Holy Grail War (Fate/Stay Night) [Several Slots Open!]

[Unoedipal]

Fate/Ousia

OOC

The Holy Grail War is a nonsensical ritual that once occurred in the backwater town of Fuyuki. There are some rumors of what had occurred there and of the story that ended roughly a decade prior, but this is something entirely different.

The year is 2015. In the city of Cusco, within the nation of Peru, something unusual has occurred. Namely, the death of a Second Owner who did not have a next of kin. In his death, an announcement has been given to the magi of the world.

"With my death begins the Holy Grail War for the 727th Holy Grail. To the victor goes the Grail, as well as the status of Second Owner."

The quality of Cusco as a Spiritual Land does not need to be said. Any magus who is not already a Second Owner would likely salivate at the thought of gaining such a place, enough that the "Holy Grail" that will materialize there would likely serve as an afterthought.

The method of designing this Holy Grail System is unknown, though there are rumors that designs of a far East creation were stolen and perverted to make something completely different, something only achievable through the superior land of Cusco. What is publicly known of this ritual is simple. Those who desire to participate and receive Marks of the Chosen may go to Cusco and summon a "Servant", a manifestation of a being from ages or legends past. Fighting against other magi and Servants, this war takes the form of a simple "last one standing" conflict.

Given the nation this is occurring in and the scale of the prize, it goes without saying that groups such as the Mage's Association and Holy Church have begun to mobilize. Coupled with the fact that it seems this ritual is capable of summoning far more than the standard seven Servants that should be possible, this conflict is undoubtedly one that may rock the world.

Welcome to the Holy Grail War.

Do your best.

Master CS

Name/Title:

Gender:

Age:

Personality:

Appearance:

Biography:

Family History (if applicable): If the character comes from a magus family with a notable history, jot it down here. K

Origin: The basis of your existence. Shirou Emiya's Origin of "Sword" and Souren Araya's Origin of "Stillness" are examples.

Elemental Affinity: Dual elements and Average Ones are fine, but rare. If your Elemental Affinity is not one of the Great Five Elements, your origin and element should be the same.

Number of Magic Circuits: E-A. No modifiers.

Quality of Magic Circuits: The amount of magical energy each single circuit can sustain. E-A. No modifiers.

Od: How much magical energy you can store in your body. E-A. No modifiers.

Magecraft: You can put systems, magecrafts, magecraft-related abilities like High Speed Aria, Magic Crest characteristics, family attributes, and individual spells in here. If something isn't here, it's assumed your magus doesn't know it. Literally everything should go here.

Equipment: Mystic Codes as well as mundane stuff. Everything they walk into the RP with. Unless you're really rich with an illustrious family backing you, you shouldn't have tons of Mystic Codes.

Skills: Cooking, stabbing, video games, whatever. If it isn't here and isn't something 99% of the global population can do (eg, breathing), then your character does not know it.

Servant CS

Name:

Class:

Gender:

Appearance:

Alignment:

Personality:

History: Mainly for flavor or to clarify how your version of them lived in the case of conflicting legends. Optional if everything in their history that you're using is on a wikipedia page or something.

Weapon: Whatever they're summoned with. This should include things like Medusa's pegasus that they can innately summon as well.

Parameters:

Strength: Damage. A rank STR means one attack can destroy a small house.

Endurance: Damage one can take. How much HP one has.

Agility: Dexterity or reaction time.

Mana: How much prana one can handle.

Luck: Ability to defy fate.

Class Skills: For all skills your class has. Please do not just put name and rank. Give an explanation of what it does.

Personal Skills: Certain abilities a Heroic Spirit may have, such as Charisma, Artistic Talent, etc. Keep close to the legend; modifiers are temporary rank ups, not a rating of how good it is. Limit of three.

Noble Phantasm(s): Limit of two, though one is preferred.

Name:

Title: Stuff like Excalibur's "Sword of Promised Victory", the kanji.

Rank: E-EX. Plus modifiers are possible, but specify if they're temporary rank ups, or an indication of raw power.

