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Fate/High Rollers

Come, heroes of the present. Come, heroes of the past. Try your luck against the roulette of fate.

Who will fall? Who will rise? Who will be blessed by luck, and who will be cursed by misfortune?

Your lives are the ante. The prize is beyond measure. Only one of you can achieve victory.

Background Information

After the conclusion of the Great Holy Grail War in Trifas, various imitations of the ritual continued around the world. This is simply the story of one of them. 

In 2007, the Second Owner of Las Vegas extended an invitation to several powerful people, offering the chance of a wish. 

In a world that’s no stranger to multiple imitations of the Holy Grail War, this one stood out. It managed to attract magi and others of a higher calibre than the standard ritual, and had the capacity for a full roster of Servants, despite the weakness of the spiritual land of Las Vegas.

The Masters and Servants must fight to the death, but the Second Owner offers no oversight. There is no safe haven for those who lose their Servant. The rules of the moonlit world are implicit - nobody must learn about the secret world dwelling beneath the surface - but beyond that, there are no rules. 

Rules

1. Respect both your fellow players and the GM.
2. Try and work things out between players where possible, but if not, respect the ruling of the GM when it comes down to a disagreement.
3. This is ultimately a PvP roleplay, so it’s a zero-sum game. Please accept losses with grace, and victories with dignity.

Applications

All 7 basic Servant classes, plus the extra class Avenger, are allowed. However, when it comes to Assassins, since their niche of targeting masters in this war is largely irrelevant, any Assassins must be abnormal; competent frontliners rather than true assassins who strike from the shadows.

Initial Slots are for 7 Servants and 7 Masters, though an eighth of both will be opened if enough interest is expressed. 

The Master Archetypes represent slots, but other than that are simply prompts. Don’t feel constrained by them beyond the essentials. 

This isn’t first come, first served, and slots cannot be reserved. If multiple people contest for the same slot then it will come down to the judgement of the GMs as to which is more fitting for the RP. However, it’s still probably best to declare interest in a particular slot and outline character concepts so that there isn’t too much overlap or writing of multiple sheets.

Each player will play a single character, though any number of applications are allowed. Character Sheets don't need to follow any particular format, but make sure all the information in the CS is included.

Gilgamesh, Ozymandias, Heracles, all instances of Hassan-i-Sabbah, and North American heroes are banned. All other Servants, canon or otherwise, will be judged on a case-by-case basis. 

Character Sheets

Class:

True Name:

Titles:

Sex:

Attribute: (Leave blank for now)

Personality: A brief summary of personality. Too much detail isn’t needed, since it’ll come out in play, but their interactions with a master and wish for the grail should be detailed here. 

History: A brief summary of the history or mythology behind the Servant. Not much detail is needed, but cover any difference between agreed history and this interpretation, or which of multiple mythic interpretations you’re using.

Parameters:
Strength
Endurance
Agility
Mana
Luck

Class Skills: Skills of the Servant’s class. Magic Resistance for Saber, Lancer, Archer and Rider, Riding for Saber and Rider, Independent action for Archer, Mad Enhancement for Berserker, Prsence Concealment for Assassin, Territory Creation and Item Construction for Caster, and Avenger, Memory Correction and Self-Replenishment for Avenger. 

Personal Skills: Personal Skills of the Servant. Generally number from 2-4. 

Noble Phantasms

Archetype:

Name:

Titles:

Sex:

Personality: A brief summary of personality. Too much detail isn’t needed, since it’ll come out in play, but their interactions with a Servant and reason for participating in the war should be detailed.

History: A brief summary of the character’s history. 

Quality of Magic Circuits: Level of magic circuits. 

Quantity of Magic Circuits: Number of magic circuits. Together, these determine the level of mana to sustain one’s Servant. 

Abnormal Abilities: Abilities derived from Magecraft, Training, or one’s nature as a Supernatural being. The physical abilities of a Dead Apostle. Psychic mutations, etc. Any abilities that are outside of normal humanity.

Equipment: Any Mystic codes or otherwise important equipment. 

Miscellaneous: Abilities within the scope of humanity, mundane equipment. Essentially, anything minor but noteworthy.

Dead Apostle:
A member of the cycle of Dead Apostles. The end of the transformation that comes from having one’s blood sucked by a Dead Apostle or True Ancestor, one gains a blood-fuelled immortality.

Having gained independence as a Dead Apostle, you hold a familiarity and ability with your natural vampiric gifts and the power that comes from the diluted blood that has tainted and transformed humans.

Dead Apostle Parameters and Abilities: Power to crack concrete in your hands without reinforcement. The speed to dodge bullets without foreknowledge. Your physical stats are high above any human, although in comparison to servants they do not quite match up.

Curse of Restoration: The curse that restores the bodies of vampires. Rather than healing injuries through an infusion of magic energy, the stimulation of regrowth or one’s natural healing abilities. It heals through a reversal of time, returning the state of the body to a previous state by reversing the flow for the body. A very potent curse.

Eyes of Enchantment: Mystic eyes that allow for hypnosis just by looking. A trait common to vampires. For a high class dead apostle they typically reach the rank of Gold.

Abilities of the Body: Whether it’s a refinement of the natural vampiric talents taken to extremes, odd modifications or a special nature accentuated. What’s special about you can be said to be your heightened natural abilities.

Archetype Examples: Ortenrosse, Sumire.

An independent ascension. The product of research and the application of ritualistic work. Untied to Dead Apostles, you arrive at a similar result by your own efforts. A bloodsucker still, your inherit vampiric abilities may not be as intense or niche, but you hold the immortality of an apostle, the body that can heal from wounds and the physical attributes that allow one to dodge even a fired bullet.

At the core however you are a magus, and all that is just a means to an end in pursuit of one’s path in magecraft.

Dead Apostle Parameters and Abilities: Power to crack concrete in your hands without reinforcement. The speed to dodge bullets without foreknowledge. Your physical stats are high above any human, although in comparison to servants they do not quite match up.

Archetype Examples: Nero Chaos, Shirley.

Knight Captain:
One of the leaders of the Knight Orders of the Holy Church, and one of the high ranking warriors of the organization. As a martial combatant few can match them in the modern age, and certainly they are a feared threat to any magus or bloodsucker. 

Knight Captain Ability: The level of combat training, experience and ability that one brings to not just face, but hunt the enemies of the Church. While not at the level that can match the Knights of the Grail War, they are at a level where one can, with the proper equipment, fight defensively against a servant. Their abilities are second to none, and one’s ability can be compared to one of the 30 Sealing Designate Enforcers, or the Burial Agency that concerns itself with only extermination and power.

Weapons of the Church:Conceptual weaponry created to strike out against the enemies of the church. Created by utilising sacred relics and rituals of the church, sometimes for fighting of single enemies, or sometimes as general purpose weapons. These can take various forms, from the shield of True Apocrypha to the Pile Bunker of the Seventh Scripture. 

Monster (Vampire) Hunting Tactics: A familiarity and focus on hunting those that are inhuman and violate the teachings and rules set by god. The abilities and focus that make one well suited to fighting those that are fundamentally not human. Vampires, half-bloods, monsters. Tactics that utilize their own abilities against their inhuman abilities. Skill that compensates for power. Knowledge that closes the gap, hatred that crosses the divide in blood.	

This is the sum of a human who fights monsters.

Magus (Heretic) Hunting Tactics: Magecraft: The scriptures of the Holy Church, even the heretical magecraft that one punishes. A sin utilized to excise sin. Knowledge of how it works, knowledge of how to utilize it. The land, the cultures involved, the flow of magical energy and its tendencies. How to crush it, how to make it crumble, how to utilize its weaknesses and strengths for its own.

Knowledge also on the doctrine, abilities and facts of magi. Armed with such knowledge one is without doubt a magic user for the purpose of being a magus hunter.

Typically, specialisation towards one of the two is preferable.

Archetype Example: Kotomine Kirei, Riefsbyfe.

Atlas Sage:
Low Level Circuits: The Dogma that one has no need to be strong when creating the strongest. There is no need to become a Magus who can serve as a weapon by casting various spells, when it’s possible to simply create a weapon for that purpose. 

High-Level Computation: The ability to parse and utilize great amounts of information and data with one’s mind. The utilization of magic circuits for the sake of processing data, a prepared mind, and genius allow for one of the Institution to have a mind powerful enough to be their greatest asset.

At this level analysis, creation of various items, and even predicting the future is possible.

However in a ritual where the existence known as heroes roam, the set in stone future can be overturn.

Alchemy of the East: The process of transforming not physical matter or properties, but instead events. The original alchemy that works to unravel the truth of the world. A matter of bringing forth desired results, and seeing the path, along with much more.

Mental Partitions: One of the core and secret atlas techniques of creating parallel copies and partitions of the mind. A method to boost the already great computing power further. A normal alchemist of the Institution reaches around the level of two to three partitions, while some geniuses reach five… and one of the kind masters reach even seven or more.

With the individual and yet cohesive processes computing and processing information, calculating odds, analyzing what is known, mapping out both event and layout is all a matter of course. Predicting the path of bullets, reading into the future a number of moves and taking note of all the different branching potential paths that are born from action to action. The mind could be called a  simulated branching tree of time

Archetype Examples: Sion Etlam Atlasia, Zepia Eltnam Oberon

Lifting the Giant’s Seal: Lift not the seal of Atlas lest you destroy the world seven times over. In their desire to save the world, Atlas has created many things that can be said to exist only within their organization. The greatest taboo and the most important rule is that nothing of Atlas leaves Atlas. Utilizing the creations, or weaponry of Atlas. This weapon is given special rights as a unit to potentially incorporate, access, or make use of many taboos.

The Aqua Vitae that can cure even vampirism and heal all. The utilization of Philosophers Stone, the high purity quantum computing crystal. The utilization of replicas of the great seven weapons including guns that strike at one’s lifespan conceptually, seal and replicate personalities of even heroes, or even create a “world” through simulation.

Self Destruction Protocols: Of course it goes without saying that more than victory or success of the mission. More important than staving away failure is the need to make sure nothing of the weapon is lost and stolen. Multiple ID locks based on ego, genetics, mystic energy codes and passwords are redundantly stacked to ensure that a mere corruption of ego, override of personality or consumption of soul would not allow for given wisdom to fall into other hands. In the event of failure or death a final self destruction sequence will occur that is sure to wipe all traces.

Archetype Example: Hermes

Magus Lord:
Paragon of Magic: The pinnacle of the Clock Tower. A lord is among the greatest of magi, and the representative of a great old family. Few exceptions exist among their status and all of them can be called, by virtue of their birth and blood alone, the greatest among the modern age. Whether young, or a practitioner who has lived for hundreds of years. Their ability, knowledge and gathered tools are without a doubt the envy of all.

Affluent Association: The pinnacle of affluence, if not in material wealth, then certainly in political connections, backing and friendships. The weaved web of politics and relations at the Clock Tower is a treacherous one, and yet what is woven to protect one’s self and choke out the enemy can become a line to call for aid or favors as well. To attain most things, or find a path for collaboration or procurement for whatever is needed is certainly easier when one is an esteemed lord.

Synchronized Focus: The talents of focusing on, and putting effort towards a select handful of fields, applying them together and learning how to blend them. Taking the aspects of utilizing spirits from Evocation along with the creation of tools to give them will. Applying one’s self to the nature of flow and creating a masterful mystic code of mercury. Creating a reflection of the planet utilizing astrology and magic that deals with the land both.

Archetype Example: Kayneth El-Melloi

Universal Mastery: The master of all, the fool of none. While your studies and knowledge do not lean in any particular direction, with magecraft in general, and with the magic of your family you can be said to be an exemplar. A genius in the most general and renaissance sense.

Archetype Example: (Tohsaka Rin)

Specialist
To focus on a single discipline, or an application. Whether it’s turning your back to the path of mystics and magi to instead use your knowledge and abilities to a cause, or focusing solely on an aspect of your inheritance or knowledge.

While your rank and your full breadth of knowledge and ability is not as wide and expansive as that of a lord, no other matches you in your field. You are a finely honed blade, molding yourself for a purpose and that purpose alone.

Archetype Example: Bazett.

Abnormal Focus:You are a circuit that does but one thing. The conventional is not possible for you, instead with your unique makeup and talents you have a different unique path. An abnormality of elemental affinity, a strange way you interface with foundations or even a strange make up of circuits. You are physically and metaphysically limited, and your slice of the world is narrower than any other. But it is a path that cannot be taught or learned.

As a magic user you can be said to be a mutation among mutations, closer to a one of a kind.

Archetype Example: Emiya Shirou

Psychic:
Those with an abnormal circuit, an abnormal brain. A power born from being different, a normal part of one’s self. Talking to plants is just part of life. Things explode to flames in your hands or the future is seen just as normally as one sees normal life and the physical world around them.

To be a psychic means a different life, and extra abilities and information that come with that. Abnormal normalcy. One being different leads to power.

Internal Power: A power turned into one’s self. A power that looks to one’s self, that affects one’s self. Changing the body, shifting as seems obvious. The ability to understand and come to an understanding with plants or beasts, or perhaps even the wind itself. The ability to see the future, to make sense of it and make it a solid inevitable thing.

This is a power that works through the self and change oneself without changing anything at all. After all, this is just how the world works, no?

Archetype Examples: Kamekura Mitsuru, Lady of Mifune, Seo

External Power: A power that reaches out and applies itself to change the world. Creating flames to burn what is in view, twisting and bending what lies in one’s sight and perception. Or perhaps even ripping apart the seams of love or bonds between flesh, space and atoms. This is a power of how one views the world, applying one’s view to it to change it.

Archetype Examples: Mikiya Azaka, Asagami Fujino

Half-Blood:
Phantasmal/Inhuman Blood: Once in your family’s history there was blood and relations inhuman. A pact, a degradation, an ascension, or perhaps an abnormal coupling. Regardless your inheritance runs true and whether it has been cultivated in your family, or has awakened spontaeneously in your generation you are different from a normal human. Abilities born of your lineage, the use of it as a foundation as a magus. Plenty can be achieved, and plenty born of such things. 

Whether it allows one to feed on different energies or forms of sustenance, allows for greater strength, or the ability to release jets of magic energy as reinforcement in mimicry of the Mana Burst of Phantasmals, there is much that can come of such blood.

Yet to lose one’s self in their own blood and impulses is a danger any has so long as it surges.

Thick Blood: While you are not quite at the level of achieving Ancestral Return (the state of drawing out the full potential of your inhuman blood), you are familiar and used to your blood. Your existence is less of a human with repressed blood and more a normal life as a more full-fledged halfblood. Among others of your kind you’d be seen as one exhibiting traits very strongly in a normal environment and manner. 

Compared to others you would be akin to a level  5 when they are stuck at levels 2 or 3.

Archetype Example: Kishima Kouma.

Stirring Ancestry: The human self is strongly exhibited, yet it is only one side of a two-faced coin. If flipped the startling transformation can only be called dramatic. Your attributes aren’t as obvious as those who are further along but you teeter along a suppressed line between man and monster. The moment it awakens it’d be a loss, a gain, an irrevocable transformation. To awaken and take control of the state that comes right before Ancestral Return is difficult. But those surges of awakened blood grant you a state of power that could be called the peak of a halfblood.

A deadly Devil Trigger, one could say.

Archetype Example:Tohno Akiha.

Constructed Being:
A subservient or a non-human master. You fight not for your own desire, but as a piece and representative of your creator. Perhaps you have no wish or even a ego, or perhaps you’re a loyal friend as much as you are a construct. Perhaps your goal is not even that of a direct order but an instilled directive you were created with. An inherited and passed on task or role. In such a case your identity could be called to be the master of this grail war.

Homunculus

Child of Nature:An imitative nature spirit, an artificial elemental. The ability and robustness as a Homunculus as  a lifeform and as a person is weak. Even if one holds the specializations that leave one combat able, with strength to compete with even a high class servant. The frailness of a homunculus is still one that leaves them “inferior” to humans.

Living and walking circuits. One’s od (lifeforce) is very low, but the input and output of circuits, and the ability to utilize the pulse of the land (Mana) is second to none. 

As a master one is guaranteed to be top of the line, and the inherited knowledge makes one complete as a magic user.

Archetype Examples: Irisviel, Rani.

Independent Familiar: A familiar yet not. An independent subservient creation. Created for a role, created for a purpose. The forms one can be made in are without a doubt varied, and your abilities and nature of course relates to that as well. The veil of a fairy, the creation of a spirit with the memories of the dead, the putting together of holy faith and creation. 

