In fate/staynight, the main characters are involved in the "Holy Grail War" and have a battle with their lives as a bet. Why do they fight? Why do they kill each other? What is the Holy Grail? In this item, they will explain the related matters of the Holy Grail War with many puzzles.

The broad sense of the Holy Grail War

The Holy Grail is a miracle relic originating from the legend of Christ. There are also many legends of travelers who pursue the Holy Grail. Then, when the Holy Grail appears is judged as "true" by the Church of the Holy Grail, its battle will break out naturally. The battle to pursue this Holy Grail as a holy relic is the Holy Grail War in a broad sense.

The Holy Grail War in Tomoki City

Every sixty years, the Holy Grail will appear in Toshiki City. It has the power to realize no matter what wish it is. There is only a group of emperors and servants who have obtained this right... This is the Holy Grail War in Toshiki City. However, it is essentially a huge ritual system planned by the three families of Einzberen, Tosaka and Machiri to reach the "roots".

Keywords used to interpret the Holy Grail War

The Holy Grail War is a large-scale magic ritual with frequent appearance of exclusive nouns. Even readers who have experienced the story will find it a little difficult to grasp the overall picture. Therefore, the explanation will be started from the basic elements here.

Little Holy Grail

The prizes received by the winner of the Holy Grail War are actually nothing but tools to keep the soul of the dead servant and necessary equipment to achieve the third magic.

The Great Holy Grail

A large-scale magic array built on the underground of Zangshan Mountain where Liudong Temple is located. This array has the responsibility to draw the necessary magic power of the ritual from the spiritual veins of Touki City and store it.

The third magic

The magic that Einzberen family has been passed down since ancient times. It is also known as the "Glade of Heaven". It is "materialization of the soul"... in other words, it is used to realize the magic that is truly immortal.

Dongmu City

It exists in a local city somewhere in Japan. It becomes the stage of the Holy Grail War every sixty years. In the fires caused by the Fourth Holy Grail War ten years ago, a large number of citizens lost their lives.

Slave[servant]

The souls of heroes who have been upgraded to superhuman existence after death are called "Heroic Spirits". They are summoned to the present through rituals, making them into servitudes, and these beings are called servants.

Master[master]

The magician who was recognized by the Holy Grail and successfully summoned his servants was called the "Master of the Lord". Becoming a Master of the Lord is the qualification to participate in the Holy Grail War.

Order mantra

The master can perform absolute command rights on the servants. Use the magic power of the Great Holy Grail as a seal composed of three strokes and engraved on the master's body. Each time it is used, one stroke will disappear, and it will disappear after three times. The servants will absolutely not be able to resist the commands issued by using the mantra. At the same time, the power of the mantra can also be used to force the servants to exert their power beyond their abilities.

Magic Society

The organizer of the Holy Grail War. The origin can be traced back to the mutual aid association of magicians originating in medieval Europe. In order to prevent the mystery from being leaked to the secular world, secretism is implemented. Needless to say, the vigilance of the outside world has also become a nest of suspicion and planning. The headquarters is located in London, the capital of England, and has the nickname of "Clock Tower".

Church of the Holy Church

The supervision organization of the Holy Grail War has a "universal" meaning and controls the inner side of the world's largest religion. It describes the love of God, and while putting it into practice, it is also keen to search for "heretics" that violate the doctrine (magic ranks first) and then kill them. It has been in opposition to the Magic Society since ancient times, but now it is nominally "inviolating mutual inviolability".

The structure of the Holy Grail War

The Holy Grail War held in Tomki City is different from other regions. Usually, as long as someone gets an item regarded as the Holy Grail War, the Holy Grail War will end. However, the Holy Grail in Tomki City is the prize given to the only remaining winner. There are certain rules in this war, and the number of participants is also limited. It can be said that it is very similar to the sports meeting. If the point of "it will indeed die" is eliminated. 1: Absorb magic power from the earth veins.

The Great Grail draws magic from the earth veins of Touki City. If you sharply seize a huge amount of magic, it will cause the earth veins to dry up. Therefore, it must take time to proceed slowly. It will take about sixty years to gather the magic required for a Holy Grail War.

2: Select the Lord

When the magic power that is sufficient to summon seven followers is stored, the Great Grail will select a magician suitable to be the Lord and grant a "Omen" mole. The candidates must quickly begin preparing for the ritual of summoning followers.

