Magus (魔術師, Majutsushi?, plural Magi) is the term for a human practitioner of Magecraft, the magical science, as opposed to a Magician, who is capable of bringing forth true miracles that are impossible to be reenacted at the current scientific stage. In ancient times, the term magus was used for both the users of Thaumaturgy and Magic, but with the advancement of science that made past miracles possible and the decline of the overall power of Magecraft, the differences between the two became clearer. At the modern age, there are only five Magicians left. A wizard, just like a magus, has a long life. If one uses life-prolonging magic, it wouldn't be impossible to live a few hundred, a few thousand years either.
The very first magi were merely scholars that studied the supernatural, and the present level of Thaumaturgy was attained thanks to the accumulated knowledge and bloodline history started by them. Magi are frequently, but not necessarily, descend from old magical families, as affinity to sorcery is something transmitted through blood relations.[1]
More than just a name, the term "Magus" define a whole set of beliefs and lifestyle. A magus dedicates himself to the study and refinement of Thaumaturgy while driving himself apart of the values of common people in the process. He searches for the greater truths of the universe not to answer existential questions, but just for the sake of knowing. Ideally, a magus would render his own self transparent while still retaining his ego. In reality however, most magi, especially those of the Mage's Association, are often caught up on petty power struggles. On another hand, those who openly deviate from the way of magi, such as Kiritsugu Emiya and Shirou Emiya, are perceived as heretics that do not deserve to be called a magus.[2]
Classifications
- Archmagus (大魔道師, Dai Madōshi?) - The title given to a great magus of the past, such as Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern or Caubac Alcatraz.
- Faker (複製者, Fukuseisha?) - The name given to magi who are adept at the use of Gradation Air.
- Freelancer (フリーランサー, Furīransā?) - A magus who is not affiliated to any magical organizations and take up jobs from others in exchange of remuneration. Due the nature of their profession, they are constantly at odds with the Enforcers of the Association and the Executors of the Church. Includes mages such as Aoko Aozaki and Natalia Kaminski.
- Hacker - Not being authentic magecraft in Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC and Fate/Extra CCC Fox Tail magicians use Items or Code Cast spells and wizards who use them are called hackers. Users include Hakuno Kishinami, Leonardo B. Harwey and Rani VIII.
- Houjutsushi (法術師, Hōjutsushi?) - Those who exorcise spirits through sutras, prayers and faith. The ones who achieved true enlightenment can draw upon the power of supernatural entities to perform miracles, but those with insufficient training have to fill the gap by adding their own power, just like the Western magi do. In Japan, there is a very secretive organization of Houjutsushi. Currently none of the monks of Ryuudou Temple are Houjutsushi, but there were a small number of them in the past.
- Shaman/Witch (呪術師, Jujutsushi?) - The practitioners of Witchcraft, through similar in concept they are seen as a different kind from the regular magus. Users include Alice Kuonji and, at first, Ayaka Sajyou.
- Spellcaster (魔術使い, Majutsu Tsukai?) - The name given to those who use Magecraft without following the way of the magus, such as Kiritsugu Emiya and Flueger who treated Magecraft as just a tool. Usually, their general skill with Thaumaturgy is low, but it is not uncommon for them to be highly proficient in a single field that they choose to specialize at. Also includes mages who lack formal training such as Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou.
- Spiritual Doctor (霊媒医師, Reibai Ishi?) - A magus that uses Spiritual Invocation to perform medical operations, one who heals not through the flesh, but through the soul. Can also be found among the members of the Church, thus hinting that these procedures are not completely seen as Thaumaturgy. Kirei Kotomine was an excellent Spiritual Doctor who was capable of removing Command Spells from a Master without damaging his nervous system.
- Spiritron Hackers (霊子ハッカー?) - In the EXTRA universe, the magus of the old world have disappeared, and the era of mystery has drawn to a complete close. From then on those who called themselves “Magus” came to represent Spiritron Hackers, a new generation of mankind.[3]
- Sealing Designation Enforcer (封印指定執行者, "Fūinshitei Shikkōsha"?) - Also called Enforcers (実行者, jikkousha?), they are magi specialized in hunting down magi marked with Sealing Designations. Though there are said to be around thirty official Enforcers, Freelancers like Natalia Kaminski and Kiritsugu Emiya also hunt such people for a bounty placed by the Association, making a living stealing the prey of the Enforcers and selling the Magic Crests back to the Association for a inflated price. Due to the rarity of an actual Sealing Designation, even the genuine Enforcers would be lucky to pursue such "big game" once in a decade, most making their living off of non-designated heretical magi who have deviated from the norms of the Association.[5] Although in a similar line of work as the Church's Executors who may share the same targets, they rarely work together due to Executors wishing to destroy all heresy, while Enforcers wish to retrieve the work of the magus. They are looked down upon by the upper ranks of the Association, and although they are supposed to suppress anything that might reveal the existence of Thaumaturgy to the general public, great events and rituals such as the Holy Grail War are outside their scope of work. Bazett’s participation during the Fifth Holy Grail War as a representative of the Association is due to Kotomine’s recommendation.
Characteristics
Depending on their craft, the appearance of magi may become distorted due to the chemicals with which they work or type of magecraft they practice. Rather than become ashamed over it as a mark of humiliation, it is normal for them to see it as a source of pride.[6]
Many magi look down on those like freelancers who use magecraft to earn a profit, believing it to be solely a field of research that should not be used in such a manner. Only those with more worldly experience or those practicing more controversial magecraft can look past the initial disdain and bewilderment other magi have for such people.[6]
It is possible for magi to obtain magical patents recognized by the Clock Tower, allowing them to obtain money from theories and rituals in the same manner as regular patents. The Tohsaka family earns tens of millions of yen annually from those that they own.[7]
Most magi of long lineages do not find convenience in using modern technology, believing that the comparable magical tools they have possessed since long before the technology was invented will never be inferior. Compared to communication tools that are susceptible to spying and that will stop working with power outages, they feel their own apparatuses like the Tokiomi Tohsaka's implements in place of fax machines and phones will remain superior due to not having such issues. It is rare for there to be magi who are not repulsed by the idea of using such technology, with Irisviel von Einzbern being hard pressed to understand how to properly use a phone and Jubstacheit von Einzbern fervently arguing against Kiritsugu Emiya having a telephone line and power generator installed at the Einzbern Castle. People like Kirei Kotomine cannot truly understand the train of thought, believing that a fax machine that can be used by anyone is more convenient, and Kiritsugu, a magus who frequently uses such technology, finds that the tendency of magi to ignore such technology as a legitimate threat, not understanding what a regular human can accomplish without magecraft, is a blind spot he can exploit in his work as a magus killer.[8] Those of families that do not follow such traditions like Waver Velvet are easily capable of using them to the degree of any ordinary person.[9]
The Association does not base its principals on normal morality, but rather the preservation of the secrets of magecraft. Magi may commit many horrendous crimes, but they will not be targeted so long as it does not become a threat to their secrecy. While many people may perish in the Holy Grail War rituals, the Association only seeks to make sure the media is properly manipulated as to avoid letting it become public and having the Einzbern cover any monetary damage.[10] When hunting those who have been given a Sealing Designation, their greatest priority is ensuring the safety of the results of the designated's research over all else. Competing with the Church in their goal of wiping out all heretical knowledge, they seek most of all to obtain the Magic Crests of the designated as the most precious of a magus' work. In the case of Norikata Emiya and his successor Kiritsugu Emiya, the Association keeps the majority of the crest, and only through negotiations of the one selling it to them, Natalia Kaminski, is Kiritsugu able to inherit a minor portion.
Sealing Designation
Sealing Designations (封印指定 , fuuin shitei?) are edicts handed down by the Mage's Association to maintain and protect special thaumaturgical abilities which cannot be acquired through study. Said to be a title of the "greatest honor", those marked are deemed "precious", causing the Association to mobilize the greatest effort to secure their flesh and blood, their body's potential. Those designated are to be incarcerated, becoming samples preserved in their present conditions and levels of ability. It is an outrage to those who are designated not because of it being the equivalent of a death sentence, but rather because it is an affront to their status as prominent magi. They who have spent their lives devoted to their research will automatically reject a situation in which they will be unable to continue. Genuine sealing designations are extremely rare, and those who pursue them, Enforcers, will be lucky to pursue even one in an entire decade.[5] Normally limited to those of greater magical pedigree, Norikata Emiya, the fourth head of the Emiya family, is noted to be a genius who rose to the rank of receiving a designation despite being of a shallow generation.[11]
The actions of those who are designated can be divided into two paths: Hermit (隠者, inja?) and Philosopher (賢者, kenja?). Hermits become degraded magi after secluding themselves from the world, transmitting their knowledge only to their successor. Unless they have a truly extraordinary work, they are normally left alone by the Association because they are not an immediate threat, instead only kept under surveillance while keeping an interest in their research. Philosophers are those great magi striving to reach new heights, becoming menaces that abandon all codes of conduct to continue their research without being bothered. Acting without restraint unlike normal magi, they are able to obtain greater results in a shorter period of time. They may victimize a number of innocent people in their pursuit, possibly making magecraft known to the world should they be too careless.
