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NatureEdit

Servants are Heroic Spirits summoned by the Holy Grail. Once summoned, they can be classified as familiars as long as they are bound to a Master. Servants are legends from the past, present, or future. Because summoning even one heroic spirit is a miraculous occurence, summoning seven in their pure forms would be beyond the Holy Grail's power. Thus, to facilitate the process, Servants are summoned into one of seven vessels prepared beforehand. These vessels are classified based on their primary roles. Heroic Spirits can be summoned into any "class" that reflects the abilities they had in life.

Although too powerful to be controlled by humans, the prospect of having a wish granted by the Holy Grail serves as incentive cooperate with a Master. A Master who is chosen to participate in the Holy Grail War possesses three Command Spells that, when invoked, forces the Servant to obey the Master's orders. However, few Servants actually appear to have a wish, with only True Assassin and Saber expressing theirs while the others are either content to serve their Master or have other goals entirely.

In order to call forth a specific Servant, a material connection between the summoner and the Heroic Spirit is required. This is particularly true if one wishes to summon an exceptional Servant. For example, the Einzberns used Avalon, the sheath of Excalibur, in order to summon Saber, and a slab of rock from a temple to summon Berserker in the fourth and fifth Holy Grail Wars respectively.

When summoned, Servants are imparted with knowledge of technology, culture, science and terms of the era they were summoned into, as well as skill in at least the language of their Master, if not all languages. This is largely to prevent Servants from eras significantly before the era of a Grail War in question from suffering crippling culture shock which would otherwise prevent them from fulfilling their duties, and also enable them to blend with that era society. This can be understandable by such problems:

  • A Servant terrified of modern technology (such as electronic devices) and believes them to be sorcery.
  • A Servant cannot cope with modern era surroundings and thus suffers from depressions. This can also happen to a Servant that is summoned in his past life homeland and finds it is altered by modernization.
  • A Servant finds modern sciences ridiculous and even comical (such as the world is spherical and revolves around the Sun).
  • Limits the abilities of certain Servants. For example, an Assassin that is dumbfounded of modern security systems, a Saber, a Lancer and an Archer that can be easily defeated by modern weaponry, a Berserker that is depressed by modern surroundings and thus go on a rampage, a Rider who is clueless on driving modern vehicles and a Caster that is superstitious or easily fooled of or by electronic devices.
  • A Servant behaves in a manner that attracts the attentions of modern civilians, or using weapons against them, and thus apprehended by the authorities, or carted off to lunatic asylum.

Thus, without such knowledge, their potential would be crippled. This knowledge does not just cover history but all aspects of "modern" life during the Grail War in question, to the point that Servants can find things that would have been unthinkable in their lifetimes mundane or even worthy of scorn. As an example:

  • Arturia Pendragon of medieval era claims that she can fly aircrafts through her Riding skill. She is also able to ride a motorcycle and drive Irisviel's Mercedes without any difficulties and even able to enhance their potentials.
  • Iskander of ancient Greece knows that the world is spherical. He also knows how to use modern money, order his T-shirt through postal service, buys a video games console and a video game CD, much to Velvet's chagrin.
  • Lancelot of the same era as Arturia's use a modern machine gun against Saber and is able to fly an F-15 and utilizes its armaments. However, this is due to his Knight of Honor Noble Phantasm.
  • Diarmuid of medieval Ireland knows that Mercedes' engine that are drove by Saber is automatic just by hearing its engine. He calls it "an engine equipped with an automatic drive".
  • In Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, some Servants, like Gilgamesh, Medea, Cu Chulainn, Arturia Pendragon and Medusa from different time periods can be seen wearing modern attires and using modern appliances. In Fate/Zero, Gilgamesh of ancient Mesopotamia wears expensive modern clothings.

Servants can revert to spirit form when not in battle at will to reduce the burden on their Masters. In this form they can pass through inorganic substances that aren't dense with mana; they are also invisible to the naked eye (except for the Master they connected with) and most forms of scrying in this state, facilitating the concealment of their identity. When Lancer invaded the Emiya mansion, he used his spirit form to infiltrate the house. He subsequently reverted to physical form to drop from the ceiling into the living room. They cannot be affected by normal interference when dematerialized, but need to materialize for battle. As Human Spirits are they able to consume the souls and minds of people and convert them into energy. Their basic abilities do not change from such nourishment, but they become tougher and their magical energy capacity increases.

