Lessons in Magecraft 27 - Heroic Spirits 

If you had to maintain a servant, what would you do to provide them with mana? Would that depend on the type of servant in question?

Gaia and Alaya's relationship is best summed up by a quote from G Gundam. "You seek to restore nature to the planet, but those humans you want to destroy are part of nature in the first place!"

Various Fate Protagonists: Hey, instead of abusing Heroic Spirits and treating them like tools, what if we were nice to them and treated them like friends and trusted comrades? The Mage Association: Incomprehensible, have a terrible day.

When I was just starting to watch fate animes, servants' lore always excites me because you can learn from it as it is not the far from the real historical information but then fgo happens and I don't know what to believe anymore. Besides that I just learn that each class has a unique trait in them. Such as: -Sabers must have beams -Archers can really just throw anything -lancers have terrible luck -riders can just ride whatever, whoever they want -assassins' presence concealment can also be translated as "if no one's alive then it can be consider as stealth" -casters are the overwork servants -berserkers means red cards.

The editing seems slightly off in this one with long, weird pauses in narration, but that aside it was an exceptionally educational video, and I now understand servants a lot better. Thanks!

Poor King Hassan. He was too pure to be a servant of Chaldea.

If we wanted more modern 20 century heroes, Simo Hayha "The White Death" in Fate certain servants be like Scatcha: A true warrior beyond simply skilled, with a heart of fire, forged in battle, tempered in bloodshed, humbled even from youth by a sense of duty Skadi: The cold winds shroud him, akin to a cloak, he is kindred to me, yet I sens Sol warmth in his soul and Thor's favour on him as well, Ereshkigal: He bears the marking of death on his soul, he has walked with it, yet his strength never falters, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova: The coldest ice caves of Siberia are warmer than his very presence, Achilles: Those eyes, the look of a soldier from countless battles, he has stared down his own death and won Manfred von Richtofen "The Red Baron" Alexander the Great: King of the Sky, let's see who is fastest! Achiles: Alright now we're cooking gas!

Berserker are so cool they can be mad out of mind or by how history remember them

When I watch tgese videos I always imagine myself as a mage in an actual lecture. Super fun

While I might be willing to go a little further than some to provide mana to a servant. I have to say it would still depend on the servant in question since there are ways of getting mana that some servant absolutely refuse to do. To me those command spells are far to valuable to waste on pissing off my servant.

This really help me understand some things much better. I always thought the Holy Grail WAS the Throne of Heroes. Now I understand its more of a Back Door used by Mages to access it. Thanks Dai.

Well, I just crammed the entire course, can't wait for the next lesson, it's hard to keep up with the source material, for various reasons, so I'm glad RU-vid recommended this series.

One underrated part of the lore is the fate series version of Multiverse theory. There are sometimes when time travel is a different timeline in general and sometimes when it is true time travel through the manipulation of true magic or reality itself. This variety of philosophy and theoretical fantasy is a big reason the fate series is so interesting

Nice job at this lesson... i also took notice you added numbers to your lessons, as i requested from you. Thanks a lot for listening to your fans requests... and keep up the good work.

Woooooohooooooooo YEAH BOI! I absolutely LOVE your magecraft series the main reason why I love this channel

I've been awaiting this video. And I can't wait to talk about the Noble Phantasm

So someone a while back noticed that every grand servant isnt just summoned to counter beasts but specific beast given the thing that qualified them as grand in the first place Solomon as grand caster was chosen because of his clairvoyance but his np also directly counters goetia and makes it possible to hit him with other noble phantasm King Hassan has been and continues to be the only grand assassin thanks to his ability to grant the concept of death on the unkillable this made him the counter to tiamat The servant that made me believe this was the case was recently added to fgo arcade the grand Rider Noah and how his arc is meant to save all life on earth from a great flood, and what beast is revealed non other than mother harlot of beast 6r, something arthur mentioned about both beast 6 halves is it is sunonomus with mud and mother harlot mentions how she wants to drown the world in his dark grails mud Kama has the ability to become the universe and be everything which also means nothing while Romulus the grand lancer and hurt anything he gives the roman trait to and has the passive to be emmune to charm something kama uses all the time Super orion is greeces greatest hunter and archer and beast 4 both primate murder and koyanskya are related to animals, this one is probably the most flimsy but it adds up, the only grand not accounted for who deals with kiara but considering noah deals with both beast 6r and beast l, romulus probably counters kiara aswell as kama given kiara's goal is to be the universe and engulf all in her and kama just is thanks to how she died

I love this videos I watch the play list 3 times

Yesss another lesson thank u dai this will be a great to thing to listen to as I play elden ring I'm trying to make a archer emiya build given how some spells summon magic swords

Very interesting and detailed

Well, we might need a counter guardian soon, but who knows

Awesome class I'm learning Otaku is my pleasure to know about magecraft I love it all true supernatural forces is perfect I'm possessing secret skills to creating my own kind by performing magic but most of the time I am brave to step up and become successful with power it depends who is chosen to connect yes is a super desire I understand heroes are coming to visit me in my time as Alliances or friends high servants perform they're own great works with phantom spirits also yes heroes are learning a new lesson everytime while the system is required to recruit. New friends, alliances, I always think servants are becoming assassins, casters, mages, maintain their own rules, powers Is true higher servants are stronger like goddesses or theirselves becoming as one...!!!

*WOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo~!* Yeah Baby! That's what I've been waiting for! That's what it's all about!

Hope one day there will be a video that talks about a servants abilities and noble phantasms And how to would be in a real grail war

Thanks

Let's go! Just in time when I was bored

im quite fond of the idea of class cards Imagine a counter guardian class called Summoner who has a deck of Class cards

I rather enjoy these lessons they are rather informative and enjoyable

Almost all servants are being who existed. Sasaki didn't exist, so a man unknown to human history was given the identity of Sasaki. Only beings who truly did not exist are concuptual servants like Nursery Rhime, Pale Rider and Maxwell's Demon.

a tangent, fgo should implement an additional np knowing that each servant has more than one.

So if the earth were to suffer from some unnamed calamity, would the heroic spirits be summoned 'automatically'?

Servants are just a parcel of a Heroic Spirit, and only the World can control full heroic spirits. Because of that grand servants aren't the powerful heroic spirits. True heroic spirits would have all skills and noble phantasm of all versions of their legends, and probably way more powerful physically, that's because classes are only limitations.

Hopefully in the next lesson we can address what Iskandar said in the Fate/Zero dub about noble phantasms

as a creature that dose not exist in the worlds of Fate i too act as a servant when it comes to dealing with problems and being summoned, often my god summons me in the wake of great fires to help put them out, sometimes Gaia or Alya beat them to it allowing greater options for assistance and locations as they can create fire anywhere in the world to summon me, rarely though a Master who heard of me can call on my aid only if there is a direct connection to fire like Shirou Emiya and surviving the fire at the end of the 4th grail war, housing the ultimate foundry of weapons and him partly seeing himself with fire due to the UBW chant mentioning it, after the summoning is done however the mana requirement to keep me around is Zero due to me not being dead but rather will need heat in order to live while as a servant this becomes a skill called Independent Manifestation (False) due to the fact that i cant summon myself but once there i can maintain myself until death, perfect for masters like Olga Marie or Shinji who are not fit to be one or Shirou who at the start of the grail war had under used magic circuits and couldent provide enough mana to Artoria of course though since i am alive i can also become a Master and have done so in a few branch timelines of the 5th grail war, the grand order and the moon cell wars that where doomed to fail but since i am a creature of fire and almost no different to fire elementals in the universe i lack any natural means of mana generation, said problem was fixed with the combination of my own gods power and stealing rough ideas from other universes to create the item called a Clockwork Heart, said hearts turn heat into mana essentially the reverse of Magic Circuits and can be installed into servants to act as there own heart allowing servants so long as they dont fight to live a 2nd life, although a unexpected side effect of these hearts is that weapons like Gae Bolg will target these hearts instead of the spirit origin or saint graph allowing them to tank a single blow to the heart with no damage to the spirit origin or saint graph except for the area that the blow has to pass through

That moment when you realise heroic spirits are quite literally murder machines

Mmm, would like to learn more about the biology of servants for…scientific purposes

I never heard you talk about the class card system. If you ever get to go into the specifics, I would appreciate that because I'm trying to understand that system.

I'm sorry if there is a lesson on this topic, but could you do a video on the great mage families?

How does it comes, that many servants, who are summoned through the counterforce, doesn‘t know, what exactly their task are? As example Jeanne doesn‘t really know for what exactly she was needed as a ruler. Muramasa in FGO doesn‘t know, for what he was summoned. In Lost Belt 1 doesn‘t the rough servants know, for what they was summoned. For a system, which use heroic spirits as a defense mechanism, it should be expected, that the spirits get told, what they should do.

Something I'm wondering...what is considered the standard by the Throne of Heroes for any one individual to become a Heroic Spirit in the first place? Or is there even a standard for such that can be comprehended by the human mind? The reason I ask is because, for a fanfic-concept-brewer like myself...I am aware that one can make up any specific reason for the existence of Heroic Spirit outside the official ones made by Type-Moon...but for those who want to have some sort of guideline for how a Heroic Spirit is recognized as such...is there a way to quantify the process? Maybe such already exists and I'm just looking in the wrong places...but I know that some people find it easier to have a template for an idea that can be developed over time rather than design someone entirely from scratch.

I thought it’d be longer

Fujimaru Ritsuka can Summons and Controls Hundreds of Heroic Spirits.

I’m thinking of six different Servants that I could face fighting beside Paris, Helena or MHX Alter in a standard Holy Grail War. MHX Alter would of course have to fight Mysterious Heroine X herself, Paris would be pitted against Achilles and Helena would face either Rama, Arjuna or Karna. Can you think of one more Servant for each of them to face that would be extremely difficult? I feel like anyone who’s really tough and fast would be a nightmare for Paris, hence Achilles, but maybe you could think of somebody else? If they have high Magic Resistance then Helena’s in trouble, and I’m totally blanking on another opponent for X Alter.

