It can, but that doesn't always yield the best result, hopefully you can use it just fine though.
It can, but that doesn't always yield the best result, hopefully you can use it just fine though.
Class: Caster
Identity: Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova
STR: E
END: E
AGI: E
MGI: C
LCK: D
Class Skills
Territory Creation (C+): Caster is capable of creating a Workshop whose capabilities can be boosted
to that of a Temple over time due to the recreation of the altar that was built on the site of her death.
Item Construction (E): Caster's skill in creating magical items is almost negligible.
Personal Skills
Battle Continuation (C): The ability to stay alive as long as one does not receive a mortal wound. This skill
is at an abnormally high rank for a Servant so young, due to the legend of her survival of her family's execution.
Saint (D): After her death, Caster was canonized as a passion bearer, a customary title for saints for those who faced
their death in a Christ-like manner. As such, she gains a boost to healing in the form of HP recovery.
Magic Resistance (D): Cancels single-verse spells, due to an amulet given to Caster by a certain monk.
Noble Phantasms
OTMA~Jeweled Corset (D, Support)
In the days before her death, Caster had sewn some of her family's crown jewels and diamonds inside the lining of her
corset to hide them from those who would do her harm. In addition to being able to hold ample stores of prana, the
corset serves as a sturdy armor, especially against projectiles.
Anger of a Dead Lineage~In a Gunshot the Future Changes (E-A, Anti-Unit, Anti-Army)
The source of her designation as Caster, a wild surge of magic reaching across time and space. For a mere moment
before her death, Caster was the last remaining successor to the Russian monarchy. Though her own magic talent was
nothing special, among her ancestors were some of the greatest rulers and heroes of Russia. This Noble Phantasm
allows her to call upon the power of her bloodline that was granted to her for a single instant and was
unable to be used before her life, and by extension the life and legacy of her family, was extinguished. Since she
is inexperienced, Caster draws on this power by instinct, making it highly unpredictable. The two conditions are that
a Heroic Spirit must exist as a "ruler of Russia" and have a familial connection, however small, to Caster. With this,
Caster can replicate the skills and even Noble Phantasms of these Heroic Spirits. Whether it be the fatal strike of
Michael I, summoning the Bronze Horseman of Peter I, or the harsh cold of Russia itself, the power in Caster's blood
calls upon whatever is best suited for the situation, making it extremely versatile. As a side effect, it can summon
mundane weapons and other objects as needed, such as food, clothing, jewelry and magical implements.
"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
Isn't Anastasia too recent to be a Heroic Spirit?
Originally Posted by Sandstorm77
This is basically a fun/fanfic thread. That hasn't stopped anyone in the past.
Hell, I made an Arnold Schwarzenegger Berserker.
Yeah matters of age aren't too significant, and Anastasia is definitely one of those that skirts the line ala Li Shuwen, being from 1901 and also incredibly famous.
My headcanon is that the last addition to the Throne excluding CG's was Hitler, anyway.
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Class: Caster
True Name: Midas, ”Goldfinger”
Alignment: Neutral
Natural Enemy: Gilgamesh
STR: C MGI: A+ END: D LCK: C AGI: D NP: B
Class and Personal Skills:___________________________________________ ________________________
Item Construction: A
The skill to manufacture magical items.
Territory Creation: A
It’s the skill to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a Magus. At this level the creation of a "Temple", which is superior to a "Workshop", becomes possible.
Golden Touch: A+
The infamous gift bestowed upon king Midas by Dionysus. Enthusiastic at first, Midas soon discovered he obtained more than he asked. Every non-living object is instantaneously turned into pure solid gold.
It is the long-sought-after goal of alchemists, the transmutation of matter into gold. However, this is only a metaphor: what the golden transmutation really symbolizes is the achievement of “perfect existence”, through the hermetic symbolism of gold, the most precious metal, beautiful and shining. Therefore what this skill really implies is the creation of “treasures”, not merely riches.
High-Speed Divine Words: B
The power to activate Thaumaturgy without the use of Magic Circuits. The language of the Age of Gods, back when words played a heavy role in spellcasting. As such, it is power long lost by modern magi.
Noble Phantasm:_________________________________________ ________________________________
Shadow of Ploutos: The Curse of Chrysopoeia
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Noble Phantasm
Chrysopoeia. The legendary accomplishment of transmutating inert matter into gold. Caster’s skills however go beyond simply this.
It’s a skill that Caster derived from his connection with Cybele, an ancestral earth goddess. Caster can skillfully tap into the system of leylines of Earth, to the point of manipulating it, in a sense “reversing the polarity”, turning what are normally dispenser of magical energy into trapping “fissures” and “whirlpool”, thus allowing him to syphon even more prana from the surrounding than normally possible.
