The Grail itself also summons Ruler to act as a mediator of the Holy Grail War.
The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, but all but one are instantly slaughtered by Lancer of Black.
Plot Concept: The setting of Fate/Apocrypha is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail was removed from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War and disappeared for many years.
The series will be directed by Yoshiyuki Asai based on the series composition by Yuichiro Higashida, who wrote the original work.