Atlas

"Atlas" redirects here. For the World Titan of Greek mythology, see Titan Atlas.
The , sometimes abbreviated as , is one of the three major branches of the Mage's Association specialized in Alchemy. It is also known as the and the .
==Characteristics==
This organization is named after the where it is located, while Clock Tower Magi nickname it "the Pit".Melty Blood - Hologram Summer route - Block C: 2/The Alchemist of Atlas - Extra Alchemist Sherlock Holmes suggests that their other name, Titan's Pit, comes from the Titan Atlas in pointing out their duties are same in some way. The Alchemists of the Atlas Temple are descended from the goddess , the ancestor of Magi in Egyptian mythology. Its appearance in the Egypt of the Camelot Singularity may be thanks to that connection.
The Atlas Temple predates even the Clock Tower, existing at least as far back as the ,The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 4: Legacy of the Alchemist (Upper) - Chapter 2 being originally a gathering of those with little magical ability due to having a small number of Magic Circuits. Since Magic Circuits are paths connecting to the Root and Magi use these to bring their ideal future closer, those with meager Magic Circuits could rely only upon their own intellect to make that ideal future, deciding to take a completely natural approach and proceed forward as humans to achieve their goals. The Alchemists also chose to rely only on their bodies because they predicted that Mana to be gone from the atmosphere for good by 0 AD. Unlike Magi, who guide the practice of rituals and the revelation of knowledge, Atlas alchemists are not practicing rituals, but discovering them, more concerned about the greater truths of the universe than mainstream Alchemists.
The result of that is the present Atlas Academy: an organization of alchemists that conduct into and , using above all else their own intellect to make a blueprint for the future. Atlas is responsible for measurement and prediction.
The Atlas Temple is an assembly of geniuses. In this place, there are no taboos and no penalties to prevent the creation of the most unethical of weapons. Their only one rule is that things which are created here must never leave. That is the founding principle of the Atlas Temple. They have observed this rule for over two thousand years. They fear people leaving more than they cared about visitors.
The Six Sources represent the founding families of Atlas.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 2 Part 5The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 3 Part 2
===Contracts of Atlas===
The are seven contracts issued as of the founding of Atlas. They leave Atlas bound to cooperation with those in possession of one of the contracts at their demand. The recovery of these contracts is a goal of Atlas. As of the year 2000, four contracts had been recovered, but the locations of the remaining three were unknown. Within the world of Fate/Grand Order, an eighth contract was also created by Sion Eltnam Sokaris.
Blackmore Cemetery possessed one of the contracts, which allowed them the use of Logos React.
===Director===
Zepia Eltnam Oberon was the director of the Atlas Temple over 500 years ago in the world of Tsukihime. Zepia Eltnam Atlasia was the last director named in the Atlas Temple in the world of Fate/Grand Order.
In the Tsukihime universe, the Vice-Director Sion Eltnam was awarded with the name Atlasia, which marks her as the Temple's next director.Melty Blood - Agitator route - Block A: 1/Meeting and Return - enter In the timeline of Fate/EXTRA, it's her twin sister Sialim Eltnam Re-Atlasia who receives the name, and subsequently becomes the last Director of Atlas. In the timeline of Fate/Grand Order, Zepia's designated heir apparent is the Fate worlds' equivalent of Sion. 
All the past directors have challenged the future, failed, and then went mad as they created forbidden doomsday weapons as a result.
==External Relationships==
Ever since the Clock Tower became the headquarters of the Mage's Association, mingling between the branches has been on the decline. For some reason they are on extraordinarily bad terms with the Prague Association, and even the Clock Tower, the very heart of the Association, keeps their distance.
The most independent of the Three Great Branches, it has its own terms of relationship with the Holy Church and other magic organizations. Not surprisingly, these traits cause Atlas to be disliked by the Clock Tower and the Prague Association.
