Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern

, known as the , is the head of the Einzbern family at the founding of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War.
==Profile==
===Background===
Threefounders.png|Justeaze with Zolgen and Nagato
Justeaze arriving in Japan alongside Zolgen.jpg|Zolgen and Justeaze arriving in Japan.
Justeaze lying down to be sacrifized.png|Justeaze readying herself to be sacrificed for the Heaven's Feel Ritual.
Justeaze's blood spreading all over the ground beneath Mount Enzo.gif|Justeaze becoming the key to reenact the Third Magic.
Justeaze was created around 900 years after the production of homunculi to replicate the Magician of the Third Magic began. She was a model that strayed from what the magi had intended, created completely by accident, but her abilities were equal to or above those of their master. The magi should have been elated about Justeaze, but they couldn’t be happy. After all, she was a mutation that was born regardless of their own techniques or skills. Even if that specimen was to reproduce the Third Magic, that conclusion would be harder for them to bear than 900 years of failure.
Justeaze was the head of the Einzbern family two hundred years ago. Well acquainted with Zouken Matou, they had a dream of reaching a utopia that could eliminate and cure all hatred and suffering. Though they wished to exceed the limits of humanity by surpassing the body and reaching the soul, they were particular about reaching that state while still having human form. They were also acquainted with Nagato Tohsaka and Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, considered a potential inheritor of the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch if not for Zelretch appraising the family as fundamentally evil. Along with the family's then eight hundred year wish of retrieving their lost Third Magic, they sought to use the Holy Grail to reach that miracle. She was born to become the core of the Greater Grail, and she was the one to devise the ritual. Accompanied by Nagato and Zouken, who provided necessary land and starting materials for the ritual, and being watched over by Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, she allowed herself willingly to be sacrificed by allowing her body crushed via a large and heavy magical pillar and her blood flowed around the ground as the key to reenacting the ancient sorcery.
The Einzberns passed down a portrait of her throughout the ages, and as of the Fourth Holy Grail War, placed a stained window in the ceremony chamber of the Einzbern Castle depicting her with Nagato and Zouken, all reaching their hands to the grail in the sky. It was made to depict the Tohsaka and Matou families waiting on her to show how much they look down on the other families and the humiliation felt in having had to rely on them. Referred to as the "Primeval Justeaze", all subsequent homunculi of the Einzberns were manufactured to the standard of her make and used her as their model. Within their hearts were contained each previous model, a record of their experiences that can be traced back to her. This allowed all those modeled after her to feel her "pain." Illyasviel von Einzbern was developed as one that could be considered her "latest model", born from a "Justeaze-type homunculus" and a foreign magus.
===Appearance===
Justeaze has a doll-like face considered to be "too beautiful and too well-crafted", red irises likened to rubies, a "bell-like, beautiful voice", fair skin, and long white hair. All those modeled after her share the same appearance, with Kirei Kotomine considering Irisviel von Einzbern to look exactly like her portrait.Fate/Zero Volume 2: The Mad Feast of Kings - Act 7 Part 4 -130:32:15 Unlike her incarnations, Irisviel and Illyasviel, Justeaze is always depicted with solemn and almost lifeless expression.
In Fate/Apocrypha and Fate/Grand Order, she wears the Dress of Heaven.
Heaven's Feel (CE 35).png| in Fate/Grand Order, illustrated by Arco Wada.
Winter Holy Maiden (CE 1511).png| in Fate/Grand Order, illustrated by CHOCO.
===Personality===
Through Illya, Justeaze displays a cold and aloof personality, calmly chastising Zouken over how he has lost his way from their original desire of the ascension of humanity to living only for the sake of obtaining immortality.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 10: darkwood,sleepingbeauty - Shadow swallowing the castleFate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 16: FINAL - At the end of the dearest wish
==Role==
===Fate/stay night===
Justeaze still exists as the core of the Greater Grail as of the Fifth Holy Grail War, but will eventually be destroyed during the events of the war during the Heaven's Feel route or dismantled ten years later in a conflict meant to end the war forever.
====Heaven's Feel====
When Illyasviel von Einzbern first confronts Zouken during Heaven's Feel, her personality is briefly brought to the forefront when Zouken rants about his reason for wanting immortality. She remarks that he has fallen, reminding him of their shared desire. He laughs at the mimicry and prepares to take Illya for the purpose of obtaining the Einzbern's grail. Illya later accesses her memory and shares it with Shirou Emiya to reproduce the Jewel Sword. It is the memory before she became the core, looking upon her compatriots as she sits in the center of the labyrinth of circuits before the ritual begins.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 15: limited. - Record of the Great Holy Grail
With the later collapse of the cavern as the last remaining part of Zouken finally begins to die, Illya, planning to sacrifice herself to close the gate to the other side and save Shirou, appears before Zouken and speaks as Justeaze. Zouken does not even see Illya, only seeing his partner who sacrificed herself to create the Grail. She only says "I ask of you, my foe. Why do you not want to die?", reminding Zouken of their dream. He tells her that she is right as he realized what he had truly wished, accepts that all is out of his reach, and passes away.
===Fate/Apocrypha===
Justeaze first appears to Amakusa Shirou Tokisada when he enters the Greater Grail in order to perform the Third Magic on humanity.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 5: The Evil Dragon and the Holy Woman - Prologue After Shirou is defeated, Sieg and Rider of Black speak to her and ask Justeaze to reverse Shirou's wish. After she tells them that it is impossible to do so because the process of materializing humanity's souls has already begun, Sieg decides to take the Grail to the Reverse Side of the World where there are no humans for it to affect.
===Fate/Grand Order===
During the Fate/Accel Zero Order event, Chaldea enters a singularity that exists as a "What If" event. "What If The Einzberns had mastered their homunculi creation during the Fourth Holy Grail War?" This resulted in Irisviel von Einzbern being a full Master and Justeaze was able to manifest fully from the Greater Grail. However, the Grail was still corrupted and she was blackened, thus being the "boss" of the event.Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Accel Zero Order - ACT-18: The Fallen Grail
==Abilities==
Justeaze is an archmagus who, as a homunculus, was born as a living Magic Circuit for the sole purpose of becoming the core of the Grail. She is known as the "Master of Northern Alchemy" and "Primeval Justeaze", and Kiritsugu Emiya appraises that none of her descendants can be overcome in the process of making superb homunculi.
Despite being capable of using the Third Magic, Justeaze is unable to use Heaven's Feel in a cost-effective manner. Justeaze's use of the Third Magic was like careful knitting. It would take several years to save just one person, making the salvation of the entire human race virtually unattainable. She is responsible for devising the Heaven's Feel system, and still functions in the center of the Greater Grail. Her will is needed for the system to function, else the "Holy Grail is just a Holy Grail" without her.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 15: limited. - Record of the Great Holy Grail The circuitry covering the cavern in which it is situated is her magic circuits, enlarged and multiplied to reach nearly a size of a kilometer in diameter, acting as a "microcosm of the universe created from a single human body." 
In addition, while Justeaze herself did not age, her body was so frail it would take little to kill her, so she could not leave the castle. Since her intelligence and mentality were also unaging, she did not develop at all. From an outside perspective, it was as if she was repeating a single day for all eternity. If she were to leave the castle she would be freed from this "single day," but the act of leaving the castle signified an easy death for Justeaze.
Due to the her model being imprinted upon the subsequent Einzbern homunculi, they share her memories, and Illyasviel von Einzbern displays brief traces of her personality that surface around Zouken.
==References==
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