3: Summoning ceremony

The summoning of the servant requires complex magic rituals. As a model, the spiritual and physical nature of the heroic spirit and the summoner is self-evident, but the most important thing is to have a deep abyss catalyst with the heroic spirit. Summoning the servant is a ritual that human power cannot reach, but the assistance of the Great Holy Grail makes it possible.

4: Contact of the Great Grail

When a summoning ceremony is held, the Great Holy Grail will be connected to a place called the "Heroic Spirit Seat" that is separated from the usual timeline, and find out the heroic spirits corresponding to the catalyst used in the ceremony. Without the catalyst, heroic spirits will be randomly selected, but the character and situation of the summoner will also have an impact. When summoning, the heroic spirits exchange the present realm and are forced to "absolutely obey the order spell."

5: Carve a mantra for the Lord

The seat of the Lord is on a first come first served basis. At the moment the seven followers are summoned, the remaining candidates will be disqualified from participating. Moreover, the successful summoner will be awarded a mantra corresponding to the servant. The source of the power of this mantra is also the Great Holy Grail.

6: Summon the follower

Once the summoning is successful, the heroic spirit will complete the present realm in the form of a follower. At the same time, it will be assigned to one of the seven ranks. In principle, one follower will be assigned to. Which rank is assigned to is determined based on the characteristics of the heroic spirit as the model.

7: The Lord and the Sect

As the "responsibility" for the servant to stay in the present world, the master is necessary and indispensable. With the help of the master-slave contract, both sides become combat partners in the Holy Grail War.

8: The beginning of the war

When seven groups of masters and servants are gathered, the Holy Grail War will begin. The war will not end until the last group is left. In addition, as long as the minimum rules are followed, "Mysterious Hiddenness", there are no means of prohibition in this war. Violence, wisdom and despicable traps are all allowed.

9: Recycling the soul of the servant

The souls of the servants who are defeated or lost to the Lord and cannot maintain their existence will be recycled by the Little Holy Grail and detained until the end of the war. The souls of the servants collected will complete important tasks in the final stage of the ritual performed by the Great Holy Grail.

10: The Road to "Roots"

"Root", that is the destination of all magicians, and is regarded as the "start and end of all things on the outside of the world, recording everything in this world, and creating the throne of gods in the world". The Holy Grail War in Touki City injected the souls of the six dead servants into the small Holy Grail, using their power to return to the "Heroic Spirit Seat" on the outside of the world, to open holes in this world, and fix this hole with the huge magic power accumulated in the Great Holy Grail, thus creating a door to go outside the world. This is the real purpose of the Holy Grail War. From a systematic perspective, the lords who were fished by the bait of the "Holy Grail is a wish machine" are just needed as the support of the servants, and they are useless after the summoning stage of the servants.

The founding of the Holy Grail War

At the end of the 18th century, some Westerners set foot on the land of Japan. Justeazelizrichvoneinzbern. Machiri Zorgen. Everyone was a man walking in the extraordinary way, that is, a magician. In Japan, they acted to implement a plan, that is, to complete the Holy Grail. Why did they choose Japan? Because this is a foreign country that cannot be reached by the surveillance eyes of the church hostile to the magicians.

The founding three imperial families

Land Provided: Tosaka

System Responsibility: Einzberen

Responsibility: Machiri

Einzberen

A famous magician who is good at alchemy, one of the three lords who built the system of the Holy Grail War in Touki City. They are extremely powerful in the operation of precious metals. Because they are specialized in the research of their fields, they are slightly inferior in the application of magic combat. When building the system of the Holy Grail War, the one who created the small Holy Grail and the Great Holy Grail was Einzberen. He activated the Great Holy Grail, used its power to fix the hole heading to the "root" and reached the "that side". The method used for this is the "third magic" circulated by the Einzberen family.

"Saint of Winter" Yustisa

Two hundred years ago, the female magician who formulated the system of the Holy Grail War and implemented it. In order to become the heart of the Great Holy Grail, she was engraved with a huge magic circuit like Ilia. She is still in the center of the Great Holy Grail, but her personality has disappeared.

Machiri [Makiri]

A famous magician who is good at creating magical devils. He planned the system of the sects in the Holy Grail War, that is, the follower, and invented the technique of "bounding them with spells", which is Machiri's achievements. His original family name was Zorgen [ゾォルゲン], but since he moved to Japan, he changed the name Machiri to Matou as his family name. The body of his descendants gradually lost the magic circuit, and now he is in a state of complete decline. Machiri, designed by the Holy Grail War, is the real purpose of "aborting all evil". In other words, it is to destroy the "karma" that mankind possesses. He believes that this can only be achieved by reaching the root. Although he is arrogant, it can be said to be a glorious ideal of nobleness and highness. However, this ideal has obviously disappeared from the spirit of the Machiri family.