Those with Sealing Designations include:
Magi Bloodlines
Ainsworth
The Ainsworth (エインズワース?) family comes from a parallel world to that of the Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA world. They are a famous magus family, it is uncertain when they decided to save humanity but they continued their journey for more than 1000 years. 200 years ago, the Ainsworth sought the power of the Holy Grail and formed with two other magus family to develop the Holy Grail War and created the Class Card system afterward. They are similar in nature to the Einzbern family, seeking the Holy Grail and creating many homunculus-like servants that they call "Dolls."
Julian claim that their overall goal lies in saving the world from the degradation. His plan is through the sacrifice of Miyu Edelfelt and to transform humans into a species that can survive the environment that will eventually be produced by the world's collapse. They specialize in the magecraft Flash Air.
- Known Members:
- Zachary Ainsworth (Previous head)
- Darius Ainsworth
- Julian Ainsworth (Current head)
- Erika
- Angelica (Doll)
- Beatrice Flowerchild (Doll)
Aozaki
The Aozaki (蒼崎, Aozaki?) is the family who administers the greatest spiritual land in Japan, for the Magi this name is a synonym for "trouble". Despite its age, it is not a renowned lineage and in fact the Mage's Association sees them as heretics. A bloodline with a history worth a total of six generations, the head of the third generation was a genius that developed a method that greatly increases the chances of the family head inheriting the title of Magician.[12]
In the present generation, the family had the misfortune of having a pair siblings disputing over the position of family head, a tragedy for any clan of magi. The outcome of the conflict was that the younger of the two sisters, Aoko, comes out victorious and becomes a Magician. At a point of time, both sisters were part of the Mage's Association but eventually they withdrawn from it. Aoko left on a whim and became a Freelancer. Meanwhile, the older sister, Touko, ran away after receiving a Sealing Designation. Touko noticed that if she remained with the Association she would never be able to leave later, although there was a great chance of her reaching the highest levels of the place.
The Aozaki family never had a history of producing heirs with many Magic Circuits and the numbers were decreasing even more with the passing of generations. By the time of the parents of the two sisters, there were almost no Circuits left. Many though that was the end for the Aozaki lineage, but Touko surprisingly turned out to be a prodigy with 20 Circuits.
Aoko and Touko's grandfather, the third generation head mentioned earlier, used to be called a monster and, in Aoko's own words, was "a no-good old man who stubbornly lived too long". He raised Touko in the way of the magus in his Workshop on the mountains, while Aoko and her parents lived separately. However, when the two girls were 18 and 16 respectively, he suddenly changed the position of successor to Aoko. Shocked, Touko killed him right after he passed down the family heritage to her sister. Until then, said heritage was not given to neither the children nor the pupils of the third generation head.
About the time of the 5th Heaven's Feel, Touko was still hiding herself from the Association, while Aoko was touring around the country without a care in the world.
While Touko is a very versatile Magus, Aoko is good at nothing but destruction, being a user of the 5th True Magic, "Blue".
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Archibald
The Archibald (アーチボルト, Āchiboruto?), a house of nobles from the Mage's Association considered to be elite among the elites and is one of the only families to possess close ties with the Barthomelois. In command of the El-Melloi Lords faction within the Association, the house was almost ruined after the death of its ninth head, the prodigy Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, but managed to recover itself thanks to the efforts of an unofficial apprentice, Waver Velvet. After the situation was cleared, Velvet was rewarded with the title of "Lord El-Melloi II" as a form of gratitude. But the true heir of the Archibald house is actually a little girl in the lowest seat of the clan. Reines El-Melloi Archisorte gave him the title while saying "I recognize your deeds to the Archibald family, but since you were only making up for what you caused in the first place, you better serve me for your entire life", thus literally binding him to her.[13]
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Barthomeloi
The Barthomeloi (バルトメロイ, Barutomeroi?) is one of the most noted lines of magi within the Association. They are a family of rulers and lords that can be called embodiments of perfectionism and aristocracy. Their lineage is mysterious and old even for the standards of the other Association's magi, and it is uncertain when the name "Barthomeloi" was first written in the pages of history. They first appeared during the construction of the Clock Tower, and quickly became lords with their powerful Blue Blood Noble Magic Circuits and attribute of Almighty. They have reigned at the peak of the Association for centuries, and sought perfection in each generation of their magi. The head of their family does not appear in public until he or she becomes perfected as a magus according to their standards. They are raised only inside the Barthomeloi manor, as having them appear outside while inexperienced appears to be an embarrassment for them. Resulting from this, once the head first steps into the Association, they are immediately ready to act to act as a Department Head. They find great pride in the "Barthomeloi" name, considering it to represent everything they are, while their own given names are simply attachments. All of the Barthomeloi's have an almost obsessive hatred toward the Dead Apostles, possibly due to their dignity as humans or pride as aristocrats, and they spend their time hunting them as if it were completely natural. This obsession may go so far as neglecting any other responsibilities to participate in any vampire hunts available.
They can be considered aristocrats more intense than even the Twenty-seven Ancestors, who believe that even their fellow lords ought to be submissive to even more venerable and excellent blood. The only magus seen as the equal of the Barthomeloi Lord is the practitioner of the First Magic. The current head, Barthomeloi Lorelei, has some degree of friendly relations with the Archibald family, but other information concerning her succession and her background are unknown.
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Edelfelt
The Edelfelt (エーデルフェルト, Ēderuferuto?) is a Finnish lineage that is renowned as being one of the best Gandr users in the world. Known as the most elegant hyenas on Earth. They came into power in the Renaissance Era, and earned that nickname for their shamelessly intervening in conflicts unrelated to them around the world, picking and choosing the most prized examples of magecraft from the ruins for themselves.[14] Possess a Sorcery Trait called Ore Scales that allows them to have two successors for their Magecraft at the same time. The exact mechanics of this Trait are unknown. A mercenary-like aristocratic family, they find great pleasure in battle as shown by the delighted expression that they make when fighting, which got them to be feared by others as "the most elegant hyenas above the ground".[1]
A pair of twin sisters from this family participated in the Heaven's Feel 3 and, due the power of their Sorcery Trait, they were to summon two aspects of the same Heroic Spirits as two Servants under the Saber Class. Due their bad relationship, the two split ways early into the conflict. The two used western mansions built on the same forest than the Einzbern castle as bases of operations, which were left to the Association after the Grail War. The older sister's mansion was in the old town, while the younger sister's was in Shinto. By the time of the Heaven's Feel 5, both mansions were in ruins and had the reputation of being haunted houses.
In the end, the younger sister was defeated by the Tohsaka's family head of that time while the older sister ran away from the country promising never to come back. These events are the cause of the Edelfelts' prejudice against Japanese people, which is especially strong against the Tohsaka family. Since it is known that the Servants of the Saber Class managed to reach the final match of all Holy Grail Wars, at least one of the sisters was the among the last contestants of the Heaven's Feel 3.
Luvia's father the previous master had retired early and his daughter became the successor.[14]
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Einzbern
The Einzbern (アインツベルン, Aintsuberun?), a bloodline that once wielded the Third Magic but lost it at some point of time. For such an old lineage, they surprisingly have no branch families. Their Sorcery Trait is Wish-Granting – Spellcasting without possessing the knowledge of the spell itself. They skip the thaumaturgical process altogether and recreate miracles just through the use of magical energy but they are still bound to the limitations of the Magic Circuits.
About 1,000 years ago, the Einzberns started a quest to recover their lost miracle but eventually came to realize that they would never succeed by themselves and thus sought outside help. The result was the establishment of the Heaven's Feel ritual 200 years ago thanks to the help of the Makiri and the Tohsaka. They were the ones who built the Great Grail of Fuyuki and also the one's left in charge of producing a new vessel of the Holy Grail for each new Grail War.
The Magecraft of the Einzbern family, which follows the Thaumaturgical School of Alchemy, is based on the creation and refinement of substances and the focus of their studies lies solely in the structural manipulation of precious metals. They know healing magecraft, but as alchemists this is used not for the sake of recovering the flesh of injured people, but rather to lessen the great burden felt by a subject who received an organ that was tempered with magical power and help his body get used with the newly transplanted organ. Because with the craft of the Einzbern magical energy becomes easily dispersible, buildings that sealed off with soil or stone are the ones most desired by them to install a workshop.
The Einzberns are well known for being excellent producers of homunculus. Even the ones that are regarded as failures by their creators are still superior to even 100 magi. The Einzbern homunculi have their functions determined during the design stages and are born with bodies and minds optimized to perform their purposes.
The current head of the Einzbern family is called Jubstacheit von Einzbern (or simply "old man-Acht") and is the eighth person to rise to the position. He has been around ever since the time of Second Heaven's Feel thanks to methods of life prolonging and it has been said that under his leadership, the Einzbern changed its goals from "seeking the Holy Grail" to "winning the Grail War". He has a close relationship with the Talbot farm of early autumn Darjeeling and for years its tea has been only served to special guests.
