Create-A-Servant 2

[JetKinen]

Did you give him "Max APM" as a skill? Neat sheet.

I guess i did.

To be honest i didn't make that connection when i made that servant but i guess you're right

Lampião: Wow, that's one "thirsty" Servant. *shot*

Seriously though, pretty nice job. I wonder how he'd interact with my Sciron? (Saying this since they both have the title 'King of Bandits')

For one, Lampião is probably shit out of luck because he can't break through the turtle.

Also both will probably constantly plot to stab each other in the back.

[RoydGolden]

Servant Lancer:

True Name: Basileos II 'The Bulgar Slayer'

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Alternate Classes: Saber, Rider, Berserker, Shielder

Strength- C+
Agility- B
Endurance- B
Mana- D
Luck- C+
NP- A

Appearance:


Personality: Dour, stern and harsh. A stoic and an ascetic, Lancer detests extravagence of all sorts and believes in the value of a simple lifestyle. As an emperor, he was heavy-handed and oftentimes brutal, but ultimately devoted himself to bringing about prosperity to the people of Rome. While he will hold no qualms in committing ruthless or even barbaric acts to thoroughly subdue his enemies, after having achieved a full victory Lancer can show a kind and even magnanimous side to the defeated. If they don't piss him off, that is...

Because of his experiences of treachery from fellow nobles, he greatly dislikes the pompous aristocracy and sees them as a symbol of everything he opposed in life. In the Grail War, his relationship with his Master is that of an emperor to a subject. While he will insure his Master's success to the greatest of his ability, one must not forgot just who is in charge. Lancer does not take kindly to those who'd think to usurp his power. He is also an adamant fan of horseback riding, one of the few material pleasures that he still affords to himself. On his more wistful days, he may sometimes regret not having the opportunity to be fully indulge in his hobby in the Rider Class...

Overall, he is faithful to God, a valiant warrior and a highly skilled tactician. A great emperor, albeit with an unseemly vengeful streak...

Likes: Rome, a simple lifestyle, horseback riding
Dislikes: pompous pretensions, any and all Bulgars
Talent: autocratic rule
Natural Enemy: Samuel


Tactics: Because of how his first Noble Phantasm works, Lancer's best strategy is to rain a barrage of weak grazing blows upon his opponent, inflicting little actual damage but gradually chipping away at their eyesight over the course of battle. This creates widening blind-spots in the foe's vision, gradually lowering their defenses while making it easier and easier for Lancer to keep up his onslaught of attacks.

By the time the foe realizes the degree of their loss and the power of Lancer's Noble Phantasm, it may already be too late to overcome its effects. At this point Lancer drops his previous tactic altogether, taking a thunderous offensive to capitalize on his now severely crippled opponent.

Outside of immediate combat, Lancer generally prefers to bide his time and wait for an opportune moment before engaging. Having learned from the mistakes of his past life, such as his disastrous loss at the Gates of Trajan, Lancer is well aware of the risk involved in charging headfirst into battle without assessing the situation.

Not just a warrior, but a crafty strategist and politician as well.


Class Skills:

Magic Resistance (C)- Cancel spells with an incantation below two verses. Cannot cope with the likes of High Thaumaturgy or Greater Rituals. Lancer was born well after the Age of Gods and never encountered magic in life. Even so, his rather high degree of religious piety, having established a number of great holy monuments and ultimately chosen to be buried in a church rather then his main imperial palace, have granted him a higher rank in this Skill then he would otherwise possess.


Personal Skills:

Imperial Privilege (C)- Ability to obtain, through sheer force of will, Skills that would be otherwise outside the Servant's capabilities. Reflecting his more militaristic bent, Lancer primarily favors granting himself Skills that aid in combat, such as Spearmanship, Military Tactics, Eye Of The Mind (True) and especially Riding.

Charisma (A-)- Ability to inspire others, and lead armies. At this rank, one can be said to have the highest level of popularity affordable to a human being. Lancer was considered one of the last and greatest of Byzantium's rulers, having brought the empire to its military zenith. While lacking in the gleaming rhetoric and overpowering charisma of some of his fellow emperors, Lancer was nonetheless an exceedingly capable leader and shrewd statesman who expanded the empire greatly during his reign. He was especially beloved by the common people- soldiers and peasant farmers- for how he taxed the wealthy and stripped power from the pompous aristocracy, whom he despised. However, as Lancer was sharply unpopular amongst other nobles- who on multiple instances plotted treason against him- the effectiveness of this Skill declines markedly against fellow kings or rulers.

Finish Him!