NP Type: Anti-Unit, Anti-Army, Anti-Fortress, Anti-Mind, Anti-Evil, Anti-Gate, Anti-World, Anti-Team, Anti-Divine, Barrier

Range: 1 is minimum, 99 is maximum. Format is usually something like 2-50, that's Via Expugnatio and Bellerophon's range. That means Via Expugnatio cannot attack you if your range is 1 from it.

Maximum Number of Targets: 1 to 1000. The format is usually a single number. This may get weird depending on your classification.

Description: What it does.

Rules/Mechanics

No godmodding, autohitting or being a generally bad roleplayer. No metagaming. No being rude OOC.

Applications are done on a rolling basis. So, no saying "I'll take Lancer!" and then taking three weeks to post an app. Essentially, whoever gets an app for a slot approved first gets that slot.

There is a starting cap of two Servants per class. So, for now, there can only be two Sabers, two Archers, etc.

Keep in mind that we're following canon rules and mechanics here, first and foremost.

Attacks and Noble Phantasms aren't on the same scale as END.

Regarding battle, if your opponent does an action that takes X amount of time, then you're allowed to post with an action/actions that do the same. This means it can be a bad idea to fire off a ten count spell in one post, as it means that while you're chanting, your opponent can walk up to you and cut your head off.

In battles, there will be a posting order determined by the order the involved parties initially post in.

There is a 24 hour period you must try to reply to a post within. I will be lenient with this, but if you're in a fight, someone swung a sword at you, and you didn't post within 24 hours of that sword swing, then there's a good chance that your character will stop having a head. The same applies if you're talking to a character; if it's been 24 hours since your last post without a reply, you're free to walk away. Of course, if you have real life troubles, let me know so I can grant leeway.

Talking to activate a Command Seal or Noble Phantasms is treated as taking one bar to activate. Normal talking, however, is treated as a free action.

Stuff like Military Tactics and Bravery have their amplifiers taken into account when against something of equal rank. As an example, this means Iskander's Military Tactics won't help him beat Excalibur, but it will help him beat Bellerophon.

Servant Banlist

This list is not comprehensive, and may be updated if someone apps something worthy of being banned.

Do not app any of the following. I've included the reasons for each, for clarity's sake:

Gilgamesh: Balancing.
"Pre-Gilgamesh" heroes: They can't exist.
Individuals born after 1899: Not eligible.
Individuals still alive today in their mythology (Merlin, Hanuman, etc): Not eligible.
Individuals without human blood: Not eligible. (Exceptions can potentially be made on a case-by-case basis)
Canon Servants that we do not have full information for (ie, most of the Grand Order and Strange Fake cast): Obvious.
Patriot Heroic Spirits (Koha-Ace): Obvious.
Servants that are functionally just clones of canon Servants: Just app the canon, then.
Gawain: Ambiguity over Numeral of the Saint's effect.
Nursery Rhyme: Balancing.
Lugh: Balancing.
Imperial Privilege: It's the worst skill.

What You Know

Entering the war, unless someone apps a magus with a very strong lineage or something, in which case such a Master's profile is public knowledge, Masters will not know each others' identities. You will also know the background information listed above.

Master's Clairvoyance can be used to get a Servant's information. Looking at them with it active is enough to get their parameters. Knowing their class gets you Class Skills. You get Personal Skills by seeing them in action or being told about it, and the same is true for active Noble Phantasms. For passive Noble Phantasms, you need to have all of a Servant's Personal Skills' information and also have seen the passive's effect. When you have a Noble Phantasm's information, you acquire the Servant's name as well. If you have the Servant's name, whether deducing it through the above or through being directly told it, then you get the information of their full profile.

General Magecraft

The basics that anyone with a well-rounded education ought to know, unless they weren't paying attention in class or something. Including "General Magecraft" in the magecraft section means they get all of this. If not, they don't.

