Kiritsugu Emiya

Kiritsugu Emiya was born on a small island off Japan, to a mage working on dangerous magecraft related to vampirism. After the island was destroyed in one of his father's experiments, Emiya was forced to kill his own father before escaping the island. Emiya became determine to prevent such tragedies from occuring, and trained in both magecraft and the use of weaponry, in order to become a "hero of justice" and fight mages such as his father, who endangered the lives of innocents such as those on his home island. Kiritsugu went on to destroy a jumbo jet after the passengers had been zombified, sacrificing a woman who had been a mentor of his during his younger years. Emiya later became dark and cynical, realizing that in order to save lives, one must end lives. Emiya was eventually killed in a "Holy Grail War" a ritual performed by the mage's association where seven mages and the spirits of seven summoned legendary heroes fight over an artifact reffered to as the "Holy Grail", capable of granting any wish. Shortly before his death, Kiritsugu adopts a young boy whose parents were killed in an incedent during the "Holy Grail War", naming his Shirou. Shirou appears as the main character in the sequel to Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night =Weapons= =Battles=