List of minor characters in the Fate series

Archetype Saber
Saber (セーバー), romanized as "Saver" in Character Material, is the archetype version of Saber that was to be used in the original Fate/stay night novel that was penned and left uncompleted. It was decided during the development of the visual novel that Saber's master, Sajyou Ayaka, was not an ideal protagonist for the target audience, so both Saber and Sajyou were redesigned and had their genders swapped to make them more appealing.

Bedivere
Sir Bedivere (サー・ベディヴィエール) is a member of the knights of the round table, and one of the few who remained loyal to his king until the end. He worked his way up to being an Imperial Guard who kept watch over Arturia out pure admiration for his king, and he simply wished to be close to her and see her true expressions. He found that even as the one knight who spent the most time around her, he never saw her smile even once and he also never learned of her identity as a woman. He attended to Arturia at her death, and found himself unable to return Excalibur to the lady of the lake twice because that would signal the end of the king's life. Even though disobeying an order is the greatest sin for a knight, he did not feel proper about returning the sword. He felt anger that the king who worked so hard wasn't properly rewarded, but being unable to change her fate, he properly returned the sword the third time. After she passed away, he was happy to see that she was finally able to obtain a peaceful slumber that she had been unable to find in life.

Fujimura Raiga
Fujimura Raiga (藤村雷画) is the Oyabun (組長 family head) of a yakuza group operating in Fuyuki City, and is the grandfather of Fujimura Taiga. He was an old friend of Emiya Kiritsugu, and as a favor, manages Kiritsugu's estate after his death in place of Emiya Shirou.

Gil Brigade
The Gil Brigade are a group of children who follow the child version of Gilgamesh in hollow ataraxia. They consist of Jirou, the "Bland kid", Mimi, the one girl of the group who talks to Lancer while he is fishing, Imahisa, who makes fun of Lancer's cheap-looking fishing rod and for only being catch octopus, Kouta, who want to toss Lancer some fish, and Kanta, who was unable to read Gilgamesh's manga because he wasn't done with it.

Himuro Kane
Himuro Kane (氷室 鐘) is a student at Homurabara School. She is a friend of Saegusa Yukika and Makidera Kaede, and a long jumper. She is considerate and intelligent.

Hotaruzuka Otoko
Hotaruzuka Otoko (蛍塚音子) is the owner of a liquor store, The Copenhagen Bar, and is Emiya Shirou's employer. She dislikes her first name, which is phonically identical to the Japanese word for "male", preferring to be called "Neko". She feels attached to Shirou and always addresses him by a pet name, "Emi-yan". She has been friends with Fujimura Taiga since high school, and considers her to be a bad influence on her hard-working employee. In Kara no Kyoukai, the female drug dealer who gives Kokutou Mikiya information about underground activities and the identity of dealer who produces Bloodchips is also named Hotaruzuka Otoko. She is voiced by Kaida Yuuko.

Kay
Sir Kay (サー・ケー) is Arturia's step brother, who she had thought was her real brother. They still loved each other as siblings even after finding out the truth. She would more or less act as his squire, doing chores and receiving training from him, but she was far better than him in swordsmanship. She never officially won a fight against him due to various petty excuses that always allowed him to win in their arguments, such as "You lose since you threw away your sheath!" or "I'm still alive so don't act like you won!" He knew of her true identity as a girl, but kept it a secret for life after being silenced by Merlin.

Once while attending to her while she was sick, she told him that she would like to have a dream of a lion running on a grass field. He fashioned a poorly carved wooden lion that looked like a combination between a dog an a cat, and left it by her bedside. She thanked him and told him that she had a pleasant dream of a young lion, which shocked him as he intended to make a decrepit old lion that would have been unable to hurt a rat. He was worried that the lion might pounce on her in her dreams.