Either made by a genius and with a quality high enough that one could be called a trump card of a magus, or with enough age to build up one’s mystery and power over the centuries to become a one of a kind. You are without a doubt something that could be called as valuable as a magic crest.

Archetype Examples: Len.

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Archetype: Half Blood/Thick Blood

Name: Vanessa F. Meriweather

Titles: -

Sex: Female

Personality: Oddly enough, those who meet her finds her extremely calm, lacking in strong emotions. Before she was a chipper girl, strong willed and with a mouth enough to make a sailor blush red. After that incident, she seemed to have lost the ability to emote much, speaking in short clipped sentences. A calm serene front, like the still waters of a pond. Those who start to know her better would find it was less the serene waters of a pond, but the calm surface of a deep raging river.

Her voice is slightly strained, her hand clenches and unclenches, and her eyes dart every now and then to her surroundings. A slightly erratic behaviour growing pronounced with every thing her impulse tells her to steal. There was a sense that she was deliberating on her every action, and each movement felt restrained. A sense that she was holding back something bad, which, those who sees her invert will finally know. An unrestrained, greedy dragon, devouring all, and hoarding all, who seeks nothing but to grow their pile of treasures.

History: A relatively well to do family in the middle of Wyoming didn’t really have much to make it memorable. She grew up among farm animals and crops, tended to them and helped whenever she wasn’t at school. When she was old enough to finish highschool, she didn’t feel the need to go off to a higher education, or try to be a lawyer, Vanessa just went home to work on her family’s farm. After all, her brother can be the fancy man of the family, with his doctor’s degree and everything.

A bright summer’s day was when all hell broke loose. She remembers the chickens crowding excitedly around her, before that intense headache, that feeling of need. Blood flowing between her fingers, her desperate scrabbling for every, bit, of that sweet essence. Things shone, sparkled brighter, and others started to dim in colour. 

Her life was a blur of fear, panic and constant movement since then. Always travelling to escape the police, as well as others she could feel pursuing her. Until one day the mark appeared on her hand, and she moved towards the Grail, pulled by the ritual and what it left on the land.

Quality of Magic Circuits: - 

Quantity of Magic Circuits: -

Abnormal Abilities: She doesn’t have any real magecraft. But, even without explicitly tapping into her blood, she could fire off a dragon’s breath without preparation, a freezing chill that seems to still even the very flow of mana in the area affected. Her body is far stronger and faster than normal humans, and with her dragon’s core, she can effectively use mana like a jet engine to strengthen her every attack, even if her core wasn't a match for a certain blue Saber's core. Generally everything a dragon has, she has to a lesser degree, even possessing a Magic Resistance of B rank. Her most defining trait as a dragon however, was ‘greed’, with the ability to plunder people or even the very air of mana around her.  An area she claims will slowly bleed mana into her, the effect growing stronger once she taps into her blood. Those who has the means to see it would see red flakes in the air, drawing in mana into it. Being affected at all by any of her attacks or draining would feel as if cold was seeping into them while mana is being sapped.

Tapping into her blood transforms her, giving her draconic features with red eyes. While she had nowhere near the control and training to manipulate water properly, she can still raise up a thick fog in a large area around her. Her greed will plunder mana faster, and in a larger area, with her body growing far stronger. She can literally eat magical energy, and should she find them in a completed magical phenomena, she can ‘devour’ it and reproduce the effect by expelling its magical energy out.

A dangerous technique to be used, pushing her inversion impulse higher and higher until she breaks. It was not something she could control willy nilly, but in the short time span that she had her ability awakened, she had grown to be used to it, familiar with its abilities.

Equipment:-

Miscellaneous: Having worked and lived on a farm, she was no stranger to making do with what she have, and she was already fit and strong even before her awakening.

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Name: Ashurbanipal
Title: King of the Universe
Class: Rider
Gender: Male
Birth and Death Dates: Mesopotamian Era
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Attribute: (Not Given/Maybe Star)
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Personality: The King of Neo-Assyria, who ruled as the last great king of the era. Beyond him, the concept of a great king just ceased to exist. Loved by his populace, who ruled over an empire that had never been seen before. To his enemies, he was a demon, but to his people he was a saint. With one hand, he gives salvation, in the other, he strangles a child. 
An evil emperor who ruled over a populace that craved war. He drove his enemies before him, humiliated them and stripped them of human rights. Because what he cared for was not love... But knowledge. An obsession with collecting knowledge that caused him to put aside the notion of human value. To strangle life from others if for a moment it meant he could learn something he did not. 
This relentless, cruel search for knowledge... Is the mark of an evil king. 

Bio: He was not the crown prince. He was not chosen to lead, and thus was not expected to matter. As such, little concern was given in teaching him the way of kings. Rather, he was allowed to seek out his own path. The young Ashurbanipal, child of the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire chose to learn... Everything. He learned how to ride upon a horse. He learned how to wield a spear. He learned divination and the mystical arts. He learned to cook, to clean, to speak in all languages even those that had died long ago. All so he could set about learning even more. 
But he did become king, when his elder brother died pre-maturely, the title of kingship fell to him. The young king Ashurbanipal chose to take this oppurtunity to spread his quest for knowledge beyond himself. To spread it out amongst all nations, and to create an empire with one purpose. The purpose of knowledge so that he might quench himself upon it. Even though he drowned in knowledge, he craved it more by each passing sunrise, and by sunset he would have consumed various masterworks and not felt satisfied. 
The Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched out to consume all lands known in his time, creating the largest empire of that era. He created a library for knowledge, and invited others to donate their wisdom to it. Those that refused to share their kingdoms with him... Were tortured. Kings, noblemen, all would be chained up like dogs. Tormented by the cruelty of the Assyrian king. All until they spilled worth all the knowledge and wisdom in their bodies. Once drained, they would be discarded, and the king would move on. 
His life was long. His rule popular. His people viewed him as an all knowing king who could write any wrong. When he died, his child Ashur-etil-ilani became king of Assyria. But his child did not have the same spark of his father, and was killed in battle by a rival king. Then that king was killed. And then that king was killed. No rule after Ashurbanipal lasted a year. For he was the last great king of his world.

Weapon: The Primary Weapons of Ashurbanipal are his noble phantasms.
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Parameters:
Strength: B
Endurance: C
Agility: B
Mana: B
Luck: B
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Class Skills:
- Riding A: A Class Skill of Rider and Saber class Servants, denoting the ability to ride mounts and vehicles. Rider-class Servants will typically possess a high rank. All vehicles and all creatures but those of Phantasmal Beast and Divine Beast-rank can be used as mounts.

- Magic Resistance C: Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.

Personal Skills:
- Charisma of Wicked Wisdom A+: A Charisma associated with one who stands at the top of an evil organization rather than one who manages a nation. Except, in the case of Ashurbanipal. For he was as comfortable sitting on a throne and dictating the wills of a nation, as he was in a torture chamber, or weeding out traitors. He was adored, despite his clear atrocities, and his butchering of citizens. Simply put, this is a rank for one who runs an 'Evil Empire.'

- Collector B: The "talent" to collect high quality goods—a "luck" that draws rare items into the possession of the Servant. However, because it is the Servant that owns this Skill, the Servant's Master derives no benefit from this Personal Skill. For Ashurbanipal, this skill is the collection of knowledge, writings, and other such things. 

- Torture Techniques A: A Skill that represents one's possession of outstanding torture techniques. Plus modifiers are added when using torture tools to deal damage. Because it strengthens bloodshed and agony, further damage is continuously added after the ordinary damage. Ashurbanipal was known for his cruelty to his enemies. In particular, he would often humiliate them. An Arabian King chained up like a dog and forced to live in a kennel. Or another where he forced his enemies to witness horrible tortures afflicted upon their king. His savagery was highlighted even by kings of the time, as he would even drag the dead from their coffins to humiliate.

- Vile Stratagems B: The mindset of an individual who proposes the complete destruction of his enemies. It is different from military tactics, or even planning, as unlike both it is unconcerned with devastation and suffering on a grand scale, as long as the target is also destroyed. 
This skill naturally increases the risk of collateral damage, but in exchange it greatly increases the destructive power of Anti-Army or Anti-Fortress attacks.
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NOBLE PHANTASMS
Title: Yankaicin Ubanni - Siege of the Evil King's Empire
Rank: C
NP Type: Anti-Unit (Anti-Fortress)
Range: 1-65
Maximum Number of Targets: 500
Description: Once upon a time, there was a kingdom known as Elam. Twice it had offended him. The first time, he conquered its kings, destroying its armies, and leaving the rivers red and their leaders headless. But, he took pity, and left the people with new leaders, in the hopes that they would have learned the lesson from the first offense. The second time... Offended him again when they allied with his brother to try and overthrow him. First, he had his brother immolated, and then he turned his attention to Elam, and it's capital Susa. 
He turned siege weapons upon the city, and tore it apart brick by brick. He dragged the dead from their tombs, he opened the foundations of the city to the sun, and like a horrible storm, he left nothing behind. What had once been Susa, had been dragged away from its home, and kept as trophies. Every bronze pot, crown, and leaf of grass was a trophy, laid in the king's treasure vaults as a reminder of what happens to those who fought him. 
This noble phantasm is that very action. Portals open up around Ashurbanipal, and from them are fired horrible spears. Spears the size of men, tipped with bronze. At the end, long spiked chains that slice the flesh, still connected to the portals. The spears act like claws, and dig into the earth, or into whatever they have struck. Suddenly, they are yanked back towards the portals, dragging them into the king's treasury, or in the case of any living captives, the king's second noble phantasm, Dakin Karatu na Halittar. 
The size of the spears can vary, along with the scale at which they are fired. Upon using its true name, Ashurbanipal can unleash the full fury of his attack, tears apart the enemy with a flourish of chains and weapons that can pull an entire city into his treasury.

Title: Dakin Karatu na Halittar - Thin Line of Torture and Knowledge
Rank: B+
NP Type: Fortress
Range: -
Maximum Number of Targets: 200 Non-Mages / 2 Heroic Spirits or Masters
Description: The Library of Ashurbanipal... Or Perhaps the torture chambers of Emperor Ashurbanipal. A kind of fortress he created that housed knowledge he sought. But there is a thin line between a pursuit for knowledge, and a pursuit for knowledge stolen from the lips of the screaming damned. It is a fortress that can be layered upon an existing structure. After layering it over a building, an extra wing is added to the building. Always just out of sight to all but Ashurbanipal and those he wishes to see it. 
These extra rooms are the torture chambers he has created, each existing to house and torment a victim captured by Yankaicin Ubanni. These chambers are connected to the king's wishes, and if desired he can adjust any of the torture parameters present in the rooms. Even going so far as to try to execute the victims inside. Though, he would never do such a thing unless it was for a greater purpose. Usually to push an ultimatum. Pain dealt to victims is converted into magical energy, sustaining Ashurbanipal a bit longer, and allowing him to remain manifested for longer even if his initial anchor is broken. 
Ashurbanipal often used his victims as a way to torment others, with the pain of others being used to hurt the will of his enemies. As such, he can generate images through magic, presenting each of the victims, their tortures, and their suffering. It's also how he can monitor his torment without having to personally be there. These projected images can even be communicated through, a usual method that Ashurbanipal can use to easily communicate with his victims, and prescribe more intense tortures if needed to break their wills.
The library accumulates the pain of those captured in it, collecting into a 'Knowledge of pain and death.' The library is able to weaponize that knowledge. The knowledge and pain, and fears of the victim can be manifested into reality. Forming monsters depending on the density of fears used in its manifestation. While most fears are metaphysical, fears directed at a specific person or monster can be influenced to direct the form of the chosen monster that can be manifested. Such as, a hero slain by a monster, it is possible to form that monster. 
Its creations can be manifested individually. A great number of weaker creatures can be manufactured in short order, but a greater amount of fear and pain may be required for a greater being. 

Additionally, the building need not be static. Rather, it can be made to move, becoming a mobile siege engine in the form of the great library. Utilizing Yankaicin Ubanni, Ashurbanipal can drag in nearby buildings, pulling them into and adding to the pre-existing library. Opening more and more wings to torture his enemies. While it can be settled once more, it shall become more and more of a fortress. A floating fortress that consumes the weak, and brings forth its horrors upon nearby foes. 
Pouring monsters out upon the world, as an endless fortress of torture and knowledge is born. A true 'Final Boss Fight.'

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Name: Kullervo

Title(s): Vengeful Son of Evil

Class: Avenger

Gender: Male

Attribute: Earth

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Personality: The embodiment of hatred taking the shape of an all-consuming storm. A wicked child who was never given the chance to truly grow, Kullervo acts purely on his own impulses, doing what he believes is right and ignoring those around him. Being summoned as an Avenger has only warped Kullervo's mentality further, going so far as to destroy anyone who would dare spite him. Despite this, reasoning can be reached with his Master, especially if they share the same pain he had endured in his life: The pain of abuse and abandonment, to be torn from his family and sold off as a slave, and to have every semblance of his life taken from him. To those who are familiar with this abuse, Kullervo would sympathize with, taking on their burdens and allowing them to fuel the ever-raging tempest stirring deep within his heart, where naught but an overwhelming desire for vengeance remains.

Objective for the Grail: To ensure that no child would be subject to the same cruel fate that he had. Kullervo knows that his very existence is painted with the misery of his people and that he must carry that burden even in the Throne of Heroes. Rather than changing that fate, his wish is to ensure that no child should carry the same burden.

Biography: A wicked child of evil born from the collected grudges of his slaughtered tribe to its sole surviving mother, Kullervo was considered as a son spawned from evil. After a series of misfortunate events that influenced his upbringing, Kullervo finally achieved his vengeance at the cost of everything dear to him. Because the weight of his people's grudges along with the sins he had committed against his surviving family were too heavy of a weight to bear, Kullervo had resolved to end his cursed existence soon after he had his revenge. Essentially, Kullervo is the same as he was depicted in the Kalevala with one important denotation that he is made up of the tribe of Kalervo’s negative emotions. The manifestation of his tribe's grudges whose sole existence is to bring justice to the slaughtered.

Weapons: Aside from the broadsword of the High God Ukko, Kullervo's main weapon of choice as an Avenger is the grudges surging through his body and manifesting as blackened lightning, representing both his overflowing desire for revenge as well as his latent magical power. Kullervo also carries a copper hand-ax as a focus for casting spells as well as a complementary side-arm.

Parameters:

STR: C

END: B

AGI: C

MGI: A

LCK: -

Class Skills: 

Avenger: B+
Signature class skill of the Avenger class, denoting one's state of being that gathers the hatred and resentment of others onto one's self. In other words, the very way of living as an Avenger. Not only is it easy for negative emotions to be drawn towards Kullervo, but he is empowered by them. The grudges of those around him only serve as fuel for Kullervo's tempestuous rage, that resentment automatically converted to both strength and energy. Gathering grudges is exceptionally easy due to Kullervo being a "living curse".

Memory Correction: A
Class skill of the Avenger class. Humans, as living things, are forgetful of many things, but an Avenger never forgets. Consumed with a rage for the vast misfortunes both he and his tribe have suffered, Kullervo's hatred will never falter. An endless storm rages through Kullervo's heart. It’s this unending torrent that caused him to abandon and even curse his own family in his desire to obtain revenge. By attacking from beyond the memories of his opponents (and because he also carries the memories of his tribe), critical effects are strengthened.

Self-Replenishment (Mana): -
Class skill of the Avenger class. Until one's revenge is complete, magical energy is endlessly replenished. However, this skill has been sublimated into The Vengeful Storm That Rages Endlessly due to Kullervo's form of mana replenishment going above and beyond the limits of this skill.

Personal Skills:

Witchcraft (Wild): B-
Signifies one as a practitioner of the black arts. Kullervo was noted to have an incredible talent with sorcery and alongside the nature of his body containing numerous grudges, he would truly be a first-class genius at the art if not for his ill-fated life. Instead, Kullervo impulsively wields a vast assortment of curses and other dark magics as a weapon against all those who would spite him. However, because he wildly casts spells due to his anger, the expected outcomes are more varied and the effects are much harder to control.

Madness of the Spirits: A
The maddening howls of Kullervo, a child born from the countless grudges of the murdered tribe of Kalervo, scour the Earth, causing the spirits sleeping from within to stir and crush the will of all opposition. A mental interference effect that temporarily decreases the STR and AGI of his opponents, Kullervo's screams carry the collective weight of his tribe's rage and anguish.

