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Nasuverse (Franchise)
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The universe(s) of the writings of Type-Moon'snote The company's official name is Notes scenario director, Kinoko Nasu. It's made up of several "sub-universes" ("franchises" that share characters) that share most (but not all) details between each other. Also of note is that the franchises themselves often include several alternate continuities, since the primary works are visual novels with multiple and very mutually exclusive paths.Several of the earliest main works in the 'verse were/are H-games (a.k.a. eroge, marked as such), but many of the related works are not. And, after Type-Moon began achieving mainstream success with the 2006 Fate/stay night anime, they began trending away from erotic works to cater to a wider audience, with several works either re-released or slated to be re-released in Self-Censored Release form. (Given the h-scenes were gratuitous and largely unneeded for the overall plot, even old-school fans largely see this as a positive.) | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Reality Marbles require an incredible willpower and amount of mana to maintain for anything more than a few minutes, if even that. Someone lucky enough to possess one needs to be careful not to plunge themselves into a Heroic RRoD. | |
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Character Overlap | |
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Character Overlap: Because of the shared universe, several characters frequently show up in other works than the one they debuted in. Touko Aozaki is a major character in The Garden of Sinners and Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, shows up in the second volume of Lord El-Melloi II Case Files, and make several minor cameos in Fate works. She's investigating SE.RA.PH in EXTRA, mentioned to be hired by Kayneth after being crippled by Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet in Zero, one of her puppets is acquired in the Heaven's Feel route of stay night, and Miyamoto Musashi mentions having met her in Grand Order. Aoko Aozaki headlines Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, appears as a minor character with huge impact in Tsukihime, and is also trapped in SE.RA.PH in Fate/Extra. Caubac Alcatraz is merely mentioned in passing in Tsukihime as he's trapped in his own labyrinth but is later revealed to be using the magical cellphone Zelretch gave him as seen in Carnival Phantasm and Mahou Tsukai no Hako to communicate with the outside world. He also converses with Zelretch in Fate/strange fake. Lord El-Melloi II/Waver Velvet due to his Breakout Character status of Fate/Zero is seen in Fate/Apocrypha as part of the group trying to manage the Great Holy Grail War, in Fate/strange fake in relation to his student Flatt Escardos, in Fate/Grand Order as a Pseudo-Servant, in Fate/Labyrinth to rescue Norma, and of course as the protagonist of his own novel series. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: If a detail isn't explicitly described in the work itself, it's probably explained in one of the several dozen material books which contain profiles of characters and explanations on how mechanics and concepts work in this universe. Furthermore, Nasu has his own blog which he occasionally posts on to clarify any confusing details. | |
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Nested Ownership | |
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Nested Ownership: Double Subverted. Spirits cannot link spirits to the world, and thus Servants cannot summon Servants of their own... under normal circumstances at least. They each have their own niggles, but exceptions do exist: The Servant has summoning as a natural skill. Though this limits their options to beings tied to their legend. The Servant somehow makes their own Command Seals. This results in the newly-summoned Servant being very weak, however. The Servant has somehow "incarnated" into a real body. The now flesh-and-blood Servant can acquire real Command Seals, but this kind of resurrection is incredibly difficult and the non-Servant body is weaker. There are exceptions though, Servants that lived during the Age of Gods or descended from the Gods are stronger while they are alive. | |
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Alternate Timeline | |
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On Earth, there exists a certain number of fluctuative parallel worlds formed out of possibilities, each of which is an Alternate Timeline. This set of parallel worlds is called “Great Tree Known as Time�, and it is being maintained by Gaia, will of the planet, and Alayashiki, a collective instinct to survive which humanity developed at some point in ancient history as they became independent and “cancerous� existences toward the planet. These parallel worlds require enormous amount of energy to maintain, as such at certain intervals the World (that is to say, Gaia and Alaya) predict the continued survival and progress of both the planet and humanity for the next 100 years, in order to “prune� them — an event known as Quantum Timelock, in which all the different timelines converge together. This ensures the events deemed essential to the progress of the planet and humanity during said Timelock happened across all timelines (and any ‘younger’ timelines created from time travel will also undergo through said events as they progress), and any timeline in which the Timelocked events cannot happen would be deleted from existence. | |
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Living Forever Is Awesome | |
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Living Forever Is Awesome: Some characters do appreciate eternal life, chief among them is Qin Shi Huang, the (primary) Big Bad of the third Lostbelt of Fate/Grand Order. The Big Bad of Fate/Grand Order is revealed to think this, and doesn't get why anyone would want to be mortal, not able to understand the positives of such an existence and only able to focus on the negatives. Even when he himself is rendered mortal and grows an appreciation for such fleeting existences, there's nothing to suggest he doesn't see immortality as wrong even in his dying moments, just that he was wrong to try and force it upon humanity. | |
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Advanced Ancient Humans | |
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Advanced Ancient Humans: Humans long ago established many civilizations thanks to gods ruling over them, particularly that of Atlantis, the progenitor of Greek civilization and the domain of the Twelve Olympians/Pillars/Machine Gods. All these civilizations came to an end when the alien Velber came to harvest civilizations and their data, which entailed deploying the White Titan Sefar on Earth to slaughter everything in its path. Humanity has long since forgotten about this time period, with their records only dating back to the dawn of modern civilization in Mesopotamia. | |
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Power at a Price | |
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The most vaunted set of them all are the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. They are so rare that they are regarded as myth by even the True Ancestors, and a reason why Tsukihime and The Garden of Sinners are different timelines as there can't be two users in the same world. The eyes see the death of all things and visualizes them as lines and points on the target. If someone possesses immortality on a higher level than the eyes, then the user won't see the lines and points until they strengthen it. It's pure Power at a Price though, as the human brain which processes this information isn't equipped to perceive such concepts. Shiki Tohno's brain is slowly breaking under the pressure of his eyes, and one day he will die when they become too strong for him to handle. Shiki Ryougi doesn't have to deal with this problem since she was born with them and connected directly to the Root which does the work for her, so she's a much higher level user as a result. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: Just because a character is of the "Good" alignment, that doesn't guarantee they're friendly paragons of virtue. They are invariably determined and moral (though their codes of ethics may differ), typically acting in the interest of what they perceive to be the greater good. However, they can act rather extreme in their pursuits, resulting in massive collateral damage or tragic personal cost. Gilgamesh justified wanting to wipe away the modern world as he found the humanity of the era to be overpopulated, wasteful, and wretched. The dragon slayer Siegfried focused a majority of his time and energy helping as many people as he could rather than actively seek any happiness for himself, leading him to be exploited by a treacherous friend and to alienate his wife Kriemhild (indirectly resulting in her infamous Roaring Rampage of Revenge in the Nibelungenlied). | |
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The Time of Myths | |
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The Time of Myths: The Age of Gods is this, a time when gods walked the Earth and magic was omnipresent. Going further back is the Age of Genesis, when primordial deities such as Tiamat were born. Reality during the Age of Genesis is so unstable that humanity cannot observe this time period, and memories of it were genetically encoded in every living being and drawn upon to create the concept of hell. | |
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Puny Earthlings | |
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Puny Earthlings: An ironclad rule across all Nasuverse works is that regular humans cannot put up a straight fight against the supernatural. They are simply too weak to handle beings that are Immune to Bullets and in some cases don't ascribe to the same laws of existence that they do. If a Muggle gets into a supernatural situation and survives, it's either because they have the favor of a supernatural being or they themselves are supernatural and don't know it. It takes a truly exceptional human to buck the rules, and these miracles run the risk of provoking the Powers That Be. Heroic Spirits are the embodiment of this rule. A true Heroic Spirit is a Perpetual-Motion Monster made possible by one of the Powers That Be to handle threats to the world, and as such in a situation where they're involved, they are constructed precisely so that meddling/ignorant humans on the scene can't interfere with their work and will be swatted away like a flies for trying. Servants, the lesser form of Heroic Spirits, are meant to be summoned and commanded by humans. Despite this they are still essentially living weapons that the human is controlling, and that control is limited. Extremely weak Servants can be beaten by a seasoned fighter, but Word of God has stated that Ciel fighting very defensively is as far as mortal humans can go towards any hope of winning against an average Servant; challenging anything beyond that as a regular human is futile. One example of a human who went beyond human limits is Scáthach, a warrior woman so strong and skilled that she became known as a living legend. Despite the use of magical runes, Scáthach was 100% human and wished to remain so because No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction. But because she broke the limits meant for a human, the Counter Force decided that she could not and should not be human, and thus gave her immortality to divorce her from humanity. She isn't happy with her "reward". | |
