Create-a-Servant

[Funderfullness]

too much effort put into something that ultimately is done just for fun.

No such thing, I'm afraid.

[Seika]

Was not trying to insult you there Seika.

The sheet was all in all pretty great.

It was a really good jab when I read it that way. I appreciate being insulted like that.

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

For future reference, the forum font is Verdana, in what the forum calls size 2 but which I think equates to size 10 by the metric everyone and everything else uses.

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.

It's whenI don't enjoy things that I don't put effort into them.

[Kat]

It's when I don't enjoy things that I don't put effort into them.

I guess I'm not a hard worker. Or I'm too drained with my low paid job.

[asterism42]

I'm am really impressed, though. I don't think I put that much effort into some of my uni essays.

[Kat]

Last time I put genuine effort into something free of charge was my MA thesis. Months of work, submitted a month before deadline, then imagine guy from the same group somehow passing in spite of starting working on his two weeks before his deadline.

[Seika]

I'm am really impressed, though. I don't think I put that much effort into some of my uni essays.

I know I don't.

[Christemo]

Last time I put genuine effort into something free of charge was my MA thesis. Months of work, submitted a month before deadline, then imagine guy from the same group somehow passing in spite of starting working on his two weeks before his deadline.

Have you considered that he might have done a better job? Did you actually read his?

[Kat]

Have you considered that he might have done a better job? Did you actually read his?

Yes, I got a better grade (A to his B) and read his work, it was about translation of cultural references in an oldish video game (Ghost Master, I liked the game). It's amazing feat to procrastinate so much and pass, he set the university's record. Few others procrastinated less and failed. In our approach we were opposite, but I have nothing but admiration for how he delivered.

I was the hardworker who sticked out and he was the procrastinator who sticked out, in the end we both ended up having low paid jobs (he is a school teacher afaik), because the market does not care about our thesis, just experience. We simply both need now to work 1 or 2 years more to get the standard pay.

[Christemo]

Yes, I got a better grade (A to his B) and read his work, it was about translation of cultural references in an oldish video game (Ghost Master, I liked the game). It's amazing feat to procrastinate so much and pass, he set the university's record. Few others procrastinated less and failed. In our approach we were opposite, but I have nothing but admiration for how he delivered.

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates

So yeah, good on him.

[Kat]

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates


So yeah, good on him.

In the end, we are the same because main reason I started from day one is because I wanted to set aside time for entertainment, including video games and animu, and he just spend that time playing video games and watching animu (his power level was widely know), and wrote the thesis in two weeks (I question sanity of not sleeping for 72 hours right before the deadline, though).

[You]

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.

They listed references in the CMIV apo profiles. But not in proper formatting.

[Kat]

A sin.

[Master of Chaos]

Class: Berserker
True Name: Shimshon (Samson)
Gender: Male
Alignment: True Neutral

STR: ＊＊＊＊＊ A+
END: ＊＊＊＊＊ A+
AGI: ＊＊＊＊＊ B
MGI: ＊＊＊＊＊ C
LCK: ＊＊＊＊＊ D
NP: ＊＊＊＊＊ A

Keywords

KEYWORDS

Nazarite

In the ancient Judaic faith, there was a practice in which one would display his unwavering devotion towards God by abiding to three special pledges. These constrains are:

1 – not ingesting alcohol or any sort of intoxicating substance.

2 – not become ritually impure by coming close to human corpses. Even the bodies of close relatives (such as one’s father or mother) are no exception.

3 – not cutting one’s hair, but instead allowing it to grow freely.

After a foreordained amount of time has passed, the believer that successfully fulfilled those pledges would undergo a purification bath and ritualistically cut his hair, which would then be burned in a sacrificial pyre. Back in those days, the believers that followed this practice were regarded as holy existences and called “nazarite” (consecrated divine child), in reverence.

Incidentally, the nazarite oath was fundamentally something that the believer took up on his own free will, but it seems that this Heroic Spirit was made to shoulder this by a divine mandate.

