Name: Jiao Yu, "Count of Dongning"
Class: Archer
Appearance:
Personality: Jiao Yu is a man of intellect and learning, a disciplined individual who seeks to cultivate his knowledge and aims to support the “greater good” as he sees ethically fit in a given situation. Kindness must be reciprocated for the right reasons to him, and generosity with generosity in his mind, whilst judgement must be personally exercised and cultivated to best make decisions at the right place and time. He is a loyal servant who believes in fulfilling his responsibility towards his master to fight for them, though through bad treatment or certain sorts of behavior he might see as “evil” a master of his could easily start to lose his diligent dedication and loyalty to them.
His opinion on gunpowder weapons is that
"...the lives of the whole armed forces depend on the exact timing of these weapons. This is what fire-weapons are all about", which he feels can still apply even in modern times with modern weapons descended from those in his “Fire Dragon Manual”. His opinions about the emperor he served, as well as that of the man who co-edited the manual itself with him, generally are mixed and can vary from sad to pleasant when he talks about them. In the end, he will readily admit, he was just someone who sought to fight for his people and his nation for the right reasons at the right time, and who sought to push the use of the firearms more dominantly in combat in his home nation.
Stats:
Strength: D
Endurance: C
Agility: B
Mana: C
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: B
Class Skills:
Independent Action: B
-It is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for two days without a Master. However, this is the ideal value achieved by maximally conserving mana and avoiding battle and Noble Phantasm usage.
Magic Resistance: D
-Cancels Single-Action spells. Magic Resistance of the same degree of an amulet that rejects magical energy.
Personal Skills:
Eye of the Mind (True): B
- is a heightened capacity for observation, refined through training, discipline and experience. A danger-avoidance ability that utilizes the intelligence collected up to the current time as the basis in order to predict the opponent’s activity and change the current situation. This is not a result of talent, but an overwhelming amount of combat experience. A weapon wielded by none other than a mortal, gained through tenacious training. So long there is even a 1% chance of a comeback, this ability greatly improves the chances of winning.
At this rank, he is capable of calm analysis of battle conditions even when in danger and deduce an appropriate course of action after considering all possibilities to escape from a predicament.
His life as the protégé of one who had inherited the skill of Sun Tzu, then as an artillery officer, and then as a general during the course of his life led him to gain a great deal of battlefield experience and expertise. Likewise, he was crucial to the Red Turban Rebellion that transformed both China and was an influence that helped change the manner in which the world itself conducted war.
Holy Mountain Teachings: C
-The summation of the Daoist/Confucian teachings, magecraft, and even firearms knowledge that he learned when studying under the Daoist intellect “Chichi Daoren” (translated as "Knowing-when-to-stop Daoist") upon the holy Tiantai Mountain. Though only at A rank can one be considered to have actually “learned it” and be considered a proper Daoist Magus.
Thus at this rank Jiao cannot be considered a “proper" or "capable" Daoist magus, due to his access to the knowledge this skill still has some effect on his abilities.
It firstly adds a minor “anti-spirit” capability to the contents of his Noble Phantasm, a capability also influenced by ancient Chinese beliefs about the original fireworks scaring off evil spirits. This makes the contents of Jiao’s Noble Phantasm a bit more effective against other heroic spirits similar target (not the likes of Phantasmal Beasts or their ilk though).
Secondarily, this skill has made Jiao’s existence somewhat more synchronized with the World. The effects of this act like a combination of the personal skill “Knowledge of Respect and Harmony” (his attacks are not impossible to read by any means, but are very hard to read/predict instead) and the class skill “Presence Concealment” (fit enough for him to basically spy on others). However, the latter effect (the PC one) drops very notably in efficiency in the circumstance that the user initiates an attack or poises for an offensive.
Charisma: C
-The capability of a skilled general, who leads and directs soldiers on and off the field of battle.
Jiao Yu was a scholar, an artillery officer, a general, and in the end an influential individual in the formation of the Ming Dynasty and its usage of gunpowder.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Name: Huolongjing, “The Fire Dragon Manual”
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit/Anti-Army/Anti-Fortification
Appearance/Effects: This Noble Phantasm finds its base in the Fire Dragon Manual that Jiao Yu is famous for writing and helping co-edit, containing gunpowder types, uses, recipes, and implementations of it in military usage that range from “poisonous gunpowder” to grenades and land/sea mines and multiple rocket launchers and more. Its contents contained and represent the summation of China’s gunpowder knowledge, from which modern firearms and “gunpowder” technologies would spread and evolve. In this manner it could be said to be one of the cornerstones of the modern military era.
As a Noble Phantasm, this manual takes the form of what it embodied, aka a “treasury of ancient gunpowder technology and knowledge”. Rockets, cannons, fire arrows, flamethrowers, and the like exist with it to be produced within this “weapons factory” of sorts. These are then utilized by Jiao by protruding them out of, or being fired from (like projectiles themselves), silvery-colored portals that can be manifested in the air by the servant (and even follow him around or be rotated when he’s moving). It is a Noble Phantasm that seems to have a passing resemblance to a “certain King’s treasury” in its outward usage, though that is frankly where any and all similarities end.
Alignment: Neutral Good
Changes: (none)
