Yeah, 'Justice'. It's not quite as obvious since his hair is white normally, but it turns blue when he activates his Ether Gear and the recognizable face-tattoo appears, plus he has a fraught relationship with Elsie (the resident Erza counterpart).Originally Posted by Comun
Wow. I can definitely agree with Mashima's apparent sentiment that Sieghart was his best character, but I don't think that justifies making the guy a third time. (Or, judging by the Erza comment, maybe he was actually trying to do Jellal a second time but couldn't because Jellal never had a design of his own, lol)
Source: Catic
Class: Caster
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: Pachacuti
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Place of Origin: Incan Empire (15th Century)
Stars: 5/5
Parameters:
STR: B
END: B
AGI: D
MGI: B
LCK: C
NP: A
Height: 181cm
Weight: 100lbs
Likes: Control, dominion, bloodshed
Dislikes: Freedom, the moon, darkness
Talent: Conquering
Natural Enemy: Cipactli, Huayna Capac
Attribute: Sky
Traits: Male, Humanoid, Divine, Weak to Enuma Elish
Armament: N/A
Catalyst: Part of Macchu Picchu
Class Skills:
Territory Construction A: The ability to create a temple to Inti which enhances all of his magic massively.
Item Creation B: The ability to produce weapons of war, usually touched by the sun.
Personal Skills:
Earth Shaker A: Pachacuti. Earth shaker, a name he gave himself after a victory so incredible that supposedly even the stones themselves fought with his army, destroying all who stood in his way. This grants him the capability to command and control the earth, exerting the authority over it to send shooting spikes or huge boulders at his enemies.
Relocation B: He notably relocated thousands and tens of thousands of his people to the fringes of his empire, forcibly sending them into lands which were very bad for life. The ability to "forcibly relocate people", teleporting them outside of his nearby zone with a crash that saps their mana, as it is fueled by theirs.
Sapa Inca A++: As one of the greatest Incan emperors, Pachacuti gains this skill denoting his existence as an Incan emperor at an extraordinarily high rank. A variant of Imperial Privilege allowing him to take on skills such as Blooddrinking, Military Tactics, Mountain Traversing, and so on.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Inti Churi
Son of the Sun
Type: Support
Rank: B
Range: 0 meters
Max Targets: 0
His declaration that he was the son of the sun god, as well as his work to increase the worship of Inti massively, sublimated into a Noble Phantasm. Passively, it enhances him, allowing him to become the son of Inti, granting him divinity at rank B, as well as enabling him to control fire which he can shape into entities appearing humanlike, akin to the partygoers at the Festival of Winter Solstice.
Macchu Picchu
Endless Temple Complex
Type: Reality Marble
Rank: A
Range: 100 meters
Max Targets: 10000 Targets
The sublimation of his ultimate construction project, Macchu Picchu. When its true name is called, he utilizes his command over the earth to reshape it, pulling forth his Reality Marble from far below. A domain of perpetually burning flame and endlesss conflict as civilians within actperfectly according to Pachacuti's wills.
Lore: Pachacuti was the ninth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco, and transformed it from merely a single, small kingdom into the titanic and sprawling Incan Empire. He is also credited for creating, spreading and popularizing the Sun Cult, which worshipped Inti, god of the sun, and claiming he was his son.
Personality: A cruel, vicious person. He hates those who dislike bloodshed, but also those willing to be chaotic. His ideal society would be perfectly timed and orderly bloodshed endlessly. His wish for the grail would be to rebuild the Incan Empire, with him as the head, conquering all of South America and then the world.
Relationships:
Cipactli: "How dare you turn the earth against me? Your blood shall endlessly spill for this!"
Huayna Capac: "Pacifism? In my own grandson? How pathetic."
Therese of Lisieux: "Self-sacrifice? The only worthy sacrifice is someone else."
Catherine of Aragon: "Your battles were impressive, but... why are you so kind?"
Yosano Akiko: "No! Send them to fight! Send them to die!"
Ennigaldi: "A... museum? What is that?"
Amaridevi: "Pit traps? I'll have to try that one out."
Dong Xian: "Impressive social climing. I wonder if you can fight as well?"
Anqi Sheng: "Immortality? Hand that here, so I shall become the God-Emperor!"
Erik Satie: "Secrets. So amazing, aren't they?"
William Thornton: "Why are you bringing back the dead and not wreaking war?"
Hey, how 'bout a Lancer from me that actually uses a spear?
Admittedly I'm worried at some points this sheet feels a bit more Empress than Cavendish, but in the end I'd like to think I've achieved a nice balance (also a case of a fusion Servants who was a fusion in their own 'canon'):
Lancer of Blazing Stars
(by Binishu. Source)
“Through my inner world, I can rise to be a conqueror greater than Alexander and Caesar - Or I can go ahead and conquer the outer world too, ah, that is, establish peace there, if we're both up for that."
True Name: Margaret Cavendish
Alias: Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 'Mad Madge'/Empress of the Blazing World
Alt. Classes: Voyager, Foreigner, Berserker (Cavendish only), Caster, Rider, Shielder, Gatekeeper (in which Cavendish would appoint her Master ‘Empress’)
Source: History, Fiction (The Blazing World)
Region: Britain, ‘Esfi’
Catalyst: Original publication of The Blazing World alongside Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Armament: Diamond spear and shield, firestones
Character: “I have such a pitiable mind, bashful, compulsively writing, needing attention – But my mind’s not pitiable in the slightest!”
Margaret Cavendish was an English noblewoman of the 17th century, primarily a writer, of prose, poems, essays, and plays, but also a scientist, philosopher, and lady-in-waiting to Henrietta Maria, queen to no less than Charles I. She’s most prominently remembered as an early science-fiction author and adopter of what would become multiverse theory.