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At the same time though, Mysteries that gets propagated such as the teachings of the Church will lose its power but also become more stable and anchored to the world. The strength of these mysteries can be greatly influenced by the Faith and collective unconscious of the people. | |
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The Stations of the Canon | |
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The Stations of the Canon: Yes, they exist In-Universe as the Quantum Time Lock System which keeps the tree of timelines from branching out too much and sucking out enough energy to the point they all collapse from "malnutrition." To keep human history from diverging into all sorts of What Ifs, the World declares certain events to be "canon" of sorts and immutable when it comes to the broad details. For example, the fall of Camelot is recorded as a Time Lock. Should one somehow prevent Mordred from rebelling to ensure the kingdom survives past what happened in recorded history, the World will work to make sure it still falls by another method, such as a rampant plague. The smaller details don't matter, what is truly important is that history follows the preferred path to ensure humanity has as much room to progress as possible. The branch timelines that don't follow this path get pruned out of existence, along with branches that are too similar and therefore redundant. The amount of energy to invalidate one Time Lock is immense, roughly on par with that of a Holy Grail, and to completely rewrite history would require so much energy that nothing on Earth exists that could provide it. A huge part of the point of Grand Order is the emergence of several entities with the power to actually accomplish this, several of them being able to do so thanks to being wholly alien to the World, and is the story of the absolute mayhem that then results from their efforts and history suddenly getting "squishy". | |
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Dark World | |
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Dark World: There exists another half of the planet itself called the "Reverse Side of the World". It is filled with divine spirits and creatures that left after the Age of Gods ended in order to maintain their existence. The unique nature of it means that mortals can not precieve it due to it being essentially a "layer" on top of the already existing one. | |
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Cryptic Background Reference | |
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Cryptic Background Reference: Each work is littered with references to mysterious happenings going on elsewhere or in the past, with the manuals usually just throwing more fuel onto that fire by referring to even more mysterious and vague elements of this universe. | |
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Sex Magic | |
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Sex Magic: Bodily fluids can be used as a medium for Mana transfer, with sex being the most efficient method. This is often, but not always, used as an excuse to add sex scenes. The all-ages editions of these media tend to downplay this for obvious reasons. In Tsukihime, the twins Kohaku and Hisui are "Synchronizers" who carry large amounts of Mana that can be transferred to others, which has the side effect of suppressing the "inversion impulse" in those with demon ancestors. For most of the story they use this ability by allowing others to drink their blood, but if Shiki becomes close enough to one of the twins he can have sex with them for this purpose. In the Back Story, this transfer was carried out against their will. In Fate/stay night, Shirou must have sex in order to transfer some of his Magic Circuits to Saber (in the Fate route) or to receive part of Rin's Magic Crest (in the Unlimited Blade Works route). Most other Masters don't need to do the sex, Shirou's just not so adept at giving energy. Tamer and Chaster adaptations replaced these with the infamously bizarre "mana dragon" and "mana dolphin" scenes respectively. In the True End of Heaven's Feel Shirou's mind is placed in an artificial body which requires regular mana infusions from Sakura to sustain itself — though, Rin's comments aside, in this case they don't really find it that much of a burden. Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA uses a Bowdlerised version of this Played for Laughs, with Kuro draining Mana from others through French kisses. When Illya asks if Kuro has any other means of transferring mana, we don't hear Kuro's response, but Illya's extreme reaction leaves little doubt that the "proper" method still exists. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
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Born in the Wrong Century: The entire magical society is this, as they insist on researching the past in attempts to recreate its miracles, while the rest of the world moves forward with science and technology ever progressing. | |
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The Constant | |
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The Constant: The series actually justifies this with the Quantum Time-Lock system put in place by The World. As a limited amount of "water" exists to sustain so many worlds without the universe effectively overloading on the sheer weight of possibilities, Quantum Time-Locks happen every once a hundred years or so to ensure that Constants exist present in all other timelines (e.g. Camelot falling). Any other timelines that have anything different happen are purged altogether in a process known as 'pruning'. However, while there exists several Quantum Time-Locks across human history, the median of which these timelines happen (termed as 'Proper Human History') can be extraordinarily variant to a variety of possibilities; it's just that the Quantum Time-Locks are a means of ensuring the most prosperous timelines for humanity survive, and any that have grown past the point of being able to be changed are as a result pruned. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_3b3d8430 | featureApplicability |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_3b3d8430 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_3e922887 | type |
Not of This Earth | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_3e922887 | comment |
Not of This Earth: Aliens do exist in this setting, and are usually powerful beyond compare because of the immense amount of energy required to traverse between stars. Most notable among them are the Ultimate Ones, Velber and Sefar, and the Foreign God. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_3e922887 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_3e922887 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41077d9d | type |
MacGuffin | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41077d9d | comment |
Macguffin: The Holy Grail tends to be the most prominent one in Fate timelines, especially in a Holy Grail War. While it is not the same Grail Christ drank from, it is still a magical item possessing an immense amount of magical energy one can use to accomplish an impossible task like granting a wish. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41077d9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41077d9d | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41d8a845 | type |
Sufficiently Analyzed Magic | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41d8a845 | comment |
Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Magecraft looks like magic from an ordinary perspective, but make no mistake it's a science at heart with the Clock Tower holding classes about teaching and analyzing it. So long as you have Magic Circuits, anyone can learn any field of Magecraft provided they have have the education for it like following a cookbook. True Magic cannot be taught and while you can describe its effects, it's impossible to understand how it actually works. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41d8a845 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_41d8a845 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_434a6d40 | type |
Evil Sorcerer | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_434a6d40 | comment |
Evil Sorcerer: Your average mage is amoral and cares for nothing except for their own research (in theory). The lives of others is an acceptable sacrifice to them as long as it doesn't disturb the secrecy of Magecraft. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_434a6d40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_434a6d40 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4353c4b7 | type |
Magically-Binding Contract | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4353c4b7 | comment |
Magically-Binding Contract: Command Seals. When a Master summons a Servant, they receive three Command Seals from the Holy Grail to be emblazoned onto their body (usually on the back of the right hand, but not always). A seal can be used to cast magecraft, empower their Servant, issue them an Irrevocable Order, or all of the above, and as long as they have at least one the Servant must carry out their will (unless they have a skill like Independent Action, in which case the Master must consume a seal to order them). The only way a Command Seal can be negated is if the Master either rescinds it or is killed. Seals can be replenished from the adjudicator presiding over the current Holy Grail War, stolen from another Master, or simply given by another Master (who can also transfer the contract this way) — but should a Master run out of seals, their Servant can do whatever they want after fulfilling the last one, which doesn't change much if they like their Master... and usually means a swift reprisal if they don't. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4353c4b7 | featureApplicability |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4353c4b7 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | type |
Alternate Continuity | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | comment |
Alternate Continuity: While the Fate/EXTRA series purports to be merely an Alternate History (in which The Magic Goes Away about thirty years before the events of Fate/stay night, while Extra itself takes place about thirty years after), there are certain irreconcilable differences in the cosmos of each game, particularly the nature of the moon itself. Tsukihime worlds are ones where "Gaia Manifests", the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors who represent "Anti-Humanity" exist, the Human Order is weak, Crimson Moon is active, and Arcueid Brunestud is the strongest being. Fate worlds are "tamed by Alaya", Servants who represent "Humanity" can be summoned because the Human Order is strong, Crimson Moon is not active, and someone replaces Arcueid as the strongest being. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | featureApplicability |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_450c5a85 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4acee1ed | type |
Fish out of Temporal Water | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4acee1ed | comment |
Fish out of Temporal Water: Averted. Servants have information for the current era implanted in them at the time of summoning. Any culture shock or lack of tact for that time period is entirely their own fault. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4acee1ed | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4acee1ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4acee1ed | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4cf04991 | type |
SocialDarwinist | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4cf04991 | comment |