Prana Burst (Lightning): C+
Magical energy is infused with the element of Lightning, surging from one's weapons and body. A skill that combines Kullervo's internal magical energy along with the properties of his Noble Phantasm, Ukonvasara. Summoned as an Avenger, blackened lightning overflows from Kullervo's body, enhanced and made stronger by the resentment accumulated within him, bestowing this lightning with a grudge effect and further darkening it. Eternally, Kullervo is covered in a furious tempest that grows along with his anger, protecting him in an armor of cursed lightning that also serves as a manifestation of his all-consuming desire for vengeance.

The Vengeful Storm That Rages Endlessly: A
A mutation of the Galvanism skill made by synchronizing his Noble Phantasm with his existence as an Avenger and as a "living curse". Rather than stray magical energy, negative emotions and even curses are instead converted into electricity used to further fuel his quest for vengeance. The grudge-filled electricity paints Kullervo's mana, darkening his magical energy. Because of his state as an Avenger, who is constantly filled with negative emotions, this skill constantly fuels Kullervo like an engine in perpetual motion. So long as the storm within his heart continues to rage on, not even the World can end his existence.

Noble Phantasm:

Name: Ukonvasara

Title: Blood-Thirsting Thunderbolt of the Sky God

Rank: C ~ A+

NP Type: Anti-Fortress

Range: 1 ~ 50

Maximum Number of Targets: 300

The magical broadsword given to Kullervo by the High God Ukko, Sky Father of the Finns. A "sentient" sword that can move and attack on its own, its main ability is to grant its wielder the destructive power of Ukko, the blade itself containing the High God's lightning. However, it seems as if this power has been severely weakened due to not being summoned under the Saber class, losing the ability to launch direct bolts of lightning. Instead, Kullervo has directed Ukonvasara's power internally through the use of his witchcraft, granting him the Prana Burst (Lightning) skill and essentially serving as a glorified lightning rod. 

Because Kullervo's body is filled with grudges, the lightning borne from the blade is also strengthened with these negative emotions, resulting in a peculiar effect that allows the blade to transcend its normal limits. By invoking the blade's True Name and striking it into the ground like a thunderbolt, the tempest of hatred held within Kullervo is brought outward all around him, resulting in a destructive maelstrom that scales in conjunction with Kullervo's accumulated grudges. If sufficiently powered, this storm has enough destructive power to raze an entire forest or wipe an entire village off the map, permanently scouring the Earth with Kullervo's hatred. 

Interestingly, the sword is also capable of speech. However, the personality of the sword has been significantly warped into that of a blood-starved murderer due to holding the countless grudges contained within its wielder. Even the blood of Kullervo's allies or even the wielder himself would satisfy the sword's blood lust. A terrible conversation partner, but otherwise loyal to whoever wields it. A sword is made to be a tool used for killing, after all.

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Archetype: Dead Apostle

Name: Jasper Virgo

Titles: Virgo Six, Jazz Hands Jasper

Sex: Male

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Personality: Jasper's viewpoint on humanity is that although it seems pointless, the sheer bliss of being able to die and have a purpose is something he still desires. Believing in causality, he has no remorse for his actions but only does truly evil things if he believes it brings him one step closer to a true purpose in life, convincing himself that ruining lives and ending lives to survive is part of causality and taking those lives must be part of some bigger picture. Smart and scheming, this would probably be more successful if he wasn't obsessed with talking and giving long winded explanations and speeches to people, as well as going over the top and acting like a game show host. He seeks fun in his time of boredom, so he will do whatever he needs to do to keep himself entertained. Servants are something he respects, seeing them as those who are also cursed with immortality that they must return to the earth where they died. His servant is someone he would respect and carry out their bidding as long as it is not a direct detriment to himself.

History: Jasper Virgo's birth is a tricky one to navigate because before Jasper Virgo, there was Jasper Myerscough, the new heir to the Myerscough family, a proud magus family based in old England during the 19th century. The family was proud of its illusion magecraft which had been successful in allowing them to hide themselves from commoners and escape any ridicule from those who did not understand such magecraft. However, it was a generation before his birth that the family began to experience a destructive hereditary disease that was slowly killing out most of their members before they could even reach the age of 30. 

Because of such a deadly revelation, Jasper's upbringing was focussed on alchemy, something he never quite mastered but he was usually successful. At the ripe age of 18, Jasper feared the disease would claim him as well, his parents already beginning to show symptoms so he decided to set out in search of a cure in foreign lands, this took him to China, where he had heard rumours of a treament where one could achieve a cure for any ailments. However, this rumour only brought him another ailment. 

He met a man there by the name of Karakothar Virgo, who promised to teach this young magus the tricks of the trade. Instead, Jasper found himself enslaved, tricked into Virgo's lair and succumbed to Virgo's bite. The next year or so is blurry for Jasper, for he was nought but a ghoul who knew only to consume and kill. However, his intelligence and soul returned, something that Karakothar was impressed by, quickly making Jasper one of his most important brood, convincing him to take the name Virgo and if he didn't, his life would be returned to that of a ghoul. Desperate to never be a ghoul again and to choose his own destiny, Jasper agreed, becoming the Sixth member of the Virgo clan, a small Dead Apostle tribe lead by Karakothar. 

Jasper would never bow to another, but he took the curse of restoration in stride, spending his free time to develop a cure for the disease that still afflicted his family. After about a decade of work, his work was done and he had developed the cure, something Karakothar was not pleased about. Karakothar demanded Jasper denounce his family name once more, something he reluctantly agreed to, before somehow getting the drop on his Parent and burnt down the lair, escaping into the night.

When he returned to his home town, Jasper Virgo finally found himself cursing his immortality. He offered the cure to what remained of the family, but seeing how he had not aged, they feared Jasper sought to turn them into monsters too. He did not kill them. He destroyed what remained of the cure and left. He began questioning his fate when he came to the conclusion that even though he had lost purpose as a human, there must be a higher purpose that he was missing. False destiny became his obsession, realising that with immortality there was no purpose for him to cure ailments, that was before he had became Virgo.

Seeking out his fate, he became obsessed with the idea that becoming a Dead Apostle was fated to happen, that was his purpose, though he felt no meaning in life, a part of his mind snapped and decided that he had just not reached the point in his life where his purpose would become clear.

Jasper Virgo travelled the world, seeking his purpose but finding that watching governments and royal lineages decline and tear themselves apart was more fun, and their destruction was also part of this grand causality that controlled the world. Causality was the only thing he believed in, not his family, not the Virgos, but the idea that tiny events can cause huge consequences. Finally, he found a great place to watch those cursed with a time limit on their purpose, Las Vegas. Faking his death and changing his name proved to be a great way to keep enemies and the Church off of him, but he found himself abusing his gifts to ensure he had a great lair (aka a penthouse suite) and a fantastic time watching humans fall into despair in Sin City. 

It wasn't until Causality answered him wth the Grail War that he finally found hope in his cold dead heart. Knowing that all his evil deeds would finally come to fruition and prove that it was all for a purpose, he answered the call.

Quality of Magic Circuits: B 

Quantity of Magic Circuits: A 

Abnormal Abilities: 

Dead Apostle Parameters and Abilities: Power to crack concrete in his hands without reinforcement. The speed to dodge bullets without foreknowledge. Jasper's physical stats are high above any human, although in comparison to servants they do not quite match up.

Curse of Restoration: The curse that restores the bodies of vampires. Rather than healing injuries through an infusion of magic energy, the stimulation of regrowth or one’s natural healing abilities. It heals through a reversal of time, returning the state of the body to a previous state by reversing the flow for the body. A very potent curse. Jasper has studied this curse and enhanced himself slightly to make it act slightly faster than it already did.

Eyes of Enchantment: Mystic eyes that allow for hypnosis just by looking. A trait common to vampires. For Jasper who had spent years honing his abilities, his eyes reach the rank of Gold.

Boiling Blood Mutation: A mutation that his Parent infused him with when he was nothing but a ghoul before he became a fully fledged Dead Apostle. This mutation ensures that whenever his blood is not inside his body, it becomes hot to the touch and burns anyone it touches like acid, although it acts as normal blood when it is inside his body. Painstakingly hard to remove from his body without the use of magical implements.

Venomous Abnormalities: A cruel trick of a mutation forced upon him by the Original Virgo, these mutations take the form of a venom sac that was developed within him that gives him the ability to spit out venomous spit, a mutation that at first made him involuntarily throw up venom but he has since controlled. To make him more "inhuman" and to force Jasper into servitude, the mutation also developed into making his tongue like that of an amphibian, which allows him to elongate it and shoot it out to grab objects or to swiftly jab someone with the slow acting venom, courtesy of the venom sac.

Alchemy: Knows the basics of alchemy to create potent mixtures, kept practising this even after his turn, ensuring his magic circuits didn't degrade over time. Jasper put his own spin on things, reverse engineering his cure research to develop methods of creating toxins and poisons that when brewed correctly, could be used to damage people who merely touched them, working like nerve agents.

Illusions: In an effort to give his family some fragment of a legacy, he practices illusionary magecraft and has in some ways become quite infatuated by it. He uses this school of magic to affect people's minds and tricking them into perceiving what isn't quite there, he combines this with his mystic eyes for great effect. 

Causality Perception: A skill he developed with his magecraft was to power his brain with it, increasing the brain functions with his mana to perform what he calls "causality perception" which allows him to focus his circuits and whilst they are focused, his brain is able to predict the most likely outcome of whatever he is about to do or if he believes himself to be in danger. This was a skill he developed mainly to be able to detect when the Church was hunting him down and when they were about to strike. This is not future telling but rather a method to quickly transmit to himself as many possible ripple effects decisions he makes could have on himself or if an attack on him is likely or not and all the various ways it could come about. 

Equipment: 6 Conical Flasks full of Boiling Blood, painstakingly removed by the use of a priest who lost his way.

Miscellaneous: Jasper has been living in Las Vegas for about a decade, because of this he has a network of communications and knows the layout of most casinos and entertainment venues around the place.

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Titles:The Red Hunter, Edom, The Hairy.

Sex: Male

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Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Savage)

A prideful man, a simple man. To live is to live, and to be stolen from is a slight no matter how one feels about what is lost. Live in the moment, flaunt your strength. Rage at those who oppose you, raise your might to that of the law and the natural providence. For those who were born strong it is only natural for them to attain what is theirs.

A man who lives a very simple and straightforward life. His feelings however stemming from his base wants, enjoyment of idolatrous ways, and the earthly pleasures. Both lead him down him down his path and yet have a contradictory dissatisfaction with his fate.

I do not wish for your covenant and those values. I wish for the talents I was born for and the wilds that please me so. I wish for naught but to live in the fields, to hunt and take what is mine and for me alone.

Yet that inheritance is mine, and the sowing of nations is only natural.

Even the most simplest of man find clash and conflict through their surroundings and the various desires they look upon the world.

Archer is a man frustrated. Frustrated at the life he enjoyed and yet felt dissatisfied, plagued by lingering resentment and grudges. Matters that in the grand scheme of things do not matter, yet status and things taken from him. Trickery that has perhaps led the world for the better and yet even as he lives his own separate world he cannot help but keep an eye glimpsing at what could have been even without want.

In the end he wants to walk a straight simple path, and yet also stand at the top of it.

Really, it's not at all strange that he'd be attracted to a grail war. But perhaps even he does not know what his wish really is.

History: A brief summary of the history or mythology behind the Servant. Not much detail is needed, but cover any difference between agreed history and this interpretation, or which of multiple mythic interpretations you’re using.

Parameters:
Strength: B+
Endurance: B
Agility: B
Mana: C
Luck: D

Independent Action: A-

It is possible to take action even without a Master. However, to use Noble Phantasms of great magical energy consumption, backup from the Master is necessary. At Rank A, it is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for about a week without a Master.

For Esau who lived through his own strengths, was denied blessings and abandoned the covenant and path of god despite his status as the firstborn of Isaac. Turning away from such patronage, and taking a separate unintended path it is difficult to grant him boon or malus.

For such a man, with his strength and body, stands in a sense, among the wilds, alone.

Magic Resistance: C

Negates spells with a chant of two verses or less. Cannot defend against something more complex, like high magecraft or ritual curses.

Walking not in the grace of god, and given what amounts to spiritual scraps. It is not surprising that despite the age and period of Archer, active when great mysteries were still abundant, that his magic resistance is still rather low for a Knight Class Servant.

Born of Red: A+

Esau, the red one, the rough one. All things are born bathed in blood, and many would mature and walk lives just as soaked as well. The culmination of his various techniques, gifts and way of life. His abilities as a hunter, as a man garbed in red are second to none. The one who runs aflock the sins and blood-stained earth and picks his fill of its bounties.

His abilities as a huntsman able to stalk his prey, shoot down all targets, and lay traps are second to none. The pressure and influence of an enviroment has no bearing on the ability of the one who roams the earth as his playground. Through these skills does he show himself as a huntsman worthy of the title of Knight of the Bow. 

Instinct: A-

A keen sixth sense that permeates and directs Archer’s actions and life. Born from his innate senses and bolstered by his way of life. At this point it reaches into the realm of future-sight. The penalties by physical impedance such as visual and auditory interference and obstruction is halved.

However due to the anecdotes of being tricked, and led by his base instincts there is a greater penalty against skills that turn his instinct and impulses against him.

Taste for the Wild Earth: B

Born of great strength, stature and garbed in violent red. The secondary blessing inherited from Isaac, and his way of life have blended together to sublimate his existence as one who turns his back on the spiritual and embraces his talents and pleasures of the dirtied physical world. 

In all checks and contests physical a plus correction is given, while in matters more spiritual a minus correction is applied.

Though he stands, tricked and turned from an intended path, where he sets his eyes on he suffers no equal.

In the matters of Luck (Force of Providence) rather than luck (fortune and blessing) his ability and instinct to survive leads to instead a bonus.

Name: For We, Nations You and I.

Title: Birthright Stewed in Red. 

Rank: D+

NP Type: Anti-Unit (Anti-Nation)

Range: -

Maximum Number of Targets: 1

Description:

Two nations struggle in the womb, and set themselves in odds. Birthrights are stolen and given, and blessings are past. Conflict, reconciliation, fortune and wealth of all sorts. The relation of brothers is as much about what they long for as it is what they were given.

Their fates were intertwined in conflict before birth itself, preordained and yet a result of them as individuals rather than just the machinations of god. 

Once was Esau led by his brother to trade his birthright for stew. Twice he was tricked and denied by his brother, his place taken for the bestowment of a blessing.

The representation of his frivolous feelings towards the intended inherited path, yet mixed with his desire to take what is rightfully his. On top of also being his status, mirroring his brother as a man that conceptually holds the status of a “Nation”. In the end his place is that of a giver who wants to take.

Bestowing to one a gift of his blessing, one is raised to the level of Archer. In other words one reaches the status of a nation. Yet what is there to be given by Esau? The life of primeval-man, of a huntsman who abandons the spiritual path. From him is born civilization yet his state is the barbarism that eventually paves a path to the world.

One becomes a nation out of civilization and reaches a state of a primeval barbarian as well.

It goes without saying, but Archer has no fondness for this Noble Phantasm’s invocation.

By the way lentils, considered a superfood are a nutritionally dense food, proper for any sort of man. Containing a balance of vitamins, nutrients, protein and carbohydrates they fuel and energize perfectly.

Name: Savage Eden 

Title: Devouring Shot of Law and Path

Rank: A

NP Type: Anti-Civilization

Range:  1-99

Maximum Number of Targets: 900

Description: 

The surge of blood, the establishment of civilization paved paradoxically by the lawless savage rules. The laws of nature are conquered and are risen above, it is through conquering the world that man then moves onto crafting their own worlds.

A shot that symbolizes Edom, fired by the Primeval Hunter, Esau. A rupting nation-building blow that paves away what rules and civilization are in place. Devour what lies in place and create fertile land. What lies at the end of his bow and sight is without a doubt, Edom. What he creates and feasts upon is without a doubt a earthly Eden that provides the lush foundation for his hunting ground and his the people and culture that springs from him. As a result it is paradoxically a builder of civilization that functions as a civilization-erosion attack.

In a sense a progenitor and relative to the great tree that established the mighty Empire that Esau's people, the Endomites have been conflated and connected with. The world of Rome. The people and land that spread through savagery and eventually rose into civilization. Even from beasts (wolves) can man be born.

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 Okita Souji  |  Saber  |  Saber Sakura, Okita Sōji  |  The best swordsmen of the Shinsengumi.
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Okita has both the facet of a cool-headed manslayer, as well as a cheerful side that is fond of children. Although she is essentially a cool-headed manslayer, towards those who pardoned that mentality, Okita borders on being openly friendly as if they were members of the same organization. During her lifetime, since she had nearly no relationships in regards to love affairs, she is poor at exchanging conversations in that area.

