Name: Jiao Yu, "Count of Dongning"

Class: Archer

Appearance:



Personality: Jiao Yu is a man of intellect and learning, a disciplined individual who seeks to cultivate his knowledge and aims to support the “greater good” as he sees ethically fit in a given situation. Kindness must be reciprocated for the right reasons to him, and generosity with generosity in his mind, whilst judgement must be personally exercised and cultivated to best make decisions at the right place and time. He is a loyal servant who believes in fulfilling his responsibility towards his master to fight for them, though through bad treatment or certain sorts of behavior he might see as “evil” a master of his could easily start to lose his diligent dedication and loyalty to them.

His opinion on gunpowder weapons is that "...the lives of the whole armed forces depend on the exact timing of these weapons. This is what fire-weapons are all about", which he feels can still apply even in modern times with modern weapons descended from those in his “Fire Dragon Manual”. His opinions about the emperor he served, as well as that of the man who co-edited the manual itself with him, generally are mixed and can vary from sad to pleasant when he talks about them. In the end, he will readily admit, he was just someone who sought to fight for his people and his nation for the right reasons at the right time, and who sought to push the use of the firearms more dominantly in combat in his home nation.

Stats:

Strength: D
Endurance: C
Agility: B
Mana: C
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: B

Class Skills:

Independent Action: B

-It is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for two days without a Master. However, this is the ideal value achieved by maximally conserving mana and avoiding battle and Noble Phantasm usage.

Magic Resistance: D

-Cancels Single-Action spells. Magic Resistance of the same degree of an amulet that rejects magical energy.

Personal Skills:

Eye of the Mind (True): B

- is a heightened capacity for observation, refined through training, discipline and experience. A danger-avoidance ability that utilizes the intelligence collected up to the current time as the basis in order to predict the opponent’s activity and change the current situation. This is not a result of talent, but an overwhelming amount of combat experience. A weapon wielded by none other than a mortal, gained through tenacious training. So long there is even a 1% chance of a comeback, this ability greatly improves the chances of winning.
At this rank, he is capable of calm analysis of battle conditions even when in danger and deduce an appropriate course of action after considering all possibilities to escape from a predicament.

His life as the protégé of one who had inherited the skill of Sun Tzu, then as an artillery officer, and then as a general during the course of his life led him to gain a great deal of battlefield experience and expertise. Likewise, he was crucial to the Red Turban Rebellion that transformed both China and was an influence that helped change the manner in which the world itself conducted war.

Holy Mountain Teachings: C

-The summation of the Daoist/Confucian teachings, magecraft, and even firearms knowledge that he learned when studying under the Daoist intellect “Chichi Daoren” (translated as "Knowing-when-to-stop Daoist") upon the holy Tiantai Mountain. Though only at A rank can one be considered to have actually “learned it” and be considered a proper Daoist Magus.

Thus at this rank Jiao cannot be considered a “proper" or "capable" Daoist magus, due to his access to the knowledge this skill still has some effect on his abilities.

It firstly adds a minor “anti-spirit” capability to the contents of his Noble Phantasm, a capability also influenced by ancient Chinese beliefs about the original fireworks scaring off evil spirits. This makes the contents of Jiao’s Noble Phantasm a bit more effective against other heroic spirits similar target (not the likes of Phantasmal Beasts or their ilk though).

Secondarily, this skill has made Jiao’s existence somewhat more synchronized with the World. The effects of this act like a combination of the personal skill “Knowledge of Respect and Harmony” (his attacks are not impossible to read by any means, but are very hard to read/predict instead) and the class skill “Presence Concealment” (fit enough for him to basically spy on others). However, the latter effect (the PC one) drops very notably in efficiency in the circumstance that the user initiates an attack or poises for an offensive.

Charisma: C

-The capability of a skilled general, who leads and directs soldiers on and off the field of battle.
Jiao Yu was a scholar, an artillery officer, a general, and in the end an influential individual in the formation of the Ming Dynasty and its usage of gunpowder.

