I don't think bibliography was really needed to display.
I don't think bibliography was really needed to display.
The bibliography is the best part of the sheet though
Seika, Queen of Research
AgreedOriginally Posted by Fafnir
^^Nice meme.
That's awesome, I've had a concept for Khutulun in the back of my mind forever, but the only NP I could think of was being able to summon all the horses she won (which are all descended from various awesome horses) Gate of Babylon-style.
"We don't need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it." -Josiah Bartlet
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Since Kat loves memes.
I don't love them, I'm more like a battered wife.
I meme you because I love you.
Man, I am so glad I scratched my Khutulun profile a little while ago, it never would have stood up against such a beastly profile.
Kudos on the admirable research, Seika.
^^*blushes*
Ignacy Hryniewiecki
The Winter Bomber
Class: Assassin
Alternate Classes: None
Alignment: True Neutral
Parameters:
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: D
Mana: D
Luck: C
History:
Assassin was born to a Polish immigrant family in the Russian empire in 1856, and grew up under the unfairly oppressive yoke of the Tsar reigime. His life as a child was simple enough, but his family was poor and his parents overworked, and they died while he was a teenager. He travelled to St Petersburg to study when he became of age, and decided to join the People’s Will, a revolutionary political movement wanting to free Russia from the clutches of the imperial Tsar government. Within the movement he helped with printing clandestine propaganda, before an opportunity came up for him to assist with a planned assassination attempt on the Tsar.
He gladly took on the role and became a member of the bombthrower squad, who would attack Alexander II with homemade incendiary devices when he was vulnerable. He was filled with fear and trepidation, knowing that he was sure to die and that he would not ever see a single shining moment of the revolution that he hoped to ignite. Regardless of this Assassin mustered his courage and served his duty as best he could, successfully managing to blow the Tsar to pieces the next day, his psyche warping at the very instance that he took the tsar's life with his bombs. Unfortunately he was caught in the blast of his own bomb and would succumb to his injuries in hospital, but not before refusing to give any information about his co-conspirators to the police who held him in confinement while he died.
Class Skills:
Presence Concealment
The capacity to hide one's presence as a Servant, or even as an individual in general.
- E: At this rank, Assassin cannot be said to even be suited to spying. He can somewhat mask any intent to kill, but beyond that is as detectable as any regular Servant.
Personal Skills:
Nature of a Rebellious Spirit
The inclination to never accept a single lord or ruler. A wandering star that does not have the capacity to become a king or ever settle on a king. Acts to negate Charisma and other related skills of an equal or lower Rank.
- D: Assassin attempted to kickstart a workers’ revolution by assassinating Tsar Alexander II of Russia, however he was merely a cog in a revolutionary plan.
Subversive Activities
The talent to reduce the enemy forces in the preliminary stages, before going into battle. An expert of traps. However, the higher is the ranking of this Skill, the more one's spiritual status as a hero declines.
- D: It is possible to disable up to 15% of the total military force before the enemy advances, or traps laid may reduce opponent's combat effectiveness by nearly 15%.
Projectile Expertise (Bombs)
An expertise for throwing specific types of projectile weaponry.
- E: Assassin is able to throw most varieties of bombs without blowing his own hands off, however the effectiveness of his throws may vary greatly.
KotikDescription: Named after the codename that Assassin was given when he joined the revolutionary People’s Will movement, a codename that was simply Russian for “kitten”, this Noble Phantasm is nothing more and nothing less than the bombs that he utilised to assassinate Tsar Alexander II on March 1st, 1881. They are simple, crude bombs of a poor design, having been made with what the oppressed workers were able to get their hands on at the time, but as Noble Phantasms the bombs have been enhanced with unstable prana, such that they will explode on impact with a powerful and decisive blast.
It Is Too Soon To Thank God
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: C
Targets: 1
Range: 1-8
When Assassin’s bombthrower squad attacked the Tsar’s carriage Alexander II was left unharmed, and reportedly exclaimed “Thank God that I have not been injured!” before Assassin emerged, a surprise final bomber, and blew him up while critically wounding himself.
Because they are triggered on impact, Assassin cannot control the detonations so must always be sure to throw them far enough from himself, but can at least vary the prana payload of the bombs so that they can create smaller blasts than their maximum yield would suggest.
Class: Assassin
STR: D
END: D
AGI: B
MGI: C
LCK: B
Class Skills
Presence Concealment (A+): Hides ones presence as a Servant. At this rank it is possible to disappear completely
and become extremely difficult to be detected.
Personal Skills
Demonic Beast (B): The antithesis of "Divinity", this denotes one's status as a demonic creature. Assassin is famous as
a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death and goes by the names of many such creatures.
Shapeshift (EX): Assassin's skill at changing her appearance is unmatched and seems to defy logic. She can change parts
of her body into those of animals and change into beasts much smaller or larger than herself. On one occasion, she was
noted to have disguised herself as a single hair in a man's beard.
Noble Phantasms
Gelloudes~Fonder of Children Than Gello (C, Anti-Unit)
A technique by which Assassin can reproduce and create pseudo-Servants to do her bidding. As a reproductive demon,
Assassin has the ability to possess women. After controlling an individual for an amount of time proportional to
the amount of magic circuits they have, she separates from her victim, leaving their mind warped with a lust for blood
and their body slowly transforming into a demonic revenant the same as Assassin. Since the possession is demonic in nature,
the only way to remove it is through exorcism.
