Moss

Moss

Japanese Name: モース
AKA:AKA:Also Known As Black Creature, MorsMorsNA Localization
Other Classes:
ID: -	Rank: Gold
Attributes: Earth	Alignments: None
Charges: 5	Actions: 3
Death Rate:Death Rate: 20%	Crit Chance:Crit Chance:Chance to critical on attack. 10%
Hits: Normal: 1 / Critical: 1	Gender: None
Basic Traits: Demonic, Fae, Immune to Pigify
Appeared in: Misty Coast, River of Tears, Lake District, Oxford
Drops:

Active Skills	Passive Skills	Noble Phantasm	Recommendation
Variations	Trivia	Images

Active Skills

Skill	Effect
Strange Gaze (きみょうなまなざし^??)	Debuffs one enemy with 50% increased Curse damage for 5 turns.

Skill	Effect
Damage Up (Fae) (威力アップ〔妖精〕^??)	Tooltip for 25px\|link=ⓘThis effect is unremovable. Increases damage dealt against enemies with Fae trait by 20%.
Bonus Effect on Attack (Inflict Curse) (攻撃時追加効果(呪い付与)^??)	Tooltip for 25px\|link=ⓘThis effect is unremovable. Grants self delayed skill after normal attacks. ( Debuffs one enemy with Curse of 300 for 3 turns.)

Noble Phantasm	Effect
Clinging (すがりつき^??) (4 Hits – 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%)	Deals 500% damage to one enemy. Inflicts Curse of 500 to them for 5 turns. Debuffs them with 50% increased Curse damage for 5 turns.

Traits	Servants with Special Damage
Demonic
Fae
Class	Servants with Special Damage
Saber	[1][1] [1][1] [1][1] [1]: Only Servant
Caster
Berserker	None
Attributes	Servants with Special Damage
Earth	[1][1] [1][1] [1][1] [1]: Only Servant
Guide	Active Skills, Noble Phantasm, Buff Type Noble Phantasm, Instant-Kill, Add Trait
Guide	For other effects see status effects.

There are 4 enemies that match the category selection:

"Moss" versus "Mors":
[4] Here the word used is actually the usual モース, which in my own translations have been rendered as “Mors” until now (to relate to the death-aspect). However, Nasu gives us a parenthetical kanji here, 藻 (pronounced も), which at a glance in a dictionary means just “algae”, but actually in botany can refer to any sort of aquatic or semi-aquatic plant (See this link for more information). This kanji’s meaning, along with its pronunciation, as well as the fact that モース is a (rather) unusual spelling for “moss” gives us the answer that it was most likely supposed to be “Moss” all along. This can also be further evidenced by how most of their attacks involve clinging to things, how moss grows on “dead things” (Cernunnos and the fairies who act as the “land” in a sense). Artoria also references this same word at the end of chapter 1, section 6 (“The black algae that pollutes this world with its existence—-the curse of Britain, killer of fairies.”).