Though not without admiration and respect in her time, being championed by her Cavalier husband and getting to be the first woman to enter the Royal Society of London, she was just as much ridiculed and looked down on, her reputation not improving till centuries later. A particular point of contention was, unlike other woman writers of the time, she never published anonymously. Not helping was, her husband and her being so closely allied with the Royals, her exile to France after the end of the English Civil War, she couldn’t even speak French either.
Then in 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London, something… happened. Margaretwrote that shewas summoned to a planet in another dimension, the magnificent Blazing World where talking animals abounded and the shining stars made night as bright as day, and which was the original site of the Garden of Eden. She was called by none other than its Empress, a woman who like her had come from another world, who needed someone both recent and a fellow woman to act as her scribe.
The two women from other worlds quickly bonding, the Empress invited Margaret to travel with her back to her homeworld, as Margaret had once shown her Earth. As the Empress’ original world had fallen into disarray, she wished to stabilise by winning all its wars in favour of Esfi, her home nation. To do this, the Empress would let Margaret’s soul inhabit her own body, though with the Empress remaining conscious.
It is in this fused form that both Margaret Cavendish and the Empress are summoned as in the Lancer Class. This is personally how Margaret would prefer it as, while still desiring acknowledgement as a great mind in her own right, her awkward, bashful self feels much more assured entering into the Grail War as and alongside the far more confident Blazing Empress. Not that a geeky, awkward girl and a much more forthright woman sharing the one body never makes things go awry…
In most ways but one, Margaret feels much more at home in the modern world than the 17th century, given the advance of science, there now being far more sci-fi authors than just her, Kepler, and Lucian of Samosata, and women authors at least being better treated compared to her day. The Empress certainly finds it fascinating to see how far Earth has come since she was last here, but still refuses to admit it’s reached the heights of the Blazing World.
However, one way in which both sides of Lancer don’t gel with the modern world is that Margaret being a Cavalier and the Empress being, well, an Empress, both are firm monarchists, and not of the constitutional variety either, believing the only way to end all conflict is through undivided rule. Margaret was even a follower of Hobbesian authoritarianism, even if she didn’t completely agree with him. They’ll both insist they believe in benevolent monarchism, for what that’s worth…
Attribute: Star
Alignment: Lawful Neutral in theory, Chaotic Good in practice
Likes: Fashion, vitalism, being recognised / Jewellery, sermonising, monarchy
Dislikes: Animal testing, weaving, melancholia / Vague answers, being left out, division
Relationships
- Kafka: “A rather macabre world you have created, so macabre even you seem to regret it – Hmph, some Empress you turned out to be.”
- Heinlein: “It’s a shame, though not unexpected, that you won’t acknowledge me as an inspiration – Though I bet you’ve never thought up anything that didn’t have roots in the Blazing World! Seriously, power armour? Try a divine diamond dress!”
- Cathy Morland: “You seem to have a strong internal world – Except you don’t realise the ‘internal’ part.”
- C.S. Lewis: “I would commend your Narnia, but… – Ahem, would you keep your allegories out of my own world?”
- Christina: “The Lion’s daughter? It’s a pleasure to meet another learned woman – But you abdicated? How, how could you?”
- Alfonso X: “Come to the Blazing World, we have the best and brightest stars – Or perhaps not. Forgive my rudeness, but I’m worried what such visible stars would do to your psyche.”
- Omegarus: “You were foretold by another, ahem, ‘early sci-fi work’? My compliments to Monsieur Grainville – But your Adam left my world behind, why would you ever trust him? Unless you're that Milton or someone."
- Ozma: “Hmhm, so you too are Queen of another world and rule over talking animals? – Another world where nobody takes issue with women in power?”
- Dorothy: “You travelled to another world to become its princess, yet you ended up an angsty little brat – Of course, I was never sent to personally assassinate anyone… at age eleven, so I understand matters would be different for you.”
- Ludwig II: “You tried to build your own world, but it seemed you weren’t master of your own mind – So we can’t let you into the Blazing World, can’t have just anyone recreating my castle!”
Master: Anyone interested in multiverse theory or Second Magic, regardless of if they’re anywhere near achieving it.
Natural Enemy: Oliver Cromwell, Aristotle
Wish: For this world to be united and undivided, under the ideal ruler (either one of her choosing or, if it comes down to it, herself)
Keywords: Worldbuilding, Early Sci-fi, Multiverse, Blazing
Rarity: 3/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** B
- Endurance: ***** C
- Agility: ***** B
- Magic: ***** B
- Luck: ***** C
- Noble Phantasm: ***** A
Class Skills
Existence Outside the Domain
The sign of those from the world beyond, and those who have contracted with them.
- Rank C: Both Cavendish and the Empress are people who have travelled extra-dimensionally into the Blazing World, in the Empress’ case from a separate yet Earth-like planet.
"And to think there may be even more worlds out there – Worlds fit for conqueri- Ah, I mean, establishing diplomatic ties with."
Magic Resistance
Built-up immunity to magic.
- Rank C → B: While Cavendish would normally only possess moderate tolerance for magic, having lived in the era just before the Enlightenment, but exposure to the Blazing World and combination with its Empress have bolstered her resistance, making even Greater Rituals and Magecraft hard to affect her.
"You think you can touch a planetary Empress armoured with Blazing Jewels? – Magic? Well, either way, I certainly appreciate the shielding."
Personal Skills
Collector (Jewels)
Accumulation of a high quantity of objects, paired with a keen enough eye to find high quality objects, in this case jewellery.
- Rank A+: Within the Blazing World, all precious stones are the Empress’ exclusive property, with all Blazing jewels shining brighter and holding more mana than the ones on Earth. They are usually sewn into the Empress’ gown as armour and source of extra power. Of special note are the ‘star stones’, whose name is no exaggeration, and the ‘fire stones’, which possess the unusual property of burning hotter the more wet they are.