Shofet

According to tradition, after being freed from slavery in Egypt, the Israelites were guided by the prophet Moses to the land of Canaan, where they established their own nation. However, this was not an instantaneous development. Between their arrival in the Promised Land and the eventual unification of the Kingdom of Israel, there was a period of time when the Israelites were composed by 12 semi-nomad tribes that lived independently from each other.

Still, maybe to at least maintain a facade of unity out consideration for their common origins, there was a custom among those 12 tribes to elect a leadership figure from time to time to preside over all of them. The main attribution of said leader would be to command the warriors of the tribes in times of war, but occasionally he would also fulfill administrative and judicial functions.

In ancient times, the name given to that leadership position was shofet. There are no precise translations for this term in modern times, but the designation of “judge” is commonly accepted as being a close approximate.

CLASS SKILLS

Mad Enhancement: D
Causes parameters to Rank Up in exchange of reason. The STR and END parameters are raised, but language faculty gets simplified and it becomes difficult to maintain complex thoughts for long periods of time.

PERSONAL SKILLS

Charisma: C
The natural talent to command an army corps. Raises the abilities of one's own army on group battles. A rare talent. Leadership skills suitable for a great general that leads an entire military force.

However, due a side effect of Mad Enhancement, he cannot properly display this Skill.

Divine Protection: A+
A blessing from Divine Spirits, provides bonus modifiers to all defensive values and saving throws. Furthermore, at A Rank and above, the only curses that can touch this Servant are those cast by gods themselves.

As someone whose very birth was mandated by God, he is blessed with the highest grade of providence. However, in case his Noble Phantasm is sealed away, this Skill will be lost as well.

Guardian Knight: B
The ability to temporarily raise one’s own defensive power when acting as an escort for others.

Derived from the Mesopotamian Sun Deity Shamash, his name means “small sun” in Hebrew. According to the ancient Judaic culture, the sun was the celestial shield that warded off darkness… in other words, a symbol of God’s protection towards the world.

A divine child sent to Earth in order to deliver people from oppression, this Heroic Spirit shows his true worth only when protecting others.

NOBLE PHANTASM

Nazir – An Oath with God
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit (self)
Berserker’s symbolic Noble Phantasm. Not an armament, but something better described as the natural disposition of his own body. According to legends, Shimshon was bestowed with superhuman strength after the spirit of God was incorporated into his flesh and blood.

A constantly active Noble Phantasm, it grants a boost to all parameters except LCK and MGI and bonus modifiers to saving throws. Furthermore, since it turns Berserker into a living vessel for a Divine Spirit, the same effects as the Skill Divinity are also provided.

That being said, just like in legends, the functioning of this Noble Phantasm depends on Berserker abiding to the nazarite oath. Its performance drops with each pledge that he breaks, and it will be completely sealed away if he violates all three of them.

Last Blessing – Demolition of the Pagan Temple
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Fortress
The trump card of Heroic Spirit Shimshon. A last resort that can only be activated under the premise of self-destruction.

Capitalizing to the utmost limits on his body special quality as “a medium for God’s might”, massive energy is summoned from a higher plane of existence and then transformed into a raw destructive power by using Berserker himself as a converter. Although limited to simple physical damage, its strength is unmistakably worthy of being categorized as Anti-Fortress.

The anecdotes regarding Shimshon’s death sublimated as a Noble Phantasm. Therefore, its use will cause Berserker's annihilation as if by fate. Also, since it also expresses the concept of “final mercy”, it can be activated even if he is in a condition in which Nazir is sealed away.

Background

BACKGROUND

Shimshon. One of the shofet (judge) that presided over the Israelites in the period prior to the formation of the Kingdom of Israel. A great hero of the Judaic faith.

The time in which he lived was period of trials for the Israelite people. Even after working together to escape slavery in Egypt, the Israelites were unable to remain unified upon reaching Canaan. Rather than consolidating into a single nation, the 12 tribes had instead disbanded into their respective corners of the Promised Land, living off the land as simple semi-nomads.

