Third Magic

The , also referred to as , is one of the five remaining Magics in the modern Nasuverse. Similarly to the Second and Fourth Magic, the Third was created as a means to reach the Root.Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Chapter 12: "Witch on the holy night"
==History==
The Third Magic was originally achieved by the Einzbern family, but its secret was lost one thousand years ago. In relation to the other Five Magics, it is said the Third "showed the future", and that it would have been best if its discovery had been the last. Though the Third Magic actually predates the First, the First Magic is still called the First because of its characteristics. For the next eight centuries, the Einzberns sought to recover it until finally coming up with the concept of Holy Grail War.
An unnamed Magician discovered the Third Magic some time in the Age of Gods before 100 BC.Heaven's Feel III Bluray booklet Q&A The Magician lost their life at the end of the Age of Gods on the night before the advent of the Common Era. It was also said they disappeared. The Third Magic was considered lost after that, but it was recognized in the modern day that, of the five Magicians, only the Magician of the First Magic was deceased while the other four were considered "still alive."
As of 1 AD, the human students of the Magician, unable to replicate the miracle of the Third Magic themselves, created the Einzbern homunculus factory in an attempt to create a homunculus identical to their master who would be able to reproduce it. While the homunculi possessed minds, knowledge, and purity greater than that of humans, they lacked "true souls" that were unable to achieve materialization through the Third Magic. After 900 years of creating homunculi, Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, nearly identical to the Magician, was created, but she possessed several fatal flaws that stopped her from being able to truly reproduce the Third Magic. This failure caused the humans to abandon the homunculus factory and others to take their own lives. The homunculi continued to act autonomously under the guidance of golem Jubstacheit von Einzbern in seeking restoration of the Third Magic.
Illyasviel von Einzbern also makes use of it in the Heaven's Feel route of Fate/stay night, although it is an incomplete usage. 
In the Fate/Apocrypha timeline, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was able to wish for Third Magic to be applied to all the souls of humanity through the Greater Grail, which he hoped would bring the annihilation of Angra Mainyu: All the Evils of the World and make Humans live in eternal happiness from the innate goodness in their hearts.Fate/Apocrypha Volume 3: Triumphal Return of the Saint -Prologue However this wish was prevented by Sieg taking the Grail before it could start collecting souls to perform the Third Magic on, and transporting it to the Reverse Side of the World, where no humans exist for the Grail to affect.
In the Fate/strange Fake timeline, the Snowfield Holy Grail Wars were created by an organization of Magi within the American Government with the goal of using the Holy Grail to both achieve the Third Magic and "drag [it] down to the level of magecraft". Moreover, Francesca teases them with the idea that the wars are pointless if it turns out that Touko Aozaki's puppets replicate not only her memories but also her soul perfectly, as this would mean she has achieved the Third Magic they seek.Fate/strange Fake Volume 3 - Prologue VIII: The Star Performers' Banquet (Part 1)
In the Fate/Extra timeline, with the Great Collapse of the 70s that lead to the global loss of mana, the world suffered a complete loss of magecraft and Magic, making the Third Magic and the materialisation of the soul impossible. In response to this, magi incorporated modern technology and redefined the "soul" with the discovery of Spiritrons, the "true essence" of a soul, and Pseudo-Spiritrons, allowing for the projection of the soul onto a virtual world through the theory of the by Wizards.Fate/Extra website In addition, there exists that connect over vast areas of space between different celestial bodies, each generating their own . It is possible to travel between the networks of different celestial bodies.Fate/EXTRA CCC - Gilgamesh Route - Chapter 7: The Depths of the Holy Maiden - Anima Ataraxia. -
==Effects==
The soul contains the memories, mind, and Magic Circuits of a person, and it uses the person's body as an anchor to the World to keep from being dispersed and returning to Akasha. Once the brain and body are destroyed, it is impossible to restore a person's dispersed soul, and even the magical ability of the Holy Grail can't restore a destroyed body. Even if a magus manages to place their soul into a new body, it will either be an inferior copy compared to the original, as in the case of Michael Roa Valdamjong (Remake) and Darius Ainsworth, or the soul itself will eventually begin to rot, as with Zouken Matou.
Heaven's Feel is a Magic that allows for the , which stops the inevitable dispersion of the soul once it no longer has an anchor to the World, and essentially makes it transcend to a higher form of existence. It is a Magic that realizes true immortality by making the soul into a high-dimensional planar being capable of interacting with the material world as a mental body without having to return to Akasha. The practitioner will acquire an unlimited source of Magical Energy due to the soul becoming analogous to a .
