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Sure I don't mind at all
Foreigner of Reason
(by Fu-haru. Source)
“Servant… Foreigner, honestly? Alright, fair enough, I mocked the world, so perhaps it’s natural the world would mock my poor self in turn.”
True Name: Voltaire
Alias: Francois-Marie Arouet, Arovet Li
Alt. Classes: Avenger, Caster
Source: History
Region: France
Catalyst: The original papers, not just for Candide, but for the Poem on the Lisbon Disaster specifically
Armament: His quill and his own words. Could maybe muster some burns and explosions from lab equipment
<< Alt. Faceclaim>>
Character: “I can’t promise you the greatest ever Servant, but I can at least ensure competence and intelligence, which ought to qualify me for the higher tiers.”
One of the foremost figures, some have even argued the foremost figure, of the 18th century European Enlightenment, Voltaire was an ever-controversial writer and critic who spared few in his written attacks, the Church, the aristocracy, the slave trade, even the concept of optimism itself.
Slandering the government from a very young age, Voltaire (only just about to adopt that pen name) was thrown in the Bastille early in his writing career. It wouldn’t be until later in life that he would gain any acceptance from authority, such as becoming a favourite of the Prussian ruler Frederick the Great (though even they weren’t always on the best of terms).
Of course, it’d be wrong to think that Voltaire was only about what he hated, as much as he did hate what passed for authority in his time. He was staunchly in support of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, merit over lineage, and a constitutional monarchy over an absolutist one, virtues that have become more common today but were shocking and dangerous in his time.
He was also known for his close, if turbulent, relationship with Emilie du Chatelet, discoverer of the First Law of Thermodynamics. Chatelet once claimed they were childhood friends, though Voltaire seemed to forget that initial meeting. While they shared many common interests such as science (Newton moist of all), history, and literature, ultimately any love between them didn’t last, though they still maintained a professional and friendly collaboration.
Delving deep into uncharted knowledge as they did, both Voltaire and Chatelet stumbled across Outer Gods from beyond. But while Chatelet’s recorded historical death meant she escaped joining the ranks of the Foreigner Class, her closest brush being reverse manufacturing something akin the Colour out of Space, Voltaire was… not so fortunate.
What belief in the world as it was that Voltaire may have had was shattered by the 1855 Lisbon Earthquake, one of the deadliest earthquakes ever inflicted on humanity, which in turn sent a social quake throughout all Europe. It was this complete destruction of any faith in relief which caused Voltaire to see through the world’s own nature and to an entity known to some as the Demiurge, to others as Ubbo-Sathla, said to be the creator of all material life and keeper of all the Elder Gods’ knowledge. When Voltaire died an unknown death, even he could not renounce this Demiurge, for then he’d truly be alone in ‘death’.
Summoned as Foreigner, he went in expecting the world to be just as irrational as ever and was proven half-right. While the ideals he once fought for, free speech, freedom of religion, constitutional monarchy, meritocracy over lineage, are now hardly that new at all, idiocy and blind faith still aren’t going anywhere. That his ideology has become much more accepted does gladden him, but on the other hand, also makes him worried he may no longer really be needed in this world as he was back in the 18th century, that he’s been rendered redundant. Not that he’ll admit this out loud, of course.
He has his concerns about the Holy Grail War even existing, but at the same time can’t say he’s surprised that such a destructive thing would come about. He does assume his involvement is necessary though, thinking it will only end up more of a disaster if someone of his intelligence doesn’t intervene.
Attribute: Star
Alignment: Chaotic Rational
Likes: Free speech, freedom of religion, Newtonian physics, Eastern religions
Dislikes: Church meddling in state affairs, divine meddling in human affairs, thoughtless optimism, earthquakes
Relationships
- Goethe: “Finally, a fellow beacon of reason, a few early hiccups aside. Still, I find end-of-story divine redemptions a little suspension of disbelief breaking.”
- Kafka: “Well, young lady… I presume, I shall certainly keep you in mind whenever anyone complains I’m ‘too cynical’.”
