History Characters / TsukihimeSubsequentReleases

* VagueAge: His official profile estimates him to be in the range of 12 to 14 years old but doesn't commit to a number. He talks about Arcueid like he knows her personally, and has fought against a Demon Lord, a fallen True Ancestor, before, so he had definitely worked around the block for some time. [[spoiler:If the implication that he ''is'' in fact Laurentis [[MerlinSickness aging backwards]] proves true due to attempting to understand Rao's research, then he's well over a hundred years old.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: To reflect his wild, simple nature.

** One of Ciel route's bad ends happen if you choose to let her inject Shiki with a vaccine she claims doesn't hurt a bit. While Arach seemed to have hoped to see some results regardless of which vaccine you take, taking that specific one causes [[spoiler:Roa to take Shiki's body few days later, something that most likely wasn't in her plans.]]

* SenpaiKohai: With Akiha, who she's close with. She's still terrified of her however.

* PeekABangs: He wears his hair over his ruined eye.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: For the most part, Mario is simply a "mean, but well-meaning" Church operative who will get to the point to help those in need. But in his story mode in ''Type Lumina'', Aoko had gone after Roa under the request of ''Zelretch himself'' because something bad will happen if Mario and Roa come into an agreement between the two. While Mario calls Aoko out for thinking that twelve-year old kid like him would be evil, it is left ambiguous just what Zelretch meant by his comment, was it something like Laurentis might not being as good as he seems to be or if [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Mario would do something foolish]] to complete his goal.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Vlov is intentionally designed to contrast the original's villains by being a classical Gothic vampire with simple powers to both Nrvnqsr and Roa's simple, not particularly fancy designs and very unorthodox powers. In addition, Nrvnqsr and Vlov have contrasting relationships with Roa. The former is a friend of Roa but was not actively involved in the plot because of that and Vlov holds [[spoiler:an active grudge against Roa]], large enough to move to Souya to accomplish revenge.

* ContinuityNod: His presence and backstory exposition in part explains why Laurentis believed himself to be unfit to be Pope in ''EXTRA'': Laurentis, despite being an ordained Cardinal, has an insatiable sex drive for women and has hundreds of illegitimate children.

* ImmortalitySeeker: Dialogue between him and Roa suggests that he is after Roa's immortality research for Laurentis' sake, with Roa mocking Laurentis as a man like him cannot attain immortality.
* ImprobableAge: He is younger than most of the known members of the Holy Church as a teenager, but his official role in the Church is working as a newly assigned ''bishop'' of all things.

* VagueAge: His official profile estimates him to be in the range of 12 to 14 years old but doesn't commit to a number. He talks about Arcueid like he knows her personally, and has fought against a Demon Lord, a fallen True Ancestor, before, so he had definitely worked around the block for some time.

* YoungAndInCharge: He's 14 at oldest and all of the Church members he's overseeing are all adults, with 25 year old Ciel being the second youngest out of the group.

* BladeOnAStick: Her main weapon as an Executor is a halberd. [[spoiler:As a Dead Apostle, she can create large spiky stakes that look more like staves/jevelins that she can throw as projectiles]].

* {{Expy}}: Of Shizune Seo from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', one of Nasu's earlier works. They both share the same surname and have similar powers too. Her more recent artworks also heavily resemble Shizune a lot. [[spoiler:They even share the same..."interesting" hobby.]]

* AscendedFanfic: ''Dawn'' was written by a fan (Kugane Maruyama, later known for [[{{LightNovel/Overlord2012}} Overlord]]), but since it was mentioned as a source of information in Plus Period, its considered canon.

* BadassNormal: [[NormalFishInATinyPond With an emphasis on normal.]] Make no mistake, Noel ''is'' an accomplished Executor, capable of mowing down lesser-ranked vampires like the Dead or recently turned with ease. The problem is that she's no genius like [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Kirei]] [[LightNovel/FateZero Kotomine]], or freak of nature like Ciel herself, [[AlwaysABiggerFish so she has a tendency to fold in the face of the stronger types of vampires, such as Dead Apostle Ancestors.]]

* SempaiKouhai: With Akiha, who she's close with. She's still terrified of her however.

* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Zaria had been acting as Vlov's "vampire parent" for the last hundred years, so him killing her is this.]]

* AdaptedOut: Due to the lack of any sex scenes in the remake, Len is completely absent from ''-A piece of blue glass moon-'' and ''Type Lumina''. Arcueid in ''Fate/Grand Order'' does imply that she did defeat Einnashe with a help of a magus like she originally did, so it is still possible that Len is around in the remake canon.

** [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that she is the spider-shaped Dead Apostle Ancestor present during the French Incident, since spider-like Ghouls were among the undead that devoured Ciel’s village like they were in Souya.]]

!!!Voiced by: Crreator/ShutaMorishima

!!!Voiced by: Creator/KenjiNojima (JP), Ryousuke Kanemoto (JP - Melty Blood Type Lumina)

* MerlinSickness: [[spoiler: Some dialogue from the game implies that he IS Laurentis, who started aging backwards after using Roa's incomplete immortality research. If that is true, then all of Laurentis' children were actually just him at different points in his life.]]

* HornyDevils: Her first mention is as a succubus that Arcueid sent to give Shiki erotic dreams. She's capable of feeding in this manner, but hasn't done so.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/ShuutaMorishima

!!!Voiced by: Crreator/ShuutaMorishima

* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Her Dead Apostle self looks like her 14-year old self with pink hair and frilly pink butterfly costume plus a cutesy voice that altogether make her superficially look like a teen idol singer... who also happens to be a sadist.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: For some of her attacks.