Although their members can be dangerous when forced to fight, their single-minded specialization in Alchemy makes them ill-suited for battle. That is the reason why, up to the Third Heaven’s Feel, the Masters of the Einzbern were eliminated early in the battle. For the Fourth Heaven’s Feel, the family hired the services of an outsider, Kiritsugu Emiya, and presented him with the sheath of the holy sword which was excavated from Cornwall to serve as a catalyst to summon King Arthur. The whole family placed their expectations on him, but he ended up betraying them and destroying the Holy Grail. The Einzben have a narrow view of Japan's culture.[15]
They live in Germany, in a mountain district near a certain river.[16] The Einzbern castle at their homeland has a chapel and it was there that Kiritsugu summoned Saber. Since their dwelling is in a snowy mountain, the family does not have the custom of raising flowers. The climate of their territory is also not one suitable to produce liquor, but they nevertheless possess a brewery to supply alcohol, which is an ingredient necessary for their Magecraft.
In the Apocrypha universe, they didn't become discouraged by the fact that the Greater Grail was stolen in the Third Holy Grail War. Rather, they don't seem to have that kind of mentality in the first place (if they gave up, it would only be when even their greatest creation, Illyasviel, would fail to attain the Third Sorcery), They are doing everything they can with the belief that they might be able to reproduce that miracle and the Einzberns apparently were trying to make a new one. Accordingly, they have come to reluctantly have relationships with other magi despite their insular and unsociable nature, and the Musik family took advantage of their confused state of affairs in order to receive a portion of their homunculi craft. However, what the Einzberns taught was merely the equivalent of giving a toy to a child, so it wasn't much of a problem for them. The Musik family concealed the fact that they were part of the Yggdmillennia clan, but naturally the Einzberns know about it. However, the Greater Grail was formed by taking apart the only successful Justeaze-model homunculus, so the Einzbern agreed to cooperate with them in case they should manage to activate one.[17] The Einzberns are in the midst of struggling to make a new Greater Grail under the excuse “It was stolen, so we’ll just make a new Holy Grail”. Fortunately, in the “Apocrypha” world, Kiritsugu Emiya won’t end up becoming involved with the Einzberns, so their greatest work Illyasviel will never be born. As long as she isn’t born, the Einzberns will never despair.[18]
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Eltnam
The Eltnam (エルトナム, Erutonamu?), a fallen noble house of alchemists, they are scorned and feared due their creation and use of Etherlite. The cause of their ruin came when the family head of three generations past, Zepia Eltnam Oberon, became a Dead Apostle around 500 years ago.
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Emiya
The Emiya (衛宮, Emiya?), a lineage dating back a few centuries that focused on 'Time Manipulation' in their quest for Akasha. Accelerating or slowing the flow of time inside a Reality Marble free from the world’s interference is the thaumaturgy of the Emiya family. But after investigating it thoroughly, in a Bounded Field that was minimized until resistance was almost zero, the flow of time could be accelerated without limit, and reaching the Root would be possible, right before observing the universe’s end. Although the theory itself was very promising, finishing the experiment would still require several hundreds of years. The fourth family head, Norikata Emiya, was a genius who was Sealing Designated, bringing ruin upon his family for researching into vampirism.[19] As a result, the Emiya family was wiped-out by the Church and Magus Association. His son and immediate successor, Kiritsugu Emiya, was a freelancer who did not care for the ways of the magi and his own lineage, and died without passing on the Emiya Crest.
Shirou Emiya is Kiritsugu's adopted son and apparently not considered a true successor.
- Known Members:
- Norikata Emiya
- Kiritsugu Emiya
- Shirou Emiya (Adopted)
Fraga
The Fraga (フラガ, Furaga?), a family with a history that extends itself backs to the Age of Gods. Due to the faithful servitude they showed to the ancient deities in the past, the clan was rewarded with the knowledge of mystic runes and rights over the Noble Phantasm Fragarach. From the Magi's standards they are supposed to be the top-elite, but for some reason decided to remain isolated in a small coastline village. By bloodline alone, they should have been seen as high class, but in truth possess neither money nor fame and just live secretly while passing down their mystical knowledge to their descendants.
The parents of Bazett were against her entrance into the Association.
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Frain
The Frain (フレイン, Furein ?), are a family quite well known in the field of doll engineering. It is traditional for the children of the house to be left nursed by Golems from the moment of birth, and until they reach the age when the family crest can be transferred to them, their parents practically never leave the workshop to see them. It was the policy of the Frain family to be raised and not give any love from the beginning. The golems have complete responsibility even for their education. As such, every child of the clan becomes very familiar with golems. The acts and speech of these dolls modelled after human beings—the way they continue to work day and night—becomes what is common sense to them. Having been raised on such an eccentric upbringing, they become magi for whom golems rather than other humans are the norm. They may have forgotten even the faces of their own parents, but they remember the form of every single golem who has cared for them.
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Harwey
The Harwey (ハーウェイ?) are a magus family from the world of Fate/Extra. The family owns approximately sixty percent of the the real world, whether this is through land ownership, monetary wealth or political influence is unclear, but the Harwey Conglomorate is a powerful organisation all the same, possessing both great influence and its own team of assassins with which to do away with opposition. The heir to the family, Leo B. Harwey, was conceived between the former Harwey head and Leo's mother Alicia. While Leo is the younger brother of Julius B. Harwey, Julius is an illegitimate son, and after being harshly tested as a child, was discarded as a potential heir. Determining the Holy Grail to be a threat to their regime, the Harweys sent both brothers to the moon in order to claim it. Julius with the purpose of eliminating those that would oppose Leo, and Leo to take the Grail for the group.
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Icecolle
The Icecolle (アイスコル, Aisukoru?) family, were a fairly old bloodline of practitioners of the dark arts. The Icecolle were forced on the run by the devastating witch hunts of the Middle Ages. They escaped from western Europe all the way to Siberia, they lost the foundation of their thaumaturgy and eventually fell into decline. Celenike was the first child to be born of the decaying bloodline in a long time.
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Istari
The Istari (イスタリ?) were a family well-noted for their alchemy
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Makiri/Matou
The Makiri (マキリ, Makiri?), later known as Matou (間桐, Matō?), a lineage that dates back over 500 years ago, they were chased out of their homeland in Russia.[20] They eventually took refuge in Japan, where they changed their name to Matou. Around 200 years ago, the Makiri entered in decline and their offspring started to lose their capacity to manifest Magic Circuits. Although they covered up with the excuse that they were incompatible with the spiritual land of Fuyuki, the true reason behind this sudden fall of their bloodline was never explained.[2]
Their fall finally culminated in their last heir, Shinji Matou, having no Magic Circuits at all; Shinji's paternal uncle Kariya Matou had been the last known member of the family to be naturally born with Magic Circuits, but had expressed such disgust towards the family's practices that he left the family before learning any of the Matou's Magecraft. With the practice of passing down their Magic Crest among the family members being ceased since generations before, everything that is now left of their mystic heritage is simply knowledge in the form of books of Magecraft. Their only choice to continue with their line would be to take in pupils from other families, but because of their history of being overly prideful nobody would willingly go to them. That in mind, Zouken went to the Tohsaka while recalling the past pact of friendship between the two families. As a result, Sakura was adopted into the Matou.
The Magecraft of the Matou works around the concept of "absorbing" or, from another perspective, "to bind something to one's self". Their method of teaching of Thaumaturgy is not by letting the mind absorb the knowledge through study, but by literally carving it into the body through the use of Crest Worms. Despite the torture-like aspects of the process, it seems to be remarkably efficient.[1]
Among their accomplishments include the establishment the Servant system of the Heaven's Feel and created the Command Spells for the Masters. They possess a considerable amount of monetary resources, which were accumulated during the time that they researched Thaumaturgy.
In the Apocrypha universe, the Matou family wasn't blessed with a successor, so their future as magi has been completely shut.[18]
- Known Members:
- Zouken Matou
- Kariya Matou
- Byakuya Matou
- Shinji Matou
- Sakura Matou (Adopted from Tohsaka; Lacks formal education)
Musik
The Musik (ムジーク, Mujīku?) are an alchemy family, that were once known to had rivaled the Einzbern in terms of skills in alchemy. As their thaumaturgical blood had already been in decay, the Musik family was folded into the Yggdmillennia, during in the Great Holy Grail War. The Einzbern reluctantly have relationships with other magi despite their insular and unsociable nature, and the Musik family took advantage of their confused state of affairs in order to receive a portion of their homunculi craft. However, what the Einzberns taught was merely the equivalent of giving a toy to a child, so it wasn't much of a problem for them. The Musik family concealed the fact that they were part of the Yggdmillennia clan, but naturally the Einzberns know about it.[17] Gordes is currently the successor of the house.
- Known Members:
- Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia
- Gordes' unnamed son
Sakatsuki
The Sakatsuki (朔月?) are an old family tracing back to the roots of Fuyuki, they appear to have no ties with the magic world on the surface. In the age where the death rate of child birth is insanely high in Japan. Children are revered as the entity that exist between the boundary of gods and humans. They are referred as Child of God (神稚児, Kami Chigo?), the children possesses Divinity until the age of six. The tradition and culture has been lost in the age of modern medicine, but the Sakatsuki still continue the child religion.
