Manaka Sajyou
沙条愛歌
Ayaka's older sister who fought and died as Saber's Master during the previous Holy Grail War. Highly regarded as a genius magus, her father had great expectations for her to win the War and to bring her family ever closer to the Root. Her level of talent would cause Ayaka (who had little talent for magecraft) to develop a superiority complex towards her. Over the course of the War Manaka would become attached to her Servant to the point of obsession, discussing the War and the Grail itself as they fought together. It would be later revealed that she had no intention of using the Grail's wish-granting power to reach the Root as her father desired. Having been born with a connection to the Root itself, Manaka would find her father's goal of reaching the Root "boring" and would instead offer human sacrifices to the Grail in an effort to raise the "Beast" (the Beast from the Book of Revelations), fulfilling the original purpose of Heaven's Feel (The Holy Grail War) to begin with. Realizing her true intentions and dark methods however, her Servant would stab her from behind at the end of the War, barely saving Ayaka from being sacrificed as their father already had and watching Manaka