* KnifeNut: She supplements her arsenal with stake-like throwing swords as opposed to the more familiar Black Keys.

!Backstory

[[folder:Brunestud of the Crimson Moon/Type-Moon]]

Crimson Moon Brunestud is the Ultimate One of the Moon, which is a kind of being a celestial body creates to protect itself. Because Gaia could not make a similar being for itself, the Crimson Moon offered to allow Gaia to make copies of it. Thus came into being the race known as the True Ancestors around 2000 BC during the Age of Gods. However, from Gaia's perspective there were two problems with them: The first is that, having foresaw its death, the Crimson Moon could use the True Ancestors to reincarnate itself. [[CloningBlues Since the True Ancestors were supposed to be exact copies of the Crimson Moon]], [[GeneticMemory this could be possible]]. The second flaw was that Gaia-created beings like fairies could not drink blood or they would [[AxCrazy go insane]]. Since the True Ancestors were Gaia-created beings, they could not drink blood either, but because they were copies of the Crimson Moon, they had an urge to drink blood that could not be controlled [[WillfullyWeak without using a large amount of their own power]]. This meant that True Ancestors who did drink blood and go crazy were more powerful than the sane ones as the Demon Lords did not suppress their power. This is why Arcueid was created. She was born without an innate desire for blood, and so could fight the Demon Lords at full power.\\\

Eventually, the Crimson Moon revealed that [[TakeOverTheWorld it wished to create a kingdom on earth.]] Then its foreseen death came about, though unexpectedly. In 300 AD, Zelretch used the Second Magic [[AlternateUniverse to warp it to an Earth with nothing on it]], then [[ColonyDrop dropped the moon on it]]. [[FightingAShadow However, as an Ultimate One, it still, in a sense, exists.]] Currently there are two beings into which it can reincarnate. The first is Altrouge Brunestud. Though she does not possess the ability known as the Marble Phantasm that should be required, she still posseses the strength to hold Crimson Moon. However, she is noted to be unstable. The other candidate is Arcueid. However, Arcueid's sense of self is too strong. Even if Crimson Moon were to reincarnate into either, it would not be quite the same being it was before.\\\

Due to being the original vampire, Crimson Moon ranks as the 3rd Dead Apostle Ancestor (number 2 in the remake).
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* AmbiguousGender: People default to calling Crimson Moon 'he' but whether it even has a gender is unclear.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite being opposed to the likes of Shiki or Arcueid, it doesn't seem particularly malicious and bears them no ill will, though it does wish to reincarnate through Arcueid. It's also been seen helping humans and some of its followers are more able to get along with humans than Dead Apostles who arose without its direct influence.
* AntagonistTitle: His status as Type-Moon, the Ultimate One of the Moon, is the namesake for the company that makes the Nasuverse franchise.
* BlowYouAway: Alt Nagel (German for Ancient Nail). It's a ridiculously powerful spell which is described as an immensely destructive pillar of wind which stretches as far as the heavens.
* CloningBlues: The True Ancestors are essentially its imperfect clones.
* FightingAShadow: In a sense. His body was destroyed, but he still exists inside every True Ancestor. Should they become powerful enough, he can revive inside of them. However, there were only ever two strong enough for this and neither is a suitable host.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Has a conversation with Shiki in the guise of Arcueid in a dream in one of ''Kagetsu Tohya'''s side stories. Although it does shred Shiki into eighteen pieces after the first conversation, the next chat was far more cordial.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Gaia wanted an Ultimate One of its own to bring humanity to heel. It wound up getting several from Crimson Moon in the form of the True Ancestors who were each, as it was loathe to discover, a ManchurianAgent for the sinister satellite in case something happened to its main body.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Its signature move is a ColonyDrop. Zelretch defeated him using one on a barren Earth where the only thing to harm was Crimson Moon himself.
* HumanoidAbomination: While it is more human than most of the other [=TYPEs=] it is still the same manner of being that they are.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite being the origin of all vampires and thus closer in nature to a True Ancestor, Crimson Moon is actually listed among the Dead Apostle Ancestors. Furthermore, he is not even the highest number of that group- he is surpassed, at least in terms of threat to humanity, by Primate Murder and the Dark Six.
** The UltimateLifeform was vanquished by having the Moon itself {{colony drop}}ped onto him.
* MagicalEye: It has Rainbow Mystic Eyes that allow it to "crush reality".
* MentalWorld: It has a Reality Marble of an unknown nature, only that it contains the Millenium Castle Brunestud.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The god-like ultimate lifeform of the moon.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Among other things it can create giant wind pillars that reach into space that destroy whatever they touch, create mirror images of '''[[ColonyDrop THE MOON AND THROW THEM]]''' and it has a [[Literature/AngelNotes Knight Arm]] that can be used to complete the true purpose of the True Ancestors, namely "restoring the world to its natural state".
* SoulJar: All True Ancestors are built with the capacity to become Crimson Moon again after its destruction. However, this isn't enough to allow it to return. They must also possess immense power even by the standards of True Ancestors and a weak sense of self. Those who are candidates are given the title of Brunestud and treated something like royalty. Both the remaining/active True Ancestors carry the title, though neither is in a state where they might be used to bring back Crimson Moon.
* UltimateLifeform: The Ultimate One of the Moon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Altrouge Brunestud]]

