The Fuyuki Holy Grail War (冬木の聖杯戦争, Fuyuki no Seihai Sensō?), also called Heaven's Feel (ヘブンズフィール, Hebunzu Fīru?),[1] is a Holy Grail War ritual established in the 1800s in Fuyuki City, Japan, and a central element of the Fate series since its first installment, Fate/stay night. Established by the Three Founding Families of Tohsaka, Matou, and Einzbern, the magical community at large knows it as a competition to win a Holy Grail. Seven Magi are chosen by the Grail as Masters and, with support from the Grail, allowed to summon seven Servants to do battle. The winning pair, supposedly, will claim the Holy Grail and use it to grant their wish or wishes.
The ritual's true purpose is to use the combined energy of seven fallen Servants to burn a hole in reality, a gate to reach Akasha. However, the ritual's very premise is flawed: only a spiritual body like a Servant, not a flesh-and-blood Master, is capable of grasping the Grail and completing the ritual. As such, the final Master, instead of sacrificing their own Servant to perfect the Grail and reach the Root, must keep their Servant alive to claim an energy source that is much weaker, but still capable of granting far-reaching wishes to the final Master/Servant pair.
Even given the above, there has yet to be one real victory across all five wars. The first two attempts revealed significant magical and logistical issues that prevented the completion of the ritual, then the first fully-formed Grail War, the third, saw the summoning of Avenger Angra Mainyu. This event caused the Grail to become tainted by All the World's Evils, and any wishes made on it will manifest in the most destructive manner possible.
Overall, the Fuyuki Holy Grail War is a minor event in the World of Magecraft. As a conflict between Magi, the wars' preparation and decision-making are controlled by the Mage's Association. To avoid conflicts of interest, the Associate invites the Holy Church as Arbiters to onboard new Masters and neutrally enforce rules, although they only participate to assert their dominion over Christian relics and hope to confiscate the "Holy Grail" at the right opportunity.[2]
Origin[]
The original purpose of the ritual was to recover the Third Magic lost by the Einzberns, the "Cup of Heaven." Around 1790s,[Notes 1] Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, Nagato Tohsaka, and Zolgen Makiri created the system in order to create a gate leading to Akasha. At that time, the Mage's Association and the Church were locked in a battle to the death, so a land in the Far East, where the Church could not monitor, was chosen. The Einzberns provided the alchemy to create it and prepared the vessel for the Grail, the Tohsaka provided the necessary land and called forth the Servants, and the Makiri assembled the Magecraft to stabilize the starting materials and designed the Command Spells to command the Servants. Back when the Tohsaka were developing the ritual of the Heaven's Feel along with the Makiri and the Einzbern, Nagato's daughter played a greater role in the completion of the Holy Grail War system than her father.[4]
The Holy Grail War itself was devised by Justeaze, and she was to become the key of the ritual. The Greater Holy Grail of Fuyuki was created through forming a large circuit from many multi-layered Crests carved onto a bare rock over fifty meters in diameter. It was covered in multiple layers of circuits, while its many geometric figures turned in place. Justeaze stood in the center of the it, and became the key to reenacting the Third Magic. The Greater Grail would have only been just a Holy Grail without her, as her will was required to enact Heaven's Feel. Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg acted as a witness to the event.
Currently, only the Tohsakas want to reach Akasha, while the Einzberns and Makiri only want the completion of the Grail, that is, the revival of the Third Magic. However, both Zouken Matou and Shirou Emiya note these agendas are apparently impossible, as there was never a victor for the past four Heaven's Feels and the Grail became corrupted by Angra Mainyu after the Third War.
Procedure[]
The Great Grail requires sixty years in order to amass enough Mana to summon Servants, making the planning period span over generations.[5] If the Grail is unable to utilize its energy, that which is leftover can reduce the time to as little as a decade, such as in the case of the period between the Fourth and Fifth Wars.
The Grail selects potential Masters anywhere from years in advance to right before the start of the Holy Grail War. It favors those from the Three Founding Families[6] and then picks out suitable Magi through a mostly unknown process. There can be more than seven potential Masters, but only the first seven who manage to summon Servants gain Command Spells and the right to act as a Master. It is possible for other unchosen people to gain the right to act as Masters by contracting with Masterless Servants.
The Servants can be summoned in advance as well, but more than two months, such as in Berserker's case, is an anomaly. They can be summoned far away from the site of the ritual, allowing them to be initially summoned in Europe and then brought to Fuyuki. While played off as only a battle royal where the winner is granted a wish, the real point is to fill the vessel of the Grail with the souls of all seven Servants. Defeated Servants revert to being pure energy and, while they would normally disappear from the timeline by returning to the Throne of Heroes as information for the true Heroic Spirits, the Grail halts that process temporarily and collects them.
