[OOC] Fate/illuminated histoire

[VitaVitaAR]

@SSW: Technically Atalanta Alter is only a Berserker for gameplay purposes, given it's just her wearing the pelt.

As for the OC, who is it?

[SSW]

Oh, I didn't realise that. That makes things kinda complicated for the sheet, but Archer's still free too, right?

As for the OC, it's Rostam corrupted by the White Demon helm in a similar way to Atalanta/Cu Alter.

[VitaVitaAR]

@SSW: Hmm, let's see what your Rostam is like?

[SSW]

I can link to an RP I posted him in a while ago, but I'm not really happy with that version of him and I'd want to rewrite a decent chunk.

Here it's.

[VitaVitaAR]

@SSW: Honestly, I'd want that entirely rewritten with more elaboration and explanation on basically all fronts if you wanted to reuse that.

[SSW]

That's understandable. I might just stick to Atalanta Alter then.

Actually, one more question. I know the rules say Reality Marbles are banned, but does that include canon examples like EMIYA or Iskandar?

[VitaVitaAR]

@SSW: Canon examples are fine. Additionally, it's a soft ban. If I find it acceptable then it'll be allowed, but Reality Marbles need very good justification.

[SSW]

Hm. Actually, is EMIYA summonable under normal conditions? I suppose F/SN is pretty abnormal, and Rin's summon uses a pretty rare catalyst.

[VitaVitaAR]

@SSW: Emiya getting summoned under these circumstances is very unlikely. While I actually think he could be summoned theoretically after FSN, the likelihood of doing so without some pretty extremely specific circumstances is incredibly slim.

[SSW]

Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, since one of the teams is Ainsworth, would it be possible to app an Ainsworth master? Also, are masters mandatory for everyone who's making a Servant?

[Heavy Snark]

Well since Talos was a no go due to there already being a version of him (Even if it's not really him due to being from a Lostbelt and also a fusion with Rhodes too), here's someone that hasn't been added to Fate.

The guy with more sheets than even Simo Haya

Hou Yi

Name: Hou Yi, Slayer of the Nine Suns, Bowman of the Heavens
Class: Archer
Appearance: "Mine are the arrows that shall fell the sun!"

Personality: Easygoing and straightforward. Charming and honest. His greatest assets are his confidence in his own decisions and his courage in the face of adversity. A serene appearance that betrays a heart bursting with feelings. Archer goes about his life with a boyish heart, a taste for dramatic flair, and an unshakeable hope for meeting again a certain person…

He is easily impressed and just as easily amused. He is also a natural airhead, incapable of understanding subtleties when communicating with someone else, mostly taking things at face value. (He broke many hearts by just being himself, but obliviously kept going.) He admires heroes of justice and people who stood against the world for their ideals, broken as they were; for him, these are the bravest souls. The owner of a deep spiritual core, he offers respect and prays to all the departed souls, no matter their side in a War. All lives deserve the cycle of birth and rebirth, and all lives deserve to be mourned.

――He is also the one person always urging his Master to get a parasol, for the UV-rays in this time of the year are just brutal on your skin.

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

Class Skills:

Independent Action - B

As a Servant, he can stay in the world for two days without the support of a Master. However, this is the ideal value achieved by conserving mana and avoiding battle.

It looks like his original parameter was supposed to be C, but thanks to his personal Skill Affection of the Moon, he somehow got a rank up. One explanation can be that, by being the owner of an unshakeable faith that he is favored by the moon, he can actually survive quite longer when it is dark in a sort of Placebo-effect phenomenon.

Magic Resistance - C+

Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals. He has a remarkable resistance to Chinese-related Witchcraft.

Personal Skills:

Affections of the Moon - A

Hou Yi is blessed by the light of the Moon, the only connection he has to his beloved Chang'e. Once per night, if Archer were to take a lethal or even fatal blow, Chang'e shall bless her husband with her divine fortune. Upon this activation, Archer must make a "luck check"; if it succeeds, the attack will fail regardless of circumstances or properties of the attack. Not only this, but events will change in such a way that it will allow Archer to make a single action before his opponent can retaliate, essentially giving him a "free action".

The chance of success is heavily dependent on the eight phases of the moon; upon the New Moon, the chance is extremely low. During each successive phase, the chance of the Skill activating grows more and more until the Full Moon, where activation is guaranteed. However, each successive phase after the Full Moon causes the chance to rapidly fall until the New Moon, where it resets entirely.

Divinity - D-

Due to his original status as a god, Hou Yi has access to natural Divinity. However, due to his banishment at the hands of the Jade Emperor, the Parameters for this Skill have dramatically decreased.

Clairvoyance - B+

Hou Yi had honed his senses to a tremendous degree, as shown by his feats against the many demons he does throughout his travels as well as his feats as a god. Archer has the capacity to see through illusions as well as in areas without light. Just as the gods see the world from their perch on the Heavens, Archer is also able to see from a bird's eye view above the battlefield, giving him nigh-unparalleled spotting ability.

Noble Phantasm(s):

Name: Gifted Gale: Pouch of Travelling Winds
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit (Self), Anti-Unit
Effects: Gifted Gale is the power Hou Yi once demonstrated while still mortal. Due to his victory against the Count of the Winds, he was given a bag of winds that is worn on his waist. In life it allowed the warrior to travel across the land in search of the fearsome demons to vanquish. When activated, Hou Yi opens the bag, allowing a massive gale wind to fire out. Once the winds have calmed after a moment, Archer gains control over the air in the surrounding environment, allowing him to control it to an extreme degree. He can use this to soar about in the air freely and extremely quickly, allowing him to rarely touch the earth if need be. His usage extends over multiple forms of flight from levitating to utterly defying gravity and using the wind as a physical structure to grasp. He can also utilize the wind in combat, sending out gale winds and cyclones to strike Masters and strike at Servants, manipulating air currents to redirect ranged attacks or simply as a way to move himself and his Master if they need to preposition or even retreat.

