Considering the chain of atrocities he set in motion, I feel like that a hostile attitude towards Genghis is all but natural.
Considering the chain of atrocities he set in motion, I feel like that a hostile attitude towards Genghis is all but natural.
To be fair to the old Mongol, not everything he caused was so bad. Without the Black Death, the series of events and situations in Europe resulting from it likely wouldn't have come to pass as relatively soon as they did.
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Europe was certainly the LEAST affected region, so talking about them beyond the fact that the Mongols brought the Black Death to them is kind of unimportant (though Hungary was almost completely annihilated by the Mongols, which is more comparable to the destruction they brought to other regions).
Now if we look at China, the Middle East and Central Asia... Holy hell.
Since everyone important died or was deported, the figures are hard to come by, but large regions of Persia and Central Asia were almost completely depopulated. Mesopotamia had its entire agricultural and intellectual structure mercilessly obliterated while living in Syria went from being on the best places on earth to an eternal battlezone. It left the Middle East a periphery region that would be dominated by foreign powers come the next 700 years, almost unthinkable, considering they had been the world's intellectual and political center for a few hundred years just before.
The invasion of China alone by the Mongols is still to this day, one of the most destructive single conflicts ever fought.
I am aware Merciful Idiot already did Percival, and I am not in the habit of making Servants other people had statted up already. However, I have like, 10 unfinished Servants laying around in my hard disk for months, so it would be kind of stupid to just throw them away.
In this case, I could not decide on which direction to take when building this guy, so I just went and made two different versions. How convenient.
Peredur
Sir Percival
Last edited by Daneel Rush; March 21st, 2014 at 01:43 AM.
Two Percivals? Excellent, I shall read them properly when I'm not so dead tired. I do like Flower of a Knight and Grail Knight as skills, though. Seeing cool little personal skills like those always remind me how I need to go back and endeavour to add at least one unique skill to every character I make, I think.
Eternal Arms Mastership is something you earn from developing your skills into those of a supreme weaponmaster. Flower of Knighthood is something you are born possessing, but only fully manifests from the acknowledgement of others upon witnessing your unfair skill at arms. Also, it is susceptible to mental interference, because Eternal Arms Mastership is a silly thing.
EDIT: that was pointless rambling. Anyway, EAM is "I can fight like I'm not batshit insane even when I'm batshit insane, because apparently I'm that amazing with weapons!" while FoK is "I'm amazing with all kinds of weapons because FUCK YOU." Two completely different things.
Last edited by Daneel Rush; March 21st, 2014 at 10:57 AM.
Actually, EAM is more like even if sanity and judgement are impaired, when you have mastered the usage of weapons so thorough it's engraved in the instinct and the way you fight so much that it doesn't matter if you're insane or not, ME has no effect on your abilities.
Yes. What Sherrin said. Basically too many people think EAM is about just being really skilled but in reality it is more than that. "Eternal" isn't a superlative, rather it denotes that your arms mastery cannot be degraded, no matter the circumstance. It's only used to explain how Lancelot could fight using his swordsmanship while under Mad Enhancement, compared to Herc, who could not.
Just inserting it because someone is skilled at fighting seems bad. Though I didn't really have a reason to rant about I did anyways!
“I may have fallen, but you are far from reaching my Divinity.”
Class: Saber
True Name: Tiamat
Also Known As: The Primordial Sea
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Strength: C Mana: A++
Endurance: C Luck: A
Agility: B N.Phantasm: A++
Class Skills
Magic Resistance A+
As the Mother of all Dragons, she is inherently the purest of Dragonkind. Attempts at
Magecraft will be ineffective, not only that, but she radiates this ‘dead-zone’, and all
magic, even magic that does not affect her, has a fair chance of being cancelled out before
it can be cast. Your feeble mortal magics amuse Tiamat.
Personal Skills
Independent Action A+
It seems a bit odd that a Master would attempt to reign in the former Goddess of Chaos.
She wouldn’t listen to you unless refusing would mean her death, and even then, she’ll stab
you in the back as revenge later. She can survive indefinitely without a Master, though, as
much as she would hate to admit it, she will require a Master for prolonged use of her Noble
Phantasms.
Dragon Riding N/A
The Mother of all Dragons has the ability to ride dragonkind as though she were said
Dragon, which is accurate given she is their creator in the mythological sense. She
cannot, however, pilot ordinary beasts of craft any better than an untrained civilian,
which is odd for a Saber.
