Archetype: Sage of Atlas
Name: Nenet Isis Titania
Titles: The Spurned One, Wish Crystallizer
Sex: Female
Personality: A woman with an acerbic tongue and a minor sadistic streak. While possessing some level of cynicism, she is largely a rare optimist who has yet to be tainted by the truth waiting for the end of the Atlas Academy, perhaps due to the specific nature of the end and path that she has chosen. Encouraging and yet egotistical, her nature has an energy that is at odds with her age.
At the same time, that egotistical nature is every bit as fragile as it is massive.
History: An alchemist of the Atlas Academy, a rare prodigy of the organization who rose to notoriety in her earliest years for her talent, which was only matched by a single other of her generation, a boy by the name of Zepia whom she befriended.
Praised as a genius from the beginning of her life, she naturally aimed for the sky when the time came to select the ‘end of the world’ that her time as an alchemist would be devoted to the prevention of. As that man, her peer who had managed to keep pace with her all of these years, had chosen such a grand ‘end’ that it defied explanation, she refused to fall behind. The ‘end’ that she selected, then, was the end of the world that would result were humanity to become something that no longer wished. That far-off future in which an omnipotent mankind which has achieved everything self-destructs, the prevention of this was the edict to which she held herself.
From this point onwards, she chose her own path as an alchemist. In order to best leverage her natural talents and chosen end, she took to utilizing the magecraft of the Atlas Academy in order to materialize and empower wishes, granting them a physical and biological form. These beings, living curses that magi knew as imaginary demons, grew alongside her. Her magecraft was honed to a razor’s edge in mere decades, surpassing all expectations.
Centuries ago, the then-Director of the Atlas Academy fell into madness and self-destructed. As such, the call for determination of a new Director was made. In her mind, there was no need for deliberation. The greatest candidate was clear, and the deciding council agreed. It was then that the man who had kept pace with her all of those years was granted the name of Atlasia.
Without even realizing it, she had already been surpassed some time ago. Just as she had never considered him to be a rival, he had never considered her as one.
At first, there was rage. She challenged the decision that was made, but was unable to deny the evidence that was placed before her. Her findings, her theories, her accomplishments were all several grades lesser than his own. In the end, while both were prodigies as different from the average alchemist as heaven and earth, the gap between them was no less significant.
There is still frustration over that time to this day, but by now it has become cold. Zepia Eltnam Atlasia was, without question, a finer Director than she would have been.
The years passed on. While she purged rot from her spirit in the form of demons, he designed a formula to slow his aging. While she developed her Pure Eyes, he perfected his family’s system of Etherlite (something he refused to ever sell to her, despite countless efforts).
...a mere century later, though, this routine changed. That man's calculations led him to a conclusion. Any highly-skilled alchemist could find the path to that after hard word, that unchangeable end.
"There is no salvation, Nenet. Working to achieve a world of equality, we try to read the future and manage it. But from the very beginning, there was nothing but destruction waiting."
He thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And thought. And so, he went mad, he went crazy while falling into hell and calculating new destruction, he became a vampire to increase his own abilities in the hopes of obtaining a miracle.
In the end, after a lifetime of defeat at his hands, she was the one who outlasted him. Because she could never soar as high as he could, she never fell as far as he did.
"...you idiot. You complete idiot, if you hadn't-"
The years went on and became decades. The decades went on and became centuries. The seat of Atlasia remained open. Those who desired to claim it lacked the talent to seize it. Those who had the talent to seize it lacked the desire to claim it.
"It's still your position in the end, you mad fool."
Her work consumed her- the averting of that end is an unchanging goal, and one that she will not allow herself to fail in the pursuit of.
With the announcement of a ritual occurring in the West, one premised around an alleged wishgranting device, she chose to examine the ritual herself.
If nothing else, it was an ample opportunity to gather materials.
Quality of Magic Circuits: B, an outstanding abnormality for the Academy, but inferior to him.
Quantity of Magic Circuits: B, an outstanding abnormality for the Academy, but inferior to him.
