Rin Tohsaka, the sixth and current head of the Tohsaka family.
The Tohsaka (遠坂, Tōsaka?) family is a Magus lineage belonging to the Clock Tower of the Mage's Association.
Characteristics[]
A lineage with a history worth about 200 years,[1][2] they were once Hidden ChristiansWP that lived inside a then foreigners-intolerant Japan. Their first head, Nagato Tohsaka, was considered the least promising of Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg's pupils. But by six generations after, the time of Rin and Sakura, the family had improved to the point of reaching the second place. They possess good connections in both the Mage's Association, due to their relationship with Zelretch, and the Holy Church, thanks to their faith.[1] In the time of Rin's grandfather, the Tohsaka mingled with the scholars in Kamakura.[3]
The Tohsaka are experts in the use of Jewel Magecraft and a secret style of Chinese Kenpo, the latter due to Nagato's emphasis in the training of not only Magecraft, but also Martial Arts.[1] Thanks to the sudden and relatively recent progress of their mastery of Jewel Magecraft, as well as the introduction of the Gandr into their magical repertory, it is believed that the Tohsaka lineage was able to incorporate the Edelfelts' knowledge of Magecraft into their own through the younger Edelfelt twin that was supposedly defeated during the Third Heaven's Feel, for the members of that family (such as Luviagelita Edelfelt) are well known for being very capable in the use of both. It is unknown if the Tohsaka gained the abilities from the Edelfelt twin marrying with the head of the Tohsaka family of that time or simply by having her Magic Crest stolen. The former being more likely, considering both Rin and Luvia's similarities, Tokiomi being a descendant of a foreigner, Rin (and Sakura) being a quarter foreign[4] and the Edelfelts being considered distant relatives of the Tohsaka.[5]
Back when the Tohsaka were developing the ritual of the Heaven's Feel along with the Makiri and the Einzbern, Nagato's daughter played a greater role in the completion of the Holy Grail War system than her father.[1] The Tohsaka role in the Heaven's Feel is to provide the use of their Spiritual Land to the ritual.[6]
It is known that one of Tokiomi's parents was a foreigner, as Rin mentions to Luvia that she is a quarter foreign.[4] Since his father was the head of the Tohsaka during the Third Holy Grail War,[7] his mother must be the one that is a foreigner.
In the Apocrypha world, the Tohsaka gave up on the Holy Grail and searched for another method to reach the Root in Fuyuki. They now seek a new path in becoming one with the universe with Chinese Kenpou while learning Magecraft.[5]
In the EXTRA universe, the Tohsaka family was mostly destroyed in the 1990s.[8]
Members[]
- Nagato Tohsaka - First Head
- Nagato's Daughter
- Tokiomi's Father[7] - Fourth Head
- Tokiomi Tohsaka - Fifth Head[9]
- Aoi Tohsaka (Married into the family)
- Rin Tohsaka - Current Head (Sixth)
- Sakura Matou (Born as Sakura Tohsaka, later given away to be adopted by the Matou family)
- Other worlds/timelines
- Unnamed female Tohsaka heir (only in Heaven's Feel Normal End)[10]
- Rin Tohsaka (Relative of Rin Tohsaka and direct descendant of Tokiomi Tohsaka through his illegitimate offspring)
- Capsule Servant World
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3
[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: Tohsaka Nagato [Person's name], p.067 Nagato Tohsaka [Person's name]
The Tohsaka family head during the very first Holy Grail War, two hundred years ago.
He took part in the ritual at the request of Makiri Zouken and Justeaze.
Though traditionally the Tohsaka were a clan of secret Christians, one day a strange old man appeared out of nowhere and led them astray. Ever since then, they have devoted themselves to the world of sorcery.
With their contacts in the Holy Church and favorable treatment from the Association as disciples of a magician, they are in an enviable position.
It is due to their connections with both organizations that they were appointed the managers of Fuyuki.
At any rate, Nagato viewed sorcery and martial arts as equal, and was attempting to reach the Root via a state of mushin (no-mind) when he was recruited by the Einzberns and Makiri.
