![]() He is shown to be strict and harsh in the training of magi within his family and is becoming increasingly frustrated with the thinning bloodline of the Matou family preventing the birth of any natural-born magi. Zouken is a shrewd old man with plenty of knowledge on magecraft due to the several centuries he has been alive. He wears plain robes and is often depicted with a walking stick. In his current, old appearance, Zouken is completely bald and hunched over, making him shorter than even his grandchildren. In his youth, Zouken was a pale, but handsome man who possessed red eyes and the same blue hair as Byakuya and Shinji. Sakura was implanted with Zouken's magical worms to prepare her as a vessel for Angra Mainyu in the fifth Holy Grail War. Zouken considers Shinji to be a disgrace of a sorcerer, and believes Sakura may have more potential than her brother.īecause the Matou blood has thinned and no longer produces heirs naturally capable of sorcery, Shinji was incapable of becoming a true sorcerer so Zouken offered to adopt Tohsaka Sakura into the Matou when her father, Tokiomi, decided to train only his older daughter, Rin, to become his successor. He has amassed a large and extensive library of sorcerous knowledge, yet his lessons are strict and harsh. Shrewd, powerful, and ancient, he is known as the grandfather of Shinji and Sakura and the father of Kariya and his brother Byakuya To conceal his status as the Matous' ancestor, he masquerades as a relative to his descendants, though some members of his family have long suspected he is much older than he appears given how Zouken's name has repeatedly appeared in the family tree. However, as the time went on, the frustration due to the incomplete Grail and the deterioration of his body over such long period had slowly caused him to forget his original intention, and had left him only the abnormal obsession about obtaining immortality. He had decided to ensure that her sacrifice would not be in vain by keeping himself alive long enough to witness the moment the Grail becomes completed and reaches the gate. Justeaze utilized her own body to become the magic circuit of the Grail.Īt the time, Zouken admired and loved her deeply, and was devastated to see her sacrifice. Zouken proposed the system of " Master" and " Servant", while Nagato provided his property Fuyuki City and Justeaze developed the Heaven's Feel system, offered the homunculi vessels for the Grail, and became the core of the Great Grail. He moved his family to Japan under the name Matou, and while it was to hide the family's identity, they needed something tying into their real name and used a play on words. He was around three hundred years old as of the establishment of the Holy Grail War to fulfill his dream along with the Tohsaka and Einzbern families. In order to overthrow his youthful anguish, he came up with that answer even if his life should not be compensated. He believed it was his reason to exist, all while hoping that his existence would bring about a successor. Though his enemies died, he kept seeking it despite knowing it was meaningless. ![]() With a miracle beyond human reach, he sought to eliminate all of the evils of the world, risking his life for an ideal that could not be fulfilled. He sought the Holy Grail to be reborn and reach the ideal utopia, the unimaginable land. Obtaining all creation and knowledge where no human can reach, it was not to make a new world, but to change his human life. Humanity has set limits, so he wished for it to go outside the spiral of the brain and the limits of the body to reach the infinity called the soul. He felt grief upon finding that "paradise" did not exist in the world and its creation was impossible with a human body, and he instead wished to go to a place where it could be accomplished. He wanted to eliminate and cure all hatred and suffering. ![]() Zouken had the dream of creating a utopia, having pursued it since he was around two hundred years old. Zouken knew Leonardo da Vinci and Paracelsus von Hohenheim in life. The family gained ties to both the Einzbern and Tohsaka families through his friendship with Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern and Nagato Tohsaka, and he had enough of a relationship with Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg to be considered a potential inheritor of the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch if not for Zelretch appraising the family as fundamentally evil. The family later became known as Makiri when he changed his name to Zouken Makiri (マキリ臓硯, Makiri Zouken ?). ![]() They were a noble family that originated in Kyiv WP, later driven out of their homeland. Originally known as Makiri Zolgen (マキリ・ゾォルケン, Makiri Zoruken ?), he was the patriarch of the Zolgen family five hundred years before the Fifth Holy Grail War. ![]()
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