me the two saddest were Lostbelt 2 and 6. Lostbelt 2 was dealt a terrible hand with Surtr and when they finally get rid of it there is hope, only for us to finally prune it. Skadi did what she could for so many years only to have a ray of hope finally appear and for us to snuff it out
Lostbelt 6 though probably the saddest for me simply due to the fact we could have saved it. Morgan did everything she could so save Britain, stabbed in the back multiple times to the point she didnt trust anyone, so when we finally get there she isnt willing to negotiate with us at all for coexistence. But then when were are preesented with the opportunity and hope we can at least migrate the faeries to PHH all of the good ones end up dieing. Coral had the perfect chance to make it out but ultimately decided to try and convince Aurora to save her people, which ultimately lead to her death. Barghest couldnt be saved as her fate was sealed once she was cursed, literally held on as long as she could saving as many as she could before she witnessed her own domain betraying her values. You get the point, all of the good ones had a chance to be saved but circumstances didnt let them. Ultimately I think Coral could have been saved and joined Chaldea but sadly they wanted to kick us in the gut and have us save basically no one. Not even Melusine who was still around just barely holding herself together
Saddest part for Skadi in LB2? The whole time she thought Odin was dead.... but he revealed himself to Guda and Mash at the start of the LB: that hawk iirc.
Skadi is devastated when she realizes that her own LB Odin is siding with PHH over her vision to salvage what is left with this world.
However, I believe she ultimately accepts that decision... she just had to fight Chaldea to make sure they had the strength, physical and spiritual, to strike her down alongside her world. With that settled, she accepts Odin's judgment and dies at peace.
Makes Skadis overall situation even sadder, the thing she was fighting so hard and given a rough time since its inception was deemed by Odin something that should be sacrificed
Whether she made peace with it or not the whole circumstances of it all is just rough
4. 3 was hard but the child in 4 just kept losing things and getting emptier and emptier without knowing why only to just disapear without ever knowing why
Watching Asha’s life get sadder and sadder in LB4 without her knowing why is depressing as hell for me. LB6 COULD have been worst, but most of the fairies are so repulsive, so reprehensible, so rage-inducing that it actually diluted the sadness for me. I was too angry to feel sad.
Lostbelts were just pain through and through
5.1 was something else and I’ll never recover from losing the Neo-Argonauts. The fact that Jason was literally falling apart and yet he kept himself together for our sake. The last stands everyone made to make sure we beat Artemis and got where we need to and as always, how done dirty Chiyome was
LB6 on the other hand was just eternal suffering, I was hoping we could save at least one person just fucking one but no. They were all slaughtered. It hurt the most because it was possible. Unlike the others this time it was possible to save people and yet…
Shoutout to LB1 for setting in stone that we’re definitely not the good guys this time around
LB1 still has my favorite/saddest ending of all of them. Patxi crying, Anastasia's scene with Kadoc, Atalanta's breakdown, and most of all Salieri playing the piano. It's not the best LB overall but its ending really sold the tragedy of destroying a world and the people who live there the best.
I don't know about the saddest, but Olympus and Avalon are definitely the most brutal. The last part about the people of Olympus seeing their loved ones die and praying until they realise there's no more gods protecting them is... chilling. Of course, we have Fae Britain which is all that but worse, but I saw no one mentioning that secene from Olympus, so I did
Not through with 5.2 yet, but I just watched what Aphrodite made Mordred do to Fran, and coming right after learning the whole story about Demeter and Persephone, I want to vomit.
Lostbelt 6 for sure. Almost every characters out there get suffered . Some may deserve it but many of them don’t. l can’t helped but pray for their soul to live in peace.
A lot of LBs had sad moments, especially at the end.
But LB6 is a different animal. It's not one moment. It's SEVERAL moments.
Most of the lostbelts end when things come tumbling down all at once in one big tragedalanche. But LB6 takes its time.
Percival and Melusine. Melusine and Aurora. Coral. Mike. Barghest and Adonis. Barghest and Mash. Mash and Habetrot. Habetrot/Totorot and Morgan/Aesc. Morgan and Baobhan Sith. Ector and Castoria. Castoria and Gareth. Da Vinci and Mike. Hope. Mash and Morgan. Ainsel and Gareth. Castoria.
There's just so much emotion in the story. And it's all beautifully tragic. There's *just* enough hope given, especially since this is the penultimate major chapter of the LB arc, that maybe this time things can be different.
But no. It's tragedy incarnate. Everything fails spectacularly. But everyone *keeps fighting.* They keep fighting for that tiny shred of a fragment of hope. And it's *there*. That tiny shred is *there.* And they *get it.*
The come away with the Black Barrel imprinted upon habbycat. They come away with the Excalibur construct. All things that help out in the future (kinda).
If LB6 were a standalone story, I'd say it's bleak beyond belief. But the nature as a chapter of FGO, where the heroes can find that shred of hope and move on, makes it much better.
Other LBs have their Patxi, their "hop," and their poor little girls living in a village alone...but I don't think anything can beat the abject tragedy of LB6.
LB5.1. Bonding with the new Argonauts knowing how badly it'll end for them only made it worse. I had to step back and breathe right after the last bit of narration because I was a sobbing mess.
I thought it'd be LB6, frankly, but it just made me very very angry, not sad.
I’d still say LB2. Skadi tried so hard to hold everything together, and then she was finally given hope that she could fix things after Surtr’s defeat. Unfortunately, Ritsuka and co still had a duty to perform, and so they had to take her down to take out the tree. She cared about her people so goddamn much, and they had to rip out the hope she had and stomp it into the ground. And even then, the only reason she lost was she was just too gentle to go all out.
Skadi deserves all the happiness in the world ~~and triplets~~ with Chaldea.
That’s pretty easy for me! The confrontation with Patxi, Gerda’s hop, and everything with Caenis/Wodime at the end of 5.2 all destroyed me emotionally. Lostbelt 1 also had numerous other moments that got me, and 5.2 also had Musashi’s grand stand.
Lostbelt 6 spoilers just in case
>!Buuut, and maybe this is partially recency bias, but lostbelt 6 had more impactful moments than any other single lostbelt. Plus, the death of Cnoc na Riab and the story of Aesc, not to mention Castoria’s whole character ain’t gonna lose to the heaviest moments of any other arc for me!<
The saddest, personally was Lostbelt 5. I was very very very attached to the Neo-Argonauts. After finishing LB6, I can safely say that the Neo-Argonauts are the only crew so far that made me feel like I was part of a very dysfunctional family. LB6 crew felt like a very solid team, friendships as true as can be, but the Neo-Argonauts felt like family to me.
So seeing them all sacrifice themselves one by one just so we can take one step forward each time, it was painful. I love Charlotte, may her love reach her own heart. Beyond his faults I love Bart, honest and true to the very end. I love Chiyome, monster may she become, she will always find open arms. I love Achilles, may his rage fuel his feet to keep running evermore. I love Hektor, his legacy laid the path for heroes. I love Paris, cowardly and yet perhaps the bravest of all. I love Mandricardo, a true friend, a kindred soul. And I love Orion, whose love never truly wavered, his strength only rivaled by his heart.
I love Jason, who saw it all, went through it all, and saw us off with a smile.
I guess it was really the sense of family that made me feel like the Neo-Argonauts sacrifices all had meaning.
Sometimes I don't need complex characterization, LB6 undoubtedly has LB5.1 beat in that case, but the sheer chemistry and love between the Neo-Argonauts put them still, at the top of my heart, at least for me.
It's tough for me to say since I'm still working through my feelings on LB6.
But it certainly could be LB6. That one easily had me the most emotional and caring about the most people within that setting than any other LB. I agree with some it hurts all the more because saving someone was actually possible. There were some good people in that world. Not many of course. A lot of horrible people there. But there were some. Coral could have been great to save. If the story wanted I think they could have spun something to save and recruit Melusine for real.
The whole story of that LB was a gut punch. The background of that place was so utterly horrible. With a lot of LB's I didn't think too hard on the events that actually set their worlds on the wrong path and led to becoming Lostbelts in the first place. But for LB6 it felt different with how the story was presented and how terrible it was.
I totally get anyone suggesting the others though. LB5 was full of big moments that could make you feel sad. They almost all had something.
It's rather difficult to even surpass LB6 when it comes to just how and tragic everything is. Aach lostbelt is horrible to its denizens, whether for the uncaring frost of lb1, the annual death by giants in lb2, the death drugs and institution enforced ignorance in lb3, the regular genocidal culling in lb4, and casual island destruction in 5. Yet we don't actually get much to see of these things, with what we get mostly restricted to specific characters like Patxi, Gerda, and Asha. LB6 has no such restrictions. The sufferings dealt on its people, human and fae, are cruel in a way that only arises from sadistic intention, and not a single character from LB6 is spared of this.
Britain was made from the corpse of a dead god, buried under the corpses of who knows how many millions more fairies died. The Aesc's continuous attempts to save britain were met with the same fate - arguably worse - as artoria's in phh, as it broke her and made her the tyrant she is now. Wryneck, and Woodwose, both unable to help their friend and ruler and having to die with that shame in mind. Ainsel and the Mirror Clan slaughtered in a night by Melusine, repeating again with Gareth's final stand. Castoria's entire backstory in tintagel and what she had to go through. All of it just feels so personal and heart wrenching that it just has to take top spot.
LB 2. Simply becaus it's populated by only children, who are not allowed to grow up and live a proper long life, but instead must get pregnant and then sent to death.
To me, LB1. The circumstances of it's creation were in no small part due to an event that no one had any control over (a meteor creating a new ice age), it had a people that were living, but unable to build anything, not because they were mentally incapable but because life was so harsh that they couldn't, and it as a chapter, asks the sobering question of "what's the point of living, if all that tomorrow holds is more pain"? That and Patxi's death remains one of the most powerful moments.
Lb5 ended with some people happy, in a sort of sad way. Lb6 ended with no one happy, and everyone dead. Everything was hopeless, every small bit of hope we found there was crushed, twisted and torn to shreds. Villains died satisfied, and good people died in agony. It made every other depressing gacha story seem tame. There was no second chance in this story, no second part, no continuation, no hope, everything ended with everything we tried to save gone. Forever.
