Fate/Magus Path

74 Einzbern

In Western Europe.

In a mountainous forest covered by wind and snow throughout the year, there lies a vast expanse of private land belonging to the Einzbern family.

The Einzbern family was established by the disciples of the Magician of the Third Magic.

The timeline traces back to the very first year of the Common Era.

This rather eccentric magus aimed to recreate the magnificent miracle of the Third Magic mastered by their master and sped down the path of chaos.

However, after a long period of attempts, they realized that their abilities might not be sufficient to reproduce the miracle of the Third Magic. They began to diverge from their original path and, using the Magician of the Third Magic as a template replicated many individuals akin to their teacher.

They aimed to have these replicated unique individuals inherit the magical legacy left by their teacher, thereby achieving their goal of reproducing the Third Magic.

Thus, the Einzbern family was born.

After many years of trial, they finally produced their best creation in the last few centuries, known as the homunculus referred to as the Holy Maiden of Winter - Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern.

The emergence of this creation invigorated the Einzbern family, as it proved that their approach to replicating the Third Magic was indeed correct.

Next, they only needed to attempt to continuously replicate this miraculous process and seek patterns within it, and they would surely be able to create individuals who could fully master the Third Magic like their teacher.

However...

Subsequent unforeseen events shattered their original plans. A magus named Makiri Zolgen approached the Holy Maiden of Winter and successfully persuaded her to lead the Einzbern family into that whimsical magical ritual.

This incident caused the Einzbern family's best creation to vanish.

Although Jubstacheit had vehemently attempted to prevent such actions, he had no power to resist against Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, who held absolute authority over the Einzbern family.

He could only watch helplessly as the Einzbern family's finest creation returned to square one, with the entire family being dragged into a ritual known as the Holy Grail War, leaving all the efforts of the magus in vain and forcing them to start planning anew.

After experiencing four Holy Grail Wars, Jubstacheit and the entire Einzbern family finally gave up on this ceremony.

Intelligence reports had indicated that in this Holy Grail War, someone summoned monsters that should not exist in this world using the power of the Holy Grail, and the replica of the Holy Maiden of Winter, Irisviel von Einzbern, also perished in this Holy Grail War. The Fuyuki Holy Grail had already been dismantled by those with ulterior motives.

One could say that this grand magical ritual, spanning over centuries, had finally come to a complete end here, and thus he no longer held any thoughts about that thing.

They now wished to focus solely on inheriting the will bestowed upon them by the creators, aiming to bring the Third Magic back into this world.

So when Emiya Kiritsugu broke into the Einzbern family's territory and took away the now worthless Illya, he merely watched without making much effort to stop him.

He had grown tired of concerning himself with this family and had no desire to engage in these meaningless battles.

After all, she was just a worthless doll; if Kiritsugu wanted her, he could take her without issue.