Atlas has a number of unique customs for a magic association. One of them is that, at times, the institute has been known to lent its Alchemist to other organizations such as the Holy Church, although the particulars of the process dictate that the other party must possess one of the seven special contracts that Atlas has printed in the past. One of the organization's main concerns in the present is the recovery of said contracts. Of the remaining three, it is known that Marisbury Animusphere possessed one,Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/LostroomFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Götterdämmerung: Eternal Ice-Flame Century - Prologue and thanks to it CHALDEAS was completed with the assistance and sponsorship of the Atlas Institute, with Atlas providing a central Pseudo-Spiritrons calculation engine to the Chaldea Security Organization, allowing the invention of TRISMEGISTUS in 2015, and also providing the special Mystic Code Imaginary Numbers Observation Device Paper Moon. Gray's hometown, Blackmore Cemetery, is also in possession of an Atlas Contract, which allowed them to recruit the director of 1500 years ago who constructed for them the Logos React Replica to seal Rhongomyniad.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas' contract (Lower) - Epilogue
The Alchemists of Atlas see themselves as the ultimate guaranteers of humanity’s safety in the face of insurmountable odds, and desire to maintain balance between the other great powers in the World of Magecraft to suit their ends. They are rare to act directly, and see other Magi organizations as foolish for taking actions that may lead to the extinction of mankind they are so dedicated to preventing.Melty Blood Back Alley Nightmare - Chapter 3: "Dream 02" Unlike the Clock Tower, they have no interest in reaching the Root, with their research being entirely dedicated to preventing the doomsday scenarios they predict.
==Alchemist of Atlas==
Their Alchemy diverges from that has since the medieval period entered the vogue. The often spoke-up "transformation of base metal to gold" in Alchemy is, to the members of the Atlas Temple, mere "transformation of matter" and is nothing more than a primitive art far removed from their ideals. Their Alchemy is an advancement of the metallurgy of ancient Egypt, the root of the discipline, and has not been influenced by western Magecraft like the Alchemy that the Clock Tower Magi handle.
It is their belief that humans have evolved to gather information, analyze it and then directly solve any problems perceived. The Atlas Alchemist possess great calculation and measurement ability that is rare to manifest naturally in a normal human (and their five senses). They specialize in thought partitioning and thought acceleration, techniques that make use of the human body as an arithmetic unit. Following their mantra "Faster, Stronger, More Accurate" they treat their bodies as containers to fill and modify in order to develop their abilities.
Their way of thinking concerning their body (flesh) is also unique. That is, they do not believe that the brain exists to control the body, but rather that the body exists solely so that the brain may function more effectively. If you just want a mathematical prodigy, there's no need for an Alchemist – an engineer would do just fine. What sets apart an alchemist is that for them, the human body in its entirety (body, mind, and soul) is a unit for calculating, executing, and nurturing events. 
Most of its members cannot perform Magecraft that goes along the line of nature interference due to the lack of Magic Circuits.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 3 Part 3 But they're perfectly okay with that. As far as they're concerned, there's no need to be strong themselves, because they can just make up for it by creating the strongest weapons. It is also easier to operate Mystery in one’s own body because there is no risk of interference from the rest of the World. Unlike most Magus, Atlas Alchemists' special abilities are based on a Man and Machine approach. They use the quantifiable energy of the Soul; the Pseudo-Spiritrons to engineer organisms with Magic Circuits such as Homunculi.
==Activities==
It is an institute focused on the study and development of Alchemy, but its members broke off from the mainstream modern practice of Alchemy that originated in the Middle Ages. However, the ultimate goal of the Alchemists of the Atlas Temple is set even closer to the original ideology, as the "transformation of events".
Members of Atlas utilize a method of prediction based on . After its first director theoretically predicted the end of the world, Atlas Institute's primary goal became to avoid a future where mankind is destroyed, and the Alchemists of Atlas have dedicated themselves into developing methods capable of preventing it. For example, 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 speak of.Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 18: "As Dream and Reality are Both Illusion I" However, because anything potentially capable of preventing the end of the world might also create even greater devastation, eventually rules dictating that everything created in Atlas must be kept and disposed of within the domains of the organization were established.