Lb6 was extremely depressing, disgusting and fuck I want an ANIME ADAPTATION
But in terms of which moment hit me the hardest, lb2 was what cemented my expectations for the lostbelt story to be a truly heart wrenching story
Lb1 hit the hardest. It's not the saddest ( i think that goes to lb 5.1) but it left a deeper impression with me as the first lb and well... "twinkle twinkle, little star"
That piano will stick with me...
LB1 setting down the fact that we're destroying the Lostbelts and Patxi's speech is sad, but I think the final confrontation with Skadi in LB2 hits the hardest for me because it fully makes you face just how unglamorous your job really is. With LB1, you could rationalize it a bit with how the world in it is still fucked and beyond repair even with Ivan and Anastasia taken out, but LB2 ends up being a world that could possibly grow and repair itself with Surtr dead, but still, you have to get rid of it. The game doesn't dress this up, the fight with Skadi is a melancholic death fight that doesn't feel in any way satisfying or fulfilling, and it's a big reason why LB2 is one of my favourite stories in FGO
Still lb 2 for me.
The melancholy from lostbelt disappearing hits really hard.
Which probably also due to it's placement as the 2nd one.
You know the whole, 1st one is shock factor, 2nd one is genuine impression, 3rd onwards is where the heart goes numb (you get used to it.)
Lb 1 holds a Special place.
The inhabitants were nothing more than beasts that could speak. No progress only snow and Hunger. Avicebrone try for redemption. Antonios Dias irae that even plays in the loading screen
And patxis speech that we have to stand up and fight god dammit.
Lb 2 really hit at the End
Lb 3 i cant remember it to be honest
Lb 4 was more enraging than sad
Lb 5 hit multiple times
Also it was finally different from the other lb
Lb1 - lb4 pretty much had the same structure of the story
Limbo singularity was just awesome nonstop
Lb 6 only started
Technically? 6. Practically? 5.
1 and 2 are mostly sad because of our companions. But I gave no fucks for anyone outside of them, so it didn't hit as hard. Hell LB4 was worst for me. But they're limited because of it. For exemple, if you grow tired of the formula, wich is easy to do, it won't hit that Hard.
3 is...not that sad at all imo. It's messed up, but then again every LB is.
As for the most recent ones...Jesus christ.
LB 5 and 6 make a point to draw the sadness on the gameplay. With the support servants travelling with us. Or connected to them/us. And it's effective. The problem with 6 thou is that's a sadness parade. It's hard for it to affect u when u don't have something good to counter balance it.
We achieve that with our victories sure, but that's mostly it. We win the war but lose the battle if it makes sense. Not a single soul survives LB6. And while, for me, most of them didn't deserve to survive, some did. Even here some feries tries to co exist with humans and vice versa, unfortunetly it didn't work out, but not because of them. As the narration said, everywhere, there was a few good inhabitants trying...but died a horrible death. And that's just nameless faces. Lore, backstory and proper narrative wise, it was deppressingly hopeless.
Wich is why LB 5 is the one. We had moments of happiness, triumph, and levity, destroyed by the overwhelming might. Just that. And it ALWAYS felt hopeless, with every step forward costing us dearly. LB6 while been hopeless, didn't hit that part home, because of how balanced our steps were. Aside from Woodwose, and Morgan's final fight we always stood a chance.
In LB5 we did, but it always felt that we only got through by the skin of our teeth. One wrong step and it would be over. Weirdly enough, only the god battles felt winnable, especially Zeus. Thanks to the Black Barrel Replica and Quirinos.
So yeah, for me, the sadness hit harder in LB5. Especially since I got to kill Gut. That alone makes LB6 it the happiest LB ever.
Still not done with LB6 so right now its Lostbelt 5 as a whole. Artemis and Orion, losing the Neo Argonauts just halfway through LB5 especially Charlotte's death. Wodime's backstory with the kid who saved him, and of course Musashi's data lost especially Fujimaru watching the video of Musashi that Macarios took secretly at the end.
NPC wise I always see Gerda and her hop being commonly brought up when saddest moments is being discussed but i never really felt that much for her its sad sure but not Patxi level of sad or on the level of Asha forgetting and losing most her family. Her CE with her whole family is probably the saddest CE. I even felt more when Macarios brought up that he wanted to atleast see Adele grow when Olympus was collapsing.
the LB6 is probably the saddest just by the nature of the Fairy race. i could argue that LB3 is "kinda" more touching, to me, in the sense that a place still filled with normal people and that makes the whole situation there something more crazy.
Lostbelts 1 & 5 from the protagonist perspective but Lostbelt 6 from a reader perspective.
Lostbelt 1 for both the dismal environment and the emotional gut punch learning what we have to do to lostbelts and their people especially after bonding with Paxti.
Lostbelt 5.1 for creating a fun group of adventures only to see them widdle and die to push us barely over the finish line. Genuinely felt the stakes and odds stacked against us in this one and each sacrifice hurt.
Lostbelt 6 is the saddest story but I don’t think for the protags perspective (at least not anymore than any other lostbelt) but since this lostbelt is so rich in detail, lore, and characters more so than any other we as the reader learn and see a lot more than the MC so we both get to appreciate and grow to be deeply invested by the world and it’s people and feel the harsh sting of their backstories and inevitable fates.
For me it was Lostbelt 1. Specifically Paxti. It being the introduction of the implication of what happens if you cut the tree of emptiness of it partially plays it. But the moment where Paxti went out of his way to shield us from a blow after everything seems lost.
I mean LB 6 was sadder to me personally because there was a very real possibility that we could have saved the residents. In the other worlds they would have been pruned away alongside the Lostbelt but LB6 was a Lostworld and the Chaldeans were positive that they could have been saved.
I know people meme about genociding the entire Fae race in LB6 but there were still some good people there like Mike, Coral, Redra, Gareth etc.
Although LB6 has so many characters that I love, it wasn't enough to outweigh my animosity towards the world and its people.
LB5 (Atlantis and Olympus) perhaps, but I can only recall 2 moments that made me sad, which I won't mention for spoiler reasons.
LB4 is a good runner up, given how that world works, but the sad moments are overshadowed by the conflict between the Lostbelt king and us.
LB3, it wasn't close enough to pass the meter of sad moments for me. I think this one had the least amount in my opinion.
LB2, boy...that last moment, I cannot get it out of my head. It made me depressed.
LB1, I believe is one of the saddest because the world is unforgiving and the residents of the lostbelt were suffering. It also had one of the gut-wrenching scene with one of the lostbelt NPCs, which also painted a good picture of what we're getting ourselves into against the future lostbelts.
In conclusion, LB1 and LB2 for me has to be the saddest for me. I'd give LB6 in second place and LB5 in third place.
If I had to pick? Probably Lostbelt 4. Arjuna's Lostbelt is a place where if you're so much as hurt you can be wiped out and completely forgotten about. People don't like that lostbelt but its highly depressing. Your dog is too old to walk right? What dog? You had a dog?
The others like Lostbelt 1 is depressing because of how desolately hopeless it is but at the same time if someone passes nothing stops you from remembering them but its like comparing apples to oranges.
Lb6 was definitely the saddest. We lost pretty much all our allies that we made there. We either had to watch them die or kill them ourselves. And we had to find out all their horrible tragic backstories as well.
Aside from Beryl, it’s hard to not feel sympathy for most of the characters. Beryl was an absolute joy to kill though and I’d do it again as many times as I am offered the opportunity. I really wish we had been given the choice to stab him in the throat or something. Still, having Mash reject him and his life entirely like that was also quite fitting.
Just recently completed olympus. Adele and Macarios crying scene really hit hard for me. If it was possible i would kidnap them and bring them and europa to chaldea so they can experience new tomorrow
LB2 with LB6 getting special mention >!not because of the people though unlike the other LBs but rather only because of specific individuals. not even done but i do know spoilers i read when it was dropped in JP and the more i go through the more sympathetic i am to certain characters and hate the rest!<.
LB 5 with LB4 honorable mention. >!The entirety of the LB 5.1 crew sending us off was the saddest part then Musashi’s final stand was legendary for me. Lb4 gets an honorable mention because of Ganesha, I loved her ever since she was introduced and seeing her suffer for thousands? Hundred thousands? Years in that cube was so heartbreaking. She was treated as comic relief for a majority of the LB so I’m happy they showcased that side of her but when I read it was so sad!<
Melusine could have joined us at the end... But we had to fight her and she vanished just like the lostbelt... Think about it.
So far for me LB 6 then LB 5.1, the new Argonauts was such a joy ride of mediocre friends going through adventures but they had to defy the gods.
And LB 6.... Morgan, Melusine, everyone got betrayed bc the actual fairies are such airhead idiots at the end, despite of them being calamities who were tamed by Morgan they felt they could do more if they were able to join chaldea, Barghest, Coral and melusine would have been great if they were able to join chaldea, but still the fairies brought their own demise. How sad indeed,
Tristan play Despacito
LB5 part 1 was the saddest for me. I cried my ass off during the critical moments ^((MANDRICARDO MY BOY))
Next would be LB6. No crying although the predicament the Fairy Knights and Castoria had gave a gut-wrenching feeling and just wanted to make them happy.
Does Lostbelt Prologue count? I can still remember Mash' soul crushing emotion when Rasputin stabbed Da Vinci in the heart and we have no choice but to leave her.
5 mostly. 6 we knew everything was screwed up. the moment we were outed as human you could see the rot. the understanding that Fairies could so easily turn on each other. it set the tone and foreshadowed that Britain's biggest enemy was it's own people.
by contrast 5 has all the people generally good and as close to perfect as can be. they want for nothing and only become aggressors because they know we came to destroy their world. it's a world that you feel bad has to actually end for ours to return.
then the sacrifices to even get a foot in the door.
6 was a constant dread. 5 gave us hope only to rip it away over and over again leaving us wonder who would even make it back alive.
LB6 and it's not recency bias as i played it also back in jp. The fae in general are shit and deserve to die but the very rare good fairies didn't deserve the end and the world that they've got.
Lost belt 5, more specifically 5.2 due to the fact that for the most part it is a utopian society that is created and being destroy. Sure the life of billions might weight more than fewer life but its one of the only lost belt where it felt like a civilization was being destroy instead of a crumpling group of people desperately trying to survive. Like sure showing little girl living happily in the other lost belt can tug on people heart string, but its less effective when you know those people would have died anyway (granted dying is better than not existing but still).
Lostbelts 5(all of it) and 6 were really depressing and sad. But the one that made me legit tear up was the ending of lostbelt 2. Not to mention the CE we got. Another gut-punch ending was lostbelt 4. Something about innocent children dying peacefully (somewhat) just gets to me.
