The Servants in the Grail Wars are reborn into each generation, heroes and conquerors trapped in the bloody game, perhaps to atone for some great sin or failure. A few have been blessed with sweet oblivion, freedom at last, but their roles only replaced by new, accursed inviduals.
- The Fairbrook Journal, 2216
The Earth is damaged. Its spirit has died, and is reborn. The rules have changed.
- The Fairbrook Journal, 2252
The Berserker is the most dangerous of the Servants, not because of his power (which is considerable) but among them the only one capable of causing direct harm to his Master. Sixteen generations have passed, and sixteen times had no one claimed the Holy Grail. All because of the Berserker. He seeks death, not victory.
-Annals of the Holy Grail War, 2310
Why must we fight? The Berserker has yet to awake. You will regret not having anyone else by your side when he walks this befouled Earth again.
-Caster, to Joachim Sepulvera and Saber, 2362
And so as we hurl ourselves into the void, we retain our old impulses. Our greed, our hatred, our longing. Once more into the breach, my old friend.
-Caster, on Fortescue IV, 2375
It's a false life. Don't do this, Raisha! I'm begging you! The Grail exacts a price far beyond time! It doesn't exist to solve problems, but to continually test the worth of mankind! If you do this, more will just suffer. The peace it gives is a lie.
-Berserker, 2376
It's fine if I die. Give my family a reason to live.
-Raisha Abhashi, 2376
I have seen six worlds die. His vengeance will not be denied.
-Rider, 2407
Fortescue is a paradise world, so much like old Earth before its sundering. The odds of finding another planet so pleasant without yet having developed intelligent life on its surface, is boggling beyond comprehension. And yet here we stand. We who have sought even marginal survival have a second chance to make good.
- President Numbasi, on the formal establishment of the First Human Commonwealth, 2280
The Grail has an intelligence of its own. It's been proven that pain only makes the human stronger in the end.
-Saber, 2281
I have found a way to seal away the Berserker for at least the next hundred years. Madness on this scale must never repeat itself. But it will mean that the Grail cannot be won in that timeframe. We will be left reduced in power, nothing more than tools to more temporal ends. We can continue to create contracts to extend our physical presence, but we will not be able to offer victory- only service. Of course, this also means that unless our Masters order it, we have no reason to pursue any further conflict against each other.
-Caster, 2281
I like the sound of that. You're a tricky one to put down. Man, they used to have it easy, the old Servants. At least they don't get summoned again and again and again every time.
-Lancer, 2281
There is no one else. New Heroes just get added into our essence. I can't judge if this is better or not. But the Berserker is different, the last remaining relic of the old order. We here have slain each other many times, but in the end all the real friends we have is each other. This may not be is so much a trap as it is a mercy. Let Fortescue stand as condemnation of those of us who still remember.
-Caster, 2281
How have we become so arrogant as to believe that no other race in this immense universe does not possess its own Holy Grail? From where does it draw its power? Consider, if you will, that all power has its price. But you can simply have -someone else- make the sacrifice.
-The Fairbrook Journals, 2302
The Kacimyr conflict changed upon the introduced of the Cayav Multiform Strider, which utilized a time-phase shield capable of both attack and defense. Deployed in massive numbers, in one fell swoop the Cimerlockian Imperium made obsolete the human tank, fighter, and light gunship. Attempts to reverse-engineer the technology have been conclusive failures.
- History of the First Human-Kasil War, re 2410
They have Rider. The new weapons they have... it's her spirit, isn't it? We're the whole point of this war... aren't we? They're just making all these atrocities to draw us out! If only we had Berserker...
-Archer, to Caster, 2421
If the Kasil Magisters ever captured Berserker the entire human race would become extinct in short order, you know this. It's better to lose little by little than to risk it all like that. No, I believe there is another, more practical... remedy.
-Caster, to Archer, 2421
The breakthrough finally happened in 2340, and with the alliance able to match the Kasil in ability if not in number, the First War ground to a halt and slowly reversed. The Sewell Defense Cordon stands to this day as the most heavily-defended region of human space, second only to the Central Cluster Politic.
- History of the First Human-Kasil War
"Caster?!"
"Admiral Edmund Kaster the Ninth to you, peasant."
"... you're annoying as ever, Nagisa."
-recorded on the bridge of UAM Last Glimpse of the Dreaming, flagship of the UAF 14th Fleet on the eve of the 210th Human-Kacimyr battle in the Pleoria Nebula, 2466
- The Fairbrook Journal, 2216
The Earth is damaged. Its spirit has died, and is reborn. The rules have changed.