Abnormal Abilities: Pure Eyes of Wish Perception: A low-grade form of ESP, which grants the user the capability to perceive the greatest ‘wish’ of others. This does not let the user understand the wish in detail, as reading the mind would, but rather it lets the user roughly grasp the ‘size’ (scale) of the wish, its ‘shape’ (nature), and its ‘color’ (ferocity). Further elucidation relies on use of the Atlas arts. If the mind is strained, then it is possible to see other subsidiary wishes, but this is not advised.
Atlas Alchemy: Knowledge of the arts of Atlas. This also includes knowledge of general magecraft that any magus ought to know- in other words, 'Atlas 101' and that corresponding tree of classes. It is important to distinguish between the Alchemy of the West and that of Atlas. Atlas Alchemists specialize in thought partitioning and thought acceleration, techniques that make use of the human body as an arithmetic unit. Put simply, their magecraft is 'the transmutation of events' rather than 'the transmutation of matter'. In this space, she is a prodigy among prodigies, a once-in-a-generation talent boasting seven partitions. Though, even this falls short of that man.
Demon Summoning (False): While true Demon Summoning is an inborn aptitude possessed by only a handful of outstanding individuals in the world’s history, Nenet has designed an analogous process through magecraft. That is to say, the manufacturing and commanding of the beings magecraft calls ‘imaginary demons’, beings formed from wishes and the distortions in the human psyche- curses given shape. The process revolves around utilizing knowledge of a wish and cursing techniques of the East in line with the user’s own affinity (Hollow) to create such a being. The additional factors of using the user’s Pure Eyes in order to ‘engrave a wish into the mind’ and using Atlas Alchemy to calculate the nature of the wish and to design and nurture appropriate vessels make this into a feasible form of magecraft, while storing backlash within the vessel. This naturally contains the capability for Eastern cursing techniques, particularly ones focused upon the ‘mind’, as well as Spiritual Surgery, but Nenet rarely utilizes them on their own due to relative inefficiency.
Demonic Elucidation: An expansion upon Nenet’s craft of Demon Summoning, made by taking a unique system of categorization akin to an elemental system (the alphabet) and applying that to demons in order to solidify their form. In other words, through the system of using ‘letters’, ‘symbols’, and ‘words’, she is able to alter and solidify the form that a nameless being such as a demon takes. However, given that this process is inherently tied to the notion of granting a demon a name, restraint must be exercised, as granting a demon a name in full will cause it to fully solidify and therefore become its own, independent existence. A secondary application of this is to channel the demon’s existence through that of something with an existing name, such as a lifeform or the planet. This is the means by which she hopes to avert the end of a wishless humanity.
As an aside, under this categorization system, her elemental affinity would better be called ‘Hyphen’.
Demonic Wellspring: Rather than a familial Crest, Nenet possesses an inscription upon her body which contains the demons she has produced over the years, sans one- the end function is similar to that of a Crest, using the stored demons as the appropriate ‘information’, though the demons can of course be released and utilized as is needed. This can be considered the pinnacle of a certain puppeteer’s death switch. One demon, her greatest craft which is a current candidate for classification as a Great Weapon, has been left behind at the Atlas Academy as a ‘backup existence’ in the event of this body’s death, so that the Golden Rule is not violated and that the process might continue.
Malignant Information: Not a branch of mystery she has any proper experience in, rather this merely refers to academic knowledge picked up after the instantiation of the TATARI Phenomenon. An understanding of the principles, nature, and capability of malignant information and its operations. While it would be simple to apply this to her own magecraft given their synergistic natures, it is something she has refused to do. The reason for this should be apparent.
Equipment: Backup body parts, external calculation units, three magical energy furnaces, magical writing utensils, two Imaginary Numbers projectors, and three Hollow projectors.
Miscellaneous: Bags and suitcases with the mundanities for living, mundane writing utensils, a Zepia pincushion, and preserved animal corpses. Skilled in matters such as paperwork and logistics.
