Rider of Submersibles
True Name: Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel
Titles: Father of Submarines, Genius of England's Court
Alignment: True Neutral
Gender: Male
Height: 169 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Other Qualifiable Classes: Caster
Wish: To be given all the resources needed to make the Drebbel capable of going and exploring anywhere.
Likes: Advancements, discovery, science fiction
Dislikes: Stagnation, lack of funding, imprisonment, Prague
Place of Origins/Source: The Netherlands
Talents: Engineering and discovery
Armaments: Missiles, mines, other explosives
Parameters:
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: D
Mana: B
Luck: C
Noble Phantasm: B
Class Skill(s):Riding: D (A)
The ability to skillfully ride mounts and vehicles except for dragon-type mounts as it is said that it requires a different ability other than Riding. At D-Rank, Cornelis can manage beasts and vehicles if he has received the proper training and adjustments with average skill. However, he cannot ride Phantasmal Species.
However, the Rank jumps to A-Rank if he is piloting a submersible like hisas he is their origin and thus within his rights.Come Forth, First of the Traversers of the Watery AbyssDrebbel
Magic Resistance: D
Protection against magecraft through canceling out the spells. At this Rank, it could cancel out Single-Action Spells akin to a magical-energy-rejecting amulet. For Cornelis, despite him knowing magecraft in life, he has never faced another mage hence the low Rank.
Personal Skills:Item Construction: B-
The Skill to manufacture magical items, from implements of war to items for daily use. Also, this Skill requires time to gather components and manufacture items.
Normally the Class Skill of the Caster Class, Cornelis possesses this Skill even as a Rider simply because as a famed engineer and inventor, the creation of wonderous items is engraved upon his Saint Graph. From a chicken incubator and oven that self-regulates its own temperature, air conditioning, solar energy system, scarlet dyes, torpedos, and more recently, his prosthetics. The list even includes a clock that never needs winding and of course the first navigable submarine. Now as a Servant, he could make items equally as wonderful if not more when he possesses enough resources. He could even modify existing items to greater heights. Unfortunately, the quality wouldn't be as high as it could be due to the Rank-down given because of being summoned in the Rider Class instead of a Caster.
Inherent Wisdom: B
A Skill that shows one who has unparalleled natural knowledge. Allows the use of most Skills, excluding those inherent to the body (such as Divinity) or ones unique to particular heroes, at the proficiency of B~C Rank.
Cornelis Drebbel was a genius in his era. That is a certifiable fact as can be proven by his various inventions, the ones known to the public and the ones that don't. From a young age, he has repeatedly demonstrated his intellectual brilliance again and again to his family and there was no hesitation in the decision of choosing him as the inheritor of the family's Magic Crest. This continued after he decided to enter the mundane world to learn magecraft's opposite. Unlike two other users of this Skill, he has no qualms about using the Skill often as: "Why wouldn't you with how useful this is?"
Synthetic Limbs (Cybernetic): C
Refers to the change of one's flesh into a man-made mechanism - specifically metal prosthetics. Bonus modifiers are added to action checks related to combat and success checks. For Cornelis, only his four limbs and eyes are modified hence the moderate Rank but that's not to say the quality of the modifications is bad as the eyes are a combination of a telescope and a microscope that gives Cornelis a form of Clairvoyance. Also, the limbs all contain explosives like amphibious mines and torpedos/missiles, bombs that contain Fulminating gold, and grenades that shoot out Batavian tears in all directions.
These prosthetics are the last addition to the list of Cornelis's creations before he was imprisoned post-Battle of the White Mountain and the loss of his fortune, created out of curiosity and to replace his aging body to maintain his efficiency.
Self-Regulation (Temperature): B
The ability to emit heat or cold when faced with extreme temperatures, based on the combination of his creation of the chicken incubator and oven that can maintain a stable temperature, thermometers, and one of the first AC systems. The Skill passively creates an aura that protects Cornelis from any extreme environments akin to the Protection from X Skills by releasing either heat to counter cold-based attacks or cold to cancel out heat-based attacks. At this Rank, the maximum and minimum temperature that Cornelis can release is -190 degrees Celsius to 1500 degrees Celsius meaning that this temperature range is also the limit of what the Skill can defend against.
Noble Phantasm(s):Eternal Running ClockPerpetuum Mobile
Rank: C
Type: Ant-Unit (Self)
Range: -
Maximum Number of Targets: 1 device
It is said that among Cornelis' inventions, the one which he is the most proud of is a clock which he has described as a perpetual motion machine. The audacious claim aside, this contraption has certainly proven that it can at least run forever without a need for winding like the other clocks. Built with science for the foundation as it's an astronomical clock showing both the date and the current phase of the moon that draws power from the changes in atmospheric pressures and temperatures and enhanced with magecraft to truly make it eternal, the clock was a marvel of its times.