Living beings are not affected, but everything else, including the Noble Phantasms of Servants, witness a progressive decrease and loss of power due to Caster absorbing their main source of power and very own reserve of energy.
In other words, it’s a weaponized process of Devaluation: although individually weak, cumulatively the production of so many “treasures” has the effect of lowering the rank of other Noble Phantasms.
It’s the ultimate curse of richness used in the wrong way, turning onto the rich man: the other side of Ploutos, god of wealth (born from Demeter, hence the association).
“All that glitters will be gold”
While entertaining the king, the satyr Silenus narrated to him the story of the mythical city Eusebes, the Pious city, in which there were no afflictions and and life was so pleasant that men died with a last burst of laughter. In this town, riches and gold were so abundant that they were regarded as the equivalent of common iron in our world. It woldn’t be too much of an exaggeration to say that this account shaped Caster’s goal of magecraft: the ideal of creating a perfect and pleasant utopia, a territory where riches are in abundance, blessed by the fertile earth goddess and erected in her bosom. As it’s known, however, things went differently from what he intended...
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A little joke profile, obviously inspired by Vagrant’s version. Recently I’m quite fixated on the idea of anti-NP NPs. Rather than fighting Gilgamesh (or even other servants) by stealing their NPs, Midas just turns them progressively more worthless as time passes. Overall I think it’s a good strategy, since it makes good use of a Caster’s natural affinity for defensive fights, while automatically counterattacking but without the risk of exposing himself in an actual attack. Plus if you combine it with Vagrant’s, you have a Caster who can actually hold his own against Rin in a fistfight.
Decided to redo my Servant roster. Here's my Beowulf Saber. More to come. Maybe tomorrow.
SABER
True Name: Beowulf
Source: British and Nordic myth
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Gender: Male
Stats:
STR ••••• A+ MAG •••••D
END •••••B+ LCK •••••C
AGI •••••C+ NP ••••• A
Class Skills
Magic Resistance: The ability to protect against magical attacks
(A): Cancels out spells of rank A or below. Theoretically, no modern mage can harm Saber. This high rank is due to Beowulf's resistance to the fire of the dragon in his myth.
Riding: The ability to ride mounts or vehicles
(C): Saber is proficient in riding animal mounts and requires little training to drive modern vehicles with average ability. He cannot ride any sort of mythical beast or military-grade vehicle.
Personal Skills
Charisma: The ability to sway others and lead groups.
(B): This rank is suitable for a king of a country.
Monster Slayer: The proficiency in the killing of mythical creatures.
(A): Hunting monsters is what Beowulf is all about. Against beings that are considered mythical beasts or those that align themselves with them, Saber's physical stats gain a boost. Beasts from British or Nordic myth feel immense fear in his presence.
Protection from Fire: The ability to protect against fire-based attacks.
(A): At this rank, Saber is completely immune to any type of magecraft or attack based on flames.
Noble Phantasm
Nægling - Nail that Pieces the Skin
Type: anti-unit
Rank: C
It is rather unfortunate that the only story we hear of this sword is its demise, when we know that it was "wound-harden (meaning it had been tested on the field of battle)." Indeed, it was not a failing of the sword itself, but a misuse of Beowulf's ferocious strength when piercing the dragon that the blade broke.
Nægling is the blade of a northern king, not ornate in jewels, but good in make. Its name, meaning simply "Nailing," reveals its true potential. Any wound inflicted by Nægling causes regional paralysis, effectively nailing down limbs. Unlike most Noble Phantasms, this sword can be broken in two. The only thing that can accomplish this however, is Beowulf himself. If this happens, Beowulf and any of his allies gains a power boost and the personal skill Monster Slayer (B).
Ealdsweord Eotenisc - Victory Blessed Sword of Giants
Type: anti-unit, anti-magic
Rank: C~A
The greatest blade of the King of Slayers. Normally, this sword is incomplete. After the battle against the mother of Grendel, the blade had melted away, leaving only its hilt. However, this is a large hilt. Its size is around five-feet long and three-inches wide, though the cross guard adds to its width at the end. Saber can use this as an effective bludgeoning weapon, though its true strength lies in its legend.
When saying the name of the sword out loud (if summoned in Scandinavia, its name changes to Ellsverð Jǫtunisk), the legend of this blade is recreated. Its blade returns, bringing the length of the whole sword a staggering 23 feet. Only Beowulf has the monstrous strength to wield this weapon as a normal sword, its speed being only slightly slower than his Nægling. This lengthening of the blade will only last a single swipe, but this attack will ignore any defensive tactics and negate all magic.