Social Darwinist: As Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star established, the universe runs on this principle by using the Quantum Time Lock system. Only the worlds with the most potential for advancement are allowed, called Proper Human History. The losers where timelines diverged too much and reached their conclusion are pruned from existence. It doesn't matter if the timeline results in a Crapsack World or a Utopia, what's important is humanity can no longer improve and therefore culled. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4cf04991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4cf04991 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4dbd3706 | type |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4dbd3706 | comment |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Belief and worship are what gives magic and gods their power in the setting - the more people who believe in a subject, the more powerful it becomes. For example, Servants summoned in their home country where they are celebrated as folk heroes will receive a substantial power boost. Understanding is the antithesis of belief; the more people who understand how a magic system works, the less power it holds. This is why magic is declining as time moves forward, as mankind keeps discovering and deciphering natural laws of the world. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4dbd3706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4dbd3706 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_4dbd3706 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_511728ae | type |
Magic Versus Science | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_511728ae | comment |
Magic Versus Science: The primary reason for The Magic Goes Away stated above: as science elucidates more and more of the natural world and its laws, the less power magic actually has, the implication being that as humanity puts less and less stock into the supernatural, the less it can be used to influence the world. Supplemental materials reveal that when the Age of Gods completely ended, the laws of the world literally changed from one based on magic and Mystery to physics-based. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_511728ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_511728ae | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_51bc8d33 | type |
The Church | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_51bc8d33 | comment |
The Church: The Holy Church exists as an organization that also deals with the supernatural despite condemning magic as heretical (Supernatural Sacraments are still OK, though, and the existence of the Burial Agency implies they're willing to go back on even that stipulation in a pinch). The Holy Church does not get along with the Mage's Association and has warred with them in the past by burning down their centers of learning. They also make it a business to hunt down Dead Apostles by fielding Executors who specially trained to fight both mages and vampires alike with Supernatural Martial Arts and holy weaponry, making them deadly foes. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_51bc8d33 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_51bc8d33 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Characters with the "Evil" alignment can be despicably malevolent, but the label is also associated with powerful egotism rather than outright wickedness, denoting an individual who puts their own values and goals above those of others. An "Evil" person can still be perfectible personable, but they can be dangerous and capable of shortsighted selfishness. For example, True Assassin, also known as the Hassan of the Cursed Arm, is polite, professional, and valorous to a point. He also murders easily and ruthlessly, and he became an "Old Man of the Mountain" by abandoning his wife and child to fend for themselves in pursuit of glory and power with the Hashshashin. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_537dd8fe | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_55afe8af | type |
Ley Line | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_55afe8af | comment |
Ley Line: Ley lines are places in the world where mana converges in great amounts. This makes them a great spot for magical rituals such as holding a Holy Grail War or summoning a Servant. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_55afe8af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_55afe8af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_55afe8af | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5640e2c9 | type |
No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5640e2c9 | comment |
One example of a human who went beyond human limits is Scáthach, a warrior woman so strong and skilled that she became known as a living legend. Despite the use of magical runes, Scáthach was 100% human and wished to remain so because No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction. But because she broke the limits meant for a human, the Counter Force decided that she could not and should not be human, and thus gave her immortality to divorce her from humanity. She isn't happy with her "reward". | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5640e2c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5640e2c9 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_566f3ddd | type |
Nature Spirit | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_566f3ddd | comment |
Nature Spirit: There are many creatures and beings which exist as extensions of Gaia itself, including the True Ancestors at the highest ranking and then gods plus Divine Spirits below them. Since they are part of the planet, they can exist freely without being crushed by the World. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_566f3ddd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_566f3ddd | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | type |
Genius Loci | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | comment |
Genius Loci: Every celestial body is alive and possesses its own will, which is embodied as its Ultimate One. Earth's will is called Gaia, and it plays an important part of the setting because humans destroy the planet as they continue to develop. While Gaia has its agents to protect itself and attack humans, it does not have an Ultimate One, while the collective will of humanity called Alaya fights back against the planet's attempts to extinguish them. The balance of power between the two forms the Counter Force, which is dedicated to keeping the status quo and everyone alive but not necessarily happy. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_586624e5 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5cb5fe11 | type |
Sealed Badass in a Can | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5cb5fe11 | comment |
Sealed Badass in a Can: Heroic Spirits reside within the "Throne of Heroes", an aspect of the Counter Force, that serves as the "can" in question. The true nature of Servants is that they are (usually) not an actual Heroic Spirit, but rather a less powerful copy of a Heroic Spirit generated by the Throne and stuffed into a "container" known as a Class (Saber, Archer, etc.). True Heroic Spirits can't usually be called up unless there's a threat to humanity or the planet that warrants it. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5cb5fe11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5cb5fe11 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_608b26d | type |
Uniqueness Decay | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_608b26d | comment |
Uniqueness Decay: It's an actual In-Universe mechanic. The strength of magic in the Nasuverse is determined by its "Mystery", the measure of how common it is in the world. Well-known magecraft is weak and menial, whereas lesser-known magecraft is powerful. Magus families are typically built on having a personal magecraft with a lot of Mystery, and enforcing its secrecy keeps that magecraft (and thus their family) strong; the primary reason the world of magic is so volatile is because rival families fight tooth and nail to claim or preserve their secrets. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_608b26d | featureApplicability |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_608b26d | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_61eac2cb | type |
Perpetual-Motion Monster | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_61eac2cb | comment |
Heroic Spirits are the embodiment of this rule. A true Heroic Spirit is a Perpetual-Motion Monster made possible by one of the Powers That Be to handle threats to the world, and as such in a situation where they're involved, they are constructed precisely so that meddling/ignorant humans on the scene can't interfere with their work and will be swatted away like a flies for trying. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_61eac2cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_61eac2cb | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_649b0880 | type |
Background Magic Field | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_649b0880 | comment |
Background Magic Field: A substance called Ether, or ambient mana, permeates the atmosphere in the Age of Man. While Ether is not very high quality, it still provides more mana than modern mages are capable of generating from their body alone. In the Age of Gods, the ambient mana was called True Ether and far more dense than Ether. A modern mage traveling to the Age of Gods would not be able to survive True Ether without a special Mystic Code that allows them to adapt to it. | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_649b0880 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_64b2ff00 | type |
Jesus Was Way Cool | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_64b2ff00 | comment |
The First Magic: The Materialization Of Nothingness. While its exact nature has yet to be revealed, the fact that the First Magician was born "On the night before B.C became A.D" seems to imply it is the ability to perform miracles. It is also closely related to Witches, most particularly the Yumina name, as well as the creation of the Fifth Imaginary Element, Ether, that allowed the continuation of Magecraft into the Common Era and contributed to the founding of the Mage's Association. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_64b2ff00 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_652c32fa | type |
Super-Deformed | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_652c32fa | comment |
2016: Most of the art in Fate/Grand Order and the Type-Moon website is changed to the Super-Deformed artstyle of the Learning with Manga! FGO. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_652c32fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_652c32fa | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_6c3d1777 | type |
Magic A Is Magic A | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_6c3d1777 | comment |
Magic A Is Magic A: One of the cornerstones of why these works are so beloved. Nasu, and his trusted circle of writers, take great pains to make sure that the supernatural elements are consistent between works at least 99% of the time. This means that, if you're paying attention, it's often a bit possible to guess what might happen next, simply because that's the logical way for things to progress given previous experience from other works. New concepts are introduced from time to time, but it's all still consistent with what appeared previously and it can lead to some amazing reveals that make a ton of sense in hindsight. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_6c3d1777 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_6c3d1777 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_704d7e91 | type |
No Ontological Inertia | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_704d7e91 | comment |
