True Name: Ptolemy I Soter
Title(s): "Ptolemy the Savior", "Meryamun Setepenre" (Beloved of Amun, Chosen of Re/Ra)
Class: Rider
Gender: Male
Birth and Death Dates: 367 BC - 282 BC
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Motivation for the Holy Grail: "I want to use this second life as a means to truly dedicate myself one last time...to go all-out for a victory, put my pride on the line as a heroic spirit, and win. I challenge this victory because it is unreachable to so many. I seek the glory of victory that lies beyond the horizon. I will lay into the conquest of this land and reap its prizes for myself, and by my might I shall demonstrate to all that this belongs to me.
Hmm? A plan for it
if I win you say?
Once I win I will incarnate as the mighty hero I am to take upon myself the quest to find 'that place', then, as that would be the only challenge he left behind for me to take. Even if it meant burrowing through the world itself, fighting armies alone, and even burning up as Icarus did during his journey. I will get there and leave my prints in the sand, for both of us. That will be the final respect to be paid to the man I knew like a brother."
Personality: The half-brother of Alexander who was his childhood friend, the stalwart and loyal Companion who fought his enemies with him, the brave Somatophylakes who rode alongside him into the fray, the cunning and tactical Diadochi that captured and buried the body of "the Great", and the wise and great divine Pharaoh who founded Egypt's last great dynasty with a strong and steady hand. Such are the qualities that are possessed and wielded by Ptolemy. A sober man seasoned by war and honed by years of experience in both administration and rulership, yet able to have fun and laugh around his allies as well as enjoy himself. One of his most notable qualities in life was possessing a certain level of restraint and caution, at least in his territorial and kingly ambitions as compared to his peers. Yet at the same time he will inevitably put everything he has on the line to pursue what he desires, a trait most notably shown with him literally going on an ancient covert ops mission to steal and then bury the corpse of his former commander and friend. He holds himself with a sense of pride as a friend of "that man", and exerts an aura of pressure and confidence fitting for a divine ruler of Egypt.
He actively seeks the pursuit of the Holy Grail with all of his very being in order to achieve one "stupid, foolish, whimsical, and utterly selfish wish" without any restraint. His drive will see him put all he has on the line and his pride for one last campaign, to undertake one last blazing trail of conquest with his own two hands, and to make one last push to "adventure to the very edge of the world, and to finally touch that unreachable shore" he himself seeks...even if it sees him burn up to naught but ashes in the process. While he will naturally still exercise his sense of caution and sobriety along the way, he seems to take this 'second life' as almost a game of sorts at others.
Appearance: (see top of app)
https://i.imgur.com/DOSGggo.jpgBio: (Just examples sources for Ptolemy below, tbh)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soteren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Alexand….
touregypt.net/featurestories/ptolemy1…Only thing different here is that he was actually the half-brother of Iskandar.
Equipment: Pháros Aléxandros (Noble Phantasm lance that is passively kept wrapped in a black funeral shroud to hide its appearance and is tough enough to perform this role)
Strength: C
Endurance: B
Agility: B
Mana: C
Luck: B
Riding: A+
-is 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. It is said that dragon type mounts are an exception, requiring a different ability other than Riding.
All vehicles and all creatures up to the level of Phantasmal Beast and Divine Beast can be used as mounts. However, that does not apply to members of the Dragon Kind.
Magic Resistance: C
-grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether.
Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.
Divinity: B
-is the measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. At high levels, one is treated as a mixed race of a Divine Spirit, and the level declines when the Heroic Spirit's own rank as a Monster or Demonic Beast rises. It can also decrease due to one's dislike for the gods. Those who have A Rank Divinity or above have reached the Throne of Gods. It also has an effect which reduces special defensive values called "purge defense" in proportion to the Divinity's Rank. It can break through Skills such as Protection of the Faith and Enlightenment of the Sacred Fig.
Ptolemy is the literal child and the living incarnation of the god Amun-Ra as a Pharaoh, the half-brother of Alexander the Great (a "son of Zeus") by the same father, and a descendant of Heracles. Due to all of this, his Divine Spirit aptitude resembles the ancient Pharaohs and is naturally higher than the successive members of the Ptolemaic Dynasty would possess.