“You see, there can be no conflict over wealth if the Empress has all the wealth!”
Combination
The means by which two Spirits can share the one body and act as a single Servant.
- Rank C: While the Empress’ body is in use, it is simultaneously shared by both her original soul as well as Cavendish’s, the Empress having invited Cavendish’s soul into her own body on sojourns to both their original worlds.
“It’s quite the experience, being in another’s body- No Margaret, keep your thoughts platonic, keep your thoughts platonic…”
Imperial Privilege (Blazing)
Possession of Skills that the Servant wouldn’t have otherwise, through the insistence of Imperial authority, but for a limited time. In this case, Skills associated specifically with the Blazing World.
- Rank A: Lancer may gain access to the Skills Divinity, Riding, Military Tactics, Mana Burst (Flames), Mana Burst (Stars), Contact with Civilization, Spirit Binding, Librarian of Knowledge, and most notably Familiar (Beastmen), allow her to call upon the humanoid evolutions of animals that populate the Blazing World, alike but distinct from A-Rays.
"Unlike your world, the Blazing World knows how to respect a real ruler!"
World Conquest (Internal)
The construction of a world entirely within one’s mind, conquering and ruling a cognitive world rather than a physical one.
- Rank A: Where Imperial Privilege and Mana Burst may have come from the Empress’s side, this Skill is primarily Cavendish. Due to her belief in the superiority of ruling a cognitive world over the physical world, having nobody else to contend with but your own mind, this imposes a Rank Down to all Stats against Servants who were Conquerors and/or Emperors.
“Conquerors think the material world can be whatever they want, but I know my mental world really is whatever I want.”
Noble Phantasms
Imperial Diamond Spear
Vajra of the Blazing Stars
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit
“Always prepared to smite our enemies, be pierced by heaven’s shard!”
The Empress’ personal weapon, also Cavendish’s weapon upon her soul joining with the Empress. This spear, made from a single Blazing Diamond greater than any earthly diamond, acts as a statement that the Empress is always prepared to attack any enemies, and is fashioned in the shape of a shooting star, brighter than any seen from Earth.
As the Empress’ own ‘star’, it can absorb the light emitted from all the stars of the Blazing World, like gems in general absorb magical power. To do so however, it must be regularly sheathed in a miniature portal leading to the Blazing World, from which it can recharge energy from the stars. Once fully charged, the spear emits a pulsing light that can make the darkest void as bright as day, and when thrust can travel as fast as any shooting star.
While Lancer also carries a multi-coloured diamond shield on her, embodying her defending her domain, it would not fully activate as a Phantasm unless she were summoned as Shielder. Summoned as Rider, her main Phantasm would be a Chariot drawn by twelve Unicorns held with pearl reins.
Parallel Polar Passage
Gate to the Blazing World
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Army
“Know the full majesty that is the Blazing World!”
The multidimensional portal that leads to the Blazing World, or depending on who you ask, the threshold where our world and the Blazing World meet. In its dormant state, Lancer mostly uses it to recharge her first Phantasm, since absorbing starlight from Earth, even sunlight, is far from enough.
However, the portal also the property of growing larger and larger (or the threshold growing thinner and thinner) the more Lancer, through either conversation and rhetoric or displaying the World’s features with her Skills, impresses a mental image of the Blazing World into her target’s mind.
Opening the portal further allows her to shoot forth multiple Blazing Stars in the form of spears, and once open to its fullest, can entrap the target within the Blazing World and have them skewered by star-stones from all directions.
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Archer of Tutti Frutti
(by shisaki tayu. Source.)
“ServantArcher, Mestre. Hmm, you would notthink I’d ever qualify for such a ‘KnightClass’, but it’s notlike I haven’t been thrown into demanding roles before.”
True Name: Carmen Miranda
Aliases: Maria do Carmo Miranda de Cunha, The ‘Brazilian Bombshell’, the Chiquita Banana Girl, A Pequena Notavel (‘Remarkable Little Girl’)
Alt. Classes: Saber, Lancer, Caster, Foreigner
Source: History
Region: Brazil, USA, Portugal
Catalyst: The scarf worn in her last performance
Armament: Oversized weapon-like fruits, seed projectiles
Character: “Of course you wouldn’t thinkit, but I’ve been in wars before. Just… notexactly on the front lines, but still.”
Possibly the most famous singer and dancer to ever emerge from Brazil, though that isn’t the full reason why she qualifies as a Heroic Spirit, as she also became an important diplomatic figure in World War II and later the icon who inspired a whole anti-authoritarian resistance movement.
A Portuguese immigrant who went from working in a hat shop to becoming Brazil’s first contracted radio singer, her fame rising with a wave of Brazilian national fervour and the biggest star of the rocketing samba genre… over the Afro-Brazilians who originated the genre (and most of her fashions). Perhaps feeling guilt, she tried to draw attention to the Afro-Brazilian plight through the song ‘O que e que a baiana tem?’ in the film Banana de Terra, but to little avail, as after that her fame would just shoot higher.
At that time, the US had launched the ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ to re-establish positive relations with Latin-America, out of the fear that Latin American countries might side with the Axis due to prior bad blood with the US. With Miranda’s fame reaching the US, she quickly became one of the leading figures of this policy, presenting a glowing image of Brazil worldwide, eventually becoming the US’s highest-paid woman.
However, her fame may’ve grown too big to handle, with the US’s film and music industries only interested in her as a stereotype, if a ‘positive’ stereotype, and Brazil becoming increasingly disillusioned with her basically becoming a cultural cut-out more than anything else, whether this was by Miranda’s choice or not. In her personal life, she faced an awful marriage which, increasing her depression, led her to drug addiction and ultimately death from a heart attack, aged 46.
