The Holy Grail War is a ritual in which the Holy Grail, an all-purpose vessel that can grant any wish, is at stake. Seven Masters, chosen by the Holy Grail, summon Servants and kill each other for their own desires.
Ten years ago in Fuyuki City, when Emiya Kiritsugu entrusted his wish to the Holy Grail, the curtains opened on the Fourth Holy Grail War.
Introducing all the Masters: Emiya Kiritsugu
Overview
Height: 175cm
Weight: 67kg
Birthday: November 11th
Star sign: Scorpio
Blood type: AB
Image color: Gray
Special skills: Shooting, sabotage
Likes: Efficiency
Weaknesses: Family love
Nemesis: Saber
CV: Koyama Rikiya/Irino Miyu (as a boy)
The adoptive father of Emiya Shirou, the protagonist of "Fate/stay night", and the biological father of Illyasviel von Einzbern.
He is Saber's master in the Fourth Holy Grail War and the protagonist in "Fate/Zero".
A magician with a worn-out coat and the smell of gunpowder and tobacco. His eyes are dead.
Character Profile
He has always maintained the absolute belief and method of sacrificing the few in order to save the many, and to do so he even killed Natalia, who was his teacher, partner, and like family to him.
However, he is actually a kind-hearted man who loves his family and friends, so every time he puts these beliefs into practice, he suffers from guilt and the pain of loss, and sheds tears.
If Shirou is a "robot pretending to be a human," he is described as a "human pretending to be a robot."
He detests the very concept of Heroic Spirits as "beings that drive people into conflict," and his willingness to use any means to carry out his beliefs also made him incompatible with Saber.
In the story of "Fate/Zero," he is recruited by the Einzberns for the Fourth Holy Grail War because of his military record. His hopes for the Holy Grail are "the eradication of war" and "the realization of permanent peace."
He summoned Saber for the Fourth Holy Grail War, but he himself wanted to be a Caster or Assassin. In fact, there are many Assassin Servants who do not bring personal feelings into the situation, so in that sense, he is a good match for them. Either way, it is certain that he is a good match for Servants who show their true worth by taking measures.
Abilities
The origins are "cutting" and "binding". The magical attributes are dual, "fire" and "earth", related to their respective origins. Although his aptitude as a master is normal, he often uses tactics and methods that magicians avoid, such as bombings and sniping, in order to outwit the common ways of magicians. That is why he is nicknamed "Magician Killer".
Time Alter
An adaptation of the Emiya family's traditional "time manipulation" magic for combat.
Normally, it is a large-scale magic with a complicated ritual, but by "limiting the range of the unique barrier to within the body and only manipulating the speed of time passing within one's own body," it can be activated with just two bars of chanting, and is used in battle.
Origin Bullet
A bullet loaded with Kiritsugu's own ribs ground into powder. When shot through, Kiritsugu's origins of "cutting" and "connecting" are manifested, bringing about irreversible transformation and destruction.
When this bullet is used to shoot through magic, all of the magic circuits of the magician who used that magic are severed and then reconnected in a mess. At the same time, a destructive feedback occurs in the magic circuits in proportion to the strength of the magic being activated, and in the worst case, it is the true essence of the "magician killer" that causes irreversible damage.
Thompson Contender
A gun for firing origin bullets. It is a real gun. It has a very simple structure, and its feature is that it can use various types of bullets, from pistol bullets to rifle bullets, just by replacing the barrel and a few parts. Due to its structure, it does not have a magazine and does not have an automatic ejection function, so it is necessary to manually eject and reload after each shot. However, it is made sturdy and can easily fire bullets with enough penetration power to pierce the exterior panels of a car from a concealed handgun-sized gun.
Introducing all the Masters: Kotomine Kirei
Overview
Birthday: December 28th
Star sign: Capricorn
Blood type: Type B
Age: 28/24 (Yojyō), 38/34 (Gōjyō)
Height: 185cm (Yojyō), 193cm (Gōjyō)
Weight: 82kg (Yojyō and Gōjyō)
Image color: Black
Special skills: Training (Yojyō), nothing in particular (Gōjyō)
Likes: Training (Yojyō), misfortune (Gōjyō)
Dislikes: Drinking alone (Yojyō), trust (Gōjyō)
Nemesis: Kiritsugu Emiya
Theme song: Church on the Hill
CV: Jouji Nakata
Throughout all routes, he explains the outline and rules of the Holy Grail War to Shirou Emiya, who is caught up in it, and at the same time he digs into his emotional wounds and implicitly encourages him to participate.