Merciless Constitution

(B)- Connotes a ruthless disposition, refusing mercy to one's foes. In battle, Lancer gains power proportionate to the weakened state of the opponent. When their vitality passes below a certain level, Lancer may execute a violent 'coup-de-grace' upon his crippled enemy, bypassing defense to inflict a certain mortal blow. Over the course of his life and military career Lancer accrued the reputation of a harsh and merciless autocrat willing to go to any lengths to extend his power. The ruthlessness Lancer sharpened in his early suppression of aristocratic revolts came to a barbaric culmination in his victory at the Battle of Kleidion, blinding nine tenths of the captured Bulgar soldiers to make an example of those who opposed his reign.

Eternal Nemesis (C+)- A Skill granted to those who became famous for swearing- and enacting- grudges. When facing an opponent who has defeated him in the past, all of Lancer's parameters and his Merciless Constitution Skill rise by one ranking. After a humiliating defeat against the Bulgars at the Gates of Trajan, Lancer vowed revenge. His oath of vengeance was fulfilled in a later military campaign when Lancer- invigorated and wisened by his former losses- eventually subjugated all of Bulgaria, blinding nearly the entire military force of his most hated rivals.


Noble Phantasms:


Bulgaroctonus- Horrid Triumph Of The Emperor (C+, Anti-Unit): A Noble Phantasm crystallizing the most brutal and barbaric act of Lancer's military career. Upon his triumph at the Battle of Kleidion, Lancer personally blinded nine tenths of his defeated Bulgar captives before sending them back to their king, with one in every hundred left sighted in one eye to guide the way. Confronted by the pitiable and disfigured states of his men, the Bulgar king Samuel immediately perished from shock on the spot.

Though blinding defeated rivals was not an uncommon practice in Byzantine Rome at the time, never before or after had it been carried out on such a massive and horrendous scale. It was those deeds which garnered Lancer the infamous moniker 'Bulgar Slayer'- or Bulgaroctonus in Latin, a title he wore with pride.

Lancer's morbid acts of blinding the Bulgar army have been sublimated into the form of a tall, hefty spear with intricate carvings of his military victories inscribed along the shaft. As well as being a heavy and powerful spear which can send men flying with a single blow, it bears the concept of "robbing the enemy's sight". Any strike from Lancer's signature weapon will- in addition to the effects of a slash or stab from an ordinary spear- gradually seal away the opponent's eyesight regardless of the part of the body struck.

To put it in clearer terms, each blow to successfully connect will "sever" a portion of the foe's visual field, plunging it into complete darkness. The degree of visual loss scales in proportion to the actual severity of the strike, so a grazing wound will only inflict a tiny and barely noticable loss in perception, while a critical slash or stab may cleave away an entire half of their vision at once. This curse of blindness is annulled if Lancer himself is slain, immediately restoring all the sight that had been taken through this Noble Phantasm.

Upon invoking the weapon's true name, numerous eyeless ghouls composed out of dark purple miasma begin forming around Lancer's spear, a representation of the combined humiliation and despair of the Bulgar army whom he brutalized. These dreadful apparitions then hurl themselves at anyone in the vicinity, letting out terrifying moans of anguish as they claw their way blindly through the air.

While physically weak, the spectres' danger lies not in strength but in the powerful mental interference they enact upon colliding with the target. On contact, the wraith in question dissolves into their body, forcing the opponent to feel the last regrets of the soldier who they once were. Their despair at being conquered, the agony of being blinded, their impotent rage against their tormentors.

Lancer's opponent is made to experience all these things, imposing a crippling psychic burden upon even the most resolute of individuals. The effect is also self-enforcing, for once a target is made helpless by one wraith, all the others may freely swarm upon them, crushing their mind under an immense weight of regret. Weaker enemies may sustain a full psychological breakdown or even simply perish outright from the strain on their body and soul. Even stronger ones will all but surely be incapacitated for a moment, which is all the time Lancer needs to land a killing blow, guaranteed as such through his Merciless Constitution Skill.

Though rather powerful, these shades are not truly subservient to Lancer and merely seek out any living humans in the vicinity to foist their anguish upon. As such, using it amongst allies or innocent bystanders is a risky proposition, even for one as ruthless as Lancer. As its nature is a mind-affecting curse, Skills granting resistance to mental inferference such as Bravery and Soul Of A Martyr at rank A or higher are sufficient to negate the effects of these ghouls.


Varangian Guard- Stalwart Bodyguards Of The Emperor (A, Anti-Army): A Noble Phantasm representing the elite unit of Viking soldiers which Lancer employed to be his personal guard, skeptical of the loyalty of native Byzantine guardsmen. This military force served the empire for many centuries after, faithfully defending the emperor to their last breath and showing unmatched ferocity in battle.

While many emperors possessed this guard, as Lancer was the one to actually found the unit, he alone may call upon them as his Noble Phantasm. By invoking the true name of the Varangian Guard, hundreds of burly Viking soldiers clad in chainmail and armed with huge axes appear and begin to tear their way across the battlefield, wreaking immense destruction. The effect of summoning this horde is not so much that of a mere army but an unleashed storm itself, annihilating Lancer's enemies with tempestuous force.