- The Fairbrook Journal, 2252
The Berserker is the most dangerous of the Servants, not because of his power (which is considerable) but among them the only one capable of causing direct harm to his Master. Sixteen generations have passed, and sixteen times had no one claimed the Holy Grail. All because of the Berserker. He seeks death, not victory.
-Annals of the Holy Grail War, 2310
Why must we fight? The Berserker has yet to awake. You will regret not having anyone else by your side when he walks this befouled Earth again.
-Caster, to Joachim Sepulvera and Saber, 2362
And so as we hurl ourselves into the void, we retain our old impulses. Our greed, our hatred, our longing. Once more into the breach, my old friend.
-Caster, on Fortescue IV, 2375
It's a false life. Don't do this, Raisha! I'm begging you! The Grail exacts a price far beyond time! It doesn't exist to solve problems, but to continually test the worth of mankind! If you do this, more will just suffer. The peace it gives is a lie.
-Berserker, 2376
It's fine if I die. Give my family a reason to live.
-Raisha Abhashi, 2376
I have seen six worlds die. His vengeance will not be denied.
-Rider, 2407
Fortescue is a paradise world, so much like old Earth before its sundering. The odds of finding another planet so pleasant without yet having developed intelligent life on its surface, is boggling beyond comprehension. And yet here we stand. We who have sought even marginal survival have a second chance to make good.
- President Numbasi, on the formal establishment of the First Human Commonwealth, 2280
The Grail has an intelligence of its own. It's been proven that pain only makes the human stronger in the end.
-Saber, 2281
I have found a way to seal away the Berserker for at least the next hundred years. Madness on this scale must never repeat itself. But it will mean that the Grail cannot be won in that timeframe. We will be left reduced in power, nothing more than tools to more temporal ends. We can continue to create contracts to extend our physical presence, but we will not be able to offer victory- only service. Of course, this also means that unless our Masters order it, we have no reason to pursue any further conflict against each other.
-Caster, 2281
I like the sound of that. You're a tricky one to put down. Man, they used to have it easy, the old Servants. At least they don't get summoned again and again and again every time.
-Lancer, 2281
There is no one else. New Heroes just get added into our essence. I can't judge if this is better or not. But the Berserker is different, the last remaining relic of the old order. We here have slain each other many times, but in the end all the real friends we have is each other. This may not be is so much a trap as it is a mercy. Let Fortescue stand as condemnation of those of us who still remember.
-Caster, 2281
How have we become so arrogant as to believe that no other race in this immense universe does not possess its own Holy Grail? From where does it draw its power? Consider, if you will, that all power has its price. But you can simply have -someone else- make the sacrifice.
-The Fairbrook Journals, 2302
The Kacimyr conflict changed upon the introduced of the Cayav Multiform Strider, which utilized a time-phase shield capable of both attack and defense. Deployed in massive numbers, in one fell swoop the Cimerlockian Imperium made obsolete the human tank, fighter, and light gunship. Attempts to reverse-engineer the technology have been conclusive failures.
- History of the First Human-Kasil War, re 2410
They have Rider. The new weapons they have... it's her spirit, isn't it? We're the whole point of this war... aren't we? They're just making all these atrocities to draw us out! If only we had Berserker...
-Archer, to Caster, 2421
If the Kasil Magisters ever captured Berserker the entire human race would become extinct in short order, you know this. It's better to lose little by little than to risk it all like that. No, I believe there is another, more practical... remedy.
-Caster, to Archer, 2421
The breakthrough finally happened in 2340, and with the alliance able to match the Kasil in ability if not in number, the First War ground to a halt and slowly reversed. The Sewell Defense Cordon stands to this day as the most heavily-defended region of human space, second only to the Central Cluster Politic.
- History of the First Human-Kasil War
"Caster?!"
"Admiral Edmund Kaster the Ninth to you, peasant."
"... you're annoying as ever, Nagisa."
-recorded on the bridge of UAM Last Glimpse of the Dreaming, flagship of the UAF 14th Fleet on the eve of the 210th Human-Kacimyr battle in the Pleoria Nebula, 2466
author's note:
Yes, the Cimerloc are either a) SPESS MORLOCKS or b)the alternate evolution of the Melconian Empire. There are no and will never be BOLOs in this universe.
It's still something that's churning around in the backburner, but there are three ways of doing this. The first is a straight 'fusion' of the F/SN premise with the Evangelion characters, or a meta-crossover with taking from different series (re: the Heroic Spirits can apparently be pulled from fiction). The last is almost completely a different story, with shades of the original personalities; they only remind you of certain people.