It is possible to make a wish upon it with only the power of five Servants, allowing it to grant most wishes. It is still incomplete, and will take at least six to bring it into form. Its true purpose, opening a hole to the Root, requires all seven Servants. Once the vessel is filled, the energy of the Heroic Spirits returning to the "Throne" is used by the Great Grail in a ritual to open a "hole" leading to Akasha. Due to the corruption of the ritual, most wishes will require great destruction. Kiritsugu Emiya realized the Holy Grail had been corrupted when it presented him a revelation of how it would grant his wish; instead of saving humanity, it showed him a utopia would exterminate all of humankind besides him, his wife, and his daughter. As a result, Kiritsugu rejected the Grail and attempted to destroy it. Within a decade his adopted son, Shirou, would complete this mission and ensure the malice within the tainted artifact would never threaten the planet again.
Though the maximum number of Servants is seven, there is an auxiliary reserve system within the Greater Grail to distribute Command Spells again to allow the summoning for seven more Servants. This was developed for the highly improbable situation that all seven Servants were to cooperate, but it would likely exhaust the Leyline of Fuyuki. It is to be used only as an emergency measure to have seven more Servants to oppose those that have joined up.[7]
Supervision[]
The First and Second Wars went unsupervised, but the chaotic Second Holy Grail War caused them to rethink the position. Japan had been in its period of civilizing at the time, so the possibility of witnesses spreading the serious damage occurring needed to be controlled, even in such a remote area. It is a conflict between Magi, so no one in the Mage's Association can act as a mediator because of the political implications. The three families instead sought out the Church, enemies to the Magi, an external authority. Because the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars utilize the name "Holy Grail", one of the Church's most sacred artifacts, the Church was forced to involve itself.
The Church acts under the pretense that they cannot ignore the possibility that the Fuyuki Holy Grail is the cup that received the blood of Christ, even though they know this is untrue. The Church still sends a supervisor because the Greater Grail is too powerful to ignore, and because they don't want someone to use the Grail for their own selfish desires. They are not concerned with Magi reaching the Root, but the possibility of a wish that affects the real world is too large a threat. The Church instead wishes to guide a Magus seeking the Root towards victory to keep such a possibility from happening. The Association also expresses a measure of interest in the ritual, so they dispatch Bazett Fraga McRemitz to participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War.
The Holy Grail War is unknown to the general populace. The Church is responsible for the cover up work, in which they manipulate information by modifying the memories of victims and covering up the battle damage while the Mage's Association handles the media. The Association has the Einzberns cover the cost of any collateral damage.[8] They will punish the landowner should it get too out of hand, such as in the Heaven's Feel scenario. The damage it causes in society and the assassination of Bazett are blamed on Kirei Kotomine, but the activation of the path to the Root gets Rin Tohsaka into a great deal of trouble. Such rituals are only supposed to be done under their supervision, but she also heard they wished to truly execute her because the path was closed even though they succeeded.
Wars[]
Fate/stay night world[]
First Holy Grail War[]
The First Holy Grail War (第一次聖杯戦争, Dai Ichi-ji Seihai Sensō?) took place in 1810,[Notes 2] but it was not meant to be anything like the future Holy Grail Wars. It was not named as such, only meant to be a ritual for the families to reach Akasha. It took ten years from its establishment to gather the necessary energy to manifest, but the Three Families originally planning to utilize it realized that the system could only allow for one person to utilize it. Though they had the same goals, their opinions on how to reach them were different, so the incomplete nature of the ritual caused them to break off their alliance. Instead, the families create the Heaven's Feel system to summon the Grail, and then fight for it amongst themselves.
Due to requiring seven Heroic Spirits to complete the ritual and seven Masters to summon them, the families had brought in four outside Magi with the call of "We've succeeded in manifesting the Grail. If you'd like to witness this miracle, join us and become Masters." Though the outsider Magi had only sought to learn about the ritual of activating the Grail, they used the internal quarrel as an opportunity to grant their own desires. Though the Three Families held the rights to the Grail, winning the conflict would allow them to obtain a wish regardless of the ancestry.