Disengage: A
-is the ability to withdraw from the battlefield in the midst of combat or reset the battle conditions.
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. At the same time, it forcibly releases some of the bad status ailments inflicted on the user of this Skill.
Diadochi: A
-A skill that embodies the bearer's status and merits as a "successor to Alexander the Great", measuring attributes such as one's use of military skill, legitimacy in secession (including associated factors such as having buried his body), rulership capabilities, amount of land they took/conquered/secured, and all other such metrics by which a "successor" of "that man" would naturally be measured by. Naturally this skill retains its quality as an amalgamation of the wielder's charisma, but there is more to it than simply this. This 'active' effect arises from the natural anecdote of the Diadochi as conquerors who incorporated the lands that were once Alexander's into their own territories and nations, a thing as natural to them as successors of "that man" as breathing is to normal folk, and their struggles to take land and resources and various things of Alexander's and so forth from each other during the Wars of the Diadochi. Indeed this skill grants the capacity for the servant to actively 'incorporate' land/territory in general, basically seizing/conquering it as their own to make use of without having to set up a territory. In application this allows the wielder to draw magical energy from the land itself, among other such effects that 'incorporating' the land would naturally carry.
Royal Road: -
-The famous idiom of a "royal road" originated from Ptolemy I Soter's own words after a conversation he had with the mathematician Euclid, and embodies to a way of 'attaining or reaching something without trouble' and 'the easiest, most direct, or most effective way to reach or achieve something'. Or in other words, as a more proper translation of Euclid's words makes clearer, literally means taking a "short-cut" to achieve something more easily. Similar to how the thought experiment of the "Ship of Theseus" would be connected to the Heroic Spirit Theseus in turn, so too is this idiom by virtue of its legend attached to Ptolemy.
In effect this skill is very simple in that it just 'creates the easiest route to a given destination', or a 'royal road' that allows one to instantly reach a desired destination. Rather than 'teleportation' however, it simply works in a naturally non-Euclidean manner to the ends of 'connecting two points in space to allow the wielder to move instantly to the desired location'. It is a skill that is great for 'reaching destinations', and has utility in and out of battle as a result of its nature.
True Name: Uraeus Anagénnisi
Title: "Be Reborn, Oh Jewel Of The Nile! Arise, Oh Divine Serpent!"
Rank: A
NP Type: Anti-Army
Range: 5-50
Maximum Number of Targets: 50
Description: It is something that embodies the rebirth and restoration of ancient Egypt under Ptolemy's rule, even the rise and return of the ancient authority of the Pharaohs and their divinity to the throne. While it is called a “Divine Beast”, though, it is not strictly a Divine Beast of the Phantasmal Species. His work to revive and bring a continuation of the thousands of years old history of Egypt was changed into a Noble Phantasm connected with the very symbol of the Pharaoh's divinity, something very much fitting for the founder of Egypt's final dynasty. Likewise it can be said the visage of a serpent ties into the various serpentine legends and myths that came to involve Ptolemy afterwards. Indeed one can also consider this Noble Phantasm of the first Ptolemaic Pharaoh to naturally be the 'reverse' of that of the last of the line. One who used the serpent to end their life and a nation, and one that brought the serpent representing the Divinity of the Pharaohs back to its proper glory. Likewise, this Noble Phantasm can be said to embody the acceptance of Ptolemy by the gods of ancient Egypt as a continuation of the Pharaohs of old.
Otherwise this Noble Phantasm is very much similar to that of Cleopatra, mirroring it. It summons an enormous monster, a flame-covered serpent with a striped pattern of blue and gold. Though due to owning the Riding Skill in his case, Ptolemy is able manipulate it and use it safely both as a mount and a means to attack and combat his enemies. If one owns the Divinity Skill, likewise, damage received from it is reduced in proportion to the skill’s rank.
To conjure and use this beast as a mount and/or for battle does not require a true-name activation, though unleashing its full power does just as it is when this serpent is used by his descendant.
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True Name: Pháros Aléxandros
Title: "Shine Forth Oh Fires of Order, Burn Away Mine Enemies Oh Light of Civilization!"