裸じゃないと意味がない。
True Name: Abe No Seimei
Classes: Caster
Alignment: True Neutral
Parameters
Strength: E
Endurance: D
Agility: E
Mana: A+
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: EX
Class Skills
Item Construction: B
Skill to produce magical items. Seimei is capable of producing talismans for defensive purposes as well as single use charms that serve as key components in his magecraft. With these he can also reduce many spells to instant actions or one line incantations.
Territory Creation: A
The ability to create an area advantageous to oneself as a magus. At this rank, Caster is able to create a Temple, superior to a Workshop. It has particularly strong defensive properties rather than outright offering a bonus to his power.
Personal Skills
Hojutsu (Onmyodo): A+
The knowledge of japanese thaumaturgy, specifically Onmyodo. Seimei is hailed as one of most famous and skilled users of this magecraft. It is a field specializing in divination, curses and exorcism, but his most exceptional attribute in the mainstream practices is his ability to create and command familiars. Seimei created hundreds of reliable shikigami during his lifetime, and his greatest are the Twelve Heavenly Generals - a group of monstrously powerful familiars, each with its distinct identity and powers.
Divinity: E
One's aptitude as a divine spirit. Seimei is the son of a mortal man and Kuzunoha, a kitsune that served as the deity of Shinoda Shrine. As such, he inherited some portion of her power.
Monstrous Strength: D
Ability to temporarily increase Strength by one rank. The manifestation of the more monstrous side of Kuzunoha's heritage. At this rank, the boost has a short duration.
Noble Phantasms
Sacrificial ButterflyTaizan Fukun
Rank: A
Type: Self
An ability that allows Seimei to evade death. Strictly speaking not a spell or grand ritual, but rather a mystery in the shape of a particular familiar. The familiar, once created, becomes Seimei's replacement in the eyes of the World and takes on the weight of his existence. The destruction of this familiar that acquires its master's features serves as a compensation for Seimei's life. In essence, it allows Seimei to "absolutely avoid" a singular event that would otherwise result in his unquestionable death. With this substitute, Seimei deceived the manifestation of Taizan Fukun itself, the god that claimed the onmyoji's life taking away the butterfly shikigami that bore his face instead.
The primary restriction of this Noble Phantasm is that to create the familiar, Seimei requires a nearly matured form of the Sixth Imaginary Element, extracted from a living human. In other words, he must find someone who has been afflicted by a Demon, and the demon in question must have advanced to the stage where it can produce physical interference. Seimei must then use his arts to expel the demonic influence from the victim and transform it into a familiar.
With his skill and knowledge, it is not a difficult matter to induce the forming of a Demon within a vulnerable heart - but whether Seimei is willing to do so is another matter.
King Of Hell Who Judges Life And DeathTaizan Fukun
Rank: EX
A Noble Phantasm channeling the power of the god known as Taizan Fukun, an obscure and almighty grand ritual found in the depths of Hojutsu. In truth, the spell named "Taizan Fukun" is a system that manipulates souls and performs transactions of life and death. It could be described as a magic foundation all of its own, but it operates on a paradigm beyond simple magecraft. As a mystery, it is able to act independently so long as the right conditions are set, and will do so according to its own rules. Its identity is that of a fabricated Divine Spirit - a great power bound in ancient times by practitioners of the art in Asia and worshipped as a deity.Type: Special
The ritual can extend lives or take them away, and so long as the value is appropriate, one death can be exchanged for another with impunity. Sacrifices performed to Taizan Fukun allow the caster to direct its hand and command its authority over souls. Choosing who it will take away is the least of this spell's applications. Souls in the grasp of the evoker can be altered with unrivaled flexibility: trapped in absolute bindings, wiped clean, or released from flesh and made to function without a vessel. In this way, Taizan Fukun is a mystery infinitely close to the Third True Magic - although it cannot achieve the Materialization Of The Soul, it could even replicate the method of reincarnation achieved by a certain ancient magus with the appropriate price.
Theoretically, it should even be possible to resurrect the dead with this Noble Phantasm, but none could tell what the recompense for such a feat would be, or the risk involved in contradicting the cycle of the World itself.
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Hrm, I'll have to come back through and do a proper look over all these recent servants soon, but since Strange Fake vol 2 is featuring all sorts of Hassan Zealot action I thought maybe I'd best get mine up before it's completely and utterly out of date.
I uh... I kinda really got into the body-horror aspect of her design. Also, thinking of 15 new "body modification" assassination methods was haaaard.