The opening line is a prime example of this, but it is well-known that it is actually a misplaced encouragement.
Character Profile
A broken man who cannot see what everyone else finds beautiful. He was born loving evil more than good, and takes pleasure in the pain of others. When he was young, he was a straight-laced young man who was tormented by his character as a person and as a priest, but in "Stay Night", he breaks away from his master's teachings after his wife commits suicide, and in "Zero", he breaks away from them after the Fourth Holy Grail War.
After breaking away from them, he works in the shadows for his own pleasure, as if he has attained some kind of enlightenment.
His faith is warped, but it is genuine. He is not a villain, but he is a bad person. He's not cruel, but he is evil.
By the way, the name "Kirei" was given to him by Risei, as it meant "be pretty, pure and beautiful", but Kirei never understood what Risei meant by "beautiful".
With the help of his connections in both the Holy Church and the Mage's Association, he succeeded his father as the official supervisor of the Fifth Holy Grail War. He knew Bazette from his time as a Deputy, a participant in the Holy Grail War sent by the Mage's Association, and asked for her advice, then tricked her into attacking. He stole her Command Spells and her Servant Lancer, and with Gilgamesh, who was incarnated and manifested in the world during the Fourth Holy Grail War, he now effectively has two Servants, and begins working behind the scenes to make the other participants suffer even more.
Abilities
An excellent agent, and a master of the agent-specific throwing sword "Black Key". He is also a master of Bajiquan. However, unlike his father's legitimate Bajiquan, Kirei's, which was trained in actual combat, has become his own unique human destruction technique.
He defeated both Irisviel, a first-class magician, and Maiya Kuu, a first-class assassin, with a crushing victory (even though he held back so as not to kill them in order to interrogate them).
In his direct confrontation with Emiya Kiritsugu, he knocked him out with one punch, and would have been finished on the spot if Kiritsugu had not gained the infinite healing ability backed up by a Noble Phantasm.
Because his magical aptitude is specialized in "opening wounds," his spiritual channeling and healing magic is not only superior to that of his master Tokiomi, but he is also a magician of the "creator" level, with few spiritual channeling doctors as strong as Kirei in the Association. He has also mastered the church's baptismal chant, and his attack power against spirits is outstanding.
By the way, at the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War, he inherited from his father the Command Spells that had been recovered unused from previous Holy Grail Wars.
Introducing all the masters Tohsaka Tokiomi
Overview
Birthday: June 16th
Star sign: Gemini
Blood type: O
Height: 177cm
Weight: 68kg
Image color: Crimson
Special skill: Chess
Likes: Tea time
Dislikes: Foul attacks, unexpected situations
Nemesis: Irisviel von Einzbern
CV: Hayami Shou
The fifth head of the Tohsaka family, one of the three great families that created the Holy Grail War, and the master of Archer in the Fourth Holy Grail War. He is a very magician-like person (in the world of "Fate (TYPE-MOON)"), and as a proper magician, he enters the Holy Grail War with the aim of reaching the roots.
Character Profile
He was not originally a particularly talented magician, and was a mediocre character among the Tohsakas. However, his self-control and self-discipline are strong, and he approaches things with several times the training and multiple layers of preparation required, and has always produced results. He is a person who is faithful to the family motto "Always be graceful" and puts it into practice, but at the same time, he also has a strong sense of "carelessness" that is unique to the Tohsaka family.
Although he is a cunning and ruthless magician, he also has a deep fatherly love, which is rare for a magician, and he is troubled by the fact that his two daughters are of such rare talent that they will likely only be able to choose a life as magicians.
Born with a talent that is a curse, his daughters have no way to survive other than to master magic, and in the magician society where magic is passed down from father to son, there can only be one successor who can be given the protection of the Tohsaka family.
If they do not become successors, they will be shunned from magic and live as an ordinary human, but Sakura, who was born with rare abilities as a magician, will not be allowed to do this, and he fears that her only future will be that she will be protected or abducted by the Magic Society and turned into a specimen preserved in formaldehyde for research.
Abilities
Through his training, he has become a magician who is highly regarded even at the Clock Tower, and even in the story, he shows his outstanding skills (in less conspicuous places). His magic attribute is fire.
His magical outfit is an extra-large ruby that contains the magical power that Tokiomi has spent his life refining, and it is inlaid in the grip of his oak walking stick. By the way, it does not seem to be a disposable gem magic.
