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Caster of the Ladder
“In the name of God, I will smite you.”
ISRAEL
“In the name of God, I will smite you.”
ISRAEL
Aliases: Jacob, Patriarch of the Israelites, He Who Struggles with God
Gender: Male
Attribute: Heaven
Era: Genesis
Alignment: Lawful Good
Qualified Classes: Caster, Ruler
Character Objective: To achieve ‘Heaven’
Weapon: His own body. Nothing more is required.
A strong father. A hero of justice. A calm and measured man who would be content to simply run a farm, though is willing to fight anything when it becomes necessary. One who believes that all should achieve heaven.
He’s not worried about his descendants; why should he be? Though there is enormous tragedy in the history of the people he fathered, God has already assured him that they will all eventually reach heaven. Rather, it is the rest of humanity that ISRAEL wishes to save.
Perhaps it’s conceited, wishing to impose a salvation upon humanity that they never wished for - but for ISRAEL, this is the firm hand of a father, granting something necessary, even if the children do not yet understand.
He has high standards for those who call themselves heroes. Basically, anyone who can’t defeat an angel with their bare hands is little more than a child. Though he doesn’t look down on those who fail to meet those; he would rather help build them up.
Of all his descendants, it is his son Joseph who is his favourite, his great-great grandson Moses who is the most impressive, and his descendant David who he is most proud of. Overall, he has the pride of a doting grandfather over those who followed in his family line, though he’s certainly not above favouritism.
He’s not worried about his descendants; why should he be? Though there is enormous tragedy in the history of the people he fathered, God has already assured him that they will all eventually reach heaven. Rather, it is the rest of humanity that ISRAEL wishes to save.
Perhaps it’s conceited, wishing to impose a salvation upon humanity that they never wished for - but for ISRAEL, this is the firm hand of a father, granting something necessary, even if the children do not yet understand.
He has high standards for those who call themselves heroes. Basically, anyone who can’t defeat an angel with their bare hands is little more than a child. Though he doesn’t look down on those who fail to meet those; he would rather help build them up.
Of all his descendants, it is his son Joseph who is his favourite, his great-great grandson Moses who is the most impressive, and his descendant David who he is most proud of. Overall, he has the pride of a doting grandfather over those who followed in his family line, though he’s certainly not above favouritism.
One of the twin sons of Isaac, detailed in the book of Genesis. He was born wrestling his brother, Esau, and the two would continue to fight each other throughout their lives. His father favoured his brother, while his mother favoured him. Through his mother’s trickery and god’s will, he was able to usurp his brother’s inheritance and blessings.
His brother wasn’t content to let this lie, and vowed to kill Jacob as soon as their father died. Though Jacob wasn’t afraid of his brother, he listened to his mother's fears and fled to live with his uncle. On the way, he received a covenant from god; the assurance of Jacob’s ladder.
He spent 14 years in exile, marrying multiple women and fathering 12 children. He worked as a shepherd, looking after his uncle’s flocks with great care and the blessings of god, but eventually the mood between them soured. After the birth of Joseph, his favourite, he decided to finally return home.
On the way back to his home, he learned that his brother Esau was approaching him with an army of 400 men. As he prayed, an angel approached him. After Jacob demanded a blessing, the two of them wrestled until the angel was defeated, though his thigh was injured. It was here that he earned the name ISRAEL.
Upon reuniting with his brother, ISRAEL pacified his brother, calming his vengeful spirit with the elaborate gifts of his large flock of sheep. He settled in a small parcel of land with his family.
Though there are various anecdotes that take place after this, those are of ISRAEL the father of Jacob, within Jacob’s own legend. By that point, he was past his prime, and his own legend was largely finished.
His brother wasn’t content to let this lie, and vowed to kill Jacob as soon as their father died. Though Jacob wasn’t afraid of his brother, he listened to his mother's fears and fled to live with his uncle. On the way, he received a covenant from god; the assurance of Jacob’s ladder.
He spent 14 years in exile, marrying multiple women and fathering 12 children. He worked as a shepherd, looking after his uncle’s flocks with great care and the blessings of god, but eventually the mood between them soured. After the birth of Joseph, his favourite, he decided to finally return home.
On the way back to his home, he learned that his brother Esau was approaching him with an army of 400 men. As he prayed, an angel approached him. After Jacob demanded a blessing, the two of them wrestled until the angel was defeated, though his thigh was injured. It was here that he earned the name ISRAEL.
Upon reuniting with his brother, ISRAEL pacified his brother, calming his vengeful spirit with the elaborate gifts of his large flock of sheep. He settled in a small parcel of land with his family.
Though there are various anecdotes that take place after this, those are of ISRAEL the father of Jacob, within Jacob’s own legend. By that point, he was past his prime, and his own legend was largely finished.
Parameters:
STR: C ||| END: A ||| AGI: C ||| MAN: B ||| LCK: -
STR: C ||| END: A ||| AGI: C ||| MAN: B ||| LCK: -
Item Construction: B
The ability to construct various magical items, though it requires time to gather the necessary components and to complete the process of creation.
For ISRAEL, the most famous of these is the ‘coat of many colours’ that he crafted for his most favoured son. In this sense, the items that ISRAEL creates can contain multiple different contradicting attributes and functions together in harmony. Though the upper limit of what can be achieved with this skill is unavailable to ISRAEL, breadth and versatility, particularly of individual items, are higher than would be expected.
Territory Creation: -
The skill has been sublimated by Caster’s Noble Phantasms.
The ability to construct various magical items, though it requires time to gather the necessary components and to complete the process of creation.
For ISRAEL, the most famous of these is the ‘coat of many colours’ that he crafted for his most favoured son. In this sense, the items that ISRAEL creates can contain multiple different contradicting attributes and functions together in harmony. Though the upper limit of what can be achieved with this skill is unavailable to ISRAEL, breadth and versatility, particularly of individual items, are higher than would be expected.
Territory Creation: -
The skill has been sublimated by Caster’s Noble Phantasms.
Jacob’s Limbs: EX
A method of hand-to-hand combat, primarily a form of wrestling. Caster is not simply a master of the art, but the inventor and point of origin for it. An unquestionably powerful combat style that, at this level, allows one to beat to death an ‘angel of destruction’ with only their own bare hands.
One who was wrestling even before his birth, as he grappled with his twin in the womb, being born grasping the heel of his brother Esau. The ability of one who endeavoured towards his goals with every tool at his disposal even in a state where all that existed was his own body and the body of his opponent. It can be said that this skill is the very essence of Caster’s being, a combat ability on par with a Noble Phantasm.
Since he prefers the name ISRAEL, he’d rather it was called ISRAEL’s Limbs, but the current name is fine, too.
Blessings of the Firstborn: A+
Blessings received from Isaac, ISRAEL’s father. Both blessings of good fortune and leadership, but also the ability to share blessings and curses among those that inflict them upon him. Even if the blessing is rejected, or the curse is countered, the attempt to give it to Caster results in it being returned to the originator, whether it ultimately connects to Caster or not. A powerful ability that spreads blessings among allies, and returns curses to enemies.
Though Isaac wanted to grant them to Esau, ISRAEL tricked his father with the guidance of his mother and his god, he was able to usurp the position of ‘firstborn’ from his brother. Because even though his father wanted to bless Esau, it was the will of god that he was to be blessed. So he struggled, and with fate on his side, succeeded.
The skill also denotes the ability to distribute blessings.
Revelation: A
The ability to hear the voice of the heavens, and act optimally in accordance. Not only is it a sixth sense during battles, but also has broader applications in the larger achievement of goals, such as choosing a path to travel or a place to settle.
Caster is one who received various dreams and guidance from both angels and god, in order to save him from various perils and inform him of his children’s destinies.
Battle Continuation: C++
A skill that allows for the continuation of a battle despite major wounds. Derived from ISRAEL's continuation of his struggle with the angel until dawn, even as it permanently wounded his hip.
Under normal circumstances, continuing the battle despite serious injury is possible, but when it comes to wrestling, he will never release a hold once he has someone grappled. The type of skill suitable for a stubborn fool who will never let go until he achieves his goal.
A method of hand-to-hand combat, primarily a form of wrestling. Caster is not simply a master of the art, but the inventor and point of origin for it. An unquestionably powerful combat style that, at this level, allows one to beat to death an ‘angel of destruction’ with only their own bare hands.
One who was wrestling even before his birth, as he grappled with his twin in the womb, being born grasping the heel of his brother Esau. The ability of one who endeavoured towards his goals with every tool at his disposal even in a state where all that existed was his own body and the body of his opponent. It can be said that this skill is the very essence of Caster’s being, a combat ability on par with a Noble Phantasm.
Since he prefers the name ISRAEL, he’d rather it was called ISRAEL’s Limbs, but the current name is fine, too.
Blessings of the Firstborn: A+
Blessings received from Isaac, ISRAEL’s father. Both blessings of good fortune and leadership, but also the ability to share blessings and curses among those that inflict them upon him. Even if the blessing is rejected, or the curse is countered, the attempt to give it to Caster results in it being returned to the originator, whether it ultimately connects to Caster or not. A powerful ability that spreads blessings among allies, and returns curses to enemies.
Though Isaac wanted to grant them to Esau, ISRAEL tricked his father with the guidance of his mother and his god, he was able to usurp the position of ‘firstborn’ from his brother. Because even though his father wanted to bless Esau, it was the will of god that he was to be blessed. So he struggled, and with fate on his side, succeeded.
The skill also denotes the ability to distribute blessings.
Revelation: A
The ability to hear the voice of the heavens, and act optimally in accordance. Not only is it a sixth sense during battles, but also has broader applications in the larger achievement of goals, such as choosing a path to travel or a place to settle.
Caster is one who received various dreams and guidance from both angels and god, in order to save him from various perils and inform him of his children’s destinies.
Battle Continuation: C++
A skill that allows for the continuation of a battle despite major wounds. Derived from ISRAEL's continuation of his struggle with the angel until dawn, even as it permanently wounded his hip.
Under normal circumstances, continuing the battle despite serious injury is possible, but when it comes to wrestling, he will never release a hold once he has someone grappled. The type of skill suitable for a stubborn fool who will never let go until he achieves his goal.
Israel
Father of a Nation
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Range: 0
Maximum Targets: 1
Father of a Nation
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Range: 0
Maximum Targets: 1
One from whose body sprung forth the twelve tribes of Israel. Though not the first of the Israelites, he was the one who gave them their name, and the names of their tribes.
A body that is, conceptually, a ‘nation’, a ‘people’. To face its blows is to face the blows of a nation. To stand against it, one must be able to destroy an entire people.
A supreme power of both offense and defence that is fitting for the father of a nation.
It also has the bonus effect that while grappling another, that person is no longer considered within their own territory, but within ISRAEL’s, and therefore any bonuses from territory are nullified.
Jacob’s Ladder
Stairway to Heaven
Rank: A
Type: Anti-World
Range: 0-100
Maximum Targets: -
Stairway to Heaven
Rank: A
Type: Anti-World
Range: 0-100
Maximum Targets: -
The actualisation of a vision that ISRAEL received, of a great ladder or stairway leading to ‘heaven’. Fundamentally, it is the ability of ISRAEL and the ‘chosen people’ that he fathered to achieve heaven. An assurance that those who god has selected will receive his blessings. A covenant on the level of the Ark given to his son, David.
But for ISRAEL, that is not enough.
Those who cannot hear the voice of god. Those who do not know his plan. It is they who suffer for it, as they struggle in futility against the preordained plans. The people who can fight the fate god has ruled - they are few indeed.
The world would simply be happier if they could see God's will.
Jacob’s Ladder is a method of achieving heaven. As a pact with god, a dream of assurance of the eventual fate of Jacob and his descendants, it is a vision, spread to the world with a force akin to gravity.
In another sense, a method of imposing ISRAEL’s own Revelation upon the world. The words of god, that Jacob hears, are spread over the world. And in being spread, they are imposed on the world. The fate ordained by YHVH is solidified into the world, in such a way that all within the territory are aware of it. A perception of the future that all can share - though naturally perceiving the future doesn’t mean one can change it.
The ladder forms a territory upon activation, starting small but growing to encompass an enormous area as ISRAEL gathers magical energy. It is a territory that is completely advantageous to him as the word of god ensures his success.
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Rider
“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle."
"Understanding exists but for love's sake. But to understand is love itself."
"Understanding exists but for love's sake. But to understand is love itself."
Servant Profile __________________________________________________________True-Name: Dante Alighieri Aliases:The Supreme Poet Gender: Male Attribute: Man Era:1265-1321 ADAge of Man Alignment: Chaotic Good Qualified Classes: Caster Character Objectives:To guide others just as Virgil and Beatrice have guided him... Although some fun with some big breasted babes a reunion with Beatrice would be nice. Naturally he's also interested in meeting some other great minds. | Legend __________________________________________________________Type: what Source: Historical Region: Italy Weapon: The Truth Appearance: |
Stats __________________________________________________________Strength:E Endurance:C Agility:C + (The plus comes in effect around big breasted women for the purposes of well-) Mana: B+ Luck: A+ | Abilities __________________________________________________________Riding (Beatrice) C+++ Without the anecdote of being a notable rider beyond his voyage on the boat of Charon, his rank in this skill is conventionally low despite the class of the mount. Most vehicles and animals can be handled with above average skill and knowledge. However it is when it comes to the riding of the boat that represents his journey that, his riding, surely guided by his muse of Virgil, and most importantly, Beatrice, reaches a heavenly level. His ability of controlling his Noble Phantasm and that which leads to heaven is without a doubt worthy of the name Rider. After all, it’s not only just his adventure, but one that he travels with others. Magic Resistance: B+ Through faith and the guidance of Virgil, and the elevation of heaven it is not strange at all that Rider has a rather high rank in this skill. Cancel spells with a chant below three verses. Even if targeted by High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals, it is difficult for them to be affected. Damage is reduced, and against compatible magecraft or circumstances even high-thaumaturgy would be negated or contested. The path to heaven cannot be denied by mere fake replications and miracles. That which is born of sin, that which misleads and born of malice is without question opposed. The truth will not be obscured. Harmonic Path of Reason: B+ The guide out of sin. The man who has sinned, who did not reach heaven and yet fell not to hell. The man who was stained by the virtue of his company, and yet rose above it through knowledge and intelligence. Civilization is what prevents one from being a beast, and even if one cannot become a heavenly saint as a mere man illuminated by the light of art, it is the start of the path that leads one to the divine. The accompaniment of Virgil is not physical, but rather a matter of the guidance Rider’s own logic and thoughts have taken in mimicry of him, along with the burden of “one guided by Virgil” that leads him away from that which would lay him low or lead him astray. To be taught how to conquer the fear from beasts and primal evils, and to be taught how to walk the correct path away from the sins that plague all man. The purpose of knowledge is to live in accordance and in harmony with the laws of heaven. Through Virgil of pagans and earth (man) he is brought to a path that connects with Beatrice (heaven). His conduct as man leads him to the divine. While Virgil is not one who reaches heaven himself, it is through his civilization and his art that Rider is prepared as one who is a vessel for the divine. Such a methodology is agreed upon by both men of the church, and magi alike. Mental effects, pressure and negative effects are drastically reduced or negated in potency. Beautific Beauty: A Beatrice, redemption, guidance. Brought towards the god/heaven and divine. A skill representing the love and saving grace of Beatrice, and the connection that Rider has with the maiden. A path to heaven, and the guide that leads him out of purgatory and hell, to paradise. A place where sinners may not tread, where pagans are turned away. It is Virgil who saved Dante from degrading himself into a sinner, but it is Beatrice who brings her to what is good. Art, beauty, meaning. All such things are given by one who applies such concepts and value to another. The perfect lens will present a perfect unwarped world, and just so the purity and beauty of Beatrice gives birth to a saintly and pure Rider. Through her grace and her observation, her love, he reaches the realm of the divine. Also applies via master-servant. Heroic Spirit rank stuff. Observation of legends engraves it into the human order and gives it meaning. It is through those who read tales and see art that give it such value. Even heroic spirits in turn are elevated by observers. No matter how grand a human, or the mind. It is only in contact with others that one can create a world. It is through trust in others and god that reasoning can be made and humanity advanced. Trust that others can impart their experience and wisdom, trust that all things have a purpose and trust in the good of god. Without love the path cannot be seen. il Sommo Poeta: EX The Poet supreme, the greatest writer and artist of the Italian Language. The man who journeyed through hell and arrived to heaven, who defined and laid the foundations for many impetuses for European art. A man who stands as a one and only, and a man who can describe and invoke all and anything. The greatest goods, the cravenest evils. The only thing beyond his reapproach that keeps him from being the one and only is his inability to write of god (perfection)/ [「」Such is the limitation of one「」 who is still human. To understand, and to more importantly, invoke and make others see and understand. The true value of his talent is not to bring forth the physical example, but the essence and meaning of things. Such is art. Yet to comprehend and describe perfection would in turn degrade it, with it no longer being (god). This inability is less a fault, and more the rule of a man. Yet it is also his status as a man that lets him impart his views and art to others flawlessly. As a poet and man who looks to the hearts and mysteries of things he can only be then called, perfectly imperfect. To surpass this would require... Name: (My Personal Condemnation) Title: The Truth Wrapped Around Judgement Rank: A NP Type: Anti-Truth Range: 1-100 Maximum Number of Targets: - Description: The condemnation of his enemies and those he critiqued as those who languish in the circles of hell. However it is not a matter of simply grudges, but rather scorn of their faults and a revelation of their sins. More than a shallow and childish attack that lashes out with impudent temper at those he disliked. There are "those whose merit shines a bright guiding light, even in hell. Even the most intellectual and genius, the pious and even revered. Even his beloved Brunetto, and the great philosophers Aristotle and Socrates are among those who have been kept in these depths. Those whose sins are great against the order of Heaven, those who hold only the sin of not knowing Christ, and those who he saw as having faults that he accentuated with his words and truths. Under Rider’s judgement, one is condemned to hell, and the truth of one’s sin is revealed. However the nature of the noble phantasm is not merely of assigning sin and degrading one, but that of taking form to the truth, a truth that Rider spins. A truth that while may distort slightly, or focus only on a part of a whole, is nonetheless accentuated and manifested. The ability of the Noble Phantasm is to utilize the “truth” as a conceptual weapon. One could say that this is related to the magecraft of turning words into conceptual blades and other objects. Blades that represent a shining truth, stakes that condemn a truth of punishment and sin, a shield that may shy away from evil with the truth of purity. In a sense it is the understanding and language of Rider brought to arms. Title: The River Upflowing. Rank: C+ NP Type: Anti-World Range: 1 is minimum, 99 is maximum. Format is usually something like 2-50, that's Via Expugnatio and Bellerophon's range. That means Via Expugnatio cannot attack you if your range is 1 from it. Maximum Number of Targets: 1-10 (3) Description: What does it do? The boat that travels Styx, and the final signs and preparation from the lady Matilda combined, along with the burden of heaven and hell. A vehicle that allows one to venture into the realm after life, beginning a transformative odyssey while still alive. The vehicle that descends into that which holds evil and yet knowledge. It is through the tour and exhibition of the world (human evil) that is one is taught and climbs to the peak of Mount Purgatorio Sin must be “known” and “forgotten”. Lethe and Eunoe are partaken of and with the experience and knowledge that has been refined and proved pure. The earthly struggles are forgotten and one reaches heaven. Seven rings surround the boat, rotating and propelling the vehicle forth through water or the air. Yet it is not the rings that transfix the boat, but the boat that transfixes the rings. When the true name of the Boat is invoked a “mud” flows in its wake. From the seven rings are born the texture of the underworld and hell, painting over the surrounding area and applying it to the world around. A space degrading, that showcases sin, dragging away the providence all living beings have. While in the innermost three at the peak of Pugatorio and at the gates of heaven evil is forgotten and expulsed, leaving those who ride with the protection of Dante safeguarded from its effects. The three that are a stand in for both the world and the trinity as a trine that approaches the divine are Earth (Virgil) Spirit (Dante) and the Father (Beatrice). The connection to earth and sin is made with the Pagan Virgil, and so heaven and hell are connected. The seven circles of purgatorio, the three of heaven The nine layers of hell and Lucifer who resides at its core. Meeting together they form 10, a completed world. Just as the odyssey of Dante took him through all of hell, purgatorio and to the heavens, now the world is driven into a journey by him. Free of shackles or sin unlike Dis or Pluto, the one who holds the reins and commands the boat is Rider. However the true potential of the boat cannot be reached alone. For after all, heaven and the world are not born alone. The system of man, and the system of nature together form the life upon the planet, and the workings of god cannot be reached by one’s lonesome. Even if he were to hold the status of being accompanied and guided by his guides, it requires a true presence to form a true trine with to reach the full journey to god. In a pinch the frozen rings can bludgeon people too. But really? |
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Lancer Heracles
“I’ll have to remember to put these back later or Atlas is going to be pissed.”
