Mitumguda Inšušinaka
Seven Fangs of the Lapis Serpent
Rank: C
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1-10
Maximum Targets: 1 person
Seven great weapons Enmebaragesi claimed as loot after the subjugation of Elam. Conquest was followed by cultural, and consequently religious assimilation, as the new ruler’s authority was established by the conquered pantheon’s absorption into the conqueror’s. It was like this that the city god of Kish, Zababa, came to be associated with Inšušinak, Elam’s God of Justice. The Elamite weapons then became Enmebaragesi’s offering to Zababa, which the god reciprocated with its blessing. These would be later known as the “Seven Well-Crafted Weapons of Zababa”: two swords, two maces, a bow, a staff and an axe.
The Dancing Weapons of Inšušinak.
Caster uses magecraft to manipulate the weapons remotely, and wields them with masterful skill. As a Caster-class Servant, however, she can only use the eagle-headed staff at its full power, and it is the one weapon than she usually holds in her hands. One of Inšušinak’s symbols was the snake, which was alongside Zababa’s eagle a symbol of rejuvenation and immortality. This is reflected in Enmebaragesi’s skill “Serpent of Alaya.” The Elamite deity was also known as the Protector of Kings, which is reflected in Enmebaragesi’s “Steward of the Golden Capital” skill. However, the eagle-headed staff represents yet another aspect of Inšušinak: The One Who Weighs Souls. It represents both the culling of the weak and the exaltation of the great.
Upon invocation and declaration of a target, the Noble Phantasm inflicts a potent spiritual transmutation upon it. Magic Resistance does not seem to apply—this might have to do with its potency as Age-of-Gods magecraft, its innate divine source, or simply that it involves no intrusion of foreign prana into the target, but a spell effect that reaches the soul directly. On the other hand, resistance to poisons seems to work against it, likely because of the snake connection. Those who resist it gain rank-up to Strength and Endurance for 40 turns. Those who cannot overcome the spell take continuous damage for the same amount of turns, as the perturbation of the untouchable soul is reflected upon the body, whether it is physical or spiritual. Servants with average parameters at C-rank or higher will always resist the spell—it was never meant as an anti-Servant technique in the first place. However, it is particularly powerful against those categorized as “demons”, regardless of their origin. Dispelling the spiritual poison is also possible, but naturally the target will not get the benefit of resisting it, merely relief.
She can also use this Noble Phantasm to summon Phantasmal Species of the serpent-kind from the Age of Gods,
Mušmaḫḫū. However, as a lover of serpents she would rather not send them to battle. In her time, she would conjure them for Enkidu and the children of Uruk to play with them. It made for quite the unsettling image.
Ekurguga
Apotropaic Anthropic Sanctuary
Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Army
Range: 1-100
Maximum Targets: 1000 people
The fortress phantasm designed and unleashed for the protection of mankind. Walls that enclose the fledging civilization and keep the pristine and anarchic world away. While the name is a reference and a mockery of Enmebaragesi’s temple to Enlil in Nippur, the design is clearly inspired by the mighty walls of Uruk, which she was able to enter only as a captive, and then devoted the rest of her life to protect. This Noble Phantasm is the culmination and maximization of Enmebaragesi’s legend as the human reflection of Ninshubur and Inšušinak. However, this "
Sealed Mountain Temple" is merely a shade of the original she wielded in life:
Ekurmah
Throne of the Illusionary Heaven
.
This Noble Phantasm can only be used to protect humans; in other words, it cannot be used if there are not humans in need of protection. Enmebaragesi deploys the six weapons of her
Mitumguda Inšušinaka other than her staff, using them to define the perimeter of her Noble Phantasm’s area of effect. Once the six weapons are set in place, the bounded field is deployed with the invocation of the Phantasm’s name. The territory becomes Enmebaragesi’s home for the purpose of the skill “Serpent of Alaya”. Spirits of all kinds are severely weakened within the bounded field, except for those acknowledged by Enmebaragesi and the human(s) protected by the bounded field as “allies of mankind”. Such non-human allies of humankind gain the benefit of “Serpent of Alaya” as well. Demons can be spared from the debilitating effect, but they never receive the beneficial effect.
However, the most important effect of the bounded field is gifting the humans it protects with the power to defend themselves: humankind rises above the divine yoke to forge its own wicked path on the world. Chosen humans within the bounded field become existences similar to Heroic Spirits, with all their parameters at the lowest rank and the single skill “Serpent of Alaya”. Enmebaragesi can increase their rank in a single parameter to match hers by willingly diminishing her own parameter all the way down to E-rank. Whatever weapons these ascended humans wield, while not Noble Phantasms, gain the ability to inflict harm on spiritual bodies.
The bounded field’s duration is only limited by Caster’s magical capacity. The whole process, from invocation of the true name to complete deployment, lasts about a minute, and Enmebaragesi can sustain the bounded field with her own magical energy for another minute or two at most. Needless to say, she will take advantage of local leylines or alternate sources of mana to use this Noble Phantasm to its fullest. If she is destroyed while the bounded field is deployed, the spell is imprinted upon the land and its own self-sustaining and self-activating thaumaturgical body, for as long as the land can provide it with mana and there are humans within the field in need of its protection.