It's been a while since I did one of these. Let's see how this one comes out. also, please forgive me for "Worldly Censure". Just pretend it's not there.
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MANCO CÁPAC
Class: Lancer
Gender: Male
Height: 188 cm
Weight: 86 kg
Alignment: Lawful Good
Strength C
Endurance B
Agility B
Magic B
Luck E
Noble Phantasm A
Class Skills:
* Magic Resistance: Grants protection against magical effects.C+ – Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against Magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals. The divine blessing that protected him from the great deluge, Unu Pachakuti, renders the Servant immune to any and all spells of the Water Element.
Personal Skills:
* Beacon of Mankind: The ability to educate, nurture, lead and guide the lesser, given to the founding fathers whose deeds led to the formation of organized cultures and civilizations.B – The Servant may gift those under his aegis with the benefit of a Skill up to rank C, and he may imbue different Skills on different subjects. Skills that are themselves equivalent to multiple Skills (Imperial Privilege, Voyager of the Storm, Expert of Many Specializations) cannot be granted with this Skill. Manco Cápac calls this ability
Chamayhuarisca
The Song of Joy
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* Divinity: The measure of whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not.B – The efforts of Inca ruler Pachacútec and the written records of Inca tradition by Garcilaso de la Vega ensured that Manco Cápac would be remembered as an enlightened being, born of the Sun and the Moon. This rank grants him substantial defensive power against Heroic Spirits connected to solar and lunar Divine Spirits, as long as they have Divinity Rank C or lower.
* Mystic Face: A spell (curse) inherent of one's facial features which is cast as soon as the target look at the user's face.E – Those who look at the Servant are struck by strong feelings of awe and respect. Ordinary humans will be compelled to follow him and attend to his every word and action.
* Worldly Censure: A curse caused by the world’s rejection of an aspect of the Servant’s existence as recorded in the Throne of Heroes.EX – As long as the Servant resides in Japanese territory, his name cannot be pronounced where minors may listen. The world will actively ensure this is the case, for Alaya eagerly enforces national censorship laws. The honking of cars may drown a speaker’s voice, or an unfortunate event may interrupt one who attempts to pronounce the forbidden word. Anything goes as long as the word never reaches sensitive ears.
Noble Phantasms:
Tapac Yauri
The Golden Radiance for All Humankind
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: A
Range: 1-2
Maximum number of targets: 1 person
The royal scepter of the first of the Inca sovereigns, given to him by the Sun god himself. It cannot be considered a spear; it is in fact a staff with its bottom end sharpened into a pointy tip. The staff, seemingly made of pure gold, ends in a lively solar motif with two concentric rings enclosing it and several golden spikes spreading as light beams. The powerful Mesoamerican Noble Phantasm has a plethora of separate effects.
As long as prana is fed to it, the solar emblem shines radiantly, dispelling all lesser magical effects attempting to engulf the area in darkness. Furthermore, the light of the scepter carries the conceptual weight of the “true sun”. In other words, the magical light emitted by the staff is considered “light from the sun”, and the world recognizes the time during which the staff is shining as “daytime” in that location. Attacks made with the pointed end are wrapped in fiery white flame. It is not ordinary fire, but blazing sunfire imbued with divine blessings. The divine gift for the sake of humanity’s survival makes Tapac Yauri’s attacks especially effective against all extensions of the will of the planet, from the lowliest elemental spirit to the Ultimate One of the Earth. However, those same flames have absolutely no effect on Divine Spirits other than those associated with darkness, ignorance or death.
The final effect of Tapac Yauri can be used only by relinquishing the weapon, in a ceremony resembling the omen of Cuzco’s foundation. By calling out the name of the Noble Phantasm and planting it with the tip touching the ground, Manco Cápac may command it to sink into the ground. From that moment until his death, the territory centered on that location and reaching as far as his eyes can see becomes “the promised territory that exists for his sake, given by the gods’ providence”. He effectively gains access all the land’s mana, and simultaneously forbids any other magic-user from tapping into it. The land and its leylines are imbued with the blessing of “order” and “stability”, but only for the sake of benefiting Manco Cápac—he is no longer affected by Magecraft cast within the blessed territory. Even the geometry of space and the flow of time are bound by a strong rigidity of form imposed by the Noble Phantasm—all forms of spatial-temporal manipulation and destiny interference fail to work on Manco Cápac. Non-Divine Spirits will not attempt to harm him within the blessed territory, and Reality Marbles fail to come into existence within its boundaries. All these powerful benefits come at the cost of losing his main weapon for the rest of the Heaven’s Feel.