Lizleihi Justica von Einzbern
Lizleihi Justica von Einzbern, known as the Saint of Winter, was a homunculus of the Einzbern family, who aided the Tohsaka and Makiri families in the creation of the Holy Grail War. Her family wished to have the Holy Grail after numerous failures, so they reluctantly agreed to work with the others under the guidance of Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. Bestowed the title of archmagus, she was a powerful homunculus, who was essentially an enormous walking set of magic circuits and the designer of the Heaven's Feel system. She was cold an aloof, and became the core of the Great Grail, in which she still lies. Successive models of homunculi descended from her, Illyasviel von Einzbern and her mother, Irisviel von Einzbern, each carry parts of her memories and personality, allowing them to access both when necessary. Illya was able to access the record of the construction of the Greater Grail, and when speaking with Matou Zouken, who deeply loves Justica, Illya takes on her personality.

Makidera Kaede
Makidera Kaede (蒔寺 楓) is a beautiful but loud and obnoxious sprinter. Rin dislikes her.

Merlin
Merlin (マーリン) is an incubus hybrid who serves as Arturia's magus. He is an elderly man with an awful, childlike personality who is said to be a prankster and a womanizer. He is the cause of a number of problems, including stealing women's underwear and giving Arturia a penis for a time, and the world would have been less chaotic had he not been so fond of pulling pranks. He was locked away because of his actions, but didn't regret it at all. He is shown speaking with Arturia during the "Last Episode" of Fate/stay night where he warns her of how she will suffer once pulling Caliburn from the stone. He is also shown telling her that in order for her to be reunited with Shirou that two miracles must be created, one of them must wait endlessly and one of them must pursue endlessly.

Saegusa Yukika
Saegusa Yukika (三枝 由紀香)is the gentle manager of the Track Team, warmly loved by the majority of her class.

Sajyou Ayaka
Sajyou Ayaka (沙条綾杳) is the archetype version of Emiya Shirou detailed in Character Material. She was to be the protagonist of the original Fate/stay night novel that was never finished and the master of the male version of Saber. It was felt that she would not appeal to the target audience of the visual novel, so she was redesigned as Shirou to be more appealing. She appears in Fate/school life as one of the students as Shirou's school.

Scathach
Scathach (スカサハ) was the witch of the Land of Shadows, called a "scarier version of Tohsaka Rin", and Cu Chulainn's teacher. She was a person who became too close to the gods with a mortal body, and her existence began to be turned into a concept in the same way as Araya Souren. She was too skilled in the art of battle, too well versed in the arcane, and killed too many people, wraiths, and gods, which made her reach the point where even she could not take her own life. Her realm was essentially a land of the dead that is neither in the plane of the ethereal nor the plane of the living. She wished to die as a human being, and this situation is paralleled by Bazett's situation in the looped world.

Stray Servant
The Stray Servant (はぐれサーヴァント) was one of the heroine candidates of Fate/stay night when Shirou had a larger harem. She was to be a servant with a shield who killed her master and stayed in the world after the end of the Fourth Grail War like Gilgamesh. She would have been an "abandoned puppy" heroine, and one of Saber's rivals.

Tohsaka Nagato
Tohsaka Nagato (遠坂永人) was the founder of Tohsaka family of magi that began two hundred years ago. He was a pupil of Zelretch and worked together with Makiri Zouken and Lizleihi Justizia von Einzbern to found the tradition of Holy Grail Wars. He was considered to be a goof-up, much like Rin, and Zelretch's least promising apprentice, with his daughter having more potential and being more helpful in the construction of the Great Grail. Besides Magecraft, the Tohsaka family was, at the time, a family of martial artists, and Nagato believed that attaining emptiness through perfection of body was a way of reaching The Root. This practice was passed down through the Tohsaka family, evident in Rin's prowess in martial arts, which Kotomine Kirei also learned while being Tohsaka Tokiomi's apprentice. He was a hidden Christian, but was lead astray by his master to become devoted to thaumaturgy. His family maintained good relations with the Church, and also received fine treatment from the Mage's Association. Ties with both organizations are what allowed them to start managing Fuyuki.