Altrouge is a mysterious vampire who is a mix of True Ancestor and Dead Apostle. She is called the "elder sister" of Arcueid because she is the only other thing in existence that can cause the Millennium Castle to appear, which earned her the 'Brunestud' title, and likely because she is older. [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Her normal form is as a 14 year old girl]], though she apparently has a second form as well. She has no role in ''Tsukihime'', and is only mentioned in [[AllThereInTheManual world-building asides]]. She "stole" Arcueid's long hair during a past battle, lost a fight to the first incarnation of Roa and was responsible for giving Wallachia his powers. She controls [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Primate Murder]], [[GaiasVengeance the Beast of Gaia]] and some other Dead Apostles apparently work as her flunkies. She ranks as the 9th Dead Apostle Ancestor.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: She's called a princess ''because'' she's a badass.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Arcueid's Abel.
* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:If Cath Palug falls under her sway, he becomes Primate Murder and a monster who feeds on humanity, instead of remaining as Cath Palug who is firmly on humanity's side.]]
* TheGhost: She's mentioned occasionally in background material, but we don't even know what she looks like apart from a vague "young."
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half True Ancestor, half Dead Apostle (Dead Apostles being former humans).
* KidWithTheLeash: Primate Murder is the Beast of Gaia, [[GaiasVengeance the manifestation of the planet's will to survive]]. It takes a minimum of ''seven'' [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Counter Guardians]] or [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Grand Servants]] to restrain Primate Murder. Of course, Altrouge isn't a kid.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Normally she appears around fourteen, though she has an older form.
* RedBaron: Let's see... [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Eclipse Princess of Black Blood]], [[ThePowerOfBlood The Lord of Blood and Contract]], and [[RuleOfThree The Princess of The Dead Apostles]], contrasting Arcueid's "White Princess of The True Ancestors".
* UltimateLifeform: According to ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', the reason why an awakened Arcueid in the remake timeline wouldn't be considered to be the Ultimate One of Earth is because she hasn't settled her score with Altrouge, a being 'that forms the celestial' on the same scale.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg]]
!!!Voiced by: Tadahisa Saizen (Japanese - VisualNovel/FateStayNight Realta Nua), Ikuya Sawaki (Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel)
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Zelretch_3447.png]]

Zelretch is known as the Wizard Marshall and is the master of the Second Magic known as Kaleidoscope, which deals with movement between alternate realities. He vanquished the Crimson Moon, though the latter managed to suck his blood, turning him into a vampire.\\\

