Moonlit Sonata

Fate/Empty Providence

What is the meaning of fortune?

Fortune and fate should not be equated with one another. Fate and destiny are that which are born to occur, certain outcomes etched into possibility. A curse, that profane magecraft that creates two graves in a single invocation, is fundamentally that which assigns and perverts destiny. Those curses, however, are incapable of reaching fortune.

Thus, there is a chance. Even if one does not possess the power to make the impossible possible, fate is not almighty. For so long as fate exists, there exists the chance that it will not come to pass. Chance, accident, happenstance. Whether for better or for worse, there is always the lurking potential that fate can be overturned.

Let us call this potential “fortune”. It is the inherent luck that is necessary for a life to continue. It is the force that stands at the lining of the shadow cast by fate, the terminal point left when fate is discarded.

In that sense, here we shall address three tragedies born of mankind.

Those who lack fortune.

Those who lose their fortune.

Those who are killed by their fortune.

---

The year is 2004. The modern day has continued onwards in a predictable manner, the technology of man progressing while those forces of the Moonlit World battle in the backdrop.

To the east, in the state of Japan, there is a city by the name of Fuyuki. While its leylines can be called commendable, it is truly nothing altogether special; indeed, in the eyes of such individuals as the Lords of the Mage’s Association, it is little more than a magical backwater. The two families of magi who stand guard over its spiritual land are known as the the Matou and the Einzbern.

On the day of April 4th, an announcement to the world from this magical backwater was made.

All who seek the Holy Grail, all who seek to have your wish granted, you may rejoice.

It is our honor to announce that, at this time, the Third Holy Grail War for the 726th Holy Grail has begun.

Melina von Einzbern
Matou Zouken

---

If you clicked on this, you're presumably familiar with what this means. Welcome to a good old-fashioned Holy Grail War, based off of the Nasuverse's Fate/ series. While we will be working off of the mechanics of the Nasuverse, there's no need to be an expert on the topic, and I'm happy to help any of those with less familiarity with the franchise. That said, you should have at least some knowledge of the series, whether it be through Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night, or even Fate/Grand Order. Familiarity with works by Type-Moon outside of the Fate/ series is useful but not as integral.

This war will take place in Fuyuki, Japan in 2004. It's good to know that, due to certain circumstances of the war, the usual cap of seven Servants and Masters has been lifted. We will begin with a functional cap of two Servants per class (ie two Sabers, two Archers, and so on) to ensure that there's some balance, though. In the unlikely scenario that we get a huge amount of applicants, though, this will change.

---

Rules

General
-No godmodding, autohitting or being a generally bad roleplayer. No metagaming. No being rude OOC.
-Keep in mind that we're following canon rules and mechanics here, first and foremost.
-At the beginning of your posts, please provide something to clarify their current location (for example something like [Ryuudou Temple, Interior] at the top of the post). Makes logistics easier.

Combat
-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 or will have difficulty meeting that threshold, let me know so I can grant leeway.
-Stuff like Military Tactics will 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.

Masters
-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. I will inform you if your application will be such a "Known" Master.
-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 generally need to have all of a Servant's Personal Skills' information and also have seen the passive's effect, but this will be determined on a case-by-case basis. When you have a Noble Phantasm's full 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.

Spell Length
-Single Action: E
-One Count and Two Count: D
-Three to Five Count: C
-Six to Nine Count: B
-Ten Count and Above: A
-A Five Count will beat a Three Count. However, a C rank attack will nullify either.
-It’s good to remember that for the purposes of time, two Single Actions take the same amount of time as a One Count.
-Talking to activate a Command Seal or Noble Phantasm is treated as taking time equivalent to a One Count to activate.
Normal talking is treated as a free action.

Below you can find the character sheets and banlist for use in making your characters. If you want to follow a different format per se than the character sheet (for instance, the "Keywords/Skills/Setting" matrix style from EXTRA), feel free so long as it contains all the information I've asked for.

It's good to know that you can app up to two characters (one Master, one Servant), but they cannot be partners with each other. You need to partner with people who aren't yourself.

It's also worth noting that we're sticking to the standard seven Classes, so no Shielders or Gunners or whatever. There will, however, be an NPC Ruler-class Servant played by yours truly.

Banlist

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

Masters

Canon Masters: The history of this world is not what you know it as. Ask for explicit permission before using them if you really want to.
Anyone Ciel-tier or Above in Combat: Balancing

Servants

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: Largely 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 is bad and I hate it.
Any Herc besides Berserker: Balancing.
True Demons, Aliens, Eastern Dragons, Bodhisattvas, True Magicians, Holy Children, Etc: Balancing.

