Fate Apocrypha Collection. Beyond each of their wishes is where the “Apocrypha” is woven. The Black Faction seized the Greater Grail for the sake of the clan’s earnest wish to symbolize its independence from the Mage’s Association. The Mage’s association gathers the Red Faction in order to thwart such ambitions. Taking place in Trifas, Romania, the Great Holy Grail War that takes place between 14 Heroic Spirits summoned by the two factions transforms thanks to Shirou Kotomine, one ofthe Masters of the Red, who is also the Overseer for this Great War.