Fate (franchise)

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Fate is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by author Kinoko Nasu and artist Takashi Takeuchi for Type-Moon. The franchise primarily focuses on the Holy Grail War; a conflict between mages called Masters and their "heroic spirits" called Servants who are incarnations of figures from mythology and history. The visual novel Fate/Stay Night was released for Windows in January 2004. A spin-off visual novel titled Fate/Hollow Ataraxia was released in October 2005. Subsequent entries have continued to release under the form of light novels, manga, video games, and more, while being adapted to other formats. Fate/Stay Night followed the success of Type-Moon's previous visual novel, Tsukihime, which released in 2000. Prior to creating Fate/Stay Night, Nasu wrote the light novel series The Garden of Sinners between 1998-1999, and an unreleased novel in 1996 called Witch on the Holy Night which would later be reworked as a visual novel and released in 2012. The Fate franchise is connected to...

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