Though listed as the 4th of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors (bumped to third in the remake), he is still friendly to humanity at large and has contacts with various characters across the [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} multiverse]]: He knows Aoko Aozaki and is the godfather of Arcueid Brunestud and aided in the formation of the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' Holy Grail War system. Despite having access to the entirety of the Nasuverse continuity, he very rarely appears directly.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: WordOfGod says that Zeltrech's personality is based on [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro Kujo]].
* AlternateSelf: In the pamphlet that came with the ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Heaven's Feel 3]]'' Blu-Ray, it's explained that the Zeltrech there isn't a vampire, "but still immortal."
* TheArchmage: Unquestionably the strongest living mage in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Even though he did defeat Crimson Moon, he was turned into a Dead Apostle in the process. It doubles as CursedWithAwesome, because 1700 years later, he's still up and kicking.
%%* AuthorAvatar: Of sorts for Kinoko Nasu himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the True End of ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Heaven's Feel]]'' [[spoiler:he pops in from an alternate universe (just as Rin was about to lose everything in a Mage Association's KangarooCourt) to announce that he was taking apprentices. Rin's case was forgotten in the ensuing excitement; Zelretch praises her and takes her under his wing.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: WordOfGod notes that his influence over the Nasuverse is so great that, if he were to "observe" any given AlternateTimeline, it would be considered "real". While the meaning of this was vague for a long time, later works reveal that parallel worlds have certain events that they all must follow in order to maintain uniformity, meaning that whatever events Zelretch directly has a hand in will become fact across the entire multiverse. As it turns out, this isn't a good thing -- Zelretch wants to investigate the extremely irregular ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'' timeline, but cannot actually ''enter'' the timeline lest these irregularities spread across the multiverse for the worst. Thus, with his hands tied, he has to send Ayaka Sajyou to do the investigation for him.
* CoolSword: His personal mystic code, the Jeweled Sword, is capable of drawing an infinite amount of magical energy from parallel worlds and unleashing it with immensely destructive results. It is the same sword that he used to vanquish Brunestud.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Why, yes. Yes he did defeat Crimson Moon. However, this was only possible because he took it by surprise and [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu required an amount of effort that Zelretch can no longer duplicate]].
* DimensionalTraveler: As user of the Second Magic, Zelretch is capable of observing and traveling into parallel worlds across the Nasuverse. However as already stated in the [[BlessedWithSuck Trope]] above, he must very selective of which worlds he can actually enter and influence.
* EmpathicWeapon: Created one known as the 'Kaleidostick'. Unfortunately, in addition to being sentient it's sort of a jerk and has a distinct taste for humiliating its wielders. [[spoiler:So rather than using it himself, he 'loans' it to apprentices. Poor Rin... and indirectly [[Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya Illya...]]]]
* {{Flanderization}}: Later entries in the franchise portrays him as a good deal more goofy and cartoonishly {{Troll}}-like than he originally was, when he's otherwise shown to be a responsible and serious, if slightly whimsical person.
* FounderOfTheKingdom: He is one of people credited for founding the Clock Tower.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Well, he's still a jerk, but he's a ''good'' jerk.
* HeroicRROD: Defeating Crimson Moon Brunestud took an amount of effort that Zelretch cannot ever replicate, and caused his otherwise [[HeroicBuild incredible physique to crumble]] and aged him to an elderly man instantly. This is why unlike other Dead Apostles, who all look young no matter their age, Zelretch looks like an old man.
* NoodleIncident: One of his deeds involves stopping Crimson Moon from [[ColonyDrop dropping a mirror image of the Moon]] on Earth through the use of a Magic Circle powered with mana from countless worlds to fire a [[WaveMotionGun limitlessly powerful Ether Cannon]] to stop and destroy it. [[WordOfGod Nasu]] states he would need 5 times the budget of VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight to do it justice.
* OldMaster: Old enough that even as a vampire, he's starting to feel his age, and he is ''still'' one of the most powerful beings on the planet. He's one of the absolute most powerful things to have ever lived who defeated Crimson Moon by himself. He was 50 by the time he defeated Crimson Moon, but due to not feeding for a very long time, his body deteriorated to the point of being compared to a 70-year old man.
* ParentalSubstitute: Of sorts. He's officially Arcueid's godfather, though it's unclear what that really means.
* PresentAbsence:
** In [[{{Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya}} Prisma Illya]]. Not only are his Kaleidosticks a major plot point, but his opinions and orders help move the plot forwards, since Rin and Luvia follow his orders, admittedly through Waver.
** In general, Zelretch is one of the most important characters we never see, since [[BlessedWithSuck he has to be ''very'' cautious about when and where he interacts with the universe]].
* ProHumanTranshuman: One of the few Dead Apostles who like humans.
* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: The Second Magic often makes things more convenient than they ought to be. This is Lampshaded several times in ''Prisma Illya''.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Considering he was already an old man and a vampire when Arcueid was a child, he's at least 900-1200~ years old. The ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles Material'' reveals that he fought Crimson Moon at 300 AD, placing him at a little over 1700 years as of the 21st century. Then "Katagetsu Manuscript" reveals that he was one of disciples of [[Literature/TheBible King Solomon]], making him be even older than that.
* RedBaron: "Wizard Marshall", a title which he gained when he was able to wrangle the self-serving mages into an unified army to fight against the Crimson Moon.
* RenownedSelectiveMentor: Zelretch will occasionally take apprentices, but those that do it for the purpose of "being the pupil of a famous magus" are ground up by his style of training and drop out. Those that become his pupil to "learn from a great magus" turn out as some of the best of their generation. It is ''strongly'' implied [[spoiler:[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Rin Tohsaka]]]] is on the way to being the latter, [[spoiler:much like her ancestor]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: It is stated that those who accept his apprenticeship out of greed for the fame, glory, and prestige of being his pupil are the only ones who crack under his TrainingFromHell, but those who simply desire to learn from him because he is a skilled wizard turn out okay.
* SoProudOfYou: He says this word for word to [[spoiler:[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Rin Tohsaka]] as he bails her out from a KangarooCourt, happy that his apprentice, Nagato Tohsaka, has some great descendants.]]
* SpaceMaster: The Second Magic is the ability to manipulate the border between different "worlds" existing in parallel.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His first name is sometimes romanized as 'Kischur.' Those who know Hebrew would probably consider it more appropriate as that means "Link" or "Connection", a fitting name for a walking conduit between realities... if it wasn't for the fact that "Kishua" also has a meaning, that being... "Eggplant". Which, in Japanese, is called "Nasu", thus making him a likely AuthorAvatar.
* TimeMaster: In addition to its dimensional border-bending abilities, the Second Magic is said to also have the ability to interfere with time, though to what extent is unknown, but it can be slightly explained: since Kaleidoscope allows him to land on any universe, Zelretch can visit on any given time period of that universe on a whim and such, alter any particular timeline.
* TrainingFromHell: Students (hand-picked and initially ''very'' eager, mind you) are more often than not left a gibbering mess and unable or unwilling to continue their careers, usually those who signed up merely for the status of being his student, rather than genuinely trying to learn from him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:ORT (aka Type-Mercury)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ort.PNG]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Ultimate One of Mercury ([[AmbiguousSituation ?]])]]

Type-Mercury is the Ultimate One of ([[AmbiguousSituation supposedly]]) Mercury. It received Gaia's dying call to exterminate humanity, and traveled through space to arrive in South America five thousand years before the Common Era, where it fell into slumber deep beneath the Earth, awaiting [[Literature/AngelNotes "the promised time"]]. It is recognised as the 5th Dead Apostle Ancestor on a technicality, due to having a few vampire-like properties and [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt having killed the previous holder of the rank]] (who was stupid enough to try and capture it).

