Einzbern

The family is an independent Magus lineage who lives in a mountainous area near a certain river in Germany (likely the ) seeking the Third Magic.
==Characteristics==
The family was created by the disciples of the Magician of the Third Magic seeking to replicate their master's achievements. Surprisingly for such an old lineage, they have no branch families.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel (route) - Day 4: Avenger - Holy Grail War, the beginning
They at some point came to be in possession of the Das Rheingold, the great treasure obtained by Siegfried by slaying the Dragon Fafnir. Because of knowing the gold very well, they can coin vessels of the Holy Grail.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 13: infinity arms - You're my only star
About 1,000 years ago, the Einzberns started a quest to recover their lost miracle but eventually came to realize that they would never succeed by themselves and thus sought outside help. The result was the establishment of the Heaven's Feel ritual 200 years ago thanks to the help of the Makiri and the Tohsaka. They were the ones who built the Greater Holy Grail of Fuyuki and also the ones left in charge of producing a new vessel of the Holy Grail for each new Holy Grail War.
By 1300 AD at latest, all human Magi left the Einzberns besides the family's Tuners. Jubstacheit von Einzbern has since been producing output units for Souls, that is, Justeaze-model Homunculi by himself, trying to collect data around the Third Magic. From the Second Holy Grail War, he led the Einzberns as a family head, changing their goal from "seeking the Holy Grail" to "winning the Holy Grail War".
Although some members can be dangerous when forced to fight, their single-minded specialization in Alchemy makes them ill-suited for battle. That is the reason why, up to the Third Heaven’s Feel, the Masters of the Einzbern were eliminated early in the battle. For the Fourth Heaven’s Feel, the family hired the services of an outsider, Kiritsugu Emiya, and presented him with the sheath of the holy sword which was excavated from Cornwall to serve as a catalyst to summon King Arthur. The whole family placed their expectations on him, but he ended up betraying them and destroying the Holy Grail.
In their homeland, it always is winter, though Illyasviel von Einzbern implies this climate is artificially made, saying she sees normal snow for the first time in Fuyuki.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel (route) - Day 7: dialogue lost loop - Cinema - Ilya (III) Due to not being used to heat, they arranged for Holy Grail Wars to be held in winter. Since their dwelling is in a snowy mountain, the family does not have the custom of raising flowers.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Other - Einzbern Castle - Memory Although the cold condition in their homeland is also unsuitable to produce wine, they possess a brewery in the castle to supply alcohol, which is an ingredient necessary for their Magecraft,Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/08 - Emiya's - Iris' storehouse and Illyasviel explains that s made by the Einzberns exist.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Night - Choice sake - proof of the wild Jubstacheit has a close relationship with the Talbot farm of early autumn Darjeeling and for years its tea has been only served to special guests.Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/09 - Emiya's - Sugar candy teatime The Einzbern castle at their homeland has a chapel to perform ritualsFate/Zero Volume 1: The Untold Story of the Fourth Holy Grail War - Act 1 Part 2 - 282:14:28 and there Kiritsugu summoned Saber.Fate/Zero Volume 1: The Untold Story of the Fourth Holy Grail War - Act 1 Part 5 - 270:08:57 The Einzbern family have a narrow view of Japan's culture.
In the Apocrypha World, they did not become discouraged by the fact that the Greater Grail was stolen in the Third Holy Grail War. Rather, they do not seem to have that kind of mentality in the first place (if they gave up, it would only be when even their greatest creation, Illyasviel, would fail to attain the Third Magic). They are doing everything they can with the belief that they might be able to reproduce that miracle and the Einzberns apparently were trying to make a new one. Accordingly, they have come to reluctantly have relationships with other Magi despite their insular and unsociable nature, and the Musik family took advantage of their confused state of affairs in order to receive a portion of their Homunculi craft. However, what the Einzberns taught was merely the equivalent of giving a toy to a child, so it was not much of a problem for them. The Musik family concealed the fact that they were part of the Yggdmillennia clan, but naturally the Einzberns knew about it. However, the Greater Grail was formed by taking apart the only successful Justeaze-model Homunculus, so the Einzbern agreed to cooperate with them in case they should manage to activate one. The Einzberns are in the midst of struggling to make a new Greater Grail under the excuse “It was stolen, so we’ll just make a new Holy Grail”. Fortunately, in the “Apocrypha” world, Kiritsugu Emiya will not end up becoming involved with the Einzberns, so their greatest work Illyasviel will never be born. As long as she is not born, the Einzberns will never despair.