- Emilie du Chatelet: “Of course I knew you would qualify… but as a Saber? I suppose you did mention you trained in fencing, must’ve slipped by me given your knowledge of so much more.”
- Cathy Morland: “Hmm, haunted mansion, murderers, hidden dungeons, tell me young lady, are you familiar with a little thing we call ‘evidence’? How about ‘proof’?”
- Ataturk: “Hmm, perhaps a bit too much Rousseau inspiration for my liking, but certainly commendable nevertheless.”
- Margaret Garner: “I wonder if certain people I could name would change their views, were they also forced to kill their children?”
- Bolivar: “I’d congratulate you for being an attentive student, but still, to think the Enlightenment could ever lead to soemthing called ‘Decree of War to the Death’.”
- Dorothy: “Why, your Oz does indeed sound like a ‘magical’ place… but please run along my dear, the grown-ups are talking.”
- Marinette: “I’ll admit I struggle to defend France. Had our officials been reasonable from the start, perhaps the atrocities inflicted on Haiti could’ve been stopped pre-emptively. That said, I'll have to pass on your Vodou, I know veiled Catholicism when I see it.”
- Orlando: “How tiring it must’ve been, grasping the Spirits of multiple Ages while I spent my whole life mastering but one. Also, I must question your choice of company. I mean, Alexander Pope, really?”
Master: As he got along with few in life, it would take a most particular Master to sync well with him. Preferably nobody too friendly with the Mages’ Association, definitely no Sacrament users, and of course someone not necessarily pessimistic, but certainly of rational temperament.
Natural Enemy: Gottfried Leibniz and the Catholic Church
Wish: That no divine being ever again intervenes in human affairs, neither traditional god nor eldritch horror.
Keywords: Enlightenment, Free thought, Pessimism, Garden, Demiurge
Rarity: 3/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** E
- Endurance: ***** D
- Agility: ***** C
- Magic: ***** C
- Luck: ***** C → B
- Noble Phantasm: ***** A
Class Skills
Divinity
Level of closeness to a Divine Spirit.
- Rank C: Comes not from any natural divinity but rather his connection with the Demiurge Ubbo-Sathla. Would inherently be a Rank higher but has decreased due to his dislike of organised religion and divine intervention.
Existence Outside the Domain
The sign of those from the world beyond, and those who have contracted with them.
- Rank A: Already a pessimist, any belief Foreigner had in the justness of any (non-deist) God, or that this could be the ‘best of all possible worlds’, was completely shattered by the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, one of history’s most destructive. His mind as shattered as Lisbon was, it was that moment he saw through the ‘view of reality’ to stare right at the Demiurge beneath the Earth, keeper of the Elder Gods’ collective knowledge,
Personal Skills
Demon of Rationality
Value of logic and rationality above all, becoming able to nullify fate, theology, and mental interference at the cost of one’s own human nature.
- Rank A: Foreigner’s name is all but synonymous with ‘rationality’ as a concept, especially rationality as employed against the Church. At this point, he gains a Rank Up to Luck and immunity to all but the strongest sacraments. Just as well, for this Skill is a constant necessity for his mind to avoid being completely consumed by the Demiurge-inflicted madness.
Librarian of Knowledge (Eldritch)
Allows for a clear recall of knowledge through the Luck stat, even for events one wasn’t directly aware of… or that man was not meant to know.
- Rank A+: Already extremely knowledgeable, having owned one of the largest libraries of the age alongside Emilie du Chatelet. However, having contracted with the Demiurge and gained access to the collective knowledge of the Elder Gods, Foreigner now has access to ‘divine’ knowledge stretching back to long before he, or humanity, was even alive. Accessing the furthest extent of such knowledge requires a Sanity check.
Satirization
The user's observation causes other Noble Phantasms to lose power and transform into mocking imitations of themselves. At full power, legendary sacred swords become flabby rubber swords, unbreakable spears become like wooden chopsticks, and powerful laser beams become harmless light shows.
