Herr der Tiere
Acceptance of All Animals
The Tierpfleger lineage's Sorcery Trait. Their history with animals have created a body that is perceived as 'friendly' in an instant to beasts and the likes. Whether it's because their scent or their stance, creatures, mundane or not, does not sense nor show any hostilities towards the Tierpfleger clan. As this only affects members of the Tierpfleger lineage, the creatures are still dangerous and possibly hostile to others.
As the 44th inheritor of the Tierpfleger's Magic Crest, Joanna has a more pronounced
Herr der Tiere than her sibling, attracting animals in a 2 meter radius. While she doesn't mind, this could mean that chaos can ensue when she visits certain places such as the park or the zoo.
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Herrin der Tiere
Chimeric Armament
Joanna's unique Magecraft modified from her Sorcery Trait, enabling her to assimilate animals, living or dead, to her body to be modified as weapons or to add their traits unto her body. While theoretically she can assimilate and store an unlimited amount of traits, her body does have limit before horribly mutating her body into a cancerous, ever-consuming mass of flesh. Thus, she limits the creature she keeps on her body to rare and powerful ones, while 'shedding' the more mundane traits as lumps of amorphous mass. These traits can be activated and deactivated at will, but new traits outside the ones listed below requires her to assimilate the related animal.
Herrin der Tiere: die Schlange
Serpentes Chimeric Armament
Snakes. More specifically, snakes harvested from Chimeras. Even more specifically, Joanna's ability to grow said snakes near-instantaneously from her body. The snakes grown by this ability are colored pitch-black, and have a limited intelligence, enough to be able to sink their teeth to perceived hostiles, at least. These snakes are venomous, but their venom are not very strong relative to the poisons and venoms in the world of Magi.
Herrin der Tiere: die Schlange
Serpentes Chimeric Armament
is Joanna's least expensive technique to use in terms of mana and materials, as chimera tails are pretty abundant in her family's bestiary. She does, however, owns a baby Hydra for times when chimera tails are not enough, carefully kept and guarded at the Tierpfleger's bestiary, which she claims as her 'trump card' for this ability.
As a side-note, Joanna slightly regrets not getting the Hydra faster, as she could've named this technique
Herrin der Tiere :die Hydra
Serpentes Chimeric Armament
instead, although she is trying to move on from that idea. Oh well, remorse is the poison of life anyway.
Herrin der Tiere: die Krabbe
Carcinous Chimeric Armament
Crabs. Or to cut a long explanation short, the ability to calcify her arms using her prana into a pseudo-crab-shell material, while turning her hands into makeshift claws. She can use Reinforcement on her fortified arms to increase their sturdiness, but they're pretty hard on their own so she usually don't bother.
She first gains this ability when samples of a giant breed of crab rumored to descend from the Karkinos arrived at the Tierpfleger's bestiary. At first, she was skeptical of the crab because logically, such a rare specimen shouldn't be given away for nothing. Being Joanna, however, she tried it anyway, and surpisingly, it worked to an extent.
Currently, her family owns around 40 of these crabs, with a small demand on them by a certain Chinese Magus as oddly enough, delicacy. This technique is a bit costlier than
Herrin der Tiere: die Schlange, so she doesn't like to use it very often.
Her arms are not fully useable during
Herrin der Tiere: die Krabbe
Carcinous Chimeric Armament
's activation, as she once tried to write something using them with crabby results. While she can de-calcify her arms at any moment, she cannot use
Herrin der Tiere: die Krabbe
Carcinous Chimeric Armament
again for 24 hours.
Herrin der Tiere: die Phantasmagorie
Phantasmal Chimeric Overdrive
"I don't like using this, but you forced me to do this. Hey, do you know why I'm called 'die Schimäre'? Well... You're about to know why."
Less of a trump card, but a self-defense mechanism. You can say that her normal look is due to this particular skill's effect that gets released on activation. Unleashing her other stored traits of many a Phantasmal Species she had obtained, such as the Pegasus, or the Dragonkind, the looks of a young woman turns into a horrific beast that is caused by years of experimentation: A vaguely-humanoid chimaera of multitude Phantasmal Species, sporting glistening white hide, a serpent tail, ridiculously cute rabbit ears, a single, twisted horn, and god-knows-what-else shifting under her clothes.
She looks ridiculous, yes. But mark the words circulating around the Zoology Department that the first thing you do when you encounter her in this form somehow is to run. By assimilating numerous amounts of Phantasmal Species samples from around the world, Joanna forces her body to gain abilities no man have dreamt to have.
Her physical strength and magical capacities are increased twofold. Her regenerative capabilities are accelerated. Her body now can dispel Modern Magecraft passively due to the fraction of a fraction of Dragonkind blood in her veins. Her
Herr der Tiere
Acceptance of All Animals
is reversed due to her Al-Mir'aj horn, repelling any other creatures in a 2 meter radius away from her, perhaps to reduce the number of animal casualties in her rampage. Her serpent tail can exhale venomous gas that can kill non-Magi in an instant, and the scales of Tsuchinoko she consumed gives her... an unnatural craving for sake?
In this state, she is a near-literal beast, both in body and mind, relying on her primal instincts and feral agression to fight, and making conversation pretty much unavailable unless one can speak the language of Beasts. Also, as this condition puts a large toll on her body, she can only keep this form up for only 1 minute, before she is forcefully returned to her usual form and leaving Joanna an unconscious mess. Somehow bypassing this limit would be very dangerous to her, as the Phantasmal Beasts in her can overcome her human side, permanently leaving her as a feral beast.
Due to a geis Joanna and her brother formed, she cannot use this technique as she pleases, as its usage would shorten her life. Instead, during life-threatening situations, this technique would activate automatically, and her brother would be informed through his Magic Circuits that his dear sister would be needing a pick-me-up.