“Once in memory, always in history.”
-Levi Ramos
In the modern era, time travel was the dream of many a person, children and adults alike. The concept of going back in time, whether to correct one's failures and mistakes, or to watch history unfold before your very eyes, was a thought that has crossed the mind of every person at least once or twice. Yes, the notion of being able to perform such a feat to such an extent that there is a whole field of study dedicated to understanding time itself and how the world interacts with such a concept.
And yet, that innocent dream carries with it dire consequences in and of itself. After all, even a middle-schooler has heard of the butterfly effect and how it works. Should actions be performed differently, or variables be shifted around to create discrepancies, just what would occur to the 'future' that was the 'present'? Or perhaps, the future itself wished to happen, and what variables you changed would inevitably lead to the future you were from? Thus, tme travel remained a dream of humanity, one where mankind dare not step any further out of fear of the unknown.
And yet, people asked, what if 'we did not travel'? What if 'we only watched'? With minds set ablaze with inspiration and the indomitable human spirit, they got to work crafting a device to do just that. For surely, just watching the past would be safe, right? Like that of a surveillance system of today, just 'reviewing footage' from bygone histories would be a harmless and fun activity, would it not?
....There were things mankind wans't meant to see. Knowledge they weren't meant to know. Whether it's existence was a blessing or not is an answer lost to time itself, but one thing had become clear: Mankind as a whole isn't ready. Sometimes the past stays buried for a reason.
"Servant, Stranger. My True Name is Pellegrino Ernetti, inventor of the Chronovisor. Now, I hear that you use this time travel process called....Rayshifting?"
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Class: Stranger
Other Eligible Classes: Ruler
True Name: Pellegrino Maria Ernetti
Aliases: He Who Saw The Face Of God, He Who Lied Of The Past, Inventor of the Chronovisor, Fraud of Modernity
Alignment: Neutral Good
Attribute: Man
Origin: Italian History
Region: Venice, Italy
Height: 5'11/181 cm
Weight: 159 lbs/72. kg
Traits: Male, Humanoid, Hominidae, Servant, Weak to Enuma Elish
Catalyst: A component of the original Chronovisor
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Talents: Storytelling, exorcisms, combat, inventing, craftsmanship, getting into situations way above his paygrade
Natural Enemies: François Brune, Heinrich Schliemann
Likes: His faith, telling stories, inventing stuff, studying physics, catching up on modern era news, Byzantine honey fritters, Limoncello liqueur
Dislikes: The Church, 'icons of sin', being forced to lie, avocados, beer
Personality: Genial, pious and wonderful with children, Stranger feels like the friendly priest you'll see helping out at the soup kitchen when he isn't holding sermons or cleaning the church....well, without any of the unfortunate stereotypes attached to him that one is sure to learn later in life. Not God-fearing but acting in genuine awe and gratitude in the Creator's stead, he fits the picture of a pillar of the community. A shining leader figure, of sorts.
As a result, it's very hard to imagine that same pillar of the community sprinting at breakneck velocity and pulping Dead Apostle bodies with his bare hands.
Beneath the kind old man, or perhaps right next to it, is a seasoned veteran and combatant who Stranger can switch to like the press of a button. Yes, Pellegrino Ernetti was truthfully an Executor of the Church, and though his services are no longer required and his body seemingly no longer in it's prime, he can switch back to the same human weapon under the Church's leash that he acted as all those years ago. Thankfully, he reins this side of himself in closely for now in understanding of how bad of a situation the world is currently in. Though, every now and then you can still see him looking suspiciously at the vampires in Chaldea, and he still holds minor debates on the topic of faith every now and then.
Though, perhaps the biggest surprise for him is that he's an avid fan of telling stories, and sometimes likes to spin fanciful tales to the kids when they're listening. It's times like these that, after shoving both the face of the community leader and the face of the ruthless Executor aside, you can really see his grandfatherly vibes shine through. Underneath all the rumors and gossip about him in life lies a good man who wants to help both in and for humanity's sake.