(Translator's note: The Roman pronunciation of Makiri is makiri; there are two pronunciations of "Tung" in Japanese: kiri and tou)

Machiri Zorgen

The magician who volunteered to "abuse all evil" and injected his heart into the creation of the Great Grail. In order to witness his future, he did not hesitate to turn his body into a bug in order to prolong his life. However, the long time eroded his soul and turned his soul into a collection of obsessions.

Tosaka

Since ancient times, a famous magician who has managed the spiritual veins of the Land of Tonki. He is good at transferring power to gemstones. The one who provides land to the Holy Grail War relationship is Tonsaka. Although it is a Japanese family, the singing and rituals of spells are performed in German. Since the teacher who teaches Tonsaka magic is Zelridge. In addition, the Tonsaka family has a troubling trait. The "that" that is often launched at a fatal moment is "accidental". Tonsaka Rin's father, Tonsaka, died due to this gift.

Tosaka Nagato

When the Tosaka family was designed the Holy Grail War, they were the master of the magician who studied under Zelridge, and dreamed of using the Great Holy Grail to go to the roots. They were also Christian believers who were banned in Japan at that time.

[Witness] "Master of Demonic" Kischurzelretchschweincom

There are only five "magic envoys" in the world. They served as witnesses when the Great Holy Grail was created. "Master of Magic", "Gemstones [Gemstones]", "kaleidoscope", "Time Eternal" and so on, and many old people with nicknames. Five things that are impossible to achieve by magic or science are called "magic"; and the human beings who can cause it are "magic envoys". They once fought with the existence of "Zhu Yue", but despite their victory (draw?), they became seriously aged and their strength decreased. At that time, they were sucked by Zhu Yue and turned into a vampire, and their names were included in the list of "Twenty-Seventh Ancestors of the Dead" symbolizing the strong vampire.

The magic that Zelridge exercised is something called the "second magic", and with this magic, he was able to walk freely in multiple parallel worlds. His personality was a complex and strange thing like "mocking good for evil and indignation". As a powerful existence, he unexpectedly frequently involved in secular affairs and caused troublesome people who caused disputes.

And in the Magic Association, becoming a "Zelrich's disciple" is synonymous with being a useless person. Tosaka Nagato is a rare talent who returns nothing after becoming his disciple.

He is both a magician and a magician at the highest peak, "Magic Marshal" Kissia. His posture is strong and powerful. His style is really enough to be called "Old To Become Strong".

The History of the Holy Grail War

About two hundred years ago, Einzberen and Machiri from Europe came to Japan, which was beyond the reach of the Magic Society. From the time when Tosaka was in contact with Tosaka, the ideal spiritual land of Toshiki, the history of the Holy Grail War began. The history of this repeated trial and error until modern times, but the continuous large-scale magic ritual was written side by side with representative events that occurred in various periods, and pursued the changes of the times.

(Translator's note: Trial and error [?Product??]: Choose a possible solution to use it on the problem. If it fails, choose another possible solution and continue to try it.)

The World History of the Holy Grail War Japan History

About 1790

Preparation for the Holy Grail War

Around 1790, Einzberen and Machiri arrived in Japan. After that, ten years were spent preparing for the First Holy Grail War.

About 1800 years

The First Holy Grail War

In the initial Holy Grail War, no formal rules were set in advance; the Lord as the "participant" had a weak consciousness; because there was no current mantra, the followers did not obey the orders, etc., and they failed before the appearance of the ceremony was formed. The place where the Holy Grail came was Liutong Temple.

About 1860

The Second Holy Grail War

In view of the first failure, a session was held after planning the details and rules. Although the "Ship System" was completed and the Lord was able to serve the followers at will, the ceremony ended in failure. The place where the Holy Grail came was Tosaka Mansion.

About 1930

The Third Holy Grail War

A session held on the eve of World War II. The Imperial Army and the Nazis also joined in the small Holy Grail and fought with the imperial capital as the stage, but failed because the small Holy Grail was destroyed. The place where the Holy Grail came was the Church of Tomki. The Great Grail swallowed Angora Manuel and was polluted.

About 1990

The Fourth Holy Grail War
To be continued...