Name: Su Daji

Title: The Cruel Mistress of Zhou, Daji, Nine-Tailed Fox

Class: Assassin

Gender: Female

Birth and Death Dates: Lived approximately 1070-1045 BC

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Catalyst: A Bloodied Nail from China. The amount of suffering its inflicted is enough to render it a 'Cursed' item.

Personality:
Su Daji is very much a spoiled princess, one who was never denied anything in all this world. Thus she can be very vain and entitled to the point if anyone denies her she can become unreasonably angry. Morality and obligation to her Master mean nothing to her to the point where one could call Assassin a very dangerous Servant to possess.

Impressive and potentially game breaking if used correctly but finding common ground with her can be very difficult because of her mindset. Command Spells are something a Master must use wisely around such a risky servant if they are to prevail in a Grail War with her.

If catered to and pampered she is much more ready to listen and comply with her Master's orders. She loves, desires, and takes what she wants freely without regard for others but will in these cases try to be considerate so long as they don't overstep on what she desires to do. Certain Masters that indulge her could become something that she possessively covets and hoards like the finest gold but these cases are VERY few and far between. This is because of the moral stigma that has plagued the world and her impossibly self serving nature.

Reasonable demands of her would be 'Don't kill in broad daylight', 'Don't reveal magic to society', and 'Don't leave any evidence of your activities'. As they don't chain her down to absolute obedience she is much more willing to follow these commands. Any who try to treat her as a mere tool or enslave her will often times meet an unfortunate end.

Appearance:


Bio: Su Daji was born a normal girl. When she was of age she was sent to be a Concubine of the Lord Zhou due to transgressions of her father or simply because of the greed of the Emperor. Zhou was immediately smitten with her and repeatedly neglected his duties to be with her. As time went on the King began to skew policy and tact he did anything to be with and please Daji including building a massive zoo, composing lewd music, and created a 'pond' of wine all to make his concubine happy.

He indulged Daji in her every desire and protected her from any ill will that came of such devotion. When one of the other concubines protested against Daji she was executed. Further her father was killed, ground into pieces, and fed to Zhou's vassals as a warning for anyone who dared speak out against the daughter of Su.

Free to enact her every desire Daji found that she enjoyed the cries of other people, the way they squirmed and protested at pain. She created a great many devices and ritualistic methods to inflict pain on others with the grand money and influence of her love Zhou. After the fall of the Shang dynasty under the orders of King Wu of Zhou, and was recorded into the throne of heroes as an Anti-hero infamous for torture.

The late novel known as the Fengshen Yanyi glamorized Daji as a malevolent Fox Spirit who consumed a human girl's soul to get close to Zhou. She appears as a prevalent antagonist and magician who moved the country towards ruin with her wiles. This was so widely accepted more than a millennia later that Daji became tainted with fox traits to reflect this acceptance.

Strength - D
Endurance - D
Agility - A
Magical Energy - B
Luck - D
Noble Phantasm - C

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COMBAT

Class Skills:
Presence Concealment - B++
Hides one's presence as a Servant. Suitable for spying. It is possible to disappear and become extremely difficult to be detected. The rank of presence concealment drops considerably when preparing to attack. This is infinitely more effective when Assassin is making use of her 'Xūjiǎ Bàoshí' Noble Phantasm after seizing a human host. When this occurs she is indistinguishable from a regular person, able to interact and even speak with an opposing servant/master pair without the slightest cause for alarm.
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Personal Skills:

Innocent Monster - C
Su Daji was a young girl of noble descent who was abducted by the Emperor Zhou of China. Though history tells of her origins and history in detail it is widely accepted that on her way to the Emperor's kingdom she was possessed by a very powerful and evil nine-tailed fox spirit. Other stories tell of the goddess Nüwa ordering the fox spirit to punish Zhou in exchange for immortality, and that spirit devoured Daji and took her form as its own. The 'legend' that Daji was a Nine-tailed fox spirit has become so prolific that it overshadows her actual history and has branded Assassin with this skill.