- Rank A: Foreigner is especially effective at mocking and weakening Sacraments and anything else of a Holy Christian nature but can also use this Skill to great effect against increasingly mystical, ‘non-scientific’ Phantasms (more technological Phantasms, not so much) as well as any with a strong basic in positive ideals like hope or justice.
Zeitgeist – Eighteenth Century
Going beyond simply observing an era, the Servant can instead be said to have defined and embodied the spirit of the era, thus can call upon any Skill associated with the time. Covers the eighteenth century specifically.
- Rank A: No less than Victor Hugo said that to know Voltaire is to know the 18th century. Has access to any Skill relevant to the Age of Enlightenment, such as Appreciation of the Arts, Rebellious Destiny, Eye of the Mind (True), Technique Elucidation, Human Observation, Hard Workers Are Rewarded, and so forth.
Noble Phantasms
Candide, ou L’Optimisme
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
Rank: E-A
Type: Anti-Unit (though effects can go up to Anti-fortress), ‘Anti-Optimism’
By far Foreigner’s most infamous and influential work, a satirical story of a misfortune and disaster-filled random journey that fully expressed his skepticism towards philosophical and religious optimism. That the idea we lived in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ was not only callous in face of this world’s atrocities, but maddeningly nightmarish.
This Phantasm allows Foreigner to write events into his Target’s fate that would inflict misfortune, if not total disaster. His mind is imaginative enough that said misfortunes can vary wildly, from natural disasters to being ambushed to broken alliances to Phantasms rebounding. At the same time, he cannot simply write in any disaster he wants.
This Phantasm’s core concept requires these written events to go towards the intended goal of destroying the Target’s optimism and worldview. This means how devastating what Foreigner writes can be is proportional to how optimistic his Target is, be it about their chances of winning the War, or about the general goodness of the world. Being designed to shatter worldviews, the Phantasm even gains a Rank Up within others’ Reality Marbles. Only someone with no faith in themselves or the world would be completely immune to this Phantasm.
Incidentally, Demiurge Ubbo-Sathla is quite the fan of this Noble Phantasm, though not for the reasons Foreigner would want anyone to be. After all, terrible disasters that utterly demolish one’s pre-existing beliefs make it much easier for any Outer God to convert and enrapture those whose sanity has been destroyed.
Demiurgos
The Invention of a New God in a New Eden
Rank: A
Type: ‘Divine’
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”, so Foreigner’s famous quote goes. Ruthlessly critical as he was of established religions and European society and traditions, the thought of what we’d now call a ‘God is dead’ mentality still concerned him, feeling that mindset would only harm society and morality. To Foreigner, a world without God to provide moral standards and examples would be no world at all, and while the old order must be destroyed, there must be a new one in its place.
It is possible this search for a new God was what, to Foreigner’s regret, led him to Ubbo-Sathla in the first place. But with the foremost of Ubbo-Sathla’s powers as Demiurge being the creation of life itself, acting as a Primordial Sea or Garden of Eden (in Foreigner’s mind, an actual Garden of Eden this time round) from which any life form can emerge, they wield exactly the power that Foreigner can utilise to bring forth the ‘invention of God’.
Employing this ‘primordial Eden’, Foreigner can manufacture a new Divine Core from which is spawned the ‘new God’. Surprisingly, this new God actually starts off quite weak, needing to accumulate belief like mages accumulate mana to realise and grow to its full power. However, as a deist it is not Foreigner’s intent that this should be any authoritative or judgment-dealing God, but rather an exemplary God existing to serve as a blueprint for what humanity ought to aspire to. And yet, the best laid plans…
It has been remarked that this Phantasm is similar in nature to what the poet and artist William Blake could be capable of as a Servant. However, as Blake quite unlike foreigner was firmly anti-Enlightenment, it is likely either Servant’s implementation of such a power would be quite different.
