"Well of course there have been," Chiyo says, thinking of the documentations of the previous two Grail wars that she'd poured over when she'd first joined the Tohsaka family. "It's usually a marker of a high powered servant. Usually the Rider class comes with their mount, which is sentient most of the time. Phantasms can also be area-effective, passive, or long-running. It's a highly flexible term, 'noble phantasm'." She snaps her fingers in rememberence. "The Assassin class, in the second Grail War, was summoned as not one, but dozens of members of the Hashashin, for example. All equally the same servant, not phantasms."
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Date: 2012-09-10 09:41 pm (UTC)