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*[[File:Apocrypha Poster.jpg|thumb|Novel Promotion Poster, featuring [[Ruler]], [[Saber of Black]] and [[Assassin of Red]].]]''The sage cries out. "Open, Gate of Heaven. Bless us and bestow miracles upon us!" ''<br /> 

The setting of ''Fate/Apocrypha'' is a parallel world to ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' where the [[Greater Grail]] was removed from [[Fuyuki]] after the [[Third Holy Grail War]] disappeared for many years. Around the 2000s, around the same time as the [[Fifth Holy Grail War]] would have happened, the group that plundered the Grail, [[Yggdmillennia]], openly declares their secession from the [[Mage's Association]] and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by [[Lancer of Black]]. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total.

This marks the start of the [[Great Holy Grail War]] in [[Trifas]], featuring two different factions, the {{Nihongo|Black Faction|黒の陣営|Kuro no Jinei}}, whose members are part, and the {{Nihongo|Red Faction|赤の陣営|Aka no Jinei}}, whose members were sent by the Mage's Association with the exception of one from the [[Church]]. The Grail itself also summons [[Ruler (Fate/Apocrypha)|Ruler]] to act as a mediator of the Holy Grail War.