GODLY AUDIENCES: SIEG

[divus]

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[heartmunculus]

[kill me so i never have to talk about fate again]

He's not well known outside of Japan. Amakusa Tokisada Shirou was an unofficial Catholic Saint who led his people during the Shimabara Rebellion.

The last time he got summoned as a Ruler he stayed for longer than he should've. He planned for several decades over how to win the next grail war and achieve his wish.

[divus]

[insert knife emoji here]

And? Did he get it?

[heartmunculus]

He did tell his wish to the grail and it was in the beginning to make preparations to make it into reality.

I took the grail away before it went into effect.

[divus]

Then he can't have wanted it that badly, if you were able to take it.

[heartmunculus]

I had to mortally wound him over it.

The versions of him that exists will still betray anybody if he thinks he can get a grail. Even if it's imperfect.

[divus]

Those versions of him sound pretty stupid. If you're going to that far, you shouldn't settle for anything less than the best.

[heartmunculus]

He's a priest, so maybe he can purify it?

[divus]

[waves a hand dismissively]

Ugh, why go through all the trouble for something you'd have to fix?

[heartmunculus]

Holy Grails are difficult to come by. The ritual to make it takes several mage families and I'm not so sure they're going to make another one.

[divus]

...

What's the big deal, anyway? Isn't it just some fancy cup?

[heartmunculus]

The one I came here with was just a cup.

The real Holy Grail is able to grant any wish.

[divus]

How can a cup grant a wish?

[heartmunculus]

It's magic and tied to the root of all things. As long as it has enough energy it could do anything.

[divus]

So the cup is a god.

[heartmunculus]

[Uuuhhhhh.

You know what that's the closest thing I, the player, can think of.]

A little bit like that, yes.

[divus]

[i'm not even canonfamiliar to fate/ and that makes me tired]

That's really weird.

[heartmunculus]

[I promise you i'm even more tired.]

I won't disagree.

That's the reason people keep fighting over it.

[divus]

...

[squinting behind the mask, probably]

So in your world there was a contest just like this one, basically.

[heartmunculus]

It wasn't exactly like this, but it was something similar. They were in teams of two, and only the partnership that survived to the very end would get their wish.

[divus]

Wow, brutal. Did the teams come back at the end?

[heartmunculus]

No. If somebody died, that was it.

Usually you just had to kill the Spirit they summoned instead of the human. The spirits are copies of Heroic Spirits, so it's not like you're really killing a person, they could potentially be re-summoned for the next war. The idea was to minimize the amount of permanent death.

Sometimes teams will still try to kill the human partner instead. Sometimes it's easier and if you can kill the human you'll terminate the Heroic Spirit as well.

... So this place runs softer than I'm used to.

[divus]

...

[hm]

Is that why you're so... [Her voice trails off and she gestures vaguely.] You know, not freaked out about a lot of this?

[heartmunculus]

I still don't want to see the people I like die.

At the same time, a killing game like this isn't that strange to me either.

What about you? Is it odd knowing that the dead will come back?

[divus]

[She shakes her head.]

Things being fixed and people coming back after something happens to them... that's normal where I come from. So it's like, what's the big deal? It was all okay there. It will be okay here, too.

[heartmunculus]

What was it like? To live in a world where that was normal?

... You didn't react well when Cunning was close to zero followers.