Talk:Rider/@comment-36159720-20180715092619/@comment-27971189-20180822022955

The process of creation on FGO is always-- TM designed the Servants first, than handed down to DW while also explaining what each skill and abilities did. DW only responsible to skill effect and game balance so that TM interpretation of each skill are not disjointed and can create a team.

Of course DW themselves, being responsible to game balance, have their part on discussing the schedule, which classes should got priority, so TM not running amok with their decision though lately TM can having fun as they wondering "what kind of design/skill/NP so they can look cool as boss/guest/support".

So Ivan being Rider is purely TM creative works, not DW goes to TM and said, "Bruh, we need a Rider boss, just make Ivan a Rider, will ya?"; the idea of him being Rider because of fusing with Mammoth and Sabertooth is understandable as you would like something to define great person capable of ruling Russia that, under Lostbelt, has became a land of beasts.

Georgios' horse is actually popular that people are surprised Bayard didn't make it to the game though few people speculated it'll goes to Ruler Georgios (if it ever existed); Georgios design is also been there since Apocrypha, but not used in favor of Achilles and Astolfo. As said, Achilles is a Rider since his initial design.

Marie as a character does need combat abilities, and since she can't get that stretch to be a Caster by original design, she became a Rider, so do with Quetz as Rider is the closest they can decided by story current progress.

Medusa herself happened for similar reason thus Bellerophon (although its more like so Medusa can have a favor over Perseus), and that luxury of Gorgon being legitimated as Avenger so far only under FGO-verse but FSN-verse and Extra-verse.