One of five living Magicians capable of True Magic beyond modern science or Magecraft. Appears in the Heaven's Feel route of Fate/Stay Night. 
He's one of the founders of the Clock Tower and the Magician of the Second Magic, he holds the title of Wizard Marshal in the Mage's Association. He is known for defeating the Crimson Moon in battle.

Known by numerous nicknames, including Zelretch the Wizard Marshal, Zelretch of the Jewels, Old Man of the Jewels, and Kaleidoscope, Zelretch's origins and details as to how he reached the Second Magic are unknown.

In 300 AD, he defeated Brunestud of the Crimson Moon, the King of Vampires, simply because of his dislike for Brunestud. He rallied the mages of the world and led them into battle. When the Crimson Moon attempted to drop a mirror image of the moon on the Earth, Zelretch used the Second Magic and Jeweled Sword Zelretch to create a virtually limitless Ether Cannon to fight back.
In 500 AD, he was one of the founding members of the Clock Tower. The Department of Mineralogy "Kischur" is named after him.

__In Tsukihime Worlds:__ 

In Tsukihime worlds Zelretch had his blood sucked during his battle with Brunestud the Crimson Moon, resulting in the Wizard Marshal being turned into a vampire classified as one of The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. While he emerged victorious, or it could possibly be said it ended in a draw, he paid a heavy price. He became extremely weakened because of the battle, aging him severely and causing his powers to diminish.

Despite his status as a vampire, Zelretch still remains an ally of humanity and the nearly extinct race of True Ancestors. He was one of the Magicians who would be summoned to witness the births of princes and princesses like in ages past, and one such event was the coming of age ceremony of Arcueid Brunestud eight hundred years before Tsukihime. Along with his friend Caubac Alcatraz, they appeared before her and Zelretch, having "sent away" the King of the Moon, was very intrigued by her. He smiled and said "This is why life is interesting" upon seeing her. She also took an interest in him due to it being her first time seeing a smiling face.

He told her that she will sleep until she becomes an adult, and she asked him why he was smiling, because no one at the castle ever smiles. He said that people smile when they enjoy their own lives, which she did not understand due to her unique upbringing. When asked what is enjoyable and when she will understand, he replied that it was a fifty-fifty shot that she would come to that realization, and that due to her long life, she would have many opportunities. Understanding is something gained by chance, like walking alongside the road and tripping over a rock, and once something is understood, it is no longer anything special. She did not and could not understand, but he said to her that "One day you will notice that life is fun just being awake."

__In Fate Worlds:__ 

In Fate worlds, Zelretch did not become a vampire during his battle with Brunestud the Crimson Moon. He found immortality through other means.

When visiting the Mage's Association, he is known to simply take pupils on a whim, but as his tutelage, while comprehensive, frequently traumatizes or cripples the most promising of students, there has yet to be a successor from any of the family lines that follow his teachings. The idea of becoming “a pupil of Zelretch”, the "pupil of a Magician", is synonymous to being turned into a complete wreck, but those that are accepted as the "pupil of a magus" turn out to be fine. When he does appear, the department heads worry over having to send their most promising students in order to force him to leave, but at the same time worry that they will be unwilling or incapable of continuing their careers. Old mage families teach their children his name, while young families have heard that the great Magician who led the World of Magecraft into battle long ago is still alive.

Nagato Tohsaka is considered to be one of the rare talented pupils that returned without a scratch, but the nature of their relationship was strange. Zelretch met him while both of them were on a journey, and he decided to teach Nagato something as payment for picking up the hotel bill. He couldn't even be called "pupil of a magus" because, from Zelretch's perspective, Nagato was only a follower whom he looked out for every now and then. Their level of relationship was distant, something like that of a supervising teacher who is observing the students doing experiments from afar.

Despite their strange relationship, Zelretch entrusted the design of the Jewel Sword to Nagato and the Tohsaka family. Though there were other candidates to whom he could have given them, such as the brilliant Einzberns and Makiris, they were fundamentally evil. Nagato, while mediocre, was good at heart, so he concluded that "this House will probably never accomplish anything great, but at least they will never stray from the righteous path." He then gave the design to Nagato and told him "alright, it will be a struggle, but work towards this goal". He never expected that only six generations would be needed to produce a result.

He helped oversee the formation of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War system two hundred years ago with Zouken Makiri, Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern, and Nagato. Nagato allowed his property, Fuyuki City, to be used as the battleground, Zouken proposed the system of "Masters" and "Servants", and Justeaze developed the Heaven's Feel system, offered the homunculi vessels for the Grail, and became the core of the Greater Grail.