==Inventions==
Accordingly, the process they use to study Mysteries does not depend on Magical Energy. Instead, they relied on a great many tools. Atlas' development was similar to the progress of science and technology.
Following this principle, Atlas has birthed a great arsenal of weapons. In order to avoid the "end" proven by their first director, they endlessly create and dispose of weapon after weapon. The reason being that the weapons created there to save the world are ultimately nothing more than tools that will further its destruction.
===Seven Superweapons===
The are seven weapons on display at Atlas. Each Superweapon was created to save humanity, but also has the potential to destroy it.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 5 Part 1 There is a saying in the Prague Association: "Lift not the seal of Atlas, lest ye destroy the world seven times over."
Known weapons:
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* / Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 7: case. Atlas Contract (Lower) - Chapter 4 Part 2
**Logos React Replica (Add)
**Logos React GenericFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - GUDAGUDA Final Honnōji​ - Section 1.5: Formation! We are the Chaldea Kaientai!
*An unnamed weapon resembling a sword, shown in Melty Blood Back Alley NightmareMelty Blood Back Alley Nightmare - Chapter 8: "Dream 07"
===HERMES===
 is a sixth generation computing unit based on the Pseudo-Spiritrons particle theory that shouldn’t even be completed and exist in this world yet. Hermes is the crystallization of the Atlas Temple’s innermost secret techniques of fundamental Alchemy. We can assume that this is probably the Philosopher’s Stone.
===TRI-HERMES===
The are Atlas Temple’s greatest storage media, in the form of obelisks. Chaldea's TRISMEGISTUS is nothing more than a copy of this, the construction is same as the control room in Chaldea. It is Photonic crystal, which has even been called Philosopher’s Stone. It is an out-of-place artifact impossible for current terrestrial science to create. 
All events are recorded in TRI-HERMES, however only Alchemists of Atlas have full access to TRI-HERMES.
==Headquarters==
AtlasAcademyCE.png| Craft Essence, showing TRI-HERMES.
Atlas Institute.png|TRI-HERMES and the core of Atlas in the Camelot Singularity.
Trihermes (Movie).jpeg|TRI-HERMES in the movie Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table.
Tri Hermes (Anime).jpg|TRI-HERMES in the Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia anime.
Atlas (Shinjuku).jpg|TRI-HERMES in the Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shinjuku Manga.
Atlas Auditorium.jpg|Auditorium from Sion's flashback in Melty Blood
It is located somewhere among the mountains of Egypt.Atlas' location is identified as both the Atlas Mountains and Egypt, with multiple material books explicitly stating it to be located in "the Atlas Mountains of Egypt". In reality, however, the Atlas Mountains stretch from Morocco to Tunisia, and no part of the mountain range lies within Egypt's borders. While it is possible the geography of North Africa within TYPE-MOON's fictionalized world differs from that of the real world, this is more likely simply an error. The Atlas Temple is an underground academy full of Mysteries. The Alchemists each have their own independent Workshops, within which they conduct their research. Laboratories built with unknown technologies.
There are storehouse for Mystic Codes, though it is considered to be no more than a junkyard. The Atlas Alchemists invented many devices, deemed them failures, and dumped them into a terrifying mountain of weapons.
The construction of Atlas is rather convoluted. There are tunnels that were deliberately designed to resemble an underground labyrinth. It's more like a labyrinth than an academy. It was designed to confuse anyone trying to get out. One can enter, but leaving is no trivial feat. They are filled with autonomous Familiars defense systems. It may be the ideal shelter but it is little more than a mass grave.
In the center of the academy, it is where TRI-HERMES is located. The core lies a distant 500 meters below the surface. Someone built such a massive cavern underground, where it is large enough space to contain a town. The core of Atlas has a man-made sky in this underground chamber.