Anyone who knows the image of Carmen Miranda might be surprised to find she’s quite solitary and secretive in person, who despite her celebrity is convinced others will naturally look down on if not detest her. She can certainly be as fiery as she was depicted, but said fire springs more from resentment and disillusionment than anything else.
Summoned in the modern world, she fears the subsequent decline in US-Latin America relations means all her work for the Good Neighbor Policy was for nothing. However, she is surprised to that she would become a core inspiration to the Tropicália movement, an arts-focused resistance movement against the military junta, given how much the Brazilian populace grew to hate her in her life (though since a lot of that hatred came from Brazil’s upper class, perhaps Tropicália embracing her was little surprise).
Attribute: Human
Alignment: Neutral Good
Likes: Dressmaking, respect for her private life
Dislikes: Her own image, conflating Latin countries
Relationships:
- Black Dahlia: “You putthings in perspective, nao? The world reduced me to my image, but Iwas lucky enough that it was my living image.”
- Alfonso X: “Wouldyoubelieve I retain my Portuguese citizenship? Not that I wasborn anywhere near the Algarve.”
- Gardel: “Ah, knowing the face of Tango is too in theThrone makes me feel… less outofplace in being a Heroic Spirit.”
- Bolivar: “The Liberator? Well, little as youdid, or could do, for Brazil, nevertheless it’s… interesting meeting you. I was involved with resistancemovements too! Well, psothumously, but still!”
- Chaplin: “That the LittleTramp would go on to stand against the Hollywood machine… ah, ifonly I could’ve succeeded in the same thing.”
- Billie Holiday: “The US music industry and men in yourlife chewed you up and spat you out too, and younever even had to leave your homeland…”
- Cacareco: “Being a Carioca myself, I am… not surprised in the slightest that Sao Paulo would elect a rhinomayor.”
- Dorothy Gale: “Your cynical self is notas uncharacteristic as you say, Miss Garland herself had much tobe cynical about.”
Master: Someone who feels a strong disconnect between who they are and how others see them, or was once on top of their game but has since been turned against.
Natural Enemy: Hollywood
Wish: To be as universally adored as she briefly once was, to go down admired rather than belittled or hated. While she’s here, to get the chance to actually be the hero that the Tropicália movement treated her as.
Keywords: Samba, Fruits, Good Neighbor, Tropicalia
Rarity: 2/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** C+
- Endurance: ***** D+
- Agility: ***** B+
- Mana: ***** D
- Luck: ***** D
- Noble Phantasm: ***** E-A
Class Skills
Independent Action
Capacity to remain active even without a Mana supply from a Master.
- Rank A: Considered a precursor and inspiration for Brazil’s later Tropicalia musical resistance movement, Archer can remain manifested for up to a week without a Master.
Magic Resistance
Built-up immunity to magic.
- Rank D: As a Servant of the Modern Era, normally she would have no magic immunity at all. However, the enchanted, ORT-resisting fruits of the Amazon give her amulet-level immunity as a side-effect.
Personal Skills
Alluring Euphony
Possession of a naturally beautiful voice that can a strong fascination effect in listeners.
- Rank B: Listening to Archer’s voice can make one feel like they’re in a samba dancehall of movie theatre. Mana becomes redirected along where her voice is projected.
Carnival Commemoration
One who has become an icon of Brazilian Carnival. Has the effect of boosting Strength and Agility while dancing and increasing Endurance against sound and dance-based attacks.
- Rank B: Archer, being placed in the position of the ‘face of Brazil’, has naturally close if rocky associations with Carnival and especially samba. But whether the Brazilian people been so accepting her has varied throughout the ages, hence her not having A Rank.
Good Neighbor Policy
The diplomatic skill to turn a potential enemy into an ally in war.
- Rank B: Archer was, on Brazil’s side, the main public ‘face’ of the Good Neighbor Policy, crucial in the use of soft power for establishing positive relations between Brazil and the USA. While opinion of her in her homeland was mixed at her height, she also later won over her own people during the Tropicalia movement. There is a high chance her charms can convert an enemy into an ally, but given the decline in relationships between the US and Latin America after WW2, such a bond will only last so long.
Throwing (Seeds)
Ability to use seeds and their fruits as projectiles.
- Rank A: She can most effectively scatter seeds through dancing, which can then grow at a rapid rate and be potentially toxic if swallowed by her target. Fruits like pineapples and grapes can be similarly thrown.
Noble Phantasm
Todas Tropicalia Frutas
Bananas is my Business
Rank: E-A
Type: Anti-Unit
Possibly Archer’s most enduring iconography are that of fruits, being the one who popularised the fruit hat outside Brazil. As someone who served as Brazil’s global representative during World War 2, or rather was made to serve as that, she is by extension granted the usage of the ultra-biodiverse nation’s wide range of fruits in the Grail War.
Due to the Ultimate One ORT having crashed down in the Amazon Rainforest long ago, the fruits in the deepest reaches of Brazil have, from ages of constant exposure to the alien entity’s powers, been infused with unusual power as a form of resistance (however effective against something like ORT). If she were summoned as Foreigner, she’d have access to the ORT-contaminated fruits instead of the ORT-resistant ones.
This allows Archer’s fruits to grow rapidly to the size of weapons in her hands. She as a special fondness for bananas, able to wield them like swords or boomerangs, but can also toss mana-packed pineapple grenades, fire off literal grapeshot, swing around cherry bolas, swing an apple cross-section like an axe, spark off electricity with lemon batteries, and so on.
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"The squirming inside my chest and this tainted blood filling my veins... I'm sorry, it must be nothing but a burden, summoning a pitiful Servant like me who can only bring ruin. Even so, I Mechi, Serpent-Spawn of the Morrigan will do my best to be of use to you. Just... please take a step back okay Master? The ones inside me can get jumpy when new people show up."