Hashshashin Zealot
The No-Name Assassin
Class: Assassin
Alternate Classes: None
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Parameters:
Strength: D
Endurance: C
Agility: B
Magic: C
Luck: C
History:
A devout girl from an unimportant town, there is little story to be told of Assassin's life before the Brotherhood. Her home was razed by infidels and she, along with the few other survivors, was adopted by the Brotherhood of the Hashshashin to be raised in their ways. Her experiences led her to become intensely devout, devoting herself to her training and her faith with a fervour that surprised even the most faithful and pious of the Assassins who raised her. Her zealous nature was one that did not earn her praise or recognition for her devout ways, but rather scorn and spite from others who in their heart of hearts were not as willing to sacrifice their total beings for their God.
Her convictions were so strong and so abnormal as to isolate her from all others, and she never once hated others for it, simply believing herself to be too immature or not firm enough in her faith to be acknowledged. Despite her own belief that she was not faithful enough, she desired to be leader of the Hashshashin sect so that she could lead others in the righteous ways, and sought to attain for herself the Divine Miracle that might qualify her for leadership. She studied the histories of the sect, deciphered secret diaries and theorised methods that previous Hassan leaders had used to attain their own Miracles, and in a way she was a genius. For within the span of a few years she was able to determine and to a degree replicate the miracles of the 18 Hassan leaders who had come before, but at great cost to herself. She transformed herself into a monster, often hunting alone in the deserts to track down elusive demons that she would dissect and integrate into herself. Had she been born elsewhere, elsewhen, she could have been someone who made a true impact on the world through the advancement of the fields of medicine or biology, but alas.
She sacrificed herself for her faith, transforming herself into an individual she knew would not be welcome in Heaven, and yet even then the others shunned her. They derided her as merely a copycat, a cheap imitation who could not achieve her own Divine Miracle, while secretly they held fear and hatred for her in their hearts, she who could take multiple lifetimes of work and achieve them all within a handful of years. Another man was chosen to become the Hassan instead of her, and she knew not what to do but imitate one more Hassan. Her modification to her own mind ended any chance she could have had at being the leader of the sect, as her personality and her capacity to perceive the world became so irrevocably altered that she became outcast from her sect, never acknowledged, never even gaining the satisfaction of becoming a martyr, knowing only that she had sacrificed everything she had and that still her faith was not great enough, her convictions never strong enough to be accepted.
Class Skills
Presence Concealment
The capacity to hide one’s presence as a Servant.
- A+: As a candidate for the title of Hassan, the Zealot possesses the highest grade of concealment, making it possible for her to disappear entirely and mask her spiritual presence, though the efficiency of this ability is drastically reduced when making preparations to attack.
Personal Skills
Self-Modification
The ability to merge one’s own flesh with the body parts of others. The higher one’s level in this skill, the further one is from being able to be recognised as a true hero.
- A++: By integrating eighteen separate Zabaniya techniques into her own body, the Zealot has the highest rank in this ability. Her whole body is bound together from the parts of many other beings, and she is able to seamlessly merge new body parts into her own self via molecular integration rapidly and effortlessly. Due to the extensive modifications she has made to herself, Assassin's body is constantly tearing itself apart and attempting to reject her demonic grafts, so she regularly has to incorporate new biomaterial into herself and conduct extensive debilitating repairs via her Surgical Procedure skill.
Surgical Procedure
The capability of surgical repair to either oneself or others, as long as sufficient tools are available.
- B: The Zealot is highly educated in medicine and is able to perform complex medical procedures even with relatively simple tools. Her skill is great enough that she was able to perform almost all of her body modifications herself, without pain suppressants, and when she is performing her medical procedures on others they are almost certain to succeed except in the worst of circumstances.
Fanaticism
Fanatical devotion to a cause that is great enough to prevent mental interference and at higher levels can reject physical interference to a degree as well.
- A+: Willing to completely unmake and remake herself in the name of her faith, the Zealot possesses the highest level of fanaticism possible. She does not have the comfort of a martyr knowing that in death she will be rewarded for her faith, but rather acknowledges that her desecration of her body has transformed her into a monster damned to an eternity of torment, and yet she gladly makes this sacrifice without hesitation. The absoluteness of her faith and her willpower grants her total immunity to mental interference and protection against magical effects equivalent to Rank B Magical Resistance, although it is ineffective against relics stemming from her own religion. However, her level of zealous faith makes it impossible for her to reconcile her views with anybody who is not equally as distorted as she is.
