"Dracomar, 'The Yellow King!' Stop urinating on my cape!"
Name\Title: Nakahara Daisuke,
"Lord of the Endless Hordes"
(Self-given title, nobody uses it to his frustration.)
Short Bio/Synopsis: Daichi was born to a fledgling Magus family, and while they lacked any real expectations from the child, he still managed to fall flat in their eyes. He was trained in Alchemy, Jewlecraft, and even Kabbalah, and could barely create the weakest of results. The only thing he performed well in, and the only thing he ever really liked related to magic, was Familiar magic - particularly binding them to his will. A magus that could only perform decently in a weak school of magic was not worth much, especially considering the fact that his family was doing it's best to begin setting up its own Magical Crest. When he turned 20, he was forced out of his parents home due to his acquisition of a particularly dangerous Familiar, and he took all the books on familiar magics he could get his hands on before he left. Six months later, and he is entering the Holy Grail War to acquire an even stronger minion - A Servant.
Daichi's origin has an extreme hold over his life, and because of this, it has tainted his personality tremendously - Daichi is arrogant and constantly exaggerates his own abilities and assets. He also holds those close to him in extremely high regard, going so far as to give most of his familiars a very elaborate title and backstory, as well as praise them for very minor feats. He spends most of his time pampering his menagerie of minions, despite many of them lacking any real intellect or personality.
Magecraft: Daisuke has been trained almost exclusively in the school of Familiar magic. His magic circuits are inefficient at using most other forms of magic due to a mutation, and he has the origin of 'Lord.' Due to unknowingly following his origin to an extreme degree, Daichi's Affinity is also that of 'Lord.' Daichi has a rather large number of magic circuits given his background (15) that are of average quality, but the mana inside of them is extremely resistant to being used for anything other than maintaining and acquiring Familiars - for anything other than this, Daichi's circuit quality is pretty poor. Still, focusing all of his energies into studying familiars and the magic involved in using them has left Daisuke incredibly skilled in their usage.
Daisuke's education in magecraft was poor, considering it was almost entirely secondhand and self-taught from tomes he found in his family's library, but constant practice and the benefits of his origin has left him extremely potent in this regard. He recognizes many Phantasmal Species from appearance alone and has practiced making familiars so often that he can do it far faster and more efficiently than most Magus. He is a one-trick pony, and it's not a very good trick, but when it comes to information gathering and supplying warm bodies, Daisuke is nearly unparalleled.
Mystic Codes: Refractory Crystal: A piece of crystal that seems to refract light - more specifically, it is designed to refract magic via an extremely specific formula. This crystal is so specialized that it can only be activated in a calm environment, as too much distraction ruins the concentration necessary to use it. When activated, it refracts beings made using Familiar magic, temporarily splitting a Familiar into a large number of weaker copies, all communicating via a Hive Mind. This is almost useless in combat, as it reduces a Familiar's already weak combat strength even further, but it does increase the scouting and errand-performing abilities tremendously, as all familiars are essentially the same mind in many bodies. This does not work on servants, and the destruction of a body will cause the familiar to take an appropriate level of damage when it recombines.
Tome of Beasts: A massive and unwieldy book that is tattered and stained in several places. It originally contained vast quantities of information on many types of Magical Beasts and Phantasmal Species, and can still be used to research these beings - not that it really matters since most phantasmal species aren't exactly common. Its main function is its ability to store the summoned creatures and familiars of its wielder within its pages. Both storing and releasing a creature costs a fair bit of mana, and it can only be done to creatures that are under the wielder's direct control, any mana dependent creature is moved into Imaginary Number Space - and because of this, it does not require the normal upkeep while it is inside the Tome. Servants are far too powerful to be affected by the Tome of Beasts, as it was designed to store far weaker existences than a servant.
Misc/Other/Trivia: - Daisuke could learn Alchemy since it is not very mana-intensive, but he chooses not to because he finds it too confusing.
- Daisuke's strongest familiar, Survivor, behaves much better when around his Servant - almost as if it was trying to prove something to someone.
- The nature of Survivor will put him at odds with the Church, should they discover it exists.
- All of Daisuke's Familiars, other than Survivor, are simply animals he found and turned into Familiars. He wants to use a human's memories to create a familiar but has not had an opportunity to so.
- Daichi has a penchant for giving nearly everything a corny and unnecessary title.
Special Boon: Survivor, "Champion of Evolution": A Daemon that Daisuke created from a wish and forced into his service. This creature normally resides within Daisuke's body but can exit at will and take on its true form, a mass of flesh that is composed of dozens of different animal parts, changing almost constantly. Survivor is capable of consuming a creature and incorporating the traits of the creature into its physiology at any later point in time, albeit at a lesser level than the original creature (wings capable of slowing a fall if it consumed a flying creature). Consuming multiple of the same type of creature will increase the 'level' of the trait, to a maximum of the base creatures normal abilities after consuming 10 of them. While this technically works on Magical Beasts, it is very unlikely that Survivor will ever encounter these beings, and most magical abilities would drain on Daisuke's mana. After consuming 10 creatures of the same species, Survivor is also able to perfectly mimic one of them - both in physiology as well as mannerisms. Survivor is a strong familiar, but it's still only a familiar - a Servant could kill it very easily, and many Magus can defeat it if they are cautious.
Survivor currently has the forms of a bee, spider, dog, pigeon, mole, and a snake.
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