Okita's wish for the Holy Grail is "to fight to the bitter end." Her dearest wish from while alive, which ended not being achieved no matter how much she wanted to. Even now, after having turned into a Heroic Spirit, she is regretting not having fought to the end together with her comrades and has a wrong impression of herself as a failure of the Shinsengumi's soldiers.
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Class Skills

"A genuine genius swordsman who possesses both transcendental finesse and innate talent, but as a member of the Saber Class, Okita's low Endurance and Magic Resistance stand out."

 ➣➣➣ Magic Resistance E: Her Magic Resistance is very low as because she is a Heroic Spirit from an age where Mystery was very thin, one can hardly expect any Magic Resistance from her.

 ➣➣➣ Riding E : Her Riding is very low as there is no anecdote that she was active in riding a horse.

Personal Skills
 ➣➣➣ Weak Constitution A: "There is actually magical energy, among other things of that sort, at the end of the Bakumatsu!"

 A weakness struck by the nature of frail health. It is similar in nature to Innocent Monster, where the perception of the people in the future affects the existence of the Heroic Spirit. In Okita's case, it is the result of the tuberculosis illness in her lifetime. She is accompanied by the risk of a sudden status drop at anytime of every action. The probability of risk is not high, but when it is invoked in combat, it is immense.

 ➣➣➣ Reduced Earth B: This is a technique to cut down the distance between opponents instantly. Many martial arts masters have pursue the extremity of Step Movements  in martial arts. Rather than a simple quickness, there are numerous phenomena that are connected with each other and are completed with walking, body movement, breathing, blind spots, etc.. 

 ➣➣➣ Eye of Mind (False) A:  is a natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience. The accuracy of this instinct can be augmented by experience. The ability also grants an effect of offering resistance against penalties caused by visual obstructions.

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є n d u r α n c є:   E (D)
α g í l í t ч:   A+ (A+)
m α n α:   E (D)
l u c k:   D (C)

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 ➣➣➣ Coat of Oaths (Anti-Unit) C : It is the official uniform worn by members of the Shinsengumi force in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu period. It was notable at its time for having a pale blue-green colour and white triangle design that stood out from the normal browns, blacks and greys of warrior clothing of the period.

When Saber equips it, it improves her parameters and her armament ranks up. Under normal circumstances, Saber is armed with "Kojiki Kiyomitsu" but as it was affected by future generations, her beloved katana "Kiku-Ichimonji Norimune" has been ranked up.

Range : 1
Maximum number of targets: 1 person

 ➣➣➣ Flag of Sincerity (Anti-Army) B : It is the Shinsengumi troops' flag with the Japanese kanji "sincerity"  inscribed on it. Once this flag is raised, the Shinsengumi troops are summoned within a certain range of the flag. Each of the squad members is an independent Servant that do not have Noble Phantasms, and their combat capability is far from their best. Each of the squad members has an E- Rank "Independent Action" Skill, the absence of a Master limiting their activity to a short period of time.

By the way, this flag holds all the captains of the Shinsengumi, the squad members are summoned by the mental imagery of the imposing user, and their personalities and faces will change somewhat. For example, in the hands of Okita Souji, Hijikata Toshizo would be summoned as the wicked Shinsengumi while Kondou Isami would be summoned as a trustworthy Shinsengumi. However, there are some who will not answer the summoning if they are on bad terms with the summoner to begin with. Okita is a rather popular Shinsengumi whose call will be answered by many.

Range : 1~50
Maximum number of targets: 1 ~ 200 People

 ➣➣➣ Lightless, Three-Stage Thrust (Mumyō Sandan-dzuki) (Anti-Unit Mystic Sword) : Is a technique utilised by the extraordinary genius swordsman Okita Souji. While not actually a Noble Phantasm, it is treated as such under the FATE system. Consisting of a First Thrust (Ichi no Tsuki), Second Thrust (Ni no Tsuki) and Third Thrust (San no Tsuki), it is a concealed sword that is produced by transcendent technique and speed from the stance of Hira-Seigan ("Turning the Edge Sideways and Aiming at the Eye").

Rather than "almost simultaneously", the thrusts occur "all at the same time." For an instant, the unleashed First Thrust, Second Thrust and Third Thrust "exist at the same time" and at the "same position." Even if the First Thrust was blocked, the Second and Third Thrusts would be at the same position and break through. The contradiction this causes creates a localised breakdown in causality at the point of the sword, making it virtually impossible to protect against this technique. Because of the resulting collapse of causal relationships, it is a technique that surpasses the simple destruction of material things.

Range : 1
Maximum number of targets: 1 Person

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During her childhood, while she was still an apprentice at the Shieikan, the dojo of the Tennen Rishin-ryuu in Edo's Ichigaya area, Okita Souji met Hijikata Toshizo and Kondo Isami, core figures of the Shinsengumi in the future. She was skillful enough to serve as the head coach of the Shieikan at a young age, and there was no person who was superior to her regarding the talent with the sword.

Kondo formed the Roshigumi on behalf of being bodyguards for the Shogun in the third year of the Bunkyuu era, and Okita went to the Imperial Capital to participate in the group together with Hijikata. After the break up of the Roshigumi, Kondo formed the Shinsengumi together with Hijikata, and Okita was entrusted with the position of captain of the first unit.

Demonstrating their sword abilities in many conflicts like the Ikedaya Incident and so forth, the name of the Shinsengumi roared throughout Kyoto of the Bakumatsu era. However, Okita's body was adversely affected by an illness around that time, and her physical condition gradually deteroriated. Before long, she withdrew from the frontlines for medical treatment.

Afterwards, Okita continued her life of recuperation while separated from her comrades, but in the fourth year of the Keio era, she died at the place where she was medically treated in Edo's Sendagaya area. It is said that she died without knowing of Kondo's death, who was decapitated two months prior to her death.


^{_______________________________________________} _{Okita Souji \| Saber \| Saber Sakura, Okita Sōji \| The best swordsmen of the Shinsengumi. ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ Man \| True Neutral \| #30C3B6 \| 158cm \| 45kg ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ p є r s σ n α l í t ч} ^{✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧} _{Okita has both the facet of a cool-headed manslayer, as well as a cheerful side that is fond of children. Although she is essentially a cool-headed manslayer, towards those who pardoned that mentality, Okita borders on being openly friendly as if they were members of the same organization. During her lifetime, since she had nearly no relationships in regards to love affairs, she is poor at exchanging conversations in that area. Okita's wish for the Holy Grail is "to fight to the bitter end." Her dearest wish from while alive, which ended not being achieved no matter how much she wanted to. Even now, after having turned into a Heroic Spirit, she is regretting not having fought to the end together with her comrades and has a wrong impression of herself as a failure of the Shinsengumi's soldiers.} ^{✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧}	_{s k í l l s & w є α k n є s s є s} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} Class Skills _{"A genuine genius swordsman who possesses both transcendental finesse and innate talent, but as a member of the Saber Class, Okita's low Endurance and Magic Resistance stand out."} ➣➣➣ Magic Resistance E: Her Magic Resistance is very low as because she is a Heroic Spirit from an age where Mystery was very thin, one can hardly expect any Magic Resistance from her. ➣➣➣ Riding E : Her Riding is very low as there is no anecdote that she was active in riding a horse. Personal Skills ➣➣➣ Weak Constitution A: "There is actually magical energy, among other things of that sort, at the end of the Bakumatsu!" A weakness struck by the nature of frail health. It is similar in nature to Innocent Monster, where the perception of the people in the future affects the existence of the Heroic Spirit. In Okita's case, it is the result of the tuberculosis illness in her lifetime. She is accompanied by the risk of a sudden status drop at anytime of every action. The probability of risk is not high, but when it is invoked in combat, it is immense. ➣➣➣ Reduced Earth B: This is a technique to cut down the distance between opponents instantly. Many martial arts masters have pursue the extremity of Step Movements in martial arts. Rather than a simple quickness, there are numerous phenomena that are connected with each other and are completed with walking, body movement, breathing, blind spots, etc.. ➣➣➣ Eye of Mind (False) A: is a natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience. The accuracy of this instinct can be augmented by experience. The ability also grants an effect of offering resistance against penalties caused by visual obstructions. _{p α r α m є t є r s (w/ 'Coat of oaths')} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} s t r є n g t h: C (B) є n d u r α n c є: E (D) α g í l í t ч: A+ (A+) m α n α: E (D) l u c k: D (C) _{n σ в l є p h α n t α s m s} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} _{➣➣➣ Coat of Oaths (Anti-Unit) C : It is the official uniform worn by members of the Shinsengumi force in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu period. It was notable at its time for having a pale blue-green colour and white triangle design that stood out from the normal browns, blacks and greys of warrior clothing of the period. When Saber equips it, it improves her parameters and her armament ranks up. Under normal circumstances, Saber is armed with "Kojiki Kiyomitsu" but as it was affected by future generations, her beloved katana "Kiku-Ichimonji Norimune" has been ranked up. Range : 1 Maximum number of targets: 1 person ➣➣➣ Flag of Sincerity (Anti-Army) B : It is the Shinsengumi troops' flag with the Japanese kanji "sincerity" inscribed on it. Once this flag is raised, the Shinsengumi troops are summoned within a certain range of the flag. Each of the squad members is an independent Servant that do not have Noble Phantasms, and their combat capability is far from their best. Each of the squad members has an E- Rank "Independent Action" Skill, the absence of a Master limiting their activity to a short period of time. By the way, this flag holds all the captains of the Shinsengumi, the squad members are summoned by the mental imagery of the imposing user, and their personalities and faces will change somewhat. For example, in the hands of Okita Souji, Hijikata Toshizo would be summoned as the wicked Shinsengumi while Kondou Isami would be summoned as a trustworthy Shinsengumi. However, there are some who will not answer the summoning if they are on bad terms with the summoner to begin with. Okita is a rather popular Shinsengumi whose call will be answered by many. Range : 1~50 Maximum number of targets: 1 ~ 200 People ➣➣➣ Lightless, Three-Stage Thrust (Mumyō Sandan-dzuki) (Anti-Unit Mystic Sword) : Is a technique utilised by the extraordinary genius swordsman Okita Souji. While not actually a Noble Phantasm, it is treated as such under the FATE system. Consisting of a First Thrust (Ichi no Tsuki), Second Thrust (Ni no Tsuki) and Third Thrust (San no Tsuki), it is a concealed sword that is produced by transcendent technique and speed from the stance of Hira-Seigan ("Turning the Edge Sideways and Aiming at the Eye"). Rather than "almost simultaneously", the thrusts occur "all at the same time." For an instant, the unleashed First Thrust, Second Thrust and Third Thrust "exist at the same time" and at the "same position." Even if the First Thrust was blocked, the Second and Third Thrusts would be at the same position and break through. The contradiction this causes creates a localised breakdown in causality at the point of the sword, making it virtually impossible to protect against this technique. Because of the resulting collapse of causal relationships, it is a technique that surpasses the simple destruction of material things. Range : 1 Maximum number of targets: 1 Person} _{в í σ g r α p h ч} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} During her childhood, while she was still an apprentice at the Shieikan, the dojo of the Tennen Rishin-ryuu in Edo's Ichigaya area, Okita Souji met Hijikata Toshizo and Kondo Isami, core figures of the Shinsengumi in the future. She was skillful enough to serve as the head coach of the Shieikan at a young age, and there was no person who was superior to her regarding the talent with the sword. Kondo formed the Roshigumi on behalf of being bodyguards for the Shogun in the third year of the Bunkyuu era, and Okita went to the Imperial Capital to participate in the group together with Hijikata. After the break up of the Roshigumi, Kondo formed the Shinsengumi together with Hijikata, and Okita was entrusted with the position of captain of the first unit. Demonstrating their sword abilities in many conflicts like the Ikedaya Incident and so forth, the name of the Shinsengumi roared throughout Kyoto of the Bakumatsu era. However, Okita's body was adversely affected by an illness around that time, and her physical condition gradually deteroriated. Before long, she withdrew from the frontlines for medical treatment. Afterwards, Okita continued her life of recuperation while separated from her comrades, but in the fourth year of the Keio era, she died at the place where she was medically treated in Edo's Sendagaya area. It is said that she died without knowing of Kondo's death, who was decapitated two months prior to her death.

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Archetype: Sage of Atlas

Name: Nenet Isis Titania

Titles: The Spurned One, Wish Crystallizer

Sex: Female

Personality: A woman with an acerbic tongue and a minor sadistic streak. While possessing some level of cynicism, she is largely a rare optimist who has yet to be tainted by the truth waiting for the end of the Atlas Academy, perhaps due to the specific nature of the end and path that she has chosen. Encouraging and yet egotistical, her nature has an energy that is at odds with her age.
At the same time, that egotistical nature is every bit as fragile as it is massive. 

History: A alchemist of the Atlas Academy, a rare prodigy of the organization who rose to notoriety in her earliest years for her talent, which was only matched by a single other of her generation, a boy by the name of Zepia whom she befriended. 

Praised as a genius from the beginning of her life, she naturally aimed for the sky when the time came to select the ‘end of the world’ that her time as an alchemist would be devoted to the prevention of. As that man, her peer who had managed to keep pace with her all of these years, had chosen such a grand ‘end’ that it defied explanation, she refused to fall behind. The ‘end’ that she selected, then, was the end of the world that would result were humanity to become something that no longer wished. That far-off future in which an omnipotent mankind which has achieved everything self-destructs, the prevention of this was the edict to which she held herself.

From this point onwards, she chose her own path as an alchemist. In order to best leverage her natural talents and chosen end, she took to utilizing the magecraft of the Atlas Academy in order to materialize and empower wishes, granting them a physical and biological form. These beings, living curses that magi knew as imaginary demons, grew alongside her. Her magecraft was honed to a razor’s edge in mere decades, surpassing all expectations. 

Centuries ago, the then-Director of the Atlas Academy fell into madness and self-destructed. As such, the call for determination of a new Director was made. In her mind, there was no need for deliberation. The greatest candidate was clear, and the deciding council agreed. It was then that the man who had kept pace with her all of those years was granted the name of Atlasia. 

Without even realizing it, she had already been surpassed some time ago. Just as she had never considered him to be a rival, he had never considered her as one. 

At first, there was rage. She challenged the decision that was made, but was unable to deny the evidence that was placed before her. Her findings, her theories, her accomplishments were all several grades lesser than his own. In the end, while both were prodigies as different from the average alchemist as heaven and earth, the gap between them was no less significant.

There is still frustration over that time to this day, but by now it has become cold. Zepia Eltnam Atlasia was, without question, a finer Director than she would have been. 

The years passed on. While she purged rot from her spirit in the form of demons, he designed a formula to slow his aging. While she developed her Pure Eyes, he perfected his family’s system of Etherlite (something he refused to ever sell to her, despite countless efforts). 

...a mere century later, though, this routine changed. That man's calculations led him to a conclusion. Any highly-skilled alchemist could find the path to that after hard word, that unchangeable end. 

"There is no salvation, Nenet. Working to achieve a world of equality, we try to read the future and manage it. But from the very beginning, there was nothing but destruction waiting."

He thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And so, he went mad, he went crazy while falling into hell and calculating new destruction, he became a vampire to increase his own abilities in the hopes of obtaining a miracle.

In the end, after a lifetime of defeat at his hands, she was the one who outlasted him. Because she could never soar as high as he could, she never fell as far as he did. 

"...you idiot. You complete idiot, if you hadn't-"

The years went on and became decades. The decades went on and became centuries. The seat of Atlasia remained open. Those who desired to claim it lacked the talent to seize it. Those who had the talent to seize it lacked the desire to claim it. 

"It's still your position in the end, you mad fool."

Her work consumed her- the averting of that end is an unchanging goal, and one that she will not allow herself to fail in the pursuit of.

With the announcement of a ritual occurring in the West, one premised around an alleged wishgranting device, she chose to examine the ritual herself. 

If nothing else, it was an ample opportunity to gather materials. 

Quality of Magic Circuits: B, an outstanding abnormality for the Academy, but inferior to him.

Quantity of Magic Circuits: B, an outstanding abnormality for the Academy, but inferior to him.

Abnormal Abilities: 

Pure Eyes of Wish Perception: A low-grade form of ESP, which grants the user the capability to perceive the greatest ‘wish’ of others. This does not let the user understand the wish in detail, as reading the mind would, but rather it lets the user roughly grasp the ‘size’ (scale) of the wish, its ‘shape’ (nature), and its ‘color’ (ferocity). Further elucidation relies on use of the Atlas arts. If the mind is strained, then it is possible to see other subsidiary wishes, but this is not advised.