This sort of primitive lifestyle made them vulnerable to the abuses of the well-established countries that were also located in the region. The neighboring country of Philistia. Although there was no formal dominion in place, in practice the Israelites were all but a subordinate nation for the Philistines.

Shimshon came into this world in order to rectify this situation.

According to tradition, an angel of the Lord appeared before Manoah, of the tribe of Dann, and his unnamed wife. The angel said that Manoah’s wife – who was sterile – would conceive his offspring by the grace of God. But in compensation for that miracle, the child was to abide to the pledges of nazir (consecration) from the moment that he was born until his last breath.

Little to nothing is known about Shimshon’s early life, but it is believed that he had what was considered an ordinary childhood in his time. Other than his nazarite oath, there was nothing special about him at first. It remained so until he became a young man.

Until the day he came down from the mountains where he was raised and visited a Philistine city for the first time.

Shimshon was attacked by a ferocious lion on his way to the city. At that moment, the spirit of God came down upon him, bestowing his legendary might. Thanks to that, he was able to slay the lion with his bare hands.

In the city, Shimshon met a Philistine woman and fell in love with her at first sight. Despite being earnestly advised against it by his relatives, he caught to win her hand in marriage. Then, after overcoming many hardships, Shimshon managed to convince her father to accept their relationship.

At the couple's engagement party, Shimshon challenged his Philistine groomsmen for a game of riddles, betting 30 pieces of fine linen. The story goes that Shimshon proposed a particularly difficult riddle, which he knew only his bride could solve. Not wanting to lose, the groomsmen threatened the young woman into telling them the answer.

The son of Manoah accepted his defeat when given he correct answer… however, he also went mad in rage upon realizing that the groomsmen had solved the riddle by coercing his beloved.

In that state of fury, Shimshon killed 30 rich Philistine men, plundered their garments and used that as payment for the bet. His father-in-law became outraged when he learned of this deed and called off the wedding, giving his daughter away to another man instead. Trapped in a swirl of anger, sadness and despair by this series of events, Shimshon impulsively carried out random acts of vandalism that caused great material loss for the Philistines.

Naturally, the victims sought reimbursement. But since Shimshon was a mountain-dweller without great possessions, they went after the father-in-law and his family instead. In the middle of the quickly deteriorating situation, Shimshon's beloved was inadvertently killed by one of his victims.

This incident served as the trigger for Shimshon's life-long vendetta with the Philistines.

Samson and Delilah

Impressed by the way how he continued to single-handedly outdo the Philistines, the Israelite people started to gather under Shimshon, eventually making him their leader (shofet). For over 20 years, he guided the Israelites into a rebellion against foreign influences. Since this endangered the Philistine supremacy on the region, he was elevated from a mere vandal to an enemy of the Philistia state.

It was around that time that Shimshon met his greatest love and worst nemesis - the Philistine witch Delilah. Famous in some circles as a femme fatale that could seduce any man into doing her bidding, Delilah received great riches from the Philistine government in exchange of completing a simple task: discovering the source of Shimshon's superhuman strength and stripping it away from him.

Delilah fulfilled that task splendidly. At the end of a long stratagem, in which all forms of seduction and deception were exhaustively employed, she successfully fell in Shinshon’s good graces. Blinded by love, the Israelite hero thoughtlessly revealed the connection between his power and the nazarite oath.

It took only a single night of drunken passion for Shimshon to break the pledges he had kept during his entire life. Naturally, the spirit of God left him and all his strength went away as consequence. Having turned into a mere mortal, he was an easy prey for the Philistine soldier that came for him at Delilah’s instructions.

Captured, Shimshon was blinded and then sold into slavery as punishment for his transgressions against the Philistines. Having lost everything, he could only cry silently as over his fate as he suffered countless humiliations. However, it seems that he never cursed the woman who betrayed him, and continued to love her to the rest of his days.

(This is a digression, but some renditions of this legends say that Delilah also fell in love with Shimshon at some point. Despite suffering with doubts and questioning her loyalties more than once, she still carried out her betrayal in the end).