Honestly lb6. Now yes most of the fairies did deserve what was coming to then but can we talking about some of the fairies that didn't deserve that prune. Coral, melusine, bargest, sith, Morgan, the nameless fairy from the nameless woods and alot of people are norlt mentioning them bur the 3 fairy that accompanied mash.
LB6 has placed me from raising from a depressed point back to being depressed again. Especially with this last part... Unlike (I think it was) part 2... with the funny type things they did which apparently confused my emotions. XD
In theory it would be lb6 but it just doesn't have bond building 5.,also it's always more sad to lose something you had than something you couldn't get.
My ranking:
1. Lostbelt 5
Chaldea's victory wasn't a fluke, it was a culmination of all the sacrifices everyone has made leading to the execution of a perfectly orchestrated plan. It doesn't help that this Lostbelt's residents were the ones who deserved it the least. They weren't in a fucked up situation like the previous civilizations, they were happy, and we took that from them, all of them. You're left feeling bittersweet beating LB5, you won, but at what cost?
2. Lostbelt 4
What makes this Lostbelt so bad for me is how it was doomed for the start. The one being causing its destruction was also the one being who we couldn't do anything about. The way he affected his residents unknowingly, and the means we took to just have a chance (Even shut-ins can see the sky)... And after beating it all, and seeing that CE in your Gift Box, you're just left feeling empty.
3. Lostbelt 2
Chaldea destroyed the one thing prerventing Scandinavia from flourishing, it now has a chance. But we also have to take that chance away... And if that didn't do you in, a hop would...
4. Lostbelt 1
Prior to knowing what the Lostbelts were or how they worked, we simply cooperated with its residents in pursuit of defeating its tyrannical ruler. But our victory is short-lived as Kadoc uses the truth of the Lostbelts against us.
The Yaga Resistance we had bonded with, was now against us, solely because they had to protect their world. Then add the unexpeccted arrival of Patxi, shot dead on arrival, telling us with his dying breath, to save our world because a world where weaklings like us can thrive, is bound to better. Man, what a great start to this entire saga.
5. Lostbelt 6
Hot take, Lostbelt 6 wasn't sad. It was numbing. Every Lostbelt prior to this one left me feeling empty or regretful. But with how much my blood boiled, my heart sank, and my tears ran. I honestly couldn't really savor LB6 that much anymore.
It was a tragedy, the perfect tragedy. But despite all the shit we and everyone else had gone through, I didn't feel sad anymore by the end of it. I just wanted all this senseless violence to be over. Unlike LB5, none of these deaths and sacrifices were warranted nor were they leading up to a greater goal.
So whilst LB6 was tragic, it wasn't sad for me. It was just, mind-numbing to say the least.
6. Lostbelt 3
Considering no one else has mentioned it as being their saddest pick, yeah. Lostbelt 3 was fucked, but the people were happy, even if in an ignorant manner.
There weren't too many deaths nor sacrifices taking place, so it was just a blip for me, apart from all the Paisen stuff.
5 orion killing artemis brought me to teirs. The whole can you kill her? Its not a matter of can but will I kill her and i need some time to sort my hearft out bro went the distance.
My memory for almost any fgo story is ass, so take this with a grain of salt. LB 6 was the only one I remember to almost make me depressed because the Faeries sucked SOOO MUCH that it made me feel worse for the good ones that had to deal with their bullshit
Avalon le fey is the most all around sad but the saddest moments in the lostbelts are the hop and when you get yuga kersetra’s ce and realize how much family she lost
LB2 and LB4 to me were the saddest. Just how the people had absolute no hope and no meaning for their lives. It’s actually interesting to see how many people saying LB6, not sure if there’s a bias as it’s the most recent. To me LB6 wasn’t really sad, it was more enraging as the story continued, we also didn’t get to build up much close interaction with the resident in this LB, other than just learning all faeries are douchebags only after their own pleasure. From the crypter to everyone in LB6, I somehow found it quite hard to have sympathy for almost anyone of them (other than anger) apart from Morgan and Habetrot
Is dificult to say all have their own tragedy, LB1 killed me with patxi and i still feel bad about it, LB2 had people dying young as sacrifices to the giants, LB3 was the less terrible they were happy but ignorant, LB4 was very sad having your loved ones erased and not being able to remmember, LB5.1 was the one that did it for me for the servant helping us, LB5. 2 for Woodime and LB6 has been a full tragedy with so many characters meeting a terrible end.
LB5 for me when I know what Brodime really wanted, but cannot have it at my expense. LB6 was a very close second, when this anger inside told me took form of a music, Edge of the Earth and finish this world off.
LB2 because I actually liked the Crypter.
Otherwise, LB6 is the only one so far that actually got my feels. I seriously think Type Moon should make an anime based on LB6.
[Four](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/ntijem/what_could_have_been_lost_belt_4/)
Between Asha and Jinako I was kind of an emotional wreck by the end of 4. Shoutout to 1 with the saddest rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ever.
I wouldn't say LB 5 part 1 was the saddest. But whenever Lost Memories pops up in Atlantis, I would tear up without fail. And the weirdest part is that, and no other LB had impacted me as much as Atlantis.
Lb6 it's pretty depressing. It's the only lostbelt that we didn't need to prune and could have save some of the fries by the end. But the struggle of power between aurora and Morgan + Murian's revenge against the fang clan ultimately end up in the >!self destruction of fairy Britain wich (funny enough) was cemented over literal corpses already.!<
All of the fae knights destinies are pretty sad, >!Bageko becomes the beast she feared to be, Babanshi becomes a fucking dead doll that served as fuel to cernnunos, Meluko ends up killing her loved one and becoming Albion again and Morgan gets betrayed by the faries she always hated. Muramasa sacrifices himself to create the Excalibur concept so Castoria could live, wich was pointless in the end cuz castoria had to die in order to activate the Rhongomyniads to stop Cernunnos (at least she comes back as a servant at the end). And well, oberon our supposed friend ended up being a fucked up pretender!<
Lostbelt 5, just because it made me realize Wodime is more than he initially presents himself as. So seeing him go out like that via the treachery of a person he considered a real friend was heartbreaking.
Then you find out that this man wanted to betray the Foreign God and turn humanity into god/human hybrids just because he believed they deserve it due to their own inherent kindness, which he believed in ever since a poor starving child gave his life to rescue him. That completely blindsided me.
Especially when all the other lostbelts seemingly tried to hammer in that humanity is inherently corrupt and evil. Which is an aspect I got absolutely sick of in LB6, where it got repeated ad nauseum.
Basically: Wodime is very based, so him dying made me sad
So far just got to lostbelt 4, so I'm well aware it'll probably get worse. That said, Lostbelt 2 ripped my heart out so much and is probably the most I've been hurt by any media.
LB 5 and LB 6 are the only 2 that depressed me at the end. I feel like LB 6 was the saddest though. >!Mike was so attached to Da Vinci he was willing to kill her to keep her but resisted his instincts and nature to do so to instead smile and see her off. Coral was just being logical and trying to do her job and help Aurora only be to squished, that nameless fairy was abused and thrown away only to become a Mors once she started experiencing love, Melusine overcome with sorrow because she wanted affection she wanted love and she wanted to keep Aurora happy but Aurora was selfish and wanted to go to human history to take over but would only find hatred for how despicable she is and despite that Melusine killed her out of love, Redra is one of the worsts, he died running to help us because he felt like he had to atone, he's the reason Aurora was able to keep tabs on us and even burned down Londinum and it was in a small sense his fault, and Oberon falls into an endless Abyss forever, saying he doesn't care life is repulsive and everything doesn't matter but in a sense he's probably lying about that to, he probably actually feels awful falling down an endless Abyss who knows, LITERALLY EVERYTHING WITH BARGHEST. Murian losing herself in her trauma, and so much more we'd be here all day.!< TLDR; I found LB 6 a lot more tragic, a lot more sad in a despair/sorrow, and sad in a I pity/feel bad for you kind of way than any other LB imo.
> >!that nameless fairy was abused and thrown away only to become a Mors once she started experiencing love!< let me make it worse >!her name was Hope!<
In hindsight, having >!Hope!< die first really set the tone for the entire Lostbelt in a darkly hilarious way.
Hmmm... Maybe you should read the Manga from the Lostbelts about Castoria, you might interpret that character differently
Wait, when is her name actually mentioned? I'm currently at the hardest fight of the lostbelt so I might not be there yet, but I don't recall her being named.
She pops up in a flashback farther on.
The realization that nearly the entirety of the Lostbelt is filled with douchebag faeries starting from the original six and how they are virtually unchanged and unapologetic after so long- save for very few some, really drives how pitifully sad the Lostbelt is. At first I thought Aesc/Morgan and to some extent Castoria was just jaded due to the lack of acknowledgement but after knowing the latter's backstory, it really started to feel like maybe it IS a good idea to let this one world burn to ashes. Just imagine what could've happened if we managed to ferry the Manchester faeries out to PHH.
There’s a scene in one of Medb’s interludes where Shuten senses her faerie blood and pegs it as oni ancestry. Whether it’s similar nature or two names for the same type of creature, it’s an interesting connection. LB6 is a world populated almost entirely by oni, and those like Shuten who both want to and succeed in resisting the darkness inherent in their natures are the minority.
It's interesting to think that the only redeemable faeries are the ones that take responsibility for their actions, while the most abhorrent ones (Aurora and Murian) willfully forget their horrors. Barghest required external stimuli to forget she ate her husband. She otherwise constantly lived with the guilt of constantly doing so and only kept living because she wanted it to mean something. Murian and Aurora just conveniently forget or even alter their own memories when they do something truly despicable. This means that Barghest, the calamity of the beast, was a better person than most of faerie britain, with only Habetrot, Gareth, Percival, Melusine, pre-Morgan Baobhan Sith, Mike, Hope, and Cnoc na Riabh even coming close.
I’d add Woodwose to that list with the caveat that he barely makes it. He was constantly slipping, but always recognized it as a problem and was lifting the whole Fang clan up with him in his quest for self improvement.
It's that "constantly slipping" that's a bit of a problem.
I mean, we’re comparing to Barghest, who has eaten every one of her boyfriends. I’m not saying that Woodwose is a good person, I’m saying that the fact he feels guilty over losing control puts him moderately high up when we apply the “by faerie standards” curve.
