“Speak only of the truth, for truthfulness is certainly righteous.”
Class:
Ruler
Identity:
Maharani Shima
Gender:
Female
Origin:
Historical Facts and Rumors
Region:
Java
Alignment:
Lawful Good
Attribute:
Sky
PARAMETERS
STR:
C
END:
C
AGL:
B
MGI:
B
LCK:
A
NP:
A
SRI MAHARANI MAHISSASURAMARDINI SATYAPUTIKESWARA
Ruler's True Name is Sri Maharani Mahissasuramardini Satyaputikeswara. For ease of understanding, one may adress her by the name of Shima. She was the queen of the Kingdom of Kalingga. She was the son of Dapunta Hyang Sailendra, the progenitor of the mighty Syailendra dynasty that would rule both both the Medang Kingdom of Java and the Srivijaya Empire of Sumatra. She ascended the throne of Kalingga when her husband, Kartikeyasinga died in 674 AD.
Records and annals of the Chinese 7th century Tang dynasty mentions of a prosperous and powerful kingdom called "Ho-Ling", ruled by a queen called Shima. Reigning at the same time as Wu Zetian ruled as the Empress of China under the short-lived Zhou dynasty, where Divine and Sacred Empress ruled with fear and cruelty, Queen Shima was said to have ruled with the same ruthlessness, yet with genuine divine wisdom and honesty.
One tradition told of a foreign king, rumored from Arabia, who placed a bag filled with gold on the intersection in Kalingga to test the famed truthfulness and honesty of Kalingga people. Nobody dared to touch a bag that did not belong to them, not until three years later, when Shima's son, the crown prince, accidentally touched the bag with his feet. The queen issued a death sentence to her own son, but was overruled by the minister that appealed to the queen to spare the prince's life. Since it was prince's foot that touched the bag of gold, it was the foot that must be punished through mutilation. Or so the story goes—If the queen hear of this story, surely she would deliver her divine judgment to the fool who present such as fact.
CLASS SKILLS
God’s Resolution: EX
A Class Skill of the Ruler class; it is the privilege of the Ruler presiding over the Holy Grail War; the right to use Command Spells against Servants, only given to Rulers.
Each Ruler is normally granted two Command Spells for each Servant that participates in the Holy Grail War. In addition to that, as a part of her Noble Phantasm, Queen Shima also possess five additional much more powerful version of Command Spells which can be used to “enforce her laws” upon the whole “kingdom” she took responsibility for. This normally means that these specialized Command Spells applies as a new, concrete set of laws for all participants of the Holy Grail War, but it can be made to encompass every person living in the area marked by her Noble Phantasm as “the Kingdom of Kalingga”.
Three of these rules are not permanent and can be deliberately changed accordingly from time to time. However, the amendment requires that the concerned rule has been violated—or attempted to be violated—at least once. Two of the rules that would never be changed are “always uphold the truth” and “never take which is not yours”. Also, more specific rules can be made through the aforementioned Noble Phantasm which is derived from these basic rules—allowing for more throughout enforcement of the Satya.
Such is one of the authorities Lord Shiva the Supreme Being trusted upon her.
Discerning Sovereign: A
A Class Skill of the Ruler class where status information such as one's identity, Skills and Parameters are automatically revealed to the owner of this Skill when directly encountering a Servant. However, this is a subversion which combines it with other Discernment Skills, allowing Queen Shima not only to reveal information mentioned before, but also to see through lies and deception, unveiling one’s intention, as well as their strength and weakness.
Such is one of the privileges Lord Shiva the Revealer bestowed upon her.
Magic Resistance: A
A Skill which grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether. Cancel spells of A-Rank or below, no matter what High-Thaumaturgy it is. In practice, the Servant is untouchable to modern magi, so it would not be an exaggeration to title the Servant a 'Magus Killer'.
Such is one of the protections Lord Shiva the Preserver granted upon her.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Calm and Collected: A++
A Skill which enables one not to get confused in any kind of situation by suppressing their own emotion and calmly observes the surroundings, guiding towards the most optimum tactics. Grants plus correction to mental resistance. Resistant especially against confusion and impatience.