Last edited by NailsInYourFeet; November 12th, 2022 at 02:23 AM. Reason: Alt Faceclaim
Source: Mizaeltengu
Class: Lancer
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: Sigrid the Haughty
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Place of Origin: Sweden (10th Century)
Stars: 2/5
Parameters:
STR: D
END: B
AGI: C
MGI: D
LCK: C
NP: B
Height: 180cm
Weight: 140lbs
Likes: Perfection, people who know their place
Dislikes: Insolent people, imperfection
Talent: "Making Suitors Unwilling To Court"
Natural Enemy: Louis XI, Yeongsangun
Attribute: Earth
Traits: Female, Humanoid, Weak to Enuma Elish
Armament: A spear, glowing red
Catalyst: A bracelet made of brass and plated with gold
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance C: Normally this would be rank E as she never encountered magic, but her sheer will to be the queen ranks this up to rank C.
Personal Skills:
Prophetess C: She was noted as "prophetic of many things and the wisest of women", especially by Snorri. This enables her to gain a minor precognition tool akin to a high ranked Instinct. However, in non-battle situations it becomes even more effective, expanding from brief moments to hours.
Elegant Mannerisms B+: She was noted for her extremely elegant mannerisms, which were some of the ways she attracted the unwanted attention of her suitors. So she utilized it to her advantage, setting things up so that they would not suspect anything until they were trapped. This manifests in a skill which causes her to gain supernatural dexterity and reflexes to make for the perfect elegance, which also exerts a charm effect on those who see it.
Storrada B: She was known as Storrada, Of the Great Undertakings, after she burned away her suitors. This manifests as a skill which enhances her within any things counted as "great undertakings", massive challenges, in her case they tend to be in battle, for she is treated as "having experience with it".
Noble Phantasm(s):
Trott pa Uppvakta
Making Them Unwilling To Court
Type: Bounded Field
Rank: C
Range: 30 meters
Max Targets: 100
The sublimation of her burning of the castle and killing of anyone who tried to leave. This manifests in the form of a spear constantly appearing like it is licking with flame. When its true name is activated, she draws a Bounded Field that immediately bursts into flames at grow the greater the targets' love for her is. In addition, if any being leaves the Field, she gains a Rank-Up to stats against them and the flames solidify on her spear.
Gyllene Massing
This May Some Day Be Thy Doom
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: B
Range: 10 meters
Max Targets: 1
The sublimation of her grudge against Olaf Trygvasson, which was caused by his awful attempts at seducing her and lead to her leading an army to sink him. This manifests as the two huge brass gauntlets surrounding her hands. When the true name is called, titanic water vortexes emerge from it in the shape of huge hands, seizing targets and causing them to sink in the seas.
Lore: Sigrid the Haughty (967-1014) was a queen of Sweden who showed up in several Norse Sagas. She was noted for her beauty and wisdom, and her prophetess powers. When two kings, Harald and Visavaldr, came down to try to marry her, she sent them courteously to a guest palace which she then, courteously, set on fire and stabbed anyone who tried to escape. Then Olaf Trygvasson tried to marry her, but his first gift (A golden gauntlet) turned out to be merely plated brass and when she refused to convert to christianity he slapped her in her face with a glove. So she calmly stated "This may mean your doom" and then made it so, causing him to be thrown off the boat tied to rocks.
Personality: A serene and elegant person normally to almost everyone. However, to suitors, she becomes quite a bit more vicious and cruel, if they can't back up their claims beginning to attack, and liars who remind her of Trygvasson will immediately get drowned. Her wish is to no longer attract suitors.
Relationships:
Louis XI: "A manipulative spider? Of course that's here."
Lola Montez: "Spider Dance? What is that?"
Marozia: "I see the darkness looming beneath you, oh child of the light."
Huascar: "I think we're going to get along just fine."
Yeongsangun: "You're my worst suitors all over again, aren't you? Fine. I suppose if I can't stop you by elegance, time for force."
I am not a fan of your Foreigners, Nails.