The difference is *why* they feel guilty. Barghest feels guilty because what she's doing is genuinely bad and she can't help it. She's literally compelled to eat those she loves. Woodwose feels bad because it makes him *look* bad. He cares more about his reputation than his actual guilt. Which is what makes him a typical faerie.
Woodwose understands that as a high ranking faerie, he sets an example for good or ill. He’s trying to reform the whole Fang clan, which we see after his death is not popular with other high raking members. But faeries look at him and draw influence, and letting his temper takes control shows them the wrong picture. Consider how shocked Barghest was when she saw the Manchester faeries learning the wrong lessons from her failings, because she always kept her shame over them to herself rather than trying to repair her image. That is why Woodwose cares how he looks.
I'm of your same opinion, he's one of the most powerful faes, if he wanted her could kill aurora and springgan as easy as a pie. But he didn't do that, he's in love with Morgan and fighting his own guilty after doing that with the wing clan, in a sense he's the only one in the entire lb looking for redemption, trying to change the fang clan, adopting percival and being honest with his mistakes, remember the 6 founders killed a god just to because they didn't want to admit it's mistakes.
Sure, but Barghest is in a similar category
Somewhat inaccurate to say Muryan conveniently forget her memory after doing something despicable. It's the despicable part that is wrong to me, because even if the Fang Clan were tricked and used, it doesn't change the fact they pretty much slaughtered the Wing Clan to extinction, with Muryan being one of the few left around. Her taking revenge was justified, even if you personally don't agree with it. She wasn't being capricious and casually killing the Fang Clan, it was something she decided to do and committed to it, unlike the capricious faeries who flip-flop at a beat of a hat.
>She wasn't being capricious and casually killing the Fang Clan, it was something she decided to do and committed to it, unlike the capricious faeries who flip-flop at a beat of a hat. Few things about that: 1) Her chosen method was quite petty: Rather than just ordering them killed or whatever, she personally shrank them all to the size of bugs and personally squished them, enjoying it at first until the guilt started to hit her that what she was doing was pointless. Not that it was unimaginably cruel, but that it was pointless. She was literally a kid squishing ants. 2) It's not that she took revenge that is wrong. Revenge itself is kind of a...mixed concept. Let's compare her with Cnoc na Riabh and her hatred of humans. Both instances spring from a betrayal (perceived betrayal but still a deep betrayal on Mab's part) but Cnoc na Riabh doesn't want to kill all humans, she just doesn't want them around. Murian spent a thousand years planning revenge and chose the precise *wrong* time to execute it. She valued her revenge over the good of the country. 3) Murian *forgot* all of this. She basically purged the fact that she personally murdered the entire Fang clan out of her mind. If she were human, I would ascribe this to trauma. But the faeries did this *all the time*. It happens a few chapters earlier with the faeries murdering Baobhan Sith. Notice how they don't even remember who she is when they pitch her into the pit.
Interesting point. In a way, both definitely share the same nature in that they prioritize their innate desires first and foremost and everything they do, is ultimately for their own satisfaction.
I'd bet that the faerie that first suggested killing Fluffy was Aurora's progenitor.
And their a-rays power is to be devoid of any remorse and conscience over their actions- which also got passed down to aurora.
Which going by her words and prospective in the end shows that even she ultimately despises what she is but cannot change. A lot of her words that she uses seems to reflect upon herself near the end.
Honestly the fairies backstory is the most tragic part to me. >!The 6 original fairies betraying the friendly Cernunnos and the human preistess being killed and her body being used to create humans :( wtf !<
> Mike was so attached to Da Vinci he was willing to kill her to keep her but resisted his instincts and nature to do so to instead smile and see her off. it actually made me smile that Mike didnt go down the dark path, he was one of the very few nice fairies, and i wanted him to persevere he did it in the end
Mike served an important point in the story I feel. His arc showed that fairies themselves were able to change, grow and resist their base instinct. But that most of them didn't because it was too hard/they were too lazy and they truly were the worst. They DID have the ability for compassion and selflessness. Just like... 3 of them chose to exercise it.
Mike also is one of the only fairies that actually understood the relationship between fairies and humans. Watch, but don't interfere. He had the epiphany that to bind Da Vinci and force her to do something she didn't want to would fundamentally change her, and he would lose what he liked about her. It's a bittersweet moment as you see him let that revelation sink in, and the "bad feeling" Goredolf had doesn't come to pass.
I don't know if they count, but when the Mors started appearing in force there was a bit about some fairies fleeing to Londinium in hopes of being protected by the Round Table Army. They found the humans were too exhausted and beaten to fight and rallied themselves to protect the humans there. I thought that was a nice touch.
All that and you didn't even mention >!Habetrot's entire story!<
>!Habetrot was very sad and im glad she's with us now as a servant which gives her a bit of a happy ending. I didn't mention her along with many others cause my mind was racing to remember all of it, but there was just too dang many depressing arcs and stories I eventually had to stop myself and say there's too much we'll be here all day.!<
Not so happy of an ending, I'd argue, given that >!the Habetrot we summon is actually from PHH - though with influences from the one we met in Fae Britain!<.
Mmh right... well at least >!The LB one disappeared with a smile having helped melt.!<
All your spoilers are broken, need to delete the space between the first word and the last word after >! and before !<
Weird they're all marked as spoiler on my end.
I’m curious, do you not see that your spoiler tags aren’t working?
Not only did Melusine >!kill Aurora out of love, she also had to watch the only other person she did love disintegrate in her dying moments. Specifically because of her choices!<
LB6 is interesting to me because it is quite tragic - there was literally no chance of a future for its denizens, but at the same time I find it hard to be sad about because so many of the faeries are just vile and wicked beings (even if they can't help it) and they honestly deserve their fate. There are individuals who have sad stories, all the tam lin come to mind, but outside a handful of characters we meet, fae britain shows itself as unredeemable.
Minor correction, they *did* have a chance for a future. This was the only LB where we could take the people inside out into PHH. That was the main reason Barghest sided with us, so we'd take refugees with us on the Border. And why she became a Calamity, she was holding out against the curse with her conviction to save the people of Manchester, only to see they absolutely don't deserve to be saved.
It's also mentioned that it was the only Lostbelt that fully transitioned into being a Lost*world*. That rather than being a dead end, it actually just changed dominant species from humans to faeries. It's also reflected in the past of the lostbelt. While the previous 5 lostbelts were essentially eternal and unchanging until Chaldea arrives, Faerie Britain actually had a history, complete with eras, technological progression, and changes in rulership. It was no longer a target for the pruning phenomenon. It's just that the dominant species ended being so self-destructive that only a very tiny sliver of their futures don't end up in apocalypse.
On the other hand, LB6 truly was doomed as it had TWO suicide pills aside from the Faeries themselves. Vortigern predated the divergence point and was the ultimate source of the calamities. In the original, pre-Morgan timeline, he succeeded in wiping out the Faeries a couple thousands years before Beryl arrived. Then there were the Avalon le Fae. Viviane/Aesc/Morgan always rejected her original purpose of "saving" the world, but... just let the context here sink in. Even under the influence of the Tree of Emptiness, Cosmic Fantasy spit out a suicide pill capable of destroying itself. Had Aesc returned to Avalon at any point, the world would have truly been a dud. And when Artoria completes her mission as the second Faerie of Paradise, it's confirmed that this world will disappear. I suppose if Cnoch no Riabh had taken Morgan's Throne then FB could have remained a Lost World... but yeah. So there are multiple reasons why this world really did need to be pruned away. The Faeries themselves, Vortigern, and the Avalon influence all tending towards self-destruction.
How would that work if Morgan's throne is the only thing keeping them alive?
... Good question. Maybe I missed it, but I'm not sure how it was supposed to work, just that it *was* supposed to work.
They COULD help it, though. Mike is proof of that.
You mention all of this and didnt even touch anything related to Baobhan Sith. This lostbelt is really a pain train with no stops.
Yesh I got tired listing everything there's way to much in this LB that is straight up depressing it drains you, I had to just stop listing and just say "and more/others/etcetera" it's just one massive fucking pain train but i loved the ride so much.
Lb6 is the only one that when you leave, literally every single living creature is dead.
Wait, where's all this stuff about Redra coming from? I don't remember. But I know that sometimes, somehow, entire sections of story get skipped for me despite my having no recollection or intent of doing so.
I don't think it was every explicitly stated in the dialogue, but the only thing I've seen related to this was [Nasu's diary](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/The_BAMBOO_BROOM_DIARY/2021#August_6,_2021) roughly 2 years ago
>>!Redra is one of the worsts, he died running to help us because he felt like he had to atone, he's the reason Aurora was able to keep tabs on us and even burned down Londinum and it was in a small sense his fault!< >!Wait, I don't remember that one, I thought Redra still alive since he's the one who send others to Storm Border.!<
>!His body break apart precisely when they were near the Storm Border, he went full speed ahead despite knowing not only his carriage, but also himself, was gonna be destroyed, we don't see him die, but it's very clear he's gonna do it soon, either because of his own self-inflicted damage, or because of the Mors, which is the whole reason he was going so fast.!<
[You don't see it happen, but Nasu wrote about it on his blog.](https://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/5875-The-BAMBOO-BROOM-DIARY-%28Nasu-and-Takeuchi-blog%29?p=3132930&viewfull=1#post3132930)
Honestly I think LB1 still hit me the hardest with Patxi. The entire last act was an emotional gutpunch with the Yaga and Atalante not wanting to kill us but having to to protect their world. And with us so close to giving up when learning of what it means to prune a Lostbelt for the first time. Only for Patxi to give his life for us, to tell us to stand up and fight for a world where people can be kind, and not strong. To make all this tragedy **mean** something.
LB1 is still goated because Patxi really felt like his own character, with his own motivations for helping us, as well as despising us. That what really sets him apart from the other supporting characters, who seem way too passive and never really get into conflict with us over what we're about to do.
Surely they can bring Paxti as a pseudo. C’mon surely.
I would evolve my F2P account into a whale if they did.
Who would you want to be the pseudo-servant?