Name: Jinwu - Punishment of Nine Fallen Suns
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Army
Effects: The crystallization of You Yi's greatest achievement, Jinwu is Archer's most powerful technique. Upon activation, Archer fires an arrow into the sky, targeting a point in the heavens above the battlefield. Upon the point, the act of felling a sun is re-created; the death wails of a sun-bird act as the warning cry as one of nine suns falls from the Heavens and onto the earth, engulfing the battlefield in a surge of incinerating sun-fire.

Just as the act of felling the suns was that of punishment for defying the will of the Jade Emperor, the arrows themselves as well as the flames created by the sun's fall carry the property of [Divine Punishment]; those who have committed an act of defiance or rebellion against the gods shall find themselves swiftly slain by both the arrows and the flames, their bodies pierced or burnt to ash.

Despite its power, there is one caveat to this ability; as there were only nine suns that were slain in his legend, Archer can only cause nine suns to fall onto the earth. Due to this, Archer can only use this Noble Phantasm nine times in total.

Alignment: Red Faction

[VitaVitaAR]

@SSW: You must make a Master if you make a Servant, and Ainsworth Masters are permitted.

[SSW]

How similar is their Magecraft to what it is in the Prisma Ilya timeline?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Heavy Snark: Give me some time to talk this over with my co-GMs.

@SSW: It's more or less the same, with the subtraction of anything specific to the circumstances of their timeline in the Prisma Nasuverse. Additionally, they don't have the resources to make high-class magi as dolls.

[KoL]

Ok, since I was having trouble with Riders, here's my next idea:

Assassin of Black

Class: Assassin

True Name: Li Shuwen

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Personality: Assassin is a serene old man. Even if he's not as physically vigorous as in his younger days, he's now a martial artist who reached the prime of his mental state.

Whenever he needs to engage in combat, he limits himself to the absolute minimum required. This is the calm and collected state of “completely concealing aggression” that “he could not understand when he was young”. even though he has been summoned as an Assassin, he doesn't desire to bloody his hands with hidden killings. He'd much rather engage in head-on fights against anyone perceived as a worthy opponent.

Assassin doesn't find the act of assassination shameful in particular. It just doesn't sit well with him. Perhaps, because under all of his calm old man façade he still harbors the same vicious nature of his younger self. However, if it's necessary to do so, he will carry out an assassination without second thoughts.

Parameters:
Strength: C
Endurance: D
Agility: A+
Mana: E
Luck: E
Noble Phantasm: —

Class Skills:
Presence Concealment —: While it's a common Skill of all Servants of the Assassin Class, Assassin has no use for it. His ability to obscure his his presence with Sphere Boundary far surpasses the limits of normal Presence Concealment.

Personal Skills:
Chinese Martial Arts A+++: Measures one's mastery of the martial arts that made becoming one with the universe as its objective. Its learning difficulty is of the highest level and, unlike other Skills, it is at A Rank that one is at a level where one is said to have finally "learned it". At Assassin's Rank, one can be said to be a master among masters.

Sphere Boundary (Zenith) A-: A technique employing Qi to sense surroundings, and to have one’s own existence vanish. Those who reach the zenith become one with Heaven and Earth, and it would even be possible to make one’s figure transparent. As Assassin grew older and calmer, his techniques undergone further evolution. Even in the midst of battle, it's possible for him to disappear in the blink of an eye.

Intersect of Yin-Yang B: A switch for the attributes held by man. Although an inclination towards yang developed as he grew old, he would switch over to yin instantly, without forgoing his fearsome fangs, and unceremoniously slaughter his enemies. That ruthlessness has yet to be lost. In essence, Assassin is capable of explosive aggression without displaying any killer intent. If he were to stage an ambush, it would be be extremely difficult to detect him until after he made a move.

Noble Phantasm:
Name: Wu Er Da "No Second Strike"
Rank: —
Type: Anti Unit
Appearance: Fist to the face
Effects: When a Heroic Spirit's martial arts becomes his most singular「One and Only」asset, the "skill" itself is sublimated as a Noble Phantasm. This is one such Noble Phantasms, similar to the likes of Tsubame Gaeshi, Mumyō Sandanzuki, Kenjutsu Musō - Kenzen Ichinyo, etc.

Even one of Li Shuwen's powerful strikes was enough to take the enemy's life, including those intended as diversions of feints. "Li Shuwen never needs to strike twice「Divine Spear — No Second Strike」". This Noble Phantasm is his title, given form.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Heavy Snark: Hmm... After discussion, we've decided that his ability to be invulnerable under the moon and his third NP are both kind of excessive.

@KoL: Accepted.

[Heavy Snark]

@Heavy Snark: Hmm... After discussion, we've decided that his ability to be invulnerable under the moon and his third NP are both kind of excessive.

@KoL: Accepted.

@VitaVitaAR

@VitaVitaAROh no, he's not invulnerable. Rather when under the moon he can make one fatal or lethal blow not have happened while getting a free counter attack. If he passes the luck check that is.

[Anza]

Oh no, he's not invulnerable. Rather when under the moon he can make one fatal or lethal blow not have happened while getting a free counter attack. If he passes the luck check that is.

@Heavy Snark

Ahhh, so it’s a one-time thing? That was unclear from the wording of it, but if that’s the case then it’s definitely somewhat more reasonable. However, when you say ‘one’ lethal blow, do you mean one per night or one in the entire war or what?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Heavy Snark: Hold that thought, there's been a bit more deliberation and we're currently discussing further matters.

Sorry for the further delay.

[Cu Chulainn]

Sheet has been updated with the changes in mind!