AMANIRENAS
Class: Lancer
Gender: Female
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 58 kg
Three Sizes: 85/63/83
Alignment: Lawful Good
Appearance: A tall, black-skinned woman with a firm and somewhat unfriendly look. Her most notorious features are her wavy black hair that reaches to the middle of her back and her milky white right eye, which she lost in an accident during martial training in her teenage years. A line of scar tissue connects the corner of that eye with her right earlobe. She wears a plain linen one-piece dress to battle with side-slits for maximum leg mobility. Her spear, while ordinary in construction, has had its long wooden pole bathed in gold.
Strength D
Endurance C
Agility B
Magic C
Luck B
Noble Phantasm B+
Class Skills:
* Magic Resistance: Grants protection against magical effects. D – Cancel Single-Action spells. Magic Resistance of the same degree of an amulet that rejects magical energy.
Personal Skills:
* Disengage: The ability to break away from combat.C – Bonus effect of returning battle conditions to what they were at the beginning of the match.
* 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 approximately 10% of the total military force before the enemy advances. As long as direct engagement does not occur, she may repeatedly apply this Skill and stack its effects.
Noble Phantasm:
* Npt Mrì-kdwe - The Queen’s Golden Cage
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: B+
Range: 10-80
Maximum number of targets: 1000 people
When Amanirenas’ efforts proved incapable of stopping the Roman legion from penetrating the old capital, Napata, she swiftly evacuated the city and hid in the surrounding mountains. The Romans razed the city to the ground and set up camp there, expecting to quickly find the elusive queen and put an end to the Kingdom of Kush once and for all. What happened instead was an intensive campaign of guerrilla tactics that took advantage of the harsh weather and geographic conditions of the terrain to wear down the Romans until they just gave up on Kush and went for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Amanirenas’ Noble Phantasm is manifestation of that memorable event—the creation of an “unfavorable space” in which only Amanirenas can thrive.
The Noble Phantasm is a powerful pyramidal Bounded Field comparable to High-Thaumaturgy which Amanirenas can deploy in an instant to cover a vast area. Within the stage of the ruins of fallen Napata, the weather conditions of the hot, dry Upper Nile are reproduced and enhanced to levels not even Heroic Spirits can be comfortable with. Ordinary living beings will die of dehydration in scant minutes. However, horrible climate is not the only menace within Napata. The space created by the Noble Phantasm is extremely poor in mana; a severe obstacle for those who depend on it to use their abilities. Furthermore, the Bounded Field slowly but steadily drains the magical energy of those within; an effect which can be fully neutralized only by A-rank Magic Resistance (or higher). Naturally, targets with a higher Magic Parameter will last longer inside Napata. Amanirenas is completely immune to her Noble Phantasm’s effects.
Background
One of the known female rulers—Kandake—of the old Kingdom of Kush at the end of the Age of Gods, in what is nowadays known as the Republic of Sudan. Among those nigh-legendary warrior regents, Amanirenas is remembered as the one who posed the fiercest resistance to the expansionist ambitions of the fledgling Roman republic, which became an empire during her rule.
Her rule as regent started around 40 BC, but the conflict with Rome began almost fifteen years later, on 27 BC. At the behest of her husband, King Teriteqas, Amanirenas led the army of Kush into Egyptian territory—at that time under Roman control—, defeating the defending army at Syene (current day Aswan) and Philae before returning to their homeland with considerable loot. Kushite control of south Egypt lasted until 24 BC, when a new Roman magistrate, Publius Petronus, assumed control of the Roman army and drove Amanirenas’ army out of Aswan. The Roman offensive then penetrated into Kushite territory until it reached the former capital, Napata. Unable to defend it, Amanirenas evacuated, allowing the Romans to enter the city and, in retribution, raze it to the ground. However, Napata would be as far as the Romans would get. Their attempts to hunt down the regents in hiding from there backfired on them—the ensuing guerrilla warfare campaign undertaken by Amanirenas and her soldiers, together with the harsh weather conditions, ate away at Roman morale and energy until the better choice became to retreat. The Kushites attempted to retake the offensive, but the Roman defensive line at Qasr Ibrim did not falter.
Negotiations then ensued until a peace treaty was accepted by both parties on 21 BC. The Kingdom of Kush never subjected itself to Roman rule and never paid tribute to the Empire. Amanirenas acted as regent until her death at around 10 BC, and was then succeeded by another historically famous Kandake, Amanishaketo.
Originally Posted by Gunbazca