Divinity C++
Many factors limit the Grand Divinity of this former Goddess. One: she was slain by Marduk,
and a God’s death severely drains their Divinity, as they can no longer be truly worshipped.
Secondly: she is no longer venerated by any sphere, cult, or otherwise, and was degraded and
labeled a monster by the Babylonians, who saw her only as a fiendish, vengeful Dragon. Though
her rank in life was EX, these factors deplete her Divinity so she only resists powers related to
ancient deities or deities whose sphere of influence involves the Sea. Sea God powers are
practically negated(or at least greatly resisted) by her Primordial Divinity over the ocean, as are
powers related to ancient Sumerian Divinities, though Enuma Elish, which represents her demise and the creation of the earth, it would negate her Divinity, offering no protection.
Prana Burst(Water) A+
Tiamat’s strikes are infused with the force of the waves of an ancient ocean, long lost to the world.
This pure, magical water can be used for more than combat, as it has both destructive and healing
properties. It ‘cleanses’, and this cleansing can be either violent or gentle, depending on the mood
of the capricious former Goddess, Tiamat.
Noble Phantasms
Mušḫuššu
My Darling Serpent Who Devours the World
Rarely are Noble Phantasms made of pure hatred, but this Phantasm is an embodiment of pure loathing towards the world that forgot her. She is generally not spiteful, because all her spite is drained away and channeled into her weapon; a sword, reminiscent of a slithering snake in shape, whose very name means ‘furious serpent’. The blade itself is an incarnation, albeit inanimate, of one of her children, which was a great Serpent to slay the murderers of her husband Apsu, who later came to inspire the myths of the Hydra. This snake-sword is abnormally large for a one-handed weapon, practically a greatsword in length, and is wielded with the fury of such. Activating this blade involves ‘waking’ the Serpent, which involves her feeding it her blood, to awaken its fury to protect its mother. Once awakened,it nearly triples in size, being impossible large to wield, then it firmly places itself in front of Tiamat. The blade then releases a Maelstrom, which rips up what is around it and sucks it within like a black hole. Attacks made against Tiamat during this period redirect towards the maelstrom, consuming the energy of the attack, so long as it is of lower rank than Mušḫuššu. Once it has consumed everything that does not resist the maelstrom within a 100ft radius, it releases all this as a primeval shockwave, which levels anything still standing in a radius double that of the damage it already dealt. This child of Tiamat feeds off of her prana after the attack in order to restore itself so it may be used again. If she lacks sufficient mana to feed it, Mušḫuššu, an infinitely greedy child, will take what mana she does have, which in all likelihood will kill her. If she does have sufficient mana to feed it, she will still require a great deal of rest, and all parameters save Mana will suffer a rank down, as the pure spite she unleashes weakens her very being.
EX-Rank, Anti-Reality
Umū Dabrūtu
The Winds of Infinite Storms
Compared to the hateful power that is its sibling Mušḫuššu, Umū dabrūtu is rather underwhelming in terms of destructive power. Thankfully it compensates for having a low mana drain. Tiamat can channel these winds as easily as she breathes, walks, or runs, and they function as though they are a part of her. Umū Dabrūtu is a representation of her absolute command over the storms of the world. Wind, rain, sleet, snow, hail, and thunder alike bow to her absolute supremacy over them. Upon calling forth its name, a gust of wind emerges from a small clay jar she keeps at her side. These are the first winds, filled with power of the early world, and with them comes the power of the ancient storms. Waves that reach 300 feet high, lighting that causes craters, and rain that floods streets in mere moments with its torrential downpour. It is a very obvious Phantasm, and doesn’t have a combat purpose, save it turns the battlefield into a primordial hell. With wind and rain and storm battering masters and Servants alike, they will hard pressed to reach her and put an end to it. She can redirect the storms to target specific locations, but not individuals. Much like the Chaos she represents, she does not determine who the lightning strikes or were, but she can move its cloud above a hapless Master, who must simply pray while the ground around him flood and the winds start causing hurricanes that his Servant can get Tiamat to cease. This Phantasm is problematic in that while activating costs little mana, the World itself rejects these ancient storms as they are out of time, and the longer she forces these storms to remain, the larger the World drains mana from her. Eventually, of course, she must cease, but a talented Master could fuel these violent storms for an hour or so before Tiamat would be forced to rest. In the Ocean, her domain, she can cause these storms to last much longer, as they belong in the great salt-waters.