Atlas Alchemy: Knowledge of the arts of Atlas. This also includes knowledge of general magecraft that any magus ought to know- in other words, 'Atlas 101' and that corresponding tree of classes. It is important to distinguish between the Alchemy of the West and that of Atlas. Atlas Alchemists specialize in thought partitioning and thought acceleration, techniques that make use of the human body as an arithmetic unit. Put simply, their magecraft is 'the transmutation of events' rather than 'the transmutation of matter'. In this space, she is a prodigy among prodigies, a once-in-a-generation talent boasting seven partitions. Though, even this falls short of that man.

Demon Summoning (False): While true Demon Summoning is an inborn aptitude possessed by only a handful of outstanding individuals in the world’s history, Nenet has designed an analogous process through magecraft. That is to say, the manufacturing and commanding of the beings magecraft calls ‘imaginary demons’, beings formed from wishes and the distortions in the human psyche- curses given shape. The process revolves around utilizing knowledge of a wish and cursing techniques of the East in line with the user’s own affinity (Hollow) to create such a being. The additional factors of using the user’s Pure Eyes in order to ‘engrave a wish into the mind’ and using Atlas Alchemy to calculate the nature of the wish and to design and nurture appropriate vessels make this into a feasible form of magecraft, while storing backlash within the vessel. This naturally contains the capability for Eastern cursing techniques, particularly ones focused upon the ‘mind’, as well as Spiritual Surgery, but Nenet rarely utilizes them on their own due to relative inefficiency.

Demonic Elucidation: An expansion upon Nenet’s craft of Demon Summoning, made by taking a unique system of categorization akin to an elemental system (the alphabet) and applying that to demons in order to solidify their form. In other words, through the system of using ‘letters’, ‘symbols’, and ‘words’, she is able to alter and solidify the form that a nameless being such as a demon takes. However, given that this process is inherently tied to the notion of granting a demon a name, restraint must be exercised, as granting a demon a name in full will cause it to fully solidify and therefore become its own, independent existence. A secondary application of this is to channel the demon’s existence through that of something with an existing name, such as a lifeform or the planet. This is the means by which she hopes to avert the end of a wishless humanity. 
As an aside, under this categorization system, her elemental affinity would better be called ‘Hyphen’.

Demonic Wellspring: Rather than a familial Crest, Nenet possesses an inscription upon her body which contains the demons she has produced over the years, sans one- the end function is similar to that of a Crest, using the stored demons as the appropriate ‘information’, though the demons can of course be released and utilized as is needed. This can be considered the pinnacle of a certain puppeteer’s death switch. One demon, her greatest craft which is a current candidate for classification as a Great Weapon, has been left behind at the Atlas Academy as a ‘backup existence’ in the event of this body’s death, so that the Golden Rule is not violated and that the process might continue.

Malignant Information: Not a branch of mystery she has any proper experience in, rather this merely refers to academic knowledge picked up after the instantiation of the TATARI Phenomenon. An understanding of the principles, nature, and capability of malignant information and its operations. While it would be simple to apply this to her own magecraft given their synergistic natures, it is something she has refused to do. The reason for this should be apparent.

Equipment: Backup body parts, external calculation units, three magical energy furnaces, magical writing utensils, two Imaginary Numbers projectors, and three Hollow projectors. 

Miscellaneous: Bags and suitcases with the mundanities for living, mundane writing utensils, a Zepia pincushion, and preserved animal corpses. Skilled in matters such as paperwork and logistics.

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Class:Berserker

True Name:King Midas of Phrygia

Titles:The King with the Golden Touch, The King with the Ears of an Ass

Sex:Male

Attribute:

Personality: Stoic but quick to anger, Berserker constantly suffers from hunger pangs resulting in an easily irritable disposition. 

History (Age of Gods): Berserker was once an orphan who was taken in by a humble peasant and his goddess consort. One day Berserker and his father arrived in the kingdom of Phrygia on their ox-cart and Berserker was hailed as a king of prophecy who would restore order to the realm. His father founded a new city on the spot and father and son offered their ox-cart to the god Zeus for their good fortune. While on the throne he married Damodice, the daughter of Agamemnon of Cyme, who invented is credited with inventing the first coined money. 

Berserker became fixated with wealth and upon showing hospitality to a servant of Dionysus he received the gift of the golden touch. Anything he touched would turn to solid gold. Berserker initially revelled in this gift but quickly fell to despair when he turned his beloved daughter into a statue. He renounced his gift and washed it away in the rivers of Patroclus and lived the rest of his days as a peasant king. 

Renouncing his former god, Berserker became a worshipper of Pan and lived in the country where he tutored under the musician Orpheus. After judging a musical contest between the gods Pan and Apollo he was cursed with the ears of a donkey, a secret Berserker kept from everyone except his barber. His barber could not bear to keep this embarrassing fact to himself and so he told his secret to the earth. From the earth sprang forth reeds that spoke of Berserker's shame and thus he killed himself by drinking the blood of an ox. 

Parameters

Strength:B (A)
Endurance:A (A+)
Agility:C (B)
Mana:D (C)
Luck:C- 
Noble Phantasm:A+

Class Skills

Madness Enhancement (D):The class skill that characterizes the Berserker, raising basic parameters and strengthens one's physical abilities in exchange of hindering mental capacities or their sense of reason. At this rank, STR and END parameters are increased but language is limited and continuing complex thoughts over a long period of time is difficult. 

Personal Skills

Golden Rule (A-):A skill that measures ones fortune to acquire wealth. He was once a peasant boy who became a rich king and married the woman who invented coined money. As king he had a fixation with wealth which eventually lead to him being cursed by Dionysus. Normally he would have a rank of A as his NP could turn his surroundings into gold, however he receives a '-' modifier because after being freed from his curse he became a peasant king and renounced his wealth and splendor.

Affection of the God (B):A skill that normally denotes being loved my a male god, in this case the Greek God of Revelry, Dionysus. Upon treating a servant of Dionysus with hospitality he was 'gifted' with a golden touch. Berserker enjoyed momentary pleasure before succumbing to grief and prayed to his patron to remove the blessing. As such he was technically blessed twice by the same god. He can receive a temporary rank-up to AGI when partaking in activities of revelry, whether they be eating, drinking or playing music. 

Harp of Healing (C):A skill that gives the user the ability to exorcise evil spirits and heal others by playing a melody with a harp. After renouncing his wealth he moved to the countryside and was tutored by the great musician and poet Orpheus. From him he learned to play the lyre and judged a musical contest between gods. Using this skill Berserker can summon a golden lyre to play. As a Berserker he lacks the motor skills to fully use this skill but he can still produce notes that distract him from his hunger and cause enemies to lose their willingness to fight. Berserkers songs are bassy and can cause damage to hearing if the right precautions aren't taken.  

Philosophy of the Satyr (C):A skill denoting a philosophy imparted by a servant of the god Dionysus. It is a philosophy that declares the condition of being dead as preferable to being alive. It is the idea that one was better off not born at all, and next to that, that one should die as soon as possible. Berserker did not practice this philosophy throughout his entire life but still possesses a low rank in it due to embracing it at pivotal moments in his personal history. This skill is derived from a conversation between Midas and the satyr Silenus. The satyr questioned the king on what he thought was most the desirable thing to humankind. When a satisfactory answer was not produced Berserker was taught this philosophy. When confronted with imminent death Berserker will charge headlong into danger, embracing this philosophy. Enemy disengage skills become less effective as well as enemy instant death effects since Berserker is already 'dead' on the inside and the chances for mutually assured destruction becomes a likely probability. 

Noble Phantasms

Title: Shortsighted Blessing of the Wine God
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: B
Range: 1-2
Max. Number of Targets: 1

Upon showing his servant hospitality the god of revelry Dionysus answered Berserker's prayers and granted him the ability to turn anything he touched into solid gold. At first Berserker liberally used his newfound gift to amass great riches. However, upon turning his garden roses to gold his cherished daughter pointed out the error of his wish. In turning everything to gold he robbed those things of their intrinsic value. The roses in his garden no longer had soft petals or sweet fragrances. The food at his table was reduced to mere hunks of shiny metal, inedible. Instinctively he comforted his daughter and in doing so afflicted the curse upon her, leaving Berserker starving and grief stricken.

This is a continuously active-type NP that cannot be turned off. Berserker is incapable of eating or drinking on his own. Upon either of his hands making contact with a surface, object, creature, person or Servant, that object will have all of its qualities removed and replaced with "gold". This area affects a half-foot radius around the point of contact. Prolonged contact will cause the effect to spread throughout the target's body, progressing at a rate of half an inch per second. Any enchantments or other magical qualities will be lost and replaced with the qualities of gold, though with great strain magic circuits can be used to halt the spread. If 80% of a Mystic Code's surface is converted it will be rendered inert and unuseable. Same thing goes for familiars. Noble Phantasms and Servants not already rendered in gold are able to resist this effect, the conversion to gold limited to this NP's base half-foot radius. NPs cannot be left inert unless the entirety of their foundation is turned into gold, however partial inertness can be parted onto NPs in proportion to how how often Berserker has been in contact with them. The same is true for Servants. Effects of the curse can be removed by dragging afflicted objects through a river, though this requires knowledge of Berserker's legend.


Title: Knot of Gordias' Knowledge
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: A+
Range: 1-25
Max. Number of Targets: 50

After seeing his son declared king, Berserker's father devised an intricate knot to tie onto their ox-cart. This was a tribute to the god Zeus for their good fortune and granted any beast of burden tied to the cart a fraction of the might of Zeus. It was from one of these divine bulls that Berserker harvested the blood for his suicide, temporarily receiving the might of Zeus before shaking his mortal coil. 

This NP manifests as a golden wine skin that contains the blood of a divine bull. It is the only food that Berserker can feed to himself as its vessel is gold and the blood inside has a golden hue due to its divine nature. Once imbibed Berserker's hunger pangs disappear for a 5 minutes and he receives a temporary rank-up to all parameters except Luck. In addition his attacks become enhanced with the might of Zeus. Massive bolts of divine lightning arc off his body. The effects of this NP act as a stronger version of Mana Burst (Lightning) as all of his physical attacks are empowered with divine lightning. Each lightning strike generates the amount of magical energy a Saber or Lancer would use in an attack that utilized every ounce of their strength. This boost last 2 minutes. The blood poisons Berserker's body and after 2 minutes Berserker will become vulnerable. Continued combat will put further strain on his body increasing the chances of death. The wine skin has enough for three drinks and after the effects of the third drink Berserker's death is guaranteed. The wine skin can be given to masters and servants. The blood is too toxic for masters to drink and will result in their immediate death. Other servants that drink will receive all of the effects for 2 minutes and then have to make a high Luck check or die on the spot. Servants with a rank B or higher in Divinity will autopass this check as a high percentage of divine blood is present in their veins.

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“My art is different from yours. It consists not so much in defeating others but in not being defeated.”


Name: Tsukahara Bokuden

Title(s): Sword Saint

Class: Saber

Gender: Male

Attribute: Human

Alignment: Neutral Good

Personality: Bokuden is a warrior who has fought in many battles, defeated multiple famed opponents, and who feels he no longer has anything to prove. The adventurous spirit he had in his youth has been sated, having travelled the country three times over on pilgrimages, and his desire to prove his strength and his skill has been replaced by a calm and assured confidence in his own abilities.

He is a warrior who seeks to avoid unnecessary conflict, a rarity for a samurai born and raised in a tumultuous time of war and bloodshed, who would rather talk his way out of a fight that draw blood if possible. 

Objective for the Grail: “It’s a small and somewhat selfish wish, but I’d like to see the school I created restored to its former glory. My techniques were given to me by Takemikazuchi , so to see them lost to time and war saddens me.”

Biography: Bokuden was born in 1489 as the second son to Yoshikawa family, Shinto priests of the Kashima shrine who were in the service of the Kashima clan. The Kashima shrine was considered to be a holy place of Budo, or Japanese martial arts, as a thousand years prior a priestly celebrant named Kuninazu-no-Mahito built an altar at Kashima Shrine and by praying day and night he attained the secret techniques of the Divine Sword; these techniques were passed on mainly to the Yoshikawa family by the Shinto priests of Kashima Shrine. These secret techniques are called Kashima-no-Tachi (the Sword of Kashima) and, as the time passed, their name was changed from Kashima Jōko-ryū to Kashima Chuko-ryū. As a child Tsukahara Bokuden was taught the family heirloom of Kashima Chuko-ryū by his father Akikata.

At the age of 10 he was requested for service and adopted by the Lord of Tsukahara Castle, Tsukahara Tosanokami Yasumoto. This man was the advanced student of the founder of Tenshinshouden Katori Shinto-ryū, and he taught Bokuden the style called Katori Shinto-ryū. From his early life Bokuden was taught two styles of Kashima and Katori by his fathers and, during his early years, he already distinguished himself as the one having outstanding skills in swordsmanship.

At the age of 17 Bokuden set out on his first of three pilgrimages, during which he found his first real taste of combat against the renowned swordsman Ochiai; Bokuden defeated him easily and chose to spare the man, only for his humiliated opponent to try and ambush him later in revenge. Bokuden killed the more skilled opponent with a single cut and was then forced to take the Ochiai’s place in the armies of the local daimyo as a result. He spent the next few years fighting in fierce battles, often on the front lines, and didn’t return home until nearly thirteen years after his departure.

Upon returning home the first time, he isolated himself for prayer as Kashima shrine at the advice of his master to repair the spiritual damage of many life-or-death encounters. It was a rigorous ascetic practice that lasted about 1000 days, during which he stayed at Kashima Shrine and practiced the art of the sword, praying to the deity of warfare, Takemikazuchi. Through this ascetic training Bokuden acquired the secret techniques of “Hitotsu-no-Tachi”, or “One Stroke”, from Takemikazuchi who appeared to him in his dreams. Combining these techniques with his existing style, Bokuden then began to call his style Kashima Shinto-ryū from then on.

Tsukahara Bokuden became the lord of Tsukahara Castle at the end of his second pilgrimage at the age of 45, taking a wife who unfortunately died only ten years later. By the time of his third pilgrimage he was famous enough to be followed by a large retinue on his travels, attended to by eighty followers and bringing along multiple spare horses and three large hawks which flew at the head of his procession. It was at this point that he decided to take on a student in order to pass on his techniques and experience to the next generation.

In his later years, Bokuden handed over his place at Tsukahara Castle to his son in order to convert to Zen and become a Buddhist priest. He died at the age of 83.

Weapon: Odachi and Kodachi (long sword and short sword)

Parameters:
STR: B
END: C
AGI: A
MGI: E
LCK: A

Class Skills: 
Magic Resistance B – Aside from being a famed Samurai, Tsukahara is also the latest in a long line of Magus; his family, in their service of the Kashima shrine, were diviners practiced in the art of Urabe fortune telling. Although never a trained as a Magus himself, Tsukahara still possesses magic circuits and has some innate protection against Magecraft. 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.

Riding C – Most vehicles and animals can be handled with above average skill. However, cannot ride the likes of Phantasmal Species such as Monstrous Beasts.

Personal Skills:
Eye of the Mind (False) A – Eye of the Mind represents a natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience that has been further enhanced by experience and skill. In life Tsukahara was a preternaturally skilled swordsman, one who was able to defeat many famed opponents and take part in multiple battles at the site of the fiercest fighting without once being injured by his opponents.

From his first duel with live blades at the age to 17 to his retirement from combat in old age, defeating all challengers and surviving ambushes and assassinations, Tsukahara killed over 200 men without once feeling the sting of a blade. It could be said that Tsukahara’s swordsmanship is at the level where trying to attack him with a melee weapon of any kind of pointless. He doesn’t have the best of luck with arrows however.

Kashima Shintō-ryū A++ – A school of traditional Japanese swordsmanship created by Tsukahara Bokuden after spending 1000 days training at the Kashima Shrine and praying to the deity of warfare, Takemikazuchi. It was said that Takemikazuchi appeared to him in a dream and taught him the secrets of “Hitotsu-no-Tachi”, or “one sword/stroke”, after which he renamed his style Kashima Shintō-ryū after the shrine. As the creator and first master of this style, Tsukahara has a rank above A in this skill.

Created during a time of feudal war, the school's techniques are based on battlefield experience and revolve around finding weak points in the opponent's armour, thus giving Tsukahara an advantage against armoured opponents that he might otherwise have difficulty fighting. The style also contains a number of iaijutsu techniques that allow for striking as the sword is drawn.