Master CS

Name/Title:

Gender: Don't be difficult.

Age:

Personality:

Appearance:

Biography:

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

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. The exception is that it is, however, assumed that anyone with a proper magus education (ie the Clock Tower or from a magus family) will know the basics such as fixing glass, locking doors, and so on that we're aware of in canon. Also if you mention things like a family specialty in the family history and it's obvious that your Master has inherited that much, you don't need to say it explicitly, but it's still appreciated.

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:

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

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

AGI: Dexterity or reaction time.

MGI: How much prana one can handle.

LCK: 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 one. Two if you’re incredibly persuasive.

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.

General Magecraft

These are the basics than anyone calling themselves magi would know. If your Master has actual magical instruction from a family or organization such as the Clock Tower, they are assumed to have this. If they do not, for instance being a first-generation magus, then they are assumed to not have this unless you explicitly articulate them as having it.

This also includes basic knowledge such as "what leylines are" and the like. Essentially the result of taking entry-level classes at the Clock Tower for five years.

Self-Reinforcement: Running prana through the body to strengthen it. The most basic of all spells. Does not apply to Reinforcement of other objects/beings.

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. Please fade to black, this is a family-friendly RP.

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.

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Episode One

Fate/Empty Providence

We know virtually nothing about Moses's info sans his appearance and that one CE of him in FGO, so he's fair game.

If he didn't die then no, but you can app John the Baptist and say that historical distortion and things like that have caused him to acquire some of Elijah's attributes or something.

Fate/Empty Providence

Alrighty, so between people who've posted here and people who've PMed me, we've got more than enough to get the ball rolling on this. I'll put up the OOC later today when I have a chance (maybe tomorrow since we're not in any rush on account of needing apps to be made), but it'll just be a shameless copy of this int check.

With that said, newcomers are still welcome; we have more than enough slots.

Feel free to PM me about any questions or ideas you have for your applications, or just generally about Nasuverse/Fate~

Fate/Empty Providence

Hey! I'm in, if you'll have me. Is it okay to toss around Servant ideas here? Because I have one but I want to check to see if he's okay.

@ConstantlyComic

Feel free to either talk about them here or PM me about them.

Feels bad when my OC Gawain from before Extra Gawain now can't exist, but alas.

Because this shit always fucking happens, what do you do if people disappear until there's like, a handful of PCs compared to the 14 characters that you'd start with? Furthermore, do you have plans outside of Grail War-centric stuff, or is this basically just a complicated Arena RP?

@ERode

From an OOC perspective, the fact that more than 7 Servants can be summoned is meant to be a bolster against that; ie slots are easier to replace since in all likelihood we'll have an excess of player slots open at the time of starting. It's not a foolproof system but at the least it'll make things more fluid than either having to retcon new players in, or simply writing the old players off and leaving us with a smaller overall cast. At the same time, applications will obviously be harder to do the deeper into the war we get, since it's not fair to you guys if you survive to Day Twelve because of your own strategy and wit, and then some random guy apps and manages to "make" it to Day Twelve just because he apped later.

Regarding the stuff that will be happening on my end...

In that sense, here we shall address three tragedies born of mankind.

The two families of magi who stand guard over its spiritual land are known as the the Matou and the Einzbern.

The year is 2004.

at this time, the Third Holy Grail War for the 726th Holy Grail has begun.

Melina von Einzbern
Matou Zouken

Well, for those with experience in the Nasuverse, I'd hope these things would be sending off some warning bells in your head. Clearly, some things are not as they "should be".

Obviously I won't be spoiling what I have planned, but as with any good story, your focus shouldn't solely be on killing the other competitors and being Number One. There are no shortage of things going on beneath the surface that will probably catch you unaware if you just treat this as a straight-PvP sort of thing.

In other words, finding out "the truth of the war" should be seen as every bit as important as winning.

Fate/Empty Providence

I'm interested, though I don't have a comprehensive knowledge of the franchise (making my way through Fate/Zero at present)/

@tanderbolt

No worries, the only true requirement is to have some knowledge of Fate. Provided you're willing to put in a little bit of extra legwork, I'm more than happy to help you out in understanding the mechanics of the universe and things like that during the apping process.