His final moments were both tragic and glorious – indeed worthy of a hero. During a national holiday in Philistia, Shimshon was exposed to public eyes at one of the country’s major temples. The pitiful sight was supposed to serve as a clear symbol of the Philistines’ superiority. But on the peak of the celebration, Shimshon loudly called the name of God and asked for one last mercy. God answered by momentarily returning his strength, which he used to destroy the temple’s foundations and cause it to collapse, killing everyone inside.

When Shimshon’s relatives appeared by the site of the collapsed temple in search for his body, they found it completely unscathed. By a miracle, the devastation had completely avoided him. Yet, the hero nevertheless laid dead on the spot, having lost his life by causes unknown.

[SINIB]

You gave him knight of honour?

[Funderfullness]

Lack of originality aside, Lancelot has training with several weapons and Eternal Arms Mastership to justify using anything as a weapon.

Samson has the one incident with the jawbone; otherwise he used his sheer strength. So I wouldn't say it fits with him.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Also, when he used the jawbone, there's nothing about using it with the skill of a weapon so much as "I beat a thousand men over the head with this thing." Lancelot just used a branch in place of a sword, parrying a blow as if he had a weapon. If someone were to have a comparable Noble Phantasm, it'd probably be more in line with something like how Musashi made a bokutou out of an oar.

[Christemo]

Or Abhimanyu who beat up Karna, Duryodhana, Drona and a few other homies using a chariot wheel.

[Sunny]

...I was bored riding home, and honestly, this is the only faceclaim that works.

Class: Caster
True Name: Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton I
Alignment: Neutral Good

Statistics:
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: E
Mana: D
Luck: A-
Noble Phantasm: D

Faceclaim:


Background:

Spoiler:

His precise origins (and even his age) unknown, Joshua Norton is known to have immigrated to the United States after coming into a substantial sum of money, dealing on his arrival in Peruvian rice. Having lost his fortune when the business deal soured and the price of rice plummeted, he was left almost completely destitute, forced to scrounge a poor existence in a boarding house in San Francisco, the city he chose to call his home. Having failed to void the contract under the courts, Norton grew increasingly disillusioned with the corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy he found at all turns.

It was one day after his final legal defeat that he received an epiphany that changed his life from that moment forward: he was not a down-on-his-luck commoner, but a ruler by divine right. The transformation was so sudden that it was as though he awakened his true nature and origin as an Emperor - or performed a single masterpiece of self-hypnosis that would last the rest of his days. If it was madness, he was by all accounts otherwise completely lucid and cognizant, a perfectly sensible gentleman in all ways but this one. This was not the madness of a Berserker, but the transformation of a true magician, altering his fate with one absolutely certain declaration of the truth.

From that day onward, Joshua Abraham Norton the First was, without question in his own mind, the Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico, the first of his line. Treating the city of San Francisco as his capital, he immediately set about establishing his claim, calling for the army to come to his service and for Congress to immediately cease operation, as they were no longer necessary under his rule. These requests were, predictably, ignored. For most men, that would be the end of things, but not for an Emperor.

Against all odds, Caster became a beloved figure in San Francisco, not only tolerated but supported. His currency was accepted by citizens. His edicts were printed in the local press. He reportedly met with heads of foreign countries, albeit most likely when they were visiting on tourism or other business - it is said he personally met Emperor Pedro II of Brazil , and he professed to be in romantic contact with the Queen of England herself. The one officer who attempted to arrest the man for mental illness was chastised and made to publicly apologize to the Emperor, who graciously pardoned him. From that day, every officer in his city saluted their Emperor on the streets. Without any power to enforce his authority, he was treated warmly, lovingly, as though that authority were legitimate, even if it was done with tongue-in-cheek.

Such was Caster's mystique that any number of stories circulated about him during his rule. He was the displaced son of Napoleon, biding his time until the time came to take back France. He was a millionaire shrewdly affecting poverty to preserve his fortune. It is said that when he died, over ten thousand citizens attended his funeral, including foreign dignitaries. He was buried not as a common man, but in the Masonic Cemetery, at the city's expense, his gravestone proclaiming his title for all to see: the first Emperor of the United States, his line tragically ended without an heir.

