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Similar to [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/22081/1587), but
focusing only on the Servants of the 4th Holy Grail War featured in
_Fate/Zero_.

Likewise, it would be also be good to list when the Servants were summoned if
possible, though I am unsure if there was any date notation of any Servant's
summoning to use as an approximation unlike that of Saber's summoning in
_Fate/Stay Night_.


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In what order were the Servants summoned for the 4th Holy Grail War?


Based on skimming the light novel and the Wikia, this is what I could come up
with about the summoning order of the Servants in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
Fate/Zero doesn't give actual dates, but it does count down the hours until
the start of the Holy Grail War, although the novel only gives them at the
start of a chapter, so there's a certain amount of imprecision. We also don't
know exactly when Assassin and Lancer are summoned, since those summonings
happen offscreen, although we have some pretty clear indications of where
their summonings fall relative to the other Servants.

Assassin is summoned first. This is mentioned in Act 1, Part 3 of the first
novel. It happens offscreen, sometime before that chapter, so we don't have an
exact time, but Kirei tells Tokiomi that according to Risei, whose ability to
detect Servant summonings is infallible, no other Servants have been summoned.

Rider, Berserker, Saber, and Archer are all summoned in Act 1, Part 5, which
takes place at -268:22:30. Their summonings are stated to be "almost
simultaneous" and no exact times are given.

As far as I can tell, Lancer is summoned near this time as well, but we don't
see his summoning onscreen. I give my reasons for thinking so below.

Caster is summoned in Act 2, Part 3, which takes place at -222:24:48, about
two days after the summonings of Rider, Berserker, Saber, and Archer.

It isn't clear exactly where Lancer's summoning falls. We know it was after
Assassin's, but we don't know how much time it took Kayneth to discover that
Waver had stolen his artifact and prepare a different summoning. But after
stealing the scrap of Alexander's mantle from Kayneth, Waver runs off, flies
to Japan, and sets himself up in a house before summoning Rider. It probably
took Kayneth around that much time to make his own preparations. Also, the
first time we see Lancer is just after Saber and Irisviel arrive in Japan.
Saber is summoned at the Einzbern Castle in Germany, and she and Irisviel
arrive in Japan by plane in Act 3 Part 2 at -167:27:03. They meet and battle
Lancer that very night, so Kayneth, who flew in from England, must have
arrived around the same time or a little earlier. So my sense is that Lancer
was summoned around the same time that Rider, Berserker, Saber, and Archer
were summoned. It may have been a little earlier since Kayneth _was_ already
in Japan when Iri and Saber arrived, but I don't think it could have been
later.

So, in the end, we arrive at this list:

  1. Assassin
  2. Lancer (?)
  3. Rider / Berserker / Saber / Archer ("almost simultaneously")
  4. Caster (two or so days later)


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