No Ontological Inertia: In general, if a magic object does not exist physically and wasn't summoned by the Counter Force, the World will do its best to crush its existence and restore the natural order. Reality Marbles require an incredible willpower and amount of mana to maintain for anything more than a few minutes, if even that. Someone lucky enough to possess one needs to be careful not to plunge themselves into a Heroic RRoD. Servants require not only a consistent source of mana to maintain their existence, but an "anchor" that gives them a reason to exist in the current time period (usually their Master's contract, occasionally a Soul Jar). "Stray Servants" that somehow persist while invalidating their anchor will still vanish without mana, and those that happen upon a generous source of mana will still vanish without an anchor. This system is actually very good at kicking Stray Servants out of an era where they don't belong; even among the kudzu-weave of timelines that the Nasuverse is, true autonomy as a Servant is unfathomably rare and usually accidental. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_704d7e91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_704d7e91 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_72b0dfd2 | type |
Being Good Sucks | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_72b0dfd2 | comment |
Being Good Sucks: Being a genuine benevolent hero requires a character to gibe up many of their personal desires apart from the ones that have them serve the common good. This can even come at the cost of the happiness of their loved ones, and the people they protect can very well turn on them in a moment of weakness. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_72b0dfd2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_72b0dfd2 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_730c2e3 | type |
Void Between the Worlds | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_730c2e3 | comment |
Void Between the Worlds: The Imaginary Number Space, first mentioned in Fate/Extra CCC is a dimension that lies outside time and space. The Far Side of The Moon and the Grand Time Temple both lie here. The "between the worlds" part is emphasized in Fate/Grand Order as it is only the way to get in and out of Lostbelts which are otherwise not possible due to the impassable Cloud Wall. It's possible for mages to access this dimension freely provided they are born with the Elemental Affinity called Imaginary Numbers a.k.a. Hollow. However, this Affinity is extremely rare and only three mages bearing it (Sakura Matou, Lev Lainur Flauros, and Trisha Fellows) have appeared in the entire franchise to date. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_730c2e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_730c2e3 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_74e4a889 | type |
Cosmic Motifs | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_74e4a889 | comment |
Cosmic Motifs: As per the company title, the moon permeates the setting through Crimson Moon as the progenitor of rampant vampirism and the Moon Cell as both the ultimate wish granter and savior of humanity. Its appearance only at night helps emphasize the hidden world under which most works operate. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_74e4a889 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_74e4a889 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_77480c5e | type |
God Is Good | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_77480c5e | comment |
God Is Good: There's an entity that greatly resembles the Judea-Christian interpretation of God which is powerful and largely benevolent, but those that attempt to fully comprehend or devote themselves to its eldritch grandeur tend to become a little mad. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_77480c5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_77480c5e | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7808eb5f | type |
Gag Series | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7808eb5f | comment |
An official Type-Moon crossover manga adapted into anime in the summer of 2011. It's a crossover between Fate/stay night and Tsukihime, focusing more on random and hyper crossover madness rather than a serious crossover between the series. | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7808eb5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7808eb5f | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7831b670 | type |
Gaia's Vengeance | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7831b670 | comment |
Gaia's Vengeance: The Nasuverse uses the Gaia hypothesis, a theory that planet Earth itself is a giant single living entity. The Nasuverse also expands this to the other planets in the Solar System as well as the Moon (all known as Type-[name], Ultimate Ones, and Aristoteles, with their own personal names; Earth is known as Type-Earth and Gaia, for example) and humanity itself (or, by its other name, Alaya). Gaia loves humanity as its children but also hates their abuse of nature, leading to the creation of the True Ancestors by Type-Moon to "regulate" humans (the backstory to Tsukihime, and to a lesser extent, The Garden of Sinners) and an eventual apocalypse brought upon by the Ultimate Ones called by Gaia after getting scared of her children outliving her and living on her corpse (the story and setting of Angel Notes). | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7831b670 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_7831b670 | featureConfidence |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu: This applies to magic and Magecraft. All Magecraft draws power from Mystery to fuel it, so the more people use it, the weaker the rituals get. This is one reason why mages jealously guard their research from all outsiders, so they can preserve the strength of their secrets. This weakness can be offset if more users believe in it though, as the Holy Church is not shy about spreading their teachings. | |
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Primordial Tongue | |
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Primordial Tongue: The appropriately named Unified Language was used at the dawn of modern civilization in Mesopotamia when all of humanity was united under the rule of Gilgamesh. By the modern day, only Satsuki Kurogiri is capable of speaking it. | |
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Series Mascot | |
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Series Mascot: Saber is Type-Moon's most famous character and also stands as its most marketable. Shiki Ryougi, Arceuid Brunestud, and (to a much lesser extent) Aoko Aozaki serve as Type-Moon's other mascots, due to their status as the heroines of their own respective works. Rin Tohsaka from Fate/stay night has also enjoyed this status, especially after the success of the Unlimited Blade Works anime. | |
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Wizards Live Longer | |
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Wizards Live Longer: Mages tend to use unnatural means to extend their life if they have no heirs or interest in procuring one, but this usually runs into the issue of either the soul simply being unable to withstand that level of long life or turning into vampires along the way. | |
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Kudzu Plot | |
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Kudzu Plot: Generally speaking, the works, by themselves, aren't that difficult to follow, considering how self-contained they are. However, the Nasuverse makes all of these stories interconnected through its strict rules of magic and death, reccurring characters and concepts, and even Call Backs to other works within the setting can make someone who has no exposure to the 'Verse an absolute nightmare, especially considering which work to read first. | |
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Powers That Be | |
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Powers That Be: They exist as the Counter Force that protects the world from threats. They take the form of Gaia, the will of the planet that ensures its survival by way of natural disasters, and Alaya, the will of humanity that ensures their survival by way of Counter Guardians. They're both quite good at their job, but far from perfect (otherwise many plots in the franchise wouldn't happen); humanity and their planet don't always get along, and a magus of sufficient skill and madness can subvert their power for their own ends. | |
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Retraux | |
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2019: FGO QUEST, a Retraux RPG as a send-up to Dragon Quest. | |
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All Deaths Final | |
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All Deaths Final: One rule shared across virtually all of the settings is that there is no true reviving the dead. At best a person can find ways to cheat death, but those are artificial ways of keeping yourself alive. All living beings will die, and nothing can change that. Only once has this been defied in the entire setting; and in that case, the person (Mash), was revived in a place outside the normal laws of time, and by Cath Palug (aka Primate Murder) at the cost of its intelligence. | |
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Enchanted Forest | |
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Enchanted Forest: It is heavily implied in a few works such as Tsukihime and certain events in Fate Grand Order that the world before Man came into power was this, complete with Giant trees so ridiculously large their roots are as big skyscrapers. | |
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Big Bad | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, Scathach is incredibly bored with existence because she can't find anything strong enough to fight her and wants to be able to feel the thrill of fighting something again without the guarantee of her immortality saving her from death, though whether she's weary of her long life itself is up for debate. In addition, the Big Bad's scheme of incinerating humanity to remold them into immortal beings is repudiated at several points by Mash because her fleeting life is what makes it worthwhile, simply living on forever wouldn't give her the satisfactory experiences she's had. | |
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Dimensional Traveler | |
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The Second Magic: The Operation of Parallel Worlds, also known as Kaleidoscope. Basically, the ability to access and freely travel between Alternate Timelines and dimensions. The Second Magician is Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, the resident Cool Old Guy vampire mage who had already mastered Kaleidoscope by the third century AD, as he used it to defeat Crimson Moon Brunestud in 300 AD, and is still alive to this day. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Some characters do appreciate eternal life, chief among them is Qin Shi Huang, the (primary) Big Bad of the third Lostbelt of Fate/Grand Order. | |
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Continuity Reboot | |
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Melty Blood: Type Lumina is based on the Tsukihime remake's continuity, serving as a Continuity Reboot for the series, and released in Autumn 2021. | |
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Time Crash | |
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2015: An error in the Kaleidoscope has caused a Time Crash, hijinks ensue with alternate versions of everyone (various girls become J-Pop idols, Arthur Pendragon is a Pok-, er, Capsule Servant champion, Spartacus is an idol producer, Shirou Emiya is a lawyer, Rin Tohsaka is actually technologically competent, etc) and it's all once again recorded on TMitter. It has a fairly serious ending, giving the adult Waver Velvet some closure with Kayneth. | |