Avenger of Tripartite Serpents:
Appearance:
Source
True Name: Mechi
Alignment: True Neutral
Alternate Classes: Berserker, Assassin
Strength- D
Agility- C+
Endurance- E+
Mana- C
Luck- E-
NP- B+
Personality
Class Skills:
Avenger- B+
Indicates the state of an Avenger as one that gathers the grudges and hatreds of others upon themselves. It is easier to accumulate loathing and resentment, while negative emotions directed at the user are instantly converted into strength. Avenger was born from his mother's grief over the loss of her beloved champion Cu Chulainn, a vengeance that threatened to swallow all of Ireland if not for his untimely death. This is further bolstered by the fear and suspicion others directed at him for being the one to end the world, thereby granting a high rank.
Oblivion Correction- D
Humans are creatures that forget many things, but an Avenger never forgets. This singleminded determination to cling onto one's past grudges allows the Servant to strike at weakpoints others would overlook and maximize the chance of critical hits. Avenger's hatred was never his own, and he himself never wished to destroy anything. As such he only has a low rank in this Skill. However that is not to say he holds no misgivings. Avenger does resent his mother for bearing him only as a tool for her revenge. Thus obtaining more than just the bare-minimum E-rank.
Self-Replenishment (Mana)- A-
A Skill where magical energy endlessly gushes forth until one's revenge is accomplished. The serpentine heart within Avenger functions as a pseudo-Draconic Core, passively supplying him a great deal of magical energy. However as he is merely a Serpent rather than a true Dragon this Mana-generation is limited by needing to take in high amounts of calories to fuel himself.
Personal Skills:
Incubated Calamity- B
A Skill that represents Avenger's conception, a 「bomb」 of concentrated curses and grudges meant to be unleashed against the entirety of the Irish World. Even though that promise was thwarted by his early end, the nature 「one born to destroy the world」 is still imprinted on Avenger. As a nebulous yet overwhelming threat Skills such as Instinct and Revelation will erratically register incredible danger from Avenger even if he doesn't take any action, clouding otherwise accurate predictions. Furthermore Avenger's very presence diminishes defensive Skills and Noble Phantasms as the concept 「world-destruction」 supersedes any ordinary defense.
Endless Gluttony- B
A Skill expressing the unnatural appetite of the snakes inside Avenger, that would've grown to devour all life in Ireland if they ever got free. Despite Servants not normally needing to eat Avenger has to consume a great amount of calories in order to keep the serpents within him at bay. Otherwise a ravenous hunger clouds his mind and Avenger's Noble Phantasm eventually activates automatically.
As recompense the rate of Mana generation from eating is boosted, allowing Avenger to potentially sustain himself in the absence of a Master by feeding. Beings rich in Mana are more effective at satiating this hunger, including the flesh and blood of fellow Servants although Avenger balks at partaking in such a taboo act for even his enemies. When it grows stronger Avenger's body begins ascribing serpentine traits, such as teeth lengthening into fangs and being able to unhinge his jaw to swallow larger meals.
Walking Wasteland- A
A Skill marking one whose presence is inexorably linked to ruin of the land. Upon killing Avenger Dian Cecht carefully burned the boy's heart to excise any traces of toxicity, even so the Barrow River where his ashes were thrown still boiled and died, a testament to the incredible strength of the venom coursing through him. A curse retained in his instantiation as a Servant. Avenger's blood, sweat, saliva, even his tears are all dyed in a potent magical venom that does no harm to himself but corrupts any foreign Mana leaving it sickly and impossible to safely use.
Wounds exposed to it suppurate, while prolonged contact with a human or Servant poisons by contaminating the body's flow of Od. If falling to the ground it seeps to infect local leylines, withering plantlife and turning water bitter and toxic. Abilities that draw on Mana from the natural World are greatly impeded in areas blighted by Avenger, although this is gradually alleviated as Gaea acts to correct the anomaly. Rate of corrosion depends on the bodily fluid, with blood imparting the strongest effect essentially acting like strong acid (which can be weaponized much to Avenger's chagrin), sweat the weakest while saliva and tears only moderately decay whatever they touch.
This Skill also renders Avenger immune to poisons, curses and disease ranked A or lower, which only nourish his health in proportion to the damage that would've been done, while conversely healing spells burn at him recognizing his very existence as 「corruption」 to be cleansed. Incidentally his enmity to the physician god Dian Cecht likely reflects that the three serpents within Avenger were meant to represent plagues, making him a walking vessel of pestilence.
Divinity- B
Qualifies one's aptitude as a Divine Spirit. At higher ranks one reaches the level of a Demigod- mixed-race of divine and mortal. Son of the goddess Morrigan who entwines sovereignty over war and fate, Avenger could theoretically possess the highest level of divinity. However his father was never attested in legend, leaving it unclear whether Avenger was a Demigod or full deity. Thus keeping him at a B-rank in this Skill as compromise. Given Avenger's bitterness at his mother for leaving him to die he doesn't entirely mind his connection to her being dulled, either.
Noble Phantasm
So here's the sheet I teased over in the GaS thread. As usual comments and critiques would be welcome. Thanks for reading y'all!
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Tyranny is often a force that breeds hatred, violence, and Freedom.
Hatred, violence, and tyranny are often bred from Revolution
AN
Spoiler:
Rookie Lorekeeper, Amateur Extraordinaire, and all around nasunoob.
Source: Yaz_Works
Class: Lancer
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: John Morton
Alignment: Lawful Good
Place of Origin: England (15th Century)
Parameters:
STR: D
END: B
AGI: C
MGI: C
LCK: C
NP: B
Height: 191cm
Weight: 121lbs
Likes: Laws, taxes, loyalty
Dislikes: traitors
Talent: Serving as lord chancellor
Natural Enemy: La Voisin, Baba Anujka
Attribute: Man
Traits: Humanoid, Male, Weak to Enuma Elish
Armament: Morton's Fork
Catalyst: The idea of Morton's Fork
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance E: He never encountered magic in life and thus gains a minimal rank in this skill.