Wish for the Grail: "Personally? I want to have not given in to the pressure from my higher-ups. I want to have stuck to my own convictions. I made the Chronovisor, and it worked. I saw, within it, the face of Jesus as He was crucified. The world can laugh and deride me for this, but I know the truth. And despite it all, I guess part of me still wanted humanity to see the past we'd lost as well."
ParametersParameters:
Strength: D
Endurance: C+
Agility: D
Mana: B
Luck: D-
NP: EX
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Bond DefaultOne of the more infamous religious figures of the modern era and perhaps one of the most well-known in the dark crevices of the Internet, Pellegrino Maria Ernetti was renowned not for zealotry nor controversy. If anything, he was a well-known local hero and father figure to many, and his death was widely mourned by those both close to him and not.
Rather, he's most famous for the claimed creation of one of the world's first time machines. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Chronovisor and head researcher of a visual path to the Akashaic Records, Ernetti is considered to be both one the Church's best priests and public figures.....and a fraud that almost ended up dragging the entire Vatican down into the depths of ignominy with his words.
....Though, perhaps that isn't all there is to his words, is there?
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Bond 1Born in 1925 to a fisherman father and a housewife mother, Ernetti lived near a local Catholic church where he and a few of the other local children would play about under their parents' watchful eyes and learn more about the Christian faith. Clearly, the lessons had had a profound impact on Ernetti as a child, given that the moment he turned 16 he immediately joined the Benedictine Order and became a postulate at San Giorgio Maggiore near Venice.
Studying for eight long years in that abbey, Ernetti was noted to have an exceptionally sharp mind and a knack for music as he took classes in both matters of the world and matters of his faith. When he'd been officially ordained as an Benedictine monk, he was also hired by the church to teach music theory and advanced physics to other people, and was qualified research archaic music and chants as a full-blown scholar.
However, what many don't know was that Ernetti worked for the Church in an incredibly insidious manner as well. He was an Executor of the Church, tasked not only with demon exorcisms but with demon killing as well. Renowned for his studies in physics, history, music theory, theology. Powerful enough to participate in demon hunts and expeditions to destroy heretical beings and cults. Lauded as one of mankind's weapons and skilled enough to live a fairly long life throughout it all. With all these achievements under his belt....
....Was it really any surprise that he, even the humble priest fascinated with the past, wished to brag just a little bit?
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Bond 2Class Skills:
This Servant does not possess any Class Skills.
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Bond 3Personal Skills:
Clairvoyance (False) C
A Skill of Stranger, denoting possession of superior visual perception and dynamic occipital capture, such as to supplement the long-range aiming of projectile weapons. At higher ranks, it is possible that the bearers of this Skill have acquired abilities such as precognition ("future vision") and other forms of perception beyond standard eyesight (X-ray vision and so forth).
Stranger....doesn't actually have true Clairvoyance, as it is a Skill contained and manifested within the body. However, he can 'view the infinite past' on a widespread area to watch 'past instances of enemies' in an period where 'the past' can be called one and the same with 'the present'. One picosecond in the past still qualifies as the past according to this Skill.
Aesthetics of the Arts C+
A Skill of Stranger, denoting infatuation with works of art, whether they be visual masterpieces or auditory symphonies. At high Ranks, this can manifest as obsession or even romantic feelings for said works of art. Cough cough Pygmalion.
In life, Stranger was described to possess 'an ear as sharp as his mind', excelling in studies and holding a great interest in archaic and classical music scores. During his time as a member of the Church, he would teach music theory and even go so far as to learn at least three different languages from scratch simply to study the Gregorian Chants and their background.
Should Stranger see a Noble Phantasm that possesses artistic anecdotes attached to it, there is a chance that he can immediately figure out it's True Name. The possibility increases if said Noble Phantasm is also connected to any of the Abrahamic faiths.
Unending Exorcism B
A subvariant of the Baptism Rite Skill, itself a Skill denoting possession of a type of magecraft that changed style into a church form. It is a simple ritual that instantly redirects a spiritual body and sends it back to where it belongs, and is considered to be the one spell that all members of the Holy Church are allowed to learn. While it doesn't have the power to damage physical objects like other Magecraft, It is incredibly effective against beings such as Spirits or Vampires.