Servant Profile __________________________________________________________True-Name: Heracles Aliases: Alcides Gender: Male Attribute: Heaven Era: Age of Gods Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Qualified Classes: Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Berserker, Assassin Character Objectives: To face other great heroes and warriors in combat. To feel the thrill of battle once more. | Legend __________________________________________________________Type: Myth Source: Greek Myth Region: Greece Weapon: Pillars of Heracles Appearance: Retaining the height of his Berserker form, Lancer is noticeably slimmer than in his other Class but still has a muscular body. He lacks the elbow protrusions of his other form and his facial features are much softer and gentler in appearance. |
Stats __________________________________________________________Endurance: B Strength: B+ Agility: A Mana: A Luck: B NP: A+ | Abilities __________________________________________________________Magic Resistance A - Cancel spells of A-Rank or below, no matter what High-Thaumaturgy it is. In practice, the Servant is untouchable to modern magi. Battle Continuation A – A Skill that allows for the continuation of combat after sustaining mortal wounds. The ability to survive; makes it possible to fight even with deadly injuries and can remain alive so long as one does not receive a decisive fatal wound. Bravery A – The ability to negate mental interference such as pressure, confusion and fascination. It also has the bonus effect of increasing melee damage. During his life time Heracles defeated many monsters and opponents with just his bare hands and brute strength, strangling the otherwise impervious Nemean Lion or crushing the giant Antaeus. Divinity A – The measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. At high levels, one is treated as a mixed race of a Divine Spirit. Being a mixed-race child of the King of Gods, Zeus, and a human, and becoming a god after death, Heracles naturally possessed the highest level of the Divinity Skill. Eye of the Mind (False) B - A natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience. Gained through many ordeals and adventures, he is capable of calm analysis of battle conditions, by which competent grasp of the status of the self and the opponent are obtainable even in the midst of danger; utilization of such to deduce the appropriate course of action that permits escape from a lethal predicament. Subtitle: Twelve Labours Type: Anti-Unit Rank: B Range: – Maximum number of targets: 1 Description: A continuously active-type Noble Phantasm that grants Heracles a "body that knows no death." It is a blessing of the gods representing immortality, as well as being a curse, that was granted to him for completing his Twelve Labours in life. It provides the three effects of resurrection, attack-nullification, and the ability to gain resistance to attacks which have hurt him previous. God Hand applies a conceptual defence based upon rank; it defends against all attacks B-rank and lower, regardless of the attack being physical or magical in nature and ignoring the actual damage that the attack should cause. This Noble Phantasm also grants the effect of automatic regeneration, including resurrection after death, reviving him with a stock of eleven extra lives through layered resurrection magic; Heracles has lives equalling the number of labours he overcame to atone for his sins, rendering him an "immortal" being who must be killed once for each labour to be fully eliminated. For him to be damaged, he must be hit by A-rank attacks or above, requiring the opponent to have at least an A-rank "normal attack" registered through their Strength statistic, A-rank magecraft, or an A-rank Noble Phantasm. Additionally, every time he is harmed by an attack, regardless if it leads to death or not, he will gain resistance after he heals, with subsequent attacks from the same source becoming increasingly ineffective. Subtitle: Shooting the Hundred Heads Type: Unknown Rank: C~A+ Range: “As the occasion demands” Maximum number of targets: – Description: A combat technique devised by Heracles during his battle with the immortal Lernean Hydra, originally taking the form of shooting all 100 heads of the Hydra with a bow and arrow, it was later adapted so that it could be emulated with any weapon type and against any opponent. The result was an all-purpose Noble Phantasm capable of adapting and changing how it appears depending on the target and the circumstances of its use. Depending on how it is used Nine Lives can display power from Anti-Unit to Anti-Army, even up to fortress sieging all depending on the circumstances. In essence, it is a high speed attack consisting of nine consecutive strikes, as swift as if the attacks are overlapping. It can also be a rush of extreme speed that adds up to a hundred attacks within a single breath. It changes form depending on the nature of the target. Subtitle: Proof of the First Labour Type: Anti-Unit Rank: B Range: – Maximum number of targets: – Description: the pelt of the Nemean Lion, obtained by Heracles after exterminating the beast during his First Labour. The beast's skin, through an arduous method, was worked by Heracles into the form of a long, decorated cloth with a distinct pattern. It is worn like a robe over one shoulder and covering his torso. The Nemean Lion was a species of a Demonic or Divine Beast, similar to the Ugallu of Babylon. Such creatures can "reject" human civilization, the Nemean Lion acting like a singularity that rejects human civilization itself. This ability is retained by its pelt, Gilgamesh likening it to an armour that cannot be pierced by any tool created by humans. The pelt's vulnerability is in attacks not delivered by human weapons. Punches, swipes of claws, other forms of natural weapon and the such all directly affect Heracles. The pelt is inherently tough, so though it may be pierced, it will not be ripped apart by such attacks. Subtitle: Pillars Which Bear the Burden of Atlas Type: Anti-Unit Rank: A Range: – Maximum number of targets: 1 Description: A Noble Phantasm which takes the form of two large stone pillars. These pillars as the same as those which once stood on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, that Heracles erected in order to take the burden of the sky off of Atlas’ shoulders so that the titan could retrieve the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides as part of his eleventh labour. In this form they are large, heavy and unwieldy weapons which Lancer swings around without grace and uses to simply crush his opponents with brute force. Originally intended to support the sky itself, these pillars have been repurposed as weapons but still carry the conceptual quality of “bearing a great burden”. When striking an opponent with these pillars Heracles is able to impart some of this “burden” to that opponent, gradually weighing them down with the weight of the heavens that Atlas once bore on his back. As the burden increases, one would find it harder and harder to move, each step feeling increasingly heavy, until even taking a step becomes an impossible task; however, as the weight one feels is only conceptual there is no harm to the bearer even when the full burden is applied. |
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__________________________________________________________Arguably the most famous hero of Greek legend, Heracles’ status as a “faultless hero” is further enhanced by being summoned within one of the Knight Classes. Heroic and noble and with a strong moral core that cannot be completely erased even by madness or by Command Seals, Heracles’ will not compromise on his core values even if commanded to by his Master and is willing to go against their orders if necessary.
Capable of fighting with cunning and strategy as well as brute force, Heracles is nonetheless known for his occasional moments of great anger and fits of rage. From beating his harp instructor to death as a child to many other episodes of killing people in anger over his lifetime, the act of going berserk is something that Heracles will never fully escape.
Background
__________________________________________________________Heracles was a demi-god born from Zeus, the king of the gods, and a human woman. While he had superior talent in all areas, he had a number of personality issues. He beat his lyre instructor, Linus to death after he reprimanded Heracles for making errors and then caned him with rods, so his mortal father Amphitryon sent him to tend his cowherds. He thus became a splendid man who accomplished several great deeds that caused the King of Thebes to grant Heracles his daughter, Megara. They had two children, and he earned the right to succeed the king.
He was both young and strong and it seemed that there was no match for him among humans. His future seemed bright, having married the king's daughter and bearing two children, but Zeus's wife, Hera, detested the child born between Zeus and a human. She meddled with his fate at every opportunity, and she started by sending madness to him that caused him to kill his family. Troubled by the sins he had committed, he received a sign that he should atone by becoming the slave of Eurystheus, the man who took away his promised position as king.
Eurystheus, jealous of the strong hero, gave him many difficult tasks, and claimed that Heracles would remain his slave until they were completed. These difficult labours were tasks impossible to complete with normal human skills that later came to be known as the famous Twelve Labours of Heracles. The number of labours originally chosen by the gods was ten, but Eurystheus added two more labours after denying the fulfilment of two of them. Heracles managed to complete even those tasks, so he was granted not only his freedom, but he also received an immortal body as proof of his great accomplishments.
This marked the beginning of the great hero Heracles, the greatest hero in Greece, who singlehandedly achieved great deeds equalling those of the Trojan War and the Argo Expedition. Despite that, Hera's hatred was endless, so the rest of his life was again full of madness. While he should have been immortal, he was killed by poison by one of his wives. Though he was a great hero equally matched with the sun god even as a human, he was slowly killed by Hera's persistent jealousy. His wife was tricked into making him wear a shirt stained in the Hydra poison-tainted blood of the centaur Nessus, sealing his fate, at which point he build a pyre for his own funeral and burned himself, entrusting himself to Zeus' judgment. The gods approved of his great deeds in a conference, prepared a seat in Olympus after his death, and acknowledged him as a god.
Miscellaneous
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NOTE: THIS IS NOT COMPLETE
Whats the matter?
Titus, despite being one of the best at playing chess at Harvard, is a straight A student. Not only that, he excels at anything equestrian.
put the commandseal in misc.
Whats the matter?
Magus Profile __________________________________________________________Full-Name: Titus Washington Aliases: Gender: Male Age: 21 Crest: A tribal eagle, etched out on the back of his hand Family: Descendants of the First US Presdent, George Washington Species: Human Specialties: Titus is a tactician, not a fighter. He has constantly proven his tact and his level headedness Character Objectives: He doesn't necessarily want to win the Holy Grail War. But if he does, than he will wish to become President of the United States, just like his ancestor. | Regend __________________________________________________________Country: United States of America Nationality: United Statesian/American wut Affiliations: Student at Harvard University wut Rank: N/A Alignment: Nautral Good He is always under the premonition that his forefathers are watching him. He wants to make them proud. |
Stats __________________________________________________________Magic Circuit Switch: Annuit Coeptis Number of Magic Circuits: B Quality of Magic Circuits: B Mana: C Elemental Affinity: Would lightning count? | Abilities __________________________________________________________ |
Personality
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__________________________________________________________Titus, despite being one of the best at playing chess at Harvard, is a straight A student. Not only that, he excels at anything equestrian.
put the commandseal in misc.
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Name: Paula Dirac
Title(s): The Irrational Mage,"The Mathemagician"
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Alignment: Irrational Good
Rank:
Objective for the Grail: She covets the Grail as the Grail is a direct line to the Root of the World, the only thing that could possibly account for everything. It has been said that mathematics is the language of God, so surely it must be the true path to the Root?
Character Objectives: Paula's primary goal is to find the Root, plain and simple. She wants to rub the accomplishment in her colleagues' faces.
Command Seal: Three overlapping circles on her left hand.
Personality: Paula is ecstatic, excitable and a little crazy. She is absolutely obsessed with math and believes that it is a universal language, even more universal than magic. She is incredibly self-confident and likes to think she is the smartest person in any room she is in.
Bio: A child prodigy born to a well-off British family, she was taught her family's Numerology magecraft from a young age. Their Numerology was mostly derived from an ancient Babylonian tradition rather than more contemporary methods derived from Kabbalah. Her family are the foremost experts of this ancient magic system and have done well to keep its secrets to themselves. Its primary function was to predict outcomes of current events and discern personality traits. However, more sinister sects could alter other people's temperaments, allowing mages to manipulate others from the shadows so that their visions of the future were realised. This was how the Diracs were able to amass influence within the Mage Association.
Paula herself is particularly math obsessed, even having earned a Masters from a typical university. She tries to reduce everything to an equation, a delicate dance of numbers working off of each other. When controlling for every variable, math can be used to predict everything.
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Magic Circuit Switch: The sound of chalk on a chalkboard
Number of Magic Circuits: B
Quality of Magic Circuits: B
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Elemental Affinity: Earth
Magecraft: General Magecraft, Babylonian Numerology, Elemental Magic: Earth, Kabbalism
Babylonian Numerology
The ancient predecessor to Kabbalism and modern day Numerology. It involves the expression of the observable world in strictly numerical terms. Understanding these numbers allows one to make accurate forecasts about the near-future with a small margin for error. Manipulation of these numbers allows for a variety of effects that alter ones fate and the fate of those around them in small ways. For example, a lightning based attack cast through this magecraft doesn't involve lobbing a lightning bolt at someone but rather increasing that person's chances of being struck by lightning as close to 100% as possible. Reaching 100% is impossible because there is always a margin for error and the caster doesn't have perfect information. Once the spell is cast the world around the caster resolves itself in the most natural way possible.
Crest: 200 years old
Weapon: Klein Automorphic Tri-Torus; A trio of isomorphous clay shapes that an conduct and amplify magical attacks. Their shapes can be willing morphed but they usually take the form of homeomorphic spheres that swap between their various automorphic forms as a result of their wielder's personality quirks.
Name: Paula Dirac
Title(s): The Irrational Mage,"The Mathemagician"
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Alignment: Irrational Good
Rank:
Objective for the Grail: She covets the Grail as the Grail is a direct line to the Root of the World, the only thing that could possibly account for everything. It has been said that mathematics is the language of God, so surely it must be the true path to the Root?
Character Objectives: Paula's primary goal is to find the Root, plain and simple. She wants to rub the accomplishment in her colleagues' faces.
Command Seal: Three overlapping circles on her left hand.
Personality: Paula is ecstatic, excitable and a little crazy. She is absolutely obsessed with math and believes that it is a universal language, even more universal than magic. She is incredibly self-confident and likes to think she is the smartest person in any room she is in.
Bio: A child prodigy born to a well-off British family, she was taught her family's Numerology magecraft from a young age. Their Numerology was mostly derived from an ancient Babylonian tradition rather than more contemporary methods derived from Kabbalah. Her family are the foremost experts of this ancient magic system and have done well to keep its secrets to themselves. Its primary function was to predict outcomes of current events and discern personality traits. However, more sinister sects could alter other people's temperaments, allowing mages to manipulate others from the shadows so that their visions of the future were realised. This was how the Diracs were able to amass influence within the Mage Association.
Paula herself is particularly math obsessed, even having earned a Masters from a typical university. She tries to reduce everything to an equation, a delicate dance of numbers working off of each other. When controlling for every variable, math can be used to predict everything.
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Magic Circuit Switch: The sound of chalk on a chalkboard
Number of Magic Circuits: B
Quality of Magic Circuits: B
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Elemental Affinity: Earth
Magecraft: General Magecraft, Babylonian Numerology, Elemental Magic: Earth, Kabbalism
Babylonian Numerology
The ancient predecessor to Kabbalism and modern day Numerology. It involves the expression of the observable world in strictly numerical terms. Understanding these numbers allows one to make accurate forecasts about the near-future with a small margin for error. Manipulation of these numbers allows for a variety of effects that alter ones fate and the fate of those around them in small ways. For example, a lightning based attack cast through this magecraft doesn't involve lobbing a lightning bolt at someone but rather increasing that person's chances of being struck by lightning as close to 100% as possible. Reaching 100% is impossible because there is always a margin for error and the caster doesn't have perfect information. Once the spell is cast the world around the caster resolves itself in the most natural way possible.
Crest: 200 years old
Weapon: Klein Automorphic Tri-Torus; A trio of isomorphous clay shapes that an conduct and amplify magical attacks. Their shapes can be willing morphed but they usually take the form of homeomorphic spheres that swap between their various automorphic forms as a result of their wielder's personality quirks.
"Shuddup runt, we're almost there."