A passive Noble Phantasm that once plugged into a device like the, can act as a power source for it as it could endlessly generate magical energy for it and is no longer limited to drawing power from changes in the air pressure and temperature, now it can draw power from any and all changes to the air like the direction of the air and even the quality. And as Cornelis himself is part machine, he has modified his left shoulder to be able to have the clock serve as a power source, granting himself an extra source of magical energy. This effectively gives him the equivalent of the Avenger Class' Self-Replenishment (Mana) Skill and through that can lessen the burden his master has sustaining him. It also would come in handy should he lose his master too as with this, he could mimic the Archers' Independent Action although a master would still be needed should Cornelis need to expend massive amounts of magical energy like long-term usage of his other Noble Phantasm.Come Forth, First of the Traversers of the Watery AbyssDrebbel
However, as the clock relies upon changes in the air to generate energy, naturally it would become useless in a vacuum but what's the chance of that happening? As such, Cornelis more fears a space in which the air within is completely stagnant which could severely limit the energy production of the clock. And yes, Cornelis can use the clock to do its original function of telling and keeping time which it can do remarkably well, accurately down to the millisecond.
Come Forth, First of the Traversers of the Watery AbyssDrebbel
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Army
Range: 1-40
Maximum Number of Targets: 200 people
The first functional and navigatable submersible vehicle in history, born out of a fusion of science and magecraft in 1620. Working for the English Royal Navy, Drebbel managed to create a wooden boat covered in leather borrowing from an earlier design of William Bourne's. After the success of the submarine, he created two larger and superior subs between 1620-1624, the last one can carry up to 16 people which included King James I (making him the first monarch to travel underwater) for three hours underwater and traveled from Westminster to Greenwich and back. It is here that it is supposedly said that Drebbel revealed that he can create oxygen for the crew to breathe. While evidently, Cornelis isn't the first one to come up with the idea of an underwater vehicle, he is the first one to create a fully functional one.
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It is due to this status of the first successful submarine that it can absorb all the mysteries that have been derived from it. From this and further modifications, it has grown to a massive leviathan that's even bigger than the modern day's biggest submarine at a dimension of 190 meters long by 35 meters for the beam. Forged of steel instead of wood and further reinforced with Cornelis' alchemy, it can withstand even the strongest of impacts and the most crushing of depths with torpedos, naval mines, missiles, and a thickly armored ram serving as its offensive capabilities, it is no wonder that it is classified as Anti-Army. And despite what one would think, it is not constrained to the waters as it's capable of floating through the air just as fast as it does underwater at 92.6 km/h or 50 knots. While not impressive by Servant standards, it's more than fast enough for its role as a mobile base and long-range artillery.
However, as one might expect, the Drebbel has a large magical energy cost for both using it and especially maintaining it for long that both Cornelis and his master would have trouble doing but thankfully that could be somewhat mitigated by using the Perpetuum Mobile as a power source.
Lore & Background:Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was born in 1572, in the city of Alkmaar in the modern-day Netherlands to a magus family that specializes in alchemy. His parents would be delightfully surprised by the genius displayed by Cornelis as he learned how to speak and walk much earlier than the average age and continued to prove that those instances were not a fluke when he was a child, absorbing and quickly remembering any lessons bestowed upon him with great passion. This made his father unhesitantly select him as his successor for the Magic Crest. It's after this that, through his genius, managed to convince his parents to send him to an Academy in Haarlem where a friend and fellow alchemist is as he seeks to learn both mundane knowledge and magecraft, sees wondrous possibilities to be made when he possesses both.
There, he picked several skills like engineering, architecture, engraving, painting, cartography, and further alchemy of both mundane and magical from the aforementioned family friend Hendrik Goltzius. When he was 21, he wedded Hendrick's sister Sophia Jansdochter Goltzius in a political marriage of whom they had 6 kids. However, her prodigal lifestyle would force Cornelis to turn to constant inventing and creating in the mundane world to obtain enough money to support his research and to appease his wife's demands. This would eventually lead to him moving to England where he displayed one of his greatest inventions, a supposedly perpetual motion machine. he would serve at the court of the crown prince Henry Frederick for a few years with the prince's patronage.