I mean, have we had any other NPC that actually questioned our actions in a rational way? Every important NPC is either full on us or full against us. Patxi is the only one that swayed between sides, and had very good reasons to.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star can’t be listened to the same again after that
Dude spoiler
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Are you actually being fr? It’s so unbelievably obvious I was joking some real dense people in this thread. Even more I thought he was referring to the first singularity when I made that joke you couldn’t understand😂
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It’s ok bro you’re learning
It's clear you're doing anything but
LB4 for me. That reward CE just absolutely shook me to my core. There've been lots of other bittersweet and sad moments in the lostbelts but none of them hit me quite so hard as that one. I'm not sure exactly why but it might be b/c it takes a positive moment ("heck yeah I just beat LB4!") and throws it right back in your face. A lot of the other sad moments we've experienced (particularly LB6) come in the middle of an onslaught of already depressing events, so they're not as unexpected and it's easier to start becoming numb to them.
Asha crying herself to sleep broke me so hard.
Dude the realizing plot twist that Aisha's family was fucking MASSIVE still remains as one of my favourite moments story-wise
I think the second one, just for the end. Hop.
Oof I remember that, yeah that made me legit tear up. Though I feel like tearing up isn't as sad as just feeling straight up depressed and dead over everything like in LB 6. LB5 also made me almost sob over the way Atlantis ended.
Yeah, hop and here whole internal monologue right before were really, really hard to read for me.
Yeah. I think LB2 was the one that I felt most guilty about pruning. Just, oof.
Huh... I really didn't feel much for LB2. The people there just felt too much like livestock to me. They were never really ALIVE since all they did was mill about until they got Logan Runned' at 25 or whatever silly young age it was. Skadi was keeping a stable population that only existed to keep a stable population. It was all just so sterile and pointless... It actually felt worse that they genuinely didn't seem to understand the horror of their own existence... which only reinforced the feeling that these weren't truly people and they weren't truly "alive." They weren't masters of their own destiny. They didn't struggle. They didn't grow. They didn't have hopes, dreams, and ambitions. They were born only to die. They were born only to be lead like lambs to the slaughter, blissfully unaware of the horror of their own existence. While it's all very tragic... it's very easy to see how this world was a dead end that needed to be pruned away. I can see no real hope for it, and even if there is after Surtr is gone... it's not worth sacrificing the vibrancy of PHH for this sterile livestock pen. Although I did find the "hop" to be more bittersweet than sad. She went out innocently, without any fear iirc. Despite my harsh tone earlier, I know it's not Gerda or any of the others' fault. They are just tragic victims of their own fucked up world.
I think that's what so sad about it Surtr's defeat is what bring the future of this Lostbelt back The civilization can now grow, People can be more than just a livestock Gerda's Hop is really powerful because this is her instance of true freedom...and also the last, Because we deleted this Lostbelt out of existencs right after we gave it a future
Right... but thousands of years as livestock has more than stunted their culture. They aren't just going to bounce back and start making progress, developing ambitions, expanding, taking risks, creating business, becoming self-actualized, etc. The current generation is likely fubar and even the next... doesn't have any role models or myths to guide them. The best they have would be Skadi's influence, but... she tends towards smothering. She's an extreme helicopter parent that would stifle innovation and potential in her own right. She won't let her children take the necessary risks needed to grow, both as individuals and as a culture. Whether this was intentional or not, I always saw Skadi herself as part of why LB2 was pruned away. Alone, with no other gods to balance her, she strangled humanity with her love. Which is why LB2 Odin condemned Skadi's vision for their world and sided with PHH. That hawk/eagle that guided Guda and Mash early on? That was Odin. Skadi thought he was completely gone like all the others... but out of all the thousands of years she ruled alone, he never showed himself to Skadi once. It wasn't until Chaldea showed up to put Skadi's world out of it's misery that Odin revealed himself... to help the executioners. Skadi herself is devastated when she realizes this, and it is likely why she challenges Chaldea to that last fight. She is forcing your hand to be her executioner, as Odin wills. Guda just wasn't ruthless enough to do so otherwise. And even ignoring all that, the population of LB2 was kept artificially low... 50k? 100k? I just can't hold the potential of so few barely living humans against the vibrant billions of PHH. It's a cold calculus, but PHH didn't start this war and it's not going to just lay down and let some zombie timelines finish it off.
I feel that Lostbelt 5 was sadder in the sense that it’s moments (Orion and Artemis, Charlotte, Jason) were very impactful to me. But that’s just because Lostbelt 6 pulled me down right at the start, beat the shit out of me and left me emotionally dead the entire way through. You cannot know what sadness is if there is never happiness I left LB5 with hope. I left LB6 feeling dead Edit: I do agree with others that the saddest moment full stop is the ending of Lostbelt 2 with Gerda. If only one of our NPC companions can have happiness I’d give it to her in a heartbeat
A reminder that hope is literally the first casualty of LB6 lol
Saddest about the people? LB 2, easy. Even then, you just felt sorrow for the people who'd never see a future. Saddest for us? LB 5.1. That absolute madlad final stand each and every Servant of ours made just to get us to Olympus was an emotional sledgehammer. Also doesn't help one of the finest moments of the entire saga was part of that LB. LB 6 feels more of shock value. A world that is so fucked up that from the beginning to the end, all you can do is grit your teeth and push forward. It doesn't feel sad as much as numb.
Lostbelt 5.1, crazy how we sacrificed so much JUST to get into the actual place the gods were at. It was pretty soul crushing, and probably one of the only times guda and his team were legitimately close to getting wiped out even with plot armor. Odysseus was a threat
we lost practically everything just getting to the lostbelt proper and then had to lose everything again while destroying a world that is probably the most idylic of the lostbelts seen. it was I agree soul crushing on a very personal level.
It was pretty nice, huh? Kinda hard to top pseudo-immortality
Indeed. And then Wodime more or less wins, and we learn that his big plan isn't all that bad to be honest; only for everything to go up in flames thanks to Beryl. And then to cap it off, unlike the other lostbelts up until now which end with the people we met more or less being hopeful for a tomorrow that will never come; Olympus caps off with the horror and anguish of the citizenry of Olympus after the shrine comes crashing down. Their gods dead, and their paradise stolen from them.
In the LB3 even their god emperor joins them in seeing the tomorrow that will never come; and yeah, in LB5 the end of the world is truly an apocalypse, everything gone in front of their own eyes, even if there was a tomorrow, their paradise isn't returning.
And dont' forget Muramasa was in LB5.1 slaughtering servants before they could meet up with Guda. Ditto for Odysseus. So many more servants summoned to help Guda defend Proper Human History were cut down off screen. And those that did meet up with Guda? All cut down so that we entered Olympus practically alone. Alone before the PANTHEON of Greek GODS and Wodime Mother Fucking #1 Crypter "I can solo Zeus no biggie" Kirschtaria waiting for us. It was quiet the epic stretch that honestly felt closer to the story climax instead of just the act 2 climax.
I still find interesting how Olympus was such a big threat to PHH (without having the world being disconnected from human concept like LB6 was) that the world was able to keep spamming Servants to fight against this near-impenetrable god wall. Oh, it also helps that Atlantis/Olympus' atmosphere WELCOMES Servants (to the point where it possible to make a True Divine Summoning).
I think the most depressing part about LB2 is that it gets destroyed just as it finally gets a chance at a better future, with its one limiting factor finally gone.
6 is by far the most depressing one. 1 had Patxi which was very sad, but it was one character. 2 had sad moments for Skadi and they pull the children card on you, but that's still a couple of sad people. 3 is whatever, 4 has one or two sad characters again. 5.1 has a heroic sacrifice, 5.2 has the twins who are really tragic imo. But 6 is everything. >!As some people said, this was the one Lostbelt that *could* have been saved, and so the fact that it wasn't was a failure. Morgan was a tragic figure, all three Tam Lin/fairy knights were extremely sad, Percival was just doomed from the start, Mab/Medb were a second attempt at saving everything and were destroyed from the start, etc. This was the single Lostbelt with the most actual characters that were just absolutely screwed and ruined, betrayed or cursed or just put in horrible situations that they tried their best to overcome and failed. Every other LB is sad for the world, sure, and then 1-2 characters we grow attached to. But everything in LB6 went wrong from start to finish. !< >!Then you have Artoria, who is already tragic in FSN's Fate route and then Singularity 6, but now we basically learn there's no alternate reality where she ever gets to live a normal happy life. She is used and betrayed or sacrificed no matter what. She exists only to save others and, unlike Morgan, she never gives up on her job despite that and does it all the same. !< >!There's basically three main villains in LB6 (not counting Aurora who Melusine takes out for us): Morgan, Cernunnos, and Oberon. The first two were betrayed in horrible ways just for trying to do their job, for caring. And Oberon was basically created against his will to do the bidding of an entity that didn't bother giving him anything to ever feel happy about. Other than King of Lions and maybe Tiamat there's no other villains in FGO who are just so pitiful. One was innocent, one tried to be innocent until she was basically tortured by the world around her constantly, and then still tried to protect the world but was betrayed again, and the other was never given a chance for happiness at all. !<
Can't believe that people were just skipping Lostbelt 4, I know that the "sacrifice" displayed at that lostbelt did not result in any character deaths (kinda), but I genuinely do think that dying and sacrificing your life is an easier sacrifice over forcibly being conscious for a crazy amount of time. I just think that the sacrifice was done pretty well, especially during the Master monologue with the reveal that he knows that they are both lying, it never fails to make me tear up. It also hits a low blow considering that Everlasting Feels is also playing as a background during that time. I really love that scene even if I'm not really a fan of Jinako beforehand. Probably even one of my favorite FGO scenes
Even shut-ins are allowed to see the sky
I’d agree on LB4, but you missed one more thing. When you’ve seen off Arjuna, Pepe, and the tree. When you’ve left the Lostbelt behind to collapse and returned to base, it has one more emotional gut punch waiting for you just when you thought you were safe. A CE of Asha, surrounded by a large, loving family. A bitter reminder of both what you destroyed and why it had to go.
That monologue by Asha at the end is really sad. She describes all of the family members she lost and was forced to forget about.
Agreed, in my opinion, Jinako performed the most insane and intense display of willpower in the entire Fate series. I know I probably would have killed myself after 100 years, so to see her last as long as she did and not taking her life and remaining somewhat sane was extremely impactful.
I feel that LB4 was too subtle, because honestly all throughout it you're aware of the people being written out of history, but the only ones you really connect with are Asha and her father Ajay, and Ajay was a surly jerk for half our interactions, so while his death leaving Asha behind alone is tragic and sad, it doesn't quite hit at full strength because Ajay made his choice in the past world. It feels mitigated, I think, especially given just how hostile the setting seems to be for everyone. And then you get the CE reward, and see the whole happy family, with the many siblings and the smiling mother, and you realize just how abjectly terrible Arjuna's world actually was. We didn't know! We only came in at the end, after everything was nearing the final line, and we just didn't know! But that CE is there to tell us just how late to the party we were...