Fate/Empty Providence

Thanks for all the interest! I've added rules, the banlist, and the CSs to the bottom of the OP. I'll make the OOC in the next couple days provided we get a couple more people, but feel free to send in applications now if you like!

Fate/Empty Providence

Fate/Empty Providence

OOC

What is the meaning of fortune?

Fortune and fate should not be equated with one another. Fate and destiny are that which are born to occur, certain outcomes etched into possibility. A curse, that profane magecraft that creates two graves in a single invocation, is fundamentally that which assigns and perverts destiny. Those curses, however, are incapable of reaching fortune.

Thus, there is a chance. Even if one does not possess the power to make the impossible possible, fate is not almighty. For so long as fate exists, there exists the chance that it will not come to pass. Chance, accident, happenstance. Whether for better or for worse, there is always the lurking potential that fate can be overturned.

Let us call this potential “fortune”. It is the force that stands at the lining of the shadow cast by fate, the terminal point left when fate is discarded.

In that sense, here we shall address three tragedies born of mankind.

Those who lack fortune.

Those who lose their fortune.

Those who are killed by their fortune.

---

The year is 2004. The modern day has continued onwards in a predictable manner, the technology of man progressing while those forces of the Moonlit World battle in the backdrop.

To the east, in the state of Japan, there is a city by the name of Fuyuki. While its leylines can be called commendable, it is truly nothing altogether special; indeed, in the eyes of such individuals as the Lords of the Mage’s Association, it is little more than a magical backwater. The two families of magi who stand guard over its spiritual land are known as the the Matou and the Einzbern.

On the day of April 4th, an announcement to the world from this magical backwater was made.

All who seek the Holy Grail, all who seek to have your wish granted, you may rejoice.

It is our honor to announce that, at this time, the Third Holy Grail War for the 726th Holy Grail has begun.

Melina von Einzbern
Matou Zouken

---

If you clicked on this, you're presumably familiar with what this means. Welcome to a good old-fashioned Holy Grail War, based off of the Nasuverse's Fate/ series. While we will be working off of the mechanics of the Nasuverse, there's no need to be an expert on the topic, and I'm happy to help any of those with less familiarity with the franchise. That said, you should have at least some knowledge of the series, whether it be through Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night, or even Fate/Grand Order. Familiarity with works by Type-Moon outside of the Fate/ series is useful but not as integral.

This war will take place in Fuyuki, Japan in 2004. It's good to know that, due to certain circumstances of the war, the usual cap of seven Servants and Masters has been lifted. We will begin with a functional cap of two Servants per class (ie two Sabers, two Archers, and so on) to ensure that there's some balance, though. In the unlikely scenario that we get a huge amount of applicants, though, this will change.

I'll put CSs up as well as some general guidelines and such if there's enough interest. If you have any additional questions, please let me know!

---

Rules

General
-No godmodding, autohitting or being a generally bad roleplayer. No metagaming. No being rude OOC.
-Keep in mind that we're following canon rules and mechanics here, first and foremost.
-At the beginning of your posts, please provide something to clarify their current location (for example something like [Ryuudou Temple, Interior] at the top of the post). Makes logistics easier.

Combat
-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 or will have difficulty meeting that threshold, let me know so I can grant leeway.
-Stuff like Military Tactics will 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.

Masters
-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. I will inform you if your application will be such a "Known" Master.
-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 generally need to have all of a Servant's Personal Skills' information and also have seen the passive's effect, but this will be determined on a case-by-case basis. When you have a Noble Phantasm's full 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.

Spell Length
-Single Action: E
-One Count and Two Count: D
-Three to Five Count: C
-Six to Nine Count: B
-Ten Count and Above: A
-A Five Count will beat a Three Count. However, a C rank attack will nullify either.
-It’s good to remember that for the purposes of time, two Single Actions take the same amount of time as a One Count.
-Talking to activate a Command Seal or Noble Phantasm is treated as taking time equivalent to a One Count to activate.
Normal talking is treated as a free action.

Below you can find the character sheets and banlist for use in making your characters. If you want to follow a different format per se than the character sheet (for instance, the "Keywords/Skills/Setting" matrix style from EXTRA), feel free so long as it contains all the information I've asked for.

It's good to know that you can app up to two characters (one Master, one Servant), but they cannot be partners with each other. You need to partner with people who aren't yourself.

It's also worth noting that we're sticking to the standard seven Classes, so no Shielders or Gunners or whatever. There will, however, be an NPC Ruler-class Servant played by yours truly.

