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Story Writen by: epicgamer484
Repost by: TheoMamites

The Holy Grail War

        Also known as the Heavens feel. A largescale ritual conceived through the combined efforts of three magi families and the wizard Marshall himself, Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, master of the second magic and number 4 of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors.

      The Ritual in question was devised by three families from Germany, Russia, and Japan respectively, they were the Einzbern, a group of magi who specialize in the art of homunculi creation one of which is the Winter saint herself Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern.

The Makiri were a family that specialized in the use of familiars particularly insects, they were lead by the current head Zolgen Makiri who was a pretty level headed magus compared to the rest of his kind. And finally the Tohsaka's, a clan of secret Christians during a time in Japan when the religion was persecuted against by the Tokugawa shogunate, they were lead by the father of Ren Tohsaka, Nagato Tohsaka, also known as the only one of the wizard Marshall's apprentices to survive with both his life and sanity intact.

       These four individuals including the master of the second magic each contributed to the ritual in order to produce something capable of piercing a hole in reality and unlock a hole to Akasha. Nagato provided the land of Fuyuki in the island country of Japan that was being overseed by his family in order to provide the ritual with power through the areas powerful leylines.  Justeaze constructed the Greater grail underneath Mt Ryuudou that would use a degraded version of the Third magic in order to summon familiars that would serve as sacrifices to power the ritual while the winter saint served as the core of the grail herself. Zelretch used his mastery of the second magic to connect the grail to the throne of heroes, a realm in Akasha that serves as a record for the greatest heroes that humanity has to offer in order for the grail to summon degraded versions of them to serve as a power source to open the road to the Root. Finally Zolgen constructed the servant containers to house the resurrected heroes for the ritual, and command seals to control them and force them to die in order to power the grail.

Normally the ritual was supposed to only feature the three families fighting for the right to reach Akasha, however they soon discovered that the grail needs 7 summoned heroic spirits in order to open the road to Akasha, so they decided to alter the rules so that seven servants are needed for the ritual and spread rumors that the grail was a wish granting device capable of granting the surviving master their deepest desires which served two purposes: Luring outsiders into the conflict in order to gather the needed seven needed heroic spirits, and to ensure that both outside masters and servants would kill each over for the chance to grant their wish. And so the Heavens Fell had officially begun. Which proved to be nothing more than a small quarrel as the contestants had differing opinions on how the Ritual was supposed to go, eventually the conflict ended prematurely for an unknown reason.When the next Ritual happened 60 years later it was renamed the Holy Grail war, however the conflict degraded into a bloodbath leaving behind no survivors.

After the war ended it was decided that they would let a third party into the war in order to manage the conflict and keep it fair. By the time the third grail war came around the three families and the Association decided that it was the best course of action to ask the holy church for assistance in managing the conflict and so they sent their agent Kotomine Risei to act as overseer. However it was during the war that one of the contenders made a very big mistake that ended compromising the ritual forever, the Einzbern family frustrated with their continuous losses in the previous wars decided that they needed a servant that would be able to slaughter the other servants effortlessly regardless if the hero in question was good or evil. So the Einzbern master decided to summon the Persian god of darkness Angra mainyu in a custom made servant container known as Avenger, however what they got was a weakling human that didn't even put up a fight against the Edelfeit master and her servant Saber. There was also the fact that one of the masters Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia was working with the Nazis in order to steal the grail and take it back to Germany in order for it to help them win the war, however thanks to the effort of servant Ruler who was a heroic spirit summoned by the grail to protect the sanctity of the holy grail war the German master was defeated.

      However what the masters and servants didn't know at the time was that when servant Avenger was defeated his essence entered the grail in order to power it for the end of the ritual, however the weak 'hero' ended up corrupting the grail with its influence causing the very core of the heavens feel ritual to become dark and evil. This was due to the unique nature of Avenger, what the Einzberns didn't realize at the time was that the legend of Angra mainyu originated from a small village in the past that held a very unusual ritual in which they would randomly select a villager and declare him as all the evils of the world, hoping that by pouring all of their evils onto him they would in turn be devoid of sin. By the time the villager died he was sent to the Throne of Heroes because the wish of the village for him to become all the worlds evils so that they may be cleansed of their sins caused him to become a living wish easing the minds of the villagers. When Avenger was defeated his essence as a living wish entered the grail whose purpose was to grant wishes, needless to say it was granted. By the time the fourth war came around the grail was corrupted enough to allow the summoning of 'Anti-heroes' villains recorded in history that unintentionally saved lives through their actions. Also because Avenger was stuck in the grail for 60 years he lost his sense of 'self' becoming the personification of 'all the worlds evils', it then waited inside the grail for the winning master to grant his wish so that it could use the opportunity to twist the wish in a way that would maximize the destruction caused in its wake and be 'born' into theworld.

Luckily for humanity a master by the name of Kiritsugu Emiya discovered the truth behind the corrupted grail and ordered his servant via a command seal to destroy the grail-preventing Avenger from escaping but not before cursing the 'magus killer' and causing a fire that took the life of 500 people in the surrounding area. However this was not the end as Kiritsugu only destroyed the lesser grail meant to contain the souls of the defeated servants and open the door to Akasha. While the Greater grail underneath Ryuudou temple remained intact allowing the ritual to begin again only 10 years after the 4th. Now normally in other versions of the 5th war the adopted son of Kiritsugu called Shirou Emiya was dragged into the conflict by summoning the servant Saber wo was the last of the 7 to be summoned, after talking to the priest in charge of managing the war he decided to enter the grail war so that the disaster that claimed the life of his parents and 500 others 10 years ago would never happen again.

       However this version of the war isn't going to be like the others due to the discovery made by the young man in that tool shed 5 years ago when he turned his nerves into permanent circuits, and how does this apply to the holy grail war you may ask? Well it all started 15 hours before the seventh servant was summoned.   

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