Magecraft Shields: Varying forms of protection; however, one’s senses are raised. Eg, protection against suffocation will increase sense of smell, and protection from blindness will make your eyes water.

Nightvision: Self-explanatory.

Basic Familiar Creation: Creation of familiars. These are basic, so they cannot employ speech, magecraft, or combat ability.

Formalcraft: Using catalysts and magic circles to perform rituals. The bare minimum.

Basic Suggestion: Suggestion using the eyes to make magical energy flow into the target's body. This magical energy is stagnant.

Basic Bounded Fields: Creation of a Bounded Field that confers intruder alert, soundproofing, and control of the mana in its area.

Basic Bounded Field Removal: Removal of Bounded Fields that confer intruder alert, soundproofing, and control of the mana in its area.

Locking Doors: Self-explanatory.

Threads of Consciousness: Using one’s consciousness for scouting. Basic magus detection magecraft.

Floating: Basic manipulation of mass and air currents.

Transfer of Consciousness: Transferring one’s consciousness to a familiar, ergo seeing through their eyes.

Basic Clairvoyance: "X-Ray" vision and operation of a crystal ball.

Fixing Glass: Repairs broken glass, providing it was broken up to a couple of hours prior to the spell's use.

Mystic Pass: Self-Explanatory.

Contracting: Making a contract with something.

Curse of Self-Healing: Healing magecraft. Works by stimulating the cells and making them regenerate faster than normal. It is possible set as a program that activates when one is unconscious; however, it then becomes impossible to control how much prana is used.

[ADamnFiddle]

Wanko-chan~

Name: Cu Chulainn [Hound of Culain]

Title: Blue Spearman of the Wind, Ireland's Child of Light,

Class: Lancer

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Appearance

Height: 185 cm

Weight: 70 kg

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Personality: Lancer is a fierce, but balanced warrior who enjoys combating a worthy opponent. He has a playful attitude and takes a very carefree approach to life, but is quick to work himself into a frenzy during a heated battle. He was known as a brave, compassionate, and likeable young man in the legends. He mercilessly killed his enemies on the battlefield, but he respected faith and had the nobility to never once break a promise he had made.

He has a playful attitude and takes a very carefree approach to life. He enjoys fishing, hunting, and hitting on cute girls. He is a proud warrior, someone who can't abandon a fight just because he's losing. He's ready to fight until the end, for the sake of his fighting will and also for his Master. He easily loses his cool, especially to insults calling him a dog.

He's not interested in killing innocent people, though he still strictly follows the rules of the war to kill bystanders like Shirou. He's very keen on his mission and somehow professional in his "work". He's noble and he can't really stand people who're joking with him or simply betraying his trust. He's also easily touched by others problems and if he chooses to protect someone, he'll do his best till the very end. He really enjoys dating women or simply to spending his time in relaxing hobbies like fishing.

He regretted nothing in his life, though it was one full of wrong turns. There may have been disappointment, but he does not regret his life one bit. His spear only took away the lives of his loved ones, his close friend and son, but it's only regret was that it had been meant to murder a single woman that he was unable to kill. Though it is impossible to swap one's life for another, he thinks saving Bazett from the looping world may allow him to leave the regrets of his youth behind. He only has a complaint about his fate as he tries to save her, that he never has any luck with good women.

Bio: typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Lancer_(Fate/s..

Weapon: Gae Bolg, Magic [Runes]

Parameters:

Strength: B

Endurance: C

Agility: A

Mana: C

Luck: E [N E V E R L U C K Y]

Class Skills:

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:

Battle Continuation: A
Makes possible to fight even with deadly injuries and can remain alive so long as one does not receive a decisive fatal wound.

Disengage: C
The ability to break away from combat. Bonus effect of returning battle conditions to what they were at the beginning of the match.

Divinity: B
Divine Spirit aptitude. 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, Demonic Beast raises. It can also decrease due one's dislike for the 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.

Runes: B
Capacity to use the 18 original runes.

