

In the _Fate_ series (I've only ever watched _Fate/stay night_ anime, never
played the game), I understand that servants are essentially just a reflection
of their former self.

But in the case of Arturia (Saber) that actually _is_ her, to my
understanding, before she died she made a pact with The World to be able to be
summoned as a Servant to seek the Holy Grail. But during the conclusion of the
anime, she speaks of a dream and dies. I assume the dream she speaks of was
about having met Shirou, but what about her participation in the fourth Holy
Grail war?

I'm just very confused about this scenario as a whole, can someone please help
clarify this for me? After watching the series I feel that there's no real
closure with her character.


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How does Saber's summoning to the Fifth Grail War work?


How Summoning normally works is that a clone of a Servant is made from the
Throne of Heroes and this Clone, and their memories/experience/changes in
nature (ie. corruption) are discarded so the original remains the same.

with Arturia's case she made her contract with the World before she died to
obtain the Holy Grail in exchange to becoming a Heroic Spirit as such she's
not being summoned from the Throne of Heroes but from the moment before her
death. When Saber's nature as a Servant is discovered the Visual Novel shows a
couple of images to explain how her contract works

[![Saber's Current
Nature](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hijxGm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hijxG.jpg)[![Saber
after Contract
Fulfillment](https://i.stack.imgur.com/taRRHm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/taRRH.jpg)

the first image shows how Saber will return to the point in time before her
death after each attempt at getting the Grail. the second image is what will
happen when she completes her contract in which when she completes it she'll
proceed to her death rather than before she died before then going to the
Throne of Heroes.

In regards to her memories in Fate/Stay Night, regarding her memories of the
4th War she does have them as on her Wikia page under her Role of Fate/Zero

> With the Grail gone and unable to maintain her form, Saber is sent back to
> the battlefield of Camlann, as she remembers the words of Lancelot and
> Rider.

Source: [Saber (Fate/Stay Night) - Role - Fate/Zero (Second Last
paragraph)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_\(Fate/stay_night\)#Fate.2FZero)

also in the Heaven's Feel Route after their run in with Ilya and Beserker,
Shirou is confused as to [Ilya's hostility to
him](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/18467/1587). Saber contemplates as to
whether to explain this to Shirou but instead telling him to seek out Kotomine
despite wanting to have as little contact with him as possible due her own
personal dislike for her former Enemy Master. before Shirou enters the church
(leaving Saber outside) she suggests not to reveal that she's been summoned
again.

while is a different route which -Last Episode- wont occur one can speculate
that in the Fate Route she stayed outside for the same reason (even though at
this point it had yet to be revealed who she is) as such if she remember
Kotomine then she remember's Lancelot's and Rider's words. but ofcause as
apart of her "dream" it wouldn't be a fond part as it involved Kiritsugu
forcing her to destroy the Grail with his remaining Command Spells

As for what other memories she would have in -Last Episode- we can assume that
it's only what she would remember by the end of the Fate Route (including her
previous attempts) as since in the Fate Route her contract is terminated due
to it being her choice to destroy the manifested Holy Grail and accepting her
appointment as King any further attempts would not be known to her.

However because the Nasuverse is a huge multiverse with alternate timelines
which is all connected via the use of [The Second
Magic](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Magic) the ending of the Fate
Route would create it's own timeline, as such the ending of the other Routes
would create their own timelines including:

> \- One where her her corruption in Heaven's Feel is carried to future
> attempts at the Grail  
>  \- One where she lives a full ~~shoujo ai/yuri~~ life with Rin after the
> Good Ending of Unlimited Blade Works  
>  \- One where she continues going for the Grail after the True end of
> Unlimited Blade Works (as it was not the complete Grail that was summoned)  
>  \- One unknown ending of Fate/Stay Night which leads to Fate/Hollow
> Ataraxia in which she was corrupted yet the Greater Grail wasn't shut
> down/destroyed by Shirou or Ilya

since the Throne of Heroes is disconnected from the rest of the universe
allowing the summoning of "heroes" from other timelines (Archer in Fate/Stay
Night is the perfect example) there is a high probability that an Arturia
would end up there. however since she would have memories of previous Holy
Grail Wars/Attempts probably the only way to tell you have summoned Arturia
herself or a clone is to ask if she ever got a Holy Grail before.

* * *

as a final note, since Fate/Labyrinth was made well after Fate/Stay Night and
without knowing when in Arturia's own timeline she would have shown up there
(ie. would she have remembered Waver from the 4th War as Waver would remember
her?) i would speculate that in the Fate Route she wouldn't have any memories
of the events in Fate/Labyrinth.


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