Holy Grail

are wish-granters using the foundation of the Christian holy relic that received the blood of Christ. There have been many artifacts claimed to be the genuine article, at least 726 of which were investigated by the Holy Church,Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 3: long day, long night - Alter egoFate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 1 and many conflicts for such artifacts have happened around the world throughout history. 
The name is utilized in the various Holy Grail Wars as the name of an artifact purportedly capable of granting any wish to whomever comes to claim it, rather than the real artifact, though the Church often gets involved simply because of that reason. Its advent is the ultimate goal of the various Holy Grail Wars.
Each Holy Grail is in effect a mass of pure Magical Energy, which reacts to the wishes of the one who holds it in order to grant them; however, on their own they are not capable of generating true miracles without outside intervention. Left alone, they enter a purely reactive state, although they can spontaneously summon Servants as a defense mechanism should they be placed in abnormal situations like those encountered in the Grand Orders. As a rule, they do not take a physical form but can manifest in a variety of shapes depending on the circumstances of their formation. 
==Characteristics==
In larger Holy Grail Wars, there are acting at the core of the ritual and acting as the catalyst to start the Greater Grail through collecting the defeated Servants.
The term is used in relation to Holy Grails, the Seventh Heaven Art Graph of the Moon Cell, the Art Graph Holy Grails, and the Lesser Holy Grail of Tokyo.
==Known Holy Grails==
===Holy Grail Wars===
====Fuyuki====
The Holy Grail of the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars of Fuyuki City appears at the end of the war to grant the final Master and Servant pair a wish on the Greater Grail, the true device that has the power to grant wishes. Because it is only a vessel to summon the Greater Grail, it is known as the Lesser Grail.
What is handed down in the city of Fuyuki is not the one that received the blood of the Christ, but the prototype of an even more ancient "omnipotent container"; this container is the 726th Grail that sticks to the legend of the name. It is a gate that leads to the Root, Akasha; a hole connected to the nuclear core, the , a wish machine - the key to startup the Great Grail. It is not an omnipotent container, but a replica created to work like a "wish machine" that can bring forth one's own will.
====Moon Cell====
The term Holy Grail in Moon Cell differs from the standard "Wishing Device that can grant any wish", the Moon Cell Holy Grail is the "right to use Moon Cell".
====Tokyo Holy Grail War====
In the Tokyo Holy Grail War in Fate/Prototype, the Holy Grail is revealed to be an imitation Grail taken from the church by a Cardinal. It takes the form of a large cauldron and its purpose is to summon a higher-level being like an angel or the Beast of Revalations. Like with the Fuyuki Holy Grail, the Grail comes in two forms. The Lesser Grail or Symbol and the Greater Grail or Saint Graph. The Saint Graph is said to be able to contain souls and draws power from people's wishes. However as Saber notes, not all people wish with good intentions, making this Grail corrupt from the start.
In the First Holy Grail War, the Greater Grail is located in an underground lake beneath the Old Shimbashi Station Railway History Exhibition Hall.Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver Drama CD Vol 5 - CD 3 - Track 6
====Snowfield Holy Grail War====
Shortly after the Third Holy Grail War, a group of rogue Magi affiliated with the U.S. Government stole a piece of Fuyuki's GrailFate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 20: "Fantasy Becomes Reality" and used it to prepare a rival Holy Land upon the city of Snowfield, Nevada. Despite originally expecting it would take up to two centuries to prepare the land for a War, through unknown methods, they were able to start it a few years after the Fifth Holy Grail War.Fate/strange Fake Volume 2 - Chapter 5: Day 1, Dawn "The Shadow in the Dark"
The Magi were aware the original ritual was a marvel of mastery of the arcane arts, and were unable to perfectly copy it in its entirety. They were forced to alter the rite by initiating a "false" Holy Grail War in order to "prime the pump" for a "true" War to take place in Snowfield. The so-called False Holy Grail War came with many blurred lines, including the loss of the Saber template,Fate/strange Fake Volume 1 - Extra Chapter: "Betrayer" and allowing for the summoning of irregular Servants.
After the initial summoning of the six remaining Servants in the False Holy Grail War, the group of Magi forced the summoning of a Saber-class Servant, kickstarting the True Holy Grail War.Fate/strange Fake Volume 1 - Prologue VII: “Visitor & ●●●●“ Collectively, the two Wars in Snowfield are simply addressed as the Snowfield Holy Grail War.
====Ainsworth Holy Grail War====
The Holy Grail of the Ainsworth Holy Grail Wars of Fuyuki City instead of being provided by Einzbern family, which does not seem to exist in Miyu's world, is provided by the Sakatsuki family. It is mentioned by Gilgamesh that the Holy Grail War was rather created for Miyu Sakatsuki, the hidden descendant of the , instead of the opposite. With her birth, the Holy Grail was completed.Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 2wei! - Chapter 26: "Black Fate" At the end of the Fifth war, the young girl was placed in the Ten no Sakazuki cavern. Here, the winner needs to be in possession of the seven Class Cards used by the participants during the Ainsworth Holy Grail War, to be able to have his wish granted by the Holy Grail.