Hope you do more servant lore soon

5:46 Nero looks fucken delicious

Minor Question: Can you reject becoming a Heroic Spirit, if you want?

ok I need to address the elephant in the room here (if someone summoned Ganesh or Ivan that could be taken literally for a change) but why are heroic spirits called servants when 9 out 10 times they are stronger than their masters? if anything it kinda feels like it should be the other way round Gilgamesh is the perfect example for this: do you honestly think that the OG hero wielding a slide pop that can nuke reality would ever acknowledge us as a master or anything other than a mongrel?

Can the original hero be summoned instead of a copy

Despite how informative this video was, I'm still confused by the nature of Heroic Spirits. Specifically, the Grand Servant. Like, I know the requirements all that, but I just can't seem to grasp the need of a Grand Servant. From what I understand on this video, and my own research, Magus's can't summon Heroic Spirits because it's too difficult and are beyond them, so they developed the Servant System instead. Servants are a subset of Heroic Spirits; beings made by the Holy Grail by creating cheap bodies to hold a portion of a Heroic Spirit power. Not only that, but these beings are divided into classes, each with it's own set of unique skills and parameters. Some Servants can be summoned in different classes, because they had many different talents and skills in their life. Like Cu who is a master spearman but is also a capable mage in Rune Magecraft. If he is summoned as a Lancer he'll have stats suitable for close range combat, if his summoned as Caster he has stats with a high mana pool. Though he still capable of using runes in his Lancer, and is still has martial skills in Caster form, those aspects are nerfed in their respective bodies, because their vessel weren't built on accommodating all of his skills. Not to mention that each class has a unique Noble Phantasm. Only the World itself (Gaia) is capable of summoning a True Heroic Spirit. From what I understand, "True" Heroic Spirits aren't limited by classes. They have all of their skills and talents available, with a parameters to compliment it. And they are only called upon if the world is in danger. But that's like the same function of a Grand Servant. If you boil it down, is just the same, only they have the condition of only being summon against a Beast class enemy, which supposedly make them the strongest, yet they're not as great as a "True" Heroic Spirit 😅. Like Grand's are still divided by classes, which means their stats and skills are narrowed down on a specific field of combat that the hero is good at, even if they have talents on other fields. Yes, I know that they're suppose to be the best at what they can do, but why limit your last line of defense and not let them have the stats to compliment all of their strengths? Not only that, there are strict requirements to become a Grand Servant, and even if you do become a Grand you can lose the title if you decided to be generous without Gaia's consent. Like seriously, why is that a thing? King Hassan lost his Grand title because he was helping Chaldea, even though he was fighting a Beast of Calamity, the sole reason why his position EXISTS in the first place. This is also makes me question the existence of Heroic Spirits in general. Because the Throne of Heroes was made to have warriors that counter against threats against the world, the Grands covered that. Then we have Counter Guardians who prevent possible threats from rising up, or ambitious mages close to reaching the Root. Everything else in-between seems unnecessary. Unless I'm missing something that still give purpose to other Heroic Spirits. I just can't seem to understand what sets these different variations apart.

2:09 um... Kiara is *FUCKING* somebody?!?!

We all know emiya is best heroic spirit dont @me

I would summon a caster who could try to sustain themselves with a field to gain a territory. That would be smartest way to go. The root and clocktower trying to reach it will never happen as the root is protected and would destory anyone who gets there while clocktower will limit anyone who has potential for higher levels of magic which is a catch 22 situation. The system being originally only heroes like artoria and such who were only about justice was fine but somehow the wars never finished and angra only made it worse with Medusa and Medea or any evil servants being added after the curruption of the system made it worse. Then we have fgo where rules don't matter as lostbelt servants can't be summoned if logic was a thing as they never existed. Wish they kept doing it like Anastasia having two different personalities instead of just make it lostbelt. But still at the end of the day gilgamesh and enkidu are the top servants still by nasu himself with ozymandias and hercules archer a close second. Grands honestly didn't like as much in part 2. Nasu and co keep making up rules for why other servants can't be grand despite being stronger or better than the actual grand Servants in many ways.

Holy shit. Maximillion Pegasus reincarnated in the real world. It's time for me to find the millennium puzzle.

As much as I love the FATE series this is the part of the lore that always nags at me. Since the summonings are based on their fame it doesn't make sense to me that you could summon a male or female version of a heroic spirit that differs from their known history. Even if I consider that it could be a version from another timeline the lore doesn't seem to do a good job of expressing that is what's happening and does at least make it seem like there has to be a catalyst to bring them to that point such as Rin's Pendant summoning Archer Emiya.

I want to recommend a visual novel English name You and me and her : a love story . trust me this is not a love story you think. Do you know a anime or visual novel named school days yeah the visual novel is like that but the characters knows that they are in a game . the game is more like ddlc. If you can please please please do a video on it just like how you did your tsukiheme videos I would very appreciative and be thankful if u at least watch a walk thro of it and please let me know what do u feel about.

Come on summoning let me summon a hot female servant....... (Replies be nice)