Entry 30: The Great Holy Grail War
The Great Holy Grail War, also known as the Great War, was a Grail War conducted in the city of Trifas, a city on the outskirts of Transylvania. In an alternative timeline of the Fuyuki Third Holy Grail War during the beginnings of the Second World War the ritual ended in failure due to the Lesser Grail's destruction. Afterwards, Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, a magus supporting the Nazis, found the location of the Greater Grail underneath the caverns of Mount Enzo and with the military aid of the Nazis removed it. The Three Families and the Japanese Imperial Army fought to thwart the theft, but they were left in a weak position due to having been weakened by the Holy Grail War. With their opposition defeated, the Greater Grail was successfully taken by the Nazis. Sometime during these events, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada was summoned as Ruler, and later remained materialized to join with the Church.
The Nazis planned to use the Holy Grail to fulfill their desire for world conquest but were thwarted by Darnic's betrayal and subsequent theft of the Greater Grail. This mark the end of the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars and the beginning of spreading conflicts worldwide. While attempting to prepare to utilize the Greater Grail for his own purposes, Darnic allowed for the spreading of information pertaining to the ritual making the ritual commonplace around the end of the 20th century, but the majority were all small in scale compared to that of Fuyuki. They could only summon five Servants, and even if the ritual were fully established, they could never proceed to the point of it being able to grant a wish.
The location of the Greater Grail was revealed at that time due to Yggdmillennia seceding from the Association and using it as the focal point of their own association. They summoned Servants of their own in preparation for conflict and settled themselves into their new position. Due to interference from fifty hunters from the Association, the Greater Grail's backup system was activated, allowing for the Association to summon seven Servants of their own to oppose Yggdmillennia.
Due to the unprecedented nature of the Great War, the Holy Grail sees it as an abnormal encroachment of its authority no matter how much the system has been altered. The status of an impartial overseer is only outside interference, so it disregards whether they exist or not and instead uses its own logic to call upon a Servant to act as Ruler of the Holy Grail War. Ruler does not serve one side or the other but protects the very concept of the Holy Grail War.
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