===="After" the Holy Grail War====
Years before the start of Fate/Requiem, several simultaneous Holy Grail Wars all occurred at once and became public knowledge, triggering World War III. The victors of the various Holy Grail Wars fought each other to claim more Holy Grails, aiming to climb higher and higher. Fuyuki was one of the fiercest battlegrounds, but the final winner was unknown. The ritual in Fuyuki was not completed, and the accumulated Magical Energy from its Holy Grail dispersed.
The victor of the world-spanning Holy Grail War was Chitose Manazuru, who organized the conflict into a tournament structure and came out on top with her Servant Lucius Longinus.Fate/Requiem Volume 2: Shinjuku the Nostalgic City - Chapter 11 Chitose asked the Grail to persist and distribute itself, becoming Holy Grails in the hearts of humans, terminal devices of the Stigmata.Fate/Requiem Volume 1: The Boy Among the Stars - Chapter 2 The Holy Grail also restructured the wards of Tokyo into Mosaic City for the survivors of the war to gather in.
Humans now have Holy Grails inside their hearts, giving everybody a partner Servant designated from birth, immunity to illness and disease, eternal youth, and Command Spells that regenerate over time via the Holy Grail's Magical Energy.Fate/Requiem Volume 1: The Boy Among the Stars - Chapter 1 The Magical Energy supplied to everybody by the Holy Grail via Mosaic City's Ley Lines can be used for simple Magecraft and is more than enough to sustain a Servant in everyday life with no discomfort.Fate/Requiem Volume 1: The Boy Among the Stars - Chapter 4
The Caren Series are human interfaces that allow the Holy Grail to communicate directly with the people of Mosaic City. A hybrid intelligence – the most valuable in the city – born of the fusion of summoning Magecraft, modelled on the kind that calls forth Heroic Spirits, and cutting-edge information engineering technology.
When Erice tiredly muttered "so the war isn't over yet" while in bed, she quickly clapped her hand over her mouth. That was a dangerous way to think, and if she wasn't more careful she would be removed by the Holy Grail.Fate/Requiem Volume 1: The Boy Among the Stars - Chapter 2
====Grand Order====
FGO Grail.png|A Holy Grail collected during the Grand Orders, manifested into a physical form.
Chaldea's Grails (anime).jpg|The Grails collected by Chaldea up to the Seventh Singularity, in the anime adaptation.
As part of the Incineration of Humanity, Solomon sent acting as giant Mana batteries to seven significant points in Human History to sow chaos and aid in its destruction. These Holy Grails appear to function similarly to the better-known ones, but are also capable of causing extreme changes to history that lead to the production of Singularities. Destroying or securing the Holy Grail is necessary to resolve the Singularity it creates. The Trees of Emptiness appear to produce Grails or something similar to them when they are destroyed, possibly as a coalescence of their remaining Magical Energy. 
Occasionally minor Singularities will occur but disappear without causing any significant trouble, generating a Holy Grail from their concentrated Magical Energy; while these Holy Grails lack the power to be considered truly omnipotent wish granters, they can still be highly dangerous if they fall into the wrong hands. Leonardo da Vinci is in charge of collecting and storing these Holy Grails, at times giving them to Chaldean Servants for fun or to allow them to strengthen themselves through the process known as Palingenesis.
====Subcategory Holy Grail====
 are those utilized in the framework of the Subcategory Holy Grail Wars. Imitations of the Greater Grail, they function in a similar manner, but can only sustain two to five Servants.Fate/Labyrinth - Act 1 95% of Subcategory Holy Grails end up stalled during the construction process due to various setbacks, and 5% reach the completion process, but 4% of them are actually incomplete and explode upon receiving magical energy. The remaining 1% manage to work as designed, but are ultimately degraded products compared to the Greater Grail of Fuyuki.
In Fate/Labyrinth, someone has installed and activated one of the Subcategory Holy Grails in the Seventh Labyrinth of Caubac Alcatraz, located deep within the bottommost level of this labyrinth. The Subcategory Holy Grail is an imitation of the Greater Grail and operates just like the one in the Holy Grail War, but its function as a wish granting device is inferior to the true Greater Grail, and the Heroic Spirits never surpass five Servants. In this Subcategory Holy Grail War, only four Servants were automatically summoned, being Archer, Assassin, Caster and Saber. This time, the victory conditions of the Subcategory Holy Grail War were to reach the centre-most room, on the bottom-most level. Find the Subcategory Holy Grail, and the person who obtains it becomes the winner. However, the four Servants are permitted to act independently as they aim for the same location, whether it is to “destroy” or “obtain” the Subcategory of the Holy Grail.