The Sakatsuki's Child of God can grant the power of wishes unconditionally. It is uncertain if the Child of God wish granting abilities is based on the age or Fuyuki's magical leylines. The Sakatsuki are very secretive to their Child of God. No one witnesses the birth of the girl aged below six. They set up Bounded field inside their house to block out human thoughts. The Sakatsuki kept their children from other humans, they were solely raised by their mothers and to be given limited education. After the girl has aged beyond six, the child of god would become human and would appear in society. They appeared to be recovered from diseases and to be adopted in relatives family.
The Sakatsuki family was wiped out with the exception of Miyu in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
- Known Members:
- Miyu Sakatsuki (Temporarily Adopted by Luvia Edelfelt)
Sisigou
The Sisigou (獅子劫, Shishigou?) family is already in its seventh generation of magi despite hailing from the Far East, where thaumaturgy can hardly be said to be flourishing. The ancestor of the Sisigou family head made a contract in the past which resulted the decline of producing children. Kairi is the last survivor of this extinct bloodline. They once adopted a girl who was compatible with their magecraft and hoped to pass down their legacy by implanting the Magic Crest to her but she died in the process. There is no successor to this bloodline.
- Known Members:
Sophia-Ri
Sophia-Ri (ソフィアリ, Sofia-Ri?), a family related to the Nuada-Re (ヌァザレ, Nuaza-Re?) lineage, a prestigious clan that is proud of its latent potential as magi and the family of the current Department Head of the Eulyphis – Spiritual Summoning Department of Clock Tower. Around the time that Sola-Ui was born, a power struggle almost caused the family's successor to be assassinated.
- Known Members:
Tohsaka
The Tohsaka (遠坂, Tōsaka?), a lineage with a history worth about 200 years, they were once Hidden Christians that lived inside a then foreigners-intolerant Japan. Their first head, Nagato Tohsaka, was considered the least promising of Zelretch pupils. But by six generations after, the time of Rin and Sakura, the family had improved to the point of reaching the second place. They possess good connections in both the Mage's Association, due their relationship with Zelretch, and the Holy Church, thanks to their faith.
The Tohsaka are experts in the use of Jewel Magecraft and a secret style of Chinese kenpo, the latter due Nagato's emphasis in the training of not only Magecraft, but also martial arts. Thanks to the sudden and relatively recent progress of their mastery of Jewel Magecraft, as well as the introduction of the Gandr into their magical repertory, it is believed that the Tohsaka lineage was able to incorporate the Edelfelts' knowledge of Magecraft into their own through the younger Edelfelt twin that was supposedly defeated during the Heaven's Feel 3, for the members of that family (such as Luvia) are well known for being very capable in the use of both. It is unknown if the Tohsaka gained the abilities from the Edelfelt twin marrying with the head of the Tohsaka family of that time or simply by having her Magic Crest stolen.
Back when the Tohsaka were developing the ritual of the Heaven's Feel along with the Makiri and the Einzbern, Nagato's daughter played a greater role in the completion of the Holy Grail War system than her father. The Tohsaka role in the Heaven's Feel is to provide the use of their spiritual land to the ritual.
It is known that one of Tokiomi's parents was a foreigner.
In the Apocrypha universe, the Tohsaka gave up on the Holy Grail and searched for another method to reach the Root in Fuyuki. They now seek a new path in becoming one with the universe with Chinese Kenpou while learning magecraft.[18]
In the EXTRA universe, the Tohsaka family was mostly destroyed in the 1990s.
- Known Members:
- Nagato Tohsaka
- Tokiomi Tohsaka
- Aoi Tohsaka
- Rin Tohsaka
- Sakura Matou (Adopted by the Matou Family; lacks formal education)
- Rin Tohsaka (EXTRA)
Velvet
The Velvet (ベルベット?) is a three generation lineage. The first generation was his grandmother, who was the lover of a certain magus and picked up the very basics of magecraft from their pillow talk.
The second generation, Waver’s mother, only dabbled as a way to honor her mother’s memory. Waver was the first member of his family to seriously follow the path of magecraft.[21]
Waver Velvet later becomes Lord El-Melloi II after he restores the Archibald family.[13]
- Known Members:
Yggdmillennia
The Yggdmillennia: Tree of a Thousand Realms (ユグドミレニア?) is a unique family of magi that takes in other families rather than continue a single bloodline. Though they have a long history, they are not a family of Lords. They are speculated to have lost a power struggle with the three royal families of the Association in the past or have been estranged from others due to the poor quality of their magic circuits. They neither belong to or have a connection to any other group, and they are often not recognized as a noble thamaturgical family.[22]
They abandoned the common method of thickening the blood of thaumaturgical potential over generations while mastering the thaumaturgical system chosen by the first generation. They instead took in all magi families with even the smallest connections to them from all over the world. They focused on taking in those with little history and weak Magic Circuits, those with their Magic Circuits on the decline with successive generations, those defeated in power struggles that were forced into ruin, and those with a price on their head as a punishment by the Association.
Though the families had strayed from the core of the Association, they had refused to give up the path to the Root, so Yggdmillennia gave them the chance to leave their blood's legacy and a mark upon history. Their family names are given as middle names to each member of the family, and the Magic Crests of each family are still passed down within each one rather than having a single unified crest for a single successor. This has caused them to develop a broad range of study with each member pursuing a different path, which include Western alchemy, dark arts, witchcraft, astrology, Kabbalah, runology, and the Onmyodo of Japan.
They are considered to be a loose alliance of the new, the weak, and the dying, so the Lords consider them to be trivial. Though they have many in number, average members can usually only reach second-class, and only a few rare case of first-class magi exist. They pose little threat, and only the elder's, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, political finesse allows them to be left alone. It was thought that their only merit was quantity, but the revelation of the Grail has changed that evaluation. They would have had no chance to become Lords in one thousand years, so they instead opt to form a new Association of Magi around their own clan.
- Known Members:
Zepter
An extinct bloodline likely originating from Bavaria in southern Germany. They experimented with perfecting resurrection of the dead. Whilst they did succeed in restoring the body to a perfect semblance of life, even allowing bodies with missing parts to accept foreign organs with ease, they could never achieve perfect retrival of the soul. Having declined for several generations, their final head Heinrich Zepter became a heretic by creating monstrous fusions of man and beast in a fashion none too dissimilar to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. After fleeing to Present Mountain, America, he was hunted down and killed by Natalia Kaminski and Kiritsugu Emiya. The Zepter family's Magic Crest was destroyed at this time, erasing the secrets of their Magecraft.
- Known Members:
Other Known Magi
- Cornelius Alba
- Souren Araya
- May Riddell Archelot
- Odd Borzak
- Faldeus Dioland
- Flatt Escardos
- Gazamy
- Natalia Kaminski
- Azaka Kokutou
- Kirei Kotomine
- Alice Kuonji
- Rohngall
- Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg
- Ritsuka Suse
- Hishiri Adashino
- Jirobou Seigen Tokitou
- Flueger
- Orlocke Caesarmunde
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2
[] Fate/complete material III: World Material - Theory of Magic - Magecraft: Family lineage of Magus, p.046 Family lineage of Magus
A magus lineage refers to the Magic Crest relay that passes down a Magic Crest through unilineal succession. Because this “relay” is so important, even if a family’s biological lineage has ceased, the magus lineage will be considered continuous if the crest is engraved onto somebody else’s body. Conversely, if the Magic Crest itself is lost, that magus lineage will be considered to have been severed even if a child with Magic Circuits still lives. Under normal circumstances, a magus selects the best qualified heir from within the family, and gradually passes on the Magic Crest to the successor.
The chosen successor to a magus lineage undergoes harsh training from a young age. Because an abnormal mindset and body are required to use magic, the training to instill these qualities is extremely severe, and it is not unusual to employ inhumane measures such as brainwashing and bodily modification. Thus, as the heir matures he or she inherits the lineage’s magic, knowledge, and research. Finally, a new master is born when the entirety of the Magic Crest is passed down from the predecessor.
Increasing the number of Magic Circuits
Magic Circuits are organs that one is born with, so there is no way to increase their number after birth. There are ways to transfer circuits, but it is rarely done because the success rate is low. Therefore, magus lineages will modify the parents’ bodies or take every measure possible at the moment of a child’s birth to create a successor with even one additional Magic Circuit. Therefore, the children of older lineages tend to have more Magic Circuits.
Inherited Magic Crests
Magic Crests are heirlooms within which the entirety of a lineage’s research is inscribed, from the first ancestor to the present. The crest contains the regrets of previous family heads’ inability to master their magic. A Magic Crest with a long history is a cursed crystallization impregnated with the feelings of countless preceding magi.
The Tohsaka family
Rin is the heir to the Tohsaka family, while Sakura was adopted by the Matou family as a successor. Because Tohsaka Tokiomi, the family head, died in the Holy Grail War, Rin inherited Tokiomi’s estate, including his magical patents, businesses in Fuyuki, and other assets. However, at this point most of Tokiomi’s magic crest had not yet been transferred to Rin. Tokiomi’s crest was extracted from his body by the Clock Tower, and given to Tokiomi’s next of kin to be transplanted into Rin.
Great magical families
Family name or Representative
Attributes
Explanation
Tohsaka Conversion One of the founding families of the Holy Grail War. They are disciples of the Sorcerer Zelretch, and the administrators of Fuyuki.