It is to be noted that originally, the Servant system was designed to summon only the souls of "true" heroes - benevolent, honorable, and selfless protectors of humanity and justice. But since the corruption of the Holy Grail in the third Holy Grail War, evil spirits can be summoned. These entities can still be considered to be Heroic Spirits if they were widely worshipped, respected, or feared in life.

ClassificationEdit

Seven standard classes
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Heroic Spirits summoned by the Holy Grail are place into one of seven categories. The seven standard classes are Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, and Berserker. An eighth class, Avenger, was created by the Einzbern family during the third Holy Grail War. According to Rin in the Fate Route, servant classes are changed between each war.

  • Saber: Servants placed within this class are agile and powerful melee warriors. It is commonly assumed to be the best class overall, with high ratings in all categories. It is one of the three Knight classes, together with Lancer and Archer and also possesses the Riding skill like the Rider class.
  • Lancer: Servants placed within this class are very agile and skilled with long-range melee weapons, such as spears, lances, etc. It is one of the three Knight classes, together with Archer and Saber.
  • Archer: Servants placed within this class are usually proficient with projectiles and can survive longer without a Master nearby, thanks to their special ability Independent Action; the strongest Archers can be difficult to control at times, in fact, due to their near-total independence from their "Masters". It is one of the three Knight classes, together with Lancer and Saber.
  • Rider: Servants placed within this class place emphasis upon speed and powerful Noble Phantasms, which often include their mounts. Their special skill is Riding, which allows them to fully utilize abilities of their mounts (which can range from simple horses to mechanical vehicles to divine or supernatural creatures.).
  • Caster: Servants placed within this class are adept in magecraft and have a special ability akin to Reality Marble, called Territory Creation, which alters or creates space around them to enhance their sorcery.
  • Assassin: Servants placed within this class are always, as a rule, one of the 19 Hassan i Sabbah, the leaders of the clan of the Hashshashins who passed their name down (although this rule does not hold absolutely true in the Fate/Extra reality). The Assassin in Fate/stay night summoned by Caster is an exception, an aberration in the system, as he was summoned by another Servant. This rule comes from how the word "assassin" itself finds its etymological roots in that clan. The Assassins' special ability is Presence Concealment, which allows them to remain undetected. Offset by their stealth is their weak combat skills. Due to this, Assassins often target Masters instead of Servants.
  • Berserker: Servants placed within this class are always incarnations of heroes who have gone berserk on their lifetime. This trait allows them to use the special ability Mad Enhancement, which trades their consciousness (i.e. sanity) for a large power boost. Most Masters are incapable of controlling their Servant once Mad Enhancement has been activated, which eventually results in their death.
  • Avenger: It is not one of the seven normal classes and was only summoned during the Third War.
  • Saver: This is an irregular class in Fate/Extra used to summon Saver.
  • Temptress: An irregular class in Fate/Extra containing Arcueid Brunestud, classified as a creature which is a drain on blood, physical energy and money.
  • Monster: Non servant participant of Holy Grail war that appears in Fate/Extra.
  • Ruler: Servants placed in this class would have governed the Holy Grail War in the canceled Fate/Apocrypha project.
  • Beast: This class is a special container for the 666th Beast in Fate/Prototype.

Container ParametersEdit

Parameter distribution diagrams.
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Unmodified by the strengths and weaknesses of specific Heroic Spirits, the containers of the seven standard Servant classes of the Fuyuki Grail War possess known base parameters, given below.[1] Please note that the listed values exist only as rough references, and are non-absolute; variations can occur per summoning.

Container Str End Agi Man Luk
Saber A B B C D
Archer C C C E E
Lancer B C A D E
Rider D D B C E
Caster E E C A B
Berserker C D D E E
Assassin D D B E B

Known ServantsEdit

Following list contains potential spoilers of individual Servants' identities.