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* AmbiguousSituation: The [[AllThereInTheManual Character Material]] book's profile on ORT openly questions if came from Mercury, hinting that it may be an Ultimate One from somewhere else. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'''s ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' Chapter 5.2 Olympus, it's further hinted that the name "ORT" might actually be derived from its place of origin in a case of NamedAfterTheirPlanet, and in reality it's the Ultimate One of the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud Oort Cloud]]''. However, none of this is confirmed so the question still remains]].
* BerserkButton: Don't disturb its sleep, unless you have a death wish. The incident with the previous 5th Ancestor was the equivalent of it drowsily smashing its alarm clock before going back to sleep, and ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'' implies that if its fully woken up it'll destroy humanity ahead of schedule.
* CapsLock: Its name is officially romanized with all uppercase letters.
* TheDreaded: It's virtually indestructible, rivals Primate Murder in terms of human-killing capacity despite not being specialized for it, and its mere presence overwrites reality and warps the area around it. It isn't talked about as much because it's content to sleep in South America and doesn't act at all unless it's disturbed, though when it is it annihilates the offenders rather quickly. However, in ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', the idea that it could be awakened a century early due to a wish made with a Holy Grail causes Zelretch to get involved.
* EldritchAbomination: ORT, a top-tier attack-type life form and the Ultimate One of Mercury ([[AmbiguousSituation ?]]), which is apparently sleeping somewhere in South America and is only on the list because it acts a little bit like a vampire and the previous number three on the list was stupid enough to attack it. It's so alien that it's slowly warping the territory around it into a place more like itself, no small feat since the World reasserts its reality and crushes any abnormalities, including Reality Marbles. ORT is doing something similar to a Reality Marble but on a much higher level, and winning against reality ''in its sleep.''
* GiantSpider: ORT somewhat resembles one at times, and is constantly referred to by other characters as "the spider." If someone randomly talks about a spider, chances are they're talking about ORT.
* InscrutableAliens: Its profile states it's too alien to understand or learn Earthly concepts, so there will be no [[DidyouJustRomanceCthulhu romancing Cthulhu]] here. Like its sibling Type Venus, it can eat others and absorb the information they have but unlike Type Venus who can truly internalize what it learns, ORT's understanding is shallow and comes across as mimicry.
* {{Kaiju}}: ORT is a forty-meter-tall, vaguely spider-ish, half-UFO creature.
* NonLinearCharacter: Possibly, as it somehow received Gaia's dying call to exterminate humanity ''way'' ahead of time and arrived at South America in 5000 BC to sleep until [[Literature/AngelNotes the promised time.]]
* PunnyName: If ORT is truly [[spoiler:Type Oort-Cloud, then confusing it for Type Mercury is a Japanese pun. Both Mercury (水星) and Comet (彗星) are pronounced ''Suisei'' in Japanese. Further along these lines, its common description as The Spider can also be considered a form of this, as both Spider (クモ) and Cloud (雲) are pronounced ''Kumo'', again presuming ORT is Type Oort-Cloud.]]
* RealityWarper: ORT can change its surroundings to its native Crystal Valley.
* UltimateLifeform: It's an Ultimate One, allegedly from Mercury.
* WorldsStrongestMan: ORT is described as an attack-type life form with destructive power beyond anything currently on the planet. Though apparently some of the other Ultimate Ones who will respond when the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt "Promised Time"]] in ''[[Literature/AngelNotes Notes]]'' comes are more powerful than it, and Primate Murder, The Dark Six, Brunestud ''and Zeltrech himself'' rank higher in the Dead Apostle Ancestor Listing. This is likely because ORT will generally continue sleeping for a very a long time and until it wakes up will only be a threat to those stupid enough to enter its domain.
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[[folder:Caubac Alcatraz]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeKishio (Mr. Cellphone, ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'')

The 27th of the Dead Apostle Ancestors, he is a strong believer in the Church's ideology even after transformation into a Dead Apostle. Caubac subsequently spent most of his time hidden away in an underground cavern, and later, his own castle and great labyrinth, which he has been locked in for the past several centuries. In three, Caubac toiled away at his magnum opus, the Triten Scripture, to prove God's love and ensure the Scripture's protection. He subsequently lost track of it when it left to go be a human in Japan.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: He turned himself into a padlock out of disgust at his body requiring blood to live. He's also been using the animate cellphone Zelretch gave him to interact with the outside world.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: He intended to use Triten to prove the existence of God and thought he did by creating a functional universe in miniature. Its unintended shape as the human [[spoiler:Hibiki Hibino]] only proves to him that God possibly isn't real because He would never be human.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Caubac doesn't seem to really mind the fact that he is trapped within his own labyrinth. There is no day or night inside of it so he doesn't really have a grasp on the passage of time, he can gather information about the outside world thanks to Zelretch, he can keep on "killing himself" to avoid getting hungry, and Arcueid would have a hard time finding him inside the labyrinth in order to kill him. To him, it is a world with no change that is a paradise to him.
* MeaningfulName: Caubac ''Alcatraz'' has been trapped inside a labyrinth of his own devising for several centuries, although he insists he actually prefers his labyrinth to the outside world. On the bright side, he can still interact with the outside world by way of the [[Anime/CarnivalPhantasm animate cellphone]] Zelretch made for him.
* PluckyComicRelief: One of his epithets was "Comedian of the Dead Apostles", which has defined his character throughout various Type-Moon works, whether it be appearing as a wacky perverted cellphone in ''Mahou Tsukai no Hako'' and its derivative works or his backstory being a comical string of failures one after the other and locking himself away in shame. He stands in sharp contrast to the other murderous and dead serious Ancestors shown throughout the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}.
* ReligiousVampire: Caubac was originally a member of the church before Crimson Moon took interest in him and turned him into a Dead Apostle Ancestor. Before Caubac's transformation into a padlock happened, he decided to write down his thoughts about God's love into a scripture, creating the Holy Scripture Triten that he decided to lock away in his Labyrinth to keep it a secret.
* {{Retcon}}: The original canon stated that he became a Dead Apostle during his research as a magus. The remake canon changes him to be affiliated with the Church and was directly transformed into a Dead Apostle Ancestor by Crimson Moon.
* TheoryTunnelVision: He is in deep denial over what happened to Triten or the possibility of it being God because that would upend his millennia long conviction in his interpretation of Biblical scripture.
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[[folder:The Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors]]
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The 27 most powerful and influential of the Dead Apostle vampires, recognized as such by the Church and the Mage's Association. Whether they turned into vampires by having their blood sucked by other vampires or had their bodies warped by their own magecraft, they are those who have transcended the normal limits of humanity and now possess a limited form of immortality. Succession rites ensure that the number is kept constant at twenty-seven even if one is slain, though despite this some positions do not appear to be filled any longer.\\\

