2006-01-21, 00:54	Link #56
roan Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004	b and c are slightly wrong. Spoiler: a pact is made with the "world" (the world of humans, alaya, etc). in exchange for power or something else, the "world" gets to use the soul of the contractee as a "counter-guardian". for arthuria, it was getting a grail before she dies; for emiya it was power. these type of spirits fall into 2 different classes. the one's that aren't worshipped or have little divine blood in them fall into the counter-guardian class. the role of counter-guardians is to clean up the results of a man-made disaster, meaning, they kill everything in sight.