Noble Phantasm(s):

Name: Huolongjing, “The Fire Dragon Manual”

Rank: B

Type: Anti-Unit/Anti-Army/Anti-Fortification

Appearance/Effects: This Noble Phantasm finds its base in the Fire Dragon Manual that Jiao Yu is famous for writing and helping co-edit, containing gunpowder types, uses, recipes, and implementations of it in military usage that range from “poisonous gunpowder” to grenades and land/sea mines and multiple rocket launchers and more. Its contents contained and represent the summation of China’s gunpowder knowledge, from which modern firearms and “gunpowder” technologies would spread and evolve. In this manner it could be said to be one of the cornerstones of the modern military era.

As a Noble Phantasm, this manual takes the form of what it embodied, aka a “treasury of ancient gunpowder technology and knowledge”. Rockets, cannons, fire arrows, flamethrowers, and the like exist with it to be produced within this “weapons factory” of sorts. These are then utilized by Jiao by protruding them out of, or being fired from (like projectiles themselves), silvery-colored portals that can be manifested in the air by the servant (and even follow him around or be rotated when he’s moving). It is a Noble Phantasm that seems to have a passing resemblance to a “certain King’s treasury” in its outward usage, though that is frankly where any and all similarities end.

Alignment: Neutral Good

Changes: (none)

Name: Diana Lizbeth Sorensen

Age: 20

Appearance:



Personality: Outwardly a magus with a relaxed but professional sense of self, someone who might retain a pleasant smile in face of the opposition and held their head high no matter the circumstances. A determined individual whose dedication to her craft and skill in it are not a matter of question. She is someone who as an heir embraces her role, and has set out to Holy Grail War with further intentions and desires of her own that lie just underneath the surface. Beyond her initial persona, however, lies somewhat of a hedonist and blatantly a party girl who has a penchant for drinking above her weight class and behaving wildly when under the influence. Likewise, a cruelty to enemies and that which she sees “beneath” her is also present, along with an unflinching will to do what is deemed “necessary” to meet her goals and ends best. Even if that means others have to suffer for it.

Abilities:

-Scandinavian Shamanism: A collection of Scandinavian-originated shamanistic practices and techniques that survived the test of time within the family, including the art of seidr, preserved from the pre-Christian era. It is a combination of herbal knowledge, various incantations/rituals used to perform spells, astral projection to traverse the nine worlds to acquire prophecies about the future and weave events into being (imagine something like a druid toying with the forces of fate), astral projections to go about placing curses/blessings on things/others otherwise, general cursing techniques (including ancient assimilation of the Finnish Gandr and Gandr Shot, and the evil eye), creating advanced familiars, and even the spells/materials for the transformation of someone else (or the self) into a powerful berserker with proper preparations.

-Necromancy: From utilizing the skulls and/or body parts of the dead to draw out their power/skill/strength to add to the user’s own, to spiritual evocation, to raising the dead as familiars or to serve the wielder, to the creation of cobbled monstrosities, this form of Western magecraft is most versatile and interesting.

-General Magecraft: General and very basic capabilities that a magus who went to learn at the Clock Tower would have acquired. Locking doors, creating a basic bounded field, making basic familiars, some formalcraft, and so on. All of the very basic fundamentals for a magus to learn, in other words, regardless of specialization or specialties otherwise.

Family History: The Sorensen family are magi who practice shamanistic magecraft and are based out of Denmark, though their very nature can be considered...colorful in a sense. Known to practice the macabre arts of Necromancy alongside their seidr, due to the nature of the latter women have long controlled the family as a result of the stigma of association with this and passed-down ancient respect to female seidr practitioners. They are one of the biggest three families of magi in Denmark in current times, possessing the spiritual land of Copenhagen itself.

Occasionally a member of the household had married a foreigner here and here, but the current male head has produced an heir with a a more tan-skinned girl from another family. The girl's family made a deal initially to marry her and her great circuits off to the Sorensen, for use in birthing a good heir, in exchange for a financial loan to keep them afloat. Since then that loan made to the girl's family, aka Diana's mother's family, has been called in sooner than expected. As a result, Diana's mother's family has been assimilated by the Sorensen Family, now subject to their oversight and control as the Sorensen's new "branch family" of sorts.