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation | |
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Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE: Holy Round Table's Domain Camelot - Replica; Agateram, which is an adaptation of F/GO's incredibly popular sixth story chapter/singularity, Camelot. A limited run special stage production in the Zepp Blue Theater in Roppongi, Tokyo, it had two runs, in July and September-October 2017. | |
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Character Blog | |
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2010: Rather than fully changing the site, Twitter- sorry, TMitter feeds were added to the site, featuring tweets from their most popular characters. | |
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Time Travel | |
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The Fifth Magic: Magic Blue. Its exact nature and full scope is unknown, but it utilizes Time Travel and makes the laws of conservation of mass "shoulder the debts of a past without future". Its user is Aoko Aozaki, whose grandfather somehow found the path to the Fifth Magic, but left it open to Aoko through their family's Magic Crest. | |
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Third-Option Adaptation | |
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Fate/tiger colosseum, a PSP exclusive 3D brawler, which serves as both a sequel and parody of the original games. Taiga Fujimura initiates a war for the Tiger Grail and the Masters and Servants compete for it once more. Followed by a stand-alone expansion pack, Fate/tiger colosseum UPPER, which added more playable characters from hollow ataraxia and zero, as well as Arcueid, Kohaku (both in Magical Girl form), and Neco-Arc, making it the first real Crossover between Fate and Tsukihime. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires were created by Gaia in 2000 BC when Crimson Moon Brunestud arrived on Earth. Strictly speaking there are two kinds of vampires. The first kind are the True Ancestors, or high-tier spirits of nature employed by Gaia to protect it from humans. They are clones of Crimson Moon Brunestud in a body that is allowed by the planet, and serve as potential backup bodies for it in case of physical death. Then there are the Dead Apostles, or humans who have been turned either by a True Ancestor sucking their blood or some kind of magical research. As blood-sucking creatures who feed on their former species, Dead Apostles are natural enemies of humans and deny the Human Order. In Fate timelines where the Human Order is strong, Dead Apostles are fewer in number and the strongest of their kind never band together as an organization. In Tsukihime timelines where the Human Order is weak, Dead Apostles are greater in number and the strongest loosely band together as the Dead Apostle Ancestors. Though there are other creatures that exhibit vampiric traits or examples of vampires from different cultures mentioned in material books like Chinese vampiric flying heads, those are not considered "proper" vampires like the True Ancestors or Dead Apostles and are not targeted by the Church. | |
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Generational Magic Decline | |
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In contrast to Generational Magic Decline, the children of an older magus family will generally be better than someone from a newer family. This is present in the knowledge they receive from what their forebears uncovered and, more importantly, the family Magic Crest that they inherit. This is why Waver is looked down upon by others (his family is only a couple generations old) and why Rin calls Shirou's father a failure as a magus for not passing on his crest or teaching Shirou. | |
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Physical God | |
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Physical God: There once was a time when gods existed as physical beings walking the Earth. It's possible for a god to die and still exist as a Divine Spirit, or basically a super-powerful ghost but still weaker than the real deal. Following the end of the Age of Gods, all remaining gods were forcibly reduced to Divine Spirits, which caused them to retreat from the surface world and end what little influence they had left on mankind. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: In-Universe. In Fate, whenever a magical being or occurrence is summoned to the modern day, circumstances conspire to remove it. In some cases it may even be Invoked by the Powers That Be, as the world's natural order is not meant to include magic. It doesn't matter where it falls in the spectrum of good or evil, or how deserved, tragic or pointless it's removal is: if it's magical and has no apparent tether to the world, it goes away by story's end or is otherwise doomed in the afterstory, no exceptions. It's telling that across all the canon Fate stories and the thousands of Servants that have existed, only two have ever defied thisnote (Abigail Williams and Queen Draco, both from Fate/Grand Order) due to not ascribing to the world's laws. | |
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Ancient Astronauts | |
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Ancient Astronauts: Aliens have visited the Earth frequently in the past and played a major role in the shaping of Earth's mythologies. In particular, Fate/Grand Order reveals the Mesoamerican pantheon to be extraterrestrial bacteria who arrived via the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, while the Twelve Olympians were massive robots from another universe entirely before settling on Earth. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: The laws of magic in the Nasuverse are strict and as uniform across the series as humanly possible, but if one of those laws has irked a magus, chances are they will find a way around it to varying degrees of success. High-ranking mages thrive on this trope. | |
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Nice Day, Deadly Night | |
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Nice Day, Deadly Night: A recurring theme as in general, most of the action happens at night, for different reasons: in The Garden of Sinners and Witch on the Holy Night because the antagonists are dangerous spirits or magicians seeking to uphold the Masquerade, in Tsukihime because it's vampires, and in Fate/stay night along with its adaptations because of the nature of the Holy Grail War as waged in secret from the public. | |
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Civilization Destroyer | |
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Civilization Destroyer: This is the alien Velber's purpose, to harvest all civilizations and data it comes across, and why it sent Sefar to kill all the gods and destroy the civilizations they established. | |
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The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body | |
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The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: There exist many characters in the Nasuverse whose true age doesn't match their physical one, whether they've undergone a Fountain of Youth, Rapid Aging, or are simply The Ageless, and many of them will be beset by instincts and behaviors typical of that age. A rule of thumb is if the character in question wasn't originally Wise Beyond Their Years or a Manchild at their current physical age, they will not be now, whether they like it or not. | |
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Beast of the Apocalypse | |
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Beast of the Apocalypse: There exists a collection of them dubbed the Seven Evils of Humanity. Each one loves humanity but represents some manner of a sin committed by mankind that is grave enough to warrant the appearance of them. Their goal is to end the world however possible, and are among the most dangerous beings in the entire setting. | |
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Magic Must Defeat Magic | |
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Magic Must Defeat Magic: Beings of Mystery — immortals, Servants, or otherwise magical in nature — that somehow end up in the modern day can only be harmed by (or something empowered by) things similarly magical and/or mysterious. Modern weapons like guns, explosives, or even recently-made swords will either end up inflicting Scratch Damage, be easily dodged, or even simply bounce off, as there is no "Mystery" in how they function. This is a prime point of frustration for any Muggles that get caught up in a supernatural incident; a modern human could be the most skilled fighter in the world, and they'd do jack squat to a magical being without having access to magic themselves. | |
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The World Is Always Doomed | |
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The World Is Always Doomed: One common thread among all Fate continuities is that it's not a question of if a simple contest to Make a Wish for Your Heart's Desire will spiral into a world-threatening event, but when. This has lead to something of a fandom in-joke that the Powers That Be are actually terrible at preventing disasters, but the Counter Force is actually quite good at its job even when infighting — we're just seeing the more interesting tales where it misses the mark. | |
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The Multiverse | |
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The Multiverse: Has actually been a feature of the setting almost from the start - the Second Magic is based around travel to, and manipulation of, parallel worlds - and was mentioned as early as background material for Tsukihime and was plot-relevant as early as the original Fate/stay night (wherein Rin, with Shirou's help, creates a replica of Zeltrech's Second Magic-powered Gem Sword and uses it to match the power of her plugged-into-infinite-mana rampaging sister), but with Grand Order especially, it's become a somewhat important concept. The Throne of Heroes technically sits outside of the "time axis", so even though some of the Fate continuities are different, it's still possible for the GO protagonist to summon pretty much all previous Servants. Moreover, GO's singularities are basically pocket timelines themselves, that if unrepaired could do serious damage to reality. Part of the thrust of the Shinjuku singularity is using the meta-physics of this in a creative application of villainy. For the curious, the current multiversal breakdown is as follows: First, it must be understood that Fate worlds (the Fate series) and Tsukihime worlds (Tsukihime and its expansions) are diametrically opposed to each other in a sense, mostly because the mechanics that make the summoning of Heroic Spirits, which affirm human history and humanity, possible, can't exist in worlds where Dead Apostles, the antithesis and killers of humanity, proliferate. Another difference is that the organization dubbed the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors by the Holy Church doesn't exist in Fate worlds; some individual members like Primate Murder, Zeltrech, and ORT might still exist (and be weaker in Primate Murder's case), but others can be long dead like Roa and Gransurg Blackmore. However, there are worlds that "aren't really either" type of world that do have elements of both for currently unknown reasons.note It is worth noting that comparatively early on in the history