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Servant Class: Saver
Alternate Classes: Rider, Caster
True Name: Mahaparamasaugata
Alignment: Lawful Good
Origin: Southeast Asia (12th century CE)
Armament: Sword, shield
Parameters:
STR: C+
END: B
AGI: D
MANA: B
LUCK: A
NP: C+
SkillsClass Skills
Counter-Hero - Rank E: A Skill that reduces the parameters of the statistics of "heroes" that the Servant faces in combat. It is featured as a Class Skill of the Saver Class.
As Saver is an entirely terrestrial savior that abandoned his pursuit of spiritual enlightenment in order to save his people, his rank in this Skill is low. He reduces the parameters of opponents by one rank. With a successful Luck check on his opponent’s part, this reduction is negated.
Charisma - Rank B: A composite Skill consisting of a person's charm as well as the natural talent to command or unify an army or country. Increases the ability of allies during group battles. A rare talent, and an ability inherent to Servants of the Saver class.
Charisma sufficient to lead a nation as its king. Despite having abandoned his duties in the past, Saver
Personal Skills
Enlightenment of the Sacred Fig - Rank B+: A Skill that renders protection to one who has reached "the Truth of the World" or "the Answer of Humanity" - a Protection Against Purging that marks the Servant as a "Protector of the World."
Replacing the Divinity of his forebears, Saver was hailed as a Boddhisattva-King rather than a God-King. It is said that despite being well on the road to enlightenment, he turned his back on that path in order to bring salvation to his people in their hour of need. The damage dealt by physical attacks, conceptual attacks, and interdimensional attacks by a value equivalent to half of the Servant's remaining health. This Skill also shuts out the probability of mental interference by 100%.
Weak Constitution - Rank A+: A weakness struck by the nature of frail health. Similar in nature to Innocent Monster, where the perception of the people in the future affects the existence of the Heroic Spirit.
Though he is not recorded as suffering from any specific illness, it is said that Saver took the ailments and suffering of his people to bear for his own. In accordance with his legend, Saver’s allies in the field benefit from a large amount of damage resistance while in his presence. However, whenever this damage resistance comes into action, Saver automatically receives a drop in status.
Protection of the Compassionate Buddha - Rank B: Protection received from Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva embodying the compassion of all Buddhas. As it is a power that responds to cries for help, it is in essence used only for healing.
Saver benefits from the ability to heal others using magical energy. In addition to this, those struck down by his powerful strikes find their wounds healed, so that they are able to depart the battlefield at his mercy. However, though Saver is compassionate, he will only show mercy towards his enemies once. As such, the wound-negating effect of the Protection of the Compassionate Buddha can only be invoked once per combat.
Noble Phantasms
A Noble Phantasm that encompasses Saver’s legend as the savior of his people from foreign invaders and defilers. It is constantly active and manifests for him a body more apt for the protection of his people than the old and frail form he inhabited in life. As the Bayon was originally the greatest of the temples Saver built, this Noble Phantasm is an extremely literal interpretation of the phrase “my body is a temple”.Temple BodyPrasat Bayon
Anti-Unit (Self), Rank B
Prasat Bayon renders unto Saver a body built of living stone, with his face bearing a constant serene expression. As the temple serving as the body’s basis was a celebration of his triumph against his people’s enemies, Saver is afforded with a talent for warfare, receiving remarkable Skill with a blade as well as a plus modifier to his physical parameters.
However, Prasat Bayon makes Saver’s manifestation costly in terms of magical energy, as the Noble Phantasm cannot be turned off.
A Noble Phantasm shared with several other kings of the Khmer Empire. Angkor Wat is the greatest religious monument in the world, and Saver gains access to it thanks to his great restoration project. Rather than the actual structure itself, Saver can only call upon the core of the great temple, and requires a large enough area for it to manifest.The Capital of TemplesAngkor Wat
Fortress, Rank A++
When Angkor Wat is used, the monument and its walls rise from the earth in all their magnificence, providing protection to Saver and his allies. The temple itself benefits not only from the protection of the boddhisattva, but also from countless Apsara spirits that serve as its guardians. Angkor Wat is capable of withstanding attacks up to A++ rank, and can even survive certain EX-ranked attacks while remaining relatively intact. In addition, allied forces within the Noble Phantasm gain a plus modifier to their endurance and constant healing for a minor value.
DescriptionLikes: Meditation, restoration of art
Dislikes: Violent competition, his current role
Talents: Freedom from desire, his people’s salvation
Natural Enemy: Buddhas
Saver’s true identity is Mahaparamasaugata. In life, however, he was known as Jayavarman VII, the King of Boddhisattva.
Just like the other Khmer kings, Jayavarman prefers to be known by his posthumous name, as a Servant is one that has already died.
Mahaparamasaugata is a serene individual, and acts humble and kind in his dealings. He is a largely neutral and reactive force rather than an active one, interposing himself in the conflicts of others or responding to hostility, but never advancing on his own. This is as close as he can remain to the vow of pacifism that he had to break in order to save his people. Inwardly, however, he is pleased that he has manifested in a combat-worthy role, allowing him to shoulder the burden of battle rather than foisting it onto another.