Banlist

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

Masters

Canon Masters: The history of this world is not what you know it as. Ask for explicit permission before using them if you really want to.
Anyone Ciel-tier or Above in Combat: Balancing

Servants

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: Largely 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 is bad and I hate it.
Any Herc besides Berserker: Balancing.
True Demons, Aliens, Eastern Dragons, Bodhisattvas, True Magicians, Holy Children, Etc: Balancing.

Master CS

Name/Title:

Gender: Don't be difficult.

Age:

Personality:

Appearance:

Biography:

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

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. The exception is that it is, however, assumed that anyone with a proper magus education (ie the Clock Tower or from a magus family) will know the basics such as fixing glass, locking doors, and so on that we're aware of in canon.

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:

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

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

AGI: Dexterity or reaction time.

MGI: How much prana one can handle.

LCK: 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 one. Two if you’re incredibly persuasive.

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.

Fortissimo//Akkord: Seihai Sensō

Yeah, no need for doomsaying just yet.

Fortissimo//Akkord: Seihai Sensō

No penalty. No introspection. No blood.

The thousand points that pierce the world fail, as they are consumed by a thousand mouths born of the world.

This was never a dream or a hope. There was no desire to take everything into oneself. There was no lust for godhood or transcendence.

There was only that simple question, gnawing at the soul itself: What can I eat next?

I want to continue eating.

If I die, then I won't eat anymore.

So, I want to live. I want to live. I want to live. And so, to this world I utter a curse. To this vessel I utter a prayer. To this soul I utter a name.

---

Flyta Einhard

She'd stood afar from the others, watching in silence as the woman spoke about various things that occasionally mattered, shifting in and out of actually paying attention. The 'everybody is a winner' talk didn't make much sense, it was like what she heard angry adults rant about on the Internet about "entitled youth and their consolation prizes" and whatnot. Flyta briefly considered trying to interrupt the woman to crack a joke about said subject, probably with a tacky remark about if the clans of the losers would be sent consolation trophies, but didn't end up doing that. That would be rude, and Flyta wasn't a rude person.

...oh, wait, they were supposed to protect people without magic? That was a problem. Hopefully nobody knew about the rude guy who had spilled his drink on her at the airport, and how he'd been eaten. Should she spit him out now? No, that would be awkward, better to just act natural. What eaten guy? Flyta didn't know anything about an eaten guy. N-Nope, not at all, a-ahahaha, why would she?

Truly brilliant.

At any rate, when the speech finally wore down to a close, Flyta gave her new ring a once-over, briefly contemplating eating it before remembering that the whole "potentially revealing part of your ability to observant people before the competition even starts" thing was probably a bad idea. Yeah, better to avoid that.

Oh, one of the girls was leaving. Well, that was kind of rude, but whatever. She'd probably leave too in a bit, but not for now. For now, she would simply stand off to the side like that weird guy at a party who just sort of stares and waits for people to approach him, but doesn't make an effort to approach people herself. The difference was that Flyta was a young girl and not a doughy, strange man, so it at least looked less creepy.

Fortissimo//Akkord: Seihai Sensō

Traveling Gourmand

"What do you mean, 'this seems ironic'?"

Name: Flyta Einhard

Age: 19

Personality: On first glance, Flyta is the archetypal instance of a shy, tsundere sort of girl. She generally stays out of the way of others and enjoys keeping to herself. If joked with or teased by another, she is prone to blushing furiously and proclaiming that she will murder the other party, as is wont for tsunderes to do.

The difference is that she will actually murder the other party, usually in three to five business days, depending on her schedule.

Flyta is self-centered, but her self-centeredness has reached a point that it is nearly impossible for her to properly communicate with others. Rather than lauding her nature about for all to see, she takes to avoiding human contact as much as possible. It isn't that she sees herself as superior to others, but rather that she doesn't see why she should bother with others, and as a result has become incapable of bothering with others even if she tried.

Consequently, her moral compass is skewed in an almost sociopathic manner. While she has a sense of normative right and wrong, it is based with her opinions as the standard, rather than any sort of standard or communal moral system. "That person made fun of me, so I killed him. I even told him I was going to do it, so he had time to prepare. If I'd made fun of him, he'd be okay to kill me, but I didn't because I'm not rude like that." In this way, her internal narrative remains perfectly self-consistent.

Enjoys cute things but refuses to outwardly express her love of them. It ordinarily takes at least seven business days to kill someone if they are cute.

