

Regarding the question that was asked before:  
**[Do Emiya Shirou and Arturia ever meet again after Fate/stay
night?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7297/do-emiya-shirou-and-
arturia-ever-meet-again-after-fate-stay-night)**

> In the Visual Novel of Fate Stay/Night Realta Nua once you have seen all 5
> endings a new ending appears accessible from the title screen call -Last
> Episode-, this is in 2 parts, a Monologue of the Fate Route and a second
> part where Arturia is hearing from Merlin about a miracle achievable by 2
> people, one who "wait endlessly" and one who "pursue endlessly", eventfully
> the pursuer will stop when they reach the waiter.
>
> What Merlin is referring to is Arturia waiting and Shirou pursueing,
> eventually Shirou reaches Avalon where Arturia is sleeping and the 2 finally
> reunite, it's not entirely sure how long it took Shirou to reach Avalon
> however considering that Avalon transcends all magic including the 5 Magics
> **it must have taken an eternity for Shirou to reach.**

Obviously if it took them an eternity to meet, it's common sense that it never
happened.

So my theory is that there are two options for this occasion:

  1. The author's definition of eternity is something different from what is known to the public.
  2. That it was some sort of an inside joke to troll the audience who desperately want to see them reunite.

Is there any official statement about how long **eternity** is according to
the Fate Stay/Night series?  
Are there even any clues on which to base some sort of speculation on the
matter?  
Or maybe the light novel perhaps mentions something about it.

I really want to know how much Saber had to suffer in order to finally meet
with Shirou.  
(IMO after all she's been through, she has suffered quite enough already).


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How long was Saber waiting for Shirou after she died?


[Avalon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon) is

> the domain of fairies... the unreachable utopia that Arthur dreamed of and
> was said to have gone to after her death.

In the [Fate Route](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Arturia#Fate), after Saber
vanished and returned to her own time, we see a shot of Arturia and Bedivere.
It's assumed that from Arturia's line

> I think I will sleep much longer this time...

that this occurs after Bedivere third and final attempt to return Excalibur to
the Lady of the Lake, as in the previous two attempts, when he was ordered to
return the sword, he lied about returning it, knowing that by doing so Arturia
would have died. So Arturia died and went to Avalon. Given it's a utopia I
don't think Saber would be suffering.

Now Shiro is shown at the end of _-Last Episode-_ to be hugging Arturia and he
wa wearing the shroud Archer wore (though now in a different style), so they
did meet up. This is why _-Last Episode-_ is seen as the True End of the Fate
Route, because Shiro and Arturia are finally together in the end. However,
because Avalon transcends all magic, including the 5 Magics, of which [The
Fifth's](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Magic#The_Fifth_Magic) domain is
suspected to be time travel (but Touko says [The
Second](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Magic#The_Second_Magic) governs time
travel, so I am assuming that Avalon transcends time, or at least out
conception of time), so despite the fact that Arturia died long in the past
before Shiro was even born, we can't be totally sure that she waited the same
equivalent amount of time for Shirou to even be born.

Shiro may have died to before being reunited, or he may have extended his life
as [some Magi do](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Souren_Araya) (without
becoming a Dead Apostle). There's a series of H Dojinshin (fan made) which
would assume that little time has passed since the time Shiro went to bring
Arturia back. (One set has him and Arturia have sex in Avalon when they
reunited, while in the next set, they are back in Fuyuki living together with
Rin and Sakura visiting).

To my knowledge, it's not indicated how Shiro got to Avalon since we only know
the conditions of the Miracle Shiro and Arturia achieved. I used eternity as a
means to indicate an immeasurable amount of time, since given Shiro's
Magecraft abilities, had he developed something to allow him to reach Avalon,
it would have taken him a hell lot of time. After all, the ultimate ambition
of every Magi is to reach the root, which can take generations to complete,
since it took that long for the Tohsaka's to get close to properly using the
Second Magic.


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