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The Stories Behind Fate/Apocrypha's Servants of Black

The Hundred Years' War – which her presence reframed as a religious conflict between Anglican England and Catholic France – coincided with a major turnaround in the conflict.

OK, just a few corrections on St. Joan of Arc since they are more glaring than one would expect.

First, the Hundred Year's War takes place a century before Henry VIII declared his supremacy over the Catholic Church in England (he was never a Protestant, it was the Church's reaction to his supremacy claim that lead to the creation of the Anglican Church (primarily Cromwell's trick to balance the budget by taking over Church property)), so both sides were Catholic.

Second, the charge of transvestism was actually the first to fall since the Church explicitly allowed women to dress as men when their job and/or safety required it (and Joan passed on both fronts). Men, on the other hand, were never allowed to cross dress which is why for the longest time actors were not allowed burial on hallowed ground. She was found guilty of idolatry (actually, she wasn't, the charges were reversed on appeal (after she was dead) because her lawyer had been threated and did not provide the appropriate counsel) by twisting her words and using them to claim she took the Archangel's words as God's rather than as God's messenger (really inside baseball stuff, that they had to resort to that shows how well she thought on her feet).

The trial and its appeal are well documented, so I would recommend anyone interested in medieval canon law and its relation to civil law (the Church could not condemn anyone to death (the Catholic Church does not allow it), it found them guilty of a capital charge, then the civil authorities would take the conviction and apply the death penalty).

Vlad III's portrayal in Fate/Apocrypha is an optimistic take on the historical figure. He's made out as a dedicated king whose brutal actions were all in service of defending his nation.

The errors in the Jeanne d'Arc segment have been corrected. I think. Post in here if there's anything I missed.

He thus falls into a familiar mold for Fate characters: the guy who tried too hard and died because it's humanly impossible to try that hard.

Chiron is the product of the titan Cronus impregnating a lady while shapeshifted into a horse, while the other centaurs were born because some other dude porked a cloud. (It's really impossible to predict the outcome of putting your dick in something when you're a mythological being.)

This Jack in particular represents someone's idea that the murders were an act of revenge by the spirits of all the unwanted babies drowned in the river Thames by Victorian London's many prostitutes. Yeah, not all theories are winners, but at least that explains why she's a little girl. (It does not explain why she doesn't wear pants.)

A bit late to the party, but posting to confirm Tamamo's "best girl" status.

Anyway, minor note about Chiron - he actually intentionally hides his centaur physiology because there's only so many famous centaurs. It'd basically make it extremely easy to figure out his identity for his enemies.

Of course, I'm pretty sure that bit is also only explained in supplementary materials.

It's stated in the show as well but THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT OKAY. #WeDeserveHorseButt

Was enjoying the piece until the Jack section where the repeated complaining about Jack not wearing pants wore on my nerves. I absolutely love her design both because I do like loli characters and it actually makes sense based off her backstory (She's the souls of dead children, both born and unborn. A lot of those children WERE prostitutes themselves and abused). I can understand not liking Jack because she's a skimpy clothed loli assassin but you didn't need to mention that more then once. Also feel like pointing out Jack and her backstory were literally the first characters created for Apocrypha as holdovers from an attempted Fate MMO game.