It was not a major conflict in the end, and can only be called a "small quarrel of sorts". From the point of view of the Einzberns, the first Holy Grail War ended before the completion. The evocation site of the Grail was held at Ryuudou temple on Mount Enzou.[3]
Second Holy Grail War[]
The Second Holy Grail War (第二次聖杯戦争, Dai Ni-ji Seihai Sensō?) was held sometime around the 1860's, and it was then that the Heaven's Feel ritual took on the name of the "Holy Grail War." Developing into a war for the second time, it pointed out shortcomings in the rules due to the war devolving into a murder spree in which nobody survived. It ended with no victor, and the Three Families took it as a lesson to create more precise rules such as bringing in a third party like the Church. The evocation of the Grail was held at Tohsaka mansion.[3]
Third Holy Grail War[]
The Third Holy Grail War (第三次聖杯戦争, Dai San-ji Seihai Sensō?) took place in 1939[7], on the eve of World War IIWP.[3] The fourth evocation site was confirmed and established, later becoming the center of the developing residential area of Shinto, the Fuyuki City Hall. Jubstacheit von Einzbern prepared the Einzbern Forest and Castle as the family's headquarters. The Tohsaka and the Edelfelt families were participants. The Edelfelts had two Masters, each with the same Saber-class Servant due to their unique Thaumaturgical Attribute.[9] The Einzberns, tired of losing out on reclaiming the Third Magic, subverted the usual system. Instead of summoning a Berserker, they attempted to summon the ZoroastrianWP god Angra MainyuWP as an Avenger.
The Church first interfered with the ritual in Fuyuki during the Third Holy Grail War, sending the then-young Risei Kotomine and charging him with the role of supervisor. While there, he became friends with the then-current head of the Tohsaka family (Tokiomi's father) and has maintained deep ties with the Tohsaka ever since.[10]
During the course of the war, the Lesser Grail was targeted by the Imperial Japanese Army and the Nazis as well, and the fighting unfolded in the Imperial Capital. Avenger, an exceptionally weak Servant with no special abilities, was lost early during the conflict. While the supremacy of the Saber class helped at least one Edelfelt to persist to the end of the war, they were ultimately defeated by the Tohsaka. The elder Edelfelt left Japan, vowing never to return, while the younger sister's fate is unknown.[11] The Lesser Grail was destroyed during the battles before the victor could be decided, so the ritual became meaningless and failed. The evocation site of the Grail was set to be at the Fuyuki Church.[3]
There was a meeting held at a suitable time that appointed Risei as the supervisor for the next Holy Grail War. The ritual ended in failure, but Avenger, Angra Mainyu, was absorbed and the Greater Grail was contaminated. Up until that point, only true Heroic Spirits were summoned, but that contamination allowed for "something other than a Heroic Spirit" (anti-heroes, villains, monsters, etc.) to be summoned during later Holy Grail Wars.[12][13]
Fourth Holy Grail War[]
The Fourth Holy Grail War (第四次聖杯戦争, Dai Yon-ji Seihai Sensō?) took place in 1994, 10 years before the events of Fate/stay night; supervised by Risei Kotomine. The corruption of Angra Mainyu took effect, allowing for the summoning of improper Servants like Caster Gilles de Rais.[13] The destruction of the Lesser Grail during the previous war led Jubstacheit von Einzbern to place it inside the body of a Homunculus, leading to the creation of Irisviel von Einzbern. The intention was to make sure the Lesser Grail would actually last until enough Servants were killed to begin the evocation of the Greater Grail. In previous wars, the Lesser Grail was stored as an inanimate object, and was fought over by the Masters. When the Greater Grail manifested Kiritsugu Emiya realized that it could not grant his wish, and betrayed his Einzbern patrons by destroying it. The cursed contents of the Grail spilled out onto Shinto and began a massive fire, the Great Fire of Fuyuki, killing 500 people and destroying 134 buildings.[14] The only surviving participants were Emiya Kiritsugu, Kirei Kotomine, and Waver Velvet. Gilgamesh also survived, fully reincarnating into his second life as a result of the cursed contents of the Greater Grail being dumped on his head.
Due to the inconclusive nature of the Fourth War, the Grail's failure to grant a wish to the selected victor, Kiritsugu, and the victor's subsequent destruction of the Grail. The Fifth Holy Grail war occured 50 years ahead of schedule, in 2004[3] instead of 2054. The unexpended thaumaturgical energy accumulated through the elimination of Servants was recycled due to the destruction of the Lesser Grail before the Greater Grail could direct the accumulated Mana to establish its pathway, thus trapping some of the unused Mana within the Grail.[15]
Kiritsugu had planned to demolish the ritual as of the proper scheduled time of the Fifth Heaven's Feel by arranging for the physical collapse of the Great Grail System before the originally estimated date. The process involved utilizing stocked dynamite and the manipulation of Ley-lines to ensure a severe localized earthquake in the targeted area within thirty to forty years of the Fourth War.[16] The premature occurrence of the Fifth Holy Grail War and the subsequent destruction of the ritual means that it no longer has a purpose.
Fifth Holy Grail War[]
Artoria and the Servants of the fifth War.