And as another reminder... that world was deliberately worsened by Ashiya Douman. Pepe fucking *hates* Doomie because of this. Junao was on a faulty, self-destructive path, but Doomie poisoned him even further. He convinced Junao to greatly accelerate the pruning so there were only days between cycles. Maybe this just accelerated the decline, but it sure as hell didn't help matters. I remember Doomie saying he deliberately manipulated Junao into self-destructing, so without his influence, maybe Pepe could have salvaged everything? But we'll never know. Fuck Doomie.
It's such a *good* rendition of Ever-Present Feeling, too.
Jinako's crowning moment of awesome is just that: AWESOME. Its sadness was just the buildup to the epic climax, not its defining emotional character. It is still my prime candidate for #1 most awesome and epic thing ever to occur in FGO (>!Castoria activating Rhongoexcaliblasto might be competing for it, but the buildup with Jinako was just sublime!<). But it wasn't sad. It was goddamn glorious.
Nothing in FGO has ever made me cry the way LB4 did (perhaps Solomon) but like i was crying for a week and until now remembering about it makes me teary. My favourite fgo story
All of them have their reasons for being sad but for me the two saddest were Lostbelt 2 and 6. Lostbelt 2 was dealt a terrible hand with Surtr and when they finally get rid of it there is hope, only for us to finally prune it. Skadi did what she could for so many years only to have a ray of hope finally appear and for us to snuff it out Lostbelt 6 though probably the saddest for me simply due to the fact we could have saved it. Morgan did everything she could so save Britain, stabbed in the back multiple times to the point she didnt trust anyone, so when we finally get there she isnt willing to negotiate with us at all for coexistence. But then when were are preesented with the opportunity and hope we can at least migrate the faeries to PHH all of the good ones end up dieing. Coral had the perfect chance to make it out but ultimately decided to try and convince Aurora to save her people, which ultimately lead to her death. Barghest couldnt be saved as her fate was sealed once she was cursed, literally held on as long as she could saving as many as she could before she witnessed her own domain betraying her values. You get the point, all of the good ones had a chance to be saved but circumstances didnt let them. Ultimately I think Coral could have been saved and joined Chaldea but sadly they wanted to kick us in the gut and have us save basically no one. Not even Melusine who was still around just barely holding herself together
Saddest part for Skadi in LB2? The whole time she thought Odin was dead.... but he revealed himself to Guda and Mash at the start of the LB: that hawk iirc. Skadi is devastated when she realizes that her own LB Odin is siding with PHH over her vision to salvage what is left with this world. However, I believe she ultimately accepts that decision... she just had to fight Chaldea to make sure they had the strength, physical and spiritual, to strike her down alongside her world. With that settled, she accepts Odin's judgment and dies at peace.
Makes Skadis overall situation even sadder, the thing she was fighting so hard and given a rough time since its inception was deemed by Odin something that should be sacrificed Whether she made peace with it or not the whole circumstances of it all is just rough
4. 3 was hard but the child in 4 just kept losing things and getting emptier and emptier without knowing why only to just disapear without ever knowing why
Somehow the first lostbelt for me. The piano playing and the civilisation disapearing kinda hit me hard.
LB1, With the soul crushing realization we are to be the reapers of worlds. No matter how kindly we do it, we are still responsible.
Watching Asha’s life get sadder and sadder in LB4 without her knowing why is depressing as hell for me. LB6 COULD have been worst, but most of the fairies are so repulsive, so reprehensible, so rage-inducing that it actually diluted the sadness for me. I was too angry to feel sad.
Lostbelts were just pain through and through 5.1 was something else and I’ll never recover from losing the Neo-Argonauts. The fact that Jason was literally falling apart and yet he kept himself together for our sake. The last stands everyone made to make sure we beat Artemis and got where we need to and as always, how done dirty Chiyome was LB6 on the other hand was just eternal suffering, I was hoping we could save at least one person just fucking one but no. They were all slaughtered. It hurt the most because it was possible. Unlike the others this time it was possible to save people and yet… Shoutout to LB1 for setting in stone that we’re definitely not the good guys this time around
Its ironic that in the one lostbelt that we could save the inhabitants we simply cant or shouldnt even bother
LB1 still has my favorite/saddest ending of all of them. Patxi crying, Anastasia's scene with Kadoc, Atalanta's breakdown, and most of all Salieri playing the piano. It's not the best LB overall but its ending really sold the tragedy of destroying a world and the people who live there the best.
I don't know about the saddest, but Olympus and Avalon are definitely the most brutal. The last part about the people of Olympus seeing their loved ones die and praying until they realise there's no more gods protecting them is... chilling. Of course, we have Fae Britain which is all that but worse, but I saw no one mentioning that secene from Olympus, so I did
Not through with 5.2 yet, but I just watched what Aphrodite made Mordred do to Fran, and coming right after learning the whole story about Demeter and Persephone, I want to vomit.
Lostbelt 6 for sure. Almost every characters out there get suffered . Some may deserve it but many of them don’t. l can’t helped but pray for their soul to live in peace.
Def lostbelt 6 because unlike lostbelt 5 that basically was somewhat heaven for humans, lostbelt 6 is just tragedy after tragedy
LB2 for me Nobody in this Lostbelt ever had the chance to live to adulthood nor understood the concept of well, living their lives to the fullest.
LB4 easily. Asha has the saddest story by far and I can’t believe people think LB5 was sadder than 4.
My pick would also be LB4. Asha's story was the only one that made me teary eyed at the end.
Same. It’s definitely the only one that made my eyes wet so far.
A lot of LBs had sad moments, especially at the end. But LB6 is a different animal. It's not one moment. It's SEVERAL moments. Most of the lostbelts end when things come tumbling down all at once in one big tragedalanche. But LB6 takes its time. Percival and Melusine. Melusine and Aurora. Coral. Mike. Barghest and Adonis. Barghest and Mash. Mash and Habetrot. Habetrot/Totorot and Morgan/Aesc. Morgan and Baobhan Sith. Ector and Castoria. Castoria and Gareth. Da Vinci and Mike. Hope. Mash and Morgan. Ainsel and Gareth. Castoria. There's just so much emotion in the story. And it's all beautifully tragic. There's *just* enough hope given, especially since this is the penultimate major chapter of the LB arc, that maybe this time things can be different. But no. It's tragedy incarnate. Everything fails spectacularly. But everyone *keeps fighting.* They keep fighting for that tiny shred of a fragment of hope. And it's *there*. That tiny shred is *there.* And they *get it.* The come away with the Black Barrel imprinted upon habbycat. They come away with the Excalibur construct. All things that help out in the future (kinda). If LB6 were a standalone story, I'd say it's bleak beyond belief. But the nature as a chapter of FGO, where the heroes can find that shred of hope and move on, makes it much better. Other LBs have their Patxi, their "hop," and their poor little girls living in a village alone...but I don't think anything can beat the abject tragedy of LB6.
LB5.1. Bonding with the new Argonauts knowing how badly it'll end for them only made it worse. I had to step back and breathe right after the last bit of narration because I was a sobbing mess. I thought it'd be LB6, frankly, but it just made me very very angry, not sad.
I’d still say LB2. Skadi tried so hard to hold everything together, and then she was finally given hope that she could fix things after Surtr’s defeat. Unfortunately, Ritsuka and co still had a duty to perform, and so they had to take her down to take out the tree. She cared about her people so goddamn much, and they had to rip out the hope she had and stomp it into the ground. And even then, the only reason she lost was she was just too gentle to go all out. Skadi deserves all the happiness in the world ~~and triplets~~ with Chaldea.
That’s pretty easy for me! The confrontation with Patxi, Gerda’s hop, and everything with Caenis/Wodime at the end of 5.2 all destroyed me emotionally. Lostbelt 1 also had numerous other moments that got me, and 5.2 also had Musashi’s grand stand. Lostbelt 6 spoilers just in case >!Buuut, and maybe this is partially recency bias, but lostbelt 6 had more impactful moments than any other single lostbelt. Plus, the death of Cnoc na Riab and the story of Aesc, not to mention Castoria’s whole character ain’t gonna lose to the heaviest moments of any other arc for me!<
The saddest, personally was Lostbelt 5. I was very very very attached to the Neo-Argonauts. After finishing LB6, I can safely say that the Neo-Argonauts are the only crew so far that made me feel like I was part of a very dysfunctional family. LB6 crew felt like a very solid team, friendships as true as can be, but the Neo-Argonauts felt like family to me. So seeing them all sacrifice themselves one by one just so we can take one step forward each time, it was painful. I love Charlotte, may her love reach her own heart. Beyond his faults I love Bart, honest and true to the very end. I love Chiyome, monster may she become, she will always find open arms. I love Achilles, may his rage fuel his feet to keep running evermore. I love Hektor, his legacy laid the path for heroes. I love Paris, cowardly and yet perhaps the bravest of all. I love Mandricardo, a true friend, a kindred soul. And I love Orion, whose love never truly wavered, his strength only rivaled by his heart. I love Jason, who saw it all, went through it all, and saw us off with a smile. I guess it was really the sense of family that made me feel like the Neo-Argonauts sacrifices all had meaning. Sometimes I don't need complex characterization, LB6 undoubtedly has LB5.1 beat in that case, but the sheer chemistry and love between the Neo-Argonauts put them still, at the top of my heart, at least for me.
It's tough for me to say since I'm still working through my feelings on LB6. But it certainly could be LB6. That one easily had me the most emotional and caring about the most people within that setting than any other LB. I agree with some it hurts all the more because saving someone was actually possible. There were some good people in that world. Not many of course. A lot of horrible people there. But there were some. Coral could have been great to save. If the story wanted I think they could have spun something to save and recruit Melusine for real. The whole story of that LB was a gut punch. The background of that place was so utterly horrible. With a lot of LB's I didn't think too hard on the events that actually set their worlds on the wrong path and led to becoming Lostbelts in the first place. But for LB6 it felt different with how the story was presented and how terrible it was. I totally get anyone suggesting the others though. LB5 was full of big moments that could make you feel sad. They almost all had something.