of Type-Moon releases, from F/SN's first release up until about the time of EXTRA, the general understanding was that Fate and Tsukihime actually existed in one sole "Nasuverse", hence the term, and this seems to have even been the original intent; however, especially by the time of Fate/Grand Order, some questions had really started piling up and Nasu clarified the situation detailed here. Mahou Tsukai no Yoru and Tsukihime exist in the same parallel world, although in some ways this is rather academic, because outside of Aoko showing up in Tsukihime's prologue, the casts of both stories don't interact and the plots aren't linked. However there is the contradiction of Alice Kuonji's mansion which resides on the exact same plot of land as the Tohno mansion. Clock Tower 2015 is connected to both and establishes the divergence of Lev Flauros committing suicide instead of going to work with Chaldea as depicted in Grand Order. The Garden of Sinners was the first proper alternate continuity work, because it was written before Nasu and Takeuchi considered that Type-Moon could be a going concern, and thus wasn't constructed to necessarily fit easily into the primary Nasuverse. It actually wouldn't have that much trouble doing so, in retrospect, and, indeed, KnK and Tsukihime were originally considered both to be happening in a single world. Afterward, due to slight differences in the ages of certain people and differences in the makeup of certain families, they could be thought of as subtly parallel worlds so it officially is treated as an AU, but lately the novels of Lord El-Melloi II confirms Kara no Kyoukai is part of Fate worlds. Fate/stay night (along with hollow ataraxia) and Fate/Zero are thought to be in continuity with each other, but, as implied in the preface of the first volume of Zero and confirmed in the magazine Type-Moon Ace Vol. 10, they are slightly parallel worlds, where something like the events of Zero happened in stay night, but perhaps not precisely as described (though the broad details match up easily enough). It is worth noting that this continuity can branch a little bit, depending on player choices in F/SN; the animated adaptations of F/SN showcase each of the major routes, and the Zero animated adaptation is much more obviously in direct continuity with the Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel adaptations (all being from the same studio). Fate/Grand Order is an interesting example in that, while it was conceived as another minor spinoff continuity (the spinoff point being who won the Fuyuki Grail War of 2004 and some of the details about how and why it was fought), the fact that it's the most successful thing Type-Moon's ever made by literally multiple orders of magnitude means that it has taken an extremely prominent place in the wider zeitgeist and public eye, and can in many ways be considered the "main" continuity at this point. Elements from many of the other continuities are being integrated into it for greater exposure. Fate/EXTRA and its sequels are another continuity, taking place within the datascape of the Moon Cell (a supercomputer of mysterious origin on the moon) in the year 2030. Something's happened in this continuity to drain the world of all its prana, leaving magi only able to work their arts in datascapes like the Moon Cell. Fate/Apocrypha is a branch off of stay night, diverging during the Third Grail War in the 1930s. Instead of the Grail War as recorded, the Greater Grail is instead taken from Fuyuki, and instead of Avenger Angra Mainyu, the Extra-type Servant the Einzberns summoned to try and cheat the system was Ruler Shirou Tokisada Amakusa. Fate/Prototype is a separate continuity from all of the above, having been originally conceived before even The Garden of Sinners; its Grail War works significantly differently from the one in stay night. Various elements of it, however, have slowly been introduced into the main continuities. Prisma Illya is another branch off of Fate, specifically diverging before and during the Fourth Grail War - Illya was born later, and both Kerry and Iri discover earlier what's going on with the Fuyuki Grail, and work together to destroy it, freeing Illya from her destiny as a Grail vessel. Or so they hope. Fate/strange fake is another branch off of stay night, but a weird example in that not only is it a future possibility occurring shortly after the Fifth Holy Grail War, it also inexplicably has the characteristics of both Fate Worlds and Tsukihime Worlds at the same time. It's also a bit notable on a meta level for having begun life as an April Fool's gag before Nasu decided to greenlight it into being a real thing. The El-Melloi II Case Files are interesting in that they seem designed to be able to slot into several of the above continuities without too much trouble, though are most obviously angled toward the original Fate continuity with the slow buildup to 2004 and the events of F/SN taking place. Notes and Tsuki no Sango are possible Bad Futures to all of the above, with the only certainty about them being that Tsuki no Sango cannot be the future of either Tsukihime (the events of which have never taken place) or EXTRA (magecraft still "lingers"). As noted above, DDD and Fire Girl could possibly be within the "main" Tsukihime or Fate continuities, but it isn't too clear and it's generally irrelevant for their purposes and narratives anyway. | |
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Götterdämmerung | |
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Götterdämmerung: This is the key reason for why the Age of Gods ended. In 12,000 BC, gods existed as physical beings ruling over mankind, establishing many civilizations. Then the alien Velber approached Earth, and deployed the White Titan Sefar to slaughter the gods. Many pantheons were wiped out and civilization scattered as Sefar rampaged across earth. Eventually, Sefar was defeated not by a god, but by a human. The many deaths and the weakening of humanity's faith in the gods began the decline of the Age of Gods and Magic in general. The actual Ragnarök was established to take place in 1000 BC, ending with Surtr burning away the local Texture of the Age of Gods in Scandinavia. | |
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Immortality | |
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Immortality: No one is quite immortal, despite many mages seeking it. The highest level of immortality is not quite that so much as it is lacking mortality. Thankfully the only ones possessing this trait are both incredibly powerful and incredibly rare, such as the primordial goddess Tiamat who loses this under certain circumstances, or the Ultimate Ones. Even then, it's still possible to destroy these immortal creatures either with an immense amount of brute force and energy (good luck with that though), or by shooting them with the Black Barrel which imposes mortality. | |
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H-Game | |
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H-Game: It's easy to forget with the massive popularity explosion that their respective series have had, but the original Tsukihime and Fate/stay night VNs were Eroges. While Type-Moon has long since rebranded from this, Sex Magic remains canonical in the Nasuverse whether it's done for Fanservice or not, and the sanitized original stories and their myriad spin-offs don't shy away from this fact. Buyer beware! | |
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Ultimate Life Form | |
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Ultimate Life Form: The Aristoteles, also called the Types or the Ultimate Ones. They are the most powerful beings from each celestial body, and the embodiment of that body's will. They are among the most powerful beings in the franchise setting, and are so alien that many concepts of reality simply don't apply to them, including death. Earth is notable for not having its own Ultimate One; the closest it has is Archetype: Earth, or Arcueid at her strongest. The only reason the Types do not factor into much of the wider series is due to being asleep, or not being called yet to take action, and only do so very late into the history of events. The one time an Ultimate One does wake up early, it was in a pruned timeline of Proper Human History where it woke up early due to outside intervention, and even in a weakened state it quickly showed why they are worthy of the title of Ultimate Life Form. | |
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Ret-Canon | |
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Ret-Canon: The wish-granting Holy Grail of Fuyuki is a heavily-corrupted Artifact of Doom housing a Sealed Evil in a Can that grants wishes in the most destructive way possible in the original Fate/stay night. All Alternate Timeline Grails either derived from or involving the Fuyuki Holy Grail don't have this quirk so their plots can go in different directions. | |
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Masquerade Paradox | |
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Masquerade Paradox: Supernatural beings have a number of reasons to maintain secrecy. The biggest is that The Magic Goes Away, so they've reached an era where Muggles Do It Better. Individual systems of Magecraft also have limited amounts of power to draw from, meaning that the more followers a system has, the less powerful each user's magic becomes — this is why mages not only keep their magic secret, but centuries-old mage families keep a Single Line of Descent. The undead, meanwhile are keeping a Masquerade not from humans, but from other supernatural forces, like the Church Militant mages dedicated to killing them. | |
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Magical Eye | |
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Magical Eye: They're called Mystic Eyes, and there are many kinds of eyes that do one specific thing each. For example, Medusa has the Mystic Eyes of Petrification, giving her the famous ability to turn anything she looks at into stone. The most vaunted set of them all are the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. They are so rare that they are regarded as myth by even the True Ancestors, and a reason why Tsukihime and The Garden of Sinners are different timelines as there can't be two users in the same world. The eyes see the death of all things and visualizes them as lines and points on the target. If someone possesses immortality on a higher level than the eyes, then the user won't see the lines and points until they strengthen it. It's pure Power at a Price though, as the human brain which processes this information isn't equipped to perceive such concepts. Shiki Tohno's brain is slowly breaking under the pressure of his eyes, and one day he will die when they become too strong for him to handle. Shiki Ryougi doesn't have to deal with this problem since she was born with them and connected directly to the Root which does the work for her, so she's a much higher level user as a result. | |
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Word of God | |
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Servants, the lesser form of Heroic Spirits, are meant to be summoned and commanded by humans. Despite this they are still essentially living weapons that the human is controlling, and that control is limited. Extremely weak Servants can be beaten by a seasoned fighter, but Word of God has stated that Ciel fighting very defensively is as far as mortal humans can go towards any hope of winning against an average Servant; challenging anything beyond that as a regular human is futile. | |
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Beyond the Impossible | |