The third film in a trilogy adaptation of the 3rd route of the popular visual novel: Fate/stay night.
 
To save the girl, to enact the justice he's chosen...The young man will no longer turn a blind eye to
the truth. Mages (Masters) and Heroic Spirits (Servants) work together in the battles of the Holy
Grail War, a fight for an omnipotent wish-granting container called the Holy Grail. However, this
war has become horribly twisted.
 
A young woman named Sakura Matou, with the sins she has committed, drowns in the murky
darkness. A young man named Shirou Emiya, who vowed to protect Sakura, works together with
Rin Tohsaka and throws himself into the raging battle to put a stop to the Holy Grail War. Illyasviel
von Einzbern, as one of the few who knows the truth behind the conflict, confronts her own fate,
while Zouken Matou uses Sakura to try to fulfill his own desires.
 
Will the young man’s wish reach her even as he challenges fate itself, battling against the rising
tide? The Holy Grail War is coming to an end... The final battle is about to begin.
 
(Source: Aniplex of America)

About a month after the events of the first manga, a new mission to normalize the Earth's pulsations come up. However, when Ilya tries to subdue the pulsations...
 
Note: Includes an interlude and six extra chapters.

An "educational" Fate/Grand Order parody manga, focusing on the antisocial adventures of Gudako, a twisted version of the game's main protagonist. The series gleefully skewers Fate/Grand Order's mechanics, storyline, characters, and obsessed player behaviors.

The second season of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya. 
 
With great powers come great responsibilities, and that includes cleaning up the aftermath of your previous adventures. Which means that, instead of getting a break after saving the world, newly changed magical girls Illya and Miyu have to help deal with the side-effects caused by the sealing of the Ley Cards. Still, that shouldn't be too hard, right? Wrong! Not only are the ley lines failing, but to make matters worse, Illya somehow ends up with a magical clone… and that sinister clone has plans of her own! Worse yet, since the "dark" version of herself is drawing its power from the same source as our heroine, Illya's own powers are being reduced proportionately. These are definitely not the kind of problems that the average girl should have to deal with. 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Illyasviel von Einzbern’s normal life is suddenly halted by the Kaleidostick Ruby, a magical wand on the run from her former master, who instantly decides that little Illya has all the right stuff to become the next great magical girl. However, Ruby’s previous owner Rin Tohsaka isn’t exactly thrilled to be de-wanded, especially since she’s just accepted an assignment to collect the seven legendary Class Cards. It seems the only solution is for Illya to take up the task and learn the ropes under Rin’s supervision. Meanwhile, a girl named Miyu has been chosen by the Kaleidostick Sapphire as HER new master, much to the irritation of Sapphire’s previous master, Rin’s arch rival Luviagelita Edelfelt! Exactly what kind of plan are the wands conjuring up? 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks) 
 
Note: The show streamed in advance on Niconico Live on July 6, 2013 in Japan. The regular TV broadcast started on July 13, 2013.

Based on the hit series Fate/stay night, this alternate universe story that inspired the anime features your favorite characters in a magical girl adventure! 
 
Illya might be rich, but she’s just like any other elementary school girl—she has a secret crush and loves magical girl anime. But when a magical “Kaleidostick” wand named Ruby tricks her into signing a contract, Illya becomes a magical girl herself! Illya’s peaceful days might be over, but her fight to save the world has only just begun.
 
(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
 
Note: Includes an Epilogue.

The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another...

The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. After the end of the third Grail War, an organization from the United States that has magi separate from the London based Mage Association as members took data from Fuyuki's Grail War and planned their own ritual. After seventy years, they used the city Snowfield as the Sacred Land for their own Grail War. They were unable to successfully copy every aspect of the ritual, which lead to it acting only as an imitation that has lost the Saber class and allowed for the summoning of strange Servants due to the definition of a "hero" being blurred. 

(Source: Type Moon Wiki)

Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household--his father--dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Carnival Phantasm is an adaption of the manga "Take Moon" by Type-Moon's Eri Takenashi, to celebrate Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary. 
Carnival Phantasm shows parodies and new stories loosely based on Type-Moon's original works like Melty Blood, Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, and more.

Years after the Fifth Holy Grail War in Japan, strange reports surface of one appearing in America. Attracting new Mages and Servants, the question is raised about the relic’s authenticity. As the city of Snowfield is turned into a bloody battleground, specific details seem wrong. Is it possible someone is manipulating this twisted little play, and if so, does this mean the true Holy Grail exists?
 

(Source: Crunchyroll)
 
Note: Special premiere occurred in Los Angeles at Anime Expo before the Japanese television premiere on July 2, 2023.

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