Each individual soldier in the guard possesses the Skills Mad Enhancement at rank E (suppressing their sense of pain and fear), Loyal Soul at rank A (making defying their chosen emperor an unthinkable act) and Military Tactics at rank D (allowing them to capably follow and execute tactics designated by Lancer).

While his most powerful Noble Phantasm physically, there is a key limitation as to its activation. Lancer can only call upon this army when the state of the battlefield is at its most dire, reflecting how the historical guard was only brought to bear at certain critical moments in combat. This is a trump card to turn the tides of a disadvantageous battle, but Lancer cannot use it to cement victory in one that's already in his favor. After having rushed the enemy and insured that Lancer is no longer in a situation of need, the summoned Viking soldiers will instantly fade away without any further commands.

[4score7years]

Basileos II: another Byzantine, huh? These are making me realize how interesting Byzantium was. I'm going to try and learn some more about the place.

As as for the sheet, I think that the "summon evil wraiths" power and "summon Vikings" power feel a bit similar, with both being "army summons but the army is a destructive wave of force." I'd probably change the wraiths one to being another ability of the spear, but the exact nature of the change is difficult for me to say. As an aside, I think that both of your custom skills this time were very nice.

[RoydGolden]

Basileos II: another Byzantine, huh? These are making me realize how interesting Byzantium was. I'm going to try and lean some more about the place.

As as for the sheet, I think that the "summon evil wraiths" power and "summon Vikings" power feel a bit similar, with both being "army summons but the army is a destructive wave of force." I'd probably change the wraiths one to being another ability of the spear, but the exact nature of the change is difficult for me to say. As an aside, I think that both of your custom skills this time were very nice.

Firstly, thanks for the feedback. Thread seems a little dead as of late so I was wondering how long it'd take to get some...

Yeah, I've been on a bit of a Byzantine binge lately with this guy, Justinian and Belisarius. He'll probably be my last one though, at least in a while...

It occurred to me that the wraiths and Vikings were a little similar, but I liked both ideas too much to scrap either one. And the wraith one isn't really an army so much as a disorganized horde of wraiths flying around, while the Vikings aren't a 'wave of destruction' except in a metaphorical sense, so I think it's fair.

Eternal Nemesis is actually a Skill I originally used for Darius I, but I'm glad you like it.

[4score7years]

Firstly, thanks for the feedback. Thread seems a little dead as of late so I was wondering how long it'd take to get some...

Yeah, no posts all of yesterday. But, if nobody has any sheets done to post...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (plus it's the holidays so it's understandable)

Speaking for myself, I'm stuck in re-write city. But, I think I finally have a good enough idea to get a sheet finished. Here's hoping, anyway.

[Bird of Hermes]

Thread seems a little dead as of late so I was wondering how long it'd take to get some...

Yeah, I've been on a bit of a Byzantine binge lately with this guy, Justinian and Belisarius. He'll probably be my last one though, at least in a while...

I've been real busy lately this holiday and waiting for Avenger class skill descriptions to come out so more are to come out in 2017.

Justinian is real good stuff. Solid on all accounts, no need to change a thing.

With Basileos II, I suggest switching Imperial Privilege with Expert of Many Specialisations. Similar effects but i think the latter suits him more.

[RoydGolden]

I've been real busy lately this holiday and waiting for Avenger class skill descriptions to come out so more are to come out in 2017. With Basileos II, I suggest switching Imperial Privilege with Expert of Many Specialisations. Similar effects but i think the latter suits him more.

He is a Roman emperor, pretty much all of which that came out so far had that Skill. Why doesn't it suit him?

[You]

I've been real busy lately this holiday and waiting for Avenger class skill descriptions

they came out
and like paitouch said
"gameplay deepest lore"

[Bird of Hermes]

He is a Roman emperor, pretty much all of which that came out so far had that Skill. Why doesn't it suit him?

He isn't an extravagant ruler like Nero and Ozymandias, that and the other is unused.

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they came out
and like paitouch said
"gameplay deepest lore"

Well that's a pity, is it the case for all the avengers or just one?

[You]

all of them


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[NMR-3]

RoydGolden, how the fuck did you manage to make a Justinian Alter without even mentioning Procopius or his Secret Histories?

[RoydGolden]

RoydGolden, how the fuck did you manage to make a Justinian Alter without even mentioning Procopius or his Secret Histories?

I was clearly inspired by the secret histories, for instance it's where I got the part about the Black Plague being a divine punishment on him. But basing it too much off of the Secret Histories version of him isn't what I had in mind for the sheet at all. This isn't a Justinian who was a demonic monster and cursed his empire, but one that was too holy to the point of being outright inhuman. If anything, his Berserker version would be more openly based off the Secret Histories, with him as a moaning ghoul wandering the halls with his severed head or something (and a more limited version of the Black Death NP).

