Charles-Henri Sanson

Appearances

Parameters

Skills

• Presence Concealment (D): Low for an Assassin—executioners worked in public; stealth is not his legend's core.
• Executioner (A++): Supreme skill in ending life cleanly; damage rises against targets 'sentenced' as criminals or evil.
• Medical Techniques (A): Anatomical knowledge from the family trade—can heal or harm with clinical precision.
• Human Anatomy Understanding (A): Knows exactly where to cut; supports both surgery-like aid and lethal strikes.

Noble Phantasms

• La Mort Espoir · Anti-Unit (A): The guillotine of hope and death—manifests the revolutionary scaffold's concept to execute a target. As 'death that offers equality,' it judges without regard to birth, echoing the Revolution's blade.

Personality

Gentle, melancholic, and courteous—an executioner who hates suffering yet believes in skilled mercy. Fate's Sanson carries guilt over Marie Antoinette's death, speaking softly, offering medical care, and treating the blade as grim duty rather than pleasure. Lawful Evil here means institutional killing, not sadism.

Story in Fate

Charles-Henri Sanson is summoned in Fate/Grand Order as an Assassin whose legend is the Paris executioner of the French Revolution, including the beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. His NP La Mort Espoir embodies the guillotine. Story events often explore his remorse toward French royal Servants and his identity as a healer-executioner paradox.

Relationships

• Marie Antoinette — Royal whose execution haunts his Fate characterization.
• Louis XVI — King he executed in historical office; heavy karmic link.
• Mozart — Fellow Fate figure sometimes paired in events; contrasting artists of death and music.
• Sanson family ancestors/descendants — Hereditary executioner line behind his skill.

Trivia

• Voiced by Kenji Nojima with soft, regretful tone atypical for Assassins.
• Medical Techniques make him a rare Assassin who also heals allies.
• Presence Concealment D is intentional irony—public executioner.
• La Mort Espoir roughly evokes 'Death Hope' / hope through death's equality.