While the Dead Apostle Ancestor grouping only exists in ''Tsukihime'' worlds, the individual members still exist in other worlds where they are called "Superior Dead Apostles". However, many of their statuses differ greatly from their ''Tsukihime'' counterparts, such as already having died or never having reached the point of becoming a Dead Apostle.\\\

Seven of the known Dead Apostle Ancestors have their own entries on this or other pages: Nrvnsqr Chaos, Vlov Arkhangel, The Night of Wallachia (in ''Characters/MeltyBlood''), Brunestud of the Crimson Moon, Altrouge Brunestud, ORT, and Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg, and one of the Ancestors also appears in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', though in a fairly unusual role, comparatively. For tropes concerning that character, consult the ''Grand Order'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts character page]], though beware of spoilers in their own right.\\\

It should also be noted that Michael Roa Valdamjong, despite being an extremely powerful vampire, is explicitly excluded from the ranks of the Dead Apostles, with the given explanation that his "goals" differ from theirs.
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* AdaptedOut: Primate Murder is removed from the list in the remake.
* AdaptationalBadass: As explained in an interview, Nasu realised that the PowerCreep of abilities introduced in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its many spin-offs, up to the world- and ''reality''-ending threats of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', made even top-ranking [=DAA=]s look... ''lacking'' [[PowerCreep by comparison]]. So with the remake, he essentially put out a [[BalanceBuff update patch]] for the Ancestors: he cut those who were "only" relatively-amazing, replaced them with new members who were stronger and met the new standard for inclusion, and buffed the surviving members while shuffling their ranks to reflect their new power levels and standings.
* AllThereInTheManual: Most of them appear only in supplemental materials.
* AnimalMotifs:
** Gransurg Blackmore is styled after a raven. His Reality Marble is even called 'Nevermore'.
** Primate Murder is often associated with canids, and is even described as "Altrouge's Demonic Dog" at one point. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', it's much smaller than most (being about the size of a large squirrel or small housecat), but it's still recognizable as a fox-like canid.]]
* TheBeastmaster: Merem Solomon's preferred mode of combat. His beasts actually comprise his four limbs.
* BotanicalAbomination: Forest of Einnashe, that is a forest corrupted in becoming the Seventh Dead Apostle Ancestor when Arcueid screwed up the disposal of the corpse of the previous number seven, Einnashe. It's considered strange even for Dead Apostle Ancestor standards, and it can spawn similar, but less dangerous offspring.
* CanisMajor: Primate Murder is apparently one, given that it's called a dog by multiple characters.
* ChildMage: When human, Merem was a kid with the power to [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk to the animals]] and [[MakeAWish materialize the people's wishes]].
* CleverCrows: Gransurg Blackmore, styled after a Raven.
* CoolBigSis: Sumire is described as being like a drunken older sister in Character Material. In ''Tsukihime 2'' she was supposed to turn up and drunkenly annoy Shiki.
* CoolShip: Fina-blood Svelten is the captain of a "ghost ship".
* CoolSword: Enhance and his sword "Avenger", for which he killed his vampire master to get it.
* CrypticBackgroundReference: The Dark Six, the very first Dead Apostles, exist in a state where only thing that is known about them is that they haven't reached completion. Some lore bits around the release of the remake implies that they might be [[spoiler:the six fairies who forged Excalibur, or related to them]], but otherwise exist in complete darkness.
* DaywalkingVampire: Sumire is a variant as she is a Dead Apostle who [[CannotCrossRunningWater overcome her weakness to bodies of water]]. However, this made her weaker on land in return, leading to her to live underwater.
* DeathByAdaptation: Ciel mentions in ''Type Lumina'' [[spoiler:that she possesses the Idea Blood of Forest of Einnashe, implying she killed it in the remake continuity.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: In ''Fate'' timelines where the Human Order is stronger, Gransurg Blackmore loses all hope after Zelretch defeats Crimson Moon and allows himself to be killed by the Church's Executors.
* DetachmentCombat: Merem Solomon fights by detaching his own limbs, which then turn into Divine Beast-class monsters (that is, something on par with a Sphinx or a Gazer) to fight for him.
* TheDreaded: Primate Murder. There may be other entities in the Nasuverse who are more ''generally'' powerful, but Primate Murder is ''the'' absolute, number one, standout pinnacle creature when it comes to ending the lives of "primates", including humans, with the only possible competition it has for the spot being ORT. A certain entity from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' can match them in killing "quality", but will take much longer to kill as many as they can in number. Any discussion of it tends to come with a veneer of terror.
* DwindlingParty: By the end of the remake, six of the Dead Apostle Ancestors have been either sealed away or outright killed off with their Idea Bloods taken out of the circulation, meaning that currently there are only twenty-one seats remaining.
