So with Agartha having come out, I remembered I made a sheet for Scheherazade back in 2015 that I was saving to use for an RP but would never do it because I made her with an RM. After she was released, I looked back at this and was really surprised with all the similarities as well as stark differences from the GO one.
Because of that I wanted to share it.
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Name: Scheherazade
Title: Queen of Storytellers
Class: Caster
Gender: Female
Birth and Death: 220 CE – 651 CE
Alignment: Lawful Good
Height: 142cm
Weight: 36kg
Personality:
It is said she had perused the books, annuals, and legends of Kings and their stories, instances of byone men and things. She had even perused the works of poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments therefore she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred. A model for the governesses of the Victorian Era, a prototype for the “learned ladies,” of the French court. However that is not completely the case.
A bookish stereotypical kind of girl, the type that wears glasses but is really pretty when she takes them off who goes well with her sister who is a “normal cheerful girl.” A shy but cranky person with a hint of arrogance normally, however when she takes off her glasses, transforms into some sort of regal queen. A class-representative, at heart.
Hobbies include reading, therefore ultimately would end up as a librarian, publisher, editor, that sort of job. Absolutely horrible at writing actual stories, in the end she just fuses elements of every type of story she things belongs there and messes the entire thing up.
Thinks hair buns are the greatest invention.
Parameters:
STR: E
END: E
AGI: E
MAN: C
LUK: A+
NP: E-EX
Class Skills:
Territory Creation: A+
Can create an advantageous territory for oneself as a magus. Rather than a temple, or a study, a palace where stories are spun can be created. While within her territory, Caster receives a B rank in Charisma.
Item Creation: -
Because of the Noble Phantasm, this skill is lost.
Biography:
The main character of the Arabian Thousand and One Night’s frame story and the one that tells the stories from within.
While the Thousand and One Night’s origin is as twisted as the narrative, it is said that the Scheherazade’s story, the frame story began in the Persian Hazar Afsan in the 10th century. Additional tales were added into the tales creating a composite work of literature that brightens eyes to this day.
In the confines of the frame story Scheherazade is the daughter of the Grand Vizer of Shahryar who was the ruler of the Sasanian Empire putting her story somewhere between 200 and 600 CE. Having lost faith in women after it turned out his beloved wife was betraying him, Shahryar turned to taking a virgin each day, marrying them, and then killing the next day so they could not cuckold him.
Disturbed by this turn of events Scheherazade, begged her father to allow her to marry Shahryar and after a failed story he agreed. She later collaborated with her sister, Dunyazade, to make sure to ask her a question an hour before daybreak.
After the pair was married, Scheherazade begged the king to allow her sister into the room, there Dunyazade asked Scheherazade to tell a story to which she did, however she did not finish the story telling the king that it was already daybreak.
She repeated this for more than three years, a thousand and one nights to be exact. On the last night when she had no more stories to tell she presented him with the three children she had borne for him during those nights. It was there the king professed his love for her and his refusal to kill her the next day.
It would be good to note for what reason a bookish girl like Scheherazade would decide to put her life at risk for others. Rather than hearing the pleas of the women of the empire, could it be that Scheherazade heard the pleas of humanity itself?
After all what she performed is perhaps a derivation or warping of one of the three special kinds of knowledge attributed to women; the knowledge of healing.
Personal Skills:
Librarian of Stored Knowledge: A
With over a thousand tales stored in her mind Caster’s skill is of the highest rank.
After a successful luck check, past knowledge and information even if it was not recognized as such during the situation can be clearly recalled. It can be said that she has a perfect memory.
Eye for Art: A
An attachment to the literary arts of the arts.
In the case she sees a Noble Phantasm with a literary origin during or before her time that relates to the countries of the empire she was queen for she will undoubtedly be able to determine the true name.
Empathy: B
A skill that allows one to come to an understanding with others. A different form of Rhetoric.
She is able to negate B rank Mental Pollution and below. Her husband was someone who was severally mentally polluted, yet she was able to cure him. In her presence all those who are under mental interference have that effect rank down.
Noble Phantasm:
Name: Sirazad Sahrazad
Title: 物語でっち上げるの智慧
Rank: E-EX
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: -
Maximum Number of Targets: -
The Three Great Authors – Grimm, Aseop, and Anderson – are also part of the Great Storyteller’s whose names are still heard, no matter what culture one is a part of: Grimm, Aseop, Anderson, Scheherazade, Chaucer, Perrault, Murasaki Shikibu, Homer, Dickens, and Dante. However, one of these story-tellers is a fake, or perhaps all but one of these storytellers are fake. Either way, the one that does not fit with the rest of them is undoubtedly Scheherazade. While all the others were also known as writers, Scheherazade is the only one whose tales are undoubtedly oral. In fact, the recording of the couple’s One Thousand and One Nights is a construct from her husband not her.
Thereby all that Scheherazade is allowed is a blank world where anything is possible to spin her stories. In fact from the beginning that is all she had and used against the despot Shahyrar. The blueprint of her blank canvas is spread across the world that is now contained in a world egg. The ultimate symbol of the fake who told other people’s stories never having the time to invent her own. That is the only feat that the only true storyteller, the Queen of Storytellers, is allowed. In that respect, her specific personal skill is more valuable than this Noble Phantasm.
It is similar a laughing vampire’s Reality Marble.
On another note when Richard F Burton canonized the name Scheherazade for the English audience there was speculation whether the origin of the name was Šīrāzād or Šahrāzād, the former meaning, “lion born,” the latter meaning “the realm or domain one rules is free.” Burton decided on the latter. The name of this Noble Phantasm takes the literal meaning, that the realm Scheherazade rules, is free of anything and everything.