Disengage B – In his later life Tsukahara grew tired of constantly feeling the need to prove himself against strong opponents as he was already extremely confident in his abilities and he began to see the merit in avoiding conflict as opposed to having to constantly show himself to be the best. This mentality culminated in the creation of the “No Sword Style”, where Tsukahara defeated an arrogant younger opponent by tricking him into jumping off of the ferry they were on to have a duel and then promptly leaving him on an island alone.

Bonus effect of returning battle conditions to what they were at the beginning of the match (1st turn) and restores the condition of this Skill to the initial value.

Name: Divine Sword Style - One Stroke
Title: –
Rank: A
NP Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1-2
Maximum Number of Targets: 1
Description: The ultimate sword style granted to Tsukahara Bokuden at Kashima Shrine; taught to him in a dream at the end of his 1000 days of ascetic training by the God of Warfare Takemikazuchi. 
The essence of the style is in accurately judging the distance between oneself at the opponent’s blade and in choosing the right moment to strike, for in doing so the swordsman is able to avoid all harm and strike a fatal blow against their opponent. When the opponent strikes, either of their own accord or due to the swordsman letting themselves look unprotected to bait an attack, the swordsman waits until the blade is less than half an inch from striking their body before moving, taking one step forward and slaying their opponent. 

If the swordsman has judged the distance correct they have nothing to fear as they know for certain the enemy’s blade will not reach them and is therefore able to devote all of their energy towards attacking. In short it is a counter, one delivered at the last possible moment with the barest margin for error, one that requires timing of the utmost precision, the ability to judge accurately distances and the courage to step into an attack in the barest moment before death to deliver a finishing blow with their full power.

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"You're getting in my way, die-"
"You absolute dunce, stop trying to kill every person who bumps into you on the street!"

Name:SimonPhobia
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Species: Human

History: Within the country of Bihar, India, there was a family with the penchant for psychic abilities. And then there was a branch family of that family. These psychics possessed the ability to mold shadows, but their abilities were so weak, their minds so unfocused, they could only mold their own shadow. But this family persisted for many generations, desperately hoping to recapture their former glory, before they had been forced out of the Demon Hunter's Association by the many half-bloods that now comprised it.

One day, the matriarch of the family was confirmed to have twins. It was a joyous thing, for a set of psychic twins would surely be more powerful than anything the family had produced until now. It was rather unfortunate then, that one of the twins absorbed the other while in the womb, selfish little thing he was. But it was this event, this rare occurrence, that would be the beginning of the end for this family of psychics.

Born a lowly street rat in the province of Bihar, India, there was a child with no name. His mother died when he was born, and his father had no compassion for the child, he couldn't. He was to be the next heir, the rebirth of their disgraced family. Where the father could not access the channel, the child would have to. He must. Few words between them were exchanged, for the longest time the boy would not even speak.

"Come here boy."

"What the hell are you doing boy?"

"Get the fuck away from there boy!"

Boy. Boy boy boy. All this child ever was, was boy. He had no peers to name him, nor did any superior in his life care to acknowledge him. He had nobody but himself for eight years, simply a boy alone in the darkness, hiding his bruises and licking his wounds. Waiting for something to change. His grudges and hatreds built up for years but he did not have the strength to act upon them. His id festered and boiled as he drowned in his repressed instincts. One day, the boy's father locked him in a dark room with nothing to eat, nothing to drink. He was given a simple task.

"You can come out once you've accessed your channel. Figure it out boy."

For days and nights the boy stayed locked away in that room, nothing but the darkness to accompany him. The boy struggled in vain to access that channel in his brain, but he had no frame of reference to work with. How does one call upon that which should be instinctual? The boy did not know, so he simply shivered and cried in the dark. Alone. He starved, he thirsted, until he could take it no more, begging something to help him, anything. And deep within the depths of his soul, someone new awoke for the first time. A soul thought to be gone, absorbed by their brother. The soul spoke for the first time, it's words echoing in the boy's mind.

"Let me try."

He woke up in the room by himself, but he knew he was not truely by himself. His shadow, it was alive, holding him gently, whispering those calming words he could never hear from another. It receded soon after he awoke, but the boy knew it had been there. It was still there, just... inside him.

Eventually his father gave up, ripping him out of the room when he was on the verge of death. He had no idea that the boy had succeeded, nor would the boy tell him. The boy was beaten, the boy was starved, id continued to fester and thrash. But under the cover of darkness would the shadow manifest once more, speaking to the boy, mending his wounds, calming him. It was this shadow that gave him the name of Simon, a random name heard outside the window while the boy slept.

Two years passed, Simon and the shadow within him bonded. His name would be Phobia, as he was the darkness which people feared. A bit dramatic, but the boy was ten after all, what can you expect from a child? 

It was no single event that triggered the death of Simon's father. There was no turning point, no final strike that made Simon decide to kill that man. One night, he simply acted on impulse and strangled him to death, before asking Phobia to tear the corpse apart and devour it to remove the evidence. The shadow did not protest much, he had seen the things the man had done to Simon. The life Simon had lived until Phobia awoke. He deserved it all.

But this was the beginning of a rampage that almost couldn't be stopped, dozens dead in the span of a single night, all people who had wronged Simon in some way or another. The man who kicked the panhandling child had his legs torn off, the butcher who cut the boy for stealing a piece of beef was fed his own hands, the man with glasses who looked at him scornfully had his eyes torn out. It was id on a rampage, it was everything Phobia could do to hold him back long enough for someone to stop this child. He didn't want this, he just wanted Simon to be free.

An organization known as the Demon Hunters Association were dispatched, a group dedicated to the extermination of half-bloods throughout the Oriental nations. Simon was captured and subdued by a team of Demon Hunters, though they were greatly confused when their binding spells had no effect on this seemingly inhuman child. Phobia manifested to explain, the story of this inhuman human who they had captured.

A decision was given to the young boy and his shadow. They could choose to work with the Demon Hunters, to wash off the blood on their hands by saving others from the menace known as Half-Bloods. Or they could be executed, just another body amongst the pile of corpses Simon had produced.

Simon of course immediately declined, citing such a job as "too much work" and "annoying" considering he didn't even like people that much, but Phobia managed to talk him into it before they could both be executed by their captors. A good deal all in all, though Simon would rather be doing something else. Rather ironic all in all, the boy who had been bred to bring the family back into the fold of the DHA ha finally earned a spot, at the expense of the entire family.

Thus Simon and Phobia met their new life head on. They hunted Half-Bloods throughout India, learned the values and laws of man, they were taught the taboos of the Moonlit World and the Mantra that the Demon Hunter Association utilized. This in particular was rather useful to Simon and Phobia, as only two minds in one body could properly utilize the highest techniques of Mantra.

Simon is now 18 years of age, eight years spent within the company of the Demon Hunter Association. Rumors abound of a Holy Grail War, a battle for an omnipotent wish granting device that could fulfill any desire. While this by itself is rather uninteresting to the Association, further rumors of a dangerous Half-Blood and a Magus who utilized Demons pursuing the Holy Grail most definitely kicked them into gear.

While Simon was originally uninterested in such a mission, upon Phobia convincing him that the City of Sin would be "a real fun time, trust me, super cool!" he conceded begrudgingly so long as he got to spend his free time at these "casinos".

Personality: The relationship between Simon and Phobia is a bit complex in terms of personality, so it might be best to separate the analysis of their personalities into two sections.

Simon is a man who is without superego, the morality of man that keeps us from doing whatever we want without regard. He is in effect, a man who embraces his desires wholeheartedly and without remorse. Without someone else to keep him in check, he would just do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, which is generally not a good way to live in society. This is not to say he is a stupid beast, far from it he is quite intelligent. It's not even to say he is evil by nature, he can be quite the hero when he wants to be. It's just, only when he wants to be. It is more along the lines of, if someone were to tell him that assaulting someone is illegal, even if they spat on your shoes and were very rude, he would fully understand what they were telling him. "If everyone says so, I guess it has to be true." But if someone were to spit on his shoes in the street, he would likely beat them half to death for the insult regardless. "You think I'm going to let you get away with that?! HUH!? I'LL FUCKING STOMP YOUR BRAINS ALL OVER THIS GODDAMN STREET!"

Phobia on the other hand, is the only thing stopping Simon from following through on these stupid impulses. The angel on Simon's shoulder, the quiet hand guiding his actions, the rough arms holding him back from doing something insane like punching a politician in the face because he gave Simon a funny look. But he was and is Simon's only true friend, so he cares for the man regardless of how psychotic and unhinged he may be. He's the only one who really understands the inhuman human after all. It would be best to think of Phobia as a tired parent constantly trying to keep their rabid 6 year old in check. "I KNOW YOU WANT THE FUCKING HEADPHONES, BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM! NO YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE THEM, THAT'S ILLEGAL! I DON'T CARE THAT YOU DON'T CARE, PUT THEM BACK!"

Alignment:Chaotic Neutral(Lawful Neutral)

Number of Magic Circuits: C

Quality of Magic Circuits: B

Elemental Affinity: Shadow

Psychic Channel

Turning inward, further and further inward, until eventually a channel within Simon's brain was activated and his shadow was made manifest, the darkness was now his to control. Shadows are made manifest as a fluid darkness that Simon and Phobia can do many things with. However for the most part, Phobia is in control of the shadows as it would take up most of Simon's focus just to manipulate his own shadow without moving. From manifesting blades and bullets of shadow, to structures to be used, the shadows are theirs to command without question. When working in conjunction, with Phobia controlling the shadows and Simon controlling his own finely tuned body, the two can even defensively battle against the beings known as Ghost Liners, possibly even striking a killing blow should they get lucky and their opponent be careless.

It's basically a Stand, I can't be much more straightforward.

Equipment

Simon and Phobia were given a variety of tools from their family's treasury to aid them on their mission in the City of Sin. Several weapons including but not limited to, staffs made from mystery soaked bamboo stalks, Maru made from the horns of a phantasmal beast, Kattari forged by the premier blacksmith of the Demon Hunters, basically weapons of the highest degree without having explicit magic effects. They aren't likely to break is what I'm trying to say.

Miscellaneous

As an agent of the Demon Hunter Association, Simon has been trained in the art of Silambam, a martial art with a focus on a variety of weapons such as the staff, Kattari, Aruval, and other such weapons. He's also dabbled in a variety of other hobbies, from playing the guitar to blind archery to shooting a variety of guns, Simon can be said to have a base level of competence in a lot of things that can be considered exciting and fun. But unfortunately, he loses interest in most of these subjects rather quickly, so he hasn't truely "mastered"  any of these hobbies. They are merely hobbies.

The one exception to this would be his competence in driving fast vehicles, which is something that has managed to hold his attention for an impressive 4 whole years now! Simon likes when the motorcycle go vroom vroom very fast, he especially likes it when he makes the really tight turn and Phobia starts yelling he's gonna kill Simon as soon as he gets off this damn motorcycle.

In regards to equipment, Simon was only equipped with two mundane items before being sent on his way. A flip phone to be used if he needs to call in backup in emergencies and... a credit card with no limit. This was a mistake.

Simon has already purchased with his new credit card, several firearms and way too much ammunition, a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R motorcycle, a helmet (Phobia made him buy it), a penthouse suite at the Wynn hotel, the latest model of smartphone, designer clothing, and ninja stars. It is important to note that Simon does not know how to use ninja stars, but he wanted them anyways. Phobia is doing his best to hold Simon back from purchasing grenades and explosives, but he is fighting a losing battle.

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The first round of character reviews. Even if no changes are necessary, or the changes are simple and immediately implemented, they aren’t considered accepted just yet, and can’t be moved to the character tab. 

-Change Circuit ranks to - and note that she has a dragon core.
-Note a level of Magic Resistance of B rank due to phantasmal blood.
-Specify whether the blood thickness is closer to a Stirring Ancestry or Thick Blood.

-Strength to C.
-Have the Maximum targets on the second NP as how many people can be kept in the torture chamber, if it isn’t already. Reduce the range to either 0-1 or -.

-Avenger Skill to B+
-Have Self-Replenishment sublimated into the Galvanism mutation.

No changes required.

-Clarify the effect of the first Noble Phantasm.

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-Make the parameters clearer. If the skills are permanently active, there don’t need to be more ranks in brackets.
-Renouncing wealth while keeping Golden Rule still at B makes little sense. Either have it at A- with this justification, just at A rank, or remove it entirely, sublimating it into the Noble Phantasm. 
-Affections of the god being a curse and its removal make little sense, and the boost to luck is not accounted for in the rest of the sheet. Consider a different effect for affections.
-Philosophy of the Satyr simply adding plus modifiers to physical parameters does not fit with its description.
-The first Noble Phantasm requires some clarification as to its effect on humans, both normal and those with circuits. 
-Gordius Wheel as a Noble Phantasm on a non-rider without much heavier alterations is impermissible. Consider doing something with the knot itself instead.

-Replace the composite skill with Disengage.
-The Noble Phantasm needs a range. Sword range, preferably, so 1 or 1-2.

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I want to address each of the points individually before I make changes.

I thought I had to put the parameters after they were boosted by ME in brackets.

A- works for me.

It's an altered version because he was blessed but later perceived it as a curse. Also Affection type skills affect Luck so why not here?

Elaborate on how the description of Philosophy of the Satyr doesn't fit the effect.

I consider humans 'objects'.

Implying I can further alter Gordius Wheel to fit? If Gil can get around not being able to use NPs properly by using his class container why can't Midas?

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I'll throw my hat into the ring, then.

SIGMUND

Class: Berserker
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Source: Völsunga Saga
Attribute: 

Likes: Strength, his kids
Dislikes: Underhanded methods, suspicious old dudes
Talent: Single-minded brutality

Biographical

Father of the greatest hero of Northern Europe, and member of the ill-fated Völsung clan, who first pulled out the Sword in the Tree.

The only survivor of the massacre carried out by King Siggeir on his father and siblings, he spent a large portion of his life in the pursuit of vengeance, killing the children his sister sent to aid him when they proved themselves to be incapable of keeping up.

That streak would be broken with Fitela — his own son, born of incest, and the only one of Signy’s children to have the markings of a proper Völsung because of it. Raising him in the wilderness and teaching him the ways of the outlaw and the hunter, they were accomplices and ravaged Siggeir’s lands as such.

In particular, they even shared the “distinction” of bearing the same kind of wolf skin, becoming monsters rather than humans.

The story would normally continue with “and after many perils, he achieved what he set out to accomplish…”, but truthfully, that has little bearing on Berserker.

By summoning him in such container, he has been designated as “the outlaw”. Coarse, rough and lacking the knightly disposition of other stages of his life, he seeks only one thing: to prove his own strength and crush all who would stand in the way of his goal.

“After all, that entire debacle only happened because Siggeir didn’t fear us enough.”

His wish for the Grail is rather simple, though. "To be able to change the ill fortunes of his clan".

After all, one who chases after revenge is also one who wishes to recover things they've lost.

Parameters:

STR: A+
CON: A+
AGI: B
MGI: C
LCK: E

Class Skills

Mad Enhancement: E

Loss of one’s reason in exchange for increased power.

However, because there are few accounts of “insanity”, he appears to be rational and capable of holding conversations. The only effects of this skill manifest in a “fierce” personality.

Personal Skills:

Disengage: C

Ability to break away from combat. Also accounts for the bonus effect of resetting battlefield conditions once utilized.

Having terrorized Siggeir’s kingdom for years alongside his son, always dodging would-be pursuers and escaping back into the forest once their deeds had been done, it is a natural skill for a reaver and an outlaw.

Brutal Beast’s Planning: A

A composite form of Wild Beast’s Logic and Eye of the Mind. Not only was he a fantastic warrior, but even when he took on the cursed wolf skin, his human rationality remained intact.

A sum of accumulated techniques developed as a human, intermingled with the instincts of one who has become a beast. It allows one to “develop a plan to deal with a predicament”, but it is fundamentally geared toward “defeating the opponent”.

High speed thought and processing power geared toward identifying weaknesses and devising the best method of attack, as well as minimizing the chances of the opponent avoiding it. Consequently, speed and efficiency with regards to planning and execution of enemies are greatly heightened.

Fenriswolf: A

A special form of Self Modification bestowed by the cursed skin.

Because of its nature as “conceptual formal wear” and the symbolic meaning of the wolf within the context of the World Tree of Northern Europe, he has effectively been garbed with the mantle of “consumption”. 

By taking in the target, evolution and refinement are achieved in seconds. However, it is more limited in terms of applicability — only “combat power” remains a concern.