Magus Profile __________________________________________________________Full-Name: Leodric Theovola Aliases: Leo, Harold, Sid, Al, etc Gender: Male Age: 23 Crest:364 Years Family: Theovola Species: Human Specialties: Black Magic/ Witchcraft Character Objectives:Make Efi happy. | Legend __________________________________________________________Country: Belgium Nationality: Belgian Affiliations: Clock Tower, loose Rank: - Alignment: Neutral Evil The world is for me and mine. If you don't like that way of thinking, you can just depart from it. |
Stats __________________________________________________________Magic Circuit Switch: Empty Howlings of the Wind Number of Magic Circuits: A Quality of Magic Circuits: C Mana: B Elemental Affinity: Imaginary Numbers Origin: Falsehood | Abilities __________________________________________________________Leodric is proficient in General Fundementals, as expected of a graduate of the Clock Tower. Within the faculty of Jigmarie, the Theovola are regarded with equal derision and admiration. Derision for the foolishness of not expecting their downfall and preparing as such, admiration for what was accomplished. Judgment Punishment for the sinful. Salvation for the worthy. To Leodric, magecraft at its core is a mechanism used to mete out justice. A curious interpretation for one who continuously escapes his own. Little Sister Creation Though Leodric jokingly refers to it as such, in truth it really is just giving form to the distortions of the heart. With enough materials and preparation, a truly frightening amount of sisters can be created. Although, wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it daughter creation? Black Magic/Witchcraft While the general purview of all mystic arts pertaining to the left-hand path is available to Leodric, select sections are barred from him. A tragedy that befell him when he lost his formalwear. If only he could find that maid uniform… Efi A ravenous creature whose insatiable appetite can only be appeased by the consumption of ‘lies’. As such, a general pain on Leodric’s wallet. The process of the creation of Efi is a carefully guarded secret of Leodric, and though it could be said that Efi’s existence is false, the bonds between the two very much are true. The irrevokable gift of a name is proof of that alone. A walking formula that manifests lies for the purpose of consumption, leading to growth. Mystic Tumbler An automatic deployment type mystic code that utilizes the innate ability of Leodric's alignment to create an opening to Imaginary Number space in response to harm. Useful for collecting food for Efi. N/A |
Personality
__________________________________________________________A fairly apathetic individual, for him lying comes as easily as breathing. Other people's concerns don't particularly interest or matter to him, but to those he consider himself close too, he will do his best to carve out a bright future for himself and them. Annoyingly, he seems to have some quality which attracts trouble to him, and as a results grows close to many individuals regardless. As such, the 'world' he has defined as the people he surrounds himself with is constantly growing.
Background
__________________________________________________________Once upon a time, there was a boy who lied.
One day, he thought to lie about a wolf. And so, for two days, he cried about a wolf in the pastures and laughed to himself all the way back home.
On the third day, a wolf came and ate all the sheep, and when the boy told everyone no one believed him. As he ran home, the wolf caught up to him and ate him.
The end.
It was the natural conclusion to the Theovola, a family who ran away from their consequences until eventually, it came back and consumed them all. For Leodric, musing on the fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” was more than a cautionary tale. It was the essence of the family craft.
At the center of every lie, laid a wish. These distortions of the heart were harvested, studied, and utilized with abandon. Only when the signs of degradation came, did the Theovola realize the folly of their ways.
That ugly sight of decay haunted Leodric, who began to fervently wish for an escape from the fate they had inadvertently brought upon them. And for him, eventually, he found salvation within the mechanism for his destruction.
Did the wolf arrive from the woods, or did it coalesce into being from the careless boy who spoke of it?
Regardless, the past is behind Leodric now. He now travels around the world for his own delight.
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Sorry that only 3 reviews are done. The other two mods are kinda sick and tired, so we'll be doing more reviews later.
- Please include more info on their combat training. So we have a general idea of what they can do for physical combat, and their own relative strength compared to other mages in physicals.
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- Please include more info on your staff. What level of fire does it produce, since you clearly imply it can generate fire. What kind of limits does it have, and how is her control of it.
- Please add a section on physical combat skill, and what martial arts she has been taught. The more info, the better.
- Please add a section on physical combat skill, and what martial arts she has been taught. The more info, the better.
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Accepted.
Sorry that only 3 reviews are done. The other two mods are kinda sick and tired, so we'll be doing more reviews later.
Aoko Aozaki Fifth Magician
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“To conquer or to be conquered is the rule...That’s kind of brutish, don’t you think? I’m a slave to these rules, but still, I’d like to be remembered for helping. Yeah, I think I want that legacy in the end.”
Mehmed II
Mehmed Han bin Murad Han, “Avni,” Kayser-i Rûm, The Lord of the Two Lands and the Two Seas, Padishah, The Conqueror
Class:
Archer
Gender:
Male
Alignment:
Lawful Neutral
Region:
Anatolia
Source:
Historical Fact
Attribute:
Star
Likes:
Art, Music, Cute things, Allah
Dislikes:
Vampires, Laziness, Byzantines, Assassination plots, His Son
Talents:
Being Roman, Conquest, Academia
Natural Enemy:
“The Devil”, His Son
Objective for the Grail:
To create Paradise.
Weapon:
Sword, Cannons, Onion Hat
Parameters:
STR: C
CON: C
AGI: B
MAG: B
LUK: A+
Class Skills:
Independent Action: B
The ability to remain independent even when rejecting the Magical Energy supply from one's Master; the ability that allows for action even in the absence of the Master. At higher ranks, it is also possible to remain for extended periods of time in this world without an established contract.
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: C
Grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether.
Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.
Personal Skills:
Ghazi: A
Initially a term applied to anyone fighting in an expedition or raid, but would eventually becoming a more specific term as Islam grew. In the time of the Ottomans, it would become a very specific term reserved only for Sultans who made conquests in the name of Islam. It was under the reign of Bayezid I that it specifically became a title that meant the Sultan was an “instrument of God.”
As an “instrument of God,” Mehmed is little more than a weapon in Allah’s hands. His body is a perfected weapon that follows Allah’s will. In essence, the skill grants Mehmed’s a defense which nulls mental interference, curse effects, and status effects.
As the Sultan that would complete the 800 year prophecy to take Constantinople, Mehmed is considered one of the greatest Ghazi.
Imperial Privilege (Roman): EX
An ability that, due to the insistence of the owner, Skills that are essentially impossible to possess can be obtained for a short period of time. In cases when the Rank is А or above, even the "burden to the body" can be acquired (such as Divinity).
In regards to Mehmed II, skills such as Swordsmanship, Clairvoyance, Riding, Charisma, Charisma, Military Tactics, and so on can be gained. In essence, if it is something that a Roman Emperor can do, Mehmed feels he can do it just as well, if not better.
It also has the effect of making Mehmed conceptually “Roman.”
Symbolic Wisdom: B
A tool (his glasses) crafted for Mehmed which symbolizes all the knowledge Mehmed had collected in life. As one of the Muslim’s greatest scholars, as a man who helped kickoff the Renaissance for Europe, Mehmed’s collection was immense. His sacking of Constantinople also gave him access to Ancient Roman texts.
In essence, Mehmed is a super nerd in fields related to art, music, poetry, literature, and the occult.
The Trumpet Blasts of the Fall
Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Fortress/Anti-World
Range: 1~99
Maximum Number of Targets: 3000 people
Description:
Constantinople.
The City of the World’s Desire represented many things. It was an incredibly lucrative trade city, but it was more than that. It represented the power and legacy of Rome, an Empire which lasted over 1000 years. It represented the power of Christanity and served as its bulwark from Muslim influence. It represented Rome's legacy as Troy readvent, serving as an impenetrable city. Most importantly, in the eyes of Mehmed, it represented the greatest failure of Islam, and a correction that needed to be fixed.
This Noble Phantasm is the crystallization of Mehmed destroying the impossible, the Walls of Byzantium. A cataclysmic event that signaled The End of Times for many, Christians and Muslims alike. The fall of Constantinople could only mean that the world was going to end.
In essence, the Noble Phantasm is similar to a certain Japanese warlord. Mehmed can summon cannons and fire them, independently of him actually holding them or not. All of these cannons are glistening white, with carvings along them invoking images of the divine. In fact, they also seem slightly closer to trumpets than cannons. Instead of firing the traditional cannonball, they fire a white beam.
If Constantiople was a city that was never to fall, then Mehmed’s Cannons are objects that designate something to “eventual destruction.” The more they’re hit, the closer this fate is enforced. In essence, they are a reverse Palladion. They also have the ability to bypass conceptual and weaker defense.
The true power of the Noble Phantasm is revealed when the true name is released. A giant cannon hovers above Mehmed, and from it, an equally large laser is fired from it. It is this beam which truly embodies the Fall of Constantinople. Despite being a city with walls grander than even Troy, it was not enough to stop Mehmed’s siege. It is an attack which enforces “destruction” upon any sort of defense, while keeping the attack’s momentum and power uninhibited.
While this Noble Phantasm bears the designation of “Anti-World,” it obviously doesn’t have enough power to destroy the planet. Instead, it destroys “inner worlds,” so Reality Marbles and things of that like.
As the man who cut down the ever growing Tree for good, it is the only fitting Noble Phantasm for him.
Let the Tree Flourish Once More
Rank: B++
Type: Barrier/Anti-Evil
Range: 1~40
Maximum Number of Targets: 500
Description:
Mehmed was the man who cut down the infinitely growing tree of Rome.
Yet, he was also the man who replanted the seed.
From the remains of Constantinople, the remains of Rome, Mehmed would continue Rome again, making it last yet another 500 years. The tree that Romulus planted may have been cut down, but Mehmed would never let its legacy end.
Romulus created a tree that would encapsulate Rome’s Past/Present/Future.
Mehmed would create a wall to encapsulate Rome’s Past, Present, and New Future.
Using the remnants of Constantiople’s walls, Mehmed formed a new set. If he had destroyed the walls of Troy 2, he would rebuild Troy 3’s walls to be even greater. This city was too grand to be destroyed again, so Mehmed would achieve this goal no matter what. The evils of the world would be repelled.
The ambition of Mehmed’s new walls knew no limit. Not only was he forging Troy 3, creating a wall which embodied the entire history of Rome, but was meant to be a reflection of Alexander’s walls. In Islam, Alexander forges the wall that keeps Gog and Magog away from Civilization. While Gog and Magog were initially hordes, they eventually became synonymous with “Cataclysmic Evil.”
An ambitious wall, equal only to its creator.
Upon calling out the name of the Noble Phantasm, a wall covered in branches emerges from the ground, growing to a seemingly infinite height in order to protect. Just as Rome was the infinitely growing tree, Mehmed’s new Rome would be the same. The wall itself is clearly modeled after the Theodosian Walls.
As the walls to protect from evil, those labeled as “evil” by Mehmed are rebelled away from the barrier upon activation, and are weakened the more they try to challenge the wall. It is a wall of rebirth, protection, and one ordained to survive. It has been over 500 years since their creation, and not once have the walls, nor the city, been truly challenged.
It is the mirror to the Noble Phantasm used by his former friend.
Archer
Gender:
Male
Alignment:
Lawful Neutral
Region:
Anatolia
Source:
Historical Fact
Attribute:
Star
Likes:
Art, Music, Cute things, Allah
Dislikes:
Vampires, Laziness, Byzantines, Assassination plots, His Son
Talents:
Being Roman, Conquest, Academia
Natural Enemy:
“The Devil”, His Son
Objective for the Grail:
To create Paradise.
The legendary leader who would conquer the unconquerable and solidify Ottoman dominance for the next 400 years.
Even as a child, Mehmed was seen as incredibly bright. By the time he was 12, he was an expert in the Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, mathematics, astronomy, languages, and military strategy. At this age, his faither, Murad II, had abdicated his throne, leaving young Mehmed in charge of the Ottoman Empire. Needless to say, this was a lot of pressure on a young child. Still, young Mehmed was eager to prove his worth.
Until, of course, the Catholics, led by John Hunyadi, decided to Crusade the Ottomans. While Mehmed would defeat their first crusade, the victory wouldn’t last long. The Catholics broke their treaty, and in response, Mehmed tried to get his father to rule once more. Murad was enjoying the retired life, so he refused to become Sultan once more. At least, until Mehmed wrote him a letter that would become extremely famous in Turkish history. It is as follows.
“If you are the sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the sultan I hereby order you to come and lead my armies."
It was only after his son’s questioning of his masculinity that Murad returned, but he would win the Battle of Varna, stopping Catholics from ever limiting Ottoman influence and growth in the Balkans. While Murad was planning on retiring soon after, some backstage politics forced Murad to keep his throne until his death in 1451.
The moment after Murad’s burial, Mehmed, at the age of 19, began his planning for Constantinople. Even as a child (well, a younger one) all Mehmed wanted to do was take the city. In the Hadiths, Muhammad proclaims that one day the city will be taken for Islam, and the leader and that army were to be the greatest. During the time of the prophet, his companion Abu Ayyub al-Ansari had failed in taking the city. And, as a child, his mother asked him what he felt of the city, and Mehmed said it was the most beautiful city in the world, and that one day he would conquer it. Obviously, this goal was incredibly personal for Mehmed. While Constantinople was an important city economically, his own personal values were what seemed to have motivated him the most.
For two years, he refused to speak with anyone unless it had something to do with the war. Eventually, on 29 May 1453, Mehmed took the city.
The ripples of this action were felt throughout Europe. The taking of the city would force the Iberians to explore, creating the Age of Exploration and the Early Modern period in general. However, it was felt the hardest spiritually. Christendom had its greatest loss to that point. Rome had been destroyed, and a city incredibly important to God had been taken. It heralded the end of the world for the Christians.
It also heralded the end of the world for Muslims. With the completion of Muhammad’s prophecy, many believed that they were entering the end times.
Of course, to Mehmed, he was just happy to achieve what he had always dreamed off. Unfortunately, following the customs of the day, he let his army pillage the city for 3 days. One the fourth day, when the looting was to stop, Mehmed was left with an incredibly devastated city. He mourned not only the loss of the most beautiful city in the world, but the destruction of the legacy of Rome. After taking the city, he went into the Hagia Sophia, and claimed himself the Caesar of Rome, yet, he had let his army destroy such a bastion?
He vowed to rebuild the city, rebuild Rome, and to never let this travesty happen again. Mehmed would rebuild Constantinople, making it a greater paradise than ever before, and would reforge Rome with his own hands.
10 years after taking Constantiople, he would visit the site of Troy, and would have a prayer for the Trojans. He proclaimed that he had defeated the Greeks (Byzantines) in the name of Rome and Troy, and as a fellow Roman, and hoped they would be proud of him.
Mehmed had an incredibly successful military career, securing Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, the rest of Anatolia, parts of Greece held by Venetians, Morea, and Crimea. His most notable campaign was against Vladimir Tepes III, the leader of Wallachia. A monster of a man who refused to give tribute, and in response, killed the envoys by nailing turbans to their heads. Later, he attacked the Bulgarian and Serbian parts of the Ottoman Empire, killing everyone they came across, man, woman, child, peasant, noble, and everything in between.
Actually, Vlad and Mehmed had some sort of relationship before this point. Vlad and his brother Radu were prisoners of Murad, and they had bonded on some level. Mehmed was especially fond of Radu, who would end up leading the Janissaries into Wallachia. By this time, Vlad had covered the entire region in impaled bodies, creating a forest of impalement. Upon seeing this, Mehmed would utter his famous phrase…
“I fear no human, but The Devil is different.”
The Ottomans would retreat from this horrific sight. Seeing such a radical change in the person he knew as a child was disheartening, but Mehmed didn’t spend too much time mourning it. While he initially wished to say goodbye to an old friend, Vlad was initially forced to flee into Hungary, where he was imprisoned. Eventually, Vlad would return to rule Wallachia, and Mehmed would get to say goodbye on the battlefield where Vlad perished.
This encounter would warp Mehmed a bit, showing him how powerful the corruption of evil truly was.
Mehmed eventually died in 1481, poisoned by his own son. He was planning on taking over Mecca and Medina, and proclaiming himself Caliph, something his son would get to accomplish. He doesn’t like to speak of his son, for obvious reasons.
Mehmed was a man with little regrets in the end, but he still wished to create the paradise he had always wanted.
Or maybe save that friend in the end.
Truly, he was Roman down to his core.
Even as a child, Mehmed was seen as incredibly bright. By the time he was 12, he was an expert in the Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, mathematics, astronomy, languages, and military strategy. At this age, his faither, Murad II, had abdicated his throne, leaving young Mehmed in charge of the Ottoman Empire. Needless to say, this was a lot of pressure on a young child. Still, young Mehmed was eager to prove his worth.
Until, of course, the Catholics, led by John Hunyadi, decided to Crusade the Ottomans. While Mehmed would defeat their first crusade, the victory wouldn’t last long. The Catholics broke their treaty, and in response, Mehmed tried to get his father to rule once more. Murad was enjoying the retired life, so he refused to become Sultan once more. At least, until Mehmed wrote him a letter that would become extremely famous in Turkish history. It is as follows.
“If you are the sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the sultan I hereby order you to come and lead my armies."
It was only after his son’s questioning of his masculinity that Murad returned, but he would win the Battle of Varna, stopping Catholics from ever limiting Ottoman influence and growth in the Balkans. While Murad was planning on retiring soon after, some backstage politics forced Murad to keep his throne until his death in 1451.
The moment after Murad’s burial, Mehmed, at the age of 19, began his planning for Constantinople. Even as a child (well, a younger one) all Mehmed wanted to do was take the city. In the Hadiths, Muhammad proclaims that one day the city will be taken for Islam, and the leader and that army were to be the greatest. During the time of the prophet, his companion Abu Ayyub al-Ansari had failed in taking the city. And, as a child, his mother asked him what he felt of the city, and Mehmed said it was the most beautiful city in the world, and that one day he would conquer it. Obviously, this goal was incredibly personal for Mehmed. While Constantinople was an important city economically, his own personal values were what seemed to have motivated him the most.
For two years, he refused to speak with anyone unless it had something to do with the war. Eventually, on 29 May 1453, Mehmed took the city.
The ripples of this action were felt throughout Europe. The taking of the city would force the Iberians to explore, creating the Age of Exploration and the Early Modern period in general. However, it was felt the hardest spiritually. Christendom had its greatest loss to that point. Rome had been destroyed, and a city incredibly important to God had been taken. It heralded the end of the world for the Christians.
It also heralded the end of the world for Muslims. With the completion of Muhammad’s prophecy, many believed that they were entering the end times.