Holy Grail WarEdit

Some details of the Third Grail War are mentioned in Fate/hollow ataraxia. The events of the Fourth Grail War are described in Fate/Zero. The events of the Fifth Grail War are detailed in Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow ataraxia.

War Servant Identity Master
Third Holy Grail War Assassin Hassan-i Sabbah Unknown Puppet user
Third Holy Grail War Avenger Angra Mainyu Einzbern
Third Holy Grail War Saber - Good alignment Unknown Edelfelt sister
Third Holy Grail War Saber - Evil alignment Unknown Edelfelt sister
Fourth Holy Grail War Archer Gilgamesh

Tohsaka Tokiomi
Kotomine Kirei

Fourth Holy Grail War Assassin Hassan-i Sabbah Kotomine Kirei
Fourth Holy Grail War Berserker Lancelot Matou Kariya
Fourth Holy Grail War Caster Gilles de Rais Uryuu Ryuunosuke
Fourth Holy Grail War Lancer Diarmuid Ua Duibhne

Kayneth El-Melloi
Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri

Fourth Holy Grail War Rider Alexander the Great Waver Velvet
Fourth Holy Grail War Saber King Arthur Emiya Kiritsugu
Fifth Holy Grail War Archer EMIYA Tohsaka Rin
Fifth Holy Grail War Assassin Sasaki Kojirō
(self-proclaimed) 		Caster
Fifth Holy Grail War Avenger Angra Mainyu Bazett McRemitz
Matou Sakura
Fifth Holy Grail War Berserker Heracles Illyasviel von Einzbern
Matou Sakura
Fifth Holy Grail War Caster Medea Kuzuki Souichirou
Unnamed magus
Fifth Holy Grail War Gilgamesh (Archer class) Gilgamesh Kotomine Kirei
Matou Shinji
Fifth Holy Grail War Lancer Cúchulainn

Kotomine Kirei
Bazett McRemitz

Fifth Holy Grail War Rider Medusa Matou Shinji
Matou Sakura
Fifth Holy Grail War Saber King Arthur Emiya Shirou
Tohsaka Rin
Caster
Fifth Holy Grail War Saber Alter King Arthur Matou Sakura
Fifth Holy Grail War True Assassin Hassan-i Sabbah Matou Zouken

Fate/ExtraEdit

The events of the Grail War of the Moon Cell are detailed in Fate/Extra and Fate/Extra CCC.

War Servant Identity Master
Fate/Extra
Fate/Extra CCC 		Archer No Name Fate/Extra Protagonist
Fate/Extra Archer Robin Hood Dan Blackmore
Fate/Extra Assassin Li Shu Wen Julius B. Harwey
Fate/Extra Berserker Arcueid Brunestud Monji Gatoh
Fate/Extra Berserker Lu Bu Rani VIII
Fate/Extra Caster Nursery Rhyme Alice Liddel
Fate/Extra
Fate/Extra CCC 		Caster Tamamo-no-Mae Fate/Extra Protagonist
Fate/Extra Lancer Cú Chulainn Tohsaka Rin
Fate/Extra Lancer Vlad III the Impaler Lanrukun
Fate/Extra Rider Francis Drake Matou Shinji
Fate/Extra Saber Gawain Leonardo B. Harwey
Fate/Extra
Fate/Extra CCC 		Saber Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Fate/Extra Protagonist
Fate/Extra CCC Strange Tail Girl Unknown Unknown

Fate/ApocryphaEdit

Servants were designed for the Grail War detailed in the canceled Fate/Apocrypha project.

Servant Identity
Archer Atalanta
Archer David
Assassin Jack the Ripper
Assassin Semiramis
Berserker Frankenstein's monster
Berserker Kintarō
Berserker Spartacus
Caster Shakespeare
Lancer Karna
Lancer Saitō Musashibō Benkei
Lancer Vlad III the Impaler
Rider Astolfo
Rider Saint George
Ruler Joan of Arc
Saber Sigurd

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ Japanese Type Moon Wiki

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