<p>When Kinoko Nasu first wrote <em>Fate/stay night</em> in college, it was called <em>Old Fate</em> (旧Fate) and <em>Fate Origin</em> and was reimagined later to be <a href="http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/Prototype#Development" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fate/Prototype</a>. Nasu only wrote what would become the game's Fate Route.</p>
<p>There is speculation on what meaning there is behind the name, i.e.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>&quot;Fate&quot; may refer to the fate of the servants like Saber accepting her fate in her life or the Fate of the magi that battle each other in the war.</p>
</li>
<li><p>&quot;Stay&quot; may refer to the desire to keep the servants like with Shirou and Saber, it may refer to making something remain or <em>stay</em> like the reason why Shiro enters the war in both <em>Fate/stay night</em> and <em>Fate/hollow ataraxia</em> was to keep the peace in the town, or in Heaven's Feel Route which is like the ultimate climax to the game how Zouken wanted Heaven's Feel to become Immorality but without his body rotting. In <em>Fate/Extra</em>, Twice H. Pieceman had changed the Moon Cell's selection process to be a war believing humanity requires war to advance and evolve, he wanted Hakuno Kishinami and every other Master who appeared at the Moon Cell's core to wish for the perpetuation of war (stay in war)</p>
</li>
<li><p>&quot;Night&quot; could refer to how the battles mainly occurred during the night or the darkness behind the war (In <em>Prototype</em>, the Heaven's Feel system was meant to materialize Beast; or in <em>Fate/stay night</em>, Angra Mainyu's corruption of the grail)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Another theory is that the &quot;Fate&quot; part was taken from his original work, &quot;/stay night&quot; was just added to sound cool like with <em>Kara no Kyoukai</em> (空の境界, lit. Boundary of Emptiness) - <em>The Garden of Sinners</em> or <em>Tsukihime</em> (月姫, lit. Moon Princess).</p>
<p>Ref: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59048&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;start=15" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Anime News Network Forum - So why is Fate/Stay Night called...Fate/Stay Night?</a></p>

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Have you ever thought that "Night" could also be fancy (Nasu) wordplay on "Knight?"
кяαzєя
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@Krazer yeh, could be. Arthur either way was the King of Knights and every notable Saber has been in some way related to Arturia (Nero, Mordrid, Gwain)
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Memor-X
<p>It's probably related to the different routes of the game.</p>
<p>Shirou at some point in time asks either Rin or Sakura to stay at his house that night to keep them safe. Hence the &quot;stay night&quot; in the name.</p>
<p>The &quot;Fate&quot; part may mean how Shirou's decision on asking one of them to stay at his house affects his fate/destiny. So it's like, &quot;fate&quot; is decided by whom you ask to &quot;stay night&quot; with. But that's just my theory.</p>

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<p>This answer is just mainly based off of <strong><em>speculation</em></strong>.</p>

<p>Although the creators intention aren't actually really know well that much, here are some common theories that were put together as to what the Stay/Night might mean.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Some think that it may be related to some of the light novels because
  of their hentai-ish side. Which was where the (Stay/Night) might
  have came from. The theorie thinks that it might mean "Stay the Night" sexually implied. [Unlikely, but maybe]</p>
</blockquote>

<hr>

<blockquote>
  <p>Another theory is that it just sounded cool and the producers just
  choose it because it sounded cool. [Unlikely, but maybe]</p>
</blockquote>

<hr>

<blockquote>
  <p>Theory number three was that the name may be related to the other
  seasons. [Possible]</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Mostly since this is just speculation, this answer is definitely not accurate but I have included some things that may help in answering your question. Hope it helped.</p>