Personal Skills:
Bell Harry Tower B: The Bell Harry Tower which he built in Canterbury Cathedral, one of the famous Cathedrals in britain. The bell itself manifests, allowing him to recreate the tollings as loud noises or vibrations that he can control, using them to push enemies back and allowing him to regroup.
Head of Courts B: He headed ovwr the English courts in his role as Lord Chancellor. As a skill, this permits him to "judge" people, testing for any crimes that they have permitted, and being able to fine them a small amount of mana if they are found guilty. This can also help him figure out his targets' true name.
Advisor to the Crown B: He was a major advisor to the court during the War of the Roses. In this skill, hegains the ability to advise people, subtly slipping in the "best plan of action" that he calculated to their toolkit.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Morton's Fork
All Answers Lead To One Conclusion
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: B
Range: 10~40 meters
Max Targets: 1
The sublimation of the idea of "Morton's Fork", wherein all answers lead to the exact same result, supposedly stemming from his tax collection practices: He thought "If they are living humbly, they must have a lot of saved money, so they should get large taxes, and if they are living wealthily, they must have a lot of money, so they should get large practices." This manifests in the form of a Military Fork, which he is not very adept with. When its true name is called, Morton makes a strike where "all answers lead to the same result": If an enemy evades, they jump right into positioon to be hit, if an enemy defends or blocks, they just make it easier.....
Morton's Leam
Rose-Filled Flood
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: C
Range: 2 meters
Max Targets: 100 Targets
The sublimation of "Morton's Leam", an ancient Fenland artificial stream constructed by him. It is also the sublimation of his authority during the War of the Roses. When its true name is called, morton swirls his spear around, gouging the earth to create an area filled with water that appears in the shape of a rose. At Morton's will, the water blasts upwards, hitting anyone nearby it.
Lore: Cardinal John Morton was an English cleric, judge and administrator who became the Archbishop of Canterbury during the War of the Roses. He is most famous of the anecdote of Morton's Fork, which supposedly stems from his tax collection practices against all during the War to add to the coffers of the royals.
Personality: A calm and serious person. He loves law and order and peace, wishing to create a perfect society at any time. However, he also loves wealth, collecting as much of it as he can for his Master and himself. He abhors those who shun peace or law and order, and his wish for the Grail is to have become more powerful in life.
Relationships:
La Voisin: "A mercenary? Really? Why?"
Baba Anujka: "Deaths are unneccecary in this society."
Pachacuti: "Excessive oversight, but that's better then less of it."
Princess de Lamballe: "Why are you Assassin class, again?"
Wei of Tang: "And thus those who disturb the peace get what they deserve."
John Morton: That spear NP is pretty clever. Reminds me kind of the one I gave my Lancer David Hume. Any thoughts on my Mechi?
Thanks for your comments Royd! Your Mechi is, as always, absolutely amazing, especially that third skill which is fascinating! And the personality is quite cool.
Saber of Lithuania
-- Cunning Harbinger of the Grand Duchy's Apex --
"I'm your Saber, Vytautas! Whatever the key to victory could be, I promise to get to the thick of it. Can't you feel your worries melting away already?"
"Now, it's high time we started planning! What are your goals, what are your opponents', what are we up against, what do we have at our disposal!?"
Class: Saber
True Name: Vytautas the Great
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Source: Historical fact and rumours
Region: Lithuania
Attribute: Human
Natural Enemy: Timur, Ulrich von Jungingen
Armament: Sword
Parametres
Class Skills
Personal Skills
Noble Phantasm(s)
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Description
Relationships
Creators' Notes
Archer of Z-Movies
(by koyashaka. Source)
“The visionary filmmaker, the invulnerable soldier, beauty of beauties, restorer of legends, Servant Archer! Er, did you like that? It’s a good summoning speech, right?”
True Name: Ed Wood
Alias: Edward Davis Wood Jr., Shirley, ‘The Worst Director’, Ann Gora, Akdov Telmig, King of Bad Movies
Alt. Classes: Caster, Berserker
Source: History
Region: USA
Catalyst: The single dollar he was forced to sell to the rights to Plan 9 for
Armament: Camera, Paratrooper gun
Character: “Okay, I know, just how much bad stuff I’ve made… even stuff I’ve done. B-But I know, this next film really will be that great!”
A passionate fan of film and moviemaker of classic films, from science-fiction epics to society-delving documentaries. Well, so he’ll tell you anyway.
Ed Wood was in fact a notoriously terrible director, whose films have frequently been listed as among the worst movies ever, and Plan 9 From Outer Space the worst movie, and made regular B-Movies look like cinematic gold in comparison (he was also a rapid-fire novelist… of the same ability). And yet, he’ll still perkily act like his movies are unironically great, but less out of arrogance and more out of denial or fantasy, that he’s uncomfortable facing that he worked for so hard and long only to produce laughingstocks. Someone who’ll always say the next movie will be better, less out of certainty and more out of hope.
Other than his terrible movies, Ed Wood was next best known for wearing women’s clothing, even in secret during his time in World War II. He even acted in his own film Glen or Glenda after being unable to get trans woman veteran Christine Jorgenson to star in it. Though no stranger to making porn, he doesn’t seem to get any sexual thrill from wearing women’s clothes though, more a strong feeling of nostalgia from when he was dressed like a girl as a child. Wood still seems to go by male pronouns, yet he’ll also talk about wanting to be a ‘gorgeous blonde’ in his next life (even though Servants don’t exactly have ‘next lives’, but he hasn’t quite grasped that).
