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-Going back to Case Files, Sanda, what are Fate Stay Night and Fate Zero to Case Files?
Sanda: Zero showed for the first time "People other than Nasu Kinoko can write the Type-Moon world" in other words, "you can write it too." To compare it to the Bible, Fate Stay Night is the old Testament and Fate Zero is the New Testament. Case Files is written to be read independently. Knowing the main outline for stay night and Zero will give you 90% of the in-jokes is how I wrote it. They're foundational.
-So there are a lot of people who are reading Case Files after completing Fate/Stay Night.
Sanda: No, now, there are probably a many people who know El-Melloi II from FGO rather than Fate/Stay Night. Also, I believe because of the anime there is a not an insignificant amount of people who know the outline of stay night.
Urobuchi: I thought that Fate/Zero was a story you couldn't understand without playing Fate/Stay Night. Suprisingly There are people coming to Fate through Fate/Zero. However, because it's a story that plays with the spoilers of Fate/Stay Night, unless you read stay night first there is a lot presented you won't understand or identify. That's why for a while I declined allowing anyone but Type-moon books to publish it.
where urobuchi dunks on the zero secondaries

-Touko's teacher, a Lord other than El-Melloi II makes an apperance.
Sanda: Creation Department's Lord, Inorai Valualeta Atroholm. Oh yeah, I think Kinoko names all the Type-moon characters important to the worldview. The name is important to him and there's are rules on how they are named. Inorai is something Kinoko decided.
In choosing Rail Zepplin, Sanda kind of went through process of elimination. Most mystery novels are theatrical. In Detachment Castle Adra, the curtain truly rises when they get to the castle. An incident occurs and the tension rises. From that Gray and El-Melloi II inviestgate and there's another incident. Finally there's a climax. When writing the script a TV anime, 6 eps couldn't come out of that.
This is also different from an action light novel. When Sanda writes one of those, There's a battle by page 50, another at 120, and the best battle on 180. The volume ends on 240. Making an anime with that is easier because you get a mini climax each episode. Adra and Iselma are more theatrical stories.
Rail Zepplin has all the actions but still you need previous knowledge like Gray's abilities, El-Melloi II's relationship with Reines and aspects of the classroom.

-Rider's Noble Phantasm Army of the King allows for the consecutive summoning of many Heroic Spirits that ran through the battlefield with him. It's an EX rank Anti-Army Noble Phantasm. Even within Zero it's described as something that departs from the beaten path.
Urobuchi: However, the balance doesn't collapse. There are Noble Phantasms that can wipe out "Army of the King." Even if you prepare a gaudy gimmick, there are gimmicks in this world that will counter yours. Therefore, the degree of freedom on the creator side is very high. There's no end once you get the knack for it. Once you lean into the worldview you can honestly just have fun writing whatever you want. That's the fun of writing a Fate novel.
Sanda: I'm different from the "self-indulgent" type, I like to take short instances of lore like words or phrases, receive and work out the details. For example the Mystic Eye Collection Train (a detail introduced in Mahou Tsukai no Yoru) only has its name mentioned. What the the Mystic Eye Auction fundamentally consisted of was not talked about in Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, where the term first appeared. So in using it for the stage of the third case file, Nasu took the lore out of his box and let me incorporate it into the story. For creators writing spin-offs, there are few things more rewarding.
Urobuchi: If he fleshed out all this interesting material there would be a lot of stories.
Sanda: It's quite curious. Furthermore, I thought that generally the Mystic Eye Collection Train was a delicious piece of lore however, at that point Kinoko had no intention of using. That's the charm, Type-Moon is a toy box that won't break even if other people flesh out the lore.

I've always been interested in the "Mystic Eyes Collection Train" as a concept for a mystery, but the fact that they went straight for that, probably just becuase it has a Servant and a main antagonist, doesn't inspire much faith.
From what I remember, there's at least a reference to Rita Rozay-en in those volumes, right?

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Same, more than anything else, I hope they get to that case.