Zabaniya
Delusional Heartbeat
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: C
Range: 3-9
Target: 1
Description: An arm grafted from the evil spirit of a Shaytan onto the Zealot’s back, this modification is both deadly and simple, a third arm fused to the back between the shoulder blades which remains folded away beneath her robes, the disfiguring lump hidden away by the deceptive abilities of the Mask of the Ghul she possesses. The wicked hand utilises Persian magecraft to enact the simplest of curses, transforming an ether clump into a mirror image of a target’s heart and creating a dual existence. By crushing the fake heart the real heart is destroyed also, or the two hearts can be swapped around and the real one consumed to gain knowledge. By interacting with the fake heart alone the Zealot can avoid any physical defenses, but an opponent with a high enough Magic or Luck parameter can avoid the curse’s ill effects.
Zabaniya
Delusional Brainwave
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: C
Range: 1
Target: 1
Description: One of the more simple forms of body modification utilised in any of the Zabaniya techniques, but at the same time quite genius in its own right. This Zabaniya is nothing more and nothing less than an alchemical catalyst, such as a crystalline core or a preserved familiar’s eye, implanted into the palm and inscribed with an arcane ritual circle that can act as an incredibly focused single-purpose Magic Circuit. Once successfully implanted and linked to the Zealot’s magical circuits the alchemical symbol can, on contact with another person’s head, be used to transmute their brain matter into gunpowder and ignite it, blowing up the target’s head. Magic Resistance of Rank C or greater can prevent this from working. The Zealot has modified both of her palms with these alchemical circles.
Zabaniya
Delusional Growth
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: B
Range: 2-15
Target: 1-5
Description: By implanting several seeds of the hellish tree of Zaqqum into her body, the Zealot has become able to spontaneously cause branches or vines to erupt from her body by drawing energy out of the realm of Jahannam. The plants react to her thoughts and can be used to a reasonable range, being able to be used in a myriad of ways if one is clever enough, and she often enough uses the hardy, tough vines she can create as snares, utility cables or other such supportive techniques even before bothering to use the vines as weapons.
The wood itself is exceptionally hard and durable, and can be used to create makeshift weapons easily enough, though the Zealot’s preferred methods of attack with Delusional Growth are to simply make hardy vines and supple branches burst from her limbs and through her enemies, the plants having sharp, pointed tips much like stakes, or to simply fire them off as small wooden shards from her arms, essentially acting as makeshift daggers, bolts or arrows that are on par with projectiles used by someone with the Projectiles skill at Rank B.
She can also root herself into the ground with this skill to rapidly regather prana from her surrounds, but the process of having branches erupt through your flesh is incredibly painful so she is loathe to use this ability even with the regenerative abilities provided by Delusional Chemistry minimising the time the damage manifests. The plants are completely resistant to fire, being that it is able to grow in the hellfire of Jahannam itself, and any fire directed at them will be absorbed and converted into prana for the Zealot.
Zabaniya
Delusional Chemistry
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Rank: D
Range: 0
Target: 1
Description: A Phantasm that has surgically fused the venom sacs of deadly phantasmal desert snakes descended from the very snake that took the Herb of Immortality from a golden king into the Zealot’s body at key points in her circulatory and lymphatic systems. Reminiscent of the story of the snake who was granted extended life so that he could look upon the face of the Prophet, these venom sacs provide a moderate degree of constant regeneration and immunity to poisons or diseases, as well as allowing the Zealot to inject powerful neurotoxins into her opponent simply with a mere scratch.
Her fingernails have been modified into deadly claws for this purpose, and this same venom can be infused into and coated over the wooden spikes she can fire from her body with her Delusional Growth phantasm. The neurotoxins utilised by this technique are intensely powerful, quickly crippling people with END Rank C or lower and having a relatively notable impedimentary effect on those with Rank B END. However, the poison has no effect on people with END greater than Rank B.
This was the first modification that Assassin performed upon herself, as it is only the permanent healing factor that this ability provides that allowed her body to survive the processes she put herself through afterwards and not reject all the foreign materials incorporated into herself.
Zabaniya
Delusional Consumption
Type: Anti-Unit
Rank: B
Range: 1-9
Target: 1-5
Description: One of the more magically advanced Zabaniya techniques that the Zealot has fused into her body, Delusional Consumption is a transformation of her stomach into a demonic furnace of the damned, a direct link into a hellish dimension separate from the natural world. Externally the Zealot bears a twisted, snakelike scar on her stomach, heavy stitching apparently used to hold the wound closed. Internally her stomach has been heavily modified, covered in ritualistic symbols and implanted with organic components from any number of hellish beasts, transforming it into a crude “portal to hell”.