A man who, regardless of reality, lived his life under a spell that made the impossible the truth.

Class Skills:
Item Creation
Rank: D++
Caster notably produced many articles and items during his time as Emperor. Among them, he produced his own currency, written declarations, and forged his own correspondence with heads of foreign state, even preparing his own wedding to Queen Victoria (her consent undoubtable). While nothing he creates has magical effect on its own, combined with his Noble Phantasm, their effect may become legitimate with time.

Territory Creation
Rank: D++
As his only prowess in thaumaturgy is in self-hypnosis of the highest grade, Caster is able to establish only a normal workshop, containing mundane items with which he can pen his imperial writings, with little other benefit to him as a magus. However, the actual boundary of his territory is vastly larger than its physical trappings, easily encompassing an entire city.

Personal Skills:
Imperial Privilege
Rank: EX
An ability that, due the insistence of the owner, Skills that are essentially impossible to possess can be obtained for a short period of time. In cases when the Rank is above A, even the "burden to the body" is acquired (such as Divinity).For Caster, the relevant skills include Animal Dialogue, Charisma, Divinity, Golden Rule, Military Tactics, Riding, Persuasion, Revelation, Thaumaturgy, and others.

Noble Phantasm:
Empire of One - The True Words of an Emperor
Type: Anti-Army
Rank: D
In life, Caster was known for issuing any number of imperial decrees and edicts, ranging from the dissolution of existing governmental bodies to the mobilization of armies, and even ordered construction of monuments in his name. He was known to have personally granted Mark Twain the prestigious title of Official Storyteller of America. Many of these orders were ignored, and indeed, it is said he grudgingly decided to allow the acting government to continue to exist without his permission, so long as they remained out of his way. Some of his orders were obeyed by his citizens, however, and many of them - unfulfilled in his life - would prove to be remarkably prescient. Among them, Caster ordered the establishment of the League of Nations several decades before they actually got around to it, and the Oakland Bay Bridge was (eventually) built precisely where he had commanded a bridge to be built, as was the underground Trans-Bay Tunnel.

Crystallizing his authority as Emperor, while within his territory, Caster's Edicts carry the force of Command Spells, in nature if not in power. In reality, while they may carry the ability to bind, they lack the power to do so, and nothing will happen no matter how meager a request his forceful decree actually is. ...However, that is only at first glance. Once an Edict has been made, it begins to accumulate power from that time onward, planting a "seed" that autonomously collects prana from the surroundings, both from the atmosphere and from individuals it encounters.

The collection process is modest, taking only trace amounts, but each Edict establishes a web of influence whose range expands exponentially with time, growing to encompass even an entire city and all of its inhabitants. Connection with a leyline, while random, will greatly speed up this process. Once a sufficient amount of prana has been generated, an Edict is automatically given effect, allowing even the most absurd of Caster's declarations to (eventually) become a reality, given enough time and prana.

Due to the nature of this Noble Phantasm, it is difficult, if not impossible, to estimate exactly when an Edict will be satisfied, and the method in which it is satisfied may not be the one Caster himself intended - they will be satisfied automatically in whatever way it is possible to do so with the energy collected. The only certainty is that Caster's word is that of the Emperor, and whether in his lifetime or not, it shall somehow be obeyed.

Note:
This includes, of course, his inevitable Gil-like decree that the Grail already belongs to him. Given enough time, once the nature of this Noble Phantasm becomes apparent, it would seem that his victory condition becomes 'a matter of time' unless he is taken down first.

[Frostyvale]

This is the best thing I've seen all day.

[You]

Lack of originality aside, Lancelot has training with several weapons and Eternal Arms Mastership to justify using anything as a weapon.

Eternal Arms is about level of skill rather than breadth of skill. It only justifies being able to fight with your stuff as a non-berserker when you are a berserker, not Knight of Honor.