While born a plain human in life the acknowledgement of her being a Fox Spirit has altered Assassin in various ways. The most obvious change is that she possesses both Fox ears and multiple tails that set her apart from most servants. Her skills have also adjusted to fit this image that humanity has branded upon her legend. In particular this has granted her a the skill 'Witchcraft' that reproduces the mischievous magical abilities Fox spirits (also known in China as Huli Jing) are known to have in Chinese mythology, something she lacked in life. Due to her historically cruel nature being closely in line with this alteration of her myth this skill has an average rank. Stories were fabricated to proliferate and glamorize her inhumanity and eventually changed her from a human into a more evil and mysterious entity in the minds of humankind.

Witchcraft - B
A magecraft strictly for inflicting physical ailments as well as tampering with another's fate by injecting one's own energies into them. While Assassin's container has limited her expertise she still has enough prowess to excel in using her magical prowess to torment her victims. While she can use this to 'hex' a target so their only come into contact with misfortune she more enjoys cursing her enemies physically. This can induce things
such as boiling one's insides, complete fatigue, or actualizing the target's death. Since its merely manipulating one's energies into a particular form it can typically be performed at the speed of Single action to One-count. High-Thaumaturgy is exempt from this time frame and requires considerable preparation to realize.

Torture Techniques - A
A skill that represents one's possession of outstanding torture techniques. Plus modifiers are added when using torture tools to deal damage. Since it is a skill that focuses and elevates bloodshed and pain it causes any wound she inflicts to inflict constant damage to the target. One could call it an advanced level of 'bleeding' that goes beyond physical damage. This can affect even spiritual entities if they return to spiritual form, but the amount of continuous damage is quite low. It can be offset with healing magic since it is a thing that 'restores one to a normal state'.

Descent Unto Malice - B
Is the degradation of one's rational due to the fervent enjoyment in another's suffering. Assassin enjoys pain and torment, so much that the more she experiences it the less she can control her urges to inflict wounds upon others. This skill functions very similarly to Mad Enhancement with the exception that instead of taking full effect all at once it is a gradually inversion in physical to mental capabilities. Further, while her rationality and restrain is gradually lost she still maintains her individuality as well as all of her cognitive functions.

While normally very cunning and wise, if not rash and impulsive, Daji can't contain her love for cries of pain and the sight of cruelty. The more she inflicts wounds or causes suffering to another the harder she becomes to control and the less reasoning that she exhibits. At its peak effect Assassin will rank up all her parameters, but she cannot use any other Skills or Noble Phantasms as she enters frenzied euphoria. The only exception is if she used her Noble Phantasm to inflict the wound, since it makes one forget the tools they have, but does not release the 'whip' from their grip.

In this state she forgoes all sense of strategy and reserve, her attacks being delivered without any hesitation to her own safety or limits. Even her form will change slightly to reflect her more bestial desire. A command spell is required to break her away from combat when she devolves into this mindset, but is also very risky to a Master as the displeasure of spoiling her enjoyment might be reflected back unto her Master. This can make it very hard to control Assassin even outside of combat as she enjoys indulging in her addiction to cause misfortune and pain, becoming more and more devoted to the craft the more she experiences it. In these cases she still listens to reasoning (Whether or not she chooses to obey is another matter) but the more time goes on the harder it becomes to control her sadistic tendencies.
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Noble Phantasm(s):

Xūjiǎ Bàoshí: The Insatiable Hunger of the Nine-Tails - D+
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1-30
Maximum Targets: 1

Reenacts the great fox spirit's act of consuming Daji's soul. Upon activation she consumes the target's soul, converting it into magical energy, and roosts her own in its place. Since the Soul, Body, and Mind are all separate entities despite being interlinked, she gains access to all benefits of the latter two. This is especially useful when talking about the mind and the information that is stored within. Upon possession of her new physical body she gains the ability to draw on all memories, knowledge, and experience that have been compiled over the target's lifetime. Naturally this allows her to use these memories to more easily reproduce her new form's personality as well as being able to replicate any abilities they might have since she possesses the knowledge of 'how' to use them. This is a powerful, ancient curse of consumption that is intended to work on mortal beings and as such is useless against other spiritual being such as Servants, since they have no mortal body to speak of instead having to materialize one to interact with the world.