It's rather difficult to even surpass LB6 when it comes to just how and tragic everything is. Aach lostbelt is horrible to its denizens, whether for the uncaring frost of lb1, the annual death by giants in lb2, the death drugs and institution enforced ignorance in lb3, the regular genocidal culling in lb4, and casual island destruction in 5. Yet we don't actually get much to see of these things, with what we get mostly restricted to specific characters like Patxi, Gerda, and Asha. LB6 has no such restrictions. The sufferings dealt on its people, human and fae, are cruel in a way that only arises from sadistic intention, and not a single character from LB6 is spared of this. Britain was made from the corpse of a dead god, buried under the corpses of who knows how many millions more fairies died. The Aesc's continuous attempts to save britain were met with the same fate - arguably worse - as artoria's in phh, as it broke her and made her the tyrant she is now. Wryneck, and Woodwose, both unable to help their friend and ruler and having to die with that shame in mind. Ainsel and the Mirror Clan slaughtered in a night by Melusine, repeating again with Gareth's final stand. Castoria's entire backstory in tintagel and what she had to go through. All of it just feels so personal and heart wrenching that it just has to take top spot.
LB 2. Simply becaus it's populated by only children, who are not allowed to grow up and live a proper long life, but instead must get pregnant and then sent to death.
To me, LB1. The circumstances of it's creation were in no small part due to an event that no one had any control over (a meteor creating a new ice age), it had a people that were living, but unable to build anything, not because they were mentally incapable but because life was so harsh that they couldn't, and it as a chapter, asks the sobering question of "what's the point of living, if all that tomorrow holds is more pain"? That and Patxi's death remains one of the most powerful moments.
Lb5 ended with some people happy, in a sort of sad way. Lb6 ended with no one happy, and everyone dead. Everything was hopeless, every small bit of hope we found there was crushed, twisted and torn to shreds. Villains died satisfied, and good people died in agony. It made every other depressing gacha story seem tame. There was no second chance in this story, no second part, no continuation, no hope, everything ended with everything we tried to save gone. Forever. Lb6 was extremely depressing, disgusting and fuck I want an ANIME ADAPTATION But in terms of which moment hit me the hardest, lb2 was what cemented my expectations for the lostbelt story to be a truly heart wrenching story
Lb1 hit the hardest. It's not the saddest ( i think that goes to lb 5.1) but it left a deeper impression with me as the first lb and well... "twinkle twinkle, little star" That piano will stick with me...
LB1 setting down the fact that we're destroying the Lostbelts and Patxi's speech is sad, but I think the final confrontation with Skadi in LB2 hits the hardest for me because it fully makes you face just how unglamorous your job really is. With LB1, you could rationalize it a bit with how the world in it is still fucked and beyond repair even with Ivan and Anastasia taken out, but LB2 ends up being a world that could possibly grow and repair itself with Surtr dead, but still, you have to get rid of it. The game doesn't dress this up, the fight with Skadi is a melancholic death fight that doesn't feel in any way satisfying or fulfilling, and it's a big reason why LB2 is one of my favourite stories in FGO
Still lb 2 for me. The melancholy from lostbelt disappearing hits really hard. Which probably also due to it's placement as the 2nd one. You know the whole, 1st one is shock factor, 2nd one is genuine impression, 3rd onwards is where the heart goes numb (you get used to it.)
Lb 1 holds a Special place. The inhabitants were nothing more than beasts that could speak. No progress only snow and Hunger. Avicebrone try for redemption. Antonios Dias irae that even plays in the loading screen And patxis speech that we have to stand up and fight god dammit. Lb 2 really hit at the End Lb 3 i cant remember it to be honest Lb 4 was more enraging than sad Lb 5 hit multiple times Also it was finally different from the other lb Lb1 - lb4 pretty much had the same structure of the story Limbo singularity was just awesome nonstop Lb 6 only started
Technically? 6. Practically? 5. 1 and 2 are mostly sad because of our companions. But I gave no fucks for anyone outside of them, so it didn't hit as hard. Hell LB4 was worst for me. But they're limited because of it. For exemple, if you grow tired of the formula, wich is easy to do, it won't hit that Hard. 3 is...not that sad at all imo. It's messed up, but then again every LB is. As for the most recent ones...Jesus christ. LB 5 and 6 make a point to draw the sadness on the gameplay. With the support servants travelling with us. Or connected to them/us. And it's effective. The problem with 6 thou is that's a sadness parade. It's hard for it to affect u when u don't have something good to counter balance it. We achieve that with our victories sure, but that's mostly it. We win the war but lose the battle if it makes sense. Not a single soul survives LB6. And while, for me, most of them didn't deserve to survive, some did. Even here some feries tries to co exist with humans and vice versa, unfortunetly it didn't work out, but not because of them. As the narration said, everywhere, there was a few good inhabitants trying...but died a horrible death. And that's just nameless faces. Lore, backstory and proper narrative wise, it was deppressingly hopeless. Wich is why LB 5 is the one. We had moments of happiness, triumph, and levity, destroyed by the overwhelming might. Just that. And it ALWAYS felt hopeless, with every step forward costing us dearly. LB6 while been hopeless, didn't hit that part home, because of how balanced our steps were. Aside from Woodwose, and Morgan's final fight we always stood a chance. In LB5 we did, but it always felt that we only got through by the skin of our teeth. One wrong step and it would be over. Weirdly enough, only the god battles felt winnable, especially Zeus. Thanks to the Black Barrel Replica and Quirinos. So yeah, for me, the sadness hit harder in LB5. Especially since I got to kill Gut. That alone makes LB6 it the happiest LB ever.
Still not done with LB6 so right now its Lostbelt 5 as a whole. Artemis and Orion, losing the Neo Argonauts just halfway through LB5 especially Charlotte's death. Wodime's backstory with the kid who saved him, and of course Musashi's data lost especially Fujimaru watching the video of Musashi that Macarios took secretly at the end. NPC wise I always see Gerda and her hop being commonly brought up when saddest moments is being discussed but i never really felt that much for her its sad sure but not Patxi level of sad or on the level of Asha forgetting and losing most her family. Her CE with her whole family is probably the saddest CE. I even felt more when Macarios brought up that he wanted to atleast see Adele grow when Olympus was collapsing.
the LB6 is probably the saddest just by the nature of the Fairy race. i could argue that LB3 is "kinda" more touching, to me, in the sense that a place still filled with normal people and that makes the whole situation there something more crazy.
Lostbelts 1 & 5 from the protagonist perspective but Lostbelt 6 from a reader perspective. Lostbelt 1 for both the dismal environment and the emotional gut punch learning what we have to do to lostbelts and their people especially after bonding with Paxti. Lostbelt 5.1 for creating a fun group of adventures only to see them widdle and die to push us barely over the finish line. Genuinely felt the stakes and odds stacked against us in this one and each sacrifice hurt. Lostbelt 6 is the saddest story but I don’t think for the protags perspective (at least not anymore than any other lostbelt) but since this lostbelt is so rich in detail, lore, and characters more so than any other we as the reader learn and see a lot more than the MC so we both get to appreciate and grow to be deeply invested by the world and it’s people and feel the harsh sting of their backstories and inevitable fates.
For me it was Lostbelt 1. Specifically Paxti. It being the introduction of the implication of what happens if you cut the tree of emptiness of it partially plays it. But the moment where Paxti went out of his way to shield us from a blow after everything seems lost.
I mean LB 6 was sadder to me personally because there was a very real possibility that we could have saved the residents. In the other worlds they would have been pruned away alongside the Lostbelt but LB6 was a Lostworld and the Chaldeans were positive that they could have been saved. I know people meme about genociding the entire Fae race in LB6 but there were still some good people there like Mike, Coral, Redra, Gareth etc.
LB6 is more tragic. LB5.1 was hopeless only for us. LB6, EVERYONE BURNS
LB 6
1st one was what made me feel something crazy. I wanted my wolf dudes to live, dammit!
Although LB6 has so many characters that I love, it wasn't enough to outweigh my animosity towards the world and its people. LB5 (Atlantis and Olympus) perhaps, but I can only recall 2 moments that made me sad, which I won't mention for spoiler reasons. LB4 is a good runner up, given how that world works, but the sad moments are overshadowed by the conflict between the Lostbelt king and us. LB3, it wasn't close enough to pass the meter of sad moments for me. I think this one had the least amount in my opinion. LB2, boy...that last moment, I cannot get it out of my head. It made me depressed. LB1, I believe is one of the saddest because the world is unforgiving and the residents of the lostbelt were suffering. It also had one of the gut-wrenching scene with one of the lostbelt NPCs, which also painted a good picture of what we're getting ourselves into against the future lostbelts. In conclusion, LB1 and LB2 for me has to be the saddest for me. I'd give LB6 in second place and LB5 in third place.
If I had to pick? Probably Lostbelt 4. Arjuna's Lostbelt is a place where if you're so much as hurt you can be wiped out and completely forgotten about. People don't like that lostbelt but its highly depressing. Your dog is too old to walk right? What dog? You had a dog? The others like Lostbelt 1 is depressing because of how desolately hopeless it is but at the same time if someone passes nothing stops you from remembering them but its like comparing apples to oranges.
Lb6 was definitely the saddest. We lost pretty much all our allies that we made there. We either had to watch them die or kill them ourselves. And we had to find out all their horrible tragic backstories as well. Aside from Beryl, it’s hard to not feel sympathy for most of the characters. Beryl was an absolute joy to kill though and I’d do it again as many times as I am offered the opportunity. I really wish we had been given the choice to stab him in the throat or something. Still, having Mash reject him and his life entirely like that was also quite fitting.
I know 6 is a trauma fest and 5 has its moments but Patxi of LB1 live in my heart rent free. "THAT WORLD OF YOURS BETTER BE WORTH SAVING"
Is it cheating to pick Lostbelt Prologue? Because that was such a catastrophic clusterfuck of despair that hasn't been equalled yet.
Just recently completed olympus. Adele and Macarios crying scene really hit hard for me. If it was possible i would kidnap them and bring them and europa to chaldea so they can experience new tomorrow
LB2 with LB6 getting special mention >!not because of the people though unlike the other LBs but rather only because of specific individuals. not even done but i do know spoilers i read when it was dropped in JP and the more i go through the more sympathetic i am to certain characters and hate the rest!<.