They lack flair and interest. You concentrate too much on the flimsy "uncertain death" thing that was thrown in by FGO and was discarded soon after anyway.
And the reasons why Servant X of all people is connected to God Y feels random. Like anyone couldve been the vessel for them. They lack the creepy factor. Voltaire feels like voltaire. We get to know nothing of interest of US and their effect on voltaire.
This sheet feels like a "i make a foreigner sheet just because." Which i dislike. You want to leave the reader with the impression of "of course they are class X, it has to be!" Especially Foreigners need that. Else the perception is the outer god is a convenient way to powerwank and make a servant stand out - without standing out.
Outer Gods are good tools to portray the struggle of people and amplify them as servants. And i try to make the themes between them fit.
As i said from the get go.
Creating a Foreigner is basically making sheets for two.
You make a Servant in which an Outer God cameos.
Thats my opinion, do with it as you will.
"Let's see the color of your coin, my friend."
Behold my vault of Heroes.
Where the Heavens and the Abyss breath the Music of Humanity.
The King's duty is to provide. And provide, I shall.
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Our Kingdom will grow. And we shall know each citizen.
Create-a-Servant 4 soon.
Gogol: He is my favourite writer ever. I am happy you made a servant a sheet of him, and a good one at that. I too had a thought of making him a Berserker, so nice going jish. Also, no use Viy? I am veeery disappointed.
Mind if I also make a Gogol servant?
Last edited by ThreadNomad; November 12th, 2022 at 04:51 AM.
Of course. As they say - more Gogols for the god of Gogols! What class will you give him?
Foreigner, but I am afraid of DelRey crucifying me for the sole reason of it being shit quality.
Last edited by ThreadNomad; November 12th, 2022 at 06:59 AM.
Bruh
Dw, i am more lenient to newcomers and their first foreigners
Its just that everytime i saw a Foreigner from Nails, something has been nagging me
"Let's see the color of your coin, my friend."
Behold my vault of Heroes.
Where the Heavens and the Abyss breath the Music of Humanity.
The King's duty is to provide. And provide, I shall.
University of Formatting | Gallery of Potential | Memorandum of the Extra Class Kings
Our Kingdom will grow. And we shall know each citizen.
Create-a-Servant 4 soon.
to be fair
if for every servant I have co-authored or written that has made literature and has been turned into a rider gives me a penny, I would have two pennies, which isn't much but weird that I have two.
Thanks hubby, your reassurance helps me very much.
Last edited by ThreadNomad; November 12th, 2022 at 07:46 AM.
I'm so glad you like the sheet! I omitted Viy because Viy himself doesn't feel central enough to Gogol to manifest through that and at the time Viy was supposedly still working with the Romanovs.
Source: Madame Red
Class: Assassin
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: Shirley Jackson
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Place of Origin: America (20th Century)
Stars: 2/5
Parameters:
STR: D
END: C
AGI: C
MGI: C
LCK: C
NP: B
Height: 184cm
Weight: 108lbs
Likes: Drawing attention to the flaws of the world
Dislikes: Talking about herself
Talent: Writing
Natural Enemy: Nikolai Gogol
Attribute: Man
Traits: Humanoid, Female, Weak to Enuma Elish
Armament: A pen
Catalyst: The Lottery
Class Skills:
Presence Concealment B: She was extremely reclusive in her later life, refused to talk about herself, often hid the true perspectives of her stories extremely effectively, and some of her works weren't discovered till almost 40 years after her death. THis has all fused into a powerful ability to hide her presence.
Personal Skills:
We Have Always Lived In The Castle A: One of her most famous works, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, her final work, a Gothic mystery where it's revealed that the main protagonist murdered her family. This manifests as a skill which enables her to poison food akin to how the protagonist poisoned sugar.
False Tradition C: A lot of her works discussed false tradition that extended so far back that the reason had vanished. This enables her to cause other reasons to vanish, removing the cause for some actions, although this only lasts for a short time as a skill. This is useful to daze and disorient those who she fights.