I could make some mention of Procopius in his Personality or whatnot if you really want, though.

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I just included a mention to Procopius in Justinian's Personality section. Does that help?

[NMR-3]

I was clearly inspired by the secret histories, for instance it's where I got the part about the Black Plague being a divine punishment on him. But basing it too much off of the Secret Histories version of him isn't what I had in mind for the sheet at all. This isn't a Justinian who was a demonic monster and cursed his empire, but one that was too holy to the point of being outright inhuman. If anything, his Berserker version would be more openly based off the Secret Histories, with him as a moaning ghoul wandering the halls with his severed head or something (and a more limited version of the Black Death NP).

I could make some mention of Procopius in his Personality or whatnot if you really want, though.

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I just included a mention to Procopius in Justinian's Personality section. Does that help?

Fair enough, I suppose. I'm still not entirely convinced by the holiness, but then again my knowledge comes mostly from wikipedia, so for all I know it's actually an entirely valid way to take his character.

It's just that it's an obvious way to make an Alter version, so not doing that raised my hackles/interest. Much like genderbends tend to do.

[Historia]

So, I was wondering how you all find matching faceclaims for your Servants. Do you just search at random until you find something that just 'clicks', or is there always some idea behind what you imagine the Servant to look like? A bit of both? How long do you spend on getting that perfect faceclaim? Etc.

[Adlet]

So, I was wondering how you all find matching faceclaims for your Servants. Do you just search at random until you find something that just 'clicks', or is there always some idea behind what you imagine the Servant to look like? A bit of both? How long do you spend on getting that perfect faceclaim? Etc.

A bit of both actually. Usually I'd get an idea of how I'd imagine the Servant looking in canon then go and attempt to find any similar looking faceclaim. Though most of the time that fails so I go with something that 'clicks' instead. For an example, the one I used for Hitler (remade one) looked pretty much exactly how I imagined Nasu Hitler to look like, but the ones I used for Stalin or Louhi just clicked after seeing them. There's also times where I'd just fail finding anything good as well like for Napoleon.

As for how much time I spend searching for a faceclaim... Not much really. I just search up some keywords and find something good enough to use pretty quickly more often than not.

[Funderfullness]

So, I was wondering how you all find matching faceclaims for your Servants. Do you just search at random until you find something that just 'clicks', or is there always some idea behind what you imagine the Servant to look like? A bit of both? How long do you spend on getting that perfect faceclaim? Etc.

Both.

The last one I posted, Aristaeus? I wrote that two months ago. I had been looking for a FC all that time.

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A bit of Photoshop skill doesn't hurt either.

[NMR-3]

So, I was wondering how you all find matching faceclaims for your Servants. Do you just search at random until you find something that just 'clicks', or is there always some idea behind what you imagine the Servant to look like? A bit of both? How long do you spend on getting that perfect faceclaim? Etc.

I mostly get mine from browsing Gelbooru with a few tags that I see as necessary for the faceclaim: if it's a Saber, they have to have a sword, for example, or if they're from a certain nationality it should look plausible they're actually from that place, unless it's the point that they don't look like that. Expressions play a fairly big part, as well; if a stoic hero's faceclaim is grinning it throws the whole thing off for me, and ideally the whole thing gives an idea of the hero's personality.

If that fails (and it does about 50% of the time) I look through DeviantArt. If it's a more famous hero I look them up by name, otherwise just something descriptive: "hunter", "knight", things like that. I don't really keep track of how long it takes me to settle on a particular image.

Generally, I write some bits of the profile before I start to look for a faceclaim, with the idea that having a more solid idea of the Servant's looks and so on makes for a more concrete idea of what I want the Servant to be like.

[RoydGolden]

So, I was wondering how you all find matching faceclaims for your Servants. Do you just search at random until you find something that just 'clicks', or is there always some idea behind what you imagine the Servant to look like? A bit of both? How long do you spend on getting that perfect faceclaim? Etc.

More or less a mix of both. Oftentimes I have a pretty good visualization of the character from their personality and the like, like with Justinian who just had to be Lelouch, while other times I trawl through Danbooru and Google Image for anything that seems fitting, like with Belisarius where I basically looked for any artwork of cute dark-haired girls with bows in somewhat old-fashioned clothing. Or with Basileos I literally just typed in the keywords '1boy spear' and one of the first hits I got fit just about perfectly.

[You]

So, I was wondering how you all find matching faceclaims for your Servants. Do you just search at random until you find something that just 'clicks', or is there always some idea behind what you imagine the Servant to look like? A bit of both? How long do you spend on getting that perfect faceclaim? Etc.

google the historic figures name
images

[RoydGolden]

google the historic figures name
images

Boring.