...One could call it the ability to “eat” pretty much anything. A stomach of cast iron.

NOBLE PHANTASM

Dawn of Ruin
Gram

Rank: A
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1 - 2
Maximum Number of Targets: 1

The sword from the tree which only Berserker was able to retrieve — a blade which grants sovereignty, gifted by Odin after passing the test.

Not only does it hold the attribute of kingship, but it is also a blade of glory, ruin, and fate, as well as the “Sword of the Sun”.  Because this is Gram before its unfortunate destruction at the hands of Odin, however, it lacks the attribute of “dragon-slaying” in return for an emphasis in the “sovereignty” aspect.

The greatest of Demonic Swords that boasts standing equal to the greatest among Holy Swords.

Because he lacks the absurd amounts of magical energy his child possessed after consuming the dragon’s heart, he cannot utilize the “full potential” of the sword. However, by means of concentrating and efficiently utilizing what he does have, it is possible to wield it to carry out a shining golden slash that cuts through and burns away the enemy.

It lacks the sweeping destructive power of the technique used by his son or carried out by other Holy Swords, but it is far more efficient in turn.

Cloaked in the Wild
Ulfhenjar

Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Range: 0
Maximum Number of Targets: 1

The cursed wolfskin that led to Berserker becoming a monster in the tale. Pragmatically speaking, it has become a form of conceptual formal wear, and plays an important role in him being able to “properly qualify” for Berserker.

In a similar process to a certain pelt, it causes the wearer to exhibit the characteristics of a Demonic Beast — in this case, those of a werewolf, colored by the perception of the “wolf” within Norse mythology. 

Because when summoned as a Berserker the Noble Phantasm is active from the point of materialization, the power boost is less than it would be in a different class, but he enjoys far greater stability.

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Class: Assassin
True Name: Kashin Koji
Titles: The Black Magician, The Warlord's Illusionist, Pilgrim of the Seven Treasures, Kotaro Fuuma's Dad

Sex:
Male

Attribute: 

Alignment: 
Chaotic Neutral

Personality: 
"Hey, master. got a coin to spare for a poor soul?" Kashin Koji is the embodiment of a slacker and has a carefree attitude. A freeloader. A capable yet lazy person that enjoys exerting minimum effort to a task. He wanders around Japan as a vagrant. rubbing elbows with commoners and Rulers alike. Pushing his luck as an avid gambler, drowning his sorrows with pleasure and alcohol. 

Weapon: Puppets, A khakkhara staff.

History: 
books.google.com.ph/books?id=kUHRAgAA…
In Nasuverse canon, Kashin Koji is the creator of the Black Kite Kato Danzou. 

Parameters:
Strength C
Endurance D
Agility A
Mana C
Luck B
NP C

Class Skills: 

Presence Concealment D - is the capacity to hide one's presence as a Servant. It is a common Class Skill of the Assassin class.

Personal Skills: 

Artificial Limbs (Karakuri) B - One’s flesh has become an artificial mechanism – particularly, a wooden mechanism [karakuri]. A bonus is added to one's action checks related to combat and the success checks of their Skills. If it is at least Rank A, not only their limbs but also their entire body has become an artificial “karakuri doll”.
For Kashin, It is kept below rank A due to the fact he doesn't want to his side of 'humanity' despite these modifications on him. 

Ninjitsu B - Intelligence gathering skills, combat techniques, larceny skills, torture techniques, and etc. utilized by ninjas. 
In General, Kashin hasn't had the capacity to become a famous shinobi. Altho, He sure acts and fights like one. Being at B rank means he didn't apply himself from any school nor the teaching of their sacred creed. He was kinda self-taught in a way and has a natural talent for the arts.

Mechanical Illusion Art C++ - Techniques that utilize karakuri with genjutsu working as the core of these techniques. It is possible to apply these to many activities, such as infiltration, spying, combat, and so on. 

He has been proficient in tricking others with the use of his magic as an illusionist, the same way a ninja's use their ninjitsu in bewildering and swindling others to make a quick buck or luring the enemy into a false sense of security.  One of his notable traits in exhibiting this skill is swindling the great Demon King himself. Koji sold a priceless painting to the warlord, a lively definitive picture of hell that fancied Nobunaga's taste. 

As the day past, its quality deteriorates than its original. Koji got arrested of course. Instead of being executed for his crimes. The warlord seems to be impressed rather than mad at the mischievous trickster that he decides to let him go.

Self Modification C - The aptitude to attach and fuse completely different flesh to one’s own body. In Koji's case, being half man, half doll. The higher the ranking of this Skill, the further away one is from being a proper hero. 

Noble Phantasms

Name: Mechanical Karakuri Barrage
Title: Ninja Puppet Dance 
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: C
Range: 0-6

Kashin can summon various puppets or robotic-like body parts as a means of a weapon or a tool.  He can control them with strings from his own magecraft. Infused with his mystic code stored in his body, these cybernetic modifications can retract in and out of his body and is design to combat evil. 

Name: The Great Deluge of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven's Palace 
Title: Water Release! Painting of the rabid river's waves come to life!
Type: Barrier
Rank: C
Range: 2~50

The mystical deluge of Nobunaga's party that came from a painting. 
Washing away the guests.
Flooding the corridors with gushing water. 
It was nothing more a powerful Genjutsu Koji utilize to make his great escape. 

Koji's little trick is somewhat to be considered as a Great Magecraft falsely similar to a Reality Marble – an otherworld that embodies one’s own imagined landscape, created by temporarily overwriting the current World. To Kashin, it is the recreation of a sudden torrent he released upon the towering Nobunaga household, sweeping away the wooden platforms, guests and Shoguns alike -- A horrible prank really.

It attacks the mind and anyone who is affected by this Noble Phantasm will suffer the dreaded sensation of 'drowning'. As if they where plunge in deep this maelstrom of this make-believe tide, impeding their natural movement due to the illusion of being submerged underwater. 

The perception of 'drowning' turns fatal to those who have not been fortunate enough to see past this illusion and to those who have lower Magic resist. Possible enough for the trickster Koji to make them commit suicide through suffocation.

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   I shall meet Tomoe in the heavens.

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 Nakano Takeko  |  Saber  |  Last Female Samurai, Woman with Demon-like strength  |  The last of the Aizu.
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Nakano is a person that is usually easy-going but can go strict in a snap of a finger when headed into battle. As a person who looked up to the great Tomoe Gozen she wanted to have her strength and power while being praised the same why she did. During her lifetime, since she had nearly no relationships in regards to love affairs, she is poor at exchanging conversations in that area.

Nakano's wish for the Holy Grail is "To have fought longer." Her final wish during her final moments when she was alive.
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Class Skills

"A warrior said to have had a strong final stand, her skill with her blade was second to none, but yet ranged attacks still may be a loss for her."

 ➣➣➣ Magic Resistance B: Her Magic Resistance is higher thane expected due to her time period, where magic and firearms reigned supreme.

 ➣➣➣ Riding B : Her Riding is quite renowned since she was known to ride when going to war, though not in actual combat, her experience is still quite known.

Personal Skills
 ➣➣➣ Battle Continuation B : As a person who refused to die quietly, she was able to stave her own death so that her sister may take her head instead of the enemy. She fought as a last stand in the siege, which gives her the ability to survive longer than she should have.

 ➣➣➣ Oni-kind Demon C : A Skill that represents the superpower and demonic nature of an oni. It is a composite Skill of the Natural Monster Skill, Monstrous Strength Skill, Charisma Skill, Magical Energy Burst Skill, etc.. In her case, the Magical Energy Burst is that of Flames.

 ➣➣➣ Eye of Mind (False) B:  is a natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience. The accuracy of this instinct can be augmented by experience. The ability also grants an effect of offering resistance against penalties caused by visual obstructions.

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s t r є n g t h:   C 
є n d u r α n c є:   C
α g í l í t ч:   A+
m α n α:   B 
l u c k:   B

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 ➣➣➣ Shiro Hachimaki & Hakama (Anti-Unit) D : It was what Nakano had worn during her final moments in combat, her official uniform during her time as a samurai. People still honour her by wearing clothing alike to hers while taking part in a procession in commemoration of the actions Nakano and her band of women fighters of the Joshigun.

This increases her defensive capabilities and agility.

Range : 0
Maximum number of targets: 1 person

 ➣➣➣ Ten no zanshu (Anti-Unit) E~A : 
"Yuko! As their Kaishakunin, with each of my strikes weakening the barrier as we speak! You shall meet Tomoe before I! Ten no zanshu! (Heavenly beheading!)"

Translates to "Heavenly Beheading." Nakano channels her demonic energy onto her Nagikatana and raises it to show the heavens (Specifically Tomoe). It is then given the permission to attack. This Noble Phantasm starts with 5 quick yet deadly strikes that weaken the barrier between heaven and the mortal realm with the last strike as a beheading that sends the enemies head to the heavens as a trophy to show to Tomoe.

The first 5 attacks weaken the barrier of heaven but some may opt not to connect due to the opponent's defensive capabilities which makes the last strike not as effective to if all 5 strikes connect.

Before the last strike, the spirit of her sister "Yuko" is summoned from the heavens to assist in beheading the enemy. Though Yuko's strength and ability to send the head to the heavens is based on how weak the the barrier between heaven and the mortal realm is. As she raises her blade for the final strike her blade glows and extends with energy of heaven which allows for a longer beheading range.

There is a chance to inflict death, regardless if the first 5 strikes connect on the target, the rank of the Noble Phantasm will scale for each hit.

Range : 1~2
Maximum number of targets: 1

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Nakano was the daughter of an official from Aizu, but was raised in Edo (Tokyo) where she was trained in literary and martial arts, specialising in a form of Ittō-ryū one-sword fighting. She also became a skilled instructor in the use of the naginata, a bladed polearm. She spent five years as the adopted daughter of her martials arts teacher, Akaoka Daisuke, but left him after he attempted to arrange a marriage for her. She relocated with her native family to Aizu in 1868. 

During this time the Boshin War began between the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and supporters of the Imperial Court. Although the Shogun surrendered in May 1868, some of his forces continued to fight on, retreating to Aizu. Nakano joined the army in repelling the Imperial forces and fought at the Battle of Aizu, which was in effect a month-long siege.

While Aizu retainers did not allow women to fight, Nakano formed an unofficial unit of twenty women armed with naginata, including her mother and sister. The group took part in a counter-attack designed to break the siege, during which Nakano killed five enemy opponents before taking a fatal bullet to the chest. Afraid that the enemy would take her head as a trophy, she asked her sister to instead decapitate her and bury the head.

The shogunate forces eventually lost the siege to the better-armed Imperial forces. As requested, Nakano’s sister buried her head under a pine tree at the Hōkai-ji Temple and a monument was erected there in her honour.


^{_______________________________________________} _{Nakano Takeko \| Saber \| Last Female Samurai, Woman with Demon-like strength \| The last of the Aizu. ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ Earth \| Lawful Neutral \| #30C3B6 \| 162cm \| 50kg ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ p є r s σ n α l í t ч} ^{✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧} _{Nakano is a person that is usually easy-going but can go strict in a snap of a finger when headed into battle. As a person who looked up to the great Tomoe Gozen she wanted to have her strength and power while being praised the same why she did. During her lifetime, since she had nearly no relationships in regards to love affairs, she is poor at exchanging conversations in that area. Nakano's wish for the Holy Grail is "To have fought longer." Her final wish during her final moments when she was alive.} ^{✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧}	_{s k í l l s & w є α k n є s s є s} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} Class Skills _{"A warrior said to have had a strong final stand, her skill with her blade was second to none, but yet ranged attacks still may be a loss for her."} ➣➣➣ Magic Resistance B: Her Magic Resistance is higher thane expected due to her time period, where magic and firearms reigned supreme. ➣➣➣ Riding B : Her Riding is quite renowned since she was known to ride when going to war, though not in actual combat, her experience is still quite known. Personal Skills ➣➣➣ Battle Continuation B : As a person who refused to die quietly, she was able to stave her own death so that her sister may take her head instead of the enemy. She fought as a last stand in the siege, which gives her the ability to survive longer than she should have. ➣➣➣ Oni-kind Demon C : A Skill that represents the superpower and demonic nature of an oni. It is a composite Skill of the Natural Monster Skill, Monstrous Strength Skill, Charisma Skill, Magical Energy Burst Skill, etc.. In her case, the Magical Energy Burst is that of Flames. ➣➣➣ Eye of Mind (False) B: is a natural talent to foresee/sense and avoid danger on the basis of an innate 6th sense, intuition, or prescience. The accuracy of this instinct can be augmented by experience. The ability also grants an effect of offering resistance against penalties caused by visual obstructions. _{p α r α m є t є r s} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} s t r є n g t h: C є n d u r α n c є: C α g í l í t ч: A+ m α n α: B l u c k: B _{n σ в l є p h α n t α s m s} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} _{➣➣➣ Shiro Hachimaki & Hakama (Anti-Unit) D : It was what Nakano had worn during her final moments in combat, her official uniform during her time as a samurai. People still honour her by wearing clothing alike to hers while taking part in a procession in commemoration of the actions Nakano and her band of women fighters of the Joshigun. This increases her defensive capabilities and agility. Range : 0 Maximum number of targets: 1 person ➣➣➣ Ten no zanshu (Anti-Unit) E~A : "Yuko! As their Kaishakunin, with each of my strikes weakening the barrier as we speak! You shall meet Tomoe before I! Ten no zanshu! (Heavenly beheading!)" Translates to "Heavenly Beheading." Nakano channels her demonic energy onto her Nagikatana and raises it to show the heavens (Specifically Tomoe). It is then given the permission to attack. This Noble Phantasm starts with 5 quick yet deadly strikes that weaken the barrier between heaven and the mortal realm with the last strike as a beheading that sends the enemies head to the heavens as a trophy to show to Tomoe. The first 5 attacks weaken the barrier of heaven but some may opt not to connect due to the opponent's defensive capabilities which makes the last strike not as effective to if all 5 strikes connect. Before the last strike, the spirit of her sister "Yuko" is summoned from the heavens to assist in beheading the enemy. Though Yuko's strength and ability to send the head to the heavens is based on how weak the the barrier between heaven and the mortal realm is. As she raises her blade for the final strike her blade glows and extends with energy of heaven which allows for a longer beheading range. There is a chance to inflict death, regardless if the first 5 strikes connect on the target, the rank of the Noble Phantasm will scale for each hit. Range : 1~2 Maximum number of targets: 1} _{в í σ g r α p h ч} _{^{▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔}} Nakano was the daughter of an official from Aizu, but was raised in Edo (Tokyo) where she was trained in literary and martial arts, specialising in a form of Ittō-ryū one-sword fighting. She also became a skilled instructor in the use of the naginata, a bladed polearm. She spent five years as the adopted daughter of her martials arts teacher, Akaoka Daisuke, but left him after he attempted to arrange a marriage for her. She relocated with her native family to Aizu in 1868. During this time the Boshin War began between the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and supporters of the Imperial Court. Although the Shogun surrendered in May 1868, some of his forces continued to fight on, retreating to Aizu. Nakano joined the army in repelling the Imperial forces and fought at the Battle of Aizu, which was in effect a month-long siege. While Aizu retainers did not allow women to fight, Nakano formed an unofficial unit of twenty women armed with naginata, including her mother and sister. The group took part in a counter-attack designed to break the siege, during which Nakano killed five enemy opponents before taking a fatal bullet to the chest. Afraid that the enemy would take her head as a trophy, she asked her sister to instead decapitate her and bury the head. The shogunate forces eventually lost the siege to the better-armed Imperial forces. As requested, Nakano’s sister buried her head under a pine tree at the Hōkai-ji Temple and a monument was erected there in her honour.

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Archetype: Specialist

Name: Androssi Gallifeldt

Titles: Corpse Shambler, Thousand Spirits Howling

Sex: Male

Personality: Crazed, violent, but sincere in his own right. Mourn not your dead, for they live within him.

History: Some times, no matter how faithfully one follows a path, it is a fruitless endeavor. 

Such was the fate of the Gallifeldt. 

Within the current era, as the light of civilization illuminates the depths of mystery, the constraints of thaumaturgy tighten, certain mysteries now subsumed within the human order. While necromancy, as such a broad category of thaumaturgy, has yet to fall into disuse, one can only go so far in a certain direction before hitting a roadblock.

As the Gallifeldt valiantly trekked onwards, defining and further exploring their family craft, Androssi slowly fell into depravity.

No longer considering himself as an individual, but as a process to reunite with loved ones lost to the great divide, he experimented upon himself magically.