While he’s been summoned from at his ‘peak’, as opposed to his depressive, self-destructive later days, some melancholy and misery will still seep out from behind his façade of positivity and determination and isn’t above excessively drowning his sorrows. Yet it brightens him to see people, nowadays more than in his lifetime, seem to genuinely enjoy and appreciate his work, if not quite in the way he wanted it to be.
He is fascinated by the advances in modern film-making technology and culture, though doesn’t appear to understand it any more than the film tech of his time. He’ll even talk about making a ‘Plan 9 Cinematic Universe’ despite having nowhere near the means to pull it off. But it’s the Grail War he sees as the ultimate film-making opportunity, regardless of whether other Servants and Masters even want to be filmed.
Attribute: Human
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Likes: Angora fabric, blonde women, name-dropping his connections
Dislikes: Losing money, complaints about SFX, being asked what Plans 1 through 8 were
Relationships:
- Vlad the Impaler: “Always have to give it to Bela, he certainly played a better you than… you.”
- William Topaz McGonagall: "Hey, your poetry actually doesn't seem that bad."
- Black Dahlia: “Hey, I remember you from the papers. Ooh, how about I write that you were dissected by aliens? I know, probably not what happened, but it’s the most exciting answer, that’s the thing!”
- Heinlein: “Huh, you seem really annoyed by the idea of a Starship Troopers adaptation. Shame, because I had some really inspired ideas for one!”
- Zaroff: “Oh yeah, the Hunt. Er, you’re gonna move real slow when you’re coming after me, right?”
- Christina: “Wow, you… don’t look much at all like Great Garbo. Ah well, that’s the magic of movies!”
- Chaplin: “M-Mister Chaplin, it’s an honour meeting you. Huh, my script needs some serious reworking? Why, I thought it was fine as is?”
- Cesare: “Such marvellous set design! But tell me, yours fell over just as much as mine did, right? Oh yeah I forgot, you’re not the talkative type…”
- Glinda: “Oh, I’m onto you! Any seasoned filmgoer knows you’re really the villain!”
- Dorothy: “Okay, I can see you’re going for that ‘grittier remake’ vibe? Would’ve loved to work with Miss Garland though.”
- Carmen Miranda: “Ooh, Senora Miranda, I’ve got the perfect- Huh, rejected? B-but I haven’t even pitched anything yet.”
Master: Anyone terrible at actually being a magus.
Natural Enemy: Michael Medved, Dolores Fuller
Wish: To use the footage gathered from the Grail War to create an even 'greater’ masterpiece than Plan 9. On the side, also says he’d like to be ‘reincarnated as a gorgeous blonde’.
Keywords: So Bad It’s Good, Worst Movies Ever Made, Angora, ‘Stupid Minds’
Rarity: 1/5
Parameters
- Strength: ***** D
- Endurance: ***** C
- Agility: ***** D
- Magic: ***** E
- Luck: ***** E
- Noble Phantasm: ***** E
Class Skills
Independent Action
Ability for a Servant to keep going without a Master's mana supply.
- Rank C: As a struggling filmmaker, Archer is well-accustomed to having to scrape by on his own, though can only be called so independent with film being a collaborative medium. Can remain manifested in this world for a day.
“Please don’t tell me they’ve cut my funding, er, I mean mana?”
Magic Resistance
Built-up resistance to magic.
- Rank E: Magic is not nullified but is somewhat reduced. It could be argued Archer has had exposure to ‘movie magic’, but he displays not even an acclimatisation to that.
“Hey, I’ve dealt with SFX failures, I can handle a fireball or whatever!”
Personal Skills
Camera Shot
Ability to combine handling of firearms with handling of film shooting.
- Rank D: Both a World War II paratrooper and prolific filmmaker, Archer can apply his knowledge of wielding guns to wielding a camera, including focusing on a target and switching aim between targets. As a certain detective in Plan 9 displays however, Archer seems pretty lax about gun safety.
“Alright, just hold it there. No wait, maybe a little to the left, little to the left…”
Golden Rule
The talent to amass and maintain wealth.
- Rank E: While poor and struggling through most of his life, Archer did possess a knack for securing film funding from unusual sources, most famously getting Baptists to fund Plan 9 from Outer Space and was extensive in his use of cost-cutting measures.
“Someone somewhere will always want to see your art get made! Just… not always the people you expect.”
SFX
Manifestation of a fictional world through scenography.
- Rank E: In Archer’s case, with him being so inept with cinematography and willing to make do with the least impressive effects, he can only manifest an entirely unconvincing filmic world. This ‘world’ still imparts an odd fascination effect, however.
“It’s ingenuity of props, that’s what it is. A real director never lets what little they have restrain them!”
Unyielding Will
High physical and mental resistance derived from continuation despite the odds.
- Rank D: Archer was continuously dedicated to the art of filmmaking despite a clear lack of talent and negative reception, always trying to achieve his dream of cinematic masterpiece. Which he arguably did, if not in the way he intended. In addition to his moviemaking passion, he also spent World War 2 avoiding damage to completely hide his preference for dressing feminine, even if just how much he was involved in the action can be questioned.
“There’s nothing that says my next feature won’t be a great movie, I just know it!”
Noble Phantasm
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The Best Worst Movie
Rank: E
Type: Anti-Immersion
“Of course it looks completely unrealistic, it’s suspension of disbelief! Er, artistic license? Aesthetic choice?”
The crystalisation of his ‘Magnum Opus’ film Plan 9 From Outer Space, and all the filmmaking ‘techniques’ from across his career that made his movies unforgettable… for all the wrong reasons.
