Talk:Encounter in the Dark Night/@comment-33759490-20190113003434/@comment-761437-20190124004133

It's because "Alter" is a vague term with many interpretations. For the majority of them, it's when their Spirit Origins are altered by something, usually involving the grail in some way - Angra through Sakura who's acting as the psuedo-Grail in that route, or a wish from Gilles and Medb. Then there's Emiya Alter who's just a version of Emiya who went full muderhobo on a cult, so it's more like Dark Emiya rather than the original meaning of Alter.

So we MIGHT have gotten Cuzerker, because the version of him given from Medb's wish MIGHT be what would have happened to him if he were corrupted by Angra in HF anyway, or we might not have, who knows!