"No, they didn't. No one else chosen for the ritual understood it, either. The Church thought that humanity's desire to be saved would create something beautiful, but there was so much greed, and hate, and sorrow in what they yearned for... It never would have baked into what they'd wanted.

"I always knew, though. I wasn't raised by the Holy Church, like you were with your Order. The Grail itself is what called out to me, marking me." She settled a hand on her chest again, expression softening into something almost tender as she spoke. "That's how it was for all seven of us. The Church wanted to use our greed for their own ends, to make us die and kill for their ritual... But since they didn't understand what they would be calling into the world, there was never a chance that things would end the way they'd hoped, anyway."