Ernetti wasn't just a regular priest with a fondness for music. He was also a licensed exorcist and demonologist, as well as one of the Church's most prodigal Executors at the time. Officially being responsible for thousands of exorcisms over the course of his life as well as unofficially being responsible for the deaths and subjugations of high-level Spirits and Dead Apostles, this feat has crystallized in Stranger being capable of continuously maintaining a Baptism Rite on spiritual enemies so long as he has enough Magical Energy and an accurate visualization of the target. Works incredibly well with Clairvoyance (False) and Appreciation of the Arts.
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Bond 4As the years passed and Ernetti's own reputation in the Church grew, he began to spin tales of his escapades to those willing to listen. Of course, he always spun out some fibs and exaggerations both to mask the true events of what had occurred and to make the stories themselves entertaining to those listening. Occasionally he might have told stories of his own experiences, but he mostly told stories he knew would sound fictional to the children who frequented the abbey he worked in.
And yet, that wasn't the end of the myriad accomplishments to be added under his belt. In 1953, the year Ernetti returned to his hometown of Venice to continue preaching, he was discreetly approached by a pair of Church officials. There, he was offered what some would consider an impossible mission and others might call a monumental step towards the Age of Will.
Specifically, with his talent and knowledge in physics and his skill with the few spells he'd honed as an Executor of the Church, Ernetti was to join a group of 12 other researchers....and build a mechanical apparatus that would allow the Church to look backwards in time. A machine that could match the likes of the Gazing Star, inversely looking beyond the capabilities of a mere spy satellite and look directly into history itself, watching historical events not through textbook pages but as they occurred.
Ernetti and twelve other scientists, with the funding, backing and supervision of the Church and whatever Magecraft the Sacrements included, would take on the impossible challenge of building the Chronovisor.
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Bond 5Noble Phantasm:
Great Demon Who Fools The WorldBelial Sussurrare
Rank: B
Classification: Anti-World, Anti-Mind
Range: 1-100
Maximum Targets: 1 City
"Speak, O Demon. Thy whispers grip my ears and mind. Thy words taint my tongue black. Behold, the spiraling lie that engulfed the World with hollow hope..Great Demon Who Fools The WorldBelial Sussurrare
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned...."
The crystallization of the lie Stranger told, perhaps his most well-known if 'minor' contribution to history. It is said that, in life, Ernetti struggled with a demo possessing him throughout his adult years, and it was that demon that pushed him to lie of the Chronovisor itself. Because of this anecdote, this Noble Phantasm has manifested fairly oddly.
When this Noble Phantasm's True Name is uttered, Stranger's tongue turns tar black in pigment and smoke seems to leak from his mouth. Should Stranger speak thereafter, his words will act like a mental attack and gradually wear enemies' minds down, slowly but surely convincing them of his words even if there is no evidence or belief prior to speech. This can also reach far beyond simply enemy mindsets to convince the very Planet of his words. Should he claim that the sky were green, then the sky would slowly turn green to match his claim. In other words, this can only be called 'the equivalent of Mystic Words of Falsehoods'.
However, this is not a perfect power. Belial Sussurrare is localized to a city block or two at most, and requires at least a major boost in Magical Energy to even bein to work properly. In addition to this, the effects are temporary and require constant maintenance before enemies reassert their own mentalities. Lastly, arguing against his claims with sufficient proof is enough to reverse the effects, meaning that if you were to refute his claims early on then his Noble Phantasm would immediately crumble and fail.
Yes, Stranger lied of the Chronovisor. And yet, you get the feeling that what he lied about isn't what you would expect....
