Fate/Zero:Prologue 2
Prologue: 3 years ago
When we speak about occultism, theories on dimensions say that there is a 'power' from outside of this world.
Pinpoint the beginning of all happening. That is the dearest wish of all mages, the 'root', Akasha... The place of God, Akashic Records, the beginning and the end of all thing, that records everything, that creates everything in this world.
200 years ago, there were those who put into execution experiments on that place 'outside of this world'.
Einsbern, Makiri, Tohsaka. Called the first top 3, what they designed is the reproduction of the 'Holy Grail', the subject of many traditions. Expecting that the summoning of the Grail would realize any wish, the three families of mages offered their secret art to finally manifest the "omnipotent cauldron".
... However, that Grail could only grant the wish of one person. As soon as that truth was known, the bonds of cooperation were washed in blood by conflicts.
That is the beginning of the 'War of the Holy Grail'.
Henceforth, once every 60 years, the Grail is summoned again in the far-East land of 'Fuyuki'.
Then, the Grail selects 7 mages who have the power to take it, and divides a huge amount of prana distributed among them, to render possible the summoning of heroic spirits, called 'Servants'. The conclusion of a battle to the death decides which of the seven is most suitable to receive the Grail.
—To put it simply, that’s what Kotomine Kirei was undergoing.
"The pattern that has appeared on your right hand is called the 'Command Seals'. It is the proof you were chosen by the Grail, and the holy mark that grants you the right to control a Servant."
The person with the smooth but carrying voice who explained this was Tohsaka Tokiomi.
In the room of an elegant villa built atop a small hill in the neatest district in the South of Turin, Italy, 3 men sat in a lounge chair. Kirei and Tokiomi, and the Father who introduced them and mediated the conversation, Kotomine Risei... Kirei’s actual father.
For the friend of a Father who would soon reach 80, that Tohsaka was an eccentric Japanese. He did seem to be around the same age as Kirei, settled and with the presence of an expert. From the lineage of an old distinguished family even by Japanese standards, this villa was his secondary residence, as he said. But the most interesting was that he would casually declare himself as a 'mage'.
Being a mage isn't such a strange thing as it may sound. Kirei was, as his father, a clergyman, yet the duty of the father and son greatly differed from what ordinary people know of a "Father".
The 'Holy Church' that people like Kirei belonged to had a doctrine that was outside the bounds of miracles and divine mysteries, but would bear the role of exterminating the stigma of heresy, and burying it into oblivion. That would be, taking a standpoint from where they could supervise a blasphemy such as magecraft.
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