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I read the first theory but i kinda discounted that one because Fate/Stay Night to my view isn't nukige and we've seen in Realta Nua that it's just as good without any H Scenes in it
Memor-X
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Curious, what do you mean by "related to the other seasons"? you mean like Fate/Zero, Fate/Hollow Atarxia and Fate/Extra?
Memor-X
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@Memor-X- Yeah, kind of in a way. You can edit it if you want. My answer is just mainly based on the most commonly thought about ideas to as to where the Fate/Stay Night came from.
Izumi-reiLuLu
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Izumi-reiLuLu
<p>We've all heard of <em>Fate/stay night</em>, the much-beloved visual novel by Type-Moon that taught us that people die when they're killed. </p>

<p><strong>But what does the title "Fate/stay night" actually <em>mean</em>?</strong> We can assume for the moment that "Fate" is just a designator for the series (hence <em>Fate/Zero</em>, <em>Fate/Extra</em>, etc.), but I'm still somewhat baffled as to what "stay night" could possibly be. </p>

<p>(Nobody on the internet seems to know, and I figure the ultimate answer is probably "it sounds cool", but I thought I'd put this out there anyway.)</p>

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Actually, I think the "cool" factor overweighed the "sense making" part.
Hakase
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"people die when they're killed" lol, nope, still aint true here, the Heaven's Feel Magic can recreate the soul, Saber coming back as Alter-Saber and the fact (almost) very servant died in the past. also outside Fate/Stay Night and in the Nasuverse as a whole, Brunestud of the Crimson Moon can come back to life through Arcueid or Altrouge and The Dark Six will be revived though the Aylesbury Valesti. and there's Rao
Memor-X
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Just the "Steins;Gate" has no deeper meaning, Nasu probably just felt like using some gratuitous Engrish. Like  "Crimson night & Celsion moon, misfiction, not save the Player is Prayer, yes, Dance Romanesque and unfinished Romancia" from Melty Blood ReAct or "blue blue glass moon under the crimson air" from the original Melty Blood.
кяαzєя
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@кяαzєя Amusingly, a [Steiner Chain](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SteinerChain.html) is a real thing in math - a set of successively tangent circles that returns to its beginning, all mutually tangent to a central and outer circle. If you feel like being poetic, you might imagine the central circle to be a gate - a "Gate of Steiner".
linkhyrule5
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Also I think "blue blue glass moon" started in Tsukihime, but I may be wrong.
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What, exactly, is "Fate/stay night" supposed to mean?
# What, exactly, is "Fate/stay night" supposed to mean?
Posted by: username_0 on 2014-05-02
We've all heard of *Fate/stay night*, the much-beloved visual novel by Type-Moon that taught us that people die when they're killed.

**But what does the title "Fate/stay night" actually *mean*?** We can assume for the moment that "Fate" is just a designator for the series (hence *Fate/Zero*, *Fate/Extra*, etc.), but I'm still somewhat baffled as to what "stay night" could possibly be.

(Nobody on the internet seems to know, and I figure the ultimate answer is probably "it sounds cool", but I thought I'd put this out there anyway.)
**Tags:** fate-stay-night
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Actually, I think the "cool" factor overweighed the "sense making" part.  
> **username_2**: "people die when they're killed" lol, nope, still aint true here, the Heaven's Feel Magic can recreate the soul, Saber coming back as Alter-Saber and the fact (almost) very servant died in the past. also outside Fate/Stay Night and in the Nasuverse as a whole, Brunestud of the Crimson Moon can come back to life through Arcueid or Altrouge and The Dark Six will be revived though the Aylesbury Valesti. and there's Rao  
> **username_3**: Just the "Steins;Gate" has no deeper meaning, Nasu probably just felt like using some gratuitous Engrish. Like  "Crimson night & Celsion moon, misfiction, not save the Player is Prayer, yes, Dance Romanesque and unfinished Romancia" from Melty Blood ReAct or "blue blue glass moon under the crimson air" from the original Melty Blood.  
> **username_4**: @кяαzєя Amusingly, a [Steiner Chain](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SteinerChain.html) is a real thing in math - a set of successively tangent circles that returns to its beginning, all mutually tangent to a central and outer circle. If you feel like being poetic, you might imagine the central circle to be a gate - a "Gate of Steiner".  
> **username_4**: Also I think "blue blue glass moon" started in Tsukihime, but I may be wrong.  
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## 3 answers
### Answer by username_2 on 2014-05-02. Score: 4
When Kinoko Nasu first wrote *Fate/stay night* in college, it was called *Old Fate* (旧Fate) and *Fate Origin* and was reimagined later to be [Fate/Prototype](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/Prototype#Development). Nasu only wrote what would become the game's Fate Route.