The extent of his modifications was so extreme, he could be considered only a few steps from becoming a Dead Apostle. 

He participates within the Las Vegas Subspecies War in order to attain the Holy Grail in order to study the mechanics of it to improve his own self.

Quality of Magic Circuits: A

Quantity of Magic Circuits: D

Magical Element: Water

Abnormal Abilities:
Attribute - Continuation: The core of the Gallifeldt’s magecraft. An attribute meant that extends within the context of magecraft. From extending the sense of self, to lifespan, and a variety of other effects.

General Magecraft: Knowledge and skills derived from the standard four years worth of education within the Clock Tower. Subject matters such as Locking Doors and Formalcraft, along with a host of many more topics fall under this broad category.

Necromancy: When one speaks of Necromancy, there are two paths that are brought to mind. The creation of abominations, or the utilization of the body’s latent mysteries. At its core, however, Necromancy is a school of magecraft dedicated to restoring and reviving beings who have completed their final ritual. In the case of the Gallifeldt, they sought to preserve and continue the individual within a greater collective with a gnostic understanding of the self.

Equipment: Brain Jar. Treated Bandages.

Androssi Gallifeldt: The body of ‘Androssi Gallifeldt’ is the culmination of not only his family’s work but that of many others as well. 

Composed of body parts sourced from a multitude of origins, from high-quality materials harvested from unfortunate magi to elderly mundane folk, it is a hodgepodge of treated limbs and organs held within the ‘shape’ of Androssi. 

The true vehicle of existence is a disembodied head stored within a suitable vessel along with his magic circuits, so attacks normally considered fatal can be recovered from rather simply as long as the ‘core’ of his existence is undisrupted. As an aside, as long as it is within his 'body', moving his core is merely a matter of thought.

Beyond being affording Androssi a constitution akin to a cockroach in terms of survivability, he utilizes the innate boundary known as the body as another facet for his thaumaturgy.

Deployed within is an artificial underworld, which processes the latent feelings of the dead into a curse, which perpetually powers and feeds Androssi. Along with self-possessing himself with multiple alternate existences, Androssi’s own body is the pinnacle of his family’s craft.

Miscellaneous:
- Crates full of desiccated body parts, 
- Ritual Tools, 
- Magical Energy Furnace, 
- A set of Mystic Eyes of negligible rank (Enchantment, Binding)
- Shovel.

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Archetype: Dead Apostle (Magically Transformed)

Name:Ahmicqui

Titles: Tlacatecolotl, Nahuālli

Sex: Male

Personality: A man who once loved all of creation, from a single pebble to the gods themselves, but above all he loved mankind for a single human was of greater value upon the altars of gods than a world’s sum of vibrant feathers and jade. He embodied the very ideal of self-sacrifice and service to the world, thinking of all but himself. Content to die an insignificant death so that others might know the love of the gods, and through it be transformed into divinity itself. A true patriot who believed in the divine mission of his people to be the stewards of the world, and in turn its saviors. 

Yet nothing lasts, as his people faded from history and mankind forgot how to love another, the man who once loved all unconditionally came to despise it, loathe it and pity it and still could not stop loving it. Civil words and sentiments are but masks for the mockery that lies beneath, carrying himself like a flamboyant jester ever in spite of the world that he inhabits. To stave off boredom a little while longer, to not think too long on the future, or rather lack of one that he wanders towards. Yet the embers of the man of old have yet to die out, ever prone to perhaps have hope in mankind when those of promise show themselves, those who evoke but a hint of displaying love towards another. Even when met by disappointment, it never deters him from raising his hopes the next time. At times he may offer the rare kindness to others, for when man reaches the end of their days, he will be there to offer them death in battle where they may join the gods instead to die insignificance. What must not be loved in life can perhaps be loved in its demise.

Whether the spirits of the past are worth his respect is another, but those who represent the pinnacle of humanity be it in their worst or best, are certainly to be honoured in their own way. To be watched and witnessed, and to feel nostalgia for a time where humanity still knew how to love another, and perhaps supported to offer them but another chance to pursue what is most dear to the heart and in turn perhaps to bring out the man who once loved all of creation.

History:
Once in a land where men lived not for themselves, but solely for others and the world. In the white lands and beyond, the land of the Aztecs and their subjugate, did Ahmicqui live. Sworn from birth to the priesthood, his fate was shaped on the very day he was born and deemed worthy to pursue it. The gods had sacrificed everything for mankind, the world had to be preserved at all costs lest it be torn asunder once more. As the strongest and wisest of the lands, the Aztec were fit to rule and to serve as stewards of the world, such did Ahmicqui believe and he was proud to uphold that duty.
His was a love that enveloped all, expressed upon the fields of battle most keenly where he captured many and dragged them across the steps to be sacrificed upon blood-soaked altars. Offering the defeated the chance to be hallowed in death, to become divine itself through their consumption. In turn allow the most honoured of the Aztec to consume the flesh of the newly-minted divine and through it commune with the gods themselves, becoming greater and more powerful through it. Ahmicqui laboured not for his lifetime, but for his successor to consume him like he had consumed his own master and inherited his Jade Heart. All for the purpose of gathering wisdom and knowledge should the sun be torn from the skies and the world to end once again.

All things were destined to end, such was the nature of all things. Yet even if death itself could not be stopped, it is the privilege solely of man to choose the manner of their own passing. To be able to die with honour, to be loved by the gods to die through conflict, be it in the heat of battle or on the throes of child-birth. Such were deaths to be cherished and honoured. To slip away in the night or to die miserably from disease were not fates to grant to any man. It is why Ahmicqui pursued the power of healing, to heal the spirit from the ails of the wind itself. Even if only to buy enough time for a diseased man to find death in battle, enough time for one to be loved by the gods. 

Man was the greatest of things to be loved, for even the most miserable wretch was suitable to be sacrificed to the gods where even a king’s hoard of jade was to be turned away from any altar. Such is how it was meant to be, how it once was. Yet as Ahmicqui raised the next generation of warriors time and time again he wondered who would come to love his people, for the ever-victorious could never know death in battle, their allotted time would expire one day and who would love them then. The greatest warrior would wither away and die an insignificant death if he was never bested. It was the sole source of sorrow for Ahmicqui.

Thus he believed it to be a sign of the gods themselves when Quetzalcoatl and his pale kindred descended upon the land itself, waging war upon the chosen of the gods.. Either his people would prevail, devour the gods and know even greater glory, perhaps endowed with true divinity itself, thus to know love. Or they would fall, trampled beneath the feet of their divine conquerors and sacrificed on altars to know love. The cycle would advance once more and another to take their place. Ahmicqui was ecstatic, the sole source of sorrow erased as he prepared himself and his students for glorious battle. Donning the garbs of the Tlacatecolotl, or owl man, emissaries of the underworld and arbiters of life and death. One of the most prestigious orders of sorcerers in the land. 

A few minor victories over the pale invaders preceded the far greater calamity the land, for those that died on the battlefield were far outnumbered by the countless that perished from a deadly ailment of the soul, one that stilled the anima that gave life to the flesh. A plague spread upon the winds of Quetzalcoatl, one that shook Ahmicqui’s faith, his students that had died before his eyes in battle were sent off with laughter, but those that died from this plague were the ones who he truly wept for, as they were unloved by the gods, less than man. Yet it was not an assessment that he agreed with. He could not stop death, but he could at least allow man to choose their own end. A curse of such power was beyond his ability to heal, so instead he took the curse upon himself, one patient at a time. The Tlacatecolotl were said to be immune to disease, for it was their fate to perish in battle and indeed Ahmicqui fared better than his patients. 

Yet even that small mercy was not meant to last, for when he had taken on the curses of too many to count, even he started to submit to it. Bleeding from every orifice in his head, his time was drawing to an end. Even then he still continued to treat this pestilence in others, for every two that he cured it surely surpassed the weight and worth of his own being. If he was to die an insignificant death, let it be so, for those to perish to a god would surely be loved even more than the greatest warriors in the times of yore. As the dead stacked up to the tens of thousands in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, the few survivors came to fear Ahmicqui for his disease, and in turn exiled him. He was heart-broken, but did not fight the decision.

The only thing that had kept him going was the pure will and resolve to save others, but deprived of that his end came quickly, in the midst of a place of little significance, suffering a fate of no significance before breathing his last. Or so it was meant to be, but the sum of curses of many and his status as an emissary of the underworld shaped a different fate for Ahmicqui. Forced to wander the world as a mindless ghoul, his toil was a long one, consuming the blood and flesh of many before finally regaining his sapience decades later. Finding himself weeping over his latest victim, blood still upon his tongue.

He had changed, that much was clear when he stepped out into the sun and experienced agony unlike any other. The sun, the gods were rejecting him, they no longer loved him, for he had died a dishonourable death, perhaps many times over by taking that fate from hundreds if not thousands. This was his punishment, his penance, for he was a sinner scorned by the sun itself. In time he would come to learn of the world, yet finding himself disappointed when learning of the fate of his people and the true identity of the one they had thought to be Quetzalcoatl in the flesh. In the end only a single truth prevailed, his people and their legacy had been crushed by a people who did not know how to love. Who valued shiny metals and beans over the lives of humans, such were the heirs to their lands.

Coming to terms with his own existence, Ahmicqui desired to learn more of the world and its people now that he had nothing to hold him back. What he discovered was but the same truth told over and over again. Man fighting over soil to grow seeds in, wasting precious human life solely for the acquisition of transient things. There was no love, no higher purpose but pursuing the accumulation of wealth and power. They knew not sacrifice, they knew no duty. The bonds between people fray ever more as each pursues their own ambitions. Nevertheless, in an effort to understand he tried to live the lives of the people of the old world as best as he could, to see if their love took on a different shape only to find himself disappointed by the limits on their capabilities to love. 

Returning to a husk of his former life, he settled in his former homeland and began to teach the young and those endowed with the talent for magecraft in every discipline that he could teach in. From the secrets of magecraft to the simple wisdoms to live as a good person. Teaching them how to love and be loved, before finally ending each and every last of them. Some of them struck down in a betrayal, others simply struck down for being too weak to endure and overcome what is yet to come. It is his mercy, his love to allow those promising seeds of humanity to remain worthy, to be worthy of love and to be forever embraced and hallowed in the afterlife. In the end consuming their blood and flesh, to slake the thirst for blood, to gain wisdom and to get ever closer to obtaining the eternal wisdom of what he now knew to be the root. 

Even if humanity no longer knew how to love, the world was still there. There was nothing on it that he did not wish to disappear were it to end, but he also could not abandon what his people had once sworn to protect. So the sacrifices continued, laying the seeds for an eternity of conflict and bloodshed within his former homeland now known as Mexico. Feeding the greed and want of the drug cartels that inhabited it and driving them to fight amongst another, at times only stepping in to prevent an end, to maintain instability. To many it seemed like a bored Dead Apostle playing with humans, but to Ahmicqui it was alike to watering his garden. A daily ritual that he offered little thought to but still was part of his routine.

As he was going about his daily routine, he learned of the ritual that was to take place north of him. Perhaps a vacation was in order, and his garden would survive without him, it had not been the first time he had left it unattended for a time. It was the first time in decades that his heart beat with a certain trepidation, for perhaps he could finally fall in love with humanity all over again. 

Quality of Magic Circuits: B

Quantity of Magic Circuits: A

Abnormal Abilities: 

Dead Apostle Parameters and Abilities:Power to crack concrete in his hands without reinforcement. The speed to dodge bullets without foreknowledge. His physical stats are high above any human, although in comparison to servants they do not quite match up.

Cocoliztli: Out of love, Ahmicqui had claimed the fate of thousands of his kinmen by claiming the pestilence that plagued their bodies and brought devastation across the White Lands. A curse that normally stills Tonalli, the anima that gives life and animates the flesh, instead inspired a hunger within Ahmicqui, one for blood. Ever seeking to stave of stagnation and avoiding the end of his cycle. There is a great power in the curses of many joined into one, wielded by an emissary of the underworld. One twisted by his resolve and his tattered love, it has become alike to a weapon to be wielded for he can impart a fraction of that curse upon others, like a disease, and for a time still their prana and through it inspire the same lust for blood, so that they may too finally know what it is to love another. 

Third Soul - Tonalli: Unlike others, the ancient Nahualt possessed three souls. One of which is known as the Tonalli, coloured upon the day of one’s birth and tied to an animal spirit of the very same day. Ahmicqui was born under the sign of the owl, an auspicious sign, surpassed only by that of the jaguar. The owl is one of the three animals tied to the underworld and a spirit that lends its power to Tlacatecolotl, or owl men. Their talent for destruction and curses have left them to be remembered as demons in the history of their conquerors. 

The Tonalli is a very physical soul, one present in the blood and in the head. One that can be lost if one is not careful, and one can augment their Tonalli by consuming that of another, and with it giving the opportunity to consume the animal spirit tied to it. Ahmicqui is the heir of the Tonalli of his predecessors amongst the priesthood, commanding the mystery of not only his own great owl, but all the other owls that he consumed. To further his bond, he was implanted with a heart made out of blue jade, a substance tied to life and death and suffused in the blood and Tonalli of his predecessors. Something not unlike what a magic crest would be to a western magus.

Horned Nagual: A form of shamanism unique to the Nahualt people. Through the bond between man and animal tonal spirit, one is capable of communing, processing and operating spirits, especially those of animals. One’s affinity with the spirit of one’s birth is the greatest, but it is not unknown to be able to gain control over the spirits of others by consuming their flesh and blood, and through it inherit their Tonalli. The most powerful of sorcerers amongst the Nahualt people were always said to be Naguals, as even the God of Sorcery, Tezcatlipoca, was said to possess an animal spirit in the shape of a Jaguar. 

Ahmicqui’s tonal bond with his great owl grants him the affinity to surpass the normal bounds of nagualism and to merge his own essence with that of his owl and through it endow the concept of the owl in the concept of Aztec mythology. Such transformation grants him not only the physical features and capabilities, but also endowed him with spiritual qualities. Owls were the messengers of the underworld, controlling life and death and representing the evils of the world. To hear them in the night was to know that someone was fated to die, a harbinger of misfortune.

Death is the end of all things, the end of a cycle of consumption for even the spirits that overcome all trials of the underworld are in the end reduced to nothingness before its king. Such is the fate that the owl heralds, and one that Ahmicqui can project when joined with his owl spirit. Fortune and luck fades if not dulled as the fate of death is made more likely, the end drawing closer the longer he is allowed to remain. Cycles come to a halt, or are at least slowed as things like regeneration and growth are stunted if not impossible within his presence. For if the owl of the underworld makes itself known, so must death follow. 

Ahmicqui can only transform during the night, a constraint that limited all Naguals of his time.

Ticitl: An extension of his skills as a Nagual to interact with spirits. Through it Ahmicqui is able to heal the body without using even a single surgical implement. Healing the spirit and through it the result manifests upon the flesh itself. His tonalli, the great owl, permits him even more delicate control over it for life and death are its domain. In the past Ahmicqui has employed his talent in spiritual healing to take the pestilence of others upon himself, transferring curses from one to the other. To solely call it spiritual healing would be a misunderstanding of the full scope of it, for Tlacatecolotl are known to at times to twist and bring ailments upon the spirits of others, such was witnessed by the invading Spaniards themselves when faced against Montezuma’s Tlacatecolotl.

Attendant of the End: As an emissary of the underworld, it is his privilege and duty to attend the death of man. A final safeguard to prevent those from cheating death or forging a different fate for themselves. When this owl man chooses to observe one’s end it is a solemn send-off but also a confirmation of the truth. Transforming their grudges, regrets and other stray remnants into wraiths unique to his people’s understanding of the world. Often manifesting as butterflies who are said to tend to the world a little while longer before truly passing on. 

Nahuatlatolli:A language practiced solely amongst the priesthood, one that was kept secret from the common man. A tongue meant for the weaving of magecraft and oft employed in rituals and spells woven amidst battle. Effectively allowing Ahmicqui to reduce the activation of his thaumaturgy by half. Not unlike common forms of high speed incantation.

Equipment: Three Owl Statuettes, Two Monkey Statuettes, Two eagle Statuettes, One Jaguar Statuette, with each having their respective animal spirit tied to it. The shrivelled arm of a woman perished in childbirth. An obsidian-tipped Aztec Spear, and a ceremonial owl garb.

Miscellaneous: A wide variety of flower seeds, a bird cage with a Quetzal in it, various suitcases filled with clothes and other essentials. Connections with various central american drug cartels and other crime syndicates.

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