Character:
Fierce and hotblooded, graceful and well-mannered.
A lady that is professional and loving, someone that nonchalantly acts the same in both contrasting situations.
On the battlefield, she displays a very calm and confident demeanor: full-frontally exhibits to the enemy that she thoughtfully examines battle advantages and disadvantages as they crossing blades. Compared to the likes of later periods' military commanders, her approach in warfare perhaps isn't the most brilliant, but she makes it up by adapting quickly. As she lived in an era where a battle is simpler, and individual capabilities much more valued.
Someone who, instead of grunting during trouble, will simply dismiss her situation as:
"Ahah, this wouldn't do. I must come up with a new strategy or else a defeat is certain."
In her private life, she and her husband have devoted their lives to each other, rule the people with each other, and conquer the enemies with each other. She praises her king when it was warranted, she worried about her king when he was sickened. Contrary of her occupation lets on, she is someone that treasured a positive and intimate relationship.
Rather than agonizing during anxiety, she will caringly nurses, while doing everything she can:
"My dear is under great peril. We are examining his health and we will not lose hope."
She is not a heartless woman that incapable to function in a peaceful society. As she has a hobby of collecting goods she founds artistic. Jades, jewelry and animal idols are a given, but she is drawn on collecting animal figurines in modern times. She often worries about her looks, as she gives an effort on what to wear for the occasion and values others' opinions about such. The type that shows her excitement not only with words, but also the care, detail and time she puts on them.
"...With everything considered, it is no masterpiece, but yet another entry of the superb line that you can't help but appreciate the ingenuity and passion of the sculptor."
If there is a regret she wishes to change by the power of Holy Grail, she is unable to serve Wu Ding much longer due to her untimely death. It is an entirely selfish wish, as his reign largely successful to the point of being remembered as the best King of Shang. To undo it means to void a good ending he hardworkingly achieve, and she felt conflicted having such a desire.
Speech Example
"What do I like? That would be collecting jewels and figurines. Ahah, I don't really need that much, I'm content having a plenty amount of selections that I favored."
"What do I dislike? I don't... think there is something that infuriates me to be called such. Enemies and others, we could
deal with them
all the same, no?"
"Ahah, this slender arm of mine is quite strong, you know? Are you sure to challenge me on a game of arm wrestling?"
“For someone that remembered as powerful, my undoing is a weakness of the heart. I used my prince’s death as an excuse to partway, succumbing to the illness called sorrow. Really, I’m nothing exemplary.”
"I'm afraid I incapable to recognize what's the problem on being honest in all situations. Isn't sincerity a virtue? Don't modern society prized individuality? Why do we must act differently during an offensive and defensive, during the time of bloodshed and peace, when we can always be brave and loving all the time?"
Lore:
The Shang (商) (also known as Yin) is the earliest historically documented Chinese dynasty (1600s - 1000s BC), due to their tradition of recording divination on oracle bones survived until the modern era. The oracle bones tell the reign of King Wu Ding (武丁) (born as Zi Zhao), which details the problems they faced such as agriculture and military campaigns.
Fu Hao (婦好) is one of his three principal consorts, and his most beloved. Rather than a queen (which such concept might not be present at the time), she is remembered as a frontline general that contributed to most of her husband's foreign policy.
In other words,
China's first historical heroine.
An unusually strong woman; she serves as an advisor, organizer, and leader of the Shang army for her husband in the frontline. Wu Ding is remembered as the most effective ruler before the Qin emperors after him, which can be credited to her exploits on crushing four neighboring tribes (out of six tribes he defeated in his reign) with relative ease, one of them is documented as the first large-scale ambush in history of China. During her height, she led 13.000 soldiers and renowned Shang generals, becoming the most powerful commander at the time. All of this is achieved within her very short life.
She also a textbook lady of custom, devotedly serve her king in matters of religion. As it was during the Age of Gods, she carries the honor to communicate with the ancestors and previous kings on Heaven using the aforementioned divination method. Under normal circumstances, it is the current king or prince that leads such important rituals in the Shang society.
One could say she is a person that simultaneously defies and abides societal expectations, flawlessly.
Her existence only comes to light when archeologists uncover the Shang dynasty sites in 1976. Her tomb, which contains various jade, bronze, jewelry, and weaponry becomes one of the few primary sources of Shang historicity. The oracle bones found on the site mentions her name a hundred and eighty times; many of them are of Wu Ding wishing her peace in death and asking for her assistance from the afterlife. Even after her untimely death at the age of 33 due to illness and grief of her son's death, she still blessed the Shang dynasty toward victory against the Gong tribe.
The Saint Graph she has right now is a Lancer, from the statue of her wielding a ceremonial battle ax (yue). As it is the most associated iconography of hers, Lancer is her preferred class. But she is proficient in many arms that she could be summoned as either Archer, Rider, and Caster. As an Archer and Rider, her role as a military general will be more pronounced. While as Caster, she will employ a godly Magecraft to evocate spirits of the ancestors (divine spirits), animating an army of jade familiars that accompany the death to Heaven. A case where the Servant's mystery largely plays much role in making her a strong Servant instead of fame.
Originally Posted by King of Padoru
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