He would then travel to Prague and display his inventions there, even striking up a friendship with the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II whose love for the arts and alchemy led to him inviting Cornelis there. However, Rudolf was stripped of his power by his younger brother Matthias in 1611, he was imprisoned for a year before finally being set freed after Rudolf's death and went back to London in 1613. Unfortunately, as Henry has died a year earlier, he was plunged into financial trouble, having to sell optical instruments and twin convex lensed compound microscopes for money.
Six years later, he would be invited to Prague again to tutor the sons of the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, but this eventually led to him being captured again for a time. After that, he went back to London and stayed there for the rest of his life. There, he would design the most famous creations of his life: his submarines all named after him. For 3 years, he designed and created 3 submarines, each bigger and superior to the last one until the third one had 6 oars and could carry 16 passengers, one of whom includes King James I himself for the Royal Navy. However, despite this success, it was never further developed for combat. Eventually, Cornelis died on November 7, 1633, from overworking his body that has already been weakened by diseases and age.
Personality:At first glance, Cornelis seems like the typical mad scientist with his unkempt aged hair and bionics but this is only somewhat true. Aside from being a genius that has a love for science, he shares little resemblance to the mad scientist idea or even the typical magus in fact. For one, he is surprisingly moral for someone who has grown up in the cutthroat world of magecraft most likely due to him never experiencing the cruelty that world has to offer and his participation in the mundane world. This likely made his view of seeing mundane humans as test subjects lessen if only for practicality when interacting with them if he had such view, to begin with. As such, while he isn't a saint, it would take a lot for him to start considering doing any human experiments on anyone but himself.
As mentioned before, Cornelis has an unsatiable fascination with learning new facts and applying them to create new wonderous things. This unexplainable desire is what led him to science, seeing it not as magecraft's mortal enemy but rather as a potential boost, that when combined together properly can lead to greater results than what just one of them can achieve. So should he be summoned to Chaldea or by someone from Atlas, expect him to be in euphoria and would gladly add in his ideas. In the end, his love for research in both science and magecraft is all out of his desire to see the world advance further which itself came from his Origin of Furtherance. His wish for the grail is an extension of this, wanting to explore and research all foreign lands until everything is known. Ironic for a magus. Even more so as unlike other magus, he hates how he can't share his discoveries of magecraft with the rest of the world and was forced to hide away his inventions' schematics.
This love for advancements is why he's such a fan of science fiction, the harder the science the better. He'll often be found reading sci-fi books and watching shows whenever he's not researching and inventing. This is also why he has modified himself to be a cyborg. If he has the chance, he would upload his mind to a machine.
Naturally, Cornelis despises stagnancy in all forms, the very idea of living in an unchanging place is his equivalent of going to hell so should he ever be summoned in a Lostbelt, he'll gladly destroy the Fantasy Tree and prune the futureless world. Aside from that, he also hates any situation where he doesn't have the necessary resources to do what he desires from his frequent struggle against poverty and being imprisoned like his two imprisonments both in Prague. Just try to imprison him and one would find a submarine dropped on them.
Relationship:To Master:
Cornelis would treat his master like an apprentice, gladly teaching them about both science and magecraft so that they may eventually pass the knowledge on in the hopes of new advancements in both fields. And a glorious underwater sight in the Drebbel should be within your expectations. However, threaten him with imprisonment at your own risk.
To Leonardo da Vinci (All versions):
"The legendary da Vinci... Appearances aside... Your intellect is as impressive as I have expected. Mind sharing notes?"
To Nikola Tesla:
"Your achievements are most impressive, and truly deserving of the Star attribute. It's such a shame how your life ended."
To those of the Mechanical attribute:
"(Stars in eyes) Yessssss. May I analyze any of you? Please, I'll be gentle. Although, it's also sad in a way, looking at you guys. Knowing that our civilizations can create ones like you back in the days but now, it's implausible if not outright impossible to recreate you."
To those from the Servant Universe:
"Such advanced technologies, I must see them! How do they work? What powers them? Can I have a piece to study?"
To Friedrich Fröbel:
"Ah, Mr. Fröbel, we meet again. I didn't say this last time but I must thank you for your creation of the concept of kindergartens. With it, you have opened many doors for science for so many people and from them, advancements for human civilization."
To Nemo:
"The famed Nauticulus. What a beautiful creation. Say, if you ever want to help maintain or update it, you can call me anytime."
Author's Note:Not much to say surprisingly. Cornelis is a pretty straightforward servant to write, his most unique thing is his perpetual clock and his self-regulation (temperature) skill. If this feels rushed, it's because I'm going to be busy so I decided to just release it now when I can. I can always just come back to edit/rework it if it's really bad.
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