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Beyond the Impossible: In-Universe, this is what the Five Magics are. The comparison made that shows how it differs from Magecraft is that while Magecraft can let a Magus produce fire with Mana, anyone can produce fire by doing something as simple as lighting a matchstick, hence it is something that is still "possible". The Magics, on the other hand, are capable of doing "impossible" things that cannot be reproduced, no matter how much time or resources one puts into it, for example; The ressurection of the dead, time travel and traversing the dimensional border. The Five Magics are as follows: The First Magic: The Materialization Of Nothingness. While its exact nature has yet to be revealed, the fact that the First Magician was born "On the night before B.C became A.D" seems to imply it is the ability to perform miracles. It is also closely related to Witches, most particularly the Yumina name, as well as the creation of the Fifth Imaginary Element, Ether, that allowed the continuation of Magecraft into the Common Era and contributed to the founding of the Mage's Association. The Second Magic: The Operation of Parallel Worlds, also known as Kaleidoscope. Basically, the ability to access and freely travel between Alternate Timelines and dimensions. The Second Magician is Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, the resident Cool Old Guy vampire mage who had already mastered Kaleidoscope by the third century AD, as he used it to defeat Crimson Moon Brunestud in 300 AD, and is still alive to this day. The Third Magic: Materialization of The Soul, also known as Heaven's Feel, The Cup of Heaven, or the Holy Grail. Its function is to make Your Heart's Desire into reality and skipping all the steps that desire would otherwise require... if you have enough mana for it. It was realized by a Magician sometime before 1AD, after which they disappeared (though are thought to still be alive), and their disciples would go on to create the Einzbern homunculi in hopes that these would one day succeed in recreating it, which they succeeded in almost 1800 years later with the advent of Servant summoning to supply the necessary mana. The Fourth Magic: Completely unknown, but it is known to exist with certainty by the other Magicians, even though the Fourth Magician's identity alludes them. The Fifth Magic: Magic Blue. Its exact nature and full scope is unknown, but it utilizes Time Travel and makes the laws of conservation of mass "shoulder the debts of a past without future". Its user is Aoko Aozaki, whose grandfather somehow found the path to the Fifth Magic, but left it open to Aoko through their family's Magic Crest. | |
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Antagonist Title | |
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Antagonist Title: "Type-Moon" is the title of Crimson Moon, progenitor of all vampires and the Ultimate One of the moon. While Crimson Moon himself has never appeared in person (save for a couple visions in Kagetsu Tohya where Shiki learns about Arcueid's real role as his vessel - and even then he's just manifesting through her), he is a very important Greater-Scope Villain because of how his vampires shape the Nasuverse's works (especially those in the Tsukihime family). | |
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Mage Killer | |
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Mage Killer: The Black Barrel, one of the seven Superweapons of the Atlas Institute is the ultimate example of this, as a Conceptual Weapon that represents finite lifespan and mortality. The more magic energy the target possesses, the more damage the gun will do against it as well as the shorter the lifespan it imposes on the target. This means it will kill even gods and Ultimate Ones with just one bullet from the gun. However, there's two catches. One: the bullets need to be composed of either True Ether which is incredibly dense mana, or something infused with lots of mana. And two: the anti-magic property extends to the gun itself, so only a Muggle can use the gun safely. This becomes a real problem in Angel Notes when the gun is finally excavated for use, since there's literally only one regular human left while everyone else has been modified to run on the ambient mana in the atmosphere. | |
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Death of the Old Gods | |
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Death of the Old Gods: This happened in the aftermath of Sefar's attack. With many gods dead and weakened, plus humanity losing faith in them, the gods, Magic, and Mystery began declining throughout the world. Eventually, the gods degraded into weaker, bodiless Divine Spirits. Despite their best attempts, humanity resisted their attempts to keep control and separated themselves to move forward. Eventually, the Age of Gods completely ended and all remaining Divine Spirits retreated to a higher plane where they can no longer directly influence humanity. | |
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I Know Your True Name | |
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I Know Your True Name: Heroic Spirits are a slave to their legend. To know the legend of a Heroic Spirit is to know their strengths and weaknesses; replicating what aided them in myth will empower them, and replicating what ended their myth will slay them. This is why most Servants who aren't looking for a challenge or are blatantly obvious go to great pains to hide their true identity. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Mixed with His Name Really Is "Barkeep". The vessels that Servants are summoned into are literally named after their Class (Saber, Archer, etc.). This distinction is accurate since (most) Servants are not really the contracted Heroic Spirits, but rather copies generated by the Throne of Heroes. This also has the added advantage of hiding their True Name, and with it any strengths and weaknesses that they retain from their mythology, from those who would take advantage of it. | |
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Soul Jar | |
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Servants require not only a consistent source of mana to maintain their existence, but an "anchor" that gives them a reason to exist in the current time period (usually their Master's contract, occasionally a Soul Jar). "Stray Servants" that somehow persist while invalidating their anchor will still vanish without mana, and those that happen upon a generous source of mana will still vanish without an anchor. This system is actually very good at kicking Stray Servants out of an era where they don't belong; even among the kudzu-weave of timelines that the Nasuverse is, true autonomy as a Servant is unfathomably rare and usually accidental. | |
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The Magic Goes Away | |
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The Magic Goes Away: A major point across all works as it is explicitly stated that the Age of Gods has ended to make way for the Age of Man as humanity and science expands across the globe with science slowly removing magic implicitly associated in concepts like the human body as medical science has definitively proven that there is nothing inherently magical about the body, resulting in much frustration for magi as they have to result to increasingly scarcer resources to accomplish their goal of reaching the Root and fervently hiding their methods to ensure that it doesn't lose whatever mystery it holds. There are actually technically three Ages of Gods, all of which eventually declined and contributed to humanity's rising power; the first ended in 12000 BC when an alien entity known as Sefar landed upon the planet and proceeded to curb stomp the gods which began their overall fading into irrelevance, the second ended in 2600 BC when Gilgamesh rebelled against the Mesopotamian pantheon to free humanity from their control, banishing them to a more passive existence along with King Solomon's death accelerating the decline of Mystery, and an unknown event in 700 BC ending the gods for good. However the Age of Man really starts with 0 CE as that marks when humanity asserted dominion over Earth, and Mystery and magic are replaced with science and technology. It literally all goes away in the Fate/Extra sub-series as a ritual in the 1970s causes all mana in the world to disappear. At the same time though, Mysteries that gets propagated such as the teachings of the Church will lose its power but also become more stable and anchored to the world. The strength of these mysteries can be greatly influenced by the Faith and collective unconscious of the people. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Lord El-Melloi II/Waver Velvet due to his Breakout Character status of Fate/Zero is seen in Fate/Apocrypha as part of the group trying to manage the Great Holy Grail War, in Fate/strange fake in relation to his student Flatt Escardos, in Fate/Grand Order as a Pseudo-Servant, in Fate/Labyrinth to rescue Norma, and of course as the protagonist of his own novel series. | |
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Artistic License | |
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Artistic License: Largely averted. Nasuverse as a whole goes to great lengths to make sure all historical characters are accurate to their real life counterpoints, only taking liberties with Mythological characters and/or historical characters with little known information about them. And in said cases, the only given liberties are a gender change that are immediately explained. Moreover, the foundation of the setting (E.g. the Root, Textures, True Magic etc.), are based off of a deep understanding of real-life cosmological theories and mathematical principles. | |
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Bad Future | |
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Notes and Tsuki no Sango are possible Bad Futures to all of the above, with the only certainty about them being that Tsuki no Sango cannot be the future of either Tsukihime (the events of which have never taken place) or EXTRA (magecraft still "lingers"). | |
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Divine Ranks | |
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Divine Ranks: There are broad categories, albeit very flexible. At the very top are the Ultimate Ones, the embodiment of the celestial bodies themselves. Below them are the agents of the planet born from it, the True Ancestors. Further down are gods and Divine Spirits, with heads of pantheons called demiurges being much stronger than the average god. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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First, it must be understood that Fate worlds (the Fate series) and Tsukihime worlds (Tsukihime and its expansions) are diametrically opposed to each other in a sense, mostly because the mechanics that make the summoning of Heroic Spirits, which affirm human history and humanity, possible, can't exist in worlds where Dead Apostles, the antithesis and killers of humanity, proliferate. Another difference is that the organization dubbed the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors by the Holy Church doesn't exist in Fate worlds; some individual members like Primate Murder, Zeltrech, and ORT might still exist (and be weaker in Primate Murder's case), but others can be long dead like Roa and Gransurg Blackmore. However, there are worlds that "aren't really either" type of world that do have elements of both for currently unknown reasons.note It is worth noting that comparatively early on in the history of Type-Moon releases, from F/SN's first release up until about the time of EXTRA, the general understanding was that Fate and Tsukihime actually existed in one sole "Nasuverse", hence the term, and this seems to have even been the original intent; however, especially by the time of Fate/Grand Order, some questions had really started piling up and Nasu clarified the situation detailed here. | |