Of course, to Mehmed, he was just happy to achieve what he had always dreamed off. Unfortunately, following the customs of the day, he let his army pillage the city for 3 days. One the fourth day, when the looting was to stop, Mehmed was left with an incredibly devastated city. He mourned not only the loss of the most beautiful city in the world, but the destruction of the legacy of Rome. After taking the city, he went into the Hagia Sophia, and claimed himself the Caesar of Rome, yet, he had let his army destroy such a bastion?
He vowed to rebuild the city, rebuild Rome, and to never let this travesty happen again. Mehmed would rebuild Constantinople, making it a greater paradise than ever before, and would reforge Rome with his own hands.
10 years after taking Constantiople, he would visit the site of Troy, and would have a prayer for the Trojans. He proclaimed that he had defeated the Greeks (Byzantines) in the name of Rome and Troy, and as a fellow Roman, and hoped they would be proud of him.
Mehmed had an incredibly successful military career, securing Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, the rest of Anatolia, parts of Greece held by Venetians, Morea, and Crimea. His most notable campaign was against Vladimir Tepes III, the leader of Wallachia. A monster of a man who refused to give tribute, and in response, killed the envoys by nailing turbans to their heads. Later, he attacked the Bulgarian and Serbian parts of the Ottoman Empire, killing everyone they came across, man, woman, child, peasant, noble, and everything in between.
Actually, Vlad and Mehmed had some sort of relationship before this point. Vlad and his brother Radu were prisoners of Murad, and they had bonded on some level. Mehmed was especially fond of Radu, who would end up leading the Janissaries into Wallachia. By this time, Vlad had covered the entire region in impaled bodies, creating a forest of impalement. Upon seeing this, Mehmed would utter his famous phrase…
“I fear no human, but The Devil is different.”
The Ottomans would retreat from this horrific sight. Seeing such a radical change in the person he knew as a child was disheartening, but Mehmed didn’t spend too much time mourning it. While he initially wished to say goodbye to an old friend, Vlad was initially forced to flee into Hungary, where he was imprisoned. Eventually, Vlad would return to rule Wallachia, and Mehmed would get to say goodbye on the battlefield where Vlad perished.
This encounter would warp Mehmed a bit, showing him how powerful the corruption of evil truly was.
Mehmed eventually died in 1481, poisoned by his own son. He was planning on taking over Mecca and Medina, and proclaiming himself Caliph, something his son would get to accomplish. He doesn’t like to speak of his son, for obvious reasons.
Mehmed was a man with little regrets in the end, but he still wished to create the paradise he had always wanted.
Or maybe save that friend in the end.
Truly, he was Roman down to his core.
Weapon:
Sword, Cannons, Onion Hat
Parameters:
STR: C
CON: C
AGI: B
MAG: B
LUK: A+
Class Skills:
Independent Action: B
The ability to remain independent even when rejecting the Magical Energy supply from one's Master; the ability that allows for action even in the absence of the Master. At higher ranks, it is also possible to remain for extended periods of time in this world without an established contract.
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: C
Grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether.
Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.
Personal Skills:
Ghazi: A
Initially a term applied to anyone fighting in an expedition or raid, but would eventually becoming a more specific term as Islam grew. In the time of the Ottomans, it would become a very specific term reserved only for Sultans who made conquests in the name of Islam. It was under the reign of Bayezid I that it specifically became a title that meant the Sultan was an “instrument of God.”
As an “instrument of God,” Mehmed is little more than a weapon in Allah’s hands. His body is a perfected weapon that follows Allah’s will. In essence, the skill grants Mehmed’s a defense which nulls mental interference, curse effects, and status effects.
As the Sultan that would complete the 800 year prophecy to take Constantinople, Mehmed is considered one of the greatest Ghazi.
Imperial Privilege (Roman): EX
An ability that, due to the insistence of the owner, Skills that are essentially impossible to possess can be obtained for a short period of time. In cases when the Rank is А or above, even the "burden to the body" can be acquired (such as Divinity).
In regards to Mehmed II, skills such as Swordsmanship, Clairvoyance, Riding, Charisma, Charisma, Military Tactics, and so on can be gained. In essence, if it is something that a Roman Emperor can do, Mehmed feels he can do it just as well, if not better.
It also has the effect of making Mehmed conceptually “Roman.”
Symbolic Wisdom: B
A tool (his glasses) crafted for Mehmed which symbolizes all the knowledge Mehmed had collected in life. As one of the Muslim’s greatest scholars, as a man who helped kickoff the Renaissance for Europe, Mehmed’s collection was immense. His sacking of Constantinople also gave him access to Ancient Roman texts.
In essence, Mehmed is a super nerd in fields related to art, music, poetry, literature, and the occult.
Judgement Basillica
The Trumpet Blasts of the Fall
Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Fortress/Anti-World
Range: 1~99
Maximum Number of Targets: 3000 people
Description:
Constantinople.
The City of the World’s Desire represented many things. It was an incredibly lucrative trade city, but it was more than that. It represented the power and legacy of Rome, an Empire which lasted over 1000 years. It represented the power of Christanity and served as its bulwark from Muslim influence. It represented Rome's legacy as Troy readvent, serving as an impenetrable city. Most importantly, in the eyes of Mehmed, it represented the greatest failure of Islam, and a correction that needed to be fixed.
This Noble Phantasm is the crystallization of Mehmed destroying the impossible, the Walls of Byzantium. A cataclysmic event that signaled The End of Times for many, Christians and Muslims alike. The fall of Constantinople could only mean that the world was going to end.
In essence, the Noble Phantasm is similar to a certain Japanese warlord. Mehmed can summon cannons and fire them, independently of him actually holding them or not. All of these cannons are glistening white, with carvings along them invoking images of the divine. In fact, they also seem slightly closer to trumpets than cannons. Instead of firing the traditional cannonball, they fire a white beam.
If Constantiople was a city that was never to fall, then Mehmed’s Cannons are objects that designate something to “eventual destruction.” The more they’re hit, the closer this fate is enforced. In essence, they are a reverse Palladion. They also have the ability to bypass conceptual and weaker defense.
The true power of the Noble Phantasm is revealed when the true name is released. A giant cannon hovers above Mehmed, and from it, an equally large laser is fired from it. It is this beam which truly embodies the Fall of Constantinople. Despite being a city with walls grander than even Troy, it was not enough to stop Mehmed’s siege. It is an attack which enforces “destruction” upon any sort of defense, while keeping the attack’s momentum and power uninhibited.
While this Noble Phantasm bears the designation of “Anti-World,” it obviously doesn’t have enough power to destroy the planet. Instead, it destroys “inner worlds,” so Reality Marbles and things of that like.
As the man who cut down the ever growing Tree for good, it is the only fitting Noble Phantasm for him.
In Restitutionem Novum
Let the Tree Flourish Once More
Rank: B++
Type: Barrier/Anti-Evil
Range: 1~40
Maximum Number of Targets: 500
Description:
Mehmed was the man who cut down the infinitely growing tree of Rome.
Yet, he was also the man who replanted the seed.
From the remains of Constantinople, the remains of Rome, Mehmed would continue Rome again, making it last yet another 500 years. The tree that Romulus planted may have been cut down, but Mehmed would never let its legacy end.
Romulus created a tree that would encapsulate Rome’s Past/Present/Future.
Mehmed would create a wall to encapsulate Rome’s Past, Present, and New Future.
Using the remnants of Constantiople’s walls, Mehmed formed a new set. If he had destroyed the walls of Troy 2, he would rebuild Troy 3’s walls to be even greater. This city was too grand to be destroyed again, so Mehmed would achieve this goal no matter what. The evils of the world would be repelled.
The ambition of Mehmed’s new walls knew no limit. Not only was he forging Troy 3, creating a wall which embodied the entire history of Rome, but was meant to be a reflection of Alexander’s walls. In Islam, Alexander forges the wall that keeps Gog and Magog away from Civilization. While Gog and Magog were initially hordes, they eventually became synonymous with “Cataclysmic Evil.”
An ambitious wall, equal only to its creator.
Upon calling out the name of the Noble Phantasm, a wall covered in branches emerges from the ground, growing to a seemingly infinite height in order to protect. Just as Rome was the infinitely growing tree, Mehmed’s new Rome would be the same. The wall itself is clearly modeled after the Theodosian Walls.
As the walls to protect from evil, those labeled as “evil” by Mehmed are rebelled away from the barrier upon activation, and are weakened the more they try to challenge the wall. It is a wall of rebirth, protection, and one ordained to survive. It has been over 500 years since their creation, and not once have the walls, nor the city, been truly challenged.
It is the mirror to the Noble Phantasm used by his former friend.
“...No...”
Ilze Ozols-Koksauleturas
SBU-8-12, Koksauleturas, Heiress of the Ozols
Gender:
Female
Age:
9
Alignment:
Insufficient Ego
Rank:
Objective for the Grail:
Information and Materials
Command Seal:
Three tree branches which appear to be moving in a circle
What’s a personality?
Ilze is effectively a blank slate most of the time. She has limited functions in regards to emotions, has a one track mind regarding her goal. With that in mind, she can best be described as incredibly pragmatic. The best and most efficient way to reach her goal is likely the one she’ll pick 9 times out of 10.
However, isn’t that the case for most magi as is?
Ilze doesn’t seem to take personal interest in anything outside of her work, though she seems capable of managing a conversation despite that. She seems to be skilled in negotiations and matters of diplomacy. This all most likely stems from her role within the family. Watching the seasons change seems to be the one thing that could really be considered a pastime.
However, no matter how you want to say it, Ilze mostly acts like a generic mud puppet. This is because she is one.
Her personality seems to completely change whenever her defect becomes relevant...
Ilze is effectively a blank slate most of the time. She has limited functions in regards to emotions, has a one track mind regarding her goal. With that in mind, she can best be described as incredibly pragmatic. The best and most efficient way to reach her goal is likely the one she’ll pick 9 times out of 10.
However, isn’t that the case for most magi as is?
Ilze doesn’t seem to take personal interest in anything outside of her work, though she seems capable of managing a conversation despite that. She seems to be skilled in negotiations and matters of diplomacy. This all most likely stems from her role within the family. Watching the seasons change seems to be the one thing that could really be considered a pastime.
However, no matter how you want to say it, Ilze mostly acts like a generic mud puppet. This is because she is one.
Her personality seems to completely change whenever her defect becomes relevant...
Issues with bright light.
Can’t process pain.
Inability to reproduce.
Is more aggressive and sadistic when dealing with men. Whether this defect exists because of her heritage or otherwise is unknown.
Can’t process pain.
Inability to reproduce.
Is more aggressive and sadistic when dealing with men. Whether this defect exists because of her heritage or otherwise is unknown.
Despite how barren Europe has become from millenia of deforestation, the forests still hide many secrets. No region in Europe has kept the same aura of mystery as the Slavic Lands. Deep within the forests of what can be referred to as Latvia, a giant tree is located. An absolutely massive tree, to the point where the entire forest surrounding the tree is but an extension of it. It is the Austras Koks, the World Tree. This tree dates back over 1000 years, and is a relic of the original Ozols family.
The Ozols were a family of Shamans that eventually began to switch to Alchemy and the pursuit of [ ]. When this occurred is lost to time, as no records since before Austras Koks remain. What can be inferred is that whatever sparked this change led to the Ozols specializing in a bizarre method of homunculus creation.
Based on the old concept of Mandrake and the popular theological idea that man was made from the ground, it became a popular idea that artificial life can be achieved in a method similar to farming. In introducing parts of the body to the virgin Earth, life can be created. The intention was to try to create the original man in an effort to reach [ ]. A bizarre and rare method of creating homunculi, but it was the one the Ozols ultimately specialized in. Even though they were a young family, the Ozols seemed to be gaining some notability, and it was during the very tail end of the first millenium that Austras Koks was created. The family seemed to have a bright future in front of them.
Of course, until The Northern Crusades.
A series of wars held during the late 1100s and early 1200s against the Baltic States. The mission was to convert the land and slaughter heretics. This was the last bastion of “Satan” in Europe, the last region to not know the grace of God and his son, Jesus Christ. For centuries the natives would fight against attempts at conversion, eventually, the Old Faith would be nearly wiped away completely.
Of course, the Ozols should have been fine.
However, by either poor luck or karmic backlash, the Ozols were caught in between, and every member of the family had been killed. The once aspiring Ozols had been eradicated. There should have been no hope for this family. Much like a majority of those within this land, they too should have faded away with the sands of time.
Thankfully, it never occured to the crusaders to cut down the giant tree.
Austras Koks, the family’s attempt at recreating the World Tree, or Tree of Life, had survived. Sprouting from Austras Koks was the terminal created to control the tree, much like a certain Old Man Golem in Germany, Astaāboliņš. Programmed to continue producing homunculi in the search for [ ], the terminal continued the job as the new effective head of the Ozols. It would be under his leadership that the Ozols would be saved, but in return, would become known as a famous family of hermits. However, beyond even that, under Astaāboliņš, a new addition was added to their method of homunculi creation.
It was also believed that man was created from the combination of animals. Through combining parts of animals with each other, or with modern man, the “original” man could be born. However, many magi who have attempted this method were disgusted, and vowed never to return to it. Whether the very idea of it was repulsive, or their creations were absolute monstrosities, many lesser magi could not continue with this concept.
This didn’t phase Astaāboliņš and the family continued in this direction. However, this has only further added onto the Ozols reputation. While this idea isn’t banned or even taboo, it is generally looked down upon and viewed as a boorish technique in the noble art of alchemy. The only organization that has any real issues with them is the Prague Association. This was only further escalated a century or so ago when a member of the Prague Association wandered onto the Ozols’ territory to challenge one to a duel.
He did not return home.
Since then, the Ozols have been a family of recluse homunculi, though they are often viewed like a small organization. Within the family is a clear hierarchy, with those being born from Austras Koks itself are the highest, with those born of other trees seen as lesser. There are separate sections of Austras Kok, with each one producing a different type of human-hybrid. Pure animal hybrids are only produced on other trees.
Despite keeping minimal interactions with the outside world, the Ozols have created a reputation for themselves. Their homunculi, though being somewhat look down upon, are seen as among the highest quality in the world. There have been efforts by some elites to create a more direct line of communication with the family, but it almost always rests on deaf ears. Outside of important formalities with the Association, they have next to no interactions with others.
The only exception to this seems to be the von Nettesheim family in recent years. Ilze herself has even met the current head of the family.
They are technically the Second Owners of their land, but this is mostly because the Association never believed it worth it to remove the tree.
The Ozols were a family of Shamans that eventually began to switch to Alchemy and the pursuit of [ ]. When this occurred is lost to time, as no records since before Austras Koks remain. What can be inferred is that whatever sparked this change led to the Ozols specializing in a bizarre method of homunculus creation.
Based on the old concept of Mandrake and the popular theological idea that man was made from the ground, it became a popular idea that artificial life can be achieved in a method similar to farming. In introducing parts of the body to the virgin Earth, life can be created. The intention was to try to create the original man in an effort to reach [ ]. A bizarre and rare method of creating homunculi, but it was the one the Ozols ultimately specialized in. Even though they were a young family, the Ozols seemed to be gaining some notability, and it was during the very tail end of the first millenium that Austras Koks was created. The family seemed to have a bright future in front of them.
Of course, until The Northern Crusades.
A series of wars held during the late 1100s and early 1200s against the Baltic States. The mission was to convert the land and slaughter heretics. This was the last bastion of “Satan” in Europe, the last region to not know the grace of God and his son, Jesus Christ. For centuries the natives would fight against attempts at conversion, eventually, the Old Faith would be nearly wiped away completely.
Of course, the Ozols should have been fine.
However, by either poor luck or karmic backlash, the Ozols were caught in between, and every member of the family had been killed. The once aspiring Ozols had been eradicated. There should have been no hope for this family. Much like a majority of those within this land, they too should have faded away with the sands of time.
Thankfully, it never occured to the crusaders to cut down the giant tree.
Austras Koks, the family’s attempt at recreating the World Tree, or Tree of Life, had survived. Sprouting from Austras Koks was the terminal created to control the tree, much like a certain Old Man Golem in Germany, Astaāboliņš. Programmed to continue producing homunculi in the search for [ ], the terminal continued the job as the new effective head of the Ozols. It would be under his leadership that the Ozols would be saved, but in return, would become known as a famous family of hermits. However, beyond even that, under Astaāboliņš, a new addition was added to their method of homunculi creation.
It was also believed that man was created from the combination of animals. Through combining parts of animals with each other, or with modern man, the “original” man could be born. However, many magi who have attempted this method were disgusted, and vowed never to return to it. Whether the very idea of it was repulsive, or their creations were absolute monstrosities, many lesser magi could not continue with this concept.
This didn’t phase Astaāboliņš and the family continued in this direction. However, this has only further added onto the Ozols reputation. While this idea isn’t banned or even taboo, it is generally looked down upon and viewed as a boorish technique in the noble art of alchemy. The only organization that has any real issues with them is the Prague Association. This was only further escalated a century or so ago when a member of the Prague Association wandered onto the Ozols’ territory to challenge one to a duel.
He did not return home.
Since then, the Ozols have been a family of recluse homunculi, though they are often viewed like a small organization. Within the family is a clear hierarchy, with those being born from Austras Koks itself are the highest, with those born of other trees seen as lesser. There are separate sections of Austras Kok, with each one producing a different type of human-hybrid. Pure animal hybrids are only produced on other trees.
Despite keeping minimal interactions with the outside world, the Ozols have created a reputation for themselves. Their homunculi, though being somewhat look down upon, are seen as among the highest quality in the world. There have been efforts by some elites to create a more direct line of communication with the family, but it almost always rests on deaf ears. Outside of important formalities with the Association, they have next to no interactions with others.
The only exception to this seems to be the von Nettesheim family in recent years. Ilze herself has even met the current head of the family.
They are technically the Second Owners of their land, but this is mostly because the Association never believed it worth it to remove the tree.
