List of minor characters in the Fate series

This is a list of minor characters appearing in Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow ataraxia, Fate/Zero, and other related stories.

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.

Glen and Martha Mackenzie
Glen and Martha Mackenzie are an elderly Canadian couple who live in Japan; their son, daughter-in-law, and grandson were unable to adapt to Japan and have returned to Canada. They provide lodgings for Waver Velvet, who has made them believe he is their grandson, and Rider.

Gotou Gai
Gotou Gai (後藤 劾以) is one of Shirou's classmates. He is described as someone who is influenced by the TV shows he watched the previous night. He shows up only once in the original Fate/stay night visual novel, and, even though a graphic for him was created, it was never used in-game. He was redesigned for the anime, which is his first visual appearance.

Himuro Kane
Himuro Kane (氷室 鐘) is a student at Homurahara 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.

Jubstacheit von Einzbern
Jubstacheit von Einzbern, also known as "Acht", is the eighth and current head of the Einzbern family. He wasn't around during Justica's era, but he has kept himself alive for nearly two centuries by continuously prolonging his life since the time of the Second Holy Grail War. He has a white beard that makes one think of a frozen waterfall, and Kiritsugu notices an astute light from his eyes that makes it impossible to see any senility and constantly brings about a feeling of biased pressure every time Acht's gaze meets him. He has a close relationship with the Talbot farm of early autumn Darjeeling and for years its tea has been only served to special guests. Since taking the family under his leadership, they have changed their goals from "seeking the Holy Grail" to "winning the Grail War." Much like the rest of the family, he wishes to reobtain the Third Magic, but he has only known the pain of defeat in his efforts to reclaim it. After suffering failure during the Second and Third Grail Wars, the anxiety of facing the third opportunity during the Fourth War is extraordinary.

During the Third War, he lost both his Servant, Avenger, and the "vessel" of the Grail. The battle was rendered meaningless because the "vessel" broke before a victor was decided, so it caused him to reflect on the creation of the "vessel." He decided to cover it inside a humanoid shape that has a consciousness and can self-manage, and used homunculi based on Justica for this purpose. The final product was Irisviel von Einzbern, and her daughter Illyasviel von Einzbern was also made to act as a vessel for the Fifth War. Unable to rely on the Einzbern magecraft in battle, he also decided to bring an outside magus into the family to act as the Einzbern's Master. He welcomed Emiya Kiritsugu as Irisviel's husband due to Kiritsugu's extraordinary skills. Kiritsugu refers to him as "old man Acht", and the two fought over details such as installing a telephone line and power generator, which is heresy to such an established magus. He prepared the excavation of Avalon from Cornwall to summon Saber, and proclaims that no one must survive the battle, allowing them to finally acquire the Golden Grail. After Kiritsugu's betrayal, rather than seeking to punish him, he never again allows Kiritsugu into their Bounded Field and keeps him away from his daughter. Kiritsugu believes that he either wishes to exile him to carry the the shameful title of traitor for the rest of his life, or to impose the most most severe punishment that can be inflicted by never allowing him to see his daughter again. Acht prepares Ilya for the Ffth Grail War, and instills upon her a great hatred for Kiritsugu.

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 and a cat, and left it by her bedside. When she thanked him and told him that she had a pleasant dream of a young lion, Kay was shocked as he intended to make a decrepit old lion that would have been unable to hurt a rat. He had been 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 and aloof, and became the core of the Great Grail, in which she still lies. Successive models of homunculi descended from her, Ilyasviel von Einzbern and her mother, Irisviel von Einzbern, each carry parts of her memories and personality, allowing them to access both when necessary. Ilya was able to access the record of the construction of the Greater Grail, and when speaking with Matou Zouken, who deeply loved Justica, Ilya takes on her personality.

Magical Caren
Magical Caren is a magical girl parody of Caren Ortensia that appears as a playable character in Fate/tiger colosseum Upper.

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 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 gave Arturia a penis for a duration of time, which allowed for the creation of Mordred from her sperm. 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.