Just like Durga when facing the powerful demon bull Mahissasura with utmost calmness, Shima displayed such composure when she deals with the enormous burden of responsibility for her kingdom as a Queen. This Skill allows her to make just and most optimum policies and decisions much more effectively, no matter how dire the circumstance. Further calmness is achieved through yoga practice which Shima practices, augmented by her Reality Marble.
Such is one of the abilities Lord Shiva the Yogi taught her.
Divinity: A
A Skill which 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.
In addition to being the daughter of Hyang Syailendra, the god-ancestor of the Syailendra dynasty, Shima is also worshipped and revered by her people and their ancestors as a part of the South-East Asian Hindu-Buddhist concept of “devaraja”. This tradition justifies a king’s rule as a direct manifestation of the Universal Ruler—Chakravartin. Great temples such as Prambanan, Ankor Wat and many others throughout South East Asia were built in celebration of their rule. In this case, Queen Shima was worshipped as the manifestation of Mother Goddess Durga Mahissasuramardini—slayer of the chaotic demon Mahissasura.
Her Divinity is further augmented by another uniquely Indonesian concept of “Batara Guru”, an amalgamation of spirits and heroes worshipped throughout the archipelago. In the Javanese tradition, this Batara Guru is Shiva. This means that Shima is an aspect of Shiva himself.
Such is one of the heavenly essences which Lord Shiva shares with her.
Charisma: B
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. At this rank, one is capable of effective rule of a kingdom as its king or queen.
A Queen of the Kalingga kingdom; Shima’s reign brought prosperity and created an absolute sense of security for its people through her just divine law which made any kinds of criminal activities impossible to be carried out in her kingdom.
Such is one of the favors Lord Shiva graced upon her.
NOBLE PHANTASM
Di Hyang – Satya Dharma
Absolute Righteous Truth Blooms on the Sacred Field of the Lord of Destruction
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Country
“Nothing is higher than the Law of Righteousness (Dharma). The weak overcomes the stronger by the Law of Righteousness. Truly that Law is the Truth (Satya); Therefore, when a man speaks the Truth, they say, "He speaks Righteousness"; and if he speaks Righteousness, they say, "He speaks the Truth!" For both are one.”
-- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Di Hyang, also known as Dieng, is one of the mountainous regions in Java which are called “The Abode of the Gods”. In these places, because of the nature of the World Anchor of the region, the two layers which makes up the Present World and the Reverse Side of the World is quite unstable and their juxtaposition is in such a way that they appear to be integrated with each other. According to the Tantu Panggelaran myth of the origin of Java, Lord Shiva with the help of other gods, ancient spirits and demons, placed a piece of the World Anchor from India—the Mahameru—to nail down the drifting island in place. However, due to the enormous weight of the Mahameru tilting the island and lifting the eastern end of the island, the gods decided to move the mountain eastward, scattering the mountain fragments into volcanoes and mountainous region in the process. The place where Lord Shiva placed the Mahameru became the volcanic plateau of Di Hyang, which became Lord Shiva’s first place of meditation in Java, becoming a Sacred Field for other ancient divine spirits to dwell. In this sacred field Queen Shima reign over the kingdom built surrounding it, not only ruling over the human living in the kingdom, but also over the ancient spirits and deities which reside in the realm beneath it.
Meanwhile, Satya and Dharma—Truth and Righteousness, are the concept of virtue that were the only thing all beings abide to in the Golden Age of Satya Yuga. In this Yuga, there exists absolutely no crime and evil, and every being upholds honesty—it was a utopia in which only perfect happiness exist. For brief period, such utopia was successfully built in this Age of Darkness, the Kali Yuga, by this ruthless queen who ruled as the manifestation of Mahissasuramardini, born from the coalescence of wishes of a group of her people—both human and the spirits of nature—for a Universal Ruler, one who could bring light to this Age of Darkness. A kingdom which abides by the sacred rule from the Age of Gods, built over a Sacred Ream of the Lord of Destruction—such is the underlying concept of this Noble Phantasm.
