Prologue

"I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt."
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

Being a magus isn't easy

No one knows who coined the phrase but the most apt description of the status of a magus is:

"To be a magus is to walk with death"

The truth of this statement is undeniable, creating a spell can kill you, learning a spell can kill you, your subject of research can kill you, other magi can kill you, becoming too unique can kill you…

On and on the amount of things that can kill you in the nightworld is immense, and thus families of magi that managed to stay alive through all of this are powerful and knowledgeable, but this isn't the case for Atrum Galliasta.

He is an average magus with barely two generations of magi behind him. He managed to get, through his connection to a lord, into the clock tower as a student and turned out to be a very average one. Barely a month since his registry he learned an important lesson – Don't Mess With The Older Families – not only will they humiliate you but they will also make sure you can't stand up.

Now 3 years since his registry in the clock tower and he was still a magus without patronage – He lost the original one because of the fiasco – then he finally sees a ray of hope, Command Seals appeared in his hand.

Now while the Heaven's Feel Ritual – Also Known as The Holy Grail War – occurs in the far east from the point of view of the magi of the clock tower, its reputation as a Family Destroyer is well known.

The Tohsaka, the Makiri, The Archibald…

Great Families were destroyed – Or almost Destroyed – But there was a reason no one dared to judge these families as foolish; The Wish.

One Wish.

A wish that could change everything for a magus.

Yet this was an Exclusive Deal…

After all of the Seven spots, three were reserved and only four outsiders could enter and you couldn't invite yourself, you have to be Chosen.

The mark of someone who had been chosen were the command seals.

Arthur however committed a truly foolish act; He made public the fact that he had command seals.

It wasn't his fault, after all only three families and a certain mediator know, that command seals can be forcefully transferred.

Around 1790, Justizia Lizleihi von Einzbern, Nagato Tohsaka, and Zolgen Makiri created the system in order to create a gate leading to Akasha. At that time, the Mage's Association and the Church were locked in a battle to the death, so a land in the Far East, where the Church could not monitor, was chosen. The Einzberns provided the alchemy to create it and prepared the vessel for the Grail, the Tohsaka provided the necessary land and called forth the Servants, and the Makiri assembled the magecraft to stabilize the starting materials and designed the Command Seals that command the Servants. Kishur Zelretch Schweinorg acted as a witness to the event.

It took ten years from its establishment to gather the necessary energy to manifest, but the Three Families originally planning to utilize it realized that the system could only allow for one person to utilize it. Though they had the same goals, their opinions on how to reach them were different, so the unforeseen aspect caused them to break off their alliance. They instead agreed to proceed with the system and means to create the Grail, but they would then become enemies when it was summoned.

Due to requiring seven Heroic Spirits to achieve the ritual and seven Masters to summon them, they had brought in four outside magi with the call of "We've succeeded in manifesting the Grail. If you'd like to witness this miracle, join us and become Masters." Though the outsider magi had only sought to learn about the ritual of activating the Grail, they used the internal quarrel as an opportunity to grant their own desires. Though the Three Families held the rights to the Grail, winning the conflict would allow them to obtain a wish regardless of the ancestry.

It was not a major conflict in the end, and can be called a "small quarrel of sorts" due to the conflicting opinions and interests.

This was the first Holy Grail War

The Second Holy Grail War was held around 1860's, formally take on the name of the "Holy Grail War." Developing into a war for the second time, it pointed out shortcomings in the rules due to it developing into a murder spree in which nobody survived. It ended with no victory, and the Three Families took it as a lesson to create more precise rules such as bringing in a third party like the Church.

This was the beginning of the Second Holy Grail War

The Third Holy Grail War took place in the 1930s, held on the eve of World War II.[6] The fourth evocation site was confirmed and established, later becoming the center of the developing residential area of Shinto, the Fuyuki City Hall. Jubstacheit von Einzbern prepared the Einzbern forest and castle as the family's headquarters. The Tohsaka and the Edelfelt families were participants. The Edelfelts had two Masters, each with the same Saber-class Servant due to their unique Sorcery Trait. The Einzberns, tired of losing out on reclaiming the Third Magic, subverted the usual system in an attempt to summon the Zoroastrian god, Angra Mainyu. They obtained Avenger, which replaced the Berserker-class, but he was a very weak Servant without any abilities.

During the course of the War, there were battles over the Lesser Grail with the Imperial Army and the Nazis as well, and the fighting unfolded in the Imperial Capital. Avenger was lost early during the conflict, while upholding the Saber class' reputation, at least one of the Edelfelt sisters made it to the end. They were ultimately defeated by the Tohsaka, and the fate of the younger sister is unknown. The older sister ran away from the country, promising never to come back. The Lesser Grail was destroyed during the battles before the victor could be decided, so the ritual became meaningless and failed.

The Third War ended with failure and the grail was corrupted.

The Fourth Holy Grail War was full of unknowns. For the first time in the history of the Holy Grail Wars an Anti-Hero was summoned. The Corruption of the Grail was evident yet No One Noticed.

The War Ended with Emiya Kiritsugu, the man who was entered in the behalf of the Einzbern winning the war but Rejecting the Grail.

He claimed that the grail was corrupted by an evil entity; His claims were never heard.

This was the end of the fourth Holy Grail War

Ten Years Later the Fifth One would Begin.

End

By the way I do not own My Hero Academia or The Type Moon Series. My Hero Academia was created by Kohei Horikoshi and The Type Moon Series were created by Takashi Takeuchi and Kinoko Nasu.