There is speculation on what meaning there is behind the name, i.e.

* "Fate" may refer to the fate of the servants like Saber accepting her fate in her life or the Fate of the magi that battle each other in the war.
* "Stay" may refer to the desire to keep the servants like with Shirou and Saber, it may refer to making something remain or *stay* like the reason why Shiro enters the war in both *Fate/stay night* and *Fate/hollow ataraxia* was to keep the peace in the town, or in Heaven's Feel Route which is like the ultimate climax to the game how Zouken wanted Heaven's Feel to become Immorality but without his body rotting. In *Fate/Extra*, Twice H. Pieceman had changed the Moon Cell's selection process to be a war believing humanity requires war to advance and evolve, he wanted Hakuno Kishinami and every other Master who appeared at the Moon Cell's core to wish for the perpetuation of war (stay in war)
* "Night" could refer to how the battles mainly occurred during the night or the darkness behind the war (In *Prototype*, the Heaven's Feel system was meant to materialize Beast; or in *Fate/stay night*, Angra Mainyu's corruption of the grail)

Another theory is that the "Fate" part was taken from his original work, "/stay night" was just added to sound cool like with *Kara no Kyoukai* (空の境界, lit. Boundary of Emptiness) - *The Garden of Sinners* or *Tsukihime* (月姫, lit. Moon Princess).

Ref: [Anime News Network Forum - So why is Fate/Stay Night called...Fate/Stay Night?](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59048&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15)
> **Comments:**
> **username_3** (2014-05-05): Have you ever thought that "Night" could also be fancy (Nasu) wordplay on "Knight?"  
> **username_2** (2014-05-05): @Krazer yeh, could be. Arthur either way was the King of Knights and every notable Saber has been in some way related to Arturia (Nero, Mordrid, Gwain)  
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### Answer by username_5 on 2019-07-29. Score: 1
It's probably related to the different routes of the game.

Shirou at some point in time asks either Rin or Sakura to stay at his house that night to keep them safe. Hence the "stay night" in the name.

The "Fate" part may mean how Shirou's decision on asking one of them to stay at his house affects his fate/destiny. So it's like, "fate" is decided by whom you ask to "stay night" with. But that's just my theory.
---
### Answer by username_6 on 2014-05-02. Score: 0
This answer is just mainly based off of ***speculation***.

Although the creators intention aren't actually really know well that much, here are some common theories that were put together as to what the Stay/Night might mean.

> Some think that it may be related to some of the light novels because
> of their hentai-ish side. Which was where the (Stay/Night) might
> have came from. The theorie thinks that it might mean "Stay the Night" sexually implied. [Unlikely, but maybe]

---

> Another theory is that it just sounded cool and the producers just
> choose it because it sounded cool. [Unlikely, but maybe]

---

> Theory number three was that the name may be related to the other
> seasons. [Possible]

Mostly since this is just speculation, this answer is definitely not accurate but I have included some things that may help in answering your question. Hope it helped.
> **Comments:**
> **username_2** (2014-05-04): I read the first theory but i kinda discounted that one because Fate/Stay Night to my view isn't nukige and we've seen in Realta Nua that it's just as good without any H Scenes in it  
> **username_2** (2014-05-04): Curious, what do you mean by "related to the other seasons"? you mean like Fate/Zero, Fate/Hollow Atarxia and Fate/Extra?  
> **username_6** (2014-05-04): @Memor-X- Yeah, kind of in a way. You can edit it if you want. My answer is just mainly based on the most commonly thought about ideas to as to where the Fate/Stay Night came from.  
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