Ilze was the greatest success out of her year’s harvest. Coincidentally, she ended up among the highest quality homunculi in the family’s history, with minimal defects at that. After a few years of doing the normal work of an Ozols, creating more homunculi and other minor alchemic pursuits, she was given a promotion of sorts. Due to the passing of the previous “ambassador” in a strange accident (It involved a bear, a sled, and a night that has been systematically altered from the memories of most of the family), Ilze was allowed to become the newest “ambassador” of the Ozols family. Koksauleturas is the family’s name of this designation and is one of the highest honors that can be given within the family. This also elevated her to be the next in line in case anything was to happen to Austras Koks, but considering the entire family would die before that, it is a meaningless role. Effectively, this meant she would be the one dealing with the Association when it was needed. She still spends most of her time within the family’s forest, but ends up leaving it more often than the rest.
Interestingly enough, during her brief meetings with the Association and her visits to Clock Tower, she has managed to catch the attention of those within the Creation Department and the Botany Department.
Ilze has yet to respond to their various letters, but she likely will respond to the Creation Department within the next decade or so. She isn’t quite sure if the Botany Department is worth it considering how little relevance it seems to hold.
Originally, Ilze was not meant to be sent on this mission. She was deemed too valuable to be wasted on this, however, Ilze volunteered for the role. Why that is unknown, but Ilze claims it has something to do with the location and river.
It probably has something to do with her sadistic tendencies.
Interestingly enough, during her brief meetings with the Association and her visits to Clock Tower, she has managed to catch the attention of those within the Creation Department and the Botany Department.
Ilze has yet to respond to their various letters, but she likely will respond to the Creation Department within the next decade or so. She isn’t quite sure if the Botany Department is worth it considering how little relevance it seems to hold.
Originally, Ilze was not meant to be sent on this mission. She was deemed too valuable to be wasted on this, however, Ilze volunteered for the role. Why that is unknown, but Ilze claims it has something to do with the location and river.
It probably has something to do with her sadistic tendencies.
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Magic Circuit Switch:
They're a living circuit.
Number of Magic Circuits:
E
Quality of Magic Circuits:
EX
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Origin:
Cultivation
Elemental Affinity:
Fire and Earth
Attribute:
Synthesis
The Ozols family attribute. A specialty that focuses on combining different things, but still producing a greater whole. Just as plants can complete their processes even in unfavorable conditions, combining things that aren’t “optimal” with each other will still produce a favorable result.
Magecraft:
Association Basics:
What you, yes you, would expect a magus to know.
Alchemy:
Alchemy is, on a basic level, just the transmutation of matter. An incredibly common subset of mageraft, known on an incredibly basic level to most magi worth anything. Despite that fact, it is one of the most varied foundations of them all. The Ozols’ alchemy is mostly centered around their method of homunculi creation. It can be easily said that when it comes to their method of creation, they’re the absolute best.
Of course, this isn’t saying much considering how rarely it is used.
Outside of the creation of homunculi, the Ozols’ Alchemy relies upon the world itself and their Shaman roots as a base. Alchemists from the family have great compatibility when using plants and the like, but anything artificial is practically useless to them.
Shamanism
The old ways of the Slavic people. A magical foundation centered around communing with spirits and interacting with the natural world. An isolated and unpopular foundation, the modern practitioners of it usually have it a part of their crest from an earlier time. Things like curses and spiritual healing are included within it, but neither are things the Ozols family truly specializes in. The family’s true specialty with their Shamanism is their ability to interact with the spirits.
Spiritual Evocation:
The art of summoning spirits. It is likely this is what the original Ozols made use of when they worked as local Shamans..Specifically, they are incredibly skilled at working with the demons of their homeland.
Why that is, of course, remains lost to time.
Were they potentially dark shamans in the past…?
Succubus:
As a homunculus made with the parts of a Succubus, Ilze has been given the abilities of a Succubus. These include increased regeneration, reflexes, and coordination. Ilze can manipulate the dreams of others and can use the energy gained to sustain herself.
Most notably, she can store excess magus semen within her body and can release it like a jet.
Succubi normally have eternal youth, but as Ilze is a homunculus and stuck the way she was created, it is unknown whether she has this trait or not.
Magic Crest:
Homunculi are programmed with what they need
Mystic Codes
Fire Skull Posts: Based on the ones kept outside of the house of the Baba Yaga in slavic folklore. Created using oak carved to appear like bone and the skulls of child homunculi, the main purpose of these post is the creation of a territory. In creating a perimeter with them, the area inside becomes ideal for “A Slavic Magus.”
Within the skulls of the posts is a stone based one of the many Slavic flaming stones. This allows the skulls to glow, and trespassers who get too close are engulfed by their flames.
Finally, they seem to naturally draw people closer towards them. This isn’t a magical effect, rather, it appears their very existence is something that pulls humans in, akin to a natural bounded field. As Ilze is part Succubus, this isn’t actually something she worries about
She keeps one of these as a personal weapon of sorts, modified to use the flame within the skull as an attack.
Apples: A stock of apples, each filled with numerous amounts of wraiths. This is based on an practice where apple trees would be planted over graves as they were believed to be able to capture the souls of the departed.
Primitive Life Seeds: The one major thing developed by Ilze. These are based upon an old Slavic belief that rain was the semen of a God, as it mixing with the Earth is what creates life. Through throwing these seeds onto the Earth and pouring rain water upon them, absurdly weak homunculi are given birth. They lack any form of real intelligence, but are capable of following Ilze’s orders. They aren’t very strong either, as they could easily be killed by even a below average magus competent enough.
These are just the first stage of Ilze’s vision. In the future, she believes she’ll be able to create a level of homunculi on par with the family average via this method.
A lot of magus semen. Like a lot. Even Medb would blush.
Materials which belonged to Fairies, Imps, Strzyga and other such Slavic creatures.
A small world tree which was a part of Austras Koks, which allows it to quickly alter the land, making an ideal location to rapidly create homunculi. Since they’re made quickly, their lifespan is only a couple of weeks, but this is fine considering they’re unneeded after the war.
Non-Magical Abilities and Items:
Despite her appearance, her body is incredibly strong, coming from being a high quality product and her heritage.
Understands the basics of CQC.
Capable of incredibly high speed calculations.
Lots of tubs filled with rain water.
A personal cantina for some of the water.
Lots of nature she has brought from home.
Pouches to carry these objects while on her person.
An absurd amount of funds.
Full Name: Eithne Fiadh Aoibheann O’Murricane
Aliases: White Cow of Kildare
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Crest: -
Family: O’Murricane
Species: Human?
Specialties: Milk
Character Objectives: Restore her body.
A bitter woman who had her future stolen by inhuman creatures.
She has little patience for niceties, and speaks her mind without reserve. As stubborn as a bull, and just as quick to rage, particularly when her herd is threatened.
Despite that, she’s hardly uncaring. She has strong moral standards, and despises those who carelessly trample over the lives of others. She’ll step up as a hero when necessary.
To certain people, though, she can be as sweet as milk. Perhaps it’s the remnants of a personality that was trampled by hardships, or perhaps it’s simply her core nature. The calmness of a grazing creature. The softness of a protective mother. She simply cuts those parts away where possible.
She often has trouble telling if certain things are real. As if reality were simply an ephemeral illusion, that could burst apart like a dream at any moment.
She has little patience for niceties, and speaks her mind without reserve. As stubborn as a bull, and just as quick to rage, particularly when her herd is threatened.
Despite that, she’s hardly uncaring. She has strong moral standards, and despises those who carelessly trample over the lives of others. She’ll step up as a hero when necessary.
To certain people, though, she can be as sweet as milk. Perhaps it’s the remnants of a personality that was trampled by hardships, or perhaps it’s simply her core nature. The calmness of a grazing creature. The softness of a protective mother. She simply cuts those parts away where possible.
She often has trouble telling if certain things are real. As if reality were simply an ephemeral illusion, that could burst apart like a dream at any moment.
The O’Murricane family began centuries ago. A druid, tending to a herd of cows, made a contract with the fae. He would be granted a core for a Magic Crest, but the fae would return in 700 years to reap the fruit of the family’s efforts.
The crest was borrowed, so the crest would be returned. Effectively, a time limit on his descendants’ ability to reach the root. And once the crest was taken, it would be as if a tree’s roots were removed. The family would essentially be destroyed.
So, the family came up with a countermeasure, of sorts. Rather than making the Crest an organ, they made it into a tree. Each family head would die and feed the tree’s soil, adding to the knowledge of the yew tree in the centre of their grove.
As further generations progressed, they took on the practice of beast magecraft. A dangerous method generally, but the family stabilised it - as the heads were overcome with the nature of the beast, they ate the poison of the yew tree, and passed on their knowledge to the crest. A brutal method, but effective, in a way.
As a tree grows, it branches, and sheds leaves. Even if the fae were to take back the tree, it was nonetheless a seven-hundred year project that had produced many things that would remain behind - planted in the grove, locked in vaults, entrusted to other families.
That way, the fae were deceived. Or so the family thought.
Foolish.
Perhaps the original words of the contract were lost. Perhaps the family simply convinced the ‘fruit’ of the family’s efforts could be nothing but the Crest.
Eithne was the next in line to inherit the headship of the family. She’d taken well to the teachings of the family, and had consumed the fruit of the tree. Her father was excited for her progression, as an intelligent child who had no problem securing a place to study at the Clock Tower. Perhaps it was the blind pride of a father, but he believed that his daughter would prove to revolutionise the entire family.
Two days before she was due to leave for London, Eithne disappeared. The fruit of the family’s 700 years was taken.
Seven years later, she found her way back to the world, after a long journey through an alien land. The fae had hardly considered her a prisoner - rather, her theft was meant to catalyse something interesting. The repayment of a debt, and the start of a heroic epic, just as all the various epics of Ireland began with the theft of a cow.
By her return, perhaps destabilised by the grief of her disappearance, her father had already given himself to the crest tree, which remained unstolen.
She could never return to the family’s work. The fairies had altered her body, stealing her fertility. Certainly, she had her own life to live. But as a Magus, she represented a dead end. After realising that, it was hard not to become bitter.
Upon hearing of the Holy Grail War, and the ability to make a wish - well, her attendance went without saying.
The crest was borrowed, so the crest would be returned. Effectively, a time limit on his descendants’ ability to reach the root. And once the crest was taken, it would be as if a tree’s roots were removed. The family would essentially be destroyed.
So, the family came up with a countermeasure, of sorts. Rather than making the Crest an organ, they made it into a tree. Each family head would die and feed the tree’s soil, adding to the knowledge of the yew tree in the centre of their grove.
As further generations progressed, they took on the practice of beast magecraft. A dangerous method generally, but the family stabilised it - as the heads were overcome with the nature of the beast, they ate the poison of the yew tree, and passed on their knowledge to the crest. A brutal method, but effective, in a way.
As a tree grows, it branches, and sheds leaves. Even if the fae were to take back the tree, it was nonetheless a seven-hundred year project that had produced many things that would remain behind - planted in the grove, locked in vaults, entrusted to other families.
That way, the fae were deceived. Or so the family thought.
Foolish.
Perhaps the original words of the contract were lost. Perhaps the family simply convinced the ‘fruit’ of the family’s efforts could be nothing but the Crest.
Eithne was the next in line to inherit the headship of the family. She’d taken well to the teachings of the family, and had consumed the fruit of the tree. Her father was excited for her progression, as an intelligent child who had no problem securing a place to study at the Clock Tower. Perhaps it was the blind pride of a father, but he believed that his daughter would prove to revolutionise the entire family.
Two days before she was due to leave for London, Eithne disappeared. The fruit of the family’s 700 years was taken.
Seven years later, she found her way back to the world, after a long journey through an alien land. The fae had hardly considered her a prisoner - rather, her theft was meant to catalyse something interesting. The repayment of a debt, and the start of a heroic epic, just as all the various epics of Ireland began with the theft of a cow.
By her return, perhaps destabilised by the grief of her disappearance, her father had already given himself to the crest tree, which remained unstolen.
She could never return to the family’s work. The fairies had altered her body, stealing her fertility. Certainly, she had her own life to live. But as a Magus, she represented a dead end. After realising that, it was hard not to become bitter.
Upon hearing of the Holy Grail War, and the ability to make a wish - well, her attendance went without saying.
Country: Ireland
Affiliations: Mercenary
Rank: -
Alignment: Neutral Good
Circuit Switch: The sensation of being milked
Number of Circuits: B
Quality of Circuits: B
Elemental Affinity: Fire, Water
Origin: -
General Magecraft
The basics.
Beast Magecraft
Magecraft based around bringing forth the aspects of beasts. In particular, Eithne makes use of cows and bulls. The strength of bulls, to fight. The fertility of cows, to align with druidcraft.
Familiars (Fae Cattle)
A herd of cattle consisting of both cows and bulls. Not true Fae cattle, but rather akin to half-bloods. Not created by the family, but bred over generations. Their fae ancestry can be glimpsed by their white colour and red ears.
Most aren’t true familiars, but rather simply a herd used to produce milk. The lead bull, however, as the guardian of the herd while Eithne is absent, is a true familiar, and has the strongest trace of Phantasmal blood.
Sacred Milk
The production of milk. Milk as a river that feeds the land. Milk as nourishment for the body. A mana-rich and nourishing milk that serves to encourage the growth of all life. Both that which grows in the earth, and that which walks the earth.
Druidcraft
A broad form of Magecraft revolving around nature and its cultivation, drawing out the meanings and power of trees and plants, healing techniques, and taking on aspects of animals.
In particular, Eithne specialises in the fast growth of plants into a grove, as well as the sacrifice of plants by fire for various effects.
Lamentation Engine Banshee
A fae modification, made to Eithne after her kidnapping. The removal of her womb, and its replacement with an engine that turns sadness into magical energy. It is coloured with those feelings, and can only be used as an invisible attack transmitted through a banshee-like screaming. The greater the loss, the greater the power.
The misery of being ripped from one’s home. The sorrow of being a living dead end for one’s own family. The mourning of the family lost in the time it took to return.
To the fae, even these were simply toys to play with.
Number of Circuits: B
Quality of Circuits: B
Elemental Affinity: Fire, Water
Origin: -
General Magecraft
The basics.
Beast Magecraft
Magecraft based around bringing forth the aspects of beasts. In particular, Eithne makes use of cows and bulls. The strength of bulls, to fight. The fertility of cows, to align with druidcraft.
Familiars (Fae Cattle)
A herd of cattle consisting of both cows and bulls. Not true Fae cattle, but rather akin to half-bloods. Not created by the family, but bred over generations. Their fae ancestry can be glimpsed by their white colour and red ears.
Most aren’t true familiars, but rather simply a herd used to produce milk. The lead bull, however, as the guardian of the herd while Eithne is absent, is a true familiar, and has the strongest trace of Phantasmal blood.
Sacred Milk
The production of milk. Milk as a river that feeds the land. Milk as nourishment for the body. A mana-rich and nourishing milk that serves to encourage the growth of all life. Both that which grows in the earth, and that which walks the earth.
Druidcraft
A broad form of Magecraft revolving around nature and its cultivation, drawing out the meanings and power of trees and plants, healing techniques, and taking on aspects of animals.
In particular, Eithne specialises in the fast growth of plants into a grove, as well as the sacrifice of plants by fire for various effects.
Lamentation Engine Banshee
A fae modification, made to Eithne after her kidnapping. The removal of her womb, and its replacement with an engine that turns sadness into magical energy. It is coloured with those feelings, and can only be used as an invisible attack transmitted through a banshee-like screaming. The greater the loss, the greater the power.
The misery of being ripped from one’s home. The sorrow of being a living dead end for one’s own family. The mourning of the family lost in the time it took to return.
To the fae, even these were simply toys to play with.
Claiomh Solais
A sword received from fairies. A sword of light and fire. It is not ‘the’ Claiomh Solais, nor is it a mystic code imitating it. Rather, it is a single instance of the recurring fae phenomenon that is the sword Claiomh Solais. A fae construct received by completing three tasks within the land ruled by those beings.
It is a sword carrying the concept of light, sparking into fire as it is fed magical energy. Eithne has modified it to have a prana battery in the pommel.
Seeds
An enormous variety and quantity of plant seeds.
Sacred Milk
A large supply of the milk that Eithne’s cows can produce. More can be made, but a good starting supply is essential for her magecraft.
A sword received from fairies. A sword of light and fire. It is not ‘the’ Claiomh Solais, nor is it a mystic code imitating it. Rather, it is a single instance of the recurring fae phenomenon that is the sword Claiomh Solais. A fae construct received by completing three tasks within the land ruled by those beings.
It is a sword carrying the concept of light, sparking into fire as it is fed magical energy. Eithne has modified it to have a prana battery in the pommel.
Seeds
An enormous variety and quantity of plant seeds.
Sacred Milk
A large supply of the milk that Eithne’s cows can produce. More can be made, but a good starting supply is essential for her magecraft.
Farming
The talent to run a farm. Includes economic management, animal husbandry, and various modern and ancient farming techniques.
Cooking
Culinary ability, particularly using dairy products and beef.
Swordsmanship
The ability to fight with swords. Of no particular style, learned among the fae. One can consider it an unpredictable, flashy method that might trip up even a veteran swordsman.
The talent to run a farm. Includes economic management, animal husbandry, and various modern and ancient farming techniques.
Cooking
Culinary ability, particularly using dairy products and beef.
Swordsmanship
The ability to fight with swords. Of no particular style, learned among the fae. One can consider it an unpredictable, flashy method that might trip up even a veteran swordsman.
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@KoL
As for the remaining CS.
The rest of the CS will be reviewed by us, GM Team.
@KoL
-Don't make AUO's parameters Tokiomi tier. Like everyone else in this RP, their parameters and skills are determinant on their Masters.
-Also, power balancing reasons.
-We don't have any problems with Gilgamesh so far but as for me, I'd give you a friendly reminder to use him well and we all look forward to it.
-To make the long story short. Once Flood's Master is approved. You are also approved and discussion about stats will follow as planned.
-Upon GM Team discussion and decision , AUO's Independent Action will be A.
-Also, power balancing reasons.
-We don't have any problems with Gilgamesh so far but as for me, I'd give you a friendly reminder to use him well and we all look forward to it.
-To make the long story short. Once Flood's Master is approved. You are also approved and discussion about stats will follow as planned.
-Upon GM Team discussion and decision , AUO's Independent Action will be A.
