[center][h3]October, Apartment of Philia von Einzbern, the First District of Vienna[/h3][/center]
The First District of Vienna was the least residential of all of the city's many districts, and yet was often full of activity and life. While only few would ever think to live there in anonymity under normal circumstances, the Holy Grail War was not in any way "usual circumstances." As a battle between seven Masters and their Servants, the Heroic Spirits of humanity's past summoned as familiars, the Holy Grail War was a very recent phenomenon. Further, its location in the City of Dreams was entirely unique - never before had this ritual been performed outside of a small island country in East Asia.

Representatives from many diverse backgrounds had been chosen - both by human organizations and by the Grail itself. Each would get the chance at completing the Grail and earning a single miracle - a wish that might grant them something beyond anything they had ever grasped. Among these Masters, Philia von Einzbern did not have a wish for herself. Rather, she was designed, created to ensure that humanity was saved through this ritual... admittedly, not as directly as some of her fellow homunculi, dead these past twenty years.

Luckily, she still had connections with certain archeological groups, as well as access to the bank accounts of the Einzbern clan. These two resources would allow her to perform the ritual she was about to begin - to summon a Servant, that the Holy Grail War would be won and the Einzberns would finally complete their mission. Her apartment, located on the edges of the First district - near to the [i]Ringstraße[/i], where once the city walls had stood - was not the height of luxury, but it was defensible and practical. It was the most efficient living area available to her. Thus, as the waning moon shed dim silver light over the city, Philia was finally prepared to execute the summoning.