Protection from Arrows: B
An increased defense against ranged attacks by predicting the projectiles' trajectories through exceptional means, such as hearing the sound of air being cut, or sensing the killing intent of the enemy. As long as the shooter is within his line of sight, he can track down ranged weapons with his eyes and defend against them. Does not apply for attacks made from super-long-range or with a great area-of -effect.

Noble Phantasm:
Name: Gae Bolg
Title: Piercing Lance of Death Thorns
Rank: B
NP Type: Anti-Personal
Range: 2 - 4
Maximum Number of Targets: 1 person
Description: typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gae_Bolg

Name: Gae Bolg
Title: Thrusting Lance of Death Flight
Rank: B plus
NP Type: Anti-Army
Range: 5-40
Maximum Number of Targets: 50 people
Description: typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gae_Bolg

[kusanagifire]

how dare you

I had my eyes on him first. We must now duel at dawn

EDIT: Ill take saber then.

[ADamnFiddle]

@kusanagifire

I am sorry. I am a Cusexual.

Pic of me irl:

Me

[Hinsek]

Another one? Did the other one die?

[ADamnFiddle]

@Hinsek

Something along those lines.

Welcome though if you are interested.

[Black Alice]

Not letting myself only app a Master this time. Here.

Caster

Name: Lamia
Class: Caster
Gender: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Birth/Death: Age of Gods
~Statistics~
Strength: D
Endurance: D
Agility: B
Mana: A
Luck: E
N.Phantasm: C
~Class Skills~
Item Construction: B+

Many helpful items can be created. While this skill is usually quite generic, certain items can be produced with greater skill, particularly those aimed at or regarding children.

Territory Creation: B

Creation of a "Workshop" becomes possible.

~Personal Skills~
Blindness (True): -

The status of being unable to perceive the world through the application of one’s eyes to receive and interpret visual information. The owner is effectively blind, although their eyes remain intact for the sake of appearances.

Monstrous Strength: A

Temporary one-rank boost of the STR parameter for a time length determined by this skill’s rank. Lamia’s true form is that of the “Original Vampire”; under the influence of this skill she becomes that very existence.

High-Speed Divine Words: A

Allows the user to activate Thaumaturgy without the use of Magic Circuits, a staple of Magi from the Age of Gods. High-Thaumaturgy-level Magecraft can be cast at the speed of Single-Action spells.

Appearance: Here

Personality: At the very core of her being, Caster is not a bad person. She’s just very misunderstood. When she’s not grieving, or transformed into a monster, she comes off as a sultry, relaxed sort of woman. There is a certain otherworldlyness to her that gives her a unique appeal.

She feels a certain responsibility for her actions, and wishes to atone for them through claiming victory in the war for her Master. If necessary for winning, she will probably resort to any means, although she may be hesitant to unleash her true power due to her insecurities.

Despite all of this, Caster’s mentality is somewhat twisted by the perceptions of her legend, as well as due to the transformative effects of her curse. Her ability to come to an understanding with ordinary humans is lessened, and when it comes down to it, so are her human values. She does, sometimes, put little value in others and prefers to pursue her own, personal approaches to problems rather than seeking help.

When not all business, she can come off as a bit lazy, and selfish, and lewd, and maybe even a little gluttonous. She would have no problem troubling others for her own amusement, if the situation wasn’t serious.

She’s also kind of a cougar.

Likes: Children, Coffee, Men who can cook.

Dislikes: Jealous women, Snakes, Haunted Houses.

Bio: In life, Caster was known far and wide as a beautiful woman, a powerful Queen and mistress to the God, Zeus. She was a powerful magus, with the blood of magic running through her veins, and all in all she was living a relatively great life. She even had a batch of children, all taking after their mother in all of the best ways.

That was, until her lover’s jealous wife came along.

Hera, in a fit of rage at her husband’s many scandals, cursed Lamia in the most hellish manner possible. The relatively innocent woman was transfigured into a horrible demon, with a serpent’s body from the waist down and an undying, monstrous hunger for living children. Immediately after being transformed, Lamia lured her children into her bedchambers one by one, consuming them alive, and whole, all the while completely conscious of what she was doing.

