RIDER
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Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
True Name: Yeshua bar Joseph Ha’Mashiach (Jesus Lily)
Origin: Historical, Christianity
Parameters
Strength: D
Endurance: C
Agility: D
Mana: A
Luck: D
NP: A+
Class Skills
Magic Resistance: (E)
Magic Resistance grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether.
90% of his body is unable to resist magecraft of any kind, simply diluting the effect by a fraction. However, he is thus able to resist magecraft at a conceptual level when adopting a blocking stance, thanks to his Shroud Noble Phantasm. He doesn’t seem to realize it only covers his arms.
Dragon Riding: (-)
The special skill necessary for riding members of the Dragon Kind. Separate from the normal Riding skill.
Even though all animals loved him, Rider seems to be able to only ride dragons in this form.
Personal Skills:
Ephemeral Dream: (EX)
Ephemeral Dream is a Skill that represents one's life born from illusions/from a person's desire.
A product of Jesus’s unknown and irrelevant childhood and teenage years, specifically drawn from the apocrypha of the New Testament--specifically that of Pseudo-Matthew. A radically different Messiah than what one would expect, he is still technically not an aspect of his legend that could be called “Alter”. It’s this skill that obviously gives him his young appearance, and perhaps is the only reason that the Divinely-Heroic “Savior of the World” can even be summoned in any ordinary Grail system without copious alterations.
Berserk: (C)
Berserk is a composite Skill of Bravery and Mad Enhancement. Grants the user the ability to negate mental interference such as pressure, confusion and fascination. It also has the bonus effect of increasing melee damage
The wrath of a child with too much power and too few responsibilities. Yeshua as a concept was born free of sin, but if there’s anything that comes close, it would be his glorious anger. Thankfully, it seems to have faded later in his life, but not before destroying quite a few arguably innocent children. When active it’s the equivalent of throwing a tantrum that’s gotten way out of hand.
Divinity: (A)
Divinity is the measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. At high levels one is treated as a mixed race of a Divine Spirit, and the level declines when the Heroic Spirit's own rank as a Monster or Demonic Beast raises. It can also decrease due to one's dislike for the gods. Those who have A Rank Divinity or above has reached the throne of a god. It also has an effect which reduces special defensive values called 'purge defense' in proportion to the Divinity's Rank. It can break through Skills such as Protection of the Faith and Enlightenment of the Sacred Fig.
Although his Divinity would broach the realm of a true god later in his life, the son of YHVH has been summoned in the propensity of “a simple demigod” rather than “one who is God incarnate”. However, his grandfather by way of his mother Mary is rumored to be the angel Michael, enacting the first of a series of immaculate conceptions in Yeshua’s lineage.
Jacob’s Limbs: (B)
Jacob's Limbs is a method of hand-to-hand combat of old that was continuously inherited from Jacob, to Moses, and finally to Yeshua. According to legends, a saint who mastered this would for sure beat to death an 'angel of destruction' that leads 12,000 angels.
A technique he learned from Big Sis Martha from their various encounters; beginning with staying over at Simon’s house after his parents left him behind on their voyage back from Jerusalem, his tutelage continuing after he moved into Martha’s house semi-permanently after Joseph’s death. Ironically, despite being a fighting style developed by his own ancestor, the bare-knuckle nun of Bethany was a far more appropriate mentor.
Charisma: (E+++)
Charisma is a composite Skill consisting of a person's charm as well as the natural talent to command or unify an army or country. Increases the ability of allies during group battles. A rare talent, and an ability inherent to Servants of the Saver class.
As this is an incarnation of Rider from before he was “one beloved across the entire planet”, his Charisma is extremely hampered. Rather, it’s of a rank befitting the Tyrant Brat of Nazareth; frightening his little hometown into electing him as a sort of Lord of the Flies type king. Because he is still the Chosen Son of YHVH, the curse-like effects of A+ Charisma are still present in its lower, fearmongering form. A relatively nice boy until you make him angry.