As you might expect from Rin's ancestor, he was prone to goofing up. Also, it seems that his daughter was the one with talent for sorcery, and ended up being far more useful in the construction of the Great Holy Grail than her father was.遠坂永人【人名】
とおさかながと。
二百年前、聖杯戦争を始めた遠坂の当主。
マキリ臓硯、ユスティーツァに協力を求められ、聖杯戦争に関わる。
遠坂の先祖は隠れて国外宗教の信徒をやっていた人だが、フラリと現れたへンな爺さんにこっちの道に勧 誘され、以後魔術の世界に傾倒した。
聖堂教会に多少顔がきき、魔法使いの弟子という事で魔術協会でも優遇されるおいしい家係。
冬木の土地を管理しているのも、両組織にパイプラインがあるからである。
永人は魔術と武術を等しく見ていた人物。
無の境地を経て根源に触れようとしていた所を、アインツベル ンとマキリに勧誘された。
凜の先祖なだけあって、わりとドジ。
魔術の才能は娘の方にあったらしく、大聖杯作成には永人より娘の方が力になったらしい。 - ↑ Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/10 - Streets - Rin's sorcery lesson
- ↑ Fate/hollow ataraxia - Other - Special - Sisters' summer (apple)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fate/hollow ataraxia - Night - Emiya's - In London
- ↑ 5.0 5.1
[] 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/stay night - Fate route - Day 13: infinity arms - You're my only star
- ↑ 7.0 7.1
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Kotomine Risei [Person's name], p.096 Risei Kotomine [Person's name]
Kotomine Kirei's father. A priest in the Holy Church's Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament.
When the Church first interfered with the ritual in Fuyuki during the Third Holy Grail War, he was charged with the role of supervisor. While there, he became friends with the then-current head of the Tohsaka family (Tokiomi's father), and has maintained deep ties with the Tohsaka ever since.
As a monk, he tried to reach enlightenment through asceticism, and he treated his task of recovering holy relics from around the world as a pilgrim's ordeal. He is a master of baji quan, and as the person responsible for teaching it to Kirei, his skill far outstrips his son's. As for precisely what kind of monster he is, well, just look at his burly, Mas Oyama-like physique and let your imagination run wild. His original design concept was "an older Steven Seagal".
However, Risei trained his fists solely for the sake of self-discipline and his search for truth. As he was never an "executor", he has no knowledge of killing arts that focus on the act of battle itself. Consequently, when it comes to things like trading blows with Dead Apostles, his son Kirei is much more accomplished. And of course, he isn't a magus, so superhuman magical martial arts like Kirei's are totally out of the question too.
Nevertheless, Kirei was probably acutely aware that as far as "orthodox baji quan" goes, his father was a better fighter than he was. What the old man had sought after all his life had been a realm beyond mere "killing arts", and through his long and outstanding career he had finally reached it.
It's too bad that he was unceremoniously removed from the stage by a single bullet before this inspiring history could even be hinted at in the story proper.
He must have been quite a sight back when he was young, during the Third Holy Grail War. Yes, definitely.言峰璃正【人名】
言峰綺礼の父親。聖堂教会、第八秘蹟会の司祭。
聖堂教会が初めて介入した第三次聖杯戦争より監督役としての任を負い、前回でも冬木での戦いを見守った。そこで時臣の父である当時の遠坂頭首と友誼を結び、以来、遠坂家と深い開わりを持ち
続ける。
苦行によって悟りを得ようとした修道士であり、諸国に散った聖遺物の回収を巡礼の試練として自らに課し、世界中を巡り歩いた過去を持つ。八極拳の達人であり、綺礼に拳法の手ほどきをしたの
も彼。実際、こと拳法の腕前においてはあの綺礼をも凌駕する。それってどんなバケモノですかと問うならば、あの逞しきマス・オーヤマ体型から色々と察していただきたい。キャラクター、デザイ
ンにおけるコンセプトは「老いたセガール」だったりする。
ただし璃正の拳は自己鍛錬と求道のために積み上げられた功夫であり、そもそも「代行者」ではない彼には戦闘行為そのものを目的とした殺人術の心得はない。よって死徒やら何やらと殴り合って
きた修羅場の数では、息子の綺礼の方がより凄惨である。もちろん魔術とも無縁であり、綺礼のような肉体強化によるマジカル拳法を揮うわはでもない――が、綺礼の目から見れば「正調の八極拳
」という意味では父親の方が拳士として格上であるという認識だったのだろう。ただの殺人拳ではない、その先の領域を求めて功を積み、到達した老人であった。
まあそんな有り難い経歴は劇中で微塵も語られることなく、いきなり鉛弾一発で退場してしまうわけですが。
きっと彼も若かりし頃の第三次聖杯戦争では、色々と凄かったんじゃないかな。うん。 - ↑ Fate/the Fact - Interview with Rin Tohsaka
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Tohsaka Tokiomi [Person's name], p.101 Tokiomi Tohsaka [Person's name]
The fifth Tohsaka family head. Had everything gone according to plan, he would have been the man to finish the Holy Grail War once and for all.