Makiri Absorption One of the three founding families of the Holy Grail War. They immigrated to Fuyuki and became the Matou family.
Einzbern Flow and transfer of power One of the three founding families of the Holy Grail War. They specialize in alchemy, particularly in the creation of homunculi.
Edelfelt Conversion Family from Finland. Like Tohsaka, prefer jewels magic, which uses the attribute of conversion.
Barthomeloi Almighty Old line even in the Magic Association. One of the families of the rulers, the Lords. Embodiments of perfectionism and aristrocracy.
Milyonecalion Prosperity One of the top magi in the magic world, known also by the name "Giver of All Sealing Designations". Details are unknown.
Jewel Killer Halting One of the remarkable magi in history, affiliated with the Sea of Estray, the mysterious prototype of the Magic Association.
Hermes Silis Atlasia Future Magus from one of the divisions of the Magic Association, the Atlas Institute, the association for the magi and alchemists of Egypt.
魔術の家系
魔術師の家系とは、一子相伝で魔術刻印を相続していく "魔術刻印のリレー”のことを指す。 この"リレー”こそが重要であるため、 生物学的な血筋が絶えたとしても､ 魔術刻印が他人の肉体に受け継がれてさえいれば、その魔術師の家系は続いているといえる。 また、 魔術回路を持った子孫が存続していたとしても､魔術刻印が失われてしまったなら、その家系は魔術的に断絶したに等しい。 とはいえ、 通常であれば魔術師は自分の血族から優れた素養を持つ後継者を選択し、魔術刻印を連綿と受け継がせていくことになる。
また、後継者として選ばれた子供は、幼い頃より厳しい鍛錬を強制される。 魔術の行使に必要な精神と肉体は常識を外れたものであるため、 それに耐え得る心身を手に入れる鍛錬は過酷を極め、 洗脳や肉体改造のような非人道的な手段すら珍しくないのだ。そうして成長と共に、 魔術や、それに付随する知識と研究を受け継ぎ、最終的に先代の魔術師からすべての魔術刻印を受け継ぐことで新たな当主が誕生する。
魔術回路の増やし方
魔術回路は生まれ持った器官であり、 後天的に増えることはない。 移植方法はあるが､成功率が低いために行われることは少ない。そのため、 魔術師の家系は親の肉体を改造、 あるいは子供が生まれる際に手を尽くし、１本でも魔術回路の多い跡継ぎを誕生させようとする。 よって、 古い家系の子供ほど魔術回路が多い傾向がある｡
遺産としての魔術刻印
魔術刻印は、魔術師の家系の始祖より現在に至るまでのすべての研究成果が刻まれた受け継ぐべき遺産”である。 そこには歴代当主の"魔術を極められなかった"という無念の想いも含まれている。 古く長い歴史を持つ魔術刻印は、極めて高い価値と同時に、歴代の魔術師たちの無数の想いを宿した呪いの結晶ともいえるだろう。
遠坂家の場合
遠坂家では長女の凛が後継者となり、 次女の桜は養子に出されて間桐家の後継者となった。 当主である遠坂時臣が聖杯戦争で早世したため、凛は時臣が申請した魔術的特許や冬木市の商業用地などの遺産を受け継いだが、 この時点で時臣の魔術刻印は、殆ど凛に刻まれていなかった。 そのため、時臣の魔術刻印は時計塔で遺体から摘出され、 時臣の知己の手を経て凛に移植されている。
魔術の名門
家名 or 代表者
特性
解説
遠坂 転換 聖杯戦争を創始したうちの 一家。 魔法使いゼルレッチを 大師とし、 冬木を管理する。
マキリ 吸収 聖杯戦争を創り出した始ま りの御三家のひとつ。 冬木に 移り住み、 間桐家となった。
アインツベルン 力の流転・転移 聖杯戦争を始めた御三家の ひとつ。 錬金術、 特にホムン クルスの製造を得意とする。
エーデルフェルト 転換 フィンランドの名門。 遠坂 と同じく、転換の特性を使用 した宝石魔術を好んで用いる。
バルトメロイ 万能 魔術協会でも古い血筋 配者であるロードの一家。完璧 主義かつ貴族主義の体現者。
ミリョネカリオン 繁栄 "封印指定総与"のふたつ名 で知られる、魔術世界屈指の 魔術師。 委細は不明。
宝石殺し 停止 魔術協会の原形とされなが らも謎多き彷徨海に所属す る、稀代の魔術師。
ヘルメス・シリス・ アトラシア 未来 魔術協会の一部門 エジプ トにある魔術師&錬金術師の 協会 アトラス院の魔術師。.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
[] Fate/complete material III: World Material - Theory of Magic - Magecraft: Land and Thaumaturgy, p.043 Land and Thaumaturgy
To use magic, a magus must first establish contact with a magical foundation engraved in the world, send a command to the foundation, and then execute a pre-constructed function. At this point, mystic energy fuels the execution of the function, so the magus must send the command and supply energy simultaneously.
Magic foundations are magical theories that schools of magic have engraved in the world, and magic is started up in accordance with those rules and systems. For example, the magical theory with the largest foundation is the “Teaching of the Lord” of the Holy Church. Magic foundations engraved in the form of academia and religions fuse intimately with the veins of the land, and the magus using that magic foundation can perform magic anywhere in the world. However, if the magus leaves the land where his magic foundation was engraved in, he loses the backup of his land, and the magic’s power is certain to deteriorate.
Additionally, this effect differs with magic foundations that are neither academia nor religion, but are instead exclusively inherited from person to person, such as in oral tradition or clan teachings. As long as the rules of those foundations are met, it is possible to exhibit the same basic effect irrespective of geographical location.
Matou Zouken
The Makiri clan emigrated from their homeland to Fuyuki, and subsequently declined. It is extremely risky for magi to leave their own land, as it also means departure from their own magic foundation.土地と魔術
魔術を使うには、魔術師が世界に刻まれた魔 術基盤にコンタクトを取ったうえで魔術基盤に命 令を送り、あらかじめ作られていた機能を実行させ ある、という手順が必要になる。 この時、 機能を実 行する燃料となるのが魔力で、 魔術師は命令と 同時に魔力も送らなくてはならない。
魔術基盤とは、魔術師の各門派が世界に刻み つけた魔術理論であり、そのルールとシステムに 則って魔術は起動する。 例えば魔術基盤のうち 最も広い基盤を持つ魔術理論が、 教会による "神の教えだ。学問や宗教の形で刻まれた魔術 基盤は、地脈にも密接に溶け込んでおり、その 魔術基盤を使う魔術師は、地球のどこでも魔術 を使うことが可能だ。 しかし、自身の魔術基盤が 刻まれた土地から離れると、 土地のバックアップ が薄くなり、威力は確実に劣化してしまう。
なお、魔術基盤が学問・宗教ではなく、 個人 による口伝や一族による限定継承の場合は別だ。 基盤のルールさえ合っていれば、 地球のどこにい ても基本通りの効果を発揮することが可能だ。
間桐 臓硯
マキリの一族は故郷か 冬木に移り住み、没落 した。 魔術師が土地を 移ることは、自身の魔術 基盤から離れることを意 味し、大きなリスクとなる。 - ↑
[] Fate/EXTRA material - Encyclopedia: The world of EXTRA [Circumstances], p.163-164 [T] The world of EXTRA [Circumstances]
“The minds of people became used to being managed and regulated, and civilization stagnated. There are no great tragedies, however there are also no new discoveries. Everyone is pessimistic in this flavorless world where you can only await death. This is our “reality”.”
Fate/EXTRA is set on Earth in 2030.
The world of EXTRA differs from that of Fate/Stay Night in that it has a different time line and events starting from 1970. History took a different path.
Mana, the energy required to carry out large scale magic, has dried up, and real magic has been lost from Earth.
The magicians of old have disappeared from center stage, and the era of magic has drawn to a complete close.
From then on those who called themselves “Magus” came to represent Spiritron Hackers, a new generation of mankind.EXTRA世界【事柄】
『人々の精神は管理に馴れ、文明も停滞した。
大きな悲劇は起きないが、新たな発見もない。
誰もが非観し、ゆるやかな死を待つ世界。
それが私たちの〝現実”だ。』
Fate/EXTRAの世界は西替２０３０年の地球。
Fate/stay nightとは違う、１９７０年代から異なる歴史を歩んだイフである。
大規模な魔術を成すためのエネルギーとなる犬源が枯渇し、魔術は本格的に地球上から失われた。
古い魔術師たちは表舞台から消之去り、神秘の時代は完全に終わりを迎えた。
以後“魔術師”を名乗るのは、霊子ハッ力ーと呼ばれる新時代の人類となる。 - ↑
[] Fate/EXTRA material - Encyclopedia: Magus [Circumstances], p.162 Magus [Circumstances]
Wizards. In Fate/EXTRA “Wizard” refers to A-class hackers.
Compared to your average hacker, wizards posses special abilities and can dive into the cyber world at a soul level.
Ordinary hackers fall into two categories:
- Visual Perception Digitization (only visual)
(This is done through a simple spinal insert interface connection.