This Noble Phantasm targets a human in her near vicinity and consumes their soul and then takes over their body. It cannot be overcome except with the most powerful of mysteries. Objects that offer resistance to possession are useless since it this is not a spiritual attack of coexistence but of consumption. Upon completion the target will die instantly as the makeup of their Soul is reduced to mere prana for Assassin. This prevents them from being revived even if were Assassin were to perish since the makeup of their soul is no longer in this world in a finite form. Since this is 'not possession' but instead the replacement of the soul The World doesn't see Daji as out of place and she can remain in the world with much lower cost. Due to not having to materialize her body and also not having to fight The World's corrective impulses Assassin's upkeep is reduced by significantly while inside of a human body. Even if the Grail War were to end she could remain in this world without being erased due to this recognition so longs she had a source of Mana.

Since the obtained body houses a Soul not degrade over time, since there is no original soul trying to withstand the nature of a Heroic spirit. The Mind and Body do no attempt to reject Daji's essence. It is still a mere mortal trapping so she cannot display her full capabilities as a Heroic Spirit without destroying the flesh holding her. She can perform somewhat superhuman feats within the realm of common sense without compromising her body. If she were to perform servant levels of physical prowess she'd degrade her borrowed form, the more impressive the feat the more severe the damage to the Body. This breach to her container allows her spiritual essence to seep out into the world, disrupting her Presence Concealment and allowing other Servants to sense her. Only by mending her torn body or obtaining a new vessel can she restore her near perfect disguise as a human.

The Mind yields all information to Daji upon acquisition. She obtains all memories, information, and spells that were available to the target. Assassin can use the memories to replicate the personality of her 'host'. Its very convincing but not an absolute reproduction as anyone who's intimately familiar with the individual might deem they're slightly off. Any locations, contacts, or secrets the original Mind knew are intimately known to Assassin. Daji also obtains all knowledge of how to use relics, Mystic Codes, any magecraft and the ability to use any command spells that the target had. Any abilities that revolve exclusively around the Soul of the target cannot be replicated, such as Origins and Reality Marbles.

Juéduì De Zhémó: Freedom to Enact Endless Torture - C
Type: Anti-unit
Range: 1-40
Maximum Targets: 1

Daji throughout her life as a concubine/lover of Zhou was never deterred from her actions of cruelty. Forever she was pardoned from her actions and allowed an absolute right to indulge in her obsession. The king, his subjects, and even Nu Wa allowed the Fox Spirit free reign despite any moral obligation. This has manifested as a Noble Phantasm of torture that reflects her freedom to do as she wishes, manifesting her will as an absolute instrument for inflicting agony.

Upon calling out the name of this Noble Phantasm, Daji becomes able to exert her influence as a torturer without any hindrances. She merely has to call out what she wishes to inflict and her opponent is struck with a phantom pain. By inflicting her opponent with the pain of the desired injury, the world corrects the 'cause' and replicates the coveted result allowing it to become reality. It is similar to a the crimson spear of Cu Chulainn with one key difference. It CANNOT kill the opponent.

If Juéduì De Zhémó were to kill its target it would cease to be torture and instead elevate into a killing blow. As such she can only imagine and reproduce injuries that would NOT be immediately fatal, such as mangling the muscles in someone's arm, puncturing one of their lungs, or breaking all the bones in the target's leg. Effects such as twisting off one's head or rupturing the heart are not able to be realized with Juéduì De Zhémó due to them being exclusively death blows.

The 'attack' takes the form of an acknowledgement from the opponent. With a snap of her fingers she brings the targets attention to her and announces the pain she intends for the her victim to feel. As soon as the target imagines and fathoms the basis of its existence, the pain is inflicted on them through this Noble Phantasm. The world then corrects this 'feeling' into a real wound to correct any discrepancies in the laws of nature, namely cause and effect. Each subsequent activation still requires her to announce aloud the pain she wishes to inflict.

For as long as she provides the upkeep for this Noble Phantasm she can will any and all fathomable nonlethal injury on her opponent at the rate of 1 injury per 1 posts. Daji's intent bypasses things such as protections, natural laws, and direct physical proximity (Though the maximum range is approximately 20 meters). Noble Phantasms that revolve around mental resistances and physical durability will automatically reduce the damage by 1/4th for each rank above this one.