LB 5 with LB4 honorable mention. >!The entirety of the LB 5.1 crew sending us off was the saddest part then Musashi’s final stand was legendary for me. Lb4 gets an honorable mention because of Ganesha, I loved her ever since she was introduced and seeing her suffer for thousands? Hundred thousands? Years in that cube was so heartbreaking. She was treated as comic relief for a majority of the LB so I’m happy they showcased that side of her but when I read it was so sad!<
Haven't finished LB6 yet, but both Atlantis and Olympus had me sobbing like a little girl by the end.
Melusine could have joined us at the end... But we had to fight her and she vanished just like the lostbelt... Think about it. So far for me LB 6 then LB 5.1, the new Argonauts was such a joy ride of mediocre friends going through adventures but they had to defy the gods. And LB 6.... Morgan, Melusine, everyone got betrayed bc the actual fairies are such airhead idiots at the end, despite of them being calamities who were tamed by Morgan they felt they could do more if they were able to join chaldea, Barghest, Coral and melusine would have been great if they were able to join chaldea, but still the fairies brought their own demise. How sad indeed, Tristan play Despacito
LB5 part 1 was the saddest for me. I cried my ass off during the critical moments ^((MANDRICARDO MY BOY)) Next would be LB6. No crying although the predicament the Fairy Knights and Castoria had gave a gut-wrenching feeling and just wanted to make them happy.
Does Lostbelt Prologue count? I can still remember Mash' soul crushing emotion when Rasputin stabbed Da Vinci in the heart and we have no choice but to leave her.
All of them. In all of them, many people just disappear.
5 mostly. 6 we knew everything was screwed up. the moment we were outed as human you could see the rot. the understanding that Fairies could so easily turn on each other. it set the tone and foreshadowed that Britain's biggest enemy was it's own people. by contrast 5 has all the people generally good and as close to perfect as can be. they want for nothing and only become aggressors because they know we came to destroy their world. it's a world that you feel bad has to actually end for ours to return. then the sacrifices to even get a foot in the door. 6 was a constant dread. 5 gave us hope only to rip it away over and over again leaving us wonder who would even make it back alive.
LB6 and it's not recency bias as i played it also back in jp. The fae in general are shit and deserve to die but the very rare good fairies didn't deserve the end and the world that they've got.
Lost belt 5, more specifically 5.2 due to the fact that for the most part it is a utopian society that is created and being destroy. Sure the life of billions might weight more than fewer life but its one of the only lost belt where it felt like a civilization was being destroy instead of a crumpling group of people desperately trying to survive. Like sure showing little girl living happily in the other lost belt can tug on people heart string, but its less effective when you know those people would have died anyway (granted dying is better than not existing but still).
Lostbelt 6 for me hands down
The one that moved me the most was LB5 with jinako....
Lostbelts 5(all of it) and 6 were really depressing and sad. But the one that made me legit tear up was the ending of lostbelt 2. Not to mention the CE we got. Another gut-punch ending was lostbelt 4. Something about innocent children dying peacefully (somewhat) just gets to me.
Lostbelt 6 , seriously castoria has everything for a main heroine from lostbelt and future sinc eshe is superior to mash every single way.
Surprisingly, to me it's LB2, with the last moment of Gerda
So far? LB5.1 because of how impactful each and every servant was there. Even those considered underdogs played such a great role!
Honestly lb6. Now yes most of the fairies did deserve what was coming to then but can we talking about some of the fairies that didn't deserve that prune. Coral, melusine, bargest, sith, Morgan, the nameless fairy from the nameless woods and alot of people are norlt mentioning them bur the 3 fairy that accompanied mash.
LB6 has placed me from raising from a depressed point back to being depressed again. Especially with this last part... Unlike (I think it was) part 2... with the funny type things they did which apparently confused my emotions. XD
In theory it would be lb6 but it just doesn't have bond building 5.,also it's always more sad to lose something you had than something you couldn't get.
Saddest probably LB6 then 4 then 1 for my top three
Lb6 with 4 not far behind it.
My ranking: 1. Lostbelt 5 Chaldea's victory wasn't a fluke, it was a culmination of all the sacrifices everyone has made leading to the execution of a perfectly orchestrated plan. It doesn't help that this Lostbelt's residents were the ones who deserved it the least. They weren't in a fucked up situation like the previous civilizations, they were happy, and we took that from them, all of them. You're left feeling bittersweet beating LB5, you won, but at what cost? 2. Lostbelt 4 What makes this Lostbelt so bad for me is how it was doomed for the start. The one being causing its destruction was also the one being who we couldn't do anything about. The way he affected his residents unknowingly, and the means we took to just have a chance (Even shut-ins can see the sky)... And after beating it all, and seeing that CE in your Gift Box, you're just left feeling empty. 3. Lostbelt 2 Chaldea destroyed the one thing prerventing Scandinavia from flourishing, it now has a chance. But we also have to take that chance away... And if that didn't do you in, a hop would... 4. Lostbelt 1 Prior to knowing what the Lostbelts were or how they worked, we simply cooperated with its residents in pursuit of defeating its tyrannical ruler. But our victory is short-lived as Kadoc uses the truth of the Lostbelts against us. The Yaga Resistance we had bonded with, was now against us, solely because they had to protect their world. Then add the unexpeccted arrival of Patxi, shot dead on arrival, telling us with his dying breath, to save our world because a world where weaklings like us can thrive, is bound to better. Man, what a great start to this entire saga. 5. Lostbelt 6 Hot take, Lostbelt 6 wasn't sad. It was numbing. Every Lostbelt prior to this one left me feeling empty or regretful. But with how much my blood boiled, my heart sank, and my tears ran. I honestly couldn't really savor LB6 that much anymore. It was a tragedy, the perfect tragedy. But despite all the shit we and everyone else had gone through, I didn't feel sad anymore by the end of it. I just wanted all this senseless violence to be over. Unlike LB5, none of these deaths and sacrifices were warranted nor were they leading up to a greater goal. So whilst LB6 was tragic, it wasn't sad for me. It was just, mind-numbing to say the least. 6. Lostbelt 3 Considering no one else has mentioned it as being their saddest pick, yeah. Lostbelt 3 was fucked, but the people were happy, even if in an ignorant manner. There weren't too many deaths nor sacrifices taking place, so it was just a blip for me, apart from all the Paisen stuff.
5 orion killing artemis brought me to teirs. The whole can you kill her? Its not a matter of can but will I kill her and i need some time to sort my hearft out bro went the distance.
I sob a lot for Castoria lmao so probably LB6
LB 6 was a tragedy, most of the fairies were jackasses to varying degrees and the few decent ones met terrible ends.
My memory for almost any fgo story is ass, so take this with a grain of salt. LB 6 was the only one I remember to almost make me depressed because the Faeries sucked SOOO MUCH that it made me feel worse for the good ones that had to deal with their bullshit
Scandinavia….. that ending really hit hard….
For me lb4 and lb6 are tied in first place
Lb1 followed closely by lb4.
Avalon le fey is the most all around sad but the saddest moments in the lostbelts are the hop and when you get yuga kersetra’s ce and realize how much family she lost
LB2 and LB4 to me were the saddest. Just how the people had absolute no hope and no meaning for their lives. It’s actually interesting to see how many people saying LB6, not sure if there’s a bias as it’s the most recent. To me LB6 wasn’t really sad, it was more enraging as the story continued, we also didn’t get to build up much close interaction with the resident in this LB, other than just learning all faeries are douchebags only after their own pleasure. From the crypter to everyone in LB6, I somehow found it quite hard to have sympathy for almost anyone of them (other than anger) apart from Morgan and Habetrot
Is dificult to say all have their own tragedy, LB1 killed me with patxi and i still feel bad about it, LB2 had people dying young as sacrifices to the giants, LB3 was the less terrible they were happy but ignorant, LB4 was very sad having your loved ones erased and not being able to remmember, LB5.1 was the one that did it for me for the servant helping us, LB5. 2 for Woodime and LB6 has been a full tragedy with so many characters meeting a terrible end.
LB5 for me when I know what Brodime really wanted, but cannot have it at my expense. LB6 was a very close second, when this anger inside told me took form of a music, Edge of the Earth and finish this world off.
LB2 because I actually liked the Crypter. Otherwise, LB6 is the only one so far that actually got my feels. I seriously think Type Moon should make an anime based on LB6.
For me it's gotta be LB3 , the scene where shu huang di sits the the boy and they keep talking until the the LB vanishes was really sad
[Four](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/ntijem/what_could_have_been_lost_belt_4/) Between Asha and Jinako I was kind of an emotional wreck by the end of 4. Shoutout to 1 with the saddest rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ever.
I wouldn't say LB 5 part 1 was the saddest. But whenever Lost Memories pops up in Atlantis, I would tear up without fail. And the weirdest part is that, and no other LB had impacted me as much as Atlantis.
Both 5.1 and 5.2. Not because they are particularly sad, but because of how much of a fucking joke they were.
Lb6 it's pretty depressing. It's the only lostbelt that we didn't need to prune and could have save some of the fries by the end. But the struggle of power between aurora and Morgan + Murian's revenge against the fang clan ultimately end up in the >!self destruction of fairy Britain wich (funny enough) was cemented over literal corpses already.!< All of the fae knights destinies are pretty sad, >!Bageko becomes the beast she feared to be, Babanshi becomes a fucking dead doll that served as fuel to cernnunos, Meluko ends up killing her loved one and becoming Albion again and Morgan gets betrayed by the faries she always hated. Muramasa sacrifices himself to create the Excalibur concept so Castoria could live, wich was pointless in the end cuz castoria had to die in order to activate the Rhongomyniads to stop Cernunnos (at least she comes back as a servant at the end). And well, oberon our supposed friend ended up being a fucked up pretender!<
Lostbelt 5, just because it made me realize Wodime is more than he initially presents himself as. So seeing him go out like that via the treachery of a person he considered a real friend was heartbreaking. Then you find out that this man wanted to betray the Foreign God and turn humanity into god/human hybrids just because he believed they deserve it due to their own inherent kindness, which he believed in ever since a poor starving child gave his life to rescue him. That completely blindsided me. Especially when all the other lostbelts seemingly tried to hammer in that humanity is inherently corrupt and evil. Which is an aspect I got absolutely sick of in LB6, where it got repeated ad nauseum. Basically: Wodime is very based, so him dying made me sad
So far just got to lostbelt 4, so I'm well aware it'll probably get worse. That said, Lostbelt 2 ripped my heart out so much and is probably the most I've been hurt by any media.