The Fifth Holy Grail War (第五次聖杯戦争, Dai Go-ji Seihai Sensō?) took place in 2004. Kirei Kotomine maintained his contract with Archer from the previous war, and though he was supposed to act as the impartial mediator from the Church, he mortally wounded Bazett Fraga McRemitz and took her Servant, Lancer Cú Chulainn.[17] The role of the Lesser Grail was to be performed by Irisviel's daughter, Illyasviel von Einzbern. While there were various possible scenarios, in Fate/stay night, Shirou Emiya (as shown in Fate), Rin Tohsaka (as shown in Unlimited Blade Works), or Sakura Matou (as shown in Heaven's Feel) emerged as the victor and helped in destroying the Grail rather than activating it.[18][19] The manifestation of Angra Mainyu seeking to grant a wish entangled Bazett in the events of Fate/hollow ataraxia. A corrupted version of the Fifth Holy Grail War in which the human population (including all the Masters) vanished and Fuyuki was all but destroyed manifested in the world of Fate/Grand Order as Singularity F.[20]
Yatagarasu speculates that, had the Fifth Holy Grail War gone badly, it could have become one of the "ends" that the hermits of the Atlas Temple speak of.[21]
Dismantlement of the Holy Grail[]
The Holy Grail was dismantled ten years after the Fifth Holy Grail War in 2014. Lord El-Melloi II, a previous Master in the Fourth Holy Grail War, arrived in Fuyuki with Rin Tohsaka to set out to completely dismantle the Greater Grail.[3][22] This development was against the Mage's Association's plan of reestablishing it, so the two sides were opposed. It caused great turmoil of the same magnitude as a Holy Grail War, the Dismantling War (解体戦争, Kaitai Sensō?), but the end result was the Greater Grail's dismantlement. This was the 'true end' of Fuyuki's Grail Wars and the Heaven's Feel system in the "Fate/stay night" timeline.[3]
While the Greater Grail is broken down after the events of the Heaven's Feel route, they would still seek to completely render the Holy Grail War impossible to restart. Differing from the dismantling of the Greater Grail in the routes where it remains intact, it would be more akin to demolishing it due to its broken state.[23]
Fate/Apocrypha world[]
Third Holy Grail War (Apocrypha)[]
Several participants of the Third Holy Grail War in the Fate/Apocrypha manga. Lancer and his Master Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia are in the center.
The Third Holy Grail War in the Apocrypha world differs from the version in the stay night world. Rather than Avenger Angra Mainyu, the Einzberns summoned Ruler Amakusa Shirou Tokisada. This ritual failed due to the Lesser Grail being destroyed.
Afterward, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, a Nazi-allied Magus, found the location of the Greater Holy Grail of Fuyuki in the caverns underneath Mount Enzou, and had it removed with aid from the Nazis. The Three Families and the Japanese Imperial Army fought to thwart the theft, but they were still exhausted from the fighting of the Third Holy Grail War. After the successful extraction, Darnic then betrayed the Nazis and took the Greater Grail to Romania, so that he could prepare for his own Holy Grail War in 60 years' time.
Fate/KOHA-ACE world[]
Third Holy Grail War[]
- Main article: Imperial Capital Holy Grail Strange Story Memoirs
The Third Holy Grail War of Fuyuki in Fate/KOHA-ACE is different from the Third Holy Grail War of other timelines, and it does not directly reflect the happenings of other worlds.
Fate/Grand Order world[]
First Holy Grail War[]
In the Fate/Grand Order timeline, the 2004 Holy Grail War ended up being the first and only Holy Grail War held in Fuyuki.[24] The winners were Marisbury Animusphere and his Caster Servant Solomon, who used the Greater Grail to fulfill their desires after having defeated all the other Masters and Servants.
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA world[]
Illya's World[]
The Fuyuki Holy Grail War of "Illya's World" was stopped before the ritual could be established in Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA. In this timeline, the Fourth Holy Grail War was to happen later, and while Irisveil von Einzbern exists, Illyasviel von Einzbern was still born for the purpose of acting as the Holy Grail, albeit born later. Due to this change, Irisviel and Kiritsugu Emiya were able to establish a proper relationship and family, and to protect their daughter, they decided to seal her memories meant for the war and destroy the ritual before it began.
After the Class Cards appear in Fuyuki, it is first thought to be remnants of the Holy Grail War, but Irisviel points out that only the names of the classes match the ritual. The Grail War of Illya's World would have used proper Servants, and the Class Cards do not match the planned ritual and are beyond anything that the Magi families could create. They are actually part of a ritual of a parallel world brought forth into the world of Fuyuki alongside part of the other world.
Miyu's World[]
- Main article: Ainsworth Holy Grail War
Fate/school life[]
Most Powerful Great Figures Chapter[]
The Most Powerful Great Figures Chapter (最強偉人篇, Saikyō Ijin-hen?) is a Holy Grail War detailed in the short animated segment Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's Universe: Seven Most Powerful Great Figures Chapter. Set in Fuyuki using the Fate/school life characters and Servants, it is a story fabricated by Friedrich Nietzsche's abilities.