On her mental command the Zealot’s scar splits open as the portal activates, revealing a dark void in her torso that immediately starts to draw material from the immediate vicinity into it by way of a glowing orange beam of intense heat that pours from the void, melting and destroying the material that it contacts as it pulls it into the void. As this is a breaking down of the basic components of the natural world sustained contact with the fiery emission is capable of damaging even the hardiest of armours and badly injuring even the most durable of opponents. The whirlwind vortex drawing material into the furnace is relatively difficult to resist without STR greater than Rank D, while resistances to fire or magic can lessen (though not completely negate) the effects of the hellfire’s decompositional qualities.
Despite being sewn shut within her body, the decompositional furnace is constantly active and tears her own stomach apart at all times when not released upon the outside world, with only her advanced healing capabilities allowing her to survive this monstrous technique, a complication that the original Hassan was obviously able to work around or nullify in some way.
Zabaniya
Delusional Innocence
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Rank: D
Range: 0
Target: 2
Description: Through rituals of worship and alteration the Zealot’s body has been changed in such a way that it is an ideal vessel for sympathetic magic. Sympathetic magic, being one of the most basic forms of all magecraft, utilises the two most basic tenents of magecraft. The first is that “like produces like” and the second is that “contact between two objects creates a bond that transcends time and space”. This is a magical system so primal that many paleothaumaturgists consider it to be the first thaumaturgical foundation to exist, possibly predating humanity itself. The two core concepts of sympathetic magic can be seen in use of items such as voodoo dolls, or healing the wounds caused by magical spears through application of shavings from said spear to the wound, and any other number of instances.
In the case of Assassin, her whole body has been primed as a mirror for sympathetic magic that can be utilised once she has obtained bodily material from a target, or an item of particular significance to the target, she can integrate it into her own body. Once done, she essentially becomes a voodoo doll for that individual, such that any harm done to her is magically reflected on her target as well, and vice versa. Due to the primal and basic nature of sympathetic magic, no protection against curses or any amount of magical resistance can shield against the effects of Delusional Innocence.
Zabaniya
Delusional Circuits
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: C
Range: 1- 10
Target: 1- 99
Description: By grafting a network of phantasmal magical circuits from a djinn into her body as a black mirror of how normal human magical circuits, the Zealot has gained the ability to use these “magical poison generators” to emit vaporous black prana from her pores when they spin up, the oft-depicted “djinn smoke” of local legends. This black prana invades the bodies of those who breathe it in and this foreign prana fills their circuits. Once circuits that have had this prana injected into them are activated, the user’s body detects this foreign prana and attempts to flush it out violently, causing the circuits to burn up and the body to incinerate itself in a gruesome and painful manner. This same toxic black prana can be used to flush out her own system, rejecting magical effects that are targeted at insertion into her body, but flushing out her body with the toxic black prana of a djinn is a messy process that involves great systemic pain and injury.
Zabaniya
Delusional Bindings
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: B
Range: 1-7
Target: ???
Description: Seven iron nails that were pounded into the corpses of violent murder victims to seal their spirits before they could transform into vengeful efreeti, and then nailed into the Zealot’s upper back in a ritual pattern that has created a seal binding the powers of these efreet to her own body. This ritual has granted her control over the homelands of the efreet, manipulating sand and wind with simple gestures. She can generate bursts of slicing wind or raise scouring sands as long as such material is available, and can use these winds and sands in all sorts of ways, from defensive to offensive, and with a great number of utility techniques as well. Additionally, she can dehydrate anything she touches, causing it to wither and crumble and become sand that she can control with her demonic abilities. However, these iron nails do more than simply seal the powers of the efreet within her. These nails are actually lynchpins within her body, essentially holding Assassin's mismatched Frankenstein of a form together. Removal of even one of the spikes will cause individual parts of her body to begin to fail or slough off in short time, thanks to the intense alchemical power that the spikes possess that essentially pin the Zealot together.
Zabaniya
Delusional Anatomy
Type: Anti Unit (Self)
Rank: E
Range: 0
Target: 1
Description: Alteration of the body via a technique that allows her to rearrange her internal workings and systems nigh-instantaneously, shuffling her organs around so that it becomes difficult to land a mortal wound upon her body. One of the techniques she could not readily replicate in its entirety, as the Hassan who developed this technique had ways of forcibly applying its effects to others with a simple touch, which could often have messy results.
Zabaniya
Delusional Visage
Type: Anti Unit (Self)
Rank: C
Range: 0
Targets: 1
Description: Having carved away her own face and replaced it with the leathery face of the demon Maalik, a seductive ghul who could manipulate his own appearance to charm others into doing his bidding. This demonic face allows the Zealot to transform her appearance and somewhat enhances her hypnotic abilities, as well as “blurring” her motions to those who do not have adequate resistance against her demonic charms. By consuming the DNA of another individual the Zealot is able to use Delusional Visage to transform her body into a visual replica of that individual, enhancing her infiltration capabilities. Her true face is horrific to behold.