As Mahaparamasaugata attained salvation for his people in life as he sought to do, he is largely content even as a Servant. While he is not engaged in battle, he finds peaceful places, preferably Buddhist temples, in order to meditate there. Should he be approached, he will offer what advice and guidance he can, even if he should be approached by an enemy. Should he be forced to fight, he will demonstrate his power to his enemies and allow them to depart in peace should they wish so. If pressed, however, he is fully ready to remove a Servant from the Holy Grail War. Even if a Servant’s death is not a true passing as the Heroic Spirit they represent is long dead, Mahaparamasaugata mourns them all the same, grateful that his stony face hides his tears.
Though a king, Mahaparamasaugata has far greater respect for men of spirit and craftsmen than he has for kings and warriors. Regardless of his personal feelings, he treats all Heroic Spirits with equal respect, as he feels that is what is owed to such great figures. He is most drawn to villains and anti-heroes, as he wishes to offer them the chance to embark on a different road than the one they have tread thus far. Mostly due to his life experiences, Mahaparamasaugata has a poor relationship with accomplished Buddhists, as he feels he is a failure in comparison. For the sake of his people, he threw away his pursuit of englightenment, and as such failed those he so looked up to. He hopes that one day he might bridge the rift in his feelings towards Buddhism, but does not think it will happen any time soon.
Though Mahaparamasaugata remains grateful to his Master for summoning him, he cannot with good conscience serve their commands. He outright rejects his role as a Servant vying for the Holy Grail, and sees it as his role to see that the one with the ‘right’ to the Holy Grail should have it. To this end, he will exhaustively explain his thoughts to his Master and hopes they will allow him to act independently, for the good of all. If a Master should be selfish enough to force him to serve nonetheless, Mahaparamasaugata will not turn on them. Instead, his focus will shift on guiding them away from the destructive route they have chosen.
Though he possesses a wish to the Holy Grail, Mahaparamasaugata does not have a desire for the cup itself. He is most concerned that the Holy Grail should not fall into the hands of those who would use it for the wrong purposes.
LoreJayavarman VII was born around 1120 or 1125, son of King Dharanindravarman II (r. 1150 -1160) and queen Sri Jayarajacudamani. He married a very religious, strong-minded, and devote princess, Jayarajadevi, who exerted an important influence on him, both before he gained the throne and during the early years of his reign.
He was one of the most forceful and productive kings of the Khmer Empire of Angkor. He expanded the empire to its greatest territorial extent and engaged in a building program that yielded numerous temple, highways, rest houses, and hospitals.
Though practically nothing is known of Jayavarman's childhood and youth, it is clear that during his late 30s and early 40s he settled in the neighboring kingdom of Champa, in what is now the central region of Vietnam.
When his father died, his brother or cousin - Yasovarman - appears to have claimed the throne, in which Jayavarman seems to renounce and to have gone on a voluntary exile to Champa. He left his wife and went to Champa alone.
In 1166 Tribhuvanadityavarman, a court official, usurped the throne of King Yasovarman. When Prince Jayavarman received word of a palace rebellion, he hastened to return to Cambodia - perhaps to support King Yasovarman II or to assert his own rights to the throne. But his was too late. When he arrived, Yasovarman was already dead and the usurper firmly seated on the throne. Jayavarman seemed unwilling to attempt to overthrow Tribhuvanadityavarman by force; instead he decided to remain in his homeland and to await an opportunity to assert his own claim to the throne.
Some 12 years later, when Jayavarman was in his late 50s, that opportunity came as a result of a Cham invasion in 1177, which brought about the demise of Tribhuvanadityavarman, the sacking of Angkor, and its subjection to foreign rule. In this situation Jayavarman organized a struggle for independence and in less than five years he succeeded in driving out the invaders and establishing his hegemony over all his Cambodian rivals.
Finally in 1181, at the age of 61, he was crowned a sole king of Khmer Empire and began a brilliant reign of more than 30 years, during which he brought the empire to its zenith, both in terms of territorial expansion and of royal architecture and construction. Jayavarman VII was a warrior. The greatest military achievement of his reign - perhaps the greatest of the entire history of Cambodia - was the capture and sack of the capital of its rich and powerful neighbor, Champa, in 1190. His military activities also bringing southern Laos, portions of the Malay Peninsula and Burma under his control.
But increasingly he devoted his energies and organizational capacities to the kind of religious and religio-political construction projects that had been carried on by his royal predecessors. He built a large number of awesome new temples, including the Bayon, a distinctively Mahayana Buddhist central pyramid temple designed to serve as the primary locus of the royal cult and also as his own personal mausoleum; personal funerary temples of the Mahayana type, which were dedicated to his mother and father; and a series of provincial temples, which housed reduced replicas of the Royal Buddha. He rebuilt the city of Angkor Thom and rebuilt and extended the system of highways, which radiated outward from the Bayon and the royal palace and reached far into the provinces. In addition, he constructed 121 rest houses along these roads. During his reign, the King built 102 hospitals, which he dispersed throughout his kingdom. These hospitals were built in an attempt to improve the conditions of the King's subjects.
Jayavarman succeeded during his lifetime in creating a legacy that few monarchs in Khmer history have been able to equal. He was more than 90 years old when he died in around 1215.
NotesFinally made a Saver, though a more material and unorthodox one that is usual. Jayavarman VII manifesting as a Saver is a bit of a stretch, but certainly a possibility if you squint hard enough.