Heroic Spirits
The ultimate ideal humans have created. The greatest human people have created.
Myth, Legend, Fable, History… Humans who become eternal in people’s minds are called heroes even after their death.
It doesn’t matter whether these people existed in reality or only in stories. It is people’s minds that create a hero. People’s wishes that "this is how things should be" give them form and set them up as real.
As long as they have fame as a legend and people have faith, they can exist as spirits in eras beyond their own lifetime.
Those are the Servants, the strongest weapons in Human History.
In the Throne of Heroes, there are as many Heroic Spirits as there are stars in the sky, each one embodying an ideal upon which humans can look up to.
Bravery Those that slay evil monsters |
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Charisma Those that lead the masses |
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Wisdom Those that discover new truths |
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Kindness Those that protect innocent lives |
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Hope Those that perform impossible miracles |
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Justice Those that embody the worst evils |
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Future Those that forever change the world |
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Now, answer.
What kind of Hero do you wish to summon?
Welcome to Fate/Exquisite Corpus.
You are a new member of the Clock Tower Exquisition Corps, Shakespeare. The world as you know it is undergoing a period of unimaginable change and the Laws of Humanity are being threatened. In order to combat this danger, you have been recruited as a Master with the ability to summon and command Servants for the sake of upholding the Human Order. To protect the world you know, you must become the best Master you can and in turn summon the best Servants possible. Doing so will require determination, hard work, sensibility, and most of all, creativity!
Fate/Exquisite Corpus is a Fate Quest in which you play the role of a Master who summons Servants to fight alongside them. You will be able to command your Servants through fun challenges and fierce battles, while working alongside other Masters and their Servants too. Unlike other Fate stories and Quests, though, the Servants you summon will be ones that you readers create together.
A key feature of Fate/Exquisite Corpus is the creation of your own Servants. In the setting of the Quest, certain circumstances and new advancements in Holy Grail research have resulted in a new summoning system that allows Masters to modify the Saint Graphs of the Servants they summon to match their own personal preferences. Heroic Spirits are beings that are given form by people’s minds, the fame and faith born from their legends. This new summoning technique, however, allows a Master to insert Bias into the summoning, giving their own personal interpretation of the legend extra weight in affecting what form the Servant takes.
Throughout the Quest, you will be given many opportunities to create new Servants to summon. This will be a collaborative effort done through reader voting and interesting interpretations will be rewarded. Work together with your fellow readers to come up with the best Servants possible.
As a Master, it is simply your job to create as many powerful and useful Servants as possible to help save the World.
Now then, that’s enough explanation. Let’s go and create some Servants!
Before we can start working on some Servant sheets, though, you might need a little practice first.
You are, after all, a new Master. You might not be ready to start summoning Servants immediately. It might seem simple in concept, but summoning a Servant has its challenges and many Masters fail when they make their first attempt.
In order to introduce Bias into a Servant summoning, one needs a strong mental image of the hero they wish to summon. By nature, human minds conform to the public subconsciousness. Without a strong enough mental image, your mind will naturally fall back on the common interpretation and fail to add Bias.
For example, say hypothetically that you were trying to summon a King Arthur who was actually a girl. Obviously, everyone recognizes that King Arthur was a man, but you need to be able to convince yourself that she might’ve been a girl. You need to understand how King Arthur being a girl affects the rest of the legend and you need to overcome the logical inconsistencies of the interpretation. If you are able to genuinely create a possibility in your mind that King Arthur might have been a girl all along, then and only then can you summon a female King Arthur.
How about this? Try practicing by creating a mental image of yourself.
This is a training exercise that other new Masters use often in order to practice creating a mental image of person. After all, who do you know better than yourself?
Grasp who you are. Remember where you came from. Discover what makes you unique.
If you can do that and apply those same concepts to a Heroic Spirit, you’ll be able to summon Servants with no problem.
Let’s try it out now.
The first step when creating a Servant is to fully understand their legend. Servants are beings of stories, real and fictional, after all. Knowing what they’ve done is essential in figuring out who they are.
Try doing the same thing for yourself. Think about your past, the events that led you to this point, and how that has made you the person you are today.
What is your story?
You were…
1) A Civilian: Before becoming a Master, you were an ordinary person with no interaction with the supernatural. When your natural talents as a Master were discovered, however, you were recruited to the Exquisition Corps and plunged headfirst into the Moonlit World. You do not have any magical knowledge, but you are far more in touch with your own humanity than other Masters who have known nothing but magecraft their whole lives.
2) A Magus: You were born to an established Magus lineage and raised from youth to become the heir of your family legacy. You have a thorough education in the art of magecraft and a lifelong familiarity with the rules of magic. You have inherited from your family both the Magic Crest and the dreams of your ancestors. You joined the Exquisition Corps in order to fulfill those dreams and further your family’s goals as magi.
3) A Designer Baby: Unlike most humans, you were not born. You were created. You are an artificially modified human who was created and specifically designed to fulfill your current role of Master. Being a member of the Exquisition Corps was your life’s sole purpose and many expectations have been placed on your shoulders. Having been specially designed, you possess special abilities that natural humans lack, but you could not be further from your own humanity. From now on, however, you must become the Master of your own destiny.
4) A Devout Believer: You were originally a member of the Holy Church and, in some ways, you still are. However, in order to help protect the world, you have left the House of God and entered the Den of Thieves. You are a fish out of water, a sheep among wolves, but your sense of justice and faith have led you to take the risks necessary to protect what’s important to you.
5) A Phantasmal: You are not human. At least, not entirely. You possess the blood of the Phantasmal Species, a true rarity in the Age of Man. You are biologically inhuman and possess physical powers beyond the capabilities of humans. Due to these differences, though, life among humans does not come easily to you. Despite not being entirely human yourself, though, you have come to use your inhuman abilities for the sake of protecting humanity.
6) Write-In: Your complex past cannot be so easily summarized. You must describe your own history yourself with your own words in order to truly grasp who you are...