Zabaniya
Delusional Paradise
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: A
Range: 1-10
Target: 1-5
Description: The technique stolen from the original Old Man of the Mountain, drawing as inspiration on the Garden of Paradise that he used to brainwash new devotees, Firdous e Bareen. Mental entrapment of the strongest order, it is a potent hallucinatory drug that can be released from the pores, distilled from the psychotropic fruits that the Old Man grew within his little Paradise. In the form of invisible vapours that snare the mind of those who breath it in, Delusional Paradise can trap the affected individuals within a mental labyrinth, a perfect world of their own construction that should be considered a mental entrapment of the highest order, leaving those under its effects docile, easily suggestible and of little threat.
Zabaniya
Delusional Whispers
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: A
Range: 1-5
Target: 1-???
Description: The voicebox of the seductive Iblis, charismatic and sweet of tongue. Laced with suggestive tones, the Zealot is able to command those with little or no magical power or training against hypnosis to do her bidding. By implanting autohypnotic triggers into their minds she is able to transform the weak and the normal into sleeper agents who can, at the right moment, spontaneously self-hypnotise in a fashion similar to traditional magcraft to invoke destructive self-reinforcement, raising their parameters to average Wraithlike levels. Additionally, alteration of the voices of those under her mental command into low-grade Mystic Voices that can continue to pass along the Assassin’s hypnotic suggestions to other individuals with weak wills. A single phrase can become a trigger that propagates through a community, priming any number of potential sleeper agents. Hail Hassan!
Zabaniya
Delusional Shadow
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: B
Range: 1-5
Target: 1-2
Description: The shadow of a daeva, carved from its body as life fled from it, and then fused with Assassin’s own shadow through spiritual surgery. A versatile technique that allows her to merge seamlessly with other shadows to hide within a “dark realm” and step out of other shadows within approximately half a kilometer of her entry point, it is possible to drag other objects into this realm as well. However, the od of other living individuals means that they will forcibly be ejected from the realm within a few seconds, making the technique more disruptive than anything else in this fashion.
However, use of it in other ways enhances Assassin’s stealth and improving her Presence Concealment. The main use however is as a weapon, utilising the inky darkness as a liquid solid that can instantly reform into shapes desired by the Assassin, such as a wave of razors crashing down on her opponents, or an enveloping sphere of spikes. A deadly challenge even for many Servants.
Zabaniya
Delusional Tangle
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: D
Range: 1-5
Targets: 1-3
Description: By removing her own scalp and sewing on the scalp of a desert apparition, Assassin has gained for herself a luxurious head of hair with curious properties. More durable and strong than regular hair, it is prehensile in the extreme and can be manipulated in a variety of ways, allowing her to essentially use her hair as multiple extra tendril-like limbs. She often uses it for strangulation, but has been known to wield various additional weapons in her hair-limbs, or even use them in a manner similar to a spider, scuttling up walls and along ceilings with her hair, using each individual strand to search out minute cracks or grip points to hoist herself about. She can grow her hair to greater lengths at will by accelerating the process through Delusional Chemistry, but for the most part treats this Zabaniya as a utility tool rather than a method of assassination.
Zabaniya
Delusional Scar
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: D
Range: 1-7
Targets: 1-4
Description: An intricate carving that goes deep into the flesh of Assassin’s upper torso, a ritual blood seal that binds a marid, demon of the storms, to Assassin and grants her some control over its elemental magic, specialising in the Water element. This grants her an array of water-aligned spells that can be cast as Single Action attacks due to the fact that it is not actually her doing the casting but rather the spirit of the malign marid that performs the act. Due to her magical circuits being those of a djinn grafted in via Delusional Circuits, the magical capacity she possesses with Water Elemental spells is not as high as that of the original Hassan who used this technique. The djinn's own alignment towards Fire makes her Water magecraft unexceptional, and the toxic black prana that her circuits utilise means her nervous system lights up with intense pain and corrosive damage is inflicted bodywide when she uses her magecraft.
Zabaniya
Delusional Gaze
Type: Anti Unit
Rank: C
Range: ??
Target: ??
Description: The Evil Eye, a talisman of great power and potent magecraft, inserted into her left eye socket in place of Assassin’s own eye. It acts as a Mystic Eye of Leylines, able to clearly see traces of magical energy that linger in the area and visibly identify the pulse of life that exists within the land. Aside from being able to more easily identify and track those who utilise magical abilities it also allows Hassan to disrupt the leylines by interacting with them. Through stabbing or cutting the Lines of Life that flow within the World’s surface Hassan is able to disrupt the flow of ki to certain areas, and can even cause magical eruptions or explosions at certain points along the leylines as long as she takes time to calculate her attacks.