Architectural Gene B: In a lot of her works, the buildings were almost themselves characters in their own right, with Jackson accrediting it to an "architectural gene" which is passed down her family. This grants her Eye for Art (Architecture) at the same rank, as well as makes every building she's in become more like a "horror building".
Noble Phantasm(s):
The Haunting of Hill House
Spectral Center, Or Is It?
Type: Bounded Field
Rank: C
Range: 20 meters
Max Targets: 100 targets
The sublimation of one of her most famous works, the Haunting of Hill House, which is one of the most classic "Haunted House" Works. However, notably, almost all of the supernatural phenomena comes back to one of the protagonists, Eleanor, as opposed to the house itself, leading to the possibility that the house itself was never supernatural. When the true name is called, a bounded field expands around her. Within it, she gains powerful telekinesis, becoming able to control objects at her will and produce supernatural phenomena. But this isn't the main usage. As others stay within, they become "bonded" to it, and slowly lose willingness to leave, becoming sealed in with her and her phenomena.
The Lottery
A Scapegoat For Our Sins
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: B
Range: 5 meters
Max Targets: 15 targets
The sublimation of her most famous work, The Lottery, in which a village performs a lottery which has them stone to death one member of the village every year. When the true name is called, Shirley manifests the lottery itself, randomly marking a person within as being the "only sinner" and cleansing the rest, before barraging the marked person with stones that grow in power based on the weight of the sins. A cousin to that which marked Angra Mainyu. However, she will usually refuse to use this noble phantasm.
Lore: Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) was a famous American writer noted for her horror and mystery works, with her most famous and first big success being The Lottery. Other famous ones include We Have Always Lived In The Castle and The Haunting of Hill House. In her later life she became extremely reclusive.
Personality: A bouncy and cheerful person. She loves to tell jokes and tell stories. She hates talking about herself and people asking questions about her. She tends to prefer to not battle if in any way possible. Her wish for the Grail is for people to not talk about her, only her work.
Relationships:
Nikolai Gogol: "Oh, poor soul, so maddened by those... foolish individuals."
Helen Taft: "A soiree? I'd love... oh actually I think I cannot come."
Sigrid the Haughty: "Drowning? What?"
Nana Asma'u: "What a lovely idea! I'd love to join!"
Fukuda Chiyo-ni: "Morning glory vines? Are they really good writing tools?"
Migrating over from GaS is the White Feather Archer!
ARCHER
“Life is all around us. It ain’t hurt to take a moment and just listen. You might be surprised by what it has to say.”
It's winter in Sapporo. And as the weather stirs, so too does a new Holy Grail War.
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Totally unrelated to the current sheets, but I just wanted to confirm something. What is the policy here about multiple sheets in one post ? (Asking because I have ideas for a duo that would go together but they are two separate Servants with separate sheets, and one whom I might make multiple classes for)
We don't need sanity where we're going !
The policy is "don't".
You can if you must, but generally, it's better to just use links. Too many sheets in one post will result in them not being included in the index.
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I remember back in the day it was generally frowned upon since it made things harder to catalogue, but I think people have eased up on it since
As one who compiles, pls dont
I think the window in which two consecutive posts are forcefully merged are 10min.
Just wait for a bit and post the 2nd sheet
"Let's see the color of your coin, my friend."
Behold my vault of Heroes.
Where the Heavens and the Abyss breath the Music of Humanity.
The King's duty is to provide. And provide, I shall.
University of Formatting | Gallery of Potential | Memorandum of the Extra Class Kings
Our Kingdom will grow. And we shall know each citizen.
Create-a-Servant 4 soon.
I recall once upon a time the index'ers got annoyed with me because I had two sheets ready to go yet because I had posted them within ten minutes of each other, which of course unintentionally causes the post-merge function to activate and thus they became one post.
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Thanks for the answer, I'll be careful
Now I just need to pick which one of my Servants in project I should send here next
We don't need sanity where we're going !
Perfect timing.
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