===Others===
==== Enkidu ====
Heroic Spirit Enkidu possesses the ability to emulate something on the level of a wish-granting machine if enough Mana is concentrated within them,Fate/Grand Order - Enkidu My Room Lines albeit a "flawed" one.Fate/strange Fake Volume 1 - Chapter 1: "The War Begins"
==== Typhon Ephemeros ====
Heroic Spirit Typhon Ephemeros is described as the antithesis of the Holy GrailFate/Grand Order - Event: Castle of White Sky, Castle of Black Night - Chapter 18 capable of making sure people's wishes never come true due to her nature as "the ephemeral fruit". She also is shown to possess an Anti-Holy Grail Authority.Fate/Grand Order - Event: Castle of White Sky, Castle of Black Night - Chapter 19
====Great Grail of Uruk====
====Knights of the Round Table====
During the reign of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table went on a quest to find a Holy Grail, said to be able to counter the fading of Mystery from Britain by being a miracle of the same calibre. It was acquired by Galahad, who was so selfless he returned it to heaven.Garden of Avalon - Chapter 03: The Waning Sun
==== Aurea Poculum ====
The grail held by the Whore of Babylon who appears in the . Though it is a counterfeit Holy Grail, it is because of this very fact that it became a "genuine" Holy Grail that grants the desires of humans without paying heed to right or wrong.Fate/EXTRA CCC — Matrix of BB, translated by Master of Chaos at Beast's Lair.
====Pandora's Box====
In Miyu's World, Pandora's Box is capable of being used as Holy Grail, and is used as such by Darius Ainsworth, since being a wishing device created by deities from the Age of Gods makes it a better Holy Grail than the actual Grail, with the "Hope" contained within possibly being capable of granting any wish no matter how big.Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!! - Chapter 44: "The Problematic Truth"
==List of wishes==
Most Masters and Servants enter the war with a specific wish in mind for when they obtain the Holy Grail. There are also those who seek it simply for the sake of seeking it, those who are against its very existence, and those who pay it no mind in lieu of other goals. Jubstacheit von Einzbern believes that all Servants wish to be resurrected for a second life, although Lancer believes no true hero would actually be interested in the prospect. He claims that true heroes are not attached to the world, but are only attached to the oaths they could not fulfill.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 13: infinity arms - Saber (V)Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 15: Utopia - Conflict
Fourth Holy Grail War
Character 	Wish
Kiritsugu Emiya 	
Saber 	
Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald	
Lancer 	He is a chivalrous servant who wishes to do his best to serve his Master and obtain victory within the war for the Grail.
Tokiomi Tohsaka 	
Archer 	
Waver Velvet 	
Rider 	
Ryuunosuke Uryuu 	
Caster 	
Kirei Kotomine 	
Assassin 	
Kariya Matou 	
Berserker 	
Fifth Holy Grail War
Character 	Wish
Shirou Emiya 	
Saber 	
Kirei Kotomine 	
Bazett Fraga McRemitz 	
Lancer 	
Rin Tohsaka 	
Archer 	"Hmm. How about world peace?"
Sakura Matou 	
Shinji Matou 	His wish was to acquire the ability to utilize magecraft.
Rider 	
Atrum Galliasta 	
Souichirou Kuzuki 	
Caster 	
Assassin 	
Zouken Matou 	
True Assassin 	States that he wishes for immortality, to seek Eternity. In what context and form is not known.
Illyasviel von Einzbern	
Berserker 	
First Holy Grail War (Grand Order)
Character 	Wish
Marisbury Animusphere	He used the Holy Grail to wish for the money needed to set up the Chaldea Security Organization.
Caster 	He made a wish and incarnated as the human being Romani Archaman.
Moon Holy Grail War
Character 	Wish
Caster (Andersen) 	
Jinako Carigiri 	
Lancer (Karna) 	
Saber (Nero) 	
Leonardo B. Harwey	
Great Holy Grail War
Character 	Wish
Lancer Vlad III 	
Fiore Forvedge Yggdmillennia 	
Archer of Black 	
Caules Forvedge Yggdmillennia	
Frankenstein 	
Mordred 	
Tokyo Holy Grail Wars
Character 	Wish
Saber (Arthur Pendragon) 	
Archer (Arash) 	
Berserker (Jekyll / Hyde) 	
Lancer (Brynhildr) 	
Rider (Ozymandias) 	
Caster (Paracelsus) 	
Assassin (Hassan of Serenity)	To be able to touch someone without killing them.
Manaka Sajyou 	
Elza Saijo 	
Master Reiroukan 	To reach the Root
Nigel Saward 	To reach the Root
Shizuri Isemi 	
Seiji Jinga 	
Tatsumi Kitano 	
Hiroki Sajyou 	To reach the Root
Aro Isemi 	
True and False Holy Grail Wars
Character 	Wish
Tiné Chelc 	
Flat Escardos 	
False Berserker 	
Jester Karture 	
False Assassin 	
Francesca Prelati 	
Faldeus Dioland 	
Saber 	
True Archer 	
Bazdilot Cordelion	
Haruri Borzak 	
Ainsworth Holy Grail War
Character 	Wish
Shirou Emiya 	
Julian Ainsworth	
Darius Ainsworth	
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