Information is directly streamed into the brain, so they avoid the trouble of transforming each type of information into a digital signal. Favors input only.)
- Visual and Touch Perception Digitization.
(This is done through a wired connection from the nerves to the net. It allows a hacker to project the basic components of their being onto the net. Input/Output capable, and more powerful.
However, the user is unable to project a human form in the cyber world.
This is at best a simple projection, and as such is not recognized as a life form. Their existing circuit is read from their body, and they just manipulate that projection. They are unable to change or revise their circuit.)
However, wizards are capable of far more than that, they can digitize and spiritize their consciousness and physical body, creating a copy that is sent inside [the cyber world].
It is the materialization of soul inside the cyber world.
As for cyber bodies in SE.RA.PH, they refer to the spirit form of three components: body, mind, and soul.
Hacking knowledge and skills are not particularly important for wizards, physical ability and mental prowess are far more useful.
Having magic circuits (also known as imaginary nerves) in your body, and the ability to clearly conceptualize your digital self is essential to help translate the true essence of yourself accurately into a digital image in the cyber world.
The way of conceptualizing one’s digital image differs from wizard to wizard.
There are a variety of methods; some use computer processing,
others use meditation to give birth to their image,
and some even take drugs to escape from reality.
In present day 2030 Viritual Spiritron hacking has become possible through an external interface, but magus-class hackers remain a rarity.
Due to magus having human rights, even the West European Plutocracy couldn’t monopolize them. Aside from those under the control and management of the United Nations, there remains a never ending list of countries who try to harbor free magus behind closed doors.
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The definition of life is considered to be “the ability to change the environment you live in through your own actions and of your own accord.”
Since wizards can intervene in the cyber world through their souls, Moon Cell accepts them as living, and thus their advance into the cyber world is possible.
Pioneering, expanding to new frontiers is, in a way, the greatest meaning and sin of mankind.
To wizards who posses this ability, it’s not too much to say that the cyber world is like a second reality.
A physical body is merely a “home” of sorts to a wizard.
If the physical body of a wizard on Earth were to die, it would simply mean that they would not be able to return “home,” and they would remain in the cyber frontier. As long as their existence in the cyber world is not destroyed, their soul would not disappear.
(However, the empty shell that is a Wizard’s real physical body protects them from change in the cyber world, and the loss of it will quite easily and unavoidably transform the structure of their intelligence, as well as their sense of values.)
To a wizard, the only true death is the death of their cyber existence.
Only after their souls have burned out and crumbled away will they become scrap that is no longer able to be revived.魔術師【事柄】
ウィザード。EXTRAにおけるA級ハッカー。
通常のハッカーに比べて、魂レベルで電脳空間にダイブできる異能者。
通常のハッカーは、
・視覚のみの電子変換。
（脊髄挿入型のインターフェイスによる簡易接続。
情報を直接脳に送り込めるので、各種情報をデジタル変換する手間が省ける。恩恵はインプットのみ）
・視覚、触覚の電子変換。
（有線でネットに神経を繋げ、存在階梯を電子上のものとする。インプット、アウトプット、ともに能力向上。ただし電脳空間では人間としてのカタチは作れない。
あくまで一端末としての介入で、生命とは認められない。既存の回路を閲覧し、操作するだけ。回路そのものの変更・改革は不可能）
となるのだが、ウィザードはその上、自己の精神、自己の肉体を電子化ならぬ霊子化し、分身として送り込める。
即ち、電脳空間における魂の物質化である。
SE.RA.PHにおける電脳体とは、肉体・精神・魂の三要素を霊子化したものを指す。
必要なものはハッカーとしての知識・技術ではなく、肉体・精神的な才能。
魔術回路と呼ばれる架倥神鰹を肉体に持ち、自身の本質を電脳として明確に数値化できる異才が必要となる。
このイメージ化の方法はウィザードごとに異なる。
演算処理によってデジタル化する者もいれば、
瞑想によってイメージを生み出すもの、
薬物投与によって逃避するもの、と様々。
２０３０年現在、疑似霊子ハッキングは外付けのインターフェイスで可能となったが、魔術師クラスのハッカーは希少である。
魔術師には人権があるため、西欧財閥すら独占できない。国連が管理、所属させるものとされているが、フリーの魔術師たちを秘密裏に囲おうとする国は後を絶たない。
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生命の定義とは、住んでいる環境を自身の意志・行動によって変革できるもの、とされる。
魂を以て電脳空間に介入したウィザードはムーンセルによって生命と認められ、電脳空間における開拓が可能となる。
開拓……フロンティア、パイオニア……こそ人間が行うもっとも大きな意義にして罪。
その可能性をもったウィザードにとって、電脳空間は第二の現実と言っても過言ではない。
ウィザードにとって肉体はあくまでホーム。
仮に地上にある自分の肉体が死んでしまっても家に帰れなくなるだけで、開拓地に留まり、そこで消滅しないかぎり、魂が消え去る事はない。
（ただし『変化から自分を護る』殻である実肉体が失われると、その知性体の構造・価値観はたやすく変貌していくため、変質は避けられないが）
ウィザードにとって本当の死は電脳死。
電脳空間で魂が焼け落ちた時こそ、彼らは再生不可能の塵になるのである。 - Visual Perception Digitization (only visual)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Natalia Kaminski [Person's name], p.102 Natalia Kaminski [Person's name]
A lone-wolf magus hunter. She had no affiliation with the Association, and made her living by swooping in ahead of the Association's enforcers, poaching their prey, and then reselling the spoils at an inflated price.
Despite their rather grandiose official title of "sealing designation enforcers", genuine sealing designations are actually extremely rare, and most enforcers would consider themselves lucky if they got a chance to pursue such "big game" even once in a decade. Especially in the case of outside freelancers, they spend most of their time hunting heretical magi that have simply deviated from the Association's norms.
In the distant past, Natalia's ancestors crossbred with succubi, and while she doesn't have eternal youth or regenerative abilities, she does boast inhuman reflexes and coordination, as well as the special ability to boost her magical energy stores by consuming semen.
Although she is a money-grubber willing to do anything to make a quick buck, on top of being a wild hedonist that has never been a dollar ahead in her life, she somehow ended up as the morally questionable guardian of an impressionable youth. And while she sexually harassed the young Kiritsugu on numerous occasions, she never once drank his semen. The reason being that she had really fallen in love with him, if only a little – though like a good older sister she locked away these girlish thoughts and never revealed them to anybody.
By the way, her heart-rending and gruesome end was inspired by the movie Snakes on a Plane, which I saw with Nasu Kinoko.ナタリア・カミンスキー【人名】
一匹狼の魔術師ハンター。魔術協会には属さず、協会専属の執行者に先んじて獲物を横取りしては、高値で転売するというあくどい商売を流儀としていた。『封印指定執行者』などという大袈裟な肩書きを名乗ってはいるが、正真正銘の封印指定なんてものは非常に希有な存在であり、そういう『大物』を執行者が探し当てるチャンスというのは10年に一度あるかどうかも疑わしい。とりわけ外注フリーランスともなると、もっぱら日々の糧となるのは、ただ協会の規範を逸れたというだけの外道魔術師ばかりである。
数代前の先祖にサキュバスを持つ半妖の血筋で、不老や再生能力こそないが人並み外れた運動神経を誇り、また吸精による貯蔵魔力のブーストといった特殊能力も備えていた。
荒稼ぎのためには手段を選ばない金の亡者でありながら、宵越しの金を残さない豪快な快楽主義者でもあり、多感な年頃の男の子にはかなり倫理面で問題のある保護者だった。ヤング切嗣に度重なるセクハラを仕掛けておきながら、決して精を食らうことをしなかったのは、ちょっぴり本気な恋慕の情があった故で、そんな乙女心を秘め持った姐さんでもあった。
切なくも凄絶なその末路が、実は原作者に誘われて観に行った『スネーク・フライト』が元ネタでした、なんてな台無しの暴露話も、ついでにここにしたためておく。 - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fate/Apocrypha volume 1
- ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Characters, p.134
Q: How does Tohsaka Rin pay for her living expenses when she is performing sorcery using such valuable jewels? Is she eating up her parents’ inheritance? Has she taken up a part-time job like Shirou? Or has she turned her hand to some other trade?
Q: How does Tohsaka Rin pay for her living expenses when she is performing sorcery using such valuable jewels? Is she eating up her parents’ inheritance? Has she taken up a part-time job like Shirou? Or has she turned her hand to some other trade?
A: The Tohsaka family is still relatively wealthy because it receives royalties from magical patents (theories and rituals used at the Clock Tower. Like real-life patents.), and as a result their income is surprisingly high. Even without any additional revenue, annual income is roughly #0,000,000 yen. ...Although, Rin feels a bit ashamed of this since it’s all thanks to the work of previous generations.Ｑ：高価の宝石を消費する魔術を使う遠坂凛ですが、彼女はどうやって生活費を捻出しているのでしょうか？ 両親の貯蓄を食いつぶしている？ 士郎の様にバイトしている？ それとも株に手を出しているのでしょうか？
Ａ：ああ見えて遠坂家は資産家であり、数々の魔術特許（時計塔で扱われる魔術理論、魔術式。実際の特許と同じ）を持っているので、収入は何気に多いのです。何もしなくても年収●千万円は堅い。......ですが、それもすべて先代までの当主が築き上げたものですので、凛としてが肩身が狭いようですね。 - ↑ Fate/Zero volume 1
- ↑ Fate/Zero volume 3
- ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Holy Grail War, p.131
Q: The Holy Grail War is unknown to the general population, but to what extent is it hidden from normal people? Are the Church people (supervisors) manipulating the media and police (or even the governmental level) to cover it up?
