Hierarchy of Old Type-Moon
This is a brief summary of how various characters compared to each other in the older lore, before Fate and other retcons altered it into essentially a separate canon: ----- The Fount (or the One ) is the source of all existence and all possibilities. It is called “nothingness” because it cannot be fully defined in a single term: any attempt to name or think about it is already just one possibility sourced from it. The very act of describing it is a reduction of its greater whole, which is the paradox at the core of Kara no Kyoukai. The only characters who directly harness its true nature are Void Shiki and Ryougi Shiki in her self-hypnosis state. However, Void Shiki finds all things meaningless, while the self-hypnotized Ryougi dissolves into “nothing”, becoming a pure instrument of swordsmanship. Essentially, reaching the One grants near-perfection or near-omnipotence but dissolves the self entirely, because it cannot be grasped otherwise. Fro...