Servant Lancer:
Appearance:
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True Name: Phineas P. Gage
Alignment: True Neutral
Alternate Class: None (Only Lancer)
Origin: The United States (North & Central America)
Armament: Spear (Tamping Iron)
Summoning Catalysts: A tamping iron with the following inscriptionHidden Attribute: HumanThis is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept 14, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury & deposited this bar in the Museum of the Medical College of Harvard University. • Phinehas P. Gage • Lebanon Grafton Cy N–H • Jan 6 1850
Likes: Honest work, Horses
Dislikes: Psychoanalysis, Fungus
Parameters:
Strength: D
Agility: D
Endurance: E+
Mana: D
Luck: E+
NP: C+
Personality (Under Construction)Phineas Gage after the accident was so notably strange after his accident that he was unable to maintain his job directing a work gang blasting rock. However, from his time as a Chilean Carriage driver he was still recognized as hard working diligent man.
In truth, as much as Mr. Gage has truly become a strange individual in the wake of his accident, the mythos of him becoming a crazed lunatic instead stems from phrenologists seeking to utilize Mr. Gage's unique circumstances to boost their pseudoscience's credibility. This was further exacerbated by the gradual accretion of sensationalist journalists not double checking their sources in favor of a more engaging story.
In actuality, Mr. is kind and hardworking...but his actions and responses have a discordant tempo to them. While it is true that there are no known mental illnesses that could accurately be ascribed to Mr. Gage, even a Stranger would be able to pick up on something being off about him.
Although his legend has enough appropriate anecdotes for Mr. Gage to be summoned as a Berserker, the Medical Marvel residing in his head leaves not enough room for the needed rage and the strange twistings of American Crowbar Case have rendered the consolation of madness inaccessible to him.
Lore (Under Construction)Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. On September 13, 1848, Gage was directing a work gang blasting rock.
As Gage was doing this around 4:30 p.m., his attention was attracted by his men working behind him. Looking over his right shoulder, and inadvertently bringing his head into line with the blast hole and tamping iron, Gage opened his mouth to speak; in that same instant the tamping iron sparked against the rock and (possibly because the sand had been omitted) the powder exploded. Rocketed from the hole, the tamping iron entered the left side of Gage's face in an upward direction. Continuing upward outside the upper jaw it passed behind the left eye, through the left side of the brain, then completely out the top of the skull.
Thankfully through the tireless efforts of Dr. John Martyn Harlow, Mr. Gage was able to survive the head injury and recover a semblance of normal life. Although the phrenological studies of Harlow, did play a major part in the misremembrance of Mr. Gage's personality.
Normally Phineas Gage's life even with such a miraculous recovery would be unworthy of being noticed by the throne of heroes; however, humanity has collectively acknowledged Gage's survival and recovery (as a third of his life was after the accident) to be a marvel of modern medicine and all further miraculous surgeries were compared against Dr. Harlow's accomplishment and Gage's fortitude (which often found these other miracles wanting in comparison).
Skills (Under Construction)
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: E+
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. Having survived a miraculous event Mr. Gage is ever so slightly more resistant to magecraft then a normal human. As per Medical Marvel Mr. Gage is immune to any mental-based mage craft and has great resistances to piercing mage craft solely targeting his head.
Personal Skills:
Medical Marvel: A
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. Thanks to the miraculous efforts of Doctor John Martyn Harlow, Mr. Gage was able to not only successfully recover from his massive head trauma but become resistant to future head trauma. While rather frail in his post injury condition, his head is capable of both surviving and recovering from severe injuries. Mr. Gage's Endurance and Luck could be considered A rank when it comes to surviving and healing from head wounds.
American Crowbar Case: B
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. Unfortunately, regardless of how miraculous Mr. Gage's survival, he still suffered massive brain damage. Thus Mr. Gage is extremely limited in his independent actions and he requires 1.25 times more mana for his Master to support him than an equivalent Servant otherwise would. A silver lining to this skill is that Mr. Gage is immune to Mental Interference and can call upon his numerous recollections of the accident to reenact the incident, with a foe as the target, as long as he is wielding the Tamping Iron, The Constant Companion and Narrating his story.
Medicine:-
Phineas Gage was a normal human except for his astonishing survival. Mr. Gage possess no great medical knowledge, yet his head is filled with its secrets and he spent a third of life retelling the story of a Medical Marvel. The potential of this skill and what eventual form it will take has yet to be decided.
Noble PhantasmTamping Iron, The Constant Companion
Rank: C+
Type: Anti-Unit
This is the tamping iron that passed through Phineas Gage's skull. It bears the following inscription. This tamping iron is extremely sharp and when targeting the head of a foe it is capable of piercing any skull regardless of magical or physical barriers. However, it is relatively unwieldy for a human to use and the head wounds it inflicts are surprisingly a lot less lethal then one would expect.This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept 14, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury & deposited this bar in the Museum of the Medical College of Harvard University. • Phinehas P. Gage • Lebanon Grafton Cy N–H • Jan 6 1850
The rank of Tamping Iron, The Constant Companion is boosted when Phineas Gage both Narrates his first encounter with it and utilizes his American Crowbar Case skill. The three combine to manifest a copy of the noble phantasm with a primed blasting charge underneath the target (as long as Gage can see the target and the target can hear Gage's Narration). This copy of the Noble Phantasm is obscured from the target's perception and is blasted from the ground towards their skull when the target opens their mouth (thus reenacting the story as narrated). This use of Noble Phantasm is best for use on stationary grounded targets (as a sufficiently speedy target could exit the effective range of the blast charge before triggering its detonation). This is a rather exhausting use and repeated activations in a short time period becoming harder and harder (think of him as having 5 charges and he regains charges at a rate of ((his current number of charges)+1)/5 per hour).
Meta ExplanationI was trying to create a Servant who was primarily American, primarily a Lancer, who was in the public domain, and hadn't already been used. Phineas Gage was the first to fit all of these criteria.
I think Mr. Gage is a rather low tier servant, but has the potential to hard counter a Caster with purely mental offensive spells or an Assassin/Archer which specializes in head-shots. I was trying to accurately depict a normal human who was strong enough to survive the partial destruction of their head yet is still recovering from said injury.
Currently reworking to include the advice of RoydGolden. I think I have a good idea, but it is going to take some research to get everything to properly come together.
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