The Holy Grail War is unknown to the general population, but to what extent is it hidden from normal people? Are the Church people (supervisors) manipulating the media and police (or even the governmental level) to cover it up?
A: The Church manipulates information, while the Magic Association handles the media. Also, the Association has the Einzbern cover the cost of any collateral damage. - ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Emiya Norikata [Person's name], p.093 Norikata Emiya [Person's name]
Kiritsugu’s father. His family thaumaturgy involved time manipulation inside the body or possibly small cause-and-effect, and he was a genius who in only the fourth generation, a relatively shallow generation, rose to the rank of gaining a Sealing Designation.
Spent more than 20 years hiding from the pursuit of the Magic Association, and finally hid himself on a small southern island. Though Norikata’s wife died at the hands of the Magic Association’s hunters, Kiritsugu, who had just been born at the time, has no memory of the incident.
Accelerating or slowing the flow of time inside a Reality Marble free from the world’s interference is the thaumaturgy of the Emiya family. But after investigating it thoroughly, Norikata found that, in a Bounded Field that was minimized until resistance was almost zero, the flow of time could be accelerated without limit, and reaching the Root would be possible, right before observing the universe’s end. Although the theory itself was very promising, finishing the experiment would still require several hundreds of years. In order to resolve the issue of life span, he decided to explore the methods of becoming a Dead Apostle.
The tragedy that arose as a result was the story narrated at the beginning of Volume 4 of Zero.衛宮矩賢【人名】
衛宮切嗣の父。体内、あるいは小因果の時間操作に特化した家伝の魔術を、4代目という比較的浅い世代において封印指定の域にまで昇華させた天才。
20年以上に渉って魔術協会の追跡をかわし続け、最後は南国の小さな島に身を潜めていた。彼の妻もまた魔術協会からの追っ手によって命を落としているのだが、その経緯は、当時生まれて間もない切嗣の記憶にはない。
世界によって干渉されない固有結界の内側において時間の流れを加速あるいは停滞させるのが衛宮家の魔術だが、矩賢はこれを突き詰め、抵抗がほぼゼロに等しくなるは、ど極小まで縮めた結界の中で、時間流を無限に加速させ、宇宙の終烏を観測することでその先にあるはずの『根源』に至ろうと企んでいた。埋論そのものはかなり有望だったのだが、実験を完遂するためには数百年の期間が必要とされ、やむなく彼は寿命の問題を解決するべく死徒化の手段を模索しはじめる。
その結果もたらされた惨劇は、Zero4巻の冒頭に描かれた通り。 - ↑
[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: Aozaki [Person's name], p.054 [T] Aozaki [Person's name]
The name that briefly appeared in this story. It was the name of the mage house that managed the greatest "Spiritual Land" in Japan.
In the mage world, the name had become synonymous with trouble.
The Aozakis were an ancient house, but were by no means prestigious. Because of the "Path" opened by the previous Heads, the current Head of the Aozakis had a greater chance of becoming a "Magician".
The current heirs were a pair of sisters whom were thought to be ominous. After a battle for the right of inheritance, the younger sister became heir of the "Magician" title.
The older sister traveled to London and made quite a name for herself, but quickly withdrew from the Association due to being problematic.
During the Fifth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, the older sister was busy hiding her tracks, while the younger sister was roaming around the country.
Although the younger sister was good at nothing but destroying things, the older sister was truly a polymath. Fate might had a little to do with the older sister.アオザキ 【人名】
蒼崎。本編でちらりと出てくる名称で、日本屈指の『霊地』を管理する魔術師の姓氏である。
魔術師たちの世界において厄介ごとの代名詞。
古い家係ではあるが名門ではない。何代か前の当主が開いだ『道』により、蒼崎の当主は高い確率で『魔法使い』を継承する。
今代の後継者は不吉とされる姉妹で、後継者争いの未、妹が『魔法使い』の座を譲り受けた。
姉は口ソドソに渡つてー角の人物になるも、水が合わなくてさつさと脱退レたらしい。
冬木市で五回目の聖杯戦争が起きている頃、姉は行方をくらましている最中で、妹は気ままに全国行脚の真つ最中だとか。
妹は壊すコ卜しか能か無いが、姉の方はなにかと芸達著な人で、「Fate」でもちよつぴりだけ関わりがあつたりなかつたり。 - ↑ 13.0 13.1
[] Character Material - Lord El-Melloi II, p.040-041 Introduction - Lord El-Melloi II
Professor Charisma.
Master V.
Great Big Ben Londonstar.
The man that female students named as the #1 man they'd like to get laid by, and so on.
A famous lecturer in the Clock Tower with many nicknames.
He doesn't have any problems in declaring he's an archmagus, but he's hopelessly average as a magus.
But, his skill as a lecturer dominates the rest, and is the best person at detecting the hidden talent of others and training it.
There are no magi that were his students that hadn't obtained the rank of Grand, and it's even been said that if he gathered his students together, the power chart in the Clock Tower would change.
Explanation
But he himself isn't the ambitious sort and has said,
"What a load of codswallop. Why should I, stuck at the 4th tier I still be, have to bloody look after other people?"
Well, so, in that sense, he doesn't really want to get involved with his students.
Back when he was an apprentice, he'd been the very embodiment of the "narcissist that doesn't doubt he's a genius", but an incident some ten years ago had led him to change his attitude, and since then, the result of persistent effort for a spoiled brat led him to be called the professor.
As far as being a talent production, his works are regarded as the greatest masterpieces of their time, but El-Melloi II doesn't really seem to care about that, probably because he's more interested in being a successful magus himself.
So anyhow, as a lecturer, he has zip interest in his mega popularity.
...Rather, he's irritated by that fact and so has for several years has been walking inside the institute with a constantly cranky look to him. Or so they say.
Speaking of which, El-Melloi II isn't his real name but a name given to him by the current head of the Archibald house.
Source: ???
The custodian (sponsor) of Rin after she went to study in London. The condition being "I will not give you one ounce of instruction. Eh well, I will at least send letters of recommendation to the other departments".
He really hates Japan and Japanese, but his sole pleasures are Japanese games. A petit bourgeois that you really can't hate.
And so, while being internally excited, he tried to bring this up to the complete game dunce Rin,
"Maybe you might..... You know, you should be familiar with that town. That place right between Ueno and Asakusa...."
Only to be given an instant answer from Rin that not only did she have no interest in Akihabara, but she had no interest in even Nihonbashi.
And so he got pissed off instead.
"Fuck! You're the worst Japanese in the world."
The person that took down the Fuyuki Holy Grail war.Introduction - ロード・エルメロイⅡ世
プロフェッサー・カリスマ。
マスター・V。
グレートビッグベン☆ロンドンスター。
女生徒が選ぶ時計塔で一番抱かれたい男―――等々、様々な異名を持つ名物講師。
Explanation -
Explanation 02 -
出典／??? - ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files - Chapter 2 translated by TwilightsCall
- ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Characters, p.135
Q: Where did the Einzbern nobles get their narrow view of Japanese culture from? Did it come from their resentment of Kiritsugu?
Q: Where did the Einzbern nobles get their narrow view of Japanese culture from? (That Japanese people are a tribe of headhunters, and other terrible and weird prejudices...). Did it come from their resentment of Kiritsugu?
A: All foreigners are like that. (Secret Technique: Kinoko Reverse Discrimination)Ｑ：アインツベルンのお館様の偏見まみれな日本観はどこから？（日本人はクビカリ族だー、とか相当ひどい＆ズレた日本観のような気が......）切嗣への怒りにつながったのでしょうか？
Ａ：外国人の方はみんなあんなもんです（奥義きのこ偏見返し）。 - ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Characters, p.135
Q: Where does the main Einzbern family live? The “von” in the is supposed to be German, right?
- ↑ 17.0 17.1
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Einzbern [Others], p.148 [T] Einzbern [Others]
One of the Three Families that established the Fuyuki Holy Grail War. The family that lies at the center of events in “Fate/stay night” and “Fate/Zero” (Writer: Urobuchi Gen).
In “Apocrypha”, they didn’t become discouraged by the fact that the Greater Grail was stolen in the Third Holy Grail War… rather, they don’t seem to have that kind of mentality in the first place (if they gave up, it would only be when even their greatest creation, Illyasviel, would fail to attain the Third Sorcery), and they are doing everything they can with the belief that they might be able to reproduce that miracle. Accordingly, they have come to reluctantly have relationships with other magi despite their insular and unsociable nature, and the Musik family took advantage of their confused state of affairs in order to receive a portion of their homunculi craft. However, what the Einzberns taught was merely the equivalent of giving a toy to a child, so it wasn’t much of a problem for them.