Antaura~Twelve and a Half Names (B, Anti-Unit (Self), Support)
Knowledge of a demon's name is required to control or compel it, hence the reason many demons act under aliases.
Assassin has twelve and a half names that must be spoken or written for one to have any chance at repelling her.
The more names that are revealed, the weaker Assassin's attacks are against the target, with all twelve and a half
rendering her completely helpless. The names are Gello, Morrha, Byzo, Marmaro, Petasia, Pelagia, Bordona, Apleto,
Chomodracaena, Anabardalaea, Psychoanaspastria, Paedopniktria, and Strigla. If one of Assassin's names remains unknown
by anyone currently participating in the Grail War, she can be resurrected after death by using that name as a catalyst.
Therefore, this Noble Phantasm is her greatest tool for survival as well as her greatest weakness.
Background
"We don't need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it." -Josiah Bartlet
List of Servants I've made
Double post. I just whipped this one up to complement the one I just posted.
Class: Lancer
STR: B
END: C
AGI: C
MGI: C
LCK: D
Class Skills
Magic Resistance (C+): Cancels spells two verses or shorter, and is
immune to all but the strongest of demonic magic or curses.
Personal Skills
Saint (C): The Servant was acknowledged as a legendary saint.
This skill raises the effects of any sacraments Lancer performs.
Guardian Knight (C): Defensive power is raised when protecting or
fighting on behalf of someone (other than his Master).
Clairvoyance (C): Superior visual perception. This skill is gained due to his experiences
chasing the demon Gello and seeing through her various disguises, even when she
shapeshifted into a single hair in a man's beard.
Noble Phantasms
Gellosbane~Demon Slaying Spear (B+, Anti-Unit)
A holy spear that was used by Lancer to defeat Gello. On the many amulets that depict him and are said to protect
against evil, Lancer is shown as a horseman bearing down with this spear on the female demon. It was gifted to him
by the Archangel Michael and as such strikes with burning fury against those who are demonic or Evil-aligned.
Melitena~First Milk From Thy Mother's Breast (A, Support)
In one encounter with Gello, she was holding Lancer's sister's children hostage. Lancer demanded that the children
be let free, and the demoness replied, "If you can return in your hand the milk you first sucked from your mother's
breast, I will return the children." Lancer prayed to God and at once he vomited the milk into his hand. This act
was symbolic of the restoration of the children's lives as they had been freed from certain death. Lancer gains the
ability to produce this holy liquid from his body which serves as a powerful curative, capable of lifting curses and
even reviving the recently deceased.
Background
"We don't need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it." -Josiah Bartlet
List of Servants I've made
Bibliographies are always necessary to display. On the prosaic level of giving credit where it's due and proper academic diligence and so forth, of course, but mostly 1) So I can blame other people if I got things wrong, and 2) So I can remember where the bloody hell I got things from when I look at these later. It's endlessly frustrating to come back to sheets and go "I know I had sound basis for this weird little aspect, but damned if I remember where I got it from." This way I have a short list to check where I found out that Middle Mongolian didn't have conjunctions and so Biljiur Soqosun is the appropriate way to phrase "Lark and Fish", for example.
As the one who did it, I doubt that.
This is the more-or-less the correct amount to make a halfway decent Servant sheet for a language, history, and culture you've barely been introduced to before - barring the occasional unnecessary part where I inflicted eyestrain on myself trying to read terrible old manuscripts for frankly not a lot of return. And Nasu's sheets are usually at least halfway decent.
That's wonderfully backhanded. I'm impressed.
Thank you.
Interesting take on creating a very late Servant. Was the font change/resizing necessary, though?
Sappho says nothing other than Γελλὼ παιδοφιλωτέρα; Zenobios' paramiography is where the ancient information comes from.
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Was not trying to insult you there Seika.
The sheet was all in all pretty great.
Yeah, I'm not sure why but when I copy my sheets from Google Drive I have to kill their formatting and reformat them, which usually defaults the text to the forum norm. But for whatever reason it didn't this time, so I just picked a legible font since U can't remember what the default onw is :P
Man. All of y'all putting in so much work makes me feel lazy. I can't even figure out how to picture properly.
If official creators don't bother with listing references, I think that unless someone is really bored in spare time, it is kind of overkill to source something that is a character sheet at an internet forum.Bibliographies are always necessary to display. On the prosaic level of giving credit where it's due and proper academic diligence and so forth, of course, but mostly 1) So I can blame other people if I got things wrong, and 2) So I can remember where the bloody hell I got things from when I look at these later. It's endlessly frustrating to come back to sheets and go "I know I had sound basis for this weird little aspect, but damned if I remember where I got it from." This way I have a short list to check where I found out that Middle Mongolian didn't have conjunctions and so Biljiur Soqosun is the appropriate way to phrase "Lark and Fish", for example.
Having a bibliography doesn't detract from the sheet. I don't think you should blame someone for going above and beyond what the official writers do; what's this forum for otherwise?
"We don't need martyrs right now. We need heroes. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it." -Josiah Bartlet
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I don't blame, I just point out it's IMO kind of too much effort put into something that ultimately is done just for fun.
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