Drawing on both his low Camera Shot and even lower SFX Skills, Archer becomes able to inflict his terrible SFX usage on anything within his camera’s range. The Phantasm enforces the attributes of ‘fake’ and ‘unconvincing’ on all within shot, destructive to Heroic Spirits in particular as it can render people unable to be convinced by their Legend.
Ships and other vehicles will look like obvious, stapled-together props, swords and spears like they’re made of cardboard, locations like studio sets that barely resemble the place they’re supposed to be. But this Phantasm can also affect an enemy Servant’s appearance and charisma, cursing them to communicate in a more stilted and redundant manner. On the extreme end, his Phantasm even appears able to distort the flow of time, switching from bright day to dark night and back in an instant.
Most worrying about this Noble Phantasm is how Archer seems completely unaware of its actual effects, in his mind it’s no less than the footage that becomes destined to make a masterpiece. Or maybe he does in fact know what it does but doesn’t want to admit that’s his legacy.
Author's Note: Topaz McGonagall over in the Monthly Contest certainly was an inspiration here. Tried to make his personality not just a copy-paste of his portrayal in the Tim Burton biopic, but some inspiration inevitably snuck in
Last edited by NailsInYourFeet; October 23rd, 2022 at 02:23 AM. Reason: Servant links
Ed Wood: Okay this is a pretty amazing sheet. The justification of his pseudo-genderbend is fitting and the Camera Shot Skill actually an ingenious way of entwining the two sides of his legend. That NP sounds like it's actually pretty powerful even if he's oblivious to how it works.
Source: Fanpop
Class: Caster
Other Classes: N/A
True Name: Roland Barthes
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Place of Origin: France (20th Century)
Stars: 3/5
Parameters:
STR: C
END: C
AGI: C
MGI: B
LCK: C
NP: B
Height: 191cm
Weight: 110lbs
Likes: Mythology, unique perspectives
Dislikes: The "Will of the Author"
Talent: Writing essays
Natural Enemy: Oda Nobunaga
Attribute: Man
Traits: Humanoid, Male, Weak to Enuma Elish
Armament: A quill
Catalyst: His essay collection "Mytholegies"
Class Skills:
Item Creation D: Close to incapable of creating items, he can merely create writing implements.
Territory Creation C: Can create a studio lower in rank then a Workshop from which to work.
Personal Skills:
Mythologies A: His essay collection "Mythologies", discussing modern myths and how they work. Firstly, this passively boosts mystery around him, endlessly creating minor "Myths" that fuel mystery and enhance him. And secondly, he can create a "myth" about any object that spreads by word of mouth, though he prefers not to use this.
S/Z A: The sublimation of the five tags he created in his essay S/Z, each of which he can label a concept with: The Enigma tag will delay the resolution of anything, Proairactic tag causes a sense of anticipation, Semic allows him to gain more details, Symbolic allows him to trace the dsymbols, and Cultural allows him to collect the background information.
The Fashion System B: The sublimation of his essay "The Fashion System", where he discusses utilizing signs and switching them effortlessly using a fashion analogy. This allows him to change the "identification" or "tag" of an object to change its perception, although it doesn't stay for very long: for example he can switch the identification of a blade of grass into a snake to make it appear like a snake.
Noble Phantasm(s):
Death of the Author
The Creator's Perspective Has No Meaning
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: B
Range: 10 meters
Max Targets: 100 targets
The sublimation of his most famous essay, Death of The Author. This essay discusses how the author's perspective should, from his point of view, be discarded, with the interpretation merely being that of the reader and not the creator. A Noble Phantasm which allows the "effectiveness of anything" to be up to the will of the people, the will of the readers, which can of course be swayed by his tags and myths. This can be used defensively to weaken a strike or Noble Phantasm, or Offensively to make something seem more powerful and thus gain more power.
Lore: Roland Barthes was a famous French critic, philosopher, and essayist most noted for his discussions of signs and words in Fashion System, his Five Tags from his critique known as S/Z, his essay collection, collected from his magazine articles, called Mythologies, and especially his essay known as Death of the Author.
Personality: A calm, elegant person. He adores hearing the view of the people on opinions, and usually disregards that of the creator or the actor or inventor, for it holds major bias. However, he is also willing to sway the view of the people by altering the perception of the object, to ensure his thoughts are the will of the people. His wish is merely to be able to control perception more.
Relationships:
Oda Nobunaga: "Why do you wish to take myths away? Seems they would be quite useful for you."
Leonardo Da Vinci: "Hmm... the people say your art is impressive, and I'm inclined to agree."
Nikola Tesla: "Your inventions are incredible, and it seems the people agree."
Hans Christian Anderson: "Aren't your works just so minor? ... seems the people agree! Marvelous!"
William Shakespeare: "Overrated, don't the people think?"
Vincent Van Gogh: "How marvelous, though insane."
I usually don't do this, but, does anyone have any feedback or comments on the servant Serra and I did?
I'll have some once I get to it, but I'm still going through contest Servants
Solid fucking sheet- first of all, despite the amount of text, y'all had the ability to do a good job formatting so it wasn't painful to read at all. History and Personality let me know exactly who the guy was, and I think the stats are pretty damn fitting- had some initial qualms with the sword rank, but after A. seeing it had a timestop, and B. reading the background to get the full context of what it stood for, yeah, I can fuck with it being A. Good shit
Yeah, it's pretty good. I've actually gotten to play the Lithuania and Poland campaign in Age of Empires II because of this sheet. I wonder if you're planning on a Jadwiga sheet next?
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Let it not burden your soul, nor numb your strides.
I've actually been working on a Jadwiga sheet for a while now. Not with Serra though, the Jadwiga sheet I'm just doing solo. When we were putting together Vytautus, I suggested an interaction on the with Jadwiga because I had already been working on her.
Baltic mythology caught my interest a while ago. The mythology i learned there is part of the broader slavic mThology and influenced my hevelius sheets
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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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