Noble Phantasm
Shroud of Paroketh
Holiest of Holy Knuckle Wraps: Dolorous Jab
(Anti-Unit, A)
Yeshua’s main Noble Phantasm, something that can definitely be called a Mystic Code, a Holy Shroud, but also a set of bandage-like wraps around his knuckles. In reality, the shroud is less of a traditional burial shroud as much as it is a repurposed curtain. It was the dividing veil that separated the Holy of Holies and the Tabernacle from the rest of the unclean world. A symbol of the God of the Old Testament, only a consecrated priest could pass through the veil without immediately being annihilated, and even then only on a single day per year after going through hours of prior arrangements. It represented a “closed off God who watched from afar”, one who still believed in the tradition of sacrifices. After the death of Jesus on the cross, the veil was said to have split right up the middle, only something the grief of YHVH could accomplish. After the Holy of Holies was revealed to the rest of the world, it was taken as an omen that Jesus’s sacrifice had absolved humanity as a species, allowing anyone to feel the love of the Lord.
As a Noble Phantasm, it isolates Yeshua’s arms in the True Age of Gods. Technically his Saint Graph--if viewed like a blueprint--wouldn’t come with anything past either elbow. His arms are considered incarnated so long as they remain underneath the wraps. Striking an opponent will “cast the judgment of the God of the Tabernacle” on them, an ultra-power Instant-Death effect that systematically annihilates anything that YHVH would consider unworthy to touch his son. However, because the wraps are already pretty ratty, the effect isn’t as potent as it could have been. It can be resisted with a sufficient rank in Divinity or Protection of the Faith. It is a potent Anti-Spirit attack similar to the Baptism Rite skill, while being completely useless on anything that doesn’t possess mana. If the wraps should be shredded or taken off, the effect of the Noble Phantasm can never be regained even if reapplied exactly the way they were before. However, should the wraps be applied to an injured body that is not Rider’s, the shroud will demonstrate healing abilities bordering on the resurrective.
In the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, the young Messiah was rather liberal in his views of dispensing vigilante smitings at the smallest of provocations. Between killing one boy for splashing a puddle of water that Jesus was playing with, to murdering another for simply scuffing his sandals, there was a reason he was the feared boy-king of the Nazareth streets. It was written that he need only speak a word to kill the people he did, but he actually punched them. A lot.
Rahab Salach
King of Beasts, King over Beasts
(Anti-Army, A)
“And when they had come to a certain cave and wished to rest in it, the blessed Mary came down from the beast, and sat and held the child Jesus in her lap. Now there were with Joseph three youths, and with Mary a certain damsel, who went on their way at the same time; and behold there suddenly came out of the cave many dragons, seeing which the youths cried out through excessive fear. Then Jesus, descending from his mother's lap, stood on his feet before the dragons, and they adored Jesus and then departed from them. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by David the prophet, saying, Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, ye dragons and all deeps. And the little infant Jesus, walking before them, commanded them to hurt no man. But Mary and Joseph feared greatly lest perchance the little infant should be injured by the dragons. And Jesus said to them. Fear not, nor consider me because I am a little infant, for I was, and am ever perfect; it must needs be that all the wild beasts of the woods should grow tame before me.”
Infamous among the exploits of the young Messiah, the pacification of so many of the mightiest Transcendent Kind. Although unremarkable as a group; Rider is capable of summoning any of the individuals he met that night under the blanket name of Rahab Salach (“The Forgiven Uproar”). Given that Rider’s instructions that Rahab Salach must “harm no man”, Rider gets around this self-imposed handicap by turning his mount into a Great Burrowing Tunnel Rupture Anti-Environment charge.
More importantly, it seems Rider’s perceptions of the dragons as an infant has significantly warped the form in which Rahab Salach appears...no matter how you look at it, it just screams “overgrown iguana mascot character”.