==The Future of Atlas==
===EXTRA===
The only remaining old world Magus are the Alchemists of the Atlas Temple in Egypt. The correctness of this idea was somewhat proven in the Magecraft-devoid world of Fate/EXTRA. The Alchemists of Atlas have poor Magic Circuits, and did not lead their lives relying on Magecraft. As they are Alchemists who did not rely on Magecraft (or to be precise couldn’t rely on Magecraft) even as the decline of Magic Circuits progressed, they could continue their pursuit and study of Magecraft. 
However, with the persistent death in the conception of children for the subsequent generation, and the successive of the veteran Alchemists, the Atlas Temple met with a destruction unassociated with the Mana Depletion. Within the Atlas Temple, there exists at present no more than a single Homunculus. The final Alchemist of Atlas died of illness after said Homunculus, letting to remain within only her final creation. With the vanishing of the Alchemists, this that was complected entirely of built of as yet unknown has become as an immense mausoleum.
===Grand Order===
The Atlas Temple of 2016 was removed from its original time period, causing a temporal aberration within the Egyptian territory in the Camelot Singularity. The Magi of the Atlas Temple perished in the Incineration of Humanity, but the academy itself remains. Zepia Eltnam Atlasia was the last director named in the Atlas Temple. It appears he had a successor but that person's name was not written. All the past directors have challenged the future, failed, and then went mad as they created forbidden doomsday weapons as a result.
==Known Members==
They have a custom for the directors of Atlas to adopt the name of Atlasia during their time in office.
;Curia
:They are in charge of preserving research materials with Sia as part of the Custodial Committee in Sion's Ending of Melty Blood Act Cadenza.Melty Blood Act Cadenza - Sion's Ending
;Giuseppe Ishtario Sugdime
:Member of the Six Sources of Atlas.
;Hermes Silis Atlasia
:He has a Thaumaturgical Attribute, Future.
;Isis
:Member passed over for Osiris in Sion's Ending of Melty Blood Act Cadenza.
;Latio Crudelis Hiram
:Head of one of the Six Sources of Atlas. Her family was involved in the creation of Ergo.
;Log Crudelis Hiram
:Member of the Six Sources of Atlas. Father of Latio and the previous head before her.
;Osiris
:Member to be notified of the Vampire sample in Sion's Ending of Melty Blood Act Cadenza.
;Quart Ishtario Azban
:Member of the Six Sources of Atlas.
;Rani VIII
;Satsuki Kurogiri
:He left the Atlas Temple due to his Sealing Designation.
;Sia
:They are in charge of preserving research materials with Curia as part of the Custodial Committee in Sion's Ending of Melty Blood Act Cadenza.
;Sialim Eltnam Rey-AtlasiaOnly the spelling of her last name is shown in Melty Blood Back Alley Nightmare.
:The last director of the Atlas Temple in the EXTRA universe.
;Sion Eltnam Sokaris / Sion Eltnam Atlasia
:The Vice Director of the Atlas Temple. In the Tsukihime universe, she was awarded with the name Atlasia, which marks her as the Temple's next director. In the Fate universe, she was adopted by her ancestor Zepia.
;Zepia Eltnam Oberon / Zepia Eltnam Atlasia
:In the Tsukihime universe, he was the director several generations ago, became the Dead Apostle Ancestor (Remake) Night of Wallachia and left Atlas. In Fate universe, he is still the director.
==Related Terms==
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:A supercomputer completed using Spiritrons created by the magical theory of Pseudo-Spiritrons. An apparatus capable of fast processing by defining the soul of the machine and making use of its Spiritrons. A parallel concurrent processor which mobilizes “something” in a Parallel World, mainly revolving around the soul on a higher plane. The first model was completed in 1980. Its processing power was equal in magnitude to the quantum computer which was planned to be completed in 2030 or greater (the quantum computer project itself was frozen in 1999 by the Western European Plutocracy). It was with the backup of the Virtual Spiritron Computer that humanity, thanks to an exploratory probe for an UN-led mission, was able to infiltrate the Moon. Aside from a direct invitation from the Moon Cell, it is also possible to “drop” into the Moon with a cheap interface, so long as you give your consent, though what awaits you is a death game where those other than the victor cannot come back alive.
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