Needless to say I'm interested. Also, I have some questions or points to make, so let’s get to building.

Since it looks like this is going to be before the war starts, are our characters from any of the canonical families, as they have the most to gain from the war and would have an extreme interest in participating. Also if they are those few characters would no doubt be groomed for the war. I vote we forget the families entirely as they each come with their own special set of rules or obligations.

Having said that, the war is not a secret, but it is spoken about less than you would think, among the magical community I mean. So how our characters stumble upon this grand event could be a good place to start, as well as us going around acquiring artifacts to summon servants. Since we are in school maybe a field trip to our local museum are in order. On the matter of stumbling, the church has a history of being dicks in this setting, so our local pastor could possibly persuade us to do this for the greater good.

With that, are we going with we are all friends? The very nature of the war is, well, not friendly. Again, the church can be pulling strings, but since this is the nasuverse there is also the possibility of vampires a la Tsukihime. Long term, betrayal can be a thing, but short term there are other things we can fight. The potential for drama is there in troves.

What do you all think?