Participants[]
The events of the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars are detailed in several stories. Some details of the Third Holy Grail War are mentioned in Fate/hollow ataraxia. The events of the Fourth Holy Grail War are described in Fate/Zero. The events of the Fifth Holy Grail War are detailed in Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow ataraxia.
| []War | Servant | Identity | Master |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Holy Grail War | Assassin | Hassan-i-SabbahWP | Unknown |
| Second Holy Grail War | Assassin | Hassan-i-SabbahWP | Unknown |
| Third Holy Grail War | Assassin | Hassan-i-SabbahWP | Unnamed Puppet user |
| Third Holy Grail War | Avenger (f/sn) or Ruler (f/a) |
Angra MainyuWP (f/sn) or Amakusa Shirou TokisadaWP (f/a) |
Einzbern Master |
| Third Holy Grail War | Saber | Unknown | Older Edelfelt Sister |
| Third Holy Grail War | Saber | Unknown | Younger Edelfelt Sister |
| Third Holy Grail War | Lancer | Fionn mac CumhaillWP | Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia |
| Third Holy Grail War | Unknown | Unknown | Tohsaka Master |
| Third Holy Grail War | Unknown | Unknown | Matou Master |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Archer | GilgameshWP | Tokiomi Tohsaka (Original Master) Kirei Kotomine Shinji Matou (UBW) Caren Hortensia (hollow/ataraxia) |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Assassin | Hassan-i-SabbahWP | Kirei Kotomine |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Berserker | LancelotWP | Kariya Matou |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Caster | Gilles de RaisWP | Ryuunosuke Uryuu |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Lancer | Diarmuid Ua DuibhneWP | Kayneth El-Melloi Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Rider | Alexander the GreatWP | Waver Velvet |
| Fourth Holy Grail War | Saber | King ArthurWP | Kiritsugu Emiya |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Archer | EMIYA | Rin Tohsaka Medea (UBW) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Assassin | Sasaki KojiroWP (self-proclaimed) |
Medea |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Avenger | Angra MainyuWP | Sakura Matou (Heaven's Feel) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Berserker | HeraclesWP | Illyasviel von Einzbern Sakura Matou (Heaven's Feel) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Caster | MedeaWP | Atrum Galliasta (Original Master) Souichirou Kuzuki Kirei Kotomine (Manga Adaptation) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Lancer | Cú ChulainnWP | Bazett Fraga McRemitz (Original Master) Kirei Kotomine Caren Hortensia (hollow/ataraxia) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Rider | MedusaWP | Shinji Matou Sakura Matou (True Master) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Saber | King ArthurWP | Shirou Emiya Medea (UBW) Rin Tohsaka (UBW) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Saber Alter | King ArthurWP | Sakura Matou (Heaven's Feel) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | True Assassin | Hassan-i-SabbahWP | Zouken Matou (Heaven's Feel) |
| Fifth Holy Grail War | Avenger | Angra MainyuWP | Bazett Fraga McRemitz (hollow/ataraxia) |
Notes[]
- ↑ In the original Fate/compelete material III.[3]. In Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. spring song it happened around 1700s.
- ↑ In Fate/stay night [Unlimited Bladeworks] Animation Elements - #15 A Battle of Legend, p.20. In the original Fate/compelete material III, it occurred around 1800.[3]
References[]
- ↑ TYPE-MOON Staffs' diary - 2005/10/19
- ↑
[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: Holy Grail War [Others], p.064-65 [T] Holy Grail War [Others]
A demonstration of the competition to acquire the Holy Grail.
If the so called Holy Grail had the same power as the Holy Grail in legends, then the battle for the fake was still called the Holy Grail War.
The Holy Grail War at Fuyuki City was special. Using a Servant system which employed Heroic Spirits as Familiars was something unique to Fuyuki City.
The preparation and decision-making were done by the Mages' Association. The Association also held most of the power over the matter. However, since the "Holy Grail" was part of the name, the Holy Church would not remain silent.
"Fake or not, we must control all the Holy Grails" ---- thus the Holy Church sent Arbiters to Fuyuki City, plotting to confiscate the Holy Grail when the opportunity emerged.