As for the remaining CS.
The rest of the CS will be reviewed by us, GM Team.
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Saber
"This one will not fall. Nor will I show my back to the enemy."
Servant Profile __________________________________________________________True-Name: Sigurd Aliases: King of Warriors Gender: Male Attribute: Earth Era: Age of Gods Alignment: Neutral Good Qualified Classes: Saber, Rider, Caster Character Objectives: To serve his Master. To face the other heroes. If it were possible, and not too much trouble, to meet with his wife again. | Regend __________________________________________________________Type: Myth Source: Völsunga Saga Region: Northern Europe Weapon: Sword, Daggers Appearance: Dude runs around with a haircut like an early 2001 businessman. He's got like military fatigues, and then he's got floating spikes around him, and gundum arms, and a gasmask, and his sword is like a lightsaber but then it gets like bandages and then it wraps around the handle with the blade, and when he attacks he throws it like knives, and etc. |
Stats __________________________________________________________Endurance: A+ Strength: A+ Agility: B Mana: C Luck: E NP: A++ | Abilities __________________________________________________________Magic Resistance A: Grants protection against magecraft. Rather than simply enduring the effects, the spells themselves are negated, even if Saber is not the only target. Unfriendly spells of A-Rank of below affecting Saber will be cancelled, no matter what High-Thaumaturgy they might be. Riding A: Talent for piloting vehicles and mounts. In Saber's case, it's not an issue even if it's an animal from a foreign land or technology that didn't exist during his time. The only exceptions are Phantasmal Beasts and Divine Beasts. Divinity B: Measure of one's Divine Spirit aptitude, generally as a result of having a god as an ancestor. In Saber's case, the blood of Odin runs through his veins. This Skill has no real function on its own, simply serving as a quality that may become an advantage or disadvantage in terms of compatibility against different opponents. Primordial Rune (Warrior) B: The Magic Crest of Northern Europe which Saber possesses, having been taught to him by Brynhildr. His talent is great enough to allow summoning as a Caster, but it is still possible to make use of them as a Saber. Various powerful effects can be applied (Clairvoyance, disguises, Magic Resistance, raising parameters), but not simultaneously. Dragon Kind Modification EX: An extreme form of Self-Modification, causing Saber to take on draconic qualities due to having eaten a dragon's heart. The mana reactor of a dragon has taken form inside his body, allowing Saber to take action with almost no dependence on his Master's energy supply. Crystallization of Wisdom A: The result of eating a dragon's heart. In the myth, it was simply said that Saber was afterwards able to learn secrets by understanding birdsong. In this case, that wisdom has manifested as a pair of glasses (or an intimidating gas mask!) By wearing them, an incredible wealth of information and processing power becomes available. The glasses can even be given to another person, and they would be capable of using them in the same way, though they would suffer a splitting headache. In regards to concerns that a simple pair of glasses could easily be shattered in combat, Saber offers his assurance that as crystallized wisdom, they won't stop shining as long as he doesn't devolve into a mindless beast. What are they? Dawn of Ruin Rank: A NP Type: Anti-Unit Range: 1 Maximum Number of Targets: 1 person Description: The "Sword of the Sun" wielded by Sigurd, originally an enchanted "sword of selection" pulled from the trunk of a mighty tree by Sigurd's father, Sigmund. Later, it shattered from clashing against Gungnir and was reforged by Sigurd into a cursed demonic blade that was capable of killing even a dragon. After that, it became renowned as a "demonic sword of both glory and ruin." It is said to be the strongest demonic sword that can only be equaled to the strongest holy sword Excalibur, and it possesses the special characteristic of "dragon slayer", though its power is normally only unleashed as a blow against a single individual. Since Sigurd carries the reforged version of Gram, it takes on a crystalline appearance that might those attempting to identify it if they are more familiar with its original state, and has a broken fragment attacked to the opposite end of the hilt to serve as a second blade, as well as smaller fragments being made into four daggers. Heaven's Wheel of Destruction Rank: A+ NP Type: Anti-Fortress Range: 1~50 Maximum Number of Targets: 1~900 people Description: The most effective way to utilize Gram, according to Sigurd himself. The demonic sword is thrown, scattering destructive flames as it pierces the target. If this first step of the technique can be landed successfully, Sigurd will follow up by driving his fist into the hilt. In this way the power unleashed is equivalent to an anti-fortress attack. |
Personality
__________________________________________________________A fearless and prideful hero who shows respect to even his enemies, being harsher on himself than on anyone else, not wanting to ever show an opponent his back. Sigurd is incredibly square-toed and ultra-stubborn, to the point where forcing unwanted instructions on him by command spells would be extremely difficult. He is technically a rational person, as he fulfilled his purpose of avenging his father not by affection but from his sense of duty to his family. Slightly blunt to everyone, it's almost impossible for him to show affection, at least on the outside. But if he chose to protect someone without regards of his own safety, that would be the greatest sign of trust or care he could offer.
Expressing no emotion whatsoever even in dire situations, being shown to be stoic as he kept fighting without knowing the love of his mother, father, and foster-father while he took action, taking into account necessity and fairness of the situation at hand to avoid terrible outcomes and benefit everyone with or without their approval. In other words, he does not 'grant wishes' in the way that his counterpart does, but rather assesses for himself what should be done as a hero, with the personal requests of various people being a secondary concern. Regardless of what kind of person Sigurd's Master is, if they are not evil and he finds them worthy of his trust, there will be no difficulty in communication between them and he will carry out their commands efficiently. He is the type of hero not particularly invested in his second life, not having a burning desire for the Holy Grail and being content to serve a Master and simply carry out his role as a hero and a warrior. However, if he were able to make a wish on the grail, it would most likely be for a reunion with his love.
Background
__________________________________________________________Sigurd is known as the Greatest Hero of Northern Europe, a knight equal to King Arthur. As they're quite similar, it's easy to confuse him with Siegfried, but they are different Heroic Spirits. The posthumous child of Hjördís, and King Sigmund of Frakkland who fell in battle against Odin, shattering Gram into fragments with his spear Gungnir. He was sent by King Alf who married his mother to be raised by his blacksmith and teacher, the Dwarf Regin as his foster-father. He personally revived the sword Gram, "the sword of supremacy in the tree", reforging it anew into a demonic sword that was capable of killing even a dragon, becoming renowned as a demonic sword of both ruin and glory. He soon became the everlasting friend of Grani, a descendant of Sleipnir, who became his steed. Sigurd avenged his father by defeating the armies that joined King Hunding, soon becoming a renowned military man of valor and then a dragonslayer by slaying the dragon Fafnir. Once he devoured its heart and gained the wisdom to understand many things, he became aware of his foster-father's desire to take the dragon's treasure for himself, beheading Regin for his attempted betrayal.
Later in his life, he rode forth to the top of the summit on Mt. Hindarfjall, an inhuman devil-cave where the Valkyrie Brynhildr slept in a circle of fire. Bravely riding through the flame with his steed to reach her, he cut off her mythril armor with Gram. From that act she awakened from her long sleep, and questioned Sigurd's reasons, as he must have known of the prophecy from his uncle, which said that if both of them were to meet each other, ruin would befall them. He confirmed that he knew of it and yet was still doing what needed to be done. Sigurd's reasoning was that he was a cold man with no need for emotions, and the prophecy would be broken if he simply saved her and did not love her. Brynhildr felt glad, but at the same time she felt sadness at knowing he would not love her. Unfortunately, Sigurd had fallen in love with her at first sight, giving her a smile that stole her heart. He then proposed to her, taking her as his wife.
After their honeymoon, she taught him the original runes she had learnt from her father Odin. As time went on, he left her to continue his hero's journey until his return. Sometime during his journey, he had been tricked to drink a special alcohol which was made by Gudrun to have Sigurd forget Brynhildr, so that he may marry her. Gunnar, Gudrun's brother also desired to marry Brynhildr, so he and Sigurd rode off to meet with her, yet she still loved Sigurd and said only the one who passes the trials shall gain her hand in marriage. Gunnar knew he could not do it, so he had asked Sigurd for aid. The one she loved the most in the world; disguising himself with runes in the guise of his brother-in-law's shape. Sigurd rode forth with his steed Grani, proposing to her again in the guise of his brother-in-law, however Brynhildr knew it was Sigurd. Challenging him into a fight, although this was sophistry as Sigurd was already much stronger than her. As a result, he won the fight from the combat skills she provided to him from their time together, presenting her as his brother-in-law's wife. Although she initially accepted the events as her immutable fate, she eventually raised her own hand against her beloved one, killing him by slicing him in half while his family and all of his followers were killed as well through a conspiracy as she took her own life to follow after him into the afterlife.
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Huang Lanfen
“My patience can only last so long. I’m dying to get this started.”
Magus Profile __________________________________________________________Full-Name: Huang Lanfen Aliases: N/A Gender: Female Age: 38 Crest: N/A Family: Huang Species: Human Specialties: Gu, Curses, Formal Craft Character Objectives: To increase the wealth and power of her family | Legend __________________________________________________________Country: China Nationality: Chinese Affiliations: None besides her family Rank: Alignment: Neutral Evil Lanfen is not held back by morality; she is someone who is perfectly willing to kill others by the dozen if it furthers her goals even a little. She is driven by greed and has a cruel streak that, while it doesn’t push her to inflict unnecessary suffering, does mean she enjoys what suffering she does inflict. |
Stats __________________________________________________________Magic Circuit Switch: The image of a snake coiling around a rat Number of Magic Circuits: A Quality of Magic Circuits: C Mana: B Elemental Affinity: Fire and Earth Origin: Accumulation | Abilities __________________________________________________________Although she has never attended the Clocktower, Lanfen is as versed in the basics of General Magecraft as any graduate of the Clocktower would be, having received a comprehensive education from her family. Aside from this she has a strong foundation in formal craft and cursing technique, both of which are geared towards working with her family’s specialty of Gu magecraft. Gu magecraft utilises the practice of sealing several venomous creatures, such as spiders, scorpions, snakes and so on, in a container and waiting for them to devour each other; the poisons and grudges of those creatures are concentrated into the surviving creature and this creature is then used as a source of power or as a charm to perform various acts. The creature can either be used in its entirety or its poison can be extracted and used instead, depending on how much power is required. As a type of magecraft that is very well suited to cultivating magical energy into containers, which can then be used by any Magus and not just the one who cultivated it, Gu magecraft has a good synergy with Formal Craft. The magical energy produced through Gu is also inherently negative, meaning it is well suited for use in cursing techniques; Gu practitioners often use their art either to accumulate wealth, usually at the expense of others, or as a means of enacting revenge and are well acquainted with curses as a result. Concealing Umbrella – A mystic code capable of concealing the magical energies of a person by creating a weak effect not dissimilar to a bounded field. The effect does not reach very far, covering the person holding it and perhaps a couple of others standing in close proximity. The effect is more easily bypassed than that of a bounded field, but it works well at preventing detection from those who are not actively looking to find someone. Magic Opium Pipe – A pipe used in order to spread poisonous vapours over a wide area. When packed with a form of solidified Gu poison and lit the smoke produced by this pipe can be controlled and directed by the Magus holding the pipe. A dozen minor Gu creatures – While the Huang family may possess an extraordinarily powerful Gu creature, every Gu practitioner should regularly cultivate a number of their own creatures for their own use so as not to be tied to one location and so as not to be dependent on others. Lanfen has in her possession twelve minor Gu creatures that she keeps with her at all times to act as fuel for her magecraft when her family’s creature is not readily available. They are strong enough as to be able to shapeshift into different animals and Lanfen likes to have them take the form of blood-red butterflies, but they are able to take on more subtle forms if need be. The ancient familiar cultivated by the Huang family over the course of centuries; originally an ordinary creature, it has been fed enough grudges that it has become something much more. On the level of a Monstrous Beast, its original form is no longer known, being able to shapeshift as any well-developed Gu creation can, but it often takes on the guise of an abnormally large snake of some kind. Capable of producing powerful magical venoms that fuel the Gu magecraft her family uses, it is also a formidable beast in its own right having been the focus on her families efforts for centuries and having accumulated tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of grudges. |
Personality
__________________________________________________________Lanfen is a patient and methodical person, someone who understands the value of taking their time to ensure things are done properly, but this is due to a surplus of restraint rather than being her natural state; it is against her base nature to hold herself back and to take things slow but these are the values that she was taught and she has enough self-control to abide by them.
She is greedy, naturally avaricious and covetous, but not so much as to let it affect her actions. She is one to set her sights high and always aim for the biggest reward possible, but is able to let an opportunity pass if pursuing it would put herself at risk.
There is a cruel streak running through her that shows itself on occasion. Lanfen does not actively seek to do harm to others, but if she must harm others to reach her goal then she will not hesitate to do so and will even do so with a hint of eagerness at times. There is a mocking note to her personality that she is not always able to hide.
Background
__________________________________________________________The Huang family has existed in some form or another for over 1000 years, although anti-sorcery purges and changes to the political climate in China mean that they have undergone several transitions during that time. Hailing from Southern China they are a group of Gu practitioners who used their abilities to quickly acquire a vast amount of wealth and power, using curses and poisons to eliminate rivals or prominent individuals and claim their fortunes as their own. However, such growth attracted attention and during one of China’s many purges of Gu practitioners and witches they were discovered and nearly eradicated; their work was destroyed, their members nearly wiped out and their fortune lost. Some of the family managed to survive, by luck or by design, and were able to rebuild from the ground up.
This story repeated itself several times; a swift rise and an even more abrupt fall as Gu practitioners were hunted and eradicated by whoever was in power at the time and all eyes turned towards those families who had no good explanation for where or how they had obtained what they had. All progress lost and all fortune scattered as the Huang’s were left to pick up the pieces and start again. Hard lessons were learnt along the way and a subtler, more careful approach was adopted; a slower accumulation of wealth, less obvious grabs for power and a lot of care given to staying in the shadows and giving people no reason to notice them.
They learned the hard way that growing too fast tends to attract attention and all the power in the world meant nothing when the might of the Emperor was directed against them. Patience and a slow and steady solidifying of their foothold would mean that they would outlast any Emperor that sought to eradicate them, or any other threat for that matter. The last purge they fell victim to was 400 years ago and because of their new approach they were one of the last groups of Gu practitioners to be discovered, giving them the time they needed to hide and secure most of their assets and even avoid the destruction of the most powerful of the Gu creatures that they had been cultivating over the last 200 years, preventing the loss of their magecraft.
This is the Huang family as Lanfen was born into it; careful, methodical and subdued. They yearned for the wealth and power they once achieved at their height, though they were not lacking in either, but restrained themselves and focused on slowly and steadily cultivating both in a manner that would benefit future generations more than themselves. Always with an eye to the future, the Huang family grows and grows and grows without exposing themselves to the world at large. Even so, they could not resist the allure of the Holy Grail War; they know they are taking a risk in sending a representative and exposing themselves, but what they stand to gain if they claim the Grail is potentially greater than what they might lose. After all, it’s not like they haven’t rebuilt themselves several times before and the loss of a single Magus is hardly comparable to the purges of the past.
Miscellaneous
__________________________________________________________Huang Lanfen’s Command Seal takes the form of a coiled snake split into three sections; the head, the main body and the tail, each with a small gap separating it from the next section.
Swarm's Always Spreading, Consuming, Thriving
Magus Profile __________________________________________________________Full-Name: Aslaug Vindholm Aliases: Vermin Princess, Master of the Swarm, Rat Girl Gender: Female Age: 24 Crest: 600 Years Family: Vindholm Species: Human Specialties: Animal Handling, Enchantment Character Objectives: To grow her swarm of vermin even further and consume all those who condem Vermin | Regend __________________________________________________________Country: Norway Nationality: Norwegian Affiliations: N/A Rank: Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Aslaug has no need for the normal rules of the world, all she focusses on is herself and her swarm of vermin, she's not a detriment on anyone, but when it comes down to anyone else or herself, she will do whatever she can to benefit herself and her swarm, after all, she's only loyal to them. |
Stats __________________________________________________________Magic Circuit Switch: The Sound of Scratching Number of Magic Circuits: A Quality of Magic Circuits: B Mana: B Elemental Affinity: Earth Origin: Infestation | Abilities __________________________________________________________Aslaug shunned general learnings for quite some time but has a pretty basic understanding of it all, even though she herself practices it rarely as she finds it all rather unnecessary. Aside from the basics she's quite well versed in energy transference, healing magics and minor enchantments The Swarm, the specialty of Aslaug and a tradition passed down throughout her family. Her own magic is focussed upon controlling masses of vermin, able to enchant and charm those lesser mammals to carry out her bidding, as well as to reproduce and scatter themselves. This family magecraft is focussed on using her magic to help spread the crop destruction power of vermin, but for her it serves the purpose of the mighty aswarm to expand its ranks. She also is able to cast some spells through her vermin that are enchanted by her magecraft, overflowing them with mana to turn them into small bombs or even using them to create boundary fields. Her usual choice of vermin is usually, but not limited to, rats, weasels, ferrets, opossums, foxes and raccoons, the larger the animal the harder they are to control and operate with. Alchemy of body enhancing drugs is also something she's quite trained in, though she isn't as skilled as she is with her "Swarm Magecraft" her alchemy is special in that she focusses on making vermin especially stronger and agile, as well as concocting potions that can cloud the judgment of those that drink it, although she doesn't like using her potions for the likes of humans, she will if the need calls for it. She also indulges in creating potions that can give someone animalistic senses and traits that could turn one feral and slightly stronger, but only serving for her to quell lowly humans that dare disrespect the mighty vermin. Freya's Face - An Amulet that has been passed down since what many believe to be the first head of the Vindholm family, this amulet is said to be imbued with a blessing from the Goddess of Fertility herself and was seemingly a gift to the founder of the family, Briggite Vindholm. This amulet not only allows Aslaug to increase the fertility of the vermin she calls upon, but also allows her to accelerate the incubation and growth of the vermin, of course if she doesn't disable it the swarm will grow old and develop too quickly, but the virility of their ranks would never die down. Abomination Membrane - Forbidden from most of the family, only Aslaug was able to get her hands on it, a great mass of what appears to only be flesh and muscle but really the Abomination Membrane's power lays within its ability to affect others. Taking a small piece of the membrane and inserting it into another vermin with the use of her medical equipment, Aslaug can shift the shape and body of the vermin, creating winged rats and large bulky raccoons, although she cannot create that many at a time if she really focussed mana into the membrane, as a last-ditch effort she can use it to consume a bunch of vermin into it's mass, creating an unholy abomination of a creature that would rival that of a Monstrous Creature. |
Personality
__________________________________________________________Although she has a lot to live up to, and she appears put together and composed, the truth is that Aslaug's perception of the world is slightly skewed. Putting up with humans is easy but being sincere and nice to one of her peers that look down upon vermin will immediately make her sour and dramatic towards the, as she loves to lecture people on the ways humans look down upon vermin and how vermin are adorable and will outlast humanity. Always obsessing over survival, Aslaug is obsessed with weird tasting foods always searching out a new delicacy to share with not only herself but her vermin as well, she would never call them pets. In her eyes, she and the vermin have a mutual symbiotic bond, one that dictates that if she helps them they will, in turn, be loyal to her forever, something that is simply not true but she is sure that one day she will find herself the chosen one of the vermin, also not true.