Rank: A
NP Type: Anti-Army
Range: 2-40
Maximum Number of Targets: 500
Description: One of the great Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a legendary lighthouse surrounded possessed as a Noble Phantasm by both Ptolemy I Soter and his successor Ptolemy II Philadelphus. A shining beacon of the ancient world's achievements, and for centuries being one of the tallest manmade buildings, it became a symbol of the ingenuity, power, and height of ancient human civilization, and though this and by nature of it being a lighthouse it naturally contains the 'light of civilization' within itself. Because it was in legend a potent optic weapon able to burn up ships like 30 miles away, it also takes the form of a lance Ptolemy wields due to its "inherent qualities as a weapon". As a weapon, however, the lighthouse used the same general principle as the similar light-harnessing weapon of a 'certain Ancient Greek engineer' in order to function: Absorbing light and mana and accelerating it to create a destructive beam of light to destroy the target. As a Noble Phantasm, however, it instead uses the "light of civilization" contained within it as the light source for its offensive capabilities.
Naturally this lance can be used as a proper weapon, and likewise can be used to simply fire off A-rank attack beams as another means of ranged attack. Yet by bearing the 'light of civilization' and using it, consequentially all of this Noble Phantasm's attacks have an additional attribute stemming from that 'light of civilization'. Tied to how Ptolemy as a ruler brought order to Egypt after centuries of people fighting over it, how human civilization brings order upon the world, and similarly with lighthouses being used by civilization to bring order to the sea in particular, this attribute stemming from the light of civilization "forces things toward order"/"enforces order"/"makes sure things occur as fate has intended".
When activated by speaking it true name, this Noble Phantasm turns into a giant 'light of civilization' beam lance that stretches out as far as the original lighthouse was tall. In this manner it can be used to slash, stab, pierce, and otherwise hit enemies with it, simply being a gigantic stretched-out lightsaber that is at its most deadly and powerful. Ptolemy can wield it freely and frighteningly swiftly in this activated form, which is a total of 135 meters long (as long as the original lighthouse was tall). It is capable of cutting with ease through mundane things like people, cars, and even buildings whilst under the effects of its true name activation.
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True Name: Vivliothíki Tis Alexándreias (translates to "Library of Alexandria")
Title: "Oh Knowledge of Mankind, Gather Together! Oh Pyre Of Our History, Burn Away The Lost Time!"
Rank: A+
NP Type: Anti-Humanity
Range: 0-75
Maximum Number of Targets: 1000
Description: A Noble Phantasm that crystalizes the essence of the Library of Alexandria as the "greatest archive of knowledge in the ancient world" and as containing "1000 years worth of human history" due to its history, contents, and of course the existing human beliefs and legends about it. In effect, however, this simply adds up to making this Noble Phantasm what the Library actually was in life: A repository for 1000 years worth of the 'light of human civilization'. This Noble Phantasm is of course not the physical library itself, but the very core and nature of it's purpose made manifest. It was a place where the knowledge of ancient human civilization was gathered, accrued, recorded, calculated, and kept, and as such it becoming a repository for the light of civilization itself is only reflecting what it already was. Naturally Ptolemy can draw upon this repository passively to empower attacks and such with this 'light of civilization', albeit at a greater mana cost for said empowered attacks, and can even use it to greatly empower his "Pháros Aléxandros" Noble Phantasm and in all its uses/attacks by employing this Noble Phantasm as a literal power/light source instead (also at a higher mana cost). He can also empower his "Uraeus Anagénnisi" Noble Phantasm by connecting this Noble Phantasm to it as well.
All the above is, though, the Library's uses without a true name invocation. When a true name activation is actually used for this Noble Phantasm, the 'light of civilization' within the repository is converted into heat values and is unleashed in a powerful but directed surging wave of destructive obliterating light. It is a Noble Phantasm eerily similar in a fashion to "that" Noble Phantasm used in another far-flung timeline, but frankly speaking is its own thing and on a smaller scale than "all of pan-human history" since it only contains 1000 years worth. Even so this penetrating and potent attack exhibits extreme damage values of its own, and should not be underestimated. This use of the library as a tool of destruction is meant to represent the destruction of the actual physical library itself, as well as embodying the aspect of human civilization to ultimately weaponize 'knowledge' as has been true through the ages (even into modern times). Though it is of note that use of this attack does not destroy/extinguish the contents of the repository itself, though it is a costly Noble Phantasm to use in turn.