Staring Beyond The Face of The SonChronovisor
Rank: EX
Classification: Anti-History, Anti-Unit (Self)
Range: The space-time continuum
Maximum Targets: Pellegrino Ernetti
Ernetti lied. Not when he met Brune. Not when he put forth the transcription of the lost play Thyestes for all to see. No, Ernetti lied on his deathbed. Pressured by his higher-ups in the Church and somewhat haunted by what he saw on the Chronovisor, he lied to the last remaining witness to his passing. He told that witness that the Chronovisor had failed, and it was all a spiraling hoax gone terribly wrong.
In truth, the Chronovisor had succeeded perfectly. Ernetti and his team of inventors had created the world's first semi-mundane time travelling machine and viewport, and used it to learn of lost histories that time itself had forgotten. And yet, he told that white fib out of worry and terror For to say that lie would have been infinitely better than the speak the truth.
The culmination of Ernetti's work and his true magnum opus, this Noble Phantasm is quite literally confirmation of the Chronovisor's existence. Manifesting as a miniaturized headset version of the past-viewing machine Ernetti had built in life, this Noble Phantasm is what allows Stranger to 'watch the infinite past' and grants him his Clairvoyance (False) skill. With it, Ernetti can adjust the device's output to limit or broaden just what he can see with the Chronovisor, granting him near-unparalleled potential as a surveillance unit.
However, there are two major weaknesses to this Noble Phantasm. Firstly, the Chronovisor can only show imagery and visual data. It has no way to gleam what is hidden or attempt to show thoughts like some Mystic Codes can, and Ernetti himself may miss key details watching through the Chronovisor the first time over. It's little more than a 'time-viewing surveillance system', really. Secondly, the Chronovisor can be used by other people, but the data shown through the Chronovisor can overwhelm them mentally if they try to process too much. There's no real limit to just how far back the device can see, and Ernetti insists that one shouldn't turn the output to maximum, for very good reason.
There really are some things that humans were not meant to see.
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Bond Extra.....Miraculously, they'd succeeded. In what could only be called either a divine miracle or a culmination of all thirteen involved scientists' fortune for the rest of their lives being used up, the team of researchers had managed to craft a machine that could tune into the very past itself using reagents to 'open a one-way window to view events', and could reliably dial what they saw back and forth to view historical events with ease, sometimes going from watching an entire year on double speed to focusing on a specific second in a time period.
Ernetti was ecstatic. Here was a literal window to the past. A machine that could not only show history as it happened, but also allowed them to potentially rediscover lost histories and records that had inevitably disappeared over time. And he had not only had a hand in it's creation over seven years, but he would also be allowed to run the first test run to find the Chronovisor's potential 'end point' to see how far it could see back. With a heart filled with hope, he turned on the Chronovisor and began to turn the dial back.
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.....The Chronovisor was scrapped soon after. The project members mostly refused to speak of just what they had seen, and even the higher-ups would later censor the entire project to avoid repeats in the future. Despite it all, Ernetti would insist on it's existence until 1994, unwilling to let what he considered to be the church's magmnum opus to fade into obscurity. However, with the Chronovisor scrapped and what little evidence he had to be easily replicated and rendered useless, he was unable to fully prove it's existence even when he died.
Though, it was odd. He could reliably name what went into building the machine, when and where it was built and stored, and even the true names of his fellow researchers (though, admittedly, he may or may not have fibbed here and there to make the story most intriguing).....but when he was asked just what else he saw on the Chronovisor itself, all he would ever tell them were six simple words.
'I saw beyond the Son's face.'
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RelationshipsJeanne d'Arc: "To meet the famed Maiden of Orleans who fought in the name of God to save France....it truly is an honor to meet you. Unfortunately, the machine wasn't really accurate when we tested it's functions in terms of spatial location, but I did catch glimpses of some of your battles here and there. You....truly didn't deserve what happened to you."
Gilles de Rais (Caster): "In the face of grief, you shattered. In the loss of your purpose, you turned from the Lord. Unfortunately, such an occurrence is common in modern times, but never has someone reveled in the loss of their faith as fervently as you. Do not darken the steps of this holy place again, Caster of Blasphemy. I will not tolerate your heresy a second time."