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Our Gods Are Different | |
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Our Gods Are Different: Gods are an extremely broad category, not to be confused with Divine Spirits. All that's needed to become a god is to be worshipped as one, regardless of their existence beforehand. For example, the Twelve Olympians were mere machines before humanity's worship changed them into gods, giving them their own sense of selves. The only common factor between gods is they are absolutely massive. | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
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Fantasy Kitchen Sink: A multiverse of magic defined as reality-warping, vampiric monsters, eldritch abominations including personifications of planets, alien invaders, All Myths Are True, magical girls, and so on. Yeah. | |
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One World Order | |
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One World Order: Humanity was united for the first and last time in Mesopotamia under the rule of Gilgamesh in 2600 BC. All of the world's treasures belonged to him, and were spread after his death. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The franchise is notorious for this. Any non-Japanese and non-Heroic Spirit character would end up with strange names ranging from simply two English words put together to something ridiculous. | |
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Layered World | |
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Layered World: The planet itself is nothing but a blank rock, and what we see is Gaia turning it into something more. In general, the World currently consists of several layers that are called Textures with humanity and its scientific laws as the sheet on top. All of these are pinned together by pillars like Artoria's holy lance, Rhongonmyniad. There exists the Reverse Side of The World, a realm that exists above and below the physical world and the home of Phantasmal Beasts after the decline of Age of Gods. It is devoid of humans although one can reach it after death with very small odds. It is also where the realm of Avalon is located. Several lines indicate there are other layers of existence beneath even the Reverse Side. Reality Marbles work on the conceit of temporarily being able to project one's mental landscape on top of the normal layer of reality. | |
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Excalibur | |
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Excalibur: As expected, it's one of the most powerful swords in the entire franchise when fully unsealed, though it's still powerful enough to blow up an entire fortress in its current sealed state. The sword was actually forged long ago by the planet itself as a crystallization of mankind's wishes, and one of its ultimate defenses against extraterrestrial threats. It's only been used at full power once in the entire series, in 12000 BC when an unnamed human wielded it to do what all the gods on Earth could not; defeat the alien invader Sefar. | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
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Who Wants to Live Forever?: A recurring theme as Nasu really wants to hammer home the point that immortality isn't something to be taken for granted. In Tsukihime, both Roa and Nrnvqsr have had their minds degraded over time because of the methods used to sustain their immortality. In Fate/Extra Last Encore, there are only small remnants of humanity left as civilization reaches its impending end and several characters are shown to have resorted to horrific methods to cling on to life. In Fate/stay Night, Archer is stuck in a miserable loop of being retrieved from the Throne of Heroes for both the fifth Holy Grail War and his Counter Guardian duties, wishing to end it all by killing his past self and creating a paradox to cancel out his existence. That said, it's not the immortality itself that he hates, but the fact that he spends it killing people instead of saving them like he originally wanted. Zouken Matou from the same work has descended into villainy because of his futile attempts to hold onto life for the sake of an ideal he had already long forgotten by the time of Fate/Zero, now only caring about becoming immortal for the sake of it rather than merely a means to achieve that goal. In Fate/Grand Order, Scathach is incredibly bored with existence because she can't find anything strong enough to fight her and wants to be able to feel the thrill of fighting something again without the guarantee of her immortality saving her from death, though whether she's weary of her long life itself is up for debate. In addition, the Big Bad's scheme of incinerating humanity to remold them into immortal beings is repudiated at several points by Mash because her fleeting life is what makes it worthwhile, simply living on forever wouldn't give her the satisfactory experiences she's had. | |
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April Fools' Day | |
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April Fools' Day: A time-honored tradition which the company has been following for several years now, usually involving their main website changing to feature the joke. 2005: Neco-ARC: the Movie, a film starring everybody's favorite Joke Character from Melty Blood. 2006: Hazakura Romantic, a seemingly original BL novel concept (co-opted with nitro+). 2007: Strange Energy Corona Rivive, a Magical Girl series with the Kaleidosticks and Kohaku as supporting characters. 2008: Type-Moon as a girl's wrestling federation! 2009: moon.cinemas.jp, a site imitating a typical movie theater chain front page, where all the movies were parodies of well known films (up to including a parody of Densha Otoko starring Waver Velvet and Fate/Zero Rider that was revived as an April Fools joke for ufotable in 2012). One of the "movies" announced, one based on the (then book only) epilogue for the movie series of The Garden of Sinners, was eventually done and released for real. 2010: Rather than fully changing the site, Twitter- sorry, TMitter feeds were added to the site, featuring tweets from their most popular characters. 2011: Instead of a typical joke, they released a serious short story about the very concept of April Fools written by Meteo Hoshizawa, titled "The Room of the April Witch". Their mobile site did have several parodic images and accompanying text with each reload. 2012: Koha-ACE, a poster for a movie parodying Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. 2013: An episodic series, Back Alley Satsuki - Chapter Heroine Sanctuary, a parody of Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Chapter, with new episodes being released as the day progressed. Satsuki Yumizuka, with the help from other Tsukihime heroines and the totally completely Mysterious Heroine X, race to defeat Type-Moon's Twelve Gold Heroines to rescue Shiki Tohno. 2014: The return of the TMitter! Also, TM-channel, a series of Nico Nico Douga-like "streams" for several characters, some of them done in a vlog style. 2015: An error in the Kaleidoscope has caused a Time Crash, hijinks ensue with alternate versions of everyone (various girls become J-Pop idols, Arthur Pendragon is a Pok-, er, Capsule Servant champion, Spartacus is an idol producer, Shirou Emiya is a lawyer, Rin Tohsaka is actually technologically competent, etc) and it's all once again recorded on TMitter. It has a fairly serious ending, giving the adult Waver Velvet some closure with Kayneth. 2016: Most of the art in Fate/Grand Order and the Type-Moon website is changed to the Super-Deformed artstyle of the Learning with Manga! FGO. 2017: A joke app parodying Pokémon GO, Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen, only available for that day, was released, allowing players to "catch" Servants using Quartz. Its conclusion is more serious than other years as the dead Dr. Roman (who unlike everyone else cannot be caught) waves good-bye to the players. 2018: A rerun of Fate/Grand Order Gutentag Omen with gameplay changed to be more like Space Harrier. There was also the Kinoko Nasu Art Gallery, featuring several artists' take on Nasu's mushroom Author Avatar. 2019: FGO QUEST, a Retraux RPG as a send-up to Dragon Quest. | |
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Atlantis | |
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Atlantis: Atlantis was the location of a technologically advanced society established by the Twelve Olympians, though their true capital Olympus was actually located underneath the ocean. Atlantis and Olympus were destroyed during Sefar's rampage, and their ruins were buried underwater where they became the subject of myth as they were impossible to find. The remnants of Atlantean civilization eventually drifted to Greece and established a new civilization there. | |
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Being Evil Sucks | |
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Being Evil Sucks: True villains in this setting are marked by massive antisocial egotism that nets them frequent, short-term bouts of visceral satisfaction, but unless they change their ways, they're often doomed to lonely, desperate existences and deaths. | |
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Engrish | |
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2007: Strange Energy Corona Rivive, a Magical Girl series with the Kaleidosticks and Kohaku as supporting characters. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Church Executors being addicted to spicy food. Ciel has a comedic obsession with curry of all kinds, Kirei Kotomine has a fondness for Sichuan mapo tofu which ties into his character's obsession with suffering, Hansa Cervantes likes hot peppers to the point of just eating them raw, and Sunao Sugata carries tabasco sauce with her everywhere to put on food. | |
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Stronger with Age | |
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Stronger with Age: In contrast to Generational Magic Decline, the children of an older magus family will generally be better than someone from a newer family. This is present in the knowledge they receive from what their forebears uncovered and, more importantly, the family Magic Crest that they inherit. This is why Waver is looked down upon by others (his family is only a couple generations old) and why Rin calls Shirou's father a failure as a magus for not passing on his crest or teaching Shirou. Heroic spirits from older time periods and older legends are always stronger than newer ones. This is why Gilgamesh is so overwhelming; being the oldest hero, both his power and abilities are above those that come after him. Frankenstein, by contrast, is newer and thus weaker. However, its important to note that sometimes this is not always the case; if a Heroic Spirit did something so incredibly important that it played a role in altering something about the world, they often times are boosted in power. For example, Nikola Tesla, despite being one of the most recent Heroic Spirits timeline wise, is fairly strong because his accomplishment of turning electricity from something divine to a power source was so massive that it played a role in developing mankind. The older an individual or a species as a whole gets the stronger they become. This is especially true for demonic beasts who can become as strong as the gods themselves and even gain immunity to all human influence. | |
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