... the mages of the Association developed the game, but the rights were forcefully transferred to the Holy Church at the eleventh hour. I would say that was pretty unreasonable.聖杯【その他】
聖杯を得る為の競争行為を示したもの。
聖杯と称するモノが伝説上の聖杯と同じ能力があるのなら、偽物を巡る戦いでも聖杯戦争と呼ばれる。
冬木市の聖杯戦争は特殊で、英霊を使い魔にするサーヴァントシステムは冬木市だけのものなのだとか。
その準備、取り決めは魔術協会が行い、大部分の権利は協会が抑えているのだが、聖杯の名を冠する以上聖堂教会も黙ってはいない。
その真偽がどうであれ、聖杯は全て我々が管理する————と聖堂教会は冬木市に監督役を送り、隙あらば聖杯を魔術師たちから没収しようと企んでいる。
……ゲームソフトを作ったのが魔術協会に属する魔術師たちで、ゲームを動かすハードの利権を持っているのが聖堂教会というコトだ。あんまりと一言えばあんまりな例ですがっ。 - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
[] Fate/complete material III: World Material - Record of Heavens Feel - Holy Grail War: History of the Holy Grail War, p.007 1790s - The Holy Grail War preparation
In the 1790s, the Einzbern and Matou landed in Japan to fulfill their plan. Then, they proceeded with the preparations of the First Holy Grail war over the course of 10 years.
1800s - The First Holy Grail War
The first Holy Grail War. The rules were not laid out properly, and the Masters' sense of being “participants” was weak. Because there were no Command Spells as in the present, the Servants did not comply with orders, and so the rest of the ritual failed. The Descent of the Holy Grail was at Ryūdō temple.
1860s - The Second Holy Grail War
In light of the failure of the First, the ritual was held only after detailed rules were developed. The so-called "Command Spell System” was perfected/completed, so that it became possible for the Master to enslave the Servant, though the War was a failure. The Descent of the Holy Grail was at the Tōsaka Residence.
1930s - The Third Holy Grail War
Held on the eve of WWII. There were battles over the Lesser Grail with the Imperial Army and the Nazis as well, and the fighting unfolded in the Imperial Capital, but the Lesser Grail was destroyed and the ritual failed. The evocation site of the Grail was at Fuyuki Church. Angra Mainyu was taken in and the Greater Grail was contaminated.
1990s - The Fourth Holy Grail War
2000s - The Fifth Holy Grail War
Events told in "Fate / stay night", the latest and final battle.
2010s - The taking apart of the Holy Grail War.
Ten years after the Fifth War. Lord Emelloi II (real name, Waver Velvet. One of the Masters of the Fourth War) arrived in Fuyuki and together with the head of the Tohsaka line, set out to completely take apart the Great Grail. The Association was planning on bring back the Greater Grail, so the two sides were completely opposed. After the end of the great turmoil of the same magnitude as the Grail War, the Greater Grail was completely dismantled. The Grail Wars of Fuyuki came to a complete conclusion here.１７９０年頃 - 聖杯戦争の準備
１７９０年頃、アインツベルンとマキリが日本上陸を果たす。その後、１０年の歳月をかけて第一次聖杯戦争の準備を進める。
１８００年頃 - 第一次聖杯戦争
最初の聖杯戦争. ルールはロクに規定されておらず, マスターたちの"参加者"としての意識は希薄, 現在のような令呪がないためサーヴァントは命令に従わないなど儀式の休をなさず矢敗した. 聖杯降臨地は柳洞寺
１８６０年頃 - 第ニ次聖杯戦争
第一次の失敗を踏まえ, 細部のルールを整備して執り行われた回. "令呪というシスタム"が完成し, マスターがサーヴァントを思い通りに使役することが可能になったが, 儀式は朱敗に終わる.聖杯降臨地は遠坂邸
１９３０年頃 - 第三次聖杯戦争
第二次世界大戦前夜に執り行われた回。 小聖杯を巡り帝国陸軍やナチスを交え、帝都を舞台に戦いが繰り広げられたが、小聖杯が破壊され 失敗。聖杯降臨地は冬木協会。 アンリマユを取り込み、大聖杯が汚染された。
１９９０年頃 - 第四次聖杯戦争
２０００年頃 - 第五次聖杯戦争
『Fate/stay night』で語られた、最新にレて最後の戦い。これまでの聖杯戦争の締めくくりと呼ぶに相応しい激戦が繰り広げられた。で語られた、最新にレて最後の戦い。これまでの聖杯戦争の締めくくりと呼ぶに相応しい激戦が繰り広げられた。監督者の任にあつ言峰 綺礼が、本来の参加者であるバゼットを殺害してランサーのマスタ一になり代わるなど、不測の事態が数多く発生した回でもある。
２０１０年頃 - 聖杯戦争の解体
第五次聖杯戦争の10年後、ロード・エルメロイⅡ世（本名はウェイバー・ベルベット。第四次聖杯戦争のマスタ一のひとり）が冬木市を訪れ、遠坂家の当主と共に大聖杯の完全解体ヘと乗り出す。魔術協会は大聖杯の復興を策レていたため、両者は完全に対立。聖杯戦争にも匹敵する大騒動の未、大聖杯は解体される。冬木市の聖杯戦争は、ここで完全なる終結を迎えることとなる。 - ↑
[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: Tohsaka Nagato [Person's name], p.067 Nagato Tohsaka [Person's name]
The Tohsaka family head during the very first Holy Grail War, two hundred years ago.