The Greater Grail uses several parts of Heaven's Feel in an attempt to recreate it in its entirety.Fate/stay night- Heaven's Feel route - Day 15: limited. - Truth - Antihero Angra ManyuFate/hollow ataraxia Using an incomplete version, it takes a raw soul, raw energy made from spiritual particles, and copies information of Heroic Spirits in order to generate Servants. Rather than being actual resurrection, it is the temporary formation of a soul that does not require a real body, meaning that they are not truly brought back to life. In fact they are not considered proper Life but merely Ether in the form of past individuals.Fate/Grand Order Götterdämmerung translated by Lily Emilio at Beast's Lair. The World, considering that they should be dead in the present, considers Servants to be a contradiction that must be removed, so they need a constant connection to their Masters' Magical Energy to keep from being erased. After a Servant is killed, the Holy Grail temporarily stores their souls before they are returned to Akasha. In the case of receiving an actual body from the corrupted Grail, they are able to exist for a longer period of time, but they are still considered as not alive and require Magical Energy to remain in the present World.
During Heaven's Feel, Illya uses an incomplete version of the Third Magic in order to keep Shirou's soul from dispersing after his body is destroyed. While it manages to save his soul, the new container, which she calls "cheap", cannot be fully reproduced from Illya's body. It is small enough to be "plucked" out of a river by Rider, so they have to take the time to find a suitable puppet body for him instead. In such a case where the soul gains a new anchor to the World, anything with similar properties to a human, such as a puppet body or anything else with a brain, the soul will reshape the body according to its memories. This means that the person is now alive, and that the body will bleed, get sick, age, and eventually die. While the person is completely anchored to the body, the soul is actually controlling the body by "remote control."
The existence of Angra Mainyu as the root of all evil, his soul having been turned into an "eternal generator", is an example of what the Third Magic is capable of accomplishing, though that was a result of the wish granting aspect of the Grail rather than Third Magic. Existences like Lugh Beowulf, as a materialised soul with an astral body without need of a physical body to remain stable, are similar to what the Third can accomplish but he is a naturally occurring being. This suggests that the Third Magic may have the ability to change the user's shape into the form of any creature on Earth they desire or the most fitting form for the action they require, and even change their body's sex.
According to Chloe von Einzbern, the Skill Independent Manifestation is a mockery and inferior usage of the Third Magic,Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity suggesting that the Third Magic is capable of everything Independent Manifestation can do and more.
Kiara Sessyoin's existence is similar to the rumored Third Magic, Heaven's Feel, which is the physical materialization of the soul. Heaven's Hole is a subtype of the Third Magic.
===Dress of Heaven===
DressC0354.png| in Fate/Grand Order
Justeaze.png|Justeaze wearing the Dress.
Illya_dress-of-heaven.png|Illya wearing the Dress of Heaven.
The Mystic Code of the Einzbern family, the , is the heart that controls the Greater Grail that is capable of materializing the soul for several seconds. This allows for the transferral of a soul into another container, such as when Illya places Shirou's soul into a doll in a bad ending, or when Illya materializes Shirou's soul incompletely and gives him a portion of her body as his soul's temporary container in the True End of Heaven's Feel.
It has the appearance of a white dress that is made from gold, and is fitted with seven rings that are said to have control over creation and the souls of others. The seven holes on the dress are the transformed rings and with each Servant soul absorbed, one hole is lit. As a person will be turned to gold if in contact with it, its operation must be conducted by Elementals, Demi-Humans or Homunculi.
The Dress of Heaven is transmuted from the ether that forms Illya's personal maid Leysritt. Leysritt was previously a candidate for the Lesser Grail, but was deemed a failure. Despite being a failure, the Einzberns capitalized on Leysritt's lingering innate power as a Grail and converted her to a potential Mystic Code that can augment Illya.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Other - Einzbern Castle - Ghost Gossip Glamorous The moment that the Dress of Heaven materializes, Leysritt ceases to exist.
In Fate/Grand Order, Illya's mother Irisviel wears the Dress of Heaven. Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern is also sometimes depicted wearing it.
==References==
it:Heaven's Feel (terza vera magia)
vi:Đệ Tam Ma Pháp
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