Siškurimma Anuha
Eighth Sword of the Baleful Star
: A+
Type: Anti-Unit/Anti-City/Anti-Populace (Reality Marble?)
Range: 1-999
Maximum Targets: 1 person/Infinite
Peshtur’s innate power, constantly active and incessantly disruptive. A mysterious power Peshtur apparently neither understands nor controls. She can only give its name:
The Last Prayer to a Forgotten Star. It is neither a curse, nor a form of mass-scale mental interference—really, it can only be explained as some sort of automatic innate bounded field that stealthily erodes society. Unlike Altera’s
Civilization Erosion, which is innately constrained by the Heroic Spirit’s unique worldview, or
Sarasvati Meltout, which bluntly and aggressively dissolves a community into primordial slime, Peshtur’s Noble Phantasm drives civilization towards self-destruction by smashing one of its basic foundations.
Faith—that is, belief not based in proof—is one of the fundamental aspects of the human experience. It goes beyond mere religious belief; it was and still is one of the strongest engines of human progress. It includes intuition and the acceptance of primitive notions as foundations for all disciplines of knowledge; it includes the confidence that allows even the most competent individual to push forward in spite of the possibility of failure. Peshtur’s Noble Phantasm erodes the subjacent faith that cushions and protects a civilized society, transforming it over the course of a generation into a hotbed of cynicism and callousness in which not even children can put their trust on the unconditional love of their mothers. A decent part of Uruk’s rapid decline after Gilgamesh’s passing can be attributed to his little sister.
As a Heroic Spirit, Peshtur has gained the ability to further weaponize this unique trait of hers using her definition as “Anathema to the Gods” as the basis. She projects the boundary that is her womb onto the World Egg to envelop a single target into bleak stillness, transmuting the intangible degeneration of civilization into a physical phenomenon. The result of applying her Noble Phantasm on the entire world over an eon of time is compressed and forced upon a single sacrificial lamb. All sapient creatures are susceptible to this attack, without exception. It inflicts critical damage on creatures that strongly rely on or are strongly defined by faith. Death might prove a better deal, for those who survive the attack still have to deal with having been smothered by the denial of their foundation as human beings and the perversion of the entirety of humankind as this foundation is shattered. It takes an ego capable of abandoning the foundation of personal faith intrinsic to all intelligent beings, or one who has mastered the world and the self to a degree that personal faith is rendered unnecessary, to face this Noble Phantasm and come out completely unscathed.
Samanana
Tethering Rope of the Broken Heaven
: B+ (originally EX)
Type: Anti-Divine (originally Anti-Planet)
Range: 1-99
Maximum Targets: 1 person
A primordial relic that connects the physical world with the abode of the gods, and the channel through which the boons and banes of divinity pour down upon the mortal realm. According to the mythological tale, the rope was the treasure and responsibility of the herdsman of heaven, Šulazida. Inanna somehow got him to pull down the Temple of Heaven, Eanna, and placed it on her cherished city, Uruk, thus establishing a temple complex dedicated to her around and atop an older district dedicated to An. The rope therefore became a sacred relic guarded by the priesthood of Uruk, but it is Peshtur who claimed it as her Noble Phantasm. However, Peshtur will not explain whether the rope is her Noble Phantasm because she used it to capture and violate An, or whether it was her successful capture of An by an unknown method, plus her status as priestess, that granted her the rope as her Noble Phantasm.
As one of the interfaces that connect the mortal realm with alternate realms of existence, the Tethering Rope is a Noble Phantasm of unfathomable power. However, Peshtur can only claim a portion of that primordial power, for she is simply not the chosen one. She was merely a priestess entrusted with guarding the relic, not the exalted ruler of an era, chosen by the turns of fate to wield the primordial tool to protect the destiny of the planet. Furthermore, her own power has twisted the rope from its original purpose, rendering into yet another expression of its new master’s involuntary contempt towards all things divine.
Peshtur can manifest and control the rope in a similar way to Gilgamesh’s use of the Chains of Heaven. A creature completely surrounded—emphasis on “surrounded”, not “captured” or “restrained”—by the rope loses the benefit of all boons (skills and bonuses and corrections to both parameters and skills) with a divine origin it may have. Noble Phantasms and the Goddess Core skill of true Divine Spirits are not affected. The effect is permanent and unremovable, persisting even beyond Peshtur’s death or the rope’s destruction. The only way to avoid its dire curse is to avoid being surrounded by the rope in the first place.
Originally Posted by Ail Don
Also Alexander and the horse are inseparable in most depictions. Making the horse an Heroic Spirit allows him to summon him in Ionian Hetairoi and shit like that.
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