Personal History: Diana was born the latest heir to the Sorensen family, magi who had long participated in old shamanistic and necromantic magecraft traditions of Scandinavia and its peoples. Combined with formal learning from the Clock Tower, and generations of practice and honing, the Sorensen family took pride in producing a notable heir to their bloodline. Albeit, one that looked more tan-skinned than others...but that a matter of non-concern as compared to bettering the bloodline, in their minds. As the heir to the family, Diana was drilled at home in magecraft without mercy, until finally she was sent to the Clock Tower to learn and hone her skills as well.

For her, it was a time to learn...but also to party with this new freedom behind the scenes. Waking up in bed with some other peer, drinking, laughing, and overall gaining some contacts and friends for it. Outwardly she kept up the “stringent and hardworking heir” self, and did indeed work hard on her craft and magecraft, but in casual and behind closed doors one could find her more open and relaxed than her initial appearance would entail. Her family hasn’t commented on the matter, merely content that she didn’t pop out an illegitimate heir or do something openly stupid whilst she is still honing her skills, though eventually she was called back home a year ago when her family managed to worm their way into the next Holy Grail War.

Mostly just interested in analysis of the ritual’s summoning of heroic spirits and the functions of that for their own ends, Diana has been sent to participate in the Holy Grail War. Her primary goal is to acquire the Holy Grail for her family’s study, mainly in regards to the summoning and implementation of heroic spirits. Secondarily, she is to continue to survive and win to use its wish if it is the fastest and easiest means to procure her primary goal (which is the current plan). However, her survival as the heir is a key factor for the family’s future, and her return to home alive is more important than dying in some backwater magic ritual to acquire some object for research. If needed, she can request supplies from home during the war’s duration, though at the same time she will be evacuated by force if the situation is deemed “too dire” for her.

Other: Has been sent with a good amount of magecraft supplies for the occasion, ranging from materials such as animal blood to chalk for drawing out a summoning circle or otherwise preparing rituals. She also comes with a cellphone, a notably modern thing mainly being used for communication back to her family for emergencies, and a personal taser for mundane self-defense.

Name:
Élisa-Françoise Fournier

Age: 18

Personality:
A passionate and artsy sort, Élisa has been playing music since she was a child. Violins, guitars, drums, singing - everything. If it's musical in nature, she can probably play it. Unfortunately, she Honestly is not too enthused about both her craft and being here in this whole holy grail war. She want's no part of it, and if she were to be honest, magic terrifies her. If she didn't feel as though she had no other option, she wouldn't have even been participating.

Rather timid in nature, she prefers not standing out too much. She is not looking forward to this Holy Grail War.

Abilities:
While being versed in the basics of most magecraft like any decent mage family, Élisa has long been practicing her families craft of Music. Having a long and storied history of musical capacity mixed with mage craft, they hold one of the worlds oldest forms of magecraft, that is, spells involved both with incantations and music. The effects of such are wide and applicable, depending entirely on the words she sings and notes she plays.

History:
Hailing from Italy, Élisa family is steeped heavily in centuries old traditions revolving around music and the use of it in magecraft. Supposedly, her family says they've served kings and queens for centuries as entertainers in some capacity. Meticulously kept records support this theory to an extent. Elisa herself, was also expected to excel in such an art, and she took to her musical studies well.

Unfortunately, the part Elisa didn't take so well too, was the magical side of things and was constantly a source of both frustration and annoyance for her parents. With the families decline as of late, they saw it as a bad omen of sorts.

So when they got word of a Holy Grail War, they decided they would participate themselves via Élisa...a decision she really, really, doesn't like.

Other:
Secretly loves metal. Much to her parents chagrin. She'd probably dress like a rock star if she got the chance.

Name: Feng Tian
Age: 17

Personality:
Though diligent and earnest, Tian is a bit of a scatterbrain, and has a tendency to let himself get distracted by passing fascinations or daydreams. The sort of young man who often watches the world around him like one would observe a painting, admiring its beauty without actually feeling that one is a part of it. This distant nature is compounded by the fact that as a young magus he rarely made contact with anyone outside of his school. Though an excellent mage, he's blunt and awkward in conversation and has a really weird fashion sense, being unfamiliar with the ways of the modern world. At heart, however, he's honest, straightforward, and level-headed, the kind of person who seeks to solve problems by confronting them openly and directly. He's also unusually empathetic for a magus, and will not hesitate to show kindness or mercy to even a sworn enemy. This sort of morality makes him come across as naive and gullible to some, which is not entirely untrue. However, he can be unnervingly perceptive in certain situations, and rarely loses his cool even when under the most intense pressures.