Martha: "Lady Martha! Please, do come in. I admit, I saw the tail end of your time with the Holy Son, but a part of me does want to hear what it was like from your perspective. There is a great difference between 'seeing' and 'experiencing', in a sense of speaking. I will not push if you do not wish to speak of it, however."
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada: "To lead a rebellion at such a young age is a burden no sane human should ever bear, but that wish...to live through the inherent 'goodness' of the human heart is a path you must not tread. All humans hold different definitions of what is 'good' from others. Were you to enforce all humans to live by inherent goodness.....truly, nothing will change at all."
Leonardo da Vinci: "Uomo Universale....I am truly ecstatic to meet one of the greatest artists to ever live. I enjoyed taking trips to study some of your lesser-known paintings whenever I got the chance. Provided ample materials for my classes if the students wanted something a little different from music theory every now and then."
Abigail Williams: Occasionally you'll see Abby in prayer while Stranger reads verses from a Bible to her. Afterwards, he tends to get her pancakes while he gives her lessons on some of the more modern values that have sprung up from Christianity's progression over the centuries.
Honestly, you're just happy Abby is learning more.
Christopher Columbus: Stranger absolutely refuses to interact with Columbus, stating that 'greed is a deadly sin for a good reason. The deadly part comes from how I'll punch his nose into the back of his brain if he tries anything suspicious here.' You've....elected to drop the topic for now, at least.
Biscione: ".....Well, as long as she's not causing any trouble. Even I have heard of the Viper of Milan, so I can't help but be a bit weary around him. That said, she seems very dedicated to her office lady cosplay. Is she into roleplaying or something....?"
Danteh Alighieri: "Dantehhhhhh. Do your daily prayers, Dantehhhhhh. Bring your copy to the next Bible study, Dantehhhhhh."
Cimbus Lompany-
Ryougi Shiki (Saber): There are no words between the two. There are no words needed between them, truthfully. One smply nods to the other in recognition, and they are on their way afterwards.
Aleister Crowley: "I have no desire to speak with you. Begone, heretic. You may play the part of the innocent monster, but every Church member knows of the cruel methods you did to try to create your vaunted 'paradise'. The ends will never justify the means."
Saint Pelagia: "I greet the Dancing Saint, who danced for the Lord and exorcised the Devil who came to protest your baptism. I....unfortunately can't dance very well, but I can at least try. These old bones don't handle exertion very well..."
Jerk d'Arc: ".....I like the cut of her gib, but there's such a thing as too much sometimes. And this is coming from a literal Executor."
Elisabeth Hevelius: "I've never really liked stargazing, but I suppose I can understand why other people enjoy it so. What my fascination laid with in 'time', theirs laid in 'space'. Though....I suppose I can enjoy a night looking at the night skies every once in a while."
Cosimo de Medici: "He bought the-that son of a bitch, I'm gonna kill him! S-Somehow, I'm going to murder himself somehow!"
Olga of Kiev: "Was it worth it? Your campaign of revenge, burning those lives away to avenge your husband? Genuine, genuine question here, I'm thinking of utilizing such tactics in the future for hunting down Dead Apostles."
Saint Clement I: "That's it, I'm getting my Black Keys. Don't pay attention to any sounds of unholy screeching, Master, I just need to deal with a pest infestation for a second."
Šćepan Mali: "Go now with grace, tsar of Montenegro. May your faith be rewarded, and your ambitions realized. You, who brought low Russia itself and wriggled into the heart of Catherine the Great are perhaps the greatest conqueror of all time."
Francis I: "A dragon-kind? You turned yourself into a dragon-kind just to bully your rival even more? As passionate as you are about this fact, I don't know whether to encourage you to pursue your passions more or scold you for such a petty act..."
Pope John XII: "Perhaps it's a sign of paranoia and stress. Perhaps it was him indulging in his hedonistic tendencies. But the Church records we had spoke of him as a raging party animal who would lure in enemies who thought nothing of him, and slaughtered them all wholesale. Personally, I always thought he was a shrewd tactician who used his reputation to his advantage, so I'm a bit glad that he's slowing down to unwind lately."