He started making preparations for the Fourth Holy Grail War long before it ever began. But although he had set up everything perfectly in his favor, he was tragically killed by his trusted ally, Kotomine Kirei. Well, seeing as how the one who tempted Kirei into defecting in the first place was Gilgamesh, in a sense you could say Tokiomi died due to a lack of compatibility with his Servant.
Tokiomi and his predecessor made a conscious effort to commercialize their spiritual lands, and the unnatural economic success of every business situated there naturally led to exorbitant rental fees, which were collected by the Tohsaka. Of course, as far as Tokiomi was concerned, the fact that the "harvests of all the tenant farmers tilling the Tohsaka land" were protected from bad luck and natural disasters by the Tohsaka's careful management of the ley lines, meant that taxing them like this was his natural right. Truly, it was a 20th century feudal system made possible through sorcery.
Although, even among the Second Owners of other lands, very few have ever seen monetary returns like those made by the Tohsaka.
After Tokiomi's death, these assets were passed on to Aoi, and after Aoi's death they were passed on once more to Rin. Or at least, they should have been, but thanks to her legal guardian Kirei's naïve honesty and crude management, most of the valuable property was lost to other people. Then again, as a priest who values honest poverty, he probably thought it would be good for her from an educational standpoint. Just another thing for Rin to wallop him for, I guess.遠坂時臣【人名】
遠坂家五代目頭首。全てが順当であったなら聖杯戦争を終結させたであろう男。
第四次聖杯戦争より以前のかなり早い段階から下準備を費やし、万全の態勢で事に及んだものの、腹心と恃んだ言峰綺礼の造反によってあえなく脱落。ただし綺礼を唆した大元は時臣の契約したアーチャーであるだはに、結局はサーヴァントとの相性問題が敗因と言えるのかもしれない。
時臣とその先代は、霊脈上の要所として権利を押さえてあった地所を、積極的に商業用地として転用させたため、そのことごとくが「なぜか金運に恵まれて事業を成功させ、遠坂家に莫大なテナント料をもたらした。もちろん時臣としては、彼ら「遠坂の土地を耕す小作人たち」の収穫は、行き届いた霊脈管理によって悪運や災難、霊障の類から保護されていればこその恵みであり、当然の権利として租税を徴収していたにすぎない。まさに魔術あってこそ成立する二○世紀末の封建制度であり、他の土地のセカンドオーナーでも、ここまで金銭的な利潤を生み出した者はそう多くない。
それらの権益は、時臣の死後葵に相続され、さらに葵の死後に凛へと相続される段になって、後見人である綺礼が実に愚直かつ大雑把な管理をしてくれたため、実入りのいい物件は大方が他人の手に渡ってしまった。たぶん清貧を旨とする神父としては教育上宜しくないとでも思ったのだろう。凛は二重の意味で言峰神父に報復ぽんちをしていいと思う。 - ↑ Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Normal End: Cherry Blossoms' Dream
- ↑ Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!! - Chapter 70.2: "Twinkling Stars"