* {{Expy}}: Enhance is said to look exactly like Dante from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' -- though it's worth noting that this is, by the early [=2020s=], a very old statement and he's never been properly depicted on camera in a Nasuverse work.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Merem Solomon and Zelretch are both friendly to humanity, with the former being employed by the Church's Burial Agency. Gransurg Blackmore and Enhance might also count, given that the former is a devoted servant of Arcueid, who defines this trope, and the only certain facts about the latter are his hostility to the other Dead Apostle Ancestors and him wielding a weapon from the Church alongside a trophy from his first kill. Sumire was also planned to appear in a fairly harmless role in ''Tsukihime 2''. [[spoiler:And a far less threatening Primate Murder shows up in ''Fate/Grand Order'', though it's a little unclear how much this'd apply to the Nasuverse as a whole and Primate Murder himself says that in other times and places, he's far more ugly and threatening.]]
* GiantSpider: Besides ORT, the remake adds a ''second'' giant spider to their ranks. Unlike ORT, this Ancestor is far more human in thought as they scream about the need for humans to understand their love in a flashback.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Sumire is described as being constantly drunk.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Enhance is said to have turned against a group of Dead Apostles planning to assassinate Arcueid.
** [[spoiler:If he manages to hang out with [[Myth/KingArthur Merlin]] instead of Altrouge, Primate Murder turns out way more okay and less threatening (not to mention loads more [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter adorable]]). He still retains a lot of his power, though, and in the exact right circumstances can even get around that "no true resurrection of the dead" rule that binds the Nasuverse otherwise.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Nearly all of the Dead Apostle Ancestors are this, with them being ludicrously strong Dead Apostles with powers defying sense even for Dead Apostle standards. Brunestud of the Crimson Moon is the same type of being as ORT, but seems to have had more of a human form to judge by True Ancestors being considered copies of it. However, it may actually have had a fairly human personality, though it's not quite clear. The only ones to fully break from this trend are Primate Murder, who is pretty much always a full-blown canine of some description, and Forest of Einnashe, which is, well, ''[[BotanicalAbomination a bunch of trees]]''. ORT just ''barely'' qualifies, since it does have a recognizable(ish) head, torso, and arms.
* InTheBlood: Quite literally, each of the DAA have "Idea Blood" which represents their Principles such as "Castle, therefore Kingdom" or "Sword" or "Limbs." Should a Dead Apostle qualify to inherit the Blood, their personalities will still radically alter to accommodate it. Vlov is an exception because he was taught how to resist that effect (though he wants to kill the Dead Apostle who taught him.)
* KlingonPromotion: If the one who kills a Dead Apostle Ancestor meets the requirements such as drinking blood, they will instantly earn the Dead Apostle's ranking. Incidentally, this is how ORT got on the list, by virtue of obliterating a Dead Apostle Ancestor foolish enough to disturb its slumber. It ''may'' also be how Primate Murder makes the cut, since it wasn't a vampire and isn't even human, but to date, this hasn't been elaborated on. The remake adds tighter restrictions to this process, as the Dead Apostle must also acquire the Idea Blood of the corresponding Ancestor and withstand its curse via experience of being a Dead Apostle for at least a thousand years or using certain techniques to inherit their seat.
* MentalWorld: A multitude of them have Reality Marbles.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Most of them to varying degrees are incredibly relevant to backstory and establishing setting or character connections, but have nothing at all to do with the plot. Two of them stand out in particular:
** Caubac Alcatraz who created many Labyrinths and the Holy Scripture Triten both of which have relevance to multiple works, but since he's locked away in his own Labyrinth, all of his interactions with characters are via telephone and very brief at that.
** Rita Rozay-en as all of her character is entirely exposited with silent cameos. Her personality has been described in various glossary entries, some of her powers and her background have been explained in ''-A piece of blue glass moon-'', her hobbies like Mystic Eye collecting have been explained in works like ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'' and ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'', and her appearance has been revealed in the manga adaptation of ''Case Files''. It's to the point where the audience essentially has every part of her character from cameos, namedrops, or AllThereInTheManual ''except'' for what she's like when serving as a character in an actual story.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: One of the ones who don't even breach the top 10 is known as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "City Devourer"]], which should give you a vague idea as to how destructive the Ancestors can be.
* PosthumousCharacter:
** In the remake, Zaria Offenbaum is established to have been killed by Vlov to take their seat, and [[spoiler:Be'ze who held the position of number 25 and Chromclay Petastructure who held the position of number 22 were killed by Ciel some time before the game starts.]]
** Stanrobe Calhin, [[RedBaron The First Wraith, Duke of Predation and]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction City Devourer]] is an Ancestor the Church destroyed in the past, but in a massive case of NiceJobBreakingItHero, whatever process destroyed him allowed him to continue to exist as a ghost that will continue to haunt the world for at least another two hundred years. Thus, despite being dead, Stanrobe is still on the list and due for exorcism.
* RedBaron: Some of their names.
* TheRival: Rizo-Waal Strout to Shiki Tohno in ''Tsukihime 2'', according to ''Kagetsu Tohya''.
* SapientHouse: In the remake, the new list for Dead Apostle Ancestors subtly implies that [[spoiler:the Millennium Castle of Crimson Moon is ''also'' a Dead Apostle Ancestor, holding the 4th Seat]], though it is hard to tell since the list is partly blurred.
