Archer's First Master

The Master of Archer is part of a lineage that has begun to stagnate. While not an insignificant family in the Mage's Association hierarchy, their power had begun to wane, fading in the same manner as those like the Makiri. Due to his son having even less potential than himself, he began to greatly worry and felt the need for more drastic measures rather than simply working to strengthen his power normally due to the likelihood of his family losing touch with magecraft altogether. He could not use normal means to bring about greater successors because only those of a powerful bloodline could procure a method of doing so in the first place. He was a true magus in every respect, but not enough to secure his bloodline. He began to hear rumors about the False Holy Grail War, an imitation of the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars, but thought nothing more of it until the report from Langal. Deciding to bet everything on the ritual, he killed his son because he had no future and killed his wife when she tried to stop him. He decided to blame her for not being able to produce a viable heir, feeling nothing for her as she was simply the "best woman he could obtain with his current rank" in the Association.