Berserker
"Grrr... Awooooooooo!!"
True Name: Peter Stumpp
Epithets: The Werewolf of Bedburg
Class: Berserker
Alternate Classes: Caster, Assassin
Alignment: Chaotic Mad
Attribute: Earth
Origin: Historical Fact — Germany (16th Century)
Likes: — (Nothing, since he is mad enhanced)
Dislikes: — (Nothing, since he is mad enhanced)
Talent: — (Nothing, since he is mad enhanced)
Natural Enemy: Atalanta
Armament: N/A
Traits: Beast, Demonic, Male, Humanoid, Servant, Weak to Enuma Elish
Catalyst: The skeletal remains of a severed werewolf paw
Parameters:
STR: A
END: A+
AGI: B
MGI: B
LUK: C
NP: A
PersonalityDue to Mad Enhancement, Peter’s personality has all been erased. What is left is not a man but a savage monster that hungers for blood. He seems to understand to some extent his role as a Servant, but his Master better have firm control over him lest he engage in outright slaughter or even turn on his Master. There is a certain level of cunning in his actions, but as Mad Enhancement has affected his higher mental faculties this intelligence is really more on par with an intelligent beast than the human intellect he once possessed.
He has a wish, even if he is not fully capable of communicating it under his current Class. Peter’s wish is simply not to be executed and to continue to live out his days without his true nature ever being detected.
LorePeter Stumpp was the accused of one of the most famous werewolf trial in history, being accused of many things: incest, murder, cannibalism, but above all he was accused of lycanthropy. Much of Peter’s life has been lost to history, with much of what is known about him being recorded from his trial and confession under torture.
Peter was a wealthy farmer living in the rural village of Bedburg, who claimed to have been practicing black magic ever since he was twelve years old. The young Peter consorted with demons, including bedding a succubus. At some point in his life he was given a magical belt from the Devil, which allowed him to turn into a werewolf. For twenty-four years, Peter terrorized his village and surrounding areas, gorging on the flesh of not only livestock but men, women, and children. In his time he claimed he devoured fourteen children, including his own son.
Werewolf hunters from his town had tried numerous times to put down the werewolf, but usually failed. One day they managed to sever the left paw off the beast, and later Peter appeared with a corresponding injury. With this evidence, it was believed that he was in fact the werewolf, so he was put on trial and put through in tense torture. Breaking under the torture, Peter confessed to all charges.
Peter was brutally executed by being torn into ten pieces. To warn people to not follow in his path, the town erected a pole with the wheel used to torture him, his severed head impaled on top.
SkillsClass Skills:
Mad Enhancement: B
Raises basic parameters in exchange of hindering mental capacities. In some cases, it also seals away Personal Skills. Boost up all parameters, but takes away most of sanity. Differs from other Berserkers, while regular servants go insane with the effect of Mad Enhancement they still retain the mindset of a human and will react to things like a human. However as his Noble Phantasm is active at the same time as his Mad Enhancement, his mentality becomes like that of a beast's while under the effects of Mad Enhancement.
Personal Skills:
Animalistic Logic: B
A combative way of thinking resulting from transforming into a beast. It's not useful for finding weak points, but the speed of thinking focusing on killing the enemy swiftly increases.
Blood-Sucking: C
The act of absorbing another's blood to replenish their own health and physical and/or magical strength. For Peter, it is an absorption and recovery of physical strength when consuming flesh.
Monstrous Strength: A
A Skill that temporarily grants a rank-up to one's Strength parameter for a time limit determined by the ranking of this Skill. It is borne from the holder's nature as a monster or Demonic Beast.
Scream of Fear: C
A roar that arouses another's instinctive awe as a living being. Peter can bestow fear and continuous Defense Down on all enemies.
Noble PhantasmWerwolf Gürtel
The Werewolf of Bedburg
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Range: 1
Maximum Number of Targets: Self
A magical belt that is said to be given to Peter by the Devil, which has granted him the ability to transform into a werewolf form. Once the belt is put on, Peter will rapidly transform into a werewolf, sky-rocketing his Parameters to the point where he is comparable to the Three Knight Classes. Due to the demonic origins of the belt, the werewolf form he assumes makes him a Demonic Beast is nature and thus is more susceptible to attacks that injure such creatures. While assuming werewolf form, his normal Skills are sealed and replaced with those more in-line with his nature as a monster. Contrary to popular beliefs about werewolves, this Noble Phantasm doesn’t require it to be night for it to be activated nor does he gain the weakness to silver that actual werewolves have. This is due to the fact that Peter Stumpp is not a natural werewolf and instead gains lycanthropic abilities through use of a magical artifact.
Under any other Class, Peter would be able to retain his human mind while assuming werewolf form, but under the Berserker Class his mentality is changed to be more akin to a beast. As a Berserker, the Noble Phantasm is permanently activated, trapping Peter in his werewolf form as he lacks the mental faculties to remove it himself. While it is possible to revert Peter back to his human form through use of a Command Seal, it would be an entirely pointless action as his mental has been hampered by the Mad Enhancement Skill, thus making it impossible to access his normal Skills.
RelationshipsChild Servants: Is naturally violent towards children and actively enjoys killing and eating them. As a Berserker, this desire to gorge himself on the flesh of children is particularly strong. He is the enemy of children, a menacing predatory antagonist, a Big Bad Wolf.
Atalanta: As a killer of children, he is directly opposed to the huntress who protects children. This antagonism goes even further given his nature as a beast and her nature as a huntress of beasts. It is unlikely these two would ever get along even if Peter were in his unaffected mindset.
Saints: He is a demonic entity, as such he is also an enemy to these holy persons. Peter personally has some biases towards the Catholic Church due to their involvement in his execution which he believes was due to his Protestant faith rather than his actual crimes. This bias is lost, however, as a Berserker and is simply another demonic entity for the Saints to vanquish.
Giles de Rais: These two would have gotten along surprisingly well if it weren't for Peter's insanity. As a fellow child murderer who engaged in the dark arts and consorted with demons, Peter would have felt a kinship with him.
Creator NotesComing hot off the heels of my much more detailed (and obviously better) Ada Lovelace sheet, here is this rather simplistic sheet for Peter Stumpp. I kind of been kicking around this idea for quite some time (back around when I first started writing Imhotep, really) and I decided to bite the bullet and write it up. He isn't a super complex character, more traditional Berserker compared to some other, but it was still fun to write him up.