Since this is a mental pain recreated into the physical those with Mental protections receive great resistance to this Noble Phantasm as they interpret the wound to be 'not as severe'. In such cases Gaia acknowledges this and reproduces lesser damage. Heroes who can fight even on the verge of death can be said to have even greater resistances, such as those with 'Battle Continuation' since Juéduì De Zhémó cannot inflict a lethal blow.

Negating the effects of this torture completely is impossible due to The World inflicting the physical damage. but those with lower Endurance are affected by the sudden shift much greater than those who're able to withstand great wounds. The standard damage would be C rank damage for a C endurance opponent. Respectively this damage will increase greatly for each rank of Endurance below C and decreasing in effectiveness for each rank Endurance above C.

Name: Sarah Good

Title(s): First of Salem's Accused

Class: Avenger

Gender: Female

Birth and Death Dates: July 21, 1653-July 29, 1692

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Catalyst: A noose

Personality: Sarah is ruthless, to put it simply. If she sees someone as unjust or as an enemy, she will fight to destroy them by any means at her disposal. She is not one to toy with her opponent, so she tends to be brutal with her hexes and attacks to end it quickly. Despite being rather hearty given her life as a beggar, she does not opt for wars of attrition. The hatred of unjust action drives her to pursue and root out the unjust any time she can find them.
Outside of combat, she will open up some if an ally is nearby. She is capable of being rather kind and almost nurturing to her friends and allies. She will focus upon healing her companions and then likely cook a meal for anyone that needs food. She will make jokes, though it often consists of dark, almost creepy, humor. This owes mostly to her status as an Avenger and the constant hatred she endures. The hatred spawned by her death and summoning does cause her to occasionally be irritable, thus often leading to her warning companions to leave her alone for a time.
Barring any needs for healing or food, Sarah passes her time by practicing her witchcraft or humming or singing quietly. While not a solitary person, she is introverted. She does not seek out interaction but will accept it if offered.
Sarah dislikes being treated as just a tool or as a killing machine. She will often comment upon being treated as such, forgoing politeness or social convention. She also does not tolerate mistreatment of companions or innocents.

Bio: Good was of a lower economic status, reduced to poverty due to the debt of her first husband, Daniel Poole. Accusers at the trials, especially in the trial of Sarah Good, often cited jealousy and envy as explanations for witches' discontent and anger. Her dependency on neighbors and others perpetuated suspicions of Good, and other dependent women like Good, that they were practicing witchcraft. Another theory behind the accusations was explained by her relationship with her husband and her neighbors. William Good claimed he feared that his wife was a witch due to "her bad carriage to him". She was accused by her neighbors because she challenged Puritan values. She was accused of possessing two women; the afflictions were often sporadic and inexplicable.
On March 25, 1692, Good was tried for witchcraft. She was accused of rejecting the puritanical expectations of self-control and discipline when she chose to torment and "scorn [children] instead of leading them towards the path of salvation". When she was brought in, the accusers immediately began to rock back and forth and moan, seemingly in response to Good's presence. Later in the trial, one of the accusers fell into a fit. When it had stopped, she claimed Good had attacked her with a knife; she even produced a portion of it, stating the weapon had been broken during the alleged assault. However, upon hearing this statement, a young townsman stood and told the court the piece had broken off his own knife the day before, and that the girl had witnessed it. He then revealed the other half, proving his story. After hearing this, Judge William Staughton simply scolded the girl for exaggerating what he believed to be the truth.

Although both Good and Sarah Osborne denied the allegations against them, Tituba admitted to being the "Devil's servant". She stated that a tall man dressed all in black came to them, demanding they sign their names in a great book. Although initially refusing, Tituba said, she eventually wrote her name, after Good and Osborne forced her to. There were six other names in the book as well but were not visible to her. She also said that Good had ordered her cat to attack Elizabeth Hubbard, causing the scratches and bite marks on the girl's body. She spoke of seeing Good with black and yellow birds surrounding her, and that Good had also sent these animals to harm the girls. When the girls began to have another fit, Tituba claimed she could see a yellow bird in Good's right hand. The young accusers agreed.