Background
“It must be noted that the time period named the ‘Age of Gods’ is an arbitrary categorization that cannot be bound to a specific time interval. Naturally, as the advance of Abrahamic religions reached different places at different times, the abandonment of animism and polytheistic mythos and subsequent rejection of thaumaturgic tradition in specific locations took place later in time the further from the core Eurasian cultural sphere. Pundits argue that the end of the Mesoamerican ‘Age of Gods’ took place at the end of the XIV century at the latest, asserting that it would take at least one hundred years for their Magecraft to lose enough potency to succumb to the Europeans conquerors. Adversaries of this arbitrary statement are not few in number, and the debate of when the gods turned their backs to the pre-Columbian Americans continues to this day.”
- Commentary by Waver Velvet El-Melloi II for the “Thaumaturgist’s Compendium of Divinity”.
The legendary hero acknowledged as the first leader of the Inca culture and founder of the Kingdom of Cuzco and its homonymous capital. To this day, historians still debate the historicity of his persona, and the dates of his life and deeds remains undefined, but most contemporary authors consider him a real person, albeit with a strongly adorned mythology surrounding him. The official statement is that, as the ancestor of all Inca rulers, great efforts were made by future Incas to “mythify” the deeds of Manco Cápac, to foster national identity and pride as a means to culturally unify the growing empire.
Ayar Manco was blessed from the moment of his birth; a mortal born from the union of two gods. He and his sister and future wife, Mama Ocllo, were created by Inti and Quilla, Divine Spirits of the Sun and the Moon, respectively. Their purpose was to guide and organize the semi-nomadic tribes of the Andes Highlands into a kingdom devoted to their worship. They appeared before the scattered remnants of the broken Tiahuanaco people, who had been subjected to a pathetic fate of wandering after their capital succumbed to the invading Aimaras. The Tiahuanacos were awed by the divine children’s indescribable beauty, great knowledge and powerful magic, and allowed themselves to be led northeast, for they were promised a new home. They named his new leader with the title of Cápac—The Powerful.
Manco Cápac carried the golden staff of the Sun, Tapac Yauri, and the instruction to let the staff stand vertically on the ground whenever they stopped to rest. Should the staff ever sink into the ground as if swallowed by quicksand, Manco Cápac was to establish the Kingdom of the Sun on that location.
The Tiahuanacos wandered for over twenty years. In the meantime, they learned about agriculture and animal husbandry from Manco Cápac, and tailoring and other manual labors from his sister-wife. Eventually, they reached the Cuzco Valley, where the royal staff responded and disappeared into the earth. Under Manco’s wise leadership, the nomads defeated the Sahuar, Hualla and Alcahuisa tribes and finally settled for good, thus founding the Kingdom of Cuzco. On the place where Tapac Yauri sank they built a grand temple, Inticancha, dedicated to worship of the Sun.
The rest of his life was spent defending his people’s precarious position. The fledgling Incas’ place in the Cuzco Valley was tiny compared to the more powerful realms that surrounded them: Ayamarca, Pinagua and the ever encroaching Aimaras. The first Inca warlord fought until the end of his days, and then handed over the duty to his son, Sinchi Roca. When he was not fighting, Manco Cápac legislated. He made homicide, adultery and thievery crimes punishable by death, he established the cult of the Sun as state religion and initiated an order of virgin priestesses dedicated to Inti’s service. He forbid marriage before the age of twenty, forbid human sacrifices and declared that only royalty was permitted to imitate him into marrying one’s own sibling.
Manco Cápac carries himself with the poise of an enlightened being. However, he is no Buddha: the Inca warlord is proud of himself to a fault, and may even act condescendingly before “ordinary humans”. However, at the same time he greatly respects dedication to one’s role. He will acknowledge the lowliest person if that person is dutifully performing the tasks expected of him. Possession of magical capability is a mark of greatness to him, so he will respect his Master if only for that. He has a natural distaste for everything and everyone of European origin, as he has every reason to blame them for the fall of the great civilization he built. His wish is the return of the Inca pantheon to this world, so that they might guide those willing to follow him into creating a new Kingdom of the Sun.
Originally Posted by G-Man