Herman the Recluse: "....I know of the true contents of your work. I will not speak further. You were absolved of your sin, but there were things humanity still is not ready to see. At the very least, though, I can say....I thank you, for granting for this divine knowledge unto the likes of this humble priest."
Leah, Zilpah and Rachel: "Master....please help. I was an Executor. I was hired to root out and crush heresies most profane and destroy Dead Apostles who dared to poke their heads out to attack humans. I was not hired to handle marriage counseling. That was one of the rare mercies that came with being a member of the clergy. Oh dear Lord, how do I even begin to untangle this veritable mess.....?"
Charles VII: "I'd rather avoid the man than risk setting off his already rampant paranoia. He's already been glaring daggers at me whenever I so much as say hello."
Augustin Calmet: "Perhaps I would have been happier with any other Catholic figure. But instead, I got the man who ended up not just giving the Night in Wallachia it's start but also ended up causing the TATARI phenomenon to spread globally. As I may guess I'm incredibly conflicted on the matter."
Samiel: "Fallen Angel Samiel. Severity of the Lord who turned from His Light. If you have come into this sacred place to cause trouble, I suggest you leave. I do not wish for violence in here....what? An invitation out? Hm. This is a fairly odd first for me, but if I could perhaps turn you back to God, this could be a worthwhile endeavor.
"....Incidentally, do you have any recommendations for snacks to go alongside any liquors?"
Hali: "And people wonder why the Church considers Magecraft to be nothing but heresy....We have no problem with the spells themselves, but the lengths to which a magus will go to pursue their visualized 'endpoint' is too far to even begin to consider viable.
"Wh-No, I'm not letting you put on the Chronovisor! Don't you dare try to steal it either!"
Isukiri the funny fella: "To think.....that not only was the Holy Son a party animal, but he advocated for the same in his followers! I must, pfft, I must teach this most profound lesson to, pfhehehehe, I-I must, BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"I'm, I'm sorry, I just.....I couldn't even finish it with a straight face. I was just messing with you."
Count Saint-Germaine: "......You fail to understand just much I wish to pummel his face in, Master. Forget his supposed identities as famous figures and the revelation that he is but a simple human. Of the cults that sprouted out in pursuit of Saint-Germaine's alchemical traces, more than a handful of them were willing to scour entire cities and use magicks most blasphemous in their efforts. I've personally had to put down a few of them myself, so seeing the person responsible for their inception, even indirectly.....I may or may not want some reparations myself."
Heinrich Schliemann: "You rat bastard! You couldn't have had even a mote of patience in excavating Troy?! I swear, the moment I get my hands I'll rearrange your face the same way you rearranged that lost city's nine layers!"
Jure Grando Allovic: "......I am severely conflicted about this. On one hand, he's a genuinely kind person who never takes more than he must, goes out of his way to help others and is beloved by more than a handful of Servants. On the other hand, Dead Apostle.
"...I will defer to your judgment and leave him be for now. But I will keep a close eye on him."
Jesus-Chan: "I am doubly unsure of this now, Master."
Stranger is, of course, referring to the scene of Jure recommending some cute outfits to Saver, who is both confused at the action and happy to make a new friend. More specifically, he is referring to the fact that despite being a Dead Apostle standing before the literal fucking origin of Christian iconography, Jure isn't so much as sweating in discomfort.
He's very conflicted about this.
Related DialogueJeanne d'Arc: "I find joy and relief at the sight of him, truthfully. It is proof that, even in the modern era, even when Mystery itself is passing on, there are still those who hold steadfast to their faith and pray to God even now. Yes.....it shows that humanity's decisions were correct."
Martha: "Guuuuuh....I really do want to talk to him about what Jesus was like in life, but I don't want to paint Him in a bad image......Ah! Did you hear anything just now, Master? You didn't, did you?"
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada: "It's good to see more people of the cloth joining Chaldea, if anything. Makes it livelier and offers more varied opinions during Bible study. Though, I'm surprised he'd managed to actually build such a fascinating device only to have it shut down so bluntly. I wonder just what he saw to make such a decision..."