By the time her youngest daughter stopped kicking from inside of her stomach, Lamia had already fallen into madness.

From then on, she scoured the world, skulking in the darkness, wallowing in the misfortune of everything. She preyed on thousands of children, and her monstrous body seemed ageless, and undying, leaving her to assume that all she had left was an eternity of pain, and suffering.

Her only solace was that, an age after being transfigured by Hera, Zeus appeared before her and granted her the ability to pluck out her eyes, so that she would not have to see her victim’s faces as she consumed them. This also granted her the power of prophecy, which she probably would have been happy about, if she wasn’t batshit insane.

It helped though, maybe a little.

She eventually died, released from the pain, and the horrors she had been forced to live through as a monster.

And then, she got summoned.

Something something E Ranked luck.

Noble Phantasms:

Name: Ananke
Title: The False Spinner of Fate
Type: Anti-unit
Rank: C
Range: -
Maximum Targets: -
Description: A divine blessing gifted to Lamia by the God, Zeus. She sustains the “Blindness” status, but in the process, gains a form of sight beyond human understanding. For this reason, Lamia in fact only possesses two Personal Skills, while the third is solely a side-effect of this ability.

Precognition not unlike that of a certain horse becomes possible, and furthermore, the ability to alter the threads of fate is also unlocked. Because all destinies in the world become visible to the user, they become capable of interfering with fate in manners ordinarily not possible, such as through sorcery, or even direct physical interference.

This power is not absolute. Those possessing abnormally high resistance to the flow of fate can, at times, resist the effects of Caster’s manipulation. For example, Servants possessing a LCK value of “C” will find themselves able to resist the effects of an “absolute” fate.

[Remram]

I think I may join either as a berserker or archer.

[ADamnFiddle]

@hatakekuro

Nice to meet you m8.

[Remram]

@ADamnFiddle
Nice to meet you too.

[Certainly]

@Unoedipal

I would like to claim the Archer class specifically!

Hello everyone! Lets have lots of fun together making our own little Fate/Stay Night anime. I've always wanted to join a fate RP. The battles were pretty cool, especially because ufotable did them(I'm a big fan).

[ADamnFiddle]

@hatakekuro

Any particular Servants you were thinking of for those classes?

@Certainly

Also nice to meet you m8.

[Remram]

@hatakekuro

Any particular Servants you were thinking of for those classes?

@Certainly

Also nice to meet you m8.

@ADamnFiddle

Well seeing as certainty wants to be an archer, I may go for berserker to balance things out.

[ADamnFiddle]

@hatakekuro

Well I think that there is going to be two sets of the classical iterations of the servant classes, unless the GM has an idea regarding certain classes and the like. If you want to make an archer, go ahead or something~

[Remram]

I'll have something probably by tomorrow.

[Unoedipal]

Cu and Lamia are approved, since they were approved a few hours ago via PM.

For the rest of you, welcome! Let me know if there are any questions~

[Remram]

Cu and Lamia are approved, since they were approved a few hours ago via PM.

For the rest of you, welcome! Let me know if there are any questions~

@Unoedipal

So when you mean no pre-Gilglamesh, you mean I can't pick a hero that was only a century before Gilglamesh?

[Unoedipal]

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So when you mean no pre-Gilglamesh, you mean I can't pick a hero that was only a century before Gilglamesh?

@hatakekuro

Yeah, if their legend is before Gilgamesh's, it's impossible for them to be a Heroic Spirit, because Gil's necessarily the first.

[Remram]

<Snipped quote by hatakekuro>

Yeah, if their legend is before Gilgamesh's, it's impossible for them to be a Heroic Spirit, because Gil's necessarily the first.

@Unoedipal

Damn. There goes my idea.

[ADamnFiddle]

@hatakekuro

Yeah Gil is the first heroic spirit to exist or something.

Who were you thinking of applying though, just to satiate my curiosity?