When Good was allowed the chance to defend herself in front of the twelve jurors in the Salem Village meeting house, she argued her innocence, proclaiming Tituba and Osborne as the real witches. In the end, however, Good was convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death. On July 29, 1692, Sarah Good was hanged along with four other women convicted of witchcraft. While the other four quietly awaited execution, Good firmly proclaimed her innocence. The Rev. Nicholas Noyes was persistent, but unsuccessful, in his attempts to force Good to confess. When she was found guilty by the judges, including Noyes, she yelled to him: "I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink". 25 years later, Noyes died from choking on his own blood.

Good was pregnant at the time of her arrest and gave birth to an infant in her cell in the jail in Ipswich. The infant died before her mother was hanged.

Weapon: Sarah has two lanterns that she uses as focii. The white lantern is used for her divination and healing. The black lantern provides focus for her hexes and curses as well as her basic attacks. Both are used in conjunction when casting her Noble Phantasm. Her primary means of attack consists of releasing targeted black miasma to eat away at her foe, causing necrosis of the flesh upon contact. At point blank range, she will breathe it out of her mouth. This miasma, while functionally the same, is the stronger of the two types of miasma and eats away faster. At longer range, she summons clouds of less concentrated miasma. This miasma also degrades non-living material as if it were rotting, corroding, or crumbling.
Her second weapon is actually her hair. It can grow or retract as needed, up to ten meters, and is strong as metal. It can grapple, hold and use objects, and stab foes. She has full control over it and can control up to 10 tendrils at the same time, with each tendril's hairs being moveable to simulate fingers as needed. To properly do minute manipulation, she must be watching the tendril in question. These tendrils can parry as any weapon of their strength. They can be cut and broken by sufficient strength.

Parameters:

Strength: D

Endurance: A

Agility: C

Mana: A

Luck: D

Class Skills:
Mana Replenishment E
Her burning hatred for the unjust sentence she received and the anger of being hanged results in her mana stores restoring, albeit relatively slowly compared to even other Avengers.
Memory Correction B
Her eternal hatred of the unjust combines with her willingness to do harm in any way necessary to allow her to strike harder and deadlier when dealing with other Americans, especially Abigail Williams.
Avenger C
Her hatred of the unjust yet lack of desire to cause innocent harm causes her Avenger skill to be lower than most other avengers. It still allows her to generate mana as normal, especially when harmed.

Personal Skills:

Witchcraft A: Despite not being a witch in life, her summoning as an Avenger granted her high levels of mastery over witchcraft of her time. She can perform divination, hexing/cursing, and healing. Her divinations focus upon scrying and the summoning of the dead to provide information, thus giving her more perspective, though often not highly specific or unbiased. Her hexes and curses function mostly to cripple opponents by temporarily reducing their attributes or sealing their skills temporarily. Her healing spells require more time than can be offered in battle, but she can mend anything up to mortal wounds. If a person would die from their wounds anyway, she cannot stop them from doing so. Her miasma attacks are part of her witchcraft.

Heretical Mind C: Her questioning of Puritan values partially led to her accusation and summary execution as a witch. Thus, this questioning offers her heightened resistance to mental attacks and enhanced damage against those that are highly religious.

Independent Manifestation B-: She can appear anywhere corruption of a Grail War or the murdering of innocents appear. She gains some resistance to instant death effects but not the resistance to time manipulation.

Noble Phantasm: "You will Drink Blood"

Rank: C

NP Type: Anti-Unit

Range: 1-10

Maximum Number of Targets: 1

Description: Upon her hanging, Sarah cursed one of the men by saying they would be given blood to drink. 25 years later, they died by drowning in their own blood. This Noble Phantasm takes that death hex and makes it far faster as well as far more effective on unjust targets. It will inflict a curse upon the target that causes them to cough and retch blood for the duration, their life force draining away within the expelled blood. Those that are unjust will suffer even more damage. The unjust are defined as any Servant, Master, or human that harms innocents and/or causes corruption to begin or spread. (Upfront moderate damage followed by a curse effect that deals damage over time as well as enhanced curse damage and initial damage on her hated targets)