During the Holy Grail War, he is in contact with Kotomine Risei, who is the supervisor, and after plotting multiple schemes, such as adding Assassin Master Kotomine Kirei to his ranks, he summons the Hero King as a Servant and prepares to face the War with great anticipation. He has the utmost respect for Gilgamesh, but as an Archer Servant, Gilgamesh is merely a replica of Gilgamesh and is on the same level as an idol, and although he does respect him to a certain extent, he sees him as a tool to achieve his own goals.
Introducing all the Masters: Keinesu
Overview
Height: 181cm
Weight: 62kg
Birthday: April 11th
Star sign: Aries
Blood type: B
Image color: Brass
Special skills: Painting, sculpture, crafts
Likes: Himself
Dislikes: Fools
Nemesis: Kiritsugu Emiya
CV: Takumi Yamazaki
A member of the Magic Society, a magician at the Clock Tower. He is the head of the Archibald family, a distinguished family of magicians that has been around for nine generations, and the Lord of the Clock Tower Mineral Department.
Master of Lancer in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
The ninth head of the Archibald family, a distinguished family of magicians that has been around for over 500 years, and a first-class lecturer in the "Evocation Department."
Character Profile
He has rare talent, and his ridiculous versatility, which shows his talent in various genres of magic, is reminiscent of Hiraga Gennai or Cao Cao. However, as he is an aristocrat and a researcher, he has little experience in actual combat.
The reason he went to the trouble of participating in the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki was to add a "war record" to his career, not because he had any desire for the Holy Grail itself.
Because he was born into a noble family, he has a high sense of pride. He also wrote that he is jealous and has a harsh temper. However, he would never let his emotions get the better of him and lose his composure.
He also considered his own status and achievements to be "natural facts" that came with his talent, and was not proud or haughty about them.
Abilities
He has a rare dual attribute of "wind" and "water". He is an expert not only in necromancy, which he teaches, but also in summoning and alchemy.
Kayneth's magical power is imbued in mercury called "Vormen Hydragram," a powerful magical outfit that can freely change hardness and weight and can be used as both a weapon and armor. It also has auto-defense and auto-detect capabilities.
Introducing all the Masters Matou Kariya
Overview
Height: 173cm
Weight: 55kg
Birthday: March 22nd
Star sign: Aries
Blood type: AB
Image color: Blue-green
Specialty: Document creation
Likes: Short trips, photography
Dislikes: Extravagant things
Natural enemies: Matou Zouken, Tohsaka Tokiomi
CV: Araki Tarusuke
He is the younger brother of Matou Tsuruno, head of the Matou family at the time of the Fourth Holy Grail War, and is not a legitimate Matou magician.
Berserker's master.
He sacrifices his remaining life to participate in the Holy Grail War in order to save Matou Sakura, who took his place, and to win the love of her mother, Tohsaka Aoi.
Although his magical talents are superior to his brother's, he hated Matou's magic and ran away from home 11 years ago.
Character Profile
Although he was born a magician, he is an ordinary person in terms of values and sensibilities, and hates the unique way of thinking and pride of magicians. Since he has not lived as a magician, he values and values an ordinary life and family. For this reason, she is at odds with magicians who decide the life of their children based on the innate magical abilities rather than on the individual.
She was a childhood friend of Tokiomi's wife, Aoi Tohsaka, and had a secret crush on her for a long time.
However, becoming a wife of the Matou family is synonymous with becoming food for the insects, and in order to make her accustomed to the Matou family's unique curse (magic using insects), she must endure harsh attacks such as parasitism, rape, and being turned into a breeding ground by tentacle-like insects. Kariya was unable to confess his feelings to Aoi because he did not want to subject her to such suffering. Furthermore, since Aoi was in contact with Tokiomi at the time, he ran away and withdrew from the situation.
By withdrawing from the situation, Kariya was able to avoid using Aoi as food for the insects, but when he found out that Zouken Matou had adopted Sakura instead and was training her to be a magician to succeed the Matou family, he persuaded Zouken to return Sakura to Aoi. He made a deal with Sakura that if he participated in the Holy Grail War and won, there would be no need for her to continue using Matou magic.
Since magic is passed down to only one child, the Tohsaka family had no choice but to adopt a second child, but Kariya hated Tokiomi for abandoning Aoi's child in accordance with this magician's common sense, and also hated magician common sense itself.
Abilities
With guidance from Zosuki (although it is unclear whether this can be called a magic), he can use magic to control insects. His trump card is the command of a swarm of carnivorous insects called "Winged Blade Bugs" that can even crush beef bones. However, the insects are weak to fire, so they are a terrible match up against Tokiomi, who specializes in fire magic.