===Magecraft===
Their Thaumaturgical Attribute is Flow and Transfer of Power that allowed them to specialize in Alchemy, especially in coining Homunculi. The Einzbern Homunculi have their functions determined during the design stages and are born with bodies and minds optimized to perform their purposes. The failures with somewhat better qualities are reused as maids and the worse ones get dumped into the forest or into a lake in the castle. Even discarded Homunculi are far stronger than an average Magus.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Heaven's Feel - 1/ Heaven's Feels Backnight I
The Magecraft of the Einzbern family, which follows the Thaumaturgical School of Alchemy, is based on the creation and refinement of substances and the focus of their studies lies solely in the structural manipulation of precious metals. They know Healing Magecraft, but as Alchemists this is used not for the sake of recovering the flesh of injured people, but rather to lessen the great burden felt by a subject who received an organ that was tempered with Magical Energy and help his body get used with the newly transplanted organ.Fate/Zero Volume 2: The Mad Feast of Kings - Act 8 Part 5 - 103:11:39 Because with their Magecraft Magical Energy becomes easily dispersible, buildings that sealed off with soil or stone are the ones most desired by them to install a Magical Workshop.Fate/Zero Volume 3: The Scattered Ones - Act 9 Part 4 - 91:23:15
The Homunculi of the Einzbern are created from the knowledge passed down by Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, known as the "Master of Northern Alchemy", and Kiritsugu Emiya claims that none can match her descendants in the process of creating artificial humans. Created through cultivation tanks, they are of a high quality.
The Homunculi created by the Einzbern, even those regarded as failures, have enough Magical Energy to pose a threat to the Enforcers of the Mage's Association. Also, their knowledge of Magecraft comes from being branded with a standardized reverse-type Magic Crest. The models based on Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, such as Irisviel von Einzbern and Illyasviel von Einzbern, share the memories and personality of the original. In a way, they're the same being. Illya herself is a very special case and her very existence can be considered a miracle in itself. She was “birthed” through conventional means by her mother, Irisviel, although she was put through several magical treatments while still in the womb. Said treatments made her body become even more unlike that of a human being than other Homunculi and caused her poor growth.
==Members==
*Fillia - Homunculus
*Illyasviel von Einzbern - Justeaze-latest model Homunculus and de facto Ninth HeadFate/stay night - Fate route - Day 11: DragonSlay - Replay of the legend
*Irisviel von Einzbern - Justeaze-late model Homunculus
*Jubstacheit von Einzbern - Eighth Head
*Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern - Head from over 200 years ago until or prior to 1810 when she became the core of the Greater Grail
*Leysritt - Justeaze-late model Homunculus, maid to Illyasviel, failed Lesser Grail, can form the Dress of Heavenmaterial/Zero - Irisviel von Einzbern, p.7
*Sella - Justeaze-late model Homunculus, maid to Illyasviel
*Einzbern Master - Justeaze-late model Homunculus
*Einzbern Castle Tuners - Caretakers, Tuners and Representatives
;Other worlds/timelines
;;Accel Zero Order
*Irisviel von Einzbern (Greater Grail Divided Spirit)
;;Illya's World
*Irisviel von Einzbern (Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA)
*Illyasviel von Einzbern (Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA)
*Chloe von Einzbern (Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA)
*Leysritt (Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA)
*Sella (Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA)
==References==
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