So I am canceling this story. For... a lot of reasons.

For starters, it deviated a hell of a lot from what I originally intended, mostly due to my interest in the grail war rather than the adventures I meant to have the core group, Saber, Sakura, Rin, and Shirou, go on after, all the way up to the rebirth of the Age of the Gods, and the birth of the Age of Humanity, which would have involved the Types, Dead Apostle Ancestors, Gods, and maybe even Gaia and Alaya. Now while I wanted to do all that, the first step was the hardest, actually. The Grail War. I wanted to make it interesting and a big part of the story, but still the start, not the main climax. It built up more and more in my attempts to make it different from the basic and ordinary, which was not a problem itself, the problem came that I lost track of things and forgot what I wrote.

For example, a big thing I wanted to foreshadow was that Shirou was not the only person getting to this ridiculous level, just the first. This was going to be a minor note at first, something on the news about an odd amount of people being... insanely strong, fast, or durable, and how humans seemed to have suddenly evolved over a generation. It was meant to be described in a news article that I MEANT to have run early on, right before the Grail war. It would then continue with a future character, probably Ayako, or someone else that would not be too involved later, displaying just a bit of those abilities. Not to the same extreme as Shirou, but to a level beyond human, for sure.

Then we get to Shinji. I do remember writing a bit about a news article for his act of sacrificing a town to get enough mana for what he wanted, and Rider being surprisingly loyal to him, though not to any real extent beyond not outright hating him. His person to kill was obviously Zouken, because Sakura was protected by Shirou and Rin. It was meant to be pretty obvious with the real question being how, and the town sacrifice answered that. I also meant to display more between him and Illya before she died, but I was rushing for some reason. Cant really remember why...

Then Rin, and Sakura... I was terrible with Romance, and I blame a certain event for that, but even that as an excuse is not enough, it was too rushed and too forced, at least to me.

There was also my problems with switching POVs, and describing things in an understandable way. Lets not even touch Heracles' God Hand. That thing is... well, it is a bitch to deal with. Was, I suppose.

Now, this story began as a desire to see Shirou act slightly more like a superhero than a lone guy who saves people. That meant he had to get to a level capable of taking out the STRONGEST in existence. Yes, the end of the Grail War wouldve had a rest chapter, then the next chapter with the death of ORT using... Ea. Afterwards, all the Types would have awakened at once, and the entire world would relearn of magic being a thing, causing... problems. It wouldve been a few months, maybe a year or two after the Grail War, and Zelretch wouldve kicked his training of Rin into high Gear, with Sakura going a very different route because of the Grail being so connected with her, and her learning to tap into that. Naturally Shirou would have leaned, eventually, into the First Magic, which is a bit amusing, and contrived.

Point is, I had a lot planned out, and the entire Grail War got fucked up because of my... constant breaks between updating the story, among other mistakes along the way.

Now I face a choice, I can just outright cancel it, or rewrite it, possibly just using the ending of UBW as a starting point, and go from there. Would certainly make it easier, but this time I would write the entire thing before I ever post it. I went into this unprepared and uninformed, mostly gaining information on the way. If I do decide to redo this, it will take quite a bit of time, unless I drastically shorten things.

My thanks for reading to this point, and I hope you at least enjoyed some of it.