Abilities:
Being an Eastern-style magus, Tian is a practitioner of Taiji, a distinct thaumaturgical school centered around opposing concepts such as Yin and Yang. This philosophy attempts to capture the essence of everything on a conceptual level: things that are active are defined as Yang (white), while the opposite are defined as Yin (black). Tian applies these concepts to his elemental affinity of Wind: still air is akin to Yin, and flowing air is akin to Yang. The balance between these two and their respective energies is at the core of his magecraft, with each form containing a tiny dot of the other.

While this alone would not be enough to distinguish him among Eastern magi, Tian's true strength lies in his ideal manner of breathing and walking, a natural and controlled way of breathing and steps that produce no wasted movement. In addition to being an adept in martial arts, his entire body acts as a single natural Circuit, such that his breathing, movement, body, and very existence can cause supernatural phenomena, allowing him to invoke his magic without relying on incantations. This skill is said to be capable of reproducing even greater mysteries than conventional Magecraft, but because of Tian's young age he is still far from reaching such heights.

History:
Feng Tian was born into a school of Eastern magi, a coalition of families who operated together in a similar manner to the magi of the Clock Tower, albeit with much less overall power and influence. Recognized as a prodigy at a very young age, he was elevated above his peers, which in turn stoked jealousy and led to him growing up isolated from those around his age. There was a great deal of politics and infighting concerning his fate, none of which Tian understood particularly well; so rather than attempt to meddle with the workings of his school he simply ignored those scheming over his future and devoted himself to training under his mentor Xia Ju, a magus from the previous generation who had mastered the techniques of breathing and walking. Together they mostly shut themselves off from their school and the world at large, appearing only when called upon and spending most of their time focused on learning their art, and how to connect their inner worlds to the outer world.

When the Association managed to create a lesser Grail, Tian's school jumped at the chance to be the first ones to reach the Root, and used their connections with the Association to secure themselves one of the Master positions in the upcoming Grail War. Aware of the opportunity as well as the risks, they elected not to risk losing Xia Ju and to instead send the young Feng Tian, who was powerful enough to stand a chance of winning, whilst still being sufficiently disposable to be sacrificed if he were to lose. Without really paying much attention to the significance of the ritual or why they wanted him to participate, Tian obeyed, traveling overseas for the first time of his life to fight a war he'd never even heard of until recently...

Other:
He likes birds, fish, flowers, tarts, and painting. He can speak Japanese and English reasonably well, along with his native language.

Name: Ibaraki Dōji
Class: Berserker

Personality:
In her childhood, Ibaraki-douji was strictly disciplined by her mother, who was descended from a noble bloodline and taught her to take pride in being a fearsome Oni. As such, Ibaraki-douji is very self-aware of her responsibility as the child of her noble mother: to lead and unify the last of the Oni, even when they were on the verge of extinction after their near-eradication by humans. In order to do this, Ibaraki established a standard set of rules, and any of the Onis that broke said rules would be spanked with her iron staff. (Of course, Shuten wass the sole exception.) She is a demon, so from a human's point of view, she is unmistakably a wicked beast. At her core, however, she is a belle who respects order and ponders over the fate of her brethren.

While Ibaraki-douji's appearance exudes innocence, her very state of being is that of an Oni: hurting humans, devouring humans, loving blood. However, she was never one predisposed to selfishly enjoying slaughter and massacre. Her nature is not that of an Oni that brings disorder to the world; in the end, she devours humans as an Oni, as a living being. One can say that she is close to being a wild animal. For example, even if she appears to be fascinated with sweets, her nature is nothing like that of a young human girl. Depending on the circumstances, she just might devour even the human who enticed her with sweets. Never ever take a lion for a cat. Never. Ever.

Yet... If one actually succeeds on feeding her, she just might display a lovely smile.

