Athenian Holy Grail War

The **Athenian Holy Grail War** (希臘聖杯戦争, *Girishia Seihai Sensō*?, lit. *Grecian Holy Grail War*) is a Subcategory Holy Grail War created and centered around Athens, Greece and is the main focus of the *Fate/athína diabolica* light novel series. It was conceived by the Athanasiou, Eleutheriou, and Kyriakos families upon learning about the existence of the ritual thanks to Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia's information.

## Origin

The Athenian Holy Grail War began when the three most powerful magus lineages of Greece came across the information that Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia scattered throughout the world...

## Procedure

The Athenian Holy Grail War is so far the most complete copy of the original Fuyuki Holy Grail War in the sense that it has the seven Servants needed for the ritual. Ironically, prior to the intervention and assistance of the Ainsworths, the Masters failed to actually summon Servants. However, due to the Ainsworths tampering with the Holy Grail used for the ritual, the Saber class was completely destroyed and upon the summoning of Servants, a Saber-class Servant was the only Servant that was not summoned. As such, the Holy Grail detected an emergency and summoned Ruler to replace the missing Saber class, however, since the Holy Grail is a depreciated copy of the original, Ruler cannot act independently and must be tied to a Master.

## Supervision

There is no proper supervisor for the Athenian Holy Grail War due to the suddenness of its actualization. The closest there is to a supervisor is the Lord Sutlyn and Shirou Emiya's Servant, Ruler...

## Wars

### First and Second Athenian Holy Grail Wars

The First and Second, taking place 25 years apart in 1957 and 1982, can't even be considered "Holy Grail Wars" because despite being '*complete rituals*', no Master in either of the conflicts successfully called upon a Servant. As such, the ritual remained incomplete and the conflict descended into a mere playground where seven mages attempted to kill each other and steal the "*catalyst of Heracles*", the focus of the First Holy Grail War, or the "*catalyst of Achilles*", the focus of the Second Holy Grail War.

### Third Athenian Holy Grail War

It is only in the Third Holy Grail War set in the third week of August 2008 did the ritual reach full completion and according to Justinian Ainsworth, the Ainsworth representative in the Holy Grail War, it is the only true Holy Grail War in this category and as such, it is this conflict of which the name "*Athenian Holy Grail War*" is attached to. The conflict begins when Shirou Emiya first manifested Command Spells on his left hand two days prior to any Servant being summoned; with the appearance of his Command Spells, Shirou also summons Ruler who explains the situation to him and the sheer irregularity of this Holy Grail War. He, alongside his teacher Lord Sutlynn and a classmate, journeyed to Greece where they coincidentally encountered Anastasiya Animusphere who was there on an assignment for her graduation from the Sutlynn Classroom; Lord Sutlynn then revealed that Olga Marie Animusphere had secretly followed them and not long after, Olga suddenly felt a pain in her forehead and upon it passing, she was found to have been given Command Spells.

## Trivia

* The author admitted to having no prior knowledge of the fact that, as stated in *Fate/Apocrypha*, there already was a Grecian Subcategory Holy Grail War.

## References

**Athenian Holy Grail War**

The Athenian Holy Grail War, originally known as the "Grecian Holy Grail War" is a ritual created by the Athanasiou, Eleutheriou, and Kyriakos families.

**Concerning *Fate/athína diabolica*'s Development Plans**

**Yatsushiro**: When I first made this, I didn't know that my idea was already something mentioned in *Fate/Apocrypha*! Can you believe it!? (wwwww) I legitimately thought my idea was something I came up with but turns out it was canon this whole time (wwww)! In any case, there are of course a lot of differences between this version and the version made by Higashide-*sensei*. For instance, the fact that the war was never properly a thing (wwww). Honestly, this story wouldn't have come to be if I didn't decide on whether or not to have a story featuring Shirou-*kun* before *Fate/chaos revival*. I mean, Shirou-*kun* is already Shirou-*san* there, you know (wwww). He's an adult (wwww)! Adult Shirou-*san* is so serious, you know (wwww). I had to write a story about Shirou-*san* before he became Shirou-*san* and that's how this story came to be.