Shiny objects are also, something she adores and collects, knowing that the Swarm will likely also enjoy it.
Background
__________________________________________________________600 years ago, when they were founded, the Vindholm family practiced magic for one goa, animal husbandry, and healing, embracing alchemy to find potions to keep them alive during harsh winters. Their magic was quite impressive and made many others jealous of their prowess at handling their farms for so many years without ever a bad season with their cattle and crops, using their magic to soften and fertilize the soil was also one of their old traditions. Their magecraft was all used in the service of their Goddess Freya, the Norse god of Fertility. The Vindholm's served her in hopes of increasing their crop and cattle output which it did for many years.
It was only 400 years ago that the magecraft took a turn and much more vermin-specific traits and traditions began to show. Another family of Magus, the Halvosens, began ruling the markets that they were always selling at, soon beginning to experience the first bad harvest in 200 years. The Vindholm's swore revenge on the opposing family and any others who were outselling them at the market and forcing them into near poverty, so the heir at the time brought them into a new era, The Vermin Era. The original intention of breeding and creating vermin were not to serve them and their expansion, but rather to use them to destroy crops of opposing families. This tradition, as well as their farming methods, were passed down for generations, however, the idea of a Vermin Deity that oversaw the Vindholm's was commented in the family's history even though no such deity existed. This idea of a deity was eventually what led towards the corruption of the modern heir, Aslaug Vindholm.
Named such for the family's hope of once again receiving Freya's blessing, Freya's mother hailed from the Vindholm's whilst her father came from a powerful Alchemy family from Germany, their union was political and for a powerful heir, but in the end, the two began to love each other and raised Aslaug in a household of love and attention. Young Aslaug was an impressive young magus and her parents knew she had to learn all the tricks of the trade, their mistake was teaching her the vermin control technique so early. The 8-year-old was obsessed with the cute little fluffy animals and never focussed on actually breeding cattle or how good soil could be and what a good harvest could bring. Her grandparents decided that the best way to rid her of such delusions was to tell her horror stories of the Great vermin Deity that would see her as fuel for the Swarm.
As it turned out, that technique backfired.
Aslaug became obsessed with pleasing such a vermin deity, believing that a union between it and Freya would bring a Golden Age of Union between people and vermin. Her parents reluctantly indulged such delusions, knowing that having such a promising heir go AWOL would not look good to the Vindholm name. So she grew up and attended the Clocktower, before returning to the Norwegian homestead, finding new ways to increase her craft, one the family finally began to support, realizing just how good it would be when used against opposing magus families.
So when the opportunity to bring a New Age of the Swarm came about in the form of the Grail War, Aslaug packed her things, got together a small group of vermin, two raccoons, two opossums, 10 rats, and set out.
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__________________________________________________________Aslaug's command seal is three rough broken shards, all jagged and breaking off from the center of the back of her hand.
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[Full Name] Lyra Schwarzen
[Aliases] ---
[Gender] Female
[Age] 22
[Crest] 600 years old
[Family] Schwarzen
[Species] Half-Werewolf Human
[Specialties] Beast Regression Magecraft
[Country] German
[Nationality] Germany
[Affiliation] Mages Association (The Clocktower)
[Rank] Pride
[Alignment] True Neutral
[Magic Circuit Trigger] The cold rage of a wild beast
[Number of Magic Circuits] B
[Quality of Magic Circuits] A
[Elemental Affinity] Air
[Origin] Regression
[Mana] B++ (Her output increases proportionally to how far back she has regressed into her monstrous beast side, as well as according to the moon's cycles. Each of the modifiers stand for one of the conditions.)
[General Magecraft] Lyra is proficient in the the usual general foundations for a properly educated magus of the Clock Tower. As well as a great many deal of general applications of air magecraft and runes. However, her true expertise lies elsewhere.
[Personal Magecraft] Beast Regression Magecraft, also known as Atavism Magecraft, is a form of magecraft specialized in returning one to their natural state. On its basis, it can be used to Reinforce various parts of the body, or even the whole being, by acquiring characteristics latent in one's blood, it can allow half-breeds to recall the innate traits of their ancestors. However, the price for overusage is even steeper than that of usual magecraft. The closer one goes to their origin, and the longer they stay there, the harder it's to return. The benefits of this form of magecraft are undeniable, but the drawbacks are big enough to make most conventional magi shy away from ever attempting to bring that practice into their bloodline even if it would advance their grand work.
At her best state of regression, becoming a complete facsimile of a monstrous beast, Lyra is strong enough to smash through a thirty centimeters concrete wall with her bare hands (or claws in that case). However, she can't stay in this state for more than a few minutes without risking to lose her human mind forever. If it's a full moon night, her power output is amplified twicefold but the chances of going berserk and turning into a monster are also much higher.
[Sorcery Traits] Mana Erosion, the ability to disrupt magecraft and even forcibly shut off the magic circuits of individuals capable of hearing her howls. Since this ability comes from a monstrous beast's innate capability to reject magical energy, she can't make use of it unless she regresses back to the state of being a facsimile of one.
She also owns Mystic Eyes of Charm of a particularly high quality, bought at one of Rail Zeppelin's auctions.
[Mystic Codes] The powerful hammer that she uses would normally be a tool more appropriate for a militant member of the church than a magus, even most Enforcers prefer subtler methods to accomplish their goals. Its's a weapon forged out of cold iron, especially crafted to protect the last remainders of the werewolves against the threats of other supernatural beings. A heavy weapon that ejects the natural defenses of most types of elementals and magical beasts making its wielder's attack strike true against them. Naturally, it's useful for dealing with human threats as well, be them the church or other mages. When it's not being used it can be stored away as a charm, in a manner similar to the Church's black keys.
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[Personality] Lyra normally is a calm and taciturn person. She tends to not speak much but is always observant of her surroundings. In many ways, her personality resembles that guard dog or a wolf taken away from her pack. It's only natural, though since her inner beast is always in conflict with her human side. She's a wolf in human's clothing.
Naturally fond of isolation, she grew an eclectic taste for music and reading, even learning to play a few instruments though she rarely practices nowadays.
Because of her beastly side, she has no qualms with taking what she needs, whenever she needs it. Those who don't have the strength to protect their possessions don't deserve to own them. However, she isn't wasteful and all she speaks tends to be the utter truth. After all, unlike humans and elementals, beasts have no need for lies. In a way, this makes her the antithesis of a typical Clocktower magus. The kind of people who might as well be considered the apex of all of humanity's worst traits.
[Background] Lyra is the eldest child of the Schwarzen family. A well-established Northern European lineage of mages with blood ties to the ancient werewolves who once inhabited most of the continent. While they were originally a clan of runemasters and practitioners of traditional forms of witchcraft and elemental manipulation, those pursuits were set aside when one of their ancestors intermingled with monstrous beasts centuries ago. Their knowledge is still stored in their family's crest, but most of it hardly noteworthy. Especially when compared to their powerful beast magecraft.
As far as Lyra's personal history goes, she isn't that different from any child of other magi lineages. She was born and raised to succeed her father. After learning all their arts and crafts she was sent to the Clocktower for further education and has been studying there for the better part of the last half a decade. She hasn't gained that much of a reputation thanks to her ill-seen form of magecraft, but her potential is undeniable even to her fiercest nemesis. She reached the title of Pride at a relatively tender age, and with a few more years of training may be able to join the ranks of the Brand elite.
Given that Lyra is neck-deep on the Folklore Department, researching ancient curses and magical artifacts, the call of the Holy Grail War is a natural thing to her. Her expectations aren't only for victory but also the chance to research Japan's long history with half-breeds, hoping to find the key to unlock the next step in her family's Opus Magnum.
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Name: Indrajit
Title(s): Meghanada, Conqueror of the Heavens
Class: Rider
Gender: Male
Attribute: Sky
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Personality: His voice can be as tranquil as a calm breeze, or as turbulent as a mighty storm. A dutiful son and an honorable warrior painted with the reputation of a villain due to his demonic allegiances. To his Master as well as those he has warmed up to, he is a kind soul, happy to provide his aide wherever it is needed. However, one should not underestimate his kindness as weakness, as his demonic heritage throbs at his very being, a monstrous rage threatening to be released upon those who wrong him or his kin. To the enemies of his Master, he is a merciless demon, using any means necessary to grant his allied camp victory.
Objective for the Grail: To serve his Master well.
Biography: Demon Prince of Lanka and the most powerful son of the Rakshasa king Ravana, born to be the ultimate warrior by the desires of his father. At birth, he was named "Thunderous Lord of Sky", foreshadowing his future feats of arms. At a very young age, he had mastered the use of weaponry to the extent of obtaining the divine weapons, or Astras. These skills were made fully apparent during Ravana's battle against the Devas, as it was Meghanada who defeated every Deva along with their king, Indra, tying the god to his chariot as a trophy of his victory. It was through this feat that Lord Brahma named the prince "Indrajit", Conqueror of Indra.
Indrajit continued to serve his father without question, easily besting the great heroes Rama and Lakshmana in multiple occasions and bringing them to near defeat many times in battle. However, even Indrajit knew that this war with Rama would only lead to his father's ruin, and pleaded with him to surrender only for his pleas to fall on deaf ears. Enraged at Ravana's madness but still ever loyal to the command of his father, he marched forward to battle, knowing that he would meet his end enacting his father's will. Despite knowing that his death would be inevitable, Indrajit bears no grudges against his enemies, and has made peace with the outcome of his last battle.
Weapons: Armed with various high-class armaments such as swords, spears, maces, and most notably his personal bow. Many of Indrajit's other weapons are contained within his Amaravati Vimana Noble Phantasm.
Parameters:
STR: B
END: B
AGI: A+
MGI: B
LCK: D
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: B
Class skill of the Rider class. Possesses a high level of Magic Resistance, second only to the Knight Classes. Nullifies spells of three bars or less, and even High Thaumaturgy and Grand Rituals have difficulty affecting the Servant. Furthermore, as one who is also an expert at magical warfare, Indrajit is knowledgeable in countless methods to counter enemy magi.
Riding: EX
Class skill of the Rider class. At this level, anything, even the gods, could be utilized as a mount. Indrajit's ability to ride the King of the Devas as a suitable mount goes above and beyond the limits of the skill.
Personal Skills:
Monstrous Strength: A+
Temporarily grants a rank-up to Strength in accordance to the skill's rank. As the son of the Demonic King Ravana as well as being a Rakshasa himself, Indrajit possesses this skill at an extremely high rank. Furthermore, this skill shows full effectiveness within the cover of darkness, when the enemies' fears can more easily be fed upon. However, the longer Indrajit is under the influence of this skill, the more he becomes like a Rakshasa, descending to a bestial rage.
Body of Lightning: A
The unique condition of Indrajit's body, further enhanced by his conquest of the King of the Heavens. In battle, Indrajit is described to be able to move like a bolt of lightning, darting across the sky in an instant. Functionally, it is a skill that facilitates the use of high-speed movements comparable to that of lightning itself. Additionally, a limited form of "Prana Burst (Lightning)" can be utilized, with the very lightning surging through Indrajit's body painting his every attack.
Mantra Incantation (Warfare): B+
The knowledge and usage of incantations (mantras) utilized in sacred Hindu magical arts applied to the art of warfare. Indrajit possessed supreme magical power, and was hailed as an expert in the fields of magical warfare, sorcery, and tantra. Furthermore, Indrajit specializes in the use of Maya (illusionism), and is capable of feats such as concealing himself and projecting false images that were capable of fooling even Rama and Lakshmana.
Eternal Arms Mastery: A+
Denotes the possession of superior combat arts incapable of degradation from mental interference. Hailed as the sole mortal member of the Atimaharathi caste and possessing mastery over many celestial weapons, Indrajit's skill at arms easily rank among the best in Ancient Indian myth. Even if Indrajit were to lose himself to his thick demonic blood, his martial prowess will remain.
Noble Phantasm:
Name: Nagapasha
Title: Insidious Net of One Million Serpents
Rank: B+
NP Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 3 ~ 9
Maximum Number of Targets: 1
Among the countless celestial weapons that Indrajit has in his arsenal, none are more nefarious than the Nagapasha. One of the celestial weapons of the Nagas, a race of serpent-like beings, the Nagapasha is the trap the brought low the heroes Rama and Lakshmana, and would have ended up killing the brothers if not for the intervention of Hanuman. In comparison to the Brahmastra, which could be considered a devastating "nuclear weapon", the Nagapasha is hailed as a potent "biological killer", and as such served as Indrajit's weapon of choice for decisively ending battles by taking out key targets.
The Nagapasha is unleashed by taking the appearance of a vicious giant serpent lunging its fangs at the target, although Indrajit is capable of disguising its appearance when need be. Once the target is struck, they would find a million snakes raining down upon them at an instant, wrapping around the target's body while venomous fangs sinking into every inch of their exposed flesh. Ignoring armors that are worn over the body, the snake venom burrows its way to the target's flesh, administering its deadly poison from within. Brought forth from serpents handpicked from the strongest among Naga-kind and further enhanced by the dark sorcery of Indrajit, the poison burns and melts away at the target's flesh slowly and painfully. The target is left incapacitated as poison damage is continuously applied in proportion to one's Endurance until not a single trace of their existence remained. The poison is especially effective towards other heroes of Hindu origin, sporting similar properties to the Hydra venom of Ancient Greece.
Due to the predictability of such an attack, Indrajit must rely on deploying it in a matter where his opponents would not be able to defend against it. Normally this is done by either overwhelming his opponent with his superior endurance, or releasing this Noble Phantasm under the guise of his illusions. After all, Indrajit was only able to entrap the heroes Rama and Lakshmana by employing both tactics against them. However, once this difficulty has been overcome, the target would instantly find themselves incapacitated by the poison, having no way to break free without the intervention of another, and even then the poison would continue to eat away at their very being if proper first aide is not performed. Of course, formidable beings capable of resisting the poison's effects would simply need to break free from being tethered from a net of a million monstrous snakes, a feat in its own right.
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Name: Brahmastra Meghnad
Title: O Brahma, Paint The Heavens
Rank: A+
NP Type: Anti-Fortress
Range: 2 ~ 90
Maximum Number of Targets: 450
Brahmastra, the divine weapon of Lord Brahma, said to pursue the enemy by means of a wide-range attack and annihilating them. Under normal circumstances, Indrajit would infuse the energy of this weapon within his bow and arrows, or even his chariot, crashing into his opponents and wiping them out with ease. However, Indrajit has adopted a far more destructive matter of using such an already powerful weapon, almost similar in application to a certain other hero of Indian myth's intimidating glare. When Indrajit was born, he was first given the name "Meghanada" due to his birth cry, which resembled the striking of thunder. As such, Indrajit's preferred method of unleashing this weapon is through his mouth, stating that "a true demon kills with a roar."
By infusing Brahmastra with the lightning borne from his body, Indrajit releases the attack through his mouth, invoking the astra with his own thunderous voice. Rather than being compared to a nuclear weapon in destructive power, Brahmastra Meghnad could more easily be described as the wrath of the Heavens themselves, a disastrous focused thunderbolt from the gods striking down all who oppose them in its path. As a monstrous lightning-infused roar, some could even say it is comparable to the destructive breath of dragon-kind, a similarity that Indrajit takes pride in as a testament to his strength among the strongest members of the Phantasmal Species. Also, Indrajit can release this attack in a smaller-scale, more limited fashion by lowering his voice into a normal speaking tone, believing this to be a proper response when asked to use his "inside voice".
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Name: Amaravati Vimana
Title: Heavenly Palace of the Lord of Skies
Rank: A++
NP Type: Fortress
Range: 1 ~ 99
Maximum Number of Targets: 800
The celestial chariot of Indrajit, named after the sacred city of Lord Indra contained within his realm. As an ancient Vimana in described in both the Ramayana and Mahabharata, it is more appropriate to call it a "flying palace" than a chariot, and indeed its imposing size would cause one to believe that such a cumbersome flying contraption would better serve as a stationary fortress than a mount, especially in the air. However, such claims are easily proven false, as in truth the Vimana is a high-tech Indian Noble Phantasm that moves at the speed of the controller's thought. According to the technical guide Vaimanika Shastra, which follows descriptions written about the Xth century BCE Vimana, the Vimana can fly in a zigzag motion, deploy its wings to go at high speed, has emergency evasion techniques to avoid crashing into another Vimana, has an optic camouflage, stealth functions, can intercept communication, etc. It also includes descriptions for the use of laser beams and biological weapons, and within it also contains advanced weaponry such as ancient machine guns and different forms of artillery. A technological wonder, its "true" power lies within the modifications made to it.
After defeating the Devas, Indrajit tied their king, Indra, onto his chariot as a trophy for his father. The feat of "conquering the King of Heaven" has been crystallized within Indrajit's chariot. The Authority of Indra has been bound to the Vimana, and its appearance has changed to resemble a throne worthy for the King of the Gods. The vast assortment of weapons contained within the Vimana have been painted with the attribute of "lightning", a manifestation of the god's power, and by invocation of a mantra, a wide-scale destructive laser beam resembling the God of Thunder's signature weapon (Vajra) is fired. A true symbol of Indrajit's strength over the Devas, some would say this fortress resembles the Thunder God's personal throne. Also, the upkeep of maintaining such a fortress is surprisingly moderate for a Noble Phantasm of this scale so long as Indrajit remains in his throne, powered by the lightning surging from his body.