Zabaniya
Delusional Blood
Type: Anti Unit (Self)
Rank: E
Range: 0
Target: 1
Description: Another talent taken from the tree of Zaqqum, this Zabaniya stems from the explosive fruit of the tree that would burst into flames when the wicked attempted to eat them. Assassin’s blood and bodily fluids have become exceptionally acidic, corroding and burning through most materials they contact. In addition, the oils from her skin and the breath from her lungs are deadly as well, becoming flammable and explosive. She can leave handprints or footprints of essentially invisible films of oil that will burst into explosive flames after a period of contact with the air, which can be used in a number of unexpected ways. She combines Delusional Blood and Delusional Anatomy in grotesque ways, sometimes surprising her opponents by vomiting up her own acidic intestines or spitting chunks of burning flesh at her targets.
Zabaniya
Delusional Self
Type: Anti Unit (Self)
Rank: B
Range: 0
Target: 1
Description: By merging her body with that of her quareen, the djinn that is born at the same time as an individual and stays with that individual in the spiritual world for their whole life, Assassin has rendered herself bound to two separate worlds simultaneously. Because of this, any damage inflicted to her either physically or spiritually instantly heals as both halves of her being realign themselves to match up again. Only attacks that simultaneously target her spiritual body and her physical body and inflict the same wound to both aspects of her being can injure her. As all Servants can actually injure spiritual forms the potency of this ability is somewhat downgraded from what it was in life, but it still generally requires an attack with Conceptual strength at least as great as this Noble Phantasm to actually harm her.
Zabaniya
Delusional Mindscape
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)
Rank: A
Range: 0
Target: 1
Description: Far and away the most invasive of all the Zabaniya techniques the Zealot has modified herself with, Delusional Mindscape is the Zealot's own desperate attempts to mimic the psychological fragmentation achieved by the man who became Hassan in her place, performed through entirely physical means. This was achieved through complex brain surgery beyond what even modern medicine can achieve, combining surgical prowess with alchemical alteration to the brain’s composition for radical mental changes. By partitioning her brain with cerebral barriers, rebridging and homogenizing the brain matter and alchemical altering the neural paths for high-speed transmission and comprehension, the Zealot’s entire perception of the world has been substantially altered, to the point where it is hard to consider her mentality as even having a resemblance to a human being.
The effects of this complete cerebral overhaul include, amongst others, the ability to pattern complex behaviour into instinctual programs, granting her the ability to fight at her full level despite any mental hindrance, up to and including unconsciousness or sleep. Alongside this, her mind operates in parallel stream, processing everything simultaneously and with extreme depth, essentially granting her Instinct at Rank B, as well as causing her to perceive all of her worldly experiences, past, present and future, simultaneously. It is this unlimited comprehension of her whole life concurrently that makes her mind so truly foreign to others and so impossible to communicate with, meaning she struggles to interact with others and holds especially great difficulty in linear communication such as standard languages or transmissions of ideas.
Her mind’s multiple landscapes also mean that she essentially cannot differentiate between which experiences are actually happening and which ones are mental scenarios she constructs for planning, so she can use those mental scenarios as essentially “virtual combat training” but at the same time cannot identify the reality of the true Grail War amongst her scenarios. The multiple streams of consciousness working together do tends to make her hard to predict or anticipate, and in doing so dampens opponent skills that rely on this sort of ability.
Jeeeeeeeeezuz
Not sure exactly what you mean by that. But okay?
Wow, Vagrant. That's so much more effort than I could ever put in.
I like it. Though, what about Cyber Phantasy and Ichor of Reverie?
They're there. Just named as Delusional Brainwave and Delusional Circuit to keep the pattern of Delusional [body related imagery].
Ah, okay. That makes senses (also must beat having to look up new words of similar meanings).
What about Delusional Poison Body?
Prototype Fragments didn't exist when I first drafted the 18 zabaniyas as rough ideas. Canon Zealot can keep that one, I never really liked that Zabaniya anyway.
You sure went all out for this Vagrant.
Nice job, even if zealot Assassin still annoys the shit out of me. Lol Strange/Fake though.
Standing ovation, Vagrant
Not only for so many bodily Phantasms, but for rooting them in the culture so well. That's a labor of love.
She's an odd idea, I'll grant that. Still, I kind of like the idea. Also I want to write something about her with this version where her body basically sucks and is falling to pieces like Rei in EoE.
Makes sense
Back when SF was just a joke, I always figured she must have died young after warping her body so much, and your profile really drives that home.
Either way, I'd read the hell out of that.
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