Weak against potato chips.

Brief History: The Einhards are a powerful clan that, while not at the same level of age as many others, prides itself on its resources and pseudo-political clout. Flyta was born to one of the many secondary branches of the clan, and as was customary, was taught in the art of magic.

While her upbringing was relatively standard for one in her position, Flyta's parents innately viewed her as something above the common magic-user for how well she took to magic in spite of her subpar bloodline. As such, she became a princess locked in a castle for the entirety of her formative years, which stunted her social growth irreparably. Leave it to the homeschooled kid to be a sociopath, right? Regardless, by the time she came of age, Flyta had managed to become one of the more renowned mages in the junior generation of the clan, though still well below main clan members.

...actually, as one would imagine, a branch member like Flyta was never intended to be sent to Ragnarok. In truth, the honor was to go to a member of the main clan, who had been trained for that purpose and who a Yggdrasil Seed had been procured for. In an act of circumstance and chance, Flyta was requested to take the Yggdrasil Seed from the clan treasury to said person for the "official crowning" of their representative, or some such thing, shortly before he would be sent off.

She decided to eat it while walking over instead, and was inexplicably able to survive the process.

The entire clan was infuriated at the news, as they lacked the time to obtain a new Yggdrasil Seed before Ragnarok would begin, and killing her as punishment would be a waste, as then the clan would have nobody capable of competing in Ragnarok. Sighing in resignation, they sent Flyta to the ritual as a sort of sacrificial pawn; maybe a miracle would happen and she'd somehow win. They'd probably forgive her for the whole "ruining everything" deal if that happened.

Magic:

Consumption: A magic that raises the costs needed for processes, phenomena, and the like; an example could be increasing the energy cost needed to run from point A to point B, meaning that one will become fatigued faster. In other words, it is a program that inserts a new modifier into existing lines of code, to make their execution more costly. Through use of the rune, this can either be used to affect a single "target", or a rune can be used to raise a boundary field in which the effect is realized.
Strictly speaking, it's possible to use the single target effect on something other than what the rune was carved on, but in this case the chance of success falls dramatically, so fields are generally more effective.
Rather than imposing a will for something to stop on extrinsic existences, this is a magic that makes circumstances such that extrinsic existences have no choice but to stop. It is not that the process is forced to cease, it is that the process is made unable to begin or continue.

Field Creation: Creation of a mobile or stationary field to allow for specific magical effects. This can be seen as Flyta's secondary focus, outside of Consumption. Generally used in conjunction with Consumption, though fields that allow for detection/alarm systems and "unnoticeability" are also possible. Obviously, there are flaws with a field that makes something within it unnoticeable, but that should go without saying. It is good to know that while the field's effects cannot be altered after it is made, the creator can "greenlist" certain existences to be exempt from its effects.

Yggdrasil Seed- "Thousand Mouths: Cipactli".
After consuming her Yggdrasil Seed, Flyta acquired the ability to consume anything. All areas of her body's exterior are treated as mouths, or in other words "entrances to the body's interior", that can be opened and closed at will (though there is no physical marking to indicate such), though the Mana cost of holding multiple mouths open rises with the number of mouths. Anything that contacts an open mouth is automatically "sucked" into the interior of the body. This can be halted/prevented if necessary to lower Mana cost, but that is the default state. However, in the case of Einherjar, as this power itself originates from an Yggdrasil Seed, this pulling effect is not usable against their bodies. At the same time, this does not make them immune to being consumed, but simply means that they cannot be immediately/fully pulled in upon contact. Further, while this is usable against effects born of another Yggdrasil Seed, using the pulling effect on such things is notably more draining than it is in the case of other existences.
This would of course be a useless, suicidal ability were it not for the second half. She has ceased to have such things as organs or vitals; the Yggdrasil Seed having eroded away at the common sense of her human body. Rather, the interior is now a pocket space of immense capacity that compresses, stores, and breaks apart anything that enters it. At default, physical objects will be stored in their compressed state for later use, while forms of energy or nonphysical phenomena will be converted into Mana. This process of conversion is of course, more lengthy if the substance has a low density of Mana.
These are merely defaults, however, and both physical and nonphysical things can be converted into other forms of energy if willed. Alternatively, consumed things can be "used up" in order to heal injuries or to increase physical output by an amount proportional to the energy stored in the devoured existence. Obviously, physical things that haven't been devoured in such a manner can be "spit out" as desired.