A+-Rank, Anti-Army
Personality: Chaos incarnate, Tiamat is as impulsive as she is almost reckless. However, her spontaneousness can be rather charming if one has the right temperament. She couldn’t handle a serious Master, or one that has a time-consuming job or goal for the Grail. Her one wish would actually to just keep her Servantile powers and retain her body, and she would “decide whether or not Divinity is worth another go”.
She believes life itself, which functions based upon Law and Order, is a tool to combat order itself, and even Death is desirable at times, as it lets one slip into entropy and join the infinite chaos, creation, and destruction of the void. She believes eternal life to be the greatest gift, as one can then defy order and the nature of things as much as they please. She’s not one to follow rules or commands, and her Magic Resistance guarantees no Master is going to command her. They are, in her opinion, along for the ride, and she is the guide. She desires to show them what fun truly is, which to her involves equal use of both good and evil, but personal freedom is the greatest treasure. Though there’s no way to prove it, she claims that because Marduk used her flesh to create life, free will stems from her eternally defiant blood.
She is, in every sense of the word, indulgent. She wants to try and see and do everything, and as long as nobody tries to stop her, she’ll do no harm in doing so. In her own words: “Trying to control me is like controlling a river. Do you decide where it flows, or where it takes you? Nope. It does what it pleases with you, as will I.” Her definition of her Master: “Phantasm Fuel”.
Tiamat is worst of tricksters, conning others not for material gain, but for sheer amusement. Mortals are playthings in her eyes, and while she doesn’t hurt them needlessly, she does often engage in absurd amounts of hedonism, the mortals she favors often being dragged along, not to engage, but to watch and be jealous of her “Splendor”.
She would be very compatible with Gilgamesh were it not for his obsession with being noted as the only true ruler, and her believing rules and rulers are pointless affairs. Even as a Goddess she didn’t give a care as to what the other Gods did or why, as long as they didn’t restrict her freedom.
Most Masters who don’t share or at least understand her philosophy on life will view as an excessively free spirit at best, and crazy at worst. Tiamat couldn’t give a damn on their opinions either way. If they get in the way or say no? Well, it looks as though Tiamat is going to need a new Master then. The events of her death, which lowered her divinity to servant-tier, as well as her no longer being worshipped or venerated by ANY circle and commonly used in fiction to name an otherwise gruesome demon or dragon, most often evil, Tiamat can be summoned as a Servant. Her own decree demands she be summoned as a Saber, but her skill set could honestly and effectively be used for any class, Caster in particular.
The only reason she doesn’t possess Monstrous Strength or Innocent Monster is due to not being alive when she was degraded into a demon-dragon, which happened rather recently in modern fiction.
-ImageFrom El-Shaddai, of a character named Nana, who fit my mental image of Servant Tiamat)
Last edited by The Big Cheese; March 25th, 2014 at 05:03 PM.
There's precedent for fallen-God servants. Medusa is a former goddess in Nasu Canon.
No, cannot even partially resit Ea. At all.Sea God powers are practically negated(or at least greatly resisted) by her Primordial Divinity over the ocean, as are powers related to ancient Sumerian Divinities(ex. Gilgamesh’s Enuma Elish).
Don't try. In the nasuverse it is responsible for ending the chaos of primordial earth and creating the world as we know it. If anything it would be super effective according to the myth.
Also Fallen God servant is very different from a god which is most likely primordial earth itself since in the myth Tiamat was ripped in two to create the earth and sky.
I'm not saying it's the best. Twas just something I imagined on the fly. In retrospect Ea would most likely be super-effective l, so I'll make a mental note of that and edit my doc. accordingly later.
Personally I thought since The World has changed in substance between the Age of God's and now, her essence wouldn't belong to The World anymore, making her viable as a Servant.
All Servants have essences that don't belong to the world because they're all supposed to be dead. :V
Again, you have my thanks YOLF.
Gods can't be servants.
GODS CAN'T BE SERVANTS.
*rages and mumbles*
Even if killed, I see literally no reason as to why she should lose Divinity from dying. Chiron only lost his because he willingly stripped himself of it.
He was immortal though. Tiamat, not so much.
Anyway, now that High Servants are a thing gods and goddesses are totally legit for making.
Fate/EXTRA CCC's far side sure was a totally normal thing with normal servants.