Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia

Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia (ダーニック・プレストーン・ユグドミレニア, Dānikku Puresutōn Yugudomirenia) is the Master of Vlad III in the Great Holy Grail War of Fate/Apocrypha. 60 years prior, he was the Master of Fionn mac Cumhaill in the Third Holy Grail War and the one who plundered the Holy Grail during the conflict of the Fate/Apocrypha world.

Appearance

Although he is 97 years old, he looks like a man in his late twenties, not showing a single wrinkle. It seems as if time has stopped for him since stealing the Grail. It is common knowledge among the Clock Tower that he fused his soul with an infant's to acquire longevity.

Personality

His bitter memories were when he received a marriage proposal from a clan of long lineage. A certain magus had warned him "All that’s left is ruin for your clan". Darnic thought it was ridiculous because as long as the clan continues past the fifth generation, any number of counter-measures can be thought of. But it seemed the only one who thought that way was Darnic. It wasn’t that Darnic had a direct hand in bringing about their ruin. They were simply cornered politically. They had merely invested funds into a futile experiment, leaked the details of the hidden ritual, and the child who had inherited their clan's Magic Crest had coincidentally and unfortunately died in an accident during the experiment. They, who flattered Darnic and were even prepared to sell themselves to him now that they had come to ruin, were the only clan to whom he refused the request to join Yggdmillennia. Darnic no longer felt any resentment towards the clan who had forsaken him. When he considered the present, he even felt like thanking them. Though, they had already fallen to ruin as a clan long ago, without leaving their names in history at all. He could live with what happened to himself, but those magi had taken away even the futures of those who followed after him. He knew that they had headed to Japan in the Far East where the Holy Grail War had once taken place, but their whereabouts were unknown after that. Most likely, they had lived out their lives while lamenting everything until their death.

Darnic abandoned the idea of reaching the Root through the normal approach—in other words, by accumulating diligent research as a magus. Therefore, he first had to think of a method to stop the ruin of his clan. There was also the option of simply withdrawing from the Association of Magi and continuing his clan’s research while hiding themselves amidst the world. But Darnic refused to do that. Naturally, remaining in the Association was humiliating. But Darnic carved that humiliation into his heart without forgetting any bit of it for even a second—and used it as nourishment. He is obsessed with the Greater Grail after he learnt that it can open the path to the root. He is willing to use the Greater to turn it into a symbol and retaliate against the Association of Magi or use it to reach the Root. His survival of the Third Holy Grail War sixty years ago had been an uncannily harsh battle, so much so that he rejoiced at still being alive.

Although Fiore is able to pleasantly converse with her "grandfather", she holds a deep fear of angering him. Those who defy him are thrown out of the clan's network, left with nothing but a life of misfortune. He has little care for most others in the clan, and he even plans to use Caules as nothing more than a pawn to strike at the enemy. He wouldn't hesitate to defeat members of his own clan.

Even though Darnic may be part of a world that impassively goes against all ethics, he believes Lancer deserves his utmost respect for having been the sovereign ruler of Romania. He treats Lancer as the Lord of Yggdmillennia, deferring to him despite being the mastermind behind the Holy Grail War. He appreciates Lancer's tenacity and zeal towards obtaining his wish, making it one of the reasons that he likes Lancer. He does have some worries about Lancer's obstinate nature, but believes working towards the same goal of completing the ritual will allow them to proceed together smoothly. He wouldn't hesitate to make his Servant to use a Noble Phantasm that he had deemed taboo.

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