He took part in the ritual at the request of Makiri Zouken and Justeaze.
Though traditionally the Tohsaka were a clan of secret Christians, one day a strange old man appeared out of nowhere and led them astray. Ever since then, they have devoted themselves to the world of sorcery.
With their contacts in the Holy Church and favorable treatment from the Association as disciples of a magician, they are in an enviable position.
It is due to their connections with both organizations that they were appointed the managers of Fuyuki.
At any rate, Nagato viewed sorcery and martial arts as equal, and was attempting to reach the Root via a state of mushin (no-mind) when he was recruited by the Einzberns and Makiri.
As you might expect from Rin's ancestor, he was prone to goofing up. Also, it seems that his daughter was the one with talent for sorcery, and ended up being far more useful in the construction of the Great Holy Grail than her father was.遠坂永人【人名】
とおさかながと。
二百年前、聖杯戦争を始めた遠坂の当主。
マキリ臓硯、ユスティーツァに協力を求められ、聖杯戦争に関わる。
遠坂の先祖は隠れて国外宗教の信徒をやっていた人だが、フラリと現れたへンな爺さんにこっちの道に勧 誘され、以後魔術の世界に傾倒した。
聖堂教会に多少顔がきき、魔法使いの弟子という事で魔術協会でも優遇されるおいしい家係。
冬木の土地を管理しているのも、両組織にパイプラインがあるからである。
永人は魔術と武術を等しく見ていた人物。
無の境地を経て根源に触れようとしていた所を、アインツベル ンとマキリに勧誘された。
凜の先祖なだけあって、わりとドジ。
魔術の才能は娘の方にあったらしく、大聖杯作成には永人より娘の方が力になったらしい。 - ↑ Fate/stay night- Heaven's Feel route - Day 15: limited. - Truth - Antihero Angra Manyu
- ↑ Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 4: Avenger - Holy Grail War, the beginning
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 1
- ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Holy Grail War, p.131
Q: The Holy Grail War is unknown to the general population, but to what extent is it hidden from normal people? Are the Church people (supervisors) manipulating the media and police (or even the governmental level) to cover it up?
The Holy Grail War is unknown to the general population, but to what extent is it hidden from normal people? Are the Church people (supervisors) manipulating the media and police (or even the governmental level) to cover it up?
A: The Church manipulates information, while the Magic Association handles the media. Also, the Association has the Einzbern cover the cost of any collateral damage. - ↑ Fate/hollow ataraxia - Heaven's Feel - 1/ Heaven Feel's Backnight I
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Kotomine Risei [Person's name], p.096 Risei Kotomine [Person's name]
Kotomine Kirei's father. A priest in the Holy Church's Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament.
When the Church first interfered with the ritual in Fuyuki during the Third Holy Grail War, he was charged with the role of supervisor. While there, he became friends with the then-current head of the Tohsaka family (Tokiomi's father), and has maintained deep ties with the Tohsaka ever since.
As a monk, he tried to reach enlightenment through asceticism, and he treated his task of recovering holy relics from around the world as a pilgrim's ordeal. He is a master of baji quan, and as the person responsible for teaching it to Kirei, his skill far outstrips his son's. As for precisely what kind of monster he is, well, just look at his burly, Mas Oyama-like physique and let your imagination run wild. His original design concept was "an older Steven Seagal".
However, Risei trained his fists solely for the sake of self-discipline and his search for truth. As he was never an "executor", he has no knowledge of killing arts that focus on the act of battle itself. Consequently, when it comes to things like trading blows with Dead Apostles, his son Kirei is much more accomplished. And of course, he isn't a magus, so superhuman magical martial arts like Kirei's are totally out of the question too.
Nevertheless, Kirei was probably acutely aware that as far as "orthodox baji quan" goes, his father was a better fighter than he was. What the old man had sought after all his life had been a realm beyond mere "killing arts", and through his long and outstanding career he had finally reached it.
It's too bad that he was unceremoniously removed from the stage by a single bullet before this inspiring history could even be hinted at in the story proper.
