Talk:Sherlock Holmes/@comment-115.72.228.66-20171127013852/@comment-28209103-20171127025048

That is a pretty popular misconception, the requirement for ruler class is that they should never have any wish of their own to the grail so that they won't desire the grail for themselves when summoned and they have to be impartial to both side.

The biggest question ofc is that how Shirou could qualify as a ruler, not only he wanted the grail for himself he's someone who violate the most basic ruler role as the guardian of  the rule that the dead (heroic spirit) do not lead the living.. AFAIK the novel lightly said the reason he's summoned is because he's the person closest to saint on the far east.

This is just a hypothesis but probably the requirement for ruler are not absolute.. someone who seems to be impartial and don't have wish of their own.. saint by definition in nasuverse are that because they're agent of Gaia, contacted by the world as medium when the world need help (at least it's true in Jeanne case) therefore to put it bluntly they're convenient puppet for the world.

or maybe this is just another case of shoehorning stuff for FGO.. it's just that it is suggested in apo several time like the case with Amakusa that saint are good fit for ruler..