Tokyo Holy Grail War

The **Tokyo Holy Grail War** (東京聖杯戦争, *Tōkyō Seihai Sensō*?) is a newly established ritual and is the central element in the *Fate/chaos divergence* series, including its prequel and sequel. Established by the Reiroukan and Sajyou families with the help of Risei Kotomine in Tokyo, Japan, it is a conflict that begins sixty years following the conclusion of the Third Fuyuki Holy Grail War, a conflict that ended in failure and the theft of the Greater Grail.

## History

### Third Fuyuki Holy Grail War

The Third Fuyuki Holy Grail War occurs in a one-week period of the summer of 1932...

In the last days of the conflict, Darnic, after killing Juliasviel, the Lesser Grail, orders Lancer to stall Ruler as he enlists the help of the Nazis in locating the Greater Grail in the caverns underneath Mount Enzō. The Three Families and the Japanese Imperial Army fought to thwart the theft but were left in a weakened position brought about by the Holy Grail War. Nevertheless, both Darnic and Nazis were able to defeat their opposition (with Darnic murdering the head of the Matou family, Zouken Matou, when the latter tried stopping the former from making off with the Holy Grail), the Holy Grail was successfully stolen. However, Darnic betrayed the Nazis and swept the Holy Grail back to his home country of Romania, so that he could use it to prepare for a Holy Grail War of his own creation in 60 years time.

### The Retrieval of the Greater Grail

In 1958, a series of conflicts drew Darnic's attention away from his country and in a solo operation by the seventh-ranked of the Dead Apostle Ancestors, Merem Solomon, the Greater Grail was stolen and removed from Romania and secretly carted to Rome. The Church had no intention of returning the device to Fuyuki and instead, used it for their own purposes, setting up a ritual in the city of Tokyo, Japan, for multiple reasons with the ritual being primarily fine-tuned by Risei Kotomine, the Reiroukan family as well as the Jinga family. However, while the Grail was in transport, interference from the leylines and the Holy Sacraments in Rome triggered a small but peculiar change in the Command Spells, turning them into tattoos that exhibit an angel motif and are given "Master Degrees", ranking them from First to Seventh.

### Tokyo Holy Grail Wars

During the First Holy Grail War of *Fate/Intercession*, Manaka Sajyou and Saber ultimately defeated the other six Masters and obtained the Grail. Though Manaka had been supposedly acting in her family's interest in reaching the Root, she instead planned to incarnate the Beast by sacrificing people for their souls. In doing so, she killed her own father, but Saber, disgusted with her and the Holy Grail, betrayed her before she could kill her sister, Ayaka Sajyou. She was stabbed and tossed into the Greater Grail, ending the war.

The Second Holy Grail War of *Fate/chaos divergence* occurred just eight years later, far faster than expected, with Ayaka summoning her sister's Servant for herself. The nature of the Holy Grail War seemed to be normal with seven Masters participating, but Elias Padraig Wirth was not one of the normal Masters; his Command Spells weren't ranked. This revelation was followed by the news that Manaka had survived the previous Holy Grail War and still held the Seraphim Master Degree. She then brought forth the six defeated Servants of the previous war while waiting for the Beast to fully incarnate.

The Third Holy Grail War of *Fate/chaos revival* was a conflict that originated from the Yggdmillennia clan, specifically, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, successfully stealing the Holy Grail from Ayaka Sajyou, who was safeguarding it following the conclusion of the Second Holy Grail War. Darnic prepared for the Holy Grail War but inadvertently kick-started a large-scale conflict never before seen in the history of the Holy Grail Wars.

## Procedure

As it uses the same Greater Grail from the Fuyuki system, the procedure of the Tokyo Holy Grail War is more or less the same. While in the care of the Yggdmillennia family, the Greater Grail had amassed more mana than expected. However, this mana came unused as the Greater Grail does not have a Lesser Grail companion. As such, Risei Kotomine enlisted the help of the Reiroukan and Jinga magus families of Tokyo to come up with a possible alchemical alternative to the Lesser Grail problem because Risei cannot turn to any of the Three Great Families as the Greater Grail is rightfully theirs.