Chi You
Red Emperor, Lord of Battle, King of Nine Li, God of War, Ox King of the Six Hells, Demon Lord of the Red Banners
Class:
Saber
Gender:
Female
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Region:
China
Source:
Chinese Mythology
Attribute:
Earth
Weapon:
Yes
Parameters:
STR: B+
CON: A
AGI: A
MAG: B
LUK: C
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: A
Cancels magecraft of A-rank or below, including even instant contracts. Different from the Resistance effect that merely rejects prana, this ability cancels the spells altogether. In practice, no Magi of the modern era are capable of harming Saber. Chi You possess' a divine Qi which reaches the level of the Heavens while still retaining her humanity.
In addition, as depicted in legend, she herself was a first-rate practitioner of magecraft who originated Chinese weather magecraft to oppose the Yellow Emperor. Even when facing that man who himself is the patriarch of multiple thaumturgical foundations, she didn't budge an inch. Saber won't be waylaid by the lesser magics of more modern eras.
Riding: B
Ability to ride things. She can ride most vehicles with above average skill. However, Saber cannot ride monstrous or phantasmal beasts. They are most adept with horses but when it comes to chariots, they'll kindly refuse.
Personal Skills:
Battle Continuation: A+
Does not give up easily. It allows for battle even on the verge of death, and allows the user to stay alive until they receive a clearly fatal blow. It also reduces the mortality rate from injury. In legend, Sabers death was reached only by quartering her body and separating it in each cardinal direction. Even in that case they did not fully die, and so a Heavenly Dragon had to sacrifice its life to fully eradicate Chiyou. It is a miraculous tenacity which surpasses the normal limitations of simply struggling against death. Even in the case of the Mother Goddess Nuwa dropping a sacred anti-evil mountain on her, she somehow found a way to survive.
Martial Form (Origin): -
A vestment ordained to the progenitor of Chinese Martial Techniques. Rather than rationality or technique, this could be called a burden of existence inherent to the nature of Saber. It is a wellspring from which knowledge emerges through emulation, a origin point which inspired what came after it. In that sense it may not be 'learned', merely just 'emulated' by those that witness it. Those humans who witnessed Chiyou's invention of war techniques created the rationality of 'Chinese Martial Arts' on these concepts which were to Chiyou like breathing. Even compared to the two greatest mythological Emperors of China, the Red Emperor held a decisive advantage in battle. In conjunction with their weapons, they earned the moniker 'God of War'.
From the perspective of those which emulate Chiyou in the arts of war, truly they could be called 'peerless'.
This is not a blessing from the Gods, skill built upon rationality and technique, or even an expression of primal human power. It is the origin of violence which inspired those that came after it. It's not unlike comparing the recreation of a miracle to the genuine article.
Fundamentally this is the 'Form of the War God' which Cheng Gong sought to emulate through Lu Bu.
Scarlet Pulse of the War God: A+
A mutation of something like the clairvoyance skill. A burden of the 'War God'.
The Red Emperor holds eyes which are the equal and opposite of those owned by the Yellow Emperor, who had attained the eyes of the 'Yellow Dragon of the Center'. In the Red Emperor's case, they were eyes that 'Gaze in All Directions at Once'. It operates as an abnormal channel gifted to them from birth from a certain Vijñāna. In other words, a circuit carved into their mind because of a desire for war. It is an always active ability which gives them an alien perception of the world, something which allows them to perceive 'War' and 'Battle' at a fundamental level not reachable under normal circumstances.
A form of psychic ability, in other words. It is possible to align to this circuit greater than usual, but it's possible overuse will damage her qualifications as a Heroic Spirit. Or, rather, its better to say; as a 'Human Being' rather than as 'War'.
A precept founded on the spirit and mind rather than body, an ability entering the realm of Vijnapti-Matrata.
Demon King: A
A monster whose perception in life later twisted what she had actually been in the past. Abilities and appearance have been distorted. Because she fully acknowledged this eventuality in life, it becomes possible for Saber to activate or deactivate it at her own choosing. In other words, it's possible to receive the benefits without any demerits. A skill to be compared to innocent monster, even if they are different burdens. It becomes possible for them to take on the appearance of a normal human, or the proper '8-armed Demon Ox King' who shook the foundations of Heaven and Earth.
Saber was one of the three great founding Emperors of China alongside the Flame Emperor and Yellow Emperor. Filled with conceit, they were the cruel and greedy tyrant who invented warfare to seize the Flame Emperors lands- only to be repulsed and killed after decades of warfare. She was a fierce tyrant who opposed the Gods, China's founding Heroes, and even the Dragons of Heaven in open battle. Hers is a fate bound to the blood she spilled, a God of War who shares a karma and destructive Qi not unlike the greatest warrior of the Three Kingdoms era. In war they became a 'demon' who went so far as to bloat out the sun itself to assure victory in battle.
As an aside, it is said it is said that Chiyou is the origin of the Taotie, one of the four great evils of the world. The Mogwai(Mara) of China found their basis within Saber, who can be conflated with the original evil spirit. She is the great Earth-Swallowing Serpent who could even consume the Limitless Horizon if left unchecked- that is to say, the spirit of War itself.
War God's Thousandfold Armaments
Rank: A++
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1
Maximum Number of Targets: 8 Weapons
Description:
Divine construct. The strongest implement of war from the mythological era of China- an expression of Sabers ancedote as the 'Inventor of Weaponry'. A fabulous multi-tool created by Chiyou using the ores of Mount Lushan to create the original weapons. That is to say- Axe, Sword, Shield, Lance, Bow and Arrow, Chain, etc. These are the original weapons forged by the blacksmith Chiyou to oppose the Yellow Emperor in war.
It is a modular weapon system which can switch between various weapon types or even detach individual weapons to be wielded seperately. This is the weapon system Chen Gong sought to emulate through both Lu Bu and Houtengageki; an attempt at materializing the War God, Chiyou, in the Three Kingdoms Era.
As a weapon system each individual component is the ancestor of what would come after. Through her right and authority as God of War, then, they can take up the trappings and attributes of their possible deviations- any of their children. It is a tool of overwhelming power that shows its true worth in the hands of someone like Chiyou, who can earnestly wield it to its fullest potential.
Scarlet Rain of Ten-Thousand Flowers
Rank: D
Type: Anti-Civilization/Anti-Evil
Range: 1~99
Maximum Number of Targets: 1
Description:
An expression of the Heavenly Qi found within Chi You. When they were finally defeated, her blades became the forests of China. Her chains, the life giving fruit trees. Her body parts sealed evils and defined the cardinal directions. Her lifeblood fell from the skies, fertilizing the lands for farming.
The Red Emperors Qi itself, her lifeforce, became infused with all of China. By becoming the Demon King to be slain and overcome by the great founder, she established China alongside him.
This Noble Phantasm is an expression of that feat. It is a Noble Phantasm which takes in the carnage inflicted upon the land and releases it after Chiyou's death. A feat of civilization establishment and solidification that can only materialize on Chiyou's death; an ability which lets them pass along their Qi to the next generation. Just as they passed war and weaponry to their descendants, it also allows them to pass along the right to live.
Whatever land and people become the target, surely they will be blessed with a weight of history equaling four thousand years.
Saber
Gender:
Female
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Region:
China
Source:
Chinese Mythology
Attribute:
Earth
Weapon:
Yes
Parameters:
STR: B+
CON: A
AGI: A
MAG: B
LUK: C
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: A
Cancels magecraft of A-rank or below, including even instant contracts. Different from the Resistance effect that merely rejects prana, this ability cancels the spells altogether. In practice, no Magi of the modern era are capable of harming Saber. Chi You possess' a divine Qi which reaches the level of the Heavens while still retaining her humanity.
In addition, as depicted in legend, she herself was a first-rate practitioner of magecraft who originated Chinese weather magecraft to oppose the Yellow Emperor. Even when facing that man who himself is the patriarch of multiple thaumturgical foundations, she didn't budge an inch. Saber won't be waylaid by the lesser magics of more modern eras.
Riding: B
Ability to ride things. She can ride most vehicles with above average skill. However, Saber cannot ride monstrous or phantasmal beasts. They are most adept with horses but when it comes to chariots, they'll kindly refuse.
Personal Skills:
Battle Continuation: A+
Does not give up easily. It allows for battle even on the verge of death, and allows the user to stay alive until they receive a clearly fatal blow. It also reduces the mortality rate from injury. In legend, Sabers death was reached only by quartering her body and separating it in each cardinal direction. Even in that case they did not fully die, and so a Heavenly Dragon had to sacrifice its life to fully eradicate Chiyou. It is a miraculous tenacity which surpasses the normal limitations of simply struggling against death. Even in the case of the Mother Goddess Nuwa dropping a sacred anti-evil mountain on her, she somehow found a way to survive.
Martial Form (Origin): -
A vestment ordained to the progenitor of Chinese Martial Techniques. Rather than rationality or technique, this could be called a burden of existence inherent to the nature of Saber. It is a wellspring from which knowledge emerges through emulation, a origin point which inspired what came after it. In that sense it may not be 'learned', merely just 'emulated' by those that witness it. Those humans who witnessed Chiyou's invention of war techniques created the rationality of 'Chinese Martial Arts' on these concepts which were to Chiyou like breathing. Even compared to the two greatest mythological Emperors of China, the Red Emperor held a decisive advantage in battle. In conjunction with their weapons, they earned the moniker 'God of War'.
From the perspective of those which emulate Chiyou in the arts of war, truly they could be called 'peerless'.
This is not a blessing from the Gods, skill built upon rationality and technique, or even an expression of primal human power. It is the origin of violence which inspired those that came after it. It's not unlike comparing the recreation of a miracle to the genuine article.
Fundamentally this is the 'Form of the War God' which Cheng Gong sought to emulate through Lu Bu.
Scarlet Pulse of the War God: A+
A mutation of something like the clairvoyance skill. A burden of the 'War God'.
The Red Emperor holds eyes which are the equal and opposite of those owned by the Yellow Emperor, who had attained the eyes of the 'Yellow Dragon of the Center'. In the Red Emperor's case, they were eyes that 'Gaze in All Directions at Once'. It operates as an abnormal channel gifted to them from birth from a certain Vijñāna. In other words, a circuit carved into their mind because of a desire for war. It is an always active ability which gives them an alien perception of the world, something which allows them to perceive 'War' and 'Battle' at a fundamental level not reachable under normal circumstances.
A form of psychic ability, in other words. It is possible to align to this circuit greater than usual, but it's possible overuse will damage her qualifications as a Heroic Spirit. Or, rather, its better to say; as a 'Human Being' rather than as 'War'.
A precept founded on the spirit and mind rather than body, an ability entering the realm of Vijnapti-Matrata.
Demon King: A
A monster whose perception in life later twisted what she had actually been in the past. Abilities and appearance have been distorted. Because she fully acknowledged this eventuality in life, it becomes possible for Saber to activate or deactivate it at her own choosing. In other words, it's possible to receive the benefits without any demerits. A skill to be compared to innocent monster, even if they are different burdens. It becomes possible for them to take on the appearance of a normal human, or the proper '8-armed Demon Ox King' who shook the foundations of Heaven and Earth.
Saber was one of the three great founding Emperors of China alongside the Flame Emperor and Yellow Emperor. Filled with conceit, they were the cruel and greedy tyrant who invented warfare to seize the Flame Emperors lands- only to be repulsed and killed after decades of warfare. She was a fierce tyrant who opposed the Gods, China's founding Heroes, and even the Dragons of Heaven in open battle. Hers is a fate bound to the blood she spilled, a God of War who shares a karma and destructive Qi not unlike the greatest warrior of the Three Kingdoms era. In war they became a 'demon' who went so far as to bloat out the sun itself to assure victory in battle.
As an aside, it is said it is said that Chiyou is the origin of the Taotie, one of the four great evils of the world. The Mogwai(Mara) of China found their basis within Saber, who can be conflated with the original evil spirit. She is the great Earth-Swallowing Serpent who could even consume the Limitless Horizon if left unchecked- that is to say, the spirit of War itself.
God Force Origin
War God's Thousandfold Armaments
Rank: A++
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1
Maximum Number of Targets: 8 Weapons
Description:
Divine construct. The strongest implement of war from the mythological era of China- an expression of Sabers ancedote as the 'Inventor of Weaponry'. A fabulous multi-tool created by Chiyou using the ores of Mount Lushan to create the original weapons. That is to say- Axe, Sword, Shield, Lance, Bow and Arrow, Chain, etc. These are the original weapons forged by the blacksmith Chiyou to oppose the Yellow Emperor in war.
It is a modular weapon system which can switch between various weapon types or even detach individual weapons to be wielded seperately. This is the weapon system Chen Gong sought to emulate through both Lu Bu and Houtengageki; an attempt at materializing the War God, Chiyou, in the Three Kingdoms Era.
As a weapon system each individual component is the ancestor of what would come after. Through her right and authority as God of War, then, they can take up the trappings and attributes of their possible deviations- any of their children. It is a tool of overwhelming power that shows its true worth in the hands of someone like Chiyou, who can earnestly wield it to its fullest potential.
Blessings of Mount Tai
Scarlet Rain of Ten-Thousand Flowers
Rank: D
Type: Anti-Civilization/Anti-Evil
Range: 1~99
Maximum Number of Targets: 1
Description:
An expression of the Heavenly Qi found within Chi You. When they were finally defeated, her blades became the forests of China. Her chains, the life giving fruit trees. Her body parts sealed evils and defined the cardinal directions. Her lifeblood fell from the skies, fertilizing the lands for farming.
The Red Emperors Qi itself, her lifeforce, became infused with all of China. By becoming the Demon King to be slain and overcome by the great founder, she established China alongside him.
This Noble Phantasm is an expression of that feat. It is a Noble Phantasm which takes in the carnage inflicted upon the land and releases it after Chiyou's death. A feat of civilization establishment and solidification that can only materialize on Chiyou's death; an ability which lets them pass along their Qi to the next generation. Just as they passed war and weaponry to their descendants, it also allows them to pass along the right to live.
Whatever land and people become the target, surely they will be blessed with a weight of history equaling four thousand years.
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"Servant. Lancer. That is all. "
Class: Lancer
True Name: Nezha(Nejha)
Gender: Female
Region: China
Alignment: Neutral Good
Parameters:
Strength C+
Constitution B
Agility A
Magical Power B
Luck A
Noble Phantasm A
Class Skill
Magical Resistance: A
Nullifies spells that are Rank A or below.
It is effectively impossible for modern mages to wound Nezha, a Divine General of the Heavenly Realm.
Personal Skills
Taoist Arts: A
By exercising the Taoist Arts, she can manage the numerous Magic Tools [Paopei] that she inherited from Taiyi Zhenren.
-“Qiankun Quan [Universe Ring] <equipped>”
-“Hun Tian Ling [Red Armillary Sash] <equipped>”
-“Huo Jian Qiang [Fire-Tipped Spear] <equiped>”
-“Zhan Yao Jian [Demon-Slaying Sword]”
-“Kan Yao Dao [Demon-Cutting Sword]”
-“Fu Yao Suo [Demon-Binding Rope]“
-" Jiang Mo Chu [Evil-Conquering Mallet]”
-“Tou Qiu [Embroidered Ball]”
-“Hun Tian Ling [Red Armillary Sash] <equipped>”
-“Huo Jian Qiang [Fire-Tipped Spear] <equiped>”
-“Zhan Yao Jian [Demon-Slaying Sword]”
-“Kan Yao Dao [Demon-Cutting Sword]”
-“Fu Yao Suo [Demon-Binding Rope]“
-" Jiang Mo Chu [Evil-Conquering Mallet]”
-“Tou Qiu [Embroidered Ball]”
Spiritual Pearl: A
For Nezha, it is not her Spiritual Core, but the Precious Pearl buried inside her that acts as the main part of her body. Therefore, Nezha will continue to resurrect unless this Pearl is completely destroyed.
Tathagata’s Divine Protection: B
Nezha’s body was given to her by Shakyamuni Tathagata and its adjustments were done by Taiyi Zhenren. Simultaneously, this body seals her “Three Faces and Six Arms” technique, and it additionally plays a role in controlling Nezha’s rampages.
Godslayer: C
At a young age, Nezha gains this skill by killing both of the dragon king's two sons playfully before taking his own life out of guilt. He was reincarnated after, serving the Jade Emperor's Army, continuously slaying multiple demons and divine beings alike. His attacks are super effective against Divine Spirit. A plus modifier when attacking Divine Spirits, wraiths, and Servants with the divinity skill.
Noble Phantasms
Di Fei Shuang Ling – Huo Jian Qiang (Clear Soul Flying to the Earth – Fire-Tipped Spear)
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Army
Range: 10~99
Maximum Number of Targets: 10 people
A scorching charge attack where she rushes up to the sky with the hyper-acceleration of the Wind Fire Wheels, literally becomes one with her spear, and then descends for her assault. A powerful technique in which Nezha, who assumed about fighting a decisive battle with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven/Sun Wukong, tries to pull out the power of the Noble Phantasm she has as a Lancer/the Fire-Tipped Spear to the maximum degree.
Sanmianliubi – Luo Xian Shou (Three Faces and Six Arms – Overarching Immortal Beast)
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Army
Range: 1~10
Maximum Number of Targets: 6 people
Her rage, together with the soul of a Great Overarching Immortal (Da Luo Xian) from her previous existence[1], both of which dwells within her, can allow her to enlarge to a size six times bigger than her normal size. She transforms into her multi-faced, multi-armed Divine Beast form that has three faces and six arms. Having a specialized Magic Tool at the ready in every hand, she opens with an intense offense and defense.
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Sorry, both Lancer slots have been taken.
Please join our Discord to figure out what's left open! It's on the 0th post.
Sorry, both Lancer slots have been taken.
Please join our Discord to figure out what's left open! It's on the 0th post.
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