The term Three Founding Families (始まりの御三家, Hajimari no Gosanke?) refers to the three Magus families who created a Holy Grail War system. There are two different sets of families for two different Holy Grail Wars.
Fuyuki Holy Grail War[]
The creators of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War are:
In Fate/stay night, the three families are the Einzbern, Makiri, and Tohsaka.[1][2] The Einzberns specialize in 'the golden rule of the Rhine', and thus were the best suited to make an imitation of the Holy Grail.[1] The Tohsaka provided a suitable land,[1] the technique to bore a hole into the World,[2] and Nagato Tohsaka was an expert in summoning,[1] while the Makiri were the most skilled with Familiars and provided the strong curse that would become the Command Spells to bind the Servants.[1] As a result, they are families whose members have a higher likelihood of being chosen as Masters.[2]
In the timeline of Fate/Apocrypha, exhausted by the fighting during the Third Holy Grail War, the Three Families failed to stop Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia and the German Third Reich from stealing the Greater Grail. Each followed a different path following this: the Matou, already in decline, went extinct; the Tohsaka gave up on the Holy Grail and instead prioritized their Martial Arts practice as a means to reach the Root; and the Einzberns rededicated themselves to the original plan, starting work on a new Greater Grail.[3][4]
Ainsworth Holy Grail War[]
The creators of the Ainsworth Holy Grail War are:
In the parallel world of the Ainsworth family in Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA, for their goal of saving humanity, it's the Ainsworth family instead who sought the Holy Grail and founded the Holy Grail War. Cooperating with two other Magus family, which includes the Matou,[5] and they each provided the container who would become the Holy Grail, the Heroic Spirit Summoning system, and a land with Ley Lines.[6]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 13: infinity arms - You're my only star
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 4: Avenger - Holy Grail War, the beginning
- ↑ Fate/Apocrypha Volume 2: Round Dance of Black / Festival of Red - Chapter 3
- ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: The Three Families [Others], p.166 [T] The Three Families [Others]
In “Apocrypha”, the Three Families are the magi who constructed the Fuyuki Holy Grail War… in other words, the Einzberns, Tohsaka and Makiri.
Just as alluded in the light novels, Makiri (Matou) Zouken fought fiercely against Darnic during the Third Holy Grail War, but became practically crippled due to the shock of the Greater Grail being stolen. The family wasn’t blessed with a successor either, so their future as magi has been completely shut.
The Tohsaka gave up on the Greater Grail, and now seek a new path in becoming one with the universe with Chinese Kenpou while learning magecraft. The twin-tail daughter of the family might also end up becoming the founder of a “completely new martial arts that combines magecraft and Chinse Kenpou” by the time she becomes a high school student. However, she never imagined that her younger sister who was adopted by distant relatives would come visit her in Japan after becoming a pro-wrestler with unimaginably nice proportions and forming a tag team with a drill-roll-haired girl…!
The Einzberns are in the midst of struggling to make a new Greater Grail under the excuse “It was stolen, so we’ll just make a new Holy Grail”. Fortunately, in the “Apocrypha” world, a certain dead fish-eyed mercenary won’t end up becoming involved with the Einzberns, so their greatest work Illyasviel will never be born—therefore, as long as she isn’t born, the Einzberns will never despair… Is that really fortunate?御三家【その他】
- ↑ Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!! - Chapter 34.1: "The Only Thing Remaining, a Counterfeit (1)"
- ↑ Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!! - Chapter 33: "The Empty Shell after Shouting"