Stats:
Strength: B
Endurance: A+
Agility: C
Mana: C
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: C

Class Skills:
- Mad Enhancement B: Ranks up basic parameters such as Strength and Endurance, but deprives the user of their sense of reason. However, because of her characteristics as an oni-kind, its power is exceptionally controllable. Her reasoning remains intact, and she can calm down and have a normal conversation.

Personal Skills:
- Demonic Nature of Oni A: a Skill to represent the demonic nature and power of an Oni. Only Oni Kinds and mixed-race beings with Oni blood are able to acquire this Skill. It is a mixed Skill of the Mana Burst Skill, Charisma Skill, Monstrous Strength Skill, Natural Monster Skill, etc. In the case of Ibaraki-douji, her Mana Burst becomes "Flames". Even a single blow from an Oni that combines high-rank STR, Rank A Monstrous Strength, and Rank A Mana Burst would result in an astounding amount of destructive force, devastating the target.
- Disengage A: the ability to withdraw from the battlefield in the midst of combat or reset the battle conditions. Has the bonus effect of returning battle conditions to what they were at the beginning of the fight, and restores the condition of this Skill to its initial value. At the same time, it forcibly releases curses and status ailments inflicted on the user of this Skill.
- Morph A: it's possible for her to shapeshift to other forms, such as a child or even a giant. Since her basic physical frame no longer grows anymore, Ibaraki-douji uses this skill to the extreme, zealously striving everyday to become the great oni anyone and everyone would fear.

Noble Phantasm(s):
Name: Bone Sword (Nameless)
Rank: E
Type: Anti-unit

Effects: The great blade of bone that only demonkin may hold, a mass of curses and grudges incomparable with the likes of swords made by iron.
Not made of steel tempered by fire of hell, it is made of the bones of demonkin, the firmest and most solid above land. For several hundred days it was tempered into first-rate sword, swung beneath the moonlit night with a demonic aura drifting about its blade.

Name: Rashōmon Dai Engi - Great Grudge of Rashōmon
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit/Anti-Army

Effects: Her right hand, severed by one of Minamoto no Raikou's Four Heavenly Kings, Watanabe no Tsuna. Normally it is properly attached, but she can freely detach and manipulate it, making it flutter about in the sky or even having it act as an offensive weapon. Her fist, clad in the dreadful, sweltering heat of the oni kin, enlarges in size, just like that of a great oni. It then tears through the enemy lines and destroys them.

Name: Ooeyama Dai Engi - Great Flame of Mount Ooe
Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Unit
Appearance: Fire. Lots of fire.
Effects: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Specialization of the Sougenbi for anti-unit usage in battle. Ten consecutive attacks of scorching heat that completely, thoroughly crush and burn up to three separate targets, scorching the enemy to cinders, and leaving only their bones charred to black coals.

Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Changes: n/a

Name: Alexa Dover Jupiteria
Age: 23
Personality: A rather nice person for a magus. She has a good sense of humor and a hard working, studious personality. In other words, she's a pretty run-off-the-mill person who just happens to do magic for a living.
Abilities: Her main talent lies in a refined general knowledge of magecraft fundamentals, particularly, traditional alchemy and astromancy, along with related fields like numerology and geometry. She's very well knowledgeable in transmuting and reinforcing basic elements like stone and metals, and creating bounded fields. However, as expected of someone who's focused on the fundamentals, she isn't capable of matching the power of a magus who's deep into their own family research, or a dedicated practitioner of any foundation.
History: She was born in a traditional family, or rather an coalition, of mages that is only tangentially connected to the Association. They practice classic alchemy, but don't deal with things like Magical Crests. Their thought process is that depending on Crests (and a heavy dose of inbreeding to keep their blood "pure") is why the Clock Tower mages lose their power at a rate that far exceeds that of places like Atlas and traditional practitioners who pass on their knowledge to the next generations through actual study and tutoring.

Her last name is actually given from the ruling planet under whose influence she was born.

Since the faculties that they have the best relations with are Animusphere and Norwich, they usually send a few promising youths to study at those factions of the Clock Tower. She specifically spent a lot of time in the Astromancy department, making extensive uses of their equipment. Whenever she wasn't doing that she could be found in Modern Magecraft Theories, attending lessons.
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