

When all seven layers are active, it can block city-destroying attacks. Rho Aias: A seven-layered energy shield used by the hero Aias.When fired as a Broken Phantasm, it turns into a hypersonic magical bullet that homes in on its target. Hrunting: The sword used by the English hero Beowulf.Archer usually modifies it into an arrow and fires it as a Broken Phantasm, which can decimate a whole cemetery in one shot. Caladbolg: A demonic spiral sword wielded by an Irish hero.Bow: Used by Archer to fire arrows and Broken Phantasms.They cost little mana to project, making them ideal weapons for Archer, and if one is thrown while the other is held, the thrown sword will return to Archer's hand like a boomerang. Kanshou and Bakuya: Archer's signature weapons, a pair of dual swords that represent Yin and Yang.


While inside Unlimited Blade Works, Archer can create countless copies of every weapon he's seen, which he can telekinetically control and fire as projectiles. Archer can bring Unlimited Blade Works into the real world, transporting himself and everyone around him into it.

However, Emiya eventually found out that his job mostly consisted of cleaning up humanity's messes, giving him a jaded and nihilistic world view. Shirou made a contract with the world to become a Heroic Spirit after his death so he could be summoned to protect and save others. After entering and winning the Fifth Holy Grail War, seven mages each summoned a spirit from the past to fight for them in a tournament for the Holy Grail, which granted the winner one wish. His guilt from being the only survivor of the fire, along with Kiritsugu's dreams of being a hero, led to Shirou wanting to become a hero of justice so he could save everyone in danger, even after Kiritsugu's death. Archer is Shirou Emiya, a child who was saved from a fire by a magus assassin named Kiritsugu Emiya, though his parents were killed in the inferno and Kiritsugu adopted him.
