- Name: Kitab Al-Azif
- Class: Foreigner
- Appearance:
- Personality: A smug, haughty and conceited girl who speaks in a somewhat antiquated manner. She is extremely confident in her abilities, boasting that she is the most powerful grimoire in the world and that her understanding of the terrors that lie beyond our reality is second to none; in fact sometimes it might be difficult to tell who is the Master and who is the Servant when she's concerned. However, she notably also has a rather strong sense of self-preservation, and despite her smugness isn't exactly arrogant; if a foe seems like too much for her to take at the time she isn't hesitant to make a tactical withdrawal in order to regroup and plan for a later encounter. Even though she claims to be incredibly old and treats living humans as though they are mere children compared to her, she's actually somewhat immature and will sometimes act in ways that her apparent physical age might imply; notably, she's prone to arguing and bickering with her Master, as well as getting all huffy if things don't go her way.
- Stats:
- Strength: E
- Endurance: E
- Agility: E
- Mana: EX
- Luck: B
- Noble Phantasm: EX
- Class Skills:
- Transcendental Existence (B)
- Personal Skills:
- Book of Dead Names (A): As the original Necronomicon, Al-Azif is both a chronicle of the various outer gods and eldritch horrors that plague our universe and a manual for invoking their powers. Al-Azif is thus able to summon the flames of Cthugha, the freezing winds of Ithaqua, the tentacles of Cthulu, the relentless fangs of the Hounds of Tindalos... For the most part, these invocations take a form similar to high powered magecraft, although if given the appropriate time and resources she will potentially be able to summon something much more substantial.
- Self-Modification (C)
- Territory Creation (C)
- "That Is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie..." (EX): Books of dark magic have a tendency to not disappear fully from the world even when seemingly destroyed, and as the most famous book of dark magic the Necronomicon will always seem to find a way to return no matter what is done to it. Because of this, if Al-Azif is killed there is a small chance of her simply returning to life soon afterwards.
- Noble Phantasm(s):
- Name: Kitab Al-Azif: Dread Grimoire Necronomicon
- Rank: EX
- Type: Anti-World
- Appearance: Also her true form.
- Effects: The most infamous and most powerful grimoire of black magic in the world, the Kitab Al-Azif is the original Necronomicon penned by the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred. In a sense she herself is a Noble Phantasm, almost like a Reality Marble turned inside-out and made into the image of a young girl; in a way she is similar to the Heroic Spirit Nursery Rhyme, albeit with a more defined existence. Her mere existence is her Noble Phantasm, and she is able to utilize the forbidden knowledge enscribed within her as noted in her "Book of Dead Names" skill. The closest she has to a "true" Noble Phantasm, however, is invoking the most powerful being she is willing to deal with: the Key and the Gate, the All-in-One and One-in-All, the Lurker at the Threshold, Yog-Sothoth. Even then, such is the almost uncontrollable power of Yog-Sothoth that she is only willing to utilize it when there is no other option, and her very existence is at considerable risk whenever she chooses to invoke it. Utilizing its power, Al-Azif creates a rupture in space-time, a great fissure opening into all that is and all that is not, an unimaginable dimension where the fate of all that is caught inside it is unknown... Aside from the fact that it seems to simply cease to exist on this plane of existence. Whether they are destroyed, trapped in a world between worlds or flung to some unknown point in space-time, no-one can tell, and none would wish to find out either.
- Alignment: Chaotic Good
- Changes: A more heroic take on the Necronomicon written by a slightly more heroic Abdul Alhazred (who wrote the book to catalogue the various eldritch gribblies out there in order to help protect mankind against them). As the Necronomicon is far more famous and has made a bigger mark on history than its author, she probably got accidentally summoned when her Master was trying to summon Alhazred himself; objects can be summoned as Servants after all, although she has taken on a more humonoid form as one. Those familiar with visual novels or super robot anime might find this interpretation of the Necronomicon somewhat familiar, mostly because I will freely admit that she is heavily based on (and in fact outright uses the appearance of) Al Azif from Demonbane, something that I felt like I could get away with because once the super robot trappings are removed she still works pretty well in the Nasuverse and because Type-Moon and Nitroplus have a long history of collaborating on projects.