Perseus
Perseus (ペルセウス) is a Greek hero known for killing the Gorgon Medusa with Harpe and later becoming the king of Mycenae. He is the son of Zeus, and the warrior most trusted by the gods at the time in the Greek world. He sought to challenge the monster to protect his fame and his mother, and traveled to the Shapeless Island that holds those exiled by the gods in order to claim its head. He was granted five Noble Phantasms, probably the most ever granted to a single warrior in the history of Greece, by the gods, which include Harpe, winged sandals, a mirror shield, a helmet of invisibility, and Kibisis, a bag to contain the beast's head. He gathered as much information as possible, formed a strategy to use his equipment, and sought out to gain glory and become a true hero. He was completely fearless until arriving at the island, where just the nature of the island's barrier made him uncertain of victory despite having gifts from the gods. He quickly began to lose any feeling of glory, and simply wished to slay the creature as soon as possible so he could leave. He felt complete dread upon meeting the gorgon, believing his promised glory to be useless and victory to be impossible even with the holy relics.

He used the mirror shield to keep from being petrified by the creature's eyes and the sandals to avoid its strikes, entering into a battle of attrition without any real chance of victory. He felt a true hero might be able to kill a creature that could be called a demon god, but felt someone who was still trying to prove himself had no chance. The only way for someone who still had human nature to defeat the creature was to allow it to encage itself in its own barrier by using Kibisis to reflect it back on its wielder. The beast, frozen upon suffering its own nightmare, was open to an attack from Harpe, and transformed back to the form of Medusa to allow her head to be taken. Rider claims that she disliked Perseus and the fact that he was the one who killed her, calling him a brat, and felt no sympathy for him even though it could be said he was also a victim of the gods. He later became a great hero, but she describes him as a "successful Matou Shinji."

Ryuudou Reikan
Ryuudou Reikan (柳洞 零観) is Issei's older brother and a judo specialist. His personality is similar to that of Fate/zero's Rider and he is more broadminded than his brother. There have been times when he's asked Taiga for a date and then ended up in the hospital thanks to her father's subordinates.

Saber Lily
Saber Lily (セイバー・リリィ) is an alternate version of Saber featured in Fate/unlimited codes as an unlockable alternate costume. She was designed by Takashi Takeuchi as another form of the King of Knights with an "emphasis on her girlishness" called the pure and sweet "Princess of Knights" who carries Caliburn. She has no background information within the game. She has appeared in a number of promotional images with Saber, Saber Alter, and Nero.

Saber Lion
Saber Lion is a parody of Saber featured as a playable character in Fate/tiger colosseum and Fate/tiger colosseum Upper. She is a small version of Saber dressed in a lion costume, and she is only able to growl "Gao!" to speak. She wields either Excalibur or a chunk of meat on a bone as a weapon.

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.

She is one of the few people able to see Assassin at the Ryudo Temple gate, and strikes up a conversation with him in Fate/hollow ataraxia.

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 at 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.

Shirley
Shirley is a girl who lived on the same island as Emiya Kiritsugu. She was four years older than him and his father's assistant. She admired Noritaka's work and looked forward to succeeding him. When she drank a potion under development out of curiosity, she was transformed into a vampire, plead for Kiritsugu to kill her, and eventually died.

Stheno and Euryale
Stheno and Euryale, along with their younger sister Medusa, were legendary beautiful sisters born from the wishes of mankind for ideal goddesses. Stheno and Euryale were perfectly immortal, while Medusa was growing older and taller through time. Stheno and Euryale would often tease and bully Medusa for that reason and due to her Mystic Eyes petrifying anybody she gazed upon. Despite this, they bore no malice, and actually cared for her deeply. After they were exiled Shapeless Isle due to meddling of Athena, Medusa grew bitter and spiteful of humans. With the passing of time, she took a fancy to killing and eating humans that were invading the Shapeless Isle as they were lured by Stheno and Euryale's beauty. This turned her into an icon of terror, and, as she was shaped by humanity's wishes, corrupted her nature into the legendary Gorgon and made her lose her divinity. Realizing they were partially responsible for her transformation, Euryale and Stheno allowed themselves to be devoured by the now monstrous Medusa.

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 led 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.