The Musik family concealed the fact that they were part of the Yggdmillennia clan, but naturally the Einzberns know about it. However, the Greater Grail was formed by taking apart the only successful Justeaze-model homunculus, so the Einzbern agreed to cooperate with them in case they should manage to activate one.アインツベルン【その他】
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: The Three Families [Others], p.166 [T] The Three Families [Others]
In “Apocrypha”, the Three Families are the magi who constructed the Fuyuki Holy Grail War… in other words, the Einzberns, Tohsaka and Makiri.
Just as alluded in the light novels, Makiri (Matou) Zouken fought fiercely against Darnic during the Third Holy Grail War, but became practically crippled due to the shock of the Greater Grail being stolen. The family wasn’t blessed with a successor either, so their future as magi has been completely shut.
The Tohsaka gave up on the Greater Grail, and now seek a new path in becoming one with the universe with Chinese Kenpou while learning magecraft. The twin-tail daughter of the family might also end up becoming the founder of a “completely new martial arts that combines magecraft and Chinse Kenpou” by the time she becomes a high school student. However, she never imagined that her younger sister who was adopted by distant relatives would come visit her in Japan after becoming a pro-wrestler with unimaginably nice proportions and forming a tag team with a drill-roll-haired girl…!
The Einzberns are in the midst of struggling to make a new Greater Grail under the excuse “It was stolen, so we’ll just make a new Holy Grail”. Fortunately, in the “Apocrypha” world, a certain dead fish-eyed mercenary won’t end up becoming involved with the Einzberns, so their greatest work Illyasviel will never be born—therefore, as long as she isn’t born, the Einzberns will never despair… Is that really fortunate?御三家【その他】
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Emiya Norikata [Person's name], p.093 Norikata Emiya [Person's name]
Kiritsugu’s father. His family thaumaturgy involved time manipulation inside the body or possibly small cause-and-effect, and he was a genius who in only the fourth generation, a relatively shallow generation, rose to the rank of gaining a Sealing Designation.
Spent more than 20 years hiding from the pursuit of the Magic Association, and finally hid himself on a small southern island. Though Norikata’s wife died at the hands of the Magic Association’s hunters, Kiritsugu, who had just been born at the time, has no memory of the incident.
Accelerating or slowing the flow of time inside a Reality Marble free from the world’s interference is the thaumaturgy of the Emiya family. But after investigating it thoroughly, Norikata found that, in a Bounded Field that was minimized until resistance was almost zero, the flow of time could be accelerated without limit, and reaching the Root would be possible, right before observing the universe’s end. Although the theory itself was very promising, finishing the experiment would still require several hundreds of years. In order to resolve the issue of life span, he decided to explore the methods of becoming a Dead Apostle.
The tragedy that arose as a result was the story narrated at the beginning of Volume 4 of Zero.衛宮矩賢【人名】
衛宮切嗣の父。体内、あるいは小因果の時間操作に特化した家伝の魔術を、4代目という比較的浅い世代において封印指定の域にまで昇華させた天才。
20年以上に渉って魔術協会の追跡をかわし続け、最後は南国の小さな島に身を潜めていた。彼の妻もまた魔術協会からの追っ手によって命を落としているのだが、その経緯は、当時生まれて間もない切嗣の記憶にはない。
世界によって干渉されない固有結界の内側において時間の流れを加速あるいは停滞させるのが衛宮家の魔術だが、矩賢はこれを突き詰め、抵抗がほぼゼロに等しくなるは、ど極小まで縮めた結界の中で、時間流を無限に加速させ、宇宙の終烏を観測することでその先にあるはずの『根源』に至ろうと企んでいた。埋論そのものはかなり有望だったのだが、実験を完遂するためには数百年の期間が必要とされ、やむなく彼は寿命の問題を解決するべく死徒化の手段を模索しはじめる。
その結果もたらされた惨劇は、Zero4巻の冒頭に描かれた通り。 - ↑
[] Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with Nasu: Characters, p.134-135
Q: Where did the Makiri clan originally emigrate from?
Q: Where did the Makiri clan originally emigrate from?
A: It’s said that they came from somewhere around Russia. - ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Waver Velvet [Person's name], p.091 Waver Velvet [Person's name]
Third generation magus of the Velvet household. Though to put that in perspective, the first generation was his grandmother, who was the lover of a certain magus and picked up the very basics of magecraft from their pillow talk. The second generation, Waver’s mother, only dabbled as a way to honor her mother’s memory. Waver was the first member of his family to seriously follow the path of magecraft, which is why his circuit count and crest quality are both the lowest of the low.
Though his mother found the Association’s hierarchical system annoying and disapproved of her son seeking out tutelage from a proper mentor, Waver himself was strongly drawn to magecraft. As soon as both his parents died of illness, he gave away all of his family’s possessions, scraped together enough to cover tuition, and entered the Clock Tower without a penny to his name. ――As a result, nothing but hardship and failure awaited him, and he resorted to gambling everything on the Holy Grail War.
Though he doesn’t possess the prerequisites to actually practice magecraft, his power of observation and insight give him remarkable talent as a researcher. In fact, had he insisted that “Magecraft is a subculture!” and started a business as a critic, he could have taken the world by storm. But of course, he would have been obliterated by the Association, so his inborn talents took another form.
To use running as metaphor, though his leg strength is just the absolute worst, he is capable of imagining the perfect running form. While he can never be an athlete, his talent shines as a coach.
In the initial setting stage of Zero, before the writing started, he was a Nobita-like “King of Cowards”, an oasis of zero. By the end, his character had grown to the point you might mistake him as the protagonist.ウェイバー・ベルベット【人名】
ベルベット家の三代目魔術師。とはいえ初代の祖母はさる魔術師の愛人としてピロートークついでに初歩魔術を習ったにすぎず、二代目の母も「ママの思い出を大事にしよう」程度の覚悟で秘蹟を継承したため、本気で魔道の探求に乗り出したのはウェイバーの代が初で、そのため魔術回路の数も魔術刻印の質も、まったくお粗末極まりない。
母親は魔術師社会のヒエラルキーを鬱陶しく思っていた節があり、息子が本格的な師について魔術の教導を受けることに難色を示していたのだが、ウェイバーが魔術に傾ける愛顧はきわめて強く、ついには両親が病没した途端、家財一式を擲って入学資金を捻出し、裸一貫で時計塔へと乗り込むに至る。――結果、その後に待ち受けていた苦労と挫折は、彼を聖杯戦争などという大博打に訴えさせることになるのだが。
魔術を実践する素養はないものの、研究者としての観察力、洞察力には際立った才能がある。いっそ「魔術はサブカルチャーの一環です！」と言い張って批評家として旗揚げしていたならば一世を風靡できたかもしれないが、さすがにそれは魔術協会から抹殺されること必定であり、彼は別の形で持ち前の才を活かすことになる。
ランナーで喩えるなら、脚力はからきし駄目なのに、理想の走行フォームを思い描くことは出来るようなもの。もちろん選手にはなれないが、コーチとしてはその才覚を遺憾なく発揮できるのだ。
本格的にZeroを執筆する前の初期設定時、ノビー太、キングオブへタレ、ゼロの清涼剤《オアシス》とバカにされていたウェイバー君だが、最終的には主人公かと見間違うほどに成長した。 - ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Yggdmillenia [Others], p.185 [T] Yggdmillenia [Others]
Otherwise known as the “Tree of a Thousand Realms”. It is a clan of magi that originates from Northern Europe. The clan’s notable characteristic is that its Magic Crest is extremely diluted. Or, rather than diluted, it’s more like it hardly exists at all. Generally, a Crest is proof of a magus being the successor of their family and is passed down from generation to generation. There are also cases where the Crest is divided up, but it is fundamentally limited to close relatives.
However, just as its name implies, Yggdmillennia has thinly spread out its roots over a long time—in other words, the clan has lost most of the functions of its Crest and has chosen the method of increasing its members with families who are “Yggdmillennia” in name only. The important point is that the clan’s Crest is capable of being simply transplanted like a seal pasted onto an arm, even if the person is a complete stranger or they already have another Crest.
This Crest’s functions only allow for some slight sympathy between their spells and for determining whether or not someone is connected to “Yggdmillennia”. It is has lost any special characteristics it once had, but it is precisely this last remaining universal function that aid the abnormal increase in Yggdmillennia clan members.
Yggdmillennia swelled up in size by gathering up families who have been forced out of the world of magi, such as families whose Magic Circuits are gradually deteriorating away, families who have lost their Magic Crests in accidents or families who lost in political conflicts.
Of course, even if any of them attain Sorcery or reach the Root, it will never turn into praise for Yggdmillennia itself, but—just having their desire to “have their name remembered in history” investigated by others may be the proof of this diluted clan known as Yggdmillennia having existed.
In truth, quite a number of magi are included in Yggdmillennia under the table in the world of “Fate/Apocrypha”. Many of the magi who cause subspecies Holy Grail Wars are connected to Yggdmillennia. It goes without saying that it was for the sake of collecting data on the Holy Grail War.
The current leader is Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia. The leader after the end of the novels is Caules Forvedge Yggdmillennia.ユグドミレニア【その他】