In essence, this Noble Phantasm enforces rules and laws to an area by manifesting her Reality Marble into the World, binding the conscience of the people affected to “avert any and all act of crime”. This Noble Phantasm manifest itself in the form of a lingam—a mark of Shiva, a “sign of creation”. Likened to the expression “if there’s smoke, there’s fire”, the lingam is the smoke, and the “creation” it brought is the fire. When manifested into the World, this Noble Phantasm brings with it a copy of an area of the layer from the Reverse Side of the World—Di Hyang—into the area. This layer does not replace the layer in which it is currently located, but rather temporarily manifest itself at the upper layer of Present World, as Maharani Shima’s Reality Marble, enforcing her authority upon an area in the size of a small town through the Ruler Class Skill God’s Resolution. The size of the area gradually expands until it becomes as large as a small country—into the kingdom of Kalingga.
Mahissasuramardini
O Mighty Queen, Slay the Wicked and Disorderly Demon
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Army
I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first of those who merit worship.
Thus gods have established me in many places with many homes to enter and abide in.
Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them, – each man who sees, breathes, hears the word outspoken.
They know it not, yet I reside in the essence of the Universe. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it.
I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that gods and men alike shall welcome.
I make the man I love exceedingly mighty, make him nourished, a sage, and one who knows Brahman.
I bend the bow for Rudra [Shiva], that his arrow may strike, and slay the hater of devotion.
-- Devi Sukta, Rigveda
Mahissasuramardini, a form of the goddess Durga born from the coalescence of divine energy of Hindu devas in order to defeat the Chaotic Buffalo Demon Mahissasura. The Asura Mahissasura waged a war against the Devas, having received a boon that no man could kill him, and managed to defeat the Devas led by Indra. The Devas then assembled in a mountain, where they combine their divine energy to give birth to Goddess Durga. Durga embodies the Adi Parashakti, the energy which exists between the cycle of creation and destruction, the ultimate energy for the sole purpose of defeating Mahissasura when all Devas invoked her with their combined Shakti.
This Noble Phantasm is the trump card and otherwise “ultimate judgment” of Queen Shima, used to enforce justice and harmony against the force of the demon Mahissasura—embodiment of chaos and evil—through brute force. The Mahissasura which she fought in her life was disorder and injustice, corruption and wickedness, hatred and intolerance. These are basic human nature which nonetheless could not be allowed to exist in her reign if she was to reenact the Satya Yuga in her kingdom. No criminal shall be allowed to exist in her kingdom, truth and righteousness will in the end prevail against falsehood and evil. As evil and chaos emerges in her kingdom, she is fully ready to slay it, fully supported by the wish of her people’s for truthfulness and righteousness. This Noble Phantasm can only be activated inside the designated area encompassed by her Reality Marble, marked by lingam as the center.
When activated, Maharani Shima absorbs the divine essence of the ancient spirits and deities of Java within the Reality Marble - The Sacred Field of the Lord of Destruction: Di Hyang and transform through Goddess Metamorphosis into the Mahissasuramardini form of the goddess Durga—ready to fulfill her people’s wish for the triumph of good over evil. In this form, her Divinity becomes Goddess Divine Core, her physical parameters and combat ability gained a massive boost, and all sorts of mental interference are nullified. She also received armaments of destruction and creation formed from all the spirits and deities she absorbed. Ranging from All her attacks receives bonus against those of Chaotic and Evil alignment, especially the Chaotic Evil ones.
Such is the power of Lord Shiva’s many formed—yet one being—beloved wife.
DESCRIPTION & PERSONALITY
Likes: Justice, meditation, sour fruit
Dislikes: Crime, thief, salty food
Talent: Law enforcement, judging people
Natural Enemy: Moriarty, Wu Zetian
As serene as a still lake, yet her thought is always focused to her duty. Very polite and wise, yet fierce and ruthless, Shima took her responsibility as Ruler more seriously than anyone—perhaps a bit too seriously. Although Ruler are not supposed to have a wish, she does find being a subordinate to a “Master” preferable to regal duty of keeping a kingdom from its inevitable destruction.
BOND CE
Memoir of Devaraja Kertikeyasinga, Incarnation of Shiva
What is this crime
I am planning, O my husband?
Murder most loathsome,
Murder of my own children!
Am I indeed
So indifferent for compassion?
Lord Shiva, my delusion is destroyed,
And by your grace I have regained memory;
I stand here, my doubt dispelled,
ready to act on your words.