Talk:Vlad III (EXTRA)/@comment-5739199-20170101014817/@comment-47.186.90.189-20170827041907

Something interesting about Fate, and Type-Moon in general, is that EVERYTHING is canon, via alternate universes. That is why Arthur (Prototype) is male and Arturia is female. In addition to this, Heroic Spirits are stored in the Throne of Heroes, which is OUTSIDE of the alternate universes; any Master summoning a Servant will have access to EVERY Servant from EVERY alternate universe, unless said Servant has some reason they can't be summoned. After a Heroic Spirit is summoned, it then gets shaped into one of the Classes, which usually limit the Servant to certain things. This is why you can have Cu Chulainn as a Lancer or a Caster, and the two have different abilities they can use and different Noble Phantasms. Then, you can also summon different versions of a Heroic Spirit: for instance, with Cu again, you can summon the Fate/Prototype version of him, who is younger and doesn't yet have Gae Bolg and is also a little more naive.

This is how you can have Vlad III from Extra as a Lancer, Vlad III in Apocrypha as a Lancer that turns into Dracula / Berserker the more he gets pushed towards it and the Berserker form in Grand Order that is just the Apo Vlad but already turned into Dracula. Furthermore, Grand Order is a massive bending of the rules and allows nearly unlimited Servants, so naturally it is much more likely to summon multiples of the same Heroic Spirit that are in different classes available to that Servant.