look. listen to me. in terms of no context powerlevels red faction curbstomps the fsn cast. no contest. karna alone can ragdoll most of them. and then you add achilles to the mix, your chance of winning, drastic go down. the numbers spell disaster for you. at sacrifice. but that makes the fsn cast the underdogs. which means they have story on their side. so here's how it's going to happen okay.
first fight: arturia and mordred immediately recognise and kill each other. this imparts on the audience the importance of true names, because they are able to mutually assure this destruction because they are arturia and mordred, and also puts both sides on the back foot right out the gate because they instantly lost their sabers (considered to be the strongest class)
second fight: atalante and achilles vs medusa and heracles. they are all guesstimating each other's names. heracles dominates until karna shows up and karna blasts the battlefield, taking one of heracles' lives and severely injuring medusa. emiya then also shows up and uses rho aias to provide cover to escape, prompting suspicion from achilles, who knows for sure that emiya is Not supposed to have that. this establishes karna and heracles as the main powerhouses of each side, the kind of advantage emiya's true name has, and also allows emiya to deduce who achilles is.
one or two more skirmishes happen just to show some more characters in action. medea and semiramis work on their respective bases. character moments are had.
halfway point: medea has largely completed her fortress, and has found out through the leylines or whatever that semiramis' own fortress is nearing completion, so she urges an immediate assault to prevent that from happening. in this battle karna continues to ragdoll everyone and takes at least one more of heracles' lives. cu chulainn figures out that karna's armor doesn't negate damage entirely, and therefore that gae bolg will be able to reach him, so he kills karna. using his noble phantasm obviously reveals his true name however, and somewhere after this battle, semiramis and shakespeare have a trivially easy time creating circumstances that force him to eat dog and neutralise him. in the end the fsn assault delayed the completion of the gardens, but did not prevent it altogether.
shortly after karna's death: red faction still has achilles to be indestructable for them so fsn is at a significant disadvantage. emiya 1v1s him and tries to hit his heel to no avail, because achilles is fast as fuck and not stupid. when emiya is cornered it turns out he was just bait, and kojirou, who everyone had kinda forgotten about until now, uses tsubame gaeshi to slash achilles' heel, neutralising his invincibility. however, he's still achilles and emiya is still a chump compared to achilles, so achilles kills him. kojirou gets away because he's assassin.
at some point atalante finds out who medea is and goes apeshit on the child killer, wrecking the fsn faction's base as calydonian boar, and is killed by the still injured medusa as a mercy to a fellow monster.
climax of the story: heracles burns through his remaining lives to charge at the completed hanging gardens. sparatacus is inspired by this and likewise gives his life to create an opening for medusa to fly medea up to the gardens and use rule breaker to dispel the magecraft that holds it together. and these former midbosses are now heroes. semiramis either dies crushed by the rubble or is killed by medea. a vulnerable achilles and a heracles with one life left fight each other in the wreckage, the winner not shown. shakespeare sneaks off, content with all the dramatic irony he's witnessed, and gets ganked by kojirou. nobody gets the grail. the end.
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