

In _Fate_ series, what would happen if a master won the Holy Grail War but did
not have any wish for the Holy Grail and did not destroy it? What would happen
then?


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What would happen if a master won the Holy Grail War but didn't have any wish?


Quite simply the Servant will demand their wish to be granted

> Although too powerful to be controlled by humans, they are bound by three
> Command Spells, representing the Masters' "right to rule" over them, with
> obedience towards the Command Spells being the "absolute condition required
> for materialization." **Due to the prospect of having a wish granted by the
> Holy Grail** , it also serves as an incentive to cooperate with the Master

Source: [Servant > Nature (4th
Paragraph)](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Servant#Nature)

Servants are summoned from the Throne of Heroes with the promise of their own
wish being granted and as Rin explains in the Visual Novel to Shirou, it is
only the Servants who can use the Holy Grail as such Masters who want their
own wish granted need to have 1 Command Spell remaining to force the Servant
to grant their wish over the Servants.

Some Servant's wish is granted by being summoned such as Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
who wanted to serve a lord again while with some Masters the Wish from the
Grail is not their goal such as Waver who wanted to win as proof that his was
as good of a Magus as they of the bloodline families while Tohsaka Tokiomi
wanted to use the Grail as a means to reach The Root, not to wish for a way
there. one can also suspect that the Einzberns wanted the same since that's
where they would reclaim the 5th Magic.

however post 3rd Fuyuki War even if a Master or Servant had no wish from the
Grail, it would default to Angra Mainyu's as his was already in the process of
being granted. wishes made after that point was more Angra Mainyu using the
Grail's power to grant the wish itself (ie. how the process of Kiritsugu's
wish was described to him in _Fate/Zero_ )

In the event of no Wish by anyone i would suspect the energy would be saved up
and anew Holy Grail War would start sooner. this is sorta like what happened
between the 4th and 5th wars yet some of that energy was spilled out in the
form of the Black Mud but there was still enough to cut the wait time to the
next war to less than a decade.

however the chances of no one having a wish is very very very low. Diarmuid
was probably a rare case for not having a wish for after the war so there will
very likely always be a Servant who would want their wish granted while
Masters are actually chosen by the Grail. while the choosing process is not
clear we could think that they all have to desire the Grail's use. Shirou
being chosen could be explained by his ideal to be a hero


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