* SealedEvilInACan: The Dark Six, a.k.a. the first Dead Apostle. It's currently resuscitating and summoning it is the focus of the Aylesbury Ritual. The risk of it being un-canned is the essential thrust of the proposed ''Tsukihime 2''.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Enhance uses a [[HolyHandGrenade Holy Scripture shotgun]].
* SpellMyNameWithAThe:
** It's "The 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors." The list is important in some way that is not clear, they themselves maintain it by replacing any who die. It is likely related to Crimson Moon (aka Type Moon) who created the True Ancestors who created the original Dead Apostles. In the ''Franchise/FateSeries'', Dead Apostles exist; but they aren't nearly as strong and there is no organized 27.
** The Dark Six are also only referred to exclusively as "The Dark Six" to the point where their name is written in GratuitousEnglish even in the Japanese script just to ensure that readers get the point of having "the" in front of their name. Due to their cryptic nature, it's not clear why they are referred to in this manner but it is consistently reiterated that they have an extremely important status even among this group of vampires as the centerpiece of the Aylesbury Ritual, the first Dead Apostle, their remake status of being ranked first of the Ancestors, and being the "first and highest system".
* SuperpowerLottery: All of them save Alcatraz has ridiculously powerful abilities, often possess Reality Marbles and ancient magecraft that should be impossible to achieve in the modern world, making even the weakest of the DAA extremely powerful. One of them even qualifies as a full-bore Evil of Humanity in ''Fate/Grand Order'', putting it on par with beings like the primordial goddess Tiamat.
* SwordAndGun: Enhance's fighting style.
* TooDumbToLive: There once was a certain Dead Apostle Ancestor who looked upon the sleeping, 40m-tall EldritchAbomination from outer space and decided to aggressively wake it up for an examination. The Ancestor was instantly reduced to red paste on the ground, and that's how ORT ended up on a list full of vampires right after it went back to sleep.
* TransHumanTreachery: {{Defied}} by Enhance -- a Dead Apostle is supposed to be scornful of normal humans, but Enhance retained his humanity, and the first thing he did after becoming a full-fledged vampire (a sentient vampire, a fully-fledged Dead Apostle if not for the fact he's still subordinate to his sire) was to kill his master, [[KlingonPromotion usurp his position as Eighteenth Dead Apostle Ancestor]], and start hunting down the other Ancestors with the purpose of ''destroying them''.
* UnseenNoMore: Several of the Ancestors were first mentioned in an InfoDump or AllThereInTheManual and have been slowly revealed over the decades since the original ''Tsukihime'' in various works.
* WhenTreesAttack: The Forest of Einnashe, a tree that ended up becoming a sentient, mobile, and bloodthirsty forest after absorbing the blood of a Dead Apostle that Arcueid had killed and failed to properly dispose of. It can spawn smaller offspring called a Child of Einnashe, one of which appears in ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles.''
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Sumire is one of the very few able to use Marble Phantasm. Too bad she's typically too drunk to do anything with it.
* WingedHumanoid: In ''Talk'' Enhance shows the ability to sprout a pair of wings that "resemble neither those of a bird or those of an insect".
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The branch of the Church dedicated to obliterating the heretical no matter what, their fight to destroy what they consider evil means they will utilize anything and any person of any creed, even non-Christian ones.
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* AmbiguousSituation: The remake's list as given by Noel leaves number 5's seat unknown, making it unclear if Merem Solomon is still part of the group in this timeline. In addition, it's also left unstated whether Mr. Dawn's partner is still working with him or not as a Burial Agency duo.
* AdaptationalWimp: Implied, as the remake establishes that only six Dead Apostle Ancestors have been taken out, (one is killed by Shiki, two of them were handled by the Church, and another two were killed by Ciel, leaving only one's circumstances of death/sealing ambiguous), meaning that Narbareck's old record of sealing away three Ancestors no longer applies in this timeline.
* CanonImmigrant: Two of the members in the remake version are Cardinal [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Noi]] and Sister [[VideoGame/FateExtra Kiara Kisshoin]], implied to be the ''Tsukihime'' versions of their ''Fate'' counterparts.
* LegacyCharacter: The position of director is passed through the Narbareck family, who is always referred to by their last name.
* OddlySmallOrganization: There are only eight (technically nine in the remake as Narbareck was moved from #1 to being just the Director) permanent members at a time as the nature of this group being some of the most absurdly powerful agents the Church can employ, it's deemed too much of a risk to add additional slots to this group.
* ProhumanTranshuman: Kiara Kisshoin used something called "Sabbath" to transcend humanity and become a Maradeva-ranked daemon; implied to be equivalent or similar to the power she gained in ''EXTRA'' or ''Grand Order'' as "Heaven's Hole". This makes Kiara nigh-omnipotent in the world of humans... but on the lowest rung of power in the higher dimension of Demons and greater beings: a fact she only discovered after transcending her human perceptions, deflating all her grandiose ambitions at once. As her ego is unable to tolerate being a insignificant fish in a galaxy-sized pond, Kiara chose to instead remain attached to her human form and the world of humanity as a NormalFishInATinyPond.
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