Leonardo da Vinci: "To use the technology of the future to gaze deep into the past....it's an incredible achievement and one I didn't think possible with modern reagents, but the fact that he had managed to accomplish such a thing, even with help from other people, speaks of his skill and intelligence. I'd love to get his opinions on some prototypes I'm working on later."
Abigail Williams: "Mr. Priest is really nice, Master! He always has a lot of stories to tell, and helps me understand some of the harder verses when I ask him! He's a bit like Ms. Oei, though, because sometimes he can get really into the stories himself. Hehehe."
Biscione: "That old guy, Ernetti.....He looks just like a human, but I can smell something 'more' from him. Like he saw something that left a permanent mark on his own soul. What did he even do to have that mark so deeply ingrained into himself?!"
Danteh: "First Da Vinci and now him....His claims might be dubious, but his skills are the real deal! Man, I'm kinda pumped now. Maybe after sermons he would be up for a collab too? Something like a life-sized sculpture of the Gates.....they don't actually lead to Hell, of course."
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Bond FinalAntenato Eredità
"So, did you ever get the truth out into the open?"
"Come on, even if you couldn't see what my life was like, do you really think the public would believe in the claims that somehow, a priest had invented a time travel device?"
"...."
".....Actually, don't answer that. Sounds possible the more I think about it. Still, for the afterlife this is strangely homely. I thought there would be more....brimstone."
"Well, for starters, this ain't the real afterlife for you. It's more like a pit stop for the weary. Except, you know, the weary have managed to see incredibly far into the past one way or another, and saw what you saw."
"Ah. That makes more sense. Nice place, though. I didn't think one of the three Magician's Boxes would be a place as quaint as this."
"You do me much credit, dear customer. The Wizard Marshal might have been the one to 'build' the building, but all of the decorations and the menu? That was all me."
"And a marvelous job you've done. Speaking of, I assume that before I inevitably have to leave, I can at least grab something to eat?"
"Of course! This is a cafe, after all. Table for one?"
"That'll be splendid. Now, what would you recommend from the menu, George, my friend?"
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Art SourcesErnetti's fc is a drawing of some old man on Weibo here. I think he's referring to some game character or an OC the artist made up. Can't tell, it's been god-knows how long since I read Chinese tbh.
The Bond CE is fanart of Cafe Ahnenerbe from here. Fun fact, I just used the shitty Italian Google Translation of 'Ancestor's Heritage' for the CE name and called it a day.
NotesEver since I read about him in an obscure manga, I've had Ernetti on my backlog for the longest time. Glad to finally get him out into the open, even if he might appear to be exceedingly mid.
For5 clarification, I hc that the Chronovisor itself worked perfectly, but had no upper limit on how far back it could look through time. So when Ernetti dialed it's temporal output further and further and further, he went beyond even Jesus' death. He went beyond Jesus' birth. He went beyond the formation of Judaism, the formation of civilization, the formation of the Planet itself. In the farthest reaches of time, watched by twelve other researchers and three supervisors, Ernetti turned the dial all the way....and saw the Beginning. Or maybe he saw a representative of the Beginning. After all, if「Shiki Ryougi」, who has connected to the Root and become one with it, can be called a representative of the Root itself....what's stopping there from other people having gone through the same thing in the past?
Another birth who's Origin was「 」, attached to the Root and subsequently feeding off of it's information to the point of absolute omniscience. In the face of such an existence, what else could you call him.....but「God」? Aka I am making the bold and probably somewhat blasphemous claim that God in the Nasuverse was originally a person who was turned into a Divine Spirit the same way Mephistopheles became a Demon. Is this probably what happened? Hahahaha probably not, but it's not like we've even gotten anything about angels, much less God. The only thing we actually know are the blessings he granted to other people and the fact that a living universe/thesis meant to prove His existence just turned into a normal ass human being. So, God is human real?!
I will not be taking questions, potential loremasters.
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