The Lesser Grail was created out of pyrite (fool's gold) and other substances and shaped in the form of a chalice. It took the Reiroukan roughly twenty years to create a vessel and be satisfied with it enough to part with it and place it alongside the Greater Grail in the waters of Tokyo Bay where a massive network of highly concentrated leylines crisscrossed, providing the Holy Grail with a highly potent mana recovery network.

## Supervision

As the ritual was created in part by the Holy Church, they handle the supervision of the Holy Grail War. As since they cannot rely on the original Three Great Families, the Holy Church charges the Sajyou, Reiroukan, and Hiiragi families with the monetary compensation for any damages caused during the Holy Grail War, similar to the *Fate/stay night* timeline where the Einzberns take on the same job. Similar to the situation in *Fate/stay night*, the Church works alongside the three magus lineages of Tokyo in order to ensure the secrecy of the ritual.

## Wars

### First Holy Grail War

The First Holy Grail War began in the summer of 1991. Thirteen days prior to the start of the conflict, Manaka Sajyou and Yukiya Reiroukan summon Saber and Caster, respectively; simultaneously, Nolan Sayward summons Lancer.

Eight days later, Shizuri Isemi summons Rider and Elsa Rosales summons Archer three days after that. Seiji Jinga summons Assassin but is knocked out of the competition early due to negligence at the management of his Servant; he had kissed her and died from her poison. The Master-less Assassin would have been forced to kill mortals to sustain herself were it not for Nagisa Ayanokouji who had conveniently summoned Berserker near the warehouse where Seiji had summoned Assassin. Cursing Seiji's carelessness, Nagisa forges a new contract with Assassin, marking the end of the prelude.

### Second Holy Grail War

The Second Holy Grail War began in 1999 and it was again managed by the Holy Church with Sancraid Phahn as Overseer, however, it is revealed that Elias Padraig Wirth had replaced him. Misaya Reiroukan ordered Lancer to attack Ayaka Sajyou who had not summoned a Servant yet. After a chase through the Sajyou residence, Ayaka reached her mother's botanical garden and sealed herself in with a barrier. However, Lancer managed to break through the barrier as well as easily dispatch Kotomi Shiratsuyu. Distressed, Ayaka began the summoning ritual but is stabbed before finishing. However, she manages to force out the final line, successfully summoning Saber, her sister's Servant from the previous war who started a short scuffle with Lancer that ended neutrally with Lancer retreating, hoping to fight Saber with full force another day.

In an abandoned warehouse located in Tokyo's Minato Ward, a *shikigami* is fighting for her life against a group of second-rate magi who intend to steal her catalyst and her Command Spells. She is successful in holding them off long enough to activate the summoning circle she had made prior to the assault before Berserker appeared and made short work of the thieves.

Prior to arriving in Japan, Waver Sutlynn Velvet agonizes over his thesis paper to which his fiancée, Reines Sutlynn Archisorte, discovers his true motives; she stows herself onto her husband's plane flight and tags along with him. Arriving in Japan with the unintended guest that was his future wife, Waver spends the day researching the battlefield of Tokyo before using the full moon that night to summon Caster.

Ending his vacation in the city of Sapporo, Kiritsugu Emiya prepares for his own Servant summoning with his wife and baby son watching. While the Einzbern family had wanted Kiritsugu to use one of their catalysts, he refused, insisting that the catalysts he has are good enough to summon an excellent Servant. Assassin answers his call and much to his surprise, the Servant is a little girl who is now content to be part of Kiritsugu's happy family.

## Participants

In this Holy Grail War, the Master's Command Spells take the form of Master Degrees. The Master Degrees themselves take the form of an Angelic Hierarchy which determines the rank of the Master by using the number of feathers with 7 feathers being the highest and one feather being the lowest. However, like with the Fuyuki Holy Grail War, each of the Master Degrees only amounts to three strokes and will disappear the moment the third stroke is used.

For Masters who participated in the Great Holy Grail War, refer to the Participants section of the page.