He must have been quite a sight back when he was young, during the Third Holy Grail War. Yes, definitely.言峰璃正【人名】
言峰綺礼の父親。聖堂教会、第八秘蹟会の司祭。
聖堂教会が初めて介入した第三次聖杯戦争より監督役としての任を負い、前回でも冬木での戦いを見守った。そこで時臣の父である当時の遠坂頭首と友誼を結び、以来、遠坂家と深い開わりを持ち
続ける。
苦行によって悟りを得ようとした修道士であり、諸国に散った聖遺物の回収を巡礼の試練として自らに課し、世界中を巡り歩いた過去を持つ。八極拳の達人であり、綺礼に拳法の手ほどきをしたの
も彼。実際、こと拳法の腕前においてはあの綺礼をも凌駕する。それってどんなバケモノですかと問うならば、あの逞しきマス・オーヤマ体型から色々と察していただきたい。キャラクター、デザイ
ンにおけるコンセプトは「老いたセガール」だったりする。
ただし璃正の拳は自己鍛錬と求道のために積み上げられた功夫であり、そもそも「代行者」ではない彼には戦闘行為そのものを目的とした殺人術の心得はない。よって死徒やら何やらと殴り合って
きた修羅場の数では、息子の綺礼の方がより凄惨である。もちろん魔術とも無縁であり、綺礼のような肉体強化によるマジカル拳法を揮うわはでもない――が、綺礼の目から見れば「正調の八極拳
」という意味では父親の方が拳士として格上であ��という認識だったのだろう。ただの殺人拳ではない、その先の領域を求めて功を積み、到達した老人であった。
まあそんな有り難い経歴は劇中で微塵も語られることなく、いきなり鉛弾一発で退場してしまうわけですが。
きっと彼も若かりし頃の第三次聖杯戦争では、色々と凄かったんじゃないかな。うん。 - ↑ Fate/hollow ataraxia - Night - Emiya's - In London
- ↑ Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 13: VS berserker - Interlude 13-1: Princess
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Fate/Zero Volume 4: Flames of Purgatory - Act 14 Part 4 -36:38:09
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero Animation Visual Guide II: The Fourth Holy Grail War Glossary: Fuyuki’s Great Fire [Other] Fuyuki’s Great Fire [Other]
A massive fire caused by the black mud that spilled out of the Holy Grail. Over 500 people died and 134 buildings were burned down. After the fire, the area was cleaned up and converted into Fuyuki Central Park.冬木大火災【その他】
聖杯から漏れた黒い泥によって引き起こされた大火災。犠牲者数は500名余り、134棟の建物が焼け落ちた。なお、現場となった住宅地は後に冬木中央公園となる。 - ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Holy Grail War, p.131
Q: Even though it should only happen every 60 years, was the 10 year gap between the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars as short as it was because the Lesser Grail was destroyed before the Greater Grail could direct the accumulated mana to establish its pathway trapped some unused mana in the Grail?Q: Even though it should only happen every 60 years, was the 10 year gap between the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars as short as it was because the Lesser Grail was destroyed before the Greater Grail could direct the accumulated mana to establish its pathway trapped some unused mana in the Grail?
A: That’s true. In fact, you could say that the function of the Greater Grail was already muddled when when it was impregnated with Avenger in the Third War. - ↑ Fate/Zero Volume 4: Flames of Purgatory - Epilogue: Five Years Later
- ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Miscellaneous, p.136
Q: Why did Bazett kill the magus sent from the Magic Association as her observer? If her official duty was to participate in the Holy Grail War on behalf of the Association, couldn’t she have cooperated with the observer to aim for victory?
Q: Why did Bazett kill the magus sent from the Magic Association as her observer? If her official duty was to participate in the Holy Grail War on behalf of the Association, couldn’t she have cooperated with the observer to aim for victory?
A: To put it frankly, it’s because the observer was dispatched by an opposing faction within the Association.Ｑ：バゼットは、なぜ自分の監視役である魔術協会の魔術師を殺そうとしたのでしょうか？聖杯戦争への参加が魔術協会からの正式な仕事であるならば、監視役と協力して勝利を目指すことはできなかったのでしょうか？
Ａ：ぶっちゃけ？協会でも違う派閥から派遣された監視役だったからです。 - ↑ Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 15: Utopia - Gold separation
- ↑ Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 16: EDEN - Holy Grail breakdown
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Fuyuki: The Contaminated City in Flames - Section 6: Shadow Servant
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 18: "As Dream and Reality are Both Illusion I"
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Accel Zero Order, ACT-3: Second Owner
- ↑
[] Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] III. spring song Animation Material - Kinoko and Takashi Q & A[T]
Q: Would Lord El-Melloi II still need to dismantle the Grail after Heaven's Feel?Q: Would Lord El-Melloi II still need to dismantle the Grail after Heaven's Feel?
Nasu: With the thing that broken, it'd be more of a removal than a dismantling, but still yeah, someone has to put on the work make sure it can never operate again.
Takeuchi: I mean, logically, if you have a device that can change the world, you can't just break it and call it a day.
Nasu: Opening an event is a lot of work, and cleaning up after it's done is just as much work... This words have been hitting me very close to home for the past 20 years.？ ＜＞
奈：
武：
奈： - ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Accel Zero Order Prelude