Not only is he a mediocre magician, he also has a Berserker that consumes a lot of magical power, so his magical situation is always tight. Furthermore, using magic comes at the cost of over-exciting the Marked Bugs, destroying his own body. In other words, just using magic is so painful that it literally makes him vomit blood. A magician who is truly "next to the danger of death".
Introducing all the masters Waver Velvet
Overview
Birthday: October 3
Star sign: Libra
Blood type: B
Height: 157cm
Weight: 50kg
Image color: Warm gray
Special skills: Deduction, sorting out key points
Likes: Puzzles in general, detective novels
Weaknesses: Strength
Nemesis: Self
CV: Daisuke Namikawa
Rider's master in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
A student at the Clock Tower in London. 19 years old. He had parents, but they died several years ago.
He is the third generation of the Velvet family as "magicians", but he is the first to have seriously studied magic, so his history as a magician is actually very short.
Character Profile
His magical circuits and magic crests, which are the assets of a magician, are extremely poor, and he tries to make up for the difference with effort and talent, but those around him don't pay him any attention.
That is why he is harshly criticized by "straightforward" magicians such as Kayneth and Tohsaka Tokiomi in the story. On the other hand, although his intentions are different, he is highly regarded by heretics or unconventional people such as Emiya Kiritsugu, Iskandar, and Gilgamesh.
He is a narcissist who does not hesitate to believe in himself as excellent, but in reality he is so immature and untalented that he cannot even perfectly hint at ordinary people.
In fact, he is fully aware of his own lack of talent and ability, but it seems he was unable to admit it due to his youth.
During the Holy Grail War, he was made to face the reality of his own lack of talent in magic, and took over the research of Kayneth, who was defeated in the war, and came to acknowledge the necessity of Kayneth's talent and his generation.
Although he has many shortcomings as a magician, he is top-notch when it comes to producing others, and later becomes a successful educator.
Abilities
His abilities as a magician are average. Although it is not directly related, he is familiar with modern technology and machine operation, which magicians dislike, and has flexible values that are not bound by conventions.
The magic he uses in the story includes hypnotic suggestion, controlling familiars, night vision, and basic alchemy. Although it is somewhat inferior to other magicians who appear in the story, the types are diverse.
He is not originally an expert in alchemy, but he happened to learn it when he was a student of Kayneth while he was at the Clock Tower.
By using this alchemy to steadily analyze water quality, he was able to locate the hiding place of Caster's faction.
He used the magic of suggestion on an elderly foreign couple named Mackenzie who were living in Japan. He used this to suggest that he was their grandson, and stayed at their house during the Holy Grail War. This was because he was unable to afford the expenses of his stay in Japan.
Introducing all the masters Uryu Ryunosuke
Overview
Birthday: January 31st
Star sign: Aquarius
Blood type: B
Height: 174cm
Weight: 65kg
Image color: Purple
Special skills: Witty talk, destroying evidence
Likes: Boredom
Dislikes: Family love
Natural enemies: None
CV: Ishida Akira
A young man who became a pleasure killer and serial killer after repeatedly killing people in order to understand the meaning of "death".
Suffering from a "declining motivation" to kill, he discovered an old book about the Holy Grail War at his parents' house, and as a result of carrying out a "ritual murder" based on it in Fuyuki City, he accidentally summoned a Caster Servant.
Character Profile
Normally, he is so listless that he doesn't even feel like talking, but during murders he becomes humorous and talkative.
He was popular with girls at night, but the women who were attracted to him were turned into bloody lumps of flesh.
He was born with a lack of morality and ethics, and is puzzled by the fact that the artistic and philosophical aspects of his deeds are not recognized by society. He describes things that suit his sensibility as "cool".
To him, murder is art, so he has no interest in the victim's money or valuables. This is also one of the reasons he has evaded police investigations.
Abilities
Because he is not a traditional magician, he does not have magical abilities, but the magic circuits flowing in his blood are still alive, and because his ancestors imitated onmyoji, documents related to magic were left in the storehouse of his parents' house.
He has a genius technique for concealing evidence and disrupting investigations, and although he has killed over 30 people in a haphazard manner in the past, thanks to this skill, the investigation has never reached him.
This time, he made full use of his concealment technique, and the only ones who were able to find him were Waver, who traced him from a magical aspect that he had not considered, and Assassin, who followed them using his presence concealment skill.
Summary of introduction of all Masters
Each of the seven Masters has a different personality and wish for the Holy Grail, and therefore a different fighting style and relationship with Servants, which I think is one of the charms of Fate!
Next time we will introduce "Servants"!
Thank you for reading to the end.
