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''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'' is the sequel to ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' and one of numerous works that take place in the [[Nasuverse]]. It is based on an unusual version of events: The Grail War has ended, Kotomine and Gilgamesh have been defeated and all is well. Only... all the Servants are still around and everyone seems to be alive. Well, okay, reasonable enough if you can't follow just one ending. But it's not that simple: Apparently thanks to Tohsaka's attempts to create a magical item based on dimensional hopping, all the different continuities have been mingled including ones we never saw. So what really happened and what's going on?

On top of all that, no one seems to have informed Bazett Fraga McRemitz that the Fifth Grail War ended six months ago. She's not really sure why, but rather than the Servant she intended to summon she seems to have ended up with someone... darker. Meet the eighth Servant whose identity was only hinted at in the [[Fate/stay night|first installment]]: Avenger, the Spirit of Vengeance. Avenger seems completely psychopathic but utterly weak... but is that really all there is to it?

 

 

* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]] - [[Or Was It a Dream?]]}}

* [[All Myths Are True]] - The wide variety of legendary heroes who can be summoned as Servants. Partly explained by Assassin, who is by his own admission a fictional character, as a reverse of the hero making the legend. This still doesn't explain how a mage is able to acquire the legendary artifact needed to summon the specific hero, such as Gilgamesh's: the fossilized remains of the first snake to shed its skin (tied to a legend about his quest for immortality).

* [[Empathic Weapon]] - Zeltrech's Kaleidostick. An incredibly powerful magical device capable of channeling enormous amounts of [[Mana]] and giving its wielder powers and knowledge pulled from alternate realities, {{spoiler|with the drawback being that it derives considerable joy from humiliating said wielder and forcing them into ridiculous [[Magical Girl]] costumes}}.

* [[Familiar]] - All the Servants are a type of Familiar. Shirou wonders why Lancer is still around since his Master died. As established in ''[[Tsukihime|Kagetsu Tohya]]'' only the most powerful familiars can stay alive even a little while after their master dies.

* [[Filler]] - A large amount of scenes have little to do with the main plot. Special mention goes to the numerous early Shirou/Sakura scenes which seem to mostly consist of nothing but talking about cooking, blushing and similar things. Presumably a result of Sakura not having much to build off of that isn't depressing thanks to ''Heavens Feel's'' rather grim nature. Which is not to say that those are the only filler scenes, just the ones that receive the most complaints.

* [[Fission Mailed]] - Sneaking into Sakura's room with Shinji to look at her diary results in this.

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